It can be seen from his expression that Nipech was very determined to make this decision. Chekov, the commander of the 141st Division, looked shocked when he heard this. He opened his eyes wide and said with a The deputy looked at Nipech with incredible eyes and said: "Nipech, do you know the consequences of doing this? Pulakov from the Security Bureau is still in Baikalsk."
"Old man, I know what you are worried about, but is it necessary to continue this battle? The Chinese have tanks, artillery and aircraft, but what do we have? The soldiers can obey my orders and persist until now. This is enough for me. I'm so relieved. Since the soldiers trust me so much, how could I just watch them die innocently? As for those bastards from the Politburo, huh, if it weren't for them, how could the Chinese have started the war lightly? Chekhov, today Times are different from the past. Now that the Chinese Lion has woken up, we should change the way we think about some things. Don't worry, even if we really surrender to the Chinese, I will report it to the superiors. This is my personal decision."
The great purge made the Political Security Bureau famous. Having personally experienced this darkest period in the history of Soviet Russia, Nipech naturally knew what Chekhov was worried about, but he asked himself, he felt that if he did not accept the Chinese surrender proposal If so, even if he dies, he will still be condemned by his conscience underground.
"Nipeqi, that's not what I meant. As a soldier, isn't it the best destination for our generation to die on the battlefield? You ask, who here is greedy for life and afraid of death? For the sake of honor, we are really willing to give up. This life."
"Okay, let's go and see what the Chinese conditions are like. If they are really decent enough, you and we will surrender."
Chekhov took a serious look at Nipech again. Seeing his firm expression, he shook his head, raised his hands and walked out.
Half an hour later, Vatutin received the news that the remnants of the 141st Division had surrendered to the Chinese army and that Nipech had swallowed a bullet and committed suicide. When the staff around him were scolding Nipech for being a coward, his face was clouded. The breeze was light, but there was a twinge in my heart. The fate that Nipech and the 141st Division fell to was of course his own fault. "But this is the only way for us to win." In my heart. To comfort himself, he said to his staff: "What happened has happened. It's too late to say anything now. The battle has just begun. Have you finished the work at hand?"
Out of respect for the Soviet soldiers of the 141st Division, Jiang Tieyao was willing to allow them to surrender honorably. In fact, if Jiang Tieyao had to say that he was ugly, he might not be able to come up with a more decent one. The reason, however, what Zhang Zizhong did not expect was that because of this incident, the Russian officers and soldiers in the army had a new understanding of their combat mission. This was an unexpected gain. The Far East Army Most of the Russian officers and soldiers were victims of the Great Purge and the Political Security Bureau. Their understanding of Nipech's suicide was completely different from Zhang Zizhong's. In Zhang Zizhong's view, Nipech's suicide Page's suicide was to safeguard his family's military honor; but in the eyes of Yevgeny and others, it was a helpless act for Page to do so, completely forced by the current political system of Soviet Russia and the policies of the Political Security Bureau. Cruelty, from Nipech's suicide to his own experience, Yevgeny and others felt the same, and some people thought that the current Soviet Red Army has actually broken away from its vocation, and it is no longer purely Soviet Russia. The protective force has become a tool of someone's dictatorship. Furthermore, the officers and soldiers in the Soviet Red Army are also victims of someone's dictatorship. Jiang Tieyao's First Army gave the 141st Division an honorable surrender. For these Soviet officers and soldiers, it was actually a kind of rescue.
"Soviet Russia is our homeland after all. Although we are now Chinese citizens, we cannot give up our historical responsibilities because of this. Everyone, don't you think the current political situation in Soviet Russia is abnormal? Do we, as former Soviet Russians, have the intention to correct this mistake for our motherland?" The person who said these words was Tugohar, chief of staff of the Third Army and a former division commander in the Soviet Red Army.
After the "honorable surrender" incident, the commander of the Third Far East Army, Vavsky, held a secret meeting. It was at this meeting that Tugohar made the above speech.
Military historians of later generations generally believed that Tugohar's speech came from Wavsky's instruction.
This secret meeting was named the "Ulan-Ude Meeting" by historians because it involved China's subsequent policy towards the Soviet Union. Due to the lack of written records, this meeting did not leave any traces in history. However, it was It was because of this meeting that the Third Far East Army changed its combat attitude from being forced to participate to actively joining. Moreover, later on, the Third Far East Army frequently used the method of "honorable surrender" in combat and recruited a large number of soldiers. This meeting of the Soviet Red Army was recognized by later generations of military historians as the trigger that changed the fate of the Far East and even the Soviet Union.
After this meeting, Wavsky and Zhang Zizhong had a secret conversation. Due to the lack of written records, what exactly Zhang Zizhong and Wawsky talked about in this conversation has also become a historical mystery. However, since then, Some clues can be gleaned from Zhang Zizhong's later memoirs.
"I didn't have any special feelings about accepting the honorable surrender of the 141st Division at first. However, after talking with Wavsky, I realized that maybe this is the best way for us to change the situation in the Far East. Before that, I had heard about the dark politics in Soviet Russia, but when I heard what Vavsky said with my own ears, I was still shocked. It turned out that Soviet Russia looked huge. It’s huge, but this is the situation inside. It was after that conversation that I gained full confidence in whether we could stabilize the Far East and completely cut off the Soviet Union’s black hand..."
Just after this conversation, the Far East Army Command added a department, which was called the "Press Liaison Office" externally, and internally, it was called "The Redemption of the Far East."
"The Redemption of the Far East" is the brainchild of Tugohar, the first director of this press liaison office, because he always likes to say "This is our redemption of the Far East" when lecturing his subordinates. So this sentence became synonymous with the Press Liaison Office.
When the Press Liaison Office was established, Tugohar and others did not have much ambition. All they thought and did was to avoid more "Nipeche tragedies" from happening. At the beginning, All their actions failed to have much effect, which even made him and his men very discouraged, thinking that "these guys are too poisoned and are hopeless."