The north wind in Siberia was raging at night. Even with Lake Berga regulating the temperature, the temperature in the Irkutsk Fortress City still dropped to more than minus twenty degrees.

The windows of the telegraph room on the Angara Railway Bridge were covered with mist. After one hand wiping the water mist, several jealous eyes were aimed at the gray building hundreds of meters away. It was the center of rights of East Siberia, the center of Irkutsk Fortress City, and even the center of the entire East and Central Asia! At this moment, the glass window on the second floor was brightly lit. Although it was covered by hot steam, it was not real, but the figure was blurred, the lines of the woman and the wine glass wheels raised high.

Kuo still made several staff members in the telegraph room swallow hard. China has been in the war for more than a year, with more than 100,000 soldiers and officers traveling between Siberia, but they still cannot fully accept that the poor and weak neighbors of the past have turned into allies. But they cannot choose, just like behind the window on the second floor, Russian officials raised their glasses to thank allies, wore beautiful evening gowns, and most of the ladies with their breasts exposed, threw themselves into their arms, and opened their thighs and moaned and groaned.

The old-fashioned hole-punching telegraph behind him made a series of sounds, and the slender note gradually grew longer with the rhythm, but the telegraphers did not walk over immediately and continued to talk about the stories behind the windows in the distance, wishing that all the officials who won the ** were dead on the East Line. The telegrapher rang a few times and then stopped abruptly. This short message made the telegraphers unable to raise any spirit. In their opinion, only the information on dispatching the train would be so short. Whether it was from Tomsk in the west, or from Chita and Ulande in the east. The train took at least 8 hours to get here, so everyone had enough time to process the telegraph, so why bother rushing for a moment?

Old Andrew lay down next to the telegraph machine and dozed off. He didn't even want to move, let alone the young telegrapher whose heart had already flew away. So no one noticed a series of small holes that appeared repeatedly on the telegraph paper. The translated meaning was... "Chita called, attacked, attacked."

Negligence and paralysis made Irkutsk miss the opportunity to be early warning. Even when Jiang Tai reported to the General Staff, he said that it was a complete luck to be able to take down the Irkutsk Fortress at a slight cost. Because the troops that seized Chita at that time did not quickly control the telegraph room, so if the Irkutsk Telegraph Room translated the telegraph room in time, there would be some casualties in the army. But even if the telegraph was translated, even if the Russian army was warned in advance, there would be no time to react! Because at that time, more than 5,000 soldiers from the 16th Plateau Brigade quickly completed the preparations under the organization of grassroots officers.

Yak leather boots above the knee and furry sheepskin shoulders are worn inside. In the middle is a double-layer cotton jacket specially designed for troops in the cold area. There are only two visual holes, just like the face protection hood used by special forces in later generations, which can effectively protect the face from frostbite. Then there is an ear protection hood, and the gun chamber and bullets are also coated with anti-freezing lamb fat. Finally, a white snow cloak on the outside is worn before gloves. As for commandos from faraway areas, the sled board has also been tied to the feet. Compared with dazzling new weapons, the cold protection suit and special combat carrying equipment used in other seasons are the key to testing whether a unit can have all-weather combat capabilities! Although it cannot be as light and strong as later generations due to materials, technology and other reasons, the National Defense Forces have already made great strides ahead of the world.

"1st Company...East Battery."

"2nd Company...Telecom room by the railway bridge."

"The 3rd Company...Shui Tower and the west side barracks."

“……”

The brigade-level officers all went to the association to confuse the Russian army, so the battalion commanders who had already received the order became the command center. Under their dispatch, a group of troops quietly rushed out of the temporary barracks, and the cloak that was mixed with the snow could allow soldiers to easily approach the Russian outpost, of course, this was also the result of the opponent's lack of guidance.

Old Andrew stretched his waist and finally raised his head, took care of his beautiful beard in the mirror, and then he casually reached out and pulled the telegraph paper. When his eyes fell on the dense holes, he even thought that his eyes were blurred. After finally reading it, he not only did not jump up, but instead cursed: "Damn it. Those guys must have drunk too much again."

"Old Andrew, who's drunk?"

"Look at the guys from Chita, they actually said they were attacked."

"Chita was attacked? Haha..."

Like Old Andrew, the telegraph room laughed. How could Chita be attacked at this moment? Even if the Germans had wings to fly half of the earth, they would not choose to launch an attack at the coldest time of the night. So Old Andrew angrily threw the telegraph aside and typed a series of swear words about asking and cursing on the sending button. Everyone knows that Old Andrew is famous for not accumulating virtue. So they all came around to see how Chita "attacked back", but the message sent was like a mud bull entering the sea.

