Chapter 560: Behind the Peace

Wang Geng is making final preparations at the Tengda concentration camp in Hailanpao Province.

Hailan Pao Province was originally the Amur Oblast of Russia, and was one of the six northeastern provinces of the Trans-Khingan Mountains established after the Shanghai Communiqué. It is also one of the largest Slavic settlements in the Far East. However, the continuous war and turmoil have reduced the population of the former Russian to less than 400,000, while the proportion of Han immigrants has increased from 70,000 to the current 970,000, and Yang Qiu also ordered the construction of 339 super-large national farms and the purchase of 2,000 tractors on this land, known as the granary of Eastern Siberia, to accelerate the integration of these recovered territories.

And what about the original Russian population?

Wang Geng has a copy of the statistics, about 1.5 million have crossed the ocean to the world, 3 million have been sent back by rail to the desolate Central Siberian plateau west of Krasnoyarsk, and the rest have been killed or starved to death due to lack of food in the sweeps and counter-sweeps of the Wehrmacht and guerrillas, and the largest weapons of population extermination are several large concentration camps scattered throughout the Trans-Khingan Mountains. Therefore, since the beginning of the turmoil in Northeast China, all reporters in the Outer Xing'an Mountains area under military control have been forbidden to enter the area to report, and only reporters from the Central News Agency and the military newspaper can enter, and the government of the Republic of China, which has always been tolerant of the media, has been particularly strict in this matter, and the main reason for this is the existence of population concentration camps.

The Tengda concentration camp is the largest of the six provinces in Trans-Khinganling, and 190,000 Russians have been brought to the 15-square-kilometer coking coal region on charges of "financing the rebels" and "splitting China."

It can be seen from the watchtower. The entire camp was fenced with barbed wire, and the south side was covered with strips of birch wood. To the north is the largest coking coal producing area in Northeast China, Anshan and Changchun. Harbin, Jilin and other large and medium-sized iron and steel plants use 7% of the steelmaking coking coal rely on this supply. On the contrary, the Russian miners in the concentration camp could only get four multigrain steamed buns a day, no medical care, no cotton clothes, no clean drinking water, only cold subway wire fences and armed watchtowers every 30 meters.

There must have been people who wanted to escape from such a difficult environment, but to this day there have been no successful cases. Even if you leave here, you won't be able to survive because the nearby 100 kilometers are uninhabited wasteland, and there is only a railway connecting the outside world with coal and timber.

No one knows how many people ended up dying here, and all the numbers associated with them are permanently locked away in the classified archives of Nanjing. The detention troops stationed here only know that every day there are trains that bring in large numbers of Russian "criminals" and then carry away several times as many bodies and remains.

Wang Geng didn't know these things when he first came, and it wasn't until he saw them with his own eyes for the first time that he realized that under the glory of Nanjing's republic, there was such a terrible genocide hidden. He was scared and hesitated, but in the end he gritted his teeth and persevered. Because what Yang Qiu said is very right, if you don't do it now, the millions of stranded Slavs in the future will bring the hidden danger of separatism to the country!

So! There will always be some people who have to stand up, even if they are sent to the gallows in the future.

Luckily, something like this is finally coming to an end today! According to the latest statistics. In just four years, the 9 million Russians living in the northeast and the six provinces of the Outer Khing'an Mountains have been less than 2 million, on the contrary, under the Cheng Cheng Act and government propaganda, forced migration and other means, the proportion of Han immigrants has increased to 6 million, and there is no suspense to achieve the number of tens of millions of immigrants by 1925, plus Yang Qiu's order to stabilize the country as soon as possible, so today Wang Geng is here to completely erase this kind of national evil from the long river of history!

"Let them go back to camp." Wang Geng looked at his watch. The final order was given.

The police whistle sounded, and tens of thousands of miners with yellow faces and thin muscles who were working returned to the camp under the supervision of the soldiers, and they still did not understand what was going on, and secretly wondered if it was a festival in China today. I called it a day so early.

