.In fact, Chinese naval warships have set out secretly to patrol the sea since the 13th. The publication to the outside world starts on the 20th, just to paralyze the Tsarist Russian Navy to achieve sudden goals. { }..

Sure enough, on December 14, two Chinese merchant ships returned after completing trade with Japan.

When entering the Yellow Sea, it was intercepted by the Tsarist Russian warship, the Russian. The Tsarist Russian Navy wanted to do its last business before the Chinese navy began to escort.

Soon, two Chinese merchant ships were stopped, and Tsarist Russian naval soldiers boarded the ship for forced inspection, asking the captain and crew for money and cargo.

Just as the Tsarist Russian naval soldiers were excited, several Chinese warships suddenly appeared in the distance, led by the large armored cruiser of the Chinese Navy's Second Fleet, the Hunter, and Haixi to quickly arrive.

When the captain of the Russians discovered that the Chinese warship appeared, he was first surprised, and then anxiously ordered the Tsarist Russian soldiers who were boarding the ship to retreat. At this moment, when he saw the Chinese crew members who were rushing to support the motherland, they became confident and fought back. He immediately arrested more than a dozen Tsarist Russian naval soldiers who were fleeing in a hurry, leaving them as evidence.

The Russians accelerated their escape, but unfortunately, the four Chinese Navy warships all exceeded the Russians' speed, and the Hunter was a warship designed specifically to deal with the Russians. As a result, the Russians caught up in less than two seconds.

The Hunter, Haiqi, Haichen and Haixi cooperated with each other to intercept the Russians and surround them.

The Russian warship was surrounded and could not escape no matter how it was maneuvered.

Both warships were in high alert, with shells loaded and the battle was about to break out.

Although the Chinese Navy seized the evidence that the Tsarist Russian navy nuised Chinese merchant ships, it could not fire first, otherwise all efforts would be in vain, and instead gave the Tsarist Russian navy a demonstration. So the four Chinese warships only surrounded the Tsarist Russian warships and blocked the way for the Tsarist Russian warships to escape.

Similarly, the Russian Tsarist warships have been captured by China, which has caused trouble and cause trouble, so they dare not take the lead in firing and attacking, which will create an irreversible situation. However, no matter how the Russian Tsarist warships try to rush out, they will eventually fail.

So, the warships on both sides were circling around the high seas and confronting each other.

After the warships of the Tsarist Russian Far East Navy were modified, they already had radio systems. Although the transmission distance is still at the second-generation radio level due to China's restrictions, it is enough to inform the Russian Navy Command at the Ulsan Naval Base.

After learning about the situation, the Tsarist Russian Naval Command sent an emergency telegram to the Tsarist Russian Far East Military Region Command for instructions. General Alekseyev was furious and swore to shoot Major General Pudovsky, the captain of the Russians. But even if he was to shoot him, he had to resolve the crisis in front of him first.

Alekseyev wanted to be tougher because he couldn't afford to lose face. So he ordered all the warships at the Tsarist Russian Naval Base nearest to the waters that had happened to be dispatched to reinforce the Russians.

Six main battleships of the Tsarist Russian Navy left Ulsan military port and were immediately discovered by China's local intelligence agencies and promptly fed back the information to the Navy.

After receiving the dispatch of the main Tsarist Russian naval fleet, the Chinese Navy immediately ordered the dispatch of the Chinese Pacific Fleet in Lushun, Weihaiwei and Ryukyu Baitan Naval Base to be dispatched urgently to the waters where the accident occurred.

The navies of the two countries naturally could not avoid the attention of other powerful people. After the German fleet at the Jeju Island Naval Base discovered that the Russian fleet was dispatched urgently, they immediately sent a reconnaissance cruiser to follow.

After receiving the information that the Tsarist Russian navy had nuised Chinese merchant ships, the Chinese Ministry of Foreign Affairs immediately notified the embassies of various countries in China, informed the situation to various countries and notified the Russian ambassador to China, and solemnly protested and warned the Tsarist Russian navy's nuisance of Chinese merchant ships again.

The evidence from the Chinese Ministry of Foreign Affairs made the Russian Minister to China Kuman very embarrassed and passive. In addition to shamelessly saying that there must be misunderstandings, he was speechless in the face of questioning from diplomats and media from various countries.

Soon, the main fleets of China and Russia held a full-scale military confrontation in the eastern waters of the Yellow Sea. Both sides entered a first-level combat readiness state, and the shells were loaded. As long as one side could not help but fire, a fierce military conflict would immediately break out and even turn into war again.

