The Republic of Heroes

In addition to sweating profusely, Petrov had encountered a difficult problem in the work of forming the battleship sailors.

It turned out that he recruited nearly 20 imperial sailors in the shortest period of time. The young people in their [-]s are now over forty. workers... Although they had left the warship for more than ten years and had their own stable lives, when they received the call-up order from Duke Petrov, they rejoined the navy without hesitation.

However, although the imperial sailors in the past were full of passion, the problem was also very complicated. First of all, they were not familiar with this giant ship with advanced performance. Although Petrov was once an elite of the Russian Imperial Navy, the world navy Ship technology continues to innovate, and their original technology has become obsolete.So I wanted to go to the POW camp to find some officers, so as to understand the structure of the warship, repair it as soon as possible and familiarize myself with the Hanoi.

After Petrov towed the Hanoi, which was seriously flooded with No. [-] turret, into the Vladivostok shipyard, he ordered the shipyard workers to start full-scale work immediately, drain the seawater in the cabin, and repair the entire warship as soon as possible.

At the same time, he sent Nevsky to the prisoner-of-war camp to select officers, but everything went well before, and the Suidong Army's responsiveness to them came to an abrupt end in the prisoner-of-war camp.Zhang Ergou, who was guarding the prisoner-of-war camp, hated Lao Maozi to the bone, so when Nevsky took Petrov's personal letter to ask for the technical staff, Zhang Ergou severely made things difficult for him and ridiculed him. He firmly rejected their request.

"General Wu, why did you break your promise? Didn't you promise me that I would respond to my needs on the battleship?"

This series of questions from Petrov made Wu Xiaoliang speechless. He didn't understand this situation, so he had to smile awkwardly:

"Your Excellency, please don't get excited, sit down and tell me the whole thing slowly from beginning to end."

Seeing Wu Xiaoliang's bewildered expression, Petrov's previous prejudice against Wu Xiaoliang was shaken in his heart. It seems that this young general is indeed ignorant.So he told the whole story in detail.

After Wu Xiaoliang listened to the narration, he immediately understood where the crux of the problem was. Zhang Ergou’s little brother died in the hands of the Russians. His original purpose of joining the Suidong Army was revenge. If you ask him, this guy will naturally avenge himself.

This trend cannot last long, but he has to be cautious when it comes to issues involving ethnic antagonism, and he cannot punish the parties involved as a general case of using the public for personal gain.If you want to die, you can only do it yourself.

Zhang Ergou didn't expect that Marshal Wu would personally ask him to settle accounts for the old men who were ridiculed, but when he heard Wu Xiaoliang's reasons, he lowered his head in shame, feeling uneasy for his recklessness.

"Ergou, I know that Lao Maozi killed your little brother. You have a sworn hatred against them, but we are an army, not bandits on the mountain. Petrov came for our Suidong Army. He is repairing the A warship, the Japanese are likely to come over within a month, if this warship can quickly form combat power, it will be extremely beneficial to us, you make things difficult for him, but you never thought that the one who made things difficult is our Suidong Army itself!"

When Ergou blushed and apologized to Petrov, the respected Duke even hugged the miner who was still a coal mine coolie half a year ago.Petrov is worthy of being a seasoned politician. Given his understanding of China's political environment, it is undoubtedly the most sensible statement to explain everything.

Wu Xiaoliang was very satisfied with Petrov's statement, but he did not expect that this small episode only troubled the Suidong Army. In the following 20 years, the conflict between the two factions of China and Russia began and eventually evolved into a conflict between the navy and the army. contradiction.

Good news was sent to Wu Xiaoliang's office every day, but this state of affairs did not last long, and disharmonious news soon appeared.The Beiyang government sent a telegram to blame Wu Xiaoliang for his behavior.

Among them, President Xu Shichang reprimanded Wu Xiaoliang in a very severe tone, disregarding the country and the nation for his own self-interest, lightly starting the war and bringing the country to the brink of war. Apart from not recognizing the state affairs note issued by the Japanese Ministry of Foreign Affairs, the Beijing government, There will be no endorsement of it, and the Beijing government will remain neutral if Japan attacks Vladivostok.

After Yin Chengfu heard the news, he scolded Xu Shichang as an asshole, why did the soldiers of the Suidong Army hang out in isolation and throw their heads and blood?

"It's a big joke in the world, saying that for our own self-interest, those chief ministers and deputy chief ministers in Beijing, including the president who is in charge of printing, are loyal to the country?" Fang Qidao, who was no longer the passionate young man at the beginning, was very emotional. , the rare rhetoric became intense.

Wu Xiaoliang was angry at the shamelessness of those big bosses of the Beiyang government, and felt deeply betrayed. In order not to completely offend the Japanese, the Suidong Army has now become an outcast of the Beiyang government.

A telegram from the Beiyang government cast an ominous cloud over the Suidong Army. There was a feeling that the mountains and rain were about to come, as if Japan's large-scale invasion and revenge were only in the morning and evening.As a result, except for the restoration work of the Hanoi, which is still proceeding step by step, the army's expansion work has been advanced, and all the officers and trainees of the training class have graduated ahead of schedule and entered the army.In order to cope with possible future landing operations, Wu Xiaoliang ordered people to remodel the bunker system on the beach.

The Hanoi ship under renovation was officially renamed the Suidong. Prince Petrov dispatched all the sailors to the only two destroyers for training in order to enable the sailors to adapt to life on the ship as soon as possible. However, there were only nearly 500 former imperial sailors under him, so he asked Wu Xiaoliang to send more personnel for him.

However, most of the soldiers of the Suidong Army were from the north, and they did not meet the requirements of quickly forming combat effectiveness, so they had to select some fishermen who had lived in Liaodong from the temporary recruitment of auxiliary soldiers to make up [-].

At the same time, [-] officers were selected from the Suidong Army and incorporated into the [-] fishermen as the backbone.To everyone's surprise, Wu Xiaoliang appointed Zhang Ergou as the deputy captain of the Suidong ship, and his rank was promoted to lieutenant colonel.Before taking office, Wu Xiaoliang and Zhang Ergou had a private conversation. No one knows the specific content of the conversation, but since then, Zhang Ergou has changed his name to Zhang Liangzuo.

Just as the Suidong Army was preparing for battle, a warning from local fishing boats came from the sea off Vladivostok, and a fleet of ten warships was approaching from south to north.