Chapter 133 Revolutionary Trend

"The revolution finally broke out!"

In Nanjing, in the Chinese palace, when Chen Moran received a telegram from the Russian embassy and the expeditionary army headquarters in Petrograd, he stood by the window and was silent for ten minutes. After the silence, a smile appeared on his face.

"Okay, everything is back on track!"

At the end of this sentence, Chen Moran breathed a sigh of relief. Until now, he finally won the bet, and history finally returned to the right track, of course, the history of his country.

As in history, Russia has had a "February Revolution". Soon, the self-disruption of the constitutionalists and the Mingzhu Party will destroy Russia. When they fall into a quarrel, the long-sighted Bolsheviks have gone deep into the army and controlled them through the purge of officers. The Russian army completely disintegrated tens of millions of Russian troops through a telegram. As for those so-called Mingzhu Party members, they are doomed to be eliminated by history. As for this revolution, the mutiny of the th Five-Sixth Alliance is just a small episode, and it will be quickly suppressed.

In another eight months, the whole of Russia will change dramatically, and at that time... In meditation, Chen Moran returned to his desk and rang the electric bell to the outside. A few seconds later, a servant officer came in.

"Your Majesty!"

"Please come and see the queen... go down!"

You'd better meet the queen in person! With that, Chen Moran walked out of the office. His steps had never been as easy as it is now. The only thing to consider now is how to implement those plans. Of course, the core of the plan still depends on the Russians themselves.

Russia! Don't let me down!

When Chen Moran, who was far away in Nanjing, was "praying" for Russia, in Mogilev, Russia, which is the main palace in front of Russia, Nicholas II, who had just come here from Petrograd, received a snow-like telegram from the capital requesting reinforcements.

In the face of an emergency telegram from the capital, General Alexeyev, the Chief of General Staff, said frankly to Nicholas II:

"Your Majesty, you are interested in preparing a gallows for yourself. Please don't forget that those gous are not polite.

Nicholas II did not listen to Alexeyev's words. He has his own judgment on the situation in the capital as the Tsar. He agrees with Queen Alexandra. In her letter to him, the Queen regards the workers' movement but the Duma as the greatest danger.

"This is the movement of scoundrels. The boys and girls ran around and shouted that there was no bread, purely to create a tense atmosphere. Some workers don't let others work. If it's cold, they will stay at home. However, if Duma behaves well, everything will pass and calm down.

"My chief of staff, the cold weather can help the army defeat the Germans, and it can also stop the demonstrators. The cold will drive the crowd home from the street. At that time, we only need a victory to make those people forget everything!"

When Nicholas II vowed to say this to Alexeyev, the president of the State Duma, Luo Jianke, sent another telegram, in which he pointed out that the situation in the capital was extremely serious. The only way to stop the revolution and restore order was to immediately dismiss all ministers and publish the cabinet's response to the state. When Ma was responsible for the declaration, Nicholas II said contemptuously:

"This fat man is talking nonsense to me again, and I don't even have to answer him!"

With that, he turned to Alexeyev and said.

"Please come here, General Ivanov!"

General Ivanov was the tsar's bodyguard general. After a minute, General Ivanov came into the base camp and came to Nicholas II, "Your Majesty!"

After General Ivanov saluted, Nicholas II said.

"General Ivanov, now you have some understanding of the situation in the capital. Khabarov has not faithfully fulfilled his duties, so I have decided to appoint you to Petrograd to replace Khabarov to command and suppress the rebellion in Petrograd!"

After appointing Ivanov as the garrison commander of Petrograd, Nicholas II dictated two more orders. One was to order the Chief of General Staff Alekseyev to send the Georgiev camp from Mogilev to return to Petrograd with Ivanov, and ordered the commanders of the northern and western lines to send a equipped cannon to Petrograd. The infantry brigade and a cavalry brigade. Second, "the activities of the State Duma will be suspended from February 26 of the Russian calendar, and the resumption of activities will be determined no later than April 1917."

On the day when the Tsar sent more troops to the capital, in Petrograd, Alexandria? Fdolović? Kronsky, a bachelor of law, worked as a legal adviser for the victims of the political axe crackdown in 1905 and suffered from prison, but he became famous for it. Later, he served as a defense lawyer for many opposition politicians, and finally became a member of the National Duma's "well-known law" five years ago. At the invitation of academic experts, on the evening of the 11th, a meeting of representatives of several socialist political parties and organizations was held in his mansion. The meeting was attended by social revolutionaries, Bendists, Bolsheviks, Mensheviks, labor group members and district coalitions.

Meetings like this have been held many times in a row. At this time, in Petrograd, the people who were demonstrating were looking for leaders, eager for someone to express their vague wishes accurately. Although the revolutionaries played a role in the demonstrations, it was difficult for their leaders to really play a leading role because they were either in exile or far abroad. At this moment, the Klensky Mansion Conference is at the right time. The main leaders of these opposition parties are still in exile or exile, but the backbone of these parties are still firmly in the forefront of the people during this period.

