Australian Storm 1876 - Chapter 1105

Chapter 1105 The Great Famine

Crimea

Entering September, it has been more than a month since the end of the war in Western Ukraine. The beautiful scenery of Yalta is beautiful, like a paradise on oil paintings.

early morning

In a house facing the sea

Major Yu Hongyun yawned and pushed open the door and walked out. He was wearing a loose and comfortable light-colored Tang suit. He walked to the chair under the corridor and sat down. Breathing in the fresh sea breeze, he looked at the blue sky in front of him through the small courtyard in full bloom. The clear blue sea sighed contentedly.

Then he took out a pack of cigarettes from his pocket, took out one and lit it up, enjoying it like a fairy.

He is the tank battalion commander of the 4th Kalimantan Division under the 2nd Army. In the battle of Western Ukraine, Major Yu Hongyun led the tank battalion to be the vanguard of the entire division. He made many contributions in the battle and made a bold face.

The    division gave him first-class merit, and if the above approved it, a proper one would be a baron noble for life, and his status would be a carp leaping from the dragon gate, and he would be promoted to the ranks of military nobles.

This kind of life-long nobleman is not hereditary, has no fiefdoms, but only has an aristocratic file record in the Noble Heraldry Academy, which has no material benefits and is purely honorary.

Today, it is not much more difficult than the group of fathers in the early days of the founding of the People’s Republic of China. It is much more difficult to obtain a hereditary title. There are no more than three divisions in the entire Kalimantan, and they are all baron titles.

Now that the war on the Eastern Front has ceased, the Second Army has retired a large number of officers and soldiers who were wounded in the war. Basically, they were raised in the beautiful Crimea, and the program of rewarding merit and reward was started, and the officers and soldiers who had merited in the battle were awarded fields.

It is said that the Eastern Front will no longer be able to fight.

By the end of this year

The 2nd Army should retire at least one third of its officers and soldiers. The Belarusian vassals use regimental battalions as a unit to implement reclamation, and the number should be reduced by half. Farming, sheep and cattle raising, establishment of agricultural grain and oil processing plants, and reducing the pressure of transporting materials from the rear .

This method is called Juntun.

After so many years of brutal wars, we finally ushered in peace. This policy was unanimously supported by all officers and soldiers, and there was a cheerful atmosphere from top to bottom.

obey the personal wishes of officers and soldiers;

Those who are willing to stay in the divided fields in Europe, and those who want to return to the Australian mainland, will wait for the end of the war to be arranged by the army to return.

Major Yu Hongyun did not want to leave. The house he lives in now is the residence of the Tatar nobles.

Facing the sea, the house is located on a scenic gentle hillside. It has 6 bedrooms, a fireplace and a study. There are maid’s rooms on both sides, and a stable and hay shed in the backyard.

As part of the military merit reward, this house was rewarded to him. Although the house deed document has not been obtained, it does not affect him moving in and enjoying life.

Crimea Island was originally the home of more than 170,000 Tatars. The Tatars belonged to a branch of the Turks. During the prosperous period of the Ottoman Empire, these Tatars from the steppe were extremely vicious and famous for their plundering of people.

Adhering to the plundering nature of the prairie peoples, the number of white slaves resold to all parts of Europe and Asia through their hands reached more than one million.

After the arrival of the    imperial army, all these Tatars were expelled and resettled to the eastern Ukraine, leaving a complete Crimea peninsula.

The war on the Eastern Front led to the death of too many civilians and the desolation of a large number of villages. These Tatars who were forced to relocate to the eastern Ukraine area quickly adapted to the local rural life.

They don’t know that the miserable life belonging to the Tatars has just begun.

in history

Ukraine, Russia, Poland and other places were ravaged by the Tatar cavalry. The Tatar cavalry once followed the Grand Duke of Lithuania all the way to Moscow, burning, killing and looting along the way. More than 150,000 Russian prisoners were captured and forged a **** feud.

Today, the Tatars of Crimea have been deported to Eastern Ukraine. They are helpless, living in the eyes of hatred around them, and everyone will sweat for them.

But this is not something that Major Yu Hongyun should worry about. He has already written a letter to let his wives, concubines and children from far away in Australia come to Europe to reunite. propped up.

According to the military merit award, Major Yu Hongyun can also get a piece of 27 acres of land. He took out all his savings and bought some commodity fields, which can make up 40 acres of land, which is almost the size of a small farm.

“Dear, are you up so early?”

Talking Room

A white and beautiful Ukrainian girl came out yawning, pouted, walked to Yu Hongyun’s side, snuggled and sat down.

followed by the sound, and another blond girl came out of the room, snuggling on the other side obediently.

