After half a month of silence, the sound of bands sounded again in the banquet hall of the Stoke Navy building in Vladivhom, and once again, the army and navy colonels, their wives, and the city's courtesans raised their glasses and held a ball, just as before the war. Pen | fun | pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 ｉｎｆｏ

But now, there is not much laughter to be seen here, and the atmosphere here is a little weird. Perhaps, this will be the last time they will have a dance here, and after today, everything will be over.

"Vladius Stoke is dead, and we're going to have one last drink of mourning for him now?"

General Nikiko laughed with tears in his eyes, and although he was in favor of surrendering, he still grieved for the Russian city at the last moment.

"This is by no means the end of the war, this war has just begun, in Europe we still have a million troops, in Japan we still have a fleet. In the Atlantic, a huge fleet is coming. Russia will definitely win! ”

General Nikiko said as he sipped his wine. At this moment, there was a rumbling explosion outside. The sudden explosion made everyone look up at the place where the sound came from.

"The sailors did not disappoint Russia! They are blowing up warships, albeit only so much, but not a single nail is left for the Chinese. ”

A Navy major said excitedly that the explosion was coming from the direction of the port and that it was the Navy blowing up its own warship. They will never give their warships to the Chinese! For a time, everyone was shouting for the decision of the Navy!

"What a brave bunch! If the fleet does it again, we will definitely not be defeated! ”

In the admiration of the ladies, a colonel beside the general gave the order.

"You go to the battery now and blow up all the cannons. Blow up all the shells and gunpowder! If you can't do that. Then sink everything that can be destroyed into the sea! In short, don't leave anything to the Chinese? Don't leave even a single bullet for them! ”

"Yes. My general! ”

At the beginning of the colonel's departure, the people of the banquet hall went to the balcony outside the window, where they stood, and the twilight outside the window was very heavy, and on the left in the direction of the fortress, two great fires had risen, burning the sky red, and the flames were connected with the thick fog. There was silence in the air. The usual, rifle sound is not heard. In the frozen Golden Horn, some bright fires rose up, and the flames reflected the figure of a certain warship.

"Oh! God, it must be the Bayan! ”

In the sky above the port, a large fire broke out, and in the light of the fire, a violent explosion occurred, and the flames hundreds of meters high illuminated the frozen Golden Horn in red.

"Oh my God, they blew up the whole port!"

A lady exclaimed loudly.

"That's right, don't leave anything for the Chinese!"

"Oh my God! I feel like the Golden Horn is filled with human blood! ”

The firelight reflected the sky red. Reflected red, frozen bay. The sky and the bay were like they were full of blood, red and red! While the people in the banquet hall were saddened by the fire, in the fortress, the officers were making their final arrangements, while some of the officers were rushing to the port.

"Bother, please tell me where the icebreaker "Startic" is? ”

Zhibelev led a group of officers to the port, they were looking for an icebreaker, and when everyone was about to surrender, they decided to leave the place and go to the Viceroyalty of Nikolai, where the battle continued. But the port has been frozen, and if you want to go to sea, you need icebreakers.

"Hey, did you find the icebreaker? We will not surrender! We're also going to get out of here, in the Viceroyalty of Nikolai, where there is still our fleet! ”

A naval captain shouted loudly, there were sailors walking on the bridge beside him, not all of them obeyed the order of destruction, not all of them were willing to surrender, and now they had to leave here, even if they were intercepted by the Chinese on the sea.

"If you find an icebreaker, I'll leave with you, I've got a mine ship here! I can provide you with escort when the time comes! ”

Finally they found the icebreaker in the port, and two merchant ships willing to leave, those merchant ship owners knew very well that if they stayed here, their merchant ships would most likely become trophies of the Chinese, rather than take the risk of leaving, but not everyone was willing to leave, at least those crew members were not willing to take this risk.

Fortunately, many sailors did not want to stay here as prisoners, and they were able to sail out of the area in the event of a blown warship. While the sailors and soldiers were on board and preparing to leave the city, in the fortress, the officers were doing the final checks, and each cannon was turned off with cotton explosives, and hundreds of shells were placed next to the cannons, and ten inch shells, as soon as the electric current was turned on, would also be blown into the sky. Explosives were also installed in the shelters of the battery, and they would never give the fortress to the Chinese in good condition.

"Where are we going after the barricade explodes?"

"If they don't want to leave, the sailors go back to the ranks of the sailors, and we live in our barracks with the wounded."

Last night, no one slept, everyone waited, waiting for the final order. Fight or surrender? Before dawn, I received a notice from the artillery command that the Chinese had agreed to negotiate surrender.

"It is strictly forbidden to blow up and destroy anything, and in case of violation of the order, the commander of the artillery barrier is personally responsible."

Although the order was given from the artillery command, after the order was given, everyone resolutely made their choice - not to obey this order.

In the pre-dawn darkness, the flames of explosions continued to be offered, and every hill roared, and Vlaminmir, St. Peter, the Cross Hill, almost every fortress roared, and they were all plunged into violent explosions. It was as if the whole city was being attacked by the enemy again, as if they were desperately resisting.

Yes, this is the last resistance of the city!

"This is Vlavostok's suicide."

The Italian consul let out a sigh amid the violent explosion. Seems to be for the city? Also for Russia?

Not long since. The city's diplomats still thought. They will all be in a war zone for the next year. But they didn't expect that before they could even adapt to the war, the battle would be over and the Russians would lose the city. Everything is so incredible!

