"Alaska is the legitimate territory of the United States, and we have all the sovereignty and interests there. China's rude seizure of Alaska not only violates fairness and justice, but also violates China's own rules of international exchanges. ”

The U.S.-China peace talks in Washington did not go well. China will not return a penny of land to the United States, and will ask the United States to compensate for huge military spending plus one Alaska. This makes the United States, which has suffered a huge loss of strength, unable to agree.

Present at the peace talks was He Qing, deputy commander of the expeditionary force. The eight-day negotiations were a nerve-wracking headache for a layman. At today's talks, the Americans again refused to cede Alaska and returned the 300 million pounds in military compensation to 5 million pounds. He Qing is impatient, five million pounds, is it called Huazi when China asks for food? He decided to talk ruthlessly, anyway, with the emperor's endorsement behind him, He Qing was still afraid of Mao!

"If you don't cede Alaska, then cross Florida. Of the three lands of the United States today, you can only keep two of them. ”

"£300 million can be reduced to £200 million!"

"Or, let's keep fighting!"

He Qing threw the draft Chinese agreement in his hand to the new U.S. Secretary of State, who is also the chief representative of the U.S.-France negotiations, Richard Brown. Olney's in front of him. "War is the continuation of politics, and negotiation is the harvest of interests. Wherever you are in your territory, how can you refuse to take what I want to take? ”

"This meeting is omitted, but there are only two sentences, whether it is allowed or not."

"America either takes or fights. You only have choice, not bargaining capital! ”

"Isn't it permissible?"

"It's a debate, but it's not a reduce."

Looking at Richard. Olney and the British and French ambassadors to the United States, who were present, turned completely stiff and blue. A good breath of depression erupted from He Qing's chest. Cool, so cool. It's really cool!

After returning to his residence from the conference hall, He Qing's mood could not be calmed down for a long time. On such occasions. The words that I was instructed by Your Majesty may be written into the history books in the future. Those few words are really beautiful! He Qing immediately sent a telegram to Winchester, Liu Xian was in Winchester at this time!

"The offensive should be faster and more intense. Victory on the battlefield is the most reliable weapon in the diplomatic process! Liu Xian said to Song Zuo first. Only when the battle is won and fought well can the negotiations proceed faster and smoother, and only then can China extract the greatest profits and benefits.

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In the 11th lunar month of 1896, when the Sino-American peace negotiations were already pending. Another piece of news that has caught the attention of the whole world has been produced - the official proclamation in Moscow of the establishment of a Russian social republic by the poor party Russia!

The Russian civil war has been going on for a long time, with both sides winning and losing, and the three major powers of Britain, France and Germany have drawn many elite officers into the Russian army. But correspondingly, many of China's commanding officers entered the army of poor Russia. The armies on both sides were roughly the same in their weapons and relatively well supplied, and in the three months after the outbreak of the war, both sides engaged in many offensive and field battles against each other. But after this initial period, a line of defense lines consisting of trenches and barbed wire, bunkers, minefields, etc., appeared in various strategic places.

Defensive warfare gradually became the cornerstone of the battlefield on both sides. Large-scale offensive warfare and field warfare gradually disappeared. It was not until tank armor gradually appeared in the battles of the Russian Civil War that the role and importance of trench warfare slowly diminished.

The Europeans equipped the Russian army with the Great Nomad tank, and China also successively put the formed Land Rover II tank and the Land Rover III tank on the basis of the Land Rover I light tank into the Russian battlefield. The Russian battlefield has simply become a testing ground for new weapons in the East and West!

And then when winter comes. Calm has returned to icy Russia. In temperatures of minus twenty or thirty degrees or even lower, no army can maintain a strong attack when armor and tanks are lying on their stomachs**. Both the East and the West of Russia are seizing time to recruit and train troops.

And both sides have to be busy cleaning the place.

In the vicinity of St. Petersburg there are hidden supporters of the radical wing of the Poor Party, and there are countless supporters in and around Moscow. For these two nascent governments. The elimination of hostile elements within each side is also an extremely important task.

Ulyanov is not yet thirty years old, and the average age at the top of the radical wing of the poor party is less than thirty years old. Years ago, they were high-spirited. The morale is high, and he is most unaccustomed to the existence of opponents.

So. The brutal purge began in Moscow, and then in St. Petersburg, a tooth for a tooth and an eye for an eye. The fierce class contradictions between the two sides have led to various emotions of rivalry and revenge. Constantly pulling up the cruelty of the purge.

Even this purge had a direct impact on the stability and morale of the front-line troops.

Tver. The city is located in the western part of the upper Volga basin and north of the Tver Mountains. The city is located on the main railway and road lines between Moscow and St. Petersburg, 160 km northwest of Moscow and 484 km from St. Petersburg. The Volga River divides the city into east and west from west to east. The city also has the Tvercha River, a tributary of the Volga River, and the Zimaka River, a right tributary.