When the military confrontation between the two sides quickly exceeded six g, there were seven Russian warships and sixteen Chinese naval warships. China was in an advantage and occupied the moral commanding heights.

The Chinese Ministry of Foreign Affairs used this to demand that Russia hand over the captain of the Russian and other Russian naval officers and soldiers who had participated in the nuisance of Chinese merchant ships and handed over to the Chinese court for trial.

The Russian government refused to hand over the man and asked the Chinese navy to release more than a dozen Russian naval soldiers arrested.

The diplomats on both sides fought a verbal battle, and neither side retreated in the military confrontation in the Yellow Sea.

After a large-scale military standoff broke out between the navies of China and Russia, international public opinion was in an uproar the next day. Governments of all countries were keenly discovered that if the military standoff between China and Russia could not be resolved, it would very likely turn into a war.

The military confrontation entered the third day, the Tsarist Russian navy increased to 17 warships, but the Chinese navy increased to 28

The warships are still in absolute advantage. Tsarist Russia requires China to first place more than a dozen Russian naval soldiers, otherwise the Tsarist Russian navy will not evacuate. The Beiyang government sternly refused, saying that 17 Russian soldiers were suspected of robbery with guns, intentional injury and other crimes, and violated Chinese law and international law. They will be sent to the District Court of Dengzhou Prefecture, Shandong, China for trial. At the same time, the Beiyang government continued to demand that the Russian navy hand over a total of 133 Tsarist Russian naval captains, commanders and soldiers involved in the operation, otherwise the Chinese navy will never retreat.

Whether it is a party that is reasonable or an party that is ignored, in this era where "axiom is only valid within the range of cannons, everything depends on the strength of the country.

Obviously, even if Tsarist Russia is on the side of the unreasonable and has become a second-rate power among European powers, its international influence is still much stronger than China. In contrast, although the Chinese Beiyang government, although on the side of being reasonable, its national military strength has increased to the first place in Asia, fifth place in the world, the newly rising China has offended too many powerful countries in order to abolish the unequal treaty, so most countries have not stood up to uphold justice for China.

The navies of China and Russia continued to engage in a military confrontation in the Yellow Sea, without any intention of giving in.

On the seventh day of the military confrontation, Britain, France, the United States and Germany successively sent warships to observe the situation from a long distance.

Britain is eager to quell the military confrontation between Russia and Russia, which turns into a conflict and it is best to escalate into a war. France is very entangled in its attitude towards Russian allies. France hopes that Russia will be frustrated in Asia and shift its focus back to Europe to deal with Germany, and also hopes that Tsarist Russia will win the Sino-Russian War, thereby attacking China's rise and alleviating France's military pressure in the Far East.

Germany's attitude is basically the same as France, with a strong tangle. German Emperor William II successfully eased the conflict between Germany and Russia by his cousin with Tsarist Russian Emperor Nicholas II. Germany hoped that Russia would shift its strategic focus to Asia and break the threat of the Russian-French alliance to Germany. However, Germany is not optimistic about Tsarist Russia's military power in Asia. China's rapid development in recent years has become a newly emerging imperialist force. Germany is also a newly emerging power and needs to unite China to form a new world alliance to challenge the old world pattern controlled by Britain, France and Russia.

Similarly, the United States is also wary of China's rise. The United States secretly supports Japan in order to restrain China. The United States hopes that both China and Russia can suffer losses. But in terms of the overall interests of the United States, the United States needs China to provide support on the Philippines issue, so the U.S. government finally came forward to mediate China and Russia.

According to the Hague International Convention just signed, the conflict between the two parties will be mediated by a third country. The Chinese Beiyang government and the Russian Tsarist government are both parties. The Tsarist government took the lead in proposing that France mediate alone, but was rejected by the Beiyang government. The Beiyang government asked the UK to conduct a separate Hanxuan. China and Russia were quarrels, so the US government came forward and formed a referee team with the United States, Britain, France and Germany to intervene in the entire incident.

China is on the moral high ground. If it were the Qing government in the past, the great powers of all countries would have turned to Russia and left this matter in vain. But now it is Wang Chenhao's Beiyang government, a second-class power with a strong military power as a backing, and the great powers of all countries have to consider it.

Britain, France, the United States and Germany formed an arbitration committee to mediate and judge the military confrontation between China and Russia in accordance with the Hague Convention. The arbitration committee maintained justice in handling issues related to China for the first time, which made Russia lose the support of international public opinion and put its diplomacy in a passive state.

