Lake Baikal is long and narrow, like a crescent moon, so it is also called "Moon Lake". It is 636 kilometers long, 48 kilometers wide on average, 7.4 kilometers wide at its widest area, 31,500 square kilometers in area, 744 meters in average depth, 1,680 meters in depth at its deepest point, and 456 meters above sea level.

In total, more than 300 rivers of all sizes flow into Lake Baikal, the largest of which is the Selenga River, a huge freshwater lake surrounded by volcanic complexes. The only way out of the lake is the Angara River.

The lake that flows into the Angara River, which was originally about a kilometer wide, is now frozen into solid ice with a huge boulder standing in the middle of the river and a huge boulder in the middle of the river. This cold weather will continue until the summer of the following year. The inland sea has been covered with ice several feet thick. Nacha and the sleighs of the caravan came and went on it. to shorten the journey and save time. In the dead of winter, the ice of Lake Baikal can even run by train.

During the Russo-Japanese War, Russia laid temporary tracks on the ice to pass trains.

As a result of the signing of a cease-fire agreement between China and the Soviet Union, Selenginsk no longer had the same tense atmosphere as a few months ago, and most of its troops were withdrawn from the eastern part of Selenginsk, near Lake Baikal, leaving only a small part of the garrison. Now the defensive tasks here are mainly responsible for the Russian protector ** and a small number of Chinese troops.

Liu Guodong, who was wearing a thick military coat, shrunk his neck, put the rifle back, took off his bulky gloves, put his hand into his arms, took out a cigarette and handed it to Shi Jianfei beside him, and then took out the Zhibao lighter from his pocket.

After taking a sip of Meimei, Liu Guodong took out a military kettle from his body and motioned to Shi Jianfei beside him: "Brother Shi, it's really fucking cold here, patrolling in this weather is really terrible, do you want to take a bite to relieve fatigue first." ”

Shi Jianfei shook his head with a smile and persuaded, "You should also drink less, this is a strong wine of nearly seventy degrees, if you get drunk, I won't have the strength to carry you back." Liu Guodong poured a large sip of wine into his mouth, and a flush suddenly appeared on his bronzed face, and he complained after a wine burp: "But if I don't drink it, I'm afraid I'll be frozen into a popsicle soon!" I wondered, why aren't those old hairy people afraid of the cold? It's also difficult for Brother Shi to fight with Lao Maozi here for two years. If it were me, I would have froze half to death. ”

Shi Jianfei smiled faintly, the weather here was indeed too cold for this little brother from Guangxi in the south, and he asked a little puzzled: "Guodong, aren't your Guangxi soldiers generally assigned to the southern or mountain troops?" Why were you sent to Siberia? Liu Guodong sucked it hard again. Smoke, a little depressed said: "I" When I was first assigned, I heard the commander of the conscription say how beautiful Siberia is, how beautiful the old hairy woman is, I was hot for a while, so I begged Chang'an, who was originally conscripted, to transfer me here, who knows that not to mention women here, even mosquitoes are male. And it's a place where you have to bring a small stick to withdraw urine in winter? I knew that I wouldn't come here if I was killed, how good it would be to follow those fellows into the mountain division, I heard that the mountain division belongs to the elite army! ”

After hearing Liu Guodong's words, Shi Jianfei couldn't help laughing, there were only a dozen people in the outpost where Shi Jianfei and Liu Guodong were located, far away from the city, "It is indeed rare to see the opposite sex on weekdays, and it is no wonder that Liu Guodong said what he just said." Shi Jianfei patted Liu Guodong on the shoulder and comforted: "Guodong, the commander who went to your hometown to recruit soldiers didn't lie to you, this old hairy woman is indeed very beautiful, but you and I really can't stay in this ghost place all day long, unless you go to a big city like Ulan-Ude or Chita." But don't worry, "I'll take you to Ulan-Ude for a walk during the next holiday, and I'll take you to see it." Liu Guodong's eyes lit up when he heard this, and he hurriedly asked: "Is it true, Brother Shi, don't lie to me." Shi Jianfei couldn't help but smile and nodded: "Of course it's true, when did I lie to you." Liu Guodong said with satisfaction: "I don't have high requirements, I only ask to be able to go home with a foreign daughter-in-law after two years of discharge" Then I will be satisfied. Just like our President Su, his foreign daughter-in-law is really beautiful, I have seen her photo in the newspaper, just like the fairy in the painting. As he spoke, there was a hint of longing in his eyes. Shi Jianfei was really a little speechless for this little brother from Guangxi who came here to serve as a soldier in order to marry a foreign daughter-in-law, but he still comforted him: "As long as you work hard, you still have a chance!" Just when the two were patrolling along the solid lake ice, Shi Jianfei saw a team of people coming from the opposite side from a distance, "You don't need to look at him to know that it is Lao Maozi's patrol." He has been conscripted into the army for the second time, and he has been dealing with the Russians for three or four years, and he can smell the smell of Lao Maozi from miles away.