The corresponding is to a few and more radical Bolsheviks. At this time, they set up a group of workers' representatives to the Soviets at their own meetings, calling for the establishment of the Soviets as a revolutionary organ of political power. The word "Soviet" is an ancient Russian "meeting". Like Lada and Douma, it comes from the negotiation tradition of the village council. In the 1905 revolution in Russia, the constitutionalists proposed to use this old term to name the new people's consultation mechanism, the investigation committee. After that, people used it to name the organs of power elected by the masses. In the 1905 revolution, the Petersburg workers represented the Soviet for only 52 days, but this institution had a great influence on the revolutionary masses. Therefore, when a new revolutionary situation appeared, under the leadership of the Bolsheviks, the workers once again raised the banner first.

While Klensky and the backbone of the opposition parties were discussing how to deal with the current situation, the Bolshevik radicals were encouraging the workers to launch a new revolution - picking up weapons to carry out the revolution. With sufficient financial support, the underground newspapers continued to The printing of small newspapers encouraged people to carry out violent revolutions, while the Bolsheviks mobilized those radicals among workers and soldiers to carry out an armed revolution.

On March 12, this was the most critical day of the revolution. With the efforts of the Bolsheviks, some soldiers finally took up arms and turned to the revolution! From the morning, at the insti of the Bolsheviks and the workers, the capital garrison rioted one after another, and the political axe lost control of some of the troops.

The first to rise up was the Volensky Group. At seven o'clock in the morning, a battalion commander called Khabarov and reported to him that the teaching team refused to leave the camp, and the officers were killed; the whole group of soldiers of Preobroski lined up on the street, in good order, and there was no officer in the forerunner of the military band. Khabarov received another report that the Volensky Regiment, the Preobrosky Group, together with the people of the Litowski Group, "contacted the workers" and destroyed the gendarmerie barracks. The workers, together with the soldiers, received guns and bullets. When the Moscow regiment set out, the workers began to arm themselves. The workers took pistols and rifles and met a group of soldiers coming towards them. Several of the soldiers asked the workers to command them and instruct them what to do, so immediately a Bolshevik and several workers walked over and commanded them. Then he led them to Hevensky to the police station, and then shot at the police station to seize the police station's weapons.

In the Viborg district, workers and soldiers formulated an action plan: occupy the police station and disarm all police officers; release the workers detained in the police station and the prison*; eliminate the royal army in the center of the city; and liaise with the army and other district workers who have not yet risen.

In the face of changes in the capital, Khabarov still wanted to resist and sent about 1,000 troops to deal with the ins, but the team quickly disappeared. As soon as they set out, the workers, women, children, and mutinous soldiers immediately surrounded the team from all directions, either treating them as their own people, or desperately turning them into their own people. Soon, they integrated into the masses.

In the face of this situation, Habalov called the Kronstadt Naval Command to request the dispatch of reliable troops, but the naval commander's answer was beyond Khabarov's surprise - the riot had spread to the navy.

At dusk, soldiers of the Semenovsky Regiment, famous for brutally suppressing the 1905 Moscow riots, also participated in the riots. At night, the strength loyal to the Tsar in the Petrograd gamoruden no longer existed. Under the leadership of the Bolsheviks, some of the explosive soldiers and workers shot and killed the officers, and then encouraged the soldiers to participate in the riot. The masses and soldiers seized the post and telecommunications organs, all the railway stations and printing houses in Petrograd, and there were no masses and soldiers. It is allowed not to send a telegram, leave Petrograd, or print a piece of paper.

Then the workers seized the total arsenal of Petrograd. Tens of thousands of pistols were obtained in the arsenal alone. Hundreds of thousands of workers began to be armed. Throughout the whole night, gunfire could be heard everywhere in the city, including battles, demonstrations and fire. The people chased the royal police and officers and soldiers with the support of the soldiers. At the same time, they set fire to the court, the Ministry of Internal Affairs building, the secret police headquarters and the police station in the city, rolling black smoke to the sky. When the rioting people captured the fortress of Peter and Paul, just as in the French Revolution, more than a dozen criminals were released. Then they attacked other prisons in the capital and indiscriminately released more than 8,000 criminals to the already chaotic city.

All night, gunshots and cheers echoed all over Petrograd, but the shouts of the robbed rich and the cries of the noble women who were forcibly annihirated by the thugs were directly ignored by people. At this time, the only calm in Petrograd, only With the headquarters of the East Asian Expeditionary Force and the embassy area, this "undominant" revolution unexpectedly did not provoke the only established armed forces in the city, nor did it provoke those foreign embassies.

At the rear of the barbed wire wall, several trucks blocked the street. In front of the truck, sandbags piled up several barricades. At the back of the barricade, several heavy machine guns were aimed at the road ahead.

