The long winter in Russia has made the world extremely peaceful. Soviet Russia, which was actively seeking peace negotiations, was certainly not willing to fail. It also organized a larger defense line in the Volga River Basin, hoping to use the wide Volga River to block the empire's iron hoof. Soviet Russia

The scale of domestic conscription is increasing day by day, and troops are being mobilized from all over the country. However, in terms of equipment, after the defeat on the Eastern Front, the Russian army has temporarily lost the strength to invest thousands of artillery pieces in a battle.

Russia is a very magical place.

Many people think that Russia is a cold place. In fact, it is not as serious as imagined. Take Moscow for example. The average temperature throughout the year is similar to that of Harbin, but the extremely low temperature is lower.

As long as you can adapt to the Northeast climate, you will have no problem adapting to Russia.

Russia is just one of the larger three eastern provinces, with vast land. Especially in the European region of Russia, as well as the two thousand and five hundred kilometers of land from Moscow to Novosibirsk, there are completely endless plains and fertile land.

There is no so-called bottom line problem of cultivated land in Russia. Its cultivated land area is the largest in the world, so that most of the cultivated land can be used for the development of animal husbandry in a protective manner.

It is very strange that the Soviet Union can actually cause a food crisis on such a vast plain. Of course, in the era of the Republic, there was no tragedy like the three-year crisis.

It is really too big and the resources are too rich.

Russia has the world's most extensive forestry resources and water conservancy resources. Its diamond ore reserves are several times equivalent to those of other countries in the world. However, they are located in the coldest extreme areas and cannot be developed.

Before the development of oil in the Middle East, the Soviet Union owned about half of the world's oil production capacity in just one oil area in the Baku region of the Caucasus, supplying the oil needs of the entire Europe. In exchange for funds, it imported machinery and equipment from the United States and Europe, and in exchange for heavy industry

of rapid development.

In addition to the Baku oil area, the Soviet Union has successively discovered world-class large oil areas in the Volga Basin and Western Siberia. Even in the Russian era after the collapse of the Soviet Union, Russia did not have to worry about basic coal, iron, copper, lead, oil, etc.

Industrial resources. With its industrial scale and production capacity requirements, the country's resources are sufficient for hundreds of years.

This is completely different from the Republic of the same era.

If some people look down on Russia and think that Russia is a declining country that only relies on selling resources to survive, then they are really wrong. Its national living standards and welfare have always been much higher than those of its people. It does not need to develop at all.

A large-scale industry can easily feed the entire population without the need to increase agricultural production.

Its resources are the richest, its industrial level is first-rate, its natural environment is the best, and there is no pollution. A hundred years from now, Russia will still be Russia, and how polluted China is, and whether the Chinese people can continue to survive.

If it goes on, I am afraid it will be a difficult question to answer.

China says it wants to follow the path of sustainable development. But for Russia, it has always been truly sustainable development. There has been no resource, environmental, or technological crisis for hundreds of years, and there has even been no political, institutional, or social crisis.

The crisis of change.

So, never look down on Russia.

Russia is a religious country inherited from the Roman Empire. As long as the Orthodox Church remains, Russia will never be content with being mediocre and will always pursue a leadership position in the world. They are even one of the successors of the Golden Horde. Why did Russia in the Soviet era

There is also a very powerful force that insists on annexing Mongolia, and its root lies in the continuation of the Great Khan's thinking.

Russia is a terrible country.

It is terrible to become a mortal enemy of such a country.

Song Biao already understood this very clearly. Therefore, even if this war had to be fought, he was not mentally prepared to completely offend Russia for a long time and not hesitate to become a fatal enemy with Russia, so that the war ended

He was well prepared and commanded decisively, but his goal was never very clear, leading many people to mistakenly believe that he was simply trying to defeat Russia rather than start a war.

If a country likes war, even if it is strong, it will perish.

To a large extent, Tang Shaoyi constantly tried to stop the emperor's behavior because of this. However, he did not dare to act openly as an enemy, so he had to secretly find ways to contain it.

Everything is clear now.

In this splendid Ibatev Palace, Song Biao made up his mind to dismantle Russia and separate its Asian parts, even if they had been enemies with Russia for centuries.

Like the India-Pakistan crisis, it left a problem that Russia could not solve for centuries.

