Chapter 159: The War Settles (Subscription Requested)
The war was fought much more brutally than the Russo-Japanese War in history, which made the cost of the war far greater than their budgets for both sides. Japan had lost 300,000 soldiers in this battle, depleted the little savings in the treasury, and owed a lot of debt.
The emperor couldn't help but consider a more practical question, and exterminate Yang to fight the ghost just to breathe a sigh? Of course this is not the case, as the leader of a country, he will not do some battle of will for a long time.
The reason why Japan couldn't wait to make a move on Yang Xiaolin was that the emperor hoped to use the overwhelming force of Mount Tai to exterminate this bandit, and to ensure that no one in Northeast China could hinder the development of the Japanese army in the future, and no one could destroy his Greater East Asian Jihua.
At the same time, since Yang Dagui's reputation is not very good, killing him can also increase some of Japan's international prestige. But now it seems that Yang Dagui was obviously prepared, and the overwhelming momentum of Mount Tai did not overwhelm this guy, and the Japanese Army provoked a difficult opponent.
After the supplies in Dalian were burned, the emperor was furious with the generals of the Japanese army. On the one hand, he felt sorry for those supplies, and on the other hand, he was extremely angry that these guys fell twice in a row in one place.
As early as when Yang Xiaolin first attacked Heimu Weizhen, he used this trick, which put the entire First Army in a dilemma. This time it was this move, and the Japanese generals were actually hit again, and it was difficult for the emperor not to be angry.
The casualties of the Japanese army in the battle with Yang Dagui were also unacceptable to the emperor, and according to this estimate, the Japanese army would have to pay at least 50,000 to 80,000 casualties if they wanted to kill Yang Dagui. This number is still calculated by themselves, and it may be more to fight.
At this time, the emperor finally accepted the suggestion of the navy, and decided to ask a third party to come forward to send a message of peace to the Russians, as long as Lao Mao Zi was willing to recognize the actual Japanese occupation of parts of Liaoxi, and use the current military demarcation line as the demarcation line between the interests of Japan and Russia, then let the fighting stop.
As for the guy Yang fighting ghosts, if the international community forms a coalition to fight against Yang fighting ghosts, someone is willing to pay for this war, and the Japanese are very happy to take action. Now, if the Russians can tolerate his presence. If the Qing Dynasty could tolerate it, then so could Japan.
Immediately after making his decision, the emperor chose the Americans as a third party to mediate the war. Meantime. I was too full of words before, and now I want to stop the war with Yang and fight ghosts, and there are no steps to go down, so I let Nogi Noshinori fight there first.
Yang Xiaolin didn't know about Japan's idea, but after the news of Cai Yi's success came. On the battlefield, Nogi Noshinori's attack suddenly weakened. Yang Xiaolin knew that his punch hit the place, and the Japanese hurt.
"Looks like the battle is coming to an end."
His binoculars looked at the Japanese battalion that stretched for more than ten miles in front of him, and his tone was quite disappointed. Yang Xiaolin really wanted Nogi Noshinori to fight again, and launch that kind of onslaught regardless of casualties like he did a few days ago. You must know that now the Volunteers do not have the ability to take the initiative to destroy the Japanese large-scale combat corps, and the only option is to consume the enemy's Liliang in defense.
Yang Xiaolin's idea was to retreat step by step, so that by the time these Japanese troops stepped into his base area, they would be exhausted. When the time comes, he will take advantage of the passages that lead in all directions underground, and it will be easy to find opportunities.
He couldn't kill hundreds of thousands of Japanese at once, but he bit one bite at a time, even if he couldn't bite these Japanese, he would bite them all over his body.
Now it seems that there is no chance. Nogi Noshinori was still attacking, but the attack looked like he was acting. As soon as the guns of the volunteers rang out, the attacking Japanese troops immediately turned around and ran, which was very inconsistent with their spirit of bushido, and Yang Xiaolin came to his own conclusion after watching it for two days, and the Japanese would not attack by force. …,
Tang Yulin stood beside him and didn't understand: "Commander, what about the more than 100,000 Japanese, how can they not fight?" Are they paralyzing us for the past two days? ”
Yang Xiaolin smiled: "There is also this possibility, but we must be prepared now to let the four regiments continue to be vigilant." No matter how little Japan changes, we must be very vigilant. And also. I think it's time for us to expand some ground. ”
Yang Xiaolin has two pieces of land to target, one is near Liaoyang now, and he has decided to send Biaozi there, but now may not be the time.
Another place is Jilin. Jilin is very large, and in the Russo-Japanese War was not affected by the war, the Russians there Shili is not very strong, when Lao Maozi was broken in this war, the huge Jilin has less than 3,000 Russian troops stationed, if their strategy is appropriate, if they act quickly, it is likely that they can occupy this place without blood.
Therefore, if you want to do it as soon as possible, when the Russo-Japanese War is certain, Lao Maozi will send troops to Jilin, and things will not be easy to do.
Yang Xiaolin thought for a while and said: "Let Qian Yao fight for another three days, and after three days, we will withdraw from the buried mountain, and if the Japanese don't chase after us, we will send four regiments to Jilin." ”
Three days later, the four regiments took advantage of the darkness to withdraw from the battle line, and on the morning of the fourth day, the Japanese captured the already empty Mt. Tsutomi, but the little Japan really did not approach again, and Nogi Noshinori's army stopped here.