This was one of the supply cities for poor party Russia to support the front-line army in combat.

There are not many citizens in the once prosperous city, and a city with a population of more than 200,000 people now has at most one-fifth. The whole city can be seen more of the poor Russian soldiers staggering around and with confused and numb faces. They smoked low-quality cigarettes made in China, drank high-quality Chinese two-pot heads, burned knives, ate starchy luncheon meat, which is known as a Chinese specialty, and even ordered clothes from a factory in western China.

The poor party Russia is completely relying on China's support to fight this war with great success. Don't think that these are free, except for a small number of free support, most of them have to be purchased with money. Liu Xian wants to squeeze the last gram of gold out of the hands of the poor party Russia!

No one wants to do a monopolized business, and the trade between China and poor Russia is a seller's market for red fruits. But if there was another way to go, poor party Russia would not be so passive. But now Moscow's external access to the west has been cut off. The only thing they can rely on is China!

Even if some European businessmen are still taking risks, the prices are ridiculously expensive and the volume of goods is small. So we can only rely more on China behind it. But the damned Chinese are very tricky, the government and the military only naturalize in large aspects of such procurement, and it is Chinese businessmen who negotiate directly with the poor party Russia.

These black-hearted businessmen are capitalists and their own families! I won't miss an opportunity to make an extra profit. So much so that many of Moscow's poor party military and political leaders are very grateful to the Chinese government, if they had not formulated a big framework in terms of big aspects and prices, Moscow would have been squeezed dry by this group of black-hearted devils and looted the last penny.

Even the Russian soldiers, who hated the poor party the most, used the words that worked in Moscow, and the Chinese merchants greedily took the Ukrainian railways to dump large quantities of cotton clothes, luncheon meat, industrial products, potatoes, sorghum, wheat and other grains into the dishes, and each of them had a set of skills to scrape the ground, exchanging cheap materials in large quantities for what they had scavenged from all over the country. Precious instruments, diamonds, gold, silver, paintings, silverware, even bronze, pewter, etc., as long as they can use them, they all want them, just like a beggar picking up rags, and they don't miss a can!

But they never smuggled arms from Russia, and no one heard a hint of a bilateral arms trade, at least on the surface. However, it was these industrial products and grains that also helped Russia greatly. Compared with the goods shipped from Britain, France, Germany and Italy from Western Europe, these things are cheap and durable. The only flaw is that it is bigger, or the technology is five or six, seven, eighty or ninety years behind!

So much so that in the past six months, a large number of Russian girls have taken the train to China.

Gomel, Belarus.

Duan Qirui was bored on the platform, and now his daily job was to take the soldiers like misers to inspect the gold and silver and Russian antiques that were about to be shipped back to China. What China wants to extract from Russia is real money, silver, and antiquities, not bulky machines. The North American Expeditionary Force has conquered most of the United States, how many machines will there be? And more advanced. And Russia has already been looted once two years ago, and now there are not many precision machines that can still be seen, and gold and silver are more affordable.

Duan Qirui was very disdainful of the oil paintings brought by the Russians. What are the things, where is the artistic conception of the country? However, St. Petersburg has Europe behind it, and the volume of trade with China is far less than that of poor Russia.

Moscow is as small as a silver coin, and it needs to be used to buy goods from China. After the sweep of two years ago, and the two years of being looted by the poor party, the entire west of the Urals is as clean as a dog licked.

Duan Qirui is now with the rank of lieutenant colonel, and before the war ended, he was promoted to the captain of the major, and after two years of accumulation, he climbed up one level and became the head of the Gomel detachment at this moment. sneered a few times, and as soon as he raised his head, he saw the adjutant running in a hurry: "Report, the information just from the headquarters has suspended the departure of train 0112B!" ”

"What's going on? Is there a change in Ukraine? ”

"A part of the hostile elements in Ukraine rioted in Polvata, and the main forces have been routed by the government forces of Eastern Ukraine. But there is still a part of it that has spread to the Dnieper region, which is very likely to affect the safety of train 0112B! ”

"The headquarters suspects that this riot was planned by Western countries, not really for the sake of rioting, but only to attract our attention. Their real purpose is most likely train 0112B. "The train carried 100 tons of gold and more than 200 tons of silver, as well as a large number of Russian artifacts and curiosities, worth a total of 30 million pounds.

Duan Qirui's face immediately became solemn. National diplomacy is high-sounding, and no matter how beautiful the face is, it can't stop the hands and feet that are done in private. This kind of selfish deed, as long as it is not caught in front of the real evidence, it will not be recognized.

If train No. 0112B is really hijacked on the way, it can only cover the escort troops and have no ability, no wonder the beneficiary succeeds. (To be continued......)