Why didn't the Russian invasion of China's Far East get its hands on the Korean Peninsula?

As for why Russia didn't get its hands on the Korean Peninsula when it invaded China's Far East territory, the main reason is that the geographical position of the Korean Peninsula is not adjacent to Russia's large-scale land territory, but across the three northeastern provinces; Rebellion between the government and the northeast people; Japan's intervention led to the Russo-Japanese War; The intervention of western powers made it impossible for Russia to annex the three northeastern provinces, which led to Japan getting there first.

The prerequisite for Russian to get its hands on the Korean peninsula is to annex the three northeastern provinces of China, and then use a bridge to get its hands on the Korean peninsula. But what obstacles did it encounter on the road of annexing the three northeastern provinces?

Russians have a special desire for land. In the modern history of China, tsarist Russia occupied most of our territory in modern times. We have seized more than 654.38+500,000 square kilometers of land in China through a number of unequal treaties. But the Russians were not satisfied. They also attempted to occupy the three rich northeastern provinces of China.

In fact, Russia has long coveted China's three northeastern provinces. During the Kangxi period, Russia tried to invade the northeast. During the Second Opium War, Russia occupied the whole outer Manchuria without blowing off dust. However, the Russian bear did not stop. In order to obtain an ice-free port in the Far East, Russia stepped up its aggression against the Northeast.

1899, Russia and Britain reached an agreement to divide the north of the Great Wall of China into Russia's sphere of influence. In the second year, Russia even put forward the "Yellow Ross" plan, with the intention of completely controlling the Northeast. But in the end, Russia never annexed the Northeast. So what stopped the Russian bear?

186 1 after the reform of Russian serfdom, Russia's national strength has developed greatly. Therefore, the Russian "Oriental School" put forward the idea of expanding to the Far East. Later, the Russian elite, led by Victor, Koro Batkin, Bell Saeki razov and others, concretized the idea of expanding to the Far East and put forward a series of plans to occupy China territory, especially the Northeast. This series of plans is commonly known as the "Yellow Russia Plan" in Russia.

At that time, Tsar Nicholas II praised the "Yellow Russia Plan" and publicly declared that "Russia must undoubtedly have a port that can be used all the year round. This port should be on the mainland (southeast Korea) and must be connected with the zone we once owned. " According to the goal envisaged in the plan, Russia will acquire an ice-free port along the Pacific coast, and use this as a stronghold to bring all the north of the Great Wall of China into the Russian territory, or at least the whole northeast into the bag.

In order to better control the southeast in the future, the Russians also built the Nanman Railway from Changchun to Dalian. In the second step, in the name of protecting railway safety, troops were stationed along the railway crossing China, and a series of Russian villages and towns were established, and then immigrants were transported to these villages and towns, gradually occupying the territory of northeast China. So how did the HuangRussia project go bankrupt?

Because Russians have a special desire for land, it only took Russia more than 200 years to leap from a small principality on the plains of Eastern Europe to a great empire across Europe and Asia. However, the core area of Russia is located in the Eastern European Plain, far from the northeast of China. From the plain of Eastern Europe to the northeast of China, we have to pass through cold Siberia, and the environment is very bad.

Therefore, it is extremely difficult for Russia to transfer troops from Eastern Europe to Northeast China. The distance from St Petersburg to Harbin is much longer than that from Shi Jing to Harbin. Even by jet, it takes more than 1 1 hour.

Russian-conquered Siberia is near the northeast of China. However, Siberia has a cold climate all the year round, an extremely harsh natural environment and a sparse population. In these places, there are neither reliable sources of troops nor resources to support the stationing of a large army. Such geographical conditions make Russia and China in a relatively unfavorable geographical environment if a war breaks out over the northeast.