Chapter 380: Reparations for Land Cession
The base camp in Tokyo, Japan, received a telegram from Kuroki Weizhen, commander-in-chief of the Japanese garrison in South Korea, and was immediately shocked. How can it be determined that the Northern Army has launched an attack on South Korea?
The Japanese base camp immediately sent a telegram to Komura Shoutaro, the Japanese minister in the Qing Dynasty in Shenyang City, asking him to question Lin Daxin's negotiators What was the situation? This is shameless, isn't it? Talking here, attacking there, how can it be more shameless than us Japanese, we must let Lin Daxin's negotiators explain.
The Japanese representatives headed by Komura Shoutaro and the representatives headed by Wu Peifu have been arguing for several days, and although the two sides have made certain concessions, the gap is still worlds apart. We're still negotiating here! Your Dingbei Army has launched an attack on the Great Japanese Army in South Korea! Minister Ogner, Minister Klinder, and Minister Fidner, you should uphold justice and get the Jeongbuk Army to stop its offensive and withdraw from South Korea. β
The three of Ogner, Clinder and Fedner exchanged a bit, and then Ogner asked Wu Peifu, "General Wu, do you have anything to say?" β
Wu Peifu shrugged his shoulders and said: "Although we and the Japanese are sitting here negotiating, we have not signed any armistice treaty, if the Japanese agree to our armistice conditions, we can order the south Korean troops to stop attacking, but south Korea must be ceded to us, so our troops will not withdraw from south Korea." β
Ogna, Clinder, and Fidner discussed it again, and Ogna said to Komura Shoutaro: "Minister Komura Shoutaro, you really haven't signed a ceasefire agreement. Now you can only reach an agreement as much as possible to calm down the flames of war in South Korea. β
Although the three envoys of Britain, the United States, and Germany to the Qing Dynasty were pulled over by Komura Shoutaro to mediate. But this mediation is different from the previous one, which was a war mediator. A country like Britain completely relies on its own great strength to overwhelm others, so that the treaty signed by the two sides of the war must be favorable to Britain, but this time, including Britain, all three countries are playing soy sauce.
Britain didn't want Japan to be weakened too much in the depths of his heart, so that there had always been a country around Lin Daxin to contain him, but Britain had just suffered a big loss in the hands of the Northeast Navy under Lin Daxin, and finally reconciled with Lin Daxin temporarily, and Lin Daxin promised to withdraw the South African volunteers, and the relationship between Britain and Lin Daxin eased. Britain didn't dare to provoke Lin Daxin anymore, and this mediation was basically just a bystander.
The United States and Germany also have similar roles to the United Kingdom, Lin Daxin has the Northeast Fleet that can clean up the British Navy, and the United States and Germany, which are far away from Lin Daxin's territory, are even more reluctant to provoke Lin Daxin.
Komura Shoutaro took a look at the attitude of the three of Ogner, Clinder and Fidner. It's cool in my heart, it seems that it is impossible not to have a heavy hemorrhage in Japan this time.
So Komura Shoutaro began to compromise in order to reach an armistice agreement as much as possible, and little by little he made concessions in the negotiations. In addition, Tokyo, Japan, kept sending him telegrams, urging Komura to sign an armistice treaty as soon as possible, and the situation in South Korea was already not good. Don't let the Dingbei Army really land on the Japanese mainland, so that Komura Shoutaro will retreat more and more Cheng dΓΉ.
The South Korean Army was attacking very rapidly in two directions. The campaign against South Korea began on November 7, and the result was on November 11. The Jeongbuk Army in the two directions met in the Cheongju area in central South Korea, but there were still quite a few Japanese troops in the whole of South Korea, but they were all divided and surrounded by the Jeongbuk Army.
At the mountain fortifications near the border line of Yalu River Province, four divisions were surrounded by one integrated division of type A and three division B of the Dingbei Army, as well as tanks and armored vehicles of some armored divisions, and the integrated division of type A was the 14th division that had just been transferred.
The 5 divisions of the Japanese army in Seoul were surrounded by 3 integrated divisions of the first division and 3 divisions of the second division, as well as tanks and armored vehicles of a part of the armored division.
One Japanese division was encircled in Jeonju and two Japanese divisions in Cheongju, and the other three Japanese divisions in South Korea were mostly annihilated.
If the Dingbei Army has patience, it is to encircle but not attack, and in the end these Japanese troops can be consumed to death, which makes the Japanese base camp anxious, this is more than a dozen Japanese standing divisions, hundreds of thousands of well-trained elite troops, and they must not be lost like this.
It may be that the Japanese Amaterasu did not want to see the Japanese collapse from now on, so he showed his vision, and when the Japanese representatives and Wu Peifu were negotiating again and again, the Russians actually came out halfway to help the Japanese.
