On 9 March, the naval fleet in which Xiao Zhenlei and his entourage were riding arrived in the South China Sea. That night, Yang Shiqi took a telegram and walked quickly towards Xiao Zhenlei, who was blowing the sea breeze on the deck.

Under a large sun umbrella, Xiao Zhenlei fell asleep on the recliner, covered with a blanket, Wang Yanan sat next to him and was reading a book by the light, Wang Yanan saw Yang Shiqi coming in a hurry, got up and raised his hand to indicate Yang Shiqi to whisper.

The two walked to the side, and Wang Yanan asked, "Mr. Yang, what's wrong?" Looking at you like this, is there something important? ”

Yang Shiqi said: "Yes! ”

"Is it important?"

"Well, how to say it, it's not a domestic thing, it's a matter on the Tsarist side, just now the Iron and Blood Investigation Bureau sent a telegram saying that there was a large-scale strike movement in Petrograd, and the number of people participating in it exceeded the number of previous strikes!"

Wang Yanan didn't care when he heard this, and said with a smile: "It's not once or twice that Tsarist Russia has struck, what's so strange about this?" ”

"No, no, no!" Yang Shiqi shook his head: "Madam, this telegram says that this strike is different from the past, this strike is obviously planned, organized and led by the Russian Revolutionary Party, while it was organized by the workers spontaneously before, and the situation between the two is completely different!" According to intelligence, many of the soldiers who were sent by the Tsar to suppress them were persuaded by the Russian Revolutionary Party to refuse to shoot at the workers and join the ranks of the workers, and they also helped the striking workers to disarm the military and police and disperse them".

Wang Yanan has been with Xiao Zhenlei for so many years, and her political sense has also improved a lot, and she reacted, "You mean that this time there is a Russian Revolutionary Party planning, organization and leadership. Is it possible for a strike to develop into an armed uprising? ”

Yang Shiqi nodded and said, "It's very possible, until now." The number of strikers exceeded 90,000! ”

After Yang Shiqi left, Wang Yanan returned to Xiao Zhenlei and sat down to continue reading. When it was almost ten o'clock, Wang Yanan saw that it was late at night, and the temperature and humidity in the air were aggravated, and he was worried that Xiao Zhenlei would be affected by the cold, so he woke him up, "Wake up, go sleep in the cabin, it's already late!" ”

"Oh!" Xiao Zhenlei sat up a little dazed and asked, "How long have I been asleep?" ”

"Three hours!" Wang Yanan put down the book in his hand. He took the telegram on the table and handed it to Xiao Zhenlei and said, "This is a telegram from Mr. Yang, saying that the situation on the Tsarist side has changed significantly."

Xiao Zhenlei rubbed his face with one hand, took the telegram with the other hand and read it, he stood up and said, "I can't delay any longer, I must go back to the capital immediately, come here, go and call Yang Yongtai to see me!" ”

Yang Yongtai met Xiao Zhenlei and Wang Yanan on the way back to the cabin to rest, "President, are you looking for me?" ”

Xiao Zhenlei nodded and said, "Hmm." Inform us to go down and speed up to Hainan, where we will disembark and let the air base prepare the planes. After we arrived, we flew back to the capital directly, and asked them to carry out strict maintenance of the plane, and there must be no accidents! ”

Yang Yongtai immediately said: "Yes." I'll go and contact in person to arrange! ”

On the afternoon of March 11, Xiao Zhenlei and his entourage finally returned to the capital. Before the ass was hot, Wang Yaqiao, director of the Iron and Blood Investigation Bureau, came to see Xiao Zhenlei. He was briefed on the latest developments of the Tsarist strike.

"Great President, there is news from St. Petersburg that yesterday the St. Petersburg strike turned into a general strike. All kinds of businesses, shops, restaurants, cafes stopped working. In the center of the city was packed with people. Tsar Nicholas II was at the base camp in Mogilov, and after receiving a report from the commander of the St. Petersburg Military District Khabarov on the situation in the capital, he ordered the implementation of terror against the strike movement in Petrograd. Last night, he signed a telegram to Khabarov, which said, "Order that the riots in Kyoto tomorrow be stopped." As a result, the tsarist army arrested five members of the St. Petersburg Committee of the Russian Revolutionary Party overnight, filled the center of Petrograd and the main traffic roads with military police, and set up machine guns on the rooftops and corner towers to shoot at the workers on strike and march.

But the striking workers did not frighten and did not disperse, and the resolution of the top brass of the Russian Revolutionary Party was eradicated, and the Vyborg Committee continued to lead the striking workers in the hands of the Petrograd Committee. Today is Sunday, and in the morning St. Petersburg workers are still pouring into the streets and squares. According to the information we have received, the soldiers of the 4th Company of the Pavlov Reserve Battalion of the Praetorian Guards have revolted, and this uprising marks the beginning of the shift of the Russian soldiers to the side of the striking workers. The Russian Revolutionary Party decided to turn the strike into an armed uprising and planned to rejoice with the soldiers and seize the arsenal. I speculate that the day of the end of the Russian Romanlov dynasty is not far off! ”

Xiao Zhenlei got up when he heard this and said, "Really? Looks like we've finally been waiting for this day! ”

Wang Yaqiao said: "President, should we take action?" ”

"No!" Xiao Zhenlei raised his hand, "Everything goes naturally, if we intervene rashly, the situation may develop in a direction that we cannot predict, everything will wait and see, and if there is any important news, report to me immediately!" ”

"Yes!"

