Chapter 64: The Great Drama Begins
Little Japan's war preparations were done well, and Yang Xiaolin asked Huang Bao to explore the specific situation through many ways, but he didn't find out a single reason. Moreover, the Japanese navy has also frequently made moves in the South Seas, putting on a posture of deliberately looking for trouble.
Not only did this move make the British and Americans very afraid, but even Yang Xiaolin once thought that little Japan might choose to provoke trouble in the South Seas, and maybe they would not compete with China on land, but would set their eyes on the Philippines or the Nansha area.
After all, as far as Japan is concerned, as long as it controls that sea area, it will lock China up on land, and using their navy to balance China is also a measure that Japan may take. Yang Xiaolin has even issued an order to the navy to put the Nansha area on strict alert.
It was not until after the mobilization of the Japanese Army that another 300,000 troops entered the Far East that Yang Xiaolin realized that all the actions of the Japanese Navy in the South Seas were all tricks used to deceive his eyes. He was really fooled, and when the Japanese troops in Russia increased to 500,000, it may be impossible to solve the battle alone with the volunteers of the Northern Army.
At this time, Japan probably felt that he could at least gain a foothold there, and those Japanese merchants began to enter in large numbers, just as they had plundered China's resources, and carried out destructive exploitation of Eastern Siberia.
This is another different position of China and Japan on the issue of Russia, and China's mining can be said to be very reasonable, and it has been surveyed and planned before, and it is a long-term mode of mining. The difference in confidence between the two countries can also be seen from above, and to put it mildly, destructive exploitation means that the Japanese do not believe that their army will be able to gain a foothold in Siberia, so they take advantage of the moment to grab a little bit is a little bit.
The Imperial Japanese Army really didn't have much confidence in front of Yang Dagui, and they didn't want to fight this battle now if they could, but with the same purpose as China, Siberia could not tolerate the coexistence of China and Japan.
Britain, France and other countries thought that Yang Xiaolin should make a tough statement at this time. China is competing for the resources of Siberia, and now the Japanese have begun to exploit them, and China has been doing this work for a long time, and they all want to monopolize this place, and the conditions for war are ripe, and it seems that there will be excitement to see soon.
The West is still optimistic about China in the war between China and Japan, but Japan is not without the possibility of winning, for example, the current situation is very favorable to Japan, and they have already reached the battlefield with 500,000 troops. The Chinese response was apparently slow.
Faced with the sudden arrival of Japanese troops in Russia, the Chinese side seemed to be a little panicked, and apart from a brief newspaper report on the news of Japan's troop increase, the Chinese troops remained on the border, and although they were preparing for battle, there was no sign of sending troops.
Russia expressed strong dissatisfaction with this practice on the Japanese side, and its dissatisfaction was also dissatisfied, and both Kerensky and Trotsky knew that the Russian side was now incapable of fighting the Japanese army of 500,000 troops. Trotsky only continued to lay out his defensive positions in central Siberia to resist the continued advance of the Japanese army, and he had no intention of sending troops to regain the territory, which he could not do.
But. Stessel, the leader of the Self-Defense Forces of the Siberian Autonomous Region, was indeed unusually tough at this time. Originally, the negotiations between Consnes were about the Russian question, and the Japanese representatives were to supervise the negotiations, but Stessel demanded very strongly at the meeting that the Japanese troops should withdraw from Russian territory immediately.
The Japanese didn't bother him, and the other countries didn't take Stessel seriously. But after Stessel saw that the Japanese side had no intention of withdrawing troops. Again, he issued a notice, this time to the whole world, if the Japanese troops did not withdraw from Russia. Then the self-defense forces will take all the means at their disposal! Stessel shouted his slogan: "Even God cannot deprive us of the right to defend Russia!" ”
The Russians of Consnes were very supportive of Stessel's move, and many Russians volunteered to go to the door of the SDF barracks and asked to join the troops. As the news spread, Stessel became a representative of Russian patriots for a while.
However, Japan really didn't care how patriotic the Russians were, Naogami Matsubara was ready to meet the Russians on the front line, and the mobilization of the Japanese mainland no longer had any hidden actions after the reinforcements arrived in Russia and the troops of Naogami Matsubara, and their recruitment continued on a larger scale.
In the eyes of the Japanese army, the Russians in Stessel can really challenge them, and the real opponent is the Chinese volunteers, and the purpose of doing so much is to fight a decisive battle with China.
Britain, France, and other countries did not say anything, and although China still had nothing to do with itself, in addition to giving the Russians a certain amount of sympathy in the newspapers, the Chinese Foreign Ministry also issued a statement expressing the hope that the Japanese side would pay careful attention to its words and deeds, and also hoped that the Russian side would exercise restraint. But no one believed that Stessel's toughness was not backed by the Chinese volunteers.
