In the Kremlin in St. Petersburg, the Russian Tsar Nicholas II saw that the three important ministers did not show surprise when they heard the news of Vladivostok's surrender, as if they all felt reasonable, and couldn't help but sigh, in fact, after he ordered the Governor of the Far East Alekseev to lead the sea and land armies in Vladivostok to break through, he had a premonition that his own uncle would not necessarily obey his orders, after all, the road to break through was difficult, and Vladivostok's troops were likely to be surrounded and intercepted by the army of the Dingbei Army. Encirclement and annihilation on the way to break out.

It's just that I didn't expect Alekseev to surrender to the Dingbei Army so quickly, anyway, the food in Vladivostok can hold out for a while, so that the Dingbei Army besieging Vladivostok can be liberated and sent to the city of Darkhan in Outer Mongolia, which will bring greater trouble to the Russian army to capture the city of Darkhan.

Tsar Nicholas II himself smiled bitterly, held a telegram in his hand, and said to the three important Russian ministers: "In addition, Alekseev proposed to Tsar Ben at the end of the telegram to end this war with Lin Daxin, the military strongman in the Far East, you can take a look!" ”

After speaking, he asked the chamberlain around him to pass the telegram to the three important ministers of Russia. After reading Alekseev's telegram through the three important ministers, Tsar Nicholas II asked: "What are you building yì?" Is it true that we, the Russian Empire, have no chance of winning this war? Do you have to negotiate with that Far Eastern military strongman Lin Daxin now? What about the territories occupied by the Dingbei Army under Lin Daxin? ”

The 3 important ministers of Russia, who are also the henchmen of Nicholas II, looked at each other and did not speak, and Lin Daxin has been fighting for so long, the navy does not need to think about it, and now the Russian navy can show a few old-fashioned ironclad ships, and the Russian army has been wiped out by 1.7 million, that is, the Russian army is still strong, and no one dares to say that it can defeat the Dingbei army whose combat effectiveness is simply against the sky.

Although the strength of the Siberian Theater still has an advantage, counting the strong combat strength of the Dingbei Army, this advantage has become gone.

Maybe ending the war with Lin Daxin now is the best choice for Russia, but the three Russian ministers are unwilling to end the war like this, you must know that they all supported the war with Lin Daxin at the beginning, and they supported Tsar Nicholas II to turn the four northeastern provinces into Yellow Russia, although they are all Nicholas II's confidants, but if the war fails, someone must be responsible, to calm the resentment of the whole Russia, Tsar Nicholas II, who started the war, cannot be responsible, Then those of them who support waging war, if they don't get it right, one or two of them will become scapegoats.

Tsar Nicholas II looked at the three of them and did not speak, his brows furrowed even tighter, and he hesitated for a long time and said: "If Tsar Ben takes out a huge amount of money from his private treasury and implements the second phase of the wartime mobilization and expansion plan of 1 million troops, will our Russian Empire have any chance of winning this war?" ”

The Chief of the General Staff of the Army, Gorrosky, said in embarrassment: "His Majesty the Tsar, Tong Guò and Lin Daxin ordered the Northern Army to fight for such a long time, that is, the army of the empire will expand by another 1 million, and the ministers do not dare to pack the final victory of this war must belong to our Russian Empire, but if the war is ended now, our Russian Empire will lose the entire Far East and more than 5 million square kilometers of land east of the Lena River." ”

Witte and Grand Duke Vicky also nodded, agreeing with Gorrosky's words, after all, the strong combat power of the Dingbei Army is there!

When Nicholas II heard about the land of more than 5 million square kilometers, his heart trembled, and he was extremely unwilling to lose such a large piece of land in a few years after he became the Russian Tsar.

Nicholas II gritted his teeth, he was ready to continue to use the funds in the private treasury to expand the army, but the cost of expanding the army by 1 million is not a small amount of money, although the cost of arming a Russian soldier is very low, after all, the army mobilized and expanded in wartime still uses single-shot rifles, but the artillery of the expanded army, the allowance of officers and soldiers, the usual food and lodging, and the consumption of shells and bullets are all a lot of expenses. Such a large amount of additional military expenditure made Nicholas II very distressed, after all, the huge wealth in the tsar's private treasury was not blown by the wind, it was also accumulated by successive tsars from generation to generation.

After hesitating for a long time, Nicholas II finally gained the upper hand in his thirst for merit and was determined to continue the war, so he asked: "The Imperial Army will immediately carry out the second phase of wartime mobilization and expansion of 1 million, the cost will be paid out of the private treasury of Tsar Ben, and the War Department will immediately start to act, Gorrosky, how long will it take for the Army to complete the second phase of expansion?" In addition, how many troops can the current Reich's army in Europe send to the Siberian theater of operations? ”

Hearing that Nicholas II did not listen to the advice of Alekseev, the governor of the Far East, the three important ministers of Russia suddenly felt like they were unloaded, after all, now that the war is over, several of them are in danger of becoming scapegoats.

