Chapter Twenty-Six: The Bombardment of the City of Trading (I)
Colonel Tsilla did not inform Major General Yuris that he had taken action after consulting with several colonels, because they knew that Major General Yuris was likely to stop them, so they informed Major General Yuris, and it was not until after the incident that Major General Yuris found out.
Major General Yuris, who only found out afterwards, was very angry, if this matter was spread, it would definitely affect the empire's reputation in the international arena greatly, and also make the attack of the Chinese Empire more just, this is really too passive, and the current Huaxia is not when the Manchus were in power.
"Bastard, mobilize the army to shoot the Chinese merchants without authorization, are you rebelling, when I don't save zĂ i? Have you ever thought about the impact of this on the Empire? Major General Yuris said angrily, "I am so disappointed that the news from Grand Duke Nicholas indicates that the Chinese Empire has sent about 50,000 troops to attack us, so that we can get ready. The Grand Duke said, if you can't block the news, don't think about returning to your original position, and now all the military ranks who have been involved in this matter have been lowered by one order, and their military positions will remain unchanged for the time being. â
The murder of the Chinese merchants made Grand Duke Nicholas very angry and helpless, and this event would cause the empire to lose foreign support, and it would also cause the Chinese empire to further hate the empire. The helpless thing is that the Tsarist army in the Far East has not done such things before, and most of these officers are the descendants of big imperial families or big businessmen, and some of them are the sons of his friends, so it is not easy to deal with it, so it can only be dealt with later.
"General Yuris, you don't know the hatefulness of these Chinese merchants, they dare to collect food and other things, and then only give us a little something, this is a deception of the empire, and they deserve it!
What's even more hateful is that they were ordered by the Huaxia Empire to put things away, they are spies of the Huaxia Empire, yes, they are spies, and they want to steal the military layout of the empire in the buying and selling city. Colonel Quisla brought out the argument he had prepared.
The other officers involved also nodded in agreement, they had already made a decision to unify their voices in private, and if they really cared about this kind of thing, it would be very strict, or they would leave the army, or go to a military court to deal with it according to the military law of the empire.
Major General Yuris was stunned when he heard this, but after thinking about it for a while, he felt that it was still good to use the method of spies to stop Youyou's mouth, but the premise was that those Chinese merchants who were released did not expose this matter.
"That's good, you hurry up and shut up those Chinese merchants in the city, don't allow them to expose this matter and block this matter, otherwise we are likely to receive strong retaliation from the Huaxia Empire.
There is also the recent military budget is very tight, hand over all the money collected, the army of the Chinese Empire is about to arrive, remember not to do anything to me again, otherwise you know. Major General Yuris said very sternly.
If it weren't for the fact that the strength of Major General Yuris's family in the empire began to decline, he would have directly removed these officers this time and replaced them with his own people, after all, he was the last person to bear the blame in this matter, who called him their direct superior.
"Yes, General, we will definitely take care of this matter, those things will be sent to the Logistics Department later, and we will give the General a big gift." Lieutenant Colonel Qusira said very flatteringly.
After a while, all the merchants in the city who knew about this matter, whether they were from China or Outer Mongolia, received a warning from the Russian soldiers. Moreover, the Russian army also used the reason that the army of the Chinese Empire was about to attack to block the entire trading city, allowing it to enter but not to leave, and it would not be opened until the end of the war.
Even so, the intelligence officers of the Chinese Empire in the trading city still tearfully reported the incident to the headquarters by secret telegram, and they also waited for the headquarters' orders.
After receiving this news from the Imperial Intelligence Headquarters in the imperial capital, they directly gave it to Qin Yu, and they couldn't do anything like this, so they could only hand it over to Qin Yu to deal with.
"Order all the airship troops that are rushing to the Wulianghai area to turn around and go to the trading city, and blow up the trading city for me. Let the people of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs issue a statement of condemnation, and ask them to hand over the murderers, and the Empire must avenge these patriotic merchants, and the Empire will compensate them for the economic losses they have suffered in the buying and selling city, and give them more preferential treatment.
There is also the possibility of taking back the Russian concessions to me, restricting the commercial activities of their merchants in the Empire, and making a list of those who betrayed them in the city this time, as well as the names of the firms, and the names of those who defected at the end. After reading it, Qin Yu slapped the table angrily and said fiercely.
Although he knew that it was impossible for Tsarist Russia to hand over the murderer, it did not prevent him from taking the opportunity to damage Tsarist Russia's image in the international community and gain more public support.
In the afternoon of the same day, the government of the Chinese Empire announced the tragedy of the city of buying and selling, strongly stating that the Chinese Empire would take action to avenge these Chinese merchants who had sacrificed their lives, and at the same time, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of China also sent a note to Tsarist Russia through the ambassadors of Britain, France, the United States and Germany, demanding that they hand over the murderers or bear the consequences.
