Chapter 53: The Waves Are Quiet
Counterattack, it's really very difficult for Russia right now, but they have to do it. The Japanese must not be allowed to increase their troops step by step, and they must not give up the initiative in the war, not to mention that although it is very difficult, there is really a glimmer of hope.
After Kilingsky and Akberil joined the comrades, many of the former officers returned, Trotsky fulfilled his promise, and the movement was stopped, and these old officers, although not reused, made up for the great shortage of middle officers in the ranks of the proletariat.
This is important! There can be no doubt about the ability of the proletarian power to mobilize, and in just two months they have assembled an armed force of 800,000 men, of whom 300,000 have gone to the battlefields of Eastern Siberia and 500,000 are training. If such a large force does not have a mainstay, it is equivalent to a waist that a polar bear does not have, and it cannot stand up.
These officers gave Trotsky's troops the appearance of at least an army. Brushinov said very ruthlessly, their tactic is that the Japanese fight for people, and they would rather fight all the 300,000 than make the current unit of Nogi Noshinori lose the ability to fight! Such is the determination of the Russians.
As soon as Yang Xiaolin returned from the Northeast, he learned that a major war had broken out on the Russian side, and Trotsky sent him a telegram, although he did not say it explicitly, but the comrades asked him to provide Russia with another batch of arms.
There was no problem with providing arms, that battlefield was originally a platform for the Chinese side to experiment with weapons and dump arms products, and Commander Yang was happy to see if the polar bear and the Oriental samurai sword were smashed or the polar bear fell, or the katana was broken.
The key is what comrades buy, friendship is friendship, business is business, we are comrades, but you have to give money like arms.
Comrade Trotsky meant to owe it first, and when he had finished the war, he would compensate the Chinese side from the resources of Siberia. Commander Yang would not agree to this plan. From the founding of New China to the present, we have always been the only one who has lent money to others, and we have not lent money to anyone. Besides, the attitude of Britain and France towards Comrade Trotsky is still so resolute, and no one is sure whether you can live your life or not, and if you go bankrupt, who will I ask for debts?
So the arrears are not to be discussed, let's show it.
Du Yuesheng's progress is quite smooth, the oil wells have been obtained, and the forces of all parties have basically been settled, and he and Rockefeller have not yet negotiated. Hearing Li Yuanhong say that this old American man was waiting for him, Yang Xiaolin felt the need to meet him.
As soon as the oil wells and oil supply systems are rolled out, the construction of China's armored forces and air force can be carried out immediately. But the wells in Siberia may only produce enough oil for the Chinese side to develop the army, and if China wants to promote tractors and automobiles in the country, those wells will obviously not be enough.
Russia's largest oil-producing region is not Siberia, but the Caucasus. There is an inexhaustible supply of crude oil in the Caucasus, which is now under the control of Comrade Trotsky. The original oil wells were nationalized, all foreign technicians were withdrawn from Russia, and a large number of oil fields were in a state of shutdown.
The peacekeeping forces in the Caucasus have not yet intervened. There was no banditry, so it was not the turn of merchants from various countries to rob it. Yang Xiaolin meant that China would take the lead and cooperate with Trotsky to develop those oil wells, and the oil produced would be offset by the weapons and equipment provided to him by China.
If it were CNPC alone, then Trotsky would have agreed. Although he knew that Yang Xiaolin had been using him, so far China was the only country that had secretly helped him.
The key is that Yang Xiaolin said that the Chinese could not take the lead in this matter, and that they had to find a Western oil company to cooperate with the comrades. And then China intervened on a large scale. Knowing that Trotsky's regime is now not recognized by the Western world, it is impossible for China to sign any official agreement with them immediately.
Trotsky was really reluctant to cooperate with the capitalists in the West, and he asked if there was any other way. Yang Xiaolin told him that if he really didn't agree, the Chinese side would also provide him with weapons, and then offset it with the oil resources of the Caucasus, and the Chinese oil company would secretly enter there.
But Yang Xiaolin did not advise him to take such an approach, and he asked Trotsky whether he could overthrow the bourgeoisie of the whole world. If not, you have to compromise with them. Open up the economic interests of the Caucasus first, let others see your sincerity, maybe in the future I can find an opportunity for you to sit down with the British and the French to negotiate, maybe they will recognize your regime.
Trotsky thought for a moment and felt that what Yang Xiaolin said was very reasonable. His regime is now surrounded by enemies, and a small Japan alone makes it very difficult for him, and if it were not for Kerensky's help, if it were not for the mercy of the Chinese, he might have lost the Caucasus by now. And he had indeed thought about compromising with the Western world for a long time, and he had conveyed many signals, but he had not received a response.
