Lake Baikal is a long, narrow and curved lake, like a crescent moon, so it is also known as the "Moon Lake". It is 636 kilometers long, has an average width of 48 kilometers, and has a maximum width of 7.4 kilometers and an area of 31,500 square kilometers.
, the average depth is 744 meters, the deepest point is 1,680 meters, and the lake is 456 meters above sea level.
Around Lake Baikal, there are more than 300 rivers of different sizes flowing into the lake. The largest one is the Selenga River. This huge freshwater lake that flows into it is surrounded by volcanoes. The only river that flows out of the lake is the Angara River.
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Where the lake flows into the Angara River, it was originally about a kilometer wide. On weekdays, white waves surge into the sky, and a huge boulder stands in the middle of the river. The large lake with its rolling torrent scenery has now been frozen into a solid layer of ice.
This cold weather will continue until next summer. This inland sea has been covered with several feet of ice. Postmen and business travelers' sleds come and go on it to shorten the distance and save time. In the cold winter
Trains can even run on the ice of Lake Baikal. During the Russo-Japanese War, Russia laid temporary tracks on the ice to pass trains.
Since China and the Soviet Union signed a ceasefire agreement, Selenginsk no longer has the tense atmosphere it had a few months ago. China has also withdrawn most of its troops east of Selenginsk near Lake Baikal.
A small number of garrison troops were left. Now the defense tasks here are mainly carried out by Russian guards [] and a small number of Chinese troops.
Liu Guodong, who was wearing a thick military coat, shrank his neck, put his rifle back, took off his bulky gloves, reached into his arms, took out a cigarette and handed it to Shi Jianfei beside him, and then took it out of his pocket.
He picked up a Zhibao lighter, and with a crisp "ding" sound, the two of them lit cigarettes respectively.
After taking a nice sip, Liu Guodong took out a military kettle from his body and gestured to Shi Jianfei beside him: "Brother Shi, it's so damn cold here. Patrolling in this weather is really fatal. Do you want to come first?"
Take a sip to relieve your fatigue."
Shi Jianfei smiled and shook his head and advised, "You should drink less. This is nearly 70% strong alcohol. If you are drunk, I won't have the strength to carry you back."
Liu Guodong took a big sip of wine into his mouth, and a blush suddenly appeared on his bronze face. He burped and then complained: "But if I don't drink, I'm afraid I will be killed soon."
Frozen into popsicles, I'm just wondering, why are those old guys not afraid of the cold? It's hard for you, Brother Shi, to fight with the old guys here for two years. If it were me, I would have been half frozen to death."
Shi Jianfei smiled faintly. The weather here was indeed too cold for this little brother from Guangxi in the south. He asked with some confusion: "Guodong, your soldiers from Guangxi are not usually assigned
Are you going to the south or to the mountain troops? How come you were assigned to Siberia?"
Liu Guodong took another deep drag on his cigarette and said somewhat depressedly: "Me, when I was assigned, I heard the recruiting officer say how beautiful Siberia is and how beautiful Lao Maozi's women are, and my head got hot for a moment.
I begged the commander who recruited me to transfer me here. Who knew that not to mention women here, even the mosquitoes are male. Moreover, it is a hellish place where you have to carry a small stick to urinate in winter. If you had known, you would have beaten me to death.
Instead of coming here, it would be great to join the Mountain Division with those fellow villagers. I heard that the Mountain Division is an elite force."
After hearing Liu Guodong's words, Shi Jianfei couldn't help laughing. There were only a dozen people at the post where Shi Jianfei and Liu Guodong were, far away from the city. It was indeed rare to see people with different surnames on weekdays. It was no wonder that Liu Guodong said what he just said.
Shi Jianfei patted Liu Guodong's shoulder and comforted him: "Guodong, the officer who went to your hometown to recruit soldiers didn't lie to you. This old woman is indeed very beautiful, but you and I stay in this ghost place all day long.
It’s true that you have no chance to see it, unless you go to Ulan-Ude or a big city like Chita. But don’t worry, I will take you to Ulan-Ude for a walk next time you have a holiday.
You are blinded."
Liu Guodong's eyes lit up when he heard this and he quickly asked: "Is it true? Brother Shi, please don't lie to me."
Shi Jianfei suppressed his smile and nodded seriously: "Of course it's true. When have I ever lied to you?"
Liu Guodong then said with satisfaction: "My requirements are not high. I only ask that I can bring a foreign wife home after two years of military service. Then I will be satisfied. Just like our President Su, his foreign wife is really
She's beautiful, I've seen her picture in the newspaper, she looks like a fairy in a painting." She said with a look of longing in her eyes.
Shi Jianfei was really speechless for this young man from Guangxi who came here to serve as a soldier in order to marry a foreign wife, but he still comforted him: "You still have a chance as long as you work hard."
While the two were patrolling along the solid lake ice, Shi Jianfei saw a group of people walking across from him from a distance. He didn't need to look much to know that it was Lao Maozi's patrol. This was his second time enlisting in the army.
