"This is a joint operation in the concession. Everyone is energetic. Don't let those stupid Frenchmen steal the limelight." Second Lieutenant Makarenko, the leader of the Russian 2nd Company of the Wanguo Business Group, stood in the Ford eight-wheeler truck, and shouted loudly to his subordinates.

The father of Lieutenant Makarenko, once a tsarist artillery captain, his mother followed her newlywed husband to the Far East of the Empire. He was born in a wooden house in a barracks.

In 1917, the October Revolution storm swept across Siberia, and many noble officers in the Russian Far Eastern War Zone were collectively liquidated by the Russian soldiers who were oppressed for many years. Makarenko's father was brutally killed in a military camp mutiny. The captain, together with other Russian officers, was tied up by the soldiers with belts and threw them into a small river near the station and drowned alive.

His mother survived the mutiny because she was still a little pretty. As for what happened to this poor woman during this period, it was really hard to say much. At that time, Makarenko was only four years old. He hid under the floor of the wooden house and witnessed the whole tragedy with his own eyes. In that little heart, he had early hatred for those "revolutionaries".

The small-scale armed mutiny was soon bloodyly suppressed by the troops still loyal to the Tsar, but the tragedy had already taken place. Makarenko's happy time was buried in that cruel and bloody cold winter night with his smile.

The fierce and violent Russian civil war finally ended with the crushing defeat of the Tsarist Russian army. At that time, Makarenko and countless imperial Russian soldiers and civilians who were unwilling to accept the rule of the Soviet regime lived in Vladivostok, the last important town of Tsarist Russia in the Far East. At this time, his mother had remarried to a 65-year-old imperial Russian infantry colonel, just because the other party promised to raise Makarenko's adulthood.

The old colonel was a widower, and his ex-wife did not leave him a son or a daughter. He kept his promise and cared for Makarenko carefully. At the same time, the infantry colonel named Normanrov also holds the title of Viscount of the Russian Empire, but on the streets of Vladivostok where the Marquis and Earls gathered together, this title was obviously not very good.

However, Colonel Normanrov was a senior officer after all. He had already had a premonition of the failure of the civil war, so he used his power to accumulate a large amount of money early on. The amount of this wealth was enough to allow him to spend the rest of his life with his wife and children in a luxurious and desireful manner. At this time, the situation of the war had completely collapsed. Colonel Normanrov decided to take his young and beautiful wife and adopted son to escape from this city that would definitely fall.

At this time, Vladivostok had been surrounded by three sides and the land passage was completely closed. In addition to the hard-core imperial loyalists who wanted to resist stubbornly, most of the people with status were trying to find other ways out.

At this time, the Imperial and Russian remnants still controlled a small navy in Vladivostok. This fleet was originally the Pacific Squadron of the Soviet Red Navy, with three old destroyers and about 1,600 naval officers and soldiers. As a result, they were captured by the Japanese Interfering Army and the Tsarist Russian army during the Russian Civil War. At this moment, the commander of this fleet was Admiral Oscar Viktorovic Stark, who had served as the commander of the Tsarist Russian Port and the commander of the Pacific Fleet.

The admiral was discredited for his poor performance in the Russo-Japanese War. The famous allusion about him is that on the night of February 8, 1904, the Japanese destroyer took advantage of the cover of night to raid the Port of Lushun. At that time, the admiral was on the flagship "Petro Pavlovsk" to hold a birthday celebration for his wife. As a result, when the sound of Japanese torpedo explosions and flashes came from outside the cabin, he thought it was a fireworks program specially prepared by his subordinates for the banquet.

In 1922, the admiral was already seventy-six years old, but fate joked that the responsibility for the lives of countless people was once again placed on the shoulders of the navy commander.

