Chapter 306: Crashing Down

Jiang Baili knew that this was already Qiao Yu's more than once mentioned the problem of epidemics, which shows Qiao Yu's attention, in fact, Jiang Baili also has some military common sense, since ancient times, there is often a plague epidemic after the cruel war, the number of deaths in the European war, the degree of cruelty, and the duration are unprecedented, and countries also abuse biological and chemical weapons, the possibility of producing plague is very large, plus the Chinese soldiers are not adapted, in this regard, it really needs to be paid attention to.

"Junzuo, Minister Wu Liande has sent competent people to Europe to investigate, and the supporting measures have also been formulated, you can rest assured, but the elite soldiers will be transferred out of the southwest, and you will inevitably lack strength in your hands, so you must pay more attention!"

"Brother Baili, you and I cherish each other, I look forward to you in Europe and win glory for China, but everything is to keep your own safety as the top priority, don't be brutal, in addition, I heard that there is a boiled palace in Paris, France, which has a lot of good things from our ancestors, Brother Baili may wish to pay attention to it!"

Boiled palace? Jiang Baili immediately understood, isn't this the Louvre, how did it become a place to cook small intestines? Looking at Jiang Baili with a stunned face, Qiao Yu said with a smile: "Brother Baili, you said that the French blatantly put the looted things on display in the capital, isn't this just a robber showing off his achievements, what a bullshit civilized country, it's just a group of incorruptible and shameless robbers, now the French can owe us money, and there are more than 100,000 workers in the territory, plus hundreds of thousands of troops, if the opportunity comes in front of you, Brother Baili don't miss it!" ”

As soon as Qiao Yu said this, Jiang Baili also felt that the so-called magnificent Louvre was really just exuding the smell of boiled small intestines, an ugly den of thieves, but Qiao Yu's courage was big enough to dare to fight the idea of the Louvre, but Jiang Baili also put this matter in his heart, if the opportunity comes, he must not let go of the opportunity to bring back the ancestral treasures!

Seeing the 40,000 Chinese troops leaving the Yucheng wharf, Qiao Yu was also very excited, this is the beginning of the Chinese [***] team to the world, sooner or later one day the Chinese army will sail all over the world and dominate the world.

"Marshal, something new is happening on the Eastern Front?" Wang Lingji and Wang Tianhe, the two spy leaders, found Qiao Yu together.

As soon as Qiao Yu heard the two of them say that there was a problem on the Eastern Front, he immediately thought of Tsarist Russia, and the calculation time is not far from the so-called February Revolution, and the October Revolution that will change the history of the world is about to happen, of course, any revolution is not groundless, there must be all kinds of signs in advance, and now it is normal for the intelligence system to find a problem.

"Is it because there is political turmoil in Tsarist Russia?"

"Junza, there is no mistake at all, there are a large number of workers' strikes and demonstrations everywhere, the number of workers participating in the marches is as high as hundreds of thousands, and it is still increasing, this momentum is even more violent than in 1905 during the Russo-Russian War, according to our observations, the Tsarist regime is already shaking!"

Since the outbreak of World War I, Sichuan has provided a large number of military weapons to Tsarist Russia to support Russia's war, and later when the war was tense, the Tsar also used gold to purchase arms directly several times.

A Russo-Russian war has exposed the weakness of Tsarist Russia, but Tsarist Russia is unrepentant and forcibly participated in World War I.

Tsarist Russian machine guns and cannons need to be imported, even rifles are not matched with this kind of weapon, it is completely a soldier's life in the fight with German steel, although including Sichuan has provided an astonishing amount of arms and materials to Tsarist Russia, but the war depends on its own strength after all, relying on blood transfusion is difficult to last for a long time, Tsarist Russia barely maintained for more than two years, and finally could not bear it.

In January 1917, in the bitter cold, the members of the majority party in Petrograd were constantly busy, organizing strikes and marches, propagating political ideas, and already shouting the slogan of fighting the tsar's rule [***], calling for war against war.

The Russian workers, who had endured the Great War for two years, finally could not bear it any longer, and all their discontent erupted together, forming a great rage, and the whole of Russia was burning, this time much more dangerous than in 1905.

It is said that the Russo-Russian War lasted only a little more than a year, and the people who participated in the war were also Russia's partial divisions, and more importantly, the location of the war was in the Far East, far away from the heart of Russia.

Therefore, the defeat of the Russian War, the Tsar was able to suppress the uprising, but the First World War was completely different, the place of the battle was in Eastern Europe, which is the essence of Russia, and the consumption of the war was dozens of times that of the Russo-Russian War, plus the majority of the party was active from it, and Tsarist Russia was really going to die.

"Ark, Tianhe, if a revolution breaks out in Russia, who will hold power?"

