Chapter 497: The Capture of Vladivostok (6)

The People's Army arrived at Suifenhe at 4 o'clock in the afternoon, and the Russian army did not have many troops stationed at Suifenhe, not even a battalion, only two companies of defenders, and they were not even prepared for battle, because the People's Army occupied Vladivostok only yesterday, and Suifenhe was more than 200 kilometers away from Vladivostok, and the People's Army would come at once.

As a result, the People's Army occupied the Suifen River almost without bloodshed, took control of the railway station, and divided another regiment to occupy Dongning County, which is adjacent to the Suifen River, at 6 o'clock. Only then did the KPA attack on that day come to an end.

And early the next morning, the Russian army also rushed to Suifenhe. He also knew that the People's Army would march along the Hasui Line and attack Harbin, and the Russian army did not deploy too many troops along the Hasui Line, so he was afraid that it would not be able to stop the attack of the People's Army, so he hurriedly transferred a division from the garrison troops in Harbin, and set aside a train, ordering them to rush to Shuangchengzi to garrison at once, and if Shuangchengzi had been broken by the People's Army, they would retreat to Suifenhe, and they must block the People's Army's march route.

However, although the Russian army's actions were indeed fast enough this time, it was still one step behind the People's Army, and the result was not to mention Shuangchengzi, and even Suifenhe was lost. The Russian army also tentatively launched an attack on Suifenhe, if the People's Army had just occupied Suifenhe and was not ready, maybe it could defeat the People's Army in one fell swoop and recapture Suifenhe.

However, after the People's Army occupied the Suifen River yesterday, it set up defensive positions on the periphery of the Suifen River overnight, and this time the People's Army attacked by train, carrying a lot of ammunition and materials with it, and naturally did not hesitate to fire, all kinds of machine guns, grenadiers, and mortars opened fire one after another, forming a dense firepower network, which caused heavy casualties to the Russian army, and it was impossible to break through the position of the People's Army at all, so it had to retreat from the battlefield and retreat to the town of Muling to garrison, and report to Linnevich.

After Linnevich received the news, he was also stunned for a long time before he reacted, he didn't expect the speed of the People's Army's attack to be so fast, it only took 2 or 3 days, and they fought from Vladivostok to the Suifen River, how many troops did they land from Vladivostok? But now Linnevich has nothing to do, the main force of the Bijing Russian army is on the front line of Shenyang and the People's Army, although there are still more than 100,000 troops in the rear, first, all of them are second-line troops, and second, there are still many points that need to be garrisoned, and Linnevich can draw not many troops. Therefore, Linnevich could only first order the Russian army to set up a position in the town of Muling to prevent the KPA from attacking, and at the same time send a telegram in Russia to urgently ask for help.

The day after the People's Army occupied Suifenhe and Dongning, the follow-up fleet of the expeditionary force arrived in Vladivostok, and at this time the expeditionary force finally gathered in Vladivostok. By this time, the East China government's nearly one-year strategy for Vladivostok had been completed, and it had achieved almost complete success.

However, although the army is ready, Luo Yue did not continue to attack, Bi Jing's current front of the People's Army has been stretched too long, although there has been no accident yet, but it can't be careless. So Luo Yue immediately made arrangements, first ordered the 1st and 6th Divisions of the 1st Army to rush to Suifenhe to take over the garrison of the defenders, and then ordered the 2nd Marine Division to garrison Shuangchengzi, and set up heavy guards for the current three key points, and then attacked the periphery of Vladivostok and both sides of the railway line, occupied the key points, and successively occupied Kuangouzi, Sucheng, Loess Kan and other places, and hit as far as Xingkai Lake.

In fact, these places were originally the territory of the Qing court, belonging to the jurisdiction of the Ningguta Vice-Duluo, and were ceded to Russia together with Vladivostok in the [Sino-Russian Aihui Treaty] in 1860, and now they have belonged to Russia for nearly 50 years, and they have long been regarded as their own territory by Russia. However, the Far East is too vast, and the areas in this area are sparsely populated and barren, often dozens of kilometers without people, so the Russian army does not garrison many troops in this area at all, and wherever the People's Army goes, it also follows the trend. As a result, a few days later, the KPA's area of control also expanded rapidly, to 7 to 80,000 square kilometers, but the core area was still along the railway from Vladivostok to the Suifen River.

Five days later, another fleet arrived in Vladivostok, this time with 50,000 logisticians and 1,000 administrative staff.