"Click!" Before Shi Jianfei could remind Liu Guodong beside him, "This young soldier has already held the Garand rifle behind his back, and the bullet was loaded at the same time." Shi Jianfei nodded with satisfaction, "Although this little brother is a little unreliable on weekdays, his reaction speed and vigilance are really good, although the two sides of China and the Soviet Union have achieved a ceasefire, but the heart of defense is indispensable, there are only two people, and if you want to move around, you will suffer, so you still have to have the necessary vigilance."

The two sides gradually walked in, Shi Jianfei saw that the patrol team of more than a dozen people on the other side was carrying the gun on his back, which was a sign of no malice, * Jianfei quietly closed the insurance of Rang Li Suomi, and signaled Liu Guodong, who had changed, to put the gun away so as not to misunderstand the Soviet army in front.

As the two sides approached, they could already see the faces of the Soviet patrols on the opposite side. These Slavs, dressed in old military coats and wearing five-star hats on their heads, also looked at the two Chinese people in front of them who dared to patrol with only two people. However, when their eyes swept over the thick and brand-new military coats on Shi Jianfei and Liu Guodong, as well as the brand-new weapons in their hands, their eyes showed envy again.

In their opinion, the equipment treatment of the Huaxia army on the other side is good, not only is the weapons and equipment more advanced than theirs, but even the food and clothing have to pull themselves down several streets, look at the red faces of the people, and then think about the fact that they have eaten potatoes for three consecutive days yesterday."

The two teams, which had nothing to do with each other, came into contact and separated in an instant, and the original two patrol teams passed by like this, each going back to their own homes to find their own mothers. But the sudden sound of gunfire strained nerves on both sides.

"Da da da", Shi Jianfei, who had fought with the Russians for two years, could even hear with his knees that this was the sound of the Soviet Russian Mosinagan rifle.

"Click!" , The two didn't have time to think about it, so they naturally loaded the gun in their hands, and Shi Jianfei and Liu Guodong pointed the gun at the Soviet patrol that had just walked behind them. But what they saw was the equally bewildered eyes of the Soviet patrols, although they had also pointed their guns at them.

"Damn, what the hell is going on with this gunshot? Are these old hairy people going to do it? The gun in Guodong's hand continued to point at those Soviet soldiers, and he kept asking Shi Jianfei in his mouth.

"I don't know, they don't seem to know if they look at those old hairy people." , Shi Jianfei's expression was also very confused, and it didn't seem like the expressions of those Soviet soldiers were disguised, "Could it be that there was an accident over there?"

The commander of the Soviet detachment on the opposite side shouted at Shi Jianfei and the two of them in Russian, ordering his soldiers to put away their weapons, saying that they did not want to provoke an incident. Shi Jianfei thought about it after hearing this, and then motioned to Liu Guodong to put away the gun as well, and both sides looked in the direction where the gunshots rang out, only to see dozens of black shadows running quickly towards here from hundreds of meters in front. Behind them, there were more than a dozen Soviet Russians in military uniforms desperately chasing after them, and bursts of shouting and scolding were heard from time to time in the distance.

"What's going on?" , Liu Guodong was surprised to find that those people seemed to be Soviet Russians......

At the beginning of 1939, in order to realize the process of rapidly strengthening the country's industrialization, the Soviet Russian government ordered to increase the intensity and quantity of grain requisition, and to transport all grain to Europe in exchange for industrial machine tools, machinery, and raw materials. The new policy of collectivization of agriculture forced the peasants to abandon their land, livestock, and implements, and everything was collectively owned, and soon famine and repression continued in the countryside of Soviet Russia.

