Unexpectedly, the exiled Nicholas II was stubbornly unwilling to leave Tsarist Russia, which made the previously formulated plan a dead letter.

In the final analysis, it was Nicholas II who fantasized about restoration, and once he left Tsarist Russia and went into exile, the dream of restoration was far away, something he could not accept in any case.

On March 8, 17, at the behest of the workers and soldiers of St. Petersburg, the bourgeois government of Tsarist Russia had to arrest Nicholas II and his family and imprison them in the Tsarskoye Village.

For the bourgeois Provisional Government of Tsarist Russia and the State Duma, Tsar Nicholas II's family was a hot potato, and being able to send it out of the country as a gift was the best solution.

For this reason, the Provisional Government of Tsarist Russia wanted to send them to England to join King George V, the cousin of Nicholas II, and the British Parliament had approved it.

However, King George V, out of self-interest, feared that it would cause political unrest or even a plague-like revolution, so he rejected the proposal.

And the olive branch extended by the side of the Ocean Empire, Nicholas II rejected it after thinking about it.

The current chaotic political situation in Tsarist Russia and the strong support of a large number of old nobles gave Nicholas II the illusion that he might be able to stage the return of the king and restore Tsarist Russia by virtue of the great prestige of the Romanov dynasty, as Napoleon did.

Native Australia

Li Fushou looked at the report from the Far Eastern Territory, and he really couldn't cry or laugh in his heart.

How stupid it is to be in a dead place and not realize it!

In this report

Nicholas II wanted the empire to continue to send more troops to Vladivostok, which required at least two armies of about 700,000 men and would be able to follow his command.

Bringing together the forces of Tsarist Russia in Siberia and the Far East, it became a powerful weapon for him to restore the Romanov dynasty.

Li Fushou can only say that this idiot is sick, and he is not lightly ill.

Nicholas II thought that his two daughters were worth two armies, worthy of a large army from the Empire to help him regain his throne, which was a bit like a madman who was sick and couldn't wake up when he shouted.

This also gave Li Fushou a wake-up call, asking him to reconsider whether it was appropriate to marry the Russian royal family?

In the Imperial Study

Cabinet dignitaries and important military officials gathered together, and Li Fushou sent the report from the Far East, instructed Liang Ruhao, deputy director of the Secretariat, to read it aloud, and made it public along with the Tsar's secret letter.

Then asked; "This matter is related to national policy, what do the secretaries understand?"

Prime Minister Zhang Li did not answer immediately, but looked at Field Marshal Mo Rufeng, meaning that he would come forward and interpret it from the perspective of the War Department.

Marshal Mo Rufeng couldn't refuse, so he could only stand up and replied with a respectful hand;

"Enlighten the Holy One;

The Royal Army is sending troops of the 3rd Army to Europe, and the 4th Army is also ready to arrive in Europe by the end of the year.

So

The Royal Army will maintain a total of 1.2 million troops in four armies in Europe, and will retain 25~300,000 supplementary troops in Panama, Guantanamo and Norfolk Naval Base in North America, which can support the European theater at any time.

In the territory of the Governor's Office in North America, we still need to maintain more than 200,000 troops to deter the United States and Japan, plus the garrison of the Republic of Virginia and the native army, the total number of troops in the Royal Army has exceeded 2.1 million.

Sum up

The Royal Army has no additional forces that can be used in the Siberian direction, and at most 5~60,000 people can be transferred, and any more will affect the fulfillment of the obligations of the allies, which will inevitably lead to serious dissatisfaction with Britain, France and other countries.

Today, most of the expeditionary 3rd Army has landed in Europe and is about to be used on the Western Front.

The vanguard of the 4th Army also set out one after another, and if it was used in the Far East, it would only be necessary to mobilize the remaining forces of the 4th Army, and the other troops could not be transferred.

Unless there is another mobilization for war, the expansion of the army is used for operations in both directions.

Wei Chen thought that it was not advisable to make enemies everywhere, and rashly opened up the second battlefield in Siberia, where the harsh environment of ice and snow was extremely unfriendly to the imperial soldiers, and put forward extremely high requirements for the maintenance of advanced military equipment, and the combat effectiveness was greatly reduced.

Weichen has a little shallow opinion, please Your Majesty Holy Judgment. ”

After Marshal Mo Rufeng took the lead in speaking, other cabinet dignitaries and generals spoke one after another, and most of their opinions were biased towards an appropriate increase in troops, preferably 4~50,000 people, waiting for the development of the current situation, and reserving the right to change policies.

Li Fushou was as good as a stream, and sent an order to the cabinet to handle it with the results of the court meeting, and transferred the 127th Division from the empire mainland to Vladivostok to station, and waited for the situation to change.

This move is already the greatest kindness that the empire can make.

As a member of the Allied Alliance, there is no doubt that the main direction of the Ocean Empire's military deployment is in Europe.

