Black Flag Army

Chapter 150 Hammer Wants to Negotiate

When Su Chuizi and his four followers walked into the conference room, he did not see Di Xiong or Jiang Hongyu, only a female officer in a major general's uniform. He couldn't help feeling a little disappointed, but now he had to ask for help, so he had to bite the bullet and sit down.

The female officer said, "I am Lan Jinping, the chief of staff of the Third Army Group, and I have been ordered to negotiate with you."

She spoke in Chinese, but the Russian translator beside her immediately translated for her. Her Russian translator was Wang Baisheng, the cousin of Wang Baichuan, the general manager of Dashengkui.

Lan Jinping noticed that they looked pale, so he very attentively asked the guards to bring each of them a piece of bread and a glass of water. Su Chuizi and his entourage immediately devoured the food.

Lan Jinping said to Li Laoshi who had just come in: "It has been two years since the Bu Party started the uprising. Why is it getting harder and harder now? The army doesn't even have food to eat, and many people have starved to death. How can Su Chuizi still have the nerve to continue to be the leader?"

Naturally, there was no Russian translation of her words, and Su Chuizi didn't understand what she meant.

Li Lao Shi said: "After they started the war, they moved around and fought everywhere. They had no base and no production. All their supplies came from battlefield spoils. If they won the battle, they were fine, but if they lost, they had to starve."

At this time, Su Chuizi had finished eating and drinking. He wiped his mouth with a handkerchief and said, "The ultimatum I issued to you before was not my intention. It was an order from the leaders above. I had to carry it out. I hope you can understand."

Lan Jinping said: "I can understand, but since you don't have the final say and you completely follow the orders of the leaders above, is there any meaning for our current negotiations?"

Su Chuizi said: "If you can lend us 100,000 dan of grain, we can give up our claim on Temple Street, and you can deal with the White Guards in Vladivostok with peace of mind. I have obtained authorization from the higher-ups for this matter."

Li said honestly: "Even if you want to take it by force, have you succeeded? Even though you have more than 50,000 people, I only need one division to stop you. You are using something you can't do to exchange for 100,000 dan of grain. You are treating us as fools. It's too naive."

Su Chuizi asked the translator and learned that the speaker was Li, the commander of the security division, so he said: "Commander Li, don't underestimate the combat effectiveness of our Bu Party army."

Lan Jinping said, "Isn't your boss Su Gangtie? Your number one person is seriously injured and can't manage affairs, and your number two person is under quarantine. Now Su Gangtie has the final say. I understand what he means. He wants us to fight the White Guards until both sides suffer losses, and then you can reap the benefits. Let me tell you now, our military rations are shipped from the distant Beihai Province. We are not rich, and can only barely make up for it. So I can't give you 100,000 dan of food."

Su Chuizi said: "If you don't have 100,000 dan, 50,000 dan will do. 50,000 dan of grain is only 5,000 tons. Can't you take it out?"

Lan Jinping said: "We can't even get 5,000 tons."

At this time, a young major with a green face next to Su Chuizi spoke. He said a lot of Russian excitedly, but Wang Baisheng did not translate it in time. Instead, he frowned and looked at Su Chuizi, obviously embarrassed.

Lan Jinping said sternly, "Wang Baisheng! Translate immediately. What did this green-faced guy say?"

Wang Baisheng said: "He said that we have transport planes, and there is too much food in Beitang City to eat, so we can use transport planes to transport the food here. We deliberately watched them die without helping them, which angered them. They will destroy us without hesitation, and you will become their prisoner."

Lan Jinping said to Su Chuizi: "What's the name of this green-faced guy? He's very arrogant!"

Su Chuizi said awkwardly: "His name is Kochakin. Young people are a bit impulsive when speaking. Chief of Staff Lan, don't bother with him!"

Lan Jinping said coldly: "You are wrong. I am a woman who likes to haggle over small matters. Someone, come! Drag this Kochakin outside and give him a good beating!"

The major officer named Kochakin was immediately held down from behind by two guards, his pistol was removed, and he was dragged out. Four people including Su Chuizi quickly stood up and wanted to rescue Kochakin. However, facing the black muzzles of dozens of guards' guns, they had to sit down again, with angry expressions on their faces!

A guard came in and asked, "Chief of Staff Lan! How many lashes?"

Lan Jinping said: "One hundred lashes!"

Li Laoshi whispered, "Fifty lashes? A hundred lashes would surely kill him!"

Lan Jinping said: "Okay! Then give me fifty lashes!"

