If Britain and the United States have some precautions against Russia, then Japan will feel a deep pain for Russia.

The beams between Japan and Russia were planted during the Sino-Japanese War of 1894-1895 five years ago.

After the Sino-Japanese War of 1894-1895, the Qing government signed the Treaty of Shimonoseki with Japan, which not only compensated 200 million taels of silver, but also ceded the Liaodong Peninsula and Taiwan to Japan. In order to prevent Japan's power in the Far East, Russia united Germany and France. Shortly after the signing of the Treaty of Shimonoseki, they notified Japan separately and demanded that Japan give up the occupation of the Liaodong Peninsula. With the intervention of the great powers, Japan was forced to give up and agreed to give up the Liaodong Peninsula, but only asked China for 0 million taels of silver to "redemption of Liao" as compensation. This is the famous "Three Kingdoms' interference in returning Liao" incident. When spitting out the fat meat from the mouth, Japan was naturally very dissatisfied with Russia.

Another great achievement of Japan in the Sino-Japanese War was to control the famous discussions to get rid of the Qing dynasty and officially independent North Korea. However, in order to get rid of being controlled by Japan, North Korea hoped that the intervention of the Russian forces in Lalong could balance the Japanese forces. So the two sides hit it off. While Tsarist Russia extended its power into Northeast China, it also extended its absolute sphere of influence that Japan regarded as a forbidden ban on North Korea.

This aroused extreme anger from Japan. In 1898, Japan proposed to Russia the division of forces that "North Korea returns to Japan, and the Qing Dynasty returns to Russia in the northeast." However, it was rejected by Russia and never recognized that North Korea was the exclusive sphere of influence of Japan. It insisted on extending its power into Korea. Therefore, when the Russian army occupied the entire Northeast, then North Korea, which was only one river from the northeast, was directly under the Russian military front, and Japan naturally could not accept such a result.

However, at this time, Japan could only be regarded as a follower among the great powers. Strictly, Japan is not yet a completely independent country, and its tariff rights are still under the control of Britain. Although Japan repeatedly demanded the UK to revoke its tariff rights, Britain did not give in and Japan could do nothing about it.

The Six Six Fleet built by Japan with all its efforts was not completed, and it knew that it was unable to compete with Russia alone and needed to find backend support. Therefore, the request of Britain and the United States reached Japan, which immediately gave Japan an opportunity. So Japan immediately mobilized the navy and army armies, dispatched more than 23,000 troops to join the Eight-Nation Alliance, becoming the country with the most military forces in the coalition. At the same time, it also dispatched a huge fleet to Dagukou. It also maintained consistency with Britain and the United States in its pace and tried its best to suppress Russia.

After the Eight-Nation Alliance captured Dagukou and Tianjin, both Britain and the United States recommended that the Japanese army be in charge of the task of defending the two places. The commanders left behind were also held by the Japanese army. Although the reason was high-sounding, because Japan had the most troops, the actual purpose was to not allow the Russians to gain more opportunities to expand their power in China. Russia was alone in the coalition, and its strength was indeed not as strong as Japan, so it was impossible to fight. Therefore, instead of seizing troops to station in Dagukou and Tianjin, it was better to concentrate limited forces and go north to Shanhaiguan from Beijing to cooperate with the domestic army invading Northeast China to complete the Yellow Russia plan as soon as possible. There was no objection.

The Japanese were naturally flattered and realized that they finally had a few points of power. With the support of Britain and the United States, they were more confident, so they stepped up their support from Britain and the United States.

Among the great powers, France was the only ally of Russia. The two sides signed the [Russia-French Alliance] aimed at fighting Germany in 189. However, the basis of the alliance between Russia and France was to contain Germany in Europe. Of course, France did not want Russia to invest too much in the Far East, thereby relaxing the pressure on Germany. After Russia proposed the Yellow Russia plan, many people in France doubted the motive for the alliance with France. Will France be the sucker and foolishly restrain Germany in Europe, but let Russia free up its hands to expand to the Far East. Therefore, France naturally does not want the Yellow Russia plan to succeed.

But France is an ally with Russia after all, so it is not easy to directly interfere with Russia. The United Kingdom, the United States and Japan jointly suppressed Russia, which hit France's intentions. Therefore, France generally pretended not to see the actions of Britain, the United States and Japan against Russia. It was just a few unnutritious words to help Russia when it was not painful, which was considered as an alliance.

Germany's goal is exactly the opposite of France. Due to the signing of the [Russian-French Alliance], Germany was trapped in the cross-border of France and Russia, and the strategic situation was extremely unfavorable. So Germany tried every means to destroy the [Russian-French Alliance], and on the other hand, it tried its best to direct Russia's attention to the East to relieve its own pressure. In addition, Germany's rise was late, and the global colonies were basically divided up by the old imperialists, and they could only pick up a piece of scum that others looked down upon. As the largest piece of fat in the global colonies, Germany naturally wanted to get a piece of it.

