Chapter 219: The external troubles are not settled, and the internal strife is rising again

The news of the great victory of Tsushima, the great victory of Mukden, the killing of the commander-in-chief of the Russian invasion of China, and the victory of Tieling even defeated the Russian army into a system of resistance spread all over the country. The students and scholars all raised their hands to celebrate, and the ordinary people were also smiling.

Qing was happy, but Russia was depressed. After carefully calculated strategy, he was beaten by a group of yellow-skinned pigs who never looked down on him. It's not that the Russian ** team can't do it, but the kind of shells that can turn and shells that can be thrown by hand of the Qing people caught the Russian army off guard.

In the Russian embassy in Beijing, the news of the Qing Dynasty's four great victories in one day made Cassini sweat on his forehead and dry mouth. A cup of water could not quench the fire in his heart.

There was no news from the Russian army in the Mukden area. And the news released from the Qing State does not seem to be necessary to lie, but what is the actual situation, and can the army continue to fight? There is no real situation from within the Russian army, and he cannot make an accurate judgment. He had already sent a telegram to China about the war in Mukden, and new weapons had appeared in the Qing Kingdom, which was the news he learned from the last telegram of the Russian army three days ago, and it was also the key thing mentioned in the telegram he sent back to China. As a matter of fact, the news of the existence of new weapons in the Qing army was heard as early as the Qing army's exercises at the beginning of the year, but everyone from him, the ambassador to China, to the governor of the Russian Far East, thought that this was just a joke, and that the backward Qing country and Ben were not capable of developing any new weapons, and at most they were just improving them. But this time they were wrong, the 20,000 Qing troops were able to chase after the 30,000 Russian troops, and it was with these two new weapons. If the Russian army cannot turn the tide of the war, then someone must be responsible for this defeat. The most responsible Governor of the Russian Far East has died at the gunpoint of the Qing people, so Tacasini will inevitably bear the wrath of His Majesty the Tsar. can only push the responsibility to the new weapons of the Qing State, so that he may be able to pass a little.

Now he had to alert Vladivostok to deal with a possible Qing attack, but he couldn't contact Shanghai for two whole days, and even the whole of Beria didn't react. After a sneak attack on the Far Eastern Fleet, the Qing fleet left immediately after returning to Lushun for supplies, along with several transport ships. Where is the Qing fleet going? Is the transport ship loaded with supplies for the fleet or infantry? None of this is known. Therefore, he must contact Shanghai Sentai as soon as possible and let them prepare for defense. The fleet has sunk under the sneak attack of the Qing people. The only port in the Far East can no longer afford to lose.

Cassini couldn't think of how to notify Vladivostok, the telegraph and telephone were cut off, the waterway was not to be considered, and the only available land route was blocked by the Qing because of the continuous fighting. How did he know. Vladivostok has long been ruined.

In the Winter Palace, the Russian ministers watched with trepidation as their Emperor Nicholas II was roaring: "Stupid pigs, a bunch of stupid pigs. They disgraced the face of the Slavs. Immediately send troops to the Far East to kick the yellow pig's ass. ”

"But even if we increase our troops to the Far East now, it will be too late." One of the ministers spoke. Great distances are the best barrier, and no one can ignore them.

"Then immediately mobilize reinforcements from other regions of the Far East."

"The urgency of the delay now is to withdraw the remaining forces in the Far East as soon as possible. Minimize losses. ”

“……”

In the court, all the ministers, you and I put forward your own opinions. Nicholas II looked at the noisy ministers with a dark face, and his brows were furrowed. Until a suggestion is heard.

"It is recommended to immediately start negotiations with the Qing State to end the war."

"Shut up. Did the great Slavs need to pray for peace to the weak and cowardly Qing people? Nicholas II jumped up from his chair, and the roar of Nicholas II overshadowed the audience. The ministers, who were still noisy, all fell silent. I only heard Nicholas II still roaring: "What I need is a way, a way to defeat the Qing Kingdom." The face of the Slavs cannot be thrown into our hands. ”

Peaceful, absolutely quiet. Defeating the Qing State and occupying the northeast of the Qing State and implementing the Yellow Russia Plan is the wish of everyone in this court. It's just that the situation is different, and the land that was once thought to be at your fingertips is inevitably about to be lost under the counterattack of the Qing State. The main battle strength of the Qing State was only 100,000. But the main Russian army, with a million strong troops, was thousands of miles away. If you really want to mobilize these millions of people to attack the Qing Kingdom, the Qing Kingdom will naturally be unable to stop it. But in this way, Germany and Austria-Hungary were the happiest.

