Master Yuan, start!

Li Hongzhang's eyes gradually lit up, as if these remarks were indeed a way to deal with Yuan Shikai.

"Call Huang Xing over, I want to talk to him in detail!"

...

When the Republic was first established, some people wanted to make their mark in the new era through parliamentary politics; others wanted to go a step further and become the rulers of the Republic.

So, they hit it off.

However, Huang Xing did not know what kind of situation his newly established Huaxing Society would face.

Yuan Shikai was not alone. The Red Confucian Society had been established for more than ten years and had long since developed into a modern political party organization with complete institutions.

The emergence of the Huaxing Society will only make the Red Confucian Society move from secrecy to public, accelerating its growth.

What's more, Yuan Shikai only said that a national congress would be convened, but did not say when it would be held.

Let's first conduct tutelage for more than ten years, wait until Li Hongzhang dies, and then reopen the government. What can the Huai Army do?

This calculation was declared over before it even began.

Chapter 313 Burn, Vladivostok

"Oh no, Colonel Valleau, the Chinese are attacking!"

Several screams broke the tranquility of the Vladivostok port at night.

This city, called "Vladivostok" in Russian, is in such chaos for the first time in 30 years.

Valeo rubbed his head and woke up from the bed drowsily, with the shouting still echoing in his ears.

Chinese?

Aren’t the Chinese just good at nodding and offering silver coins? When did they dare to attack the great Russia?

Valeo, a Russian colonel who was ordered to garrison Vladivostok, was confused and quickly got out of bed.

When I lifted the quilt, I saw a yellow-skinned woman lying on it.

But at this moment, Valeo was in no mood to appreciate her naked body. He hurriedly fastened his belt and ran out.

"What happened?"

Valeo grabbed the Russian soldier who came to deliver the message and snatched the telegram he had just copied from his hands.

"The Chinese army has broken through the Tumen River defense line!"

"What, how could this happen?"

Valeo didn't believe it and picked up the telegram to examine it carefully.

...

Like Valeo, the Russian troops stationed at the Tumen River never imagined that they would be attacked by the Chinese from the Korean side.

After several rounds of shelling, half of the artillery pieces on the Russian artillery positions were destroyed.

Most of the remaining intact cannons were shaken to pieces and needed to be propped up and adjusted several times before they could be used.

However, as long as these escaped fish dared to open fire, they would be met with ruthless counterattacks from the National Revolutionary Army's artillery.

In addition to the artillery, the infantry of the 4th Regiment of the National Revolutionary Army also quickly laid a pontoon bridge under the cover of artillery and advanced towards the Russian positions.

With intelligence in hand and a calculated and unintended situation, the National Revolutionary Army quickly destroyed the temporary resistance of more than 2000 Russian troops and besieged them in the camp.

Only a few dozen Russian soldiers who were out on the battlefield escaped.

After they finished peeing, they saw from afar that their friendly troops were surrounded. These unarmed Russian soldiers did not dare to go forward and fight the Chinese.

So he could only hurriedly pull up his belt, flee north, and tell the nearest sentry post the news.

After receiving the news, the Russian troops at the outpost quickly telegraphed the news of the fall of the Tumen River defense line to the defenders in Vladivostok.

...

Looking at the tragic scene of the Russian army being passively beaten as described in the telegram, Valeo's mustache couldn't stop shaking, and his face had an expression of disbelief.

Then he angrily tore the telegram to pieces.

"That idiot Shebilev!"

Valeo waved his arms, clenched his fists, and shouted angrily: "He should go back to Europe, go back to St. Petersburg, and be a railway patrolman!"

The Russian commander guarding the Tumen River front, named Shebilev, was always pointing fingers after arriving in Vladivostok. He was dissatisfied with everything.

He even tells everyone that he is from St. Petersburg, which is annoying.

It was not until later when he let something slip that everyone realized that he was just the head of the railway inspection team between St. Petersburg and Moscow.

My family is not a prominent family at all, at most they are a declining noble family.

The "Colonel" messenger looked at Valeo's flushed face and said cautiously: "Major Shebilev probably can't go back.

I heard that he was demoted and exiled to the Far East because he failed to do his job properly in railway inspections, which led to the Narodnaya Volya bombing and wounding His Majesty the Tsar.

"Then let him retire and get out of here!" Valeo roared, as if he wanted to shoot Shebilev himself.

It's no wonder he was so angry. The loss of the Tumen River defense line completely exposed Vladivostok's weaknesses.

