Yang Shuoming seemed to be very satisfied with Zhang Yating's performance, he nodded, turned around and came to the table, took a cup of fragrant tea that had just been made by Xi Xue, and handed it to Zhang Yating.

Zhang Yating took the teacup, showed a grateful smile, gently opened the lid of the teacup, and the faint fragrance of tea floated out, she closed her eyes, inhaled the fragrance of tea, and took a sip.

"I don't know what your life was like, but I hope you can live happily ever after." Yang Shuoming noticed her movements and said lightly, "Of course, the premise is that you yourself also want to live a happy life and the cooperation between us is smooth." ”

"Russia is not my homeland, and I don't want to return to Russia." Zhang Yating said, opened her eyes, and at this time she found that his eyes flashed with a faint red.

"What do you need me to do now?" Although Zhang Yating was frightened, she still met his gaze and asked.

"I think you know." Yang Shuoming stared into her eyes and said.

In a basement in Yanjing City, a bearded Russian listens attentively to the movement outside, while quickly typing a letter on a typewriter.

“…… I have to admit with regret that the cause we are carrying out in China is in danger of total failure, the Chinese revolution has suffered a major setback, in the recent period, a large number of outstanding party members and cadres have been arrested and killed by the Chinese political axe authorities, many more have hesitated to retreat, due to the mistakes caused by the rush of the comrades in China to achieve success, the selection of party members and cadres has been neglected, and a large number of irresolute and ulterior motives have entered the party organization, so that traitors have appeared in our ranks, These people have caused great harm to our cause...... The working class in China has not yet been fully formed into a social force of reading, so the comrades of the Executive Committee of the China Bureau believe that it is necessary for the Chinese Party to consider going underground in struggle. ”

"As long as the Chinese Party can objectively implement the correct policy, the Chinese Party will certainly be able to play a dominant role in all movements of the Chinese national revolutionary front. However, the Chinese Party must not merge with other parties, nor can it roll up its original banner in these movements. ”

"The main members of the Executive Committee of the Chinese Party have been arrested, and I believe that the work of the Chinese Party at this stage must go underground, that the members should disperse their activities as much as possible, that we need to preserve our organization, and that we must strive to recruit genuine class-conscious revolutionaries from the workers' organizations and from the left wing of the Chinese civil parties, and gradually expand our organization, and strictly enforce our discipline in order to build a solid foundation for a strong mass Party organization."

"China's political axe has now begun to reorganize, the military strength of this political axe has been significantly strengthened, and in the near future, there will be a large number of Chinese [***] teams from Europe to return to China, and then after a break to Mongolia, into Siberia, it is expected that the total number of Chinese [***] teams will reach 150,000 people, said that the political axe is also continuing to increase the army, the situation in the Far Eastern Republic has reached a very dangerous moment, I and the comrades of the executive committee of the Chinese Bureau believe after discussion, We should now consider engaging with this side......"

Soon the letter was finished, and the bearded Russian, who had not even had time to check for grammatical errors, scribbled his name "a?fa?hj?e" (i.e. adolfabramovichjoffe, adolfa?) in the lower right corner of the letter. Abramovich? Yue Fei), then hurriedly sealed the envelope, knocked on the door, and the door opened a crack, and he passed the letter through the crack in the door.

"Send the letter out now!" He said with some anxiety.

Russia, Far East, Vladivostok.

Vladivostok (called Vladivostok by Russians) is located at the southern tip of the Muravyov-Amur Peninsula on the Pacific coast, close to the Benhai Sea, and the whole city is built on the mountain, which is very majestic. The northern part of the city is highland, and the east, south and west are bordered by the Gulf of Ussuri, the Great Peter Bay and the Amur Bay. The city and port area are located on the shores of the Golden Horn at the tip of the Amur Peninsula. The Golden Horn extends from southwest to northeast into the interior and is about 7,000 metres long. The inlet bay is about 2,000 meters wide and 20 to 30 meters deep, and the inner bay is less than 1,000 meters wide and 10 to 20 meters deep. The southern side of the Golden Horn is separated by the East Bosphorus Strait, and there is Russky Island as a natural barrier. The bay is surrounded by low mountains and hills, and the situation is dangerous. Due to the 100 to 110 days of ice in Vladivostok in winter (from early December to mid-to-late March), navigation is only possible with the help of icebreakers.

As an important Russian military base in the Far East, the city, known as "Control of the East", was once one of the strongest coastal fortresses on the Pacific coast.

In 1877, the Russians began planning to build fortifications at this important port in the Far East, and a year later, the first coastal defenses were completed. This was followed by the reinforcement of coastal artillery positions, and in the 90s of the 19th century, the first littoral permanent fortifications were constructed. In 1899 the Russians designed a systematic scheme of land fortifications, on the basis of which they were based. The Russians spared no effort in constructing several main fortresses of the fortress from 1900: forts 1, 2, and 3, multi-sided forts 4 and 5, and three spectacle ramparts, connected by moats protected by breastwork. In addition, the construction of the "Russian Fortress" and the No. 4 fortress in the Russian Mountains and on the Sapenny Peninsula are quite similar to the Arthur Fortress built at the same time.

