Britain and France, which had the advantage in armored forces, quickly adjusted their tactics, followed the Chinese way, and began to launch a fierce assault on the Hindenburg Line, and made considerable progress, and the entire defense line that had been attacked was crumbling, but the German army relied on superb military quality and the frantic use of poison gas bombs to save the situation, and Britain and France could no longer advance.

In fact, although Britain has found a suitable tactic, but the war still depends on people to fight after all, and now the human resources of the two countries are close to exhaustion, especially France, they are now powerless, and they are not able to advance at all, and now the greatest hope of the Entente is the United States, fortunately, the American soldiers have landed in Europe in a steady stream, they are well nourished, physically strong, well-equipped, and the most important thing is that they are hot, full of morale, and full of confidence in victory.

General Pershing, the commander-in-chief of the U.S. Army, is a strict and rigid person, and at the same time has an extreme desire for victory, after he arrived in Europe, he heard that it was Jiang Baili who created the most suitable tactics, so he ignored the opposition of his subordinates, and hired a group of tactical instructors from the [***] team to comprehensively improve the tactical level of the U.S. Army.

In addition, Pershing also took a fancy to the submachine gun, but he did not appreciate the cheap weapon of the Stern submachine gun, but asked the country to equip the US military with more advanced submachine guns, China and the United States are guest troops in Europe, and to some extent have received discrimination from Britain and France, although the United States is powerful and can win more respect, but the old Europe still maintains a unique arrogance, commanding Pershing and his army.

It was this situation that brought the Chinese and American soldiers closer together and forged a deep friendship, and the American GIs often went to the Chinese labor ghettos to enjoy the Chinese food and watch American movies, which was a spectacle in these brutal war years.

The war situation in Europe makes Qiao Yu very pleased, Jiang Baili and others can be powerful in Europe, the shock at home is still very huge, first of all, the shock of the people's hearts and morale, although the Chinese have always not believed that they are the sick man of East Asia, but in the face of white people always do not straighten their waists, it seems to be a head shorter than others, now the Chinese can win the world's first army power, can lead the trend of tactical changes, which shows that the Chinese are not the sick men of East Asia, the Chinese can fight, and the white people are not special, It's not noble at all.

But now the foreigners are still rampant on the land of China, China is still divided, and the great powers have seized all kinds of privileges, become the emperor, and who is responsible for this situation, there is no doubt that the spearhead will be pointed at the political axe, especially Beiyang, so the pressure on the shoulders of the Beiyang generals, especially Duan Qirui, has doubled.

After Qiao Yu took charge of the southwest, earth-shaking changes took place, and it was the army of the southwest that won victory in Europe, so Qiao Yu's prestige skyrocketed, and the number of party members of the unified Mingzhu Party skyrocketed, and a large number of hot-blooded young people joined it, eager to change the fate of China.

At this time, Qiao Yu had already pocketed the two Guangzhou, and after the Southwest Army besieged Nanning, Qiao Yu sent a telegram to Lu Rongting, giving him two choices, one was to burn the jade, and the other was to give up the post of the patrol envoy of the two Guangzhou, and serve as the supervisor of the Southwest Railway, responsible for the construction of the railway, and continue to do things for the people.

Lu Rongting only had less than 20,000 people at this time, and he really didn't have any courage to confront the Southwest Army in the face of four divisions, especially the Southwest Army and the Air Force, which was a sharp weapon, and the number of heavy artillery was also amazing.

And Qiao Yu is not in a hurry, and he also gave Lu Rongting a position of railway supervision, the power of this position is not small at all, now railway construction is definitely one of the biggest things in the southwest, the annual investment is more than hundreds of millions, it is absolutely astronomical, Lu Rongting thought about it repeatedly, if he wants to fight, there must be no chance of winning, if he accepts Qiao Yu's arrangement, he can still hold great power, but he can't control the army.

Lu Rongting finally announced his proposal to his subordinates with tears in his eyes: "Lu has controlled Guangxi for many years, and has never increased the well-being of the people, and now he can't bear to cause his hometown parents to suffer from war because of his own selfishness, so he decided to adapt to the overall situation and give up resistance!" ”

After Lao Lu made a decision, he did say that he would do it, all the soldiers in Guangxi gave up resistance, the Southwest Army successfully took over Guangxi, Qiao Yu did not break his promise, and immediately handed over all the power of railway construction to Lu Rongting, and hundreds of millions of yuan of funds were managed by Lu Rongting.

Therefore, I am particularly concerned that the Guizhou-Guizhou Railway and the Nankun Railway were built under his auspices, and there was no problem with the huge amount of road money.

Lu Rongting was solved, Chen Jiongming was not a problem, two more provinces were expanded in the southwest, and the power was further expanded, although Duan Qirui had the intention to stop it, but he couldn't reach it, so he could only acquiesce, and at this time, Russia, which had been paying attention, finally came with amazing news again.

On November 7, 1917, an armed uprising finally broke out in the Russian majority, and the workers and soldiers of Petrograd began to attack the Winter Palace under the signal of the cannon fire of the cruiser "Aurora" anchored on the Neva River, and in the middle of the night they stormed the Winter Palace and arrested the members of the Provisional Political Axe. Kerensky fled, and the Provisional Political Axe was overthrown.

