Chapter 58: Hidden Dangers
Britain and France, who had negotiated mediation, mobilized their Entente relations to contact the Chinese Empire and the Tsarist Russian Empire, hoping that the two countries could sit down for peace talks.
The ambassadors of various countries to China and Russia have worked quickly and held frequent diplomatic consultations, hoping for a truce between the two countries.
For example, Japan, the United States, Germany, and other countries do not want to mediate, and Japan can take advantage of the fact that China cannot look eastward and wantonly want to occupy more Tsarist territory in the name of the "Chinese army", and it can also weaken China and Russia. The United States simply wants to buy arms for China or Tsarist Russia, and the industries of China and Russia are very weak, which is what the United States wants, and who does not want to send war money; On the one hand, Germany wanted to weaken the strength of the Tsarist Russian Empire as much as possible, and it was best to hit Tsarist Russia in one fell swoop, and on the other hand, it was to earn the foreign trade of the Chinese Empire, and now the export of materials to China alone has made them unable to sleep.
The Chinese Empire has won a decisive victory, and the countries that support the Chinese Empire should be happy, as long as the Chinese Empire continues to win, the victory may not be on the side of China.
In the past few days, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Chinese Empire has been very lively, and the ambassadors of the Entente countries have had frequent exchanges with the diplomatic personnel of China, and even threatened China to demand an armistice. After receiving the approval of the Prime Minister and His Majesty the Emperor, the Chinese government demanded that Tsarist Russia recognize Outer Mongolia as the territory of the Chinese Empire and never invade it, and return the territories previously ceded by the Manchus, in addition to reconcating the borders, with the Far Eastern Railway as the boundary. If the Russian Empire accepted these conditions, it would end the war between the two countries, and would not accept the Chinese Empire's accompaniment to the end.
As soon as these conditions came out, Britain and France directly became bigger, this is a disguised cession of territory, but there is most of the territory of Tsarist Russia south of the Far Eastern Railway, and they will not accept it, it seems that China is going to fight with Tsarist Russia to win or lose completely.
The tsar on the other side saw that Britain and France came to persuade him to stop the war and cede Outer Mongolia, which was not his anyway, and was scolded by the tsar. The tsar thinks that he has not yet failed, and his good allies even let themselves cease fighting, isn't this not optimistic about him, this is a disguised admission of defeat, how can he stand it, and immediately said that it is impossible. Soon the conditions from Huaxia made him even more angry, and the survey of the border was not just to let him cede the territory, whether it was tolerable or unbearable, Huaxia deceived people too much.
The determination of the two countries made it impossible for Britain and France and other countries to mediate at all, one was unwilling to die, the other was harsh, and they had no choice but to grit their teeth and sell some of their stored materials to Tsarist Russia at a "low price".
Britain and France mediation failed, Japan, Germany, and the United States laughed, Britain and France were thankless, which was what they wanted to see the most, and Germany and other allies directly started the ridicule mode, which made Britain and France grit their teeth in anger.
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After the Chinese Empire took full control of Outer Mongolia, it directly ordered the change of Outer Mongolia to Beiyuan Province, and a large number of government officials went to serve there, and the formation of a new government was in full swing. In addition, the government of the Chinese Empire announced the abolition of the title of living Buddha of Jebtsundamba, looking for a new living Buddha, and then rushed to the imperial capital to accept the emperor's canonization.
Although many of the people in Outer Mongolia worship their living Buddha Jebu Tsundamba, they did not dare to riot under the compulsory orders of the Chinese Empire, after all, Zhebu Tsunbadan and others did have the intention of splitting the motherland. The vast majority of the people are still dependent on the Celestial Empire, and the consciousness of the Great Celestial Empire is still deeply rooted in the minds of the people of Outer Mongolia.
Outer Mongolian and Tibetan separatists were also initially convicted of crimes, and those who participated in the Outer Mongolian and Tibetan organs directly exterminated the nine ethnic groups, and those who were demagogized were sentenced to death, and the rest of those who participated and were found to be sentenced to various fixed-term or five-term punishments. The Tibetan Dalai Lama was disqualified from the canonization of the empire and warned that if there was a next time, he would be directly banned or even erased; The Panchen Lama, who did not rebel, became the only sect in Tibet that was canonized and recognized by the empire, which was officially licensed.
After destroying the railway, the Chinese army immediately went to the Novosibirsk region, and the airship unit had already reconnoitred the location of the Tsarist Russian army, and the purpose of this trip was to kill all the retreating troops of Tsarist Russia, and they must be intercepted as much as possible before they enter Siberia, the hinterland of the Tsarist Far East.
The retreating Tsarist army has the experience of fighting with the Chinese army, which can provide a lot of useful information for the Tsarist army that is constantly being sent from afar, and if this army can be solved, it can also delay the Tsarist army as much as possible. The Tsar will not give up on his laurels in order to save the face of the Tsarist Empire, and the Tsar will definitely continue the war, and it will not work if there is no war, and the Chinese army has already entered his territory.
After the decisive victory, the Chinese Empire once again transferred more than 200,000 recruits and more than 100,000 militiamen, who had just been trained for a short time, into the territory of Tsarist Russia to control the territory of Tsarist Russia west of Novosibirsk. The army originally stationed in Liaohe also sent 100,000 to help General Han Ming and Japan seize the easternmost territory of Tsarist Russia, and there will be troops to supplement Liaohe's troops later.
