Chang Ruiqing stood on the lookout post of Hulishan Fort, staring closely at the four British destroyers, all of which were C-class destroyers, although they were products of the end of the last century, they were more than enough to bully themselves without a navy. The guns on those destroyers had already been shaken, a British sailor was waving a signal flag on the flagship of the leader, and Xu Haoyu, who had attended a naval academy next to him, was loudly explaining the content of the flag to Chang Ruiqing.

"We have been ordered to blockade the port of Xiamen, and any ships that leave the port without permission will be detained......"

Wang Lei, the new commander of the Hulishan Fort, ran into the lookout post, as if he wanted to ask Chang Ruiqing, Chang Ruiqing waved his hand: "Give them a flag and tell them that they must not enter China's territorial waters, otherwise we will open fire!" Tianming (Wang Lei Zi), aim our cannons at them as well, and if they dare to open fire, immediately return fire! ”

"Mr. Lieutenant Colonel, the Chinese are actually threatening us! Oh my God, are these yellow-skinned monkeys crazy? Who does that mid-** valve think he is? German Emperor? ”

Lieutenant Commander Winchester, commander of the 2nd Squadron of the destroyer detachment of the British Far East Fleet, lowered his binoculars and glanced with disgust at his chief of staff, a young captain who had just graduated from the Naval Staff College. This young man who participated in the Battle of Jutland has a 19th-century brain, and he thinks it's Victorian, right? That Sir Juerdian's thinking was the same as his, he must still be stuck in the Victorian era, and he actually ordered the Chinese to freeze Guan Yu...... Such behavior is simply no different from that of a robber! Not to mention that China is still a member of the Entente and an ally of the British Empire! How could the British Empire do such a shameless thing?

And the cause of the incident was to protect the interests of the extinct Russian Empire. It seems that the knight must have fallen into a confusion of mind because of his old age, and is really unfit for the post of minister again.

He thought back to the explanation given to him by Vice Admiral Betty, commander of the Far Eastern Fleet, before leaving. This time the situation cannot be further expanded, and the blockade of the coastal areas of Guangdong and Fujian is only to maintain the dignity of the empire, not to plunge the empire into a senseless war again! So no matter what the situation, you are not allowed to fire the first shot!

No matter what the situation is...... What if the Chinese navy escorted their merchant ships to and from the coasts of Fujian and Guangdong? On the one hand, it is necessary to blockade, and on the other hand, it is difficult to fire first.

Now we can probably only pray that the Chinese navy is not as impulsive as that warlord in Fujian, right?

Thinking of this, he gave an order in a low voice: "Give them the flag again." Tell them that we will not invade China's territorial waters, but all ships in the port of Xiamen are not allowed to leave the port. It is hoped that they will exercise restraint and not allow the situation to escalate further. ”

"Mr. Lieutenant Colonel, such a statement will make the Chinese mistakenly think that we are weak and deceitful!" The squadron chief of staff on the side reminded loudly.

Lieutenant Colonel Winchester waved his hand impatiently: "So be it...... Our four destroyers are no match for those Krupp guns on the Xiamen Battery! If our destroyer is sunk by the Chinese. The empire will have to send a large army to China...... This is a senseless war! ”

"Commander (Chang Ruiqing's Fujian military affairs supervisor has been dismissed and he has begun to claim himself commander-in-chief of the Fujian Army), it seems that the British do not want to expand the incident further." Xu Haoyu put down the binoculars in his hand and said to Chang Ruiqing with a smile: "The British said that they would not invade our territorial waters, and they hope that we will exercise restraint." ”

Chang Ruiqing also sighed lightly, and a relaxed smile slipped on his face: "As expected, those Britons don't want to expand the incident any further." By the way, has Mr. Duanna returned from Gulangyu? ”

In fact, why did he want to escalate the situation any further? Although he has already announced in a high-profile manner that he will defend national sovereignty at any cost, he will never hand over the Fujian Customs and the British Concession in Xiamen...... However, he vetoed Chen Duxiu and Li Dazhao's request to recover the Gulangyu Public Concession.