Famine, rats, and other very special rotten things soon appeared in the vast and sparsely populated Siberia, which people brought back to their homes.

They did not pull and bury the animals after they had died, but instead refined or ate the newly killed animals, along with the carcasses of horses, dogs, cats, and other animals that had lost their nutritional value, even if they had already decayed.

Farmers who had no food ate all the quinoa and sour buns from near to far. A regulation has also been enacted throughout the Siberian region to halve the food distributed to farmers who have not completed their plans for grain production and sowing. In the countryside, countless peasants died of starvation. Many adults and children were swollen and ate things that they did not normally eat, from the carcasses of animals to the fruits of trees, oak roots, and the rhizomes of various plants."

The adult peasants gave more than half of the less than 500 grams of black bread they had received after a day's work to their children, and ate only a small amount of sourdough bread themselves. As a result, the body became weaker and weaker, and the work was less and less, and the food was naturally less and less.

And the grain conscription team was not polite to their compatriots at all, and they desperately recorded the peasants' rations in order to complete the tasks assigned to them by the upper echelons.

The order from the top of the Soviet Union is very clear, the only thing we can exchange for machine tools, machinery and weapons is food, as long as you can collect food, you can do whatever you want.

In order to collect grain, the grain conscription team members raided the homes of countless peasants, unroofed their houses, smashed their kang kangs, and forced their wives and daughters to sleep with the grain conscription team members.

The grain conscription team hung the peasants on the roof of the house and tortured them until they passed out, and then tied them with belts and dragged them to the ice and snow to continue to punch and kick him.

"Tell me where the damage is? Where is the food you have hidden? This is the most common sentence of the grain conscription team members.

Of course, everything on this side is unknown to the people in the cities of Soviet Russia, and "the Russian government everywhere has an extremely strict blockade of information. The whole world does not know that a man-made famine is going on in some parts of Soviet Russia, and in the newspapers published in Soviet Russia, you can only see scenes of peasants holding baskets of bread and hearty food with smiles on their faces.

The famine of these peasants seemed to the upper echelons of Soviet Russia to be the result of the lazy peasants' passive sabotage, which forced the state to resort to this coercive means.

Now Stiana and her brother are running forward desperately, "She knows that if she slows down a little, she will be overtaken by the food conscription team behind." If he had been left with the life of his brother and his brother, he didn't have to think about it, and he knew how miserable it would be, thinking of the families in his village who tried to escape and were finally captured by the food team," Stiana's heart became cold.

All the women were raped to death by dozens of men in front of the whole village, and all the men were stripped of their clothes and thrown into the ice and snow to freeze to death. Stiana and these people are the only few dozen people left in the village, and the day before yesterday, "gave the only few potatoes left in the family to her and her brother's parents, and starved to death in front of herself and her brother." When my mother was dying, she took her hand with her hungry skin and bones and said, "Styana, you take Jereif and flee to the east, there is no food convoy there, you can live when you get there, remember to flee to the east with your brother, as long as you escape to that country, you will not starve."

Dad starved to death, and Mom starved to death" After burying her parents with tears, Stiana, who had not yet wiped away her tears, ran east with her younger brother overnight. She knew that if she waited until dawn, the food conscription team would come to collect food again, and if they saw that her parents were dead, they would not be relenting in the slightest. At that time, the camp of atonement was the fate of his brother, and his best fate was to become the plaything of the captain of the grain brigade, Ivan Viloch, and it would not be long before he got tired of playing with himself and he would be divided into prostitutes by the grain conscripts as public like several of his fellow villagers he had seen.

"Woo Woo ......"

There was the sound of a dog barking from behind, and Stianara scolded her brother's hand and ran forward desperately, although it had been a night, but the food conscription team behind was like a haunting demon.

"Sister............ I............ I can't run. Jarev next to him panted and said to his sister, "For a teenager who is only twelve years old and can't eat enough on weekdays, it is already his limit to be able to run with his sister for one night, and he really can't hold on here."