Kochakin's screams were immediately heard outside the door. Su Chuizi listened to the screams with a very painful expression, as if he was the one being beaten.

Lan Jinping said, "Su Hammer, you have to remember this! If you have the ability to defeat us, then you are qualified to say such things. If you don't have the ability at all and still want to say such things, then that's bullshit! You asked for this humiliation."

In another time and space, in October 1945, after the end of the Anti-Japanese War, when Chiang Kai-shek's son, Chang Dagongzi, went to Moscow to ask Su Gangtie for Outer Mongolia, Su Gangtie said the same thing: "If you have the strength, of course you can make such a request. Now you don't have the strength at all. It's bullshit to say such a thing!"

After the fifty lashes, the negotiations could not go on any further. Su Chuizi angrily said goodbye, "I will remember what Chief of Staff Lan said. When our Bu Party becomes stronger in the future, this humiliation will be returned to you tenfold!"

Lan Jinping smiled and said, "That's a very courageous statement! I like it! I'll be waiting for you!"

Su Chuizi left, and Kochakin was also taken away by his two followers.

Li said honestly: "Looking at Su Chui's expression just now, this Kochakin couldn't be his son, right? This is a complete fallout."

Lan Jinping said, "If you want to turn your back on me, just do it. There's no need to keep staring at me like a dog-skin plaster!"

At the same time, over Vladivostok, four Japanese planes encountered the Black Flag Army's battle wall planes and quickly split into two groups and flew backwards. The Black Flag Army's flight squadron leader Le Yijin said to the captain Ping Zuyi on the microphone: "The Japanese have also learned the bait tactic, and they want to trick us into separating!"

Ping Zuyi said: "Don't worry about them, just push forward! Kill gods and Buddhas who stand in your way! If they go around, the patrolling planes behind will take care of them."

This battle wall consisted of 72 planes, divided into four layers, with 18 planes on each layer. If the Japanese plane attacked the plane on the top, the plane below would attack the belly of the Japanese plane. If the Japanese plane attacked the plane below, the plane above would attack the back of the Japanese plane. If the plane attacked the plane in the middle, it would be attacked by the planes above and below. This was the air bunker tactic that Hoffman most admired.

A group of Tsarist Russian planes swooped over. Although there were dozens of them, they had no formation and rushed over in a disorderly manner. They were aimed at by the Battle Wall planes and shot accurately, blowing up one after another. After losing most of them, the remaining planes fled. The Black Flag Army Battle Wall only lost a few planes, which were quickly replaced by patrol planes.

At the White Army headquarters in Vladivostok, Commander-in-Chief Alexander looked through a telescope at the planes that kept falling from the sky and sighed, "The Black Flag Air Force is too powerful, almost to the point of being invincible."

British military adviser David said: "Your Excellency the Commander-in-Chief! You must have confidence. Although the air battle has suffered setbacks, we still have a strong navy and army, as well as bunkers and heavy artillery. The ground battle for the defense of Vladivostok has not yet begun!"

American military adviser Ike said: "We have deployed a large number of anti-aircraft guns in Vladivostok. Even without the air force, we can reduce the enemy's air advantage to a minimum."

At the Chongjin Airport in North Korea, at the Japanese Provisional Air Force Command, Air Force Commander Araki Shimizu said to Honjo Shigeru in surprise: "The Governor-General of Korea wants us to mobilize all our air forces? Don't we need to defend Korea anymore?"

Honjo Shigeru said: "Korea has long been integrated with Japan. Those small groups of bandits and rioters are simply vulnerable. The army can destroy them. There is no need for the air force. The air force only needs to defeat the Black Flag Army with all its strength. The Black Flag Army is the enemy of the Great Japanese Empire."

Araki Shimizu said: "When I first heard the name of the Black Flag Army, they were just a group of bandits in the desert of Mobei, with only a few thousand people. I didn't expect that in just a few years, they would be qualified to become the enemy of the Great Japanese Empire. This is a serious dereliction of duty by your intelligence personnel! Your intelligence chief should commit seppuku to apologize to the emperor! If you had destroyed them before they became powerful, why would you have mobilized the entire Korean Air Force!"

Honjo Shigeru said: "Our intelligence department has done its best to eradicate them! Many agents have been loyal to the emperor, including excellent agents like Fusako Kokoshi and Nakajima Yunko! The Black Flag Army also has a very scary team of agents, and they are more powerful than you can imagine. If it weren't for our agents repeatedly getting into their ranks to create incidents, they might be even more powerful than they are now! It's wrong for you to accuse our intelligence department like this!"

