Chapter 445: Sabotage of the Trans-Siberian Railway
Soon, the Soviet Far East agreed to Yichun's request for a floating price, and directly asked Constanta to go back once, and then lead the price observer back to Yichun. Pen "Fun" Pavilion www.biquge.info
Constanta was relieved. Now, having completed his mission, he immediately left Yichun in a car and crossed the Amur River back to the Soviet Union.
Yi Chun was very polite to him and his attaché, and each of them presented a box of newly produced liquor, and privately presented some good things to the relevant officials of the Far East.
This liquor is very mellow, not as spicy as vodka, but it is also very strong, and has recently been sold to the Far East, which is very popular, and a large amount of liquor has been exchanged for a large amount of raw material for machine steel ore.
Konstanza and others took two cars and soon arrived on the Amur River. The car crossed the river and entered the territory of the Soviet Union. It didn't take long to walk and soon arrived at the train station. This was the calculated time, as soon as they arrived at the train station, a train arrived, and soon, the train was loaded and unloaded, Konstanza and a few others got on the train, and the train started slowly.
The train was to transport supplies to the guards along the railway station.
Not long after the train traveled along the Amur River, Constanta was in a hurry. He hopes to return to Vladivostok right away, as trains are unsafe and accidents are common. They always felt unsafe in the only carriage with seats on the train.
There were people in the attaché who shared the same fears, and one said: "These nasty counter-revolutionaries are simply everywhere." ”
Another said, "I think we should be safe this time, because it's close to the barracks." ”
Another said: "Perhaps, they have destroyed the railway right now." ”
The first said: "If you are afraid, hold the chair with one hand and hold your gift with the other, so as to save the train from being overturned." ”
The man said, "Makes sense. "Really hold the chair with one hand, hold the gift with the other, the box of liquor.
The train drove for dozens of minutes, and everyone saw that he was still holding the liquor box tightly, and said, "If you have the ability, you can hold it all the time." ”
At this moment, I felt that as soon as the train braked, the carriage was crooked, and immediately after, the carriage overturned.
After a while, the carriage stabilized, everyone greeted each other, and there were no major injuries, but everyone's liquor was lost, only the old man holding the liquor, no one was injured, and the wine was not even broken.
The soldiers escorting the carriage left the carriage and searched around, and after a while, gunfire came from the north side of the railway. After a while, the gunfire stopped. Constanta called the attaché to immediately send a telegram to the command explaining the situation.
Soon, nearby troops arrived. The cause of the accident was also investigated, someone hollowed out the stones under one of the tracks on the railway, and about 30 meters of the railway was damaged, and one of the rails collapsed under heavy pressure, which caused the train to capsize. A pickaxe was also found at the scene.
This is the bend of the railway, so the damage is very serious.
The train's guards found two men on the hillside on the north side of the railway, and while they were in pursuit, the two men skied and ran. Shots were fired, and they were not caught. Later, it was found that there were blood stains on the snow, indicating that the bad guys were injured.
Because the front of the locomotive overturned, the trouble was so great that the railway department could not send people at all. In the end, Constanta sent a telegram to the command again, the command intervened directly, and the locomotive and railway workers were sent to the next station, and after more than ten hours of repairs, the train was finally back on the road, and all the overturned carriages had to be allowed to overturn there, and the remaining half of the carriages were pulled away by the locomotive.
The command asked Konstanza to return to Vladivostok in order to report on the situation along the way, while the command assessed the security situation along the way. Constanta not only reported orally, but also handed over the report he had written during his stay in Yichun, as well as the two pieces of information provided by Yichun.
Yi Chun's intelligence said that the Japanese army, which was very close to the border, had a plan to send a small force to cross the border to harass them, so please take precautions. Another piece of information said that it was common for the Japanese army to rob grain and livestock when they harassed the people near the railroad because of the soaring prices and insufficient supplies in Manchuria.
Two days later, a large number of troops from the Soviet Far East were dispatched and stationed along the railway. Both the village and the station were the destinations of the garrison. Immediately after stationing, the Soviet troops began to patrol along the railway, and a large number of troops took cars and patrolled along the railway.
As soon as there were more patrol troops, there were immediately fewer accidents on the railway, except for the destruction of telephone poles, everything was normal.
On March 26, 1941, Constanta returned to Yichun. This time, it's the same few people, and their task is to conduct price monitoring.
When he arrived in Yichun, Feng Zhongyun saw Constanta and said, "The first batch of ten tons of grain has been prepared, and one day, we can gather twenty tons and we can start shipping." Regarding food, our Commander-in-Chief has an additional condition. ”
Konstanza said: "I knew that Commander-in-Chief Lu would take the opportunity to put forward conditions. ”
Feng Zhongyun said: "Our Commander-in-Chief Lu said, please think about it, through diplomatic channels, ask Japan not to attack our army and the liberated areas. Tell them that our base is under your protection. ”
Konstanza said, "Okay. All I can say is that I can report and don't dare to pack tickets. We don't understand the affairs of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. ”
Feng Zhongyun said: "As our friendly cooperation, you should also help us." The base area is not safe, how can we buy food? ”
Konstanza said: "Where has Commander-in-Chief Lu gone?" Where are you now? Why haven't you come back yet? ”
Feng Zhongyun said: "Some time ago, the commander-in-chief was opening up the Inner Mongolia base area, and we have built several airfields in Inner Mongolia, and in the future, in case of emergency, we can use planes to go to Inner Mongolia." Now, he went to Yi Chunnan's base. ”
In the afternoon of the next day, the convoy transporting the first grain set off and headed north for the Soviet Union.
Later, the collection of grain accelerated, and the first batch of 500 tons of grain was transported to the Soviet Union in a dozen days. The main grain is wheat, with a small amount of rice and corn. Later, Yichun sold them dozens of tons of flour.
The difficulties of the Soviet Far Eastern Army were alleviated at once, and the command burst into cheers. The Soviet side also prepared weapons and equipment very happily, and the two families had clear accounts, weapons, ammunition, gasoline, vehicles, electrical equipment, technical books, and chemical raw materials were quickly transported into Yichun.
I don't know if it was diplomatic pressure from the Soviet side or what, but in early April, the Japanese army's pressure on the various base areas suddenly decreased. Life has gotten better in the various base areas.
However, when the Soviet side asked for the second batch of grain, the Yichun side was very difficult, because all the grain that could be mobilized in the Yichun area was bought, and there was new grain in Daxinganling, but the transportation conditions were not good, the distance was far away, and only half of the road leading to the Soviet Union was built.
Later, Yichun opened up another channel in the mountains on the north side of Luobei to transport grain, but there was less grain in the market, and only two or three tons of grain could be obtained a day, and the price also rose by two percent.
The Soviet Far East did not care about the price, as long as the grain, before the grain arrived, the arms were first transported to Yichun.
Opposite the whirring eastbound train to Vladivostok, there is also an eastbound train. Passenger trains are extremely crowded because of the small number of shifts, and people sit in hard-seat carriages for more than ten days, which is very tormenting. There was a train in the sleeper compartment where there were some Chinese, and their purpose was Moscow.
The train, having overcome harassment along the way, was about to arrive in Moscow.