Gorrosky immediately replied: "It is not difficult in terms of personnel, our army still has more than 2 million reserves to recruit, as long as the equipment is in place, 150,000 to 200,000 new troops can be expanded in one month, and the expansion of these 1 million troops can be completed in less than half a year." In addition, most of the 2 million troops we have expanded before have been sent to the front line, and many of the pre-war standing armies have also been sent to the front line, and our army in Europe is already less than 900,000 people, at most another 100,000 troops will be sent to the Siberian theater, after all, we must also maintain a certain size of army in Europe. ”

Tsar Nicholas II nodded, but he just endured the pain and spent money to expand the army by 1 million, but he still felt very uneasy in his heart, and he sent a telegram to the commander of the Siberian theater of operations, Kuropatkin, who was making pre-war preparations in the city of Haktu, telling Sù Kuropatkin that the Russian army would expand by 1 million troops, and the attack on the city of Darkhan would not be launched until the First Siberian Front Army had more troops.

Nicholas II was really afraid that if the First Siberian Front also failed, then Russia, as Alekseev, the governor of the Far East, said, would lose all its bargaining chips and not even the last fig leaf.

After reading the telegram sent by Tsar Nicholas II, the commander of the Siberian theater of operations, Kuropatkin, frowned, he had completed the final preparations for the attack on the city of Darkhan, and now the tsar hoped that he could wait for the newly expanded troops, although that would increase the strength of the First Siberian Front, and even allow the troops to attack the city of Darkhan to exceed a million, but it would take several months to wait.

Now the Dingbei Army has defeated the original Siberian Second Front Army, and occupied Vladivostok without blood, so that the Dingbei Army can liberate more troops into Darhan City, and a few months later, they will attack Darkhan City again, although their own strength has increased, but the Dingbei Army guarding Darkhan City will also be strengthened, and it may be more difficult to capture Darkhan City, where the Dingbei Army is gathered.

However, Kuropatkin was not fully sure that the Siberian First Front Army, which could use the 650,000 troops in his hands, would definitely be able to capture the city of Darkhan, after all, as the battle became longer and longer, he became more and more aware of the combat effectiveness of the Dingbei Army, so he was ready to listen to the advice of Tsar Nicholas II and postpone the attack on the city of Darkhan.

But within two days, Kuropatkin changed his mind and ordered the units of the 1st Siberian Front, which were in the cities of Haktu and Buying, to immediately prepare to march towards the city of Darkhan and launch an attack on the city of Darkhan.

It turned out that in the past two days, the railway line from the European region of Russia to the important town of Siberia and the logistics base of the Siberian theater of operations, Irkutsk, was repeated by the special forces brigade of the Dingbei Army, and it blew up several sections in a row by airship, each section was 2 or 3 kilometers, and even a bridge leading to Guò by railway was blown up by the special forces, so that the main artery of the Siberian theater was completely paralyzed.

Moreover, the Dingbei Army can bomb the railway line once, and it can bomb it twice or three times, from Russia and Europe to Irkutsk, thousands of kilometers of the Trans-Siberian Railway that has been repaired, so that the Russian army is simply unable to defend against it, so that the supply of the Siberian theater of operations has become difficult, and even the reinforcements sent by Europe have been suddenly interrupted because the railway line has been blown up.

In fact, the railway line was bombed, and Tsar Nicholas II was to blame for a few points, after learning from the Italians that Germany wanted to form an alliance with Lin Daxin, Tsar Nicholas II shouted that he wanted to expand the army by 1 million again, put pressure on the Germans, and told the Germans that our Russia's powerful and almost endless army will definitely destroy Lin Daxin's Dingbei Army, and you Germans will regret it if they form an alliance with Lin Daxin, a force that is about to be exterminated.

As a result, the German Emperor Wilhelm II did consider whether Lin Daxin could survive the attack of millions of Russian troops, and Germany's two allies, Austria-Hungary and Italy, stood up and disagreed with the alliance between Germany and Lin Daxin, so the matter was not settled.

However, the news that the Russian army would continue to expand by 1 million was known to Lin Daxin, and Lin Daxin felt that Russia had been expanding its army like this, and the war did not know when it would end, and it was difficult to force the four northeastern provinces to also carry out wartime mobilization. In that case, the construction of the entire Northeast will slow down, and the agriculture and industry in the Northeast will be affected, which is not what Lin Daxin wants.

Therefore, after encircling and annihilating the main force of the Siberian Second Front and occupying Vladivostok without bloodshed, Lin Daxin immediately sent a special forces brigade to blow up the main artery of the Siberian theater in an airship. R1152