Chapter 266: The Imperial Driver's Expedition
To be honest, in terms of the current domestic situation, it is indeed not a wise move for Ren Chao to decide to personally lead the troops to the northeast to fight Lao Maozi. Who knows what kind of changes will happen when Ren Chao leaves Beijing! Although when Ren Chao was in Beijing, those Manchu Eight Banner nobles were as honest and docile as sheep, and there was no way to go to the vegetable market without being honest. After Ren Chao entered Beijing, the place of Caishikou became more lively, because for a period of time, thousands of heads have been directly cut off here. This number even exceeds the total number of people killed here in Guangxu's reign of more than 20 people, after all, the threshold of Beijing's vegetable market entrance is still very high, but not just anyone will be pulled here to be beheaded.
Under the threat of Ren Chao's glittering ghost-headed broadsword, those Manchu nobles with bad intentions were honest and didn't dare to make trouble anymore. But if Ren Chao leaves Beijing, it may be perhaps, and maybe the guy who doesn't open his eyes will jump out and make trouble again. What's more, it's not just that the Manchu nobles can't get used to Ren Chao, even those reformers, and some more enlightened ministers are very dissatisfied with Ren Chao's shameless behavior of holding Emperor Guangxu hostage and coercing the Son of Heaven to order the princes.
Despite this, Ren Chao still decided to take the expedition in person, because the opponent this time was not so easy to deal with, at least with the strength of the current Tiger Army, it is still difficult to gnaw this hard bone.
Although the Trans-Siberian Railway is still under construction, it is still far from being completed and opened to traffic! Tsarist Russia's center of gravity remained in Europe. The control of the Far East is relatively weak, and the military strength in the Far East is not too strong. But after all, these old Russians have been operating in Siberia for hundreds of years, and Russia has undergone reforms in 1861. Although in Europe, in the contest between Tsarist Russia and Britain and Germany, it is still not possible to take advantage, but at this time, the strength of Tsarist Russia is not something that the current Tiger Army can deal with lightly.
Even in the Far East, where Tsarist Russia was relatively weak, Tsarist Russia still had a garrison of nearly 200,000 troops. This time, it was even easier to send more than 100,000 troops to invade the northeast region. If the war progresses, it will not be too difficult for the old Maozi to come to an emergency military mobilization and raise 300,000 troops in the Far East. In the face of such a formidable enemy. How to deal with the current strength of the Tiger Ben Army. It was precisely because the enemy's strength was too strong this time that Ren Chao decided to ignore the opposition of the generals and insisted on driving the expedition in person.
Because Ren Chao believes that only he personally leads the troops to the battle. in order to give full play to the strength of the system carried by the body. In this way, they want to defeat Tsarist Russia. It's not that hard. Perhaps it is precisely because Ren Chao has a system in his body that he will directly declare war on Tsarist Russia without any scruples. Because the system carried by Ren Chao is Ren Chao's biggest reliance so far, with this system, Ren Chao does not have to be afraid of any enemy at all. Because as long as there are no major strategic mistakes, Ren Chao can rely on the system to achieve the purpose of fighting to support the war, and even become stronger and stronger the more he fights. Because every time an enemy is killed, the enemy's strength will be weakened by one point, but Ren Chao can get a part of the points. Removing the losses, Ren Chao may be able to make a profit. Maybe the strength can be enhanced, in this way, what else is there to fear about Ren Chao?
"So far, our troops in Shengjing and Jilin have the 1st Division, the 4th Division, all the Korean Independent Brigade, plus the 6th Division and 1 Division of the 7th Division, a total of 50,000 troops, plus more than 10,000 people of the Korean New Army, and only more than 60,000 troops." Yang Jichang said with a frown.
"But now there are about 150,000 Russian troops in the northeast, and about 100,000 rebels in Heilongjiang and other places. In this way, our army is at an absolute disadvantage only in terms of troops, so I decided to transfer the 6th and 7th divisions to the northeast. Ren Chao said after thinking about it.
"Even so, our army is only about 80,000 people, which is still far from the enemy's army." Yang Jichang shook his head and said.
"Then draw a part of the troops from the second, third, and fifth divisions, each of these three divisions, gather enough 10,000 people, and go north." Ren Chao then said.
"But in this way, our troops in Zhili and Shandong are a little weak, if something happens, I'm afraid~!" Yang Jichang didn't say it directly, he knew that Ren Chao couldn't have imagined the consequences of doing so.
"We can't take care of so much now, our forces are limited, and now we can only do this first. On the one hand, it is necessary to strengthen the pacification of the governors in various places, and not to make any major moves recently, so as not to provoke them. In addition, the newspaper was used to vigorously publicize that we were fighting for the country this time, and we wanted to let everyone in the world know that if anyone dared to jump out at this time to withdraw Lao Tzu's hind legs, it would be a foreign country, and that would be a traitor! It's a traitor! Ren Chao said righteously, but his heart was full of helplessness, to be honest, things have developed to this situation, Ren Chao is also very helpless, but since things have come to this point, they can only take one step at a time.
"In addition, strengthen contacts with Britain, the United States, Germany and other countries, let them come forward to create pressure on Li Hongzhang and others, let them be honest for a while, and don't run out to remove Lao Tzu's hind legs. Didn't they long hope that Lao Tzu could fight with Lao Maozi in order to weaken Lao Maozi's strength? Sue them, if we are defeated, not only will the entire Northeast fall into the hands of Lao Maozi, I am afraid that the future Qing Kingdom will also be Lao Maozi's final say, if they don't want to watch Lao Maozi dominate the Qing Dynasty, then make some practical actions. In addition, no matter what conditions they propose, whether it is road construction, trade, or mining, as long as it does not involve territorial sovereignty, they can all agree to them. In order to win the support of the great powers, Ren Chao also made a bloody investment this time. In order to be able to defeat Tsarist Russia, if it can defeat Tsarist Russia, China will be able to successfully rise, and these benefits that are given up today will be spit out by these foreign devils little by little in the future.
"Yes, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs is also working on this matter, but these foreign devils are really difficult to deal with, and they all have a relatively good attitude, and there is no substantial progress for the time being." Sun Junping replied honestly.
"Then hurry up, this matter must be implemented as much as possible." Ren Chao said with a helpless sigh. (To be continued......)