However, the internal political turmoil in Tsarist Russia aroused great attention from the Entente countries, especially the workers' forces, which Britain and France regarded as a flood of fierce beasts, gradually gained a dominant position in the chaotic political situation, causing great unease in the Western world.

Britain, France, foreign countries, Italy, the United States, and other countries realized that Tsarist Russia was facing the danger of rapid reddening, which would have a huge impact on the current world pattern, and they adopted tough countermeasures one after another.

Britain, France, and other countries threatened the capitalist Provisional Government of Tsarist Russia;

If it could not contain the intensification of redness, the Entente could not rule out the use of force to intervene by force to blockade, isolate and strike at the armed forces of the Russian workers and prevent the spread of the red tide throughout Europe.

Nowadays, the bourgeois forces, the workers' forces and the White Russian royalist forces are intricately intertwined, and the armed struggle is continuous, like a hodgepodge, and the emergence of various forces is dizzying, and there are many large and small armed forces, and the royalist forces dominate most of the areas.

This is also an important reason why Tsar Nicholas II felt that he was okay, and he hoped that one day he would ascend to the heights and gather followers to achieve the restoration of the Romanov dynasty.

If we analyze the three forces in Tsarist Russia in depth, the bourgeois Provisional Government has the strongest army in its possession, and the White Russian royalists are entrenched in the vast countryside, and they are supported by the Balkans and Cossacks, and have a large number of middle and high-ranking officers, which should not be underestimated.

The weakest are the workers' forces, which are widely present among the working class in the cities, where the desire to overthrow all the rotten old institutions is the most strong, and the revolution is the most resolute.

Li Fushou knew the general trend of historical development and that the workers' forces of Tsarist Russia would win the final victory after four years of arduous armed struggle.

The process was full of twists and turns, especially during the siege of Moscow by foreign intervention forces and the White Guards, when the situation was at its most critical, and the workers' forces were in danger of total annihilation.

If the Imperial army intervenes while it is weak, it has the ability to nip it in the bud.

But it is not in the interests of the empire to do so.

In the post-World War pattern, the political, military and economic power of the Ocean Empire has become too large to be ignored, and it will surely play an important role on the world stage, standing side by side with Britain and France and other world powers, coexisting and co-governing.

Now that the Tsarist Empire has collapsed, the Ottoman Empire is about to collapse, and the Austro-Hungarian Empire will not last long, the German Empire will definitely cease to exist after the war, and it will be suppressed by the joint efforts of the Entente bloc.

After these thorns in the thorns that challenged the old international order have been smoothed out one by one, perhaps...... Britain, France, Italy, the United States, the Netherlands, Belgium and other countries aimed at the Ocean Empire.

At this time, the emergence of a huge red empire in eastern Europe, which will continue to put heavy pressure on Europe, will be a necessary condition and indispensable prerequisite for maintaining the close, friendly, and cooperative relationship between the ocean empire and the Western world.

The Ocean Empire needs such a shield in front of it, and it must be big enough and strong enough to do so.

Russia is the best choice, and from the perspective of the long-term interests of the empire, it should not destroy the original historical trajectory, but should follow the trend.

A large red empire standing in Eastern Europe, full of aggression in its bones, has significant influence on the Black Sea coast and the Balkans, and can arouse sufficient vigilance and awareness of European countries.

Li Fushou clearly realized that it would take time for the growth of the Ocean Empire.

If there is a good international environment for peaceful development for another 20 years, the empire will grow to the level of unstoppable world hegemon, and the world powers such as Britain and France will have no choice but to cooperate, and there is no other way.

It is true that Li Fushou is not interested in the cold Siberian region and has no intention of expanding in the Far East, but he has his eye on another part of Russia, which is the Crimean peninsula.

From a geopolitical point of view

History follows the trajectory known to Li Fushou, and the new Russian regime will put enormous pressure on Europe, and in the post-war division of interests, the territorial claims of the Ocean Empire will be able to gain the support of most European countries, but not necessarily Britain.

This is because the military presence of the Ocean Empire on the Crimean peninsula will greatly share the pressure on Europe.

As the hegemon that dominates the global situation, London naturally harbors a strong suspicion of countries that can threaten its global hegemony, and is even more reluctant to see the Ocean Empire extend its influence to Europe.

The European countries, led by France, do not have the need to defend their global hegemony, so they welcome the Ocean Empire to play a more important role in Europe and behave more friendly.

The British, on the other hand, had a fundamental interest in maintaining the global hegemony of the British Empire and suppressing all possible competitors.

After the Allies won the Somme and Verdun at two crucial battles, there was a subtle change in the attitude of the British.

This is reflected in the propaganda of the British public opinion on the Imperial Expeditionary Force, such as the recent "Chocolate Street" incident, which has been hotly discussed by the public, which has pushed the expeditionary 3rd Army, which is resting and training in Britain, to the forefront.

