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Volume 1: The Arms Dealer¡¯s Feast Chapter 202: Luring the Wolf into the House (Part 2)

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    Since the war between China and Japan, polar bears have actively deployed troops in Siberia and the Far East.  There are millions of soldiers in the Far East area outside Heilongjiang alone, watching the fight between tigers and tigers.  A Tsarist Russian army division with two artillery regiments, an armored regiment and three infantry regiments was even deployed on Sheng Shicai's territory in Xinjiang in the name of mine protection.

    At the beginning, both warring parties were unwilling to have this force that could overturn the balance of war appear. The principal tolerated Tsarist Russia's so-called actions of openly sending troops into Xinjiang to protect the mines. After all, Xinjiang had not yet been declared to belong to them. Now Sheng Shicaiski  As long as you don't openly rebel, that's fine.  If the war situation deteriorates, dragging Tsarist Russia into the situation will be Nanjing's last resort.

    It¡¯s just that the war situation is now corrupted by the little devils. The little devils¡¯ base camp has also been analyzed. No matter who wins and who loses or both sides suffer losses, Tsarist Russia, the greedy polar bear, will most likely send troops to join the war.  Of course, from the position of the polar bear, it is natural to hope that both countries will suffer losses so as to gain the advantage of the fishermen.

    But now the little devil doesn¡¯t want him to get his wish.  Just as Okamura Neiji led his troops to withdraw across the Yellow River, Ishihara Kanji, the joint envoy of the cabinet and the emperor, took a plane to Moscow to negotiate with Tsarist Russia.  Ishihara Kanji has been praised by the military as the guy with the best brains since the September 18th Incident. Serving as the special envoy for negotiations this time is also an opportunity to stand out.

    At the negotiation table between Moscow and the Russian cabinet and tsarist representatives, Ishihara Kanji acted extremely tough.  Ishihara's smiling voice sounded from time to time in the conference room.

    "If Tsarist Russia does not send troops, we will return Mongolia and the three northeastern provinces to the Nanjing government."

    "We are fully capable of fighting, but it is impossible for Tsarist Russia to be the oriole behind."

    "What are you doing with millions of troops in the Far East? Are you able to enter the customs at all?"

    "Japan and Russia join forces to carve up China. This is the general trend. The ownership of the three Northeastern provinces can be discussed. Facing the huge China, the three Northeastern provinces are nothing. In addition, North China, Xinjiang and Mongolia will be given to you. It will be no problem. Of course, the premise is that we  Join forces to destroy Chiang¡¯s regime in Nanjing.¡±

    "The status of the coalition is of course based on equality and mutual respect. Our armies joined forces once in Peiping and had good cooperation. I think our cooperation can continue to deepen."

    "As for the navy, we can definitely form a joint navy to restrain the Nanjing navy from moving north. Although our navy lost a battle in the East China Sea, it is still a super fleet with eight super battleships."

    In fact, neither the cabinet nor the royal family of Tsarist Russia were willing to send troops before the war situation was completely clear. Chiang Kai-shek won two battles in Nanjing, which was good, but now he occupied more than 300 people in the three eastern provinces, the Korean Peninsula, and Mongolia.  Thousands of little devils.  In addition, there are about four million Japanese soldiers and Manchu and Mongolian puppet troops in the Korean colony.

    According to the judgment of military observers in Tsarist Russia, the victory of several battles did not fundamentally defeat the main force of the Japs. The life of this soldier is worthless in the Japs' home. It does not matter how many upper-level officials die. It is as cheap as the criminals exiled by Tsarist Russia in Siberia.  .

    But now that the Japs are threatening to withdraw from Northeast Mongolia if they don¡¯t send troops, it may not be a good thing for Tsarist Russia to face the Nanjing Central Army¡¯s troops.  Take Mongolia as an example. As long as the Central Army marches here, once a war breaks out with Tsarist Russia and cuts off the Middle Eastern Railway, Tsarist Russia's million-strong army deployed in the Far East will have to eat grass.

