"Ah, the heroine of our intelligence front is back!" Long Qian greeted the door with a smile, "It's hard work, and it's a great achievement!" ”

"Hello, Commander." Excited, Wang Yuecian did not forget the military salute.

"Whatever. Ah, it's getting prettier. It seems that the wind and snow outside the gate are not as scary as the legend says. Long Qian quipped, "I haven't seen you in seven years!" But I've been keeping an eye on you, on the Mukden Intelligence Station! On behalf of the whole army, especially the Northern Army, thank you. Without the excellent work of Mukden, the victory of the Northern Army would not have been so easy. ”

"The commander has won the award......

"No, it's true. Especially Lao Tian is willing to give you to Zhang Zuolin as a hostage! Long Qian said, and then returned to the happy expression when he first met, "Haha, now it proves that my vision is right." I remember you said you couldn't do it, did you? As it turned out, I chose a good female intelligence officer for the intelligence system! ”

Of course, Wang Yuechan remembers the original situation. Perhaps without Zheng Cheng's interception of Long Qian by Yizhou Road, she would not have embarked on this path full of danger and excitement.

"What makes me happiest is not that you have made great contributions to Lao Tian, but that you are very happy. What about the kids? Didn't come with you? Why? ”

"It's too rushed. The people sent back by Lao Tian said that the family was waiting for the letter. I rushed back without a day...... "Long Qian's attitude as if an old friend was reunited, made her feel very comfortable, and her old life suddenly reappeared.

"Oh, what do you think?" Long Qian put away his smile and asked Jiang Yun, who had not spoken just now.

Jiang Yun handed over the translation to Long Qian.

"Pour your own tea, don't be inhibited." Long Qian reads the report from Vladivostok. Only then did Wang Yuecian see the two people sitting in the room. She recognized Situ Jun, but the other did not.

"Hello." Situ Jun, who was well-groomed, smiled and nodded to Wang Yuechan.

"Mr. Situ is good." Wang Yuechan couldn't imagine that the demoted general had now become the chief of the general staff, and Situ Jun's name was always heard from Lao Tian, "Lao Tian always mentioned you." ”

"You are all meritorious men. The anti-Qing war was so smooth that the intelligence system contributed greatly. Oh, to introduce you, this is Mr. Tang Shaoyi Tang, director of the Foreign Affairs Bureau of the Military Commission. ”

This name is even more familiar, first the prefect of Yizhou, and later the governor of Fengtian. For a long time. She lives in the same city as him. But the two sides are on the opposite side.

"Hello Director Tang." Stained with the light of the intelligence system, although Wang Yuechan is far away in Mukden, he is no stranger to the dynamics of the center, and the head of the Fifth Bureau of the Military Commission is undoubtedly Long Qian's most important assistant. It's just that I didn't expect Tang Shaoyi to become a celebrity in front of Long Qian's seat.

Tang Shaoyi laughed. "I really didn't expect it. The city of Fengtian under my rule actually hides a virtuous couple! What providence! Tang Shaoyi stood up. He hugged his fist to Wang Yuechan, "Just now the handsome introduced the exploits of the virtuous couple, and the Manchu Qing Dynasty is undefeated?" Ha ha. ”

"Don't dare. I'm just a pawn under Director Jiang. Wang Yuecian learned from the flag man and blessed Tang Shaoyi.

"Situ, take a look. It's about the same as Brother Shaochuan's estimate. He turned his face to look at Wang Yuechan, "I don't need to hide it from you." Lu Shan is about to use troops against Outer Mongolia, and he cannot but consider the reaction of the Russians. Today we are just going to study, what if the Russians send troops to intervene? ”

It turned out that Tian Shubang went to Vladivostok to meet Artemiev in order to find out the attitude of the Russians...... He's really tight-lipped about it. Wang Yuecian thought.

Situ Jun quickly read the letter, handed over the translation to Tang Shaoyi, and then said softly, "On the whole, Russia has indeed had a lot of troubles since its defeat in the Russo-Japanese War, but it seems that it has eased up in the past two years, and we can't help but plan for the worst......"

Long Qian had already determined the plan to use troops against Mongolia. Since its establishment, the Northern Military Region has been planning to send troops to Outer Mongolia, and since last winter, a large number of spies have been dispatched. At present, the independent cavalry brigade led by Fan Deping and Jiang Cunxian has expanded to the size of three cavalry regiments and one cavalry artillery regiment, and has nested in the Yilin and Kutule areas of the Xilin Gol League for a winter to adapt to the environment. Xiong Xun's incomplete Fifth Division was assembled in the Olan Huduk area of the Ulanqab League for training, while the 9th Division, the main force of the Northern Military Region, had already been deployed in the western part of Heilongjiang, and Lushan's plan was to use the 9th Division to strengthen the 26th Brigade and the Independent Cavalry Brigade of a large number of cavalry to march on two routes, directly attack Kulen, eliminate the independent forces of Outer Mongolia, and then leave the 26th Brigade to be stationed in Kulen to complete the military occupation of Outer Mongolia.

