Chapter 10: China's Defeat of Tsarist Russia (3)
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(Sakhalin Island was recovered in 1901) in Vladivostok's coastal fortification group and the main urban area, the bombardment of the airship troops led by Jiang Baili caused a fire, the troops stationed here, more than ninety percent of the barracks turned into ashes, the Russian army was busy fleeing for their lives, no one went to organize the fire extinguishing, the fire burned for three days, the Russian army still had some remnants of the guards, most of them due to the fire burning, resulting in lack of oxygen, thick smoke and suffocation, Duan Qirui sent to land the marines, under the opening of the tank corps, In three days, they recovered their homeland from the embrace of the motherland: in the Far East, Mingzhuhai, and the Russian residents in the city had fled one after another before the squadron entered the city. Song Xiaofei knew that the occupation of a city would be internationally recognized, and in addition to the army, the most important thing was to have Chinese residents, so he immediately moved 200,000 people from Jilin Province to Vladivostok, and then the squadron began to prepare to recover Sakhalin Island.
Sakhalin Island is located in the east of the Heilongjiang estuary, the easternmost point of China, and is the first place in China to see the sunrise, facing the Sea of Okhotsk to the east and north, with an area of 76,400 square kilometers, equivalent to more than two Taiwan islands. Sakhalin has been China's territory since ancient times, and it was the Chinese who first knew about Sakhalin in the world. From the Tang Dynasty and the Jin Dynasty, Sakhalin was under the jurisdiction of China. In 1858 and 1860, Tsarist Russia forced the Qing government to sign the unequal Sino-Russian Treaty of Aihun and the Sino-Russian Treaty of Peking, ceding more than 100,000 square kilometers of Chinese territory, including Sakhalin Island, to Tsarist Russia. After the Pacific Fleet and Vladivostok Fleet of Tsarist Russia were annihilated by the Chinese fleet, only 8,000 Russian troops stationed on the island remained. Song Xiaofei asked Liu Buyun's fleet to blockade the Sea of Okhotsk and prepare to recover Sakhalin by force.
Liu Mingchuan, a 65-year-old veteran, took the initiative to ask Ying to go to Beijing to find Song Xiaofei and ask him to personally take command and lead Taiwan's "Inscription Battalion" of 10,000 new troops to recover Sakhalin, China's largest island. "Sakhalin is now the place where the tsarist government housed prisoners of hard labor and exile, and on this prison island it is full of political prisoners and 'rioters.'" There are about 50,000 people, and there is no need to kill chickens, and Zhang Zuolin's 2,000 'Hu bandits' can incite the revolutionaries on the island and recover Sakhalin. Big brother, you're getting old. It's better to spend more time with your sister-in-law at home. ”
When Liu Mingchuan heard this, his face darkened, but he still insisted that the veteran come out and said, "What's wrong with being old?" Last time, Liu Chuanfu's Black Flag Army defeated the Spanish army and occupied Cuba, and this time the new army of our 'Inscription Battalion' will also kill the Russians and establish a thousand years of achievements! Besides, I'm a little older. But if you are familiar with island warfare, you can rest assured. ”
It turned out that as a veteran of the republic, Liu Mingchuan's reputation in China has always been relatively prominent, but after Liu Chuanfu's Black Flag Army occupied Cuba. Famous all over the world, the limelight has the potential to overshadow Liu Mingchuan, Song Xiaofei heard it, Liu Mingchuan was obviously competing with Liu Chuanfu, Liu Ming rumored that he would recover Sakhalin Island and be nine out of ten, so. After the port north of Sakhalin Island was frozen in June, Liu Buyun's fleet was allowed to launch a military operation codenamed "June Storm" to recover Sakhalin Island.
Kuropatkin, deputy commander of the Far Eastern Theater stationed on Sakhalin, reported that the Chinese airship unit had dropped bombs on the Russians in Vladivostok. Strafing with machine guns, the bursts of gunpowder smoke and fire, and the fiery chains of bullets that harvested human lives seemed to be right in front of him, and he was covered in a cold sweat, and Sakhalin Island was probably going to be hit by the Chinese airship force again! Fortress batteries on Sakhalin Island. Compared with the dangerous fortress on Vladivostok, the terrain is much lower, not the kind of key fortress group that is easy to defend and difficult to attack, and with the huge power of the heavy artillery of the Chinese fleet, I am afraid it will be difficult to hold. At a loss, he sent a telegram to Aleksayev, the Governor-General of the Far East and the Commander-in-Chief of the Far Eastern Theater of Operations, asking for instructions on the strategy of the operation, and by the way, requesting support.
