Chapter 68: Prisoner of War Camps
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After the two finished laughing, the previous tense atmosphere was swept away, and Yang Rui asked in a harmonious voice: "Brother Huanzhang, why do you have to go to the capital to run a green building?" Didn't you plan to study military affairs before? β
Tao Chengzhang said: "Before the future of Tonghua, just reading the newspaper, I thought that the Northeast I would build very small, who knew that after I came, I knew that I was wrong, this Northeast Revival Army is no less inferior than the Manchurian New Army, only a few years later, we can drive out the Tartars and restore our China." There is Mr. Cheng in charge of the army here, and I, a layman, have nothing to learn, and on the Jiangsu and Zhejiang side, Xiao Xu also told me about the affairs of the party, and there is no need for me there, so the army and the party are worry-free, then I will go to the capital to open a green building, which can be regarded as a meager contribution to the revolution. After all, I also knew about this Qinglou when I was in Japan in the past, but at that time I just wanted to use the Qinglou to poison the Manchu magnates, but today it seems that I can still use this to find out the news of the Manchu Qing center, so as to wait for the time of the uprising on another day. β
Yang Rui suddenly felt that he was becoming more and more like the Mozi-like Tao Chengzhang recorded in history, and he was convinced, and said immediately: "Okay." I will inform Xiao Xu in Shanghai to send a few people to assist Brother Huanzhang. β
The first meeting between Yang Rui and Tao Chengzhang ended so simply, originally because he grabbed the plate of the Restoration Meeting, he thought that Tao Chengzhang would not be easy to arrange, but who knew that people only wanted revolution, and they had no scruples about anything else, it seemed that he was the heart of a villain and the belly of a gentleman.
Tao Chengzhang stayed in Tonghua for a few days and couldn't help but go back to the customs to arrange all things, but Yang Rui could not persuade him, so he had to arrange for Liu Jianyun in Tonghua to send someone to escort him -- the Andong port had been frozen and could only go to the Shanhaiguan line. Because Tao Chengzhang is short, he is afraid of being arrested by the Russians if he does not come forward officially. When parting, Yang Rui gave him the pistol on his body, which was the Colt revolver that Rong Hong gave him when he went to the United States the last time.
"Brother Huanzhang, don't be too anxious to arrange everything in the Guannei, the revolution can't succeed in one day, we do a little more every day, it's enough to do a little better." Yang Rui knew that he was a person with an anxious personality. I couldn't help but persuade again.
Tao Chengzhang was full of ambition, could listen to anything, and said with a smile: "Okay, good." Then prepare him for six years, and when the time comes, the Han flag will be planted all over China! After that, he got into the carriage sent by Liu Jianyun and didn't look back.
Watching Tao Chengzhang and his party go farther and farther, Yang Rui thought to himself: "This time, you won't be killed by Chang Shenkai again." You're in Beijing. However, who will Principal Chang kill when the time comes? β
Since Yang Rui issued the military order to help Russia resist Japan, the entire revival army has been mobilized for it, the experienced non-commissioned officers in the old units have been selected according to reliability, the training plans of the recruits have been readjusted, the artillery has begun to use the captured Russian-made mountain guns and field guns to help the recruits apply artillery bombardment, the arsenal has begun to work overtime to produce all kinds of ammunition, the logistics department has prepared supplies and medicines and has begun to speed up the production of Lapland-style winter clothes, and the staff department has begun to deduce the situation of the Russian-Japanese battlefield every day against the map. The whole army is running like a huge and complex machine, and everyone is busy. Only Yang Rui seems to be very idle.
"Does it really have to be like this?" Yang Rui read the plan formulated by the General Staff to vote for Russia, and asked Leo, Leo looked unreasonable, Yang Rui had to look at Bei Shoutong, this Bei Shoutong is a native of Wuxian County, Jiangsu, originally wanted to be an architect, and after dropping out of school, he wanted to study abroad under the arrangement of his family. But with the rejection of Russia, it doesn't matter what architects are or not, as soon as the Dragon Boat Festival passes, they will go to Shanghai and go to sea. The major he chose at the military academy was sapper, which was also a bit related to architecture, but Leo now that he had some artistic temperament, said that he had imagination, so he dragged him from the engineer to the staff headquarters.
