Chapter 219

The Sino-Japanese negotiations are like a horse-drawn race. For China, although there are some unfavorable factors for prolongation, the impact will not be significant. The Republic of China, with the small-scale peasant economy as the main body, has little economic dependence on the outside world. Moreover, China **

The Japanese team has an advantage on the land battlefield, so they can drag it out to see who can drag it on. In contrast, the Japanese side is dragging it out.

It feels uncomfortable, just like constipation, long and painful. Japan's powerful navy cannot reach land and can only block the sea. The problem is that this blockade is very difficult for a big country like China with a strong economic self-sufficiency.

The threat is very small. Even if there is some foreign trade, it is all in cooperation with foreigners. How dare the Japanese navy stop the ships of European and American powers?

Looking back at the Japanese Army, based on the current scale, there are twenty standing divisions, two of which have been rebuilt, one is being rebuilt, two were disabled and are being replenished, and two are slightly injured. If fully calculated, ten divisions can be produced.

The strength of six divisions comes. Regardless of economic factors, at least one division must be left in the country to look after the country? The remaining fifteen divisions have no more than 400,000 troops and more than 500 artillery pieces of more than 100 calibers.

Door. Comparing the number of ** troops, if you don’t count the B divisions that are being trained, there are twenty-four A divisions, which is more than 360,000, and there are forty B divisions, which is 600,000. Even if

According to the estimated combat effectiveness of one to two, the Chinese ** team is also well-off. The key is cross-border operations. The lessons of the Qingdao War are profound. The Chinese are very ruthless in clearing the country. Their supplies rely entirely on domestic transportation, which is too stressful.

To sum up, even if we launch a full-scale war and carry out nationwide mobilization, how to solve the logistical supply problem for millions of troops? There is another more terrible thing, how to defend against submarines? There is no experience at all! The battle patrols have been sunk, and the sea cruisers have been sunk.

What should we do about transportation lines? Japan is an island country and without sea transportation lines, it will

It's like a broken foot. The Chinese also have two heavy cruisers visiting Hawaii. Once these two heavy cruisers go out to sea and run rampant, with the covert support of the Americans, the cargo ships on this transportation line will be meat on the chopping block.

.Don’t believe it, just look at how the British have made the German Far East Fleet crazy.

Therefore, negotiation is the only way out. The question is how to strive for the greatest benefits at the negotiation table.

After the resumption of negotiations, China and Japan began to show their talents outside the negotiation table. On October 16, a Japanese navy squadron bombarded Fuzhou. Hundreds of innocent people were killed and more than a thousand injured. That night,

Chinese submarines attacked three Japanese cargo ships north of the Taiwan Strait.

At 8 o'clock in the morning on the same day, a submarine broke into the Tsushima Strait and sank two Japanese freighters and four fishing boats. It also ambushed a light cruiser that rushed to the scene. Although it failed to sink it, the cruiser lost its combat effectiveness.

.If it weren’t for the other warships on the side, this ship probably wouldn’t have been saved.

At noon on the 17th, the main force of the Chinese Army entered Andong, and the Anshan-Shenyang Railway was completely controlled by the Chinese.

The Japanese military has penetrated China deeply. Under normal circumstances, the development of the Chinese Army cannot escape the eyes of the Japanese military. That is to say, with the emergence of such a defiant Fang Jianxiong, the Chinese Army has suddenly risen. In just a few years

At that time, millions of troops rose up. This is the advantage of a big country. It has a sufficient population and many people are willing to serve as soldiers.

When resorting to war to force the other party to surrender cannot be established and the cost of war is too high, even Japan, which has the upper hand in strength, can only sit down and negotiate. Of course, this process is destined to be slow. Now is not the year of Sino-Japanese War.

The U.S. Consulate is not Chunfan Tower, and Marshal Fang is not Li Hongzhang.

The two sides of the negotiation were deadlocked on the issue of who is the winner from the beginning. China insists that it is the winner. Since it is the winner, it should enjoy the benefits of the winner. Therefore, the conditions offered are very harsh. After the Gengzi Year in Japan

All the benefits gained in China should be returned to the Republic of China government. Of course the Japanese government would not do this. If it wanted to do this, the government would go bankrupt.

Japan insists that it is the winner. Japan's powerful navy can destroy any place along the coast of China at any time. China is facing each other and points out one fact: Which country did the cruiser that sank outside Wusongkou belong to? The 40,000 corpses left on the Jiaodong Peninsula,

They include one lieutenant general and six major generals. Are these from the Republic of China?

At the negotiation table, they were naturally looking for the other side's scars to expose. The Japanese representative got up and left angrily, saying that he would let the cannon do the talking.

On the morning of October 10th, the Japanese troops in Tianjin approached Langfang and shelled our positions. The heavy artillery units of the National Defense Forces immediately returned fire. In the afternoon of the same day, the National Defense Forces of the Republic of China suddenly moved south along the South Manchuria Railway with two divisions and advanced to the vicinity of Jinzhou at dusk.

, and conducted an artillery bombardment for about two hours. There was only one brigade in Jinzhou defending the enemy. In the face of superior forces, it could only defend passively. What caused the most pain to the Japanese was that the South Manchuria Railway, which was built at a huge cost, became a rapid defense force for the National Defense Forces.

A weapon for transporting troops.

