Chapter 69: Requirements

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The prayers of the captives did not make their wish come true, and the battle outside ended after about half an hour, and when the door was opened, the smell of blood and gunsmoke peculiar to the battlefield reached Colonel Madlidov's nose, and there were countless torches on the playground outside the door, and by the light of the fire, several corpses lying outside the door were clearly visible, and Madlidov saw that the leader of the guard who had hung him up and whipped him the other day lay there with his head tilted and stiff, as if he had been hit in the face, and it was all covered with blood, Madlidov's heart was refreshed, and he said loudly: "I am Colonel Madlidov, I want to see your commander, I am Colonel Madlidov, I want to see your commander......"

When the colonel shouted, a soldier next to him rushed up and knocked him to the ground with the butt of a gun, and then he saw that it was not the Russian army that occupied the place at all, but the Chinese.

By this time, all the prison doors had been opened, and a voice shouted in Russian, "Everyone with their clothes and quilts to the square, everyone with clothes and quilts to the square, if you don't obey the command, you will be killed." Madelidov realized that they had been taken prisoner by another beard, but who were they, and what did they want these captives for.

After more than ten days of marching, the Russian prisoners arrived at another camp, and they were interrogated again, but the key word of this interrogation was not military information, but military rank, and at the same time the news came that this group of bandits was going to sell them to the Japanese, according to the price offered by the Japanese, the average soldier was forty yuan, the officer was doubled, and a well-known figure like a colonel, the price was estimated to be more than 10,000 yuan, when the other soldiers were happily discussing that they were going to Matsuyama (a Japanese prisoner of war camp, with good treatment, and the Russian prisoners yearned for it). Madelidov wailed a few times, then shouted at the door in Chinese, which he knew only. "I see the medicine with the master, I see the medicine with the master......"

Madlidov soon saw the person he wanted to meet, but to his surprise, there was a white man next to the big boss, he was puzzled, but he still solemnly saluted the other party, and then said: "I am Colonel Madlidov of the Russian army." I beg Your Excellency to let me contact the command of the Russian army in Mukden, and the big bosses do not have to sell us to the Japanese. The Russian army will pay this ransom. ”

"Ransom fart, you didn't give me the money last time, and you still want to coax me this time?" Yang Rui acted very devotedly according to the script.

"Last time?" Madelidov looked at the other man's face and tried to remember, but he couldn't remember if this man had bought the beard he had bought but gave money. In the end, he couldn't remember it, so he said: "May I ask the big boss, when was the last time?" ”

"Which time? It's spicy," Yang Rui was furious, and slammed a horsewhip on the table, and the sound of "snap" startled Madelidov, "Xiong Yuecheng, which time." There are a lot of people who died, and he didn't receive a penny, and he still pretended to be garlic. ”

Madlidov was dumbfounded, and only after half a sound did he realize that he knew about the Bearded raid on Xiongyue City in August, and at that time Governor Aleksayev praised him specifically for this matter, but he only pretended to accept it, and in private he asked around who these people were. It's just that he, like the Japanese, doesn't know anything about it. "Ah, it turns out that you are Zhang's Manchurian friends, we have already paid him, we have already paid him. His Excellency the Governor had already ...... the money."

"But he didn't give it to us," Yang Rui said angrily, "My people can't find him now, where did you get him?" Yang Rui was still angry. Zhang Shi suddenly disappeared some time ago, and the people who were arranged in Lushun couldn't contact him at all.

"I don't know, I don't know." Madlidov said, "Mukden broke off contact with Lushun in October. I'm being ...... There was no news from there before the ambush. ”

"After talking for a long time, I still don't have a hair, grandma's." Yang Rui became rude, "I knew that I might as well help Little Japan and take him down." Sell it to the Japanese in a few days. Yang Rui finally instructed the orderly.