As the confrontation entered the tenth day, the Russian government finally made concessions, admitting that the Tsarist Russian navy was nuisance of Chinese merchant ships and that some officers and soldiers illegally demanded property. However, the Tsarist Russian government refused to hand over the person involved to the Chinese court for trial, insisted on the trial of their own court, and demanded that China hand over the seventeen Russian naval soldiers seized to the Russian court for processing.

The Russians' request was submitted to the Prime Minister's Office by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. Wang Chenhao believed that Russia did not have the conditions to go to war with China at present. Therefore, Wang Chenhao replied to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and refused to make concessions, which severely damaged Russia's international reputation and status, thereby shaping China's Beiyang government into a strong international image and enhancing China's international reputation and status.

After receiving the instructions from Wang Chenhao, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs continued to maintain a tough stance towards Russia, and made a big fuss at home, hyping up the Tsarist Russian threat theory, and rekindled the anger of the people against Tsarist Russia, so that the Beiyang government could have enough excuses to expand military expenditures.

China's tough attitude has caused great headaches for Britain, France, the United States and Germany. As a mediator, they are very embarrassed. However, the four countries are intriguing each other and cannot form an effective united front.

The four governments then looked at the tougher side and went to the other side.

Considering that the Tsarist Russian government has not completed its preparations for the war against China, in the Far East, the Tsarist Russian naval power is now inferior to the Chinese naval power, and the military strength and material reserves of the Far East Military Region cannot support the war supply with the Chinese army. The Russian General Staff believes that unless the Siberian Railway is completed, there is no chance of winning the war against China.

According to the plan of the Russian military, even if the Siberian Railway is in a hurry to work, it will have to wait until after 1901 to be completed. Therefore, when the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Tsarist Russian government talked with the Chinese Ministry of Foreign Affairs, it was particularly confident. When Chinese diplomat Chiluoluo sent out a war response, the Russian diplomat had to give up his arrogant face and choose to give in.

On the last day of the 19th century, major powers around the world were immersed in the great joy of expanding national interests, but Russia alone could not be happy on this day.

On this day, the second-level district court of Dengzhou Prefecture, Shandong Province, China publicly sentenced the case of robbery of a Chinese merchant ship in Huanghai. According to the latest Chinese criminal code, seven officers including Tsarist Russian naval soldiers, Lieutenant Niefubi and Corporal Tuwensky, were sentenced to fixed-term imprisonment ranging from 35 to 45 years for suspected robbery. The other ten Tsarist Russian soldiers involved in robbing Chinese merchant ships were accomplices and sentenced to fixed-term imprisonment ranging from 5 to 15 years. Seventeen involved in the case will serve two-thirds of their sentences in China, and the remaining sentences will be transferred to Russian prisons for continued execution.

The Dengzhou Prefecture Court also filed a lawsuit against the Tsarist Russian Far East Navy Department on the unfavorable control of its naval personnel, requiring the Tsarist Russian Far East Navy Department to return all the robbed property and compensate 1 million dragon coins as compensation.

At the same time, the District Court of Dengzhou Prefecture also sentenced the captains of the seven Tsarist Russian warships involved in the robbery, sentenced them to more than 30 years in prison. Since the Tsarist Russian government did not eventually hand them over to China for trial, the court of Dengzhou Prefecture announced that these people would be forever prohibited from entering China.

In order to explain to international public opinion and to appease the Chinese government, the Russian government had to deal with more than 30 Russian officers including Major General Pudovsky. The Russian military court sentenced Pudovsky and others to prison for more than five years, but it was not actually executed.

Regardless of whether it was enforced or not, the Tsarist Russian government was completely disgraced. For this reason, Tsar Nicholas II scolded him in a telegram to General Alekseev.

Wang Chenhao and his Beiyang government showed a tough attitude towards Russia in handling the robbery of the Chinese merchant ship Huanghai, which greatly praised the people of the whole country, and became more loyal and supportive of Wang Chenhao and his Beiyang government.

After this incident, Tsarist Russia's international status was further shaken, and the challenges from Asian yellow races made Western whites treat Russians as objects of shame.

The tough attitude of the Chinese government and military on this matter made Western European and American countries feel that the China in front of them has really changed its appearance. It is no longer a country that puts the word "完" on its head as a Bible, but a country that starts to use cannons to prove that their words are correct in everything they do.

Western media couldn't help but exclaim on the front page: China is rising...!.@

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