Travel through the Qing Dynasty and become emperor

Chapter 253

Guan Xuqing rose up against the case, and tore the protest letter to pieces in front of the three ministers: "Bastard! The Russians are too deceitful!"

"The emperor calm down." The three ministers knelt down together.

"Wu Tingfang listened to the order, I ordered you to go to the Russian consulate as soon as possible, lodge the strongest protest against the Russian side, and reiterate our position again."

"The minister accepts the order." Wu Tingfang was about to turn around and go out when Dai Hongci, the deacon of the telegraph office, walked in with a face as dusty as dust, knelt under Dan Xi and shouted: "Your Majesty, there is an urgent report ahead."

Guan Xuqing received the telegram and looked at it, his hands trembling with anger, "The Russians are making progress, I must show them some color. Feng Xianghua, immediately upload my decree, remove Yihe Donna from the post of general of the three eastern provinces, and fine him for two years , stay in Fengtian to listen to the law."

"Cha." Feng Xianghua didn't understand why the emperor suddenly became angry, but he didn't dare to ask the truth.

"Let's take a look." Guan Xuqing threw the telegram down Dan Xi with a flick of his hand, and Li Hongzhang and Feng Xianghua picked it up and looked at it, and they were instantly burned with anger.

It turned out that after the Sino-Russian fishery protection incident, the Russians went further and created the appalling Hailanpao tragedy.

Hailanpao, located at the confluence of the left bank of Heilongjiang and the right bank of Jingqili River, was originally a village in China. In 1858, Tsarist Russia forced the Qing to sign the unequal Sino-Russian "Aihui Treaty", forcibly occupying Hailanpao and changing its name to Blagoveshchensk. It later became the capital of Amur Province, and the residents are mainly Chinese.The Chinese living in the city are mainly engaged in business. There are nearly 240 large firms. In addition, there are a large number of itinerant Chinese laborers, hired workers, small traders and handicraftsmen. There are also many farmers living in the suburbs. There are nearly 1.5 Chinese expatriates in total.

After the Sino-Russian fishing incident happened, Russia distorted the truth, and the hostility between Russians and Chinese continued to rise. Atrocities against the Chinese continued to occur in Hailanpao, and the Chinese who could not bear the abuse fled back to the right side of the river.All the Chinese who were unable to leave in the future due to family and property burdens became the targets of massacres.In desperation, the local expatriates turned to the Northeast China authorities for help, but the Northeast General at the time, Yihe Donna, turned a deaf ear to it. The two battalions stationed on the Northeast border couldn't bear it, and crossed the border without permission from the Northeast authorities to exchange fire with the Russian garrison. It wiped out a reinforced company and a regimental commander of the Russian army.After hearing the news, Yihe Donna handed over the two battalion commanders who had clashed with Russia on the border to the Russian military for disposal without the approval of the imperial court.

Tsarist Russia used the above-mentioned incident as an excuse to brazenly dispatch more than 5 Far Eastern troops into Hailanpao in the name of "defending the city".Planning a massacre of Chinese residents in Hailanpao.An atmosphere of terror was shrouded inside and outside the city, and incidents of persecution of Chinese continued unabated.Gribski, the military and political chief of Amur Province, immediately ordered the Chinese to cross the river, detained all the ferry boats, and sent cavalry to arrest the Chinese people who were about to cross the river.

On July 7, Gribsky ordered all Chinese people to be arrested without leaving a place. The heavily armed Tsarist Russian soldiers broke into the houses and shops of the Chinese people, regardless of men, women, and children, and all were arrested and taken away. Even babies were taken away. Forced out. More than 16 Chinese fled to hide outside the city, but were also found by Russian soldiers. Many of them were stabbed to death with bayonets.A total of nearly 1500 people were arrested that day, and the police station could not accommodate them. They were escorted to a sawmill by the Jingqili River that night.

On July 7, the police station in Hailanpao City drove all the detained Chinese to the bank of the Heilongjiang River. Be it an adult or a child.The entire massacre continued until the early morning of the 17st. The river was stained red with the blood of the dead, and all the corpses floating on the river surface.