Land, and still land.

Facing enemies attacking from the sea, the defenders here can rely on their artillery positions to deal with the enemy, and can also send warships out of the port for a decisive battle.

But Vladivostok was completely unprepared for the enemy coming from land.

It can even be said that the Russian army at the end of the 19th century never thought that anyone would attack Vladivostok from land.

This is a city surrounded by the sea on three sides, with a peninsula extending from the coastal mountains and deeply embedded in the Sea of ​​Japan.

Vladivostok is located at the southernmost tip of the peninsula, connected to the mainland by only a 10-kilometer-wide road.

In fact, in a sense, it can also be considered a mountain city, because the southernmost tip of the peninsula is composed of low hills.

Historically, generations of Russians have built a total of 16 large fortresses around these hills.

In the late period of Tsarist Russia, in order to resist the Japanese, Russia built three protruding position fortresses and two polygonal redoubts in the coastal areas.

Later, in order to deal with the Japanese fascist forces, the Soviet Union continued to strengthen the defense of Vladivostok.

Not only were the maritime fortifications strengthened, but the land defenses were also strengthened.

In addition to the urgent need to build fortresses and fortresses, the Soviet Union also established anti-landing channels, railway artillery, coastal artillery, and used a series of defensive measures.

Eventually, the Russians turned this place into a massive defensive complex, completely eliminating the enemy's possibility of capturing Vladivostok.

It can be said that unless a nuclear bomb hits Vladivostok in the future, it will be almost impossible to capture it as long as there is enough food and ammunition.

But that is history after all.

In 1896 in this time and space, Vladivostok had a population of about 2 and was still a commercial port with more civilian use than military use.

The Russians only had some coastal artillery positions here to defend against warships, and there were very few defensive fortifications on land.

Moreover, most of the soldiers stationed here were Cossack cavalry, who could not exert their due lethality in the mountains.

Valeo knew all this clearly.

He knew that he could not sit and wait for death, and could not be defeated inexplicably like that loser Shebilev.

What is needed now is to take the initiative.

"Call all the cavalry and follow me to stop the enemy!"

Valeo drew the sword from his waist and issued a battle order.

2000 Cossack cavalrymen were quickly awakened from their sleep. They pulled their horses' heads and rushed to an open space in the night.

In the moonlight, the solemn faces of these people were reflected.

The Cossacks who roamed across Europe did not take these Far Eastern soldiers seriously.

Even when they heard that the enemy was coming in full force, they were not afraid.

They didn't even take the Prussian army seriously, let alone the Chinese.

In the face of the cavalry that came and went like the wind, the infantry, who advanced slowly, had no power to fight back.

"Hold them, I've already told Governor Amur what's happening here.

We just need to hold the Chinese back from Vladivostok, and everything will be fine!"

After getting ready, Valeo stated the combat objectives of this trip.

Then he turned his horse around and led his soldiers towards the Tumen River.

On a hill not far away, Hao Shengtang, the station chief of the Red Sou Ke Vladivostok Station, looked at the backs of the cavalrymen with torches whistling away and silently relaxed his clenched fists.

"Russians, you only think about the external threats facing Vladivostok. Have you ever considered that this city with over 3000 Chinese people may also have internal troubles?"

He took out his pocket watch and, with the help of the moonlight, vaguely saw the hour hand pointing to the number 12.

"The time has come. Burn, Vladivostok."

As if to echo Hao Shengtang, as soon as he finished speaking, in the dark city of Vladivostok, churches, government offices, and schools were engulfed in flames one after another.

The red fireworks were extremely conspicuous in the dark night, as if foreshadowing that the Russian rule here would be burned to ashes.

...

The following events take place in the future

九yi63101: o9yuefei

21st Century Small Theater, Vladivostok Tourism.

"Hello, fellow tourists, welcome to beautiful Vladivostok. Today is Vladivostok's city anniversary.

Everyone should know that our country's Vladivostok was once occupied by the Russians for decades and was renamed "Vladivostok".

So, my friends, do you know what this Russian name means?"

Under the scorching sun, a tour group from the United States, led by a Chinese tour guide, rushed to a statue in the center of Vladivostok.

"I know, I know!" An Asian boy in the middle of the tour group raised his right hand.

"Okay, my friend, you say..."

"Vladivostok means Conqueror of the East. The Russian Tsar chose this name to boast about his achievements in conquering the Far East."