The people of the Chinese Empire were very angry about the tragedy of buying and selling cities, and they could not imagine that Tsarist Russia would treat the merchants of the empire like this, and asked the empire to avenge these merchants, and many merchants began to raise funds for the empire's military expenses for this expedition.
Tsarist Russia did not know what was going on when they received the note from the Chinese Empire, but soon they used the reason of spies to refute the Chinese Empire, and the war of words between the two countries began again.
In any case, the fact that Tsarist Russia slaughtered the merchants of the Chinese Empire was very popular in the allies, and it also attracted widespread attention, and the merchants of various countries were also afraid of such a thing, so they also sympathized with the merchants of the Chinese Empire.
As for Britain and France, countries are propagating those things about the spies of the Chinese Empire, and the end of spies should be like this, but there is also a saying among the people that Tsarist Russia has a bad investment environment and should not go to Tsarist Russia to avoid being slaughtered.
On the same day, the Chinese Empire sent troops to take back the concessions of Tsarist Russia in Wuhan and other places, and groups of Tsarist Russian merchants and nobles were expelled from the concessions, and they were not welcome in hotels and inns in Huaxia, and only hotels and hotels opened by Britain and France allowed them to stay.
For the Chinese Empire to recover the concessions of Tsarist Russia, all countries feel understandable, who called you Tsarist Russia gave people such a good opportunity, this is the revenge that the Chinese Empire said.
No matter how much trouble the outside world had, Xu Shuzheng's troops were about to arrive near the trading city, and when they got there, they did not rush to attack, because they received a telegram from the empire, bypassing the commander-in-chief of the expedition to Outer Mongolia, Jiang Fangzhen, who had directly sent it.
After Xu Shuzheng saw it, his face turned blue first and then became very sinister, he smiled very fiercely at the direction of the trading city, and then ordered the troops to surround the trading city, so as not to let the soldiers of Tsarist Russia escape.
The arrival of the Chinese army in the city was also noticed by the Russian army, and they were nervously vigilant within their own defensive lines, but they soon found that the army of the Chinese Empire did not come to attack them, which made them very depressed and did not know what the Chinese army was doing.
The Russian army that bought and sold the city was collectively scolded by the Tsarist Empire because of this incident, and it was during the war that the matter was pushed to the end of the war to deal with it, but the empire also made it clear that this time as long as they held the trading city and did not let the Chinese army cross the border, they would be punished lightly, and even the past was not to blame.
Almost all of the Russian troops in the trading city got a lot of oil and water in this operation to loot the Chinese merchants, but they didn't expect it to have such a big impact, so they were very active in guarding the trading city.
Major General Yuris and others thought that it was the Chinese army that was waiting for the troops behind, otherwise they would not not not attack, so they were very worried, they felt that it was possible that what they had done had angered the Chinese Empire, and the Chinese Empire was mobilizing a large army to come.
Just when they were worried, a few black spots appeared in the distant sky, and no one paid attention to them at first, but slowly when those black spots became larger, someone noticed these black spots.
"Report to the general, it's not good, the airship troops of the Huaxia Empire are here, there are as many as ten ships, so big!" An officer stumbled into the camp of Major General Yuris with a binoculars and shouted loudly.
After hearing this, Major General Yuris pulled the officer's binoculars and ran out of the barracks, looked up at the sky with the binoculars, and soon he spotted the huge airships.
"Quick, let the soldiers enter the air defense position, get the supplies and weapons to the air defense cellar for me, and don't let the airship troops in Huaxia find out!" Major General Yuris shouted hysterically.
The Russian soldiers, who had just been shocked by the airship units of the Chinese Empire, quickly recovered under the reprimand of the officers, and they carried supplies and hid in anti-aircraft positions as ordered.
After a while, ten huge airships appeared in the sky above the trading city, and the people in the trading city all hid in their homes after seeing it, and all those who had a cellar hid in the cellar and did not come out.
These ten airships are all produced by the Chinese Empire itself, seven of them have participated in the counterinsurgency in Tibet before, they have all been rebuilt, the amount of ammunition carried has been increased, the amount of ammunition has been increased to 1000 kilograms, and the other three are newly served.
The captains of the ten airships were all bombed by the Empire for the military buildings and shops in the city, and they dropped bombs as soon as they found their targets.
Bombs were dropped from the airship, and the bombs were in free fall in the air, moving faster and faster towards their target.
"Boom~~~"
"Boom~~~"
The shops were torn apart by the explosion of the bombs, and the earth, rock, and wood chips were scattered in all directions, and soon they burst into flames, and there were eerie screams from inside.
The Russian soldiers who were still carrying things were also blown up and scurried around without even caring about things, and some were directly blown to pieces, and the things that were ready to be carried on the ground were also blown up.
The people hiding in the cellar were very frightened when they heard the explosion above, and their bodies were trembling, and they could not imagine what it would be like to be blown up above.
The trading city was full of burning buildings, and the originally prosperous trading city suddenly seemed to be the end of the world, and the mutilated corpses were lying on the streets in large numbers, and the streets were covered with blood and broken flesh.