With the fall of the fortress of Lugawaya, the combat operation of the Second Front Army and the Third Front Army of the Chinese Empire to attack Vladivostok from the east and west was completed, and the city of Vladivostok also completely fell into the hands of the Central [***] team. After the main forces of the two major fronts met, the 2nd Front continued to attack the fortress of Agathrid Peninsula on the Amur Peninsula to the south, while the 3rd Front was responsible for attacking the fortress of the Tyuryjin Peninsula.

The airship kept throwing gasoline and burning, and the frightened crowd went crazy and broke into the refuge and anti-artillery holes of the Russian army in the fortress. The Second Front Army and the Third Front Army of the Chinese Empire concentrated more than 2,000 artillery pieces and used the landmarks on the operational map captured at the Second River Fortress Headquarters to accurately send artillery shells into all key parts of the Russian army.

"Boom!"

One shell after another exploded on the fortifications, and suddenly earth and rocks flew out, flames, and gunsmoke. The violent blast wave instantly killed and injured the surrounding Russian soldiers and civilians, and in the blink of an eye, there were many dead bodies around, and countless bones were broken and blood spilled.

Towards evening, the wind became more and more fierce, and the fires on the Russian fortress continued to spread, and soon spread in all directions, like a sea of fire.

Originally, Duan Qirui and Liang Huadian were going to continue to use poison gas to attack, but the north wind was very strong and the wind direction was unstable, so they could not use poison gas to fight.

However, with the detailed defense map of the Russian fortress, the shells of the Chinese Emperor [***] can accurately hit the key and vital parts of the Russian fortress, causing heavy casualties to the Russian army, and it has been passively beaten, and there is almost no power to fight back.

Just after six o'clock, seeing that the sky was about to get dark, Duan Qirui and Liang Huadian discussed it with Liang Huadian and the others, thinking that they would give the Russian army another chance and persuade them to surrender.

At 6:12, the Chinese Empire's navy, land and air forces stopped their attacks, and Duan Qirui sent people to repair the telephone line to the fortress on the Tyulijin Peninsula, and then demanded Alekseev's surrender by telephone.

However, Alekseev was determined not to surrender, and he immediately refused. But Duan Qirui did not give up, but ordered someone to inform Aleksayev.

"If you don't surrender, you will be slaughtered after the fortress is captured."

Alekseev was silent for a moment, and Duan Qirui saw that there was a play in persuading him to surrender, so he sent someone to shout in Russian in front of the fortress, saying that if Alekseev did not surrender, the city would be slaughtered.

This move immediately caused a huge shock, the Russian people on the fortress suddenly bombed the camp, the huge panic spread rapidly, and the voices demanding Alekseev's surrender came and went, and they became louder and louder.

Even more panicked than the Russian civilians in Vladivostok were the soldiers of the Russian fortress, who knew better than anyone that the fortress could no longer be held. From the moment the Second River Fortress was lost, they already knew that the Vladivostok Fortress could not be held. Because the cannons of the various parts of the Vladivostok fortress were basically facing outward, the fortress of the Second River, the fortress of Lujiawaya, the fortress of the Chyulijin Peninsula and the fortress of the Agathrid Peninsula were like the walls of a city, once one of them was captured, the others could not hold it at all.

Knowing that if they can't hold it and don't surrender, they will be sent to death, and in the past ten days, the Russian soldiers have seen the powerful attack power of the Chinese Emperor [***], and they have been frightened by the three-dimensional artillery strikes from the navy, land and air forces, so the call for surrender from the officers and soldiers within the Russian army has gradually risen.

External and internal pressures forced Alekseev to soften his attitude, especially the Governor of the Amur Province, Gorodeikov, who demanded Alekseyev's surrender on the grounds of protecting Russian civilians, most of whom were family members of Russian soldiers, so Gorodaikov's words were strongly supported by the Russian army and civilians.

Alekseev then consulted behind closed doors with Chief of Staff Clowsky.

Alekseev sighed: "The loss of Vladivostok will be a heavy blow to the empire, and it will affect the all-out counteroffensive plan of His Majesty the Emperor." ”

Clowski said: "Judging from the current situation of friend and foe, we will not be able to wait for tomorrow's sun!" ”

Alekseev frowned: "You mean in favor of surrendering?" ”

Clowski smiled bitterly: "Your Excellency Commander, if you don't surrender, the enemy will slaughter the city, which not only makes the people panic, but even the soldiers of the defenders of the fortress are also panicked, they are afraid, and they no longer have the courage to fight." ”

Alekseev said fiercely: "Soldiers should repay the country with death, and those who are cowardly are not worthy of being emperors, they should be shot!" ”

Clowski sighed: "Your Excellency, I have to remind you that if you go and shoot those timid officers and soldiers now, the soldiers will mutiny. ”

Alekseev said angrily: "Wouldn't they mutiny if they hadn't been shot?" Gorodikov, a coward and a bastard, he kept inciting the soldiers to surrender, and I wanted to kill him immediately. ”

At this moment, the door was suddenly kicked open, and Gorodeikov rushed into Alekseev's office with a dozen high-ranking officers and soldiers.

