Chapter 63: The Sacking of Omsk

The news of the entry of the Chinese army into Siberia spread throughout Siberia, and even the governor of the Tsarist steppe governorate in Omsk, which had recently fled, fell into a deep panic.

Omsk is the capital of the Tsarist Steppe Governorate, which governs the Kazakh steppe, which later became an independent region of Kazakhstan, so Omsk is quite prosperous, with a city population of hundreds of thousands.

Xu Shuzheng's army is advancing towards Omsk, a hub of the Tsarist Far East Railway, which is of great strategic importance and will become the front of the Tsarist attack on China in the future. One of the purposes of the trip was to loot the booty, and the other was to sabotage the railroad and then continue west along the railway.

Soon the Chinese army rushed to Omsk, and at this time there were no guards in Omsk, and the guards either ran away or followed those ruffians to fish in troubled waters, and there was chaos everywhere.

The Chinese army easily entered Omsk, and the first thing they did was to maintain order, and groups of soldiers went out into the streets, and when they saw that the people who were smashing and looting, they were going up with the butts of their guns, and those who dared to resist fired directly, and the chaotic order began to slowly improve.

Most of the nobles and wealthy did not have time to retreat, because the chaos made them afraid to go out of their homes, and the nobles and wealthy merchants with private strength dared to fight their way through the chaotic crowd and escape. Those who maliciously smashed and looted and burned even attacked the residences of those weak nobles in groups, and many nobles died tragically at the hands of these people, and there were many people from the original guard team, who had one vote more than their salary for ten years as a guard, and even if they did a few more votes, they might be a rich man in the future, and it would be a big deal to flee to other countries.

Most of the common people hid in their homes, and the rich and nobles gathered in droves to protect their private property after being harassed by mobs. The contents of the shops were looted, the governor's palace was emptied, and even the guns of the guard bureau were gone.

The Chinese soldiers also encountered some resistance when they maintained order, and many of the Russians at this time had guns in their hands, and the mob of people who looted things in groups attacked the Chinese soldiers, because they were very angry that the Chinese army was preventing them from getting rich, and they also thought that the Chinese soldiers would not notice them in the chaos.

The soldiers were attacked one after another, and although the losses were not large, it also made Xu Shuzheng very angry, and he ordered that if the mob dared to resist, they would be shot directly, and one would be killed.

No matter how many people fished in troubled waters, they were no match for the Chinese soldiers, and those who resisted were killed one after another, and order was quickly restored.

Xu Shuzheng had the rest of the nobles and merchants gathered together and asked them to hand over their property, each of whom had to hand over three-quarters of their property, and if they didn't, let them go to God.

"Oh, damn it, you are devils, how can you make us hand over private money, don't you know that private property is sacrosanct?"

"The war is none of our business, so we won't hand it over, let alone so much, it's just our lives!"

"Yes, I pay, can you guarantee my safety, those mobs will attack us at any time."

"Is it in this city, if yes, I'll pay!"

“……”

There are people who regard money as their life and resolutely refuse to pay it, and there are also those who want to die and do not want money, and soon there are two opinions, and on the whole, there are more people who want to pay than refuse to pay. Most of the people who don't want to hand over are Omsk natives, and all their property is here, and asking them to hand over so much property at once is simply their life. Those who readily agreed to pay were basically from other places, and there was not much property here, and even if it was, they would not talk about their own lives.

"I don't mind what your army was doing in the city of buying and selling, and I really think I wouldn't dare shoot? You have to choose whether you want money or your life, and if you don't have a life, you really have nothing! Xu Shuzheng looked at the hundreds of people below and shouted.

All the people present stopped and did not speak, they were all quietly thinking, they knew about the trading city, and they were still laughing at those Chinese merchants for being stupid, and they chose life if they were their words. Now that they can't think of it, it's their turn, and then they finally understand the feelings of those Chinese merchants at the beginning, but they don't have the courage to rather die than help the enemy.

Soon, all the people in the audience chose to hand over their property, crying and watching the Huaxia soldiers move their own things, like dead parents!

Xu Shuzheng had people publicize that the nobles and the rich had handed over three-quarters of their property, and then had every household in the city hand over two-thirds of their property, just as they had collected the peasants' grain in the villages.

