Chapter Eighty-Four: The Tsar: Lie to Me Too Much
When the news of the occupation of a large part of the territory of Central Asia by the Chinese army reached St. Petersburg, Tsar Nicholas II was angry again, and the Chinese Empire was now attacked by the two great powers and dared to arrogantly occupy his territory, which was simply looking for death! Originally, he thought that Britain would be the Chinese Empire there, but who knew that Britain would be soft, and the Chinese Empire, which was afraid of being caught between two countries, was beyond his expectations.
Since the declaration of war with the Chinese Empire, Nicholas II has not been excited a few times, and it was short-lived, and the army of Tsarist Russia won too few battles, which also made him very embarrassed, and he was ridiculed in the European royal family so that he did not dare to show his face. The tanks he ordered from Britain and France had been unloaded at the docks of Tsarist Russia via the Baltic Sea, and he was very depressed that not a single Russian soldier could drive a tank after more than 50 primitive first-generation tanks set foot on the territory of Tsarist Russia.
Although the British also sent a few soldiers to teach the Russian soldiers, they themselves did not have any skills, only basic operations, after all, they had just built tanks and had not had time to train. They wanted to buy ready-made tanks from the Huaxia Empire, but the Huaxia Empire was unwilling to sell them to them, so they couldn't do anything about it. The reason why they agreed to buy tanks for Tsarist Russia so quickly this time was also to let Tsarist Russia give them training technology tests, and only with the actual combat effect can they better formulate the training of tank troops.
Impatient, Nicholas II didn't wait for the British instructors to train his soldiers before loading these tanks onto the train and heading to the Far East non-stop, because he wanted the tankmen to train more on the way, which was better than training in the empire in a muffled voice. The Far Eastern Railway was damaged a lot, and the tank crews had to travel some distance on their own to join the large forces of Tsarist Russia, so training on the road was a good method. As for the British instructors, although they were reluctant to go to the Far East battlefield of Tsarist Russia, they had to obey the orders of the Empire.
In addition, Britain and France made a lot of airships after realizing the horror of airships, and the airships purchased by Tsarist Russia also arrived in Tsarist Russia with tanks, and they did not dare to let airships fly over Europe openly, so they could only follow the tanks to Tsarist Russia. Tsarist Russia had a small fleet of airships before, so they didn't have to worry about the pilots of the airships.
The newly formed Tsarist Far Eastern Army had reached the Ufa region at this time, and here they had to get off the train, the railway in front of them had been destroyed, and it was a huge project to restore it, and it was impossible to recover it for a year and a half.
Upon receiving the Tsar's telegram, Brunov told his army to slow down its march in order to wait for the arrival of tank and airship units, which gave him great confidence in the war in the Far East.
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At the same time, in Longjiang, the capital of Heilongjiang Province in the northeast, a mining company run by Tsarist Russian businessmen, more than a dozen Tsars wearing tattered military uniforms sneaked into the residence of the company's owner.
"Sir, are you sure this is a secret liaison station of the Empire in the northeast, and you know the contact code and the contact person? It's been a long time since we've eaten! A soldier grumbled as he touched his shriveled stomach.
"I can be sure that it is a point of contact, this is my father sued me, I don't know what the code is, as long as we identify ourselves, we will definitely get help, and soon we will be able to return to the Empire." Said an officer in a uniform with the rank of colonel.
"I'm afraid that the empire won't believe us, what if someone will suppress our affairs, after all, the empire will not declare war on Japan."
"It's okay, my father is a lieutenant general, my family still has a certain prestige in the empire, plus your family, it's enough. Besides, Majesty is not so easy to deceive, you must know that Majesty is quite disgusted with Japan. The colonel said.
Just as the soldiers were about to speak, footsteps sounded outside, and they stopped in an instant, and in a moment a fat man came in with his big belly open the door and came in, with a cigar in his mouth.
The fat man took a deep puff of his cigar after closing the door, squinting at the "beggars" in front of him, who were actually wearing their imperial military uniforms and pointing pistols at him with the special pistols of the imperial army.
"Don't shout, or we'll kill you, come and sit down, I have something to ask you." The colonel snapped his fingers, and two soldiers lifted the fat man and placed him on the couch in the hall.
The fat man sat down and looked around, not knowing what he was looking at, when a soldier put a gun on the fat man's head and motioned him not to look around.
"Don't look at it, your lover and nanny are tied up by us, don't think they can save you and answer my questions obediently." The Colonel picked up a lit cigar on the table and smoked, "Pure Cuban cigar, I haven't smoked it for a long time, I really will enjoy it!" I ask you, are you the liaison person of a liaison station set up by the empire in northeastern China, don't ask me how I know, we are soldiers who escaped in the Battle of Vladivostok, and we have important things to report to Your Majesty, you are the liaison? ”
"Imperial soldiers? Didn't the whole army of Vladivostok be wiped out? What evidence do you have to say that you are a soldier of the Empire and not a conspiracy? The fat man asked, staring at the colonel tightly.
The colonel's snap fingers sounded again, and all the soldiers took out their well-preserved officer cards, and the colonel also took out his own officer ID cards and said: "See for yourself, we are really imperial soldiers, and it was a last resort to do this just now, I hope you can understand." ”
The fat man picked it up and looked at it, then took out a document from his clothes for a while, took out a document from the intelligence department, and said: "This is indeed a contact point of the empire, how do you know, I also know, I didn't think that your father would sue sù this, if it weren't for the military ID, I wouldn't be able to see that you are his child, don't worry, I won't report your father back." ”
The colonel's face was full of beard at this time, and it was also a little dirty, so the fat man didn't see it clearly, but the fat man had seen the colonel's photo when he was partying with his old friend, and combined with his old friend's praise of his child, he decided that these people were really imperial soldiers.
