On August 15, 1908, 10 minutes after the Chinese Empire declared war on Russia, the troops of the Chinese Empire on the border of the two countries crossed the borders of the two sides and launched a large-scale attack on the Russian border garrison. However, it was also under the onslaught of the Chinese Imperial Army, and telegrams asking for help were sent to St. Petersburg one after another, and Tsar Nicholas II of St. Petersburg also began to mobilize the existing Russian troops and assemble in the direction of the attack of the Chinese Imperial Army, ready to resist resolutely.

Early in the morning of August 16, 1908, Russia also officially declared war on the Chinese Empire, and at the same time, Russia strongly condemned the shameless acts of the Chinese Empire.

Tsar Nicholas II of Russia also made an enthusiastic declaration of war speech on the radio to the whole territory of Russia, claiming that Russia was being invaded by the Chinese Empire, and Nicholas II hoped that the people of all Russia would unite and take up arms to resist the invaders. And Nicholas II called on the righteous countries of the world to come to the aid of Russia, which is being invaded, and Russia will never compromise with the aggressor, and he, as the Russian tsar, will lead the entire Russian people to fight against the aggressor until the last moment!

Nicholas II also said that at present, the invading forces of the Chinese Empire have met with stubborn resistance from the Russian Imperial Army, which has caused heavy losses to the invading forces of the Chinese Empire, and that Russia is using space in exchange for time. Counteracting the superiority in weapons and equipment of the invading forces of the Chinese Empire with a vast land area, Russia will not be long after. Launch a counterattack against the invading forces of the Chinese Empire, and completely drive these enemies who invaded the Russian Empire out of the Russian Empire's lands.

At the end of the speech. Tsar Nicholas II also announced that the Russian Army would soon form 20 new army groups, with a total of 6 million troops, to resist the invasion of the Chinese Empire and prepare for future counterattacks. Of course, Tsar Nicholas II had some bragging elements in it, and he ordered the Russian War Department to form 10 army groups in the first step, although the Russian reserve force was huge, but the army of 3 million troops in 10 group armies could not be formed in a moment and a half, and Tsar Nicholas II doubled the number of army groups to be formed. It's a bit of a scare.

The emperor of the Chinese Empire, Lin Daxin, scoffed at Tsar Nicholas II's declaration of war speech, and was not frightened by the 6 million troops of 20 group armies, less than 2 hours after Tsar Nicholas II's speech, Lin Daxin also used the radio to make a speech to all the people of the Chinese Empire, the main meaning of the speech is that the Chinese Empire and Russia are now at war, this war is because after the border conflict between the two countries not long ago, Russia turned a deaf ear to the warnings of the Chinese Empire, So the Chinese Empire for the dignity of the empire. Only then did he unceremoniously take the initiative to declare war on Russia.

Lin Daxin said that today's Chinese Empire is no longer the rotten Qing Dynasty, which can tolerate Western powers riding on their necks to and pee, and the current Chinese Empire is the most powerful country in the world, and all countries that challenge the Chinese Empire. It must taste the consequences of its own brewing, and the final victory of the war that broke out between the Chinese Empire and Russia will definitely belong to the Chinese Empire!

At the end of his speech, Lin Daxin also announced that the Imperial Chinese Army would be expanded. There will be 10 new field armies and 2 new guards, and they will be based on the needs of the war. More armies may be expanded in the future.

Don't think that Russia has a huge reserve, it's really more than the number of reserves. In fact, Russia is not an opponent of the Chinese Empire, and the huge 30 million reservists of the Chinese Empire are definitely an existence that makes many countries desperate.

After the Chinese Empire and Russia declared war on each other, Britain expressed serious protest against the move of the Chinese Empire to provoke this war, hoping that the Chinese Empire would rein in the precipice and not undermine world peace, and that the troops of the Chinese Empire should immediately withdraw from Russian land and return to their own land.