"Jereve, you have to hold on, and in a while we will be to a place where there are Huaxia people, and there will be food when we get there, and you will be able to eat when the time comes!" Although Stiana also felt that she couldn't hold on, she still held her brother's hand and couldn't stop cheering him up.

As soon as he heard that there was food to eat, Jereph's eyes suddenly lit up, and he mustered up the last remaining strength to run forward with his sister.

At this time, "an aunt who ran with them could no longer run, and fell to the ground at once, although Stiana saw it, but her steps did not stop at all, because she knew that if she relented a little and stayed, the final result would be to stay here together."

Stiana took her brother's hand and ran out of the frozen woods to the frozen lake, "Only then did they realize that there were more than a dozen soldiers standing on the ice, looking at them with curiosity......

Liu Guodong was stunned and looked at the more than 20 Soviet Russians who were desperately running towards him, although they were not running fast, Liu Guodong could see that they were about to be unable to hold on.

As stunned as Liu Guodong were the Soviet and Russian border guards, "They didn't expect to see these peasants here," damn it, aren't the nearest farms fifty kilometers away? Where did these peasants come from? When Stiana and the others finally ran in front of Liu Guodong and his party and saw a group of Soviet border guards pointing guns at them, everyone was in despair. Seeing this, Stiana fell to her knees in despair, she felt the strength in her body leaving her, and then he saw two men in front of him wearing dark green military coats and two oriental Asian faces, standing in front of him, looking at him curiously. I am just a little bit close, why do they have Soviet and Russian border guards by their side? Stiana despaired, "Daddy, Mommy, can't we finally escape the clutches of the grain team?" Thinking of this, Styana quietly took out her cherished dagger from her arms, "He decided that after the grain convoy came up, he would die and not be defiled by those beasts, although the Orthodox Church has been banned by the Soviet Russian government, which has always believed in atheism, but Styana, who secretly believes in Orthodox Christianity, still went to the Lord in her heart and prayed: "Lord, save your poor lamb!" ”

At this time, "the grain collection team behind finally caught up." The two wolf dogs pounced viciously at Stiana and her party, and the grain collectors behind them also surrounded them. More than a dozen members of the grain requisition team surrounded the dozens of peasants with their worn-out Mosinagan rifles, and the butts of their rifles were smashed into their bodies at once, and a burst of dull sounds and cries rang out.

A member of the grain conscription raised the butt of his rifle to smash it at the skinny Jereph, but was protected by Stiana in his arms like a hen guarding a chicken. Stia glared at the grain collector with resentful eyes, held her brother firmly in her arms, and scolded angrily, "You brutes, God will punish you." "Haha......, you bitch raised slut, we are all atheists, God can't control us. The grain requisition team member was stunned, and then angrily kicked Stia with her leather shoes, Stiana did not dodge, but looked at the young Huaxia soldier who was close at hand with desperate eyes.

"Stop, ......", Liu Guodong couldn't stand it anymore, he pulled the bolt and pointed the gun at the grain collector "Shi Jianfei on the side didn't have time to hold him, so he could only pull Suomi bolt with a wry smile.

"Whoa," the sound of pulling the bolt rang out, and more than a dozen Russian border guards also removed their rifles from their backs, pulled the bolt and aimed it at the two of them.

“￥#@！ The Soviet army led by ......" shouted at Liu Guodong, making Liu Guodong, a young man from a strong family from Guangxi, confused.

In the end, it was Shi Jianfei, the old fritter who served for the second time, who translated it to him, "Guodong, Lao Maozi said that this is none of our business, let us go away." Liu Guodong didn't say anything, he looked at the Russian girl with shiny brown hair and a desperate look in her eyes, and shook his head, "Brother Shi, I'm sorry, I have to take care of this matter today, if you want to punish me, just wait for me to deal with this matter and then report it to the company commander." ”

"You ......, alas!" Shi Jianfei sighed, he thought for a while, "put away the gun, walked in front of the border guard officer, took off his gloves, took out two packs of cigarettes and a bottle of liquor from his arms, handed them to the officer, and muttered a few words to the officer in a somewhat stiff Russian. The officer looked at the cigarette and wine in his hand, and there was a greedy look in his eyes, "but he still shook his head with some hesitation."