The arrival of this group of personnel not only liberated the People's Army from complicated local administrative affairs, but also fully guaranteed logistical affairs, although before this, the People's Army did not lack materials in Vladivostok, but the clean-up and transportation of materials required a large amount of manpower, although there are trains in Vladivostok, but not all materials can be transported along the railway line, outside the railway line, there are still many places that need materials to be transported, these are all manpower, and it is transported along the railway line, the loading of goods, The unloading of the truck also had to be carried by people, and until the logistics personnel arrived, these things could only be done by the soldiers of the People's Army. In addition, the People's Army also has to maintain local law and order and ensure the operation of order, and there are more than 200,000 Russians in Vladivostok, although it is not a lot, but it takes a lot of energy to control these people.

These things will almost contain nearly 40 percent of the KPA's strength. Therefore, after the follow-up troops arrived in Vladivostok, Luo Yue did not continue to attack, and maintaining order in Vladivostok involved too much energy, which was also an important factor. Now that an administrator has arrived and taken over the administrative security work in Vladivostok, Luo Yue has been able to devote all his energy to the battle that follows.

The person in charge of the administrative work in charge of managing Vladivostok is called Xie Tao, and after taking office, he first took over all the Russian factories and enterprises in Vladivostok, while all the Russian residents were concentrated, demarcated residential areas, and carried out unified management, because the Russians were rough-tempered, aggressive, and had developed the habit of despising the Chinese in recent decades, so if they were still scattered, it was not easy to manage, and they must be centralized and managed. In addition, the People's Army now needs a large amount of labor in Vladivostok, and although a number of logistics personnel have been transferred, it is still insufficient, and among the Russian residents of Vladivostok, at least tens of thousands of young and middle-aged men can be transferred. Of course, if you are a technician, such as a skilled worker, a nurse, a teacher, etc., you can still get preferential treatment, at least not as a laborer.

In fact, Luo Yue did not think about requisitioning the Russians to do labor, mainly because all of them were Russians, in case it was difficult to clean up the trouble, and he was afraid that they would sabotage it in secret, but now that more than 50,000 logistics personnel have come, and with this group of personnel to assist in supervision, he is not afraid that the Russians will not cooperate.

Another point is that after the end of the war, the East China government will definitely emigrate to Vladivostok in large numbers in order to change the population structure of Vladivostok and lay the foundation for the long-term peace and stability of Vladivostok.

Second, Xie Tao met with the leaders of other ethnic minority tribes, on the one hand, to thank them for their support of the East China government, and on the other hand, to invite these tribes to settle in Vladivostok, and the East China government could arrange jobs for them and provide them with the necessary education, so that the inhabitants of these tribes could have a stable source of income and at the same time change the demographic structure of Vladivostok.

Some tribes agreed to the invitation of the East China government on the spot, while others had to go back to negotiate with their people, while others refused to accept it. Xie Tao is also not exempt from being strong, everything is voluntary.

However, the Taiorr tribe, which initially contacted the East China government, was the first of the tribes to agree to move to Vladivostok to settle down, because the Taiorr tribe has not been established for a long time, and it is composed of people from all over the country, and has not yet formed a strong cohesion, mainly relying on the prestige of the patriarch Mu Zhehu and his son to unite the tribes. And the old patriarch Mu Kulun once served as the capital of the Qing court, his insight is above others, and he knows that moving to Vladivostok to settle down is the last way out for the tribe, although the tribe may be disbanded because of this, and his family can no longer be the patriarch, but as long as he follows the East China government closely, the future he can get is far greater than that of a tribal patriarch. Therefore, it was strongly advocated that the entire tribe should be relocated to Vladivostok to settle down.

So under Xie Tao's management, Vladivostok soon completed the wartime reorganization, a large number of young and middle-aged Russian men were organized to engage in heavy physical labor, the elderly, women were engaged in some light work, all in the service of the war. Of course, at the beginning, there were still some Russians who were not convinced, and even clashed and clashed with the managers of the East China government, but at this time, Xie Tao was not polite, and arrested all these Russians, locked up with the Russian prisoners, not only did they still have to engage in heavy physical labor every day, but also had no wages, no freedom, and could not even go back to their homes, and the Russians with bad circumstances would even be whipped and even sentenced to death.

After dealing with more than 20 dissatisfied Russians in a row, the rest of the Russians finally got honest, Bi Jing did this against the East China government, and the only one who suffered was himself, although the Russians' character was impulsive and rude, but they were not stupid, and the reason why the hero did not suffer the immediate loss still understood, so he could only temporarily endure it and obey the orders of the East China government, of course, the vast majority of Russians still firmly believed that the current forbearance was only temporary, and the powerful Russian king must come back to recover Vladivostok, and then he would be able to turn overใ€‚

And at this moment, the Russian royal division, which the Russians were expecting, was really going to launch a battle to recover Vladivostok, so a new round of fighting was about to begin.