The strength of the expeditionary force on both sides exceeded 23,000 troops, and according to the information on the opponent's forces held by the General Staff Headquarters, the troops to be used by the Northern Military District were sufficient. More would put too much pressure on logistics. The key lies in the Russian response, according to the intelligence of the Military Intelligence Agency, there are many unidentified Russians in Kulen, but no regular Russian troops have been found except in the area of Tangnu Wulianghai.

Situ Jun recalled the information on the situation in Russia that was reported by the Foreign Affairs Bureau, the Military Intelligence Bureau, and the established State Security Bureau, which was later compiled by the General Staff Headquarters: During 1905~1909, there were a series of riots in Russia with the aim of opposing the government but without a clear goal, such as terrorist attacks, strikes, peasant riots, riots, etc...... The immediate trigger, of course, was the defeat of the Russo-Japanese War.

From the establishment of the industrial system by Peter I to the reform of Alexander II, Russia has closely followed the pace of industrialization in Western Europe. But there is not enough middle class, but there are two levels of polarization. Due to the fact that it straddles Europe and Asia and has many ethnic groups, the internal contradictions have always been acute.

At the beginning of this century, the opposition in Russia was broadly divided between the right-wing liberal democrats and the left-wing socialists, with the right-wing forming the Liberation League in 1904 and the Constitutional Democratic Party in 1905 calling for a constitutional monarchy.

The left was divided into two camps, the populist Social Democratic Party (1898) and the Marxist Social Democratic Labour Party (1897), both of which advocated revolutionary means to demand social reform.

In December 1904, a strike broke out in Petersburg, and the number of people continued to more than 80,000. In January 1905, there was a bloody clash on the Hermitage Square, where soldiers shot at the petitioning crowd. More than 1,000 people are expected to be killed or wounded. The occurrence of this event made people no longer place their hopes on the Tsar.

At the end of 1905, there was a naval uprising in the Black Sea Fleet.

In December, an uprising organized by the Bolsheviks took place in Moscow, and government forces brutally suppressed the uprising with artillery.

In addition, since the death of Grand Duke Alexandrovich in Moscow's Kremlin Square in February 1905, there has been a steady stream of assassinations in Russia. Sakharov (Minister of War) was assassinated in November 1906, and the mayor of St. Petersburg, Vladimir. Launisti was stabbed to death in December of that year.

The exterior of Russia is also not quiet. Poland demanded independence, in the Caucasus. Ethnic clashes among the Tatars continued in 1905. The rise of the Estonian independence movement from Sweden......

This indicates that Russia may not have the energy to pay attention to Outer Mongolia. After all, Outer Mongolia has always been China's territory, but after the camouflage of the late Qing Dynasty's foreign power and middle cadres was torn apart, Russia had already reaped too much benefit from the Qing Dynasty. One head of the Russian double-headed eagle is always facing east. If there was no Russo-Japanese War. Russia will never give up Manchuria. And they have been in the layout of Outer Mongolia for a long time...... The nascent republic's resolute move against foreign countries would surely provoke the aggressive Tsarist Russia......

Long Qian said softly, "The General Staff's concern is justified. Prepare for the worst. But this battle cannot be left unfought. ”

"However," Situ Jun knew that Long Qian had made up his mind, and the generals of the Northern Military Region were even more gearing up. The nascent dynasty naturally has its sharpness, Situ Jun is not worried about the separatist forces in Outer Mongolia, but is worried that once Russia makes the most violent reaction, such as sending troops to intervene, a war between China and Russia will inevitably break out, and the emaciated camel is bigger than a horse, even if the pressure of logistics is not considered, even if the whole army is transferred, the Wehrmacht of more than a dozen divisions is by no means the opponent of the Tsarist Empire, which has a standing strength of more than one million.

"I know what you're going to say." Long Qian stood up, "It is impossible for the Russian army not to know the information on the assembly of the Northern Army, but it has not yet received the information on the assembly of the Russian army in the Far East, which is enough to show that the Russian army has no military plan for Outer Mongolia." In addition, the Russians will never pour all their strength into fighting a war of annihilation against us. Their center of gravity is in Europe, and this will not change for the time being, as the Russo-Japanese War has demonstrated. The worst-case scenario is that we have a battle with the Russian Far Eastern Army in North Manchuria, nothing remarkable! This battle is not a bad thing for us, and it will greatly awaken the patriotic fervor of the people of the whole country and awaken the national consciousness that has been dormant for a long time, which is necessary for us to build a strong country that can stand up to the great powers. Moreover, the great powers do not want Russia to expand unrestricted in the Far East," Long Qian looked at Tang Shaoyi, "Director Tang, I asked you to study the situation in Europe, especially the relationship between the Central European powers and Tsarist Russia, is there anything conclusive?" ”

"Yes, there is already a report that will be presented to the president soon." On the official occasion, Tang Shaoyi had already called Long Qian the president, "The young man surnamed Gu you introduced is indeed very capable, and the information is basically compiled by him, so I will briefly report it now." ”

