Beiyang 1917

[Text] Chapter 18 Defending [-] Battle Begins

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In the previous life, although Trotsky did not agree to make peace with Germany under such conditions, in order to avoid a split in Soviet Russia, he finally supported the little man against his will and persuaded other central committee members to make the vote finally pass. Geng, the butterfly flapped its wings.Read novels please keep in mind

In the last vote of the Central Committee of Soviet Russia, when the little man threatened to resign, Bukharin, Stalin, and Trotsky were not intimidated. Instead, they promoted minzhu centralism. As a result of committee member Yang's vote, 15 votes against and 11 votes in favor rejected the motion to accept Germany's harsh conditions.

Immediately afterwards, the Soviet Russian Central Committee passed a resolution to suspend the negotiations with Germany, and adopted Trotsky's no war, no peace plan, and began to restore a large number of Tsarist Russian troops on the front line, but at the same time began to form the Soviet Union under the leadership of the Bolsheviks. Sleeve Army, in view of the fact that Petrograd is under the threat of the German army, Soviet Russia also made the decision to move the capital to Moscow!

In the words of Trotsky at the meeting, when Napoleon conquered Europe but failed to conquer Russia, when Moscow was occupied by the French and did not lose the war, there is nothing to be afraid of now, even if the old army of Tsarist Russia is not demobilized, the majority They will also stand on the opposite side of the Soviet Russian regime to support the rebellion and the White Guards. They simply demobilize the old army while forming a new sleeve army, and at the same time retreat strategically to the north and east.

The Georgian also yelled, holding a big pipe, "The Allied Powers will not sit back and watch Germany continue to expand its victories on the Eastern Front to gain benefits. The stronger Germany is, the more panicked the Anglo-American and French imperialism will be on the Western Front. Before gaining benefits from the occupation of Russia, launch an attack on the Western Front to bring back the brute Germany! We must not be intimidated by the superficial offensive of the German army on the Eastern Front. Whoever signs a treaty like Brest will stay The stain that cannot be washed away in the next life! It is the eternal sinner of Russia!"

Soviet Russia and Germany failed to reach a peace agreement, and the world suddenly fell into chaos. In view of the fact that Soviet Russia actually gave up the Eastern Front and made a strategic retreat north to east, Germany, Austria and the Allied Powers were dumbfounded. Intelligence work in this era is kept secret. Quite poorly, all countries have countless eyes and ears in the governments and foreign ministries of both warring parties.

For the Allied Powers, it is of course a good thing for the Soviet Russian government to suspend peace negotiations with Germany, but it is very inappropriate to abandon the front and flee without fighting and directly make a strategic retreat. Occupying the oil fields in the Caucasus and the grain in Ukraine in part of Russia and Europe with little effort, is this any different from making peace?This is worse than making peace!

So at the end of February, a spectacle appeared on the European battlefield. Not only did the German army advance to the hinterland of Russia on the Eastern Front to seize territory, but the Allied Powers also landed in Russia to occupy military key points to avoid falling into the hands of the Germans.

In China, at the end of February 1918, the tenth batch of U.S. reinforcements arrived, recruits from six supplementary brigades were sent to Suiyuan, Chahar, Rehe and Jilin, and veterans from the eight elite mixed brigades drawn from the above four provinces In order to strengthen the four brigades in Outer Mongolia and Heilongjiang respectively.

Before China launched the military operation to defend the 1918th and regain the country at the end of February 2, the deployment of troops on the east and west fronts was as follows:

Eastern Front:

Zhang Zuoxiang's No.17 Division, Wang Zhengting's Seventh Division, two divisions and six mixed brigades went straight from Suifenhe along the Middle East Road to Shuangchengzi in the Far East. After that, the Seventh Division went north along the Siberia Railway with the goal of conquering Khabarovsk, and the No.17 Division went south. The goal was to conquer Vladivostok; the three mixed brigades of Li Mingzhong's Ninth Division attacked Manzhouli at the west end of the Middle East Road, aiming at Chita, the railway and highway hub of the Trans-Siberian Railway.

On the eastern front, four mixed brigades were deployed from Jilin and Rehe to Heilongjiang, one mixed brigade was stationed in Suifenhe and Manzhouli, and one brigade was stationed in Qiqihar, the provincial capital, and Harbin, the hub, as the third-line troops.

The recruit supplementary brigade going north from Nanyuan will replenish two brigades each to Rehe and Jilin.

Western Front:

The three brigades of Wu Peifu's [-]rd Division attacked from Kyakhta, with the goal of cutting off the Trans-Siberian Railway and occupying the south of Lake Baikal. The four mixed brigades that went north for reinforcements were responsible for garrisoning Tannu Wulianghai and Kulun as the third-line troops.

