On the endless wilderness. Half of the dozens of carriages that were being pulled behind the locomotive by a laden train were belching black smoke, half of which were passenger cars, and the other half were flatbed cars, which were loaded with tarpaulin-covered cannons and gun wagons, and a few flatbed cars were railing, loaded with mules and war horses, and now these cattle were looking curiously at the grasslands on both sides of the railway.

This column came from Zhangjiakou in the south, and now it is close to the northern border port of Kyakhta, and it is now being added, and it is getting closer and closer to the Kyakhta railway station.

Eventually, the fully loaded train began to reduce, and finally slowly drove into the Kyakhta railway station under the command of the railway station dispatch room, stopped on a platform, and immediately began to unload.

Disembarking from the passenger compartment were heavily armed Wehrmacht soldiers, their kagged uniforms matched with the sturdy belts that looked energetic, coupled with the rifles on their backs and the steel helmets dangling from the back of their backpacks. It is all the more confident in the combat effectiveness of this modern army.

After the soldiers got off the train, they lined up on the platform, and then sang the military song, and the following team under the leadership of the officers walked out of the railway station, as for the cannons, the radial weights, which were taken care of by the artillery and the heavy lifting troops, and under the coordination of the dispatch room of the railway station, the military column quickly completed the unloading task, and after adding coal and water, the empty military train immediately started the car and drove away from the railway station, apparently not intending to carry ordinary passengers and cargo. Indeed, now that the military situation is urgent, all trains must take military tasks as their first task, and other civilian transport tasks can only be put aside for the time being.

In the past two days, this Kyakhta railway station has been such a scene, the military train hurriedly entered the station, and then hurriedly left the railway station, and all the troops and military supplies were transported to Kyakhta, and this posture was so well done that even people without any military knowledge could guess that there must have been some kind of emergency in this Kyakhta area, so that the central government had to step up the dispatch of field troops and heavy troops here.

In fact, it is not only Kyakhta that is in a tight situation, but also on the long northern border between China and Russia, and in the past few days, you can see everywhere the movement of land forces of the Chinese National Defense Forces, infantry, cavalry, armored troops, heavy lifting troops, engineering troops, etc. Numerous arms of the army are mobilized at various transportation hubs in northern China, and the mechanical thunder of tanks and armored vehicles is on the ground, and the roar of fighter and bomber engines is in the sky.

At the same time, China's major newspapers have also made alarmist reports, exaggerating the diplomatic friction between China and Russia, and fearing that the world will not be chaotic, and some radical newspapers have even made some pacifists anxious and uneasy by clamoring that "war is inevitable."

As for the financial markets, there was a lot of noise, with all industrial stocks affected by the war falling sharply, while all industrial stocks related to the military industry rose in response to the news, since the end of the Sino-Japanese war in Northeast Asia. China's financial markets have never been so volatile, and even during the Nanyang War, financial markets were not as worrisome as they are now.

Indeed, this time the opponent is not the Netherlands far away in Europe, but the behemoth Russia in the north, since the end of the Qing Dynasty, the Russian threat has always been a sword hanging over the heads of the countrymen, the "Gengzi national disaster" Russian forces in a big way south, almost swallowed the entire three eastern provinces in one bite, plus the Qing court signed with Russia in those treaties ceded out of the territory, this kind of proximate reasons, make the Chinese view of Russia quite special.

On the one hand, Russia is a close neighbor of China. Russia's every move will affect China's strategic security. Especially after the completion of the Trans-Siberian Railway, Russia could move its troops to the Far East at any time, which was the main reason why many Chinese were worried about the southward movement of Russian power; On the other hand, now that Russia is fighting Germany and most of its army is pinned down in the European theater, it is unlikely that Russia will transfer its main forces to the Far East to fight against China at this time, which is why many Chinese are not worried about a large-scale Russian invasion now.

Pacifists resolutely oppose war with Russia and advocate a settlement of the dispute between China and Russia over the question of the tsarist government of the Russian Empire through consultation, while the fanatics who clamor for war vigorously exaggerate the threat of Russian power through the newspapers they control, and threaten to use the rare strategic opportunity of the European war to solve the threat of Russian power in one fell swoop and regain those lost territories. Defend the interests of the state and its citizens.

How to say that the newspaper is a newspaper matter, although the current domestic anti-war voice is very high, but as a responsible central government, it should not be surprised in any situation, and must take precautions, and it is precisely for this reason that President Zhao Da gave an order, China's war machine began to move, and high operation, in just a few days, the central government mobilized the total strength of the army has exceeded one million, this number is enough to deter all external enemies and internal enemies, and it is precisely because of this, When the military trains drove into the Kyakhta railway station one after another, there were many Chinese and foreign reporters on the railway station interviewing them, and they used their cameras and reports to tell the public and governments about the current operation of China's war machine.

In the past few days, the porters at the Kyakhta railway station have been a big eye-opener, for this is the first time they have seen so many planes and tanks since the Wehrmacht stationed in Outer Mongolia, and it is also the first time they have seen so many foreign journalists. They were surprised by all this, but at the same time, they also felt a little apprehension, indeed, as ordinary people, they wanted peace more than war, even if it was only sporadic armed conflicts on the border.

No, in the past two days, the prices in Kyakhta have risen a lot, although this price rise does not seem to be directly related to the increase in the army, after all, the army's food and materials are transported from other places by military columns, but no one denies that this price increase is not directly related to the tension on the border

Many civilians began to hoard supplies, but they didn't know whether they should flee to other places to avoid the war.

