Chapter 640: Target Hermitage
While Nikolai was conducting a city-wide manhunt in St. Petersburg, he did not know that at the same time, weapons had already begun to be distributed in the refugee camps outside the city.
The news that the war was about to end made Vladimir and the most determined members of the Social Workers Party immediately feel the imminent pressure, they knew very well that if they didn't do it again, they would have no chance, although they felt that they were not prepared enough, but even if they took risks, they had to try, and they fled abroad after defeat, anyway, even if the war ended, William could not like a stable Russia, and many countries like them would like it.
In fact, Vladimir doesn't know who did the assassination of Stolypin, this guy has too many enemies in Russia, there is a record of being dropped bombs before, and even his son and daughter were killed, at this time, those Russians who have nowhere to vent their feelings because of the defeated nation, it is not strange to shoot him with a black gun, as one of the leaders of this war, it is strange not to shoot him with a black gun. But the problem is that his death has also brought a lot of trouble to Vladimir, and now Nikolai is only searching in St. Petersburg, and it will not be long before the scope of the search will definitely be expanded to the refugee camp outside the city, where there are enough weapons to arm 20,000 people, and it will definitely be discovered at that time, and it will definitely be too late to transfer.
In other words, there is no way out at all, only to give it a go, and seek wealth and danger.
"Compatriots, we have been defeated, we have lost in this dirty imperialist war to divide the world, and it will not be long before we will have to sign a humiliating treaty, and then cede almost half of Russia's land, and carry a huge reparations that will leave us without a breath for a century, why is that? Because of the Tsar, because we have a ruler who leads us into the abyss, his greed, his incompetence, his stupidity that leads us into a war that has nothing to do with us. And then he took us to lose the war, all because of the Tsar, his mistakes, why should we bear his crimes?
He called himself the father of the Russian people, but what did he do? When you were driven back from the far east by the Chinese because of his incompetence, you were greeted by his indifference, hunger and cold awaited you, you were not clothed, you were hungry, and your children froze to death on cold and snowy nights. Your women can only sell their bodies in hunger in exchange for a pitiful amount of food, but even then you have to go to the battlefield to die for him, do we still need such an emperor? Vladimir shook his fist like a mustache and yelled at the refugees gathered in front of him.
"We don't want it!"
"Overthrow the Tsar!"
"Hang Nikolai!"
A roar immediately sounded in front of him, you must know that these refugees who have been brought back from the Far East have been really miserable for a year, and Nikolai really wants to give them a little comfort, but he must have the ability to do it when millions of people come to Nima, especially at this time, Russia is already short of materials to the extreme, and in the past, because of the supply of materials from China, it can be said that there is anything, and it is indeed spoiled by the Russians. As a result, all the industrial and agricultural aspects of the country did not really adapt to the state of war, and then Yang Feng cut off the supply only to find that there was a shortage of everything, not to mention weapons and ammunition, even the canned food that soldiers loved most in the past was gone.
Even the supply of front-line soldiers was insufficient. What else did he do to care about these refugees, especially since these refugees had nothing else on them except Yang Fengfa's 100 yuan bills, many people came back from the warm of China and didn't even have warm clothes, and millions of people flocked to these ports on the Baltic coast at once. Nikolai couldn't even do anything to set up a tent for them.
Besides, he is not a man who loves the people like a son, and these people who have been brought back are not good birds, and the Far East was originally an exiled criminal. But all the people who go there are some scum scum and hooligan villains, these people come back and find that they don't even have to eat, it is better to live comfortably in the Chinese concentration camps without worrying about food and drink, then naturally they want to find the Tsar's theory, after a few troubles on the Hermitage Square, Nikolai is also annoyed, he really doesn't understand why these people are honest in the hands of Yang Feng, and there are a bunch of stinky problems here in him?
But soon he remembered that Yang Feng dared to use a machine gun against these people.
Well, what is it about bullying me not daring to use a machine gun?
When these refugees tried to storm the Winter Palace during the protests, Nikolai finally ordered the guards to shoot, and then he and these refugees became completely enemies, and then he had no interest in caring about these people's lives or deaths, so he sent an elite division to watch, and then let them fend for themselves outside St. Petersburg, and those refugees also regarded him as enemies, and even those who ran to the refugee camps to re-recruit could be beaten out by them, and no one dared to come here as for the police, but it became a happy land for the Social Workers.