Honjo Shigeru handed the Governor's order to Araki Shimizu and left. Araki Shimizu had no choice but to order all North Korean aircraft to launch an attack on the Vladivostok Black Flag Air Force.

At this time, the sky over Vladivostok was filled with Black Flag Army bombers. After the fighter planes pushed forward to sweep away the Tsarist Russian fighter planes, the bombers began bombing, focusing on the White Army headquarters and several White Army barracks. Of course, such bombing was not safe. The White Army's anti-aircraft guns kept firing, and from time to time a bomber would be shot down.

After the bombers ran out of bombs, they began to retreat. At this time, more than 100 Japanese fighters rushed over from the Xinjin Airport in North Korea. The patrol planes of the Black Flag Army discovered them and quickly gave an alarm. When the Japanese fighters arrived over Vladivostok, more than 200 Black Flag Army fighters were already waiting for them in various formations. The Japanese fighters hoped to launch a sneak attack like the last time, but it failed. Since the Black Flag Army was well prepared, the Japanese fighters had to force their way in. The result of the force was a huge loss. Although the Japanese army also set up some formations, the training was hasty and not as skilled as the Black Flag Army. When more than half of the casualties were over, Araki Shimizu couldn't bear it and ordered a retreat. The Black Flag Army chased the Japanese planes and shot down more than a dozen planes.

In this air battle, the Black Flag Army, relying on its advantages in numbers and tactics, shot down 65 Russian planes and 71 Japanese planes, while losing 42 of its own planes, several of which were shot down by anti-aircraft guns.

After the air battle, the ground forces began to exchange fire. The heavy artillery of the Black Flag Army opened fire first, bombarding the front positions of the White Guards. Under the request of the superiors, the infantry of the Black Flag Army began to dig trenches with engineer shovels and pickaxes. This time they wanted to dig trenches to the enemy's positions to reduce the huge casualties during the charge. This idea was originally thought up by Lan Jinping. She counted the casualties of the Black Flag Army in Boli and Miaojie and found that most of the casualties were caused by the charge. If they dug trenches to the enemy's positions, they would not be used as targets by the enemy during the charge. After discussing, Di Xiong and Jiang Hongyu thought that the method was effective. Although digging trenches increased a lot of manpower, compared with the huge casualties, this amount of manpower was nothing!

When the Tsarist Russian troops defending the frontline saw that the Black Flag Army was coming directly over, they opened fire and threw grenades. The snipers in the Black Flag Army also started to fight back. After killing a group of Tsarist Russian soldiers, the rest did not dare to look up. Someone quickly reported the news to the headquarters.

Alexander was so angry that he cursed loudly, and then quickly called a meeting with his subordinates and military advisers to discuss countermeasures.

After his subordinates and military advisers entered the meeting room, Alexander said angrily: "The bandits have started to play rogue. They don't charge honestly in battle, but use some dirty and shameless tricks. They dig trenches to get closer to us step by step. Once they are close, they can easily flip over. In this way, we as the defending party have no advantage. Our soldiers can't hit them with guns. Let's throw grenades. The enemy sniper is aiming and can hit the grenade with one shot, causing the grenade to explode directly on our position."

Ike, the American military adviser, said: "This is a very troublesome problem! Since the outer positions can no longer be defended, I suggest abandoning the outer positions and directly engaging in street fighting, using street fighting to cause heavy casualties to the bandits."

British military adviser David said: "We can't give up the periphery! Street fighting mainly relies on bunkers and buildings, but more than half of the bunkers and buildings have been destroyed by the enemy's bombers. Can the remaining ones block the attack of the enemy's heavy artillery and rocket launchers? The periphery positions are now in close combat. We certainly have no advantage, but the bandits have no advantage either! Now both sides are fighting with courage. Whoever is braver will win!"

Division Commander Pavlov said to another division commander, Romanov: "This British advisor can only talk big, saying that close combat requires courage, but the people who died on the battlefield were our men. Why doesn't he go to the battlefield and fight a few times himself?"

Romanov said: "We are still counting on their assistance! We can even use their warships when we escape. Let him lie if he wants!"

Alexander said: "Most of our troops are composed of horse bandits and prisoners of war. It is a fact that they are not as brave as the black bandits in the battlefield! If they really had the courage to fight to the death, they would not have lost the outer position of Temple Street last time. It's a pity that my brother took all the elite Cossacks away. If you could leave me a division, or even a brigade of elite Cossacks, I would not have been defeated so miserably! I order the outer positions to be abandoned! Everyone retreat into the city."