"The revolution has finally broken out!"

Nanjing, in the Chinese Imperial Palace, when Chen Moran received a telegram from the Russian embassy and the headquarters of the expeditionary force in Petrograd, he stood by the window and was silent for more than ten minutes, but after the silence, a smile appeared on his face.

"Alright, it's all back on track!"

After saying this, Chen Moran breathed a sigh of relief, until now, he finally won the bet, and history is finally back on track, of course, the history of other countries.

In Russia, as in history, there was a "February Revolution", and soon the self-confusion of the Constitutionals and the Democratic Party would destroy Russia, and when they got into a quarrel, the Bolsheviks, who had long been eyeing each other, had penetrated deep into the army, controlled the Russian army through the purge of officers, and completely disintegrated tens of millions of Russian troops by a telegram, as for the so-called Democrats, they were destined to be eliminated by history, as for in this revolution, The mutiny of the 356th Wing is only a small episode, and it will be quickly suppressed.

In another eight months, the whole of Russia will be turned upside down, and by that time...... Pondering, Chen Moran returned to his desk and pressed the electric bell leading to the outside, and a few seconds later an attendant officer walked in.

"Your Majesty!"

"The Queen, please...... Let's go down! ”

Let's go and see the queen in person! With that, Chen Moran walked towards the outside of the office, his steps had never been so easy as now, the only thing that needed to be considered now was how to implement those plans, of course, the core of the plans still depends on the Russians themselves.

Oh Russia! Don't let me down!

When Chen Moran, who was far away in Nanjing, was "praying" for Russia, he was in Mogilev, Russia. This is the front of Russia, where Nicholas II, who had just arrived from Petrograd, received a snowflake telegram from the capital requesting reinforcements.

In the face of an urgent telegram from the capital, the Chief of the General Staff, General Alekseev, frankly addressed Nicholas II:

"Your Majesty, you are deliberately preparing a gallows for yourself. Don't forget that the rabble is not polite. ”

For Alekseev's remarks. Nicholas II did not listen. He had his own judgment about the situation in the capital as Tsar, and he was in agreement with Empress Alexandra, who, in her letters to him, saw not the workers' movement, but the Duma, as the greatest danger.

"It's a rogue movement. Boys and girls ran around, shouting that there was no bread. Purely to create tension. Some workers also don't let others work. If it's cold, they'll stay home. But if the Duma behaves well, everything will pass, calm down. ”

"My Chief of Staff, the cold weather can help the army defeat the Germans, and it can also stop the demonstrators. The cold will drive the masses home from the streets. By that time, we will only need one victory to make those masses forget everything! ”

When Nicholas II swore this to Alekseev, the chairman of the State Duma, Rodencko, again sent a telegram in which he pointed out that the situation in the capital was extremely serious. The only way to stop the revolution and restore order was to immediately remove all ministers from their posts and to issue a declaration that the Cabinet of Ministers was accountable to the State Duma, Nicholas II said not without contempt:

"This fat man is talking nonsense to me again, and I don't even have to answer him!"

Saying that, he turned around and said Alekseev.

"General Ivanov, please!"

General Ivanov was the tsar's general of the guard, and a few minutes later, General Ivanov came and entered the base camp. Come to Nicholas II,...,

"Your Majesty!"

After the salute of General Ivanov, Nicholas II said.

"General Ivanov. Now that you know the situation in the capital, Khabarov has not been able to faithfully carry out his duties, so I have decided to send you to Petrograd to take over Khabarov's command of the suppression of the rebellion in Petrograd! ”

After appointing Ivanov as commander of the garrison in Petrograd, Nicholas II dictated two more orders, one was to order the Chief of the General Staff Alekseev to send the Georgiev battalion from Mogilev to accompany Ivanov back to Petrograd. The commander of the Northern and Western Fronts was ordered to send one artillery infantry brigade and one cavalry brigade to Petrograd. The second is to suspend the activities of the State Duma from February 26 in the Russian calendar, and to determine a separate date for the resumption of activities in April 1917 at the latest. ”

On the day when the tsar made an additional force to the capital. In Petrograd, Alexandria? Vdolovich? Kerensky, a bachelor of law, who had served as a legal adviser to the victims of the government repression in 1905, for which he was imprisoned, but also made a name for himself, and later served as a defense lawyer for many opposition politicians, and finally on the evening of the 11th, at the invitation of a "well-known legal expert" who had been elected a member of the State Duma five years earlier, a meeting of representatives of several socialist parties and organizations was held at his residence, which was attended by Socialist-Revolutionaries, Bundists, Bolsheviks, Mensheviks, members of the Labor League, elements of the district unions.

Meetings like this have been held many times in the past few days. At this time, in Petrograd, the demonstrators were looking for a leader, eager for someone to express their vague aspirations accurately, and despite the role of the revolutionaries in the demonstrations, it was difficult for them to really play a leading role because their leaders were either in exile or abroad, and the Kerensky Mansion meeting was at the right time, and the main leaders of these opposition parties were still in exile or exile, but the backbone of these parties remained firmly at the forefront of the people during this period.

