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The Russians were curious about how Yang Chao would deliver the goods, but what made them even more curious was that Yang Chao asked them to set off a cross flame at the location where they received the munitions, and Yang Chao's munitions would be delivered at about ten in the morning. Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 info

The Russians had their own speculation about this, and the Russian envoy in Beijing thought that Yang Chao must have taken the land route, first sending the goods to Tianjin and then starting from Shanhaiguan, although Japan and Russia were fighting in the northeast, but the battlefields were all east of the Liao River, and the east of the Liao River were all areas controlled by the Qing army, and as a Chinese official of Yang Chao, he could completely pass through these areas.

What are you going to do with the cross flame?

Although it was not very understood, the Russians did it anyway.

"Maozi is Maozi, although the character is not very good, but he has always been stupid and coarse."

Yang Chao couldn't help but sigh as he looked at a cross-shaped flame on the ground that was nearly 100 meters long and wide.

He asked the Russians to burn the cross flame, of course, in order to show himself the way, but in fact, it was just a trick to tell the outside world that he was navigating by this method, so the Russians just burned five or six meters, but the Russians made hundreds of meters.

This is outside the city of Shenyang, 300 meters away is the city wall of Shenyang, and 300 meters away is a farmland.

Aiming at the flame cross, Yang Chao opened the airbrake, and at the same time, a row of wind chokes was also opened under the airship, just like the design on the wings of the airplane, allowing the wind to cut through the inclined thin plates, creating a downward force.

The airship slowly landed towards the flame cross, in fact, the best way to land is to open the air valve to let the air in, but how to exhaust the air after it comes in? Before solving the exhaust problem, Yang Chao can only use this method to land.

When it was fifty meters above the ground, the anchor on the airship slowly fell, and the iron anchor weighing five tons hung down to the ground and began to hook the ground, and the speed of the airship immediately decreased.

But the Russians below are stupid.

They received a message from the minister asking them to burn a cross flame and that someone would bring the munitions here.

But they didn't think that someone had come down from heaven.

"Look at what? Pull me down! ”

Yang Chao roared loudly, he didn't know much Russian, he could barely communicate, and he couldn't care about being embarrassed at this time.

The Russians understood, and dozens of soldiers ran up, grabbed the chains, and pulled them down with all their might.

But the airship did not react, jokingly, what about fifty tons of buoyancy, a dozen soldiers could not pull it.

Of course, when the Russians came fifty men and hooked the chains down, the airship was forced to descend.

After all, the buoyancy of 50 tons has to subtract the weight of 10,000 rifles, a rifle is about 4 kilograms, and 10,000 is 40 tons, which is close to a full load.

When the airship finally landed on the ground, and more than a dozen bolt holes around the cockpit of the airship were deeply hit with iron nails, the Russians cheered, and the sound of Ulla continued.

In fact, the Russians are still a simple people, and the greed they show is often a mixture of the tsar's greed and the ignorance of the peasants.

So the first box of goods he moved down was not a rifle, but a box of two pots, which was a gift for these soldiers who helped, one bottle per person, and everyone had a share.

"Ravl Georgievich Kornilov!"

A Russian officer saluted Yang Chao with a bottle of Erguotou and reported his name at the same time.

This name is so long, Yang Chao definitely can't remember it.

"Well, your name is too long, can I call you Ravl?"

Yang Chao said.

"You can call me Kornilov!"

After some conversation, Yang Chao learned that this Kornilov was assigned to receive munitions, and his current position is the chief of staff of the Russian brigade.

After Kornilov jerked a bottle of wine, he asked Yang Chao.

"Unloading? Of course it can be unloaded. ”

As soon as Yang Chao agreed, a large group of Russian soldiers ran to the airship, carrying the box and leaving.

But airships need to be counterweighted.

"No, no, no, don't just take it down. Put something on it first, the stone, the iron, it must be heavy. ”

Kornilov glanced at the airship and felt that it was amazing, he had never seen an airship, but he didn't expect the airship to pull so much cargo.

"You can pull 10,000 rifles, and if you pull people, you should be able to pull at least 500 people."

Kornilov suddenly asked Yang Chaodao.

Yang Chao smiled: "As long as it can be stuffed in, there is no problem." ”

Russians, even if they are generally tall, a hundred kilograms for one person, fifty tons can pull five hundred people.

"Where's the speed?"

Kornilov asked again.

Yang Chao said: "Anyway, it's much faster than the train." ”

The trains of this era, the Jiaoji Railway were built under the construction cost, with a design maximum speed of 60 kilometers per hour, but so far, it is still running at a speed of 20 kilometers per hour every day.

"Great!"

Kornilov suddenly screamed.

"Can you lend us this airship?"

Kornilov suddenly made a request, and seeing that Yang Chao did not speak, he immediately added: "We can pay the rent." ”

Yang Chao shook his head, just kidding, this is an airship made of interstellar spaceship shell materials, and no one can rent it.

Kornilov is very sorry.

"What do you want to rent my airship for?"

Yang Chao asked.

Kornilov: "Lushun! ”

Yang Chao immediately understood that the fundamental purpose of the Sand River war launched by the Russians was to rescue Lushun and protect the Pacific Fleet.

When it comes to the Russian Navy, it is touching and unambitious, and it needs the protection of the army in the harbor.

