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“…… There is no food and grass inside, no reinforcements outside, and although the humble post is barely supported, it is difficult to change the crisis in the end. In addition, most of the officers and soldiers who have been fighting hard for many days have become afraid, and the people in the city have begun to move, and the fall of Huimin is a foregone conclusion. For the great cause of His Majesty the Tsar, I have done my best, but God will not bless me. Huimin still has more than 5,000 loyal tsarist soldiers, and if he continues to hold on, he will undoubtedly burn all the jade. In order to save these soldiers who are in deep danger, the only choice for humiliation today is to sacrifice one of the self-honorable ......"

Colonel Nobavsky, commander of the garrison of Wudingfu in Tsarist Russia, sent this last telegram to General Pryushenko in Texas and walked out of his residence in disgrace. Looking back at the palatial mansion, looking up at the dazzling sun hanging directly overhead, he reluctantly took a deep breath of free air from the breeze, and with a heavy sigh, stepped on his mount out of the city.

As Colonel Nobavsky said in the message, he did his best. In his vision, he originally wanted to stick to Huimin as bait to attract the Taiping Red Army to the city, and at the same time mobilize troops and horses from all over the city to counter-encircle the Taiping Red Army besieging the city. It's a pity that it backfired, and with his full cooperation, the surrounding reinforcements all became fat meat that he personally sent into the mouth of the Taiping Red Army, and he, who was preparing to bloom in the center, became dumb in the torrential rain that poured on his head.

Nobavsky, who can't wait to save the soldiers, has the only choice left to save himself. In order to break out of the encirclement, he used all means. First, he sent people out of the city to meet the supreme commander of the besieging Red Army, claiming that he could take the initiative to give up Huimin in exchange for the Red Army of the Celestial Empire to give up a way north to the Russian army stationed in Huimin.

When Nobavsky's envoy returned to the city with Chen Tingxiang, the commander-in-chief of the Red Army's siege front in the Celestial Empire, with the sentence "It is natural to return Huimin, but all Russian officers and soldiers in the city must lay down their arms and are only allowed to leave with their bare hands", the embarrassed and angry Nobavsky sent the envoy out of the city again, and threatened that if their conditions were not met, the Russian army would kill all the men, women and children in the city, and then all of them would be threatened by their Tsar Majesty who had died in the line of duty, forcing the besieging Red Army to withdraw and make way.

Unexpectedly, Chen Tingxiang still didn't eat his set, and the gray messenger only got a "Maybe you really dare to kill those innocent people in the city, but I don't believe it at all, you really dare to commit suicide collectively!" As long as you are still alive by then, then you will have a chance to see how ruthless I am."

In the end, Nobavsky ran out of tricks and had to play a trick of surrender. He wrote a handwritten letter, in extremely sincere terms, reflecting on his past and bemoaning his current irrationality. At the same time, he said that after careful consideration, the Russian officers and men in the city have reached a consensus and are willing to surrender the Red Army of the Celestial Empire conditionally. Since it was a conditional surrender, the terms of course required detailed mutual negotiations. So, negotiators from both sides sat together.

Taking advantage of the opportunity of the so-called talks, Nobavsky, who thought he had a plan, instructed his deputies to keep as low a profile as possible in the negotiations, and it was better to appear to be very frightened, but to fight over the issue of principle, so as to achieve the goal of delaying time and confusing the opponent. And behind the scenes, Nobavsky began a planned breakout operation.

It wasn't until the end of this breakout farce that Nobavsky realized that everything he had done was in vain. When Nobavsky led his troops to break through the siege, the negotiators who were still left in the camp of the Workers' and Peasants' Red Army of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom actually returned to the city alive and brought back the last two alternative paths of "defending the city, once the city is broken and no one is left alive, disarming and surrendering, it can be guaranteed that none will be killed". Of course, Chen Tingxiang, who had already "been in charge once", was very harsh on their surrender conditions this time, demanding that the supreme commander of the Russian army in the city must personally lead his troops out of the city and disarm them in the designated area.

Outside the east gate, at the forefront of the rows of Red Army soldiers of the Celestial Empire, there is a tall war horse as red as coals, it is said that it is the famous Orlov-Rostoppkins horse in Tsarist Russia, a horse lover named Count Orlov, since the sixties of the eighteenth century, Tong Guò with ten different kinds of good horses cross-combined experiments, finally bred this excellent breed. However, now on its back, sitting upright is Chen Tingxiang, the commander of the Red Eighth Army, who has been slightly black and thin by the sun, and is not tall.

Obviously, Chen Tingxiang can have such an excellent mount today, it must be benefiting from the trophies obtained from the teaching brigade. Liu Mingyuan, who made a fortune in the first battle of Yanshan, did not forget that he gritted his teeth and gave up his beloved jujube horse in order to help friendly troops, and took an old brigade commander with a big black mule.

A horse rein, as usual, was firmly wrapped around Chen Tingxiang's empty left lower arm with cuffs, and the horse whip in his right hand was actually obliquely on his shoulder, and he gently tapped himself leisurely from time to time, as if he was relaxing his muscles and invigorating his blood.

At the head of Huimin City, the dragon flag of the Qing Dynasty that was once planted, and the tricolor flag of Tsarist Russia, which had been fluttering at the highest place of the city tower for nearly a year, are no longer there, replaced by a few pieces of large white cloth raised high with long wooden poles.

"Damn, I'm really honest this time!" Deputy Army Commander Lu Shunde came to Chen Tingxiang's side as soon as he lifted his horse, raised his hand and pointed forward. Along the open gate, a group of men and horses were slowly coming out of the city in an orderly manner.

"The one at the front should be that Nobavsky."

Lu Shunde is right, among the people who went out of the city to surrender, the one who is now in the lead is Colonel Nobavsky.