Pei Shoutong looked at Yang Rui and had no choice but to say, "This is the best plan." Although it seems a bit like acting to us, in the eyes of those captured Russians, this is still very real, and it is not so difficult to carry out the plan to help Japan resist Russia in the future. β
Thinking that there would be a plan to help Japan resist Russia in the future, Yang Rui didn't delve into it, picked up a pen and signed the plan. said, "Okay. Then let's put on such a play. But you have to arrange it, and the people you pick can't be too stupid, and when the time comes, the show will be over. β
Bei Shou said: "Yes, sir." With that, he took the plan and went out.
After Bei Shoutong left, Yang Rui said to Leo again. "Leo, I heard that there are also German military attachΓ©s watching the battle in Russia, you are so protruding, are you not afraid that he will look for you?"
"I have nothing to do with the German government or the military." "I don't live for anything great now, I'm just for myself, I'm just doing what I love." To tell you the truth, I love life now, and I especially like to watch an army emerge, spread, and grow because of itself, how can I now understand how Mr. Marshal could have stayed in the moldy Ottoman Empire for twelve years. β
Seeing Leo so involved in the revival army, Yang Rui smiled in his heart, only felt that the kick in Shanghai was too valuable, he really forgot which foot he kicked, and he should commemorate this golden left foot or golden right foot. He smiled, "Leo, it's my honor to meet you. β
Leo said, "Hehe, it's also my honor, this army is difficult to build without your decisive decision, and your seven-month training program was right before." There's no better place in China to grow than here, and Tonghua is a great place. β
Yang Rui was not intoxicated by what he said, and only asked, "So, apart from what we are doing and doing now, what else do we have to do?" β
"In addition to war, we need time," Leo said, of course, "art is also important." β
"Art?" Yang Rui didn't refute, but just wanted to use psychology to analyze what role this art plays for the military.
"Yes, for a strong army, art or a sense of art is very important." "Skills can be cultivated when trained, guts and courage can be honed through war, but artistic sense cannot be comprehended, even if it takes a lot of time," Leo explains. If as a low-level officer, in addition to being familiar with the drill and various skills, he also needs fearless courage, but as a senior officer, it is different, in addition to fearless courage, he also needs a sense of art. Or rather, a kind of intuition, a beastly intuition, which can only be mostly innate, can be cultivated with little effect. β
"Those of these students have that kind of intuition." The first time Yang Rui discussed the issue of senior officers with Leo, he had always wanted to find gold from students, but there was no standard for distinguishing them.
"In the first issue," Leo thought, "Qi is the best, and then Bei just now, and Li and Xiang. Ray is more comprehensive...... In fact, the students in the first phase were very good. But they lack training, and only after experiencing life and death can their intuition be honed. β
Hearing that Leo mentioned Qi Qingyuan, Yang Rui said, "By the way, the day before yesterday, Tianjin sent a telegram saying that Qi might be back in another month." β
Maybe God opened his eyes. Maybe the sulfonamide was really developed, Qi Qingyuan woke up after three days in a coma in Tianjin, when he was sentenced to death by a foreign doctor because of sepsis, but the inflammation in his body began to improve after a few days of coma, and finally woke up. The foreign doctor couldn't believe such a result, and none of the patients who had such severe sepsis survived, and they had been exploring how Qi Qingyuan came back to life. Although they knew that Qi Qingyuan had used a milky white medicinal powder, they couldn't find the real thing at all, so they had to give up after the investigation was fruitless.
