Chapter 17: The Battle of Cullen (1)
"You still started, too anxious, maybe you are right, but as a qualified emperor you still have a long way to go." Wilhelm II stood by the window with a telegram about the severance of diplomatic relations between China and Russia, looking at the scenery outside, and sighed softly.
Qin Yu's experience so far makes Wilhelm II very envious and admired, from a small merchant family to the current king of a country, and the age is not very old, but everything he has done is so earth-shattering, and now he has started a new journey. It's just that in the eyes of Wilhelm II, Qin Yu is really a little too anxious this time, after all, this time is no better than the counterinsurgency in Tibet, which is infinitely dangerous, and if you are not careful, it will make China's recent achievements in vain.
There was a clatter of footsteps, the sound of military boots on the wooden floor, and a group of senior officers walked in.
"Your Majesty, everyone is here." Moltke bowed to Wilhelm II and said.
Kaiser Wilhelm II turned around and waved the telegram in his hand and said: "I believe that you also know about the Chinese Empire's attack on the Russian army and their severance of diplomatic relations, let's talk about it." ”
"Your Majesty, we must support the Chinese Empire, and we must weaken the strength of Russia as much as possible, so that the pressure on the eastern side of the empire will be much less. Now neither country has declared war, and it is estimated that the situation is similar to that of the Sino-British war.
But now the situation of the Chinese Empire is very bad, there is Japan next to it, there is the French army in the south, there is also a British army on the Indian side, and Russia is a member of the Entente, once Russia loses, China will definitely be threatened by several countries, and even several countries will attack China together. Moltke looked at the hanging map and analyzed.
Prussian Minister of War (equivalent to German Minister of Defense) Falkingham looked at the map and walked up and said: "We can take the opportunity to station troops on the Russian border, and at this time we have enough reasons to do so, and the German concubine is a citizen of the Empire."
In my opinion, Britain and France may not send troops to the Chinese Empire, the Chinese Empire has a lot of troops in the Ming and Han dynasties and Yunnan, although the British sent 100,000 troops to India, but in the hundreds of thousands of Chinese troops with the same strength as the imperial soldiers, it is not so easy to gnaw, and there are also a large number of militia. France's strength in the Far East is not even comparable to that of Britain, and it is even less likely to be China's opponent, so China's main enemies now are Japan and Russia.
If Japan takes the opportunity to attack the Chinese Empire, Huaxia will fight hard under the attack of the two countries, and defeat is a matter of time, after all, Huaxia's navy is not Japan's opponent, once the sea is blocked by Japan, Huaxia, which has no industrial strength, will completely fail. After speaking, he walked to the map and drew a circle in Poland, the Ming and Han regions, and the South China Sea, and then drew three straight lines, namely, Russia entered the belly of China through Outer Mongolia, Japan entered the imperial capital of China through the Northeast, and the Japanese Navy directly entered the Yangtze River basin through Shanghai.
Wilhelm II shook his head and said: "According to Huaxia, some kind of agreement has been reached with Japan, Japan will not attack Huaxia during the war between China and Russia, as for what price Huaxia paid, I can't know, and the intelligence department has not investigated useful information."
But according to our view, there are no more than two possibilities, one is that China will give up Taiwan, and the other is that Japan will unite with China to attack Russia, but I am more inclined to the latter, and it can be seen from so many things that China will not give up its territory, so the purpose of both China and Japan should be to kick Russia out of the sphere of influence in the Far East, and then have a decisive battle. ”
The generals and marshals felt that Wilhelm II's analysis was good, and they all nodded in agreement.
"No matter what, the empire must support the Huaxia Empire, and let Huaxia lose a little, so that Huaxia will be more dependent on the empire. Now that we can't stop the war, let's let them fight, we can see that Britain and France and other countries don't let them do bad to China, and I am very happy that the strength of the Entente has weakened. Falkingham said with a smile.
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On the same day after China and Russia severed diplomatic relations, the German Foreign Office announced that it would not recognize Outer Mongolia as a country, and that Outer Mongolia was the territory of the Chinese Empire, and then Austria-Hungary and the Ottoman Empire also recognized Outer Mongolia as the territory of the Chinese Empire.
Soon Chile, Peru, Argentina and other countries in South America also recognized Outer Mongolia as the territory of the Chinese Empire, and the counterinsurgency actions of the Chinese Empire were completely correct.
After Germany, Britain, France, Portugal, Spain and other countries recognized the independence of Outer Mongolia, and the Chinese Empire and Outer Mongolia should negotiate at the negotiating table instead of going to war, strongly condemned the actions of the Chinese Empire, supported Russia's assistance to Outer Mongolia, and hoped that the three sides could maintain restraint in conducting peace talks.
"Damn the Germans, who came out to make trouble at this time, and the headache-giving Chinese Empire, is simply a madman, even sending troops to Outer Mongolia now, and in a few years later we will be able to help Russia destroy it with all our might." British Prime Minister Asquith scolded angrily.
