The Russian ambassador to Germany frowned and asked in surprise: "Fifty million gold rubles, can you get so much money from the Chinese Empire?" ”

Yu Xier smiled: "Of course we can get so much money, as long as you agree to form an alliance with us, we will invest this money in your Siberian railway construction plan." "The Chinese Empire plundered a large amount of gold and pounds sterling when it conquered the territory of the Kingdom of the Netherlands, and it was not difficult to come up with 50 million gold rubles.

The Russian ambassador to Germany thought for a moment and asked: "You have invested this money in the construction of the Trans-Siberian Railway, do you want to use part of this railway?" ”

"Of course, since we paid for the railway, then we should get the right to use it."

The Russian ambassador to Germany thought to himself, the Chinese Empire is far away in the South Seas, how can they use the Trans-Siberian Railway? It seemed that it would not hurt to agree to them, although the Russian ambassador to Germany thought so, but he still did not dare to make a decision on such a big matter, so he said: "I must ask His Majesty the Tsar for instructions." ”

"How much time will you have to give me an answer?"

"I don't know what the time is, after all, I don't know what His Majesty the Tsar is doing now."

"Okay, then please go and ask for instructions, I'll wait for you here for an hour." Yu Xier looked at his watch after speaking, the Russian ambassador to Germany nodded, got up and walked out, to Yu Xier's surprise, only ten minutes later, the Russian ambassador to Germany returned to him and said with a smile: "Our Tsar His Majesty agreed to your country's conditions and promised to form an alliance with your country!" ”

Next, the two sides signed two treaties, one was the "Comprehensive Friendship Pact between the Chinese Empire and the Russian Empire", and the other was the "Memorandum on the Chinese Empire's Shareholding in the Trans-Siberian Railway", and the news of the signing of these two treaties was announced to the world the next day, and this time it shocked not only the whole of Europe, but also the Qing and Japan in East Asia.

The conflict of interests between Britain and France and Russia was much greater than that of Germany, and once the Chinese Empire formed an alliance with Russia, it meant that Russia would inevitably provoke trouble when Britain and France were empty, and Britain and France would not dare to send warships to support the South Seas.

The Qing and Japan had a great conflict of interest with Russia in the Far East, and the Qing were better, and the corrupt Manchu aristocratic rulers were bent on squeezing the blood and sweat of the common people, and were unaware of the national interests and the great power rivalry.

But Japan is different, Japan is bent on obtaining land in the Far East, and Russia has an irreconcilable conflict of interests, and now the Chinese Empire is aligned with Russia, which means that Japan has to face the Chinese Empire in the south and the Russian Empire in the north, and Japan's security situation has deteriorated suddenly, and Japan's Meiji Emperor and Prime Minister Ito Hirobumi have to start thinking about suspending the war against China.

Although the Chinese Empire is allied with Germany and Russia, the Chinese Empire and these two countries also have potential conflicts of interest, especially with Russia, Russia forcibly occupies 1.5 million square kilometers of Chinese land, and Lin Fei will definitely not let it go!

These potential conflicts of interest will inevitably lead to changes in the international landscape, and perhaps in a few months, the Chinese Empire will turn against Russia and Germany, which is a rivalry between major powers, and there has never been the word "friend" between countries, and there are only interests.

The British and French, under the severe threat of Germany and Russia, decided not to mobilize troops from the colonies to support Nanyang, and they ordered the governors of Singapore and Vietnam to send envoys to negotiate an armistice with Lin Fei.

On January 28, the British Governor of Singapore sent a special envoy, Rogers, who was the envoy who signed the "Sino-British Free Trade Agreement" with Lin Fei that year, and had a good relationship with Lin Fei, and Lin Fei would not kill him like he killed Claros.

The French governor of Vietnam sent a French businessman, Pisarov, who also knew Lin Fei, and the news of the tragedy on the island of Paratu, Pisarov sent to Lin Fei.

Both Rogers and Pisarov proposed in the negotiations to end the current war immediately and sign an armistice between the two sides.

Lin Fei asked directly: "You killed a large number of our Chinese, how much do you have to pay compensation?" ”

Rogers' offer of £1,000 per Chinese, and Pisarov's offer of £3,000 per Chinese, seemed reasonable, but Rogers and Pisarov proposed at the same time that the number of dead Chinese should be counted by the British and French.

Lin Fei was angry at that time, you want to compensate us, and you still have to count the number of deaths, so isn't it that you say how many people have died, how many people have died?

Lin Fei suppressed his anger and asked, "Then the territory of our Huaxia Empire, will you return it?"

Both Rogers and Pisarov replied: "We promise not to attack Luzon, the Visayas, and Mindanao, and as for Sulawesi, Borneo, and Java, they remain the property of the Kingdom of the Netherlands." ”

Lin Fei was so angry that he almost flipped the table, and said angrily: "Returning the territory is my bottom line, if you don't return the territory, then there is nothing to talk about." ”

After Lin Fei finished speaking, he brushed his sleeves away, and Rogers and Pisarov did not stay, their idea was that the Chinese Empire might not be able to take Sulawesi, Borneo and Java, and Lin Fei would suffer heavy casualties and eventually compromise.

