The nobles of Petropavl either went away or hid their possessions, or even made their houses a little miserable, and they looked like down-and-out nobles, and the money-hungry merchants were basically gone, while the ordinary inhabitants below did what they did as usual.

As for the chaos, there was, but it was quickly quelled under the suppression of the guards, and the chaos in Omsk made the tsar very angry, and he ordered that if anyone dared to smash and loot at this time, the guards could shoot and kill, and if the guards participated, their families would be "cared for" by the empire, so the guards did not dare to participate in it.

What happened in Omsk has spread throughout Siberia, and the Chinese army did not embarrass ordinary people, and relatively deliberately took less things from ordinary people, so ordinary residents of Petropavl were not so worried about it after collecting the most precious things in advance.

The Russian guerrilla army also had an army here, which was left at the request of the nobles and wealthy merchants to maintain order, to put it bluntly, 20,000 people were likely to become outcasts, they could not defeat the Chinese army, and even a cavalry was estimated to make them suffer heavy losses.

The Chinese army had reached the vicinity of Petropavl, and the Russian guerrilla army had also heard the news and were nervously arguing whether to stay and resist.

"General, let's withdraw, we are not the opponent of the Huaxia army at all, the weapons and ammunition are not complete, and the people in the city will understand us."

"Understand what, understand that we left them and fled, are we still soldiers? How many people died in the chaos in Omsk? We can't live up to the heavy responsibility of the people of the city, and I won't leave. ”

"Stay and fight the enemy? The fighting will definitely affect ordinary people, and may even provoke the enemy to bombard the city, so what should we do? ”

"If we don't stay and retreat, what will the empire think of us, the future will be dark, and even after retiring, we will be blamed by others, I don't want others to say, is this a cowardly and incompetent soldier, a mischievous seed who leaves the people of the empire to flee for their lives!"

A major general took one and threw it on the table and shouted: "Enough, shut up all of them, now is not the time to argue, there is a death order from above, asking us to delay the Huaxia army as much as possible for two days, in two days the imperial reinforcements will arrive, and we have no way out." ”

The aristocrats and wealthy merchants were very panicked when they learned that they were going to stop the Chinese army, fearing that they would anger the Chinese army and lead them to anger the city, but they could not stop such a thing, so they could only symbolically send someone to send a batch of grain and a sum of money.

Seeing the withdrawal of the troops from the city, the inhabitants were in confusion for a while, and they thought that the army had abandoned them, so chaos and could break out again. However, the head of the city quickly ordered the guards to keep order, and told the residents that the Imperial army had gone to fight the enemy, and that Imperial reinforcements would arrive in two days.

The inhabitants were mixed, happy that reinforcements were coming, worried about whether their army would be able to support them for two days, and if not, whether they would make the Chinese army angry with them, they still prepared things according to the custom of the Chinese army.

"Damn, we're here to protect them, and these hateful nobles and merchants just gave them such a thing." An officer complained.

"Don't talk about this, we, as an army, should have protected them, and it was already a mistake to accept their gifts, the most important thing for us now is to stop the Huaxia army." Another officer shrugged.

They didn't know how to resist the Huaxia army, not only did they have an advantage in the number of troops, but they also had an advantage in weapons and equipment, so they didn't know how to fight the Huaxia army for a while.

Trench warfare was certainly not possible, their small numbers could not resist the charge of the Chinese army at all, and the Chinese army did not necessarily bypass their trenches and enter the city. Guerrilla warfare is not good, because they can't evade the reconnaissance of the Huaxia airship unit at all, and just how can a few people do guerrilla warfare, a cavalry team can scare you away. A direct frontal impact is absolutely not good, it is simply a death sentence.

"What the hell should I do, oh my God, a headache." Several officers found themselves unable to think of a good method of warfare, which was too difficult to choose.

In the end, they didn't know what to do, they decided to go to the fight and run, no matter how they said, they also blocked it, but the enemy's strength was too great, and they had to retreat, believing that their superiors would understand.

"Report to the commander, I found a Tsarist Russian army in front, it seems to be the army that has been fighting guerrilla warfare with us before, only about 20,000 people." A scout ran over to tell Xu Shuzheng.

"Send the cavalry to drive them out, and now the task is to rush to Petropavl as soon as possible, and the reinforcements of Tsarist Russia are almost coming." Xu Shuzheng picked up the binoculars and looked at it before ordering.

"Boom! Rumble! Rumble! ”

Nearly 20,000 Chinese cavalry troops rushed towards the Russian army, and as soon as the Russian army saw the Chinese cavalry dispatched, they immediately turned around and ran back, and they had no intention of fighting at all.