Due to the strong fortification of Vladivostok, during the Russo-Russian War of 1904-1905, the initially completed fortress of Vladivostok played a significant role, and until the end of the war, the army was unable to occupy Vladivostok.

From 1910 to 1916, in order to strengthen the defense of Vladivostok, the Russians built fortresses No. 1 to 7 and several fortresses on the southern shore of the Suifen River basin from Ussuriysk to the Amur Bay, and forts No. 9 to 12 on the southern and eastern shores of Russky Island, as well as a large number of coastal batteries, anti-landing covered passages and a series of infrastructure. The new fortress absorbed all the achievements of military engineering and technology of the time, and built many well-set bunkers and underground passages.

But in 1918, he realized his dream of occupying Vladivostok without blood.

On April 4, 1918, three merchants were "robbed and killed by Russian soldiers" in Vladivostok, and 5,000 soldiers of the army who had been prepared for a long time landed in Vladivostok under the cover of the navy. He said that his actions greatly annoyed Britain and the United States, and the British political axe instructed the British cruiser "Suffolk" parked in the harbor to send marines to land, and the American cruiser "Brooklyn" also sent sailors to defend the American consulate. The Russian political axe protested to the political axe and demanded that the army withdraw immediately, but the party himself turned a deaf ear and continued to increase his troops, and soon occupied the entire port of Vladivostok.

Britain and the United States were shocked and worried about his actions, and under the joint pressure of Britain and the United States, he was forced to agree to the proposal that the Entente powers, that is, Britain, the United States, France, and China, jointly send troops. Later, he issued a declaration on the dispatch of troops, stipulating that the number of troops stationed in Vladivostok was 7,000, the number of American troops was 7,000, the Chinese army was 7,000, and the British and French forces were 7,000, and that the joint British and French forces were to take the supreme command of the joint expeditionary force. However, immediately after landing in Vladivostok, the Chinese army took the opportunity to collude with the local White Russian armed forces, penetrated deep into the interior of Siberia, occupied Russia's Primorsky Oblast, Amur Oblast, and Transbaikal Oblast, and organized a pro-Japanese regime there, in an attempt to shield their rule over Manchuria and Korea and monopolize the market and economic resources of Siberia. The North Manchurian region, which was originally controlled by Russia, was also seized by the "Manchurian garrison army". On August 13, 1918, the army occupied Manchuria, on September 6, Chita, on September 9, Nikolaevsk (Temple Street), on September 18, and on September 18, the army deployed in Siberia, which was already icy and snowy, had reached 92,000 troops, more than 12 times the number of troops originally planned.

He said that his unscrupulousness not only made the United States and Britain angry, but also angered China. The U.S. and British political axes respectively lodged strong protests against the political axe, and the calls in China for the recovery of the homeland and the abolition of the unequal treaties became louder and louder. The subsequent cabinet of Hara Kei immediately expressed its willingness to withdraw troops from Siberia.

The Hara Cabinet's intention to reduce the number of troops in Siberia was strongly opposed by the General Staff Headquarters of the Army. In the autumn of 1919, the political axe of Admiral Kolchak, the "supreme ruler of all Russia," collapsed, his troops fled to the east, and the Soviet Red Army pursued him. On March 21, 1920, 2,000 Russian Red Army troops invaded Nikolaevsk, and there was a clash between two battalions of the Japanese army stationed there. At the request of the General Staff Headquarters, the army then occupied the northern part of Sakhalin Island "to ensure the safety of the overseas Chinese." By this time, Ben's garrison in the Far East had reached 120,000 men.

In the face of the aggressive Chinese army, the Americans' endurance finally reached the limit, and the American political axe was determined to support China in its confrontation with the Chinese army, and with the support of the American side, the Chinese political axe was determined to send troops to Siberia to confront the Chinese army. At this time, the war in Europe had ended, and the Chinese expeditionary forces and laborers in Europe had begun to board ships and return home in large numbers, and the intention of the Chinese political axe was obvious, that is, to use these troops trained in the European battlefield to recover the land occupied by Russia and Yueben. It's just that the "Nine? The 28 Massacre disrupted the military deployment of China's political axe.

But now, with the "Nine? 28. "With the revelation of the truth and the rapid shift change of the Chinese political axe, he himself felt more and more of the danger, so at the request of the general staff headquarters of the army, he passed a resolution to increase the number of troops in Siberia again.