Among the volunteers recruited by the British Expeditionary Force, the "community battalion" and "street battalion" occupy a large proportion, and these infantry battalions composed of relatives, friends, acquaintances, fathers and sons or old acquaintances in the community are cohesive and have strong combat effectiveness, and it is rare to leave their comrades to flee alone, which was originally the proud trump card of the British Expeditionary Force.

But in the hellish Battle of the Somme, as many as 76 community battalions were wiped out, more than 130 infantry battalions were severely damaged, and more than 450,000 casualties were lost, resulting in large swaths of native neighborhoods popping up widows' streets, widows' towns and widows' neighborhoods.

The neighborhood, which lost most of its young and middle-aged men, also lost its vitality and fell into a miserable storm.

At the right time

The troops of the Ocean Empire Expeditionary Force, full of youthful vitality, arrived, and young men full of vitality and hormones disturbed the originally silent community and boiled.

Day and night, on the streets frequented by the soldiers of the Imperial Expeditionary Force, there will always be a large number of women with fancy flowers, a piece of chocolate or a handful of toffee can be taken away, a pack of cigarettes can be spent overnight, and many have developed into romantic relationships, especially officers......

This is the origin of the "Chocolate Street", which originally arose when the First Army arrived, and has now become a common practice, even attracting a large number of British women from other places to come and enliven the local economy.

Early 20th century

The British social atmosphere is quite conservative, and many things can be done but cannot be said, and once it breaks out, it will be a scandal.

Due to various considerations, at the beginning, the London government tried its best to suppress public opinion reports and adopted a tolerant attitude of turning a blind eye, and who knows how many of these soldiers who are about to go to the battlefield in France will survive?

Who knows, the outcome of the Battle of the Somme was a big surprise;

The expeditionary force of the Ocean Empire sacrificed the weapon of "air-ground integrated warfare", and carried out a series of strangulations on the German army, which was devastated and decayed, and shook the European continent.

Seeing the unstoppable rise of the Ocean Empire, all kinds of envy, jealousy and hatred came to my heart, and my mentality was particularly unbalanced.

As a result, reports similar to the "Chocolate Street" incident emerged one after another, smearing the officers and soldiers of the expedition in different ways, and all kinds of non-cooperation and procrastination appeared, which was simply a miasma.

This triggered a strong backlash from public opinion in Britain, and the perception of the Imperial Expeditionary Force turned from positive to negative, and the estrangement and friction within the Entente countries intensified, and internal friction increased.

After entering 17 years

The United Kingdom is worried about affecting the international status of the British pound and adopts a non-cooperative attitude towards the "Goldjoy International Settlement Act", which further exacerbates internal friction and affects international trade in goods.

Seeing that the world war ushered in the dawn of victory, the internal contradictions of the Entente increased rapidly, which was reflected in the battlefield is to pull each other's backs, the first army of the Ocean Empire after attacking the territory of Belgium, the iron armor rolled all the way like a bamboo, and soon occupied the Belgian capital Brussels and the surrounding areas.

As a result, at this critical time, important logistical materials, including diesel, could not be supplied, and the army was forced to stop.

The 1st Expeditionary Army is a highly mechanized armored corps, very dependent on logistics supplies, people have no food to continue fighting, armored vehicles have no fuel and can only break down, bombers have no bomb supply, and the role is directly cleared.

In this case

The expeditionary force reacted quickly, holding Brussels and the surrounding important towns to prevent the Germans from counterattacking, and then refused to move forward.

If you want to fight, you British and French, we can't fight anyway.

The 3rd Army, which arrived in Britain to resume training, was also in no hurry to drop it into France, but continued its recovery training under the pretext of insufficient logistical supplies.

According to the words of Emperor Li Fushou;

The responsibility for maintaining world peace together is ours and yours, and in the final analysis, it is Britain and France that play a leading role in the main battlefield of Europe, and since everyone is in no hurry to end the war, it is better to wait.

After a rapid advance in the early stage, the Belgian campaign broke the defense of more than 700,000 German troops, liberated most of Belgium, and then fell into a strange stalemate.

The Anglo-French forces launched two subsequent attacks, losing nearly 100,000 troops, but were resolutely counterattacked by the Germans.

Now the two sides have begun to dig trenches and hold on again, and they have entered the stage of stalemate.

In the final analysis, it was selfish and selfish, and after winning the glorious title of "Liberator of France", the expeditionary force of the Great Ocean Empire fought fiercely and brilliantly in the early stages of the Belgian campaign.

Britain and France and other countries do not want to see the glory return to one and win the title of "Belgian liberator" again, and the mentality is inevitably seriously unbalanced, and there are more small actions of secretly rubbing.

As a result, the army that could fight in front dragged its feet in various ways, and when it was their turn, they could not solve the Germans, and a Belgian battle turned into a tug-of-war.

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