Chapter 132 Revolution! Revolution!

Silence, there was silence in the trenches. Thousands of East Asian expeditionary officers and soldiers stood in the trenches and looked at the officers with an indifferent manner. Just yesterday, the soldiers of the 36th League refused to obey the offensive order. This mutaphe did not seem to have much impact, but in fact, it caused thousands of kilometers of front. Nearly a million Japanese soldiers paid attention to the development of the situation, while in the underground channels, the newspapers advocating the revolution continued to spread to these soldiers through various channels.

If the success of the Meiji Restoration is that more than 90% of the people are educated, then now, illiterate education is rare in the country, but it is also conducive to the spread of revolutionary ideas. Although these Japanese soldiers are more loyal than Russian soldiers, compared with Russians, their families suffer from hunger. The country has suffered a lot of humiliation, but they are more likely to be influenced by revolutionary ideas. Now, the mulag of the kyusm of the kyurd team is the embodiment of this influence.

Dor Hashimotokawa, holding a saber and standing in the trench, looked at the soldiers in front of him. He saw some of the soldiers who did not know where they got the red cloth rope tied to their necks, but they frowned.

"Everyone must obey orders. You are royal soldiers..."

"Royal soldiers defend Japan, not fight for China!"

"That's right, there are so many people who died. What did you get?"

"China is trying every means to weaken the Japanese version. Participating in the war is just a conspiracy of China."

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Almost at the same time as Colonel Hashimotogawa's words fell, there was a burst of indignant complaints around them. For these Japanese soldiers, they had had enough of death and the fate of acting as cannon fodder. Now, as those revolutionary newspapers said.

"You must control your own destiny and never be the cannon fodder of imperialist war!"

"Eight!"

In the face of questions, Hashimotogawa scolded. When he was about to vent his anger on the nearest soldier, he saw a strange look in the eyes of those soldiers, which seemed to be...

"Kill him!"

At this moment, an inaudible voice came out of the crowd. As soon as a soldier closest to Hashimoto was ordered, he headed for Hashimoto from the rear with a rifle.

When the bayonet fell into his chest, Hashimoto could hardly believe his eyes. This... What's going on?

Hashimoto, who fell softly in the trenches, stared at the soldier with wide eyes. From the soldier's eyes, what he saw was hateful eyes, but the sudden change stunned everyone. Even the soldiers who had participated in the mum and refused to obey the order were stunned by the sudden change.

The officers who followed Hashimoto were surrounded by dozens of soldiers with rifles and light machine guns when they were about to shoot.

"Put down your weapons!"

The roar broke out from the soldiers' voices. Just when the officers didn't know whether they should resist or what to do, one officer took the initiative to put down his weapon. When he put down his weapon, there was a trace of sadness on the major's face.

"This war should not have been fought for a long time!"

After these officers put down their weapons, when more soldiers didn't know what to do, a man in a military uniform but no rank came out of the crowd. His face was full of messy beards. He first glanced at the officers, and then turned to the soldiers standing in the ammunition box where Hashimotogawa was standing. Guys.

"Comrades!"

When shouting these three words, the soldiers saw the man's left hand on his waist.

"History will always remember this day, remember today's s kyus. On this day, the military comrades of the s s. s. s. s. s. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . And those dignitaries who cooperate with the Chinese imperialist invaders for their personal glory and wealth can never be free. Now the freedom is in your hands!"

When his voice fell, his right hand suddenly fell, pointing to the soldiers who were a little confused.

"Today, the horn of the revolution has sounded from here. Today, the fate of Japan has changed..."

In his speech, the expressions of the soldiers in the trenches began to change slowly. It seemed that at this moment, an unprecedented sense of mission lingered in their hearts, and even their eyes changed when they looked at the officers who were called "middle-imperialist lackeys" in the newspaper.

At this moment, no one knows what will happen in the future. Of course, except for a few people, the bayonet of the Crewron has opened a prologue, at least for Japan.

While the current line is changing, the changes in Russia, especially those in Petrograd, are evolving in a radical direction. For this, the spy bureau of the Russian Empire, a spy agency dedicated to monitoring domestic opposition forces, is the most aware of it. Those detectives were surprised to find out. The army, which used to be the vanguard of repression, not only did not stop the mass march, but on individual occasions, they even tried to hinder the actions of the police officers, causing the people who participated in the march to believe that their actions would not be punished, which further intensified the situation in the capital.

When the people marched on the street for two days without any obstacles, the mixed revolutionaries began to lead the march. During the march, they first played the slogan of "Down with the War". After the temptation, they shouted the slogan of "Down with ***".

And the emergence of these slogans made those people believe that now that the revolution has begun, the victory will belong to the masses, and the political axe is unable to suppress the [***] movement, because the army stands on their side; they think that the decision of victory is approaching, because even if it is not today, the army will openly participate tomorrow. In terms of revolutionary forces, I thought that the movement that began would not calm down, but would continue to grow until all the victories and changes of the country.

