Toyo Empire, Dongkyo, Prime Minister’s Office.
The Prime Minister of the Eastern Empire, Senior General Katsura Taro, has received a report from Foreign Minister Shoutaro Komura on negotiations with the Russians.
“Your Excellency Prime Minister, from the current point of view, the attitude of the Russians is still very tough, and they are still determined to blackmail the empire. Even if they reduce the amount of war reparations demanded from three billion rubles to two billion rubles, it seems that one billion rubles are missing all of a sudden. However, this is still an astronomical amount. Even if the empire smashes pots and sells iron, it will not be able to take this money at all. Komura said.
General Katsura nodded, of course he was not willing to pay this money. Not to mention whether the Eastern Empire has so much money, even if it is, he is definitely not willing to give it.
The Eastern Ocean Empire paid such heavy losses in this war, and just having suffered so many casualties, it needed a large amount of money to compensate! Coupled with the reconstruction of the army, it also costs a lot of money. The reconstruction of the Navy, then it burns even more money.
If there is so much money, General Katsura Taro will only spend all this money on the reconstruction of the army, not on giving it to the Russians for nothing.
“Your Excellency Prime Minister, we absolutely cannot allow the Russians to blackmail us in this way, and we absolutely cannot accept their conditions. Otherwise, we will never have a chance to turn over. Lieutenant General Masaki Terauchi, the 583rd minister of the army, also gritted his teeth and said.
“If we do not accept these conditions of the Russians, then the Russians will continue to attack and annihilate the First Army. This war will continue. Senior General Katsura said.
“They want to annihilate the First Army, then let them go. The soldiers of the First Army are all warriors of the empire, and they must be ready to be loyal to the empire. Even if they are eliminated by the Russians, they will definitely fight to the death to inflict greater losses on the Russians. General Dashan Iwa, chief of staff of the army and commander of the Manchurian Army, said.
In the eyes of these people, it seems that the lives of hundreds of thousands of people of the First Army are not put in mind at all. As long as it is beneficial to the Eastern Empire, even if it is all abandoned, it is not a big deal.
After General Katsura Taro listened, he nodded repeatedly. He undoubtedly agrees with this view.
“However, we must also be prepared that if we insist on not compromising, the Russians will definitely take further action.” For example, dispatching fleets to attack the ports of the empire, and even attacking the empire’s maritime transport (ABCA) transmission line, and so on. If the Russians do this, it will cause a lot of trouble for the empire! Senior General Katsura was also a little worried about this.
“Your Excellency, Prime Minister, if this is the case, then we need the help of the people who never set the sun. The sun does not set and the people are powerless to suppress the Russians, and there is no way to help us in the negotiations. However, there should be no problem helping with these small favors. Vice Admiral Gonbei Yamamoto suggested.
The Eastern Empire was a country heavily dependent on maritime trade, and even necessities such as grain needed to be shipped by sea.
If the sea transport line was cut off by the Russians, it would undoubtedly be a fatal blow to the Eastern Empire.
However, in the face of such problems, they have no way to deal with it, who let their navy have almost completely destroyed? Immediately next to the few remaining destroyers, it is simply not enough to stuff the Russians’ teeth.
This left them with no choice but to turn to the sun.
Although the sun does not set, people are very unreliable in many cases. However, the sun does not set after all, the people are the overlords of the sea! They have the most powerful navy in the world. This is their home turf. If they could ensure that the mainland of the Eastern Empire was not attacked, and that the sea transportation routes of the Eastern Empire were not threatened and cut off. Well, they have nothing to fear.
“The day of contact is not going down, so that they must support us in this area no matter what.” Senior General Katsura said.
“Hi, Your Excellency Prime Minister!” Foreign Minister Shoutaro Komura replied.
“The Sixth Army of the Imperial Army should strengthen vigilance, strengthen training, and complete weapons and equipment as much as possible. Once the homeland is threatened by the Russians, only the army can defend the empire itself! Senior General Katsura said. (Read violent novels, just go to Feilu Fiction Network!) ）
“Hi, Your Excellency Prime Minister!” Lieutenant General Masahiri Terauchi, Minister of War, replied.
Although, the Toyo Army suffered extremely heavy losses on the battlefield. However, under the crazy mobilization of the Eastern Imperial Army, they had completed the mobilization and formation of thirty-four infantry divisions of the Sixth Army. The entire Sixth Army had a strength of nearly a million men. Of course, once the war is over, the Toyo Army will change its structure and even reduce its army. After all, with the current financial strength of the Eastern Ocean Empire, it simply can’t support so many troops!
Because the asking price of the Russian Empire was too high, and the Eastern Empire refused to compromise, even if there was a mediation between the sun and the people, the two sides could not reach an agreement. This brought the negotiations between the two sides into a stalemate again.
However, at this time, the Russian Empire had new moves.
On September 2, 1804, the 11th Infantry Division, 12th Infantry Division, 13th Infantry Division, 14th Infantry Division and the 12th Brigade of the Russian Marine Corps secretly embarked from Vladivostok and crossed the whale sea to the island of Hokkaido under the protection of warships of the Navy’s Pacific Fleet and part of the Home Fleet.
On the morning of September 4, it was just dawn.
The Home Fleet and Pacific Fleet of the Russian Navy began to carry out heavy shelling of the Hokkaido Island of the Eastern Empire and Sapporo.
Because the combined fleet of the Eastern Imperial Navy suffered a crushing defeat, most of its warships were lost. As a result, the control of the Eastern Empire over the surrounding seas has been weakened to the extreme. So much so that they did not know anything about the actions of the Russian Navy.
In other words, the Oriental people did not expect that the Russian Empire would actually dare to really attack their homeland.
Especially when the First Army of the Eastern Army has not been annihilated and the Goryeo Peninsula is still under the control of the Eastern Empire, the Tsarist Empire will actually take the lead in attacking the mainland of the Eastern Empire, which is simply beyond everyone’s expectations!
However, regardless of what the Oriental people think. However, the war has begun. The attack of the Russian Empire on the mainland of the Eastern Empire has begun.
“Boom! Rumble! ”
Culvert offshore, Tsugaru Strait.
Two Mikhail I-class battleships and two Ekaterina-class battleships of the Tsarist Navy, with several heavy cruisers and armored cruisers, as well as light cruisers and destroyers, were firing heavily at the positions of the 66th infantry division of the Eastern Army.
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