~Date: ~October 17th~

"Three years ago, when our General Staff was newly established, we had formulated a simple plan to recover Outer Mongolia. Until the election of the President, we instructed the General Staff to make proper arrangements and wait for the good times to come. After the outbreak of the Forbidden City incident in May, we had already re-improved and formulated plans for armed suppression of rebellion and recovery of Mongolia in accordance with the president's instructions. We instructed the Prime Minister to always advocate political settlement, and the cabinet was also hindered. In addition, the General Staff also had insufficient considerations and did not consider that the situation would intensify to such a degree, so this draft is not very complete."

Jiang Fangzhen walked to the map and pointed out, "Although the Outer Mongolia rebels have a great momentum, there are only more than 50,000 troops in total, and they are scattered in all the grasslands. Only the main force gathered in Kulun City. According to reliable information, Kulun City has about 5,000 Mongolian troops and 2,000 Russian Cossack troops. Mongolia is vast and sparsely populated, and it is impossible to fight one by one. The key is to control Kulun. As long as Kulun is recovered, it basically means recovering Mongolia. Even if there are other Mongolian soldiers and horses that refuse to obey, they are also horse bandits, which is not afraid. There are three main roads to Kulun, one is in the west, from Kobdo to Kulun.

Lun, the second is the southeast, from the Jining and Huade lines to advance along the northwest, basically along the Kuzhangyi Road, you can attack Kulun directly, all within the Tushe Khan tribe, and the third is the east, from Hulunbuir to advance westward, along the Krulun River, and through the Chechen Khan tribe, you can also reach Kulun. From these three roads, the distance between the west is the farthest, and our army has no soldiers near Kobdo, so it is better to focus on assists, and let the general order the Xinjiang garrison to send troops to recover Kobdo, and then pretend to move towards Ulyasutai, which will involve the attention of the enemy. The southeast and the east are about the same distance, and the march is relatively convenient. I suggest that we advance through these two routes to achieve a clamp-type offensive against Kulun..."

When everyone heard this, they looked at the map again and thought it made sense.

"In fact, it is not difficult to advance to Outer Mongolia and regain Kulun. It is nothing more than to send cavalry and prepare more supplies. The difficulty lies in Tsarist Russia's interference. On nearly 5 million square kilometers of land in the Far East, the support of Russian forces mainly has four pillars. First, the Irkutsk Military Region with Irkutsk as the core; Second, the Outer Baikal Military Region with Chita as the core; Third, the Amur Military Region with Boli as the core; Fourth, Vladivostok as the core

The four military regions of the coastal military region (including the Pacific Fleet rebuilt by Russia after the Russo-Japanese War) were all connected by the Siberian Railway, forming a hook-shaped armed force belt from west to east. During its heyday, it was as high as 700,000 troops here, and currently only more than 60,000 Russian troops. Russia completed the transfer from the eastern line to the Far East until at least mid-August. If we were fast enough, it would be equivalent to only facing the threat of more than 60,000 Russian troops in the Far East in the Far East!"

Jiang Fangzhen waved Fangqiu in front of the map, "River Airlines has sent several reconnaissance planes and conducted aerial photography at high altitudes. It can basically be confirmed that Russia does not have more troops in the Far East."

Li Han frowned, pointed at the table with his fingers, and said thoughtfully: "What about the Russian garrison in Central Asia?"

"According to the intelligence sent by Xinjiang, Russia's troops stationed in Central Asia have about 17 divisions and about 180,000 troops, but they are scattered on hundreds of square kilometers of land. The closest to my country's newly built are only three divisions stationed in Almaty and Karaganda, and they are mainly rebels used by the Russians to suppress the Kazakhs." Jiang Fangzhen glanced at Li Han. Central Asia has always been one of the main intelligence points attacked by the Bureau of Investigation. Not only is the intelligence reliable, but in the past year, China has provided more than 2,000 weapons to the Kazakh uprisers through the Bureau of Investigation, which greatly undermined the stability of the Russian grassland governor's area. It also laid the foundation for China to recover hundreds of thousands of square kilometers of territory that was seized by Russia, such as the Outer Ili area.

"The situation of our country's troops stationed in Xinjiang?" he asked afterwards.

