Chapter 15 Nicholas Was Caught in Front
On the outskirts of Petrograd, at a dilapidated, seemingly abandoned train station, two Chinese in yellow-green Red Army uniforms carried Nicholas II out of the carriage and onto the platform. The Tsar was wearing similar clothes to them, old military uniforms that were washed white, but without the red star cap badge. He looked very haggard, his whole body was trembling slightly, and he was obviously very scared.
After leaving Tobolsk, he and his family fell into the hands of a group of fully armed Chinese! These Chinese did not speak Russian and probably did not know that he was the Tsar of Russia, nor did they know that the four young and beautiful girls were noble grand duchesses - because they harassed the four grand duchesses along the way, touched them, and robbed them of their jeweled bras.
The Tsar, the Queen, the four very young grand duchesses, and the young crown prince were all very scared and thought that they would be killed by these Chinese in the end - they thought that the Russians could not do such a thing to them because the Russians loved them. But the Chinese would definitely do it! Because Russia had invaded China many times in history...so the Bolsheviks let the Chinese hired by them act as executioners and take them to some unknown place to be brutally killed.
The Tsar's family and a few loyal servants were in a carriage with curtains drawn, guarded by a group of Chinese Red Army soldiers who didn't know much Russian, and walked along the railway that led to an unknown place, stopping and starting. Now they finally arrived at this secluded, desolate, and uninhabited station (in fact, there were several well-dressed people, but the terrified Tsar didn't see them). It seems that this is their death place!
"I can walk by myself, let me go, I can walk by myself, I am the Russian Tsar, I am not afraid of death!"
The Tsar shouted, trying to make himself look braver when he was dying. However, his shouting scared the four grand duchesses, who were always shrouded in the shadow of death along the way. But they still had a fluke. Although these Chinese were a bit rude and robbed their jewelry, they didn't do anything to them after all (didn't force them down). They were so beautiful. If they were really going to be shot, why didn't the Chinese enjoy them before that? This shows that the Chinese didn't get the order to kill them...
But now, hearing the Tsar's desperate cry, the girls burst into tears, holding on to the back of the chair or something else, refusing to get off the train. Lenin's Chinese soldiers didn't care about that. They caught two by one and dragged the four pampered grand duchesses down like chickens. The oldest of them, Grand Duchess Olga, was slapped in the face, and a bright red handprint was clearly on her delicate and white face.
Queen Alexandra Feodorovna tried to stay calm, hugged her youngest son, and walked down the carriage step by step without being escorted. She looked around and suddenly her face changed. She looked at the right side of the platform near the waiting hall and shouted: "Oh my God! Are these German soldiers?"
German soldiers? The Tsar heard his wife's cry and looked around. He saw several men in German officer uniforms and a woman in a gray dress and a top hat walking towards him quickly.
"Where is this? How could there be Germans? Has Russia surrendered to Germany?"
The Tsar shouted and asked, but no one answered. He only saw a Chinese Red Army soldier, who was probably an officer, walking quickly towards the German soldiers and saluted one of them. Then he said in Russian with a Shandong accent that the Tsar could not understand: "Mr. He, you are wearing this dress, I almost didn't recognize you."
It turned out that those German officers were Major Hersman, Major Kesselring, Lieutenant Stockhausen and others, and the woman was of course Chloe.
"Vasily, why is it you?" Hersman shook hands with the Chinese Red Army soldier who saluted him. The man was Vasily Huang, the little leader of Lenin's guard.
"Lenin personally assigned the task to me. He was not confident in others, but in our Chinese comrades. He also specifically asked me to select comrades who did not know much about Russian."
"That's really hard work for you."
Hersman thought: It seems that Lenin was still not confident in the new Red Army, and would rather use Chinese who had no feelings for the Tsar to escort them.
At this time, the Tsar's family was dragged off the train and escorted to Hersman and others. Hersman looked at them. Nicholas II was very thin, much thinner than the one in the photo Hersman saw. His face was also very pale, and he was looking at him with a horrified and complicated look.
A woman in her forties, very haggard, holding a sick little boy in her arms should be the Russian Queen and Crown Prince Aleksey. There were also four girls who were crying like tearful people and shivering with cold, who were also pressed over. They were all wearing a damaged and very dirty white dress, and it seemed that they were not wearing anything inside. The bodies full of youthful vitality were looming...
"Are they the Tsar's family?" Hersman asked knowingly.
"Yes." Vasily Huang replied. "My job is to bring them here and hand them over to you."
"Those girls..."
"Four grand duchesses."
"Do they look like they've been violated?" Hessman asked uncertainly.
"No, absolutely not!" Vasily Huang shook his head like a wave drum. This kind of thing that ruined the innocence of a girl should not be said casually. "There was a grand duchess on the road. The eldest one was called Olga. She was the one who was slapped. She wanted to bribe one of our people with the jewels hidden in her underwear. I found it, so I searched them myself..." At this point, this Shandong man who didn't know how to join the Russian Red Army actually blushed slightly, "I searched their bodies and found jewels in the seams of their underwear."
Then he confiscated the underwear of the four grand duchesses? He is really a serious and responsible revolutionary fighter! I don't know where he ran to in the original history?
"Grand Duchess Olga Nikolayevna?" Hessman walked up to the twenty-year-old girl who was covering her face and sobbing. The four daughters of the Tsar were all very beautiful, and the eldest one seemed to be the most beautiful among them.
"It's me. Who are you? Why are you wearing a German military uniform?" The woman's plump chest kept rising and falling, and she looked very scared. "Are you here to kill us?"
"I am Ludwig von Hersmann, a major in the German Imperial Army," Hersmann smiled, "You are my prisoner now, and I hope you can obey me."
"Prisoner?" The Archduchess bit her lips lightly, staring at Hersmann with a pair of blue eyes, "Well, you are a noble (there is a 'von' in Hersmann's name), I am willing to be your prisoner, and you can ask me to do anything."
What a well-behaved and obedient Archduchess! Hersmann looked at the other three Archduchesses and smiled, "You too, you are all captured by the German Imperial Army now!"
"Oh my God, what is going on? Major, answer me!" Nicholas II had regained his freedom at this time - the Chinese soldier holding him had returned to the train - and he knew that he would not die for a while, so he became proud again.
"Your Majesty, you and your family are now captured by the German Army, and we are taking you to Berlin." Hersmann was talking nonsense seriously, no, it should be "history". Comrade Lenin would never hand over the Tsar, the criminal of the Russian working people, to the Germans. So His Majesty the Tsar took advantage of the chaos to escape and was captured by the Germans on his way to the west. That's what the history books said later. In addition, the history books also said: After the Tsar and his children arrived in Germany, they immediately betrayed their motherland and people, becoming the running dogs of German militarism and the most evil Russian traitors...
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