The camp guards soon brought steamed buns in trucks, and the miners rushed back to their dormitories to fill their hungry bellies. After the free activities in the evening were cancelled, everyone had to lie idle and rest on the dirty simple beds.

The night gradually opened, no sound could be heard in the silent wasteland, hunger caused most people to fall asleep early, only a few people heard some strange noises, but they did not dare to go out, knowing that more people were killed than starved to death when they went out at night. Teams of soldiers were ordered to board the train and leave, while some soldiers wearing gas masks and flamethrowers quietly entered the camp in their place, blocked the passage with prepared matches, and then turned on the ejector safety.

"Whew." A few hours later, hundreds of orange-red lines of fire erupted from their hands, lighting up the night in an instant. The birch-made dormitory was so flammable that within a moment the entire outer ring of the dormitory was on fire.

"It's on fire!"

"Get out of here."

"God, help us!"

Countless "criminals" were awakened by the sudden flames and scurried like headless flies, some picking up precious blankets to fight the flames, while others fled in all directions trying to leave. But before they could get out of the outer wall of fire, the more than 60 Maxim heavy machine guns that had been mobilized erupted into a terrible roar.

"Da-da-da-da."

Full! Full! Or full speed!

The soldiers involved in this top-secret operation closed their eyes, and then pulled the trigger and turned on the fully automatic mode as required, and fired 30 boxes of bullets in their hands at a speed of 400 rounds per minute! This speed was enough to turn the circulating water into steam, enough to shatter the Heavy's body, enough to break the barrel, but no one cared anymore, the Heavy would change every five minutes, and the screams and the rolling and burning bodies in the flames made the soldiers shoot like crazy, just wanting to end it all as soon as possible.

Shells also fell, dozens of old 75mm field guns used arson shells to bombard the camp indiscriminately, and the flying white phosphorus and igniting materials fueled the fire, and the early summer in Siberia was drowned in the evils of the night.

"I hope God forgives us." The firelight reflected the cheeks of Wang Geng and everyone. The officers behind him also turned their heads one by two. This kind of scene is definitely not something that ordinary people can bear, and even the soldiers who are on a mission tonight will be sent to a secret location. Receiving years or even decades of psychotherapy.

A few hours later, the entire Tengda concentration camp could only hear the crackling of wooden planks in the flames. According to the plan. This and other concentration camps will soon be cleared, and when the miners from the interior arrive next year, they will only know about the abundance of resources, not what has happened.

The fire in Transkhinganling was one less night, and the operation against Yakutsk, which had been delayed for a year due to the silver crisis, was also coming to an end.

The tiger's head held a mountain-breaking knife and hid in the low bushes. Looking at the Russian soldiers not far away who were talking and laughing and sowing potatoes and corn in the wasteland, the tiger's mouth was so tense that it almost cracked. But he didn't dare to move, and the mysterious soldiers around him told him that the distance only needed to be stationary. This kind of military uniform called camouflage uniform on the body can deceive the eyes of Russian soldiers, but if you move, you must have skills, and if you don't have skills, you will harm others and yourself.

He would definitely not be so obedient before, but these soldiers around him were his saviors and the only hope for revenge, so he didn't dare to move, for fear of destroying other people's affairs.

Let's go back to last year when he and his partner jumped into the river to escape. At that time, he thought that he was going to die, but he didn't expect to rush downstream and be rescued by a group of soldiers and sent back to Hailanbao to recuperate. After recovering from his wounds, the soldiers came to him and asked to be a guide to take them back. Everything was ready, but for some reason it was suddenly canceled. Because of his special status, he and his partners were ordered to live in a military base in Hailan Pao and were not allowed to leave until the soldiers returned early last month and asked him to be a guide again.

There was no hesitation or concern, and as for the original dream, it was all shattered with the tragedy of that day. For him, as long as he can return to Yakutsk, even if he can kill a Russian soldier with his own hands, it will be worth it, so he immediately brings this group of mysterious soldiers back here. Now the soldiers who rescued him were scattered around, but he could swear. I have never seen such a unit.