So he finally agreed to Yang Xiaolin's conditions, the oil fields in the Caucasus are operated by the Chinese side and can be entered at any time, but no matter who we cooperate with, we must control more than half of the shares, and you have to give me the weapons first, so I can't wait here.
The two sides thus agreed, and without any written agreement, the Chinese oil company, which had just established itself in southern Siberia, began to secretly advance to the Caucasus to pick another fruit. If you want to digest all the fruits quickly and build a partnership with Rockefeller, it is the fastest channel for China.
Yang Xiaolin can be very sure that whether it is providing weapons to the Russians or letting the Chinese oil company enter the Caucasus, this series of actions will not escape the eyes of those Westerners in the end, and this matter will eventually be shaken out and become news that shocks the world. In particular, it is unreasonable for China, which is also a peacekeeping force, to provide weapons to its opponents to fight the Japanese.
The reason he knew the consequences of the consequence was that he needed to make news here in Russia, just as he was now posing to get the most out of Siberia for China, and he wanted everyone to think that China had intentions for Russian territory and that China's attention was on the Russians.
In fact, China does have intentions for Siberia, and it is becoming more and more clear. But if the gentlemen really think that the purpose of the Chinese is Siberia, then they are clearly ignoring Yang Xiaolin's appetite.
Living in a maritime century, Yang Xiaolin knew that the urgency of the maritime issue was higher than that of the land territory. Especially for us in China, the defeat in the First Sino-Japanese War made the Chinese almost lose the right to go out into the ocean, and everything we did was starting from scratch.
The Japanese have created a blockade line for our navy, and if it weren't for the need of Britain, France, and the United States, we might not even be able to go to Nansha by now. This is a fact, an indisputable fact.
Compared with the army's high-profile peacekeeping, the Chinese navy does not seem to have appeared in the newspapers since its establishment, and the ships of those navies have been slowly but surely building those uninhabited islands and reefs in the Spratlys, except for a few fights with pirates.
By the time Yang Xiaolin returned from the northeast, China's islands and reefs had advanced to the location of Subi Reef.
The strategic location of Subi Reef is very critical, beyond which is Thitu Island. That's very close to the Philippines. By mastering this, we will control the northern gate of the Philippines and the throat of the Indian Ocean, and the Chinese Navy will no longer be held hostage by the Japanese Navy.
He didn't dare to step towards Thitu Island all at once, because it would stimulate the nerves of the Japanese and Americans. Subi Reef is just a tentative move by Yang Xiaolin, and the order he gave to the Navy is that Subi Reef will not only build a small wharf, but also build an airport with considerable take-off and landing capabilities. Before leaving, he repeatedly told that if the Japanese came by warships, and if the Americans did not allow it, then the Chinese navy would immediately withdraw and there would be no conflict.
This action is like a mustache marching into the Ruhr industrial area, be careful, panic. When he received that the Japanese and Americans had not responded to China's construction of that small island and reef, Yang Xiaolin breathed a sigh of relief.
At present, the Chinese side has 10 submarines, five of which have already sailed to that place, and the newly launched Hanhe cruise ship is also running back and forth between the Philippines and China.
Yang Xiaolin hopes that these actions of his will not attract the attention of the Japanese and Western countries, so he needs to attract the attention of the whole world in some things. Going out to sea is only the first step of the Chinese Navy, taking out Japan is our second step, and surpassing the fleet of the British Empire is our ultimate goal.
An armed collision between China and Japan is inevitable. On the road to the world, China will inevitably have to overcome the obstacle of Japan. However, Sino-Japanese relations involve too many grievances, and the so-called Sino-Japanese friendship and joint efforts to build an Asia for Asians are just empty words.
When war breaks out again between China and Japan, it will be a watershed moment like the First Sino-Japanese War. Whoever goes up and who goes down is in this battle. Yang Xiaolin hoped that all his actions could be concealed from the Japanese side, and he hoped that the Japanese would have an irrational anger when they were fighting, so he needed to provoke Japan on the Russian issue.
Of course, this anger must be controlled within a certain scale, and China is not ready for it at present, and there is no chance of winning the fight now.
Once China defeats Japan, it will inevitably gain an advantage or even victory in the eastern part of Asia and the western Pacific, and China will have many cards to play, and the situation in Europe itself will become more and more complicated, and it will be very difficult for Britain to restrain China at that time.
The development of the country is a big game of chess, and Russia's actions there are just a foreshadowing, and Yang Xiaolin's attitude towards Russia is the same as that of Germany, and they don't quite like the way the British say that Russia is unified, dismembering this polar bear, or making him a loose federation, which is very beneficial to China and Germany.
On the bright side, while the Russians are making some moves, the sword of the Chinese Navy has quietly begun to sharpen, and the pace of the construction of the Chinese Air Force has also begun. (To be continued......)