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The Battle of Onsenyu seems to have ended so simply, and it can really be said that the beginning and end are in a hurry. In fact, war, or rather a battle, is very difficult to replicate in words or in any other way. Whether the war is cruel or not, the appearance is only one aspect, and it is more of the inside, which is the eternal pain in the soul of everyone who has personally experienced this war.

As a special battalion of the Teaching Brigade, the battle of "early morning of 19 May" cannot but be said to have been fought by coincidence, but in this coincidence, there was too much luck for them. Despite this, as the first battle of the teaching brigade against the invading army of Tsarist Russia, in the eyes of ordinary people, it seems that no amount of propaganda can be exaggerated. After all, good luck is not available to everyone, and it is not something that can be encountered all the time.

However, this battle, in the military history of the troops that later developed as special service battalions, was only a passing touch, and it seemed very modest. So much so that some people wonder if it was because the Red Second Division fought Wendeng first to steal the limelight, as an old model and old sharp knife unit of the Red Army of the Celestial Empire, he felt that no matter how much he hyped up the battle of Hot Springs, there was always something too much to say, right?

However, starting from Hai Duong, the Teaching Brigade went out of the mountain via the North Da Yuan Mountain Road, and after a short rest and recuperation, they entered the hot springs and Gushan and other places, and the hardships they endured were the greatest among all the troops participating in the battle. If it weren't for the little food that the Red Second Division had urgently received from Wendeng, the teaching brigade could only rely on wild vegetables every day. Think about it, how much courage and strength should a tired, half-starved army dare to break through three checkpoints without falling down with more than 30 cavalry companies, not to mention the courage of the commander, just looking at the troops? In just 10 minutes, an entire battalion of Tsarist Russia was annihilated, and no one slipped through the net, shouldn't this kind of fearless spirit be praised?

"I was on duty at the first post that day, and when I was bored, in the night ahead, a team of horses suddenly galloped up, and I immediately became energetic." This is the memory of the former soldier of the 2nd Squadron of the 1st Battalion of the 6th Regiment of Tsarist Russia during the battle, "Whether it is me or others, I dare to say that no one would have thought that the enemy was coming from the other side." I'm not afraid of anyone's jokes, really, at that time, in our memory, the enemy was far away from us, especially in the entire Weihai Special Zone, except for the Tsar's soldiers who could ride horses, and they were not ordinary soldiers, others would never have a chance again. If you think about it, we had less than ten horses in our battalion at that time. At that time, my first thought was that the commander had arrived, and I called all the brothers in the nearby outpost and prepared to welcome them. In the outpost, the brothers were actually gambling cards, and I even heard the squad leader scolding, followed by a hectic footsteps, and the brothers were running out while sorting out their clothes. What do you say? Gun? Hehe, none of them have guns, because everyone knows that it is enough for me to stand here with a gun myself, and no one will dare to make trouble, this is Weihai, which is a special zone. ”

"The horse team is near, how to say, it is as fast as the wind, of course, the commanders are generally like this, so that it looks majestic enough." What Marca experienced seemed to be like this, it was very plain, so, when he said this, his expression did not change much, "Until the commander on the first horse, oh, not the commander, but the Red Army, of course, this is what I learned later." When his saber was already on my neck at some point, I didn't understand why. However, I still knew that I should immediately throw away the gun in my hand, if I didn't lose it, the guy on the other side was too fierce, I could see it in his eyes, as long as I had even a slight hesitation, I would not be today. ”

This is the pride of the success of the surprise attack, and it is also the pride of Liu Mingyuan as the first commander. Why, then, did this battle become something that the Teaching Brigade was reluctant to mention? Is it because of the gunshots that came later?

None of the Tsarist soldiers at the second outpost were left, so it is impossible to tell why the almost imaginary shot that could destroy the entire battle plan appeared later. Liu Mingyuan scolded, and even angrily claimed that he wanted to investigate, but he didn't do so. The matter is clearly not settled.

The author is a person who likes to break the clay pot and ask questions to the end, and like many good deeds, he began to collect information related to the hot spring soup war.

