Chapter 672: Yield
Now that William has taken the initiative to bow his head, it is indeed not good for Yang Feng to mess with him anymore, after all, as the boss, he still has to be generous, otherwise it is easy to chill those little brothers, of course, a little punishment is also necessary, otherwise those little brothers will also be dissatisfied, and it is difficult to be the boss.
For example, you can make an article on the number of troops sent, you must know that William and Empress Alexandra are cousins, and their mothers are both daughters of old lady Victoria, and cousins can't send troops to avenge their cousins less than Emperor Joseph, right?
Austria-Hungary produced an army group, then Germany would have at least this number, not to mention that he was somewhat responsible for the death of the Russian Tsar and his wife, no matter how little, he could not say more, and then the German Baltic Fleet had to participate in the war.
Of course, this kind of thing does not need to be handled by Yang Feng personally, the United Nations Command is responsible for talking to them, as for the matter in Africa, let's pause it, not to say that those medical teams are withdrawn, with Emperor Yang's kindness, how can they do such a thing, just change it to cooperate with the Germans, withdraw all the medical teams to the German colony, and continue to help the there, so that it can also create a false impression for the that they have to abandon them because they are under pressure from the Germans.
Anyway, after these days of publicity, grass has long grown in the hearts of, and all that remains is to grow on their own.
The next negotiations were not turbulent, since William took the initiative to bow his head, he must have been mentally prepared to accept the punishment, and the army of a group army and the Baltic Fleet agreed to participate in the war.
But when the news reached Germany, the striking workers stopped doing it, especially their leader Liebknecht, who was dumbfounded, he never thought that this time he would shoot himself in the foot, and the original strike was to take advantage of the current general panic in Europe about the Social Workers. Then he intimidated William in order to fight for more rights for the working class, but he didn't expect to directly force William to Yang Feng's side.
The angry Comrade Vladimir even sent a telegram to him in person, denouncing the German comrades for not caring for the overall situation at all, and simply being sinners of their lives. They followed the troubles and made trouble, which was nothing more than anti-war, and what was not anti-is not anti, so the German strike continued.
This time, however, the results were different, as the philanthropists who gave them food and meat disappeared overnight, followed by a skyrocketing price of food in Germany.
This was already quite normal, German grain was mainly imported from the Americas, and after the dock workers' strike, it was all by rail from the Netherlands and France. In Italy, the re-export of grain in these places, the exporters of the Americas and the re-exporters of these countries have been subsidized by the People's Bank of China, and not only did not increase the price but lowered the price, but now there will definitely be no such good thing. Food prices change three times a day, and they are rising, and it's hard to say why, you dock workers are on strike. If the grain cannot be delivered, of course, the price will increase.
Now the striking workers are dumbfounded, they have no wages if they don't work, and they can't buy food without wages. If you can't buy food, you have to starve, the reason is very simple, when the wife and children at home are hungry and their eyes are green, the right or something is a floating cloud. In the past, most of the German people supported them in their anti-war strikes, but the skyrocketing food prices quickly changed the attitude of those supporters of them, and even some people began to spit on the striking workers.
After sweeping away the domestic resistance, the 200,000 German troops led by Field Marshal Hindenburg personally attacked St. Petersburg from Estonia, and at the same time, the German Baltic Fleet also set sail from the Tallinn military port, and four Russian battleships and five German battleships that survived the war were all joined by this fleet, and immediately bombarded the Kronstadt military port.
However, they were also stubbornly resisted by the Red Russian Navy, although there were no large warships, but with the will of the Red Russian Navy, those destroyers and torpedo boats of the Red Russian Navy still attacked the German invaders with their lives, and sank a German cruiser and two destroyers with torpedoes, such losses made General Scheer have to voluntarily withdraw from the battle.
The German offensive on land was also not going well, the soldiers of Hindenburg did not want to fight at all, and Comrade Vladimir had placed a full 500,000 troops in the defensive circle of his capital, and the Social Workers in this area were relatively strong, so the German army quickly stopped on the banks of the Luga River, and then stalemate, as in the world war.