At noon, the crowd gathered more and more in Znamensky Square and gave speeches in the square. There are several teams of Cossack cavalry around the square. A team of mounted police came to disperse the crowd in the square. A Cossack soldier dissatisfied with the behavior of the mounted policeman shot the captain of the mounted police officer and killed Sheriff Krylov on the spot. This was exactly the first shot in this revolution! The first shot took place among the demonstrators. Subsequently, the mounted police team shot at the crowd, killing and injuring more than a dozen demonstrators.

In the face of the tense situation in the capital, Habalov issued an announcement that has worked many times: all workers who have been registered for conscription will be sent to the front line if they do not work before the 28th.

Sudden military repression made the situation more and more serious. Prime Minister Golitssen called several ministers to hold a cabinet extraordinary meeting in his private residence to discuss countermeasures. The meeting studied the problem of food shortage. For the mass demonstration movement, most ministers insisted on the idea of suppression by force, while Proto Popov said "nonsense" at the meeting. One pass."

After the meeting, the army minister, General Belyayev successively telegramed the situation in the capital to the base camp, hoping that the Tsar would come back soon. But the Tsar thought that this was just another parade, and it was not worth paying much attention to. At least it was not worth his personal attention. On the way to the cinema in the evening, he dictated a telegram to Khabarov:

"I ordered Yu Ming to stop the chaos in Kyoto. At this difficult time of fighting against Germany and Austria, it is not allowed to make trouble.

At 10 p.m. that day, after Habalov received the telegram, he was stunned by the Tsar's decision. He knew very well that he had no ability to calm the chaos in the capital tomorrow. If the masses just shouted "bread", they could give them bread, and it would be over. But now the "Down with the Tsar [***] system" has been written on the flag. What role can bread play in this situation?

What should I do?

In the face of this imperial order, Khabarov naturally thought of an explanation - shoot!

Then Khabarov held a meeting of military and police leaders at home, read the Tsar's message, and made a deployment: If you meet a small group of people and don't fly the flag, use the Cossack Guards and use the whip to disperse... If you encounter a provocative crowd with a flag, shoot three signal bullets first, and then shoot!

According to this deployment, nearly 200,000 soldiers and police sub-districts have suppressed mass revolutionary operations, and it is expected to restore Petrograd and national order within four days. This deployment is based on the girres, with a total of 150,000 people. The Petrograd garrison is composed of almost all re-backsmen. These re-reserved forces have not received strict military training. Many soldiers are recruited from the workers of the capital factory and have a closer relationship with the workers. Moreover, they are under the psychological pressure of being transferred to the front line at any time to fight, pointing to suppress such people. There is no possibility of a demonstration at all.

Therefore, Habalov is the only one who can count on the main role of 3,500 policemen in the capital, the Cossack cavalry of the two regiments of Don and the non-commissioned officer students of several non-commissioned officer schools in Petrograd, who are the backbone of maintaining and restoring order in the capital.

Late that night, after receiving a direct order, the police in Petrograd immediately took action and arrested more than 100 key elements of various revolutionary groups.

The State Duma also held a joint meeting of social groups in the evening. The topic of the meeting was to discuss the situation of urban food and the implementation of the voucher supply system, but in fact, this meeting has become a political surname conference for groups to express their views on the situation. Outside the National Duma Conference, including Kerensky, Sheng Garlev and others The political leaders in the country have made speeches one after another, strongly protesting that the political axe shot at the masses. For their own political purposes, to be precise, they also launched an attack on the political axe, and directly proposed that "the current political axe is completely incompetent, and should step down and give way to the joint cabinet", demanding the implementation of a march and Freedom of speech.

When the National Duma held a meeting, the masses spontaneously gathered in the rooms, corridors, stairs and surrounding areas of the Duma Building in the Taflida Palace. They conveyed the content of Duma's speech one by one, and the surroundings were in a mess. At the same time, some workers' movement and trade union leaders held a meeting in the Capital Consumer Association to discuss the establishment of a workers' representative Soviet.

That night, the premiere of the Masked Ball at the Royal Theatre was a great success. At this time, when the people in the theater cheered for the success of the opera, no one expected the death of the protagonist in the play, the sad atmosphere that enveloped the whole play, and the funeral scene at the end of the play, which seemed to be an elegy for the Romanov dynasty.

On Sunday, March 11, in the morning, Nevsky Street was quiet and peaceful. The queen calmed down, and she sent a telegram to the Tsar: "The city is calm."

