Little Warlord 496, Little Warlord Text Chapter 496 Kolchak Gold
On August 5, 1918, the citizens of Kazan, Russia were so frightened by the rumbling sound of artillery that they hid in the basement and did not dare to come out (the first high-quality text is here)!
The city was controlled by the Bolshevik Red Army, which had usurped power less than a year through the revolution, while two anti-Bolshevik White Guard armies, the Czech Legion and the legion led by Kobel, affiliated to the then White Guard's main general Kolchak, tried to capture the city of Kazan.
The sound of artillery and gunfire continued outside the city, and the residents were wondering how long the Red Army could hold on.
The residents' worries were not unfounded. Although the Red Army had the numerical advantage, the newly formed army had poor discipline. Two days later, Kazan was captured and the White Guards entered the city.
The young general Kobel first commanded the army to occupy the telegraph office, the station and the most important place for the whole of Russia at this time: the Kazan Bank.
The Red Army had occupied this city for a long time, and Kobel believed that if there was any treasure in the bank, it would have been taken away by the Red Army long ago.
The next day, one of Korbel's confidants suddenly broke into his headquarters, looking anxious.
"What's going on? Tell me!" Korbel shouted, but his confidant acted as if nothing had happened.
Korbel told everyone else to get out and then asked, "What on earth is going on?"
The confidant whispered in Korbel's ear, describing the tool he had just discovered. Korbel's face began to become nervous, and the hand holding the whiskey glass became tighter and tighter. After the confidant finished speaking, Korbel's body tensed,
It took a long time to slowly relax.
What his confidants told him was: We found the Tsar's gold treasure house in the bank vault!
How did the tsar's treasury get to Kazan? This question is a mystery.
There are only two explanations for this problem. One is that the Czar's gold was originally stored in banks in Britain, France, Poland and other countries, and was later retrieved and stored in vaults in Moscow and St. Petersburg. In World War I, Russia faced Germany
invasion, so the Tsar transported part of the treasure to Kazan.
Secondly, after the October Revolution, the Bolsheviks occupied Moscow and St. Petersburg. For security reasons, they decided to keep the treasure in Kazan.
Korbel knew the stakes were high and decided to transport the treasure immediately because the Red Army might come back at any time.
Kober was an excellent military commander and a self-disciplined soldier. At that time, Kober faced a very complex environment. The Red Army could come back at any time, and bandits were everywhere around Kazan and on the road to transporting treasures.
If Korbel was a soldier who lacked self-discipline, I am afraid that these treasures would have been divided up long ago.
In this way, Korbel loaded the treasure into the car and led the army on a long-distance march. They first reached Samara, and then headed for Omsk in Siberia.
In the end, Korbel successfully delivered the treasure to the general he was loyal to: Kolchak!
With the support of this batch of gold, Kolchak, who had the dream of "liberating Russia", began to buy guns and ammunition from Britain, France and other countries to arm the army, looking forward to the next battle with the Red Army.
After learning that Kolchak had mastered the Tsar's gold, the British and French governments took the opportunity to "borrow" Kolchak severely, and his army bought the necessary equipment at prices several times higher.
Kolchak originally hoped that Denikin, who was also a White Guard general, could hold off for a while in the western region of Russia. Unexpectedly, the Red Army quickly defeated Denikin's troops and began to march south.
Kolchak hurriedly commanded the army to fight, ordered the army to fight to the death, and tried his best to slow down the advance of the Red Army. What he did not say was:
Buy time to rush to transport gold!
The hastily armed army did not have much combat effectiveness, not to mention that Kolchak, who was a naval general, was completely unable to perform on land. In the battle with the Red Army, Kolchak's army was defeated.
However, this period of time was enough to deal with the transportation of gold. Soon, Kolchak's army began to escape eastward by train. The train they took was the mysterious "gold train".
Filled with the Tsar's treasures.
There were more than 500,000 troops following Kolchak, and they were also accompanied by 750,000 exiles who opposed the Bolsheviks and missed the Tsar, including 270,000 bishops, monks and nuns; there were also noble ladies and their children.
More than 200,000 people!
In fact, there is an astonishing secret hidden in this mighty fleeing team of more than 1.2 million people: nearly 500 tons of gold!
When the average winter temperature in Omsk was minus 221,250 troops, led by Kolchak, embarked on a 6,000-kilometer journey, minus 20 degrees Celsius was actually not uncommon for people living in the European part of Russia.
But no one expected that just a few days after walking, the temperature suddenly dropped from minus 30 degrees when we set off to minus 60 degrees.
The small town of Tomsk, more than 1,000 kilometers east of Omsk, where this disaster began, is the coldest town on earth.
