Chapter 353: Severe Cold and Hunger Are Deadly

Wang Santai's base is on the side of the Qiuer River, which was called Qiuyuan Town in later generations, and is actually a mountain village inhabited by Mongolians. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. biquge。 infoThe river valley is wide and the water and grass are abundant. Last year, his troops entered here, and when they saw that it was one hundred and fifty miles away from the Dazhan Bobo Tu Railway Station on the Binzhou Line, and the enemy had never come at all, they chose this place as a base.

Last year, Wang Fa's people were successful in cultivating wheat and vegetables, and after they came, they took over here, stationed and trained, and there were no devils to disturb them, and they were very safe.

Wang Santai wanted to attack, but he felt that it was more difficult. Although the various strongholds on the west side of the Great Khing'an Mountains are very close to the train line, there are very few people left inside, some only two or three people, and the most is only a few dozen people, and it is not feasible to attack the devils on a large scale. However, it is still feasible to send out all the strongholders to conduct reconnaissance.

If a large force hidden on the eastern slope of the Great Khing'an Mountains is dispatched to attack, it will also face a supply problem. Weather is the enemy of all military operations. An important reason for the withdrawal last autumn was the problem of supplies.

Wang Santai sent a telegram to Xiaolu, saying his thoughts, suggesting that it be delayed a little longer, so that the devils would fend for themselves, and at the same time prepare to carry a heavy burden and arrange a team in the west of the Daxing'an Mountains.

March 16, 1940, Yichun.

After receiving the telegram, Xiaolu replied: At present, the enemy is rushing to repair the railway, the Mongolian column is sabotaging the railway, the Mongolian column is under great pressure, you can destroy the traffic, as long as the rescue train arrives in Hailar one day late, you can kill more devils and consume more of their national strength.

The Great Khing'an Mountains can block the Japanese army, and it is also a huge obstacle for his own troops, and Wang Santai's advice is calm.

Xiao Lu knew that even if he overcame the difficulties and concentrated his forces to attack the enemy in Hailar, the small number of people who still had combat strength would stubbornly defend the fortress, which would bring a lot of trouble to himself. If left unattended, they may well starve to death themselves.

Drag. The goal was to allow the Japanese west of the Great Khing'an Mountains to enter Hailar half a month later.

Xiaolu did not realize how much of an impact his sabotage of the railroad had on the Japanese army, in addition to starving more than half of the Japanese troops in Hailar and other places, he also taught the Japanese a tactic of war. Later, the Japanese army applied this method to the Soviets as it was.

Since the beginning of March, the weather has gradually become less cold, and the Kwantung Army has intensified its efforts to open up the railway, and the progress has been much faster.

This time, the Japanese army mobilized engineering units throughout the Northeast and workers in Korea. The Manchurian Railway mobilized a winter's railway supplies and transported them in large quantities. The Japanese army used explosives to reopen the roadbed and proceeded very quickly.

Knowing this, Yichun commanded the Mongolian column to sneak attack dozens of times, not only blowing up the newly built railway, but also killing many people. The workers from North Korea began to get scared.

In order to build the road, the Japanese army had to send troops to crusade, and the two sides began a tug-of-war, and the Mongolian column and the Japanese army suffered mutual damage, and both sides suffered great attrition. On several occasions, the Japanese army was ambushed by the small detachment that blasted the railway, and the whole team was destroyed.

At this time, the number of Japanese casualties in Hailar increased dramatically, and according to the information reported by several reconnaissance detachments, there were still several thousand Japanese casualties.

Xiaolu originally wanted to design a bureau so that the severe cold would freeze the enemy to death in the west of the Great Khing'an Mountains, just as the cold in Siberia in the winter of 1919 froze to death the large army of 1.25 million Kolchak and the people accompanying them. It's a pity that the Japanese army has cities, planes, and rear, and the effect is not so great. It's good enough to get to this point.

