Beiyang 1917

Grigory Mikhailovich Semyonov (Гehoв) was born on September 1890, 9. This fellow was originally from Transbaikal Province. In Wang Geng’s previous life, Semyonov was a Belarusian leader of the Baikal region during the years.

This guy was evaluated as a typical rogue Cossack leader in his previous life, but he was a non-commissioned officer who graduated from the Orenburg Military Academy in 1911 and participated in the battle on the Eastern Front of the European War. In July 1917, Semyonov served as a temporary governor in Lake Baikal Representatives of districts, responsible for recruiting Cossacks.

For Semyonov, who was only 27 years old at the time, this was a remarkable achievement. In Wang Geng’s previous life, official documents generally described the White Guards as an army organized by royalists and generals loyal to the Tsar. , In fact, it is not the case. The composition of the White Guard is quite complicated, and it is a complex of various anti-Bolshevik forces.

For example, Semyonov, this guy is a speculator loyal to the temporary government. Of course, bad luck, this bet was placed on the White Guards instead of the Red Army. During the October Revolution, the temporary government was killed by the little mentor and his The party was overthrown, and Semyonov, the representative of the temporary government in the Baikal region, led the Cossacks to raise the banner of rebellion.

Semyonov launched a rebellion against the Bolsheviks. As a result, a group of mobs assembled temporarily were not the opponents of the Bolsheviks. After the defeat, they fled to China. In January 1918, with the acquiescence of the Chinese government, Semyonov was in Hailaer, Angangxi and other places along the Middle East Railway recruited four battalions of the Volunteer Army. The members mainly came from the officers and soldiers of the Tsarist Russian Middle East Railway Guard Team who had been disarmed before, and Tsarist Russian immigrants living in the local area.

According to Wang Geng's instructions, Heilongjiang Warlord Wang Tingzhen returned the Russian rifle and some ammunition that could arm 4 battalions, and let him go out of Manchuria and return to the Baikal area for activities. In fact, he became a straggler and bandit in the Transbaikal area .Rob-robbing trains, robbing business hotels, doing everything, just not doing business.

He would definitely not dare to go to Chita at this moment. Unlike the Tsarist Russian garrison in the easternmost regions of the Far East, such as Vladivostok and Khabarovsk, who are vacillating between supporting the temporary government or the new Soviet Russian regime, Chita is completely Bolshevik at the moment. He has mastered the leadership of the garrison. Although the name has not been officially changed to the Red Army, the regular garrison of 8000 people in Chita and a strengthened brigade is not Semyonov's gang who claim to have 4 battalions. In fact, there are only 1000 bandit Cossacks. dealt with.

As for why this guy didn't leave the country from Suifenhe to Vladivostok or Khabarovsk to fight the world, the reason is very simple. The name this guy got from the temporary government is just the representative of the temporary government in the Baikal Lake area. Compared with Lieutenant General Andropov, the commander of the Far Eastern Military Region, Sik, and his tens of thousands of troops, this rabble of thousands of people can't take the lead at all, and the same is true for Vladivostok, so this guy's eyes can only go first. in the Baikal region.

Ulan-Ude, a hub station on the Trans-Siberian Railway, originally stationed a Russian Cossack regiment led by Colonel Petrovich of the Russian Army. Although the team of more than 3000 people is not strong, it is not something that Semyonov dared to provoke easily. Before Si Lin left, he patted the chest with Li Mingzhong, then the guardian of Qiqihar, and said that as long as he had the support of Chinese weapons, ammunition and food, he would soon be able to pull a team from the Baikal region!

When Sun Liangcheng's brigade of the 3000rd Division of the Chinese Participating Army rushed to take Ulan-Ude with lightning speed, Semyonov's team that slipped back to his hometown really expanded from the original four battalions of the Volunteer Army to 2 There are many people, but the weapons are uneven. There are only 1891 Maxim wheeled machine guns in Mara, and there are not many bullets. As far as the 2 guns in Japan are concerned, the mess is almost to the point where two people share a gun.

