Chapter 187: The Far East
The night sky is clear and the evening breeze is light.
On the dome of a side hall somewhere in the Charlottenburg Palace, Qingying, who was dressed in a single dress, was lying on a sleeping chair to take a nap, and the silent evening breeze was blowing slowly, bringing the slightest coolness of the summer night. The bright moon shines, the stars are shining, and the magnificent palace is quietly hidden by the green trees, a leisurely and quiet vast scene.
"Click......" With the sound of light footsteps, two white and delicate jade feet entered the corner of Qingying's eyes. Qingying, who had already tasted them, didn't know that Yiren, who had these snow lotuses, opened his arms slightly, and a soft and smooth delicate body suddenly slipped into his chest; Feeling the familiar delicate snow skin touched on her arm, Qingying closed her eyes, and a sigh of satisfaction came from her throat.
Sanya rolled over in Qingying's arms, curled up comfortably in his stretched body, her soft blonde hair pouring like a waterfall, sliding into Qingying's neck and snorting, fragrant and itchy. It was the height of summer, and both of them were wearing only a very thin shirt, and after an ordinary ear and sideburn grinding, and skin to skin, Sanya's beautiful face was flushed, and her blue eyes flowed like a spring water. She was flushed and was about to take further action, but the young man who was breathing with her suddenly opened his star-like dark eyes and smiled: "Why, I have just left your side for less than half an hour, and you can't hold back the thoughts in your heart, can't you wait to come to me?" ”
"Hmph, it's stinky and beautiful there, people don't come to you because they think of you stupid." Sanya Yao's nose wrinkled slightly, and she let out a tsundere moan like a yellow warbler out of the valley; She showed her neat jade teeth like braided shells and gnawed on Qingying's side face to show her dissatisfaction, and then said to Qingying in slightly excited words: "Just a short time after you fool left, a letter was received from St. Petersburg; Feorodovna's sister-in-law has already given birth to a boy for Cousin Nikolai, and my Romanov family finally has a crown prince who can inherit the throne of Cousin Nikolai! ”
"Alle...... Huh? Without thinking, Qingying almost blurted out the name of the last crown prince of Tsarist Russia, and hurriedly covered up the past. Seeing a slightly strange look on Qingying's face, Sanya thought that he didn't believe his words; She fumbled around her shirt with only a layer of light cloth for a moment, and then took out a few hard photos, lined up in a fan shape in front of Qingying's eyes like a dazzling treasure, and said coquettishly: "See, the Winter Palace has sent all the photos of the crown prince." ”
Qingying's eyes were fixed, and with the help of the bright moonlight, she saw that the photos all reflected the figure of a baby, and one of them also swept to the key part between the legs to prove his gender. Calculating the time, the white horse's passing years have entered August, and it is indeed the day when Alexei, the last crown prince of Tsarist Russia, was born. Looking at the photo of Alexei, who looked about the same as all newborn babies, Qingying's mind expanded, but she thought of many other things.
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Historically, Alexei was born in the Winter Palace at a time when Russia was in internal and external difficulties during the war against Japan. The Russian Army, known as the steamroller of Europe, was defeated again and again on the Manchurian front, Liaodong was broken, Dalian fell, and the fortress of Arthur was surrounded by Japanese troops. On the vast ocean, merchant warships of all kinds flying the flag of the rising sun brazenly traveled between the Sea of Japan and the Yellow Sea, which were on the front lines of the war. Ever since the genius general Makarov and his flagship battleship "Petropavlovsk" were sent to the bottom of the sea by Japanese mines, the Japanese fleet has been invincible in the Yellow Sea; In the two naval battles in the Yellow Sea that broke out before and after the birth of Crown Prince Alexei, the Russian Pacific Fleet was completely broken by the Japanese, and the flagship battleship Prince even fled to Qingdao, Germany, with three destroyers. After this battle, the Russian fleet, which had fled back to Arthur, never took a single step out of Arthur, and the guns on the battleships were removed as shore guns to strengthen the garrison of Arthur Fortress, and the sailors left the battleships and were organized into army garrisons. By the time Arthur fell, the once glorious Russian Pacific Fleet was also destroyed, completely disappearing into the rolling waves of the great ship of history.
In this plane, however, the situation has changed considerably. Although the Russian Pacific Fleet was crippled by the Japanese Navy in a naval battle a few months earlier, and has been lying motionless in the harbor ever since, like the Russian fleet in history, Makarov's sortie successfully saved tens of thousands of army officers and soldiers and a large amount of military supplies, allowing more than 40,000 troops and 60,000 tons of supplies to be unloaded in Dalian and Vladivosk. With the addition of this force, the unfavorable situation of the Russian Army in Manchuria has been greatly improved, and the previous Liaodong landing campaigns have had to go back and forth with the Japanese side. At present, the two sides are accumulating strength in the Liaoyang area and are preparing to break out into a fierce battle like thunder and earth, and the Russian army has a considerable advantage over Japan in terms of troops, artillery, and material supply.
