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In the north of Jilin City, on the banks of the Songhua River, there was the largest arsenal in Northeast China at that time - Jilin Machinery Bureau. This arsenal could produce rifles, artillery, gunpowder and bullets, etc. What is even more rare is that this arsenal had certain shipbuilding capabilities.

Jilin is close to the Songhua River. As early as 1658, in order to resist the aggression of Tsarist Russia, the Qing government established a shipyard and built warships here. After the Battle of Yaksa, China and Russia signed the "Treaty of Nerchinsk" and the war subsided. Civil ships began to be built here. It is used for shipping on the Songhua River. In 1880, Wu Dacheng, who was then the censor of Zuodu, established the Jilin Arsenal here.

The Jilin Arsenal is Lin Yuan's goal. The purpose of taking this place is not only to manufacture guns and replenish ammunition, but to build an inland river fleet with the help of the ship building capabilities here.However, Lin Yuan doesn't expect to build an escort fleet for the Beijing warship here, because the construction of inland river ships is still different from the construction of ocean warships.

Lin Yuan commanded the troops to march towards Jilin. He had already reconnaissanced. Jilin's city defenses were not strong, the city walls were not high, and there were no fortifications outside the walls. The main forces of the Second and Third Brigades of the Chinese Army had been dispersed in the Battle of Daheishan.

At this time, Jilin City was in a panic. Alekov was surprised to find that he could not contact his troops. During the battle last night, the Russian army's organizational system had been completely disrupted. Commander, the battalion commander couldn't find the regimental commander, and even many soldiers looked around, but couldn't find a person with a military rank!Coupled with the fierce offensive of Lin Yuan's various ministries, the Russian soldiers originally had no will to fight, but now without the restraint of the officers, they directly threw their guns and surrendered.During the battle meeting, Lin Yuan especially emphasized: killing and torture of captives is strictly prohibited!It's not that Lin Yuan pays more attention to humanitarianism, but that this kind of thing is causing trouble for himself, because if you kill the enemy who surrendered, the enemy will fight you to the death when they see you in the future!Who dares to surrender!

Jilin City is full of Russian military command organizations. They hurriedly retreated and retreated northward to Sanxing City. Sanxing City is located at the junction of Songhua River and Mudanjiang River. It is an important town guarding the passage between Jilin and Russia in the east. Dangerous.

The Second Brigade of the New First Division took the lead and attacked Jilin City. The Russian army who had no time to retreat dropped a large number of cotton clothes, food and vodka, and no one even set fire to them in anxiety.

The only battle took place in the warehouse of the Jilin Silver Dollar Factory, where 50 taels of silver used to make silver dollars were stored. In the Qing Dynasty, two currencies were used, one was silver and the other was copper coins. A thousand copper coins had already become three thousand copper coins in the late Qing Dynasty, so this amount of silver was almost an astronomical sum for Lin Yuan.

When the Russian army fled, the first thing they transported was the personal belongings of the generals. By the time they remembered this batch of silver, it was already too late. When the first batch of Russian troops came to transport the silver, the soldiers of the new division had already arrived. The army threw down the cart that pulled the money, turned around and ran away, and the new division immediately sealed off the warehouse, and no one was allowed to enter.

The second brigade of the new first division quickly occupied the whole city. When it was dark, the first brigade and the Dingwu army who were moving at a slower speed also caught up. Seeing that the situation in the city had stabilized, Lin Yuan went to the Jilin Machinery Bureau.

As soon as Lin Yuan came to the Machinery Bureau, he saw a long line of people kneeling at the door. It turned out that the Jilin Machinery Bureau had been producing weapons for the Russian army during the Russian occupation, so Nie Hong, the general manager of the Jilin Machinery Bureau, heard that Lin Yuan wanted to After coming to the machine bureau, he thought he was arresting them for the crime of traitor, and there was nowhere to run if he wanted to, so he led the people to kneel at the door.

Where did Lin Yuan know these things? He walked closer and asked, "Who is the leader among you?" Nie Hong quickly came out of the crowd, knelt down in front of Lin Yuan, and said, "My lord, the villain is This is the general office of the Machinery Bureau." After finishing speaking, he fell on the ground and trembled uncontrollably.

Lin Yuan said casually: "Get up, how is your equipment here? Has it been destroyed by the Russians?"

Nie Hong hurriedly said: "No, everything is fine."

Lin Yuan said: "Ask your people to prepare and produce bullets for us." The semi-automatic weapons used by the Xinyi Division consume a lot of ammunition. Ryukyu stocks Japanese bullets, so they can get supplements from the Japanese at any time on the battlefield, but the situation is completely different when fighting the Russians. The Mosin Nagant rifle has a 7.62mm caliber and cannot be used at all.

Lin Yuan was most concerned about the issue of ships. He asked, "Can you still build ships now?"

Nie Hong said hesitantly: "Can it be made? Maybe it can't be made?"

Lin Yuan frowned and asked, "If you can make it, you can make it, if you can't, you can't. What do you mean by that?"

Nie Hong repeatedly apologized and said: "When the Russians withdrew, they took away all the built ships and a group of craftsmen. I don't know if the rest of the craftsmen can build ships. ?”

Lin Yuan thought to himself: "It's really a fool who thinks a lot. The Russians made mistakes on the battlefield. I didn't expect that they would do this to me in the end."

Lin Yuan then said, "Take me to meet the rest of the people."

Nie Hong walked with Lin Yuan for nearly half an hour before arriving at the shipbuilding branch. A long distance away, he saw several large warehouses. Nie Hong introduced: "These are places where shipbuilding raw materials are stored."

Lin Yuan asked: "What raw material? Steel?"

Nie Hong said: "Our own iron and steel plant is too small. There is only one small blast furnace and one Martin furnace, and there is not enough coke. Steelmaking is intermittent. We can't produce much steel in a year. It is used in The guns are installed, so we still use wood, and the wood is shipped from the Changbai Mountain upstream, and we can have as much as we want.”

Lin Yuan thought to himself: "Originally, I wanted to build an inland river fleet to go down the Songhua River and go straight to the Sanchakou. Looking at it this way, the size of the fleet may be much smaller."

Walking through the dock, I came to the place where the craftsmen were resting. I saw dozens of craftsmen standing at the door. When they saw Lin Yuan and Nie Hong, they hurriedly saluted. Lin Yuan asked, "Is there so many people left?"

Nie Hong said: "Exactly."

Lin Yuan looked more and more strange, and asked, "Why are they all young people?"

A craftsman replied: "Our masters were captured by the Russians."

Lin Yuan asked: "Then can you build a ship?"

The craftsman replied again: "We are all learning from the master. The master gave us the pattern, and we will follow it."

Lin Yuan quickly asked, "Do you have that pattern?"

The craftsman nodded, and Lin Yuan felt relieved, and said, "That's good, you go and show me the picture. I want the general picture, not the individual parts."

A craftsman turned back, took out a few pieces of paper, and held them in front of Lin Yuan with both hands. Lin Yuan looked at it and shook his head silently. It turned out that the boat on the drawing was too small, less than ten meters long, so it was impossible. Using such a ship to attack Sanchakou, the Russian inland gunboats are still very powerful.

Lin Yuan asked, "Why is there only this pattern? Are there any others?" The craftsman replied, "For other patterns, the master burned it after the boat was built, for fear of being seen by others."

Lin Yuan asked, "Will you build new ships?"

The craftsman shook his head like a rattle, and Lin Yuan said: "You all prepare the things for shipbuilding first, and I will do the other things."

Lin Yuan contacted the Beijing ship, and soon Wan Ling, a ship expert, rushed to the Jilin Machinery Bureau.