Chapter 85: The Entente blockade of Japan

The Tsar's telegram shocked the leaders of Britain and France, and Japan shamelessly attacked Tsarist Russia and invaded the territory of Tsarist Russia. Now, after being reminded by the Tsar, they realized that if China and Japan had something to do, they would not fight in the Northeast, this was not a joke, and the Northeast Army of China had already lost more than 100,000 troops.

France is nothing, their relationship with Japan is not very good, when Japan entered the Penghu Islands, but it violated their interests, although they were a little annoyed by Japan's invasion of Tsarist Russia, but now Tsarist Russia has no chance to attack the Japanese army at all, they can only feel sad for Tsarist Russia.

As for Britain, it is very angry, as the boss of Japan, the younger brother of Japan dares to attack the allies of the boss without telling him, isn't this a big face? Without saying a word, Britain agreed to the tsar's blockade demands.

The Japanese army attacked the Tsarist army, leading to the loss of all the war situation in the Far East, and the excessive weakening of Tsarist Russia would lower the overall strength of the Entente, which was not conducive to British interests. If the blockade of Japan and the Chinese Empire in the Far East is a good choice, disobedient Japan is definitely not what Britain wants, and Britain needs to weaken Japan.

The Tsarist government did not expose the Japanese invasion of Vladivostok on the surface, and they did not want this matter to be exposed, because if it was exposed, it would cause great adverse effects, and it was very likely that the people would force them to declare war with Japan.

Although it was not exposed openly, the Tsarist government still blamed Japan and demanded that Japan explain this matter and hand over the murderer, otherwise it would be a provocation to the Entente, and the Tsarist Russian Empire would never let Japan go.

Yamamoto was not shocked when he received the telegram of the Tsarist Russia's reprimand, which had long been expected by him, and as for the threat of the Tsarist Russia, he scoffed at it, and it was basically impossible for the Tsarist to attack them by land now, even if the Tsarist Russia defeated the Chinese army and then attacked them, they were not afraid.

Prime Minister Gonbei Yamamoto directly replied to Tsarist Russia that Vladivostok and other places were obtained by them from the Chinese army, not an invasion, and that it was the Tsarist Russian army in Vladivostok that slaughtered Japanese citizens before sending troops, and Japan did nothing wrong. In any case, Japan has made the decision not to admit it to death, and no matter what Tsarist Russia says, they will not admit it, and this is also Japan's consistent style.

Soon after, a telegram of reproach from Britain was also sent, mainly asking Japan why it had done so, and also asking for an explanation, that Britain had the right to know about it, and so on. Gonbei Yamamoto still hypocritically refused to admit it, and pushed these things to the fallen Katsura Taro cabinet, and it was none of his business.

The tsar had long known Japan's shamelessness, and although he expected Japan's reply, he was still very angry, and anyone who was stabbed in the back unknowingly would be angry.

"Your Excellency, it's not good, just now Britain and France informed the people in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs that there is something wrong with the Empire's custom-made warships and weapons, and they want to delay the delivery, and they have not explained clearly when the delay will be."

"The Entente delayed the Empire's material orders for no reason, and some even returned them directly, especially oil and coal, which had been loaded onto the ship, but they were delayed."

"A large number of industrial machines customized by the Empire were suddenly classified as strategic materials by the Entente and were not sold to the Empire, and we were blocked by the Entente."

All kinds of news came back from Europe, which made Yamamoto Gonbei's head big, he really didn't expect the Entente to block them, and he panicked for a while and didn't know what to do.

He could not admit that Japan had indeed invaded the territory of Tsarist Russia, and that the Tsarist Russian army had also been killed by them, which simply pushed Japan to the forefront, and the impact was too great. He finally knew why Katsura Taro would say that if this matter was exposed, they would be isolated and blocked, but unfortunately there is no regret medicine in the world.

"Bastard, it must have been done by the Zhi people, only the Zhi people knew about it, what did the people from the intelligence department do, and they didn't even investigate this?" Yamamoto Gonbei snarled at the head of his intelligence department.

"Your Excellency, the Tsarist Russian army in Vladivostok has not been completely annihilated, and another army has fled, they fled into Jilin, some of them were captured by Zhang Zuolin, and some of them are missing. It may be that the remnants of the Russian army were exposed, or it may be that Zhang Zuolin was obstructed. ”

"What, haven't they all been annihilated? Why didn't the army go after this Tsarist army, a bunch of fools! ”

"I'm sorry Your Excellency Prime Minister, you were not in office at that time, and when the army in Vladivostok suddenly attacked Jilin, those troops who went to pursue were called to attack Jilin, and the former prime minister always wanted to hunt down the Tsarist army, but the army no longer listened to him."

Hearing this, Yamamoto Gonbei was stunned, he didn't expect such a situation to happen, and he can only blame him for not overthrowing Katsura Taro's cabinet earlier, and the guide was tempted by Shina, and now it's okay, a mess is waiting for him.

The Yamamoto cabinet is now miserable, the Allies and the United States have blockaded them because of their attack on Northeast China, and now the Entente is also blockading them, and they are really isolated. Japan is a small island country, and all kinds of resources are scarce, and they are basically imported, and they cannot do anything without foreign resources.

