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Volume 2 Beijing Story Chapter 204 Conquering the enemy without fighting

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    The first wave of offensives from the participating armies came from leaflets flying in the sky instead of artillery and machine guns. This put the entire Far East in a state of huge commotion. Little Lieutenant Colonel Alexey ordered the entire battalion as soon as the plane flew overhead.  Enter the position and push the train car full of gunpowder parked on the branch road onto the main line in front of the station.

    Little Alexei's command position was at the commanding heights at the top of the train station building, in the attic of a bell tower. Maxim machine guns were waiting behind a bunker piled with sandbags. Several Cossack boys were nervously lying next to their battalion commander.  Holding the handle of the machine gun, the temperature at the end of February was still very low, and the traditional Chinese Spring Festival and Lantern Festival had just passed three days. I didn't expect that the opponent was about to attack!

    The tall and thin deputy battalion commander, Cavalry Major Dimitri Leonidovich, panted heavily and climbed up the bell tower holding a leaflet!

    "Battal Commander, Battalion Commander! Have you read the Chinese leaflets? They said that as long as you lay down your weapons, you can enjoy civilian treatment The brothers are talking a lot See if we send someone to contact the other party!"

    "Dimitri! Are you afraid? You coward! How dare you shake the morale of the army! Never believe the Chinese propaganda. We will become meat on the chopping block when we lay down our weapons! We are brave Cossacks, we are not thanking  That Cossack traitor Mionov and his rabble! We are the glorious Cossack cavalry battalion! The duty of a soldier is to protect the family and the country!"

    Lieutenant Colonel Alexei turned around with a livid face, and kicked the deputy who was panting from his command post to climb up the bell tower to the floor. Several messengers and machine gunners from the battalion headquarters jumped around from the lying  He stood up from the ground and looked at his chief and deputy battalion commander in shock.

    "Alexey! Who do you think is a coward? Those pigheads in Khabarovsk are cowards! When did I, Dimitri, ever become a coward! But now the Chinese leaflet says, protect people's lives  Our property is safe, and we will be treated as civilians as long as we put down our weapons! You said you want to protect your country! This place belongs to China now. What kind of country are you protecting?"

    The deputy battalion commander blushed and got up from the ground while spitting and yelling. This little Dimitri is the distant nephew of Horvath, the former director of the Eastern Railway Administration who fled to Khabarovsk. He is very interested in China.  Everything that happens within the territory is more understood than his own battalion commander.

    This guy knows that when the Chinese Communist Party retook the Middle East Road last year, they first distributed leaflets along the road. The content was similar to today's, ensuring the safety of life and property of the Russian residents in the areas attached to the Middle East Road. The Tsarist Russian Middle East Road road protection troops put down their weapons and enjoyed it.  Civilian treatment!  This has been confirmed for several months, but to be honest, Tsarist Russian government officials and military officers have never doubted that the Middle East Road is in China, so the Chinese took back the Middle East Road while protecting the local people.  It makes sense.

    But Suifenhe belongs to Russian land in Lao Maozi's concept, and the residents are all Russians. Whether the Chinese government's propaganda is reliable is a matter of no precedent. In fact, Alexei's battalion can fight again  How could the mantis use four hundred people as a chariot to deal with tens of thousands of Chinese troops?

    "Who said this is Chinese land?! This is Russian land! We are Russians, and we must shoulder the heavy responsibility of defending the country! Why don't you quickly return to the command position?!" Little Ali  Kesei's shiny leather boots kicked the deputy again, but he was hugged by the orderly Sasha Mishka beside him, and the kick was missed.

    The furious battalion commander pushed away the orderly who was holding him back, picked up the whip in his hand and whipped it, while scolding, "Mishka, are you crazy! Do you even want to rebel?!"

    "Battal Commander! You should think about what the deputy battalion commander said! Our Cossacks' hometown is in the beautiful Don River prairie, not this snowy Far East. I miss my mother, I want to go home, and I don't want to die here for other people's land!  "

    Just when there was a lot of hustle and bustle on the bell tower, the first line of sentry posts not far away remembered the shrill whistle, and then a Cossack scout cavalry galloped from outside the town along the railway line. This was Ali  The rangers that Kesai placed at the border were obviously followed by Chinese troops after the Chinese planes overhead dropped leaflets!  The atmosphere on the bell tower suddenly became tense!

    "Battal Commander! Battalion Commander! The Chinese are coming!" The Cossack cavalry galloped over and ran directly to the bell tower. The Don horse stood up after being strangled and kept neighing and snorting. Both the knight and the horse were steaming.  Hot sweat!

