On May 10, 1896, a somewhat dilapidated Pacific Shipping Company passenger ship anchored at the wharf in Vladivostok, where the most prosperous place was the city center on the northern slope of the Zotoy Corner Bay at the southern tip of the Amursky Peninsula. Pen? Interesting? Pavilion wWw. ｂiquge。 ｉｎfo

After more than 20 years of barely operating at the beginning, the city has rapidly developed into one of the most prosperous cities in the entire Far East over the past decade, especially in the five years since the construction of the Trans-Siberian Railway. Ocean-going ships laden with cargo slowly sail from ports to the sea, and goods laden with furs, coal and timber from the Far East are sold all over the world. The Russian cruisers docked at the berths flew various flags in a variety of colors.

On the granite-paved roads, black carriages with bank, foreign coat of arms or aristocratic coats of arms drove along, and the thick double-house glass glittered in the sunlight. This is Vladivostok, here is Vladivostok...... It's a forgotten name.

Woo......

The steamer's whistle sounded, and the steamer, which once belonged to the Japan Cruise Lines, dropped its anchor and slowly stopped at the berth. Ten minutes later, the liner lowered its ramp, and a large number of passengers from the Viceroyalty of Nikolai poured out of the cabin, including both those with their children and their families and the able-bodied single passengers.

To a certain extent, the people of the Viceroyalty of Nicholas may have been grateful to the Tsar of St. Petersburg. I am grateful to the "little father" or "holy father" in the mouth of the Russian officials. Russian occupation of Japan. Although Japan became history, and the so-called "Japanese" became the "Russian Empire and the Nation", correspondingly, a vast empire opened its arms to them—the Far East and the lands of Siberia were open to the people of the entire Russian Empire.

For the officials of the Primorsky and Irkutsk Governorates, the Japanese immigrants from the Nikolai Governorate also meant wealth, taxes, and political achievements, and compared with the poor Russians, the Japanese immigrants were industrious. They even introduced rice cultivation to the Far East, as well as to Siberia, contributing to the economic prosperity of the Far East.

In just a few years, millions of immigrants are changing the Far East and Siberia little by little, and for the poor people of the Viceroyalty of Nikolai, whether it is good or Irkutsk, it may be desolate and cold, but it is a "land of hope" full of opportunities and land, and because of this, thousands of immigrants come here almost every day.

Of course. In addition to immigrants, there are more laborers. The construction of railways, the development of mines along the Siberian line, and even the construction of cities all required cheap labor, and a steady stream of Japanese laborers became the main force because of their cheapness.

In the middle of a group of young people with a height of no more than 1.6 meters, a tall young man with the appearance of a laborer walked down the gangway with the flow of people. Nearly 1.8 meters tall in the crowd, he is easy to attract the attention of others, although his figure is not burly, but there is strength hidden in his body, and his thin chin is even more resolute and resolute. The most striking thing is his two wide, slightly upturned eyebrows, which resemble the ancient samurai depicted in traditional Japanese paintings.

At the customs checkpoint, he showed his identification that read: Ichiro Harada, and the purpose of his visit to the mainland was naturally without exception - to hire labor.

Actually, he is not even Japanese, his real name is Li Ziyuan, and he is the commander of the First Regiment of the Northeast Marine Corps. Now he is "Ichiro Harada" because he has a mission.

"Do you speak Japanese?"

A month ago, at the Naval Operations Research Center, the colonel surnamed Han raised the question with Li Ziyuan.

"A little, but not fluent."

As the commander of the Marine Corps, Li Ziyuan knows very well that according to the current development of the situation, maybe one day, they will definitely fight with the Russians, and nine times out of ten they will land in Japan, so he will learn Japanese from several Japanese soldiers in the Marine Corps.

"Say a few words!"

After stammering a few words, the colonel surnamed Han asked again.

"Do you speak Russian?"

"It's only a little bit!"

As before, after a simple "oral examination", Li Ziyuan left the Combat Research Center, thinking that it was just an interview, but three days later, he received a direct order from the Military Command Department - he was temporarily relieved of his position as regiment commander and was given a new mission - to go on a staff trip to Russia!

Of course, this staff trip was secret, and even in order not to give the enemy an excuse, he had to go to the Far East as a Japanese, so he became Harada Ichiro, a Japanese resident of Japanese descent who had become a naturalized resident of China in exile.

Upon his return to Japan, he immediately followed his original plan and looked for an opportunity in Hiroshima for a job to go to Vladivostok, in fact, to build a fortress in Vladivostok, which was not easy to find, at least if it were to be hired in the Tohoku way.

Fortunately, however, Russia's decay opened the door to opportunities for him -- there were dozens of labor agencies in Hiroshima, and most of these agencies were connected with the Russian side, and they all relied on their connections to provide labor to a certain industry, including the Trans-Siberian Railway, as well as mines and forestry farms, and of course the navy's fortress laborers also had special personnel in charge, and without any effort, Li Ziyuan signed up, and after waiting for a week, he came to Vladivostok with more than 100 laborers.

A ring trench was dug into the verdant mountainside, and a snake-bellied steel-reinforced concrete fortress stretched through the trench, which was the "communication trench" of the eye barrier, where hundreds of laborers worked, one in a Russian military uniform. But there are no tall Japanese with military ranks. From time to time, he used fluent Japanese to urge the workers to speed up. He still held in his hand a worn-out whip, which, if anyone was lazy, would be whipped against the shoulder, and each time he was beaten, he was rewarded with a respectful bow.