Alekseev suddenly became angry and shouted: "What are you doing here? Rebellion? Get the hell out of here! ”

Gorodikov snorted coldly: "Your Excellency, I beg your pardon for taking the liberty of making an agreement with your subordinates, and in order to avoid being slaughtered by the enemy's retaliation, we are all in favor of surrendering. ”

Alekseev pointed at Gorodikov's nose and scolded: "You are a coward, you are afraid of death!" ”

Gorodeikov snorted coldly: "That's right! I am a coward, I am afraid of death, but I am also for the sake of hundreds of thousands of innocent civilians and hundreds of thousands of soldiers in the fortress. Since we can't hold it anymore, why do we have to fight to save face? You say I'm a coward, don't you want to use the blood of soldiers to fulfill your so-called honor? You are more hateful than me who surrendered, you know? ”

Gorodikov's words were like knives, and the poked Alekseev was incomplete, and he was even more speechless.

Chief of Staff Clowsky asked: "Gorodikov, what exactly do you want?" Is this a military admonition? ”

Gorodikov glanced at Major General Marlowe next to him, and Major General Marlowe understood and handed a copy of the surrender document in his hand to Klosky.

"Your Excellency the Commander, please sign!"

Klowsky took the surrender document, read it roughly, then looked at Gorodeikov and a group of senior officers, and reluctantly handed the surrender document to Alekseyev.

After Alekseev took the surrender document and read it, he immediately tore the surrender document to shreds in anger.

"Let me sign, you dream!"

Gorodakov laughed a few times, then took out a copy of the surrender document that was exactly the same as the one just now, and said: "I have expected you to do this for a long time, so I have prepared several copies. ”

Alekseev suddenly trembled with anger, pointed at Gorodeikov and couldn't say a word, but he became so angry that he vomited a mouthful of blood, and then fainted.

"Chief of Staff, since His Excellency the Commander has fainted, can you please sign it?"

Clowski shook his head and said, "I don't sign!" ”

Gorodikov sneered: "I know your difficulties, whether you sign it or not, you can't escape the blame for losing the Vladivostok fortress, it's better to die in battle and get honor than to be hanged by your own people, right?" ”

"You know," said Clowski, "but as commanders, there's no way we can do that!" ”

"Then I'm sorry!"

Gorodikov looked at him, and Marlowe immediately shot and killed Kloski, and then Marlowe took out the seals of Aleksayev and Klosky, stamped them on the surrender, and imitated their handwriting and signed.

Subsequently, Major General Marlowe sent someone to present the surrender document to Duan Qirui, the Supreme Commander of the Second Front Army of the Chinese Empire, and surrendered to the Chinese Emperor [***] team in the name of Alekseev and Klosky.

That night, Gorodikov went to the Doge's Palace in Vladivostok as a negotiator. There, Duan Qirui negotiated with Gorodeikov on behalf of the First Theater of the Chinese Empire. The negotiations were unconditional, but Duan Qirui promised to give up the massacre of the city as long as the Russian army handed over the fortress intact and gave preferential treatment to the prisoners of war.

After the two sides agreed, Gorodikov returned to the fortress and made preparations for the surrender with Marlo and other senior Russian officers, including counting the number of soldiers, weapons and ammunition.

Because Duan Qirui clearly emphasized that if he could not take over the Vladivostok fortress in its entirety, he would not give up the slaughter of the city. One of the most important things to do is to accept a large number of weapons, ammunition and other materials hoarded in Vladivostok Fortress.

Although Marlowe and other Russian officers were very distressed, they wanted to destroy the weapons and ammunition depot before surrendering, but in the end they gave up after weighing.

Early the next morning, Marlowe and other Russian generals led the Russian army to assemble in Huamut Square, including the wounded and sick, a total of more than 90,000 Russian troops surrendered to the Chinese Emperor [***].

Duan Qirui and Liang Huadian attended the surrender ceremony of the Russian army, and when asked why Alekseev did not appear, Marlowe and other Russian generals said that General Alekseev had already committed his loyalty to the tsar.

Duan Qirui was a little disappointed by the death of General Alekseev, and he had planned to personally humiliate the Russian army generals and demoralize the Russian army. However, although he failed to do so, Marlowe gave General Alekseev's command knife to Duan Qirui, which was a small compensation.

After the surrender ceremony of the Russian army in Vladivostok, the Russian prisoners of war were held in the Vladivostok barracks, and the Russian civilians in the fortress were released, allowing them to return to their homes in the city of Vladivostok and leaving Vladivostok.

Holding the account book handed over by Gorodikov, Liang Huadian said excitedly to Duan Qirui: "Old Duan, we have made a fortune this time, take a look!" ”

Duan Qirui took the account book in Liang Huadian's hand, opened it and looked at it, and couldn't help but be surprised. The material reserves of Vladivostok Fortress are really amazing, with more than 500,000 guns of all kinds, more than 300 million rounds of guns and ammunition, 170,000 shells of all kinds, more than 900 tons of gunpowder, 200,000 tons of grain reserves, 13.3 million rubles of military salaries, and countless other materials such as medicines, oil and salt, military uniforms, ordnance, etc., and the total value of all seized materials exceeds 200 million dragon coins.

"The officials of the General Logistics Department have been saying that we are losers, and this time I will show them the list, I think they should all shut up."

"That's it!"

The two laughed, and they were really beautiful.

(To be continued)