His face was painted with Peking Opera oil paint, he was dressed in a camouflage military uniform, his steel helmet of the same color was tied with tree branches, cowhide boots, and each of them carried a backpack on his back. What's even more strange is that during the trek on foot, they are more familiar than themselves, who have lived in the old forest for several years, and on several occasions they discover the hidden Russian sentinels before they see the enemy. The most surprising thing is that they still don't like to use guns, and mostly use crossbows and daggers to quietly solve the enemy, and even once used a few poisonous mushrooms to kill seven or eight Russian soldiers who were cooking.

This kind of elusive method made his back chill, and he knew how lucky he was before, if he had met this army earlier, I am afraid that he would not know how to die.

Nearby, a branch seemed to move. Tiger Head turned his head to see that a thick machine gun had protruded from the grass 20 meters away to the right, and one hand was adjusting the muzzle threaded cap. He can be regarded as experienced in a hundred battles, he has been fighting for 6 years since he was 17 years old, he has seen Makqin, the light machine gun made by the Republic of China, the Belgian Madsen, and the heavy machine gun fed by bullet plates in France and Japan, and even the British Lewis has seen it, but it is the first time he has seen this strange machine gun.

The foot bracket, the whole gun looks like a straight iron bar, the workmanship looks poor, and the surface is riveted marks. The muzzle has a threaded cap, and when loading the bullet, you must first open the lid on the receiver, and the most special thing is the barrel heat slap, which is actually square! He didn't read much and didn't know what words to use to describe it, so he thought that this thing looked like a simple piece of iron and rivets, not to mention that compared with the majestic-looking Makqin, even compared with the light machine guns used in China, it was much uglier.

It is a good thing that it uses a 50-round magazine, which can hold more ammunition than the 30-round magazine of the light machine gun, but the cartridge belt is not canvas, and it looks like it is iron, and it is coiled on the left side of the machine gun in the cartridge box.

Tiger Head retracted his gaze and looked to the left, and found that several of the same machine guns were also poking out there, and immediately understood that this was about to be done! "Take it." Before he could choose his target, a big hand suddenly reached out next to him, holding a loaded Minyuan-style pistol in his hand.

"Boy, if you want to live, don't mess around." Hao Wenbao lowered his voice, his beast-like gaze under the steel helmet, and even the tiger head that came out of the pile of dead people swallowed and nodded in assurance.

Hao Wenbao smiled at him and raised his gun to aim at a man who looked like an officer.

Tiger Head looks at the gun. I shook my head in my heart, and I really couldn't think of what kind of army this was. Why is the rifle different from other troops, there is actually a small grip under the butt.

Hao Wenbao didn't know what he was thinking. In fact, he still has an 18-year-old experimental semi-automatic rifle in his hand, the only difference is that it is equipped with a pistol-style small grip. This is the experience that hunters have learned in fighting in the cold zone, because it will be difficult to shoot without a grip after wearing gloves in winter. As for the machine gun next to it, it was a new equipment that I only got at the beginning of the year, and it was also sent to hunters for experiments. It is tentatively designated as the HJ21 general-purpose machine gun, H is the first letter of Hanyang in the Chinese pinyin that is now promoted nationwide, and J is the first letter of the machine gun. 21 is the year when the design was finalized.

It is common in Europe and the United States to start with a letter to make a weapon model, and the Ministry of Defense has also begun to use this method, but there are other nicknames and names in addition to the number, such as the renamed HC14 type. It is a 14-year-old submachine gun made by Hanyang, and the popular name is Hanyang Flower Machine Gun.

Another group of Russian soldiers returned, including a few Mongol soldiers carrying wild deer. Their appearance made Tiger Head's eyes bloodshot instantly, because he found that one of them was particularly familiar, it was Sukhbalto, who forced him to jump into the river in the first place! Just as he was getting more and more angry, a gunshot suddenly shattered the silence of the forest.

In the scope, the head of the Russian ** officer who was targeted by Hao Wenbao bloomed like a flower, and blood and brains splashed on a Russian woman next to him, and the woman was still stunned and didn't remember what was going on, and only after a moment did she let out a high-pitched scream! But it was too late.