After signing a treaty with Lin Daxin on land reparations, the troops loyal to the Russian Tsar Nicholas II from the Siberian theater returned to the European region of Russia, and after several months of fighting, finally defeated the rebellious armies in various places, allowing Tsar Nicholas II to survive the crisis.
However, as soon as Tsar Nicholas II suppressed the rebellion, he transferred some of the European counterinsurgency troops back to the Siberian region of Russia, and moved them to the border of Baikal, Sesi and Outer Mongolia provinces under Lin Daxin, and even the Russian region near Xinjiang Province, Tsar Nicholas II also mobilized a lot of troops to go over.
Originally, Lin Daxin and Russia signed a five-year non-aggression pact, stipulating that the two sides would reduce the number of troops stationed within 50 kilometers of the long border, but now the Russians have transferred so many troops at once, although many of them are stationed 50 kilometers away from the border, but Lin Daxin's heart suddenly pinched up, what is the treaty for, it is used to tear up.
According to the actual situation in Russia, it is impossible for them to launch a war against Lin Daxin again in a short period of time, after all, the war between Lin Daxin and the Russians for nearly one year has caused Russia to suffer heavy losses both militarily and economically, and this rebellion in Russia is undoubtedly worse for Russia.
But there is a problem, Tsar Nicholas II is a little cerebral cortex without folds, he is definitely an impulsive hot-blooded young man, who suffered a big loss in the war with Lin Daxin, if he really ignores it, it is really troublesome to attack the territory under Lin Daxin's command, and now the main force of the Dingbei Army is in South Korea to besiege the Japanese army!
And Lin Daxin is indeed a little tired when he thinks about his troops, he just finished fighting with the Russians, and then he fought with the Japanese, maybe he still carries the aura of hatred, otherwise why are so many powers unable to get along with themselves!
So according to the situation in Russia, Lin Daxin and Wu Peifu discussed, and also greatly reduced the conditions of the armistice, plus Japan really hoped to do its best to stop the armistice, and constantly compromised, and finally the representatives of the two sides reached an agreement on November 15, after a lot of hard bargaining, which made the three ministers as mediators breathe a sigh of relief, and also made the Japanese negotiator Komura Shoutaro, his face became extremely gloomy, and Wu Peifu's face did not have a happy expression. After all, if the Russians had not increased their troops along the border, this armistice would have been more beneficial to their side.
The armistice treaty signed between Lin Daxin and Japan stipulated that Japan ceded South Korea, the Ryukyu Islands, the Ogasawara Islands and the Kuril Islands to Lin Daxin.
The Ogasawara Islands are an archipelago of Japan in the Pacific Ocean, located more than 1,000 kilometers south of Tokyo, and the archipelago consists of more than 30 small islands, including Chichijima, Mother Island and Iwo Jima, with a total area of more than 70 square kilometers.
Located between Kamchatka and the Japanese island of Hokkaido, the Kuril Islands separate the Northwest Pacific Ocean from the Sea of Okhotsk and are 1,300 kilometers long and consist of 56 islands with a total area of more than 10,000 square kilometers.
In 1855, Russia and Japan decided that the southern part of the Kuril Islands would belong to Japan, the northern part would belong to Russia, the northern part of Sakhalin Island would belong to Russia, and the southern part would belong to Japan. In 1875, the two countries signed the "Treaty of Exchange between the Northern Kuril Islands and the Kuril Islands", which exchanged the southern part of Sakhalin Island occupied by Japan with the northern part of the Kuril Islands occupied by Russia, so that the entire Kuril Islands belonged to Japan.
Although Lin Daxin didn't get the Hokkaido Island he wanted this time, it was a good harvest to get the Ogasawara Islands and the Kuril Islands.
In addition, the armistice treaty stipulated that Japan would pay Lin Daxin a one-time compensation of 20 million pounds to make up for Lin Daxin's losses, and this pound included a ransom for the release of prisoners of war, but the Japanese could not take out this money for the time being, and the British would lend it to Japan, and then compensate Lin Daxin.
The two sides exchanged prisoners of war, Lin Daxin's prisoner of war camp had more than 100,000 Japanese prisoners of war, while Japan only had more than 100 prisoners of war from the Dingbei Army, so Japan paid a part of the ransom, but it was included in 20 million pounds.
The Japanese troops in South Korea would leave on Japanese transport ships and return to the Japanese mainland, and they could leave with their own weapons and equipment, and Lin Daxin would not look down on the weapons of the Japanese Army anyway.
Lin Daxin and Japan also signed a 10-year non-aggression pact, and as for other concessions, compensation for warships, and restrictions on armaments, none of them were stipulated in the treaty, and Lin Daxin waived these conditions.
Although such a treaty is tantamount to leaving a big hidden danger around him, Lin Daxin believes that if the Japanese come out with any moths one day, he will definitely clean up the Japanese again. (To be continued......)