687.Border Negotiations between Xia and Russia (4)
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"There is something wrong with the attitude of the Rakshasas." While the Russian Mission was frustrated that it was about to abandon the East, the Chinese Mission was also analyzing the Japanese negotiations that had just ended. "Even if the east of the Lena River and the Oreyok River is a wild land, how can the Russians allow it to go out lightly, this is unreasonable."
"Lord Jia's words make sense." Hu Zongxun also felt that something was wrong. "Although the negotiation files between the Oros State and Jiannu were burned down with the Forbidden City in Youzhou, the Governor Yamen still collected some of the relevant files, from which we can know that even though Jiannu had ten times the strength of the Rakshasa people at that time, the Rakshasa people still fought for all the land north of the Outer Xing'an Mountains and west of the Ergun River with Jiannu without giving an inch of land, how could they retreat under the superior forces now?"
"Is it true that the Rakshasas don't have a so-called army?" An Wenhua suggested a possibility. "Are they bluffing?"
"It's possible, but the Rakshasa soldiers came to help and it was confirmed by Lord Murong personally leading the troops, how could Lord Murong misjudge the number of Rakshasa soldiers?" Jia Wenqing speculated with some puzzlement. "Could it be that the Rakshasas retreated to the West after defeating Lord Murong? This is not right, we have already arrived in the war zone, how can we withdraw without a single bullet and a single arrow? Could it be that there is civil unrest in Oros? Or is the war with Sweden resuming and it is necessary to return to the Eastern Army? ”
The lack of intelligence made it impossible for the people present to confirm what was wrong with the Russian army, and after a long time, Bao Chongzhi, the soldier and horse envoy of the military department stationed in Beihai Daduhufu, put forward a hypothesis: "Several adults, from the point of view of this official, the Rakshasa people are not able to advance because of the lack of food, so they have no choice but to show weakness in the negotiations with our DPRK." ”
An Wenhua's eyes lit up: "It makes sense, the Mobei battle is heavy on grain, take the imperial court as an example, it will cost two million yuan a year to maintain the food cost of the second division of the hussar army in Beihai alone, and the native of the Rakshasa people is said to be far away more than a thousand (summer) miles, and tens of thousands of soldiers and horses have to eat horses along the way, how much grain do they have to fill in?" ”
An Wenhua's judgment was a little incorrect, so Bao Chongzhi said: "Even if the Rakshasa people settle down all the way, they can get supplies on the spot, but the more than 100 summers between Ke City and Putrajaya have been completely destroyed by Lord Murong, although it cannot be said that there is no grass, but at least the Rakshasa soldiers will not be able to raise food and heavy baggage, plus our army has arranged for the local Mongolian troops to move to the east of the lake, so the Rakshasa soldiers can't even loot the place, and they can last a few days just by relying on the rear transfer." ”
"In other words, the Rakshasa army can only do it outside the war zone, but there is nothing to be done." Hu Zongxun clasped his hands and said. "This makes sense, it's not that the Rakshasa people don't want to fight on the basis of reason, but they are invincible, they can only lose their cars and protect their handsome, and exchange the barren land in the extreme east for the two sides of the North Sea with fat paste, but it is good to calculate and deceive."
"It's just speculation on our part." Jia Wenqing poured cold water before everyone was happy. "It may not be the real situation, before the few adults disappeared, the Rakshasa mission also strongly requested to bring more soldiers and horses to escort them, how can this be a manifestation of lack of food?"
Jia Wenqing's words are also reasonable, looking at the more than 2,000 Cossack cavalry close at hand, he can't see the problem of the Russians lacking food at all, but Bao Chongzhi has his own views on this: "The Russian army can't maintain tens of thousands of people to enter the war zone, but it may not be able to maintain two or three thousand people to enter, so seeing may not be believing, and even the Oros mission deliberately proposed to ask for 5,000 guards at the beginning. ”
Jia Wenqing didn't argue with Bao Chongzhi, but said: "How is the reality of the Rakshasa army, we have to let Lord Murong step up investigation." ”
This is an old opinion, of course An Wenhua listened to it, so he quickly called the military attache in the army, and arranged the important task of going deep into Krasnoyarsk to explore the reality of the Russian army again. ”
Bao Chongzhi said with other worries: "There is no problem with delaying, but the time can't be delayed too long, after all, we are still negotiating with the Rakshasa people, and if we delay for no reason, the other party may not be suspicious, not to mention that we also have some troubles that are not good for a long time." ”
Leaving aside whether the Russians will notice the delay in the negotiations, the difficulties of the Beihai Metropolitan Protectorate itself are indeed very tricky. These troubles can be summarized in three aspects: the first is the trouble of grain supply, including surveillance, including guards, including the contingency of the army of more than 6,000 people stranded in the west of the lake, and the daily consumption is also very large, although it can be transported through the Mongolian department in the east of the lake and the Kyrgyz people south of the Sayan Mountains, but the cost is also very large, if you don't want to apply for food, you can only save some flowers; The second difficulty is in terms of troops, because the main force of the Xia Meng army is all west of Beihai, the strength of Zhenrong in the area east of Beihai is quite weak, if it is replaced before, there is nothing, but now that the Huxi Meng Department is pouring into the east of the lake, and the Horqin people and the Buryats in the east of the lake will definitely have a conflict over the pasture, once the matter is big and the Xia army is unable to suppress it, it will definitely pose a threat to the negotiations and even the survival of the Beihai metropolitan protectorate; The third difficulty is the weather, now that it is July, if it is delayed for a long time, I am afraid that the Xia army, who is not used to the cold climate, will cause unnecessary casualties.
