Lin Fei's Chinese Empire had been diplomatically isolated by all countries in the world, and Lin Fei had no fear and instructed the Foreign Trade Corporation to stop all exports of gasoline, fertilizers, synthetic materials, and movies to all countries that had severed diplomatic relations with the Chinese Empire, and to downgrade the embassy to an agency office, and to cut the export volume by 80 percent.

Lin Fei's move did not make those countries stop isolating China, because most countries are not very dependent on Chinese goods, only Germany has a certain dependence on China's gasoline, but Germany's gasoline self-sufficiency rate has increased to 80 percent, and Germany is an absolute monarchy, and the authority of the German Emperor Wilhelm II ensures that Germany can suppress all opposition.

Time passed minute by minute, Lin Fei seemed to have smelled the breath of war, and what Lin Fei didn't expect was that the war did not come from the sea first, but from a direction that he did not expect.

At 9 o'clock in the morning of 20 June, the 1st Regiment of the 900th Division of the Huaxia Army stationed in Changli suddenly sent out a message: "Our unit has been attacked by the Qing defenders at Shanhaiguan. ”

Shanhaiguan, the key of the two capitals is incomparable, the first pass of the Great Wall, the back of the mountain and the sea, known as "the first pass in the world", is the throat of the northeast and north China.

The Qing court set up the "Shanhaiguan General Army" in Shanhaiguan, the commander-in-chief of the Shanhaiguan defense, the Shanhaiguan General at this time, was the Qing court general, the famous Li Yuanhong in the Lin Fei era.

Li Yuanhong was a prominent minister of the late Qing Dynasty in the Lin Fei era, and after the Wuchang Uprising, he was elected as the leader of the revolutionary party, and has been active in the political arena ever since, serving as president and vice president of the Republic of China many times.

Li Yuanhong was born in the army, was originally Zhang Zhidong's proud general, and later Japan and Russia broke out in the northeast of the Qing Dynasty, the Qing court was worried that Japan would knock on the south, and planned to send a capable general to guard the Shanhaiguan, Zhang Zhidong recommended Li Yuanhong to the Qing court, and the Qing court immediately appointed Li Yuanhong as the chief soldier of the Shanhaiguan and awarded the general of Zhenbei.

Li Yuanhong trained 10,000 elite soldiers in Shanhaiguan, Zhang Zhidong regarded this army as his descendant, and gave them the best equipment by all means, which actually reflected a strange phenomenon of the army in the late Qing Dynasty, the state did not equip the army, and the equipment had to be equipped by the ministers who raised the army to figure out their own methods.

The most striking example is the First Sino-Japanese War between the Qing and Japan, in the entire course of the First Sino-Japanese War, the Qing army that participated in the war did not have a regular army organized by the Qing state, and all of them were private soldiers trained by ministers.

After Lin Fei conquered Beijing, he defeated Yuan Shikai's counterattack in the Battle of Zhangjiakou, and took North China with the momentum of wind and clouds, Shanhaiguan was already a lonely city, but Lin Fei did not order the troops to capture Shanhaiguan, because outside Shanhaiguan was the Japanese army, Lin Fei wanted to let the Japanese army and the Qing army contain each other, and he took advantage of the fishermen, so he let the troops be stationed in Changli, which was not far from Shanhaiguan, and did not attack Shanhaiguan.

Unexpectedly, now, the Qing army actually launched an attack first.

Lin Fei immediately instructed the 1st Regiment of the 900th Division to make every effort to repel the attack of the Qing army, and not let go of a single Qing soldier to enter the defensive line.

The 1st Regiment of the 900th Division immediately began the Battle of Changli, the 900th Division was formed by the garrison troops, and its combat effectiveness was slightly inferior to that of the main division, but despite this, the Qing army still did not take any advantage, and the battle lasted all day, and the Qing army still did not break through the outer defense line of Changli.

Night fell, both sides after a day of fierce fighting, are exhausted, at this moment, a cavalry force, suddenly appeared on the right flank of the Changli defense line, the Huaxia army was caught off guard, by this cavalry unit to break through the defense line, the Huaxia army hurriedly contracted the defense line, retreated to the Changli city defense.

The Qing army stationed in Shanhaiguan did not have artillery, on the one hand, because the artillery was too expensive, Zhang Zhidong was reluctant to buy, on the other hand, artillery belonged to high-tech equipment in this era, and ordinary people would not play, the Huaxia army thought that Changli's defense line was impregnable, but they did not expect that a cannon sounded, and the Changli city wall collapsed in the artillery fire.

When the city wall of Changli City collapsed, three red signal flares rose from the position of the Qing army in the distance, the general attack of the Qing army began, the overwhelming Qing army rushed over, for a time the gunfire was loud, the careful soldiers heard from the gunshots, the Qing army seemed to have changed guns, no longer the crisp and long "pop" sound of Mauser M1895, but a dull and short "boom" sound.

Seeing that it was about to fight a street battle with the Qing army, and the Huaxia army had more advantages in a field battle, the commander of the 1st regiment decided not to fight a street battle with the Qing army, and then led the troops to withdraw from Changli and move closer to Beijing.

