CHAPTER XXVIII
A few days before the British noticed that the situation in Russia was not normal, and the British ambassador to Russia wrote in his report to the country: "The situation here is terrible, the streets are full of speakers, they are stirring up the mood of the Russians, the Tsar is blind to the situation in Russia, and still lives in luxury, he gives orders for his troops to arrest those who incite the riots, but he does not know what to do, and his soldiers are also very dissatisfied with the Tsar, and they do not carry out the orders of the Tsar, When they encounter speeches, they do more to sit in on the speech, and only when the chief comes does they act as if they are going to catch people. ”
"Everyone here, whether it's officers, businessmen, women, seems to want to kill them."
They are referring to Nicholas II, who lived in the palace.
The British ambassador suggested that Britain immediately increase its material aid to Russia, and preferably force the tsar to carry out reforms, otherwise he was sure that this was already a volcano that was about to erupt at any moment.
Will reform necessarily work? The situation in Russia is really very similar to that of the Qing Dynasty at the beginning, if you don't reform, you are waiting for death, and if you change, you are looking for death. One of the advantages of looking for death is that you can decide how you want to die, so that you can die a more dignified death. Or rather, it is in the interests of the British to die.
There is still hope for Nicholas II here, as long as Britain and France can give him another aid as before, so that he can survive this cold winter, maybe for another year. The British even approached China, saying that they might not have enough time to send supplies directly to Russia now, and let China provide some first, and then count the money.
Although the Russians in St. Petersburg were emotionally unstable, it was not Trotsky who wanted to make a revolution here at this time, but other revolutionary parties in Russia, led by Kerensky, who was in his thirties. Young and promising, this man is not our comrade, and he has quite good relations with Britain and France, and he hopes to solve the Russian problem in a peaceful way, which will be beneficial to Russia, Nikolai, and Britain and France.
He hoped that the revolutionary transition in Russia would be completed in a more moderate way, even more milder than in China. Britain and France also thought so, knowing that they were democratic countries, and many people within them had very strong opinions about the alliance between Britain and France and a feudal Russia. If only Russia could open up a little. Britain and France are really quite happy.
Two days ago. Bad news came from Siberia, the Russians lost the battle again, and the hundreds of thousands of troops were beaten by the 20,000 rebels in the face of the 20,000 rebels, and they were helpless and fled all the way, more than 50,000 Russian soldiers were killed in the battle, and more surrendered to those rebels.
As for the Russian armored forces, on which the Tsar had pinned their infinite hopes, they were completely vulnerable to the rebels, and a hundred armored vehicles and fifty tanks were destroyed in four hours of fighting.
You must know that these people are all children who have just left their homes. Most of them are the children of residents of the vicinity of St. Petersburg. Their mothers and wives could not take it anymore this time, and these women braved the bitter cold and took to the streets, carrying huge banners for Nicholas II to return their loved ones to them!
Nikolai immediately ordered the soldiers to go and suppress it, and he did not allow the women to challenge his authority. But the Chinese said it. When the people are not afraid of death, why should they be afraid of death? The soldiers did not shoot either, they walked among the women with their guns on their backs and told the women. Don't be afraid, we will protect you.
At this point, Nicholas II finally understood that he had no way out, and the situation forced him to agree with the British and French. Meet Kerensky's gang.
As soon as the two sides met, Kerensky assured that as long as the Tsar abdicated, they would treat Nicholas II and all members of the royal family as supranationals, and that Russia would continue to honor its alliance with Britain and France.
History is sometimes really strikingly similar, and after the October Revolution the situation in Russia was much the same as it is now, and then Germany played a very clever hand and sent our great revolutionary mentor back to Russia, and Kerensky was finished.
Now the Germans are obviously not ready for this, but Yang Xiaolin has done it for them. The only regret is that Yang Xiaolin did not find the great revolutionary teacher, only our Comrade Trotsky, Comrade Trotsky's revolutionary stance and revolutionary enthusiasm are not in doubt, it is Comrade Trotsky's principle to crush all bulls, ghosts, snakes and gods with high morale, what feudal Russia, what democratic new Russia, when I come to the revolution, if you don't surrender, you must perish!
The tsar had more than 100,000 Janissaries, and Kerensky also had 70,000 or 80,000 armed forces, none of which Comrade Trotsky took into account.
He doesn't follow the rules when he fights, so you have to report a name before you start. He didn't report his name, so he rushed in and opened fire, but the people in the city couldn't figure out what was going on, and Kerensky thought that Nikolai had broken his promise, and he didn't dare to stay here longer, so he ran away, ran outside the city to gather his own men, and opened his formation to prepare for battle.
