Episode 148 Vladivostok's train cannon

The twin cities at night, the vigorous appearance of the evening are swept away. It was a newly occupied area with a strict curfew. Only groups of heavily armed Ming troops patrolled the streets, and their steps echoed in the empty alleys.

Xiang Xiaoqiang and Fourteen Gege live in a sanatorium on the outskirts of Shuangchengzi City. In the past, this sanatorium was only available to party and government cadres of sufficient rank. Now that the Ming army has taken this place, it has not yet been dealt with. The next step is to sell it to individuals and then operate it publicly. Anyone who spends money can stay and enjoy it.

As the front moves forward, places like Twin Cities will soon become big rear. The economic transformation of the occupied territories was imminent, and all land and livestock were to be distributed to individuals, houses were to be given to individuals, free buying and selling were allowed, and all the harvest except for the payment of taxes went to the inhabitants themselves. At present, state-owned and collective pastures, forestry farms, shops, and factories are all auctioned off to individual businesses...... Both the Ming and the Russians can participate in the auction......

Of course, this is clear that it is to sell it all to the Ming people. No Russian can afford to pay that much. However, these measures were enough to double the productivity of the occupied territories and take off the economy in a short period of time.

In addition to the economic, political and cultural reforms have been rapidly underway. A few White Russian newspapers, which had long been run in the Ming Dynasty, were now taken by the Ming army to the newly occupied Soviet lands for free distribution. At the same time, there were also many leaflets, pamphlets, and pictorials compiled and printed by the Ming side, trying to "make up" for these Soviet residents in the shortest possible time, so that they could understand what they had lost and what they had gained.

There's a lot to do next, and it's all about "entering information". No matter what kind of information, I don't care about careful selection, anyway, I try to pass as much information from the outside world as possible to the original "iron stuffy can". Let the Soviets accept information from all sides, slowly form their own thinking, understand what is right and what is wrong. A large number of books, newspapers, pictorials, radio broadcasts banned in the Soviet Union...... With the tanks of the Ming army, they also poured in like a tide.

Not only can you "enter" freely, but you can also "go out" freely. During the former Soviet Union, citizens could not go abroad freely, let alone go abroad, even if they traveled within the country, they had to have a "domestic passport". The whole USSR was like a big prison, or like a big labor camp. Now wherever the Ming army hits, it is announced that the residents there can travel freely, go abroad, go to Daming, and if they want, they can also run to the Soviet-controlled areas without hindrance. Everyone can choose with their feet.

In the words of Zhu Yourong's speech after the war:

"That's right, Mr. Stalin, we are not perfect either, we also have a lot of problems. You also have a lot of strengths, and there are also a lot of things to learn from us. But the difference between us is that we allow imperfections and problems to be pointed out; We allow dissatisfaction; We don't decide on behalf of the people what they should know and what they shouldn't know; We will never lock people up with a barbed wire fence. — and you're the opposite. ”

The next day, October 10, Xiang Xiaoqiang and his entourage had breakfast and drove further southeast, getting closer and closer to the Soviet-controlled area in Vladivostok. There are also more and more planes in the sky, and troops, heavy equipment, and tanks can be seen everywhere on the road, and it is already an atmosphere at the forefront of the front.

The road became more and more potholes, and there were more and more craters on both sides. Xiang Xiaoqiang looked at the map in the car and knew that he had now arrived in Razdolinoye, which was still 70 kilometers away from Vladivostok, but only about 20 kilometers away from the Soviet-controlled area. Because from here you are about 30 kilometers south to the edge of the bay. Vladivostok, on the other hand, is the southern tip of the Amur Peninsula jutting out from this bay. When you reach the sea, you have to go more than 40 kilometers to the east, bypass the bay, enter the Amur Peninsula, and then go more than 20 kilometers south to Vladivostok.

And here, it will be difficult for the Ming army to advance further south. Although it was only twenty kilometers from the sea, these twenty kilometers were extremely important for the Soviet army. The Razdolina River flows into the sea from here, and the waterworks of Vladivostok are located here, purifying the water of the Razdolina River for the use of the great Vladivostok. As long as the Ming army broke through to the south for more than 20 kilometers, hit the seashore, and occupied the waterworks, the water source would be cut off, and Vladivostok would be broken soon.

Now a large number of planes are bombing the waterworks every day. But the bombing alone is useless, at most it destroys the plant's pools and purification equipment, and at most it makes the waterworks lose its "purification" effect, but it does not prevent the river from being pumped directly to Vladivostok.

Today it was Wu Yanbin's turn to drive. Wu Yanbin held the steering wheel and said nervously while driving with a bump:

"Your Excellency...... Your Highness Princess, we can't go any further...... Further, your safety can be ......"

Before the words fell, a majestic howl crossed the sky, and then the mountain shook, and the glass on the left side of the cab was cracked, Wu Yanbin slammed on the brakes, and the three of them threw themselves on the bridge. Immediately, a large amount of dirt and stones fell from the sky and smashed on the roof of the truck.

The three men were stunned, and they all crawled back to their seats with miserable faces. Wu Yanbin glanced out, and saw a huge crater a hundred meters away on the left, and the surrounding Ming soldiers were lying on the ground. Without saying a word, he pushed the car door and jumped down, shouting:

"Your Highness, get out of the car!"

The fourteen grids on the right also quickly pushed the car door, jumped down, and then pulled Xiang Xiaoqiang down, pulled him to the side of the road for a few steps, and pressed him to lie down in the farmland.

I don't know how long it took - maybe less than ten seconds, but the laughter of the Ming officers and soldiers gradually came around, and the atmosphere became relaxed again. Fourteen Gege and Xiang Xiaoqiang slowly raised their faces, then half-knelt up, looked around, and saw that everything around them seemed to be back to normal. The vehicles and tanks of the Ming army continued to drive, those who commanded traffic continued to direct traffic, and those who carried things continued to carry things.

Wu Yanbin ran over in shock, and was relieved to see that Xiang Xiaoqiang and Fourteen Gege were fine. At this time, dozens of guards jumped down from several cars behind, and they all ran around to greet Xiang Xiaoqiang and Fourteen Gege.

Xiang Xiaoqiang patted his chest, panting heavily, and his ears were still beeping slightly.

"What's going on......" his face was still pale, "shelling?" …… No, it won't be shelling so far away...... Is it bombing? ”

He immediately raised his head and scanned the sky, only to see that there was no sign of air combat except for a few Ming military planes flying southward again. He glanced again at the giant crater in the distance—it was truly breathtaking, like a crater. With such a large bomb, it is estimated that the average single-engine bomber will not be able to carry it. There weren't any big twin-engine planes in the sky.

Fourteen Gege also gasped and said:

"Xiaoqiang...... Don't look at it, it's a train cannon. You forget, there are several train guns in the Vladivostok fortress. This should have been from twenty or thirty kilometers away. It is not yet a Vladivostok fortress, but a group of mountain fortresses at the northern tip of the Amur Peninsula. ”

Xiang Xiaoqiang is almost on fire:

"Train cannons? A target as big as a train gun, how can we keep it after so long of bombing? Why not concentrate on destroying? ”

Fourteen Gege is angry and funny:

"Are you a vegetarian in the fortress group of Vladivostok? The target of the Yangtze River defense line in Nanming was so big, why did the Qing army planes not destroy it? ”

"Huh? …… This ......"

"Vladivostok's train cannons are usually hidden in tunnels, and they only come out when they are fired!"

"Oh!"