"You have no idea how brutal that war was. In order to win, we started night battles, street battles, and hand-to-hand combat with the Chinese... We fought with them inch by inch for streets and buildings..."
"Yes, we failed, but we are not cowards! If you have the opportunity to restore this war, you will know how miserable we were! Not only were we miserable, but the Chinese were even worse..."
"They are definitely not the weak and incompetent medieval army of the Qing Dynasty. These volunteers dared to bayonet with us and dared to engage in close combat with us. During the first wave of charge, their crowd of ten thousand people almost died, and no one retreated..."
"I don't think it's a shame to fight with such soldiers! Their weapons are sharper than ours, their logistics are more sufficient than ours, their local combat morale is higher than ours, and coupled with their will to fight to the death... I don't know what to expect. What can you do if you join such an army..."
"What's more important is that we are outnumbering the many, and our military strength has no advantage at all..."
Andreev let the blood drip onto his uniform and onto the ground. Flowers of blood bloomed on the golden gold ingot.
He was making a distinction for himself, and even more so for the warriors in Vladivostok who persisted to the end. He knew very well that if the thorn in Aikeson's heart was not picked out today, once he was allowed to return home with anger, none of these captured soldiers would It will end well.
Those soldiers in Vladivostok who had to surrender after fighting until the end would be ruthlessly scrutinized by the empire. If they could survive a quarter, it would be considered a group of bureaucrats who had a conscience.
The officer who had just punched did not stop his explanation at all and instead cursed angrily, "Shut up, coward! The empire will not accept surrender, and those who surrender are traitors! Go to hell..." While scolding him, he pulled out his gun. The officer next to him quickly stopped him.
Only now do I know why Exxon closed its doors. It turns out that these officers have already reached the edge of collapse. If the soldiers outside see what the officers have become like, the fragile military morale will immediately collapse.
Andreev looked at the crazy officer with disappointment and whispered, "It is so easy to die on the battlefield, but those who survive have to bear all this... You want me to die? But who knows that there are still many people in Vladivostok?" Thousands of innocent citizens are waiting for me to save..."
"If I don't sign this surrender order, what will happen to the city? Who will protect the lives of women and children..."
"It is their honor to devote themselves to the empire! They should have been mentally prepared from the day they came to the Far East! The East Asian territory that the empire finally obtained must not be given to these Chinese in vain..." The madman-like officer yelled hysterically, and the result was nothing. Carefully kicked over the compressed biscuit crumbs on the gold bricks.
Those officers who enjoyed eating salt as much as taking drugs were immediately furious. If you go crazy, we don't care if you spread our salt, that's not okay.
"Your eyes are up to your butt? This is the last bit of salt we have. The commander didn't even get to eat it and he was ruined by you!" As he spoke, he punched him randomly, and a group of people fought together.
Andreev looked at this group of lunatics in pain, and sighed to Exxon, "Sir... At this point, it is useless to punish anyone. We must move forward. You can talk about killing me later. I just want to know." What are you going to do now?”
Aixon, who had been injected with morphine, laughed at the farce in front of him, "Hahaha... what should I do? What else can I do! Just wait and wait for news from the outside world day by day until the good news comes..."
"If you don't bring good news, then I will wait for good news from Fadeev. If Fadeev does not bring good news, then I will wait for good news from our minister in Beijing..."
"Sir!" Looking at the decadent Exon Andreev, he was furious. "Stop holding on to illusions. Have you ever fought against these Chinese? They are powerful and cunning. Do you really think they can Will Jeev turn the tables?”
"An army without logistical supplies marches for thousands of kilometers in the wind and snow. What kind of combat effectiveness does it have? The Chinese who wait for work can drag them to death even if they are blocked by mountains and rivers..."
Before he finished speaking, Aikeson's face changed greatly and he shouted, "Then what do you think I should do? Order the entire army to surrender in the name of the Governor of the East? Don't forget that you are only officers, and your surrender order is limited to your own army. My identity must never be surrendered!"
"The all-powerful Governor of the Far East, I already have the power to sign treaties with independent countries. Can I use this power? That bastard Xiao Letian is waiting for my signature. I know his plan!"
"This bastard doesn't want to kill us, he just surrounds us and wants to file a lawsuit with us. They want to defeat us legally! Damn it...why does such a damn bastard appear in the East? How does he know so much!"
Aikeson gasped for breath. His words shocked everyone in the vault and lost their voices. Even the fighting officer lowered his fists and stared at him blankly.
Aikeson is right. Before the mid-19th century, that is, before the advent of fast telegraph technology, human information transmission technology was very backward.
Including the Empire on which the Sun Never Sets, as long as the territory begins to globalize, a governor-general system must be introduced. The name may be different, but the basic principles are the same.
It means dispatching a full-power governor to manage the territory that is not covered by the capital and core areas of the empire. Since the transmission of personnel, materials, and information in the age of sail was too slow, the administrative center of the empire was completely unable to directly control distant colonies. This required Grant special privileges to governors.
Sometimes the country even gives privileges to merchants. For example, when the Netherlands was prosperous, the East India Company was granted overseas war powers by the King of the Netherlands. A company could go to war with independent sovereign countries based on actual conditions.
It is conceivable that even the power of war has been delegated, let alone the power of peace negotiation. Sometimes colonial governors can decide the direction of the borders of many countries with just one sentence.
The borders of many modern African countries are straight, and they are divided completely according to longitude and latitude lines. This is actually a good thing done by those lazy governors and commissioners. For example, Britain and France randomly draw a straight line on the map "East". The territory on the front is British territory, and the territory on the west is French territory, do you think it’s okay?”
"No! How about moving fifteen more dimensions?"
"No, I'll give you twelve more. This is the bottom line..."
After some haggling, the borders that divided the colonies emerged and formed the borders of the country over the long years to come.
Aikeson's worries are not unreasonable, because he knows that as long as he surrenders and falls into Xiao Letian's hands, God knows how difficult negotiations will be waiting for him.
Just how much pressure the young governor was under was clear from the empty morphine injections.