After Lin Daxin received the protest letter from the British, he crumpled the protest book into a ball and threw it into the paper basket, this kind of protest has no effect at all for Lin Daxin, if you British are not convinced, you will go into battle shirtless, and practice with our Chinese Empire, what can you do with just lip service! What else is to undermine world peace, Britain has launched one war after another for hundreds of years, and has robbed one colony after another in the world.

After the British protested seriously against the Chinese Empire, the French also jumped out to strongly condemn the Chinese Empire, and the Chinese Empire's initiative to provoke war was unpopular and unjust.

Lin Daxin's condemnation of the French was even more ignorant, what should be done or what should be done, and ordered the Ministry of Defense to continue to increase troops in Russia, since war has been declared, can the war still be truted because of a condemnation? That's absolutely impossible!

Britain and France are not just playing tricks, the leaders of the two countries communicated, although they did not make up their minds to directly join the war between the Chinese Empire and Russia, but they quickly reached a consensus, Britain and France will not only transfer the remaining part of the nearly 60 million pounds of funds and weapons and equipment promised to Russia to the Russians as soon as possible, but also prepare to increase the intensity of free aid, but the specific extent, Britain and France still need to discuss and discuss.

With the exception of Britain and France, which protested and condemned the Chinese Empire, no other countries, including Japan, which was hostile to the Chinese Empire, had expressed any opinion on the outbreak of war between China and Russia.

Japan is hoping that the Chinese Empire and Russia will continue to fight, and it is better to fight for a long time, anyway, the longer the war is fought, the better, so that Russia will exhaust the blood of the Chinese Empire, so that Japan will have an opportunity to take advantage of it to avenge the blood of the sea.

The four Allied powers, led by Germany, applauded excitedly at the outbreak of war between the Chinese Empire and Russia. The Allies were eager for Britain and France to enter the war at once, and then a protracted war would be fought between the Chinese Empire and the Entente. Let the blood of both sides drain and it would be the most wonderful thing for the Allies.

In the Imperial Palace in Berlin, Germany. The German Emperor Wilhelm II, who was excited, said to the three important German ministers, Prime Minister Hohenlohe, Chief of the Army General Staff Schlieffen and Admiral Tirpitz: "The Chinese Empire suddenly provoked a war with Russia this time, which is really great news for us Germany and even the Allies. Strong support for Russia, or only Russia. In the face of the powerful Chinese Empire, it will not last long! In this way, the power of the Entente will be weakened much, much in any case. ”

Prime Minister Hohenlohe said with a very relaxed expression on his face: "Your Majesty is right, the war between the Chinese Empire and Russia has many benefits for us Germany and the entire Allied Powers, if Britain and France do not directly participate in this war, the probability of Russia's final defeat is very high, so that the strength of the Entente will be weakened a lot, and the balance of strength with our allies will be reversed." If Britain and France also chose to go to war with the Chinese Empire, then it would be even more perfect, and the Entente and the Chinese Empire would surely be plunged into a protracted war until both sides were exhausted. At that time, the Allied Powers, led by Germany, would be the most powerful power in the world, and there would be a lot of cheap for us Germany and other Allied Powers to pick up. ”

Wilhelm II nodded and said, "Both the Entente and the Chinese Empire are enemies of our Germany. If our two enemies can fight each other to the end, it will definitely be God's gospel to Germany. But pick up the cheap. We in Germany also need to strengthen our own strength. I heard that both Russia and the Chinese Empire have announced a new round of military expansion. ”

Schlieffen, chief of the general staff of the army, said at this time: "It is true, the army of the Chinese Empire will be expanded by 12 main army corps, although the Chinese Empire claims that it will withdraw most of the officers and soldiers from the non-main army corps, but this time the expansion of the Chinese Empire, the army of the Chinese Empire will be expanded to at least 5 million or more." Tsar Nicholas II of Russia announced that he would expand 20 army groups by 6 million troops, but according to the information of our German intelligence department, Russia is only preparing to expand 10 army groups first, and 20 army groups are smoke bombs put by Nicholas II, but even 10 army groups will also have 3 million troops, which are more than the standing strength of our German army. ”

The strength of the German Army has also continued to rise in recent years, and now it has reached 2.8 million, ranking third in the world in terms of number after the Chinese Empire and Russia.