Vladimir was very satisfied with the effect of his speech, he pressed it with his hand, motioned for everyone to stop, and then said: "Today, today is the day of reckoning with this criminal monopoly, today is the day of reckoning with those feudal autocracy that has overtaken us for thousands of years, and today we want to let those nobles understand that we, the people, are the masters of this country."
The people of Russia, the people of freedom, take up your weapons, come with me, march to the Hermitage, march to freedom, with the guns in your hands, to break the darkness, to break your chains, to march to the Winter Palace, to capture the Tsar alive! ”
Amid the roar of his fists, more than 5,000 armed refugees and members of the Social Labour Party raised their rifles and submachine guns in their hands, as if preparing a group of Muslim warriors to embark on a great journey to overthrow the old era.
The combat effectiveness of these people is absolutely not to be underestimated, you must know that more than half of them are prisoners of war who were repatriated in the Far East, and a large part of these prisoners of war were sent to the European battlefield by Nikolai, of course, they are more honest and obedient, these dishonest and obedient people are hidden by various means, but their lists are all on the conscription list, that is to say, if the tsar is not overthrown, these people are likely to face legal punishment after the war, so their will to die is particularly firm.
Comrade Vladimir looked at the warriors who flocked to the Winter Palace with satisfaction, of course he would not personally lead them to the battlefield, as a leader, he would be able to theoretically support it later, and leave such a thing as bloodshed and sacrifice to someone else! He wasn't one of the fools of the Paris Commune.
And at this time, in another hot spot of the Social Workers in St. Petersburg, in the Obukhov Arsenal, those workers have also begun to arm, and the order here is much more orderly, as for the tsar's lackeys in this arsenal, they are now lining up to kneel there and tie up and wait for the bayonet to be stabbed, and the person in charge of the work here is the famous, steel Comrade Felix, whose efficiency is far from being comparable to that of Comrade Vladimir, The great warrior was listening to the wails of the tsar's lackeys under their bayonets with a look of intoxication.
"The old times must be cleansed with blood, and the more blood is shed, the cleaner it will be, and only by completely throwing all the dregs of these feudal dynasties into the Neva River will we be able to build a new Russia that truly belongs to the people." He said lightly to the person beside him.
The latter nodded as if he didn't understand, but the fervent adoration in his eyes showed that he was enthusiastic about cleansing the old Russian order with blood.
Like the blood that flowed from this plant, so did the cruiser Aurora on the Neva.
"What do you want to do!" The captain of the ship, who lost one eye in the battle of the German-Russian Baltic, used his remaining eye to break into the captain's room with angry eyes.
'Your Excellency, for the sake of Russia, we must overthrow the rule of the Tsar and establish a true republic, and I hope you will lead us to continue the fight for freedom. One of the sailors said that in fact, the captain still had a high level of prestige in their minds.
"Bastard, don't you understand what you're doing? We have already paid the price of tens of millions of casualties for the war, have you not fought enough, and you still want to die tens of millions? Do you know what we are most fortunate in this war, that our territory is vast enough to protect Russia from being ravaged by the war, and that you are ready to help them do what the enemy has not done? Chinese, the Germans did not destroy our country, you are ready to destroy him with artillery fire?
Republic? The French almost shed their blood for the republic, do you want to shed the blood of Russia too? If you don't have enough blood for five years, you still want to fight for a few more years, if you haven't shed enough blood for five years, do you want to shed a few more years, and if you have such courage, why don't you go to the battlefield against foreigners! The captain smiled at him, and sat down at the table with a cigar and looked at them.
"What nonsense to talk to him, this kind of tsar's lackey can be destroyed with one shot." As he spoke, a sailor walked out and raised his hand to shine a shot on the captain's chest, but fortunately, the glass in the captain's room was multi-layered to protect against the cold, and the gunfire of Xiao Nagan's revolver was also a little weaker, except for the Aurora, which had been completely controlled, no one else noticed the gunshot.
The first sailor sighed softly, and then said with a firm gaze: "Ready to do it!" ”
The sailors beside him immediately dispersed and moved separately, and soon the Swedish-made heavy cruiser was frozen on the banks of the Neva River, and the four twin turrets began to rotate slowly, and the eight 240 mm guns were aimed at the center of the empire, the magnificent palace on the south bank of the Neva River.
The sailor looked at his pocket watch and said: "Target Hermitage, ready to fire!" (To be continued......)