"Your Majesty, please immediately send more troops to the Far East. Even if there are only 120,000 troops, we must move them as soon as possible, and then we can declare that 500,000 troops will be transferred to reinforce the Far East. Sergey stepped forward.

The ministers were stunned, and so was Nicholas II. Where did he not know, even if he immediately increased his troops to the Far East. Nor can the Far East be saved. The reason why he was clamoring for more troops in the Far East was just that he couldn't swallow the fact that he was defeated by the Qing State.

"Yes, Your Majesty, it is urgent to increase the number of troops in the Far East." Sergei said slowly: "The purpose of increasing troops is no longer to rescue the war situation in the Far East, but to put pressure on the Qing State. Now the forces of the Far East will be wiped out on the land of the Qing State, and the northeast of the Qing State has gathered the most powerful army of the Qing State. Once the Qing State pursues the Russian troops that have withdrawn from the Qing State, then the Qing State can rush across the Heilongjiang River and occupy the entire Far East. That's why we need to start increasing our troops as quickly as possible. Moreover, it was necessary to declare that 500,000 troops would be sent to the Far East, so that the Qing people would know that Russia was going to retaliate against the Qing State. In this way, we can start negotiations with the Qing State, and we can claim that the Qing State is under pressure from us to take the initiative to negotiate with us. Moreover, the Far East will not have enough troops to defend after the war, and the transfer of troops from Europe is inevitable. The defeat of the Far East is already inevitable. Then we must at least keep the territory alive. ”

"Then do it right away. Damn Cassini, the Qing Kingdom had a new weapon, and he didn't even know it all along. Go and tell him that if he still messes up this matter, then he will be responsible for the failure of the war in the Far East. ”

The panicked Casini had just gotten up and received a telegram from China, and after reading the telegram, Cassini hurried to the train station. There is no need to go to the palace, he knows that the Qing State can now be the master of the Guangxu Emperor in Fengtian. But before he got into the car, the anxious attendant told him the latest news, the second division of the Qing Royal Army, which had disappeared in the eyes of everyone for several days, suddenly appeared under Changchun City late last night, and the empty Changchun City was only half a regiment of troops, and there were no heavy weapons. Where is this the opponent of the well-armed Qing army, but in the middle of the night Changchun changed hands, I heard that the Changchun defenders failed to run away one. The key point is that after the Qing army captured Changchun, its main force immediately rushed to Jilin without repairs.

Cassini collapsed. A butt sat down. Jilin is also finished, because it is only half a regiment. The entire Russian army in the Far East was surrounded and was on the verge of annihilation. Now the task of saving the Russian army has fallen to him, if he can't complete it...... Cassini sweated for days. It's not over yet.

The Russian army is surrounded. This was Dashanyan's judgment after receiving the news that Changchun had been recovered by the Qing State, and now the 30,000 Japanese troops on the south bank of the Yalu River had been assembled, but he did not understand why Youpeng in Shan County had not let him attack. Oyama Iwa decided to send another telegram to Tokyo today, saying that no matter what the outcome was, the battle of the Yalu River would be launched tomorrow.

With the arrival of the Ryukyu regiment on the north bank of the Yalu River, the Qing Dynasty's Ryukyu Three Kingdoms Coalition Army on the opposite side had reached 20,000 people. Only by breaking through the Yalu River and entering the Qing mainland can we best relieve the siege for the Russian army. Otherwise, once the Russian army surrenders, the Qing army that has been freed up is not something that the Japanese army can deal with. In fact, how could Youpeng in Shan County not understand this truth, he was waiting.