He had been dealing with the Soviets for three or four years, and he could smell Lao Maozi's scent from miles away.
"Crack", before Shi Jianfei could remind Liu Guodong beside him, the young soldier had already grabbed the Garand rifle behind his back and loaded the bullet at the same time.
Shi Jianfei nodded with satisfaction. Although this little brother was a bit unreliable on weekdays, his reaction speed and vigilance were really good. Although both China and the Soviet Union had already reached a ceasefire, they still had to be on guard against others. He only had two people.
, you will suffer losses if you take action, so you still need to be vigilant.
The two sides gradually walked in. Shi Jianfei saw that the patrol team of more than a dozen people on the other side all had their guns slung on their backs. It was a sign of no malice. Shi Jianfei then quietly closed the safety of Suomi in his hand and motioned to his side.
Liu Guodong put away his gun to avoid misunderstanding by the Soviet troops in front.
After the two sides got closer, they could clearly see the faces of the Soviet patrol on the opposite side. These Slavs wearing old military coats and five-star hats also looked at the two men in front of them with somewhat curious eyes.
There were only two Chinese people who dared to patrol. However, when their eyes glanced at the thick and brand-new military coats on Shi Jianfei and Liu Guodong and the brand-new weapons in their hands, their eyes showed envy.
In their opinion, the equipment and treatment of the Chinese army on the opposite side are good. Not only are the weapons and equipment more advanced than theirs, but even the food and clothing cost them several streets. Look at the red faces, and then think about what they have done yesterday.
After eating potatoes for three consecutive days, this person is really incomparable.
The two teams, which had nothing to do with each other, came into contact and separated instantly. The two patrol teams passed by each other, each going back to his house to find his mother. However, a sudden burst of gunfire shook the nerves of both parties.
Tighten it up.
"Da da da" Shi Jianfei, who had fought with the Soviet Russians for two years, could even use his knees to hear the sound of the Soviet Mosin-Nagant rifle.
"Click!" The two of them had no time to think about it, so they loaded their guns naturally. Shi Jianfei and Liu Guodong pointed their guns at the Soviet patrol that had just passed behind them. But what they saw was a Soviet patrol.
Although the team also pointed their guns at them, their eyes were equally confused.
"Damn it, what's going on with this gunshot? Are these old guys trying to do something dirty?" Liu Guodong continued to point the gun in his hand at the Soviet troops and kept asking Shi Jianfei.
"I don't know either. Judging from the expressions on those old men's faces, they don't seem to know." Shi Jianfei also looked confused. The expressions on those Soviet soldiers didn't look like they were pretending. Could it be that something unexpected happened to them?
"#" The commander of the Soviet team across from Shi Jianfei yelled in Russian for a while and ordered his soldiers to put away their weapons, expressing that he did not want to stir up trouble.
After hearing this, Shi Jianfei thought for a while and then signaled Liu Guodong to put away his gun. Both sides looked in the direction where the gunfire sounded, and saw dozens of black figures running towards here quickly from a few hundred meters ahead.
Behind them, there were more than a dozen Russians in military uniforms chasing after them desperately, and from afar, there were shouts and curses from time to time.
"What's going on?" Liu Guodong was surprised to find that those people seemed to be from the Soviet Union.
In early 1939, in order to rapidly strengthen the country's industrialization process, the Soviet Russian government ordered to increase the intensity and quantity of grain requisitions and transport all grains to Europe in exchange for industrial machine tools, machinery and raw materials. The newly introduced agriculture
The collectivization policy forced farmers to give up their land, livestock and farm tools, and everything was collectively owned. Soon famine and repression continued to occur in the countryside of Soviet Russia.
Famine soon appeared in Siberia, a vast and sparsely populated area. Rats and other very special rotting things were brought back to their homes. Instead of burying the dead animals, they did not take them away and bury them.
These freshly dead animals, together with even rotting horses, dogs, cats and other animal carcasses that have lost their nutritional value, are used to refine oil or eat them.
Farmers who ran out of food ate up all the tuna and sour buns from near to far. The entire Siberian region also enacted a regulation that halved the food allocated to farmers who did not complete their food production and sowing plans. In the countryside, countless
Farmers died of starvation. Many adults and children were swollen and eating things that people would not eat, from animal carcasses to tree fruits, oak roots and rhizomes of various plants. The adult farmers dried up
I got less than 500 grams of black bread in one day's work and gave most of it to my children. I only ate a small amount of sourdough bread. As a result, my body became weaker and weaker, and I worked less and less.
Naturally, there is less and less food.
The grain requisition teams were not polite to their compatriots at all. In order to complete the tasks assigned to them by their superiors, they desperately exploited the farmers' rations.
The order from the top of the Soviet Union is very clear. The only thing we can exchange for machine tools, machinery and weapons is food. As long as you can collect food, you can do whatever you want.
