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"It's over!" After saying these words, Dakov took out a pistol and aimed it at his temple.

Talik nodded, his face was as pale as paper. From the beginning to the end, he watched the great Cossack cavalry go from victory to defeat, but until now he still didn't understand, could it be that the great Russian Empire would be overthrown by this cowardly eastern country? Beat it?

Talik snatched Dakoff's pistol and said loudly: "General, you said that suicide is the most cowardly form for a soldier, and he must face it calmly whether he wins or loses."

Dakov was disheartened. Seeing the Russian soldiers being massacred in front of him, he knew that he had made a mistake and let these imperial soldiers be buried in a foreign country. He said weakly to Talik beside him: " Order the soldiers to lay down their weapons and surrender."

After 10 minutes, everything was over. Groups of Cossack cavalry handed over their weapons at the designated place, and then they knelt on the ground row by row under the escort of Chinese soldiers.The north is still cold, but the grassland has regained its original calm.

An adjutant of the expeditionary force stepped forward to the Chinese position after handing over his weapon. Zhang Yu's guards immediately stepped forward to block him, pointing their black muzzles at the adjutant's chest.But he was not afraid at all, and said in blunt Chinese: "Lieutenant General Dakov, the commander of the Russian Imperial Expeditionary Force, asked to see your supreme commander." After the soldiers searched and found no weapons, they asked Zhang Yu report.

Zhang Yu nodded and agreed to Dakov's request.

Not long after, Dakoff brought Chief of Staff Talik to the Chinese position. The gray cotton general officer's coat he was wearing was already covered with blood and dust, and his face was full of exhaustion.He came up to Zhang Yu, holding the command saber in both hands, and lowered his head at the same time.Zhang Yu also knew that this was a western etiquette, and the surrender of the sword by the defeated party represented failure.Zhang Yu took the command saber and held it high with one hand, and there were deafening cheers from all around.

Zhang Yu handed the command knife to the guard, and said to Dakov: "As long as you don't run away or resist, I will guarantee your personal safety." Dakov nodded, bowed deeply, and his face became paler.

Zhang Yu ordered people to clean up the battlefield quickly. Looking at the scattered corpses on the grassland, he was not happy with the victory, because the price of this war was also quite heavy.According to statistics, less than 3 of the [-] Mongolian cavalry are alive.At present, there is not much medicine in the army, and the weather is cold and the conditions are extremely harsh. It is impossible to save those soldiers who were hacked. Some of them were frozen to death on the battlefield, and some gradually lost consciousness and passed away in the arms of their comrades.Therefore, when cleaning the battlefield, it is rare to find surviving soldiers.

Zhang Yuchang sighed, and said to Zhirui in grief and indignation: "The dead soldiers must be buried properly, and the pension must not be less. If there is no money, I will personally ask the emperor for it."

In the city of Beijing, Guan Xuqing received the battle report of Kulun's great victory, and immediately summoned Feng Xianghua and other senior military officials to discuss matters.

"The Great Victory of Kulun greatly hit the arrogance of the Russians, but I said that the Russians can only be defeated and cannot be conquered. Their Tsar Nicholas will definitely organize a large-scale counterattack of the army. The next war will no longer be partial but Comprehensive." Guan Xuqing asked the ministers a question as before, hoping to hear their understanding of this issue.

"Your Majesty, I think this is nothing to worry about. Russia's most elite Far East Fleet, Far East Army, and Cossack cavalry have all been defeated by us. The Tsar has nothing more than one million mercenaries recruited this year." Feng Xianghua assessed the situation. put forward his own opinion.

"I'm not worried about the Russians, Xianghua. You have to know that when a big war breaks out, it will not only fight but also pull. Russia is very difficult. If the countries around it also tend to Russia to unite against the empire, This war will be much more troublesome than imagined."

Feng Xianghua nodded: "Your Majesty Shengming, do you mean that the top priority is to unite the countries surrounding Russia?"