    As for the three eastern provinces, in the eyes of the older generation of Tsarist Russians, this is Tsarist Russia¡¯s backyard economic zone in the Far East. At the end of the Manchu Dynasty, the Tsarist Russians were doing evil and happy here in the three eastern provinces, but the little devil actually drove out the Tsarist Russian forces through a Russo-Japanese war.  The three eastern provinces occupied the South Manchuria branch line of the China Eastern Railway (from Lushun to Changchun Gongzhuling) and was renamed the South Manchuria Railway.  It would be a lie to say that Lao Maozi doesn't hold grudges.

    After discussion, the Russian cabinet finally decided to send troops to a limited extent.  The first is to test the waters first to see the reaction of the Chiang Kai-shek regime in Nanjing, and the second is to further drag the little Japanese into the quagmire of war.

    In the eyes of Tsarist Russia, the little devil now is like a patient with cancer. If he is willing to undergo surgery to remove the tumor, he may really be able to live.  But the little devil is also a potential enemy of Tsarist Russia, and Tsarist Russia will not do such a thing as letting the enemy live.  The current approach of Tsarist Russia is to give this patient who has been diagnosed with cancer a special medicine called placebo in medicine, and he must wait until the cancer spreads.  (A placebo is a drug that acts psychologically; the ingredients in the drug itself do not cure the disease.)

    Tsarist Russia never minds declaring war on its neighbors. In Tsarist Russia's view, the neighbors' lives belong to them sooner or later, so sending troops is a trivial matter, but the number of troops sent is a big deal.  This number will allow the little devils to continue to sink into the quagmire of war, but even if the entire army is annihilated, it will not make Tsarist Russia crippled.

    A group of people racked their brains and finally came up with a plan overnight. In this plan, Tsarist Russia would send 13 troops.There are four military divisions in total.  Three of the army divisions were dispatched from the Far East into the three eastern provinces in the name of road protection troops, but did not participate in the southward battle.  Another ten army divisions mobilized three armies from Chita, Ulan-Ude, and Irkutsk for a total of ten army divisions (one division was directly under the jurisdiction of the three divisions of the first army) and went south to Mongolia to join forces with the Japs in Hohhot.

    Of course, these ten divisions that Tsarist Russia directly sent troops to prepare for battle are very good.  Chita, Ulan-Ude, and Irkutsk are located in Siberia. The troops deployed by Tsarist Russia here are only a secondary focus to protect railway safety.  According to the establishment of a Tsarist Russian army division, an army division should have three infantry regiments, two artillery regiments (Lao Maozi attaches great importance to silly, thick and black artillery), one armored battalion (with 16 light tanks and 13 armored vehicles),  One anti-tank gun battalion and one anti-aircraft gun battalion, one reconnaissance battalion, one communications battalion, one engineer battalion, one vehicle transport battalion, and one health and medical battalion.

    According to regulations, each division should have more than 14,000 soldiers, equipped with about 10,000 Mosin-Nagan rifles, 600 light and heavy machine guns, and 210 artillery pieces (including mortars but excluding 50mm super-guns).  A light mortar, in the opinion of the old man who likes to be silly, big, thick and black, the caliber of 50 mm cannot really be regarded as a gun).  In addition, each division has more than 500 vehicles and more than 3,000 military horses.

    Of course, this is just a regulation. The troops in Siberia are always insufficient due to the army funds from the treasury and the gold coins in the officers¡¯ pockets. Now, each division of the named troops in Siberia only maintains a strength of five to six thousand people.  Sending 50,000 to 60,000 people to serve as ten divisions will make the little devils look down on you, right?

    ¡°But since Tsarist Russia¡¯s cabinet dared to name it, it must have already had a solution.  This method is to use the criminals exiled by Tsarist Russia in Siberia to fill the vacancies in the various armies.  Because the country of Tsarist Russia was vast and sparsely populated, mass destruction was not popular during the era of Tsarist rule.  Regardless of the size of the crime, criminals who fail to pay the ransom will end up in exile in Siberia.