"This is the headquarters of the East Asian Expeditionary Force. Those who are not allowed to enter without permission!"

In front of the barricade, under the protection of several soldiers, whenever someone tries to approach here, the officers always roar loudly in Russian, and in front of the barbed wire, there are dozens of bodies lying on the horse's teeth road, which undoubtedly proves that he is true.

" Bang..."

When someone tried to approach the street controlled by the expeditionary force at the corner of the street, gunshots sounded, and the middle [***] behind the barricade did not hesitate to shoot a warning. At this time, a white flag stretched out from the street.

"Don't shoot, don't shoot, I'm Chinese..."

Then the man shook the white flag and shouted loudly. Then the man came out and followed him with dozens of people, including Chinese and Russians. From the coats on the Russians, especially the fur coats of some of the women, it can be seen that they were by no means thugs.

"I'm Chinese, don't shoot, this is my passport..."

This is a group of frightened Chinese businessmen and rich Russians who have all fled here with their families.

"What are they?"

When the officer checked the passports of the Chinese and his family, he turned his eyes to the frightened Russians.

"Sir, they are my neighbors. Those rioters robbed everywhere in the rich area. They killed men, annibbed women, and even annibbed little girls. When we escaped, they insisted on escaping with us..."

The businessman quickly explained the origin of these people, and the Russians would still look uncertain. Hearing that their neighbors seemed to be saying something to the officer, an old man in his fifties in the Russians hurriedly said something to the women around him, and then the women hurriedly took off their diamond earrings. The jewelry such as necklaces were given to the old man. The old man put the jewelry in a small cloth bag and walked to the officer.

"Your officer, please accommodate me..."

When he spoke, the old man wanted to stuff the cloth bag full of jewelry to the officer, but the young officer refused without hesitation. Just as the Russian old man's face showed despair, he looked at the group of people, and then at the children in the crowd. He hesitated for a moment before saying.

"I have no right to allow you to enter here, but wait a moment, I'll report it to my superiors!"

"The Russians ask us for help?"

In the headquarters, Xu Shuzheng, who was discussing with Liu Jingren whether to evacuate the overseas Chinese and how to protect the overseas Chinese, listened to the report of his subordinates. He couldn't help but be stunned. When he looked out of the window, Liu Jingren was lying on the table and looking at the Petrograd map on the table. On the map, you can see that the expeditionary force headquarters and the ambassador There are five commercial streets separated from each other. Those commercial streets are not slums. Of course, they are not rich areas. They are just commercial areas.

"Maybe..."

Looking at the map on the table, an idea slowly took shape in Liu Jingren's mind. He drew a few lines on the map with the pencil on the table and used a few lines to draw the area between the expeditionary headquarters and the embassy.

"Ambassador Liu, what are you doing?"

Xu Shuzheng, who walked to the map and was about to order his subordinates to refuse the Russians to enter, saw the lines drawn by Liu Jingren on the map and immediately guessed what he wanted to do. Now he didn't want to go through the Russian pool. Now there is a civil war in Russia. Although the expeditionary force is mainly himself, as The Chief of Staff of the Expeditionary Force is also the actual leader of the Expeditionary Force. He doesn't want to cause him any trouble.

"General Xu, how many people can you mobilize now?" Looking up at Xu Shuzheng, Liu Jingren looked a little excited. He saw an opportunity to expand China's influence in Russia.

"Ambassador Liu, now, the expeditionary force must avoid any action that may intensify the relationship between the two sides!"

Xu Shuzheng did not give a direct answer to Liu Jingren's question. In his opinion, the ambassador in front of him was simply crazy. He wanted to be famous and wanted to go crazy.

"General Xu, in the morning, when I contacted the ambassadors of other countries with the Russian Ministry of Foreign Affairs and asked them to protect the embassy, the foreign minister could not be contacted at that time, only other officials. They told us to let us find a way by ourselves. Now, the whole Petrograd is still established and obeys orders. Team, there is only the guard force of the expeditionary force headquarters. At this time, as allies, we should play some role!"

"Do it work? What's the function? Your Majesty has clear instructions to prohibit us from being involved in civil strife in Russia!"

Xu Shuzheng did not hesitate to give His Majesty's order. Two days ago, after the turmoil began in Russia, he received a secret message from His Majesty, demanding that the expeditionary force should not be involved in the chaos in Russia. In other words, the expeditionary force can beat the Germans, but it must not interfere in Russian affairs, whether the Tsar was overthrown or not. It has nothing to do with the expeditionary force.

"This is not to intervene in civil strife, but to establish a security zone. The expeditionary force must take responsibility to protect the embassies of various countries, and set up a security zone between the headquarters and embassies to receive the Russians who have taken refuge here!"

After putting forward his own suggestion, Liu Jingren's voice raised slightly, and then said.

"The rescued Russians will be grateful to China in the future! This is what we need! At least at that time, no one will accuse us of doing nothing in this riot!"

(to be continued)