Chang Ruiqing stood on the lookout at the Hulishan Fortress, staring at the four British destroyers, all of which were C-class destroyers. Although they were products of the end of the last century, they were still more than enough to bully themselves who were not as naval as possible. The artillery on the destroyers had been shook, and a British sailor was holding a signal flag on the flagship led by the leader. Xu Haoyu, who had been to the naval academy, was loudly explaining the content of the flag to Chang Ruiqing.

"We are ordered to block Xiamen Port, and any ships leaving the port without permission will be detained..."

Wang Lei, the commander of the new Hulishan Fort, ran into the lookout whistle, as if he wanted to ask Chang Ruiqing for instructions. Chang Ruiqing waved his hand: "Give them a flag and tell them not to enter the Chinese territorial waters, otherwise we will fire the cannon! Tianming (Wang Lei), aim our cannons at them, and if they dare to fire, they will fight back immediately!"

"Mr. Lieutenant Colonel, the Chinese are actually threatening us! Oh my God, are these yellow-skinned monkeys crazy? Who do that Zhongzhan thought he was? Did the German emperor?"

Lieutenant Colonel Winchester, the commander of the second squadron of the Destroyer Squadron of the British Far East Fleet, put down his telescope and glanced at his chief of staff in disgust, a young captain who had just graduated from the Naval Staff Academy. This young man who participated in the Battle of Jutland had a 19th century brain and thought it was Victorian. Sir Jurden's thinking was the same as him, and he must have stayed in the Victorian era, and he actually ordered the freezing of the Chinese Guan Yu... Such behavior is no different from a robber! Not to mention that China is currently a member of the Allies and an ally of the British Empire! How could the British Empire do such a shameless thing?

Moreover, the cause of the incident was to safeguard the interests of the already devastated Russian Empire. It seemed that this sir must have been confused by his old age and was really not suitable to serve as a minister.

He recalled in his heart the explanation given to him by Lieutenant General Betty, the commander of the Far East Fleet. The situation cannot be further expanded this time. The action on the coast of Guangdong and Fujian is only to maintain the dignity of the empire, not to let the empire fall into a meaningless war! So no matter what the situation is encountered, you are not allowed to fire the first shot first!

No matter what the situation is encountered... what should the Chinese navy escorts their merchant ships into and out of Fujian? On the one hand, it needs to be blocked, and on the other hand, it is not allowed to fire first. Such an order is really embarrassing.

Now I can probably only pray that the Chinese navy is not as impulsive as the warlord in Fujian?

Thinking of this, he whispered an order: "Give them a flag slogan again. Tell them that we will not invade China's territorial waters, but all ships in Xiamen Port are not allowed to leave the port. I hope they will remain restrained and do not escalate the situation further."

"Mr. Lieutenant Colonel, such a statement will make the Chinese mistakenly think that we are weak and can be bullied!" The chief of staff of the squadron on the side reminded loudly.

Lieutenant Colonel Winchester waved his hand impatiently: "That's it... Our four destroyers are not the opponents of the Krupp cannons on the Xiamen Fort! If our destroyers are sunk by the Chinese, the empire will have to send a large army to China... This is a meaningless war!"

"The commander (Chang Ruiqing's Fujian Military Supervision has been removed and he has begun to call himself the commander-in-chief of the Fujian Army). It seems that the British do not want to expand the incident any more." Xu Haoyu put down the telescope in his hand and smiled at Chang Ruiqing: "The British said they will not invade our territorial waters, and they hope we will remain restrained."

Chang Ruiqing also let out a light sigh, a relaxed smile slipped on his face: "As expected, those British people don't want to expand the incident any further. By the way, has Mr. Duanna returned from Gulangyu?"

In fact, why did he even want to expand the situation? Although he had announced that he would defend national sovereignty at all costs and would never hand over the Fujian Customs and the British Concession in Xiamen... But he rejected the request of Chen Duxiu, Li Dazhao and others to take back the Gulangyu Public Concession.

At the same time, the Red Brigade did not really launch terrorist attacks on British institutions and personnel in China. Even the attacks on Tsarist Russian forces in the Tianjin Concession have been suspended. The Red Brigade's current focus has shifted to the Tsarist Russian sphere of influence, the North Manchuria area.

Moreover, in this "anti-imperialist struggle", Chang Ruiqing had already obtained everything he wanted, and it was time to stop as soon as possible. So while maintaining his superficial toughness, he started informal negotiations with the British Consul in Xiamen through Duanna.

Xu Haoyu replied in a low voice: "Mr. Duanna has not come back yet. He seems to have been staying in Gulangyu for a longer time today than a few days ago. Could it be that things have turned around?"

Chang Ruiqing said oh, and suddenly thought of something. He turned around and asked Xu Haoyu: "Yunfei, what day is today?"

Xu Haoyu replied: "Commander, today is January 6, 1918."

...

At this time, in Petrograd, the capital of Russia, it was still January 5, 1918. Comrade Huang Baopei, the political commissar of the Red Army aiding Russia, was leading his troops to carry out a mission that he would never forget in the Hermitage Square - a demonstration to suppress the Russian proletariat!