Just as he had just beaten a laborer, suddenly, when he saw an officer in a white military uniform approaching, he hurriedly trotted over. Stand up and bow.

"Dear Mr. Colonel!"

It was none other than Colonel Velicko of the Engineering Corps, who was also the designer of the entire fortress project. Tens of thousands of Japanese laborers rely on him for food, and every year the overseers desperately stammer with him, in order to obtain some additional benefits, such as recruitment, and other benefits.

"Harada, you guy, you don't have that construction site, you can do it faster than you here!"

Wielicko looked at the construction schedule in his hand. He praised the Russian-speaking guy in front of him without hesitation.

"If everyone were like you, we could save at least one warship!"

Wilicko reminded him at the right time. As the head of the engineering corps, he is not concerned about speed, but about his own interests, and perhaps Harada's speed is fast, but this is not necessarily in his interests.

"Well, I understand!"

Harada nodded again and again, there is no need for too fast speed here,

"I just hope to finish the work here before the materials run out, I have calculated, after the work tomorrow, we will be idle for a week, this week, according to the contract, only need to provide food, Colonel ......"

Harada's voice was not loud, but it could be heard in Wieliczko, but it made a smile on his face, this is where Harada is smart, the seemingly accelerated construction period is actually not accelerated, but it saves a certain amount of labor costs, and this labor cost savings are not included in the treasury, after all, the budget has already been formulated, and the money will be deposited in Wieliczko's bank in the city center as scheduled, a seemingly small income, but it makes Wieliczko see another way of wealth.

"Harada, if you can, I hope that while they are resting, you can work overtime, in the ......"

Pointing to the "U fortress" in the distance, Wilicko said seriously.

"Assist them there, there is a large fortress, there are thirteen large and small forts, the construction period is very long, St. Petersburg is very urgent, my friend, how about it, can you go and help?"

"Hey!"

Without any doubt, Harada immediately bowed and obeyed the colonel's arrangement. And in reality, it was exactly what he needed.

"Wall thickness 35 cm, ...... reinforcement"

After nightfall, as in the past, Harada copied the data obtained during the day on the paper, and on that sketch, the data about the "glasses barrier" was being perfected one by one, and as an overseer, although he had access to the drawings, but not all the drawings, the Russians did not feel comfortable showing him the drawings completely, but even so, he still obtained a large amount of fortress data by acting as a translator and overseer.

"Tomorrow, let's get this information back first!"

Tucking the thick sketches into the cracks of the box, Harada, who was lying on the bed, looked at the roof, and he had begun to forget his identity after four months in Vladivostok.

No, more accurately, forgetting his life, as if he were just an ordinary laborer.

For four months, with his prominence and, of course, his knowledge of Russian, he stood out from the ranks of ordinary laborers, and even became an overseer after an accident with the overseer, which of course he had created.

However, for the Russians, the accidental death of a Japanese overseer seemed to mean nothing, and only needed to be replaced by a different person, who could walk around the construction site after becoming an overseer, but this was still not enough.

"In this case, it won't work at all without a year or two!"

There are dozens of fortresses and hundreds of large and small forts in the direction of Vladivostok, and even in a year or two, it is difficult to gather enough information, which is where Harada is entangled now, but in just four months, he has fully integrated himself into his current role.

As for Li Ziyuan, the name seems to have long since disappeared, and Harada, who was lying on the bed, had another question in his mind - how to seize the city?

More precisely, how the Marines captured the city. And this was the original intention of this staff trip, and the reason why the Military Command Department sent him here was obviously because of the idea of the Military Command Department, and this idea could not be simpler - the Marine Corps is very likely to assume unprecedented responsibilities in future offensive warfare.

Every time he thought of this, Li Ziyuan, as a member of the Marine Corps, only felt that his chest was suddenly filled with a stream of blood, and even that blood boiled.

But how do the Marines accomplish their mission?

Undoubtedly, for Li Ziyuan, this is a test, he needs to make a plan for the city's fortress defense system in the future "travel", and what is the core of this plan? It is based on knowledge of the Russian fortress in Vladivostok.

"It's hard!"

With a long sigh, thinking of the Russians' precautions against him, Li Ziyuan muttered in his heart.

"These Russians don't trust anyone else at all, they are so greedy for money, if they sell it......"

Sell!

When this thought came to mind, Li Ziyuan straightened his body violently, and at this moment, he seemed to see hope, maybe he could consider "buying" and "buying" the fortress.

More precisely, maybe you can buy a blueprint for the fortress!

But from whom?

Obviously, there was only one person in the whole of Vladivostok who had all the drawings and distribution information of the fortress, that is, Colonel Wilicko, but how could he betray such a secret? After all, for the Russian Empire, Vladivostok may no longer be the base of the Pacific Fleet of the Russian Empire, but it is a bridgehead connecting the mainland with the Viceroyalty of Nicholas!

"I have to find a way!"

Thinking like this in his heart, Li Ziyuan never slept all night, he just closed his eyes and silently thought about whether there was any channel that could be used around the colonel, as the commander of the Marine Corps, he must be responsible for his brothers, and then guessed the plan of the superiors to use the Marine Corps, then the rest was to learn as much as possible about this fortress under construction through this staff trip.

"Land, land......"

With his eyes half-closed, he silently muttered these two words on his lips, maybe in a few years, this land will be shrouded in a bloody storm, although he doesn't know when the war will break out, but he does not doubt the outbreak of war, after all, soldiers always have their own intuition......

"Hopefully, we can complete this trip as soon as possible!" (To be continued.) )