The Bolsheviks, on the other hand, were the few, more radical, at their own meetings which set up groups of workers' soviets to call for the establishment of the Soviets as organs of revolutionary power. The word "Soviet" is the Old Russian word for "meeting", which, like the Rada and the Duma, comes from the tradition of consultation in the village councils. During the Russian Revolution of 1905, the Constitutionalists proposed to borrow this ancient term to name a new mechanism of people's consultation - the Council of Inquiry, after that. It is used to name the elected authority of the masses. During the revolution of 1905, the Petersburg Soviet of Workers' Deputies survived for only 52 days, but this body exerted a tremendous influence among the revolutionary masses. Therefore, when a new revolutionary situation arose, it was under the dominance of the Bolsheviks. Once again, the workers were the first to raise the banner.

While Kerensky and the backbone of the opposition party were there debating how to deal with the present situation, the Bolshevik radicals were agitating the workers to wage a new revolution – to take up arms for the revolution and, with ample financial support, underground newspapers were constantly printing small newspapers. While the Bolsheviks mobilized the radicals among the workers and soldiers for an armed revolution.

March 12, the most crucial day of the revolution, and thanks to the efforts of the Bolsheviks, a part of the soldiers finally took up arms and turned to the revolution! From the morning, at the instigation of the Bolsheviks and workers. First, the capital garrison rebelled one after another, and the government lost control of part of the troops.

The first to rise was the Volynsky regiment. At seven o'clock in the morning, a battalion commander called Khabarov and reported to him: the teaching team refused to leave the camp, and the officer was killed; Preoblesky's entire regiment of soldiers lined up and walked down the street. The order was good, the military band was leading, and there was not a single officer. Khabarov was also informed that the Volynsky regiment, the Preobrysky regiment and the Litovsky regiment had "contacted the workers" and destroyed the barracks of the gendarmerie division. Workers with soldiers. Pick up guns and bullets. When the Moscow regiment set out, the workers began to arm themselves, and the workers took pistols and rifles. When they met a group of soldiers who were approaching them, some of them asked the workers to direct them and instruct them what to do, and at once a Bolshevik and several workers came to them, gave them command, and led them to the police station in Hevinsky. Then shoot at the police station and seize the weapons of the police station. …,

In the Vyborg district, workers and soldiers drew up a plan of action: to occupy the police station. disarming all police officers; the release of workers detained in police stations and prisons; Destroy the royalist army in the center of the city; Liaise with the army and workers in other districts who have not yet risen up.

Faced with the change in the capital, Khabarov also wanted to resist and sent a force of about 1,000 men to deal with the rioters, but the team quickly disappeared without a trace. As soon as they set out, workers, women, children, mutinous soldiers, surrounded the ranks from all sides, either as their own or as their own, and soon they were integrated into the masses.

Faced with this situation, Khabarov called the naval command in Kronstadt and asked for reliable troops, but the naval commander replied that Khabarov did not expect - the riot had already spread to the navy.

At dusk, soldiers of the Semenovsky regiment, known for its brutal suppression of the 1905 Moscow uprising, also took part in the uprising. By night, the forces loyal to the Tsar in the Petrograd garrison ceased to exist, and under the leadership of the Bolsheviks, a part of the rioting soldiers and workers shot the officers, and then instigated the soldiers to participate in the uprising, and the masses and soldiers seized the post and telecommunications offices, all the railway stations in Petrograd, and the printing houses, without the permission of the masses and the soldiers, they could not send a telegram, they could not leave Petrograd, and they could not print a single piece of paper.

Then the workers seized the general arsenal of Petrograd, in which tens of thousands of pistols alone were obtained, and hundreds of thousands of workers began to be armed, and throughout the night gunfire could be heard all over the city, with fighting, demonstrations, and fire. The people, with the support of the soldiers, pursued the royalist police and officers and soldiers, and at the same time set fire to the courthouse, the building of the Ministry of Internal Affairs, the headquarters of the secret police, and the police station in the city, and black smoke billowed into the sky. When the rioters stormed the Peter and Paul Fortress, as they had done during the French Revolution, they released a dozen criminals inside, and then they stormed other prisons in the capital, indiscriminately releasing more than 8,000 criminals back into the already chaotic city.

Throughout the night, the whole of Petrograd reverberated with gunshots and cheers, but the cries of the robbed rich people and the cries of the noble ladies who were raped by the mob were directly ignored, and at this time, the only calm in the whole of Petrograd was the headquarters of the East Asian Expeditionary Force and the embassy district.

Behind the barbed wire wall. Several trucks blocked the street, and in front of the trucks, sandbags were piled up to form several barricades, and behind the barricades, several heavy machine guns were aimed at the road ahead.