But this calm didn't last long. In the morning, the workers walked out of the house and gradually gathered in the city center. Khabarov has been deployed and stopped. The city of Petrograd is full of patrols, sentries and cavalry, and the suspension bridge leading to the city center has been pulled up. Demonstrators from the industrial zone crossed the frozen Neva River to the city center.

According to the direct orders received by Habalov before, the police and soldiers began to shoot at the people on the glacier and on the street after firing signal bombs, while the capital gendarmerie and horse squads killed the demonstrators with sabre, brutally suppressed, and successfully dispersed the march. In the face of crazy repression, the crowd fled in all directions. Petrograd was full of panicked faces.

However, despite the cruel and ruthless repression, those masses quickly recovered from panic under the organization of the revolutionaries. In the chaos, often anyone can observe a common phenomenon. The insurgent masses expressed extreme disrespect to the army. When the army asked them to disperse, he They threw stones and ice at the army. When the army fired a warning shot at the sky, the crowd not only did not escape, but also replied with laughter. Only when live ammunition is fired at the center of the crowd can the crowd be dispersed, but most of the demonstrators will also hide in the yard of nearby houses. Once the shooting stops, they will walk to the street again.

Throughout the city, there was a cat and mouse game between the army and the people, and a limited number of police and non-commissioned officers and Cossacks were obviously unable to maintain order in the whole of Petrograd. At first, the demonstration took place in the city center, but then the whole city broke out in the crackdown.

In the face of the chaos that had already occurred in the city, Luo General Ke first asked to dispatch a reliable army from the front line to rush back to the capital, and then he changed his mind and advised Army Minister Belyaev not to shoot, but to use fire pipes to spray cold water to disperse the masses. However, Belyayev and Khabalov are firm and unanimous: solve the problem by force.

In the end, Rozenko's request obviously could not shake the decision of Belyayev and Khabarov, and it was resolved by force!

On Nevsky Street, hundreds of thousands of workers, holding red flags and slogans, drinking revolutionary songs from 12 years ago, walked forward. Whenever the team moved forward, more people often poured out of the nearby lanes to join the parade, "Women comrades walk ahead!"

In the procession, the revolutionaries kept appealing to those women. They were familiar with the psychology of the soldiers. Those soldiers may be able to shoot ordinary workers, but it was difficult to shoot women, especially those beautiful women. After 190 After five years of "exercise", these revolutionaries have already mastered the skills of launching riots and marches.

"The gun is put on! Shoot at the enemy!"

In the face of the demonstrators crowded all over the street, the officers with command knives shouted, but the soldiers hesitated in the face of the female workers in the textile factory. They were not willing to kill these women, especially many beautiful women.

"Fight!"

In their hesitation, the officers saw the workers getting closer and closer and ordered loudly again.

"Don't shoot your brothers and sisters!"

The workers and women who confronted the soldiers shouted,

"You are the same as us. Before joining the army, you are also workers. They will send you to the battlefield to die. Come with us! Don't be the cannon fodder of the capitalists, and don't listen to the lies of the capitalists..."

While doing propaganda, the people of the parade walked towards the soldiers' blocking line, while the female workers in the front row stared at the soldiers' eyes. Their faces were full of unyielding expressions. In the face of these women, the soldiers with guns unconfidently avoided their sight. When the women approached the soldiers, the soldiers The soldier did not express hatred, but kept silent with a little apologies.

Armed repression went bankrupt in front of women!

While the armed suppression and bankruptcy on Nevsky Street, more revolutionaries entered the Petrograd gale camp with the workers. At two o'clock in the afternoon, several workers came to the camp of the Bavlovsky regiment that sympathized with the workers' movement. They found the soldiers who worked in a factory with them before joining the army. Soldiers, first mobilize those soldiers they know, and then give a speech in the barracks under the leadership of those soldiers:

"Tell your comrades that even the brothers of the Pavlov Corps shot at us. We saw soldiers in your uniforms on Nevsky Street, and the whole street was stained with blood. Those soldiers shot not only workers, but also women and children..."

In the speeches of those revolutionaries, there seemed to be a massacre in Petrograd. The soldiers who had originally lived in Petrograd were stunned by the tragedy spoken by the speaker. The regiment's teaching team transferred by the political axe shot at the people, and also shot women and children, including him. Our relatives, the danger of relatives, and the rumors of the massacre only made these soldiers who stayed in the camp into a state of righteous indignation, but at this time the officers could barely maintain the order of the troops.

And some soldiers in Petrograd left the barracks without guns because they were worried about their uncle's safety. On Nevsky Street, these soldiers encountered mounted police. After shooting the bullets they carried, they withdrew from the camp and were surrounded and disarmed. However, this spontaneous act, in the mouth of the revolutionaries, became "Soldiers are resisting tyranny." Under the influence of deliberate propaganda, the soldiers of other grisons in Petrograd were shaken.

This night, Russia is no longer destined to be calm...

(to be continued)