However, what Yevgenia and Soyana and the Beijing headquarters of the National Security Bureau did not know was that the twelve people in Beijing were only in charge of the intelligence work of the operation, and it was accurate that Moscow did not actually tell them the truth. The task of this group in Beijing is really only to gather information about Zhang Zuolin personally and to divert the attention of those who are interested in it. The real assassination mission was carried out by another team, and the leader of this team was called Sarnen, and he had under his command two very good explosives specialists, Vinarov and Ettingon.

Previously, Soviet Russia had assassinated Zhang Zuolin many times, but all of them ended in failure. So this time, taking advantage of the outbreak of the Sino-Japanese war, the Soviet Russian Cheka headquarters issued a death order that it must succeed, and if the executor did not succeed, it would be a lack of loyalty to the revolution. Their families were also sent to labor camps for their "disloyalty" to the revolution. Thinking of this, everyone had to immediately cheer up and redouble their efforts to complete the glorious task entrusted to them by the organization.

The members of the special task force led by Sarnen to "purge" Zhang Zuolin were not the same as Yevgenia, they had gathered in Harbin one after another as White Russian refugees. In view of Zhang Zuolin's habit of returning to Mukden by train, the task force decided to target the "purge" operation between Shanhaiguan and Mukden, and the assassination method was to detonate in the middle of the attack.

After approving this implementation plan, Moscow also made a supplementary plan: When carrying out the "clean-up" operation, it must direct its attention to the Japanese or the Wang Zhenyu group, preferably to the Japanese, and to send some staff members to guide public opinion in China. In accordance with this instruction, the special operations team immediately began preparations, with Vinarov preparing explosives and Etingon choosing the place and route of the operation. In the end, he chose the old crossing at the intersection of Jingfeng Road (i.e., the Beijing-Shenyang Line) and Nanman Road (i.e., the Long Line), which the train must pass. Because the area is under Japanese jurisdiction, it is easy to lead the suspicion of the explosion to the Japanese. At the same time, a third group was urgently set up in Shanghai, and their task was to establish good relations with the Chinese press and, if necessary, to guide the whole public opinion, and the Soviet attaches more importance to propaganda work than the average person can imagine.

In the late Qing Dynasty, Beijing was already the center of the national railway, and the three major trunk lines of Beijing-Zhangzhou, Beijing-Feng, and Jinghan radiated from Beijing to the whole country. Zhengyangmen has gathered two major railway stations, one is Zhengyangmen West Station, which is the starting point of the Jinghan (Beijing-Hankou) Railway; There is also Zhengyangmen East Station, which is the starting point of the Jingfeng (Beijing-Shenyang) railway.

There are two major railway stations gathered outside the small Zhengyang Gate, which makes the traffic pressure in this area huge, and congestion often occurs, and we must find a way to solve it. To this end, the Beiyang government has taken two major measures, one is to renovate the Zhengyangmen, mainly to dismantle the east and west moon walls of the Zhengyangmen urn city, and open two door openings on both sides of the city wall, the project was completed at the end of 1915; In addition, a ring railway was built. The Ring Railway is an extension of the Beijing-Zhangjiakou Railway, and it is planned that the Xizhimen Station of the Beijing-Zhangjiakou Railway will start from west to east, pass through Deshengmen and Andingmen, and then turn south from Dongzhimen, and pass through Chaoyangmen and Dongbianmen to Zhengyangmen East Station, connecting with Beijing-Fengzhou Railway. Each gate has a station for easy access for passengers and goods.

On April 28, 1915, the Beijing-Zhangjiakou Railway Bureau set up a railway office around the city in Xizhimen and began to contract various projects. On June 16, the ring railway project was fully started, and stations were set up at each city gate, the roadbed was filled, the urn city was demolished, and the river ditch was repaired, and the Jingfeng line was connected to the Dongbianmen. On January 1, 1916, the Ring Railway was officially opened to traffic, with a total length of about 12.6 kilometers. In order to facilitate the combined transportation of goods on the Beijing-Hanzhou and Beijing-Zhangjiakou railways, a liaison line was built between the two stations of Xibianmen and Guang'anmen, which was about 4 kilometers long and completed in August 1916.

The Ring Railway is the direction of the inner city along the way, and the people of the time analyzed: "The users of the Ring City Railway, but the Chaoyang in the Northeast, the East Straight, Anding, and Desheng Four Gates." The streets and alleys of the four gates are dense, and there are also streets, shopping malls and roads outside the city. If the outer city has the Jingfeng Railway and the Jingyuan Railway in Yongdingmen, and the Jingsui Railway in Guang'anmen, there are many vegetable gardens, wastelands and graves in the city. There are especially few people living outside the city, and there must be fewer passengers and goods than in the inner city. It is a survey route, not around the outer city. ”

The direction of the Ring Railway is basically the same as that of the East Second Ring Road and the North Second Ring Road in Beijing today. It was built to meet the connection between the northern and eastern areas of the city; The three major trunk lines of Beijing-Zhangzhou, Jinghan and Beijing-Feng are connected as a whole, which facilitates the connection of various railways and the transit and distribution of foreign goods.

At 1 a.m. on December 22, at Beijing's Zhengyangmen East Railway Station, a large group of tall Feng soldiers armed with guns ran to the front of the station in two columns very neatly, and then separated from each other with guns. The staff at the station and a small number of passengers who took the night train immediately understood that this was the rhythm of a big man coming here to take the train, so they consciously gave way to the middle passage, and then went through the small doors on both sides to check in and enter the station.

