Nanyang Storm 1864

As the only main force on the eastern front, the Great Chu Empire's expeditionary force immediately mobilized a large army to enter the country after the Ottoman Empire and the Austro-Hungarian Empire were defeated and surrendered. It also disarmed more than 2.6 million German and Austro-Hungarian soldiers on the eastern front, including a large number of second-line troops.

at the same time
Italy, Greece, Serbia, Romania, Montenegro and other countries also successively sent troops to accompany the Chu expeditionary force into enemy territory to carry out military occupation missions.

At this point, the German Empire, already struggling to survive, was on the verge of defeat.

1918 January 1

Marked by the signing of the Armistice in the Forest of Compiègne, an agreement signed by German representatives and the Allied Powers in a train carriage in the Forest of Compiègne, France, marked the end of the war, which had lasted for more than five years.

This is only one day earlier than the original historical timeline.

Kaiser Wilhelm II was forced to flee to the Kingdom of the Netherlands, which marked the beginning of a thorough purge of the Central Powers military alliance.

The military occupation of Germany was mainly carried out by Britain and France, with Chu and the United States also sending a small number of troops to implement military control over Germany and maintain postwar social order.

Upon seeing the announcement of defeat, the new Tsarist Russian government was the first to step forward, formally declaring the Treaty of Brest-Litovsk null and void and reclaiming more than 120 million square kilometers of land, including the Ukrainian plains.

This sudden move angered the Great Chu Empire.

Because the Treaty of Brest-Litovsk covered the four southern provinces of Ukraine, the German Empire, as an enemy state at the time, was not concerned about signing a treaty that infringed upon the interests of the Chu state.

Territory that cannot be gained at the negotiating table can be decided on the battlefield.

The Treaty of Kiev, signed between Chu and Russia, placed four southern provinces of Ukraine under international trusteeship. Although these provinces did not fall within the true territory of the Great Chu Empire, they were within the interests of the Great Chu Empire.

Tsarist Russia's announcement of the abrogation of the Treaty of Brest-Litovsk gave it territorial claims over four southern Ukrainian provinces, which violated the Treaty of Kiev.

In the Treaty of Kiev, Tsarist Russia relinquished its territorial claims to the four southern provinces of Ukraine, which was the only way for the Great Chu Empire to establish its international trusteeship. It was a choice between two options, and Tsarist Russia's statement undermined the legal foundation of the Treaty of Kiev.

The Great Chu Empire immediately mobilized a large number of troops and blatantly threatened the new Russian government with war, sparing no effort to deliver a fatal blow with a million-strong army.

At that time, the new Tsarist government had moved the capital to the Moscow Kremlin and was facing an extremely difficult situation with internal and external troubles. The embers of the regime were teetering on the brink of collapse.

Externally, interventionist forces from Britain, France, the United States, Canada, and Italy landed in Murmansk in the north, while the Chu army was deployed across the Ukrainian plains. In the far east, Britain, Japan, Chu, and the United States occupied the port of Vladivostok.

In Siberia, the rebellious Czechoslovakian army, the White Army, and the Kazakh cavalry colluded, causing vast areas to break free from the control of the new government and giving rise to dozens or even hundreds of local warlords.

In Europe

The White Army, which opposed the new Tsarist government, comprised various domestic factions as well as international intervention forces, and its origins were very complex, consisting of both domestic and foreign elements.

Domestically, it was mainly composed of a loose alliance against the new Tsarist government, including landlords, royalists, bourgeois liberals, and old military officers and generals, collectively known as the White Army.

Their military forces were mainly led by former Tsarist officers such as General Yudenich of the Baltic region, General Kolchak of Siberia, and General Denikin of southern Russia, and they controlled most of the territory for most of the time during the internal wars of Tsarist Russia.

The international intervention forces were mainly composed of Britain, France, Russia, the United States, Japan, Italy, Serbia, Czech Republic, Poland, and others, totaling over 100,000 troops.

Among them, the Fusang Kingdom alone contributed more than 7 troops, showing particularly active participation.

Everyone knew this was a huge piece of meat, and the Japanese made no secret of their desire to expand wildly to the north, especially the military.

At the beginning of 1918

The Russian Civil War was unprecedentedly bloody and brutal, with heavy casualties among the civilian population in the war-torn areas. The fighting was fierce and repeated, mainly taking place in the region surrounding Moscow.

This is only the current situation. If the Great Chu Empire were to suddenly deploy a million troops, the consequences would be as swift and decisive as a landslide.

Let alone a million troops, even 20 would be unbearable.

The army of the Great Chu Empire has always been known for its excellent equipment, training, strong execution, and almost inexhaustible artillery and air support, making its offensive power no less than that of the German army.

