Travel through the Qing Dynasty and become emperor

Chapter 98
With the end of the Sino-British Burma War, Guan Xuqing had already set his sights on the land of Siberia.

Although he knew in his heart that Britain's defeat this time was not because the Qing Dynasty had an overwhelming advantage in combat power or the people who had already fallen in Britain were bullied by others, the main reason was that the British Empire had too many colonies and could not take into account the simultaneous In war, since ancient times, unless one has considerable strength in multi-line warfare, one will be dragged to death. Germany in World War I and World War II has shown this to Guan Xuqing.What's more, this time it is the United Kingdom, which has gone downhill.

The high-profile report of "Daqing Daily" made the people regard Guan Xuqing as a god again.What was defeated this time was the empire on which the sun never set, which was invincible at the time. For the Qing Dynasty, the withdrawal of customs duties could not only earn a large amount of tax money, but also restrict the import of various foreign items.The first thing to be banned by Guan Xuqing was opium, and raising tariffs could protect the development of national enterprises.

This battle led to a prosperous Guangxu era. After taking back Hong Kong, the Qing Dynasty was no longer a colony of any country.However, Jiaozhou Bay, which was rented out in order to form an alliance with Russia, has been brutally occupied by "Jiyuan". Several Russian gunboats docked in the port have already evacuated the harbor that theoretically still belongs to them.

And Britain, which is full of anger, has suffered such a big loss in Myanmar, of course it hopes to gain something in other places.

The barbaric invasion of Burma and Russia, the United Kingdom concentrated all its forces in the Far East in Afghanistan, Turkey, and Iran to fight back against the land occupied by Russia.Regardless of Russia's proposal to return the land of Turkey and Iran, and only retain part of the interests of Afghanistan and other conditions, it just blindly and frantically attacks any place where there are Russians.

In Xinjiang, Heilongjiang, and Mongolia, more than 30 elite troops of the Qing Dynasty were assembled. Alexander III was helpless.

But more than half a month has passed, and the Qing Dynasty only assembled troops without any deviant actions.This made Alexander III unable to understand.

In fact, as the Russian general Podolnov said, the entire Qing Dynasty expanded by 40 troops.Before the Sino-British Burma War, the country’s gun bureaus and massive orders from various countries were exhausted and the equipment was barely completed after working overtime. After the war, the consumption of ammunition was very serious.

The situation in Myanmar was unstable, so guns and ammunition were urgently transferred from the rest of the troops to Myanmar, resulting in a serious shortage of ammunition for the three 10,000+ armies in Heilongjiang, Xinjiang, and Mongolia. Some troops even had cannons but no shells.There are only guns and no bullets.Therefore, after the troops are assembled, they still need to wait for the replenishment of ammunition.

However, the British wanted to suppress the hungry wolf of Russia.He repeatedly urged Guan Xuqing to use troops against Russia, hoping to fulfill the terms of the Sino-British Burmese armistice agreement, and said that he had prepared 1000 million pounds of military expenditure.

Of course Guan Xuqing understood that the British were using him as a saber.Suppressing Russia indirectly helped Britain, and also made China completely offend Russia, and there will never be peace in northern Xinjiang.Britain will have the opportunity to attack Burma again. How can these small calculations escape Guan Xuqing's eyes.But what was before him was not the question of whether to fight Russia, but the question of ammunition.

Years of wars caused the money in the Qing treasury to flow out like running water.Just had a little surplus, and immediately expanded 40 troops.

In addition, last year I purchased a complete set of shipbuilding machines from France, hired a large number of foreign engineers and designers, and are working hard to build an ironclad ship of the same level as "Zhenyuan". Eight 18.5mm secondary guns were added to the side strings.There are a total of 15.5 guns over 240mm on the ship, and two 240mm main guns on the front deck and two on the rear deck.There are a total of 12 other 370mm and 180mm cannons and machine guns. If manufactured, it would definitely be the most powerful ironclad ship in the world at that time, with a displacement slightly larger than "Zhenyuan", with a displacement of 140 tons.