"Snort."

A strange sound echoed through the forest. Even the tiger head was surprised and searched around, only to find after a while that the sound of a chainsaw that he had heard cutting wood when he was an apprentice at the Harbin Eastern Railway Bureau actually came from a machine gun next to him.

The tiger's heart trembled, how fast does it take to shoot at this rate to make the gunfire become such a ripping cloth-like tone!

Where is this machine gun, it is clearly a cloth ripper.

Tiger Head didn't know that he had acquired this nickname and it had later become a common term for the whole army.

The HJ21 ripped machine gun was copied from the NATO version of the later famous MG42, the MG3 general-purpose machine gun. Compared with the prototype, the butt was shortened in consideration of the arm length of the Chinese, and the non-loose metal cartridge belt was used. Others remained largely unchanged, continuing to use the Wehrmacht-standard 7.62*51nato full-power ammunition. But what made Yang Qiu helpless was that he thought that MG3 was easy to imitate, but later learned that because of the domestic stamping technology, it began to be introduced, the level of fine mold opening was poor, and the metal bullet chain was even more difficult at the current level of processing, so it was not easy to make an HJ21 general-purpose machine gun.

Fortunately, he didn't plan to popularize the equipment so early, and at present, he is only trying it out for hunters for technical research and reserves.

The muzzle rate of fire adjustment ring keeps the HJ21 universal machine gun at a rate of fire of 900 rounds per minute, which is impressive, if not the fastest, and the machine gunner only needs to pull the trigger to hit the target four or five times, with no chance of survival at all.

For this operation, the Hunter Brigade dispatched two squadrons with a total of 12 general-purpose machine guns. The intensity of the fire was unimaginable, coupled with the strange speed, the unprepared Russian soldiers were almost swept down in pieces. Even if some people make covert movements, they can't avoid the rain of bullets that splash on the water.

The sound of machine-gun rippers alarmed Kirov and Shumyatsky in the command post, and the former turned pale with fright, pulled out his self-defense pistol and shouted: "Damn, who is shooting?" ”

"It's a Chinese squad! Boom in our west! ”

Before the guards could finish reporting, two 60-mm mortar shells landed exactly near the command post, and the fireball and smoke frightened Kirov even more nervously, and he hurriedly retreated to the river under the protection of the soldiers.

Shumyatsky was quite calm, at least he expected that the Chinese Defense Forces would not easily let go of the stronghold of Yakutsk, so he built a lot of bunkers and fortifications early. After the initial panic, tens of thousands of guerrilla soldiers rushed back from all directions and entered bunkers and fortifications.

"Team 4, go to the left! Don't let them into the woods. ”

"Boy! You take us to the river. ”

Hao Wenbao grabbed the tiger's head and asked him to lead the way to the river. The Hunter Brigade is not a regular army, and it is unrealistic to want to kill three in and three out in the face of tens of thousands of enemies, and his tactic is to keep the troops on the edge of the dense forest, and compress the 1st Division of the Russian Far East to the river little by little.

"There aren't many of them. Go find them out! Sukhbalto saw only the sound of machine guns, and the shells were even more scarce. Courageously led hundreds of Mongol soldiers to search the edge of the jungle. Tiger Head recognized this guy, and he was the first to lead his troops into the Chinese battalion. Therefore, the enemies are very red when they meet, and the two arrows clash with each other.

Hao Wenbao scolded when he saw this, and hurriedly commanded the team to cover him.

The firepower network composed of two HJ21 machine guns pressed the Mongolian soldiers not to raise their heads, and the tiger head was worthy of being a veteran who had been fighting for six years. Grab their grenades and smash them at Sukhbaatar.

The rumbling explosion frightened Sukhbalto and hurriedly found a place to hide. Seeing the enemy enter the soldier's protective circle, the tiger head became more and more anxious, and was about to exchange his life for his life to forcibly break through the blockade. Behind the Mongol army, a dense fireball suddenly exploded. Immediately afterward, the rumbling sound of a motor sounded from the river. Three Seagull-class speedboats rushed up from the lower reaches of the Lena River, and the 40-mm machine guns specially installed for the operation were aimed at the Red Army positions along the coast and fiercely shelled them, more than a dozen sailing boats followed them, and hundreds of soldiers of the 16th Brigade landed along the river bank to launch a general attack on Yakutsk.

