Red Moscow

Hearing what Sokov said, Commander Zeng thought that the other party was going to make some excessive demands on him, and his face darkened. Political Commissar Tang next to him was worried that the atmosphere would become awkward again, so he quickly asked politely: "Comrade General, I wonder what kind of advice you plan to give us."

"I just said that our two countries have signed an agreement, and the big cities in the Northeast can only be handed over to the National Army, not the Eighth Route Army." Sokov said to the Tang political commissar: "It is the bounden duty of soldiers to obey orders. Since the superiors Such an order has been given to us, and I must resolutely obey it. Are you right, Commissar Tang?"

When Commander Zeng heard this, he almost wanted to slam the table again. Fortunately, Political Commissar Tang stopped him in time and continued to ask: "Comrade General, I want to hear your compromise plan."

Sokov turned his head and glanced at Lu Jin, and saw that the other party was also looking at him curiously, as if he also wanted to know what kind of plan he would come up with. Sokov coughed lightly, cleared his throat, and then said: "I suggest that you change the name of the unit. This is the premise for our cooperation with you."

As soon as Sokov said this, everyone on the Eighth Route Army was stunned. Everyone looked at each other, wondering why Sokov said this. In the end, it was Political Commissar Tang who asked the questions in their hearts on behalf of everyone: "Comrade General, you Can you tell me the reason?"

"I still said what I just said. I must obey the orders of my superiors. I cannot cooperate with your Eighth Route Army, hand over the city to your management, and cannot provide you with various weapons, ammunition and military supplies." Sokov said with a smile: "But If the unit designation shows that you are not the Eighth Route Army, but a local armed force, then no one will be able to say anything if I hand over the city to you and provide you with weapons, ammunition and military supplies."

After listening to Captain Feng's translation, Commander Zeng couldn't help but exclaimed: "Wonderful, this method is really wonderful. As long as our army changes its designation, it will become a local anti-Japanese army, and it will be able to legitimately Take over the city from you and obtain supplies of weapons, ammunition and military supplies. My Comrade Political Commissar, do you think this plan is good?"

"This plan is indeed good." Although Political Commissar Tang was ecstatic, he still tried to control his emotions and asked tentatively: "Comrade General, what kind of troop designation do you plan to let us use?"

"The Northeastern People's Autonomous Army." Sokov asked tentatively: "As long as you use this designation, it will change from the Eighth Route Army to a local armed force. Even if we fully cooperate with you, the national government will not be able to catch anything. Use it to accuse us of violating the agreement between the two countries."

Commander Zeng did not immediately express his position after hearing this, but asked Political Commissar Tang: "My Comrade Political Commissar, what do you think?"

Political Commissar Tang looked at Sokov and said: "I agree with Comrade General. We are originally the people's army, but now we have to take over the city and obtain various supplies under the banner of local troops. Therefore, our I think it is very appropriate for the army to be renamed the Northeast People's Autonomous Army."

"Comrade General," seeing that Political Commissar Tang did not object to the designation proposed by Sokov, Commander Zeng quickly agreed: "According to what you said, from now on, the designation of my unit will be officially changed to Northeast People's Autonomy. military."

After seeing that the other party agreed to his proposal, Sokov nodded slightly and continued: "We have reached a consensus on the change of the unit's designation, so next we should talk about the role you should play after taking over the city. "

"Comrade Commander," Sokov just said this, the garrison commander Kortun sitting next to him interrupted: "I am the garrison commander of Fengtian, and all the troops maintaining public security in the city should be under my control."

Commander Zeng and Political Commissar Tang, who had been happy for just two minutes, their faces darkened again, expressing their dissatisfaction with Kortun's statement.

"General Kortun," Sokov raised his hand to stop Kortun from continuing, but said politely: "I want to remind you that we are only temporarily stationed in Fengtian. The city belongs to Commander Zeng and Political Commissar Tang. For them, there is no way for guests to manage their hosts."

Political Commissar Tang heard the defense of his own side from Sokov's words, and he couldn't help but breathed a sigh of relief. Seeing that Commander Zeng seemed to want to express his opinion again, he quickly pulled the other party's clothes to signal him to stop talking. Commander Zeng turned his head and glanced at Political Commissar Tang, then shut his mouth obediently, wanting to see what Sokov would do next.