Cai E turned his body and whispered a few words to Jiang Fangzhen, and then replied: "Since the quelling of the Black Lama rebellion in early 1915, it has aroused the vigilance of the Russians. Our country's garrison in Xinjiang has been reduced to two national defense divisions. However, in Qinghai and Gansu, we still have five divisions of garrisons. The nearest troops are only five days away from Xinjiang. If it is necessary, we can increase the garrison in Xinjiang to four national defense divisions and increase the strength of another division within one month."

Li Han's brows were relieved and continued to ask: "The material reserves in Xinjiang? According to the Ministry of Railways' prediction, the Lanxin Railway will not be partially opened to traffic until at least the end of next year. It may take another four years to wait for the entire process to be opened. It is very difficult for us to transport materials to Xinjiang now, and it may take at least two months!"

"In terms of materials, the materials we stockpiled in Dihua and Yili are enough to support the use of four defense agencies for three months. We specially purchased eight airships from the aircraft company. If the president needs them, during the war, he can transport about 150 tons of materials to Xinjiang at a time, and reduce the time by two-thirds." This time, Jiang Fangzhen came out to answer.

At the request of the president, the General Staff had simulated dozens of northwestern border conflicts between China and Russia, after dozens of times, the Chinese side regained the territory of Wulianghanzuo, who was seized by Russia, who was more than 100,000 square kilometers of former deputy general of the left of Kobdo Dingbian. For this reason, Li Han specially allocated more than 5 million yuan to purchase fifteen large Chinese imitation Zeppelin airships from the aircraft company, eight of which were all allocated to Lanzhou, in order to consider quickly transporting materials to Xinjiang in extremely harsh environments.

Li Han nodded with relief. Over the past few years, he has been preparing for the Russian Revolution after the outbreak of the European War. It is to not only recover the territory occupied by Russia from the current territorial area of ​​25 million square kilometers, but also leave more living space for future generations.

In the past few years, it is said that his military and military efforts have not been in vain. For example, the Sino-Russian conflict that has broken out many times ahead of him can also prepare for combat in an orderly manner. All of them are the contributions of some preparations in the past few years.

He said in a deep voice: "Now is the best time. Europe is bleeding from the 'Verdon Battle'. The Russians were hit on the Western Front because of a large number of German elite forces, so they can draw hands on the Eastern Front. However, with the Austro-Hungarian Empire, Bulgaria and Turkey, even if Russia can draw some troops, it will never exceed 200,000. If it is just a matter of facing Russia's 200,000 troops that are not trained and equipped, it is not impossible for our defense forces to fight to deal with Russia's heavy blows!"

His eyes swept coldly over everyone in the conference room, and his firm eyes had already told everyone how determined he was to start a war. "Japan's rise has gone through two major battles. In the Sino-Japanese War of 1894-1895, the Japanese became the strongest country in East Asia by defeating our country and chewing our flesh and blood. Then, through a Russo-Japanese War, he defeated the old giant Russia and successfully joined the ranks of the great powers. During the Tang Dynasty, Japan once took me as his teacher, but now it is time for our country to take Japan as its teacher. The 14-year Sino-Japanese conflict has severely damaged the two Japanese masters and made our country stand in the ranks of Asia's strongest countries. Now, our country needs a victory even more to let the world understand the rise of China!"

Seeing Liang Qichao suddenly change his color and get up to speak, he directly interrupted Liang Qichao's words and said: "I know what Ren Gong thinks, but now Russia is deeply trapped in the quagmire of European war. Our defense force has been working on the fight to recover Outer Mongolia and its hometown in the northwest since 2014. It is fully prepared. Otherwise, Ren Gong really thinks that Li is the most powerful and powerful man? In modern times, our country has fallen into a toy and slave. For more than half a century, the people have lost all their backbone and the country has lost all their national character. Only in iron and blood can they be reborn again."

Standing up, he bowed to everyone present, "My idea is settled, please believe Li once. All the signatures of this war will be held by me. Once our country fails, you can also shift the responsibility to me, either kill or snatch it, or hand it over to foreigners to execute it. But my idea will never change. This is an opportunity for our Republic of China, and we must not miss it!"

He said it seriously, even Liang Qichao, who was about to get up to refute him, sighed and sat down again.

They also want the great motherland to be prosperous and strong, but Russia is a mountain that has been heavily pressed on China for half a century. Liang Qichao and others are really lacking in confidence in provoking Russia and defeating Russia.