    "Polkin, you bastard, where are your weapons! Where are your sabers! Also, where are all the Cossacks in your class dead!" Alexei, the battalion commander on the bell tower, saw the clue at a glance, and his heart surged.  Angry, but also nervous at the same time!  The few Cossacks around were even more nervous and couldn't breathe!

    "Battal Commander, Battalion Commander! We have been captured! Who knew that the Chinese would sneak in before dawn and lurk in the snow behind our sentry post?"The brothers were caught off guard and were disarmed!  The Chinese asked me to come back with a message to you. As long as we lay down our weapons, we will enjoy the treatment of civilians. They will never treat us as prisoners or restrict our freedom!  Life and property are protected!  We can all go home!

    Battalion Commander, Battalion Commander!  Make your decision quickly!  The Chinese commander said he would only give us twenty minutes to think about it!  Their vanguard is less than 2 kilometers away from here!  All over the mountains and plains!  Too many to count!  "The reconnaissance squad leader Bolkin pulled his horse in a circle and shouted to the sky at the bell tower. At the same time, he was ready to dodge the bullets of his companions. This guy didn't dare to dismount. What if the battalion commander wanted to shoot him?  Do it, you have to run when you have to!

    "Battal Commander! We can't hesitate any longer. Bolkin and the others have been captured. Our details and arrangements are all clear to the Chinese. I don't think the Chinese will fall for the trap of the Japanese train. Or let's put down our weapons."  , or we can retreat north to Khabarovsk, it is completely crazy to stay here to stop the Chinese!" Deputy Battalion Commander Dimitri shouted at the top of his lungs!

    Alexey picked up the telescope and heard the rumble of engines three kilometers to the west from the direction of Suifenhe. It sounded like a car rather than an airplane. Little Alexey knew that on the opposite side was China's elite American Armed Forces, each brigade.  There is an armored reconnaissance battalion. According to the returning Middle East road protection team, there are tens of thousands of participating troops in one brigade alone. The brigade's armored reconnaissance battalion alone has 36 vehicles equipped with Browning water-cooled heavy machine guns.  Type armored vehicle, only the heavy machine gun firepower is 8 times that of our own battalion.  .  .

    Turning around, he looked at the deputy battalion commander, orderlies, orderlies, and machine gun shooters who were surrounding him. Everyone¡¯s eyes were full of anxiety and expectation, but they obviously didn¡¯t want to follow him and resist!

    At this moment, the town mayor and station director Vasilyev, who was panting and wearing a mink robe, also climbed up the bell tower from behind, followed by the church priest Tobuevsky and the town's largest businessman Khabaye.  Husband, these three people came up and shouted:

    "Lieutenant Colonel! Lieutenant Colonel! The town guild has made an emergency decision. In order to avoid the loss of life and the safety of the residents, please order the Cossack Battalion to lay down their weapons or evacuate the town. We will bear all the blame from above! This must not start a fight!  We have all read the flyer, and it is the same as last year when the Chinese took over the Middle Road. No matter who owns this land, this battle must not be fought in this town! The people in this town will be the unlucky ones! "

    "You cowards! You don't deserve to be Russians!" Little Lieutenant Colonel Alexei Cavalry felt that his heart was bleeding. Is it possible that what he wanted to protect at the expense of others was this group of fat men in front of him who were defeated by the wind and let his Cossacks  It is meaningless to shed blood and sacrifice for these people!

    "Lieutenant Colonel! You must order an end to resistance, and leave everything to the Far East Military Region and Primorsky Territory to negotiate with the Chinese. If your reckless actions plunge the residents of this town into war, you must personally bear all responsibility! You have to go to a military court! You  Will be hanged!"

    "Battal Commander! Can't hesitate any longer! There's not much time left!" the deputy battalion commander stamped his feet anxiously and shouted!  Within ten minutes of the Chinese leaflets being dropped, the fighting spirit of the deputy battalion commander and several company commanders was shattered. To say the least, there was no need to worry about having no firewood to burn the green hills, not to mention that even the mayor and priests of the town were  Everyone came to ask the camp to withdraw from the battle. It was a good time to step down!  In the future, there will be explanations for going to the peak to investigate!

    "Pass my order! The entire battalion will withdraw from the position, and under the command of Deputy Battalion Commander Dimitri, evacuate quickly to Khabarovsk!" Little Alexey gritted his teeth and issued the order!
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