Chapter 851: I Die Here!!
Eastern Siberia, Yakutsk.
The Yellow Dragon Flag, which symbolizes my big green fruit, is still flying in the sky over Yakutsk, the time has entered June, the short summer in Siberia is coming to an end, and after being besieged for two or three months, the Russian-Qing coalition army defended Yakutsk with its own blood.
It is still the territory of the Russians and the remnants of the Clear.
It's just that twenty or thirty artillery pieces of different ages in Yakutsk are completely finished.
There are not many cannons pulled by the Wehrmacht, less than forty to be exact, but they have a pair of 'clairvoyance', and all of them are new guns with superior performance, not as good as the artillery of Yakutsk, twenty or thirty guns, which looks not less than the number of the enemy, but the casting age of the cannons can span more than 100 years.
The cold winds blowing from the Arctic Ocean make the temperature in Yakutsk seem a little cold, like the late autumn season in late August and early September inland.
The north wind often whipped up the dust that swept through the sky, and wrapped it in a yellow dragon that wrought, rustling through the tattered castle.
When the city artillery of Yakutsk was destroyed little by little by his counterparts outside, Chen Han's artillery had a new target - Yakutsk.
Days of bombardment have almost completely destroyed the wooden houses in Yakutsk.
As mentioned earlier, houses in Yakutsk are built on wooden pillars, one meter above the ground. So 90 percent of the houses here are made of wood Siberian wooden houses, the ones with very thick walls and roofs.
And now, almost all the people of Yakutsk live in the open air. It's okay in the summer, but when the cold winter comes, it's a big trouble.
The sky gradually became gloomy, dark clouds piled up from the northern sky layer by layer, and the sky seemed to have been splashed with basins of jet-black water, and the whole feeling was extremely depressing.
Or to the guards of this last fortress, which has been surrounded by 30,000 or 40,000 Wehrmacht troops for more than two months, it feels oppressive to look at everything.
There are more than 30,000 soldiers and civilians in Yakutsk, of which less than 10,000 are remnants of the defeated army, and the remaining more than 20,000 are Russians and remnants of the Qing banner. As for the other Russians and the children of the Eight Banners, if they were collected by the Wehrmacht, they all went to labor camps.
This has become a term for the concentration of 'criminals', and the establishment has expanded rapidly, and once again entered the eyes of the Chinese people.
You must know that most of the labor reformers who were sentenced in the anti-Qing war have been released after completing their sentences in the current year.
The ordinary flag man has only been in service for ten years, and it has long since ended. Of the Eight Banners who were still in custody, only those who were in the rank of Rank or above in those years, or those who were released as officials of the fifth rank or above, all of whom had to serve for 20 years.
However, any interest group in this world is in the form of a 'pagoda', and the more you go to the top, the fewer people there are.
Although there are many officials in the Eight Banners, compared to the vast number of bannermen, they still belong to the minority. Therefore, it has been fifteen years since Chengtiandu, and there are really not many Eight Banners in the labor camp, and the green camp has been glorious even earlier.
But now this batch of remnants of the Qing Dynasty will all be sentenced to 20 years.
Alessandro walked into the bunker where Yonghui was located, wrapped in a woolen coat, because of the constant shells being fired into the city, the only remaining buildings in Yakutsk were mostly used as warehouses, and there were few houses that could live in them, and no one felt at ease. The Russian-Qing coalition army built a bunker in the city of Yakutsk as a place of shelter and refuge for each other.
"Your Majesty, here's your chance! A widespread cooling is coming soon! As he spoke, Alessandro wrinkled his nose slightly, the smell of mint in this bunker was a bit strong and excessive, but it couldn't be helped, a big problem in the bunker was hygiene, and the smell of sweat and feces and urine from the human body was too bad.
But Yonghui, the former Emperor of Jiaqing of the Qing Dynasty, has been nesting in this safe bunker for at least a month! Eating and drinking Lazar is naturally all here, and no matter how careful and dedicated the people who serve him, they can't stop the bad smell.
And everyone knows that this big green fruit is about to end, and the people below are getting more and more lazy, so some people around Yonghui still respectfully treat him as the emperor. Even Yonghui himself no longer regards himself as an emperor, he is a king of the country and the seed.
Hearing the words 'the opportunity has come', Yonghui's face, illuminated by the faint candlelight, appeared in front of Alessandro's eyes. He finally looked up.