Yu Hongyun put his arms around the other with a satisfied look. No wonder he is reluctant to think about Shu here. Most of the officers and soldiers of the 2nd Army, like him, have beautiful wives and concubines in Crimea and the surrounding areas of Odessa, as well as farm products and shops.

After the outbreak of the World War

Poland and Ukraine are the main battlefields on the eastern front. The war-torn Eastern Europe has been devastated, with desolate industry and agriculture, tens of millions of people have no food to eat, and many people are starving to death.

There are refugees everywhere in urban and rural areas, and they don’t need money at all. As long as there is a piece of bread, the big girl is willing to follow.

After a few full meals, all of them are watery.

“Morning, Brother Yu, I was sitting on the porch and smoking a cigarette early this morning.”

A tall man walked past the entrance of the courtyard. Yu Hongyun laughed when he saw it. This was Major Zheng Xiaowu, the deputy battalion commander of the 3rd battalion of the first regiment, and a neighbor not far from the next door.

He patted his hand lightly, and the two Ukrainian girls got up and left in a hurry, busy boiling water to make tea, taking out dried fruit preserves, and preparing to entertain the guests.

“Xiao Wu, you’re early too, are you going to enter the city?” Yu Hongyun smiled and stood up and walked a few steps towards him.

The high-end residential area on the hillside where they are located is not far from the urban area of ​​Yalta, that is, a distance of one or two kilometers. There are more than 230 households, all of whom are intermediate-level officers above the even level and below the deputy regiment. According to the different ranks and merits, Homes are big and small.

Zheng Xiaowu pushed open the courtyard door, strode over, handed over a newspaper in his hand and said, “You don’t know yet, the Western Front War has begun.”

Yu Hongyun’s surprise was no trivial matter, he quickly grabbed the newspaper and read it.

This period of time has been extremely comfortable, enjoying life, and he almost forgot that he was in a war-torn Europe, and the world war was not over yet.

in a moment

Yu Hongyun put down the newspaper in his hand, and said with emotion; “Tsk tsk tsk, it’s really a big deal, more than 4 million troops launched a general offensive across the board, just thinking about the scale of this crowd makes your scalp numb, don’t say, these Westerners are fighting. It’s a tough fight.”

“Well, the newspaper said that on the first day alone, it is estimated that more than 120,000 people will be killed or injured by the enemy or ourselves. An army of the size of our army will be wiped out in three days, which is really evil.”

“Our expeditionary force is not good at this kind of fight to the flesh.”

“Brother Yu, I sent you a message early in the morning, you can’t let me stand at the gate of the courtyard and talk to you?”

“Oh…Look at me…Come and sit inside.” Major Yu Hongyun slapped his forehead with a laugh, and quickly let the guests into the door.

After the two sides sat down, the Ukrainian girl served tea, and after the dried fruit and pastries were withdrawn, the two smoked cigarettes and chatted while drinking.

The battle on the Western Front was the focus of everyone’s attention, and the officers of the 2nd Army were no exception.

If the war is unfavorable

The 2nd Army may be dispatched to the Western Front for reinforcements. This is a major event that concerns everyone’s vital interests. Who can turn a deaf ear?

Now on the Western Front, the 1st, 3rd, and 4th armies of the Imperial Expeditionary Force are all second-line reserve corps, and the French and British are the ones rushing to kill on the first line.

is said to be in order to compete for the lofty honor of being the first to enter Germany.

This Lao Shizi is famous, and Major Yu Hongyun, who is a middle and low-level officer in the expeditionary army, does not catch a cold anyway.

Everyone knows that the Germans are not easy to fight, and the heavily defended German Hindenburg line is not so easy to break.

Although the planes bombed for a month and a half, and the artillery bombed day and night for 7 days, the Germans of the 2nd Army fought against each other until the opponent was extremely capable of adapting to the enemy and would not always suffer.

As a world-class industrial power, Germany’s military capability is not a cover. After realizing the huge threat in the air, the Germans have been working overtime to produce anti-aircraft weapons and improve air defense measures, and have achieved obvious results.

For example;

Just adding an air defense camouflage net and adding a false target will double the effectiveness of air strikes.

If you want to dive into the bomber and drop bombs like the beginning, the corpses of the German trenches will be blown up everywhere, and the corpses full of pits and valleys will no longer be possible.

no matter what

The German army will leave enough anti-aircraft firepower to focus on attacking low-flying bombers, forcing them to drop bombs only at medium and high altitudes, and hastily carry out bombing missions to complete the task.

In the era of no precision sights, medium-altitude bombing and low-altitude precision bombing are not the same thing at all.

It can be said that more than 90% of the bombs were dropped outside the trenches, and the bombing was lonely, in fact, there was no damage at all.

