Battle of the Third Reich Chapter 236: Big fire and (2)

In later Chinese literary works or street rumors, the Russians are jokingly called the fighting nation, but in the early 20th century in Shanghai, the Belarusian refugees who lived here to make a living were pitiful and humiliated by any force. people. Of course, poor people must also have their hatefulness. These Russians dare to do almost anything to make money. They not only involve traditional crimes such as theft, drug trafficking, fraud, and robbery, but also open underground casinos and brothels in the concessions. The Belarusian nobles who had colluded with the high-level circles even engaged in smuggling and arms trading. With a white face, the Russian refugees soon became a special kind of cancer in Shanghai.

In order to maintain a decent life, the desolate imperial and nobles did not hesitate to sell the last ancestral treasure, but when the money ran out, these former nobles fell faster than the meteors. Especially those women with noble status, many of them turned into socialites in Shanghai, shuttled between many politicians and businessmen day and night, relying on their sexuality to maintain their luxurious lives in the past.

Fortunately for the Makarenko family, Colonel Normanrov has accumulated a lot of wealth, which is enough to allow them to continue to live a leisurely life of the upper class in the materialistic place of Shanghai.

Norman Rove relied on the introduction of "friends". Of course, the introduction fee is indispensable. In the public concession in Donghuali near Maijiayuan on Si Ma Road (Fuzhou Road), he used 22 taels of golden A single-family Shikumen house.

At that time, this area was the place with the strongest cultural atmosphere in Shanghai. From the alleys to the north along Shandong Road, the newspapers such as "Shen Pao", "Xin Pao", "Current Affairs News", "East Asia News" and other media outlets left Fuzhou. Go east from Lu Nong Tang Entrance to Henan Intersection and then turn south. It is the famous China Commercial Press. Diagonally opposite Henan Intersection is the General Patrol House of the Ministry of Industry. Public security is absolutely safe.

According to the market price of twenty taels of gold at the time in Shanghai, it was actually a bit higher, but the old colonel had real gold and silver in his pocket, and he didn't care about this small amount of money.

However, Colonel Normanrov is old after all. His previous defeat and life in exile have severely affected his self-confidence. This once aggressive Russian soldier has completely lost the courage and motivation to continue fighting. But because of this, he did not fall into the trap of professional scam gangs like his rich compatriots. At that time in Shanghai, I don’t know how many prominent Russian aristocrats with their wealth took out all their wealth to participate in speculation. In the end, he was deceived and went bankrupt, and his wife, son, and daughter became prostitutes and thieves.

Col. Normanrov is not interested in all commercial and financial investments, and he will often give out some money to help these down-and-out Belarusian friends. As a result, after going back and forth, the colonel is in Shanghai’s Belarusian immigrant group. Here, it has established a pretty good reputation. So when the Ministry of Industry and Technology was preparing to recruit soldiers from the Belarusian immigrants, they saw Normanrov's military background and influence at a glance.

The representative of the Ministry of Industry and Technology visited the house, hoping that the colonel could come out again to help the Ministry of Industry and Technology recruit and set up this Russian army. Colonel Normanrov considered again and again, and was forced to live on the other side’s turf. It was necessary to clip his tail, so he reluctantly agreed to the request made by the Ministry of Industry, but he was unwilling to be the commander of this force. Instead, he recommended Cossack Lieutenant General Grebov to serve as the first commander. He was willing to participate in the formation of this team as a military adviser.

The strongest fighting force among the Belarusian refugees at that time belonged to the group of Cossacks. These people had a fierce manner in the civil war and owed a lot of blood debts to the Red Army and civilians. Therefore, unless the Soviet government is overthrown, these people will probably live their lives. Never return to my hometown Ukraine.

The Ministry of Industry and Technology recruited 300 soldiers in the first batch of the Belarusian ethnic group. All of them were Cossack soldiers who fled all the way from the Far East with the fleet. They all received rigorous military training and possessed quite strong individual combat capabilities. , And in this giant city in the Far East, the British taught them how to become a qualified soldier.