At the same time, the Red Brigade did not really launch terrorist attacks against British institutions and personnel in China. Even attacks on Tsarist forces in the Tianjin Concession had been suspended. The focus of the Red Brigade's activities has now shifted to North Manchuria, the sphere of influence exclusively occupied by Tsarist Russia.

Moreover, in this "anti-imperialist struggle", Chang Ruiqing had already obtained what he wanted, and now it was time to accept it when he saw it, so while maintaining his superficial toughness, he still started informal negotiations with the British consul in Xiamen.

Xu Haoyu replied in a low voice, "Mr. Duanna hasn't come back yet." It seems that he has been staying in Gulangyu for a longer time today than a few days ago, could it be that things have taken a turn for the better? ”

Chang Ruiqing sighed, suddenly thought of something, he turned around and asked Xu Haoyu: "Yunfei, what time is it today?" ”

Xu Haoyu replied: "Commander, today is January 6, 1918. ”

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Then. In Petrograd, the capital of Russia, the time is still January 5, 1918. Comrade Huang Baopei, our political commissar of the Red Army for Aid to Russia, is leading his troops to carry out a task on the square of the Winter Palace that he will never forget - to suppress the demonstrations of the Russian proletariat!

Well, Huang Baopei did not betray the revolution! According to the generation of another time and space, he is now a "proletarian revolutionary of the older generation", and of course he is extremely loyal to the cause of the proletariat.

But just today, just before the first session of the newly elected Russian Constituent Assembly. He received an order from the Petrograd Military Council personally sent by Zhang Guotao, asking him to dispatch 3,000 heavily armed soldiers to set up a cordon around the Winter Palace and prohibit any unauthorized person from approaching the Winter Palace or entering the Winter Palace Square. If necessary, it can be stopped by force!

And now, I don't know what happened, suddenly tens of thousands of plainly dressed and well-dressed Russian proletarians crowded under the Hermitage Bridge leading to the Hermitage Square, some holding placards with the words "Defence of the Constituent Assembly" written in Russian. "Reactionary dictatorship" and so on, some of them were constantly waving their fists and shouting slogans against the Soviets and the Bolsheviks in Russian, and the scene was extremely chaotic.

Huang Baopei and Tang Jiu stood side by side on the Winter Palace Bridge, and the soldiers formed three lines in front of them, all of whom were Mo Xin with bayonets. Nagant Rifle looked at the chaotic scene in front of him with some confusion. The marching crowds were also excited. Ignoring the bright bayonet, he squeezed forward with his chest straight, and pressed the soldiers who came to the aid of the Russian Red Army to retreat incessantly.

Huang Baopei took a tin horn. Shouted loudly at the masses in Russian: "Brothers and sisters of the proletariat! What are you doing here? If you want to react to Comrade Lenin, you can do it through the guò procedure......"

His voice, though loud, was drowned out by the roar of tens of thousands of angry Russian proletariats.

"Lenin betrayed the proletariat! The Bolsheviks tore off their masks. They want a dictatorship! They are going to do something that even the tsar would not dare to do! ”

"It's none of your business here, it's our Russians' own business, get out of the way!"

Hearing these words, Huang Baopei had already guessed what was happening. The Bolsheviks really attacked the Constituent Assembly! They are really going to impose a dictatorship in Russia! Lenin betrayed the Russian people, and the Bolsheviks betrayed their doctrine, but what should the Red Army do now? He was sweating profusely, and kept looking back in the direction of the Winter Palace, as if hoping that the Bolshevik Central Committee there would send someone out to explain the situation to the angry Russian masses.

However, after waiting for a long time, the great leader of the Russian Bolsheviks did not see him, but saw Zhang Guotao galloping over on a tall horse.

