Chapter 617: Rich
In May 1918, the Czech Legion and the Korbel Corps occupied Kazan, where they found 1,600 tons of gold from the reserves of the National Bank of Tsarist Russia.
When the Soviet troops received the news of the gold, they immediately launched an attack on the White troops in Kazan, and in order to keep the gold, Kerber gave all the gold to Kolchak, who divided the gold into three parts, two of which had been shipped abroad before his defeat, as a way to buy war materials, and the last one, which he held in his hands for a rainy day, was as much as 600 tons of gold.
Now, Kolchak was moving forward with this batch of gold in the snowstorm, the train was slowly moving along the Trans-Siberian Railway, and then slowly stopped, and an officer hurriedly found Kolchak, "General, the train has run out of fuel, and we can't continue now." ”
Kolchak looked out the window at the accompanying army, "Immediately ordered, all the soldiers got out of the car, transferred all the gold to the sled, and we transported this batch of gold to Vladivostok by sled." ”
The army immediately went into action, and the soldiers laboriously carried the gold off the train, and then loaded it onto the sleigh cart to continue on their way, but Siberia was so cold that after losing the shelter of the train car, the soldiers gradually became unable to support it, and more and more people fell behind, and the nostrils of the horses pulling the cart spewed heavy white gas.
The horses were almost exhausted by the sudden burden, and the horses were still short of food, and from time to time the horses fell down and could no longer get up, so the soldiers had to move the gold to the other sleighs, which increased the burden on the other horses, and the horses that were still healthy were dying.
God did not bless Kolchak, and when they were about to reach the shore of Lake Baikal, the wind and snow suddenly became heavier, and the storm blew Kolchak's army to pieces, all the horses died in the storm, and there was not much left of the army that had carried the blizzard, and the gold was still cold and piled there.
"General, we can't take this gold with us!" The adjutant looked at Kolchak, hesitated for a moment and said, "After such a long delay, they should also catch up, what should we do?" ”
"The gold can't be shipped away, but it can't be left to them!" Kolchak was ruthless, "Let's hurry up and throw all this gold into Lake Baikal, and then go to Vladivostok." ”
Under the shouting and scolding of the officers, the soldiers reluctantly got up, took difficult steps, lifted the gold, and slowly walked towards Lake Baikal, the weather was so cold, the gold was so heavy, and many people died on the way to carry the gold, and some soldiers did not want to suffer such torture and fled to the forest.
However, in such weather, in such a place, fleeing would only delay their death a little, and General Winter would take them to God.
By the time the gold reached Lake Baikal, Kolchak's men were left with little left, and a group of people gathered around them, built some fires to warm themselves, and then threw the gold into the lake with all their might.
Now that Lake Baikal is frozen, they have to transport the gold to the surface of the lake, and then find a way to chisel the ice or blow it up, and throw the gold away.
At this moment, there was a sudden gunshot in the forest behind him, and Kolchak quickly heard the model from the gunshot, "This is the Taisho Type 3 heavy machine gun, those dwarves actually attacked us!" ”
"Dodge! Then fight back! Kolchak gave the order loudly, but unfortunately in order to save physical strength, many soldiers lost their guns and ammunition, and the remaining ones were too cold to fire for a while.
Gunshots rang out one after another from different parts of the forest, and feeling that the Japanese troops hiding in the forest were numerous, Kolchak's resistance was even weaker, and they scattered in all directions, they had already consumed a lot of physical strength just now, and it was very fatal to carry out such a vigorous movement.
The flat ice was unobstructed, and at this time, under the siege of many heavy machine guns, the ice of Lake Baikal suddenly became a killing field, and people were constantly shot and fell on the ice, and the blood that flowed out quickly froze, sticking them firmly to the ice.
Half of them fell in the process of fleeing, the other half fell on their own and could not get up again, and the few remaining soldiers were quickly cleaned up, even Kolchak did not escape this fate, and the top student of the naval academy, the scientist of the Arctic expedition, the dreadnought admiral of the Russian Navy, and the supreme consul of the Russian Provisional Government died, a few months earlier than the original history.
After there was not a single person standing on the ice, the gunfire around him gradually stopped, and it took another half an hour for Shen Long to come out of the forest, even if there were still people who were spared just now, he couldn't survive after freezing for so long.
Thanks to the blessing of the Jiuyang True Scripture, even in such a cold environment, Shen Long still moved freely, he just kept shuttling quickly in the forest, using the machine gun he got from the little devil before to solve the last obstacle to collecting gold, and now, the six hundred tons of gold were placed in front of him, waiting for him to get it.
Whether it is the red army in the back or the army of little devils in front, it will take several days to arrive, and it only takes a few hours for him to collect this gold.
Quickly inspect the corpse, replenish the gun, and then pry open the box, and receive the gold inside into the carry-on space, the density of gold is 19.32 tons per cubic meter, and 600 tons of gold is only 30 cubic meters, Shen Long vacated the space in advance and took all the gold away.
After loading all the gold, Shen Long threw the Taizheng heavy machine gun he had just used on the ice, then installed explosives around it, and then detonated, and with a loud bang, the boxes containing gold, the corpses of Kolchak and others, and the Taizheng machine gun that killed them all sank into Lake Baikal.
It didn't take long for the ice to slowly freeze again, and a thick layer of snow fell on it, covering up the traces, and Shen Long calmly left and returned to his own territory with the gold.
After a few more days, the pursuing army finally arrived, and they lost track of Kolchak on the shores of Lake Baikal, so they scattered in search of them.
Most of the traces and clues were covered up by the university, but there was still something left, and they found the place where Kolchak had last disappeared and found a handful of corpses.
Who would have done this? And where did the gold go? The commanders secretly guessed, and soon, the decisive clue was found, and some fighters found a large number of Taisho machine gun shells in the nearby forest.