In 1897, Germany sent troops to capture Jiaozhou Bay on the pretext of being killed by missionaries, and gained a foothold in China and wanted to expand its power in Shandong. However, at this time, the great powers had their own spheres of influence in China. Even in Shandong, Britain and Germany competed with Germany. Soon after Germany captured Jiaozhou Bay, Britain was like the Qing government forcibly renting Weihai, making Germany's expansion in China difficult. If Russia was pushed to the front and conflicted with other great powers, Germany could take advantage of the troubled waters and take the jackal from the fire.

Therefore, Germany has been verbally supporting Russia's expansion in northern China. And with the Boxer Movement, German Minister Clinder was killed and won the position of commander of the Eight-Nation Alliance. German Emperor William II appointed Wadesi as commander and led a huge army of twelve warships, seven auxiliary ships, a total of 20,000 soldiers, including 7,000 combat troops. On August 19, he rushed to China. The famous discussion was to punish China, but in fact he took the opportunity to gain greater benefits in China.

However, at this time, the Eight-Nation Alliance had captured Beijing for four days, and the Germans arrived in China, but they would not have any effect. Germany naturally hoped that the situation in China would be as chaotic as possible. If the water was not muddled, how could it be touched? But let Germany and Russia stand together to fight against Britain, the United States and Japan, there is no way. I will die. I will not die. It is best if you fight for blood. I can make a profit from it.

As for the other two countries in the Eight-Nation Alliance, Italy and Austro-Hungary Empire were purely playing soybeans, and they were satisfied with following the elder brother. In fact, their army was like a guard of honor in the Eight-Nation Alliance, with only a few dozen people and no combat power. In terms of the Navy, both countries only sent a warship to make up the numbers.

Although Colonel Volkov is not a politician, he can still feel the delicate atmosphere in the current Eight-Nation Alliance. Although the Russians are barbaric, they are not lacking in wisdom.

Since the Russians are a fighting nation and have been defeated, they naturally have to find the place. There are no Russian army stationed at Dagukou now, but there are six warships anchored, namely the battleship Sissoi, the armored cruiser Russian, the shallow water gunboat Korean, the Geely, the Beaver, and the Kiriak, and there are more than 2,000 naval soldiers. Although the Russian army lost nearly 70 people in this battle, it is still possible to pull out an army of about 300 people from each warship to find Changjie.

However, after thinking for a while, Colonel Wojkov decided not to act alone, but to report to the coalition command stationed in Dagukou, asking the command to organize an army to wipe out the Qing army. After all, the upper-level coalition forces repeatedly emphasized that the armies of all countries must obey the command and set their pace.

Moreover, among the coalition forces, Russia has always been relatively isolated. The three countries of Britain, the United States and Japan have almost completely settled their attitude towards dealing with Russia. Russia's ally France has limited support for Russia, and Germany cannot count on it. It is not harmful to send dozens of soldiers to go out to rob, but it is too much to send an army of 300 people, and this is inevitable that it will be criticized by Britain, the United States and Japan. Although the fighting nation is not afraid of confronting Britain, the United States and Japan, it is better to avoid it. After all, Russia's goal is to realize the Yellow Russian plan and to establish good relations with other countries as much as possible.

In addition, Wojkov also thought that if this attack was done by a country within the coalition, the Russian army would not be able to act alone, and asked the command center to send troops, which was just a test of whether the coalition would really turn against Russia.

The Japanese officer stationed in Dagukou was named Yuki Otsu, with the rank of Colonel. Although he served as the commander of the Eight-Nation Alliance's garrison at Dagukou, Yuki Otsuki was very clear that no one could command except the Japanese army. Therefore, he was plundering the sailors on each ship in the four places, and Yuki Otsuki turned a blind eye. As long as he did not do too much, Yuki Otsuki basically ignored it.

On the contrary, Yuki Otsu organized the Japanese army to loot in nearby villages and towns. However, unlike other countries, all the things that the Japanese robbed were handed over to the state, except for food. Because although the Qing government compensated Japan for 230 million taels of silver after the Sino-Japanese War of 1894-1895, and the total value of the materials plundered in China was about 35,000 taels of silver, Japan is still a backward country after all, with industry not developed and economic strength. Moreover, although the Sino-Japanese War of 1895 won, it almost exhausted Japan and kept its debts firm. Half of the compensation obtained by the Treaty of Shimonoseki was used to repay debts. In addition, it was necessary to build the Six Six Fleet, and the army also had to expand. The annual military expenditure rose sharply, exceeding more than 30% of the government's fiscal revenue, so it was naturally not enough to make ends meet.
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