    To Moscow, the capital of Tsarist Russia, Siberia is a wilderness thousands of miles away. In the wild winter, it is minus 30 to 40 degrees Celsius. Normally, it is impossible to run out from here with just your legs.  Apart from railways, only dog ??sleds can leave Siberia, but every natural village and town in Siberia where criminals are exiled has strict regulations - no dogs are allowed.

    Apart from that, you can raise dragons and tigers in the Siberian penal colony.  The management method here is also very simple, because no prison guard has ever expressed willingness to work here. The management method here is that strong prisoners manage weak prisoners, and everyone relies on their fists to do everything.

    The prisoners here are not without any hope. In addition to the expiration of their exile period, the Tsar's amnesty, war conscription, etc. are all shortcuts to leaving this damn place.

    This is what the Tsarist Russian cabinet wants to play now. If it works well, it will be good for you and me. If it doesn't work well, even if the whole army is wiped out, the only losses will be the 50,000 to 60,000 troops in Siberia - those exiled prisoners who were temporarily added to the army.  It seems that the top brass of Tsarist Russia are no longer human beings.

    Historically, the troops formed by these exiled prisoners were quite effective in combat, especially in urban street fighting.  In that six-month winter of that year, Siberia was covered with snow and cold winds, and there was a lack of supplies. After a few years, no matter who entered the city with weapons, they would not be able to help but rob. As for entering the city to rob, they could even  Not even his life.  But after these people entered the city, the most dangerous thing became the lone Tsarist Russian military police. Once there were signs of stopping the looting, they would be attacked in groups.

    For these prisoners who were exiled as much or as little as they wanted (whether you stole bread or wanted to overthrow the tsarist rule by force, this was the end), it didn¡¯t matter what you did as long as you could escape from the place of exile alive.

    After the Russian cabinet sorted out the information overnight, it began the second round of negotiations with the Emperor's special envoy Ishihara Kanji.

    They don¡¯t like to suffer losses. They think that if they are invited to send troops, the emperor will have to bear the full military expenses to avoid losing everything.

    Of course Ishihara Wanji disagrees. People all over the country are starving for the jihad, and there is no spare money to pay for military expenses.  If you have that kind of money, you might as well buy more iron ore, petroleum and rubber.  Besides, I've already given you a large piece of territory. Isn't that enough?  Anyway, Ishihara Wanji bit him to death and got no money at all.

    The explanation of the Russian cabinet is that the land has not yet been obtained and used as a mortgage for sending troops. Even if the emperor refuses to pay, you still have to mortgage some places, such as Heilongjiang or something.  At the same time, the Tsarist Russian cabinet also stated that if Tsarist Russia is really desperate, Tsarist Russia may not send troops at all. Now our focus is Europe and Central and Western Asia.  The war you started for your country involves us too. We can forget about it even if we don¡¯t get a cent, and we don¡¯t have any windows.

    Ishihara Wanji couldn't make up his mind about this kind of thing - if he could, he would be designated as a national thief, and he would be punished by heaven and earth one day.  You can only request instructions from the emperor and cabinet by telegram.??The negotiations did not take long, and finally the emperor and the Russian cabinet finally reached an agreement to make Heilongjiang a jointly administered area by Japan, Russia, and Manchuria, and the three countries would jointly send troops to garrison it.  Japan, Russia, and Manchuria all respect each other's rights and interests in Heilongjiang.

    Oda, who was sent to Kumamoto Prefecture in Kyushu to cut trees because he wanted to defeat Emperor Jimmu, saw the news in the newspaper that Tsarist Russia declared war on Chiang Kai-shek's regime in Nanjing and the Three Kingdoms jointly administered Heilongjiang. He sighed: "This is made from the iron of Kyushu.  Big mistake." (To be continued. If you like this work, you are welcome to come to (this site) to subscribe and reward. Your support is my biggest motivation.)
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