Chapter 5: The First Sino-Russian War (2)
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My home is on the Songhua River in Northeast China
There are forest coal mines there
And the soybean sorghum that is all over the mountains
My home is on the Songhua River in Northeast China
There are my compatriots there
And the aging daddy
From that miserable time
Separated from my hometown
Abandon the endless treasure
Stray! Stray! Wander all day in Kannai!
What year, what month, will I be able to return to my lovely hometown?
In what year, in what month, will the endless treasure be recovered?
This famous Anti-Japanese War song "On the Songhua River" has left an indelible impression in the hearts of generations of Chinese. Song Xiaofei naturally remembers this song deeply, and he can't forget the rich mineral deposits in the Northeast and the brutality of the Japanese during the Anti-Japanese War. But Song Xiaofei also knew very well that in fact, the outer northeast of the Heilongjiang River valley was also full of treasures, and the crimes committed by Tsarist Russia in this area, especially the massacre, were no less than those of the Japanese, but Chinese history textbooks rarely recorded this.
Song Xiaofei still remembers that when he was reading the history of the late Qing Dynasty in the library before the crossing, it was almost difficult to believe his eyes, the blood debt owed by Tsarist Russia to the Chinese, most Chinese did not know: after 1850, taking advantage of the incompetence of the Qing Dynasty, Tsarist Russia invaded the Heilongjiang River Valley by force, and in the Yaksa area, the Russian old Maozi even used the Sauron people as food and the devil who ate people! Nikolaev captured Temple Street, brutally killed local Hezhen and Evenki residents, created the "Temple Street" tragedy, and renamed it Nikolaevsk; At the same time, at the same time, the Tsarist government forced the Qing Dynasty to sign the Sino-Russian Treaty of Aihui and the Sino-Russian Treaty of Beijing, seizing 1 million square kilometers of Chinese territory in the northeast outside the Heilongjiang River basin, including a large area of territory north of the Heilongjiang River, south of the Outer Khingan Mountains, and east of the Ussuri River to Sakhalin Island. The Hezhe people living in this territory were slaughtered, the Oroqen people of the Jieya River were forced to move into the Great Khing'an Mountains, and the Jurchens were forced to move south of the Heilongjiang River and west of the Ussuri River.
The greedy Tsarist devils did not rest on their laurels in 1900. The Russians also breached the contract and created the appalling "Hailan Pao Massacre" and the "Jiangdong 64 Tun Massacre", massacring more than 7,000 Chinese people.
Hailanpao is located on the left bank of the Heilongjiang River and the confluence of the two rivers on the right bank of the Jingqili River, and was originally a small town in China. By 1900, Hailan had about 40,000 residents, and the Chinese in the city were mainly engaged in commerce, including nearly 240 large merchants, in addition to a large number of itinerant hired workers, small traders and craftsmen, and many farmers living in the suburbs, with a total of nearly 15,000 Chinese expatriates. July 16, 1900. Gribsky, the military governor of the Amur Province of Tsarist Russia, ordered a man to arrest all Chinese without leaving behind, and heavily armed Russian soldiers broke into the homes and shops of Chinese, arrested and escorted all men, women, and children, "even the baby in his arms was forcibly pulled out." More than 1,500 Chinese fled to hide outside the city. They were also searched by Russian soldiers, many of whom were stabbed to death with bayonets, and those who were alive were "driven into the police station like animals in a pen of animals." Nearly 3,500 people were arrested that day, and the police station could not accommodate them, and they were escorted to a sawmill by the Jingqili River that night.
The next day, the Hailanpao City Police Department drove all the detained Chinese to the Heilongjiang River, falsely claiming to have crossed them across the river by boat. But there wasn't even a boat on the shore. Arrived at the riverside. The Russian soldiers waved their sabers and drove all the Chinese "all the way into the water." "While the women threw their children ashore and begged to spare at least their lives, the Russian soldiers grabbed the babies, put them on bayonets and cut them into pieces". A mother "left her child on the shore." And she went into the river herself", but after walking a few steps, she came back and carried the child into the water, and finally had to go ashore to "drop off her precious child", and the inhumane Russian soldiers stabbed the child and his mother with a knife.
A Russian soldier who participated in the massacre described the entire course of the massacre: "When we arrived in Blagoveshchensk. The eastern sky was red, illuminating the water of Heilongjiang like blood. The Russian army, armed with bayonets, surrounded the crowd, emptied the bank of the river, and constantly compressed the encirclement. The officers waved their swords and shouted frantically: 'Whoever does not obey the order, shoot immediately!' The crowd began to fall like an avalanche into the turbid currents of the Heilongjiang River. The crowd shouted like crazy, the sound shook the sky, and some wanted to desperately push away the flow of people and get out of the net; Some trampled on the women and babies who had been crushed and tried to escape. These men were either kicked into the air by the horse's hooves or stabbed to the ground by the cavalry's bayonets. Immediately, the Russian soldiers opened fire. The shouting, the crying, the gunshots, the angry shouting mingled together, the misery was indescribable, it was a hellish scene."
"The clean-up of the site began immediately after a bloody massacre. Most of the piles of 'corpses' were living people with breathless breath, with liver and brain splashing all over their bodies, and their flesh and blood were in disarray. Whether it is dead or alive, it is thrown into the river by an ancient mind. After cleaning. Half-dead people floated on the surface of the Heilongjiang River like rafts, and all that remained in the vast pool of blood on the banks of the river was scattered shoes, hats and bags. Even these relics have been ravaged to the point of being incomplete."