And Nikolai also escaped from St. Petersburg in fright, and ran all the way to the barracks of their uncle Grand Duke Nicholas: "Uncle, those guys don't go to the road, they said that they will use knives to negotiate, and now I can only count on you!" ”
Grand Duke Nicholas immediately decided, withdraw!
Why should we withdraw, because the enemy situation is unknown, the 36 plans are to go to Europe, and it is the right thing to go to the border and hold the more than 2 million front-line soldiers in our hands!
And Comrade Trotsky easily occupied St. Petersburg, which made him feel that Yang Xiaolin was too right, all these reactionary forces are paper tigers, you see I am still trying hard, just poke lightly, and they will run away, all scared away!
Trotsky hurriedly formed his own regime, and then went to the ambassadors of various countries and informed them that now that Russia has changed masters, and that we proletariats are in charge, you should quickly establish diplomatic relations with us, and I will not agree to your begging me a little later.
Not to mention the development of this matter in Russia, the British did not expect it, and even Yang Xiaolin did not expect it.
Now there are three forces in the whole of Russia, and comrades everywhere have responded to Trotsky's call to establish proletarian power. And some remained loyal to the Tsar. But in Belarus, most of the people followed Kerensky. 、
There are many more places to look at the direction of the wind.
Britain suddenly discovered how Russia seemed to have become a copy of China's original version? This situation is much more similar to China after the Wuchang Revolution, except that Russia is even more chaotic than China.
Britain was wrong once on the issue of China, and the result was that the foundation laid in China for decades was destroyed, and the situation has only now been reversed. Of course, they didn't want to repeat the lessons of China on Russia, so the gentlemen were much more cautious this time.
Make contact with all three parties, look at the direction of the wind first, and then talk about it.
In the German Legation, the smile on Mr. Mumo's face could not fade, and he shook his wine glass and said to Yang Xiaolin: "Commander Yang, you have done so beautifully, I really want to have a drink with you right away, but His Majesty William must let me toast you for him first!" Very beautiful! ”
Russia was in chaos, and the happiest were the Germans and Austria-Hungary. Germany could generally guess that Yang Xiaolin was going to use a soft knife against Russia, but they really didn't expect this soft knife to be so fast, and cut Russia into three pieces at once, it was just perfect!
In the face of the compliments of the Germans, Yang Xiaolin really couldn't cry or laugh: "Mr. Mumo, I want to say that this matter has nothing to do with our China, do you believe it?" ”
He was telling the truth. China is really not ready! Yang Xiaolin ignored a very important issue, that is, at this time, it was not only his comrades who wanted to make revolution in Russia, just like China at the beginning, many people were thinking about killing the Qing Dynasty.
In his subconscious, he always believed that even if he brought about the butterfly effect, the Russian revolution should have been promoted by him. But it really didn't take into account the strength of the Russian fighters for democracy.
The current situation is that Russia is in chaos, and all the countries in the world are not ready. Britain and France were also a little at a loss, thinking of sending troops to intervene to protect their own interests, but also worried about standing on the wrong side again, so Sa Daoyi asked Yang Xiaolin to let China strike first.
Commander Yang didn't expect whether he would agree to this request or not.
Mu Moo's eyes rolled: "Oh, I believe! I believe this has nothing to do with China. Don't worry, I'm not going to talk nonsense. ”
His expression was obviously to tell Yang Xiaolin that Germany had stuck this hat on his head. Yang Xiaolin was very helpless, but he didn't explain anymore: "Mr. Mumo, has the Russian side looked for you?" I think there is some information that we can exchange, and if we can agree on the issue of Russia, we should be able to take the initiative. ”
Hearing this, Mu Mo hurriedly took out a telegram: "Our Majesty William also means this. Commander Yang, Nicholas II has already sent someone to find Germany, and at this time he actually remembered the agreement of the Three Emperors that we once signed! He actually asked us Germany to fulfill the terms of the agreement to help Russia put down the rebellion, and I guess he probably hit his head against the wall while fleeing. ”
Yang Xiaolin knew that the Three Emperors Agreement was initiated by Germany decades ago, and Nikolai had already destroyed this treaty, and at this time he may be thinking of using this method to restrain the Germans, at least so that Germany will not settle accounts with him now.
It can also be seen from this that Nikolai began to fall ill and rushed to the doctor, and he really had no choice. (To be continued......)