"What Yang Qing said is extremely true, besides, if we press too hard, the Tsarist Russians will take the lead in negotiating peace with Germany and Austria, which will also be extremely unfavorable to us. I thought that we must take the lead in negotiating peace with Tsarist Russia before it could negotiate peace with Germany and Austria, so the necessary concessions were still possible. Ren Chao nodded and said.

"Command!" Liang Yan replied respectfully.

In February 1915, after a series of negotiations, China and Russia finally reached an agreement and formally signed an armistice agreement. According to this agreement, the entire region east of the Ural River and the Caspian Sea in Central Asia was included in the territory of China. In Siberia, the area east of the Lena River was all included in the territory of China. And the question of the ownership of the vast territory from the west of the Lena River to the Yeseni River was put on hold for the time being. According to the terms of the agreement, the Chinese Imperial forces were to withdraw as much as possible from Novosibirsk to the area west of the Yenisei River.

In March 1915, the main forces of the Chinese Imperial Army withdrew from Novosibirsk and retreated to the area east of the Yenisei River, but the Novosibirsk region was not taken over by the Russian army. March 3, Vasily? Ivanovic? Ivanov proclaimed the establishment of the Grand Duchy of Ural in Novosibirsk, became independent from Tsarist Russia, set up his capital in Novosibirsk, and proclaimed himself the Grand Duke of the Urals, known as Vasily I in history. Subsequently, Vasily led 100,000 Ural troops in the Novosibirsk region and successfully repelled 20,000 Russian troops who came to take over Novosibirsk.

The Russians naturally knew that this qiē was all a ghost behind the Chinese people, and lodged a strong protest against this to the Chinese Empire. But the Chinese Empire ignored Russia's protests. The first declared the recognition of the independent status of the Ural principalities, supporting the independence movement of the Ural people.

In May 1915, Germany and Austria took advantage of the Western Front campaign to concentrate 18 divisions and more than 2,000 cannons. The troops launched a large-scale attack on the Russian army in two directions, in an attempt to suppress the defeated Russian army in the "Polish pocket" with a head-on assault, and then free up 100 divisions on the Eastern Front to be diverted to the German and French fronts. Under the attack of the superior firepower and strength of the German army, the Russian army, which suffered a series of failures in the battles of Gollitzer, Rigazza Shavli and the counteroffensive in December, withdrew from Galicia, Poland, Lithuania, and Latvia, suffered huge losses in troops and equipment, and captured 320,000 soldiers. Although the German army achieved some victories, it was extremely depleted in soldiers and equipment, and failed to eliminate the main force of the Russian army. The purpose of forcing them to surrender. But even so, the Russian army, which has suffered huge losses, is temporarily unable to take care of the Siberian region, and only temporarily allows Vasily, the villain, to dominate Novosibirsk.

Beginning in 1915, the Chinese Empire began to implement an immigration program. On the one hand, millions of Russians in the Far East were driven to the territory of the Ural principalities. On the other hand, the migration of domestic residents to the Siberian region is encouraged. According to incomplete statistics, in 1915 alone, there were 10 million people from the three northeastern provinces, Hebei and Henan. Shandong, Shanxi and other provinces moved to the Siberian region. The influx of a large number of people has greatly contributed to the development of the Siberian region, along the Trans-Siberian Railway. Cities have sprung up like mushrooms after a rain. Various factories were also established one after another, and the rich mineral deposits in Siberia not only greatly promoted the development of the local area, but also made a great contribution to the industrialization of the Chinese Empire.

Spring 1915. The British and French took advantage of the fact that the Germans used the main forces to attack the Russian army on the eastern front and took a defensive position on the western front to launch the Shambani and Adwa offensives. But due to the archaic tactics. The firepower was thin, and many attacks were crushed by the Germans, with heavy casualties. The Germans launched a counterattack in April, and the Germans used poison gas warfare on the battlefield for the first time, resulting in heavy losses for the Anglo-French forces. However, soon after, the Anglo-French forces were equipped with anti-poison equipment purchased by the Chinese Empire, so that the poison gas of the Germans could no longer have the desired effect. Throughout the Western Front in 1915, the British and French troops suffered about one million casualties, and the German army suffered 610,000 casualties.

During this period, the Chinese Empire made a fortune from war. The tanks, airplanes, cannons and other advanced weapons of the Chinese Empire were continuously sold to European countries, bringing great benefits to the Chinese Empire. Not only that, because the war had a great impact on the economies of European countries, the huge military burden overwhelmed Britain, France, Germany, Austria and other countries. From 1914 to 1915, European countries borrowed as much as $15 billion from the United States, and loans to the Chinese Empire exceeded $10 billion. And the number is still increasing. Therefore, although neither the Chinese Empire nor the United States participated in the war, these two powers were secretly competing and influencing the trend of the European war.

In May 1915, after much struggle, Italy finally made a final decision, and as in history, Italy finally fell to the side of the Entente. However, the Italian army, known as noodles, was poor, and lost nearly 300,000 men and a large amount of equipment in the initial battle with the Austrians. However, the Italian army's entry into the war dragged down the strength of 40 Austro-Hungarian divisions and relieved the pressure on France and Russia.

In September 1915, Bulgaria joined the German-Austrian alliance and invested 300,000 troops to cooperate with the German-Austrian alliance to attack Serbia, and soon occupied the entire territory of Serbia. But even so, the shape of the German-Austrian allies is not optimistic.

At the beginning of 1916, the German Imperial High Command decided to shift its strategic focus westward, and the German Chief of the General Staff Falkingham targeted the attack on Verdun, a famous fortress in France. Verdun was the salient of the British and French fronts, and like a sharp tooth sticking out, it posed a serious threat to the flank of the German army deep into northern France, where Germany and France fought many times, but the Germans failed to capture the fortress. If the Germans can capture Verdun in one fell swoop, it will definitely deal a heavy blow to the morale of the French army. At the same time, the capture of Verdun also opened the passage for the German army to Paris, and when Paris was occupied, France would be left to fend for itself, and the remaining British and Russian armies would not have anything to fear. Beginning in January 1916, Falkingham quietly gathered troops to prepare for the attack on Verdun, and at the same time, Germany brazenly increased its troops to Cimbéni and made a gesture of launching an offensive in Chambény. The commander-in-chief of the French army, Xia Fei, was really fooled. (To be continued......)