The Japanese army immediately went north after occupying Vladivostok, but they soon found that Boli and other places had been occupied by the Chinese army, and they could not continue to go north except for Guò Boli and other places except by sea and land, and the navy was helping the army on Huatai Island to clean up the remnants of the rebels of Tsarist Russia, and the rest were also in the East China Sea to deter the Chinese navy and prevent the Chinese navy from entering the Sea of Japan.
The helpless Minister of War Uehara Yusaku sent a telegram to Zhang Zuolin who wanted to bypass Boli through Jilin to enter the territory of Tsarist Russia, but Zhang Zuolin refused without hesitation. Zhang Zuolin can lend the way to the Chinese army but will never give it to Japan, the Japanese wolf ambitions, God knows if he is engaged in any more conspiracies, sneak attacks or something, the Japanese are the best at it.
A large number of Japanese troops directly confronted the Jilin army on the Jilin border, and Zhang Zuolin, who was embarrassed and angry, quickly transferred all his sixty percent of his army to the border, and he would not accept such pressure.
When the Huaxia Empire learned of this, it immediately sent a note to the Japanese government, asking them to act in accordance with the Entente, to give an explanation for the incident in which the Jilin army was in charge, and to vaguely remind them not to mess around, otherwise the matter of the Japanese attack on Vladivostok would be made public, but Huaxia had their evidence.
After the Japanese broke through Vladivostok, in fact, a Tsarist Russian army escaped and secretly rushed into Jilin, and then was captured by Zhang Zuolin, and now it has been secretly transferred to the Central Committee of China, and these Tsarist Russian soldiers have discovered the secrets of the Japanese. Regardless of whether the evidence is sufficient or not, as long as it is exposed, with the temperament of the tsar, he will absolutely believe that it will be time for Tsarist Russia to declare war with Japan.
On the same day, Boli's Han Ming army received an order from the empire to put pressure on the Japanese army, and a large number of troops made a false appearance of converging in Boli, and the arrogant Japanese army shouted for war with Huaxia.
After receiving the note from the Chinese government, Katsura Taro was very angry, not angry at Uehara Yusaku's unauthorized behavior, but angry at the incompetence of the Japanese army that had broken through Vladivostok at the beginning, and actually let the Russian army escape, and was even captured by the Chinese army, which is unforgivable.
In any case, the later Japan's occupation of Tsarist Russia's territory is exposed, the better, and Japan is still an Oriental dog without a collar and iron chain in Britain, and if Japan is found to have bitten Britain's ally, Tsarist Russia, it will definitely be beaten to a bruised nose and swollen face, and even directly unite with its allies to blockade Japan.
There is also the fact that China has already won a decisive victory, which means that China will be more inclined to the easternmost territory of Tsarist Russia, especially the territory ceded by the Manchus before, and it is impossible for Japan to anger China at this time.
After thinking about it, Katsura Taro asked Yusaku Uehara to exercise restraint, keep his senses, not do anything that harmed the empire, and let the navy help them bypass Boli and enter Tsarist Russia.
Yusaku Uehara also knew that he was a little too much, so he had to ask his subordinates to drop a few cruel words and withdraw the troops confronting the Jilin army, and then ordered the whole army to rush to the dock by the sea to wait for the arrival of the navy.
In addition to Sakhalin Island, the Japanese called the Kata Island, the most face-to-face temple street where the Chinese army is also confronting the Japanese army, the Chinese army has built military defense facilities on the other side of Sakhalin Island, the Japanese army is one step behind the Chinese army because it wants to fully occupy Sakhalin Island, and it is so hateful that it grits teeth, but it is helpless, after all, the treaty says that whoever occupies there is whoever occupies it, and the other party cannot attack.
In desperation, the Japanese army had no choice but to sail north, and then enter the Starov Mountains, that is, the Trans-Khingan Mountains, which had not yet been occupied by the Chinese army. This undoubtedly increased Japan's military expenditure and burden, and the entire area from Daozh Boli to Miaojie was occupied by the Chinese army, and the Japanese army would not be able to land here, but could only land from the outer Xing'an Mountains.
The Japanese army in Vladivostok also couldn't wait for the arrival of naval warships, and Yusaku Uehara also rushed back to Korea, and the big stallion of Tsarist Russia didn't have the fun of docile Korean girls, which also buried a hidden danger.
The Japanese Navy has always been at odds with the Army, but since Katsura Taro came to power, the relationship has become even more so, the Navy is a constitutional faction, and the Army is in the hands of Katsura Taro, which is equivalent to Katsura Taro's family, and it is strange that it can be harmonious.
When the Japanese navy received Katsura Taro's order to pick up the army in Vladivostok and go north, the army's contribution in this operation was many times more than that of the navy, and it also made Katsura Taro's power stronger and stronger. The constitutionalists did not approve of Katsura Taro's decision to invade and occupy Tsarist Russia, and in their opinion, the rich Huaxia was their goal, but now they helped Huaxia to fight Tsarist Russia, which was simply raising tigers.
The navy roamed leisurely in the Sea of Japan under the decision of the constitutionalists, and the constitutionalists were unwilling to transport these armies for various reasons to delay time, and the constitutionalists had to suppress and restrain Katsura Taro at one time, because the more territory occupied by the army, the more disadvantageous it would be for the constitutionalists. Not only did the navy delay in picking up people, but even the transportation of supplies became slow, which further aggravated tensions between the army and the navy.
The Chinese army did not know what was happening to the Japanese army, but felt that the Japanese army had slowed down a lot in the territorial struggle with them, and they took the opportunity to occupy the farthest eastern territory of Tsarist Russia.