The translator didn't turn the words over to Madlidov this time, he didn't understand what Yang Rui was going to do for a while, and he only panicked when the guards outside the house wanted to take him down, "Big boss, I can give you money, I can give you money......"

Yang Rui said: "How much can you give?" The price of the Japanese to you is 10,000 oceans, if you talk about it again, you can still sell it for 50,000, it seems that they have not captured such a high-ranking officer. ”

"Fifty thousand is fine, fifty thousand is fine." Madrydov shouted.

"And the 500,000 from last time, and the 100,000 of you people, a total of ...... A million official posts. If you get the money back, I'll let you go" Yang Rui opened his mouth widely, and the bamboo pole could knock as much as he could.

Madlidov readily agreed to all of Yang Rui's requests, and the more he wanted to grasp every straw around him for dozens of days of prisoner life, so that he could return to the circle of the previous superior people, although his great backer, His Excellency Aleksayev, the Governor of the Far East, had been recalled by the Tsar because of the unfavorable situation in the war, but it is said that General Billy Gerlinger, who succeeded Kulopatkin, had already left St. Petersburg, if nothing else, then he should now be the commander-in-chief of the Russian army in the Far East, as long as he can go back, Then a qiΔ“ will be fine.

With Madlidov's full consent, the talks on remuneration and ransom ended quickly, Yang Rui had no way of knowing the contradictions in Russian politics, and he didn't know anything about the struggle for control and power within the Russian army, but he felt that his request Madlidov agreed too smoothly, and he felt uneasy, and in the end, Yang Rui said again: "Mr. Colonel, I still have a request, no, it should be built yΓ¬." ”

Madelidov did not refuse, but said: "My dear ......, I have not asked your Excellency for your name, it is really rude." "The Colonel's mind seems to be overwhelmed by the shocks.

The pseudonym Yang Rui had already thought about it, and he said: "My name is Wang Qinian, you can call me Wang." ”

"Dear Wang," Madrydov didn't know that Wang Qinian's name was a 10,000-year-old trick, thinking that it was really Yang Rui's name, and he smiled vigorously on his bearded face, "What good do you have, only it has construction, I will definitely accept it immediately." ”

Yang Rui smiled, "Mr. Colonel, before I talk about this JianyΓ¬, I have to introduce you to Leo. General William, he is my chief of staff. Yang Rui introduced at the same time. Leo saluted Madelidov, "He is a German, before coming to the Far East, he was a lieutenant colonel of the German 6th Army, and his teacher, Lieutenant General Golz, has been in Turkey, in the service of Austria-Hungary. ”

Yang Rui's introduction made Madlidov's return more solemn, as a soldier. From the prisoner camp to the present place, the Chinese soldiers he now escorted were excellent, much better than some of the Qing soldiers, but their weapons were extremely poor, and some of them seemed to carry earthen wooden spears.

It doesn't matter how his attitude changes. Yang Rui continued: "My soldiers are all trained according to the standards of the German 6th Army, I believe they are the best, Mr. Colonel has been recruiting horse bandits to serve the Russian army, I think this army is fully competent." ”

When Madlidov heard this, he only felt that he had been favored by God today, and he said happily, "Oh, really. Thank God. Dear King, how many of you are there? Right now...... We have too few troops in our hands, and the Japanese have recruited tens of thousands of horse bandits to serve them and sabotage our railways, and the new commander-in-chief must be in a hurry, and we need you to protect ......"

