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Volume 2 Beijing Story Chapter 213 The Allied Powers with Mixed Happiness and Sadness

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    There are actually differences within the Chinese government on participating in the Allied intervention in Russia. In the eyes of many people, it is already a great achievement to take advantage of the civil strife in Russia to take back Outer Mongolia and the Middle East Road. Going further would be a bit overestimating one's capabilities.  , participating in the war model army would create a new army containing 500,000 people in 17 integrated divisions.

    But firstly, China has not yet been truly unified, and secondly, how can it dare to go north to provoke Lao Maozi with only 500,000 troops in 16 divisions?  Outer Mongolia and the Middle East Road are both Chinese territories. It makes sense to take them back even if they risk their lives, but the 1.5 million square kilometers of land ceded since the Treaty of Nerchinsk.

    Can Russia spit it out honestly?  Let¡¯s not talk about the vast icy and snowy wilderness of Siberia, let¡¯s talk about the Far East. The land from Vladivostok to Boli is a fertile and oily place like our Heilongjiang. The Russians have been operating the base area for almost 80 years, which can be compared with Outer Mongolia.  Give up so easily on the Middle Road?

    The Russo-Japanese War in 1905 is still fresh in many people¡¯s memory. Japan is so domineering, but it¡¯s not easy for Lao Maozi to face it.  In this Russo-Japanese War, the Russians only used 500,000 troops, but defeated the 400,000 Japanese troops in disgrace. Japan may have won, but it created a miracle that the defeated country did not pay compensation or cede territory.

    what reason?  Isn¡¯t it that Japan is afraid of being beaten by the Russians?  Today, after losing the Dalian concession in Port Arthur and the entire Middle East Road, can the Russians easily give up the Far East and return it to China?  I don¡¯t even believe it!

    Lao Maozi is a master who can fight Germany and Austria to the death. I heard that more than 1.5 million people can be dispatched in a single battle. In the past few years, there are millions of Russian prisoners in German prisoner-of-war camps alone. China  How could such a backward country defeat Russia, which was so confident?

    Not to mention that the Congress and the Southern Party think it is a fantasy for China to regain the border line 200 years ago. Even within the Anhui clique, there are endless voices like this. It is said that China's national power is too weak and its army is too small to be able to fight a war.  , even if all the 500,000 participating troops go to Siberia to fight with the Russians, they may not be able to gain the upper hand.

    The Chinese government must remember not to be led by the Allies, Britain and the United States. Judging from the experience of the European War until now, a mere 500,000-strong army will never change the course of the war. Which country would not mobilize when the war started with Britain, France, Germany, Austria and Russia?  Millions of troops?  Wang Geng is trying to take risks with the model army participating in the war and China's national destiny!

    There is no hope of winning, but if you lose, you will be out of control!  There are not a few people who are waiting to see the jokes made by Duan Qirui's government and the war supervisors. Although many of them are concerned about the country and the people and may not target Duan Qirui and Wang Geng personally, they obviously think that the Chinese government is making a big gamble.

    Privately, the Prime Minister actually had doubts about Wang Geng's attack on the western front of Kyaktu in Outer Mongolia. In his and Xu Shuzheng's view, it was a bit far-fetched to say that Lake Baikal in the north of Outer Mongolia was Chinese land.  Dating back to the Yuan and Ming dynasties, the northern end of Lake Baikal stretched all the way east to the mouth of Heilongjiang. This land was called Oara in the Ming Dynasty.

    According to Wang Geng¡¯s explanation to the Prime Minister and Xu Shuzheng, recovering the Chinese territory originally demarcated in the ¡°Sino-Russian Treaty of Nerchinsk¡± is the bottom line for China¡¯s participation in the Allied intervention in Russia¡¯s military affairs. China¡¯s main goal is of course the East  section, but the Western Front is a bargaining chip used in future negotiations.

    In the map drawn by Wang Geng, a pro-Allied puppet Russia was supported to the west of Lake Baikal, while the sterile areas north of Lake Baikal could be given to Japan. China would first extend the northern end of Lake Baikal to the east to the sea.  Take it down.

    "Actually, we have only restored the northern border between the Ming Dynasty and Oara. We are still far away from restoring the territory of the Yuan Dynasty! There are so many places to the north and west of Xinjiang that we haven't had time to visit yet!" Wang Geng said in a confident tone  There is a hint of melancholy in it.

    ??Obviously, the reunification and prosperity of a country cannot be achieved overnight. If industrialization is not completed, the economy is not developed, heavy industry cannot be promoted, and the overall strength of the country is not improved, relying on foreign borrowing to achieve regional hegemony is a pipe dream!

    The progress on the first day of the cross-border operation of the Chinese participating troops made the entire country's ruling and opposition parties immersed in a conflicting mood of anxiety and joy. Of course, the Prime Minister and the Cabinet were very happy, and President Feng Guozhang was also smiling from ear to ear. Wang Tingzhen's first  The Seventh Division advanced faster than others in the Far East on the first day!

