When the pace of history entered March 1906, the Russo-Japanese War, marked by the outbreak of the Battle of the South China Sea, had been fought for 20 months! In this war that decided the hegemony of the Far East, both Russia, the distant hegemon of Eastern Europe, and Japan, a newly rising power in the Far East, took out 12 points of strength to fight! The former is fighting for the coveted deep-water port, while the latter is fighting for survival. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info

Judging from the size of the armies participating in the war and the level of equipment invested, this war was much stronger than in history, and the peak strength of the Russian army in the Far East was as high as 700,000. And the Japanese did not show weakness in investing 550,000 troops. In the end, after more than 1 year of fighting, the total number of dead and wounded and captured by the Russian Army reached 250,000! And the Japanese Army also had 175,000 casualties and 30,000 prisoners! Among them, on the Port of Arthur, the Japanese Army died more than 45,000 in a battle. A new record has been set!

The fighting at sea was equally ferocious, and although the Japanese relied on undeclared war to surprise the Makanov fleet, in the end, a group of warships managed to return to Vladivostok. Subsequently, the Russian Navy, which was defeated by the Japanese fleet in the frontal battlefield, decisively launched a campaign to break diplomatic relations at sea, and more than a dozen warships of various types played a game of hide and seek with the Japanese Navy in the vast area from Vladivostok in the north to the South China Sea in the south.

In more than 1 year of sea-breaking and anti-breaking engagements, Japan and the fleet transporting supplies for Japan lost a total tonnage of 450,000 tons! If it weren't for the continuous support of the British, the sinking of the ocean-going transport ships in Japan would not be enough for the Russians to fight, and the most painful thing for the Japanese was that in the Sea of Japan, two Rurik 2 battleships formed a formation and successfully ambushed a Japanese army transport fleet, and after the two dome cruisers escorted the escort, the two battleships sent 4 transport ships and 5,500 Japanese troops and 82 guns of various kinds and hundreds of tons of ammunition to the bottom of the sea.

Four months after the start of the war, the supply of various food and industrial raw materials began to be insufficient, and the textiles piled up in the ports could not be exported, and the cargo throughput of all Japanese ports was only half of the usual one month! Even the British feared that the Japanese might not be able to hold out.

However, with the passage of time and the help of the British, the Japanese succeeded in reversing the decline at sea after paying a heavy price, and in the waters off the Zhoushan Islands, the Japanese armored cruiser formation led by Hikonosei Uemura successfully blocked two Rurik Type 2 armored cruisers, after their own side sank one armored cruiser and suffered heavy damage to two. Succeeded in forcing Grombaui to run aground offshore, while another Russian ship was forced to enter British Lend-Lease and then be disarmed.

Subsequently, with the capture of Arthur Pass, the Russian battleships inside were either sunk or became trophies of the Japanese Navy, and with the arrival of the winter of 1904, the Russian fleet with only one port in Vladivostok was blocked by sea ice and the Japanese Navy, and Japan's sea transportation finally became normal.

Then the rear road was stable, and the Japanese who took Lushun began to advance northward, but although the Russian army in this plane was still relatively watery, the Japanese were not much stronger. Although they invested far more weapons and personnel than in history, and although they still defeated the Russian army in major battles again and again, the deepest line of their attacks did not surpass history!

The Russians' economy was also not able to sustain itself, and in order to ensure the stability of the ruble and raise enough money, the Russians sold 80% of the precious metals and various precious stones in the international market at one time. And if the prince is not mistaken, the history should have sold less than 60% of the gold in the treasury......

The brutality of the war not only made Japan and Russia feel unsustainable, but also made Britain and France feel terrified, and the result they wanted was to keep the fundamentals of the Far East unchanged, but to win over the Russians who had lost too much blood, but from the current situation, Russia was no longer bleeding, but arterial bleeding, maybe it would be over!

In fact, the riots and revolutions in Russia had already put the whole of Russia in a state of turmoil, and France, in a hurry, did not even wait for the negotiations between Japan and Russia to begin the negotiations, and first provided Russia with an allocation of 300 million francs, and the only demand was to get Russia to verbally promise that the money would not be used for the war in the Far East. Of course, how the Russians spend this money, the French cannot regulate.

The trauma and attrition of the war far exceeded the expectations of all countries, and this time the Americans did not act as a middleman, they wished that this war would last as long as possible! Thus, the British stepped forward, guaranteeing on the one hand that Russia's rights and interests in North Manchuria would not be violated, and at the same time guaranteeing that the British could help if Japan's rights and interests in the Far East were harmed by foreign countries. This approach of pulling both sides at the same time can also be regarded as a step up for Japan and Russia.

I have to say that the British are really powerful, he has grasped the sore spot of both sides, the Russians have lost militarily, their current national strength is not enough to continue to support the war, and militarily it is impossible to regain everything lost, so they think about how to make themselves lose less. And the guarantees of the British allowed the Russians to at least keep North Manchuria.

In the same way, the Japanese have a lot of troubles, not to mention the defeated funds, troops, and loans to be repaid in the future, the period of weakness caused by the war made the Japanese extremely uncomfortable, what if the Americans kill again at this time? Even if the Americans are just posturing and don't have to fight a battle, it will be enough to drag down Japan, which has run out of gas! And the British guarantee undoubtedly made Japan a lot safer, and if the British did not fight, then the United States would not be able to pose any threat to the Anglo-Japanese alliance in the Far East.

And when the time came in late May, after the results of the Japan-Russia London meeting came out, Ruprecht could only say in his heart that the creation had made a fool of people, because the content of the entire agreement was exactly the same as that signed by Japan and Russia in history, and the two sides invested more forces and ended up with a result similar to that in history. Well, that's good.

By the way, the prince also paid attention to the fate of the two Rurik 2 battleships that were still in the British Concession in Shanghai, and these two battleships were finally obtained by the Japanese. The Russians did not raise any objections, which was a surprising result, but it is easy to figure out that after the naval battle, the Japanese navy also paid a great price, and they continued to replenish their combat strength to deal with possible threats. And the Russians, apparently, considered the Rurik 2 battleships to be outdated, and they were ready to build newer ones.

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