"That's right, fighting a war is the same as being a human being. When you make an enemy, you must find a way to make a friend, otherwise your life path will become narrower and narrower."

"If this is the case, in Yichen's opinion, it would be better to form an alliance with the Ottoman Empire first. Over the years, Ottoman and Russia have had many disputes. The so-called enemy's enemy is a friend. I believe that submitting an alliance with him at this time will definitely have a miraculous effect. "

"That's right, that's exactly what I mean. Xianghua, your insight has improved again." Guan Xuqing praised with satisfaction.

Soon the imperial order was sent to London, England, and Guo Songtao, the minister in the UK, was ordered to go to Ottoman to hand over the covenant.

Many years ago, the Ottoman Empire was already a piece of fat in the eyes of the Russians. Because it was located in the north, Nicholas II didn't care much about the mouth of the Far East. Fort Tandin, to obtain the key to enter and exit the Mediterranean Sea, in order to obtain access to the sea.For hundreds of years, they fought against the Nordic countries in Western Europe and the Ottomans. Over the past few hundred years, the land area of ​​Tsarist Russia has increased more than a hundred times, but they have not obtained the ideal outlet to the sea.

The north of Russia is the sea, but the boundless sea is full of icebergs, and the coastline has been frozen for many years, making it impossible to build ports.Although the Baltic Sea in the west is an outlet to the sea, it has been frozen for a long time, and as an inland sea, the conditions for going to the sea are not very good. The narrow sea outlet has always been strictly controlled by European maritime powers.

The Black Sea, which was once thought to be an estuary, turned out to be an inland sea. The real right to go to the sea was firmly controlled by the Ottoman Constantinople. In order to open up this sea route, the Tsar and Turkey fought for hundreds of years. Although the declining Ottoman Turkish Empire was defeated again and again, and even changed from a European power to an Asian country today, the way in and out of the Mediterranean has always been in the hands of Ottoman.

For the right to go to the Black Sea, the Sea of ​​Azov has been occupied since 1667. Russia and Turkey will break out a large-scale war every 20 years. In the Crimean War, if it were not for the obstruction of Britain and France, Constantine Dimburg is now part of Russian territory.

Guan Xuqing didn't want the Russians to focus all their attention on the Far East, so he needed an ally, the enemy of the Russians for generations, Osman.

A few days later, in Constantinople, the Ottoman Sultan Hamid II happily received Guo Songtao. At this time, Ottoman was suppressed by Russia and Bulgaria, and learned that China expressed its willingness to form an alliance with Russia to deal with Russia. At that time, Hamid II immediately agreed to the Chinese envoy's request for an alliance. In order to show friendship, he also generously donated 200 excellent Arabian horses to China.Of course, China's goodwill was even greater. The generous Chinese emperor provided Ottoman with military supplies worth [-] million yuan at a time. These supplies were all new rifles and ammunition made by Chinese arsenals.This surprised Hamid II. He knew that the military weapons produced and sold in China are currently very popular in the world. The price is lower than that of the British and German countries, but the performance is not inferior.In order to thank the Chinese emperor for his generosity, Hamid II immediately decided to sell the Imperial Power-class battleship Geerlai, which had just been purchased from the United Kingdom, to China at the order price.At this point, the old-fashioned Hamid II still kept an eye out. He originally planned to use this warship to stop Russia's attack, but now that the Sino-Russian war has begun, this warship has lost its practical value. The huge maintenance cost of the super battleship is a headache.

Soaring Front: The First World War Chapter 2 Eighty

After forming an alliance with Ottoman Turkey, Guan Xuqing no longer had to worry about the future. Now that the Chinese war had broken out, Guan Xuqing did not have to be polite to the Russians. The Russian soldiers captured in the Battle of Kulun could not be wasted, and they were all sent to Ili to repair the railway. up.

