In later Chinese literature or street rumors, the Russians were jokingly referred to as a fighting people, but in Shanghai at the beginning of the 20th century, the White Russian refugees who lived here were poor people who could be trampled on and humiliated by any force. Of course, the poor people must also have their hate, these Russians dare to do almost anything in order to make money, not only involved in theft, drug trafficking, fraud, robbery and other traditional crimes, but also opened underground casinos and brothels in the concession, some White Russian aristocrats who colluded with the top of the military and police circles, and even engaged in smuggling and arms trading. With a Caucasian face, the Russian refugees soon became one of the more unusual cancers in Shanghai.

The down-and-out imperial Russian nobles did not hesitate to sell the last ancestral treasure in order to maintain a decent life, but when the money ran out, these once heavenly nobles fell faster than meteors. In particular, many of those noble women have become courtesans in Shanghai, shuttling between many politicians and businessmen day and night, and relying on selling their hues to maintain their previous extravagant lives.

Luckily for Makarenko's family, Colonel Normanrov had amassed enough wealth to continue their leisurely life as a superior person in the materialistic place of Shanghai.

Normanrov relied on "friends" to introduce him, and of course the introduction fee was indispensable, and in Donghuali, near Maijiayuan, on Sima Road (Fuzhou Road) in the public concession, he bought a single-family Shikumen house with 20 taels of gold.

At that time, this area was the place with the strongest cultural atmosphere in Shanghai, from the alley out along Shandong Road to the north, it was the "Declaration", "New Declaration", "Current Affairs News", "East Asia News" and other media newspapers, out of Fuzhou Road Lane Tangkou to the east to the intersection of Henan Road and then turn south, is the famous China Commercial Press, and the diagonal opposite of the intersection of Henan Road, is the general patrol room of the Ministry of Industry Bureau, and the security aspect is absolutely safe.

Twenty taels of gold was actually a bit too high according to the market price of Shanghai Beach at that time, but the old colonel had real money in his pocket, and he didn't care about this little money at all.

However, Colonel Normanrov is already old after all, and his previous defeat and exile have seriously hit his self-confidence, and this once fierce Russian soldier has completely lost the courage and motivation to continue to struggle at this moment. But because of this, he did not fall into the trap of those professional fraud gangs like his wealthy compatriots, and at that time, in Shanghai, I don't know how many Russian nobles with a prominent net worth used their entire wealth to participate in speculation and trading, and finally were deceived into sleeping on the streets, and their wives, sons and daughters became prostitutes and thieves.

Colonel Normanrov was not interested in any commercial or financial investment, and he would often give some money to help these disgraced White Russian friends, and after a while, the colonel established a good reputation among the White Russian immigrants in Shanghai. So when the Ministry of Industry was preparing to recruit soldiers from among the Belarusian immigrants, it immediately took a fancy to Normanrov's military background and influence.

Representatives of the Ministry of Industry visited the village, hoping that the colonel would return to the mountain and help the Ministry of Industry to recruit and form this Russian army. After careful consideration, Colonel Normanrov was forced to live on the other side's territory, and it was necessary to have a little tail between them, so he reluctantly agreed to the request of the Ministry of Works, but he was unwilling to serve as the commander of this unit, but recommended Cossack Lieutenant General Grebov to be the first commander, and he was willing to participate in the formation of this team as a military adviser.

At that time, the most combative among the Belarusian refugees belonged to the group of Cossacks, these people had a murderous style in the civil war, and owed a lot of blood debts to the Red soldiers and civilians, so unless the Soviet government was overthrown, these people may not be able to return to their homeland Ukraine for the rest of their lives.

The Ministry of Industry recruited the first 300 soldiers from the White Russian community, all Cossack soldiers who had fled with the fleet from the Far East, all of whom had received strict military training and possessed considerable individual combat ability, and in this Far Eastern giant city, the British taught them how to be a qualified soldier.