"Look! That's the battlecruiser of the China Navy! ”

Standing on the fortress directly north of Vladivostok, you can look down from the fortress platform at an altitude of more than 10,000 meters, and you can look down on the Golden Horn, the most important port in Vladivostok. Several officers were standing on the fort batteries looking down on the panorama of the Golden Horn, and the continental shelf of the bay was like a crooked horn, and the shore was undulating hills, covered with lush forests, and patches of green clinging to the edge of the sea. And the water inside the horns was filled with ships and warships of various sizes. The sparse clusters of buildings and the scattered spired wooden houses on the shores of the bay form the outline of this bay hill town. It is about 4.5 kilometers away from the Golden Horn berth area, 8.5 kilometers away from the entrance of the Golden Horn, standing on the fortress fort and looking down at the Golden Horn, the scenery in the harbor is unobstructed.

It's just that in the harbor, the huge red, yellow, and blue three-color "human" flag fluttering high on the mast of the huge warship is particularly dazzling compared with the plaster flags that can be seen everywhere on the shore and in the harbor.

"That's a battleship with a 16-inch cannon! There are only twelve 10-inch shore defense guns on this fort, and if the Shina really intend to attack, we will probably be very difficult to resist. ”

"Not necessarily, the coastal defense guns that the Russians have left us will not be able to catch up with this warship in terms of power and range, but they are capable of threatening any target within 15 nautical miles. As long as we control the fortresses, then the warships in the Golden Horn are the targets under our guns. Hearing the somewhat deflated words of his colleague, Ishihara sneered and put down the telescope in his hand.

"Over the past few years, the Russians have dismantled and transported more than half of the artillery here in order to strengthen the defense in the European direction, otherwise these fortresses under our control will really become a nightmare for the Chinese people."

"That's right." Listening to Ishihara's words, several officers became excited again.

"The people of China rely on the warships built for them by the Americans, and without the help of the Americans, they are nothing!" An officer said indignantly.

"Americans! Hum! ”

Looking at the American Stars and Stripes and the Chinese five-color flag fluttering on the port docks, I thought of the intimate performance between the Chinese and the Americans at the banquet held yesterday at the Pacific Naval Command of the Entente in Vladivostok. Ishihara Wan'er, who was standing next to the cannon, was angry in his heart,

It was the secret cooperation between the Chinese and the Americans that changed all his previous plans.

Now, he has to hope that he can gain the initiative through negotiations.

What made Ishihara even more angry was that with the help of the Americans, the Chinese had built a huge army and navy, and under the cover of the Chinese navy, the Chinese army returning from Europe soon came to Vladivostok and from here controlled many parts of Siberia. However, the army, which had an advantage, quickly became at a disadvantage, and all this, for all reasons, was because of the Americans.

If it weren't for the Americans. The so-called "main forces" of the Chinese simply have no way to snatch the fruits from the hands of the army. Even if they can take it, the invincible army can still fight back. However, because of the emergence of the Americans, he could only watch the Chinese, whom they had always despised, take over one city after another. And the order from the homeland is to make it necessary for him to refrain and wait for the imperial political axe to mediate diplomatically with the Americans and the Chinese!

With regard to the "dual diplomacy" of the book, not only the Americans have had enough, but they themselves have also had enough.

At this time, on the battlecruiser "Glorious" anchored in the Golden Horn, Lan Jianshu, commander of the Chinese Far East Fleet, stood on the bridge and looked at the Russian batteries on the shore that were flying the plaster flag, and his face became extremely gloomy.

"All the important facilities in the city are under the control of the army." Vice Admiral Lin Jianzhang said, "These batteries are said to also have artillery used by the White Russian Army. ”

"That is, they have not yet mastered the essentials of using these Russian artillery." Lan Jianshu put down the binoculars and said with a sneer.

"If we really fight, we can still be sure to take this city." Lin Jianzhang looked at Lan Jianshu and said half-jokingly and half-seriously, "Of course, you have to cooperate with the army." ”

"Ma Liang, I'm afraid that he may not have the courage to do so, it's almost the same if he changes Xiao Xu or Xiao Yang." Lan Jianshu shook his head and said.

Ma Liang, whom Lan Jianshu is talking about, is the commander of the 22nd Division of the Chinese Central Army and one of Duan Qirui's favorite generals. Although Duan Qirui trusts him, his skills are actually not good, and in his bones, he is actually the same as Zhang Jingyao, and he belongs to the master who adds chaos to Duan Qirui.

In order to strengthen the military strength of the Anhui system itself, Duan Qirui used the borrowed money to form a central army, and this time the Feng army sent from Vladivostok and Zhang Zuolin to Siberia to seize the place, there was a part of this army.

"It's different now, and if he wants to keep his position, he'd better behave." Lin Jianzhang said with a smile, "The current border supervision is no longer Lao Duan, but our Xiao Yang." ”

Hearing Lin Jianzhang use the word "our little Yang" to describe Yang Shuoming, Lan Jianshu couldn't help but smile slightly.

"Xiao Yang, this person has always focused on seizing the opportunity to do things, and this time he just sent this giant ship here, not just to show his treasure to himself and the Russian red-haired son." Lin Jianzhang said with a smile, "If you don't do something, we're sorry for the belongings he bought for our navy." ”

(To be continued)