The battle at Hutou Mountain outside Shenyang seems inevitable, but Li Ningyu has another consideration, that is, should he defeat the Qing soldiers and Tsarist Russia at the same time, or should he attack separately?
The 17th Infantry Division of the Tsarist Russian Army is a field force that is not inferior to the Far East Army. It has about 12,000 people and is equipped with a medium-sized 212mm artillery regiment. The battalions and companies are equipped with heavy machine gun squads. Therefore, if Li Ningyu decides to start a fight, The casualties suffered by soldiers in the Far East will certainly not be small.
However, the fighter opportunity is fleeting. Once the Qing soldiers and Tsarist Russia join forces, the Far East will fall into a relatively passive state.
Li Ningyu thought for a while and then immediately issued an order: "Order! Shenyang No. 1 Intelligence Group, immediately secretly arrest General Yong Qi of Shengjing, and ask him to order the transfer of all Qing soldiers in Hutou Mountain!".
"Yes!" the combat staff member stood at attention and saluted in response, and then went to send the report, while Li Ningyu was thinking about Tsarist Russia's response.
The Tsarist Empire, which existed for 304 years, is usually referred to as Tsarist Russia. Since the birth of the first generation of Tsar in 1546, and the title of "Emperor of the Russian Empire" was awarded by the Senate, Tsarist Russia became an empire in the formal sense. Subsequently, its territory continued to expand and became It has become one of the global empires and has long served as the "European military police". It borders the German Empire, the Austro-Hungarian Empire, Persia, Afghanistan, China, North Korea and other places, as well as Alaska in the east, and faces the island of Japan across the sea. Its territory reaches 25 million square kilometers, and finally perished due to the February Revolution.
Nicholas II was an enlightened tsar. During his reign, he began to implement a number of national reform policies and began a long period of great reforms. The content of the reforms included existing laws, local government and military, etc., and abolished He abolished the serfdom system and liberated the majority of serfs. However, he was assassinated by the opposition forces because of this incident.
His successor, Nicholas III, was relatively conservative. He firmly opposed reforms and governed the country with an iron fist. Both the Congress and the church were under his rule. From the late 19th century to the early 20th century, it was a time when the great powers In the turbulent era of mutual attacks and wars, from the time when Tsar Peter I established the industrial system in Tsarist Russia, to when Nicholas II implemented reform policies, Tsarist Russia closely followed Western Europe and embarked on a rapid pace of industrialization.
However, the social structure and changes are completely different from those in European countries. The middle class in the Tsarist Empire did not develop to a scale with sufficient influence. Instead, it developed towards the two extremes of the bourgeoisie and the working class, thus forming increasingly serious class antagonisms. The situation, on the other hand, is that with more than a century of territorial expansion, the Tsarist Russian Empire spanned the three continents of Europe, Asia, and North America, and included many ethnic peoples within the country. In addition to differences in the original culture of Tsarist Russia, each ethnic group also Each ethnic group also has its own history and culture.
Due to the relationship between the Han and Manchus, various conflicts continued within the Tsarist Russian Empire.
Since the outbreak of the Sino-Japanese War of 1899-1899 and the end of the Sino-Japanese War in the late 19th century, the Far East had no intention of joining the carve-up of the late Qing Empire. Instead, it went to Africa and the Pacific. Tsarist Russia was very supportive of this, because in this way Tsarist Russia could dominate Northeast China. Conduct penetrating expansion with places near the Korean Peninsula and other places.
Although there was no major dispute with the Far East, Tsarist Russia's expansion was still hampered by various constraints in the Far East for a long time. Therefore, the relationship between the two parties fell directly from the honeymoon period to the Cold War period after the purchase of Alaska.
From the late 19th century to the early 20th century, the opposition forces in Tsarist Russia could be divided into two major organizations: liberals and socialists.
The liberals held a series of activities and took the opportunity to demand more political reforms and constitution. Subsequently, the government passed a resolution calling for the establishment of an elected National Assembly, as well as complete freedom of the press and religious freedom.
, thus receiving calls from many cities and places.
Nicholas III also proposed many measures to meet the demands of all parties, including appointing liberals as Minister of the Interior of the Tsarist Empire. He also agreed to expand the powers of local self-government and city councils and establish an insurance system for the majority of industrial workers.
, liberating alien classes, etc. Nicholas III's intentions were obvious. He was compromising with the opposition forces, but the key national representative legislative power was still not passed by him.
What a joke! Nicholas III was not a fool. How could he hand over the Congress? Then would he still have absolute power to rule?
However, in order to deal with various domestic opposition voices, he initially adopted a soft policy to appease these opponents, but later Nicholas III directly took the most primitive and direct measures, that is, iron-fisted means and forceful suppression!
At the end of 1899, general strikes occurred one after another in various places, and all walks of life in St. Petersburg recognized it, which led to an increasing number of people striking. The total number of strikes climbed to 800,000. At the same time, 30,000 workers' organizations emerged, directly affecting the Tsarist Empire.
The purpose of the demonstration in the square outside the Winter Palace was to submit a national petition to Nicholas III.
In order to express the hardships of the broad working class and the people at the bottom of society, as well as the unequal oppression they suffered, we requested Nicholas III to carry out social reforms, and hoped to adopt an 8-hour working system like the Far East, without overtime working hours, and with reasonable equalization.
salary benefits.
On the day of the demonstration, Nicholas III had moved to Tsarskoye Selo and was no longer at the Winter Palace. The armed soldiers of Tsarist Russia who were responsible for guarding the palace at that time formed a formation to confront the demonstrators. The number of people gathered gradually increased to 200,000 people.
Everyone held icons, images of previous tsars, and sang hymns and patriotic songs. Later, the guarding soldiers fired warning shots in the air.
But this time the shots were fired, causing a chaos. Soon after, the guard soldiers opened fire on the crowd. A large number of people scrambled to push each other in panic. Thousands of people were killed in the chaos. Afterwards, the official announced that the number of casualties was only 96.
However, opposition forces claimed that the death toll exceeded 4,000 people, and a conservative estimate was that about 10,000 people were injured.
After the bloody suppression incident broke out, it aroused the anger of the entire people. The people of Tsarist Russia no longer looked to Nicholas III, so a series of large-scale strikes broke out and continued to spread.
But from beginning to end, Nicholas III did not come forward to make a speech. It was not until March 1900 that the situation became more and more serious, and Nicholas III made a small compromise. However, the already excited people had long since
Large organized groups were formed. At this time, the words of King Nicholas III of Tsarist Russia had long since ceased to have much effect.
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