Lin Fei returned to the office and immediately issued an order: "The big counteroffensive plan has officially begun!" ”

During this time, Lin Fei has been actively preparing for a major counteroffensive, and at this time, the whole country of the Chinese Empire was in a state of war, and it was very smooth to prepare for a major counteroffensive.

On January 29, Lin Fei's counteroffensive troops officially set off, and what everyone didn't expect was that the first shot of Lin Fei's counteroffensive plan actually hit Xianna Port!

Senna Port is located in the north of Borneo, at this time Borneo is divided into two parts, Sarawak, Brunei and Sabah (that is, where Senna Port is located) in the north belong to the British, and Borneo in the south originally belonged to the Netherlands, and was later captured by Lin Fei.

Lin Fei's intention to attack the port of Xianna was obvious, to directly remove the geographical threat of Britain to the Chinese Empire, and to take the whole of Borneo as his own.

No one thought that Lin Fei would dare to fight like this, leaving Sulawesi, the closest island to the Huaxia Empire, not to recover, and actually making a detour to the north to attack Xianna Port!

The most important thing is that Xianna Port was not the territory of the Chinese Empire before the war, and Lin Fei was not only counterattacking, but also opening up the territory!

When Lin Fei's fleet appeared at the mouth of the port, all the British were shocked!

At this time, four wounded British and French cruisers were moored in the port of Senna, and the other cruisers had returned to Pontianak and Jakarta for defense.

Although these four cruisers were injured, they were still able to fight, and they saw that Lin Fei's fleet only had one Emperor-class cruiser and two Dragon-class cruisers, and they immediately had the heart of a decisive battle!

The four battleships were about to leave the harbor when suddenly, a roar exploded on the side of a battleship, a sound they were all too familiar with, this was the sound of torpedoes hitting battleships!

The Huaxia Empire dispatched submarines again, and these submarines quietly infiltrated Xianna Harbor!

The cruiser was flooded in large quantities and sank in the eyes of everyone, and the water at the mooring site was relatively shallow, so the cruiser was not completely in the water, and the top mast of the hull remained on the water.

The other three cruisers did not escape the fate of being sunk, and in the blink of an eye, three cruisers sank right under the noses of the army on the shore.

Without the protection of the navy, the army on the shore could only watch as Lin Fei's fleet approached the land and rained down bullets on the land!

The flames and smoke of the explosion flooded the army positions, fortresses were destroyed, and as the fortifications crumbled, the sea was flooded with small boats, some steam-engined ships, some sailboats, and even many small wooden boats with oars.

The boats approached the shore, and countless soldiers with loaded guns rushed out of the boats and rushed straight to the British land defense!

It turned out that Lin Fei in order to counterattack the plan, from the people to collect a large number of ships, in the patriotic enthusiasm of the inspiration, shipping businessmen, fishing for a living, have taken out their own ships, donated to the country, today's battle, Lin Fei mobilized more than 1,000 ships of various types, the total investment of up to 50,000!

In terms of troop composition, with the exception of the Fourth Division, the elite of the Second Group Army, all the others were the main combat units reorganized from the garrison force, with a total of four divisions, numbered respectively -- the 200th Garrison Division, the 201st Garrison Division, the 202nd Garrison Division, and the 203rd Garrison Division. The garrison units under the jurisdiction of the Second Army all have numbers starting with "2".

Like an invincible torrent, the 50,000-strong division crashed into the British defensive line, and the British resistance was almost negligible, and at 9 o'clock in the morning of January 31, the Chinese army fully occupied the port of Xianna.

The Chinese army captured all the British in Xianna Harbor and confiscated all the food and property of the British and local natives, Lin Fei's intention in doing this was obvious, so many troops, logistics supply was a big problem, and the method of feeding the war with war must be adopted.

After capturing the British and natives, the Chinese army did not kill them, but imprisoned them on farms and forced them to grow grain, the climate in Southeast Asia is extremely suitable for grain growth, and rice can basically mature in three months no matter when it is planted.

After the Chinese army occupied Xianna Port, Lin Fei ordered the 200th Garrison Division and the 201st Garrison Division to take up defensive tasks, the 202nd Garrison Division marched to the west of the island, along the communication line built by the British, to occupy other towns, and the 203rd Garrison Division marched south to attack Taragan and other cities where the British were entrenched.

Lin Fei's intention is to fully occupy Borneo!

As for the elite Fourth Division, Lin Fei ordered them to enter Zhurong City and prepare for a counteroffensive against Ma Chen.

The curtain of the vigorous counteroffensive was opened, and the British, French, Indonesians, and Vietnamese, all kinds of humiliation they gave to the Chinese Empire must be washed away with blood!