The biting cold wind roared, and the blizzard and snow stabbed at the body like a saw. (The first high-quality text, all here). It brought indescribable suffering to the rare mass migration in history. Before long, the boundless Siberian
On the snowfield, frozen people, abandoned sleds, and frozen horses. Together with the dead bodies and the endless snow all around, the roads in Siberia were covered.
In three months from November 13, 1919 to February of the following year, an incredible human tragedy caused by a strange cold unfolded non-stop and turned into a TV series. 28 armed escort vehicles containing gold nuggets were transported
The fuel of the car was completely used up, and they had no choice but to put the gold nuggets into a horse-drawn sleigh. However, the extreme cold caused the Siberian thoroughbred horses pulling the sled to die one after another. These horses inherited from Tsarist Russia
The huge amount of treasure had to be thrown away in the Siberian wilderness.
However, the march did not end because of this. People were like moving zombies, with only one pair of feet still moving alternately left and right. The snow fell heavier and heavier, and the entire universe seemed to be a huge package sealed by snowflakes. At first
, the conductor shouted "no sleep" at the top of his lungs to encourage people. But later, even they themselves were seduced by the god of sleep.
The ranks of the Great Migration are reducing their numbers at an increasing rate every day. The once-in-a-lifetime severe cold in Siberia has caused extremely cruel sufferings and cruelly tortured people. The snow is falling like crazy, getting heavier and heavier, only in Nikolai
200,000 people froze to death in one night near the city of Fusk.
By the end of February 1920, the team had been reduced from the original 1.25 million to 250,000. After many hardships, these people finally arrived from Omsk to the shores of Lake Baikal, 2,000 kilometers away. However, for the sake of final safety,
It was necessary to cross Lake Baikal. The 80-kilometer-wide lake was covered with 3-meter-thick ice, and 250,000 living people began to cross the ice.
The ice on the lake surface shone like the floor of a smooth dance floor. The frozen surface of Lake Baikal was extremely cold. The temperature dropped to minus 69 degrees, and the violent snowstorm roared as if it would freeze the bones of the victims.
Wearing bearskin or sealskin is of no use in such a place. The extreme cold only makes the bearskin act like an ice mask on the body. Countless people have frozen to death. It is completely unimaginable.
The scene appears on the frozen Lake Baikal:
A general's wife was about to give birth on the ice, but there was no one who could go over to help. People walked past her with heavy eyes and expressionless faces. The general used his body to block a partition wall, which was originally meant for
He didn't want anyone to see his wife giving birth, but he was really frozen like a wall. The general's wife froze to death together with the baby who was about to be born. After a while, everyone froze to death.
so cold.
The storm finally subsided, and a deathly silence enveloped the surroundings. Everything passed. The grief, pain, sighs, whispers, hatred, and indignation all disappeared together with 250,000 souls.
But where did the 500 tons of gold go?
...
There are only two people in the headquarters, Dai Li and Zhang Zuolin.
After hearing Dai Li finish telling this story about the golden treasure, Zhang Zuolin opened his mouth wide and did not recover for a moment.
Holy shit, 500 tons of gold, what kind of terrifying concept is this?
"Actually, to be precise, this batch of gold was 520 tons when it was handed over to Kolchak." The expression on Dai Li's face looked very calm: In the first half of 1919, Kolchak lost some money on arms purchases.
There should be about 400 to 500 tons of gold left, and the purpose of my visit this time is to find this batch of gold!"
Zhang Zuolin was shocked again.
No one knows the whereabouts of this gold, no one!
Everyone who fled with Kolchak died!
"Someone knows." Dai Li's face was very firm: "He also died, but before he died, he left clues for us. He was the person sent by the President when the Russian Civil War broke out. He has always been
Among the White Guards."
Zhang Zuolin sat there in a daze.
Oh my God, my God! How did the president know in advance that this batch of gold existed? According to the story Dai Li told before, Kolchak also obtained this gold by accident after he captured Kazan.
However, the president who was in Nanjing seemed to have known early on that there was such a huge sum of gold lying quietly in Kazan.
"You already know where the gold is?" People like Zhang Zuolin couldn't help lowering their voices.
Dai Li shook his head: "I don't know. We only have clues. Some people say that the gold sank into Lake Baikal together with the carriage. Others say that before Kolchak arrived at Irkutsk, out of safety considerations, he ordered a final detachment of troops.
The loyal men took the gold and took another route, and the only purpose of my coming here is to find this batch of gold!"
"How should I help you?" Zhang Zuolin asked after regaining his composure.
"In addition to the accompanying people, a special army will arrive soon. The President ordered the Commander-in-Chief to launch an attack immediately to cover the purpose of our trip. We will go to Lake Baikal to find clues to this batch of gold!"
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