At the same time, Naogami Matsubara, who had been killed all the way from North Korea, also returned to North Korea, and all these signs are already indicating that the war that has raged in the northeast for a year and a half may soon be about to subside.
There were no losers in this battle, and both Japan and Russia suffered very heavy losses, but the two robbers were gambling with Manchu money. Yang Xiaolin did not lose, he developed in the war, and the Volunteers had become a party, whether it was the Russians or the Japanese, they had to face him squarely, and they couldn't look at the Volunteers like the bandits they had before.
Only the neutral Manchus were the biggest losers in this battle.
In August 1905, the United States agreed to intervene in the war between Japan and Russia, which had nothing to do with the Manchus, who were neutral countries, and even though they were mediating the land of the Manchus, this so-called neutral country was not qualified to participate in the conference at all.
This makes the Chinese feel angry, but anger is anger, the Americans did nothing wrong, what people mediated was the Russo-Japanese War, what is the matter with you Manchu?
The only thing the Manchus could do was to ask the Western countries to intervene in Russia and return Mukden to themselves.
The Russians are still surrounding Mukden, but the fighting has really stopped. Lao Maozi understands very well that the current form does not allow them to fight anymore, Fengtian was originally borrowed from the Qing Dynasty for this war, and now the war has begun. They deserve to return Mukden to the Qing Dynasty, unless they are willing to continue fighting with the Japanese.
But the Russians were not willing to eat until they spit out what was in their mouths. It's not their character. Lao Maozi put forward two demands, first of all, the Manchu Qing Dynasty must sanction Zaitao, the guy who took the lead in making trouble, and give Russia an explanation.
Second, they demanded that the Qing Dynasty pay 5 million taels of silver. Because according to the Russians. This time it was Zaitao who provoked the war. If it weren't for Zaitao, the Russians would have returned Mukden to the Qing Dynasty. Therefore, the Qing Dynasty had to pay the Russians for their military expenses and compensate the Russian soldiers who were killed and wounded in this battle.
Isn't it a bit of a bully? The bullying is still to come!
Lao Maozi knew very well that after the loss of Lushun, Dalian, and Fengtian, the existence of Liaoyang no longer had the slightest meaning. They did one thing, listed for sale in Liaoyang! It is to clearly mark the price of Liaoyang, no matter which country wants it, whoever bids high will give Liaoyang to whomever the Russians want. …,
This is unreasonable!
However, the Manchus were willing to compensate the Russians for their military losses, and said that the Manchu government would participate in the bid for the purchase of Liaoyang. This really caused an uproar in China! All people, regardless of ethnicity. Regardless of the old and the young, the rich and the poor, they were all extremely disappointed in the Qing Dynasty, and the little trust that had just been snatched back by Lord Belle was immediately gone.
When this news reached Yang Xiaolin, there was not the slightest anger on his face. If you get angry with a court like the Manchus, you will be angry with yourself.
He threw the newspaper on the table: "Mr. Hauffman, you said something a little faster, and I didn't understand it. Can you say that again? ”
Mr. Yang was chatting with the military observers, and he asked them to speak to him in their own language. This surprised those people. What surprised them even more was that after more than a month, Yang Xiaolin could already understand some of their simple and not very fast sentences.
You must know that Yang Pian Police has been learning foreign languages for a while, and he has to memorize words until one or two o'clock in the morning every night, and when he marches and fights, he takes Mark with him, thinks of a word and asks casually, and then memorizes it to death. If he had taken out this momentum earlier, he was sure that he would definitely not be just a small piece of police.
Hauffmann immediately repeated what he had just said in German: "I want to ask you, now that the Russo-Japanese War is over, when will we be able to regain our freedom?" ”
This time Yang Xiaolin understood, he smiled and said, "You can do it at any time." You can contact people in your country and ask them to come here to pick you up, with the exception of Mr. Hamilton in the United Kingdom. Because I promised a friend that I would have to keep you safe, you have to wait for that friend of mine to come and then leave with him so that I can rest assured. ”
Hamilton nodded, he knew that the friend Yang Xiaolin was talking about was Robert, and he was a little unfamiliar with this person Hamilton. I heard that this guy used to be a hooligan, and then he didn't know how to start taking shit luck, first making a windfall for some reason, then doing business with the Spaniards, and later making friends with a local councillor.
No matter what kind of person he is, as long as he can get out of Yang Beat Ghost, he is a good person. During this period of time, they have somewhat understood Yang Xiaolin, and know that this guy is not killed by every foreigner. But after all, he is a Yang fighting ghost, after all, this is an excessive hatred of foreigners, and it is not safe to stay here.
Hamilton nodded after hearing this: "Commander Yang, I sincerely say that during this time you are here, let me change my opinion of you Qing Dynasty people, if there is a chance in the future, I hope we can zaijian face, of course, never in this way again." ”
The corners of Yang Xiaolin's mouth smiled, this is a foreigner, this is the attitude that should be towards a foreigner! Groveling will only make them look down on you.
Don't say anything to convince people with virtue, don't say anything to convince people with reason, no one will reason with you in this era of robbers, the fist is hard enough is the truth!
Just as now the Japanese are standing motionless in the Windy City, and the Russians are blind to the Jilin they actually occupy. It's not once or twice that they have made trouble for Lao Maozi, why don't they come and ask themselves for military expenses? (To be continued) RQ