Episode 147 Inspecting the Occupied Territories

On October 5, Xiang Xiaoqiang saw that there was nothing wrong with Nanjing, and there was no major obstacle to the change of the ship-building plan.

The particularity of Xiang Xiaoqiang's identity lies in the fact that he basically has no boss on his head, and he just has the final say on many things. He is not like Tang Yunsheng who shoulders the heavy responsibility of the three armies, and he is much freer. Moreover, most of the People's Guards were fighting in the Northeast Asian theater, and Li Gensheng and the main staff officers of the mobile unit were also there.

Xiang Xiaoqiang decided to take fourteen grids with him this time. He left Xiuxiu to look at the headquarters of the People's Guard, and Qiu Yu didn't take it with him, so he took Fourteen Gege to Beijing by plane, and then took the train to Changchun.

Departing from Nanjing on the morning of the 6th, Xiang Xiaoqiang's team arrived at the Changchun Headquarters on the afternoon of the 8th.

And Xiang Xiaoqiang didn't plan to stay at the headquarters this time, he was going to go out. And he is not going to do it last time, just to go around the land of Manchuria. This time, he wanted to cross the border and inspect the newly conquered land of Russia. He only rested in Changchun for one night, and on the morning of 9 July, he landed on a military airfield on the outskirts of Mudanjiang City on a transport plane.

Mudanjiang is only 120 kilometers away from the border of the Ming and Soviet Unions, and is the headquarters of a corps on the south road of the Eastern Group Army of the Ming Army, and is also the location of the military headquarters of the First Army of the People's Guard. The First Army had five armored divisions under its jurisdiction and was the main force of the Eastern Army Group Group's offensive on the southern route.

Xiang Xiaoqiang and his party are very low-key, and their whereabouts are quite secretive. The itinerary along the way was also arranged by 14 grids. Fourteen Gege now plays her style in Beiqing in the past, low-key, secretive, and efficient, when and where she arrived, few people know. Although there is no hug and no advance arrangement, it is safer. Now their group is just an ordinary transport plane, landing on this busy airport on the outskirts of Mudanjiang City, which is not noticeable at all.

After they got off the plane, they got on two military trucks sent by the First Army of the People's Guard, and then formed a convoy with ten military trucks sent by the First Army and headed east. These ten military trucks carried a company's most elite soldiers as guards for Xiang Xiaoqiang and Fourteen Gege.

The convoy of 12 trucks is also inconspicuous in the border areas where military vehicles are busy.

The group drove all the way east, Xiang Xiaoqiang and Shishige sat in the cab of a truck, driven by Hu Jiong, patrolling the land after the war along the way.

This is still the territory of the Ming Dynasty, but it is still a scene of war. The villages along the road were in ruins, and in some cases the entire village had apparently been burned down. This was all done by the Japanese army.

The quality of the original Beiqing Highway was already poor, and in addition, just after the war, bomb craters and mine craters on the road could occasionally be seen, and the road was muddy and bumpy, with potholes and muddy water. From time to time, sappers can be seen filling in the pits, and some places where the road is too bad have been re-paved with logs, and the soil is padded on them, but they are much smoother.

The roar of planes in the sky came one after another, sometimes a single plane, sometimes a small group. Fighters, dive bombers, reconnaissance planes, transport planes, everything. However, they were all planes of the Ming army, and the convoy drove for so long, and I did not see a single Soviet or Japanese plane, nor did I see an air battle.

Xiang Xiaoqiang's head stretched out of the car window and looked at the sky, quite satisfied. It seems that the Ming army has grasped the air supremacy here very well.

At one o'clock in the afternoon, the convoy drove to Suifenhe Town. The town of Suifenhe, which is only two or three kilometers from the border, is the last town to enter the territory of the Soviet Union, and it is also the most important supply depot of the Ming Army's Eastern Army Group on the South Road. It can be said that it is the last supply depot in the territory of the Ming Kingdom. Further, it enters hostile territory.

The convoy stopped at Suifenhe Town for a brief lunch, then underwent inspection at the checkpoint, drove out of Suifenhe Town, and drove into the occupied area. This distinction is important, as on one side is one's own land and on the other side is "hostile land". From here, everyone in the convoy raised their vigilance and nerves.

Fortunately, the formation of an afternoon was thrilling. Russian villages are often seen on both sides of the road, and they all look very intact, much better than those in the Ming Dynasty. On the one hand, there is no brutal army like the Japanese army here, although the Ming army is an occupation army, but it will not do meaningless destruction, on the other hand, it is also close to the border, the Ming army rushed over, and the Soviet army was also defeated, and retreated without much resistance. Few troops consciously withdrew into the villages, using residential areas for street fighting.

It seems that the Ming army's attack did not cause many casualties to the local population. Xiang Xiaoqiang is also very satisfied with this. Because this involves the next step to support Belarus. The less ill the Russian people had towards the Ming army, the better.

Xiang Xiaoqiang wanted to go to the front of the Ming army-controlled area north of Vladivostok to take a look. The convoy drove southeast along the road, and in the evening, the convoy drove to Shuangchengzi.

Shuangchengzi was originally called a Chinese territory that was later annexed by Russia as a result of the Treaty of Peking in 1860. Here the Russian name is "Ussuriysk".

The convoy stopped at Twin Cities and planned to spend the night here.

In order to keep it secret, Xiang Xiaoqiang and Fourteen Gege each changed into captain's uniforms and wore captain's epaulettes. The two of them, with a few guards, paraded through the streets of Shuangchengzi. is very different from Xiang Xiaoqiang's original imagination, this is not a tense atmosphere after being occupied by the enemy. On the contrary, Shuangchengzi is still a vibrant picture.

There are a lot of Chinese faces on the street here, which makes Xiang Xiaoqiang quite surprised. However, the sound of Chinese is almost inaudible. What comes to the ears is Russian. It is no wonder that this place has been ruled by Russia for more than 70 years, and even the old people have grown up under Russian rule.

Thinking of this, Xiang Xiaoqiang couldn't help but sigh. Turning his face to Fourteen Gege, he said:

"I don't know how long it will take to re-sinicize this place."

Fourteen Gege took his hand and smiled:

"It doesn't matter. As long as we can do better than the Soviets, then a generation will do. ”

There was a burst of laughter ahead. The two followed the prestige, only to see a large group of children surrounding the two Ming soldiers more than ten meters ahead. And the two Ming soldiers, one is a man and the other is a woman, one is giving candy to the children, and the other is breaking chocolates and distributing them to the children. The Russian children were so excited, apparently they had never eaten anything so delicious, and they all shouted Russian loudly, jumped around, and frolicked loudly, regardless of their yellow or white faces.

The male soldier of the Ming army didn't know Russian, but just smiled and spoke Chinese:

"Hey, don't rob, don't rob, it's all there, everyone has it...... Delicious, right? Don't eat them all, take some back and give it to your family to taste......"

And the female soldier was probably from the political work team, spoke Russian, and also spoke Russian loudly with an amiable smile, and distributed chocolates to children. He also picked up the youngest Russian girl and kissed her.

Xiang Xiaoqiang and Fourteen Gege glanced at each other, nodded, and both smiled.