Surprisingly, the Russian people are not very interested in the Sino-Russian War, at least for now, the Russians are most concerned about the Tenth Russo-Turkish War and the intensifying Battle of the Marne, and the rest of their energy is also attracted With regard to the increasingly fierce class conflicts in the country, and the cloud of war hanging over the Far East, most Russians do not know that apart from the Russo-Turkish war, the Chinese have invaded Eastern Siberia.Just as the arrogant Americans claim to be able to win two local wars at the same time, but the current Russia is far from the capability of the United States in the future, even the Soviet Union is not capable.Russia has just undergone reforms, and there are many imperfections, but the noble heads of the Russians have not bowed their heads in the face of difficulties.

Although Nicholas II was very annoyed by the disastrous defeat of the Cossack cavalry and the Far Eastern Army, he successively replaced many senior generals in the army and navy, but the proud factor inherited from his ancestors made him still have a little bit of luck until now , in his mind, the Chinese army only achieved a temporary victory by virtue of its superiority in equipment, and it will not be long before the great Slavs will regroup and point their sharp swords at the Chinese imperial capital again.When I just heard that Zhang Zuolin's Far Eastern Frontier Army crossed Heilongjiang, Nicholas II didn't take it seriously. He has nearly 200 million troops in his hands. He can recruit another 100 million troops at any time if he wants to. The Far Eastern Frontier Army is a big deal. It is the strength of nine divisions. As long as they dare to enter Russia, they will soon be overwhelmed by Russian artillery fire.

At this time, the Russian Telegraph Bureau was not perfect and could only cover some large cities. In contrast, the Far East had not yet carried out large-scale auxiliary facilities. In addition, the pace of urban construction in East Siberia was very slow and the population was sparse. As far as Yakutsk, an important city in the east, and St. Petersburg have not received any news, judging from the level of information development, Russia has lagged behind China by at least five years.

Since the start of the war between China and Russia, Western European countries have issued statements to keep China and Russia on balance, and demanded that trade interests in China and Russia be guaranteed.Of course, these are all diplomatic rhetoric, pale as a blank sheet of paper.However, the Allies are not monolithic. For many years, the British have regarded Russia as the biggest obstacle in Central Asia and the Far East, and the intention of the Russians to become the leader of the Eurasian continent has long been a secret. The Russians are becoming more and more arrogant, blatantly extending their tentacles to Europe and Africa, trying to compete with the empire on which the sun never sets for maritime supremacy. This is absolutely intolerable to Britain, which has dominated for a hundred years.Therefore, Britain tried every means to weaken Russia's power. The Crimean War in 53 was when Russia tried to open the exit of the Black Sea into the Mediterranean. This made Britain very worried, so it joined forces with France, a century-old feud, to launch a seemingly just crusade to defeat these Slavic madmen.It also made Russia honest for a while, but I didn't expect that the Russians were so enthusiastic about the sea that the British could not understand it. Twenty years later, it made a comeback and once again attempted to launch a war against Ottoman. This time, Britain did not intend to come to the fore and only wanted to secretly support Ottoman.

As for the iron-clad ship Geerlai ordered by Osman at the Armstrong Shipyard, Osman, who was almost dragged down by the war, was unable to pay the huge fee. These two warships could only be parked at the shipyard. It's worse, and it may even close down for this reason.

But far away China is willing to buy this warship, which makes the shipyard facing bankruptcy grateful, and can't wait to sell 15% of the shares to the Imperial Investment Bank, making China's shares in this shipyard climb to 25%. [-]. The British government, which was in urgent need of war funds, quickly agreed to the sale of the ironclad ship.

At this time, urgent reports from the northwest region came to the capital like snowflakes. Guan Xuqing had already learned about this from the memorial a day earlier, and the battle in the northwest region was much more intense than that in Mongolia.Just after the Battle of Kulun, the Tsar sent 25 troops to Northwest China, and Yili General Chang Qing urgently mobilized 10,000+ troops from various places, plus local herdsmen, regiment training, garrisons, etc., added up. 30 people were dubbed the "Ili Miscellaneous Army" by the Russian army.Compared with the battle of Kulun, there is still a gap between the battle situation in the northwest, because the Mongolian cavalry has not been baptized in the war, so they lack quite scientific and effective tactics other than wolf pack tactics.At the same time, the northwest region has a considerable number of experienced Russian troops. They have been fighting against the Central Asian Khanates such as Kokand for many years, and their combat effectiveness has always remained strong.