The gentlemen were ready, and in Mr. Sadaoyi's telegram to London he was very sure that war between China and Japan was inevitable, and although the Chinese had not yet made any indications, it could be seen from the public opinion orientation of their newspapers that China was already preaching the importance of Siberia to China.
If the war between China and Japan is a big drama, then Stessel is the one who strikes the gong, and the gong has sounded, and the play is about to begin. Mr. Sadaoyi said that the war between China and Japan was in the interests of the British Empire, and judging from the preparations of the Japanese side, even if China could win in the end, it would inevitably have to go through a hard battle, and this battle might be fought for a long time.
Neither Japan nor China will be able to challenge the position of the British Empire in Asia for a period of time, and their national strength will be sharply weakened after this battle, especially China, where the war will interrupt the economic miracle that is taking place in China, and whether it wins or loses, the pace of China's rise will inevitably be limited.
Mr. Sadaoyi said that what the British Empire should do now is to be ready to slap China and Japan in the face when a favorable time arises, so that they will have to live the kind of days that depend on the snort of the British Empire in the future.
London was very sympathetic to Sadaoyi's telegram, because the British military, after analyzing it from various angles, came to the conclusion that Sadaoyi was the same, and they believed that it would take at least a year, if not longer, for China and Japan to win or lose in Siberia.
Japan has invested half a million troops, and the Japanese on the four islands are still desperately mobilizing, and it is expected that if the Chinese take action, the Japanese side can increase the Japanese army in Siberia to one million or more within six months.
Of course, it will be very difficult for Japan to defeat China, and they will exhaust the vitality of the country in the battle, and Asia will be able to calm down for a long time to come.
Major General Hamilton has been paying close attention to the movements of the Chinese troops, and he has sent several telegrams to the British side, in which the major general has made it very clear that the Chinese troops have carried out a certain amount of propaganda, but the intensity is not very large. The Chinese soldiers in the peacekeeping force are the elite selected by China, and these people will not be swayed by the war, so it is difficult to determine what the Chinese side will do next to support Stessel.
A play is because there is a lot of suspense, so it can attract the audience. And the performances of the Siberian actors are also quite in place, and the big moves in Japan are constantly taking place one after another, as if they are the very powerful villains who are shouting on the stage. The Russians are the tragic characters who are bullied, and Stessel is carrying a kitchen knife to fight hard, a little tragic, a little desolate. And China is like that chivalrous man, watching Japan bully Stessel, but never drawing his sword, stepping on the T-step and not moving.
Everyone knows that this chivalrous man will move sooner or later, and everyone is waiting.
Li Debiao is a senior commander of the Volunteer Army, he knows that China is already preparing for the knife, and this time the knife is made, China's moves will be extremely dazzling, Commander Yang said, either don't move, and if you move, you will light up the eyes of the blind gentlemen.
If the peacekeeping force is Yang Xiaolin's test of China's new combat mode, then this time the war with the Japanese will be officially activated.
Biao Zi was a little depressed, he tried his best to grab the commander of the peacekeeping force, thinking that this might be the first battle of New China to go abroad. Li Debiao was really excited when little Japan also sent troops to Russia, at that time he thought he had a stage to perform, but he didn't expect that China would form a volunteer army to join the battle, and the commander of the volunteer army was not Li Debiao, it was Wu Peifu.
This made Li Debiao feel very unhappy, sang for a long time, posed in countless poses, and when the really eye-catching repertoire began, it was time for him to leave the stage.
If Yang Xiaolin asks him to go back to the Northeast, he may still be able to get a chance to perform, but the problem is that Yang Xiaolin said that if the peacekeeping force is not disbanded for a day, Li Debiao will have to be his commander here for a day, and don't worry about the Northeast, everything will be done very well after people go with Bing.
Brother Biao has a feeling of getting on the wrong boat, it is precisely because he knows what the mode of China's battle will look like this time, so he regrets it even more, he really doesn't know what Lu Dao thought at the beginning, why did he have to come to deal with this group of foreigners?
Li Debiao's mood was very low, but he couldn't help it. Yang Xiaolin and Li Debiao made it clear that it would be enough for him to select some soldiers from the peacekeeping force to be transferred to the Volunteer Army, which needs a group of people who have been to Russia and are relatively familiar with Stessel's team.
Then you don't have to worry about the rest of the things. His task is to serve the old men in the peacekeeping force, these people are a banner, and they will be useful in the future. (To be continued......)