The Qing destroyer called the Yamato outside Tokyo Bay was showing off its might outside the Uraga waterway, and the Qing army had been patrolling outside Tokyo Bay after the First Sino-Japanese War, and this time they sent the Yamato. But they did not enter the Uraga waterway. Because after the First Sino-Japanese War, in order to avoid the forced advance of the Qing army, a large number of mines were purchased and scattered all over the Uraga waterway as soon as they obtained a loan from the United States. Mines blocked the entry of Qing warships and the exit of Japanese warships. Two 10,000-ton battleships were blocked in the harbor by a destroyer of only 600 tons, how not to annoy. Moreover, the destroyers captured by the Qing army from Japan did not even change their names, and they openly hung the Japanese words: Sink me. Let Yamato sink.

This is an insult to the whole of Greater Japan. The navy led by Gonbei Yamamoto clamored to sink the Qing ** ship named after the Japanese nation, but Yama Prefecture Youpeng single-handedly suppressed the voice. The Fuji and Yashima, two warships ordered before the First Sino-Japanese War, have been "accompanied" by Qing destroyers and have been returning to China for more than half a year. The Japanese Navy, which lost the Combined Fleet and Etajima in the First Sino-Japanese War, also lost all its experienced sailors and generals, and actual combat experience became the biggest shortcoming of the Japanese Navy. Youpeng in Shan County has actually always regretted that he originally wanted to fight jointly with Russia to gain actual combat experience, but because the Qing army and navy suddenly assembled to the east. Let the two battleships that had just sailed out of Tokyo Bay turn around and come back. Persimmon picks up soft pinch, this Chinese proverb Shan County has friends also know. couldn't beat Russia but came to bully Japan, which made Yama County Youpeng angry for a while. Unexpectedly, Qing Guo just shook a false shot, turned his head and ambushed all the Russian Far East Fleet in the Tsushima Strait, and now the Fuji and Yashima dare not go out.

Without defeating the Qing navy, the whole of Japan was within the range of the Qing naval artillery. But a warship is a warship. It is impossible for it to drive to land. Japan, which did not declare war but was already a de facto war against the Qing State, could only save Japan from the Qing warships by defeating the Qing State on land. Only a breakthrough of the Yalu River before the rout of the Russian army poses a real threat to the Qing army, which may be the only way to save the Russian army. But there was another option for Youpeng in Shanxian - to let the Qing civil unrest, because he understood that the Qing State was a country ruled by a small number of Manchus. The greatest danger to the rulers is not abroad, but the largest Han nationality at home. That's why he asked Dashanyan to wait in front of the Yalu River, and he had to wait for the gunshots of the uprising in the south of the Qing Kingdom.

"Go and tell Sun Yat-sen that if he can't start an uprising, then the Japanese Empire will doubt his ability. The Japanese Empire will choose to directly support Lu Haodong. Yama Prefecture Aritomo looked at the calm Tokyo Bay and said viciously.

Sun Yat-sen was actually more anxious than Youpeng in Shanxian County, when the Qing Emperor personally conquered the northeast and the Liangjiang army was also transferred north, he thought that the opportunity for an uprising had come. The reason why this has not yet been launched is that the weapons provided by Japan have not yet arrived. Japan cannot be blamed for this, nor can Sun Yat-sen be blamed. In order to train its own shipbuilders and build its industrial base, Guangxu issued a large number of government orders to build small offshore patrols, and it was these patrol boats that increased the danger of smuggling.

Mr. Sun called again, and Japan was already impatient. If we are not yet able to start an uprising, the Japanese government will stop supporting us. "In a residential house in the city of Guangzhou, the commanders of the rebel army led by Lu Haodong gathered together.

"Brother Lu, please rest assured, Mr. Sun has already sent the guns and commandos of this uprising out of Hong Kong. We will arrive in Guangzhou early tomorrow morning. Yang Quyun is full of confidence.