"Why don't you shoot yet! Why not suppress! "Zhang Guotao's horse has not stopped yet. began to question loudly: "Huang Zhisheng, what are you hesitating about?" Why not carry out the instructions of the military council yet? ”

"But, but they are all proletarians!" Huang Baopei said hesitantly: "Kaiyin, why don't you go and ask Comrade Lenin again, do you really want to shoot?" ”

Zhang Guotao looked at Huang Baopei sweating profusely. Helpless, he gritted his teeth hatefully, and said loudly: "What else to ask!" Crackdowns have already begun elsewhere! The whole of Petrograd is bleeding, and now it's up to us to aid the Russian Red Army! Zhisheng, our future and destiny are here, now is not the time to hesitate! ”

Huang Baopei pricked up his ears and listened. Sure enough, there was a faint sound of gunfire! Since the Russians themselves do not care about the lives of the Russian proletariat, what does he, a foreigner, care? He stamped his foot and gave a loud order: "Fire!" Repression! Repression! Kill all the damned Russians! ”

As soon as he, a member of the political committee, gave an order, the Red Army soldiers below were of course resolutely obedient to the order! For a time there was a lot of gunfire in front of the Hermitage Bridge, and not only Mosin. The Nagant rifles were firing, and even the M1910 Maxim heavy machine guns mounted on the sides began to spit tongues of fire, sweeping down the unarmed Russian proletariat in rows!

The bullets cast by the Russian proletariat are now in their own chests.

On January 5, 1917 (Petrograd time), Russian GCISM proved with rifles and machine guns that dictatorship is more in line with the general trend of human development than democratic constitutionalism!

Weak democracy was defeated on this day by an all-encompassing dictatorship!

At the same time, thousands of miles away in Beijing, China's Zhongnanhai Huairen Hall, the weak Beiyang government is helpless to protest against the dictatorship at home and against the country's demonstrations.

Incidentally, it was the GCD people in China who led the protest against the dictatorship of the Beiyang warlords in the Beijing-Tianjin region.

"You can't shoot! Huafu, those students are patriotic, they are not the Red Brigade, we can't do that kind of thing that makes people poke their backbones! ”

As soon as Duan Qirui, the newly baked army chief of the Beiyang government, walked into the door of the conference room of Huairentang, he saw Wang Shizhen, the prime minister of the state who was angry, there to persuade Feng Guozhang.

The anti-imperialist patriotic movement caused by the time of the "Sino-Russian New Testament" did not end with the formation of the new Chinese cabinet, but intensified. In particular, after President Feng Guozhang issued a presidential decree to remove Chang Ruiqing, a patriotic general who had recovered the concessions, from various positions, his old man became the target of the mass movement!

The gates of Zhongnanhai were crowded with protesters all day, all holding signs against Feng Guozhang. There were also people who pierced straw and wrote Feng Guozhang's name on it, and burned it publicly. It was probably this kind of cursed protest that stepped on Feng Guozhang's sore feet, which made his old man Long Yan furious, and he gave the order to shoot and suppress the Yamen of the Beijing Infantry Army and the Jingshi Police Department without controlling his feelings for a while.

However, Jiang Chaozong, who received the president's dictation, did not dare to shoot, but hung up the phone to Premier Wang Shizhen and Army Chief Duan Qirui to ask for countermeasures.

"He Chang Ruiqing is patriotic, and the Zuo Min of the Red Brigade is also patriotic. Those students outside who don't go to class well and know that they are fooling around are all patriotic, but I, the president, are not patriotic? It's me, the big president, who is betraying the country! ”

Feng Guozhang jumped to vent a few words, and saw Duan Qirui come in. rushed to him, took Duan Qirui's hand and shouted, "Zhiquan, talk about it." Are those students deceiving people too much? A few of us are now being bullied by foreign devils, bullied by Sun Yat-sen, and bullied by his mother's Chang Ruiqing...... Now even those students are going to bully us, what am I going to do with this president! Knowing this, wouldn't it be good for me to be an honest patrol envoy in Nanjing? ”

Duan Qirui just smiled bitterly: "Huafu, when is it?" still said that, now we are on the cusp of the same situation as Chang Ruiqing and Sun Yat-sen, it depends on who can't hold their breath first! ”

"What do you mean by that?" Feng Guozhang frowned and asked rhetorically, when it came to the analysis of the overall situation, he thought that he was inferior to Duan Qirui.

