The day after the siege of Horvat, the commander of the Soviet side, Liukin, decided to launch a tentative attack, and the two sides fought for a day and a night, and the command of the Eastern Railway in Horvat was impregnable, and the Soviet sappers did not breach the gate at the cost of more than a thousand men. But in fact, there was a dead silence in the headquarters, and many people could no longer hold on.

"Your Excellency General, at this point, I can only agree to their conditions and approve the establishment of a new government." The husband continued to persuade, "Tsar, it's no longer good. ”

"Alas, although I am a man of the Tsar, I am more of a Russian, and I hope that they will treat the Tsar well, otherwise I will definitely tear these Bolsheviks to pieces." Horvat said weakly, "Valentin, as a messenger of peace talks, go and talk to them." ”

"Okay." Sha said immediately.

"No, we can still find reinforcements." Staff officer Tishenko said.

"No way, now that the railway is paralyzed, there are no people around who can support us." Sha said.

Tishenko hurriedly said: "There are also Chinese, and there is the Heilongjiang Army, as long as the general can ask the most capable general in China to send troops, he has concentrated nearly 50,000 troops around Saltu." ”

"No, you must not fake the Chinese." Sha shouted.

"Are we going to surrender? Are you crazy Alyosha? Baron Sha, you are a nobleman, didn't you see the corpse hanging outside? They are all nobles and high officials, if we surrender. Then we will be in danger of being hanged. "Think of your wives and daughters, who are also here, do you want the sappers with brutal sappers to rape your wives and daughters and cut off your heads?" ”

"Don't speak, let me think." Horvath said, and the others stopped talking.

At this time. Wang Maoru of Saltu was always concerned about the situation in Harbin and the Middle East Road, which was too important to him, and he sent a large number of spies. The entire intelligence service was mobilized, and in order to speed up the struggle for power of the Bolsheviks, he gave the Bolsheviks a large amount of guns and ammunition. and sent killers to assassinate the people of the two sides, the purpose of which was to provoke a war between the two sides. Sure enough, the armed sappers were irritated by their anger and mercilessly slaughtered the Russian soldiers who insisted on royalism, forcing Horvat, who was supposed to join the new government, to fight back on various sections of the Middle East Road.

"Report!" The voice of a guard was heard outside the door.

"Come in." Wang Maoru said.

Qiao Sanbang took a person and said, "Xiushuai, this is Secretary Ding Shu Huaiding, the representative of Binjiang Daoyin." ”

Wang Maoru nodded and said, "Welcome to Secretary Ding." ”

"Overseer Wang. I am here on behalf of the people of Binjiang. Ding Shuhuai said a word and put himself on the national righteousness.

Wang Maoru smiled slightly and said, "Sit." ”

Ding Shuhuai shook his head and said with a bitter face, "I can't sit down, Lord Overseer." ”

Wang Maoru already knew that Li Hongmo, the governor of Binjiang Province and the special negotiator of Harbin, had sent a telegram to Guo Zongxi, the governor of Jilin Province, and proposed that he take the opportunity to send troops to Harbin. However, Guo Zongxi is only the governor. Without the right to transfer troops, and the overseer Meng Enyuan was attending a meeting in Xuzhou at this time, Guo Zongxi only sent police forces around Harbin to meet the people who had fled Harbin due to the war.

"Wang Dashuai, I don't know if you can save the people of Harbin from fire and water." Ding Shuhuai persuaded bitterly.

Wang Maoru laughed and said, "You should ask Dao Jijun." Harbin belongs to Jilin Province, Binjiang Road, Binjiang Mansion, I am powerless. ”

Ding Shuhuai hung his head and said: "But only adults have the ability to save Harbin, you don't know, the Russians fought on both sides, and the Chinese people suffered the most casualties, many Russian rebels burned, looted, and raped women in Harbin, and I begged you for the 300,000 Chinese people in Harbin." Ding Shuhuai was about to kneel down as he spoke, his face was already full of tears, this was an official who really cared about the people.

