1855 United States Tycoon

Yakov has been doing throwing training these days, and that bridge will definitely be the area that the Italian police will focus on. He can't get too close, and the explosive bag is quite heavy. Fortunately, because of the restrictions of the terrain, the streets of Venice are generally not wide. When the convoy passes, the police usually only empty the street to ensure that there are no other vehicles and pedestrians on the street. As for the shops on the street, it is. , Generally speaking, people will not close their doors and go out of business. There can be pedestrians on the street as well. There was exactly a turn in the section from the bridge, and the street was very narrow. Yakov was now quite confident that he would throw an explosive pack of about ten kilograms into the vicinity of the target vehicle. Such a big explosive bag is enough to blow the bulletproof car into the air.

The time was about to come, and Akhmatova put the borrowed child in the stroller. This child has been very familiar with Yakov and Akhmatova these days, unlike he always liked earlier. Wow, crying, and the child also likes to be pushed out in a stroller by Yakov and Akhmatova. In the last two days, he giggled as soon as he was put in the stroller. At the same time Opened his pale blue eyes and looked around.

But today, after the child went out, he was not too happy, and cried again with a slumped mouth. This is probably because the thick and soft cushion under him was quietly replaced with an explosive bag made like a cotton cushion, which made him feel uncomfortable.

Akhmatova picked up the little guy altogether, so the little guy laughed again, and Yakov followed by pushing the empty stroller.

"Hey baby, come out again? So happy." Roberto, an employee of the bakery on the corner of the street, greeted them, "Bring the little guy out again? Do you want to buy bread? We have them in the store. Freshly baked."

"Yes, the little guy always wants to play outside. I will take care of your business later when we come back." Yakov replied with a hard smile.

"Okay." Roberto said, "You seem a little weird today. Well, did you find a new job? If so, it's really worth celebrating. Okay, I'm going to be busy too. , I won’t bother you."

After saying this, the enthusiastic Italian waved to them and walked towards the bakery.

"There are so many police officers on the street." Akhmatova whispered to Yakov.

"Don't look at them, it will attract their attention." Yakov lowered his head and replied in a low voice, "Pretend to be the same as before."

...

The convoy of the delegates has already set off, and the first to pass the bridge is the convoy of the Italian delegates. As hosts, it is normal for them to arrive first. In the convoy of the Italian representative, there were three more cars and two trucks full of police escorted one after the other. The sheds of the trucks were full of heavily armed police.

"The situation of the Turk's team should be similar." Yakov looked at the Italian team that slowly turned not far away, while estimating the distance, while thinking like this.

The three cars in the middle are accompanied by small flagpoles on both sides of the front, and the Italian flag is hung on them. The three cars are almost the same, but Yakov noticed that the middle car has wider tires. He immediately remembered a piece of information gathered by the comrades:

"The Mercedes-Benz bulletproof car is modified on the basis of the Mercedes-Benz sedan. One of its technology requirements is that its appearance should be very close to a general non-bulletproof car in order to confuse possible attackers. However, a lot of installations have been added. After the steel plate and very thick bulletproof glass, the weight of the vehicle has increased a lot, so the original tires have insufficient load-bearing capacity. Therefore, this vehicle is equipped with wider tires..."

"If this is a Turk's convoy, then the damn Turkish representative should be sitting in the bulletproof car. I have a lot of confidence at this distance, and I will throw the ignited explosives bag in front of it." Yakov began. I thought about some key details of the operation in my head, "The lead time of the explosive bag is very short, only a little more than a second. The pull ring of the lead is directly connected to the baby carriage. As long as I grab the dynamite bag from the car, the fuse has been ignited, and then I will throw it out at the fastest speed. Then the dynamite bag will explode quickly, and it will not be left to the Turks at all. The time for reaction. The Italians have passed, it shouldn’t be long before the Turks should be there.”

...

Russian representative Iberic Bakhtin and his entourage boarded a foreign passenger car provided by the Italians. The convoy drove out of the hotel where the Russians lived, and then slowly marched along the riverside street towards the meeting address. Iberic leaned on the back of the back seat, closed his eyes, silently thinking about his thoughts.