This is a very unusual thing. People are stationed at all telegraph stations along the Siberian Railway day and night. Usually, when everyone is having fun with each other through the telephone line, the latest reply is no more than three minutes. But now... five minutes have passed! Isn't the telegraph a fake? But who will attack Chita? Could it be... Several flexible telegraphers' eyes instantly turned to the brightly lit second-floor banquet hall, but before their doubts were completely answered, the door was kicked open!

As the wind and snow came to his face, more than a dozen soldiers wearing snow-white hooded cloaks rushed in quickly. Under the full protective mask, the eyes that were colder than the muzzle made Old Andrew and everyone raise their hands without hesitation.

The telegraph machine ticks again and spits out a string of new notes... "Chita calls, I hope the joke doesn't ruin everyone's good dreams." Joke... Old Andrew looked at the gun and then looked at the telegraph and suddenly had the urge to laugh.

"Play...hohohohoho..."

Like beans sprinkled into the oven, the gunshots in the Irkutsk Fortress, which was still quiet just now! The shooting of the rifle and the strafing of the machine gun instantly sounded from all directions!

"What's going on?"

The gunshots also shattered the noise of the banquet hall. Sharif quickly pushed the woman who was almost half-naked in his arms and rushed towards the nearest window with a burp. The Russian officials also raised their ears, and the women were so scared that they didn't care about the exposure of spring. Only Jiang Tai and Hu Laosan squinted their eyes, as if they were still immersed in the fragrance of fine wine and women. Their calm and composed appearance made Sharif jump up fiercely. No matter how stupid people were, they could see that the fire exchange was definitely related to these Chinese people. However, the revolver was just halfway up, and the door of the banquet hall was pushed open. Dozens of commandos holding submachine guns rushed into the banquet hall. The two of them even smashed the butt stock and disarmed Sharif.

"General Sharif!" Jiang Tai patted the face of the Russian woman who had been frightened by her side. After looking around for a while, her face slowly became cold: "Due to the betrayal of your government, our army will take over Irkutsk's defense from now on by the order of the Joint Conference of Allied States. I hope...you can cooperate!"

The joint meeting of various countries of the Allied States... Hu Laosan's eyes twitched. Why didn't he hear of this institution? But this sentence is very different from the ears of Sharif and the Russian officials. Could it be that Lenin and others have made the decision to withdraw from the war?

In fact, no matter whether you have heard of the joint meetings of allies in the Allied countries, or no matter how Sharif chooses, under the sudden attack of thousands of soldiers of the 16th Brigade, the gunshots of the unprepared Irkutsk Fortress City, which rang out in less than half an hour before returning to peace again.

By the next morning, the residential areas and mines within 30 kilometers of the Irkutsk Fortress were fully controlled. Afterwards, the 16th Brigade, which was responsible for the raid mission, had a total of 16 casualties. Among them, four dead soldiers were lost and frozen to death because they were lost when they went to the small mining area, and 10 days had passed since they were discovered. Putting aside this accident, the 16th Brigade had not encountered any organized confrontation at all, and most of the soldiers had not even pulled the trigger.

Of course, it was entirely because the Russian army was unprepared fortress city at a very slight cost. According to the assault soldiers, many Russian soldiers were even sleeping soundly after they rushed into the dormitory and the fort.

In the end, 2,300 Russian soldiers were transferred to Hailar by train and were taken into custody with the Russian troops transported there. Yang Qiu was quite friendly to these soldiers because they would return them to the Russian opposition in the future. Only a small number of Russians were left behind. After confiscating their weapons, they acted as managers of the fortress city, responsible for managing the tens of thousands of Russian people living here and refugees who escaped from Europe. These people never had the chance to eat and drink in vain. Women were gathered to be responsible for the fortress food and process fur. Men had to work 15 hours a day under supervision to mine urgently needed coal mines and various metal ores.

In just one night, the forts, checkpoints, telegraph rooms, train stations, power plants, cement plants, coal processing plants and other key departments have all replaced the Chinese workers who have recovered from peace and the technicians who have arrived with the 16th Brigade. The train from Vladivostok to the west was detained with people and vehicles, and the trains returning from Ural were also detained. The telegraph rooms still convey messages every day as usual.... Under the strong armed forces, the Irkutsk Fortress City quickly returned to peace, and as the subsequent troops crossed the fortress and continued to march towards Tomsk and other places. From east to west, the entire Siberian wasteland was as if infected by bacteria, and a series of small cities were swallowed up in the wind and snow and lost normal contact with the outside world.

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