Well, Huang Baopei did not betray the revolution! If he followed the generation of another time and space, he was now a "older proletarian revolutionary" and of course he was extremely loyal to the cause of the proletariat.

But just today, just before the first meeting of the Russian Constitutional Assembly, which had just been elected, he received an order from the Petrograd Military Commission sent by Zhang Guotao himself, asking him to dispatch 3,000 fully armed soldiers to set up a cordon around the Hermitage, prohibiting all unauthorized personnel from approaching the Hermitage or entering the Hermitage Square. If necessary, force can be used to stop it!

Now, I don’t know what happened, and suddenly there were tens of thousands of Russian proletariats dressed in plain clothes and with a garish face crowded under the Hermitage Bridge leading to the Hermitage Square. Some people were holding placards in their hands, which read "Defend the Constitutional Assembly" and "Reactionary dictatorship" and other content in Russian. Some were still waving their fists and shouting slogans against the Soviets and the Bolsheviks in Russian. The scene was extremely chaotic.

Huang Baopei and Tang Jiu stood side by side on the Winter Palace Bridge. The soldiers formed three human lines in front of them, all of whom were holding the bayonets of Mosin Nagan, looking at the chaotic scene in front of them with some helplessness. The people who were marching were also excited. They even pushed forward with their chests regardless of the shaky bayonets, oppressed the soldiers who aided the Russian Red Army to retreat continuously.

Huang Baopei took a tin trumpet and shouted loudly to the masses in Russian: "Brothers and sisters of the proletariat! What are you doing? If you want to react to Comrade Lenin in any situation, you can do it through the procedure..."

Although his voice was loud, he was still drowned out by the sounds of tens of thousands of angry Russian proletariats.

"Lenin betrayed the proletariat! The Bolsheviks tore off the mask. They want to engage in dictatorship! They want to do something that the Tsar dares not do!"

"This is not your business, it is our Russians' own business. You can get out of here!"

Hearing these words, Huang Baopei had already guessed what was going on. The Bolsheviks had indeed attacked the Constitutional Assembly! They were indeed going to implement a dictatorship in Russia! Lenin betrayed the Russian people, and the Bolsheviks also betrayed their ideology, but what should the Red Army aided to Russia do now? He was so anxious that he was sweating profusely and looked back towards the direction of the Winter Palace, as if he was hoping that the Bolshevik central government there could send someone out to explain the situation to these angry Russian masses.

However, after waiting for a long time, the great leader of the Russian Bolsheviks did not see him, but saw Zhang Guotao running over on a tall horse.

"Why didn't you shoot yet? Why didn't you suppress it!" Before Zhang Guotao's horse could stop, he began to question loudly: "Huang Zhisheng, what are you hesitating about? Why didn't you implement the instructions of the Military Commission?"

"But, but they are all proletariats!" Huang Baopei said hesitantly: "Kaiyin, why don't you go and ask Comrade Lenin again, do you really want to shoot?"

Zhang Guotao looked at Huang Baopei sweating profusely. He gritted his teeth hatefully and said loudly: "What else can I ask? Suppression has begun in other places! The whole of Petrograd is bloody, and now it depends on our support for the Russian Red Army! Zhisheng, our future and destiny are here. Now is not the time to hesitate!"

Huang Baopei pricked up his ears and listened. Sure enough, there was a faint sound of gunfire! Since the Russians themselves didn't care about the lives of the Russian proletariat, what else did he care about, a foreigner? He stomped his feet and issued a loud order: "Fire! Suppress! Suppress! Kill all the damn Russians!"

At the order of the political commissar, the Red Army soldiers below certainly obeyed the order! For a moment, gunfire sounds started in front of the Hokage Bridge. Not only was the Mosin Nagan rifle firing, but even the m1910 Maxim heavy machine guns mounted on both sides began to spit out their flames and sweep down the unarmed Russian proletariat in rows!

The bullets cast by the Russian proletariat have now hit their own chests.

On January 5, 1917 (Petrograd time), Russian GCism used rifles and machine guns to prove that dictatorship was more in line with the general trend of human development than democratic constitutionalism!

The weak democratic system was defeated by the omnipotent dictatorship on this day!

At the same time, in the Huairen Hall of Zhongnanhai, Beijing, China, thousands of miles away, the weak Beiyang government is increasingly protesting their internal dictatorship and helpless in the demonstrations of the takeaway country.

By the way, it is the Chinese GCD people who lead the people in Beijing and Tianjin to protest against the dictatorship of the Beiyang warlords.

"You can't shoot! Hua Fu, those students are patriotic, they are not Red Travel, we can't do things that make people stab their backbone!"

As soon as Duan Qirui, the newly released Beiyang Government Army Chief, walked into the door of the Huairen Hall conference room, he saw the Prime Minister Wang Shizhen, who was so angry that he was persuaded by Feng Guozhang.

This anti-imperialist patriotic movement caused by the time of the China-Russia New Testament did not end with the formation of China's new cabinet, but instead became increasingly fierce. Especially after President Feng Guozhang issued a presidential decree to eliminate the patriotic general Chang Ruiqing in the concession, he became a target of mass movement attack!