All kinds of behaviors, but Li Han just 'whitewasted' his will in the war against Russia. He walked to the area, took the baton from his adjutant, and pointed to the area next to Kobdo on the map. There were several territories represented by blue, yellow and red nearby. He said heavily, "Since the late Qing Dynasty, Russia invaded our country's tribute states and vassal states in the northwest region, and occupied more than 5 million square kilometers of our country's territory, and more than 5 million square kilometers of Northeast and Outer Mongolia. It should be the largest enemy of our country. Our country has more than 400 million citizens, and its living space is small, and it still has almost the same territory as a Chinese country and tribute.

The territory is occupied. China must pay Russia up to 20 million Chinese yuan in compensation every year. Russia's various privileges and industries in China even ignore our country's laws. There is no war between China and Russia today, and there will be a big war in the future! It is better to take advantage of Russia's inability to withdraw its troops at this time. This is a good opportunity given by God. I have sent special soldiers to Russia in the name of caravans, blowing up the Siberian Railway along the way, lagging behind the speed of Russian troops transport. Once the plan is successful, it is determined that the Russian troops will not arrive in the Far East until the end of August and early September. Before that, our country had to face less than 100,000 Russian troops in the Far East."

He focused on the key points in Xinjiang and northeastern areas, "In Central Asia, Russia has less than one division in the area bordering our country. About 8,000 Russian troops. I will order the establishment of the Ili Military Region to temporarily control Qinghai, Gansu, and Xinjiang's 7th Division, send troops to Kobdo and Ili, recover 500,000 square kilometers of territory occupied by Russia, and fund the resumption of Kazakhstan and Central Asian ethnic groups, taking the opportunity to revolt in Central Asia, causing Russian troops in Central Asia to be attacked from both sides. On the Mongolian side, the government will establish the Mongolian Military Region to control the main force of the Eighth Division in Rehe, Chahar, Shaanxi, Shanxi, Mongolia's eighth divisions in each period, the 77th Cavalry Division and the 84th Cavalry Division will all be returned to Mongolia. On the Mongolian side, the government will establish the Mongolian Military Region to control the main force of the Eighth Division in each period, the 77th Cavalry Division and the 84th Cavalry Division will all be returned to Mongolia.

The military region commands, they will be the main force in attacking Outer Mongolia. The Northeast Military Region is under the greatest pressure. Once the Sino-Russian War breaks out, the "Zhongdong Road" will be captured as soon as possible. The specific arrangement will be arranged by the Army Department and the Northeast Military Region. I only have one requirement. At least seven divisions will still maintain the force of the military to be vigilant against Japan. The remaining eight divisions will divide the troops into two groups to attack the Binhai Military Region and the Amur Military Region. I will order the Main Force to concentrate the main force on bombing the Amur Military Region and blow up Chita to Boli as soon as possible. The connection between the two major Russian military regions is like the Middle East Railway and the Siberian Railway are all destroyed by our country, and the Russian Far East Fourth Military Region will be divided."

He stretched out his finger and gestured a number, "Nine days, after strict calculations, if our army controls the Middle East Railway as soon as possible and blows up the railway from Chita to Boli section, it can ensure that the three Russian armies will take at least nine days to make a round under the restraining of our country's restraint of troops. And these few days will be the time for us to destroy the Russian army!"

In an orderly manner, he introduced his crazy but fully prepared tactics to the cabinet. Li Han had used his various performances to convey a signal to the cabinet that China was already planning the Sino-Russian war. Faced with this sudden conflict, perhaps they were more prepared than Russia.

On July 7, after Russia announced the transfer of troops to Asia, the situation between China and Russia deteriorated rapidly.

On July 8, China announced the establishment of the Mongolian Military Region and continued to draw troops from the south and other provinces to the north. It has been clear that chariots and horses will use force to recover Outer Mongolia.

On the 9th, the Northeast Military Region sent two defense divisions to advance to the China-Russia border, pushing China forward for 25 miles, and less than seven miles away from crossing the China-Russia border.

On July 10, China's government issued a "letter to friendly countries", and strongly rejected the mediation between Britain and France, and ignored the threats of both countries, demanding that Russia immediately withdraw its troops from Outer Mongolia and compensate China for 10 million losses for the "border-disturbing massacre incident", otherwise it will be regarded as Russia declaring war on China.