Forced to leave their hometown and come to this foreign country with very different languages ​​and habits, the Cossacks abandoned their tradition of indulgence and began to bow their heads to learn how to obey. The Russian team has always been the most effective and obedient force in the All Nations Business Corps. They never hesitate to execute orders. Even if their superiors let them shoot at their compatriots, they will never wrinkle when they pull the trigger. brow.

Because of this high degree of obedience, they also owed a lot of blood debts to the Chinese people. The most recent one was two years ago. At that time, the Russian team was responsible for guarding the famous national army "solitary camp" because the concession authorities were worried The daily flag-raising ceremony of these national soldiers would give the Japanese army a pretext for entering the public concession, so they ordered the Russian team to stop the flag-raising activities of the lone army camp. Of course, the lone army camp would not easily retreat. As a result, there was a fierce conflict between the two sides. Forty-one Chinese soldiers were wounded, and four were unfortunately killed in the conflict.

Although this incident eventually caused an uproar, the resolute attitude of the Russian team in the incident increased the appreciation and trust of the concession authorities.

After graduating from Makarenko high school, through the relationship with the old Normanrov, he entered the Russian team of the International Business Group. In the beginning, he was just an officer’s trainee. The boss took great care of this young man with money and backstage. Makarenko grew up in a barracks, plus the usual teachings of the old Normanrov, and his internal rules of the army. He was very familiar with the affairs, and soon established his personal authority in the company he was in.

The Slavs are a nation that worships authority very much. The military is even more hierarchical. The officers are like parents, controlling all the activities of the soldiers. Even the Soviet Red Army at this time still retains the style of the imperial Russian era. Traditions (In history, these conditions were not broken until the middle and late stages of World War II. The main reason was that the old group of officers lost all their lives in the war. Many of the commanders promoted on the front line were from lower-level officers and even soldiers, and they did not understand these so-called "traditions." ".).

One year after enlisting in the army, Makarenko became a second lieutenant platoon leader, and since then began his long and legendary military career.

"I have passed Jing'an Temple, check their equipment one last time." Makarenko yelled.

"Yes, Mr. Lieutenant." The soldiers responded in unison, and immediately began to bow their heads to organize their equipment and weapons.

After years of painstaking efforts, the All Nations Commercial Corps is now very close to the regular army, especially this group of standing Russian troops. From the moment of establishment, they have never stopped military training, although two years A batch of new blood was accepted during the pre-expansion, but the veteran Belarusian soldiers who served as the backbone are still there. Lieutenant Makarenko asked himself that as long as the preparations are adequate enough, the Russian company will not lose to the army of any Asian country, even the tough ones. Japanese army.

Emperor-Russian immigrants like him have quite the same views on the Japanese. First of all, as the loyal subjects of His Majesty the Russian Tsar, they should be full of hatred for the Japanese Empire. It is these shameless dwarf monkeys who have taken away from the empire. The Korean peninsula and the three provinces of the Northeast (Tsarist Russia really thought so at the time, so the logic of the robbers cannot be understood by normal people.).

They have experienced the Russian Civil War. They once fought side by side with the Japanese Intervention Army to fight against the army of the red regime. The relationship between the two parties seems to be an ally, but no Russian would look at it like this~IndoMTL.com~Belarusian officer We understand the Japanese's intentions very well. These dwarfs just want to take advantage of the chaos, because they will do the same. The experience of the Russian refugees at Wonsan Port in North Korea completely exposed the hypocrisy of the Japanese government.

After thousands of hardships arrived in Shanghai, the Belarusian refugees have not escaped their sufferings. Japanese immigrants and businessmen are absolutely indispensable among the people who have fallen into trouble. It should be said that these Belarusians are the group of foreign immigrants in Shanghai who hate the Japanese most, second only to the group of Koreans in exile in Shanghai.

"I didn't expect the morale of these Belarusian soldiers to be very high." Lieutenant Fox von Help turned his head and said to the radio operator.

"Sir, the black shark is calling, that fish is already on the road." The radio operator apparently didn't hear the captain's teasing. He covered the radio headset on his head and reported to the chief aloud.

"Understood, we can pass on the order." Help turned from the command vehicle's machine gun tower, and looked at the armored convoy behind him with a smug face.

PS: I twisted my ankle while walking down the steps and received emergency treatment. Sorry for the late update today.

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