"Commander Zeng, Political Commissar Tang, I have a suggestion." Sokov waited for the room to quiet down and then said: "In order for you to better manage the city, I suggest that you establish a Fengtian Garrison Headquarters with the same level as our army. Garrison headquarters are equal, what do you think?"

Neither Commander Zeng nor Political Commissar Tang expected that Sokov would actually propose such a plan that would benefit them. The two looked at each other and saw shock in each other's eyes. Then the two nodded at the same time, indicating their agreement with Sokov's plan.

"Since you two do not object to my suggestion, I suggest that Commander Zeng be the commander of the garrison headquarters, and political commissar Tang be the political commissar of the garrison headquarters." Sokov said: "As for the appointment of the garrison commander, that's all. You are solely responsible for it and we will not interfere.”

Hearing what Sokov said, Political Commissar Tang couldn't believe his ears. He asked tentatively: "Aren't you in our headquarters to arrange your military advisers?"

"There is no need." Sokov waved his hand and said: "After all, this is a Chinese city. We are just guests temporarily stationed here, and you are the real masters. Why should we arrange a butler for you to deal with you? What about pointing fingers?"

After saying these words, Sokov picked up the wine glass on the table and said to everyone: "For the establishment of the Northeast People's Autonomous Army, for the establishment of the Northeast People's Autonomous Army Fengtian Garrison Headquarters, let's drink a toast!"

"Comrade General, please wait a moment." Political Commissar Tang said, "I have one more thing to say."

"What's going on?" Sokov asked curiously.

"I suggest changing Fengtian to Shenyang."

Sokov didn't care what the name of the city he was in was called. Since the Tang political commissar said he wanted to change the name to Shenyang, then just change the name. But Lu Jin asked curiously: "Political Commissar Tang, I would like to ask why Fengtian was renamed Shenyang?"

"Because this city is located to the north of Shenshui, and the north of the water is Yang, the two together are Shenyang, so it is called Shenyang." The Tang political commissar knew that the Soviet general sitting opposite had no idea about the origin of the city's name. Knowing what he knew, he gave a brief introduction and finally said: "In 1929, with the completion of the Northeast Rebellion, Fengtian Province was changed to LN Province, and Fengtian City was also changed to SY City, which has jurisdiction over LN Province. In 1931 After the September 18th Incident, Shenyang became a colony of the Japs and was renamed Fengtian. Now that the Japs have surrendered and the city has returned to the hands of the people, I suggest that the names of LN Province and SY City be restored. "

After listening to Commissar Tang's story, Lu Jin had a better understanding of the city. He turned to ask Sokov: "Misha, what do you think?"

"The name of this city does not depend on us. The decision lies in the hands of the Chinese people." Sokov said with a clear attitude: "Since this city has returned to the hands of the Chinese people, then according to their If you want, just change the name to Shenyang."

"Great, this is great." After listening to Sokov's statement, Commander Zeng rushed over to hold his hand and said excitedly: "Lao Suokov, on behalf of all the commanders and fighters of the Northeast People's Autonomous Army, I would like to express my sincere gratitude to you. You express your gratitude.”

"One more thing." Sokov remembered the order given to him by his superiors, and said to Commander Zeng with some helplessness: "Our army was ordered to dismantle the equipment in the Tiexi District factory as the island country's compensation to our country. I plan to leave the work of dismantling the equipment to the prisoners of war of the Kwantung Army. If you have enough manpower, you can send it to take care of these prisoners of war." Sokov remembered that there was a kid who called himself "Taijun" some time ago, and he Feeling as sick as swallowing a fly, he gritted his molars and said, "Don't forget the crimes they committed against the Chinese people, so when supervising their work, you can use the harshest means to manage them."

"Don't worry, Lao Suo." Commander Zeng gave Sokov a nickname according to his calling habits: "Blood debts must be paid with blood, and I will make those damn little devils pay the price. If anyone doesn't Work hard and I will never be polite to them."

"Old Zeng," but after listening to Sokov's words, Political Commissar Tang reminded Commander Zeng: "Don't forget our army's prisoner policy. Although these little devils have committed numerous crimes in our country, now that they have put down If you surrender your weapons, you will become a prisoner. We, the Eighth Route Army, treat prisoners preferentially and cannot beat or scold them at will."