In order to collect grain, the grain collection team ransacked countless farmers' homes and demolished their houses. This is none of our business, so let's go away."
Liu Guodong did not say anything. He looked at the Russian girl with beautiful brown hair and a look of despair in her eyes. He shook his head and said to Shi Jianfei: "Brother Shi, I'm sorry. I still have to deal with this matter today."
If you want to punish me, just wait until I handle this matter and then report it to the company commander."
"Alas!" Shi Jianfei sighed. After thinking about it, he put away his gun and walked up to the border guard officer. He took off his gloves and took out two packs of cigarettes and a bottle of liquor and handed them to him.
The officer mumbled a few words to the officer in somewhat stiff Russian. The officer looked at the cigarette and wine in his hand with a greedy look in his eyes, but he still shook his head hesitantly.
Seeing this, Shi Jianfei turned to Liu Guodong and said, "Guodong, take out your guy too."
When Liu Guodong saw this, he immediately understood. He put the gun on the ground and took off the backpack on his back. He took out two bottles of liquor and a carton of cigarettes and handed them to the Soviet officer. These guys
Seeing this, the Soviet officers and more than a dozen soldiers couldn't bear it any longer. They came over and took the cigarettes and spirits. They patted Liu Guodong's shoulders with smiles and gave a thumbs up and said: "Stewuyi picks up the Chinese in Russian."
Very good intention”
Shi Jianfei next to him saw this and poked Liu Guodong with his hand. He nuzzled at the dozen or so food collection team members on the other side. Liu Guodong thought for a while and walked towards the leader of the food collection team who looked like the leader.
He took out a golden Zhibao lighter and handed it over, and opened the lid with his fingers. A crisp metallic sound came over. Liu Guodong flicked his hand, and the blue flames immediately burned, despite the strong wind.
Despite the blowing, the flame was still stubborn and did not go out.
The bearded leader of the grain collection team happily took over the lighter. He tried to open it several times, listened to the crisp sound, and then felt the yellow-orange lighter and the heavy sound in his hand.
The weight and the envious looks from the surrounding team members made him feel happy. This is a good thing. In their place, it is a good thing that even the captain does not have. He also knows the purpose of those Chinese people, isn't it just to
Did he let the siblings go? Anyway, there were so many people dying in the village every day, so it was nothing to let one or two people go. He waved his hand and asked his men to let the siblings go. He waved to Li Guodong,
He indicated that he could take the siblings away. But Liu Guodong shook his head, pointed at the dozens of escaped Soviet peasants, and indicated that he would take them with him.
This time the bearded man didn't agree. He shook his head violently and waved his hands repeatedly. His meaning was very firm. You can take these two people away, but you can't take some others with you.
Liu Guodong cursed in a low voice, "Damn, these greedy old men."
Despite the scolding, Liu Guodong gritted his teeth and took out a stack of colorful gold yuan coupons from his arms and handed them to the greedy bearded man. He didn't believe that the bearded man wouldn't agree now that he had money.
Well, as the saying goes, money can make a fool of himself. Nowadays, China’s gold yuan coupons are also very popular in Siberia. In Siberia, due to the large-scale issuance of rubles, the value of the ruble has depreciated rapidly, and many people have switched to the Huaxia currency.
The golden yuan coupons issued by China not only have anti-counterfeiting watermarks, but also have anti-counterfeiting laser codes that are almost impossible to copy in this era. They are very popular in Siberia. After taking the money handed over by Liu Guodong, the bearded man thought in his mind
There were at least more than two hundred yuan at once. If everyone divided the circle, they could get at least about one hundred yuan.
This saying is universal everywhere in the world. If you take someone else's thing, you have to meet their conditions. Lao Maozi is no exception.
After Big Beard's order, the food collection team let all these dozens of people go.
After being freed, Stiana quickly ran towards Liu Guodong and the others with her brother in her arms. At this moment, she knew that she and her brother were finally saved. When Stiana hugged her brother and walked to Liu Guodong, her feet softened.
Just as he was about to lean forward, he suddenly felt himself being supported by a pair of warm hands.
Liu Guodong supported the girl in front of him and felt a lightness. He shook his head secretly. How thin a person must be to be so light. Just when Liu Guodong was about to say something, he suddenly felt a touch on his forehead.
The warm and moist lip marks were covered.
Liu Guodong, who had never been exposed to this battle before, was stunned as if he had been struck by lightning, and his face suddenly stiffened.
After a while, Liu Guodong saw the Russian girl whom he had rescued speaking softly to him in Russian. Although he could not understand it, Liu Guodong felt that it was the most touching voice he had ever heard in his life.
At this time, Shi Jianfei laughed loudly and said, "Guodong, haven't you always thought about marrying a foreign wife? I guess this girl has taken a liking to you, and you are very lucky now."
Liu Guodong blushed and glared at Shi Jianfei, but murmured something that he didn't know what to say.