This is an old-school naval general with a stubborn personality. Just like Admiral Roger Vinstervinsky back then, he led a huge fleet of thirty old warships and civilian ships to embark on a thrilling expedition. This fleet consists of ships that Russians could search in the port at that time and also have navigation capabilities. In addition to destroyers and minesweepers, there are also ordinary passenger ships and offshore ferries, ocean-going merchant ships and coastal transport ships, as well as customs anti-smuggling ships, shallow water gunboats, military communication ships, naval icebreakers, and even a steam-powered yacht.

Stark took such a fleet of various models, carrying more than 9,000 "Imperial Russian refugees" who "buyed ship tickets" and braved the harsh sea conditions in autumn and winter to flee from Vladivostok to the North Korean Yuanshan Port.

At that time, North Korea was already a colony of the Japanese Empire. The Japanese initially refused to accept this group of "revealing refugees", but soon "forced" the pressure of European powers, they agreed to let the elderly, weak, women and children in the fleet land, but could only live in the prescribed area. The Japanese customs built a well-designed refugee camp outside Yuanshan Port without a division, but because of the poor living conditions, infectious diseases soon began to spread among the crowd.

Stark did not want to sit in these wooden tramp houses and wait for death, so he resolutely brought fifteen civilian ships and warships that could still sail, carrying more than 3,000 Russian officers and soldiers, noble officials and their families, and their destination this time was Shanghai, China, a paradise for world-famous adventurers.

At that time, the Shanghai government and the Public Concession Concession Bureau were confused by the uninvited Russian refugee fleet. Among these Russians, not only aristocrats, merchants and ordinary civilians, but also many of them were professional soldiers from Tsarist Russia. If one was not well placed, it would definitely be a lot of public security risks. Therefore, the concession required that the Russian fleet could only stay in the port for forty-eight hours, and then had to take all the personnel out of Shanghai.

At this time, there were only twelve ships left in the Russian fleet, including three ships, including a destroyer, who unfortunately died at sea when they encountered a typhoon on their way to Shanghai. Now the passengers in the Russian fleet have suffered a lot and can no longer withstand another long-distance voyage.

So the Russian Admiral made a private transaction with the representatives of the Beiyang government at that time. He was willing to hand over some of the treasures of the Tsarist Russian government carried on the ship as a condition for China to accept the Russian refugees. In the end, China agreed to the transaction, so except for a few Russian naval crew members, the remaining more than 3,000 people landed on the shore. They were arranged by the government to live in the Chinese community and became a new landscape on the beach, which was the Shanghai Belarusian refugees who left a unique mark in the history of the city. (The author remembers that when he was young, there were many descendants of this group of Belarusian refugees in Shanghai that year, with blonde hair and high noses and deep eyes, but they were talking about standard Shanghai gossip.)

In 1927, the Northern Expedition Army approached Shanghai. At that time, the public concession was in chaos and panic. The Ministry of Industry and Commerce finally decided to establish a permanent armed force to protect the safety of the expatriates in the concession anytime and anywhere. Although the Wanguo Business Group had been established at that time, as mentioned in the previous article, the members were purely expatriates from various countries who were playing games. They would only gather when something happened. They only received three weeks of military training a year, so don't expect such troops to block the attack of the Northern Expedition Army.

The situation at that time forced the Ministry of Industry and Technology to find a group of soldiers who had received regular military training in the shortest time. As a result, the senior officials of the Ministry of Industry and Technology focused on the group of Russian refugees.

At that time, except for some nobles and wealthy businessmen with rich wealth, most of the remaining refugees had consumed their savings. Many of them lacked survival skills and could only hang out at the bottom of society, relying on physical strength and color to make a living.

Many of these people were once regular soldiers of the Tsarist Russian Empire. They only needed a short period of adaptive training and they could quickly recover their combat effectiveness. If a suitable amount of military pay was added, I believe that the entire Shanghai beach would not be able to find soldiers who were more dedicated than them.

ps: Thank you for your support. I finally got the computer done. I can start reading digital numbers with peace of mind just when the school stabilizes.
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