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Chapter 315 Japan wants to intervene in the Middle East Route

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    What kind of cooperation can benefit both sides? Is it good for you, Japan?  What¡¯s wrong with Ji, Feng, and Meng being integrated into one body?  Isn¡¯t it convenient for you Japanese to infiltrate north?  Zhang Zuolin said with a smile: "Mr. Yoshida, isn't it just a loan? It's worth your coming in person!"

    Yoshida Shigeru smiled and said: "The loan is not a big deal, but the general's attitude towards the Japanese is the key point."

    Zhang Hanqing interjected: "Mr. Yoshida, my father's relationship with Japanese friends is well known and there is no doubt about it. It's just that my father has just taken control of the three northeastern provinces and is confused among thousands of things. Coupled with the financial constraints, he has no interest in borrowing money."  . This loan will have to be repaid by the National Unification Committee in the future."

    ???????????????????????????But it seems that the relationship between Lao Zhang and the Japanese is not very good, right?

    Yoshida Shigeru then said: "If the general feels that the borrowing costs are too high, Yoshida can find ways to accommodate. The general can use low-interest loans or extend the repayment time. In this way, the pressure of repayment in the future will be much less. I don't know what the general wants.  ?¡±

    Oh, do you also put a long -term fishing fish.  One more day for the Japanese to stay, and one more day for us to suffer.  Zhang Zuolin said without hesitation: "The 'Zhengbai Railway' is too remote and will not be of great benefit to Jilin's construction. The limited money must be spent wisely, and I have other plans."

    Yoshida Shigeru saw that he could not get through to Zhang Zuolin, and at this time there was no sufficient reason to ask Zhang Zuolin to surrender, so he had to say: "General, please think twice. However, the terms of building the fifth Manchuria-Mongolia railway are still valid. As long as the general wants to build a railway in the Northeast, we will still wait."  Good news.¡±

    His words were neither salty nor cold, but the implication was very clear: These railways have been planned by the Japanese a long time ago. If you want to bypass us in the Northeast and work alone, there is no way.

    Zhang Zuolin knew what he meant, and there was no need to be quick-tongued. He said calmly: "Please wait, there will be good news in the future."

    The Japanese have planned Fengtian and half of Jilin. If they really want to build a railway from scratch, it will be difficult to bypass the five railway routes designated by the Japanese.  However, Zhang Hanqing had no intention of competing with the Japanese in these places. His eyes had turned to the north, where there were more pressing matters than building railways.

    The October Revolution was a historic event of far-reaching significance that occurred in the vast Tsarist Russian Empire in distant Eastern Europe. It also had a profound impact on China, which was thousands of miles away.  Zhang Hanqing is determined to use this rare opportunity to speed up Fengjun's development.

    There is no need to elaborate on the cause, but this is the period of modern history that Zhang Hanqing is most familiar with - this is the result of endless political education from primary school to university before time travel.  As far as he knew, Soviet Russia experienced the first difficult stage and the first great famine.

    At the end of the First World War, after the October Revolution broke out in Russia in 1917, the Russian government collapsed. The Bolsheviks established the Soviet government and ceased war with Germany.  On March 6, 1918, the Soviet Union and Germany signed the Treaty of Brest-Litovsk, ceding land in exchange for peace, thereby stabilizing Germany's attack on Soviet Russia.

    But this move also angered various forces that opposed the Bolsheviks in the Soviet Union and abroad. Winston Churchill once said that the Bolsheviks must be "strangled in the cradle."  The fear of the proletarian revolutionary movement and the desire to plunder unite the capitalist world in hatred of the Soviet state and its huge revolutionary influence on the working class of bourgeois countries and the oppressed masses in colonies and semi-colonies, and attempt to eliminate this revolution  ¡¯s birthplace.

    Therefore, while the Soviet foothold was not yet stable, the old forces of Tsarist Russia, opponents of the Soviet regime (the White Army), and overseas imperialist countries took action together, resulting in what is known in history as the Soviet Civil War or the War of Intervention against the Soviet Union.  The three-year civil war (the remaining war extended for 2 years) was also called the "Civil War and Armed Intervention from 1917 to 1922" in the Soviet Union.

    On March 15, 1918, a joint meeting of Prime Ministers and Foreign Ministers of the Allied Powers held in London adopted a resolution on "joint intervention in eastern Russia."  At the end of May, the Czechoslovak Legion, composed of World War I prisoners of war, fired the first shot of the civil war against the Soviet Republic under the planning of the Allied Powers.  The army quickly expanded from 20,000 to more than 60,000, and supported counterrevolutionary forces in various parts of the east, established a number of counterrevolutionary governments, and established a number of counterrevolutionary armed forces.

    At the same time, the old Russian generals Krasnov, Alexeev, Denikin and others, supported by Germany, were also gathering counter-revolutionary armed forces in southern Russia, waiting for opportunities to invade the Don River, Kuban, and Caucasus.

    By the summer of 1918, the Soviet Republic was facing a severe situation surrounded by foreign armed interventionists and Russian counter-revolutionary forces. They successively occupied large areas such as Ukraine, part of the Volga River Basin, the Caucasus, Central Asia, the Urals, Siberia and the Far East, and almost  equivalent to soviet republicThree-quarters of the country's territory has formed several fronts in the east, south, north and Caucasus, stretching for more than 10,000 kilometers.  At this time, there were a total of more than 700,000 White troops across the entire front, who were well-equipped and well-trained.

    The Soviet Republic, under military siege and economic blockade, faced great difficulties: its connection with the southern grain-producing areas was cut off, its industry collapsed, kulaks who opposed the grain monopoly policy continued to riot, famine spread, and the people suffered from hunger.