On the 12th, the British and French ships moved closer to China's coast. The Russian Tsar threatened that if China did not immediately compensate the Chinese-Russian Daosheng Bank and Russian industries in China, and recognized Outer Mongolia, and cancelled Mongolia and Northeast Military Regions, it would be regarded as China's provocation to Russia.

On the 13th, the Chinese government issued an emergency martial law order on the southeast coast, strictly guarding the docking of Russian ships and ships. Any British and French merchant ships that dock must be inspected by the Chinese water police and temporarily refuse the docking of British and French ships.

On the 14th, after being sworn in as president of the Republic of China in 2015, the Chinese President took the initiative to invite the ambassador of Germany and Austria to China to China to China for the first time. The banquet for senior officials of the government cabinet seemed to show a change in attitude.

On the 15th, the Chinese Navy issued an emergency coastal warning order. The Presidential Office then approved the Navy to issue the 10th National Defense Order of the year. All ships of the coastal naval vessels laid mines on major ports in the southeast coast. The troops in Beijing, Weihaiwei, Guangzhou, Guangxi and other places were intensively mobilized. Only 15 miles north of Weihaiwei and Hong Kong, China each mobilized a defense division, especially outside the city of Hong Kong, with sixteen large diameters shining with a cold light.

Heavy artillery pointed directly at the British garrison positions. The Chinese Ministry of Foreign Affairs then submitted a letter of nationality to the ambassadors of Britain and France to China. The two countries remained neutral in the Sino-Russian conflict. The most common sentence Lu Zhengxiang said in his meeting with the ambassadors of the two countries to China was "Outer Mongolia is the legal territory of our China. Anyone, any force, any country or even any military group, who attempts to split Outer Mongolia from our country, will definitely be hit hard by our team!"

China's attitude of regaining Outer Mongolia by force and even fighting against Russia and the Allies is obvious.

On the 16th, China once again warned Russia to withdraw its troops from Outer Mongolia immediately. After being flatly rejected by Russia, the Chinese president tore up the 14-year Sino-Japanese Agreement and issued the Presidential Decree No. 7 of the 16th, bypassing the parliament and the State Council, and forcibly issued a recruitment order. Not only did it turn 30 reserves into the ranks of the National Defense Forces, but it also reopened the ways to recruit soldiers from the people.

On July 19, Russia and Mongolia signed the "Russia-Mongolia Military Agreement". According to the provisions of the agreement, once the "Mongolia" is invaded by other countries, Russia will implement the principle of joint defense in accordance with the agreement and send troops to Outer Mongolia to help Mongolia resist the "invading country".

After the news came out, China was furious. The Chinese President ignored the warnings of the British and French ministers for the second time and continued to summon the ministers of Germany and Austria. After an afternoon of discussions at the Presidential Palace, he continued to invite the ministers of the two countries to go to the Presidential Palace for negotiations the next day, and he tended to join the allies.

On July 22, President Li submitted a proposal to Congress to issue defense debt of up to 500 million Chinese dollars, and issued a declaration that "China has reached its most dangerous moment" in Congress. After the vote against Congress with a slight advantage was not passed. President Li bypassed the Congress and issued a five-year defense bond of 100 million Chinese dollars in the name of the government. It was enthusiastically sought after by the people and sold 7 million Chinese dollars in national debt on the first day alone.

On July 24, the Presidential Office approved the "National Defense Military Plan for the Next Five Years" submitted by the Ministry of Army and the Ministry of Navy. The plan was published in the government's throat newspaper "Voice of China" and quickly spread throughout China.

In the "National Defense Military Plan for the Next Five Years", the government will provide the National Defense Army with no less than 700 million Chinese Yuan military expenditure through various means such as fiscal appropriations, special military appropriations, education appropriations, defense debts, defense public debts, etc. In the next five years, the Chinese Army will expand to 174 divisions, a total of 3.3 million people, seven new arsenals, and 126 military academies. It is worth mentioning that according to this plan, the Chinese Defense Army can obtain 640 million Chinese Yuan military expenditure in the next five years. The Navy can only obtain 60 million Chinese Yuan military expenditure in five years, with an average of only about 12 million Chinese Yuan per year. It is only barely higher than the cost of a Japanese battleship, and it is not even enough to buy a US latest Fearless Class battleship. The "development prospect" of the small navy of the Chinese mainland suddenly changed the psychology of many countries.

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