The success of sulfonamide research made Yang Rui feel good, but this medicine can only be prepared in the real room, the price is more expensive than gold, and the output is very low, even if it is only for officers, it is not enough. The only way now is to wait for Xu Huafeng to optimize the process of synthesizing Bailang multi-rest dye in Germany, and then synthesize this dye on a large scale. However, although it has been mentioned there, it will take half a year to produce and transport it to Tonghua at the earliest, and it is too late to catch up with the Russo-Japanese War, and it is estimated that many amputee soldiers will be required after these battles.
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The prisoner of war camp of the Fuxing Army was located in Dajinggouzi, 30 miles north of Hongshi Yazi, because the prisoners of war were basically Russian Maozi, and considering the problem of secrecy, they were afraid that if they escaped and led the Russian army to attack, they put the prisoner of war camp a little farther away. Originally, so many hairs were locked up here. You can still see the mountain and the wood, but now the entire Tonghua County is in the hands of the Fuxing Army, and the government officials below Lord Qiu, and the mothers-in-law and girls around them have all been bought by Zhong Guanguan. As for the gentry, they have long been concentrating on the light industry of oil mills, flour mills, match factories, soap factories, and paper mills, and they are now closely united around the Tonghua Railway Company with Comrade Zhong Guanguan as the core, and they are working hard to build a harmonious Tonghua.
The prisoner of war camp is located in the deep mountains and old forests, and the control is very strict, but in fact, Yang Rui thought that the Russian Maozi was too strong before, but who knew that these guys would become obedient people as soon as they were captured, as long as they were fed and worked, they were actually very honest, and most of these soldiers belonged to serfs, Muna was savage but obedient under power, and there was no dissatisfaction with the life in the prisoner of war camp, and although those officers were against the Japanese - if there were no braids, the Russians could not distinguish between the Japanese and the Chinese - They were dissatisfied that they did not give the captured officers the corresponding preferential treatment, but these gentlemen only muttered that as soon as the bell rang for dinner, they ran faster than anyone else, and even the soldiers who ran ahead of them were reprimanded by them, but if the soldiers did not listen to them, it was another matter.
Of course, there will always be exceptions to things, like Colonel Madlidov and his adjutant Lieutenant Bakseev are among the alternatives. Originally, Colonel Madlidov was going to hang up in the ambush on Pingdingshan that day, but the Baath Army soldiers were blinded by hatred for a while, and only killed a Cossack cavalry company commander and his adjutant, and Colonel Madlidov survived instead. He was interrogated as soon as he was captured, but the colonel was a Chinese expert, and after the current gang of people was not Japanese but only bearded recruited by the Japanese, considering that he was not handed over by the beard to the Japanese, he thought about it, and tried his best to fool the interrogators during the interrogation to persuade this bandit to defect to Russia. Originally, the beard is a mother-type if he has milk, and as long as he gives money to the gun, anyone is the same, but the money and guns of the Fuxing Army are not bad, so naturally there is no interest.
Seeing that this could not be done, Colonel Madlidov offered to redeem himself, as long as he sent his adjutant back, then he could immediately provide a large sum of money to Hu Zi to redeem himself, but this was also unsuccessful. There was really no way, the colonel suddenly escaped one night, but he was really unfamiliar with the terrain, and the direction was unknown in the deep mountains and old forests, so he was caught in three hours, and then hung on a wooden pole in the square and smoked in public, and then froze until midnight before being released. Colonel Madlidov, who returned to the dormitory, was beaten up again by his roommates, who had been hungry several times because of his escape.
"Colonel, are you sure you're going to run away again?" The colonel's faithful adjutant, Lieutenant Bakseev, looked at the plaster on Madrydov's face. Asked with great concern.
"Yes, I am going to escape, I am going out to report to His Majesty the Tsar, to His Excellency Bezobrazov." As he spoke, Colonel Madlidov hid half of the sorghum steamed buns that he had secretly hidden during the meal just now, and he was preparing food for his escape. The winter in Manchuria was too cold, and if there was no clothing and food to go out, it would be sent to death. "Alexey, I must go out, I must go like His Majesty the Emperor to expose the cowardly behavior of this coward. I would like to report to His Excellency Bezorazov. They just want to deliberately lose the war and then bring Werther back to power, which is their conspiracy. The Colonel's face was excited, and he danced and spoke very quickly.
