Master Yuan, start!

The middle-aged man's tone was firm, as if he would not tolerate any refusal.

"If you don't leave, I won't leave either!"

As if he had changed his mind, Xiao Linzi threw the luggage he was carrying on the ground, showing an attitude of non-cooperation.

Seeing this, the middle-aged man's face turned serious. He picked up the luggage and walked forward, dragging the thin little Linzi.

"Stop talking nonsense. Your brother is still waiting for you in North Korea. What's the point of you staying here?"

"What about you, Station Master? What's the point of you staying here?"

Xiao Linzi struggled in the middle-aged man's hands and refused to move forward.

The middle-aged man got angry, glared, and dropped the luggage in his hands.

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He pointed at Xiao Linzi's nose with his right hand, his tone very firm.

"Zhang Zuolin, ah Zhang Zuolin, are you still a member of the Red Confucian Society? I order you as the president of the Vladivostok underground branch of the Red Confucian Society.

Now, grab your luggage and board the ship back home immediately!"

"Stationmaster Hao, don't look at my small stature, but I'm 22 years old."

But Zhang Zuolin was unwilling to go back like this. He threw his hat to the ground with a "bang" and cursed.

Group: "Fuck it, I don't believe I can't kill a few Russians."

"We all know the defensive positions of the Vladivostok government office. In two days, I will sneak in in the dark and kill them all with my sword."

"End? End what? Killing a few Russians, what good will it do to the overall anti-Russian struggle?"

The middle-aged man called Stationmaster Hao pushed Zhang Zuolin back with just one sentence.

"We've explored all the places we need to explore, investigated all the people we need to investigate, and the intelligence has already been transmitted back."

Stationmaster Hao heaved a sigh of relief and said, "Vladivostok doesn't need you anymore. Return home immediately!"

"If you don't leave, I won't leave either!" Zhang Zuolin remained the same and refused to move.

"Didn't I tell you that the organization needs me to stay in Vladivostok?"

Hiss, "Well, I'm also a member of the Red Confucian Society, and the organization needs me to stay in Vladivostok!"

"You!" Stationmaster Hao glared and said in a low voice:

"Not only does the organization need me, the Russians need me too. If I leave, they'll become wary, and the troop deployments they found earlier might become ineffective!"

"But, Station Master, wouldn't it be dangerous for you to stay here?"

"I, Hao Shengtang, am an orphan, without father, mother, wife, or children. I fled from Shandong to the border areas and never thought about living.

I was lucky enough to meet the National Defense Army and the chief instructor, who gave me food to eat and clothes to wear.

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Not only that, the chief instructor also led me into the Red Confucian Society, teaching me knowledge and helping me fight for the hundreds of millions of Chinese people."

Hao Shengtang fell into memories. It seemed that these words were not used to convince Zhang Zuolin, but to convince himself.

"Now I have a comfortable life and have been in Vladivostok for almost six years.

After 6 years, the chief instructor finally decided to take action against the Russians.

"Xiao Linzi, you are here to protect our country. If I don't stay now, when will I stay?"

He glanced at the billowing smoke coming out of the ship not far away and said firmly.

Stationmaster Hao, whose real name is Hao Shengtang, is from Ye County, Shandong Province.

Affected by the Yellow River flood, he fled outside the Great Wall and was absorbed into the Jiashen Right Army and Yuan Xiangcheng.

Later, after training, he was sent to Russia as the Vladivostok station chief of the Red Confucian Society's Intelligence Investigation Department to carry out intelligence work.

However, on the surface, he started out as a miner and worked his way up step by step.

Eventually he founded the leading grain and grocery company "Shuanghesheng" in Vladivostok

He gained trust by providing food to the Russians and cutting off his braid in front of the Russian police chief to show his loyalty to the Tsar.

Hao Shengtang was later invited to join the Vladivostok City Council as an observer, officially infiltrating the Russians.

In this way, the underground intelligence work in Vladivostok gradually unfolded under the leadership of Hao Shengtang.

Zhang Zuolin did not arrive in Vladivostok until several years later.

His elder brother, Zhang Zuotai, had participated in the Jiashen Allied Forces, but was discharged from the army due to injury and joined the Production and Construction Corps of Korea.

Because of his brother's connection, he was admitted to the Northeast Civil Affairs School when he was just 16 years old.

Later, he was selected by Ming Ye, the head of the Red Search Section, and sent to Vladivostok to collect information on the movements of the Russian army and Russians.

In every war, both ancient and modern, both in China and abroad, the role of intelligence is extremely important.

Whether it is to find out the enemy's main attack direction before the war, or to find the food supply route, or to directly find the enemy's command center during the battle.

For a battle, this intelligence will play a decisive role.