The news of Changli's loss was reported to Lin Fei's residence, at this time Lin Fei was sleeping with Ling Xue in his arms, and today Ling Xue broke through another technical difficulty, and he was in a good mood, so he tried to make Lin Fei also feel good, and the two of them fell asleep.

Lin Fei heard the urgent military information sent by his subordinates, immediately got up, and when he saw the report from the front line, he couldn't help frowning, there were three major doubts in the whole campaign, first, the cavalry troops, the Qing army stationed at Shanhaiguan did not have cavalry, which was very clear to the Chinese side.

Second, the Qing army in Shanhaiguan did not have artillery, and the Qing army could not hide anything as big as artillery.

Third, how could the Qing army in Shanhaiguan suddenly change their guns, you must know that although the rifle is not a high-tech equipment, it is the equipment with the largest number of equipment, and it is impossible to replace it in one day.

The only plausible explanation is that there was a brand new force that attacked with the Qing army, and as for where this force came from...... Lin Fei suddenly thought, could it be the Japanese army in Shengjing?

Lin Fei was shocked by his guess, isn't Japan at war with Russia, how can it have troops to attack us? At this time, Lin Fei did not know about the secret peace between Japan and Russia.

Lin Fei was thinking about it, when He Kaisheng, a staff officer of the Intelligence Department, suddenly sent a message: "Just now, at one o'clock in the morning of June 21, Japan and Russia announced a comprehensive armistice agreement, which claimed that Japan and Russia were about to send troops to help their allies clear the country!" ”

Lin Fei's heart tightened when he heard the news, Japan and Russia actually had a complete truce and sent troops to help the Qing Dynasty, which was a catastrophe for the Huaxia army!

At this time, the Huaxia Army, there are still Qing troops to fight in the west, if Japan and Russia send troops again, then Japan will definitely march west from Shanhaiguan and launch an attack from the east side of the Huaxia Army, Russia is already the actual controller of the Mongol Empire at this time, and they will definitely launch hundreds of thousands of Mongolian cavalry to attack from the north of the Huaxia Army.

In this way, the Huaxia Army will face a three-sided attack from the east, north, and west, and if we look at the south, it is actually not optimistic, because if the combined fleet composed of the Russian Pacific Fleet and the Baltic Fleet in the Lushun area is to land in the vicinity of Tianjin, then the Huaxia Army in the vicinity of Beijing will face a desperate situation of being attacked on all sides.

The international situation has suddenly become tense, Britain, Germany and France have politically isolated China, and are only one step away from declaring war on China, while Russia is about to launch an attack, as for Japan...... Lin Fei was not sure whether the troops that conquered Changli were Japanese or not.

At this time, the General Staff sent news again, the enemy army after breaking through Changli, the slaughter of Changli, according to the people who escaped from the city, every soldier in the slaughter force is very short, and the military uniform he wears is also blue-black, which is completely different from the gray-blue military uniform of the Qing army.

The massacre was brutal, with every man disemboweled, beheaded, and every woman gang-raped, and after being gang-raped, bayonets were used to cut their private parts...... Of the more than 4,000 innocent civilians in the city, all but 20 escaped.

Lin Fei was furious, the Japanese army not only assisted the Qing army in attacking Huaxia, but also carried out a frenzied killing of the Chinese people, Lin Fei clenched his fists tightly and slammed it on the table.

There was a muffled sound of "bang", only to hear a delicate scream of "ah" from the door, Lin Fei looked up and saw that Ling Xue was standing at the door with a tray, it turned out that Ling Xue saw that Lin Fei was going to work in the middle of the night again, so he got up and made a supper for Lin Fei, and when he sent it, it was just in time for Lin Fei to smash the table.

Ling Xue had a premonition that something was wrong, so she didn't dare to be coquettish, so she hurriedly walked in front of Lin Fei, put down a plate of delicate snacks and a glass of steaming milk, and asked, "What's wrong?" ”

Lin Fei briefly explained the matter, and then said: "Go and call Baojiao, I will make a diplomatic effort to avoid war with Japan and Russia." ”

Ling Xue hurriedly called Ruan Fu Baojiao, Ruan Fu Baojiao came to Lin Fei with her sleepy eyes, Lin Fei said directly: "Tomorrow at dawn, you will go to the Russian Embassy and the Japanese Embassy, well, the Russian Embassy has been downgraded to a representative office, and the Japanese Embassy has been closed, but the Japanese envoys have not completely evacuated, you go to inquire about Russia's attitude and question Japan's behavior." ”

Ruan Fubaojiao was confused, Lin Fei realized that she didn't know what was going on, so he showed her all the news she had just sent, Ruan Fubaojiao was shocked and hurriedly agreed.

The next day, Nguyen Phuc Bao Jiao went to the Russian chargé d'affaires, and the Russian consul bluntly told Nguyen Phuc Bao Jiao that the Russian Empire had decided to use force to help the Qing Empire.

Ruan Fubao Jiao hurriedly discussed and said: "Our Huaxia Empire does not want to see war, we hope to save the situation......

"Miss Nguyen Phuc Bao Jiao, please don't say any more, after the incident of the Mongol Empire, we and your country are no longer allies, not only are we not allies, but we are also enemies, because on the issue of our war with Japan, your Huaxia Empire wantonly provokes, without you, we will not go to war." (Welcome to join the Canghai Readership Group - 423214695)