"Yes, we can't just think about the troubles of the Rakshasas, we also have to look at our own catties." An Wenhua weighed it for a while, and then felt the need to make some concessions in the negotiations. "As a last resort, we may not have to insist that we must get the entire western part of the lake south of the Angara River and east of the Yenisei River??????"
The next day, the Russians came to the negotiation venue early in the morning, but after waiting for a long time, there was no shadow of the Chinese mission, if it were not for the fact that there were still people and horses in the camp tents of the Chinese side, the Russians would have thought that An Wenhua and others had broken off the negotiations. After waiting anxiously for a while, he finally waited for a Chinese official who was belated, and when the anxious Russians questioned the suitability to start the resumption of the meeting, they heard an answer that surprised them.
"What? Does your emperor have the will to canonize the Mongol leader of the Vinybaikal region? Your negotiating ambassador has rushed back to Selengesk to receive the order? "For the response of this Chinese official, Count Magnitogor and other Russian negotiators were dumbfounded, and they couldn't believe that they had been rudely thrown aside." This, this is simply ridiculous, is your country just joking about the negotiations between the two countries? This is a great contempt for Russia. "The Russians were furious, but the Chinese officials who received them spread their hands and said that they could not do anything, and the Russians had to hold back their displeasure." Few days? Five days? If, at least five days, damn it, your delegation does not show up after five days, then it will be considered that your country has permanently terminated the border negotiations between the two countries, and then the two countries will have to decide the fate of the entire Baikal region with guns. ”
Baron Sergeyevsky and other officials involved in the negotiations shouted at the Chinese negotiating group who were not present, and of course the Russians' swear words were limited in content, and they were repeated as "stupid pigs," "devils," "lowly," and "barbaric."
When the Russian officials were tired of scolding, Count Magnitogor, who had been thinking intently, suddenly asked: "Everyone, what is the possibility of the Chinese saying that they will return to Selengesk to accept the emperor's edict?" ”
The Russian officials present looked at each other for a long time, and only after a long time did someone speak: "This is absolutely fake." ”
"Fake? That's right, it could be fake. Count Magnitogor asked again. Why do the Chinese lie? The Count asked himself. Is the aim nothing more than to delay the negotiation process? The Count said this, and asked the people again. So why are the Chinese delaying the negotiation process, and what is the problem here? ”
That's right, why did the Chinese side delay the negotiation process, what went wrong?
Baron Sergeyevsky, who seemed to understand, suddenly turned white: "Could it be that the Chinese have already seen that the Russian ** team has not entered Bratsk, so they feel fooled and are ready to terminate the negotiations and seize the one they asked for by force." ”
The rest of the representatives of the Russian mission were also panicked, but Count Magnitogor, who had been gloomy all the time, showed a cloud-like expression: "Calm, keep me calm, this is a trick of the Chinese, in fact, they only suspect, not really believe that the Russian ** team is unable to attack." Yes, it must be so, the Chinese tried to figure out the movements of the Russian ** team during the interruption of the meeting, they must have sent reconnaissance troops to Krasnoyarsk, but given the distance between Zima and Krasnoyarsk, the Chinese only needed 5 days or more. ”
Since the judgment of the behavior of the Chinese side has been made, Count Magnitogor immediately ordered: "Send people to Krasnoyarsk at once to inform General Ushakov and General Lazerny, asking them to clear the Chinese reconnaissance force, and, if possible, send a Russian ** team to the east as much as possible to induce Chinese miscalculation??????"
After completing the work of making amends, the Russian mission began to wait patiently for the day of the resumption of the meeting to deal a heavy blow to the Huaxia side, and the Huaxia mission was also anxiously waiting for the return of its own reconnaissance force. Time passed day by day, and five days had arrived, but there was still no news from the east, and the Chinese side had no choice but to continue to make false excuses. The Russians, who knew it, only complained twice, and then arrogantly put pressure on the Cossack convoy bonfire dance.
On the sixth night of the adjournment, An Wenhua, who had foamed at the corners of his mouth, finally saw Murong Jingming, who was crumbling. According to the report of Murong Jingming, who could only sleep on the horse for a short time every day for six days, the main force of the Russian army in the east did stay around Krasnoyarsk and did not continue to advance towards Bratsk and other places, but the number of Russian troops seems to have decreased compared with the beginning, so it cannot be ruled out that the Russian army marched to Bratsk by waterway that could not be monitored by the Xia army outposts.
Could it be that the Russians did not march into the war zone because of a lack of means of transport? Or are the Russians waiting for the grain to arrive from the rear and are preparing to sneak into the Vikhnibaikal region through the smoke of negotiations? The increasingly opaque information made the hearts of most of the Beihai Protectorates involved in the negotiations heavy.