“Little Wu, we all know that the Germans are fighting ghosts, and this time they invaded the German mainland. Even if you close your eyes, you know that you must die. This battle is not easy to fight!”

“I went to the division in the morning, and there was no news on it. But I saw the master of the regiment, what should he do, don’t worry about it, really want to mobilize our 2nd army, then this The battle is over.”

“Hehehe… This makes sense. We still have three armies of more than 900,000 people on the Western Front, and the French and British have more than 1.4 million reserve troops, so it’s not our turn. We should eat, we should eat. Just drink, relax and wait.”

“Brother Yu, you are right, oh… By the way, have you heard that there was a famine in Eastern Ukraine, and many people fled to us with their families.”

“What’s the matter?”

“Hey, Brother Yu, your vacation is really a vacation. You don’t hear anything outside the window!” Zheng Xiaowu has a lively and cheerful personality. Seeing that Yu Hongyun didn’t understand the situation, he immediately took a sip, took a leisurely sip from the teacup, and ate it again. I ordered two pieces of pastry, as if I was not in a hurry.

It wasn’t until he saw Yu Hongyun’s accusing wink that he said “hehe” with a smile;

“Don’t worry, Brother Yu, listen to me slowly.

Everyone knows that the Ukrainian plain is a big granary. After our expeditionary force arrived here, it controlled the western Ukraine area centered on Kyiv.

This year has been windy and rainy, and the grain warehouses are full. The army not only does not need to transfer grain, but can also supply part of the western line, and the life is very moist.

The eastern Ukraine area under the control of the new Russian government is different. Due to the overwhelming number of White Army rebellions across the country, those big cities controlled by the new government have no food, and the food shortage is very large, so a large amount of money has been allocated from Ukraine.

I heard that after the grain is harvested, even the farmers’ rations are all scraped away.

It’s not even September, and there is a big famine in the entire Eastern Ukraine. If you don’t escape, you won’t be able to survive this winter anyway! ”

“So that’s the case, that’s really miserable!” Yu Hongyun sighed with a frown.

A small person like him can only help a few big girls at most. To be honest, it is really expensive, and there is nothing else that can be done.

Russia had a population of 160 million before the war, of which only 70 million belonged to the Russian ethnic group. The other 90 million people were all subordinate ethnic groups of the Russian Empire, including Ukrainians, Tatars, Caucasians and Central Asian minorities.

In the fifth year of a brutal world war, the original Russian military and civilian casualties exceeded 15 million. After the signing of the “Brest Contract”, the split-off European region also had a population of more than 50 million.

that is to say

The population of the area actually controlled by the new Russian workers’ government is only about 95 million. Now a large-scale civil war has broken out, and there are many local warlords. The urban and rural areas are fragmented, and the agricultural and animal husbandry production has suffered a great blow.

In this case, a nationwide famine inevitably broke out, people lived in hardships, and internal and external troubles emerged one after another.

In front of the new Russian workers’ government is a multiple-choice question. Under the circumstance of unprecedented international isolation, the food is so ordered, who will be given it and who will not be given it?

“Brother Yu, I also heard something…” Zheng Xiaowu said here, looked around mysteriously, and then whispered a few words in Yu Hongyun’s ear.

Yu Hongyun originally looked casual, but these few words made him widen his eyes and looked at Zheng Xiaowu with a gossip look in surprise.

Zheng Xiaowu nodded affirmatively, lowered his voice and said, “This is from the gossip, you must not reveal it, I heard that there is willing to give out a lot of gold jewelry in exchange for food. , this is a big sin to lose your head.

Then you have to ask the superiors, maybe the local high command will speak up, and you have to hide this from the British and French, or else the allies will make trouble, and no one will be able to bear the crime of financing the enemy. ”

“Xiao Wu, your ability to inquire about news is really…” Yu Hongyun was really convinced, opened his mouth, and didn’t say any appropriate metaphor, so he patted him on the shoulder and said; “Brother Yu has no hard relationship with the upper management. , or else, no matter what, I would recommend you to take a post in the staff of the group army and be a deputy battalion commander of an infantry division, which is really a condescending talent.”

“That’s… I think I can do it myself, is this news worth your contribution to a big bar?”

“I didn’t say, slaughter a sheep at night, let’s call a few old brothers to have a good time, enough wine!”

“Hahaha… It’s still Brother Yu who is open.”

The matter of drinking was settled, and the two laughed as they looked at each other.

Don’t care about how to fight the western front, what kind of famine is happening in eastern Ukraine, these are all things that can’t be beaten by little people.

You should eat and drink. With the abilities of Yu Hongyun and Zheng Xiaowu, if you die, you will help a few white-skinned and beautiful white-Russian girls to help the family. No amount of money can stand it.

(end of this chapter)