Wilhelm II asked: "I heard that Russia had already completed the formation of four new armies before the start of the war?" ”

Schlieffen, chief of the army general staff, nodded and said: "Yes, Your Majesty, Russia has basically completed the formation of four new group armies before the Chinese Empire started the war against it, making the strength of the Russian Army reach 5.1 million, surpassing the Chinese Empire in terms of quantity, and in fact it has become the country with the largest number of land forces, but now that the war between China and Russia has just broken out, the Russian Army has lost hundreds of thousands, and now it is really impossible to say which country has more land forces between the Chinese Empire and Russia." ”

Wilhelm II waved his hand and said: "No matter which country has more troops in the Chinese Empire or Russia, the reality is that our Germany, which is located in the third place in the number of land forces, is too much different from them in terms of army strength, and our German army now needs to expand part of the force, so that the strength of our German army will reach 3.5 million, Prime Minister, there is no problem with military spending, right?" ”

Prime Minister Hohenlohe said without hesitation: "Your Majesty, the empire's finances are still very abundant, and expanding the army by 700,000 is not a big problem. ”

The 700,000 army mentioned by Wilhelm II and Prime Minister Hohenlohe is not a simple conscription of 700,000 people, but also needs to be equipped with weapons and equipment, including heavy weapons, according to the standards of the German army, and the funds required are definitely not a small amount, and perhaps the funds needed for Russia to expand the 3 million army are not as much as the funds needed for Germany to expand the 700,000 army.

Wilhelm II asked the Chief of the Army General Staff Schlieffen: "Is there a problem with the expansion of the army by 700,000 troops?" ”

Schlieffen said: "Your Majesty can rest assured that the number of our German army reserve is as high as 5 million, and from which 700,000 people are selected, there is no problem in integrating them into regular troops. ”

After Wilhelm II decided to expand the German Army, he set his sights on the German Navy, Wilhelm II said: "The Army needs to be expanded, and our German Navy must not lag behind, we must continue to build more warships, Prime Minister, is there a problem?" ”

This time, Prime Minister Hohenlohe did not reply immediately, the navy is definitely a gold-swallowing monster, that is, Germany is now very financially rich, and the development of the navy has also made Hohenlohe, who controls the financial power, tremble, in recent years, in order to catch up with the navy of the Chinese Empire and the British navy, Germany has invested in the construction of warships, especially the funds invested in dreadnought battleships, which is almost an astronomical amount.

This also makes the German Navy now have 6 Nassau-class dreadnought battleships, 8 Oldenburg-class dreadnought battleships, 10 Westphalen-class dreadnought-class dreadnought-class, 10 Helgoland-class dreadnought-class battleships, a total of 34 dreadnought battleships, only 5 fewer than the British Navy's dreadnought, 3 fewer than the Chinese Empire's dreadnought, and 8 Caesar-class dreadnought battleships are being built in the dockyard of German shipyards.

Hohenlohe hesitated for a moment and asked, "Your Majesty, what do you mean?" ”

Wilhelm II said: "According to our intelligence, the dreadnought battleships built by the Chinese Empire and Britain now not only have a displacement of more than 25,000 tons, but also have a caliber of more than 305 mm of main guns, which is called super dreadnought battleships, and the Sa-class dreadnought battleships that we are building in Germany are still only 305 mm in their main guns, which is not a super dreadnought battleship, so in order to deal with the navy of the Chinese Empire and the British navy, We in Germany had to design and build our own super-dreadnought battleship. (To be continued......)