At this time, Fengtian and Jilin were already in the midst of war, and the lives were devastated, but the old Maozi who was defeated and retreated had not yet returned to Harbin. ★ ★ Harbin at night is still a colonial city under the rule of the tsars. In the Modern Hotel on Central Street, it is still full of lights, wine, and money. But not all of them were unresponsive to the looming crisis, and apart from the dignified-looking officers who came and went in the governor's palace, there was also a wealthy Russian merchant who was in a state of unrest.

Born in 1871, he was not a Russian, but was born in the Polish province of Podolsk, but was part of the Russian Empire. When Russia forcibly built the Eastern Railway in the northeast, Gwarisky, as a member of the survey team, relied on his outstanding business acumen to make comprehensive use of the timber along the railway. After the opening of the China Eastern Railway, the demand for sleepers dropped significantly, and Gerwarsky began to venture into a variety of businesses, successively investing in Harbin to establish a furniture factory, a pine resin oil factory, a wood distillation factory, a paper mill, a plywood factory, and a mill, gradually building a business empire. Govalisky, who was not yet forty years old, was not one of the Russian nobles who still had illusions about the situation in Russia, and he had already realized that Harbin was changing hands at hand, but he was puzzled that it was not the Japanese who first came into contact with him, but the representative of the Shandong Chamber of Commerce in the distant Guannei. In his villa at No. 1 Summer Street, Govwarsky had already sent the representative of the Shandong Chamber of Commerce to the guest room, but he was still in a fog for the request he had brought.

In terms of architectural style and completeness of preservation, Gerwarsky's building in the downtown area of Nangang District is undoubtedly one of the most dazzling historical buildings in Harbin, and can be called the king of Harbin's old buildings. This also became a symbol of Gwariski's wealth, but today the owner of the villa did not seem to have the heart to enjoy the beauty of the garden, and even a few young maids were kicked out of the study, and he held in his hand an order, an order for five thousand pieces of cotton yarn, which was just an ordinary small business for the richest man, but the timing was very coincidental, the order was to arrive at the special warehouse of Gwarisky on the fourth road at six o'clock tomorrow afternoon. Underneath this order is a piece of paper, which is stamped with the steel seal of the Wuyi New Army, and a naturalization certificate, which reads, "Gewari, a person of the Evenki nationality in Heilongjiang, the Great Qing Dynasty, with a white and yellow beard, five feet and seven inches tall, is from Sanchahezi, Heihe County." Seeing this, Gevalisky couldn't help but smile bitterly, when did the merchants of the Tsarist Empire need the protection of the Qing Dynasty, but when he thought of his dozen factories in Harbin, he didn't have the heart to laugh at the shopkeeper in the village.

An hour ago, in this study, the shopkeeper who usually nodded and bowed when he met actually had a businesslike attitude, handed himself a paper bag, and asked himself if he wanted to keep this family fortune from being robbed by the Japanese? As an industrialist, he understood that the nobles could be drunk and dreamed of death, and that the bankers could take it easy, because their property was all tickets, gold and silver that could be carried away in a wagon, but most of their wealth had been turned into factories and machines that could not be moved. It's not that he didn't want to take refuge with the Japanese, but those monkeys have been expelled from the official institutions in Harbin, and the remaining few ronins have no evidence to prove their power, and they actually want three-quarters of his property. In fact, this time the shopkeeper of the Shandong Chamber of Commerce also gave another plan, that is, after helping them to buy a few wagons of cotton yarn, he sold all the factories to them at a discount, of course, the price is also low and scary, but compared to the yellow monkeys, it is already fair.

After his third cup of coffee, Gwarisky made an important decision to come up with a compromise. The shopkeeper who was invited into the study listened quietly to what Gwarissky had to say. It turned out that this guy planned to sell the furniture factory, the pine resin oil factory, and the wood distillery to the Shandong Chamber of Commerce, and kept the paper mill, plywood factory, and flour mill for himself, and as for helping to order cotton yarn, he agreed unconditionally as an additive. The shopkeeper smiled, thinking in his heart that it seemed more cost-effective to accept this plan by himself than Boss Miao's explanation. Finally, after the two of them exchanged words and swords, they high-fived and struck. As for the cotton yarn of the dozen wagons, it was naturally hung up from Changchun as Gewarisky's supplies and sent back to Harbin as soon as possible, for which several leaders of the station received the benefit of 500 gold rubles, and a few people were happy to make another windfall, of course, whether they had the life to spend money is another matter.

"This is Harbin?" An officer, accompanied by several servicemen, walked up to the watchtower of the warehouse and looked at the city at night. When the unloading workers opened the wagons in the warehouse and prepared to unload the trucks, they were startled by the situation in the carriages, and each carriage was crowded with soldiers in iron-gray coats, and the guys in their hands were bright, and before the workers could reflect, these soldiers jumped off the platform and quickly occupied the entire warehouse. When the workers saw the owner with braids, they understood that it was the army of the Great Qing Dynasty, although the official army was not necessarily much stronger than the bandits, but it was better than the Russian Maozi who muttered and did not speak human words.