Before he could finish his words, he was interrupted by Yang Rui, "Colonel, now, my soldiers can't only be used as a rearguard force. If they are to serve Russia, then they must play a role on the frontal battlefield, otherwise they will not talk about anything. ”

Yang Rui's words made Madlidov hallucinate, is this Chinese crazy? He was stunned for a moment before he found the right euphemistic words to refuse, "Dear Wang, according to my previous impression, I have not experienced battlefield training. Ordinary soldiers will retreat when they hear the sound of artillery, and if you rush them to the battlefield, if you enter the actual battle, then it will be a disaster. ”

"Mr. Colonel." Douglas translated, Leo understood Madelidov's concerns and joined the conversation, "These soldiers have undergone several months of professional military training, and they are fully capable of meeting the needs of the war. As for artillery, when we were fighting with another group of horse bandits last month, we captured a lot of the original Russian artillery, which was shelled with live ammunition, and these soldiers can be used in various situations on the battlefield. ”

Madlidorf listened to the translated message, and when he heard that he was fighting with another group of horse bandits, he asked Yang Rui in surprise, "Oh my God, have you eliminated them?" There are quite a few Japanese bandits in that group, and their combat effectiveness is very strong. Madlidov, who was ambushed, did not believe that he had been defeated by the Chinese, and he believed that the reason why the bandits were so strong last time was entirely because there were many Japanese soldiers in it.

Hearing him ask about the Fuxing Army, Yang Rui said. "No, although we have a few thousand men, our weapons are very poor, and we basically attack them at night, otherwise we have no chance of winning. I now want my soldiers to train on the frontal battlefields of Japan and Russia, so that I can defeat them openly in the future. If you still have any doubts, Mr. Colonel, we can now go and review this unit, and I am sure you will be satisfied. ”

Madridov actually didn't take Yang Rui's soldiers very good seriously at all, and told him about his experience in dealing with beards in Manchuria for several years, these mountain kings are all cowhide kings who love face, and they will only brag about how powerful they are, and any promises they make will be discounted and discounted, although he thinks so, but Madlidov didn't show it on his face at all, he followed Yang Rui to the outside of the camp, only to listen to a military horn, and a few minutes later, countless neatly dressed soldiers appeared in hundreds of tents, Then they stood on the snow outside the tent and waited for the review, in the snow, looking at these soldiers lined up in a neat queue with a stern face, Madlidov thought, this must be ready, this must be ready, can the yellow race do better than the Russian army, this is simply impossible!

After the report of the duty officer was completed, Yang Rui stood at the front of the team and shouted, "Hello brothers. ”

The specially trained soldiers immediately shouted in unison: "Good to the big boss!" ”

Yang Rui shouted again: "Brothers have worked hard! ”

There was another chorus of shouts in the team: "the little nose!" the little nose! ”

The shouts of thousands of people seemed to startle away the snowflakes falling from the sky, and Madlidov was suddenly shocked by such a shout as if he was being pointed, although he did not understand what the soldiers were shouting, but the momentum was very shocking, which he had never experienced in the Russian army. The review was soon over, and Madlidov, though shocked, felt that what he had seen today was ridiculous, and that they could only shout, he told himself. What he wants now is to leave here immediately and return to Mukden as much as possible, as for how this horse bandit will be arranged. It depends on the meaning of General Billy Gellinger, if he is willing to send this force to the frontal battlefield, then send it over, if he is unwilling, then he should not be responsible for the responsibility, in his opinion, Yang Rui's request to go to the frontal battlefield must not be agreed to by the headquarters. Now the real situation in the Russian army is that the commander-in-chief is too timid, not enough soldiers.

Madelidov stayed in Wengquanling for another day before being sent out of the mountain by Yang Ruili back to Fengtian, and in order to ensure that he could arrive safely, he also specially sent a platoon to escort him. Looking at the shadow of Madrydov's car in the distance, Leo said: "It seems that I think things are too simple, this is a white man's world, and it is difficult for the Russian army to believe in our combat effectiveness." ”

Yang Rui is also worried about this. "Yes, this Madlidov is good at everything, I think he will give us some guns at most, so that we can protect the railway line of the Russian army in the north. Perhaps, this time we can make a little money and guns, other ideas are really difficult to realize. Speaking of this, Yang Rui pondered: "Or...... Let's find some fault on the Dongqing Railway. Let there be something wrong with the replenishment of the Russian army? ”

"What, do you want to blow up the railway bridge of the Russians?" Leo asked.