I saw that 20,000 cavalry were chasing the Russian army without stopping, and the large force of the Chinese army drove directly to Petropavl, and along the way it was like no one, and easily arrived there.

As soon as they entered the city, the Huaxia army was a little surprised, the whole city was quiet, there was not even a figure on the street, only occasionally saw some guards patrolling, and those guards surrendered directly after seeing the Huaxia army.

Xu Shuzheng easily approached the person in charge of the city and asked him to tell him about the places where the nobles and merchants lived, and even hand over the government's financial department.

The person in charge of the city insisted that the property of the city government was given to a distant place before the arrival of the Huaxia army, no matter how much he asked questions and intimidated him, Xu Shuzheng even asked people to put a gun to his head to no avail, and in the end he just broke his legs.

The city dwellers automatically took out two-thirds of their belongings, and when the Chinese army went to collect them, they did not have the food and other things, but only the money and gold and silver and other things. This was also the case with the nobles and the rich, but they demanded that the nobles and the rich give gold and silver for their own grain and other things, and they only received gold, silver and rubles.

In this way, it is very easy for the Chinese army to loot, at least no one has to break into the door and count things in person, which is also a last resort.

The time was very urgent, and there was no headquarters to send people to transport these materials, so Xu Shuzheng just asked people to ask for valuable gold and silver, rubles, dollars, pounds and other currencies, and they had to go north, so it was not easy to carry too many things.

It only took about half a day to collect the things of the entire city, during which the Huaxia army also recruited some local residents to help transport supplies, after all, they were not very familiar with the city's transportation. The next time was sabotage, the train station was blown up, the storage warehouse and government administration buildings were also blown up, and a large number of high-end buildings were razed to the ground.

After finishing it, the Chinese army went out of the city, and after meeting with the cavalry, they went directly north, and went back after going north in a circle. They don't have to be in such a hurry after going north, the army of Tsarist Russia will definitely not be able to keep up with them.

"Report to the commander, urgent telegram from headquarters, look!" A communications officer ran over and handed him a telegram.

Xu Shuzheng's face changed directly after taking a look at it, and then he ordered the officer next to him: "Don't go north, return directly to Novosibirsk and set off immediately!" ”

There was only one sentence on the telegram: The Japanese army invaded Jilin and returned to !!

If Japan really invades Jilin, then it is not far from a war with Japan, this is not good news, it is simply terrible, you must know that the war between the empire and Tsarist Russia is not over yet!

Things go back to last night, the Japanese army in Vladivostok actually disappeared with a few of their soldiers, and it was suspected that the Jilin army hid their soldiers or killed them, and asked to enter the Jilin army to search, of course, the Jilin army did not compromise, and the two sides directly broke out into a confrontation, and more Japanese troops gathered on the Jilin border.

Zhang Zuolin was very angry when he found out, and directly rejected the unreasonable demands of the Japanese army, and almost sent most of the army to the border to confront Japan. He didn't think that the Japanese soldiers would be in his own army, which meant that Japan had nothing to do and could not relax.

The Japanese troops stationed in Vladivostok could not wait for the navy to transport them north, and they were even short of supplies, and the more they waited, the more irritable the Japanese army became, and soon they were tricked by the navy's men in the army to attack Jilin, and then attack the entire northeast and occupy the northeast.

They believed that the Chinese Empire was at war with Tsarist Russia, and did not have enough energy to manage the Northeast, and the strength of the Empire was not afraid of the Chinese Empire at all.

The Japanese army of 100,000 brazenly launched an attack on Jilin, and although the Jilin army, which was caught off guard, put up a fierce resistance, it was not the opponent of the Japanese army, and soon withdrew from the border, and the Japanese army officially entered the territory of Jilin.

Zhang Zuolin, who learned of the situation, immediately sent all the troops to resist the Japanese army, and then sent an urgent telegram to the central government, asking for strong support. At the same time, a telegram was also sent to warn Mukden and Heilongjiang not to attack Jilin at this time, the Japanese wolf ambitions, and the northeast was their target.

Zhang Zuolin didn't expect the Japanese to attack him with such a lame reason, could it be that Japan wants to unilaterally tear up the treaty signed with the empire, now is not the time, otherwise he would not be afraid of the Japanese.

Hunchun, Suifenhe, Hutou Town, Raohe, later generations belonged to Heilongjiang Province, at this time it was Jilin Province, and they were all the places where the Japanese army focused on attacking, and it was also the place where Zhang Zuolin focused on defense.

The Great War was fought in these places, and the Japanese army increased again, from 100,000 to 200,000, including more than 50,000 Korean indigenous troops.