Shumyatsky and the others did not expect that the other side would actually use boats up the river, although he and the officers did not know how the Wehrmacht transported speedboats of several tens of tons here, but the enemy along the river crushed their last confidence.

Whether it was a 40mm machine gun or a temporary mortar and a 12.7mm heavy machine gun on a sailing ship, it was a heavy firepower that the guerrillas could not match, and the few heavy machine guns were dumbfounded. Shumyatsky had to order a retreat to the upper wasteland, preparing to retreat from the upper river to Okhotsk in the east. Kirov ran to the river and was about to cross the river and retreat first, when the sudden appearance of the speedboat destroyed his hopes, two rows of 40mm shells came, and the improvised raft was blown apart, and the officer who was arranged by Stalin to go to the Far East and personally ordered the massacre of the Chinese battalion was blown up before he could hum.

The sudden appearance of a large group of enemies behind caused serious confusion, and a large number of Red Army troops panicked and scurried, and the Mongol troops in the middle of them also ran away. The tiger head, who had been waiting for an opportunity for a long time, found a Mosina gan. Seeing Sukhbalto flee towards him, he locked the crosshair on that panicked face.

Syllable!

In Yakutsk, where the explosions were dense, a single gunshot was not harsh, but Sukhbalto, who fled in a hurry, suddenly stopped moving, and the nearby soldiers saw that he had fallen straight to the black ground with his face covered in blood.

The Wehrmacht along the river crushed the confidence of the Russian army, and the battle was basically over in less than three hours, except for Shumyatsky, who withdrew less than 3,000 men to the depths of the dense forests in the north, the rest were all annihilated, the entire camp was full of captured Russian and Mongolian rebels, and the poor party was lying with corpses in the largest base in the Far East.

"Report, prisoner of war."

"What prisoners of war?" Hao Wenbao looked at the tiger head lying on the ground twitching, glared at the officer who came to report, and snorted coldly: "Send a telegram to the command headquarters that Yakutsk has been occupied." ”

"Yes." The officer understood what he meant, and scolded the captured soldiers into the dense forest, and a moment later a rapid burst of machine-gun fire came from inside.

Hao Wenbao didn't seem to hear the gunshot, walked up to the tiger head and kicked him: "Boy, if you don't die, get up." ”

With red eyes, Tiger Head watched him get up from the ground, returned the pistol to him and said, "Thank you." ”

"Thank you for what I did." Hao Wenbao looked at his immature face, and asked thoughtfully, "The gun is good." What's your name? How old and how many years have you been holding a gun? ”

"Luo Wenhu, 23 years old, has been with Brother Ren for 6 years."

"Okay." Hao Wenbao circled around him a few times and said, "Are you interested in joining us?" ”

"Join the army? But me. The tiger was stunned, he didn't expect that he would have the opportunity to join the army of the motherland, or such a mysterious and terrifying army, and he suddenly didn't even know how to say it. Seeing him like this, Hao Wenbao took out his cigarette and said with a smile: "I can only make a suggestion to send you to a special training camp, whether you can practice it depends on yourself." Do you understand? ”

Tiger Head nodded vigorously.

"Don't think about the past, everyone has ideals when they are young." Seeing that he agreed, Hao Wenbao patted his shoulder and comforted him, then returned to the speedboat and telegraphed the Hailan Pao Command.

When the news of the completion of the handling of Yakutsk and the concentration camp reached Nanjing, important news also came from outside the northwest. On June 17, Kolchak joined the troops behind the palace, and was about to continue to retreat to the Yenisei River when he was suddenly intercepted by nearly 70,000 Turkestan Front troops led by Blyukher, although the Chinese volunteers tried their best to cover the breakthrough with artillery fire, but the White Guards, who had no intention of fighting, could not stop the desperate impact of the Red Army at all, a total of 270,000 people were cut and annihilated, and less than 30,000 people were left to withdraw to Krasnoyarsk with the Chinese volunteers, and the bandit leaders such as Kolchak and Dutov were killed in the chaotic battle.