Therefore, on the third day after Prince Chu-Zheng Hui, Commander-in-Chief of the Great Chu Empire's European Expeditionary Force, issued a war threat, representatives of the new Russian government secretly arrived in Crimea to begin secret negotiations with the Great Chu Empire.
On the fourth day, the two sides formally reached the Treaty of Crimea.

The core of the Treaty of Crimea consists of three articles;

Article 1: The Russian government recognizes the legitimate territorial sovereignty of the Great Chu Empire over Crimea, Moldova, and Thrace, and has no objection to this.

Article 2. The Russian government officially recognizes the four regions of Odessa, Nikolaev, Kherson, and Zaporizhzhia as international trust territories belonging to the special interest zone of the Great Chu Empire, and renounces any territorial claims to the aforementioned four regions.

Article 3. Both sides are willing to establish positive, friendly, and communicative diplomatic relations, seek a path to regional stability and peace, and commit to establishing normal interstate relations in the future.

This outcome is not surprising. The threat from Chu-Zheng Hui, the commander-in-chief of the Great Chu Empire's European expeditionary force, was not just verbal, but a gleaming guillotine hanging over Tsarist Russia, ready to fall at any moment.

The White Army is not scary, nor is the multinational interventionist army. What is scary is the Great Chu Empire's European Expeditionary Force. If it gets angry, it will be a catastrophe.

If you do the math, the total number of troops from the thirteen European interventionist nations combined is only a little over 6. Japan alone has deployed over 7 troops in Siberia. Add the Czech and Polish legions, and the total number of troops would be less than 20 at most.

The Great Chu Empire stationed four army groups in the four southern provinces of Ukraine. Adding Crimea, Moldova, and Thrace, that makes seven army groups, totaling approximately 600,000 troops.

In addition, the redeployed Great Chu Empire expeditionary force has troops stationed in Kiev, Warsaw, Minsk, and the three Baltic states, totaling more than 120 million.

The Great Chu Empire's expeditionary force still has over a million German and Austro-Hungarian prisoners of war being repatriated. They can be sent to the battlefield at any time if given a rifle.

Faced with real military pressure, the current Tsarist Russian government chose to back down directly.

Compared to the huge differences of opinion within the new Tsarist government after the signing of the Treaty of Brest-Litovsk, there were surprisingly few opponents to the signing of the Treaty of Crimea.

Meanwhile, in Europe, there was an uproar, with all sorts of opinions circulating. It was not the first time that the Great Chu Empire had secretly reached an agreement with Tsarist Russia, and they believed that it had damaged the interests of the alliance.

But that was all just talk; there was much discussion, but no official statement from the Supreme Command or heads of government of any country.

To be honest, it's a complicated matter.

Because Tsarist Russia was originally an ally, even though it later withdrew from the Entente military alliance and unilaterally negotiated a peace and armistice with Germany, it was not an enemy country.

At best, he was a traitor. The treaty between the Great Chu Empire and Tsarist Russia can be regarded as a normal treaty between countries. It cannot be said that the Great Chu Empire lost the right to sign treaties with other countries just because it joined the Allied military alliance.

This is a messy situation; everyone has their own version of events.

With the Great Chu Empire's current world-class international influence, it wouldn't care about the dissatisfaction of other small countries. What could it do without controversy?
The highest decree from the empire itself was to eliminate all possible territorial disputes with Tsarist Russia.

Therefore, after the signing of the Treaty of Crimea, the border surveyors of the two countries quickly began their work, conducting real-time surveys of the borders of the four southern states, and then compiling the findings into an intergovernmental border agreement, which I will not elaborate on further.

The sheer number of interventionist forces reveals that the Allied military bloc, led by Britain, France, Russia, and the United States, while extremely hostile to the new Tsarist government, was unwilling to expend excessive manpower and resources on this battlefield.

The five-year war has ended, and people yearn for stability.

Any suggestion to start a new war in Ukraine and Poland was considered insane and foolish, and was abhorred by the people of Europe, led by Britain and France.

Putting aside everything else, the overwhelming public demand for parliamentary funding is simply unacceptable.

France was particularly hard hit, with the entire eastern and northern provinces and the area around Greater Paris in ruins. The reconstruction work was long and arduous, so where could a large army be spared to intervene in Tsarist Russia?
However, these countries all hope that
With the European expeditionary force of the Great Chu Empire as the main force, an intervention army of no less than 50 people was formed to overthrow the current Tsarist Russian regime in one fell swoop.

Of these, the Great Chu Empire would need to send more than 40 troops.

The reasons are also very solid.
The Great Chu Empire had over two million troops in Eastern Europe, the Balkans, and Ukraine. It would be easy for them to spare 40, especially since the Great Chu Empire was not short of money.

The imperial edict from the mainland left all the allied nations that had been urging the Great Chu Empire to take the lead completely dumbfounded.