The inhabitants of the city, seeing that the nobles and the rich had given more than they were, had nothing to complain about, and after a moment of hesitation, they immediately handed it over. The reason why the aristocracy and the rich should pay three-quarters and the ordinary residents pay two-thirds is because the nobles may have more property left than before the ordinary people did not pay, and the reason is that the contradiction between the nobles and the ordinary residents in the city is deepened.

Collecting the stuff of the entire inhabitants of the city is a big project, and the whole army is busy, and after finishing it, it is necessary to send someone to bring these supplies back to Novosibirsk, but fortunately, the headquarters will send an army to pick them up halfway.

The largest church in the city, the priest has been killed, and now the biggest chaos is gathered together, because it is a church, so the Chinese army did not investigate.

"Boss, what should we do now, all our supplies are in the church, if the Huaxia army came here to investigate, it would be easy to find out, but we finally got these things."

"Yes, with these things, when we go to the United States, we will be very rich, I heard that the United States is a good place, there are a lot of beautiful girls there......"

There were more than 200 people in the church, and they were surrounded by a two-meter-tall strong man, who forced his eyes to not know what he was thinking.

"Let's disperse first, if too many people are gathered in the church, it will be easy to be discovered, I will let people hide things, everyone should know my person, you are absolutely indispensable. I'm going to leave some people to pretend to be these pastors, so let's disperse. The strong man opened his eyes and said.

After hearing this, everyone did not dare to speak, you look at me, I look at you, some wanted to say something but did not say it, so it was silent for several minutes.

"Haha, I still have a beautiful girl tied to my house, I'm going back to make up something for her, goodbye everyone." One small leader retreated at the signal of another big leader, and then everyone left for various reasons, and soon there were more than a dozen people left.

The strong man was originally a guard, and he usually called the local thugs brothers, so at the beginning of the chaos, he led people to loot the guard station and obtain a lot of guns, and then looted several nobles and wealthy merchants. When the Chinese army entered the city, he found this church with great interest to store supplies, and then gave up resistance.

The remaining dozen or so people were his henchmen, and he instructed his henchmen to put all the gold in the idol, because he wanted to swallow the gold for himself, and just leave a small part of it.

Just as they had just finished getting the gold, the big and small leaders came back with their people, because the vicinity of the church was surrounded, and the Chinese army surrounded all of them.

"Boss, we are surrounded by the Huaxia army, it seems that the matter has been exposed, what should we do?" A leader said as he ran up to the strong man.

"What's going on, impossible, how can we be exposed? Who betrayed us? The strong man said hideously.

Outside, gunfire rang out, and it was obvious that there was an exchange of fire, and soon groups of Chinese troops rushed in, all guns pointed at them.

A Chinese officer came out and said, "Yes, yes, if you want to hide from the world, you almost missed a big fish." ”

This officer was Colonel Yukihan, and he received a report from the airship unit that there was movement in the largest church in the city, and hundreds of people actually gathered in the church, and then he led people to surround the place.

"Tsk, if it weren't for our airship unit discovering your traces, you would have really missed it, hurry up and hand over the things, otherwise all the people present will die. Of course, we can find it if you don't hand it over, don't play tricks, I can leave you a quarter, but you have to point out the vaults and banks in the city that belong to your empire. Xinghan looked at them and said.

The strong man undoubtedly accepted Xinghan's words, and then handed over everything, but the gold was not handed over.

After Xinghan got these things, he asked people to take them to the vault and bank, leaving a group of strong men sighing there, and the strong man was actually very excited in his heart, because the gold he hid was not handed over, and he could take this opportunity to cover up his monopoly on the gold, and wait for the Huaxia army to take it after he left.

Many gangs that made a fortune in the chaos were discovered by the airship troops when they gathered, and they were all looted by the Huaxia army, making those gangs want to cry without tears.

In one day, the whole of Omsk was looted, truckloads of supplies were ready to be transported back to Western Siberia, and Xu Shuzheng and the others were about to move on, and the sacking of these cities made the soldiers very excited.

Before leaving Omsk, Yuki had the church searched again, but nothing was found, and he would not have imagined that the pious people of God would get gold into the idol, and the strong man would later become a rich man as he wished.

The news that Omsk had been looted by the Chinese army blew like a hurricane in the major cities of Siberia, and the number of fleeing nobles and rich people increased in an instant, and even some villages moved away, and some villages even had things ready to be handed over as soon as the Chinese army came.

ps: This chapter is made up, and the previous break is changed!