Chapter 1763: Fifteen. Avrora (8)

From the moment I stepped onto the platform of the Lapland Bay railway station, the cold, compressed air of St. Petersburg tormented everyone all the time.
The loudspeaker installed on the street repeatedly plays "Candy Fairy Dance". The childlike ethereal music and colorful snow are in harmony. Walking on the unique ancient streets, there is a strange feeling of walking in the fairy tale world. If it wasn’t for the loudspeaker had been smashed long ago, the sound was completely out of shape, and the streets were full of unemployed soldiers with unshaven, ragged, and high-profile identity information. Winter scenery.
"This is... St. Petersburg?"
Marseille's tone was a little uncertain, and the girls on the side were also a little shaken. The two Okrana agents who were behind them behind the guide and surveillance tasks seemed to see more of these reactions. They glanced at each other, shrugged, and continued Behind the goal.
The largest city in the north, the capital of the Principality, the pearl on the Lapland Bay.
The prestigious capital of the United Duchy of Ross presented to the three outsiders was a ruined mess, as if a war had just been fought.
The railway station has always been a commercial center, and the Lapland Bay Station in the Vyborg district is close to factories and workers' residential areas. It is the largest distribution center of the Principality's labor force. You can set up a small stall here, and open a shop is very profitable. At first they thought they would see a depression, but in the end they showed up in front of three foreigners as if they were a slaughterhouse left after a fierce battle.
The shop windows were all shattered, the broken glass was scattered all over, the curtains were torn and thrown on the ground, and they were covered with footprints and rubbish. Looking in from the window frame, it was either scattered furniture or empty There is nothing, and some stores still have traces after the fire. Some of the painted walls in the future are shot by shotguns and rifles like sieves, and large pieces of dried up rusty blood stains are left on the streets and walls. Some skinny, empty-eyed people walked on the broken glass with bare feet, ignoring the black corpses under the roots of the wall and their already black and black legs. A wild dog with red eyes is tearing the corpse, staring at the pedestrians with chilling eyes from time to time.
Anlieta, who had some experience in street fighting, was a little unclear for a while. Whether she was in the empire's security battle or standing on the Principality's land, the two seemed to overlap. It is completely indistinguishable.
"This is the destructive power of street violence? Is it too exaggerated?"
"There are often various parades on the streets of the Republic, and they are also very chaotic in many cases, but this is not the case."
Louise shook her head. She tried to compare the pictures of the Empire and the Republic on the street and the scenery in front of her. She tried to find out the common ground, but failed completely.
At the legal level, the Republic has the right to guarantee people’s rights to express their demands, and it also restricts the specific behaviors of the parade. Therefore, the street parade in the Republic is chaotic, and the basic bottom line is still maintained. The empire destroyed the organizers before any anti-government march took place, so there would be no march at all. If there is, it will be quickly cleared away, and the influence of the parade will never be allowed to spread.
The streets of the Principality seem to be only and chaotic, or else they seem to be people who breathe more than the dead.
How could this be?
The same problem lingered in the hearts of the young girls. Before they began further research, the black carriage with the diplomatic badge and the tricolor flag of the Republic stopped in front of them. After a brief greeting, the three of them went on board. carriage. As soon as the carriage door was closed, Anatoli, the third-class secretary-general in charge, took a breath and pressed his chest and said:
"Praise the goddess, you finally arrived safely!"
"Is the situation in St. Petersburg chaotic?"
Anrietta felt the reason for Mr. Anatoly's nervousness, contacted the information and various realities seen along the way, and combined with the sight seen in front of the Lapland Bay Railway Station. It is entirely conceivable that the capital of the Principality is in a state of extreme turmoil and turmoil these days. In those days when there is no sense of security, one must worry about one's own safety while worrying about whether the fellow citizens on the road will be involved. With this kind of pressure every day, the taste can never be better.
Although it is understandable and willing to understand the poor working environment and the enormous pressure they bear on the staff of the embassy and consulate in St. Petersburg, it is imperative to clarify the situation as soon as possible and prepare for the next step. The words of condolences and care can only be put in the back.
"Now St. Petersburg is a huge lunatic asylum with lunatics, villains, criminals, and thousands of exquisite egoists."
With a bitter smile, Mr. Anatoly seemed to pour out the frustration he had held in his heart these days, and began to tell Marseille and others the latest changes in St. Petersburg in recent days.
The unrest caused by the rumor in front of the bakery became a major casualty at a stretch, and the authorities responded to the error afterwards, so that the public complained. Political parties, associations, and underground organizations within the Principality have discovered that this is a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity. Under the coordination of well-intentioned people, representatives of anti-government parties such as the Social Revolutionary Party, the Constitutional Party, the Socialist Party, the Revolutionary Alliance, and the Federal Revolutionary Party held a joint meeting. There was still a certain degree of disagreement among the parties at the meeting, but after full consultation, a consensus was eventually reached. Each party decided to take actions based on its own conditions, such as demonstrations, marches, strikes, strikes, assassinations, and disruption of military mobilization. It was from this moment on that the chilling wind of the revolution began to sweep the land of the Principality.