Yang Feng didn't feel strange about this, William couldn't really run to fight the Social Workers, to put it bluntly, he was here to make an appearance, even if he went all out to take St. Petersburg, in the end it was nothing more than to make wedding clothes for others, but the loss was really his own, it is conceivable how Comrade Vladimir would go all out to defend his capital, if he really wanted to take the city, I am afraid that there is no hope for 200,000 people in terms of the strength of the German army, and the mustache has the most right to speak.
As for the limited role of the Baltic Fleet, because by this time the ice floe in the Gulf of Finland had already begun to appear, and it would not be long before it froze.
However, he was able to contain 500,000 Red Russian troops in St. Petersburg, which can already be said to have contributed a lot, and the total strength of the Red Russian Army will not exceed 2 million at present, that is to say, the maximum number of troops used in the east and south battlefields is 1.5 million, and it is impossible to have more.
Now it has entered winter, the first snow has just fallen, there is nothing to hunt in the forest, and the next day will get colder and colder, the Russians rely on vodka in winter, many people will freeze to death without spirits, especially their cities have been bombed to ruins, there are no houses to protect the wind and snow will exacerbate the power of the cold, poor Russians can be said to be heading for a desperate situation.
"Your Majesty, the Russian Socialist Workers Party is in turmoil, and Trotsky, the number two man, surrenders to our troops after fleeing Moscow." Attendant Yuan hurriedly walked to Emperor Yang, who was admiring the snow scene, with a telegram in his hand, and said.
"Surrender? Will surrender clear him of the sin of murder? Send him to Peking, and then hand him over to the Russian government, where he will be tried to see if he has a part in the murder of the Tsar and his wife, and if not, he will be sentenced to life imprisonment casually, and when the murderers of the monarch are solved, then let Alexei Jr. grant amnesty. Yang Feng said with a sneer.
Lao Tuo is of no use to him, and he is not ready to recruit the Social Workers, in fact, he thinks that these guys surrender too quickly, in this case, he might as well use Lao Tuo to scare the Social Workers, suing them to surrender is also a dead end, it is better to continue to fight for the faith.
After receiving the order of the General Staff, the Voronezh Don Front Command immediately transferred a Liberator, and then stuffed Lao Tuo, who had just come to surrender, and two cronies into a bomber and flew directly to China.
The reason why Lao Tuo ran out and surrendered was because his will was not strong enough, and he was also frightened by the current tragic situation in Russia, after all, he was still a little petty-bourgeois, and the number of people starving to death in Moscow every day was thousands, and the hungry people even took out the buried dead bodies and ate them, he really couldn't stand it, so he took out a batch of grain hoarded in Moscow and supplied it to the hungry people, but this batch of grain was originally going to be sent to St. Petersburg, after all, compared with Moscow, St. Petersburg needs food more.
Because of this incident, he was criticized by Vladimir by name, and was even removed from the post of supreme administrator of the Moscow region, and transferred to Kamenev, who was sent from St. Petersburg.
In his opinion, Yang Feng definitely wants to end the war as soon as possible, so he, the No. 2 figure of the Social Labor Party with huge influence, is undoubtedly the best tool to recruit rebels, and there should be no suspense in receiving courtesy, in fact, in Nevorozh he received preferential treatment in line with his status, but he didn't expect that he suddenly became a prisoner in less than a day, tortured by fear and worry all the way on the plane, and his hair turned gray when he arrived in Beijing.
After arriving at the Beijing airport, Lao Tuo, who stepped off the plane in handcuffs, was immediately stuffed into a car with the Russian Government logo and then escorted directly to the Russian Government residence in the Old Summer Palace, where he was publicly tried by the Russian Supreme Court the next day in front of the cameras of reporters from various countries who rushed to hear the news. Of course, it was a trial that was completely in line with the legal process, and there were prosecutors, juries and even his lawyers, but the lawyer was rejected by Lao Tuo, who still needs a lawyer at his level, and as a result, this guy defended himself brilliantly in court with his excellent eloquence, and finally cleared a large part of the charges, but he still couldn't get rid of the two main charges of treason and murder, and in fact he couldn't get rid of it.
Fortunately, his performance was still effective, and he was finally sentenced to life imprisonment. (To be continued......)