The situation in the Northwest War was that Li Qifeng's [-]st Division fought the main force of the Russian army in the Yili area, and the two sides were not too eager to make progress.However, Liu Jintang in southern Xinjiang was more difficult. His troops were fighting fiercely with the Russians in Atush, west of Kashgar, and they all used their main force to fight. The battle between the two sides lasted for nearly a week.Later, Liu Jintang sent troops to patronize the Russian army's supply line out of a conspiracy, so that most of the supplies were difficult to transport to the Russian army, which also caused the morale of the Russian soldiers to be low.Since the beginning of the twelfth lunar month, the weather has become colder and colder. Without many measures to keep warm, many Russians were frozen to death. Many could not bear the hunger and had to kill each other's wounded soldiers to wrap their stomachs. The supply problem caused [-] Russian soldiers to die. Jun died in pain from hunger and cold.

Not long after, the main force of the Russian army in the Yili area also encountered the same problem. The Russians there wanted to supply supplies there, but because of the evil they committed in the Xinjiang area, the local people hated and feared it. People hid or moved to other places to escape the war.From time to time, a Russian detachment went out to look for supplies, but at this time, the local people would run to inform the Chinese army, and the Chinese army quickly intercepted and killed the Russian army on the way.

Later, the Russians had to mobilize a brigade of troops to rob, and it was very successful at first. Later, when the local people saw the Russians, they got into the underground pit or fled.Coupled with the interception of the Chinese army, it became more and more difficult for the Russians to supply.In the end, he had to go to a farther area to plunder. Liu Jintang knew that the supply of the Russian army was difficult. On the one hand, he strengthened the destruction of the Russian army's supply line, and on the other hand, he attacked the Russian army that came out to make trouble.Lacking food and cotton clothes, the death toll of the Russian army increased sharply, and hundreds of corpses were carried out of the barracks every day.

In desperation, the commander, Lieutenant General Ignatchev, had to order a retreat, but before he retreated to the Sino-Russian border, he was pursued by Liu Jintang in an all-round way. of mass murder.The remaining more than 5 people finally broke through the siege desperately and retreated to Werneburg.

"The great Russians can't fight against the Chinese army's reckless style of play." This is the most high-sounding excuse Ignatchev gave for the failure of this battle.

PS: There are a lot of flowers, thank you, keep the top 10

Soaring Front: The First World War Chapter 281 Great Arms Dealer

The battle between China and Russia is still going on, and the Chinese economy has not been affected by the battle between China and Russia, but has sprung up like mushrooms after rain.In the coastal cities, some officials were very worried that Russia would one day invade the capital and wash the imperial capital like the British and French allied forces did.So they either sold their properties in Beijing or transferred them to the south to avoid being affected by the war.This year, China's tax revenue was as high as 3000 million yuan, which was almost the sum of the small European countries. It was a huge waste, which also gave Guan Xuqing a headache.Although the current war has an advantage, the risk of war is the greatest. There is no odds, only success or failure.Liu Jintang’s Northwest, Zhang Yu’s Mongolian Cavalry, and Zhang Zuolin’s Far East Frontier Army all needed a large amount of military supplies, and it was hard to make up for these expenses. Yuan Shikai’s request for money was handed over again. The Strait of Malacca is the lifeline of Asia, and there is nothing wrong with strengthening coastal defense. , The money and things had just been allocated, and the records of gun bureaus in various places were placed in front of Guan Xuqing like a snowflake. Since the beginning of the Sino-Russian War, the amount of ammunition consumed has exceeded the Sino-French War and the Sino-Japanese War, and the consumption is still increasing. If this continues, the treasury will be emptied before the war is over.For this reason, the officials of the Imperial Finance Department complained to the emperor every day with sad faces.Guan Xuqing was also facing a lawsuit with his head, blaming Li Zhen and the others.