Tang Shaoyi sorted out his thoughts and briefly explained the Foreign Affairs Bureau's brief study of the situation in Europe: Europe is the center of the world, and except for the United States and Japan, the major powers we face are all located in Europe (Britain is a bit special). Since the German-Austrian-Russian "Three Emperors Alliance" in 1873, due to factors such as German-French contradictions and the Russian-Turkish war, the relations between the European powers have changed repeatedly, and in just five years, Germany and Russia have changed from allies to rivals, especially since the conclusion of the military treaty between France and Russia in 1894, the German, Austrian, and Italian Triple Alliance and the Russian, French, and British Triple Alliance have been hostile relations. Due to the rise of Germany, Britain, which has always pursued "glorious isolation", was forced to abandon its foreign policy for nearly a hundred years, first in order to curb Russia's expansion in the Far East, the British found Japan as an ally in the Far East and concluded the Anglo-Japanese Alliance, which led to the outbreak of the Russo-Japanese War, used Japan to thwart Russia, and chopped up the claws of the Russian bear stretched out to the Far East. Russia was forced to turn its attention back to Europe, especially the Balkans. Then he gave up his feud with France, and King Edward VII visited France and obtained the understanding of France, of course, for the purpose of fighting Germany, which was growing by leaps and bounds. Because the contradictions between Britain and Germany on the issue of colonies and navies in Africa are becoming more and more acute, Britain, whose relative strength is declining, must find allies, and it no longer has the self-confidence of "glorious isolation".

In this case, our country will use troops against Mongolia, and no one will stand up and interfere except for Russia. Moreover, Britain was concerned about Russia's expansion in the Far East, Britain's most important colony was India, in order to use Afghanistan as a no-man's land to separate Russia from India, fought two Afghan wars, in 1864, Russia seized Tashkent in Turkestan, but subject to the Anglo-Russian agreement, it was difficult to move forward. Japan was even more afraid of Russia's expansion, and did not hesitate to borrow huge debts to fight a Russo-Japanese War. The United States is destined to stay out of the situation, and they have no reason to interfere, let alone strength. France's power is in the south, and its contradictions with our country are also in the south, and even if they have ideas about foreign Mongolia, they can't reach it, and Germany and Austria want to weaken Russia. So, the president's self-confidence is right.

Will Russia send troops to support the separatist forces in Outer Mongolia? The Bureau of Foreign Affairs does not think so. This is because Russia's current domestic political, economic, and military affairs are very bad. The Russo-Japanese War that broke out in 1904 caused Russia to suffer a great loss of strength, not only militarily, but also in a more severe political situation, and the biggest consequence of the Russo-Japanese War was that Russia turned its attention back to Europe, continued to play an active and leading role in Balkan affairs, and increased its contradictions with Austria-Hungary. In 1908, the year before, the Russian and Austrian foreign ministers planned to convene an international conference in which Russia agreed to Austria's annexation of Bosnia in exchange for the Bosphorus and Dardanelles. But Austria announced the annexation of Bosnia without waiting for the conference, which angered the Serbs, who considered Bosnia to be their territory. Next, Bulgaria and Crete announced the severance of diplomatic relations with the Ottoman Empire, and one more independent country in the world, Bulgaria. The Russians, unaware of the fact that their foreign minister had a secret pact with Austria-Hungary, believed that their little Slavic brother, Serbia, had been insulted by Austria-Hungary and had aroused discontent with the Tsarist regime. In short, although the civil revolution that broke out in Russia in 1905 was defeated, the tsarist system was severely challenged, the internal problems were riddled with internal problems, and the hostile countries of Europe were contained, the possibility of a large-scale military dispatch to China was extremely unlikely, and there was only one case, when our military operation failed, which would lead to unpredictable changes! On the other hand, if the military action is extremely swift and decisive and calms the situation in Outer Mongolia in a very short time, then at most it will provoke diplomatic protests, such as claims for compensation for the damage to the interests of Russian merchants, and the Russians will have no choice but to accept our military action in Outer Mongolia.

The conclusion of the Foreign Bureau is that military operations can be carried out without unbearable diplomatic consequences. But the premise is that the solution is quick and cannot be delayed.

"That's good." Long Qian nodded, "Your report will be reported and copied to the Military Affairs Bureau." The General Staff made every effort to make a military plan and was ready to launch it at any time. ”

"Yes. Then I'll quit early. Where do I have a big mess of business? Situ Jun stood up. He knew that today's meeting had basically decided on sending troops to Mongolia, and the rest was the details.

"Well, I'm going to leave Wang Yuecian for dinner at noon, if you have time, you can accompany you."

"I'm so sorry." Tang Shaoyi also stood up and said that he had a lot of things to do and didn't stay. But Jiang Yun didn't leave, he still needed to report to Long Qian in detail on the work of the State Security Bureau since its establishment.

"Oh well. Yuecicada, you go upstairs to find Chen Shu first. She was overjoyed to hear that you were coming. ”

Wang Yuecian didn't expect Long Qian to leave her for dinner, with Long Qian's current status, this was a great surprise, "Thank you, Commander, I also wanted to see Madame a long time ago." Then I'll go first. Chen Shu's happy voice was already heard outside, and Wang Yuecian pushed the door and went out.

"Tell me, I've long wanted to know about the work of the General Administration of National Security since its establishment."

"Yes." Jiang Yun began to report. (To be continued......)