"Major, I will not go to political asylum, I will not go to England, I will not go to St. Petersburg,...... That's where I die!! ”
Yonghui's face is very pale, and when he speaks, he can't give people the fierceness of being generous to the death and martyrdom, but like Siberia in winter, which makes people cold to the bone. But this also just shows that Yonghui's will to die has been decided!
Emperor Chongzhen hanged himself that year, and only one Wang Chengen was left by his side, who was still loyal. He loves Xinjueluo Yonghui and has also become a king who has destroyed the country and the clan, but he is more fortunate than Emperor Chongzhen, and he still has so many important ministers by his side.
Delentai is dead, and Ho Lin may or may not be dead, but he still has Elek Dengbao by his side.
There are also hundreds of brave people who are willing to die for the Qing Dynasty!
And as the emperor of Da Qingguo, Yonghui has long put his life and death out of the way. At the beginning, Zhu Ming had a martyr, but now there is no martyr emperor in the Qing Dynasty?
Alessandro, the former lieutenant of Baron Falarev, the former governor of the Governorate of the Governorate of the Amur River, and now the liaison officer between Russia and Qing, such a small role that is not big or very important, but at the moment a big business is brewing in his heart. If you can lure the Tatars out of the city, how can there be a flurry of banknotes falling on you.
God can prove his innocence, he did not surrender to the Chinese, let alone harm the Russians, he only harmed the Tatars. If he could take a part of the Tatar army out of the city of Yakutsk, he would win a new freedom and a big prize. It all started when a letter suddenly appeared under his bedroom pillow.
Seriously, he couldn't have imagined that the Chinese spies would appear so close to him, and they could unknowingly put a letter under their pillows, so they could cut off their heads while they were sleeping peacefully at night?
Alessandro's first reaction was to report above, and the report was that there were Chinese spies in Yakutsk now.
But the only remaining reason made him pause, and after two days of repeated thinking, Alexandro, who was trembling all over, finally contacted the Chinese, and after some bargaining, a deal about Alexandro's personal treatment was reached.
This is not to say that Alessandro is a villain, a coward + traitor, but the situation forces him to find a way, but the huge contrast in his heart and status makes him irrepressibly angry.
He had previously been an aide-de-camp to His Excellency the Governor, but since the murder of Baron Falareyev, his position has plummeted. The new Lord Lepnin could not have used him as his lieutenant, for he already had an adjutant by his side.
So Alessandro's status has declined dramatically, and his psychology can hardly bear this huge gap, because of the change in his personal environment and social status, and a huge resentment has arisen in his heart.
"No, Your Majesty. You don't need to go to the UK, and you don't need to go to St. Petersburg! What you need more now is freedom to get out of the mortal land of Yakutsk. ”
"I think, Your Majesty, you just want to sacrifice, and you are more willing to sacrifice on the battlefield, causing greater trouble and more losses to the Chinese."
I have to say that Alessandro knows Yonghui's mind very well, although Yonghui has made up his mind to die, he really doesn't want to learn from Chongzhen to hang/wipe his neck and die. As Alessandro said, he wanted to die on the battlefield.
This may be a wave of anger supporting him, Yonghui, who hates Chen Han to the core, wants to bite Chen Han even if he bites. Therefore, he really doesn't want to die in vain.
Alessandro squeezed out some friendly smiles and reached out to pat Yonghui on the shoulder: "Really, I don't lie to you. Tomorrow night is the best chance to break through from Yakutsk! ”
"Judging by my experience of living in Siberia for many years, tomorrow night there will be a heavy fog in Yakutsk. Some Russian troops wanted to take advantage of the opportunity to break through, but they were vetoed by Duke Hylancha and Agalitsov. They thought that even if they could break through in the fog, without the reserves here, they would definitely end up in annihilation. Then it would be better to hold on to Yakutsk. ”
Alessandro smiled, "But I think that Your Majesty the Emperor would rather die outside than hold out in Yakutsk until winter, and then be frozen to death in the ice and snow of winter." ”
Alessandro had an embarrassed smile on his face, he could not only get a reward from Chen Han for this business, but also a lot of money from Yonghui's side. This is the all-you-can-eat red fruit.
The Wehrmacht may know, but Yonghui definitely doesn't.