In the early morning of this day, Li Zhen and others reported the shortage of money and food in various places again, and they talked endlessly, which made Guan Xuqing very annoyed. He suddenly said: "Stop talking!" Li Zhen was frightened Hastily knelt down on the ground, not daring to utter another word.

Guan Xuqing supported his forehead with one hand, and the veins on his forehead twitched. It took a long time to calm down, and raised his hand to the next step: "Get up." Li Zhen stood up tremblingly.

"I know that it's really not easy for you to work hard for the state affairs these days. What annoys me is that you control the lifeline of the empire's economy. You have to use your brains and think of solutions. Don't be wordy every time you come I will only find a bunch of difficulties to prevaricate, if this is the case, what use will I have you ministers." Guan Xuqing frowned and said.

"The ministers are incompetent." A group of financial officials headed by Li Zhen fell to their knees.

"If you don't have money, find a way to raise money. Don't always focus on the country, stand higher, and look at the world. There will always be a way. Now the most money-consuming thing is the Sino-Russian war. I think the war will not only Bringing losses to the empire is still one of the most profitable things. This is called "supporting war with war". The establishment of the Chinese Academy of Sciences has injected strong vitality into the science and technology of the empire. We should convert scientific research results into benefits in a timely manner. For example For example, the improved light and heavy machine gun designed by Mr. Ma Keqin has been sold in Europe and the United States, earning a lot of income for the empire. Our Huaxia Type 95 rifle has also reached world-class performance in all aspects, and we can also consider selling it abroad, etc. Wait. Europe is now in full swing, and the major weapon manufacturers are also in a recession. At this time, selling our excellent weapons to the world will definitely make good profits. It is too difficult to rely on the economy to support war, so We must use war to support war." Guan Xuqing's words immediately made the ministers present suddenly enlightened, and praised the emperor's wise decision-making.Guan Xuqing paused and continued: "This matter cannot be solved by the Ministry of Finance alone. Shaoquan, Xianghua, Zixiang and others need to mobilize the military and diplomatic departments to cooperate."

"Cha." Li Hongzhang, Feng Xianghua, Liu Buchan and others led the order together.

It just so happened that Li Hongzhang handed over a sign begging to see him not long after the morning court.

As soon as Li Hongzhang arrived at Danxi, he said excitedly: "Your Majesty, what you said above is really wise, and now I will bring you a cash cow."

"Shaoquan, you have recommended many talents for me, including military generals, diplomats and businessmen. I trust your vision. Who are you bringing here this time?" Guan Xuqing asked enthusiastically.

"This man is not for power or fame. He came to the empire from a long distance just to make a profit." Li Hongzhang betrayed the emperor.

"I just like such straightforward people. Who doesn't love gold, silver and treasures, but many people in the world don't want to say it."

"This man's name is Bashir Zakharov. He is a Turkish-French arms dealer and a recipient of the British Empire Cross. He has been traveling in Europe all year round. None of the business he has handled has ever paid £500 million. He can be called an arms dealer in the world. Big shot here."

"Well, I've heard about this person, and he does have some energy. Please come in and let me meet." Guan Xuqing showed a satisfied smile.

Outside the main hall, the little eunuch announced, and a tall middle-aged man strode in, bowed deeply to the emperor under Dan Xi, and said in fluent Chinese: "My humble Zakharov sees His Majesty the Great Emperor of the Chinese Empire." , I wish His Majesty the Emperor always healthy and the Empress always young and beautiful."

Li Hongzhang was so angry that his beard was crooked, and he yelled angrily: "Bastard! Seeing the emperor kneel down and worship the emperor, he insulted the empress with such disrespectful words, it is really annoying!"

Guan Xuqing waved his hands with a smile: "It's okay, this is the etiquette of foreigners, so you don't need to be too rigid."

Li Hongzhang just snorted and stopped talking.