The massacre lasted about a week, killing more than 5,000 Chinese. The Amur authorities shamelessly announced that all Hailan Chinese had been "purged." Ten days after the incident, the bodies of countless victims who had drowned at the bottom of the Heilongjiang River surfaced on the surface of the water and flowed downstream.
At the same time as the Amur authorities staged the Hailan Pao massacre, they also sent Tsarist troops to Jiangdong 64 Tun to carry out a "sweep". The Russian soldiers drove the residents of each tun into a large house, set fire to them, and burned most of them alive, and set fire to them along the village, destroying all the houses and shooting the residents, killing thousands of people in Bordotun alone. In the end, the Russian army also forced "those who did not cross the river, men, women, old and children, farmers, craftsmen, dealers, and people of all walks of life into the river, and only 60 or 70 people survived by floating in the water, and the rest were forced to drown in the river, and those who floated in the river did not stop for several days," killing more than 2,000 Chinese.
After the massacre of Hailanpao and Jiangdong 64 Tun, Tsarist Russia's ambitions did not stop, and the governor of Primor-Amur Province, Gorodikov, first sent Russian ships into the Erguna River, Heilongjiang River, and Ussuri River, destroying the Karen and villages and towns along the Chinese river, and sent cavalry deep into the left bank of the Ussuri River to burn and kill. Then the main force of the Russian army pounced on Heihetun and Aihui. They "killed and burned all the residents of Heihetun who had not had time to escape" and "razed all the towns" with a population of five or six thousand. In Aihui City, "burning in all directions" caused "thousands of houses to be destroyed in ruins".
Because he is familiar with this bloody history, Song Xiaofei understands why the people of the Northeast hate the Russians! Even if China did not fight Russia in 1901, after the construction of the Trans-Siberian Railway, Nicholas II would inevitably invade the Northeast, so he made up his mind that in addition to recovering more than one million square kilometers of Chinese territory occupied by the Russians, he also wanted the greedy Russians to get out of the Far East forever!
After Song Xiaofei arrived at the Shuangyashan National Defense Fortress, he made a pre-war mobilization speech to the 60,000 new troops. Facing the officers and soldiers who were still shivering in the cold wind wearing leather jackets, Song Xiaofei waved his fists and made an impassioned statement: "Brothers, I know that this battle will be very difficult, but the Far East, that is, the central and eastern part of Siberia, which covers an area of about 6.2 million square kilometers, has been the living area of Chinese nomads since ancient times!" Do you know that the name 'Siberia' comes from one of the ethnic groups in northern China, the Xianbei nation, originally called 'Xianbeilia', during the period of Li Shimin, Taizong of the Tang Dynasty, the central and southern parts of Siberia, including Lake Baikal, were included in the territory of China, and in the middle of the Tang Dynasty, the Outer Khingan Mountains and the area north of the southeastern Siberia also became China's territory, in the Yuan Dynasty, Siberia extended to the north to the edge of the Arctic Ocean, to the east to the Bering Sea and the Kamchatka Peninsula, Outer Mongolia, Outer Northeast, Sakhalin, all in China's territory, Lingbei Province and Liaoyang Province belonged to the Yuan Dynasty. By the Ming Dynasty, the Trans-Khing'an Mountains and the areas north of it belonged to China. After the victory of this battle, I will issue a presidential decree that China will abolish all unequal treaties signed between the Qing Dynasty and Tsarist Russia! Including the Treaty of Nebuchu! Vladivostok, Zhenbao Island, and Black Blind Island, there is no doubt that they will be our Chinese! ”
Feng Guozhang, who was standing next to him, whispered to Song Xiaofei, "Someone in the army asked, is it worth risking your life to fight down in the ice and snow of the Far East?" ”
Song Xiaofei paused and answered the question loudly: "I know that some of you have doubts in your hearts, why did China take the Far East, let me tell you what the Far East has: the Far East has the equivalent of two-thirds of China's land, 260 million hectares of forests, vast plains, fertile land, clear rivers, long coastlines, and countless precious animals and plants!" The Far East is not only beautiful, but also rich, a "treasure chest" and a "cornucopia", as the old saying goes, with a huge amount of precious and rare mineral resources, where there are 95% of antimony, 95% of tin, 60% of hydrofluoric acid and mercury, a quarter of tungsten, and a tenth of iron, lead, natural sulfur and apatite. The Far East is also the largest gold-producing area in Tsarist Russia, rock gold and sand gold mines are everywhere, containing 80% of the diamonds of Tsarist Russia, coal reserves of 19.3 billion tons, oil of tens of billions of tons, these should be our Chinese! The Russians have eaten it secretly, and we will beat them with guns and cannons until they spit it out! ”
Although many of the soldiers did not understand what these minerals meant, they raised their arms and shouted, "Die, Russians!" Tsarist Russia get out of the Far East! ”
Song Xiaofei raised his hand to signal them to be quiet, and continued: "Although Tsarist Russia now claims to have more than one million land forces and claims to be the first in the world, this is just a paper tiger, and the Chinese tank corps will lead you to crush the 200,000 army forces of Tsarist Russia in the Far East into pulp!" China's 10,000-ton warships will bury all the Pacific Fleet of Tsarist Russia in Heilongjiang! ”
After inspecting the Northeast, Song Xiaofei asked Duan Qirui to drive the tank corps to the Northeast Battlefield. In addition, Pai Wang Shizhen led 30,000 new troops to strengthen the northwest to prevent Tsarist Russia from carrying out surprise attacks in the northwest, and telegraphed the Beiyang Fleet in Port Arthur to prepare for battle!