Then another train drove in, and when the door was opened, there was also a group of soldiers in iron gray uniforms, armed with heavy machine guns and several disassembled Type 01 infantry guns. The line quickly began in the brightly lit warehouse, and after tidying up, a colonel officer reported to the bald officer without a hat.

"Report to the town, I should have reached 3,113 people, but it was 3,111 people, and two people did not participate in this operation due to illness, please instruct."

"Take a break." All the soldiers in the warehouse moved with a bang, and all of them changed to a standing position with their feet crossed. Such a uniform movement made several stevedores who watched the excitement amazed.

"Now the departments are tidying up and eating. Half an hour later, at 7:15, the ministries began to act according to the plan! ”

"Yes, sir." All the soldiers began to rest and eat under the guidance of the gendarmes in white armbands, the artillery engineers began to assemble artillery and other equipment, and grenades were quickly distributed to the soldiers.

Officers above the team level gathered in the shed, faced with a huge map of Harbin, and began to repeat their tasks one by one, while the staff officers were busy checking the assignment of tasks. And this bareheaded officer sat in front of the map, but his mind remembered the scene when Wu Chenxuan and Wu Marshal personally delivered the task to himself a few days ago.

"Ziyu, the key to this battle is not in Fengtian, nor in Changchun, but here, yes, Harbin. Lao Maozi has occupied the Northeast for nearly five years, and more than half of the looted people are concentrated in this city called Oriental Petersburg by Lao Maozi. When the time comes, the Japanese will definitely not let go of these wealth, and when the time comes, the two hungry wolves of Japan and Russia will never return the wealth of the Chinese to us, so I released four marks to hit Changchun and Jilin, just to cover your actions. I will arrange for you to arrive safely in Harbin City, and then it will depend on you to hit them by surprise, this battle is like a clock and gear, interlocking, and no mistakes will be allowed, your 3,000 troops are blooming everywhere in the city, and I personally led the third standard of Houzhen to Suihua to block the rout of the Russian army, and strive for a war in Dinghei Province. As for these wealth, it is natural that people from the Sentimental Department will come forward to deal with it, and after you occupy Harbin, on the one hand, you must maintain law and order, and on the other hand, you must also be prepared to set up a defensive line in the direction of Shuangchengzi to prevent the Japanese army from entering Harbin until our army arrives. Thinking of his task, Wu Ziyu couldn't help but breathe a sigh of turbidity, Wu Dashuai really looked up to his own family, but he didn't expect to give himself such a highlight as soon as he went into battle, even the four standards of Xiao Mingfeng and Lan Tianwei have become their own supporting roles, and it is not good for the protagonist of this big drama not to sing well.

Time ticked by, and soon the scheduled time arrived. Wu Ziyu looked at the officers and soldiers who were eager to try under the watchtower, and waved his hand fiercely, several gates in the warehouse area opened at the same time, and the iron gray of the tide poured into the streets of the ice city shrouded in night, and soon there were sporadic gunshots across the night sky. The chief of staff next to him breathed a sigh of relief, and at this time the artillery reported receiving a call from the infantry (the telephone network in Harbin established by Lao Maozi facilitated the coordination of infantry and artillery of the new army of Wuyi), and applied for artillery support. The staff officer of the artillery battalion quickly reported the correct angle of fire, and twelve infantry guns opened fire, this time just right, and the shells were neither far nor near, and all fell on the square in front of the governor's palace.

"Sir!" The communication soldier ran over with the telephone line: "The observation post of the first battalion reported that the outer defense line of Lao Maozi's Governor's Mansion had been knocked out in one fell swoop, and in addition, Major Liu Chengjun, the commander of the first battalion, said that if you originally planned to seize the Governor's Mansion completely, it is best to suspend the shelling, because the Russian Governor's Mansion is busy and seems to be about to surrender to our army."

Wu Ziyu laughed, Liu Chengjun is really scheming, in fact, the Governor's Mansion is an undefended location at all, and those few sentries are not enough for him to fight, the reason why he applied for artillery bombardment is actually to share the credit to the artillery battalion of his fellow villagers, and on the other hand, he also hopes to deter the defenders of the Russian Governor's Palace, so that they can weigh the possibility of defending against danger and surrender without a fight.

Chief of Staff Gu Dajun also thought about it for a while, and suddenly it suddenly dawned on Lao Maozi's Far Eastern Military Region Commander Kuropatkin may be inside, Lao Maozi's soldiers are not afraid of death, but the commanders are all from noble backgrounds, and their lives are expensive, and the surrender of the generals in a desperate situation is the right way. In addition, Lao Maozi has no sense of confidentiality, which means that all kinds of materials in the governor's palace have not been incinerated at all. This includes the financial, land, population, and other information of the entire three eastern provinces, and if it is seized, it can indeed save a lot of trouble...... For example, it is possible to quickly estimate the private property and hiding place of the Russian nobles, etc., and it would be a great deal to take the Governor's Palace completely.

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