"The important point of this meeting is not to make the Turks stop the massacre immediately, but to make the French and the British have a clear attitude to clearly support Russia and suppress Germany and the Austro-Hungarian Empire to avoid their plans to destroy the empire. And In this conference, as much as possible to nail Turkey on the stigma of barbarism and inhumanity. To make people believe that our country has made great efforts to achieve peace and made great concessions. But the barbaric Turks But it has destroyed all of this. Therefore, the war that the empire launched against Turkey is the most just war. It represents God's punishment of infidels, civilization punishes barbarism, and the moon punishes..."

At this time, the Russian convoy had also arrived near the stone bridge. The convoy slowed down and drove onto the stone bridge. Iberic Bakhtin opened the curtains a bit and looked outside. Suddenly he saw a small speedboat appearing on the river. The small speedboat was splitting the water, dragging the splashing snow waves, and rushing towards the stone bridge. Coming over, there was a man standing on the front deck of the speedboat, and he seemed to be digging out something.

"Damn it! What are those Italian fools doing?" Iberic cursed, but he didn't immediately realize what would happen next. He just faintly heard a few gunshots and some unclear shouts through the thick bulletproof glass.

Then he felt that the whole world was shaking violently, and then he didn't know anything when his eyes went dark.

...

Because of the turn, Yakov could clearly see the process just now. Just now, when the convoy with the Russian flag was on the bridge, a small speedboat suddenly rushed out of the Chahe River and headed straight towards the stone. The bridge rushed over, and there was a big beard standing on the front deck of the speedboat. Several Italian police officers found that something was wrong and fired at the speedboat. However, the speed of the speedboat was too fast, and the policemen had pistols in their hands, making it impossible to hit the target.

At this time, Yakov saw that the bearded man had pulled out a red flag with a star and moon pattern from his arms, and shouted "Arahu Akbar", and then crashed with the speedboat. After reaching the pier, the speedboat exploded violently, and the entire stone bridge, together with the convoy on it, flew into the sky.

"What's going on?" Yakov was stunned.

...

Obviously, the Turks' team will not come again. Yakov took Akhmatova back to the small rented house. Soon, they heard the news: In the bombing just now, the entire Russian delegation was wiped out.

Then there were rumors that it was the Turks who launched the assassination against the Russians, which was revenge for the Armenians' actions against the Turkish Embassy in Paris, France. Because the Turks’ newspapers have publicly accused Russia, saying that they provided training and the truck of explosives for those Armenian thugs. And Turkish officials have publicly stated that they will retaliate.

As for the real culprit of this operation, there has been controversy in later history. In the Russian history books, it has always been firmly believed that the assassination was initiated by the Turks on the grounds that the Turkish assailant waved a Turkish flag when he was dying and shouted "Allah is the greatest". And the Turks' hatred of Russia has never been concealed.

Of course, what the Turks said is another matter. Most Turks believe that this is a bitter trick made up and directed by the Russians in order to find an excuse for launching a war of aggression against Turkey. Some people think that this was done by Armenians posing as Turks in order to start a war.

The French generally stand on Russia's side on this issue, but they don't think this is the behavior of the Turkish government. They are more willing to believe that this is a "personal behavior." Some people even think that this was done by the Germans in order to find their ambition to annex the whole of Europe through war. As for the Germans, well, many Germans believe that the Italians did this. Because after the war began, Italy used this as an excuse to betray the covenant and stand on the side of the British and French. They had long wanted to be traitors to the Allies, so they did this. Of course, a considerable proportion of Germans, French, Russians, Italians and Turks suspect that the British did this. Reasons, do the European dung sticks need a reason to do such a thing? Isn't dare to do such a thing your job as a shit stick?

In short, the result is that only two days later, the extremely angry Russians formally declared war on Turkey. One day later, Germany and the Austro-Hungarian Empire issued an ultimatum to Russia, demanding an unconditional truce within 48 hours. Such an unreasonable request was of course rejected with contempt by the Russians. At 48 hours, Germany and the Austro-Hungarian Empire officially declared war on Russia. Four hours later, Russia’s allies, Britain and France, declared war on Germany and the Austro-Hungarian Empire. Two days later, Italy announced that it had joined the Allied Powers and declared war on Turkey, Austro-Hungary and Germany. The long-awaited war of the United States finally started.

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