In fact, the Cossacks would not be so embarrassed. From ancient times to the present, Cossacks are professional soldiers who have prepared their own horses and weapons and accepted the conscripts of Zheng Fu to participate in battles. It was a general mobilization. This battle was fought from August 1918 to March 1914. Two and a half years of bloody battles caused the Russian Don River and Siberia Cossacks to recruit high-quality soldiers, including their own weapons and equipment.

Then after the February Revolution last year, the temporary government conducted a second large-scale recruitment in order to continue the war on the Eastern Front. Semyonov, a 27-year-old young officer, got mixed up with a representative of Lake Baikal at this time As the identity, he went back to his hometown to mention the temporary zhengfu who recruited Cossacks.

As a result, the quality of personnel in this second batch of teams was much worse than when the Tsar recruited them two years ago. Most of the brave and fearless Cossacks fell on the Eastern Front and the bloody battlefield between Germany and Austria. Those who survived were either The so-called revolutionary soldiers who defected to the Bolsheviks were either stragglers who were displaced after the demobilization of the Tsarist Russian army.

This is the second batch of Cossacks whose quality of soldiers was much worse. After Semyonov rebelled and was defeated by the former Russian army loyal to Soviet Russia, they experienced a second disintegration. At this moment, Semyonov's first It is not easy to go back to the hometown three times to recruit soldiers, let alone weapons and equipment. It is not easy to get a man with a horse.

The temperature at the end of February was still below zero. Semyonov and his growing gang ate up all the food they got after the last robbery. They were so hungry that they decided to go to the village 2 kilometers west of Ulan-Ude. On the city of Selenginsk, this place is close to Lake Baikal, and it happens to be located before the sky has come, but even if there is more food left over from last year, it should be more than other places.

When Semyonov's 3000-strong Cossack bandits broke into the city of Selenginsk to loot, they sadly encountered Colonel Petrovich's Cossack cavalry regiment who had withdrawn from Ulan-Ude. When Drovich's Cossack Cavalry Regiment withdrew from Ulan-Ude in a hurry, they didn't have time to take away the ammunition, supplies and supplies.

A cavalry regiment of more than 3000 people escaped from Ulan-Ude before evening, but they did not dare to stop. They walked and stopped along the Trans-Siberian Railway. The trains from east to west could not be seen, and the trains from west to east were intercepted because the Semyonov gang broke into the city of Selenginsk, so the regiment of Colonel Petrovich rode away In the middle of the night, when Leng walked the [-]-kilometer road, he saw the burning flames of the city of Selenginsk and heard the gunshots.

Colonel Petrovic, who was covered in sweat, cold, tears and snot, couldn't believe his eyes.

"Chief of Staff... The Chinese outflanked our rear? Can't even Selenginsk be occupied by them? Can they really fly?" Petrovich asked with a red nose, wrapped in a thick blanket The chief of staff in the overcoat.

"No? It's across the mountain. Maybe someone in the city caught fire?" The chief of staff couldn't believe his eyes, and the whole regiment walked in the middle of the night, tired, cold and hungry, so he tried to make it to Se Let's take a break in Lenginsk and get something to eat!Now, if the squadron takes advantage of the rear again, the morale of the army will be broken, so how can we fight the battle?

The surrounding Cossack soldiers were also in shock. Fortunately, the Cossacks who were leading the way led a few fellow villagers who had escaped from the city to their regiment commander and chief of staff. The bandit gang is looting the city, grabbing food and harming the common people!

Hearing that the Semyonov gang was in the city, Petrovich jumped up with confidence! "Semyonov?! Didn't that Cossack scum last time he was defeated and went to Manchuria, China? Why did he sneak back so soon!"

"The whole regiment obeys my orders! The target is the Semyonov gangsters in the city of Selenginsk, the whole army attacks! Anyone who dares to resist will be killed!"

Petrovich's regiment participated in the Soviet Russian government's counter-insurgency battle against the Semyonov gang last time, and they didn't pay any attention to the defeated subordinates who came to their door!