"It was a horrible night, and honestly, I never want to think about that day again." Jeffska, the second lieutenant captain of the 1st Battalion of the 6th Regiment of the Weihai Garrison of Tsarist Russia. More than ten years later, in Georgia, at the request of a young female reporter in a certain country, when she finally agreed to be interviewed as a veteran who had returned from captivity, she mentioned that "early morning of May 19th", her eyes were still a little dull, and her two hands subconsciously rubbed her legs, "At that time, it seemed that I didn't go to China to fight, but just to hold a knife and gun to make a gesture, and then I wanted something." ”

Jeffska, who is already in his early forties, said this, looked at the reporter and smiled bitterly, "Of course, our mentality at that time, it is difficult for you to understand it now. ”

"Yes," the young female reporter nodded sympathetically, "now they are very strong, and everyone is afraid, but at that time they were still ...... after all"

"You're wrong!" Jeffska shook his head, "What we did was the same mistake you made today. You may only get this knowledge from what you hear, or what kind of random introduction. But I tell you, they've always been strong, and of course, I'm not talking about the big braids you imagined. That night, we all slept to death, not so much asleep as drunk. Not a few of the entire battalion, except for our major, had ever served in the army, and I was one of the few. But none of us have ever fought, the major, and that was more than twenty years ago. How did I wake up that night? I still haven't figured it out. Was it gunshots, bombs, or someone's pushing? Maybe there's everything. Bad luck house! Yes, we live in an unlucky house. There were no windows behind the house, gunshots and bombs everywhere outside, and everyone who wanted to escape had only one common thought, which was to rush out of this unfortunate house as much as possible. ”

"As soon as the door opens...... Jeffska lowered his head, and after a long moment, he let out a long sigh and stared straight at the door, "Is that a bullet coming in?" No, it's just an impenetrable web of bullets. Dadada ...... I've never heard anything like it before, and in an instant the door was filled with corpses. Then...... Then, a few black things came in the window, and I was lucky! It was because I drank too much and woke up late that I escaped this catastrophe. The bomb went off, and the guys who were in front of me made shields for me. Flesh and blood, my body and face were full of their flesh and blood. It was a dark and bloody room...... I was crying, really, all the people who were alive, whether they were hurt or not, were crying. Without being there, it's hard for you to understand the horror we had at the time. I grabbed a pile of clothes, cried and threw them out the window, and everyone threw them together, and we knew that there must be something white in there......"

"Do you think they can understand what you mean?" The female reporter's face was a little weird, "Up to now, almost none of the officers of the dispatch army stationed in China have been able to come back alive, of course, including many ordinary soldiers. ”

Jeffska looked at the female reporter, "Didn't I come back?" I'm not an officer? ”

"I'm sorry, I forgot about it, you're a second lieutenant." The female reporter smiled embarrassedly, "I mean officers above the colonel level, like you were a major at the time. ”

"They all went to their allegiance to their tsar." Jeffska snorted coldly.

"No, it is said that many of them were later executed in prisoner of war camps, don't you know these things?" The female reporter had a posture of breaking the casserole and asking to the end.

"You'd better go to their cemetery and ask them for yourself, if they still have a cemetery." Jeffska closed her eyes, a hint of sarcasm on her lips.

"Only after experiencing the cruel scene that should not be there will you feel how beautiful it is for a person to live in his hometown." Liao Sha, a soldier of the 3rd Squadron of the 1st Battalion of the 6th Regiment of the Weihai Garrison of Tsarist Russia, was a former prisoner of war who was released from China half a year ago, and now lives on odd jobs somewhere in Kazakhstan relying on the carpenter's skills he learned in the prisoner of war camp. In the face of the entangled reporters, the first sentence summarized his understanding of survival in this cycle in China for more than ten years.

