Just as the People's Army and the Japanese army were fighting fiercely on the Yalu River, the relations between the East China government and Russia also deteriorated rapidly.

During the Battle of Liaoyang, the People's Army had a small conflict with the Russian army. It ended with a small loss from the Russian army. Later, the Russian army became much more honest and did not dare to easily ask for mercy from the People's Army.

Just after the Liaoyang Battle, Petlov, the Russian Consul in Qingdao, came to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and protested to Li Sanjie, accusing the People's Army of its actions of undermining the agreement reached by both sides and causing casualties to the Russian army. He asked the East China government to apologize to Russia, severely punish the perpetrators, and compensate Russia for the losses. At the same time, he proposed that the agreement at that time meant that the two sides divided the boundary by Shilihe, so the Russian army should occupy half of Shilihe, demanded that the People's Army withdraw and give half of Shilihe to the Russian army to garrison.

The unreasonable demands made by Russia were naturally rejected by the East China government. On behalf of the East China government, Li Sanjie strongly refuted Russia's protests, pointing out that the conflict between the two sides was caused by the Russian army's first scruples. The People's Army was forced to fight back, and there was no fault at all. He also warned Russia that it would be better to restrain the army and not to show any more scruples, otherwise the People's Army would fight back without scruples. As for the boundary of Shili River, it is naturally based on the principle of first occupation. There is no matter of half of one side. It is also recommended that the Russian side retreat 10-15 kilometers to avoid conflicts between the two sides' armies.

Finally, Li Sanjie also proposed to Petlov that according to the agreement between the two sides, after defeating the Japanese army, Russia will withdraw its troops from the three eastern provinces in accordance with the provisions of the Treaty on the Delivery of the Three Eastern Provinces. Now is the time for Russia to consider implementing this treaty.

Originally, Peterlov wanted to take advantage of the fierce battle between the People's Army and the Japanese army on the Yalu River and had no time to take care of Russia, and he came to conduct diplomatic blackmail with the East China government. He guessed that the East China government did not want to offend Russia at this time, so he would make some concessions to Russia. He thought that the East China government not only did not give in at all, but instead asked Russia to implement the Treaty on the Delivery of the Three East China Provinces.

So Petlov insisted that the conflict was caused by the People's Army, and insisted that if the East China government did not give Russia compensation, Russia would refuse to implement the Treaty on the Delivery of the Three East Provinces and could not guarantee that the Russian army would remain restrained. This is actually a war threat to the East China government.

However, to Petlov's surprise, Li Sanjie was not threatened at all, but warned Petlov again that if the Russian army did not maintain restraint, the People's Army would teach them to maintain restraint; if Russia refused to implement the Treaty on the Treaty of the Three East Provinces, the People's Army would let Russia implement it, and all the consequences would be responsible for Russia.

It can be said that Li Sanjie's threat is more clear and straightforward than Petlov, and there has never been a country that threatens Russia like this. Because now when the People's Army is still too busy to take care of itself, it still dares to say such a big word. Therefore, Petlov was also very angry and left the Ministry of Foreign Affairs without saying hello without saying a word.

After returning to the consulate, Petlov immediately sent a telegram to the country, reporting on his negotiation process with Li Sanjie to the country, and suggested that the bad attitude of recommending to the East China government in China should put greater pressure on the East China government to force the East China government to surrender and make greater concessions to Russia.

After receiving the telegram, St. Petersburg immediately caused anger from the Russian court. Unexpectedly, the East China government dared to threaten Russia to issue a warning. This underestimated the fighting nations, so they demanded that Tsar Nicholas II, the East China government declare war and conquer Liaoyang by force, so that the entire Liaodong region would realize the long-planned Yellow Russia plan of Russia.

It turned out that after Linevic's victory telegram was sent back to St. Petersburg, it also gave the Russian government a shot of a heart-warming agent, because the Russian government is considered to be internal and external troubles and needs a stimulus of victory. Only victory can boost morale, increase the prestige of the royal family, increase the confidence of the elites and the people in the government, and dilute the tension brought by the "Bloody Sunday". The recovery of Shenyang is a victory worthy of great writing, both in strategic and tactical and political propaganda.

As a result, the propaganda machine in Russia opened up, vigorously praising this victory, and infinitely increasing the value of this victory, turning a battle of Leipzig, which could only be considered ordinary profits in a strategic sense, into the Battle of Leipzig (the war that led to Napoleon's first resignation), saying that this battle would completely reverse the situation in the Far East, and the Russian army also restored its courage and fighting spirit, and finally won the victory. It also praised the Russian commander Linevic, and called him the second Kutuzov, the star of the heavenly general, etc.