In view of the turbulent situation in Tsarist Russia, this has made the Entente British and French sides feel extremely frightened, because for Britain and France, once the Tsarist Russian authorities are overthrown by the Russian Revolutionary Party, then Russia is very likely to withdraw from the war, after all, Germany has done a lot of work in this regard, it is estimated that Germany has reached some agreements with the Russian Revolutionary Party, if the two million troops deployed by the German army on the Eastern Front can be withdrawn, it will definitely be a huge disaster for Britain and France, you must know that it has been nearly a year and more than a year, It was all Tsarist Russia that was fighting with Germany, and the troops deployed by Germany on the Eastern Front were basically elite divisions, and if such an army was transferred to the Western Front, the pressure on Britain and France would not be as simple as multiplication.

British Prime Minister George personally sent a telegram urging Xiao Zhenlei to transfer the promised 1,000 fighters as soon as possible to help the British Air Force seize air supremacy, and the British side was already preparing for the sea-crossing operation, all kinds of large ships began to assemble in the English Channel, and half of the main fleet of the Navy blocked both ends of the English Channel to prevent the German naval fleet and submarines from coming to sabotage the sea-crossing operation. In addition, the armies of Britain, France, Canada, Australia and other countries in Britain began to advance in batches towards the English Channel.

After receiving the telegram, Xiao Zhenlei called to ask Jiang Baili how the work of sending 1,000 fighters to Britain to help the British Air Force seize air supremacy was going, and Jiang Baili told him that there were still 10 days to complete the preparations, and that the General Staff was currently in contact with the British military to ask them to build two or three refueling and transfer sites in North Africa, near the Mediterranean coast, and in Portugal.

After learning of the specific progress, Xiao Zhenlei asked him to call back British Prime Minister George and say that the 1,000 fighters of the Chinese Air Force had almost been prepared, and as long as the British side built one or two airports in North Africa and Portugal respectively for the refueling and transfer of fighters, the 1,000 fighters could arrive in Britain within a few days to help in the war.

In view of the fact that the fighters sent over this time were basically second-generation fighters and were much more advanced in technology than the first-generation fighters used by Britain and Germany, in order to protect the technical secrets of the fighters, Xiao Zhenlei ordered the General Staff Headquarters to give an order to the First Army Corps to transfer a unit from Wu Shiyou to Britain to defend the Chinese army's airfields and fighters.

At the same time, the work of sending an additional 1 million Wehrmacht troops to Europe to fight against southeastern Europe in order to contain the German forces on the eastern front had already begun, and the first batch of 100,000 men had already been loaded and shipped, and weapons and ammunition were shipped to the Middle East along with the ships.

On March 12, in St. Petersburg, Russia, thousands of workers marched to the city center. As a result of the propaganda and organizational work of the Russian Revolutionary Party, a large number of soldiers in the army were transferred to the revolutionary side, and at about 6 o'clock in the morning the soldiers of the Volyn Praetorian Guard Corps revolted, killed the captain of the platoon squad, and then went out into the streets and drove to the nearby two units of Preobrazhinsky and Litovsky to unite the soldiers of the two armies. After putting their ranks in order, the rebels marched to Vyborg to join the workers. The Moscow Janissaries stationed in the Vyborg district resisted and prevented the soldiers from participating in the uprising. The insurrectionary soldiers and workers stormed the barracks, killed the instructor captain, seized weapons, and armed the workers. The workers and rebel soldiers seized the Munitions Factory and the Artillery Headquarters, capturing 40,000 rifles, 30,000 pistols and a large quantity of ammunition.

The Russian Revolutionary Party led the masses into the prison and released the political prisoners, and the Russian Revolutionary Party immediately rushed to the workers' quarters to take part in the fighting. The army is increasingly participating in the uprising. According to statistics, the number of troops participating in the uprising increased from 600 on the night of March 11 to 10,200 on the morning of the 12th, 25,700 at noon, and 66,700 in the evening.

On the evening of March 12, Tsar Nicholas II held a final meeting with his ministers at the Mariánska Palace, but he and his ministers were soon arrested. Nicholas II tried to bring back troops from the front to Petrograd to suppress the uprising. However, the army near Petrograd has already revolted. The tsar's crusade was blocked halfway, and the whole of St. Petersburg was in the hands of the insurrectionary workers.

After the success of the revolution in St. Petersburg, it quickly spread throughout Russia, and on the morning of the 13th, a general strike began in Moscow. The procession marched to Red Square and the City Duma. Armed workers drove the guards away and disarmed them. A mass meeting was held on the square opposite the City Duma. The revolutionary party called on the workers to go into the barracks and have a party with the soldiers. The soldiers soon moved on to the revolutionary side. On March 1, workers and rebel soldiers occupied the Kremlin, the arsenal, the railway station, the city government, the police station, the telegraph office, etc., and released political prisoners from prisons.

On 15 March, the Executive Committee of the Russian Armed Uprising, setting aside the left wing of the revolutionary party, reached a separate agreement with the State Duma in favour of the formation of a provisional government by the bourgeoisie, adopted by a majority the recommendations of the Executive Committee at the plenary session, and handed over power to the bourgeoisie. Thus, the first bourgeois provisional government of Russia was formed.

Late at night on March 15, the tsar was forced to sign a declaration of abdication. At this point, the Romanov dynasty fell. (To be continued......)