Wang Maoru couldn't bear it, so he hurriedly helped him, sighed, and said, "Don't you do this, I'm ...... Why don't I want to help? He picked up Ding Shuhuai, pressed him on the chair, and said: "But I can't rush to send troops, otherwise China will be at war with Russia, unless the Russians ask for help, as long as any of the Russians ask for help in Harbin, I will march in the name." ”

Ding Shuhuai didn't know why, Jiang Fangzhen laughed and said, "Secretary Ding, don't you understand?" The important thing is that someone in Harbin sent a telegram asking for help, and with this telegram, our commander can send troops in the name. ”

"But how could they send a telegram......

"Alas, Secretary Ding, why can't you figure it out." Jiang Fangzhen said, "You can ask Li Hongmo to forge a letter, this chaotic soldier, who knows if it's true or not, just send a telegram, and ask my family overseer to ask for help to pacify the war in Harbin." You can also forge a telegram from the dead railway commander Daleyan, and no one pursues whether it is true or not. ”

Ding Shuhuai suddenly realized and said, "Okay, I'll do it." ”

"Wait a minute." Jiang Fangzhen said, "Secretary Ding, at this time, Wanwang is confidential, and it is related to the relationship between China and Russia, and you have a heavy responsibility." ”

Ding Shuhuai ran back to Harbin with apprehension, he thought all the way, and couldn't help but feel sad again when he saw the dilapidated houses destroyed by the war and the displaced Chinese people killed by the civil insurgency. The Harbin telegraph office had been occupied by Soviet engineers, but there was still a spare one in the Chinese police station, and he ran to the Chinese police station and used Li Hongmo's identity as a secretary to enter the police station. In fact, there were not many people in the police station at this time, everyone ran home to take refuge, and the director ran away, leaving only helpless and homeless. Ding Shuhuai entered the police station, and soon came to the confidential room, and took the telegraph to his home under the pretext that Yin Li Hongmo of Binjiang Province wanted to use the telegraph. Later, Ding Shuhuai learned that a Russian had been rescued by a Harbin citizen, who was said to be an official of the railway command, and he hurriedly found this official, and after questioning, he learned that this person named Amirliuko was Daleyan's secretary. Ding Shuhuai promised Amirliuko that as long as he sent a telegram asking Wang Maoru for help. You can give him $20,000 and let him go to the United States to enjoy his happiness. Amirliuko thought about it for a while and immediately agreed to this condition, and Ding Shuhuai immediately found a Chinese who had studied telegraphy and sent a telegram to the outside world, inviting Wang Maoru, the overseer of Heilongjiang, to send troops to quell the turmoil on the Middle East Road with the order of Daleyan held by Amirliuko, secretary of the Middle East Railway Command.

Wang Maoru received the power on as soon as possible, which was power-on. It was sent to the whole world, and it was an open telegram, not only Wang Maoru received it. Meng Enyuan, the Jilin overseer who was far away in Xuzhou, Zhang Zuolin, the superintendent of Fengtian, and Nakamura Jue, the governor of the Japanese Kwantung Army. Prime Minister Duan Qirui, President Li Yuanhong, and all the overseers received it, and everyone was stunned for the first time.

"It's not good, Xiao Wang has to be impulsive!" Xu Shuzheng jumped up holding the telegram.

"Prime Minister, Prime Minister!" Xu Shuzheng ran in, waving a telegram, and shouted: "The big thing is not good, the big thing is not good, Wang Maoru is going to be bad!" ”

"I got it too." Duan Qirui said in a deep voice.