The possibility of forcibly annexing and dividing large areas of Russia's territory is too low. Not only will the Soviet Union refuse to comply, but countries such as Europe, the United States, Britain and France will also turn to support the Soviet Union and restrict China when they see that the situation is wrong. They will never let China expand to that point.

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Therefore, the best way is to dismantle Russia.

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A few days after the political training meeting at Ibatyev Palace, Song Biao took a short two-day rest to clear his mind, and then reconvened the joint military meeting to make new and more complete plans for the empire's military preparations.

Steady deployment.

The initiative in the Sino-Soviet war has been firmly in the hands of the empire. It is the empire that has the final say whether to fight and when to fight. Soviet Russia can only passively defend, which is very beneficial to the empire.

In fact, the only country that can really defeat Soviet Russia is China, because once China sends troops, although the supply line is very long, it can gradually encroach on Soviet Russia's strategic defense space, attacking from the eastern part of Soviet Russia, where it is weakest, and gradually advance all the way to the heart of Soviet Russia.

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In addition, both Napoleon and Hitler underestimated Russia's ability to fight for a long time. This nation cannot be easily conquered by foreigners. Only the Golden Horde has done this in history.

Since the initiative is in his own hands, Song Biao can calmly schedule the second attack in mid-May next year, make sufficient supplies and preparations, and further strengthen his advantages in military equipment and tactical advancement.

According to his plan, he will launch a second offensive from May next year, crossing the Volga River all the way to annihilate the Russian Southern Front Army. He will join the Polish army in the Lipetsk and Kursk areas, and prepare for defensive operations from October. If

If the Soviet Union cannot be forced to accept the peace treaty at this time, then it will continue to launch three attacks in April next year to completely occupy Moscow, unite with the navies of other European countries to destroy the Soviet Russian navy, and occupy St. Petersburg.

To this end, the empire must strengthen the equipment and new research and development of tanks, aircraft, and trucks. It must seize the time to launch a series of new equipment next year and use the empire's current advantageous production capacity in the military industry to suppress Soviet Russia. At the same time, it must continue

Maintain traditional military advantages and strengthen the deployment of troops and horses in Central Asia and the four northern provinces, as well as the Russian-occupied areas. Ensure the transportation capabilities of cavalry units and baggage units. On the other hand, we must also ensure the transportation of the Siberian Railway, Northern Railway, Far Eastern Railway and Xinjiang Railway.

normal operation.

At the end of the First World War, due to the huge amount of debt owed to China, according to the agreement between the countries, the two remaining Dreadnought-class ships of the Austro-Hungarian Empire, several cruisers, submarines and more than 20 auxiliary ships were given as compensation.

China, this is also all the warship compensation the Empire received from World War I.

Song Biao had previously considered preventing the German Navy from implementing the Rainbow Plan, but at the Paris Peace Conference, because Britain dominated the right to split compensation for the entire German High Seas Fleet, the empire could only be allocated two Königs-class battleships, while Japan could be allocated

Four Bavaria-class super-dreadnoughts. Song Biao simply allowed Operation Rainbow to break out.

The ships compensated by the Austro-Hungarian Navy are still in Istanbul at this stage. They belong to the Expeditionary Combined Fleet of the Central Navy. They are a bit insignificant compared to the Soviet Red Navy with 14 battleships, but in theory they can also cope with the threat of the White Navy.

Soviet Russia.

The two sides continued to engage in peace talks while actively preparing for war. At this time, the Soviet Union was convinced that it was impossible to defeat the Imperial Army. It was willing to accept more stringent peace talks conditions, but it was not satisfied with the empire's proposal to cover the entire area west of the Ural Mountains.

The proposal to be placed under "Free Russia" and establish an East Slavic Republic still feels too harsh and cannot be accepted at all.

After January, the terms of the peace talks proposed by the empire have been fixed, that is, on the condition of returning all the territories that Russia invaded China. Using Lake Baikal as the boundary and drawing the northern dividing line between the two countries from the 108th east longitude is equivalent to letting

Russia gave up the whole thing

Siberian region, as well as the Bering Sea, the Sea of ​​Okhots, and the East Siberian Sea, which is equivalent to delimiting an additional 5.93 million square kilometers of territory. Adding the Far East region and Balkhash region that must be returned legally, China will increase the territory by more than 8 million square kilometers at a time.