Now, the local government of Kyakhta has put up a notice to keep the residents calm, and as long as the center does not declare war, the battle cannot be fought, the border will not be full of war, and trade will not be affected.

In the past two days, Kyakhta's trade has indeed been affected by the shadow of war, on the one hand, the number of civilian trains has decreased, and on the other hand, the businessmen's position of hoarding and waiting, the Sino-Russian trade in Kyakhta has actually been temporarily stagnant, and the number of international trains entering and exiting the customs every day has also decreased a lot, and most of them are Russian trains coming from Russia, and the cars are filled with fleeing Russian nobles and civilians. Now that the Russian republican army had approached Baikal from the east and west, the Tsarist Government of the Russian Empire had no way out, either surrendering to the Provisional Government or simply withdrawing to China and establishing a government in exile.

Kyakhta has now become an important shelter for Russian refugees, where the Chinese central government has set up several camps to accommodate Russian war refugees, and has decided to issue temporary residence permits to some of them, and the screening of refugees is currently underway.

An important reason for the large-scale stationing of the Chinese defense forces in Kyakhta was to ensure the disarmament of these tsarist troops, to avoid the appearance of armed bandits, and to ensure the tranquility of the steppes. In charge of these Russian refugee camps is Xu Shuzheng, director of the Northwest Frontier Office, a special organ of the Chinese central government.

Now, Xu Shuzheng is in one of the Russian refugee camps, and in addition to inspecting the work of the refugee camp, he also has an important purpose, that is, to meet with several soldiers with special status.

These soldiers with special identities are all officers of the Far East Army of the Russian Empire, except for one of them, the other people are all Chinese people, they participated in the Far East Army in their personal capacity, in a legal sense, they are now foreign ** people, not under the control of Xu Shuzheng, although Xu Shuzheng also knows very well in his heart that the colonel officer who led the team on the other side used to be an active officer of the Wehrmacht, named Liu Fuji, back then, he was also a member of the general who followed President Zhao Da to fight in the south and the north.

As the Russian plenipotentiary for this meeting, he not only represented Zhang Zongchang, commander of the Far East Army, but also represented Rasputin, the regent of the Tsarist Government of the Russian Empire, and his words were equivalent to the words of the Tsarist Government.

As for Xu Shuzheng, he was also ordered to act, and it was President Zhao himself who gave him the order, Xu Shuzheng did not dare to disobey the order, although to be honest, he did not agree with the decision of the center, he believed that it was not the wisest choice to agree to the retreat of the Russian Imperial Tsarist Government into China and set up a government in exile, and this kind of contempt for the Russian Provisional Government was likely to cause further diplomatic disputes and border military confrontations, but since the presidential order was very clear, then Xu Shuzheng could only act on orders.

After an hour of consultations, Xu Shuzheng has reached a preliminary intention with the Russian representatives, and the two sides have agreed that they will start to prepare for the relocation of the capital of the tsarist government from the afternoon of the same day, and if everything goes well, the tsarist government can move to Kyakhta five days at the latest, and at that time, this Kyakhta will be the temporary residence of the tsarist government of the Russian Empire, and as for the troops of the tsarist government, they will all be handed over to the unified command of the Northwest Frontier Office, and Xu Shuzheng will decide where the Russian troops are stationed.

This is the first time Xu Shuzheng has commanded the foreign ** team, and he has decided to let the Russian army deploy on the front-line positions on the border, and if there is a real war between China and Russia in the future, then these Russian cannon fodder will be used to consume the shells of the Russian republican army, and as for the Chinese defense force troops, they will be used as a counterattack force.

After the talks, Xu Shuzheng personally sent Liu Fuji and others to the train station, and before the other party boarded the train, Xu Shuzheng deliberately took Liu Fuji's hand and gave him some advice.

"Brother Liu, the president sent me a telegram, and specially let me remind you that your Far Eastern Army must protect the tsar and the regent, in the future, they can come in handy, and the gold of the Russian treasury must also be kept an eye on, no one can touch it, and the tsar and the regent cannot touch it, and the gold can be used as a fund for the restoration of the tsarist government in the future, you must make this clear to the tsar and the regent."

"Please rest assured, Director Xu, I will definitely convey the president's instructions to the Tsar and the regent. Now that the situation on the Sino-Russian border is tense, you have to be busy arranging defenses, so I won't bother, and in the future, when the situation stabilizes, let's talk about the situation in Russia. ”

Liu Fuji said goodbye to Xu Shuzheng, boarded the train, and a few minutes later, the train left the railway station and headed north, soon crossing the national border and disappearing into the vast wilderness of the north.

Watching the train disappear at the end of the field, Xu Shuzheng gathered his mind and pondered for a moment.

"It seems that the center is determined to fight the Russian Provisional Government to the end. I just don't know, where does the president get his confidence? Isn't he afraid that the provisional government will settle accounts after the autumn after the provisional government has sat down in the country? ”

After thinking about it for a while, he still couldn't figure it out, Xu Shuzheng decided not to think about it, and hurriedly arranged the defense affairs, so Li Jian led the staff officers back to the Northwest Frontier Office and went to the border. If you want to know what happened next, please log in to the chapter for more, support the author, and support genuine reading!