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#594 - War of the Republic of China

In the end, the battle on the Russian front remained a stalemate.

The North and South were divided into opposing sides.

It's worth mentioning that, unlike the North and South Koreas of later generations, they didn't sign any semblance of an armistice agreement.

It was simply because years of fighting had resulted in too much loss and consumption for both sides, and the people, soldiers, and even the ruling class in the respective territories began to show war-weariness.

Unable to achieve any merit on the front lines, they could only consciously slow down the pace of their offensives.

Subsequently, they retreated more than thirty miles each, tacitly forming a buffer zone in the middle of the front lines, which effectively achieved a ceasefire.

But to say that they actually sat down at the negotiating table, mutually recognized each other's existence, and signed an agreement, that didn't happen.

Even today, the North and South remain in a state of war, and could cross the buffer zone at any time to launch offensives against each other.

The ultimate goal, of course, is to unify the entire North and South, and then recover the former homeland, returning to the vast territory of the peak of Tsarist Russia...

To this end, both sides are working hard to strengthen their armies, train their troops, unify their thinking, produce equipment, update various guns and artillery, and strive to develop new generations of war weapons, etc.

The cessation of hostilities between the North and South of Tsarist Russia also immediately had a significant impact around the world.

Not to mention the distant ones, at least on the Chinese side, Liang Yue could feel the little tricks they were playing in his own sphere of influence and surrounding areas.

In fact, even before they reached a tacit ceasefire between the North and South, these people were already planning how to cause trouble for China and putting it into action.

In 1921, under the instigation and encouragement of a group of white, yellow, red, and brown-haired people, a group of old nobles, princes, and ministers in Outer Mongolia suddenly announced their independence via radio.

They also declared that Outer Mongolia would begin to implement a constitutional monarchy and had reached a military alliance with southern Tsarist Russia and some of the Allied Powers.

Subsequently, almost immediately after this telegram was published, Britain, France, Italy, Tsarist Russia, and other countries also responded one after another, expressing their support for the decision of Outer Mongolia to become independent.

Following that, several countries jointly announced that they would send 100,000 Allied troops to Outer Mongolia to help them defend their territory and prevent the risk of illegal intrusion by foreign forces.

Then, only a week later.

When the warlords in various parts of China, the two governments in the North and South, were still overwhelmed and busy fighting, protesting, and with constant public demonstrations, while other countries were watching with cold eyes, gloating over the misfortune.

For a time, world opinion was in an uproar.

The great powers sent protests one after another, saying that this was a trampling on world peace, a persecution of new nations, and that they would never compromise and would fight to the end, and so on.

In secret, however, they quickly contacted the National Government, half-threatening and half-compromising, demanding that they strictly restrict their own forces, otherwise they would do something or other~

Then, only one day later, five major forces, including Britain, France, Italy, and the North and South of Tsarist Russia, each had a heavy industrial city erased from the horizon.

The original site only left behind strange mottled and messy scenes, as well as the appearance of thousands of ravines and gullies as if they had just been plowed by a super-large soil turning machine.

As soon as this result came out, many great powers fell silent.

There were no subsequent reports on this matter, as if nothing had happened, and they consciously blocked the channels of information dissemination.

When facing matters of China, they also began to become taciturn.

However, their silence did not mean that their small actions in secret would decrease. On the contrary, for a long time after that, they began to increase their infiltration and intervention in various parts of China.

On the surface, they didn't seem to be doing anything excessive, and even some embassy staff and their families began to become kind and polite on weekdays.

But in private, they began to quietly intervene in the internal disputes of China by various means.

The warlords in the north and the southern government began to become increasingly contradictory during this period, until the entire China fell into a long period of chaos, warlord separatism, and the Northern Expedition.

Liang Yue did not interfere too much in this, or make any sound.

After all, he was already dissatisfied with the current Republic of China, which was full of contradictions and seemed to be built on a volcano.

In secret, he only cooperated with organizations such as the Taoist Alliance in the alien world to destroy many organizations in the country that specialized in selling out the country for glory, frantically exporting various cultural relics, calligraphy and paintings, antiques and treasures, and massive resources to foreign countries.

There were also those foreign groups and individuals who, under the guise of archaeology and exploration, dug graves and tombs everywhere in China, swindling and deceiving, all within the scope of his elimination.

In this way, amidst all kinds of disturbances and petty schemes, time passed quickly, and in the blink of an eye, it was 1928.

In this year, many major events also happened in China.

However, for Liang Yue, the most important thing was that a group of disciples under his sect began to go out to practice one after another, and they all took positions in the Taoist Alliance, and then actively participated in the cause of打击打击foreign infiltration activities.

Then, also in this year, Yuan Datou finally came to the end of his life.

Although this old man, even when staying in the academy, would sometimes be unable to resist loneliness, unable to give up some connections with the outside world, and occasionally participate in them.

But it was also because of his diligent cultivation and daily persistence in practicing "Lingyuan Gong", which made him live three or five years longer than Liang Yue had expected.

Compared with his original life trajectory, he had even gained more than ten years of life out of thin air.

This kind of blessing, for him, could already be described as a deep blessing and longevity.

Yuan Datou himself also felt very satisfied with this situation, and his attitude was very calm when he left, but he was still a little worried about his family.

I hope Liang Yue can help take care of them when necessary...

Not long after, a shocking explosion was heard from the northeast, and an old warlord with strong power in the north also died in this explosion.

After investigation, the murderer was actually an islander...

Compared with the original development trajectory, the current island country's power in the northeast is not so strong.

Most of their power is restricted to the Korean Peninsula.

On weekdays, under the leadership of the warlords, the northeast also responds to and cooperates with the Taoist Alliance all year round, and continuously suppresses and expels those island spies, foreign aliens, and other secret front-line personnel who infiltrate in secret.

On the surface, Marshal Zhang also used his official status to levy heavy taxes on those island merchants who were doing business in the northeast and purchasing various resources in large quantities, and from time to time, he would go to their door to extort them.

Perhaps it was precisely because of this that he offended the little devils relatively harshly, and in a fit of rage, he was finally sent to heaven along with his car.

Subsequently, the young Marshal Zhang, who took over the power, was also very straightforward.

Faced with the heavy burden and the current situation in China, he directly waved his banner and announced his dedication to the arms of the Southern National Government.

Since then, the Northern Expedition was completed, and on the surface, China finally ended the situation of warlord separatism and the confrontation between the two governments in the North and South.

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