In the battle plan Wang Geng explained to the Prime Minister and the Undersecretary of the Army, the key to the battlefield on the Eastern Front is to suppress the Japanese troops who landed in Vladivostok in coordinated operations, and he agreed to give them an excuse, so they can't take advantage of it. Capture it, and the battlefield pressure on the western front will be relatively high, because it may be facing pressure from both the Soviet Russian sleeve army and the Siberian White Guard.

Although Semyonov has reached a tacit understanding with China, Kolchak and Japan before, but once the battle starts, you should not take it lightly and rely on these guys!For the Chinese army participating in the war, the captured and captured prisoners must be snatched, but the local people must not be disturbed, and they must always be on guard against Japan as a friendly army and the White Guards as a tacit agreement.

In order to prepare for this war, the participating troops seized the time to repair the front-line airports as early as last year when they regained the Middle East Road and Outer Mongolia. Qiaktu, Manzhouli and Suifenhe all rushed to repair the front-line field airports. Since the maximum range of the SE5 fighter jet is only 483 kilometers , on the front line is equivalent to a combat radius of only 220 kilometers, so the front-line field airport is an indispensable preparation for the smooth combat of the air force of the participating army.

The dh4 reconnaissance bomber has a maximum range of 770 kilometers and a combat radius of 370 kilometers, and can be stationed at second-tier airports. As for the Handley Page 0400 heavy bomber, its maximum range is 1120 kilometers, and its combat radius is 550 kilometers, and it can be stationed at third-tier airports.

The big killer in Wang Geng's hand is two Handley Page V1500 prototypes imported from the UK. The first domestically produced V1 imitated by Wang Geng's China Aircraft Manufacturing Company in January passed a successful test flight, and all indicators met Prototype requirements, in February, completed the production of three more V1500s, and now Wang Geng is holding six Handley Page V1500s.

The V1500 has a maximum range of 2090 kilometers, a combat radius of 1000 kilometers, and a bomb load of 6.5 tons.

After last year's military operations to regain Outer Mongolia and the Middle East Road, the frontline of the participating troops has become accustomed to their commander-in-chief setting up their headquarters in Nanyuan, Beijing, rather than places like Kulun or Harbin on the frontline. For Wang Geng, the action plan is his own. The staff headquarters of the headquarters designate, and the rest is handed over to the frontline commanders. The conditions are created for them, and it may not be useful even if they can't win the battle.

The commanding abilities of Wu Peifu and Wang Chengbin on the western front are absolutely top-notch, while on the eastern front, Zhang Zuoxiang and Wang Tingzhen are veterans, and they acted together with Japan. Ninth Division Li Mingzhong.

Although this guy was considered the head of Feng Yuxiang's Five King Kongs in his previous life, he is now fighting in an unfamiliar area. Although Lao Maozi's interpreter and guide were assigned to the battalion level among the five divisions fighting on the east and west fronts, the battle was really fought. But it depends on the frontline generals' own adaptability!

Of the 9 SE5 fighter squadrons of the air force participating in the war, two were deployed in Kyakhta, Outer Mongolia, and one was deployed in Kulun, while the DH2 reconnaissance bomber squadron was deployed with one in Kyakhta and two in Kulun. .

此外在满洲里和绥芬河前线的se5战斗机和dh4侦察轰炸机则各配置了2个，汉德利佩季0400重型轰炸机中队则在库伦配置了3个，在绥芬河后边的牡丹江野战机场配置了3个，在齐齐哈尔则配置了3个。

As for the six Jumbo V6s, they were placed by Wang Geng as a strategic maneuver force in Nanyuan, Beijing as a reserve team. The special operations battalion of Wang Geng's first division began parachute training last year and became a model army for participating in the war. The first special forces unit, when necessary, can be airborne to the required area at any time to perform tasks alone.

The Handley Page V1500 has a load of 6.5 tons, which makes it easy for a V1500 to carry 60 fully armed paratroopers. During World War I, except for Germany, the pilots of the Allied Powers were not equipped with parachutes. The reason was that they were afraid of encouraging cowardice and avoiding war. In his heart, Wang Geng ignored that. Pilots are invaluable treasures. All pilots of the air force of the participating army were equipped with parachutes and received training in skydiving.

Soviet Russia basically had no air force in the Far East, and Japan only had a few purchased French planes at the moment. The 3 with a load of 0400 tons per hour and the v6.5 with a load of 1500 tons can both serve as transport aircraft!

Wang Geng did not forget the 1600 tons of gold in the Tsarist Russia’s treasury. By March, the output of V1500 will reach 6, and in April, it will rise to 15. By then, the Eagle VIII aircraft engine may be successfully imitated. up.Even if we only use the 27 Handley Page V1500s on hand to rush to transport Tsarist Russian gold, we can transport 175 tons at one time, and 10 sorties can finish the transport!

While Wang Geng was thinking so beautifully in the war room of the Nanyuan Command, he issued a battle order.

With one order, at 1918:2 am on February 28, 8, the Chinese participating army launched a campaign to regain the country from the three directions of Kyakhta, Manzhouli and Suifenhe!