The gate of Zhongnanhai was filled with protesters all day long, all holding slogans against Feng Guozhang. Someone else stole the straw man and wrote Feng Guozhang's name on it and burned it publicly. Perhaps this kind of cursed protest stepped on Feng Guozhang's painful feet, which made him furious. He could not control his emotions for a while and issued an order to shoot and suppress the Beijing Infantry Commander's Office and the Beijing Police Department.

However, Jiang Chaozong, who received the president's oral order, did not dare to shoot. Instead, he hung up the phone to Prime Minister Wang Shizhen and Army Chief Duan Qirui and asked for countermeasures. As a result, the two of them went to Feng Guozhang's Jurentang to persuade him.

"He Chang Ruiqing is patriotic, and Zuomin from the Red Brigade is also patriotic. Those students who don't know how to do whatever they want outside are patriotic. I am the president, not patriotic? I am the president, who is traitor!"

Feng Guozhang jumped and vented a few words. When he saw Duan Qirui coming in, he rushed to him and took Duan Qirui's hand and shouted: "Zhiquan, tell me. Are those students bullying too much? We are now bullied by foreign devils, Sun Yat-sen, and his mother Chang Ruiqing... Even those students are going to bully us now. What else can I do to do this president? If I had known this, wouldn't I be a patrol in Nanjing?"

Duan Qirui just smiled bitterly: "Hua Fu, when has it been? He still said that. Now we are on the verge of the storm, just like Chang Ruiqing and Sun Yat-sen, it depends on who can't hold back first!"

"Why are you saying this?" Feng Guozhang frowned and asked. When it comes to analysis of the overall situation, he thought he was inferior to Duan Qirui.

Duan Qirui smiled wryly and spread his hands: "Isn't this obvious? We Beiyang has already lie down in front of foreigners. Sun Yat-sen and Chang Ruiqing are still tense and unwilling to bow their heads. So in the eyes of the people, Sun Yat-sen and Chang Ruiqing are both heroes and patriots. We are naturally traitors and traitors... If we order suppression now, it is to destroy their patriotic movement, and then they will have a step to go down! It is not that they surrender to the foreign devils, but that we traitors and traitors stabbed the knife in the back! This proves that Sun Yat-sen's guardian is right. Our legal system of the Republic of China is in Guangzhou, and we are all a group of traitors here in Beijing!"

After listening quietly, Feng Guozhang showed a wry smile on his face. He stomped his feet: "How can we explain this? Isn't this a reversal of black and white? Can we stop the British from attacking Fujian and Guangdong by not ordering the suppression? "

Duan Qirui and Wang Shizhen looked at each other, shook their heads at the same time, and said in unison: "But things have happened for more than half a month now, and the British did not attack!"

Feng Guozhang stood there, his old face full of tired expressions. He turned his head and looked out the window and muttered, "What's wrong with this British Empire..."

He didn't know what he wanted to express when he said this. Did he want Britain to deal with Sun Yat-sen and Chang Ruiqing? Or was he regretting himself and Duan Qirui. Wang Shizhen compromised with the British so quickly? However, Britain's reaction this time was indeed unexpectedly weak! Why is this?

...

10 Downing Street, London, UK.

In the narrow conference hall in the Prime Minister's residence, Prime Minister Lloyd George looked at an emergency telegram just sent by the British ambassador to Russia. The ministers below were whispering to each other, and the topics of discussion were about the upcoming offensive by the Germans!

Lord Carol reported in his telegram that the Bolsheviks dispersed the Constitutional Assembly and suppressed the protesting people. However, what really disturbed these senior figures of the British Empire was not the dictatorship that the Bolsheviks were about to promote in Russia, but their position of compromise with Germany.

Once Russia and Germany reach a compromise, the troops deployed by Germany and Austro-Hungary on the Eastern Front will soon be used on the Western Front! And the United States' reinforcements have not yet arrived in Europe in large quantities, which means that in the next few months, Britain and France will face the most severe challenges since the outbreak of the European war!

If Germany succeeds on the Western Front and Paris is captured by the Germans, France is likely to follow in Russia's footsteps to compromise with Germany. What should Britain and the United States do then?

Could this war that killed tens of millions of people ended in failure? Will the entire European continent be dominated by the barbaric Germans?

Thinking of this, several ministers in Lloyd George's cabinet were all shocked. The war has reached this point, let alone losing, even if it is a draw, it will be a big loss! The most urgent task now is to send every soldier who can be found to France, and to hold on if he says he says he will be fine before the American army arrives!

As for the main content that was originally discussed at today's meeting, it was to deal with the issue of a Chinese warlord who dared to challenge the majesty of the British Empire. Now it has been thrown out of the sky by most of the people in this conference room.

A Chinese warlord with fangs and claws was just annoying, and would not cause much damage to the interests of the British Empire. If the German emperor wanted to win the war, it would be a question of whether the British Empire could survive!

"Gentlemen, the British Empire is facing an unprecedented test now!" Prime Minister Lloyd George put down the telegram in his hand, frowned, and suddenly changed his words: "No, we are now facing two unprecedented tests at the same time!" (To be continued...)
Chapter completed!