Sokov knew our army's prisoner policy and had no reaction to the Tang political commissar's statement. After hearing this, Yakov frowned and said: "Even if they laid down their weapons and became prisoners of war, can't we demand repayment of their blood debts from them? If it were us, we would never spare those enemies who have committed crimes. , even if he has laid down his weapon, he will never be spared."

When Commander Zeng heard what Yakov said, he couldn't help but give him a thumbs up. He felt that Yakov's words were to his liking. The little devils are the little devils. They have done so many bad things in China. Can these crimes be written off just because they laid down their weapons?

"By the way, Commander Zeng." Sokov suddenly remembered the battle of Shanhaiguan not long ago, and said to Commander Zeng: "I heard that when you left the customs, you had a misunderstanding with one of our vanguard troops, and even We almost got into a fight, is that happening?”

Upon hearing what Sokov said, Commander Zeng suddenly became interested. He said carelessly: "We met the well-equipped advance troops of the Soviet army at Suizhong Qiansuo Station. Due to the language barrier, they did not believe us. It was the Eighth Route Army that was fighting the Japanese. We were friendly forces with them, and they pointed their black guns at us. The situation was very critical at that time.

Fortunately, the accompanying political commissar Tang came to his senses and asked the comrades of the propaganda team to lead all the cadres and soldiers to sing "The Internationale". The song sounded. Although the Soviet commanders and soldiers could not understand the Chinese lyrics, the familiar melody eliminated the language barriers and national differences. Knowing that each other were Bolshevik comrades, everyone embraced each other excitedly. "

Having said this, he turned to look at Political Commissar Tang next to him and continued: "At that time, Political Commissar Tang rolled up his sleeves in front of a Soviet colonel and showed him the sickle and ax pattern engraved on the wall. I am even more convinced that the army in front of me is an army belonging to the Bolsheviks."

Everything Commander Zeng said, Sokov had seen it in later movies, so he was not surprised at all. He went on to ask: "Comrade Zeng, I heard that your troops have joined forces with mine. We captured Shanhaiguan, which was controlled by the enemy. Can you tell us about the situation at that time?"

"Wait a minute," just when Commander Zeng was about to speak, Lu Jin spoke: "I have something to leave for a while. If you have anything to say, I'll talk to you when I come back." After that, Lu Jin called a The soldier pushed his wheelchair out of the banquet hall.

As Lu Jin left, the entire banquet hall fell into a state of confusion and embarrassment.

After a brief silence, Commander Zeng approached Political Commissar Tang and said, "My Comrade Political Commissar, go out and call the leader of the 12th Regiment and ask him to take people to Sujiatun."

Political Commissar Tang couldn't help being stunned after hearing this, and then asked: "Why do you want them to go to Sujiatun? You know, our troops have already moved to Xiaohekou."

"Of course I know that our troops are now at Xiaohekou." Commander Zeng whispered: "I know that there are two large arms warehouses in Sujiatun. Since Lao Suo has agreed to us taking over the city, we must first remove these two Take over all the weapons in the arsenal."

"Is this appropriate?"

"Nothing inappropriate?"

Although Commander Zeng and Political Commissar Tang spoke not loudly, many people could still hear them in the silent banquet hall, including Sokov.

"Two comrades, commanders," Sokov looked at Commander Zeng and Political Commissar Tang and asked with a half-smile, "What are you two talking about?"

Because Captain Feng, who was in charge of translating, did not see the conversation between Commander Zeng and Political Commissar Tang, so he translated to the Soviet side. Commander Zeng thought that no one on the other side could understand what he said, so he said perfunctorily: "I asked the political commissar to Call back to the troops and ask everyone not to go out, so as not to cause misunderstandings with friendly forces, which will be difficult to handle."

Sokov was thinking: Although there are only two arms warehouses in Sujiatun, there are 20,000 rifles, 1,000 light and heavy machine guns, 156 cannons and mortars of various calibers. If they are all handed over to the Northeast People's Autonomous Army , which can greatly enhance their firepower and lay a solid foundation for subsequent combat.