readx; In August and September 1919, Britain, France and the United States once again pooled millions of troops to launch a large-scale offensive, while Germany signed an armistice treaty with Soviet Russia in October 1917 and acquired a large number of territories and resources such as Poland and Ukraine. Although the resources from the occupied areas greatly alleviated the shortage of resources in Germany, they could not fundamentally solve Germany's disadvantages on the Western Front, especially in the face of the huge industrial and production capacity of Britain, France, and the United States. Pen | fun | pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 ｉｎｆｏ

In the autumn battle, Germany was inevitably defeated, including the Austro-Hungarian army, and the German-Austrian army lost millions of men in this battle.

Affected by the defeat on the front, and the shortage of living materials and the serious influence of national separatism in Austria-Hungary, the revolution broke out in Russia in 1917, and the Entente [***] team also quickly seized the opportunity to carry out a large-scale counteroffensive from the southern front of Italy, and quickly infiltrated the hinterland of Austria-Hungary and threatened the hinterland of Germany.

By October, Austria-Hungary had completely collapsed, and even the Germans, no matter how arrogant they were, had to admit that they had lost the war.

In November 1919, some of the German generals mutinied in Berlin and arrested the Kaiser and a large number of generals of the main war faction, and many senior German generals on the front line also knew that they could not win if they continued to fight, and it was better to exchange for a decent surrender, so the German generals quickly took control of power and held peace talks with the Allies.

The war broke out very suddenly, and it ended very suddenly, when the war began in just one month, it was in full swing, and when the war ended, two months ago the two sides were still engaged in a big war, and it was still a strategic stalemate, but in just two months it ended because of the collapse of Austria-Hungary and the internal mutiny in Germany.

When the news of Germany's surrender reached China, it did not cause much emotional turmoil among the Chinese people, because although China said that it had declared war on Germany, it did not actually send troops directly to the war except for sending millions of laborers, and the war that China was now fighting was in Russia.

Although China did not send troops to the war, as a member of the Entente, there was no doubt that China was one of the victorious powers, so China participated in the Paris Peace Conference to settle Germany's surrender.

"Although it is impossible to get too much from going to Paris this time, we must fight for the status of our country!" This is what China said about Foreign Minister Wu Tingfang, who is preparing to go to Paris to attend the peace conference.

Although Wu Tingfang is much older than Chen Jingyun, he still remains respectful: "President rest assured, this time I will never lose my country's prestige!" ”

The Paris Peace Conference was actually a spoils sharing conference between the Entente countries and Germany, Austria-Hungary and other countries, and because China did not send troops to Europe, it was impossible to gain too many benefits, at most it was to fight for some war reparations, as for the Qingdao issue, it had already been taken back by Chen Jingyun, Qingdao is now China's territory, Chen Jingyun would not be stupid enough to take Qingdao out again and discuss with the great powers whether Qingdao should be returned to China.

As a matter of fact, he said that "Ben attaches much more importance to the Paris Peace Conference than China attaches to the Paris Peace Conference, because so far, no country has recognized Ben's legitimate occupation of New Guinea."

In the past few years, Chen Jingyun has secretly helped the navy a lot in order to let him turn his attention to the South Seas, and Chen Jingyun is also planning to help the navy, and only by letting the navy occupy New Guinea can he further promote the southward policy.

While the Paris Peace Conference was still underway, the Sino-Russian coalition forces won a victory in Omsk, the Sino-Russian coalition forces advanced rapidly, and Britain and France also sent intervention forces into the Black Sea and landed in the south of Soviet Russia, and the Americans sent Denikin enough weapons and equipment to arm hundreds of thousands of people. Soviet Russia seems to have reached the most critical moment at this time, but the two years of civil war also allowed the Soviet army to play experience, although the four-front battle, the Soviet army still defeated Denikin and Budyonny's troops successively, even if the Second Polish Republic also sent troops to Soviet Russia with the support of the Entente, it still failed to let Soviet Russia fall, and repelled the Kolchak department that had entered the Volga River Valley.

I have to say that the performance of the Soviet army in 1920 was very eye-catching, not only defeated Denikin and Budyonny, two rebels with hundreds of thousands of troops each, and then blocked the attack of Kolchak's troops, and under the attack of more than 700,000 Polish troops on the Eastern Front, it was able to gather troops to counterattack Kolchak's Russian Defense Army, and successfully forced Kolchak's 400,000 troops back to Omsk, At that time, if the Russian Defense Forces had not relied on the numerous fortifications in Omsk and the help of up to 200,000 squadrons, they would not have been able to stop the Soviet counteroffensive at all.

And also in 1920, China's second presidential election did not have much suspense, Chen Jingyun was re-elected, Anwarin of the Government Council due to physical reasons, after two consecutive strokes and hospitalization, Chen Jingyun did not let him serve as the president of the Government Council, and at the same time, in order to better control the political axe, Chen Jingyun chose the relatively weak Tang Shaoyi as the new president of the Government Council, thus opening the era of Tang Shaoyi's cabinet.

