Chapter 202 Introducing the Wolf into the Room (Part 2)
Since the war between China and Japan began, polar bears have actively deployed troops in Siberia and the Far East. There have been millions of troops in the Far East outside Heilongjiang alone, and they are eyeing them here to watch the tiger fight. They even deployed a Tsarist Russian Army Division with two artillery regiments, one armored regiment and three infantry regiments on the territory of Shengshicai in Xinjiang in the name of protecting mines.
At the beginning, both sides of the war were unwilling to appear this force that was enough to subvert the scale of the war. The principal endured the so-called protection of the Tsarist Russia's openly sending troops into Xinjiang. After all, it has not been announced that Xinjiang belongs to them. Now, as long as the Shengshi Caisky does not publicly rebel, it would be fine. If the war situation is in corruption, the entry of Tsarist Russia is also a step behind Nanjing.
But the Japanese are now in a corruption in the war. The Japanese base has also analyzed that no matter who wins and loses or both loses, the greedy polar bear of Tsarist Russia will have great potential to send troops to the war. Of course, standing in the position of the polar bear, naturally, is the most hope that both countries will suffer losses and gain benefits from both sides.
But now the Japanese don't want him to do it. Just as Okamura Nishiji led his troops to retreat across the Yellow River, Kanir Ishihara, the joint envoy of the cabinet and the emperor, took a plane to Moscow to negotiate with Tsarist Russia. Kanir Ishihara has been praised by the military headquarters as the best-purpose guy since the September 18th Incident. This time, Kanir Ishihara has also been a chance to make a name for himself.
At the negotiating table between Moscow and Tsarist Russian cabinet and the representatives of the Tsar, Ishihara Kanir was extremely tough. Ishihara Kanir's voice sounded from time to time in the conference room.
"If Tsarist Russia doesn't send troops, we will return Mongolia and the three eastern provinces to the Nanjing government."
"We have the power to fight, but it is impossible for Tsarist Russia to be the oriole behind."
"What are you here to do when you sold your troops in the Far East? Can you enter the pass?"
"Japan and Russia jointly divide China, which is the general trend. The ownership of the three eastern provinces can be discussed. Faced with such a large China, what are the three eastern provinces? In addition, North China and Xinjiang and Mongolia will give you no problem. Of course, the premise is that we will work together to destroy the regime of Chiang in Nanjing."
"The status of the coalition forces is of course based on equality and mutual respect. Our army joined forces in Peking once and had good cooperation. I think our cooperation can continue to deepen."
"In terms of the navy, we can completely form a joint navy to restrict the Nanjing Navy from heading north. Although our navy lost a battle in the East China Sea, it still has a super fleet of eight battleships."
In fact, neither the cabinet nor the royal family were willing to send troops without the complete clarity of the battle situation. Nanjing Chiang won two battles, but now there are more than three million Japanese devils in the three eastern provinces, the Korean Peninsula, and Mongolia. In addition, the two Japanese devils and the Manchu and Mongolian puppet troops in the Korean colonies also looked like four million.
According to the military observers of Tsarist Russia, the victory of several battles did not fundamentally defeat the main force of the Japanese. The lives of this soldier in the Japanese family were worthless. It doesn’t matter how many upper class died, just like the criminals exiled to Siberia by Tsarist Russia.
But now the Japanese threatened to withdraw from northeast Mongolia without sending troops. It is not necessarily a good thing to let Tsarist Russia face the military front of the Nanjing Central Army. Take Mongolia as an example. As long as the Central Army marched here, once the war with Tsarist Russia started to break the Central and Eastern Railway, the millions of troops deployed by Tsarist Russia in the Far East would have to eat grass.
As for the three eastern provinces, in the eyes of the older generation of Tsarist Russians, this is the backyard economic zone of Tsarist Russia in the Far East. At the end of the Qing Dynasty, the Tsarist Russians were doing evil in the three eastern provinces, but the Japanese actually drove Tsarist Russians out of the three eastern provinces through a Russo-Japanese War and occupied the South Manchurian branch line of the Middle East Railway (Lushun to Changchun Gongzhuling) and renamed it to the South Manchurian Railway. It is fake to say that the Russians do not hold grudges.
After discussion, the Tsarist Russian cabinet finally decided to send troops to a limited extent. First, try the waters and see the reaction of the Chiang regime in Nanjing in the Central Government, and second, further drag the Japanese into the quagmire of war.
In the eyes of Tsarist Russia, the Japanese are like a patient with cancer. If he is willing to undergo surgery to remove the tumor, he may really survive. But the Japanese are also potential enemies of Tsarist Russia. Tsarist Russia will not do the same thing as letting the enemy survive. Tsarist Russia's current approach is to submit to a patient who has been identified as cancer, a special medicine called placebo must be delayed until the cancer spreads. (Placebo is just a psychological drug, and the ingredients of the drug itself do not cure the disease.)
Tsarist Russia never mind declaring war on its neighbors. In the eyes of Tsarist Russia, its neighbors are their own sooner or later, so sending troops is a small matter, and sending troops is a huge matter. This number can allow the Japanese to continue to sink into the quagmire of war, but even if the entire army is wiped out, it cannot make Tsarist Russia hurt.