The closer he got to the Taiping Red Army, which was preparing to accept his surrender, the more Nobavsky felt an indescribable feeling in his heart. Although he had never seen Chen Tingxiang at the front, just from the momentum of the other party's appearance, he concluded that this person must be the strong opponent who had been entangled with him for many days. At this time, a strange thought flashed in Nobavsky's mind, why didn't he think of this hand when he pretended to surrender in the first place? If he could have thought of this, all it took was a surprise attack from the artillery team in ambush at the head of the city, and the damn creature would immediately go to his God, and then wouldn't it be ......

Nobavsky's thoughts were interrupted by a few gentle coughs behind him. With only a dozen paces to go from the two horses on the opposite side, Nobavsky grabbed the reins and awkwardly dismounted.

Nobavsky, who originally thought that the other party would definitely dismount like himself and salute him on an equal footing, turned around and found that the other party did not have any intention of dismounting at all, but just looked at him with a strange gaze, which meant waiting for him to say something first. At this moment, Nobavsky, who was about to raise his hand and prepare to salute the other party first, and then untie his saber under his side, froze there for a while.

"Colonel......" The attentive adjutant lightly touched the colonel, who must have been very awkward at this time, reminding the colonel to understand his current identity.

Nobavsky hesitated for a moment, and finally slowly took off his military hat with his right hand, which was originally going to salute the army, then pressed it to his chest, leaned over and bowed slightly, "Colonel Nobavsky, commander of the Tsar's military garrison in China, see the two generals. ”

"It's not easy to see each other after hearing about the name for a long time," Lu Shunde hugged his fists on the horse, "Lu Shunde, deputy commander of the Eighth Army of the Workers' and Peasants' Red Army of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom." ”

Chen Tingxiang just raised his right hand holding the horse whip, touched it lightly on the brim of his military hat, and concisely and clearly popped out three words from his mouth, "Chen Tingxiang." ”

"Long admiration...... ......"Nobavsky looked up at this strange and very familiar opponent who, once he left the horse, would never be stronger and taller than himself, and he was perfunctory in his mouth, but in his heart he inevitably cursed viciously......

It is said that after this, once Zeng Guofan met Chen Tingxiang, when mentioning the surrender of Wuding Mansion, he once smiled and said that Chen Tingxiang should not treat a person who has already admitted defeat like this, because in doing so, it seems to give others a kind of Lang Huaxia, which is known for its etiquette, which is somewhat unworthy of the name.

Everyone present at that time saw that Chen Tingxiang was stunned by Zeng Guofan's words, and then, Chen Tingxiang shook his head, "Actually, being able to surrender to us is already their creation." Think about it, if we were to change to the Manchus, would they still have to kneel down to meet us? ”

As for the once uncomfortable Colonel Nobavsky, the second time he saw Chen Tingxiang, it was a few days later.

Because the people in Huimin City were resolutely clamouring for the crimes of the Tsarist ghosts, the Russian officers and soldiers who were imprisoned in the temporary concentration camp were in panic all day long. Nobavsky, who also suffered from continuous insomnia, could no longer hold it anymore and begged the concentration camp commander to bring a message to General Chen Tingxiang and meet him once no matter what.

As soon as Nobavsky's urgent request was reported, it was quickly answered. This meeting was arranged at the headquarters of the Red Eighth Army in a farmhouse compound outside the city, and it was completely different from the day of surrender, and even Nobavsky himself felt as if he was not a prisoner at all.

Chen Tingxiang listened carefully and kindly to Nobavsky's inner worries, and expressed deep sympathy for the possibility that the Russian officers and soldiers, including Nobavsky himself, might be liquidated by the people. However, Chen Tingxiang bluntly told Sùnobavsky that whether or not to liquidate their crimes and how to liquidate them is the scope of the people's government of the Wuding Celestial Empire, which has already been established, and it depends more on the will of the people, and as a soldier of the Celestial Empire, he has no right to interfere in these now.

After scaring Nobavsky half to death, Chen Tingxiang suddenly put forward an idea that could save Nobavsky's life, that is, Nobavsky must sincerely cooperate with the Red Army of the Celestial Empire, mobilize some officers and soldiers in the concentration camp who are not angry and are good at Su Zì, and follow him Chen Tingxiang together.

As for where to go? Chen Tingxiang said two words, "out of the customs".

Nobavsky grinned at the time, and not only that, but Nobavsky, who was already fifty years old, jumped up, imitating the appearance of a Manchu official, and even bowed his hands, if Chen Tingxiang hadn't stopped him in time, he would have knelt on the ground. Don't talk about going out, as long as you don't go to hell, you can go to the sky and enter the sea.

Nobavsky, who participated in the Seventh Russian-Turkish War, under the leadership of Chen Tingxiang, has since joined the camp of the Red Army of the Celestial Empire. From the initial simple exchange for personal life, to the real understanding of the supreme glory of being a member of the Red Army of the Celestial Empire, the veteran soldier Nobavsky gradually grew up and rejuvenated. He made no small contribution to the liberation of the Chinese land, the liberation of the people, and the subsequent Russian people's revolution.

More than 10 years later, Marshal Nobavsky, who was already the People's Commissar of the People's Defense Military Council of the Russian People's Republic, frequently toasted Admiral Chen Tingxiang in front of countless guests at a banquet held in the Kremlin to welcome the military delegation of the Federal Government of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom, which welcomed his friends and brothers, and praised General Chen Tingxiang not only as the most elegant general he had ever seen in his life, but also the great pride of the Workers' and Peasants' Red Army of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom.

Compared with Major General Chikovska in Dongchang at that time, and Nobavsky in Wuding, it was probably General Pryushenko in Texas who could really make their Tsar Majesty proud for a while.

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