In the evening, the Second All-Russian Congress of the Majority Party was held at the Smolny Palace, at which it was announced that the Provisional Political Axe had been overthrown and that all central and local power had been transferred to the Soviet majority. The next day, the leaders made a presentation at the Congress, which adopted the Peace Decree and the Land Decree, formed the first majority party and government axe, the People's Council, and a new state was born, and a social system that had been on paper was established.

After the news spread, it can be said that the whole world was shocked, although after the February Revolution, some discerning people were worried that Russia would finally come to this point, but after the reality was placed in front of everyone, it often seemed more cruel and unacceptable, the tsar was eliminated, but Tsarist Russia was about to appear in the world in a new model.

Although the European powers were deeply involved in the war at this time, they were also frightened, and at this time, the first to react was the Chinese political axe, Duan Qirui immediately announced on behalf of the Beiyang political axe that he was seriously concerned about the situation in Russia, and at the same time, in order to ensure the security of the border area, the Beiyang political axe decided to send troops to Outer Mongolia!

Outer Mongolia has been continuously influenced by the forces of Tsarist Russia since the end of the Qing Dynasty, and there have been signs of reading power, especially after the Xinhai Revolution, Outer Mongolia took the opportunity to announce reading power, and later although the Beiyang political axe after repeated efforts, forced Outer Mongolia to give up reading power, but it is still in fact in the situation of reading power, and is firmly controlled by the Tsarist Russian political axe.

Outer Mongolia has unparalleled strategic value for China, since ancient times China's main threat is the northern nomads, to modern times, Tsarist Russia has become one of China's most vicious enemies, Outer Mongolia is between China and Russia, if China can occupy Outer Mongolia, it can push the northern defense line to be hundreds of kilometers, or even more, China's political center Yanjing firmly protected.

Moreover, the garrison in Outer Mongolia can threaten the Trans-Siberian Railway at any time and completely cut off Russia's ties with the Far East, so that Russia will have to adopt a passive defensive position, and the strategic initiative will fall to China's side, and Russia's territory is a bitter cold place, which is not suitable for large-scale confrontation with China at all, and under a long-term confrontation, Russia will be able to drag Russia down.

It can be said that the loss of Outer Mongolia is the most tragic thing in China's modern history, and it also makes the strategic environment in northern China extremely dangerous.

On the second day after Duan Qirui announced the dispatch of troops, Qiao Yu, as the most powerful faction, also telegraphed the whole country, announcing his absolute support for Beiyang's political axe's decision, and at the same time announcing the severance of trade with Russia and sending all the arms that were originally going to be transported to Russia to Beiyang.

In fact, as early as after the February Revolution, Qiao Yu frequently delayed the delivery of goods to Russia with transportation problems, and so far he has owed 30 million pounds of goods, and Qiao Yu and deducted 20 tons of gold arms procurement money from the Tsar, and now that the Tsar is finished, Qiao Yu is not ready to pay back this money, all the materials support Beiyang, and arm himself, which can be regarded as a big profit.

The action of sending troops to Beiyang has won unprecedented support from the whole country, and the press circles, which originally made a living by scolding Beiyang, also began to change their tone and praised Duan Qirui for safeguarding the country's sovereignty, especially with the support of Qiao Yu, China's major powerful factions have supported Beiyang, and China has been unprecedentedly united.

In order to cooperate with Beiyang to send troops to Outer Mongolia, Zhang Zuolin, the overseer of Fengtian, led the 27th Division, and the 28th Division entered Heilongjiang to prepare to recover the power of the Middle Road, Zhang Guangjian, the overseer of Gansu, and Yang Xinxin, the overseer of Xinjiang Province, announced the formation of a coalition army to restore the northwest territory ceded by China to Tsarist Russia, and at the same time Qiao Yu also mobilized the elite soldiers of the Yongzhou Military Region to support Zhang Guangjian and Yang Xinxin.

A large number of Chinese [***] teams were mobilized in northern Xinjiang and began the journey of recovering their homeland, Xu Shuzheng, as the chief officer of this military operation, was naturally high-spirited, commanding 100,000 troops, along the way [***] elements were frightened, Xu Shuzheng was not polite, after entering Kulun, he issued an order to the nobles of Outer Mongolia, asking them to give up autonomy, and at the same time announced that Outer Mongolia would exercise military control, while expelling various Russian advisers, instructors, and businessmen, while wantonly hunting down pro-Russian elements.

In addition, an order was issued requiring all Mongolian ministries to surrender all firearms, and hunting rifles must also apply for a gun license before they can have them, this order immediately made all the nobles in Outer Mongolia feel strongly dissatisfied, and most of their power to maintain their power comes from the army in their hands, and now the collection of weapons is not to abolish their armament, this move is really too ruthless.

They have the heart to refuse, but they know how many catties they have, without the support of Russia, let alone dealing with an army of 100,000, even 10,000 people may not be able to win, not to mention that this time Xu Shuzheng has received full support from the country, these people have to reluctantly hand over their weapons to show their loyalty.

The situation in Russia changed rapidly, the power of the majority party expanded rapidly, the scope of control became larger and larger, the officers who were originally loyal to the tsar formed the White Guards, and launched a large-scale civil war with the red forces, and the heaven-sent opportunity was just around the corner, Qiao Yu immediately sent a telegram to Xu Shuzheng, suggesting that he take this opportunity to completely transform Outer Mongolia, and at the same time wait for the opportunity to enter the Outer Northeast and take back all the homeland.

(To be continued)