In the north of Jilin City, on the edge of the Songhua River, there is the largest arsenal in Northeast China at that time - Jilin Machinery Bureau, this arsenal can produce rifles, artillery, gunpowder and bullets, etc., what is even more rare is that this arsenal has a certain shipbuilding capacity.

Jilin is close to the Songhua River, as early as 1658, the Qing government in order to resist the invasion of Tsarist Russia, established a shipyard here, built warships, after the Battle of Yaksa, China and Russia signed the Treaty of Nebuchu, the war subsided, here began to build civilian ships, for the navigation of the Songhua River, in 1880, Wu Dayi, who was then the imperial history of the left capital, established the Jilin Arsenal here.

The Jilin Arsenal is Lin Yuan's goal, and the purpose of taking this place is not only to manufacture guns and replenish ammunition, but to build an inland river fleet with the help of the shipbuilding capacity here. However, Lin Yuan didn't expect to build an escort fleet for the Beijing ship here, because the construction of inland river ships is still different from the construction of ocean warships.

Lin Yuan commanded the troops to march towards Jilin, he had already reconnoitred, Jilin's city defense was not strong, the city wall was not high, and there were no fortifications outside the wall, as long as it reached the city, it could blow up the city wall and attack the city, and the main forces of the second and third brigades of the Russian army had been scattered in the Battle of Great Black Mountain.

At this time, there was a panic in Jilin City, and Alekov was surprised to find that he could not contact his troops, in last night's battle, the formation of the Russian army had been completely disrupted, the company commander could not find the battalion commander, the battalion commander could not find the regiment commander, and even many soldiers looked around, and could not find a person with military rank! Coupled with the fierce offensive of Lin Yuan's various units, the Russian soldiers had no will to fight, and now they had no restraint from the officers, so they threw their guns and surrendered directly. In the combat meeting, Lin Yuan particularly emphasized: It is strictly forbidden to kill, surrender and abuse prisoners! It's not that Lin Yuan pays more attention to the spirit of humanitarianism, but this kind of thing is asking for trouble for himself, because if you kill the enemy who surrenders, the enemy will fight you to the death when they see you in the future! Who would dare to surrender!

The city of Jilin is the command structure of the Russian army, they hurriedly retreated, retreated to the north to the city of three surnames, the city of three surnames is located at the junction of the Songhua River and the Mudanjiang River, is the important town that guards the eastern passage between Jilin and Russia, surrounded by rivers on three sides, and the terrain is dangerous.

The 2nd Brigade of the New 1st Division took the lead and attacked the city of Jilin, and the Russian troops, who had not had time to withdraw, threw down a large number of cotton clothes, grain and vodka, and in a hurry, no one even set fire to them.

The only battle took place in the treasury of the Jilin Silver Dollar Factory, where 500,000 taels of silver were stored for making silver dollars, and the Qing Dynasty used two kinds of currency, one was silver and the other was copper coins, and one tael of silver was equal to one thousand copper coins in the prosperous era of Kangqian, and by the late Qing Dynasty, it had become three thousand copper coins, so this silver was almost an astronomical amount for Lin Yuan.

When the Russian army fled, the first thing to transport was the personal belongings of the generals, and when I remembered this batch of silver, it was too late, and when the first batch of Russian troops came to transport the silver, the soldiers of the new first division had already arrived, and the Russian army threw down the cart pulling the silver, turned around and ran, and the new first division immediately blocked the treasury and did not allow anyone to enter.

The 2nd Brigade of the New 1st Division quickly occupied the whole city, and when it was dark, the 1st Brigade and the Dingwu Army, which were marching a little slower, also caught up, and Lin Yuan saw that the situation in the city had stabilized, so he went to the Jilin Machinery Bureau.

As soon as Lin Yuan came to the Machinery Bureau, he saw a long list of people kneeling at the door, it turned out that the Jilin Machinery Bureau had been producing weapons for the Russian army during the Russian occupation, so Nie Hong, the general office of the Jilin Machinery Bureau, thought that he was arresting them for the crime of traitor after hearing that Lin Yuan was coming to the Machine Bureau, and there was nowhere to run if he wanted to, so he led people to kneel at the door.