"This is the East Asia Expeditionary Force Command. Unauthorized entry is not allowed! ”

In front of the barricades, under the protection of several soldiers, the officers always shouted loudly in Russian whenever someone tried to approach the area. In front of the barbed wire, more than a dozen corpses lying on the road undoubtedly proved that he was right.

"Bang ......"

When someone at the corner tried to approach the street controlled by the expeditionary force, the shots rang out, and the man behind the barricade did not hesitate to shoot in warning, and at that moment, a white flag stretched out from the street.

"Don't shoot. Don't shoot, I'm Chinese......"

Then the man waved the white flag and shouted loudly, and then the man walked out, followed by dozens of people. There are Chinese, there are Russians, and it can be seen from the coats of those Russians, especially the fur coats of some of these women, that they are by no means thugs.

"I'm Chinese, don't shoot. This is my passport ......"...,

This is a group of frightened Chinese businessmen and wealthy Russians who have fled here with their families in tow.

"What are they?"

As the officer checked the passports of the Chinese and his family, he turned his gaze to the panicked Russians.

"Sir. They were my neighbors, the rioters who were robbing all over the rich neighborhoods, they were killing men, they were raping women, they were even raping little girls, while we were escaping. They had to run away with us......"

The merchant hurriedly explained the origin of these people, and the Russians still looked uncertain. Hearing what their neighbor seemed to be talking to the officer, an old man in his fifties among the Russians hurriedly said something to the women beside him, and then the women hurriedly took off their diamond earrings, necklaces, and other jewelry, and handed it to the old man, who put the jewelry in a small cloth bag and walked to the officer.

"Sir, please be lenient......"

As he spoke, the old man tried to give the officer a bag full of jewelry, but the young officer refused without hesitation, and just as the old Russian's face showed a look of despair, he looked at the crowd, and then at the children in the crowd, and hesitated for a moment before speaking.

"I don't have the authority to allow you to enter here, but wait a minute, I'll report to my superiors!"

"The Russians asked us for help?"

In the headquarters, Xu Shuzheng, who was discussing with Liu Jieren whether to evacuate overseas Chinese and how to protect the overseas Chinese, listened to the report of his subordinates, and the whole person couldn't help but be stunned, when he looked out the window, Liu Jingren was lying on the table and looking at the Petrograd map on the table, on the map, it can be seen that there are five commercial streets between the headquarters of the expeditionary force and the embassy, and those commercial streets are not slums, and of course they are not rich areas, but just commercial areas.

"Maybe ......"

Looking at the map on the table, an idea slowly took shape in Liu Jingren's mind, he took the pencil on the table and drew a few lines on the map, and used a few lines to draw the area between the expeditionary force headquarters and the embassy.

"Ambassador Liu, what are you doing?"

Walking to the map, Xu Shuzheng, who was about to order his subordinates to refuse the entry of those Russians, saw the lines drawn by Liu Jingren on the map, and immediately guessed what he wanted to do, now he didn't want to wade into this pool of Russia, now that civil strife broke out in Russia, although the expeditionary force was mainly Japanese, but as the chief of staff of the expeditionary force, he was also the actual person in charge of the expeditionary force, and he didn't want to cause himself any trouble.

"General Xu, now, how many people do you have on hand?" 、

Looking up at Xu Shuzheng, Liu Jingren looked a little excited, he saw an opportunity, an opportunity to expand China's influence in Russia.

"Ambassador Liu, now, the expeditionary force must refrain from any move that could aggravate the relationship between the two sides!"

Xu Shuzheng did not give a direct answer to Liu Jingren's question, in his opinion, the ambassador in front of him was simply crazy, wanted to be famous, and wanted to be crazy.

"General Xu, in the morning, when I contacted the Russian Foreign Ministry with the ambassadors of other countries and asked them to protect the embassy, the foreign minister was no longer in contact at that time, only other officials, and they told us, let us figure out our own way, now, the whole of Petrograd is still a formed and obeying orders, only the guard unit of the expeditionary force command, at this time, as allies, we should play some role!"

"Make a difference? What does it do? Your Majesty has clear instructions forbidding us to get involved in the civil strife in Russia! ”

Xu Shuzheng did not hesitate to give His Majesty's order, two days ago, after the turmoil began in Russia, he received a secret telegram from His Majesty, demanding that the expeditionary force should not be involved in the civil strife in Russia, in other words, the expeditionary force can fight the Germans, but must not meddle in Russia's domestic affairs, whether the tsar is overthrown or not, it has nothing to do with the expeditionary force.

"This is not to meddle in the civil strife, but to create a safe zone, and the expeditionary force must take responsibility for protecting the embassies of various countries, and between the headquarters and the embassies, a safe zone will be set up to receive those Russians who have taken refuge here!"

After putting forward his own suggestion, Liu Jingren's voice raised slightly, and then said.

"The rescued Russians will be grateful to China in the future! That's what we need! At least then, no one will accuse us, in this riot, nothing has been done! ”