Seeing this, Shi Jianfei turned his head to Liu Guodong and said, "Guodong, take out your guy too." ”

Seeing this, Liu Guodong immediately understood: "After putting the gun on the ground, he took off the backpack on his back, took out two bottles of liquor and a cigarette from it, and handed them to the Soviet officer. Seeing this, the Soviet officer and a dozen soldiers couldn't hold back any longer, and came over one after another, took the cigarettes and spirits, patted Liu Guodong's shoulder with a smile, gave a thumbs up, and said, "Sturgeon!" (very good meaning in Russian)", Shi Jianfei next to him saw it and caught Liu Guodong with his hand and snorted at the dozen or so grain requisition team members on the other side, Liu Guodong thought about it and walked towards a grain conscription team leader who looked like a leader, took out a golden Zhibao lighter from his arms and handed it over, and opened the lid with his fingers, "Ding!" A crisp metallic sound came, Liu Guodong swiped with his hand, and the dark blue flame immediately burned, even if the wind blew, the flame was still tenacious and not extinguished.

The head of the bearded grain conscription team took the lighter with joy, tried to turn it on a few times, listened to the crisp sound, and then felt the yellow-orange and orange lighter in his hand and the heavy weight and the envious eyes of the surrounding team members, and his heart was full of joy. This is a good thing, in their place, this is a good thing that even the captain doesn't have" He also knew the purpose of those Huaxia people, didn't he just want him to let go of the two sisters and brothers? Anyway, there are so many people dying in the village every day, what is it to put one or two people like this. With a wave of his hand, he asked his men to put the siblings down. waved his hand at Li Guodong, signaling that he could take the two sisters and brothers away. But Liu Guodong shook his head, pointed at the dozens of Soviet Russian peasants who had escaped, and signaled that he would take them with him.

The bearded man didn't agree, he shook his head violently, and waved his hand again and again.

The meaning is very resolute, you can take these two people away, but if you want to take some people with you, you can't Liu Guodong cursed in a low voice, "Damn, these greedy old hairymen." Liu Guodong gritted his teeth and took out a stack of huāhuā green gold yuan coupons from his arms, and handed them to the greedy bearded man, he didn't believe that the bearded man still didn't agree when he had money.

Well, there is a saying that money can make ghosts grind, and now Huaxia's golden yuan coupons are also very popular in Siberia. In Siberia, due to the large issuance of rubles, the depreciation has been rapid, and many people have switched to the gold yuan coupons issued by Huaxia, which not only have anti-counterfeiting watermarks, but also anti-counterfeiting laser codes that can hardly be imitated in this generation, which are very popular in Siberia. After taking the money handed over by Liu Guodong, the bearded man estimated in his heart that there were at least more than 200 yuan, and everyone could get at least 100 yuan after dividing the circle.

Take people's hands short, eat people's soft mouth, this sentence is common anywhere in the world, take other people's things to meet other people's conditions, Lao Maozi is no exception.

After the bearded man's order, the grain conscription team released these dozens of people.

After Stiana got the reason, she hurriedly hugged her younger brother and stumbled towards Liu Guodong and them, at this moment, she knew that she and her brother were finally saved. When Stiana walked in front of Liu Guodong with her younger brother in her arms, her feet were weak, and her body was about to lean forward, when she suddenly felt that she was supported by a pair of warm big hands.

Liu Guodong supported the girl in front of him, only felt a flutter, and secretly shook his head in his heart. You have to be so skinny to be so light. Just as Liu Guodong was about to say something, he suddenly felt that his forehead was covered by a warm and moist lip print.

Liu Guodong, who had never been in contact with this battle, was stunned as if he had been struck by lightning, and his face suddenly stiffened.

After a while, I saw the Russian girl who was rescued by himself softly speaking a word of Russian to herself, although she couldn't understand it, Liu Guodong felt that it was the most moving voice she had ever heard in her life.

At this time, Shi Jianfei on the side laughed, "Guodong, aren't you always thinking about marrying a foreign daughter-in-law?" I guess this girl has taken a fancy to you, you kid is blessed now! ”

Liu Guodong glared at Shi Jianfei with a red face, but he muttered in his mouth that he didn't know what to say......! ~！