Where did Lin Yuan know about these situations, he walked closer and asked, "Who is the head of you here?" Nie Hong hurriedly came out of the crowd, knelt down in front of Lin Yuan, and said, "Lord Qiqi, the villain is the general office of this machine bureau. After saying that, he fell to the ground and trembled.

Lin Yuan said casually: "Get up, how is the equipment here?" Destroyed by the Russians? ”

Nie Hong hurriedly said: "No, it's all good." ”

Lin Yuan said: "Tell your people to prepare and produce bullets for us." "The semi-automatic weapons used by the new 1st Division consumed a lot of ammunition, and they almost ran out of bullets after days of fighting, because their guns used the bullets of the Japanese in the Ryukyu stockpile, so they could get replenishment from the Japanese at any time on the battlefield, but when they fought the Russians, the situation was completely different, and the Mosin Nagant rifle was a 7.62 mm caliber and could not be used at all.

Lin Yuan was most concerned about the ship, and he asked, "Can you still build a ship now?" ”

Nie Hong said hesitantly: "Can you make it?" Maybe it can't be made? ”

Lin Yuan frowned and asked, "What can be made is what can be made, and what can't is can't, what do you mean by that?" ”

Nie Hong apologized again and again, and said: "When the Russians withdrew, they pulled away all the ships that had been built, and also took away a group of craftsmen, and the rest of the craftsmen, I don't know if they will build ships?" ”

Lin Yuan thought to himself: "It's really a fool who has a thousand thoughts, the Russians actually made a mistake on the battlefield, I didn't expect the last to give me such a hand." ”

Lin Yuan then said, "Take me to see the rest of the people." ”

Nie Hong took Lin Yuan for nearly half an hour before he came to the shipbuilding branch, and saw several large warehouses from a long distance, Nie Hong introduced: "These are the places where shipbuilding raw materials are placed. ”

Lin Yuan asked, "What raw materials?" Steel? ”

Nie Hong said: "Our own steel mill is too small, only a small blast furnace and a Martin furnace, and the coke is not enough, the steelmaking is intermittent, and we can't produce much steel a year, so we use all the wood, and the wood is transported from the Changbai Mountain upstream, and we want as much as we want." ”

Lin Yuan thought to himself: "Originally, I wanted to build an inland river fleet, and go down the Songhua River to the three forks, looking at this appearance, the scale of the fleet is probably much smaller." ”

Walking through the dock, he came to the place where the craftsmen rested, and saw dozens of craftsmen standing at the door, seeing Lin Yuan and Nie Hong, they hurriedly saluted, Lin Yuan asked, "There are so many people left?" ”

Nie Hong said: "Exactly. ”

The more Lin Yuan looked at it, the more strange it became, and asked, "Why are they all young people?" ”

One of the craftsmen replied, "Our masters have been taken away by the Russians." ”

Lin Yuan asked, "Then do you know how to build ships?" ”

The craftsman replied, "We are all learning from the Master, and the Master gives us the pattern, and we follow it." ”

Lin Yuan hurriedly asked, "Do you have that pattern?" ”

The craftsman nodded, and Lin Yuan relieved his heart and said, "That's good, you go and bring the drawings to me to see, you want a general drawing, not individual parts." ”

A craftsman turned back, took out a few pieces of paper, and held them in front of Lin Yuan with both hands, Lin Yuan looked at it and shook his head silently, it turned out that the boat on the pattern was too small, less than ten meters in length, it was impossible to use such a boat to attack the three forks, and the Russian river gunboats were still very powerful.

Lin Yuan asked, "Why is there only this kind of pattern?" Nothing else? The craftsman replied, "For other patterns, when the ship is built, the master will burn it for fear of being seen by others." ”

Lin Yuan asked, "Will you build a new ship?" ”

The craftsman shook his head like a drum, and Lin Yuan said, "You first prepare the things for shipbuilding, and I'll do the rest." ”

Lin Yuan contacted the Beijing ship, and soon, the ship expert Wan Ling rushed to the Jilin Machinery Bureau.