In the early hours of February 3, 1902. Pen | fun | pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 ｉｎｆｏ

The train with the whistle spewed smoke slowly approaching Mudanjiang Station, a few years ago it was still a sparsely populated, barren area, the map at that time recorded that this area was called "Huanghuadianzi", because there are large pieces of yellow flowers dotted on the grass and got the name, only one or two families scattered to live, under the jurisdiction of the Ning'an Civil Affairs Department, until the government built a railway along the Mudanjiang River to build a station, because the station is south of the Mudanjiang River, it was named Mudanjiang Station for the station, which is the prototype of the city. It was also at that time that the population of the area continued to increase - hundreds of thousands of immigrants poured into this once barren land, and the rapid increase in population led to the development of Mudanjiang Station, which has now been transformed into a large city in north-central Jilin.

"It's coming!"

As the train roared towards the station, looking at the train getting closer and closer, the lurking in the station immediately drew the Browning pistol, this small semi-automatic pistol is often only used by spies and agents, but in some special missions, the army will also use it, like the mission that is about to be carried out now.

On the platform, several station members who seemed to be busy all looked towards the train as it approached, after all, he was the commander of this operation.

As the train gets closer and closer, the tension on the platform grows as this is the last and only chance.

"The car is coming!"

When the train was about to enter the station, more than 1,000 officers and soldiers crowded into the warehouse inside the station were staring at the sight blocked by the wall with excited and nervous expressions, and the soldiers clenched their weapons in their hands. Waiting for the upcoming battle.

Fight!

Just half an hour ago. The order has reached the ears of each and every one of them - war has broken out! According to the command. They will be the first troops to invade Russia, "attacking" Russia on the train of the Russians, or "infiltrating" Russia on the train of the Russians.

Everything should go well!

The officers and men silently thought in their hearts that the train they were going to take was a Russian train, which meant that before that, they had to grab a Russian wagon, and this task needed to be completed at this station -- this was the last time that the Russian train would be filled with water and coal before leaving China.

Add coal and water. For any steam locomotive, it was an inevitable thing to run, and for the soldiers lurking at the station, it was their only chance to board the Russian train.

Finally, when the atmosphere became more and more tense, the train entered Mudanjiang Station, and when the train stopped, the Russian locomotive driver on the train leaned out of the carriage and greeted the people on the station. The man in the station's overalls raised his right hand, which also held a pistol. Without waiting for him to react. Shots rang out!

Gunshot!

Crisp gunshots rang out on the platform, and several fighters disguised as station employees managed to take control of the train, the front of the train to be precise, and several Russian workers were killed on the spot.

"Why kill them?"

After the Russian driver was killed, Alyosha walked out of the station, while walking, wearing the soot-smelling overalls full of engine oil, he was accompanied by several "Russians" who looked the same as him, they were all temporary "recruited" agents from the intelligence school, they had the same Russian name as Alyosha, and they could speak Russian fluently, originally their mission was to infiltrate Russia in the future, and now their task was very simple, that is, to drive a locomotive, In fact, for the past 20 days, they have been being trained to operate trains.

However, even as an intelligence officer, Misha couldn't understand why he had to kill these drivers, without exception, they didn't have weapons, they just needed to be controlled and said okay, and there was no need to kill them at all.

"Time!"

The intelligence officer in charge of directing the operation spat out two words, and his eyes looked into the distance, and more and more soldiers had already walked out of the warehouse, and they opened the carriage while carrying the contents of the carriage out.

"It's not time to declare war yet, these people can't let them live, at least, they can't let people know that we are using a sneak attack!"

If all goes well, the troops will reach their intended objectives before and after the declaration of war.

Half an hour later, when the train roared out of the station again, on the Sino-Russian border, hundreds of thousands of officers and soldiers were preparing for the last moment, and the brigades had arrived here by train for the past twenty days. It was only after twilight that they were allowed to move around the edge of the woods, and as such, their size was still limited, one company at a time.

As a sergeant major, Li Yuanshan walked by briskly with the soldiers of the 2nd Company, and the platoon commander, Warrant Officer Zhao Side, was standing outside the tent of the company headquarters. "Sergeant Major, this place is not bad, with the mountains and lakes in the background, I will be discharged from the army in the future, and it is good to settle my home here."

Zhao Side had a smile on his face when he spoke.

Li Yuanshan, who stopped, smiled at this officer who was only 19 years old and had just graduated ahead of schedule, and then said seriously:

"I don't believe this is training, sir."

Then he lowered his voice and asked:

"Sir, what the hell is going on? Are we going to fight the Russians? ”

Hit the Russians!

As a veteran who has served for four years, Li Yuanshan naturally knows who the imaginary enemy of the Northeast is, the first is Russian, the second is still Russian, and the third is still Russian...... He really didn't regard his compatriots in the customs as opponents, he still remembered that four years ago, when he went home to visit relatives, he also went to the Beiyang New Army barracks near Texas to "take a walk", and his conclusion was very simple, it was not difficult to defeat that opponent.

It's even easy!

The real threat to the Northeast has never been Kannai, but the Russians, and that is the Northeast. is the threat to China. Just to defeat the Russians. There will be no more problems in the Kannai, even the Russians have been defeated, how can the Kannai still be a problem?

Zhao Side was not surprised by this question. He and his classmates knew that since they graduated early, or were assigned to Category B brigades or transferred to Category A brigades, wherever they went, they were faced with the expansion of the army, just like the infantry brigades now. It has expanded from the initial 5,800 to more than 8,000 people, and each battalion has been enriched, and then they drove into this forest on the border between China and Russia, and various theories have long been spread.