The British, who had a thriving naval culture, looked down on them the most, and a British naval colonel asked in the newspaper where the honor of the Russian Navy servicemen had gone. At the same time, he expressed his point of view, although he was attacked by the Japanese and suffered certain losses, but the overall strength was not without the strength of a war, and even on the main battleship there was not much difference with the Japanese, why did he not dare to go out of the port to fight in a dignified manner. Even if the whole army is annihilated, as long as they can weaken the Japanese fleet, when their second fleet feels it, they can easily destroy the Japanese navy.

Of course, it cannot be ruled out that the British want to use public opinion to influence the Russians' battle plan, and the Russian army will die when it leaves the port, and everyone can see that Lao Maozi's navy really can't beat the fleet of little devils.

The British fooled Maozi because they wanted them to die so that they could help the Japanese. Just like some experts in Britain and the United States also explained the Japanese for their undeclared war in the early days of the war, and even drew up international law to endorse it, saying that the declaration of war was not a necessary procedure. Ironically, in World War II, Britain and the United States were victims of Japan's undeclared war at the same time. At that time, they were scolding.

"Do you want to increase your troops?"

Kornilov asked about the pretend, then about speed and lend-lease, and also mentioned Lushun, if he didn't think that the Russians wanted to increase troops to Lushun by air, Yang Chao's mind would be full of water.

Kornilov nodded.

However, Yang Chao expressed a different opinion: "In fact, the situation in Lushun is not a problem of troops. ”

Yang Chao knew very well that the strength of the Russian army's defense in Lushun was not insufficient, the main problem was material supply, especially food, after the lack of fresh vegetables and meat, many Russian soldiers died of illness, and less than half of them were really killed.

At this time, it is better to send 500 soldiers than to send 50 tons of cabbage.

Kornilov sighed: "The Japanese have increased their troops. ”

The Japanese increased their troops, claiming that they would increase their troops in Lushun by 300,000 and take Lushun with 300,000 troops.

This made the Russians extremely nervous, and their idle army gathered in Mukden was only 340,000 men, but the Trans-Siberian Railway was saturated, and it was a single-line departure, and the entire Russian locomotive was requisitioned by the army, and all of them were pulled to the northeast and did not return, so their troops were still insufficient.

Therefore, breaking the blockade of the Japanese army on land, there was no hope for rescuing the Russians in Arthur.

So when Kornilov saw the airship, he planned to use the airship to take an adventure.

Yang Chao thought to himself, he didn't care what the Russians meant, Lushun surrendered in the end, and the real combat achievements of the Japanese did not even reach the front of the first line of defense in Lushun, it was a long-term siege, especially when the commander-in-chief of the ground forces, Kontrachenko, was killed during his inspection, so that the Russian army had no confidence to fight.

If a smooth transport network can be maintained, the Russians will obviously be very confident, because it represents hope.

Then the Russians held out for a few more months, until the Second Fleet came over and took back the sea control, and Yang Chao's goal was achieved.

So Yang Chao smiled and said, "Transporting troops, you can." I'll help you get it. But this freight is indispensable. ”

Kornilov was overjoyed, as long as Yang Chao agreed to help with transportation, money was not a matter for him to consider.

But he still casually asked, "How much do you want?" ”

Yang Chao smiled: "One hundred dollars." ”

Kornilov was stunned for a moment, and immediately said gratefully: "Mr. Yang, you are really a good person. ”

Yang Chao said again: "It's a person, a hundred dollars." ”

Kornilov again, this is too expensive, send 10,000 people over, wouldn't it cost a million dollars.

But for Yang Chao, he didn't want to do this business, if it wasn't for helping the Russians deal with Japan, he wouldn't have bothered to take on this laborious business.

"I'll go ask the Commander."

Kornilov replied that it was not his money anyway, it was all the tsar's money, and it had nothing to do with him if the commander-in-chief wanted to.

How could Kuropatkin not agree, because of the matter of Lushun, he was going crazy and was driven crazy by the tsar.

Several battles were forced before the forces reached his plan, and it was not because the tsar was in a hurry to rescue Arthur.

Isn't it just a hundred dollars, and sending 100,000 people over is only 10 million dollars, and Russia's assets in Lushun are more than that.

And this is a war, the winner is king, as long as you can win, how much money you spend, in the end the Japanese will have to pay.

So, when Yang Chao drove the airship and returned to the big stone room before dawn, it was just dawn, Yang Chao was sleeping soundly, and the Russian minister personally ran to Yantai.

The Russian minister to China, Gerth, had come to negotiate a deal.

"Deliver 20,000 men with equipment and supplies!"

"Yes, a hundred dollars per person, equipment supplies are not included. But in cash! Francs are fine. ”

Yang Chao agreed.

Gerth hesitated: "It's too expensive, a maximum of ten dollars per person, which is fifty francs." ”

Yang Chao shook his head: "Then there is no need to talk about it anymore." Your Excellency, please. ”

Gerth, of course, couldn't go: "If it's rubles, we can think about it." ”

Yang Chao shook his head and said, "I don't want rubles, I want something else." ”

Seeing that Yang Chao suddenly made other requests, Ge Si asked, "What is it?" ”

Yang Chao said firmly: "Railway! ”