He ...... He...... How dare he do that? Xu Shuzheng said with a blushing face. He ate the gall of the ambitious leopard. ”

One of Duan Qirui's think tanks, his brother-in-law Wu Guangxin looked at the cigarette, crossed Erlang's legs and said, "He? Not necessarily, a small local warlord, he only has a few men under him. ”

Xu Shuzheng wanted to look down on the others in the Anhui family. This Wu Guangxin is one of the people he looks down on, he is a straw bag, relying on the relationship with his brother-in-law Duan Qirui to get into the mix, and within the Anhui system, he is also the one who fights for power with him. In Xu Shuzheng's opinion, this person is not even worthy of being an opponent. Xu Shuzheng immediately retorted: "He Wang Maoru doesn't dare? There is nothing in the world that he doesn't dare, only he doesn't want to, and he doesn't dare! No, this Wang Maoru must have thought of it a long time ago, it must be ...... Prime Minister, I guess this is a play by Wang Maoru, he must be right! ”

Duan Qirui was taken aback, couldn't believe it, and said, "How can Wang Maoru have such the courage to be greedy." ”

"Yes, you said that he is like a monkey, he is at best just a small warlord with a high emperor, provoke the Russians, he will wait for him to die." Wu Guangxin said disdainfully.

"Prime Minister, he is such a bold person, judging from my dealings with him, this man would not have done this if he hadn't completely taken me." Xu Shuzheng still didn't give up and said.

"What can I do?" Duan Qirui said, "He is pulling the Republic of China to war, if he dares to shoot at the Russian soldiers, it will be a declaration of war against Russia." ”

"No, no, I think he should think that the Russian rebels should declare war, and then occupy Harbin, and his purpose must be the Eastern Railway." Xu Shuzheng analyzed.

"Does he have that ability?" Wu Guangxin sneered, "In the Russo-Japanese War, the Japanese almost wiped out the whole country before they occupied such a section of the railway, can he occupy the Eastern Railway?" ”

"During the Russo-Japanese War, Tsarist Russia was unusually united, but now, Tsarist Russia is divided, and there are now four or five governments in Russia that have ordered at the same time, and this Eastern Railway has become a place where no matter what." Xu Shuzheng analyzed.

Just as Xu Shuzheng analyzed, after Wang Maoru received the telegram, he immediately issued an order, ordering Zhao Zengfu's Third Infantry Brigade to occupy the Hailar-Manzhouli Middle East Railway, ordering Gai Tianjiu's Fourth Infantry Brigade to occupy the Zhalantun-Hailar Railway, ordering Ren Yuanxing's Second Infantry Brigade to occupy the Zhalantun-Saltu Railway, ordering Li Pinxian's Fifth Infantry Brigade to occupy the railway from Saltu to Harbin, and ordering Guo Buluo Longqing's Ninth Cavalry Brigade to guard Hulunbuir and support the battle. Ordered the 2nd Division of the participating army, Fei Chaogui, and the 7th Brigade of Wang Qiyuan's guard to support the battle in Heilongjiang. Li Delin's 1st Infantry Brigade, Gong Xiaoqi's 8th Cavalry Brigade, and Liu Jian's 10th Artillery Brigade were ordered to form the First Group Army, which was immediately led by Chief of Staff Jiang Fangzhen and entered Harbin. Ordered the student division of the 1st Division of the participating army to enter Hulan, alert Harbin to be kept as a reserve, ordered Xu Zhengyi's 11th Infantry Brigade (Huzi Brigade) to make a detour into Jilin Province to occupy Shuangcheng Castle, cut off the support of the Russian army in Changchun, and ordered Zhang Kuiwu's 6th Infantry Brigade to enter Acheng County, Jilin, to cut off the Russian troops supported by Suifenhe, and to blow up the railway if necessary.

As soon as the order was issued, the army moved, and the headquarters went to Hulan with Wang Maoru and the student army, and Hulan Station immediately became the battlefield command center.

Who would have thought that Wang Maoru had prepared such a big plan?

In the sixth year of the Republic of China, on March 22, 1917, the Heilongjiang Army lightning attacked the Russian army on the Middle East Road.