Late at night, Zhang Zuolin's convoy of the Marshal's Mansion departed from Zhongnanhai and arrived at Zhengyangmen East Station, where Yang Yuting, a senior general of the Feng Army, who had been ordered to stay in Beijing to deal with the aftermath, as well as Premier Zhang Shaozeng and the heads of various ministries, went to see him off. For a while, the scene was also very grand, after all, Zhang Zuolin, the generalissimo of the Anguo Army, was in the central government without a president (after the death of Xu Shichang, the new president was not produced for a long time, and the Beijing Congress then used the generalissimo of the Anguo Army to exercise the presidential power, and Zhang Zuolin became a veritable supreme leader of the country) can be regarded as the real leader. The power is also rare since Lao Yuan. Therefore, in the face of the high-ranking officials who came to see him off, Zhang Zuolin has also been in a rare spirit in recent years, looking at everyone with a smile on his face, and chatting with everyone one by one cordially, which is very much goodbye.

After the greetings, Zhang Zuolin, a great warlord who ruled Beijing for two years, boarded his float special train with a vote of cronies and Japanese advisers, and in a cheerful music, Zhang Zuolin's special train slowly drove out of Zhengyangmen East Station.

Accompanying the car were former Premier Jin Yunpeng, Premier Pan Fu, Northeast Veteran Mo Dehui, Chief of General Staff Yu Guohan, Minister of Finance Yan Zepu, Minister of Education Liu Zhe and other senior officials, as well as Japanese advisers Machino Takema and Yi Echeng (also called Saga, Seiya or Yi I Seiya). In addition, Zhang Zuolin's sixth wife Ma Yueqing and the third son Zhang Xuezeng, and the accompanying medical officer Du Zexian.

Zhang Zuolin's special car, including the front of the car, consists of a total of 20 cars. Its train marshalling is as follows: 1 locomotive (locomotive), 1 ironclad car, 3 third-class cars, 2 second-class cars, 7 first-class cars, 1 second-class car, 2 third-class cars, 1 first-class car, 1 ironclad car, and 1 freight car. Zhang Zuolin is riding verse 10. This is the special float of the Empress Dowager Cixi in the past, and after the transformation, the exterior is blue, and it is called the blue steel car. The car is equipped with advanced equipment, luxurious and comfortable, and there is a large living room and a bedroom in the carriage, as well as sofa seats, mahjong tables, etc.

After the train arrived in Tianjin, Chu Yupu, the second-in-command of the Zhilu Allied Army and the commander of the corps, specially rushed from Tangguantun to Tianjin Station to greet and see him off. Also coming to greet and see off officials such as Wang Zhanyuan, the former two lakes patrol envoy in Tianjin, and Kan Chaoxi, the commander of Rehe. After parking, Jin Yunpeng, Pan Fu and others got out of the car.

Zhang Zuolin took a special train with a float and went to Fengtian together.

On the train, Zhang Zuolin talked with two Japanese advisers for a long time, not talking about other big things, but about the future of the old Zhang family.

"There is no doubt that your country's imperial army is going to suffer a big loss in Jinan this time, and even our Feng army is estimated to be unable to withstand the offensive of the southerners, I just want to ask the two advisers, do you have any good ideas next?"

The first to answer was the advisor Machino Takema, who said very unpleasantly: "Zhang Dashuai, I hope you understand that anyone who goes against the Japanese Empire will not end well, and even if they can succeed for a while, they are doomed to be destroyed. This time, Wang Zhenyu in the south was able to succeed in Shandong, but he only took advantage of the loophole of the main force of the Imperial Japanese Army fighting in Russia, and if the Great Japanese Empire made up its mind to go all out to crusade, he and his army would inevitably be wiped out. ”

Zhang Zuolin hurriedly nodded in agreement, but he was secretly scolding in his heart: "Grass your grandma, if you are really so powerful, you are not afraid of Wang Zhenyu and the group of tiger soldiers under him, then you are on top, I am now looking forward to you cleaning up Wang Zhenyu." If you don't have that ability, you know that you are shouting and shouting, and now you have to retreat to the northeast with your men and horses, and give him a good Beijing city Wang Zhenyu. ”

Yi Echeng also seemed to understand Zhang Zuolin's careful thoughts, and he immediately interjected and interrupted Machino Takema's words: "Far water can't save near fire, I understand what Zhang Dashuai means, and I still have to start with solving the dilemma in front of me to find a way." In fact, we have communicated with our friends in Tokyo that before the Imperial Japanese Army fully intervenes and reverses the entire situation of the war, they hope to stabilize the situation in Manchuria, that is, Northeast China, and hope that the Northeast led by the Great Marshal will establish a local government similar to Wang Zhenyu and his Nationalist Government, and continue to fight Wang Zhenyu and them to the end. ”

Zhang Zuolin touched his chin and knew what the Japanese were fighting about, but at the moment, it seems that it can only be like this, no matter how much the youth army can fight, as long as he gets stuck in Shanhaiguan and then connects with the powerful Japanese navy, it is estimated that the problem of retreating to the northeast for self-protection is not big. But this matter is not in a hurry, we have to get some benefits from Little Japan, so Zhang Zuolin nodded and said: "This is a good idea, that consultant, you go back and add up the charter, I still have to go eight laps now." ”