Battle of the Third Reich Chapter 235: The big fire and (1)

"This is a joint operation in the concession. Everyone is refreshed. Don't let those stupid French guys steal the limelight." Second Lieutenant Makarenko, the platoon leader of the Russian Second Company of the IWC, stood in Ford. In the body of the eight-wheeled truck, each other spoke loudly.

The father of Lieutenant Makarenko was once an artillery captain in the Russian Army of the Tsar. His mother followed his newlyweds to the Far East of the Empire. He was born in a wooden house in a barracks.

In 1917, the storm of the October Revolution swept across Siberia. Many aristocratic officers in the Russian Far East theater were collectively liquidated by low-level Russian soldiers who had been oppressed for years. Makarenko's father was brutally murdered in a military camp mutiny. The captain, along with other Tsarist Russian officers, was **** with straps by soldiers and threw them into the river near the station to drown.

His mother survived the mutiny because she was still a little bit charming. As for what happened to this poor woman during the period, it is hard to say anything. At that time, Ma Karenko was only four years old. He hid under the floor of the wooden house and witnessed the whole tragedy process with his own eyes. In that little heart, hatred for those "revolutionaries" was planted early.

The small-scale armed mutiny was quickly and **** suppressed by the troops still loyal to the Tsar, but the tragedy has been brought into being, and Makarenko’s happy time has been buried with his smile in that cruel In the **** cold winter night.

The cruel Russian civil war finally ended with the disastrous defeat of the Tsarist Russian army. At that time, Makarenko lived in Vladivostok, the last major town of Tsarist Russia in the Far East, together with countless Russian soldiers and civilians who were unwilling to accept the Soviet regime. At this time, his mother had remarried to a 65-year-old Imperial Russian infantry colonel, just because the other party promised to raise Makarenko to grow up.

This old colonel is a widower. His ex-wife did not leave him a son and a half daughter. He kept his promise and treated Makarenko as his own. At the same time, the infantry colonel surnamed Normanrov also holds the title of Viscount of the Russian Empire, but on the streets of Vladivostok, where the Marquis counts gathered, this title is obviously not very impressive.

However, Colonel Normanrov is a high-ranking officer after all. He had foreseen the defeat of the Civil War, so he used his power to accumulate a lot of money early. The amount of this wealth is enough to make him spend the second half of his life with his wife and children extravagantly. At this time, the battle has completely collapsed. Colonel Normanrov decided to take his young and beautiful wife and adopted son to escape from this place. A city that will fall.

At this time, Vladivostok has been surrounded on three sides, and the land access is completely closed. Except for the diehard imperial loyalists who still want to resist, most people with status and status are trying to find other ways.

At this time, the imperial Russian remnants still controlled a small navy in Vladivostok. This fleet was originally the Pacific Squadron of the Soviet Red Navy, with three old destroyers and approximately 1,600 naval officers and soldiers. As a result, it was in Russia. During the civil war, captured by the Japanese Intervention Army and the Tsarist Russian Army, the commander of this fleet is Admiral Oscar Viktorovich Stark who once served as the commander of the Port of Lushun Port and Commander of the Pacific Fleet.

This admiral was discredited for his poor performance in the Russo-Japanese War. The famous allusion about him is that on the night of February 8, 1904, the Japanese destroyer took advantage of the cover of night to raid Lushun. Port, at that time the admiral was holding a birthday party for his wife on the flagship battleship Petropavlovsk. As a result, when the Japanese torpedo explosions and flashes came from outside the cabin, he thought It is a firework program specially prepared by the subordinates for the banquet.

In 1922, the admiral was already 76 years old, but fate once again jokingly placed the responsibility for the lives of countless people on the shoulders of the navy commander.

This is an old-school admiral with a stubborn character. Like Admiral Roger Winstevensky at the time, he led a huge fleet of thirty old warships and civilian ships, and started A thrilling expedition. This fleet was composed of ships that were able to search in the port by the Russians at the time and also had navigation capabilities. In addition to destroyers and minesweepers, there were ordinary passenger ships and offshore ferries, ocean-going merchant ships and coastal transport ships, and also There are customs anti-smuggling ships, shallow water gunboats, military communications ships, naval icebreakers, and even a steam-powered yacht.

Stark took such a diverse fleet with more than 9,000 "Buy tickets" "Imperial Russian refugees", braving the harsh sea conditions in autumn and winter, and fled from Vladivostok to the south. Wonsan Port in North Korea.

At that time, North Korea was already a colony of the Japanese Empire. At first, the Japanese refused to accept these "refugees", but soon "under pressure" from the European powers, they agreed to let the old and weak women and children in the fleet go ashore, but Can only live in the designated area. The Japanese customs set up a decent refugee camp outside Wonyama Port without a teacher, but because of the poor living conditions, infectious diseases soon began to spread among the crowd.

Stark didn’t want to sit in these wooden row houses, so he resolutely took fifteen navigable civilian ships and warships, carrying more than 3,000 Russian officers and soldiers, aristocratic officials, and their families. This time their destination is Shanghai, China, a paradise for world-renowned adventurers.

At the time, the Shanghai government and the Public Concession Ministry of Industry Bureau were confused by the uninvited Russian refugee fleet. Among these Russians were not only nobles, merchants and ordinary civilians, but also many professional soldiers from Tsarist Russia. If the resettlement is not good, there must be a lot of hidden dangers in public security. Therefore, the concession requested the Russian fleet to stay in the port for only 48 hours, and then must take all the personnel to leave Shanghai.

At this time, there are only twelve ships left in the Russian fleet. Three ships, including a destroyer, encountered a typhoon on their way to Shanghai and were unfortunately killed at sea. Now the passengers in the Russian fleet are already After suffering, I can't stand another long voyage anymore.

So the Russian admiral made a private transaction with the representative of the Beiyang government at the time. He was willing to hand over part of the Tsarist Russian government treasures carried on board as a condition for China to accept these Russian refugees. In the end, the Chinese side agreed to the deal, so except for a few Russian navy crews, the remaining 3,000 people landed ashore. They were arranged by the government to live scattered in the Chinese border and became a new landscape in Shanghai. White Russian refugees from Shanghai who left a unique mark in the history of this city. (The author remembers that when I was young, there were many descendants of this group of Belarusian refugees in Shanghai. They were blond with high noses and deep eyes, but they were talking standard Shanghai gossip.)

In 1927~IndoMTL.com~The Northern Expedition Army approached Shanghai. At that time, the public concession was in chaos and panic. The Ministry of Industry and Engineering finally determined to build a standing armed force to defend the expatriates in the concession anytime and anywhere. Safety. Although the Wan Guo Business Group was established at that time, as mentioned in the previous article, its members are purely foreign nationals from various countries, and only gather when something happens. They only receive three weeks of military training in a year. So don't expect this kind of troops to be able to stop the attack of the Northern Expedition.

The situation at that time forced the Ministry of Industry and the Bureau to find a group of soldiers who received regular military training in the shortest time. As a result, the senior officials of the Ministry of Industry and Bureau set their sights on the Russian refugees.

At that time, most of these refugees, except for some rich nobles and wealthy businessmen, had spent most of their savings with them. Many of them lacked survival skills and had to be at the bottom of society, relying on physical strength. Make a living with Hue.

Many of these people used to be regular soldiers of the Tsarist Empire. They only need a short period of adaptability training, and they will soon be able to recover a certain amount of combat effectiveness. If you add an appropriate amount of military payments, I believe that the whole of Shanghai Tan couldn't find any more dedicated soldiers than them.

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