After Tang Shaoyi became the president of the Government Council, the policies implemented by the political axe were basically the policies of the era of Zheng Zuyin and Anwarim's cabinets, such as industrial and commercial development and land reform, which are basic national policies, and Chen Jingyun will not change these national policies just because he has changed the president of the Government Council.

"This compensation is a bit small! Britain, France, the United States and other countries all took billions, and we only took 100 million Chinese dollars in compensation! "The new Tang Shaoyi is in a very good mood, this has just taken office, the Paris Peace Conference is over, and although China has not achieved any other benefits, but still received 100 million Chinese yuan from Germany in war reparations, originally and said, "Ben also got the same two German battleships allocated, as a result, the Germans were addicted to sinking, in the Far East Fleet sank for a while, and now the High Seas Fleet played for a while and sank, so that the Chinese Navy and the admirals of other countries scolded their mothers, but the ship sank and sank, Later, although China also received compensation from a former dreadnought battleship, but now it is 1920, and these dreadnought battleships can only be reduced to coastal defense ships as early as the first World War, and even if they are towed back to China, it is useless.

Although this indemnity is small, it is a great news to boost the morale of the people for China, which has been paying land reparations for decades, which also allows Tang Shaoyi, who has just taken office, to reap a lot of political benefits.

In 1921, the Soviet army defeated Poland's 700,000 troops on the Western Front, and forced Poland to sign an armistice treaty with it, and then transferred troops to the Eastern Front, but Omsk has already become a fortress, building a large number of trench systems similar to the Western Front in Europe, although the Soviet army successively defeated Denikin and Budyonny and other Russian rebel forces, but the remnants of these troops also fled to Omsk, in addition, limited by the various policies implemented by Soviet Russia at home, forcing a large number of Russians to flee to the Far East, In addition, after crossing the Ural Mountains in 1920, Kerensky, the prime minister of the Russian Provisional Political Axe, was not a good person, and directly ordered the troops to force a large number of local people to move to the east, and these means made the population controlled by the Russian Provisional Political Axe east of Omsk exceed 10 million people, and the increase in population represents an increase in military strength. Based on the important surname of the Far Eastern Railway, that is, the Soviet army could not break away from the railway and bypass Omsk to continue the eastward attack before completing mechanization, and if the Soviet army really took a detour, then the Sino-Russian coalition would not mind sending mobile troops to cut off their supply lines and swallow them.

As a result, the Soviet army failed to make a breakthrough after a series of wars around Omsk, and Soviet Russia also needed time to recover during the war for many years, so the large-scale war between the two sides stopped, and both sides entered the stage of accumulating strength, during which the two sides built a large number of permanent fortifications around Omsk, which made Omsk a completely strategic confrontation area.

For Chen Jingyun, as long as the Russian Wehrmacht is undefeated, it is fine, and he does not expect or even support the Russian Wehrmacht to counterattack the Soviet army, so a stalemate is an acceptable outcome for China, in fact, although China has expanded its army on a large scale in recent years, but it is not capable of completely defeating the Soviet army, limited by the practical problems at home and the threat of the so-called 'Ben, China has always maintained an army of up to one million in the country, and only about 200,000 in Russia, The contradictions between China and the two countries have been further aggravated after the end of the war in Europe, and not to mention the economic contradictions and conflicts, the return of the two battleships ordered by China from the United States alone has put the relations between China and China in the most tense situation.

In the second phase of China's naval expansion plan, it not only built two heavy cruisers and two aircraft carriers, as well as a number of cruisers and destroyers, but also ordered two battleships equipped with the latest 16-inch and 50-fold naval guns from the United States. As a last resort, he said, "This is also the plan to increase the 88th Fleet, and the Kaga-class battleships, Amagi-class battlecruisers, and Ise-class battleships have been proposed, and even the No. 13 battleship plan equipped with 19-inch guns."

The South Dakota-class battleships of the United States and the Lexington-class battlecruisers were also started to be built one after another, and in 1921, China's two battleships were finally completed and returned to China, in order to allow these two battleships to return home smoothly, China almost sent new warships including the Huatai heavy cruiser and the Taishan aircraft carrier to the Central Pacific to respond, considering that there was no supply on the way home, China even specially dispatched high-speed tankers and high-speed cargo ships to accompany the fleet to provide supplies for the fleet. In addition to the strength of the Chinese navy itself, the United States also sent a large number of troops to Asia in the name of exercises.

Although there were many proposals within the navy to sink these two Chinese battleships on the way home, in consideration of many practical problems, the navy still forcibly put up with this tempting idea.

When the battleships Yandi and Huangdi arrived in Shanghai in August 1921, escorted by a group of cutting-edge warships of the Chinese Navy, the Shanghai docks were crowded with tens of thousands of people. Stimulated by this, he said, "Not to mention the increase in naval spending, it also casts a shadow on the Washington naval treaty that is being negotiated!"