On October 11, the negotiations continued. At noon that day, twenty aircraft bombed the Japanese artillery positions near Langfang, destroying several Japanese heavy artillery pieces, and guided our artillery troops to bombard the Japanese artillery positions. More than half of the Japanese artillery brigades were lost.

.At the same time, the National Defense Forces assembled ten divisions near Langfang, and they were likely to take the initiative to attack. One division of the Japanese army took the initiative to retreat and move closer to the other two divisions to avoid being divided and surrounded. Qingdao

After the war, on the surface, the Japanese government was still clamoring that one division could fight three Class A divisions. In fact, this was not the case. The Japanese officers on the front line knew very well that even if it was two Class A divisions, let alone three divisions,

It can also compete head-on with a full Japanese division and gain the upper hand.

The strength of ten divisions, even if they are all B divisions, still has more than 100,000 people. It is simply not something that one division of more than 20,000 people can stop. The Chinese ** team fighting at home also showed great bravery.

It was beyond the expectations of the Japanese army. Not to mention that Japan was far behind in aviation, and all detection methods were ineffective. It could only rely on human detection. Under China's strict defense, it was difficult to transmit the news. In order to deliver the message, the Chinese team assembled ten

News about the division's strength was revealed at a Japanese intelligence station in Langfang. A Japanese spy and three traitors bribed by the Japanese confessed after being captured. They were executed by firing squad the next day.

The tit-for-tat confrontation at the negotiation table is even more intense on the battlefield, but neither side has the intention of a full-scale war.

Time passed slowly and quickly in the tug-of-war of negotiations. Two months passed quickly, and winter came in the blink of an eye. Before the end of 1914, with the vigorous mediation of the four countries, the negotiations between China and Japan finally achieved a breakthrough.

progress.

The exhausted negotiators finally reached a preliminary agreement with the approval of the two governments. Starting from January 1, 1915, China and Japan disarmed and opposed each other, and Japan gave up the Boxer Indemnity in its interests in China.

, maintaining the interests of Port Arthur and the Dalian Bay Concession captured from the Russians, and giving up other interests. China and Japan will not compensate each other.

Japan suffered a loss in this preliminary agreement, but there was nothing that could be done. Under the premise that China would not give in even if it killed people, Britain and the United States provided Japan with a loan of 50 million pounds. At the same time, the U.S. government said it would forgive part of Japan's debt.

The specific details are unknown outside the two countries. Through this negotiation, the United States established its dominant position in its interests in China. Although the British were dissatisfied with this, they had nothing to do. Most of the interests in the Yangtze River Basin were not damaged.

Under the premise that the British still need help from the United States in terms of war supplies.

The ensuing negotiations continued, and the two sides continued to quarrel over some details. New Year's Day came in 1915. The Japanese army began to withdraw from Yangkou and Tianjin, and the Chinese Army gradually recovered its main force, leaving only one B division in Anton.

When Asia gradually calmed down, the war clouds in Europe began again. Marshal Fang's butterfly wings once again had a small catalytic effect. Since the losses on the Western Front were not that great, the German side lost ground in the Battle of Gorlice on the Eastern Front.

, exactly two months ahead of schedule. The German army's plan to launch a large-scale attack on the right wing of the Russian Southwest Front included a breakthrough in the Gorlice area between the upper reaches of the Vistula River and the foothills of the Beskid Mountains.

(Belonging to Austria-Hungary and occupied by the Russian army), encircling and annihilating the Russian 3rd Army (commanded by General Radko-Dmitriev). The German 11th Army (commanded by General A. von Mackensen) served as the main attack, and Austria-Hungary

The army cooperated on both wings. The troops of 10 infantry divisions and 1 cavalry division (126,000 people, 457 light artillery, 159 heavy artillery, and 100 tanks) were concentrated on the 35-kilometer-wide breakthrough area.

During the course of this battle, tanks once again shone brightly. The area attacked by the Germans only had 60,000 Russian troops fortified, with more than a hundred light artillery and several heavy artillery, and the logistics supplies were also very poor.

At the beginning of the battle, the German tank commander Colonel Bob commanded the tank troops to adopt a brand-new tactic. The source of this tactic was a small notebook given to Bob by Marshal Fang. How to solve the problem of using tanks as an assault force?

To solve the cover problem, Bob boldly proposed using cavalry to accompany the tanks. This plan actually got the support of General Mackensen

The reason is probably because Bob performed well on the Western Front battlefield. During the Western Front war, Bob calmly commanded the troops and made early preparations. Bob, who severely damaged the British and French pursuers, was promoted to colonel. Later, through connections, he was transferred to the tank unit. As a member of the Levinsky family

As a member of the military, Bob was inconspicuous in history and could be said to be unknown. But in this time and space, Bob shined brightly in the military.

On March 1, after the German army conducted a short twenty-four-hour artillery preparation (which was indeed short enough in World War I), a hundred tanks were arranged in a cone. With the help of engineers, they quickly launched a powerful artillery fire.

assault. Although the Russians had long been prepared for tanks and were not so panicked, the Russian army, which lacked anti-tank weapons, faced the first concentrated use of tank assault tactics.

, there was no way. The German tank troops easily tore through the Russian defense line, followed by a cavalry division. The Third Army of the Russian Southwest Front fell into a tight siege twenty-four hours after the battle began. The Russian base camp was in emergency
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