Imperial Edict of the Emperor of Great Chu
The war in Europe has come to a complete end, and the expeditionary force of the Great Chu Empire has fulfilled its sacred and glorious mission of military alliance, establishing immortal achievements in the great war of defeating the evil military forces led by the German-Austrian alliance.

The imperial edict stated: "From this moment forward, the Imperial Royal Army shall commence peacetime missions and contribute to the maintenance of lasting peace in Europe."

That is
Without the decree from the Great Chu Empire, no one can move the expeditionary force, not even the Supreme Command of the Allied Powers.

In short, the war was over.

The war was won, but Prince Chu-Zhenghui, the commander-in-chief of the expeditionary force, was far from relaxed. A huge amount of work followed, overwhelming him like a tidal wave.

He had just signed the last batch of commendation orders, transferring, promoting, and rewarding outstanding officers, which was the original intention.

Then an order was signed to cancel the temporary formation of the Royal Army's "32nd Army and 33rd Army," and the approximately 15 troops involved were dispersed and gradually incorporated into other units.

After Germany's formal surrender
The Great Chu Empire's expeditionary force then began a large-scale reduction and demobilization, especially the first and second batches of troops sent to Europe. These were veterans who had reached the upper limit of their service age and had received various rewards for their merits.

The largest portion consists of land and houses in Europe.

The officers and soldiers who made outstanding contributions were allocated the best houses, while those who performed worse were allocated homesteads that had been destroyed in the war, but they would have to repair them themselves later.

Ordinary officers and soldiers could at least receive a plot of land as a reward for their homestead. As for women and food, these were not a problem in Eastern Europe.

In the first quarter of 1918
The total number of officers and soldiers planned to retire is approximately 50, mainly from Crimea, Thrace, Moldova, and other regions. A small number are being considered for resettlement in Tunisia and Jordan, depending on individual wishes.

The number of people in each region was roughly over 100,000, mainly used for the initial restoration of the regional economy and order. After all, the devastation brought by the war had left hundreds of thousands of families in Thrace broken and incomplete, having lost their men.

The same applies to other regions of Moldova and Crimea, which require a large influx of able-bodied men to fill the void.

In the second quarter, another 50 officers and soldiers are scheduled to retire, mainly to the aforementioned regions, and in principle, they will not be arranged to return to China.

Unless the officers and soldiers themselves strongly request and voluntarily give up the rewards of land, houses and other rights in Europe, and are willing to return to China to live a secluded life in the mountains, this is perfectly acceptable.

Before resettling retired officers and soldiers, their wishes must be respected. Most officers and soldiers choose to be resettled together with their comrades, which is also a common practice.

After all, they are brothers who have gone through life and death together, and they have a deep bond that others cannot match. They are settled together in one area so that they can take care of each other.

The entire expeditionary force until the end of the year

In total, more than 150 million people will be demobilized and resettled, leaving fewer than 80 troops, mainly stationed in Moldova and the four southern regions of Ukraine, Thrace and Crimea, which together account for more than 56 people.

There were also troops stationed in the Ottoman and Austro-Hungarian Empires, totaling approximately 24 people.

In addition, the Great Chu Empire dispatched an independent brigade of more than 4600 men to participate in the military operations to occupy Moldova and the three Baltic states in the north.

It's roughly equivalent to plucking a single hair, just a token gesture.

This is also a response to the wise actions of the new Tsarist government; everyone knows the truth, and they must accept this favor.

Despite the clamor from countries like Britain, France, and the United States, they haven't actually deployed many troops. Instead, they've been actively demobilizing soldiers, restoring domestic order, and rebuilding towns.

The Great Chu Empire wouldn't interfere at all with doing something foolish like making wedding clothes for others.

With the gradual implementation of resettlement policies, Crimea, Moldova, and Thrace quickly recovered and embarked on a vigorous post-war reconstruction.

The arrival of a large number of retired Chinese soldiers has injected boundless vitality into the aforementioned regions.

Every day, weddings and new families were celebrated, and large-scale construction was carried out from towns to villages, clearing away rubble and rebuilding houses, bridges and roads.

Much of the work was undertaken by Austro-Hungarian and German prisoners of war, who had to repair roads, bridges, and houses, and restore local infrastructure.

Fortunately, the expeditionary force was relatively lenient in its policies toward these white prisoners of war; they were able to eat their fill in the prisoner-of-war camps, but not necessarily eat well.

Because of their mutual respect as formidable adversaries, German officers and soldiers were treated much better than their Austro-Hungarian prisoners of war in prisoner-of-war camps.

On some occasions, officers of the Great Chu Empire would invite German officers from prisoner-of-war camps to their gatherings, where they would drink and chat, and they got along quite well.

As a powerful, internationally-minded army, the Great Chu Empire's army had many officers fluent in English, and even more German officers knew English, so communication was not a problem. (End of Chapter)