    Of course, Zhang Zuolin, the new chief of staff of the Chinese Army, was also overjoyed. After all, it was Zhang Zuoxiang, his brother, who was leading the charge. Cao Kun, chief of staff of the Presidential Palace, was also beaming. After all, Wu Peifu's third division created another 230-kilometer daily march and captured Ulan-Ude.  The miracle!

    As for Wang Geng, there is nothing to say. As the unswerving founder of the Participating Army, he enjoys the joy brought by all the victories of the Participating Army with peace of mind!

    The United States, Britain and France have mixed opinions on the progress made by the Chinese and Japanese forces in intervening in the situation in Russia. In particular, the two countries, Britain and France, responded to China's unilateral announcement.The Soviet Russian government's declaration that it will immediately recover all the lands ceded since the signing of the Treaty of Nerchinsk between China and Russia is actually full of doubts.

    What the UK is thinking about is whether China will take back Hong Kong Island in the future?  The Sino-Indian border over there is even more of a mess.  Is the line drawn by McMahon four years ago considered the China-India boundary line?

    The McMahon Line was created in 1914 by McMahon, the Foreign Secretary of the British-Indian government, who conceived a dividing line between India and Tibet, using the connecting line of the Himalayan Ridge Divide as the boundary.  Representatives of China's Beiyang government conducted an exchange of demarcation notes.

    At that time, the Chinese government, which had sovereignty over Japan, did not know anything about this matter. The Dalai Lama and the Kasha regime did not give their representatives participating in the Simla Conference the authorization to demarcate the border. The Kasha regime later learned about the situation.  No recognition of the line McMahon drew!

    With the rise of China's participating armies and the strength of Duan Qirui's government, the UK, which is exhausted by the quagmire of the European War, will certainly not take the initiative to mention the McMahon Line again, but the hidden worries in the future will not go away. As for Hong Kong Island  , is nothing more than a window for China to open up to the outside world.

    If China wants to take back Hong Kong Island, it can be taken back in seconds militarily. In Wang Geng's previous life, when Japan moved south, Hong Kong fell much faster than the British army retreated. Now that China has promised to take back Hong Kong Island in Europe,  Before the end of the war, the status quo was maintained. Since Japan occupied Southern Manchuria, Kanto Prefecture, Jiaozhou Bay and Qingdao, Britain was not worried about the safety of Hong Kong.

    However, Britain and France, which are beyond the reach of the situation in Asia at the moment, are obviously deeply worried about the benefits that China and Japan have gained from this sick polar bear in Russia.

    The United States has different ideas. Americans believe in an open door and equal interests. The Duan Qirui government fully understands and approves of the United States' China policy. What's more, Wang Geng, the superintendent of the war, and the U.S. government and opposition parties have countless connections.  Threads of connection.

    Whether it is the United States itself or other Allied partners, Wang Geng is now taken for granted as the agent of American interests in China, and the participating troops are supported and armed by the United States to defend the relations and peace between China and the United States.  Guards for the common good!

    After the Soviet Russian government's negotiations with Germany broke down, the originally slow-moving but huge and confident polar bear in the Allied camp became the target of everyone going down to the mountains to pick peaches. The Soviet Russian government did not want war or peace, and demobilized the Russian army on a large scale, and  The practice of building up the Soviet Red Army while retreating and retreating from the front line was hard to figure out.

    But the United States, Britain, France and Germany and Austria knew very well that the final decisive battle must still be on the Western Front. Between the United States, Britain, France and Germany and Austria, the farce on the Eastern Front was just a matter of both sides trying desperately to fill their stomachs before the decisive battle to gain a little more confidence.  That¡¯s all!

    If Germany and Austria get the Ukrainian steel industry base, they will get Russia's largest steel base in Donets in southeastern Ukraine, the economic zone along the Dnieper River. The output of pig iron, steel and steel products here accounts for 45%, 37% and 38% of the country's total respectively.  , coupled with the oil in the Caucasus, if Romania's oil production is restored, and if Germany and Austria can support several so-called pro-German countries, then Germany and Austria will eventually win the war in Europe.  possible.

    Just as U.S. President Woodrow Wilson said, the purpose of the United States' participation in the war is to end this meaningless war. At this moment, there is no such thing as justice or injustice on both sides of the European War. The U.S. military's participation in the war is just to end this human tragedy as soon as possible.  !

    Therefore, when it comes to cutting meat from the sick Russian polar bear, the attention of Britain, the United States, and France can only be limited to Europe and the Western Front. The Eastern Front and the Far East of Asia must rely on the power of Japan and China. Although Asia among the two Allied Powers  The brothers are also deeply suspicious of each other, but the Allied family still has to push China and Japan to join hands to intervene in Russia's domestic situation.

    For the Allies, it is best for China and Japan to control the vast area east of the Ural Mountains and arm and support them as soon as possible together with Britain, the United States and France. The sympathizers of the Provisional Government and the Constituent Assembly were established west of the Ural Mountains and Novosibirsk.  A pro-Western Russian puppet force within the framework of the Allied Powers is the basic goal of the Allied Powers in launching this intervention!
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