Originally, he didn't want to express his stance so quickly, after all, Huaxia also has the value of wooing, and China's potential is there, and if Germany succeeds in winning over Huaxia, India will definitely not be guaranteed in the future. But now that Germany has actually expressed its support for the Chinese Empire, so that he has to express his support for Russia, after all, Russia is their member, and Huaxia, which may become a member of them, and Russia, which is already a member, do not think that Britain will choose the latter.
"Your Excellency, let Russia teach the Chinese Empire a lesson, the speed of China's rise has already affected the Empire's interests in Asia, and the relationship between China and Germany is too close, so it is just right to suppress it.
Japan has just sent a telegram saying that it will remain neutral in the war between the two countries, which means that Japan will not participate in the war between the two countries, and I don't know what China is using to gag Japan's mouth. The assistant to the prime minister handed the telegram to Asquith and said.
"Let them fight, the war between the two countries will definitely expand, Nikolai, a madman, is comparable to the young and rampant Chinese emperor, I believe that it won't be long before Russia will come to us for assistance, the army of the Chinese Empire is not those pigtailed pigs in the Qing period.
Huaxia must suppress it, but I'm afraid that Russia won't be able to suppress this ferocious tiger, do you think we should let the empire's projects in Huaxia's First Five-Year Plan be suspended for a period of time to help Russia? ”
"The prime minister must not do this, the contract says that the work cannot be stopped for no reason, otherwise the early investment will be regarded as liquidated damages, and the United States and Germany would like us to withdraw and let them go.
But we can drag it out, so that the speed of China's rise will slow down, even if Russia loses and withdraws from Outer Mongolia, isn't there still Japan, then we can let the Japanese attack China, so that China will fall into a long war. The assistant to the prime minister said with a smile.
Asquith nodded in agreement and didn't speak, he also knew that if Britain and China had a big war at this stage, it was estimated that Britain would lose, after all, their tanks had just been manufactured, and the first batch of tanks was to be used to equip the local troops, and as for the troops in India, it was estimated that they would take some tanks to equip them in a year or two.
The French were similar to the British, they did not think that their troops in Annam could compete with the huge army of the Chinese Empire, and the French navy in the Far East was not very strong, so they could only stay in Annam.
The United States was so excited when it saw the announcement of the severance of diplomatic relations between China and Russia, and it was another good opportunity to make a fortune, but then it became worried, whether China would be attacked by Japan and Russia at the same time, and the Chinese Empire could not stop the attack of the two countries now. Once China is defeated by the two countries, it will inevitably lose more things, and Japan will become stronger, so the interests of the United States in the Pacific region will be greatly threatened, so they will decide to help the Chinese Empire to hold back Japan, such as limiting the amount of resources and materials that Japan can buy in the United States, etc.
All countries have their own ideas about the affairs of the Chinese Empire and Russia in Outer Mongolia, and the folk Yellow Peril theory in Britain and France has become active, who let the Chinese Empire start a war before the Yellow Peril theory is over.
Qin Yucai doesn't care what the countries of the world think, he doesn't know when he will be able to take back Outer Mongolia, but he must get Outer Mongolia back before World War I, and also take the opportunity to consolidate his rule and improve the international prestige of the Chinese Empire.
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In addition to this, he ordered the Russian army and the Outer Mongolian army in the city of Maicheng and Uriya Sutai to rush to Kulen to support, so that the intelligence officers could find out how many troops the Chinese Empire had dispatched, and whether there were any other reinforcements besides the 300,000 troops stationed outside the border of Outer Mongolia.
Kulun is the capital of the so-called Great Mongolia, and there is no garrison there for Kulen Tsarist Russia, after all, it is the capital of Outer Mongolia, and the garrison there will cause dissatisfaction among the people of Outer Mongolia, and the 8th Jebtsundamba did not allow Tsarist Russia to garrison troops there, and Outer Mongolia also has its own army of 50,000 in Kulen. Many of these 50,000 Outer Mongolian soldiers were formed after the establishment of the Chinese Empire, because they were afraid that the Chinese Empire would send troops to Outer Mongolia, so they expanded wildly.
When the deserters of Tsarist Russia arrived in Kulen, they shocked the top of the entire "Great Mongolia", Jebtsundamba and Hangda Dorji and others were very nervous, the next target of the Chinese Empire's army was Kulen, and Kulen's strength was not the opponent of the Chinese Empire's army at all.
Minister of Foreign Affairs of Mongolia: Handa Dorji; Secretary of State for the Interior: Chelin Zimit (concurrently); Chancellor of the Exchequer: Chakdurzab; Minister of War: Bu Sulun; Minister of Criminal Affairs: Namusaray, Haishan and Tao Ketao were also appointed as the secretary of the Ministry of Internal Affairs and the head of the Ministry of War respectively.
Jebtsundamba and others hurried to find the Russian minister in Kulen and asked them to send people to Kulen to support, otherwise they would have to retreat to the Wulianghai area and flee for their lives.
The three major armies of the Chinese Empire received Jiang Fangzhen's order to separate after the convergence of Serwusu, the first and second armies went straight to Kulen, and the third army headed towards Uriya Sutai, their task was to intercept the Russian army in Uriya Sutai who went to Kulen to support and the Russian army that was dragging the Wulianghai area.
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