Forced to leave their homeland and come to a foreign country with very different linguistic habits, the Cossacks abandoned their tradition of free indulgence and began to bow their heads and learn how to obey. The Russians have always been the most combative and obedient of the Merchant Corps, and they never hesitate to carry out orders, even if their superiors tell them to shoot at their own countrymen, they will never frown when they pull the trigger.

Because of this high degree of obedience, they also owe a lot of blood debts to the Chinese, the most recent was two years ago, when the Russian team was responsible for guarding the famous national army "Lone Army Camp", because the concession authorities were worried that the daily flag-raising ceremony of these national soldiers would give the Japanese army an excuse to enter the public concession, so they ordered the Russian team to make every effort to stop the flag raising activities of the Lone Army Camp, and the Lone Army Camp of course would not retreat easily, resulting in a fierce conflict between the two sides, resulting in 41 Chinese soldiers injured, Tragically, four people were killed in the clashes.

Although the incident eventually caused an uproar, the resolute attitude shown by the Russian team in the incident only increased the appreciation and trust of the concession authorities.

After graduating from high school, Makarenko joined the Russian team of the International Chamber of Commerce through the connections of Normanrov the Elder. Growing up in the barracks, coupled with the usual teaching of the elder Normanrov, he was very familiar with the internal rules and affairs of the army, and soon established his own authority in the company.

The Slavs are a nation that worships authority exactly, and the army is even more hierarchical, and the officers are like parents, controlling all the activities of the soldiers, even the Soviet Russian Red Army at this time still retains such traditions of the imperial Russian era (historically, these situations were not broken until the middle and late stages of World War II, mainly because the older batch of officers were lost in the war, and many of the commanders promoted in the line of fire were born from junior officers or even soldiers, and they did not understand these so-called "traditions" at all). ）。

A year after enlisting in the army, Makarenko became a second lieutenant platoon commander and began his long and legendary military career.

"After the Jing'an Temple, I'll check each other's equipment one last time." Makarenko shouted.

"Yes, Mr. Ensign." The soldiers responded in unison, and then began to bow their heads and organize the equipment and weapons they had brought with them.

After years of painstaking management, the International Merchant Group at this time has been very close to the regular army, especially this group of standing Russian troops, from the moment of establishment, has never stopped their military training, although two years ago when the army was expanded to accept a group of new blood, but the backbone of the White Russian veterans are still there, Makarenko asked himself that as long as the preparation is sufficient, the Russian company will not lose to the army of any Asian country, even those strong Japanese troops.

Imperial Russian immigrants like him had quite the same opinion about the Japanese, first of all, as loyal subjects of His Majesty the Russian Tsar, who should have been full of hatred for the Japanese Empire, and it was these shameless dwarf monkeys who took away the Korean Peninsula and the three eastern provinces from the mouth of the empire (Tsarist Russia really thought so at that time, so the logic of the robbers is incomprehensible to normal people. ）。

Having experienced the Russian Civil War, they had fought side by side with the Japanese intervention forces against the army of the Red Regime, and it seemed that the two sides should be allies, but none of the Russians would look at it like this, and the White Russian military officers knew very well in their hearts the intentions of these Japanese, and these dwarves simply wanted to take advantage of the chaos and rob, because they would do the same in other words. The experience of Russian refugees at the port of Wonsan in North Korea has completely exposed the hypocrisy of the Japanese government.

After arriving in Shanghai after a lot of hardship, the Belarusian refugees were not free from their misery, and the people who fell into the well were definitely Japanese immigrants and merchants. It should be said that these White Russians were the most hated group of Japanese immigrants in Shanghai, second only to the group of Koreans in exile in Shanghai.

"I didn't expect the morale of these White Russian soldiers to be quite high?" Fox. Feng. Ensign Help turned to the radio operator.

"Sir, the black shark is calling, the fish is already on its way." The radio operator, apparently not hearing the captain's teasing, reported loudly to the commander with his hand over the radio headset on his head.

"Understood, you can pass on the order." Help turned from the machine-gun tower of the command vehicle and looked at the armored convoy behind him with a smug face.

PS: I twisted my foot when I went down the stairs and did emergency treatment, sorry for the late update today.

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