And where they are now, less than two kilometers from the Shambutu River, which forms the border, is almost directly facing Russia, and it is even unhesitating to say that they can attack Russia with only one charge.

The 9th Mixed Brigade, stationed in the woods, has been put on full alert. In addition to 125 rounds of ammunition and six grenades, each fighter also carried enough compressed biscuits and canned whale meat to last seven days. This preparation was directed against long-distance marching operations. Rather than simple training in the field.

Not only that, but everyone was even given an extra five pairs of thick wool socks. "You can't march in winter with wet socks!" So said the seasoned veterans. Over the past many years. The winter snow field operations and marches have made the troops sum up too much experience.

All of this is a reminder to the fighters that something big is about to happen.

Apparently many people could guess one outcome - they were about to attack the Russians! Rushing into Russia before the Russians attacked, even as fighters, they knew that the best defense was to attack, and in fact, this was also the trust of the Northeast Army.

Similar statements have been confidently spread by the sergeants, these veterans know everything, they can even hear the "secrets" in the staff, they naturally know all the secrets of the company, these veterans not only represent the soul of each unit, but also play the role of eyes and ears. They patiently explained to the soldiers as they washed the dishes, played cards, or polished their boots - the Russians had bad intentions, and it was too late to do anything else. Then, they will have all kinds of reasons and excuses, in a word--the imperialist powers will not die, so we need to take precautions and let the flames of war burn in the enemy's territory before the enemy burns the flames of war to the northeast.

Of course, they will also say that we are going to recover our homeland, and even the veterans have another reason - to recover the homeland of the Outer Northeast as a gift to the country when the Northeast unifies China.

Well, that's a reason too!

Zhao Side approached Li Yuanshan, and then said meaningfully.

"Sergeant, you have to believe that waiting will always give people unexpected gains?"

The chief's question made Li Yuanshan look confused. Zhao Side looked at his watch, and it was already four o'clock in the morning.

"Wait another hour patiently."

Zhao Side said meaningfully, and then walked back to the tent.

Wait another hour!

When Sergeant Li Yuanshan and warrant officer were talking in the border forest, thousands of kilometers away on the sea without seeing the stars and moons, a large merchant ship of more than 6,000 tons was busy, this is a cargo ship registered in the Viceroyalty of Nikolai, just more than an hour ago, this merchant ship quietly sailed into the Puga waterway, in the middle of the night, almost no one noticed one thing This cargo ship of more than 6,000 tons began to be in yaw from the time it entered the Puga waterway, but because the angle of yaw is not large, So it's almost unnoticeable.

When the "Tensei Maru" entered the Uraga waterway and suffered a slight yaw, several hatches were opened in the offshore positions on both sides of the board, and for the past 20 days, the merchant ship, nominally belonging to Russia, has been quietly remodeled in Inchon to make it mine-laying capable.

The once laden hold will be filled with black-painted anchor mines, and more than 2,000 one-ton anchor mines will be laid in the Uraga waterway for the next two hours.

"Hurry, hurry up and ......"

In the dimly lit cabin, dozens of soldiers were desperately busy with their work, although the cabin of this large merchant ship was carefully designed -- it was equipped with a "return" track, and the "rail cars" parked on the track were all loaded with anchor mines weighing up to one ton without exception.

Unlike normal anchor mines, the internal timer causes them to activate four hours after laying to unlock the bolt, at which point the anchor mine will rise from the bottom of the sea.

Although the railcar continued to slide down the rails along the side of the "window" into the sea, the officers in the cabin seemed to be a little dissatisfied, because they were so slow that it seemed to them that it might even affect their plans for the rest of the plan, and if the Russians found out about their movements, the consequences would be disastrous.

The "Tensei-maru" was the only "mine-laying ship" that sailed into the Uraga waterway to lay mines, and as many as 10 mine-laying ships were laying more dense minefields in the waters off the Uraga waterway, but the minefields outside the Uraga waterway had to cooperate with the minefields in the waterway in order to give full play to their maximum power -- trapping the Russian Pacific Fleet in the port of Constantine.

The confinement of the Pacific Fleet in the harbor was part of the Navy's plan, perhaps because it had been peaceful for a long time, or perhaps because the Russians had never imagined that merchant ships could be used to lay mines before the war, and during the two-and-a-half-hour mine-laying process, almost no one noticed the strangeness of the merchant ship with six window rails sticking out of its side, let alone the fact that during its voyage, one after another mines sank to the bottom of the Uraga waterway with its navigation.

When the "Tensei Maru" sailed into Tokyo Bay, the speed of the merchant ship slowed down again, as if to avoid the large number of ships in Tokyo Bay, but at the same time as it slowed down, the four canvas lifeboats hanging on its side were lowered, and under the cover of twilight, almost no one would notice the movement of the black dinghy being lowered, in fact, no one would notice that at the same time as the four "lifeboats" were lowered, on the side of the ship, more than a dozen sailors dressed as ordinary Japanese, But they looked at each other with solemn expressions.

"You must work hard!"

As he bowed to the sailors, the Japanese Captain Yamaguchi once again solemnly told him that his mission was now almost complete, and that only one last task remained—to send out the special strike team, an all-Japanese sailor who had been practicing similar special attacks for the past two years, and it was now at its final moment.

"Hey! Please wait for our good news! ”

Amid the soft cheers of the crowd, the sailors quickly slid down the rope to the undulating dinghy on the sea, and when they lifted the canvas of the lifeboat, there were two thick launch tubes beside the boat - these were torpedo boats! (To be continued.) )