Guan Xuqing is well aware that in modern warfare with aircraft, command of the sea still plays a decisive role.Therefore, I dare not relax at all in the investment of the navy. In order to build the most terrifying ironclad ship in the world, on the one hand, I recalled the single-handled super ship that studied shipbuilding technology in Germany and returned to Mawei Naval Port to study with French engineers. On the other hand, I specially approved two ships. One hundred million taels of silver is the most expensive, and once it is successfully manufactured, it will be mass-produced.

With the help of French designers, Tang Hong, the technical director of Jiangnan Shipbuilding Bureau, is building a cruiser identical to "Riding the Wind" and "Breaking the Waves", and one has already been launched for sea trials.In order to celebrate the Qing Dynasty's creation of the world's most advanced cruiser, Guan Xuqing specially named the ship "Rising"

Everything became reality bit by bit according to Guan Xuqing's plan. Finally, after three reminders and four requests from the British, and after the ammunition of each army was fully replenished, Guan Xuqing finally issued an order to march against Russia.

The so-called teachers are famous, and Guan Xuqing's eloquent declaration of war to safeguard the country's territorial integrity is full of enthusiasm.

The Chinese people watched with enthusiasm, and there were no accusations or protests internationally, and even received a British military sponsorship of 1000 million pounds.

"Tsarist Russia has always taken the conquest of Asia, Europe, and the Pacific Ocean as its national policy. Hundreds of years ago, the Treaty of Nerchinsk stipulated that the Geerbiti River near the Thorna River, which flows down to the left bank of the Shilka River, was defined as the border between the two countries.

From the stone mountain at the source of the river, along the ridge of the mountain to the sea: all the rivers that flow into the Amur River in the south of the mountain belong to the Qing Dynasty.However, the Tsarist-Russian wolf was ambitious, and often crossed the border to rob, murder and set fire, and repeatedly used the excuse of redrawing the border to cut off our Daqing territory. Our Qing Dynasty, in line with the welfare of mankind and world peace, endured and gave way again and again.Tsarist Russia, the original aggressor, was able to reflect after suffering actual punishment.

At this time, all the friendly countries are also extremely patient, hoping that they will repent and maintain the peace of the entire Pacific Ocean.Unexpectedly, the brutal Tsarist Russia is obsessed with obsession, and even openly provokes our British allies, expands its war and aggression actions, and is willing to be the leader of destroying the peace and justice of all mankind, fulfilling its insatiable ambition of aggression.All countries that respect faith and righteousness cannot bear it.Zite formally declared war on Russia, declaring to China and foreign countries that all treaties, agreements and contracts involving the relationship between China and Russia shall be abolished.Special Guangxu 12th August [-]th. "

In one sentence, all treaties, agreements and contracts involving the relationship between China and Russia shall be annulled.Let the military alliance signed by China and Russia become a piece of waste paper. Not only does it not have to fulfill the terms of paying military expenses, but it also does not need to lease Jiaozhou Bay. It is also an excuse to send troops to its friendly country, Britain.After seeing Guangxu's declaration of war, Alexander III was so mad that he didn't even know his family.Hit people and throw things away.

The sporadic blockade by Tsarist Russia could not resist the attack of more than 30 cavalry in the Qing Dynasty, not to mention that there was no danger to defend on the Siberian Plain. The weather in August and September made the soldiers who stayed in the south for a long time feel no discomfort. For many months, the Qing cavalry swept across Siberia like a storm.

What makes Russia even more embarrassed is that it has signed two armistice agreements with two countries within one month, and signed an armistice agreement with Britain and paid huge sums of money.The signing of the armistice agreement with China cut off 200 million square kilometers of land.

So far, the border between China and Russia has been redrawn, from Nikolaevsk in the east to Novosibirsk in the west.

The return of a large area of ​​land makes China's conventional army even more insufficient.However, the Qing Dynasty now adopts the professional military system that was more popular at that time, and the more popular military service system in later generations has not been promoted.

(End of this chapter)