Episode 13 Evacuation at the embassy

Altay City is only a small city at this time, the history is also very short, it was the first year of Guangxu Qing government built a lama temple here - Chenghua Temple, to today is only a few decades. However, this place is bordered by the Altai Mountains in the north, and the Altai Mountains are rich in gold, which is one of the great financial resources of the former Qing Dynasty. Altay got its name from the Altai Mountains, and "Altai" means "gold" in Turkic and Mongolian. Therefore, the city of Altay developed rapidly, and in a few decades it became the administrative and economic center of the entire Altay region. When Erdun Mutu started, he always entrenched in this area and refused to let go, and now he has "built the capital" here, which is also a fancy to this.

At about eight o'clock in the morning of May 13, the roar of engines sounded over the city of Altay, and a whole group of dive bombers circled over the city. The herdsmen below were so frightened that they drove their sheep to the air. There was also a panic in the city, and the market was full of chickens and eggs, and no one had ever seen this terrible sight, and everyone was busy running for their lives and burrowing into any of the buildings. Soon, there was no one left in the open air of the city, and only a mess remained.

Leaflets printed in various scripts flew like snowflakes over the city of Altay.

At the same time, the motorized troops of the Ming army suddenly appeared on the horizon south of the city of Altay and swept over at great speed. Hundreds of cars lined the prairie like a sandstorm.

In front of the Ming army, there was a group of cavalry that could not be defeated. They threw away their armor and desperately fought at the foaming horses, struggling to evade the "da-da-da" machine guns behind them. These remnants of the army were the reserve troops left by Erdun Mutu to watch their hometown, and they encountered the Ming army when they were patrolling more than ten kilometers away. I met a lot along the way, and I also passed through a large cavalry station, and there were thousands of people on the other side, which were scattered by the Ming army.

Xiang Xiaoqiang could have ordered his troops to pursue and annihilate the remnants of the enemy on the spot, but this was already close to Altay City, and he was worried that it would not be worth it if he delayed his advance into Altay City and made the enemy troops in the city on guard, or let Erdun Mutu flee when he heard the wind. Therefore, he ordered the army to spare the remnants of the enemy, not to entangle, and to take the city of Altay all the way.

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Hundreds of military vehicles stormed the city of Altay. At this time, the city gate was closed, and not a single defender on the city wall dared to show his head, but they all held their rifles and shrank under the battlements, and looked at the planes whistling and circling in the sky, and trembled.

At the head of the city, the "national flag" of the "Ili Empire" is still hunting and flying. It was a green flag with a golden mountain below it symbolizing the gold-rich Altai Mountains and a white crescent moon above it, representing that the country was Islamic. On the top of the gold mountain, there are two Arab scimitars crossed, symbolizing the determination to defend the homeland without fear of strong enemies.

Xiang Xiaoqiang sat in the car, looked at it from a distance with a telescope, and found that the design of this "national flag" was quite good-looking. Whether it's from the color scheme or the composition, it's all the same. Even if you get it to the League of Nations and the Olympics, you can get it.

Obviously, this was not designed by those bandits and buns. The person who designed it must be a person who has seen the world and drunk foreign ink. Eighty percent is a certain "comrade" in Moscow.

A 75-mm self-propelled gun drove up to a distance of 200 meters from the city gate, slowly rolled down the muzzle and aimed it at the city gate.

"My lord," Gao Dayi asked, turning his head, "shouting first or attacking directly?" ”

Xiang Xiaoqiang hesitated for a moment and said:

"Wait a minute, wait until the gates are blocked with cannons, and then shout. But don't shout too much, just shout once. Don't look like you're begging them to open the gates. ”

"Yes!"

Gao Dayi picked up the microphone and ordered to go down.

After a while, a radio report came that the four gates were aimed at the cannons, and they were waiting to be fired.

Gao Dayi commanded:

"Shout as originally written. Just shout it in Chinese and Kazakh and give them five minutes. ”

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A loudspeaker in the distance began to shout. The first time is in Chinese, very brief, mainly to order the defenders to open the city gate and surrender, to ensure the safety of their lives, to ensure that they enjoy the treatment of prisoners of war under international conventions, to ensure the safety of the lives and property of all residents in the city, to ensure that there is no crime after entering the city, to ensure their freedom of belief, and so on.