However, after Duan Qirui took Vladivostok, he had already continued to wave his army north, expanding the war to the entire Far East and attacking Chita City. Chita is located in the east of Lake Baikal, at the confluence of the Chita River and the Inguoda River, built in 1690, is a traffic artery and military town leading to China and Korea, and is the headquarters of the Transbaikal Military District of Tsarist Russia. Chita is an important hub station of the Trans-Siberian Railway, southeast through the border town of Zabaikalsk, to reach China's Manchuria, once China occupies Chita, then Manchuria and North Korea can be connected, and the Baikal region will return to China's embrace. Aleksayev did not dare to be careless, and personally went to the headquarters of the Transbaikal Military District in Chita to supervise the battle, and when he received the telegram from Kuropatkin, he himself was too busy to take care of himself, and he had no time to manage Kuropatkin, let alone send a single soldier to support Sakhalin.
Liu Buyun ordered the "Beijing," "Science," and "Republic" to line up, raise their heavy guns, and bombard the Russian defense fortress on Sakhalin Island. Just listen to "boom... Bang... Boom ......", hundreds of shells from naval guns, 305 mm! 345 mm! 380 mm ...... A single shell weighed 400-500 kilograms, and in the blink of an eye, it flew on the heads of the Russian coastal defense artillery in a parabola.
In 1901, the Russian security fortress could not be fully covered, and the small-caliber artillery was deployed with the help of the mountain, and the Chinese fleet, which had the advantage of range and firepower, quickly defeated the Russian coastal defense system. Suddenly, the sound of huge explosions sounded in the Russian artillery positions exposed outside the bunkers, and the rocks and soil were blown up to a height of dozens of meters by the huge explosive force, and the debris and shrapnel flying everywhere blossomed in the Russian army, and the skyrocketing flames devoured the positions of the Russian army. Most of the Russian artillery, before they could react, were hit by the fierce artillery fire of the ** ship, and every bullet point exploded, and the surrounding area instantly became a hell on earth, with corpses all over the field, blood and rain, a sea of fire around it, and thick smoke billowing in the sky. Some Russian troops were hit by the huge air wave and shock wave of the explosion, flew under the valleys and cliffs on both sides, and fell freely, and were killed and injured for a while.
At that time, naval warfare was one of the signs of a country's combat strength, and in the eyes of Europeans, a strong navy made a country stronger. The rise and fall of countless European powers are all related to the navy, starting with Portugal, which has traveled around the world, followed by the Netherlands, which is known as the "world sea coachman", the invincible armada of Spain, which dominates the world, and the British Royal Navy has fought a huge "empire on which the sun never sets". The warships sent by Britain, Germany and other countries to inspect the Sino-Russian war, and Duke Friedmant, who was watching the battle not far away on the British battleship, saw the Chinese fleet attacking Sakhalin Island so fiercely, and immediately telegraphed to the British government to report: "Now the most dangerous fortress has been destroyed, and the Russian coastal defense forces have lost all their fighting spirit when they have suffered heavy casualties, and the defeat of the Russians in this Sino-Russian war has been decided!" ”
Jiang Baili led more than a dozen airships, and also bombed the Russian army at high altitude, and the bombs dropped from the high altitude always lost no time in destroying the artillery positions that the Russian artillery was preparing to counterattack. ”
The four small destroyers docked around Sakhalin Island have all come to a standstill, and some of the collapsed Russian Navy is dropping their lifeboats and fleeing to the port. Among them was a 3,000-ton battleship, which was already the largest tonnage of the remnants of Tsarist Russia.
Deng Shichang found these warships on the warship and immediately ordered: "Brothers, adjust the angle of fire of the main gun and blow up the warship of the Russians!" ”
For a while, another dense burst of shells flew towards the last few Russian battleships. In less than half an hour after Deng Shichang ordered the attack, the Tsarist Russian Pacific Fleet completely disappeared from the face of the earth.
The airboat force led by Jiang Baili bombed the headquarters of the central coastal defense fortress of Tsarist Russia. Subsequently, Liu Mingchuan pulled out his sword, waved it to the sky, and ordered the 10,000 army troops of the "Ming" battalion to land and fight: "Brothers, don't be merciful and give these Russian invaders a devastating blow!" ”
Liu Mingchuan's blade pointed to the main position of the Russian army, in a loud military trumpet, his soldiers under the cover of artillery, rushed towards the soldiers who were about to collapse in Tsarist Russia, shouting and killing was deafening, and after the front bunker was destroyed by heavy artillery fire, the Russian army was basically exposed to the guns of the squadron. After two days of fighting, the deputy commander of the Tsarist Far Eastern Theater, Kuropatkin, was defeated and committed suicide, and among the 8,000 Tsarist Russian troops, 6,000 were killed or wounded, and 2,000 were captured, and Liu Mingchuan's army soon occupied the entire island of Sakhalin.
Song Xiaofei ordered the release of all 50,000 Russian political prisoners on Sakhalin Island, and financed them to return to Moscow and St. Petersburg to make revolutions and disrupt the Tsar's regime from the rear. In addition, 300,000 immigrants from the three northeastern provinces went to Sakhalin Island to reclaim the famine, and China recovered Sakhalin Island!