Duan Qirui smiled bitterly and spread his hands: "Isn't this obvious?" Our Beiyang has already fallen down in front of foreigners. Sun Yat-sen and Chang Ruiqing are still nervous and refuse to bow their heads, so in the eyes of the people, Sun Yat-sen and Chang Ruiqing are both heroes and patriots, so we are naturally traitors and traitors...... If we order a crackdown now. That is to sabotage their patriotic movement, then they will have a step to go down! It's not that they give in to foreign devils, but that we, traitors and traitors, are stabbing in the back! This also proves that Sun Yat-sen's protector is right, the legal system of our Republic of China is on the side of Guangzhou, and we are all a group of chaotic ministers and thieves here in Beijing! ”

Feng Guozhang listened quietly, with a wry smile on his face. Stamped his foot: "How can you explain it like that?" Isn't this reversing black and white? Wouldn't we have ordered a crackdown, and that a few students and workers would have been able to stop the British from attacking Fujian and Canton? ”

Duan Qirui and Wang Shizhen glanced at each other, shook their heads at the same time, and said in unison: "But now things have happened for more than half a month, and the British have indeed not attacked!" ”

Feng Guozhang stood there, his old face was full of tired expressions, he turned his head to look out the window, and muttered: "What the hell is wrong with this British Empire......

He didn't know what he wanted to express when he said this, did he want Britain to clean up Sun Yat-sen and Chang Ruiqing? Or do you regret that you and Duan Qirui and Wang Shizhen compromised with the British so quickly? However, this time the British reaction was indeed unexpectedly weak! Why is that?

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10 Downing Street, London, UK.

Inside the narrow chamber of the Prime Minister's residence, Lloyd's. Prime Minister George looked gloomily at an urgent telegram just sent by Lord Carroll, the British ambassador to Russia. The ministers below were whispering to each other about the upcoming German offensive!

Lord Carroll's telegram reported the dispersal of the Constituent Assembly by the Bolsheviks and the suppression of the protesters. But what really unnerved these high-ranking figures of the British Empire was not the dictatorship that the Bolsheviks were about to impose in Russia, but their compromise with Germany.

Once a compromise was reached between Russia and Germany, the great armies deployed by Germany and Austria-Hungary on the Eastern Front would soon be used on the Western Front! And the American reinforcements have not yet arrived in Europe, which means that in the next few months, Britain and France will encounter the most serious challenges since the outbreak of the war in Europe!

If the German offensive on the Western Front succeeds and Paris is captured by the Germans, then France is likely to follow in the footsteps of Russia and compromise with Germany, and what will Britain and the United States do then?

Could it be that this war, which cost tens of millions of lives, will end in defeat? Is the whole continent about to be dominated by the barbaric Germans?

Thinking of Lloyd. Several ministers in George's cabinet are all full of excitement, the war has been fought to this point, let alone lost, even if it is a draw, it will be a big loss! It is now imperative to send every soldier we can to France to find it, and to hold on to everything until the American army arrives!

As for the main content of today's meeting, which was to be discussed, that is, how to clean up the question of a Chinese warlord who dared to challenge the majesty of the British Empire, it has now been thrown out of the sky by most of the people in this room.

A Chinese warlord with his teeth and claws is just an eyesore, and it will not do much damage to the interests of the British Empire, and if the German emperor is to win the war, it is a question of whether the British Empire can survive!

"Gentlemen, now the British Empire is facing an unprecedented test!" Lloyd's. Prime Minister George put down the telegram in his hand, frowned, and suddenly changed his words: "No, we are now facing two unprecedented tests at the same time!" ”

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