The news reached Nanjing, and the people from the presidential palace to the people strongly condemned this atrocity of the Soviet Red Army! He condemned Garrahan for taking advantage of the opportunity of the declaration on China to confuse China and create a false sense of peace while massacring the opposition.

In this context, the country carried out the largest military movement after the European war. Seven divisions, including the Central Plains Theater and the North China Theater, received orders to board trains and rush to the northwest in a steady stream, and Frunze also strictly ordered the troops to speed up their movements eastward on foot to prevent the Chinese Defense Forces from entering Russian territory and provoking a war.

This sudden news shocked the world, and Britain, France, the United States and other countries all vaguely guessed the inside story, but because there was no evidence, they could only hope that the two sides would really fight. By the end of the month, there were as many as 400,000 troops from both sides gathered in the northwest, and the Far East, which had just subsided, seemed to smell the smoke of gunfire again.

Although both Moscow and Nanjing demanded that the other side withdraw their troops first, they sent diplomats including Lu Zhengxiang and Garrahan to Barnaul for urgent consultations to avoid the situation from escalating.

At the beginning of September, the Barnaul meeting ended, and at 11 a.m. the two sides officially announced the "Sino-Soviet Peace Treaty" that had been signed long ago. According to the treaty, in addition to recognizing the Shanghai Communiqué, Russia ceded to China the area east of the Yenisei River, which includes Krasnoyarsk to the Angara River, promised to allow Chinese businessmen to enter the northern region, including Yakutsk, and the area east of the Kazakh Aral Sea for commercial investment, sold the Karaganda iron ore mine to the Northwest Iron and Steel Company of China for $500,000, and allowed the construction of a narrow-gauge railway from the mining area to Jaisangpo for ore transportation.

In addition, the peace treaty also strictly regulated the number of troops to be stationed on both sides, according to which the Chinese defense forces would restore the number of four divisions at the time of the Shanghai communiqué, while the Russian army would retreat to the Barnaul line, 100 kilometers away, and the army would not be allowed to enter the area east of the Yenisei River, except for the civilian police.

Moscow gritted its teeth at the draconian treaty, especially since the barrenty of troops from entering the vast stretch of East Siberia was tantamount to relinquishing de facto control of the vast expanse of Eastern Siberia, but at a time when the domestic situation was becoming more and more serious, Lenin had to agree to all conditions.

From the beginning of the "Brest Peace Treaty" to the "Sino-Soviet Peace Treaty", the five-year Russian civil war finally came to an end. After the catastrophe, Russia lost more than 3 million square kilometers of land, and also lost more than 3 million square kilometers of control of East Siberia in disguise, lost tens of millions of people, and its annual steel production fell to less than 200,000 tons, and its economy fell to one-twentieth of the pre-European war.

Whether it was the "Paris Peace Treaty", the "Riga Peace Treaty", or the final "Sino-Japanese" and "Sino-Soviet Peace Treaty", the harsh and harsh terms made Germany, the Soviet Union, and Japan extremely dissatisfied, and the hatred between countries and nationalities not only did not weaken, but became more and more acute with time.

But in any case, the news of the signing of the "Sino-Soviet Peace Treaty" made people all over the world begin to look forward to entering an era of peace, the post-war economy began to gradually recover, and time made people gradually forget the pain, but most people did not expect that countries were actually quietly preparing for the next war.

Yang Qiu locked up the Yakutsk, the concentration camp, and Barnaul and sealed them permanently in the state database. Behind the peace is blood! In just two months, more than a million people, including Kolchak and others, disappeared forever from the Far Eastern plate! What about the depth of sin? At least one China has stood firm without major internal divisiveness, and all that needs to be done now is to regain its spirit and start preparing for the next world war from now on. (To be continued)