However, compared to humans who have entered the era of telegraph, such information was extremely difficult to obtain in ancient times when there were few channels for information collection.

Therefore, historically, the Qing Dynasty, which failed to adapt to the era of telegraph, suffered a crushing defeat in the Sino-Japanese War of 1894-1895.

The Japanese Combined Fleet could even directly grasp the departure time and sailing routes of the Qing Dynasty's troop transport ships.

After the outbreak of the Sino-Japanese War of 1894-1895, the Qing Dynasty actually had a strategic advantage.

There were 1.5 Qing troops stationed in Pyongyang, while the Japanese army deployed only 1.6 to attack the area.

Since ancient times, when attacking a city, the attacking side must deploy at least twice as many troops as the defending side to be considered safe.

The Japanese army was extremely arrogant when it attacked with 1.6 troops against 1.5.

In addition, at that time, the Qing Dynasty's reinforcements had boarded ships from Tianjin, intending to support Pyongyang, and it seemed that the Qing army was about to block the Japanese south of Pyongyang.

But no one expected it.

Japan actually intercepted the "Gaosheng" troop transport ship in the Yellow Sea and sank it with artillery fire.

The Qing army in Pyongyang lost its support, and the defending general Ye Zhichao was afraid of death, so he abandoned the city and fled, handing Pyongyang over to others.

The defeat in the Battle of Pyongyang greatly undermined the Qing army's strategic advantage, resulting in Liaodong and other areas facing Japanese attacks before they had organized a defense line.

In the end, the Qing army suffered repeated defeats, from the Yalu River to Shanhaiguan.

However, the fact that the Japanese army was able to sink the Gaosheng troop transport ship is also extremely outrageous.

This is simply incredible for modern warfare.

The vast Yellow Sea is larger than the four provinces combined, and it stretches as far as the eye can see, with no rivers or mountains blocking its way.

Without the intelligence provided by Japanese spies, the Japanese Combined Fleet would have been completely blind in such an environment.

The Japanese used identities such as businessmen, doctors, and students as cover, and some even pretended to be Chinese.

Various kinds of intelligence were obtained through enticement, buying off, bribery, etc.

Let’s put it this way, Cixi didn’t even know how many officers and soldiers were on board the Gaosheng troop transport ship.

But the Japanese Emperor knew.

Moreover, he not only knew how many officers and soldiers were on board, he also knew their names, how many guns they had brought, and how much vegetables and dried meat they had prepared.

The Qing army's defeat was entirely its own fault, as the Japanese were able to conduct intelligence work to this extent.

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Therefore, when facing Russia, Yuan Shikai also planned to copy Japan's previous strategy.

There are a large number of Chinese people in Russia's Far East.

The Chinese and Russians have different skin colors, so although they cannot pass themselves off as Chinese and spy on information like the Japanese in the original time and space did.

But almost everything that keeps Vladivostok running involves the presence of Chinese people.

Therefore, there is great potential for intelligence infiltration work in Vladivostok!

The Russian Empire's best way of fighting was not "scalpel strikes" or "decapitation raids"

The method they use most often is to rely on the numerical advantage of gray livestock.

"The army is approaching, attack them with a single attack"

The Russians did not rely on the commander's sophisticated tactics to launch a coordinated attack with multiple arms like Napoleon did.

Nor did they rely on highly qualified grassroots officers like Prussia did to respond to sudden situations on the battlefield.

As for the Russians' intelligence protection work, it can almost be said to be the worst in Europe.

Otherwise, their Tsar would not have been repeatedly bombed and shot at.

In the Far East, free from the pressure of the St. Petersburg bureaucracy, the intelligence and defense work is even worse.

They are arrogant and they are proud.

They simply did not believe that the Chinese, who were servile and submissive all day long, would dare to spy on the great Russia.

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So, when Zhang Zuolin, who was responsible for intelligence gathering, was persuaded by Hao Shengtang and finally boarded the ship back home.

On the west bank of the Tumen River, Jin Weidong of the 4th Regiment of the National Revolutionary Army looked at the detailed map of the Russian troops and artillery positions on the opposite bank.

His eyes are full of confidence.

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Although Jin Weidong had a topographic map of the Tumen River and the distribution of troops that had been drawn by people from the Red Search Department before.

But when it comes to mobilizing troops, the more detailed the intelligence and the more thorough the preparation, the greater the chance of victory.

Therefore, when the spring flood arrived, Jin Weidong sent people to survey the terrain on both sides of the Tumen River to make sure that all kinds of emergencies were taken into account.

For example, if a river freezes somewhere in winter, can it be passed? But after it thaws in spring, will it be passed?

At the border between North Korea, Jilin and Russia, there are countless low hills, covered with countless mountain paths.

It can be used as a route for attack or as a retreat route.