"I have this idea. I just don't know if it will work. Yang Rui said: "In the last battle of Shahe, the Russian army suffered more than 45,000 casualties, and now it is conservatively estimated that there are only 160,000. Such losses would be difficult to make up for by nine trains a day, or fifteen thousand people a month, especially since these trains had to transport other war materials. If the railway is cut off for about a month, then when the Japanese army takes the Lushun Third Army and goes north, then they will be in a hurry. ”

Leo knew that Yang Rui had an intelligence point in Lushun. He basically agreed that Lushun would eventually be occupied by the Japanese army, and he asked, "How long can the Russian army hold out?" How many men will be left of the Japanese Third Army to go north after the end? ”

Yang Rui said: "According to the estimate, it should be able to hold for more than a month, and around the end of January, I estimate that the defense line will collapse, the most important thing is that there is not enough food." As for the Japanese army, I feel that 30,000 people survived, and I think it was all a fluke. "Tong GuΓ² Zhang Shi gave Kondrachenko a lot of information, compared with the first two general attacks in history, the Japanese army died at least 10,000 more deaths. As for the third general offensive now, the Japanese army is not like history, and the early 20,000s can put Lushun in order, and at least half of them will die in more than 60,000 days.

"30,000 people, plus 100,000 now. The Japanese only had 130,000 troops, and even if there were two reserve divisions, the Japanese would have a maximum strength of only 200,000 troops. Leo counted the strength of the Japanese army, but he still had doubts about his ability to defeat the Russian army in Mukden.

"Japan is a centralized country, as long as necessary, he can still expand the age range and recruit soldiers again, I estimate that he will eventually have about 250,000 people in the decisive battle." Yang Rui said the historical number, but only changed it to my estimate, "There is also the commander-in-chief of the Russian army, Kuropatkin, this person is too timid, it is said that his plan is to lead the army to retreat to Harbin and fight a decisive battle with the Japanese army." ”

Thinking of General Kuropatkin's plan for a decisive battle in Harbin, Leo laughed, "This Kuropatkin is actually the former chief of staff of General Skobelev, and it is said that he once advised Kuropatkin that he was not decisive and brave enough to never be the commander of the army, and his current appearance completely proves that General Skobelev's statement is completely correct." After Leo finished speaking, he saw that Yang Rui had no impression of General Skobelev, so he said: "This General Skobelev is known as the conqueror of Central Asia, and he fought fiercely, and the Russian territory in Central Asia was basically fought by him. During the Russo-Turkish War of 1878, his forces captured less than ten miles from Istanbul, the capital of the Ottoman Empire. ”

Although there are all kinds of black materials, Yang Rui still has little understanding of the celebrities of this era, especially the relationship between these people, and he has no impression of this Skobelev at all, but it doesn't matter, these are still Leo.

"Leo, maybe we've overlooked a problem." Yang Rui said, "That Madrydov just now seems to have talked about the new commander-in-chief, as far as I know, it seems that there is no new commander-in-chief of the Russian army." Could it be that he was talking about General Billy Gellinger? ”

"It's very likely that when he came out of Europe, he was said to have advertised that he was going to represent all of Europe, and that he was supposed to be a white supremacist." Leo said. In order to better let investors know the situation of the war, European newspapers did not let go of any situation in the two countries, and it is said that this "representative of the whole of Europe" General Billy Gellinger was a hardliner within Tsarist Russia, and he was very dissatisfied with Kuropatkin's performance in the war, believing that he was only worthy of being a planner.

Yang Rui didn't know anything about this, but he had been hit hard since he crossed over, and most of the things he had thought about before had failed, and there were fewer successes, he said optimistically: "Don't worry, it's up to people to make things happen, and it's up to heaven to make things happen." At least Russia will replenish our guns and ammunition. How the battle will be fought depends on the situation. ”