Chapter 48: The Bridgehead for the Advance into Russia

Victory in this war is really too important for the Russians!

In the face of so-called peacekeeping forces that are much stronger than the Russian troops, many people in Russia doubt that the war can be won. In particular, the Japanese side has been advancing all the way, which has created a feeling for everyone that Russia is coming to an end.

During this period of time, there were more than one or two Russians who were trying to find ways to contact foreign forces, just like when the soldiers of Beijing came to the city, and there were so many scum of any nation.

Although it was only a brigade of the Japanese army that was annihilated, and even when this brigade was annihilated, the Russians paid no less than the Japanese, but this really boosted the fighting spirit of the Russians in the rear and made the Russians believe that they still had a chance.

Brushinov's name appeared in the newspapers of various countries in the world for a while, and the newspapers in Russia praised him greatly, calling him a new generation of "Kutozov".

The most wonderful thing is that the specific situation of this battle is known only to the Japanese and the Russians, and the Russians are bragging, but the Japanese are unwilling to expose him, and even cooperate with the Russians to some extent.

The cavalry brigade was killed by the artillery fire of Little Japan itself, and if this matter is poked out, it will inevitably cause an uproar in the country in the first place, and there will be a number of generals in the army who will take responsibility for this incident. The second is to tell the truth, which is even more embarrassing!

Therefore, the Japanese watched Brushinov blow silently, and the emperor called on the front-line soldiers to turn grief into courage and avenge the dead warriors with bullets. The Fourth Cavalry Brigade was posthumously awarded to Japan, but careful people found that the brigade commander did not receive any of the glory that the samurai deserved.

At home, Comrade Trotsky suddenly became much more mature, he stopped the so-called class struggle, proposed that all work at the present stage should be focused on repelling the invaders, and he gave some comfort to the persecuted capitalists, when the workers shifted their energies from the struggle to production. Russia's economy is slowly showing signs of recovery.

Comrade Trotsky also accepted Brushinov's suggestion to invite out two generals, Akberlil, the former commander of the Far Eastern Army, and Kilingsky, the former commander of the Caucasian Army, who had been imprisoned by the proletarian regime for some time.

A large number of former high-ranking Russian generals who had been persecuted were released, and although many of them eventually chose to leave the country and go to Belarus, some were willing to put aside their past grievances and fight side by side with the poor ghosts at the time of national crisis.

When the polar bear gritted its teeth and endured the pain and continued to fight, Yang Xiaolin was eager to see if in the end it was the Oriental's scimitar that was fast enough, or the Russian's body was strong enough.

There is currently no sign of China intervening in the fighting. The peacekeepers who entered Russia were still doing the job of pacifying the Russian population in southern Siberia. At the same time, in order to eradicate the bandits, and to bring real peace to the land, contacts between the peacekeepers and the Siberian Republic were immediately launched.

The negotiations between the two sides were very smooth, and Stessel did not put forward superfluous conditions to various countries, and he said to Major General Hamilton, the commander of the peacekeeping force, that as long as you don't fight me, we can talk about anything.

It doesn't matter if you don't recognize the Republic of Siberia, let's talk about this later, let's put aside the dispute. You're leaving me here for now. I'll do things for you. Don't drive me north again, there's a war going on there. As for our identity, you say that if you are a soldier, you are a soldier, and if you say that you are a policeman, you are a policeman, is this not okay?

Hamilton and Li Debiao discussed it. I don't think it's appropriate to give these people the title of troops, but it's a bit wasteful to treat them as police, after all, Siberia is a vast territory, and the number of peacekeepers alone cannot maintain stability in the region. They need Stesar to cooperate with them.

Eventually, Hamilton felt that the Self-Defense Corps, a halfway between the military and the police, was more appropriate. A telegram was sent to Beijing, which agreed, and now the integration of the peacekeepers into the Stessel and their armed forces is underway.

With the acquiescence of the international community. This force, which is secretly controlled by the Chinese, has developed rapidly. The war in the north was about to enter a critical moment, but Yang Xiaolin was not in a hurry or slow, he wanted to kill the polar bear more than the Japanese, but he would never use the Japanese way.

He wants to build this place into a bridgehead for China to enter Russia, and he will also use this peacekeeping to create a modern war system for China.

During this period of time, a large amount of supplies poured into Russia to rescue those Russian civilians, and China's logistics support capabilities have really been trained more and more excellently, which is very important for future wars. Modern warfare does not mean that you can have cars, tanks, and airplanes, and your logistics must keep up with the speed of the troops, otherwise the troops will drive past, and the soldiers will not have food in the tanks and no shells, and then there will be nothing to fight with others.

In addition, 70 percent of the materials for this peacekeeping campaign were provided by China, but China is not the only country that pays for the war, and the abundant money and a large number of orders have stimulated a new round of sprint for China's commerce and industry. Don't talk about other industries, let's talk about canneries, in last year we didn't have a company, China did not have the ability and technology to produce canned food.

But now, the five large-scale canned food processing enterprises are developing quite well, and their rise has not only led to the increase in the price of agricultural and sideline products, but also completely changed China's traditional logistics and transportation mode.