On the ocean, the Russian Pacific Fleet, which had been cowering in the port of Dalian, also showed signs of hibernation. After nearly five months of intense repairs, except for the Prince, whose superstructure had completely disappeared, the remaining three Russian battleships had basically completed the repair, and the temporary sailors drawn from the reserve unit had gradually become familiar with the basic operating procedures. Makarov, who had just recovered from his wounds, raised his command flag on the Emperor and was confidently preparing for a new naval attack; And the 2 armored cruisers of Essen have not been idle since the beginning of the war, and in addition to the necessary refurbishment and maintenance, they have been roaming the Sea of Japan, causing serious damage to the Japanese sea transport lines. By August, the Essen fleet, which had returned with its sixth full load, had captured and sunk more than 20 Japanese transports, recovering the losses of the Russian troop convoy five months earlier. The Japanese Navy had a strong lineup of 8 ships in the air, but it was never able to catch the Russian fleet that was mysterious and came and went without a trace. In this era when there is no aerial reconnaissance, the tactics of breaking diplomatic relations are an almost unsolvable situation!
Although Aleksayev, the Russian Governor-General of the Far East, was a straw bale who could only make money and support his mistress, and the front-line commander Kuropatkin was only a shrunken staff figure with good military qualities but extremely indecisiveness, the situation in Manchuria still made Qingying a little frightened. Since Makarov successfully brought most of the transport ships back to two Russian military ports in the Far East safely, the Russian army has now gathered more than 180,000 troops and more than 600 artillery pieces in Liaoyang, almost one-third more than the Japanese army on the opposite side; Even if the commander of the Japanese side is a world-class famous general like Oyama Iwa, it will definitely be quite difficult to deal with this situation, and the slightest carelessness will lead to a complete collapse. It is important to know that although Maozi's army may be slightly inferior in tactical techniques to the Japanese army, which has always hired a large number of German officers as instructors, the ferocity and bloodiness of these fighting nations are definitely not a joke; Compared with the locust's thin body of 1.5 meters tall, the 1.8 meter hairy people can completely explode it in terms of strength, patience and ferocity!
At this point, all Kiyoei could do was pray silently on the other side of the world, thousands of kilometers away from the battlefield, hoping that the Japanese would be as brave as in history and defeat the Russians under the genius of Gentaro Kodama and Mayuki Akiyama. As for the efforts to stir up revolution in Russia and thus dismantle Russia's military adventures in the Far East, the genius Japanese agent Genjiro Akashi had done it to the extreme, and there was no need for Kiyoei to use his weak Eagle Organization to do anything. Thinking of this, Qingying couldn't help but feel some emotion in her heart: Since the Meiji Restoration in Japan, all kinds of demonic heroes have sprung up in waves like big radishes that don't want money, and both quantity and quality are excellent to a heinous point. In the political circles, Ito Hirobumi, Mutsu Munemitsu, Saionji Konobu and others led the way, and the military circles were full of talents: Yama Prefecture Aritomo, Oyama Iwa, Kawakami Koroku, Katsura Taro, Saigo Shotochi, Kajiyama Shiki, Yamamoto Gonbei, Togo Heihachiro, Uemura Hikonojo...... Each of them is a talented character with a unique heroic appearance, not to mention the "wise tide" Akiyama Shinyuki and the "Toyotomi Hideyoshi reincarnated" Kodama Gentaro. Japan was able to defeat strong enemies in succession in the First Sino-Japanese War and the Russo-Japanese War, and quickly became the first power in Asia, and these demons definitely played a vital role in it!
The only thing that made Qing Ying feel fortunate was that in order to completely remove the Dalian Fortress, a nail driven by Russia on the Liaodong Peninsula, Japan used an entire army of more than 60,000 people to clean up and besiege the periphery of the fortress; The incompetent Russian front-line commanders were also very cooperative, but they were still defeated by the Japanese despite having a stronger military force than the historical ones, and they have all retreated into the fortress. At present, the Japanese army has set up a position outside the fortress and is preparing to launch a strong attack on the Russian army, but I wonder if there will be a key point like the 203 heights in the battle for Lushun outside the Dalian fortress? Will the Japanese Navy be able to defeat the Makarov fleet again, as it has done in the historical Russo-Japanese naval battle in the Yellow Sea?