As a result, under such excessive and exaggerated publicity, although the Russian elites and people temporarily forgot their previous failures and eased the political crisis of the Russian government, the Russian government made a wrong judgment on the war situation, made a wrong evaluation of the strength of the Russian army, and even made Nikla II feel unrealistic and rekindled the dream of realizing the Yellow Russia. Since the Tsar had such an idea, the ministers around him would naturally like him. So the ministers collected all kinds of signs and found various reasons to prove His Majesty the Emperor's wise decision, strongly agreed to teach overseas Chinese with force and realize the Yellow Russia dream planned by the three generations of Tsars.

Of course, not all ministers are catering to the Tsar, the emperor's uncle, Grand Duke Nikolayevich, and Cabinet Minister Vitt, who believed that the victory of this war could not completely reverse the situation in the Far East. Therefore, at this time, the scale of the war in the Far East should not be expanded. Instead, we should take advantage of the slight improvement of Russia's military to negotiate with the East China government, give up the territorial demands for China's three eastern provinces, and instead pursue economic interests. We should still maintain cooperative relations with the East China government, jointly put pressure on Japan, fight for interests on the Korean Peninsula, squeeze Japan's space, and expand Russia's sphere of influence in the Far East.

However, in the Russian government, there were too few people who kept such a clear mind, too small voice, and inappropriate, so they had little influence on the Tsar at all. The reaction was ridiculed and ridiculed by many people, believing that they were too brave and estimated the strength of overseas Chinese too high. What's the terrible thing about a group of yellow-skinned monkeys? The powerful and invincible Russian army could defeat them with just a relaxed military walk, and then occupy the entire Liaodong Peninsula, then kill the Yalu River, and occupy the Korean Peninsula in full. So in this optimistic atmosphere, Nicholas II ordered Linevic to march to capture Liaoyang immediately.

After receiving the telegram from the Tsar, Linevic was also suffering because the capture of Chenyang was not a merit of the Russian army. It was just that the Japanese army was forced by the People's Army and had to withdraw from Chenyang. The Russian army just took advantage of it. He wanted to seek credit and reward, so he said that the capture of Chenyang was a great victory, but he did not expect that the country not only took it seriously, but also put forward higher requirements for himself to attack Liaoyang by himself.

Of course, Linevic knew what was going on in the Russian army in the Far East now. After the Battle of Fengtian, Russia gathered about 600,000 troops in the Far East, including about 300,000 first-line troops transferred from Europe. It can be said that the quantity and quality of the Russian army in the Far East is not bad, but Linevic knew that this was just a glamorous data, hidden under the beautiful data, which was the chaos and bottom effect of the Russian army's logistics support.

First of all, the number of artillery is seriously insufficient. More than 600,000 Russian troops are equipped with only more than 1,200 artillery pieces. This number seems to be quite large. However, most of them are caliber below 100 mm, less than 200 artillery pieces with caliber above 100 mm, and only more than 30 artillery pieces with caliber above 150 mm. One army of the People's Army is almost equipped with about 360 artillery pieces, of which about 150 artillery pieces with caliber above 100 mm, including 18 155 mm artillery pieces, and this is not considered a mortar.

Although Linevich did not know the organization and equipment of the People's Army, the People's Army and the Japanese army fought several battles under the eyes of the Russian army. Of course, the Russian army would send people to watch the battle secretly. The People's Army concentrated artillery to carry out a cover-type strike, which also left a deep impression on the Russian army. Therefore, Linevich believed that his number of artillery, especially the number of large-caliber artillery, was not enough.

In addition to artillery, the Russian army's machine guns were insufficient, and the entire army's machine guns were less than 100. After Linevic took over, he repeatedly asked the country to pull out artillery machine guns, but no results were achieved. On the one hand, this is the inefficiency in Russia and on the other hand, the insufficient capacity is also an important reason. The Siberian Railway has not been fully opened, so it is quite difficult to transport large-caliber artillery from Europe to the Far East.

In addition, at least 560,000 Russian soldiers in the Russian army are not equipped with rifles; and the supply of food, drugs and other materials is insufficient. In the eyes of the Russian government, it is enough to transport people to the Far East, and the others are secondary. Therefore, although the Russian army has a large number of Russian troops in the Far East, the morale is not high, and the Russian army has tried to attack Chenyang before, including the conflict with the People's Army, which ended in failure without exception. It also made Linnevic very clear that the combat effectiveness of the Russian army is not enough to confront the People's Army head-on.

But the Tsar's orders must be respected. Although Russia's social and economic power is now dominated by capitalism, it is still a politically authoritarian country, and there is no question of constitutionalism. Theoretically, the Tsar, like the ancient Chinese monarchs, had absolute power, so as long as the Tsar's words, could make Linevic lose his official position.
Chapter completed!