It didn't take long for the revolutionaries to meet, and various revolutionary activities sprang up everywhere. The first party to take action was the Socialist Party. They mobilized workers and people from all over the country to stage demonstrations. Then the Socialist Revolutionary Party launched a massive national workers’ general strike in solidarity. For a time, military production and transportation were completely shut down. The troops could only rely on animal power or Moving on foot, many troops originally planned to be transferred to Lapland had to be transferred to stand-by to suppress local strikes and marches; in some remote areas, dozens of assassinations against government officials occur every day. Local preparations The soldiers also refused to advance to the front line; for a time the flames were all over the ground, and toughness like Stolypin was a little overwhelmed, not to mention the military and police constitution that had already been burned.
It was against this background that the "Neva River Rushing Incident" that shocked the world broke out.
The incident took place on Sunday three days ago. In the face of an intensified and almost out-of-control situation, General Sergey Yurievich. Khabarov, commander of the Saint Petersburg Military Region, issued a command on Saturday to the provocateurs holding red flags. "Gun" command. The police station and Okrana immediately cooperated in the operation, launched a citywide search and arrest, and put 100 "dangerous elements" belonging to different organizations into the detention center. Immediately afterwards, fifty-five infantry companies, twenty-three Cossack companies, and a guard cavalry company were drawn out to strengthen security. The Neva Bridge connecting the Vyborg district and the city center is the top priority of the entire security system. Many factories, such as the Lesner factory, Nevka factory, Palvi Aijun factory, and Nobel factory, which are the furthest in the Vyborg district, are all built along the banks of the Neva River. Strike workers only need to cross the bridge along the river bank. Can enter the first district, and then walk for more than ten minutes to reach the city and even the second core district of the country-the Winter Palace, the Admiralty, the General Staff and the Saint Petersburg Military Region Command, the Military Department, the National Bank, Taffley The core key departments such as the Dagong Palace and Smolny Palace are in this block. Once the march and demonstration crowds entered, and something unexpected happened, then from the commander of the military region, the prospects of all relevant personnel would stop there.
For the purpose of the black gauze hat and the head, General Khabarov placed strict guards on both ends of the Neva Bridge: high-rise buildings and clock towers were all equipped with firepower points, and the bridge head was equipped with machine gun positions, forming a staggered dense firepower network. The students loyal to the Tsar at the Mikhainov Artillery School between the Lapland Bay Railway Station and the Neva Bridge were also mobilized. Artillery positions were set up around the school and at the entrance of the street. Once a conflict broke out, they would join the cavalry Block the trail on the Neva River together.
After all this was done, General Khabarov signed another order threatening the workers to resume work with the threat of "immediately send the disobedient to the front."
General Khabarov, who has always viewed social issues from a military perspective, is convinced that under the deterrent force of the army and the death to the front, workers will surely return to the factory obediently. As everyone knows, this threat will only arouse greater indignation among the crowd and trigger more intense actions.
The next day, the snow moon, 22nd, Sunday. The parade composed of workers and their families is still advancing from the Vyborg district to the city center ~EbookFREE.me~ By the Neva Bridge, they encountered police and infantry who were waiting for them. A serious physical conflict broke out between the military and the crowd. At 13 o'clock in the afternoon, the crowd began to the weapons in the hands of the military and police. Some people shouted the slogan "Down with the Tsar! Down with the Queen! Down with Stolypin! Down with the War!" The commander-in-chief Colonel Rashković, the commander of the Volunsky Teaching Corps, ordered the army and police to fire on the crowd. The artillery positions, which had been in a state of readiness, also fired shotguns at the crowd after hearing the gunshots. The crowd in the front row was immediately knocked over to the ground, and the people in the back tried to retreat in panic, but the crowd was unable to move. At this time, the gendarmerie horses ordered to support rushed across the bridge, wielding sabers and slashing among the crowds. Some people who had no choices jumped into the Neva River. The result was either shot by the infantry on the ice or fell into the ice. The ice caves never floated again. For a while, the Neva River was filled with screams and moans, and blood was flowing on the frozen river. According to official ex-post statistics, about two hundred people were killed in the conflict and more than nine hundred were injured.
As one of the most important facilities closest to the Neva Bridge, the shopping street in front of the Lapland Bay Railway Station has also been affected. Robbery, arson, gunfights, massacres... Dirty things that can rival the security war, almost all shopping streets Go through it again.
The gunfire on the Neva River shocked the masses, and the masses and the revolutionaries were a bit ignorant for a moment when the government resolutely took tough measures. The turmoil that has been going on for half a month also seems to be quiet, everything seems to be moving in a good direction.
However, this is only a temporary phenomenon. Everyone knows that under the solid ice, the pressure is accumulating. If the Principality government cannot take effective measures, it will blindly use force to respond to the angry people. Then the volcano will erupt and the angry lava will devour everything.