Millions of square kilometers of territory.

In addition, Soviet Russia must not only recognize its debt to China during the Russian period, but also pay 3 billion Chinese yuan in military compensation within twenty years, recognize the sovereignty of the East Slavic Republics, and recognize the sovereignty of Kazakhstan and other countries in Central Asia and the southern Caucasus.

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This is an extremely harsh condition that Soviet Russia cannot agree to in any case. Even Lenin is not willing to accept such terms. The condition proposed by Kalinin, the Soviet special envoy for negotiation, is that Soviet Russia agrees to the empire’s compensation and demarcation line.

It demands that the independence of Kazakhstan, Azerbaijan and other places be recognized, while the East Slavic Republic is limited to the South Siberia region, that is, the Sino-Russian border area around the city of Novosibirsk.

In this entanglement that neither side could give in to, time slipped by endlessly. The spring of 1920 slowly arrived in the Ural region and Yekaterinburg. Soviet Russia continued to actively deploy defenses in the Volga River Basin, and all domestic cement was used in

In this area, but with the assistance of General Artur Martos and Britain, France and other countries, the newly established Second Polish Army

The Republic is also ready to move, and is about to launch a million troops to attack Kursk and northern Ukraine under the United Empire's European Expeditionary Force. The Empire's tanks on the Russian Eastern Front have significantly increased to 4,000, and the number of trucks and military horses has increased significantly.

are increasing, the number of civilians drawn from Central Asia has doubled, and a larger-scale two-front attack is about to begin.

At such a critical juncture, the leader who could lead Soviet Russia out of trouble stood up again.

Song Biao was extremely surprised. Comrade Lenin requested to go to Yekaterinburg to have talks with him in person, accompanied by General Alexei Brusilov. Such sincerity made Song Biao unable to refuse.

After Song Biao agreed and promised to guarantee the safety of Comrade Lenin, on March 22, 1920, Mr. Vladimir Ilyich Ulyanov, Chairman of the Russian People's Committee of the Soviet Union, arrived in Yekaterinburg in person.

Although neither the Empire nor other foreign countries have recognized this regime so far, after deliberation, the General Administration of the Interior and the Imperial Ministry of Foreign Affairs decided to grant Chairman Ulyanov the ceremonial treatment of a leader of a country.

Foreign Minister Ouyang Geng, who was in charge of talks with the Soviet Union in Yekaterinburg, was responsible for welcoming Chairman Ulyanov at the train station. After the talks between the two, Chairman Ulyanov would be accompanied by General Alexei Brusilov.

Next, let’s go to the Ibatyev Palace to see His Majesty the Emperor.

In the past few days, the Ibatev Palace has been extremely tense. It is also the first time that the Empire has received a foreign leader here, and it is a foreign leader from a warring country. Not to mention that the Empire has never encountered such a situation, and I am afraid that it has not happened in other countries.

example.

As the Emperor of China, Song Biao was filled with strange feelings. He didn't know what kind of plan Chairman Ulyanov had.

If you can't accept the empire's conditions, then what else are you going to do?

Song Biao was noncommittal.

On the afternoon of March 22, 1920, Chairman Ulyanov arrived at Yekaterinburg Railway Station. After a meeting with Ouyang Geng, the Foreign Minister of the Cabinet continued to hold a state banquet to welcome him in the evening.

At 9 o'clock in the morning the next day, accompanied by Jiang Zuobin, Chairman Ulyanov and General Brusilov had the opportunity to enter the Ibatev Palace to meet the emperor.

At some point, Song Biao, as emperor, was already the owner of the Ibatev Palace. He received two special guests in the Ural Hall of the palace.

Song Biao did not deliberately maintain the noble etiquette in the country. Instead, he and Chairman Ulyanov entered the Ural Hall from two passages and met him in the center of the hall. They first bowed and saluted the emperor. Then they

It's a handshake from both sides.

When Song Biao walked into the hall, he saw the real Chairman Ulyanov for the first time. Accompanying this gentleman was the all-too-familiar General Brusilov.

Ulyanov happened to be fifty years old at this time. Because he suffered a successful assassination two years ago, his body is theoretically not as good as before. But at first glance, he seems to be quite energetic and happy.

Come all the way.
To be continued...