"I am friends with your father, I have seen your photos, I thought you had sacrificed your life for the country in Vladivostok, I didn't expect you to see you here, tell me what's going on?" The fat man hugged the colonel and asked.
"It's a long story, a lot, and I'll explain it to you slowly, but you can solve the problem of food and clothing for the soldiers first."
In a short time the soldiers were dressed in new clothes, a dozen of them were lying down in the hall with enough food and drink, and the colonel and the fat man went to the fat man's room.
"Tell me, how did you escape?"
"I also can't believe that the Chinese troops who attacked Vladivostok were all disguised by Japanese soldiers, they wore the uniforms of the Chinese army, and they spoke simple Chinese, but they were also exposed when the city was broken. Those bombarding Vladivostok were also the Japanese navy, and they disguised themselves as the navy of the Chinese Empire. It's ridiculous, it is impossible for the Chinese army to appear quietly south of Vladivostok, and the south is full of Japanese forces! The hateful Japanese even pretended that they had driven away the Chinese army, that they were a bandit, and that they had killed the Vladivostok army, in order to prevent their news from spreading. The colonel gritted his teeth and said angrily.
The fat man was completely stunned after hearing this, although they had also guessed that the Japanese did it, but they quickly ruled it out, because they thought that it was not worth it for Japan to do this, and the Chinese Empire did not come out to defend it, so they took it for granted that it was Huaxia who did it. He didn't expect that it was really Japan who did it, if nothing else, Sakhalin was also done by the Japanese, it was really hateful, and he dared to play with the empire!
"We were stationed on the border between the empire and Jilin, and we were still stationed there when the Japanese attacked, and then we hurried back to Vladivostok to support, but we were ambushed by the Japanese army on the way, and then I entered Jilin with an army of 5,000 men to avoid the pursuit of the Japanese army.
On the way to Kielton, we met the troops who had escaped from Vladivostok, escorting a personal letter from Lieutenant General Schönn, which was written to me.
But we were pursued by the Jilin army, because we entered their territory, and they demanded that we surrender our weapons and surrender, and we refused, so they opened fire, and a large number of people were captured, and only a hundred of us escaped, and then we fled all the way here, and now these people are left. The colonel continued.
"Okay kid, the suffering has passed, I will do my best to arrange for you to return to China when you get here, the empire will never let Japan go, and Japan must pay the price for the sacrifice of more than 100,000 troops!"
"I'm afraid that there will be people in the country who will press this matter, after all, the empire is fighting with the Chinese Empire at this time, and they will not go to war with Japan."
"It's okay, I'm the Empire's liaison chief in the northeast, and I have the right to telegraph directly to His Majesty, they can't stop it." The fat man was right, these intelligence officers were all direct subordinates of Nicholas II, and he could directly bypass the military headquarters and send a telegram to Nicholas II.
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"Your Majesty, the urgent telegram of the Northeast General Liaison Officer, is a telegram about Japan, you can take a look!" The head of the department was asked to take the telegram from Heilongjiang and go straight to the palace to bring it to Nicholas II.
Such an urgent telegram was personally brought by the head of the intelligence department, and Nicholas II took it and read it without saying a word. Nicholas II looked at the green tendons on his face and looked hideous, holding his chest with his hands and gasping for air.
"Dog's dwarf winter melon, you deceived me too much, you dared to forcibly occupy my territory, I really thought I was afraid of you." The more Nicholas II thought about it, the more he felt that Japan and China were acting, and it was shameless for Japan to occupy his Vladivostok and Sakhalin islands and pretend to attack Jilin to confuse him! No wonder China always increases its troops in the Novosibirsk region and not much in the northeast, this is a conspiracy!
"Damn, I still want to cooperate with them to deal with Huaxia, but I didn't expect them to kill my army of more than 100,000, it's unforgivable! Declare war, I want to declare war with Japan! Nicholas II roared.
"Bang! Bang! Bang! ”
"Ping Pong!" "Ding!"
The sound of all kinds of things falling to the ground, Nicholas II calmed down after venting for a while, and said after thinking for a long time: "No, I think wrong, according to the information obtained, the Japanese army is indeed attacking the Northeast, and the young emperor of China will not give the Northeast to Japan as a condition, what is wrong?" By the way, after Katsura Taro stepped down, the navy was in power, and the Japanese soldiers in the north of the empire seemed to have withdrawn, yes, this is it, Katsura Taro wanted to start a war with me during the period, but now it is not the case, they want the northeast, but they still stubbornly do not let go of Vladivostok and Sakhalin. In any case, you have killed more than 100,000 or 200,000 of my troops, otherwise the territory in the Far East would not have been occupied by China in large numbers, and I will not be human if I don't take revenge!"
"Since you don't dare to declare war on me, I won't declare war either, but I will let the Entente blockade you like a blockade of Huaxia, let you and Huaxia consume, hahaha, I will settle this account well in the future."
Nicholas II hurriedly asked Japan to be questioned, and then sent a telegram to the top leaders of Britain and France for a high-level dialogue, in which he explained the matter, demanded that the Entente blockade Japan, and threatened Britain and France with the withdrawal from the Entente.