"This is a joint operation in the concession, everyone is in good spirits, don't let that stupid French steal the limelight." Second Lieutenant Makarenko, the platoon leader of the second platoon of the Russian Second Company of the International Chamber of Commerce, stood in the body of a Ford eight-wheeled truck and spoke loudly to his men.

Second Lieutenant Makarenko's father, who was an artillery captain in the Tsarist Russian army, was born in a wooden house in a barracks where his mother followed her new husband to the Far East.

In 1917, the storm of the October Revolution swept across Siberia, and many aristocratic officers in the Russian Far Eastern Theater were collectively liquidated by the low-level soldiers of the Russian army who had been oppressed for many years. Makarenko's father was killed in a barracks mutiny, when the captain, along with other Tsarist officers, was thrown into a creek near the garrison with a belt tied by soldiers and drowned.

His mother survived the mutiny, because she was still a little presumptuous, and it is hard to say what happened to this poor woman during this time. Makarenko was only four years old at the time, and he hid under the floor of a wooden house, witnessed the whole tragedy, and in that little heart, he buried hatred for those "revolutionaries" early.

The small armed mutiny was quickly and bloodily suppressed by the troops still loyal to the Tsar, but the tragedy had already been made, and Makarenko's happy moments had been buried with his smile in that cruel and bloody cold winter night.

The brutal Russian Civil War ended with a crushing defeat for the Tsarist army, when Makarenko, along with countless imperial soldiers and civilians unwilling to accept Soviet rule, lived in Vladivostok, the last important town of Tsarist Russia in the Far East. By this time, his mother had remarried a sixty-five-year-old colonel of the Imperial Russian infantry, only because he had promised to raise Makarenko to adulthood.

The old colonel, a widower whose ex-wife did not leave him a son and a half daughter, kept his promise to take good care of Makarenko as his own. At the same time, this infantry colonel surnamed Normanrov also has the title of viscount of the Russian Empire, but in the streets of Vladivostok, where the marquis and counts are gathered, this title is obviously not very good.

However, Colonel Normanrov was a high-ranking officer after all, and he had a premonition of defeat in the civil war, so he used his power to accumulate a large amount of money early. This wealth was enough for him to live the rest of his life with his wife and children, and when the war had completely collapsed, Colonel Normanrov decided to flee the city with his beautiful young wife and adopted son.

At this time, Vladivostok has been surrounded on three sides, and the land passage is completely closed, except for the die-hard diehards of the imperial system who still want to resist stubbornly, most of the people with status and status are trying to find other ways out.

At this time, the remnants of the Imperial Russian Party still controlled a small navy in Vladivostok, which was originally the Pacific Detachment of the Soviet Red Navy, with three old destroyers and about 1,600 naval officers and men, but in the Russian Civil War, it was captured by the Japanese intervention forces and the Tsarist Russian army. Viktorovich. Admiral Stark.

The famous allusion to this admiral, who was discredited by his poor performance in the Russo-Japanese War, is that on the night of February 8, 1904, the Japanese destroyer fleet took advantage of the cover of night to raid Port Arthur, when the admiral was holding a birthday party for his wife on the flagship battleship Petropavlovsk.

In 1922, the admiral was already 76 years old, but fate once again jokingly placed the responsibility for the lives of countless people on the shoulders of this naval commander.

This is a stubborn, old-school admiral, like Admiral Roger Venstevensky, who leads a thrilling expedition with a vast fleet of thirty old warships and civilian ships. In addition to destroyers and minesweepers, the fleet consisted of ordinary passenger and offshore ferries, ocean-going merchant ships and coastal transports, as well as customs smuggling ships, shallow-water gunboats, military communications ships, naval icebreakers, and even a steam-powered yacht.

It was with such a fleet of various types, carrying more than 9,000 "imperial Russian refugees" who had "bought tickets," that Stark fled south from Vladivostok to the port of Wonsan in North Korea in a panic despite the harsh sea conditions in autumn and winter.

At that time, Korea was already a colony of the Japanese Empire, and the Japanese at first refused to accept these "Lu Guo refugees", but soon "forced" by the pressure of the European powers, they agreed to let the old and weak women and children in the fleet go ashore, but they could only live in the designated areas. The Japanese customs set up a decent refugee camp outside the port of Wonsan without a teacher, but because of the poor living conditions, infectious diseases soon began to spread among the population.

Stark did not want to sit still in these wooden row houses, so he resolutely set sail again with fifteen civilian ships and warships that could still sail, carrying more than 3,000 Russian officers and soldiers, noble officials and their families, this time to Shanghai, China, a world-famous adventurer's paradise.

At that time, the Shanghai government and the Ministry of Industry of the Public Concession were confused by the uninvited fleet of Russian refugees, who were not only nobles, merchants, and ordinary civilians, but also many of whom were professional soldiers of Tsarist Russia. As a result, the concession demanded that the Russian fleet stay in the harbor for only forty-eight hours, and then that it must leave Shanghai with all its personnel.

At this time, there were only twelve ships left in the Russian fleet, and three ships, including a destroyer, were unfortunately shipwrecked at sea in a typhoon on the way to Shanghai.

So the Russian admiral made a private deal with the representative of the Beiyang government at that time, and he was willing to hand over part of the Tsarist government treasures carried on the ship as a condition for China to accept these Russian refugees. Eventually, the Chinese agreed to the deal, and all but a handful of Russian naval crews landed the remaining 3,000 people, who were arranged by the government to live in scattered areas in China, and became a new sight in Shanghai, that is, the White Russian refugees from Shanghai who left a unique mark on the city's history. (The author remembers that when he was a child, there were still many descendants of the White Russian refugees in Shanghai, with white skin, high nose and deep eyes, but they spoke standard Shanghai gossip.) ）

In 1927, when the Northern Expeditionary Army approached Shanghai, the public concession was in chaos and panic, and the Ministry of Industry was finally determined to establish a standing armed force to protect the safety of the expatriates in the concession at all times. Although the International Merchant Group had been established at that time, as mentioned above, the members of it were purely expatriates from various countries, and they would only assemble when something happened, and they only received three weeks of military training in a year, so they should not expect this kind of force to be able to stop the attack of the Northern Expeditionary Army.

The situation at that time forced the Ministry of Industry to find a group of soldiers with regular military training in the shortest possible time, and as a result, the top management of the Ministry of Industry and the Bureau set their sights on the Russian refugees.

At that time, most of these refugees, except for some wealthy nobles and wealthy merchants, had exhausted their savings, and many of them lacked survival skills and could only mingle at the bottom of society, relying on physical strength and hue to make a living.

Many of these people were once regular soldiers of the Tsarist Russian Empire, and they only need a short period of adaptive training, and they will soon be able to recover a certain amount of combat effectiveness.

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