At this moment, Yonghui's pale face flushed with excitement, and Alessandro's words spoke to his psychology. But Yonghui wouldn't believe Alessandro so easily, he pursed his lips and said in a tone of disbelief: "Breakthrough? Mr. Major, if I am not mistaken, there are at least 30,000 Chen Wei's army outside the city. They surrounded Yakutsk in their entirety, and you still say a breakthrough? "The trenches dug by Chen Yi outside, as well as the positions and fences arranged, are not decorations.
Yonghui didn't care about what Hailancha said, anyway, after arriving in Yakutsk, he completely lost his command over the army, and the only thing he could greet was the three or four hundred guards left around him, and the leader of the guard was none other than Erle Dengbao.
In the past two or three months of rocket-to-shell and artillery bombardment battles in the siege, Yakutsk has been at an absolute disadvantage, and there are not many rockets left here, and they have been used up early. Most of the artillery forts were also open-air and semi-enclosed, and there were no enclosed new artillery forts at all. The Russians were not so powerful and fortified the city of Yakutsk, which had fallen into the hinterland.
What's more, the geography here is also difficult to fortify.
So, during the siege, after the initial period of time, the losses of the defenders were even greater than those of the attacking side, and if you count the inhabitants of the city, four or five thousand people have already died from diseases and from the falling shells and explosions. Now morale is low in Yakutsk, and everyone is in despair. Because everyone knows that Yakutsk cannot hold out, and this winter will be the end of these people.
It's not a good time to die!
Every moment, countless thoughts arise in the bottom of my heart, and I don't even know what I see, which will cause some feelings.
Alessandro was also lifeless before, but now that he has settled, his face is ruddy, his expression is calm, and he is very fearless: "Your Majesty, the fog tomorrow night will be our only chance." In my many years of experience in Siberia, there will be a heavy fog at a maximum of one or two o'clock this evening, and it will not be possible to disperse until noon. "Such fog is common in Yakutsk at this time.
The end of June and the beginning of July is the time when Yakutsk moves from summer to winter, what? You say autumn? Is there autumn in Yakutsk? This is the ice city of Russia.
Out of summer, it's winter. You don't have to wait until August for heavy snowfall, and if you do it earlier, it's cold in mid-July.
Yonghui was not surprised, he had not been in Eastern Siberia for a day or two, and he knew that this place could not be used as 'common sense'.
Tang Shili said that Hu Tian will snow in August, which is really correct.
"It's the coldest place in the world. Nowadays, it is natural to experience dense fog during this season. Although this will not reduce the number of Chinese and will not make their vigilance worse, this is definitely the best chance for His Majesty to leave Yakutsk. ”
Yakutsk is close to the Lena River, but the Chinese have no defense on the west bank of the Lena River, as long as they can rush to the other side of the river, Yonghui has hope of escaping.
"Haha, good, good. Even if you die in the Lena River, it's better than staying here and being a rat. A flame ignited in Yonghui's eyes.
Alessandro jumped for joy, knowing that the business was done. He also had a Buryat battalion under his command, with only 100 guns and about 200 men, all of whom were Buryat Mongols who had chosen Russia.
Now life is not ordinary hardship.
The fighting spirit was extremely low, because they all knew that their own families had probably fallen into the hands of the Han Chinese long ago. Their women may well have been crushed by their compatriots who followed the Chinese, and their cattle, sheep, carts and horses all belonged to their former compatriots.
However, these Buryat Mongols did not feel angry because of this, and it inspired them to fight to the end. It's that everyone has completely softened, softened. It's like a boneless people, a real rabble.
Alessandro wanted to use this battalion to win the trust of Yonghui, and in his words, he turned the surrender of this battalion to the Chinese into an active attack, so that Yonghui in the other direction could break through smoothly.
He didn't think there was anything wrong with sending those more than 200 people as prisoners, and it would earn him more than 2,000 more rewards. A person has ten Chinese dollars, and there are special bonuses for special status, such as Yonghui in front of him, whether he lives or dies, he can be worth 100,000 Chinese yuan. That's more than £2,000. Alessandro's most precious thing is Yonghui, and he will definitely trick him out of the city.
"Then we're done. Tomorrow night, action. I don't want to die here. ”
Tomorrow it was Alexandro's turn to take men to a position somewhere in the northwestern corner of Yakutsk, and this was a good errand that he had only received by stuffing silver. "Your Majesty, you have to pack up and get ready to go! But it must not attract the suspicion and attention of others. ”
If Hylanza and Agalitsov had known of his intentions, Alessandro would have died.