"Okay, I'll share the mission now." Lu Haodong stood up: "Liu Yu leads Beijiang Road, Chen Jinshun leads Shunde Road, Li Qi and Hou Aiquan lead Xiangshan Road, and your three-way "support team" mixes into the provincial capital; The Shantou team led by Wu Zicai did not enter the city if there was an accent, and served as a strategy to contain the Qing army; The "commando" on the Hong Kong side is headed by Yang Quyun. As soon as the Hong Kong "commandos" came ashore, they launched an attack, and the various units also launched an attack together. At that time, Cheng Kuiguang, captain of the Zhentao ship of the Nanyang Fleet, will also lead other warships in the province to respond. ”

"I have a question." Huang Xing asked in a low voice: "The imperial court is resisting the invasion of Russia and Japan in the northeast, and we launched an uprising when the whole country was united in hatred of the enemy. It's not that there is some injustice. After Lu Hao's debate in the Tokyo Normal University Hall, Huang Xing was deeply entangled. The emperor is vigorously promoting the reform of the law to enrich the country and strengthen the army, but the emperor must still be full. The slogan of Lu Haodong's revolution, "Expelling the Tartars and restoring China," was really moving. Huang Xing, who had been struggling for a long time, finally resolutely abandoned his studies and went south after the Yiwei Palace Change, and devoted himself to the vigorous revolutionary cause. Now he wants to launch an uprising when the enemy invades, so that the Spring and Autumn Righteousness, which has lasted for thousands of years, has been challenged in Huang Xing's heart.

"Huang Xing, are you still not a revolutionary comrade?" Lu Haodong righteously asked: "The Manchus have been stealing our Han people for more than 200 years, and now when the Manchu court is worried about internal and external troubles, it is the opportunity for our generation to revolutionize. If the Manchu court wins the battle between Japan and Russia, where will I have a chance. It's hateful that Zeng Guofan missed the opportunity, otherwise the world would have already returned to the Han Dynasty. Huang Xing, to join the revolution, we must identify revolutionary beliefs. ”

"My revolutionary convictions are very strong. It's not that I don't want to overthrow the Manchu court, but I thought I would face the Qing court head-on. Huang Xing stood up and said, "Fortunately, Brother Lu woke me up." We must not wait for the Qing court to be strong and take advantage of his illness to kill him. ”

"Well said. As long as we have firm beliefs, we will definitely be able to overthrow the Manchu court and restore our Han rivers and mountains. Lu Haodong clenched his hands into fists and raised them high: "Expelle the Tartars and restore China." As soon as these words came out, everyone responded in unison.

Is Guangxu aware of the imminent uprising in Guangzhou? Of course, I know that just after the First Sino-Japanese War, Guangxu secretly transferred the special company to the vicinity of Guangzhou for the reason of training, in order to deal with the upcoming Guangzhou Uprising. As a result, he didn't wait, but waited for Lu Haodong in Beijing. At the same time that Guangxu was transferred back to the special company, he secretly ordered Zhou Qin to let the CIA target Sun Yat-sen. And Sun Yat-sen couldn't have imagined that he found a Chinese who supported him in Japan and was a CIA spy in Japan. Although Lu Haodong later learned that during the three months on his way back to Guangzhou from Beijing, all the revolutionary comrades he had come into contact with were secretly killed by the Qing court afterwards. Lu Haodong, who wanted to avenge his country's hatred and family hatred, failed to notice that the comrade who accompanied him back to Guangzhou from Tianjin was an agent of the National Security Bureau under Leng Jun's jurisdiction. The destination of the 3rd Regiment of the Independent Division, which was stranded in Shanghai and had not yet boarded the ship, was Guangzhou.

Guangzhou had already been arranged, and Guangxu, the main force of a regiment, naturally focused all his attention on the war in the northeast. The defeat of the Russian army has appeared, and when the main force of Jiangnan arrives in a while, it will be the day of the destruction of the Russian army. As for Japan, there are still Koreans in the way, even if Japan crosses the Yalu River. Just block Japan along the way, after cleaning up the Russian army, will Japan still jump?

Just when Guangxu found that he had nothing to do, something happened in Shandong. Waquan, who resisted all foreign things, launched a large-scale riot, they burned churches everywhere, killed priests, and Chinese who believed in Catholicism and Christianity were also killed by the common name "Ermaozi". By the time Guangxu learned the details, two magistrates had already died on the city wall they were holding.

"The repression was immediately suppressed, Guangzhou let go first, and transferred the Shanghai Independent Third Regiment to Shandong to suppress the riot." Guangxu was so angry that he slapped his palm on the case, and then sighed long: "The external troubles have not been settled, and the internal strife has risen again." ”