Wang Lingji thought for a moment and said: "Junzuo, I think the most likely thing is that the majority party is in power, they have extremely strong organizational skills, and the vast majority of workers listen to them, of course, the strength of the industrial and commercial groups in the hands of the State Duma of Tsarist Russia is not weak, and there are still a few parties that support them, but they simply cannot meet the people's demand to withdraw from the war, I think they will still fail in the end!" ”

Qiao Yu nodded, "Fang Zhou, you have to know that the majority of the party is a plague in the eyes of the great powers, what they are most afraid of is this, Tsarist Russia is very likely to become a thorn in the side of the great powers, a thorn in the flesh, our opportunity has also come, you strengthen the intelligence work of Tsarist Russia, and on the other hand, submit a piece of information to the Entente countries, asking them to pay attention to the political changes in Tsarist Russia, and at the same time suspend the time for the Chinese [***] team to be sent to Europe, to prevent accidents, and then send a telegram to Duan Qirui, we have to discuss the country's is!" ”

"Junzuo, are you going to recover the land occupied by Tsarist Russia?"

"That's right, more than one million square kilometers in the northwest and northeast, plus Outer Mongolia, these are our territories, and the inability of the Manchus to lose these territories is the biggest regret, and now we have finally waited for the opportunity, and we must not miss it!"

The southwest immediately took action and informed Britain and France of the situation in Tsarist Russia, which suddenly became even bigger, although Tsarist Russia was not good at fighting, but it was able to contain millions of German [***] teams, and it was able to beat Austria-Hungary to the ground, if Tsarist Russia withdrew, and it may become a majority country, which would be a great disaster for the Entente, and it would be absolutely intolerable.

Immediately, Britain and France demanded that the 100,000 troops on the Beiyang side not enter Europe to fight for the time being, but to station troops in northern China to deal with possible changes.

The majority party did not make everyone wait long, and on March 3 the workers of the stamping shop of the Petrograd Ptilov plant went on strike, demanding an increase in piece-rate wages and the recall of dismissed workers. The factory unreasonably refused, and threatened with high-pressure means to announce that it would close down indefinitely. The majority of the party organizations, which already had a great influence among the workers in this factory, immediately led the workers in a front-to-head struggle against the factory policy. The strike was extended to the entire Putilov plant. On 7 March, by order of the military authorities, the gates of the Putilov plant were closed. When the workers were unable to enter, a strike committee was formed and it was decided to ask for the support of other workers, and the conflict further developed into a city-wide struggle.

On March 12, thousands of workers marched towards the center of Petrograd, and thanks to the propaganda and organizational work of the majority party members, a large number of soldiers in the army were transferred to the revolutionary side, an armed uprising broke out, and Tsar Nicholas II was arrested, and the Romanov dynasty collapsed.

On the evening of March 12, the Central Committee of the Party published a "Letter to All Russian Citizens" in the form of leaflets, announcing the fall of tsarism and the transfer of the capital to the insurrectionary people; and demanded a withdrawal from the imperialist war and the establishment of a republic, a manifesto that spread widely in Petrograd and set off a huge wave.

The change in the situation in Tsarist Russia shook the whole world, but the Entente did not have the power to stop the change in Tsarist Russia now, but Germany was very happy, they were finally going to get rid of the nightmare of fighting on two fronts, it seemed that victory was already beckoning, although it was a little difficult, but after all, there was still hope.

The changes in Tsarist Russia also finally strengthened the determination of the United States to enter the war, if it did not enter the war, Britain and France would really be unable to bear it, and at that time the huge debt of the United States would be instantly wiped out, which the Americans would never allow, and President Wilson actively carried out actions at home to plan to enter the war.

At this time, Qiao Yu also came to Yanjing City and formally met with Duan Qirui, Qiao Yu went north very low-key this time, only Xu Shuzheng came to greet Duan Qirui on behalf of Duan Qirui at the train station, and then Qiao Yu went directly to visit Duan Qirui.

"Zhion, I have wanted to meet with you for a long time and listen to your advice, but I didn't expect to delay until now, what a sin!"

"Shunqing, you are polite, you have developed the southwest over the years, and you have worked hard, I also admire it very much, the back waves of the Yangtze River push the front waves, the new generation in the world replaces the old people, we are all old, and we have reached the age of young people!"

"Zhiweng, you are not old at all, I came this time, and I still hope that Zhion can recover his homeland for the country!"

"Homeland? Shunqing, what do you mean is that it is not possible to prepare to send troops to Mongolia, and now the situation in Tsarist Russia is turbulent, which is indeed an opportunity, but Tsarist Russia is a strong country after all, once Tsarist Russia recovers, wouldn't it be bad for the country? ”

"Zhiweng, your handwriting seems to be small, it's not just Meng!"

As he spoke, Qiao Yu pointed to the map hanging on the wall, "Xinjiang Province, Outer Mongolia, Tangnu Ulianghai, Outer Northeast, and Vladivostok all these regions must be recovered by taking advantage of this opportunity, and our territory must not be spoiled by the Russians!" ”

Xu Shuzheng, who was on the side, was very excited after hearing Qiao Yu's words, his eyes lit up, recovering his homeland is the common wish of every soldier who has a pursuit, and it is also a big event in history, how can it not be tempting!

"Zhiweng, what Qiao Shuai said is indeed worth considering, now is a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity, we will recover our homeland, even if we offend Russia for this!" Xu Shuzheng was on Qiao Yu's side.

"In fact, this time it is not for the Chinese to be the main force, the forces that are now carrying out revolution in Russia are precisely the majority party forces that are feared by all the powers, and if they control Russia, they will inevitably be opposed by the whole world, and in the Far East Ben and the United States will participate, we just need to follow behind the great powers, there is not much difficulty!"

(To be continued)