At the beginning, Kolchak led the remnants of the Tsar to leave Omsk and march eastward through Siberia in the bitter cold. Kolchak's army was more than 500,000 men, accompanied by 750,000 exiles who opposed the Bolsheviks and cherished the Tsar, of whom 270,000 were bishops, monks and nuns. In addition, there are more than 200,000 noble ladies and their children. In fact, more than 1.2 million of them are among the vast fugitives. Because of the bitter cold, 2,000 kilometers away on Lake Baikal, only 250,000 people remained.

The tsar's six hundred tons of gold were also in their hands, and after the people froze to death, the gold was gone.

There are many stories about this batch of gold.

In 1914, World War I broke out, and the Russian army was defeated one after another. In 1915, German troops approached the capital, Petrograd. The tsar ordered the transfer of the country's gold reserves to the rear. Soon, about 600 tons of gold bars and coins were transported to Kazan.

In 1918, the Soviet Union was founded, and Soviet Russia was already formed.

In March, Russia withdrew from World War I by signing the Brest Peace Treaty with Germany. Britain, France, the United States, Japan, and other Allied countries were very frightened by Russia's situation and sent troops to intervene in the Soviet Union. Gold is in the spotlight.

In August 1918, Petrov, a White Bandit officer, led an army to raid Kazan and seize gold. The Red Army attacked, Petrov gave the gold to Kolchak. Kolchak transferred the gold to his old nest of Omsk, which at the time was recorded as a total of 583 tons.

At the end of 1919, the Red Army found only a few tons of gold in the city of Omsk.

There is a version that the Japanese got this batch of gold.

Kolchak and Petrov fled to Irkutsk by train, which also contained 63 boxes of gold. 30 of the boxes of gold were handed over to the Cossacks, and the remaining 33 boxes of gold were taken by him to Chita. In early 1920, a desperate Petrov drove the train to Manchuria in northeastern China.

The gold fell into the hands of the Japanese army. Later, the Cossacks, who had been given 30 chests of gold, were also exterminated by the Japanese army.

Until now, there are still many people who are tracking, the Soviet government is one, and there are many people in the private sector. There is a legend that all the gold fell into Lake Baikal, and there is a legend that the gold was taken by the Japanese. After the war, the Soviet Union, and even later Russia, pursued gold with Japan, but unfortunately there was no evidence.

Whether that legend is true or not, the Japanese need to be defeated, the Soviets need to be defeated before the investigation can begin. If you have this money, you will have enough money to get to Tokyo.

At that time, Kolchak was supported by the United States and Britain, while Semenov, another group, was supported by Japan. When Kolchak fled eastward, he also had the idea of enlisting the support of Japan.

During his years of dealing with the Soviet Union, he spent a lot of time inquiring about the whereabouts of this gold, and he once found two Japanese veterans in the pioneer regiment who had participated in the battle against the Red Army in Russia. In the name of making them remember history, Xiaolu let them recall all what they saw and heard, one thing is certain, Semenov and his gang will definitely not get the gold, Kolchak and his gang may have kept some of it, and the Japanese may have got some of it.

The gold of Kolchak and his gang was in the territory of the Soviet Union and could not be traced, and the Japanese might have moved back to Japan.

Koji was not very satisfied with the results, in fact, the information he received later proved that Hailar had become a huge burden to the Kwantung Army throughout the winter.

In order to save the Japanese army in Hailar, the Kwantung Army paid huge financial resources, fuel, food, clothing, aircraft, and a large amount of supplies were airlifted from Qiqihar to Hailar, and the Kwantung Army paid a huge price.

In order to make up for the financial deficit, the Kwantung Army began to increase taxes, and the whole of Manchuria suffered, especially the merchants, a large number of merchants were arrested on trumped-up charges, and their family property was confiscated. This last resort of the Kwantung Army played a huge role in its loss of popular support and accelerated the victory of the Democratic Alliance.

However, all this is put aside, and the most important thing to enter at present is another thing, Zhou Gong has returned from the Soviet Union. At the request of Xiaolu, they took a train to Yichun, and the traffic from Yichun to Yan'an was solved by Yichun.