In the past, there was Huaxia that could provide them with a lot of resources, but after the founding of the Huaxia Empire, it was difficult for them to obtain resources in Huaxia, and they could only rely on the resources of Britain and France.

Just when the Yamamoto cabinet was in a mess, the Japanese business community began to put pressure on the Japanese government, their opportunities were detained, those goods sold were also restricted everywhere, money was their life, and now their financial routes were cut off.

The Japanese government made a strong protest against the blockade of the Entente, but the Entente simply ignored it, and Britain relaxed the blockade due to the Anglo-Japanese alliance, and the restrictions were reduced a lot, at least the most ordinary daily necessities they could still provide to Japan, so that the Anglo-Japanese alliance cracked.

How could the Entente conceal the actions of Japan from the intelligence officers of various countries, although they did not know what was going on, but they were very gloating, and the more chaotic the Far East, the better it would be for them.

Both the Entente and the Allies blockaded Japan, which made the neutral countries and black market merchants very excited, and their business opportunities came, and they could sell their goods to Japan at a high price to make money, and I believe that Japan would be happy.

After discussion, the Yamamoto cabinet decided to use Northeast China as the gateway to solve the blockade crisis, and the resources of Northeast China can fully support Japan's use at this stage, and they will be able to break this blockade circle after defeating China. Therefore, they decided to continue to increase their attack on the Northeast, hoping to take the Northeast in one fell swoop, and by the way, continue to transfer the domestic contradictions to the outside world.

The blockade of Japan by Britain and France made the tsar very satisfied, and Japan's strength would definitely be restrained or even regressed, and when he defeated the Chinese Empire and then recovered Vladivostok and other places, the resistance was relatively reduced. The tsar did not want to declare war on Japan, it was irrational to declare war on two countries at the same time, and now he could not fight the Japanese army at all, and the Chinese army was still an insurmountable hurdle.

Both Japan and Russia tacitly confronted each other in secret, and did not put things on the surface, and if they did, both countries would be embarrassed, and they would both want to save face. The interests between countries are so elusive, all kinds of ways make you dazzled, one second you are still good friends, the next second you are enemies.

It is a pity that the Chinese Empire exposed this matter and put it on the bright side, the imperial government stated that it had not attacked Vladivostok and Sakhalin, and was not responsible for this matter, and the location of the imperial army was recorded in detail, and the imperial army had not set foot in these two places so far. Both of these places were done by the Japanese army disguised as Imperial troops, and the reason why they did not declare it before was because no evidence was found, but now the Empire has found evidence to prove that the Empire has not set foot in those places.

The Russian soldiers captured by Zhang Zuolin and the soldiers of Jilin can testify, and the intelligence department also obtained some photos exposed during the Japanese attack, which were published in the Imperial Daily.

Newspapers in Germany, the United States, and other countries frantically exposed Japan's shameless acts, and even vigorously criticized Tsarist Russia for covering up facts, being undemocratic, and betraying the country.

The Entente countries hurriedly blocked these news, but there were still a lot of them circulating, especially in Tsarist Russia, where the Red Party was spreading these news frantically, and the Tsarist government could not lock it up no matter how it blocked. The more Tsarist Russia blockaded, the more the people of Tsarist Russia distrusted the government, and they demanded that the facts of Japan's occupation of Tsarist territory in the Far East be made public, but the Tsar did not admit that it was invaded by Japan at all, and insisted that Huaxia did it.

Forced to do so, the Japanese government was determined to publicly declare that it was not aggression, but help, and that it should not listen to the rumors of the Chinese Empire, which was undermining friendly relations between Japan and Russia, and strongly protested against such a shameless act of the Chinese Empire.

The three countries each said their own words and fought a war of words, which became a topic of discussion among the people of various countries after tea and dinner, especially since Japan was blockaded by the two major forces.

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The Japanese army had occupied most of Jilin Province by this time, and they were steadily encroaching on the entire Jilin Province, Zhang Zuolin's Northeast Army was losing and retreating, and the area north of the Mudanjiang River had all fallen.

The rebels in Heilongjiang came into contact with the Japanese army, and together with the Japanese army attacked the Jilin army, they were caught off guard and occupied the area north of the Mudanjiang River, and were rushing towards the Mudanjiang River. The remnants of the Northeast Army in Jixi also gathered in the Mudanjiang River, where more than 100,000 troops swore to resist the Japanese army and rebels.

Boli's Huaxia army officially crossed the Ussuri River into Heilongjiang and Jilin Province, and the number of troops was not large, only 100,000, and some troops had to defend against the Japanese army on Sakhalin Island.

The Japanese army in Korea has been basically transferred to Jilin Province, and after taking office, Yamamoto Gonbei has been busy with domestic affairs and cleaning up Katsura Taro's forces, so he has not rushed to increase troops in North Korea, and has not urgently increased troops in North Korea until now, but Feng Delin's army has already stepped into Korean soil.

Feng Delin received an order from the empire to attack the weakened Korea, destroy the Japanese army's military construction and materials in Korea, and destroy the hard work of Japan in Korea for more than ten years.