I quickly finished reading Chinese, and then I read it again in Kazakh. Finally, he glanced at Xiaoqiang's pocket watch and began to time.

A minute passed.

Two minutes passed.

In the third minute, a faint white smoke suddenly rose from the city in the distance, and then a man was thrown from it, fell at the city gate, and died.

The surrounding Ming troops immediately looked through binoculars and found that it was a soldier wearing a military uniform, and half of his head was taken off and bloody.

It seems that the wisp of white smoke just now was shot by someone and killed him. As for what happened, no one could guess.

Xiang Xiaoqiang hoped in his heart that this was the other party's small soldiers "revolting in battle", killing the commander, and the city gate was about to be opened. But after waiting and waiting, there was still no movement, and there was no intention of opening the city gate at all.

Until the last second of the five minutes passed, Xiang Xiaoqiang looked at Gao Dayi and nodded.

Gao Dayi commanded into the radio:

"Fire!"

Four cannon shots of varying strength came from a distance. Xiang Xiaoqiang saw that the city gate facing him had exploded, and black smoke and fireballs were rolling up. Several enemy soldiers at the head of the city were killed and hung on the top of the city.

In the distance, the same black smoke rose in all four directions. All four gates were blasted open.

Just as Gao Dayi gave the order to rush in, a white flag stretched out from the city, and then rows of rifles were thrown down from the city.

Xiang Xiaoqiang looked through the binoculars and smiled:

"I thought I would be a hero in the end, why should I end these five minutes if I want to surrender, wouldn't it be okay to surrender early, and save the dead, alas. The order was given that the reconnaissance battalion would first send a company in to take control of several city gates. Make sure there is no ambush before the large army goes in. ”

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But this precaution proved to be redundant. The reconnaissance company quickly took control of the four gates, escorted the hundreds of defenders out of the city, and then quickly searched the city without finding anything wrong.

At this time, several thousand main forces of the Ming army entered the city.

Xiang Xiaoqiang's greatest concern is naturally the arrest of Erdun Mutu. Like other officers and soldiers, he abandoned the car, carried a gun and ran through the empty streets, led by a guide, and went straight to the "imperial palace" in Erdun Mutu.

The buildings in the city are low, usually mud houses, and better two-story stone houses, all of which are a mixture of Han and Islamic styles. On both sides of the street, the doors and windows were closed, only a few melons and fruits scattered on the ground, broken eggs, broken basket frames, donkey dung, horse dung, sheep dung, and no one cared about the clucking chickens and ducks...... As you can imagine, the local people are terrified.

A large group of Ming troops ran through the streets, and the sound of messy big leather boots echoed through the streets. Finally, a more ornate building appeared in front of me.

This is the "Imperial Palace of the Ili Empire".

With a wave of his hand to Xiaoqiang, hundreds of Ming soldiers rushed in with submachine guns. And Xiang Xiaoqiang didn't know if there would be fierce resistance inside, so he had an extra heart, and stayed outside with the division headquarters and didn't go inside.

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Half an hour passed.

Xiang Xiaoqiang and the officers at the division headquarters became more and more irritable and restless. The "Imperial Palace" is so big, at best, it is the size of the mansion of a large family in the mainland, and it is not really a palace, how can it be so difficult to search for a person?

At this time, the radio sounded again:

"Master, there is news of Erdun Mutu."

Xiang Xiaoqiang and Gao Dayi glanced at each other, and their hearts sank: It's not good. It's not that people are caught directly, but that there is "news", which is mostly a bad omen.

Gao Dayi picked up the microphone:

"How?"

"Master Division, we are here to interrogate the captain of the guard of Erdun Mutu, and he confessed, saying that dozens of minutes ago, a small car came from the Soviet embassy and took their emperor to the Soviet embassy."

Several people around looked at each other, stunned.

Soviet Embassy ...... Embassy of the USSR in the Ili Empire...... Forget about it. As soon as the "Ili Empire" was established here, the Soviet Union recognized it and sent envoys to each other......

Now, it's up to politics.