    With the confrontation between the old and new forces, the Soviet Union¡¯s national strength has weakened, and Russia¡¯s old forces in China have been given an opportunity to cleanse themselves. In particular, the Middle East Route, which is a symbol of sovereignty and has great economic and military value, has a great opportunity to be easily obtained without any effort.  But in the official history, it did not go well for various reasons.

    The Middle East Route was the concrete product of Tsarist Russia¡¯s invasion of Northeast China.  After Russia forced the late Qing government to cede the Far East, it extended its black hands to the Northeast. Since the Sino-Japanese War of Sino-Japanese War, Japan defeated China, the Asian leader for thousands of years, and annexed North Korea, it has also set its sights on the Northeast.  The dispute between the two countries is known in history as the "Russian-Japanese War" over the competition for Port Arthur in China.  In this dog-eat-dog dispute on Chinese territory, the late Qing government shamelessly declared "neutrality"!

    After the Russo-Japanese War, although Japan won, it was purely a fluke. In addition to the huge mistakes in naval command, one of the important reasons for Russia's defeat was the inability of the army to obtain effective logistical supplies, because at that time Russia's Trans-Siberian Railway  Not yet completed.  Even after the huge defeat in Northeast China, Russia, which was stubborn and unyielding, was still unable to force Japan, a new powerful country.

    Japan, which suffered a tragic victory, mobilized the whole country and was almost on the verge of bankruptcy. It finally defeated the polar bear, but did not receive any compensation from Russia.  With no other choice, the two countries reluctantly passed an agreement to jointly manage Northeast China, which is the infamous "Portsmouth Treaty" in history.  According to the treaty, Russia transferred the Kanto Prefecture and the railway from Changchun to Lushunkou (later renamed the South Manchuria Railway) and all corresponding privileges to Japan. Changchun became the dividing point between Japanese and Russian forces.

    Russia still has a sphere of influence in Heilongjiang, and "shares management" with China of the railways from Changchun to Harbin and from Manzhouli to Suifenhe, namely the North Manchuria Railway, also known as the Middle East Railway.  In the "Eastern Railway Treaty" and the "Additional Treaty of Portsmouth Peace", it was stipulated that Russia could only station police but not troops along the railway. However, "for the purpose of protecting the railway, (Japan and Russia) two countries, regarding the Manchuria Railway,  There must be twenty-five fully equipped soldiers per kilometer."  After the European War, most of the 30,000 Russian troops stationed in Harbin and the 60,000 troops guarding the Middle East Road were transferred to Europe. The remaining troops were divided into the old and the new parties, and the conflict was fierce.

    The Japanese militarists had long had ambitions for the Russian Far East and the northeastern and northern parts of our country that were still under the control of the Soviet Union. So they took advantage of the fact that the Soviet Union was busy dealing with the war in Europe and had no time to look eastward. They used the excuse of rescuing the Czech army to launch a campaign of war between the United States and Britain under the pretext of rescuing the Czech army.  Under the pretext of joint intervention, France and Japan launched a long-planned war of aggression.  Its purpose is to monopolize the Soviet Far East region and create Japan's puppet regime, so as to bring the Soviet Far East region into Japan's sphere of influence.

    Japan is at the forefront of intervention by other countries.  In order to carry out this war of aggression, Japan's active military and reserve forces were mobilized, and the so-called Vladivostok Expeditionary Army Headquarters was specially organized. A declaration of dispatch of troops was issued on August 2, 1918, kicking off the war of aggression.

    The situation in Soviet Russia at that time was that there were only 300,000 regular troops before and after Japan sent troops, and they were all fighting in Europe.  There are only about 25,000 irregular troops in the Far East.  What is particularly noteworthy is that when Japan sent troops, the Siberian Railway, except for the Ussuri and Amur sections, was under the control of anti-Soviet forces. Therefore, the Soviets were unable and unable to support the Far East at the beginning or even the middle of the Japanese invasion.  of.

    After the Japanese occupied Vladivostok, they could rely on the long Far East Railway to reach the Siberian hinterland of Soviet Russia. There was no need to do what they said: "Soviet Russia is extremely deep. Starting from the corner of Vladivostok in the Far East is certainly not as good as North Manchuria, which is closer to the hinterland of Siberia."  The line comes quickly and supplies are easy to obtain.¡±  The Japanese government's wishful thinking is that as long as I board this railway, because I help China "recover" lost territory, I will naturally enjoy the fruits of victory.

    If he takes this opportunity to stay here and refuse to leave, the Chinese government will not dare to send troops to expel him, right?  Over time, after a fait accompli was created, he had enough excuses to really stay here: to protect the expatriates, to maintain public order Anyway, you don't dare to say anything about whatever is good to hear!

    In this way, the entire Heilongjiang is under the control of the Japanese. In particular, by controlling this railway, the perfect integration of the South and North Manchuria railways can be achieved.

    ¡°If China could gain control of the Middle East Route earlier, it would be able to limit Japan¡¯s actions in Northern Manchuria under the pretext of interfering with Soviet Russia, and Heilongjiang could also become a stable rear for the Fengtian clique.  However, at this point, there are many opinions within Fengjun: No one would have expected that the situation would take a turn for the worse and become out of control!  And if the Japanese and Western devils work together, the fragile governments of the three northeastern provinces may not be able to withstand it!  (Remember the website address: www.hlnovel.com)The provincial government may not be able to withstand it!  (Remember the website address: www.hlnovel.com
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