When Li Debiao set out from Beijing, the soldiers were still carrying flatbread and black rice on their backs. But now they don't need to do it anymore. A class gives you a box of canned food, a hundred boxes, enough for a dozen of you to eat for a week. There are meat and vegetarian food, rice and white flour, and you can make a fresh and delicious meal by finding some water yourself.

Thinking about it, even the Italians can be satisfied, and the Chinese soldiers have nothing to say.

In fact, the biggest benefit is still the Chinese people, the increase in the price of agricultural and sideline products, the Chinese farmers are the direct beneficiaries, and the factories work overtime production, and the wages of those workers have been slightly increased.

Of course, while China is reaping the benefits, the economic situation of the entire world seems to be slowly easing. Historically, the economic crisis in the West was intensifying, but now China's buying market has eased the pressure on gentlemen, and when the incomes of ordinary Chinese people have risen, their purchasing power has increased significantly. This has given many Western countries with a "commodity surplus" a platform on which to dump.

The aid to the Russians also balances the supply and demand markets, and the reason why Britain, France and other countries can watch China slowly solve Russia's problems is not that they are ignorant of China's intentions. For example, Yang's actions in Siberia show that China wants to maximize its interests there, and the British can see that they are not stupid.

They also know that this solution of the Chinese may not solve Russia's problems in the end, but it will relieve the pressure on their own families.

Moreover, it seems that the matter on the Russian side is really not so easy to solve, and at this time the British are happy to see the Japanese desperately in the north and the Chinese in the south. If Japan wins, everyone will be happy. If only Japan could not get rid of Trotsky's gang at last. Then they will be able to retreat with their whole body, and they will not be like they were dragged into the Chinese war by the Russians in the first place, and they will not be able to extricate themselves in the end.

In short, the gentlemen are quite satisfied with China for now, and the only point of entanglement between the two sides is the distribution of economic benefits in the southern Siberia they occupy.

After negotiating with the Stessels and his gang, the peacekeepers will inevitably be able to exercise de facto control over many places, and Trotsky seems to have really changed his character for a while, and perhaps he has realized that it is a very unwise thing to be an enemy of the whole world, and the proletarian regime, which strongly opposes the stationing of the peacekeepers in Russia, actually issued a statement at this time, affirming and thanking the peacekeepers from the south for their rescue of the Russian civilians.

Trotsky also said. The Russian proletariat was willing to live in peace with the other countries of the world, and he even changed his original slogan and made it the struggle of the proletarians of the whole world to the struggle of the proletarians of Russia.

The gentlemen ignored the information he conveyed. Just like with China in the past, if you want to be recognized by gentlemen, you don't just have to wag your tail and beg for mercy. In the eyes of the gentlemen, whether the interests here can be preserved for a long time depends on the attitude of the Chinese side, and if China is willing to wage war to protect the commercial interests here, it is the safest way.

So it is necessary to let the Chinese take part of it. But the question of how much to give to China is like how much China wants to cede to other countries, and it requires see-saw negotiations between the two sides in various fields.

June of the second year of the Republic. Beijing has just entered the summer, President Li Yuanhong has just returned from Europe, and he has spent a year away from China floating on the sea than on land. To be honest, when he first arrived in Europe, he could really clearly feel the gap between China and there, not to mention anything else, that is, in terms of urban construction, he found that we were a long way behind others.

When he set out on the way home, he had already thought that he would come back this time to do the most work, although he knew that he had no actual rights as president, but since he had been in this position, he had to leave some thoughts for future generations.

Li Yuanhong thought of a lot of plans that could be moved over and implemented, but when he came back, he was surprised to find that the city of Beijing seemed to have become something he didn't recognize.

Two roads have been built around the city, the water supply and power supply systems are also in operation in Beijing, the tunnels dug by the volunteers during the war have now been converted into sewers, and all the dirty water flows from here, and there are suddenly many more public toilets and garbage cans in Beijing, and some streets that used to be famous for being dirty and messy have become clean this year.

And the people of Beijing have also changed. Li Yuanhong's biggest feeling after running around outside is that those foreigners seem to be very diligent and always do something they like to do after work, while the Chinese seem to be a little lazy in comparison. But this time, he found that at least the people here in Beijing were not the same as before, they were busy with life all day, and although Yang Xiaolin announced the eight-hour workday, there were few Chinese laborers in Beijing's bars and leisure places, and they preferred to work a little more outside of the eight hours to add an income to their families.

There are many laborers who work during the day and set up a snack shop or tea stall at night, and they have to work until eleven or twelve o'clock, which seems to be not inferior to those foreigners. He found that Yang Xiaolin had done what he wanted to do for a while, or was doing it, which made Li Yuanhong very surprised, and what was even more surprising was that he, the president, had no way to stop.

It seems that there has been a new breakthrough in the development of airplanes in the northeast, and Yang Xiaolin has gone to the northeast again, and many big foreign chaebols here in Beijing have sent representatives over, and Tang Shaoyi told him that he has to come forward to handle this matter.

Li Yuanhong was really depressed, he had been talking to these foreigners in Europe for several months, and he had just come back to talk to them again, the mud bodhisattva really didn't want to spend energy on this, he wanted to do something, but he couldn't find the extra time. (To be continued......)