The adjutant, Lieutenant Bakseev, was speechless, he only wanted the colonel and himself alive, as for the infighting in the upper echelons of Russia. Too far away from him in the prisoner of war camp, "Colonel, the Japanese will let us go back after the war, as long as we don't behave out of line, they are still very civilized......"
"Civilized, yellow-skinned monkeys only know how to be barbaric, they are only worthy to be slaves of the Slavs." The colonel categorically interrupted the adjutant's words. "I must escape, and before the war, His Excellency the Governor has been recalled to St. Petersburg by His Majesty, and the conspirator Kuropatkin has completely mastered the Far East, and if I don't find a way to save the war, the consequences will be unimaginable." Unlike the adjutant Bakseev, the colonel, who was one of the backbone members of the Holy Order, was well aware of the form of the Russian upper echelons: since Sergei. After Witte was ousted from the post of Chancellor of the Exchequer last year, His Excellency Bezorazov, the spiritual leader of the colonel and the former minister of the Russian emperor, had taken control of the political situation in Russia. But if the war is lost, then Werther will be back in power. All he had to do was to help the new main general, General Billy Gellinger (Lieutenant General Glebeberg, who arrived in the Far East in December according to some documents), to familiarize him with the situation in the Far East so that he could drive the Japanese monkeys out to sea.
"But if you get caught again, they'll put you to death." Bakseev said with concern. "And even if you don't get caught, it's hard for you to return to Mukden, you don't even know where you're ......"
"Nope. No. I'm going to get out! The colonel again interrupted the adjutant's words, "Alexey. I need your help, just tonight, you ......" The colonel's voice slowly lowered, and the adjutant listened quietly, although he had always thought that the colonel's escape was not a rational act, but as his loyal adjutant, he would still carry out any orders of the colonel.
The cold wind of the middle of the night drifted on the vast snowy fields in the northeast, there was a "woo woo" cry, a snoring in the prisoner camp, and the prisoners of war who had been logging for a day were sleeping soundly, but Colonel Madlidov was lying on the bed and had been pretending to sleep, he only waited for the change of guard outside, and every time the guard changed in the middle of the night, the moonlight shone on the seventh floor - he always believed that the time when the guard was changed was the time when the guard was most guarded, especially the tall tower in the prisoner of war camp, and it was very inconvenient to change the guard up and down on such a snowy day, During the day, he had taken his pulse to calculate the time it would take for the guard to change the guard, and it would take at least one hundred and fifty jumps to change the tower once, and if it was night, it would take more time, one hundred and eighty jumps, two hundred jumps, and God would have blessed it for a longer time.
When the moonlight shone on the sixth floor, Madlidov got up, he moved the adjutant Bakseev, Bakseev raised his hand in response, he actually didn't sleep, he waited until the time came to help the colonel escape. In the dimly lit room, Madlidov was prieing the door open, only to hear a "bang, bang, bang... Bang, bang, bang...", the sound of fierce explosions mingled with gunshots, and the guards outside the house shouted.
The sudden chaos made Colonel Madlidov listen, he squatted by the door and listened to the sound outside, at this time the other people in the room were also awakened, they saw Madlidov and Bakseev leaning against the door and were very surprised, the colonel stood up calmly when he saw this, and danced excitedly: "It's our army coming, soldiers, you are about to leave this damned place, God bless my emperor!" β
Unlike the excited and dancing colonels, the prisoners who slept with them were not happy at all, they did not want to go back to the army, or to return to the army before the war was over. Although it is tiring to cut wood here every day, as long as you follow the rules, you can eat and clothe yourself, and you don't want to be trapped in the muddy or snowy trenches of the rainy season like in war, and then go to God in an instant, where everyone's life is guaranteed, unless it is really a bad luck hit by a big tree cursed by the devil; If you go back...... Let's pray to God.