Northeast General Yihe Donner had an ambiguous attitude towards the Russians in this incident, ignored the safety of the Chinese nationals, and treated the two battalion commanders hastily.

"Is there any military general in the Northeast who can stand on his own?" After Yihe Donna was withdrawn from all positions, the three eastern provinces urgently needed a capable minister to come out to fight against the Russian army.

"Yes, but this person's background is not good." Feng Xianghua hesitated.

"Since ancient times, a hero doesn't ask where he came from, as long as he has talent, has the blood of a soldier, and is willing to serve the country, that's enough."

"What the emperor said is true. This man is called Zhang Zuolin, a native of Fengtian Haicheng. He lost his father since childhood and lived in poverty. He met Du Lisan, a giant bandit in Liaodong. With his support, he set up a large regiment, and later annexed western and southern Liaoning. There are more than a dozen bandits, big and small, and their strength is getting stronger and stronger. Yihe Donna considered Zhang Zuolin to be a useful talent because of his strength, so he recruited him. In just a few years, Zhang Zuolin led his men to wipe out the After getting rid of the Fengtian banditry, he led a team to go to Mongolia and wiped out the biggest bandits there, such as Baiyindalai, Yaqian, and Taoktaohu. He is currently the commander of the 27th Division of the Imperial Army and was ordered to be stationed in Fengtian.”

"Zhang Zuolin? I know this man is a useful talent. Yihe Donna finally did something useful for me. In the name of the Ministry of War, quickly call Dong Liang of the Northeast Military Region and order the 27th and 28th divisions to be stationed in Heilongjiang. The 31st and 34th divisions of the Chinese Communist Party rushed to the Sino-Russian border and assembled on the south bank of the Heilongjiang River. In addition, the Military Aircraft Department drafted an order to dispatch a part of the Beiyang Fleet to the Vladivostok naval port to block the Sino-Russian coastal defense line and closely monitor every move of the Russians. .”

"twitter."

Two days later, another urgent report came from the Sino-Russian border.At the Kyakhtu port in Mongolia, the Russian side sent a Cossack cavalry to break through the checkpoint and enter the market in Kyakhtu under the pretext of forcibly collecting excessive taxes from Russian merchants, and robbed them all.After investigation by the Chinese side, it was confirmed that the Russian side fabricated the reason for the murder.

Another incident is even more infuriating. The Russian Far East Army stationed in the Hailanpao area, taking advantage of the freezing of the river, crossed the border and attacked the Oroqen tribe in the territory of Aigunting in the name of revenge, killing more than fifty people. people, including Oroqenzuo led by the old man.The local people's sentiments are close to being uncontrollable. More than [-] people from the Oroqen tribe filed a complaint in front of the Fuzhi gate, claiming that if the imperial court did not send troops to avenge their old leader on their behalf, they would fight the Russians regardless of Yihe Donna's ban. .At present, the Chinese people are confronting the Russian army along the river, and the second bloody massacre by the Russians is about to begin.

At the same time, urgent reports came from Lubin Mansion and Hulun Hall on the other side of the Inner Xing'an Mountains. The Russian army held a large-scale military exercise in Nerchinsk. Orion herdsmen have migrated south one after another, and the government and government have been unable to suppress them.

According to news from Vladivostok, the Russian Far East Fleet is quietly heading south, and may soon face its opponents in the Vladivostok military port.

Guan Xuqing was really annoyed by the successive frontline situations. It seemed that the Russians had really made up their minds to fight.Although the Russians have no psychological advantage over the Chinese. In history, Genghis Khan’s cavalry swept across Siberia. Under the reforms of the world, it quickly embarked on the road of capitalism. The domestic standing army reached 300 million, and its weapons and equipment were also improved unprecedentedly. The aggressive nature of the Slavs was revealed again.It seems that this big battle cannot be avoided, but Guan Xuqing has no idea whether he can completely defeat the Russians like Genghis Khan and Kangxi in history.

(End of this chapter)