A group of people racked their brains and finally came up with a plan overnight. In this plan, Tsarist Russia will send troops to four armies in total. Three of them were dispatched from the Far East to enter the three eastern provinces in the name of the guardian army, but did not participate in the southward battle. The other ten army divisions mobilized three armies to form a total of ten armies (one division directly under the headquarters of the First Army and the Third Division) to go south to Mongolia and meet the Japanese in Hohhot.
Of course, the ten divisions that Tsarist Russia directly sent troops to prepare for combat were very rich. Chita, Ulan-Ude, and Irkutsk areas are in Siberia, and the troops deployed by Tsarist Russia here are only the second focus to protect railway security. According to the organization of Tsarist Russian Army Division, an army division should have three infantry regiments and two artillery regiments (the Russians attach great importance to stupid, big, thick and black artillery), an armored battalion (the 16 light tanks and 13 armored vehicles), an anti-tank artillery battalion and anti-aircraft artillery battalion, reconnaissance battalion, communication battalion, engineering battalion, automobile transportation battalion, and one each.
According to regulations, each division should have more than 14,000 soldiers, about 10,000 Mosinna rifles, 600 light and heavy machine guns, and 210 artillery (including mortars but not 50 mm ultra-light mortars. In the eyes of the Russians who like silly, big, thick and black, fifty mm caliber cannot be regarded as guns). Each division has more than 500 cars and more than 3,000 horses.
Of course, this is just a regulation. The troops in the Siberian region will never be sufficient due to the army funding of the national treasury and the gold coins in the pockets of the officers. Now each division of the Siberian named troops has maintained a division of 5,000 or 60,000 people. Isn’t it necessary for the Japanese to look down on them?
However, since the Tsarist Russian cabinet dared to name the name, there must have been a solution. This method is to use the criminals exiled to Siberia to supplement the gap in the various armies. Tsarist Russia, a country with a large land and sparse population, was not popular in the era of Tsarist rule. Regardless of the size of the crime, it would be a fate that the criminals could not pay the ransom - exiled to Siberia.
Siberia is a wasteland thousands of miles away for Moscow, the capital of Tsarist Russia. It is normal to run out of here with legs and legs when it is minus 30 to 40 degrees Celsius in the wild. Except for the railway method, only dogs can be pulled sleds to leave Siberia, but every natural village in Siberia exiled criminals has strict regulations - dogs are not allowed to be raised.
In addition, you can raise dragons and tigers in the exile place in Siberia. The management method here is also very simple, because no prison guard has ever expressed his willingness to come here to work. The management method here is to manage strong prisoners who are not strong, and everyone speaks with their fists.
The prisoners here are not without any hope. Apart from the exile period, the Tsar's pardon, war recruitment, etc. are shortcuts to leaving this damn place.
Now the Tsarist Russian cabinet wants to play this trick. If you play well, you will be good and I will be good. Even if you can’t play well, you will be lost. Only 50,000 or 60,000 troops in the Siberian region - those exiled prisoners who temporarily replenished the troops are not considered human beings in the eyes of the top leaders of Tsarist Russians.
In history, the troops formed by these exiled prisoners were quite combat-effective, especially in urban street fighting. In that year, six months, the snow was covered with cold winds and material scarcity, Siberia stayed for a few years. Anyone who entered the city with weapons would not help but rob them. As for robbing in order to enter the city, he could not even have his life. However, after these people entered the city, the most dangerous thing turned into a single Tsarist Russian military police. Once there were signs of stopping the robbery, they would be attacked by groups.
For these exiled prisoners who need to be as many as possible (whether you steal bread or want to overthrow the Tsar's rule by force, it doesn't matter what you can do as long as you can live out from exile.
After the Tsarist Russian cabinet sorted out the information overnight, it began the second round of negotiations with Emperor's special envoy Ishihara Kanir.
The Russians are not the ones who like to suffer losses. They think that if they are invited to send troops, the emperor will have to bear the full amount of military expenses and get the money out of nothing.
Of course, Ishihara Kanir disagreed. For the sake of the jihad, people all started to starve, so they didn’t have the spare money to pay military expenses. If you have that money, it would be better to buy more iron ore, oil and rubber. Besides, it’s not enough that you have already distributed a large piece of land. Anyway, Ishihara Kanir has bitten to death and has no money.
The explanation of the Tsarist Russian cabinet is that those territories have not been obtained, as collateral for sending troops. Even if you, the Emperor, refuses to pay, you have to mortgage some places, such as Heilongjiang or something. At the same time, the Tsarist Russian cabinet also stated that if it is really a tiny, Tsarist Russian can never send troops. Now our focus is Europe and Central and Western Asia. The wars initiated for your country have also been brought into it. If you don’t tiny, you will want to forget it, there is no window.
Ishihara Kanir couldn't make any idea in this matter - if he could make an idea, he appointed him as a traitor, and he would be punished by heaven. He could only use telegram to ask the emperor and the cabinet for instructions. The negotiation time was not long, and in the end, the emperor and the Tsarist Russian cabinet finally reached an agreement to use Heilongjiang as the joint management area of Japan, Russia, and the three countries of Japan, Russia, and Russia to garrison. Both Japan, Russia, and Russia and the three countries of Japan, Russia, and Russia respect each other's rights and interests in Heilongjiang.
Chapter completed!