At about 7 o'clock in the morning, the icebreaker opened a passage in the frozen sea, and one, two, three, as many as a dozen warships and merchant ships sailed in the channel from which the icebreaker had sailed, and behind them, the sound of violent explosions continued to sound. In the city. There is already chaos, soldiers are destroying shops and private homes, buildings in the city are being burned, and inevitably, a lot of videos are looting, for which they interpret it in order to "leave it to the Chinese!" ”

The infantry sailors walked in front of the officers with their chests held high, shouting loudly to the officers.

"Now everyone is equal, whether it is a general or an officer. Soldiers or not, now everyone is a prisoner of the Chinese! ”

The soldiers shouted loudly. They had bottles in their hands. It was vodka that was snatched from nowhere, and some soldiers still had fur on their shoulders, and no one knew where it came from at this time?

"Generals, betrayed us with here! Sir, please hurry up and walk over! If you don't go, you'll be slapped in the face! ”

The drunk soldier stumbled in front of an officer.

"Why is that?"

A young warrant officer said at a loss, he didn't know what happened to the soldiers? No one knows what happened to them, maybe because they didn't want to, surrendered, maybe because they felt like their blood was shed, anyway, the soldiers, are now drunk.

"That's it! You see this grandfather was also wounded, he fought with us,"

One soldier persuaded, apparently noticing the gauze wrapped around the warrant officer's head and the blood oozing out.

"Sir, you better go back to your own home, just sit at home and stay still!"

Now the city has lost order, everyone is hiding at home, waiting for order to be restored, but who can regain self-confidence now? Only by waiting, when the Chinese enter the city, can order be restored.

Stessel's home was also in chaos, officers, citizens, police, and even Japanese and Chinese were constantly coming and going to inquire about the surrender, and his wife was hurriedly packing up her things there, and a dozen soldiers were packing boxes full of various things, and then nailing them one by one, and the boxes were getting higher and higher, like a hill, all of which proved that she was not willing to throw anything away.

Strasseur's closest friends and assistants gathered in his office, the door was closed, and the chaos in the city was far greater than they could have imagined, much to the horror of Stessel and his friends, and some of the officers tried to maintain discipline but were beaten by the soldiers, especially some of the officers who hated the most of them, and were forced to hide.

As soon as he got the news, Stexel was transferred, the only cavalry unit in the city, the 1st Cossack Cavalry Division of East Baikal. The arrival of this cavalry prevented the chaos in the city, and the soldiers increased the value of the Cossacks, and even beat them, but compared to the soldiers in the city, the Cossacks were too small to maintain order in the whole city.

"Send people to invite the Chinese and ask them to send troops into the city to maintain order,"

The general's wife made the most sound suggestion, that order in the city must now be restored, otherwise it is very likely that the forthcoming surrender negotiations will reach an impasse.

At noon, a Cossack cavalry escorted the officers who had picked up Stexel's private letters, rode to the headquarters of the Chinese army, and without hesitation, after learning that the city was in chaos, Shang Dequan sent troops to assist Stexel, whom he called the "brave defender of Vladivostok", to maintain order in the city. He does not hesitate to praise his opponents who have lost, and no amount of praise can change the fact that he is the real winner! The flattery of the opponent is, to some extent, an indirect show-off.

At three o'clock in the afternoon, a brigade of officers and soldiers from the Northeast entered the city, which was the first Chinese army to enter the city since 1856, and even the first Han army to come here since Emperor Hongwu.

There are soldiers, there are citizens, there are soldiers, there are officers, there are Russians and there are Japanese. Compared with the complexity of the Russians' expressions, most of the Japanese were smiling, and they kept waving the small sun and moon flags in their hands, shouting loudly,

"Banzai, Banzai!"

And in the blunt Nanjing dialect, they welcomed these soldiers from the Northeast, and in any case, when they saw these Northeast Army, they were like seeing the future of Asia, although they did not know what the future of Japan would be? But they know that Japan is no longer alone, and with the help of the Chinese, Japan will definitely win its freedom.

But not everyone is so happy, there are also some Japanese who are crying sadly, maybe they lie and don't have much affection, but it is precisely because they are Russians that they can cultivate the land here, and now that the Chinese occupy this place, what awaits them?

The Northeast Army entered the city in several directions at the same time, and they entered the city to maintain order, and if they found a soldier who was robbing while the fire was taking advantage of the fire, they would directly arrest him and shoot him on the spot! One batch is dozens! Blood stained the walls.

At this very moment, General Stersel and his friends, were raising their glasses to welcome the first Chinese officers into the city, cheering for their victory!

"At the request of His Excellency the Commander, the Grand Marshal authorizes all officers, if they wish, to sign a declaration to our army that they will not participate in this war and return to Russia! The war is over for you! ”

At the banquet, a Chinese colonel announced the news loudly to the officers in Russian. This is a war between gentlemen and gentlemen, and of course they should be treated preferentially, of course, this does not include those Russian "gray cattle", although their music impresses the Chinese, but that preferential treatment exists only among officers.

"Colonel, first of all I must thank His Excellency the Marshal for his kindness, but no officer of integrity will leave his soldiers behind and return to Russia!"

One major replied firmly, and his answer was echoed by Stessel and the others. But many more are getting lost in thought...... (To be continued.) )