"I was a thief, and when I was eighteen years old, I was in and out of the Tsar's prison three times." Liao Sha's thoughts returned to that dark era, and that unforgettable day, "When I went to prison for the fourth time, I felt that I was going to sit until I was old, but that damn god of fate came to me and pushed me from one darkness to an even darker abyss. In order to gain freedom, I impatiently set foot on Chinese soil. Seriously, if it hadn't been for that wee hours of the morning, I wouldn't have felt like I was going to China to be such a stupid thing. ”

"Our squadron's barracks were on the easternmost side, and perhaps at that time it seemed to the other squadrons that we had received some special care from God. The Red Army came in from the west, and as soon as the fierce fighting in the barracks in front of us began, many of us here were awakened. On the river beach further east of our barracks, there were two squads of our squadron, who woke up earlier, and since the Red Army wanted to destroy them first, who had already begun to organize resistance, many of us escaped from several rooms, despite the bombs dropped in the yard. But what's the use of coming out? Liao Sha's face turned pale, as if he had seen the scene more than ten years ago, "The yards are all fenced with solid wooden fences, but there is only one gate. Outside, there were many horse teams galloping, and many Red soldiers who had jumped off their horses were also rushing towards the gate with guns. Man is a very helpless animal, and in order to survive, there is only one thought at that moment, how to escape from this evil yard. ”

"How powerful their bombs are, they haven't been hit, people who haven't seen them can't imagine, and when they go back to the house and wait to be bombed, there is only a dead end. So, some people started to climb over the wooden fence, and as soon as they went up, it was like an infectious disease, and a group of people surrounded them. I was much thinner than I am now, and I had just squeezed in front of me, and before I could climb up, I was pushed aside. The gunfire became more ferocious than one burst. In a daze, I suddenly felt a burst of heat on my arm, God......" Liao Sha closed his eyes, and two lines of tears couldn't help but flow from the corners of his eyes, "Ivan, my best friend Ivan, was pierced in the stomach by the sharp wooden fence, but someone still insisted on escaping through his body." Ivan's cry was so ...... So...... It turned out to be his ...... flowing on my arm His intestines ......"

"I'm sorry," the old reporter was a little sad, "I've caused you to feel sad again, but you're a soldier anyway, and you've never seen bloodshed before?" ”

"It's because I've seen it that I'm afraid." Liao Sha's back was bent deeply, and his hands were clasped over his head, "I've seen how those soldiers treated the people there, including Ivan and, of course, myself. All I thought was that I would end up with the same tragic end as Ivan, in fact, those who were desperately trying to run thought so. ”

"Yes," the old reporter nodded with emotion, "I'm glad you survived." It is said that although he spent a long time in a prisoner of war camp, he was not bad. Speaking of this, he smiled lightly, trying to make his tone as relaxed as possible, "From being free to entering the dark abyss, in just one year, you have returned from the abyss to lose your freedom, and this time you have lost your freedom for more than ten years, and as you said in the middle, you have become stronger than before." Hehe, it seems that sometimes losing your freedom is not necessarily a bad thing. ”

Liao Sha raised his head and looked at the old reporter, "In other people's land, if there is our kind of freedom, it is a trample on all mankind." ”

He turned his head to look at Dongfang, and suddenly smiled softly, "Since the day they accepted my surrender, for more than ten years, I have never felt that I have lost my freedom, I am just atoning for my sins and seeing if I can find my conscience as a human being." To be honest, I originally wanted to live in that beautiful land for the rest of my life, but people didn't want me! ”

The old reporter nodded, "Actually, war is the most cruel, and that kind of cruelty is very difficult to do with any large-scale narrative or restoration." The cruelty of war is intrinsic, and it is a trauma left on the psyche of everyone who experiences it. I've met several people like you, and the early hours of May 19 have become a pain for them that they will never be able to erase but don't want to mention. However, you are finally different from them, after all, the battle that you told me should be a short battle in your eyes. ”

Just as the old reporter later said, all the Russian soldiers who survived the first battle of Hot Springs were terrified of the "early morning of May 19." But for the soldiers of the special service battalion, the reason why they are reluctant to mention this battle again and again, or even avoid it, is it also because......

The author came into contact with the diary of Zhong Qiming, the commander of the special service battalion at that time, and finally solved this mystery, of course, it is only the author's personal understanding.

"The battle developed very quickly, and when I rushed to their barracks, I even thought that this Tsarist army was not an army at all, and that it was an invincible and invincible iron army to fight such a tofu scum army, and I felt ...... shame on my face if others didn't laugh at it."

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