Beiyang 1917

Alexander Vasilyevich Kolchak (Алeвnч.koлчak) was born in 1874, an admiral of the Tsarist Russian Navy.He fought against Japan in the Russo-Japanese War in 1905.During the European War, he repeatedly made military exploits in the Baltic Fleet, and the German Navy was beaten badly by him.

Among the many incompetent Tsarist Russian generals under the tsar's command after the start of the European War, the admiral Kolchak was an alternative element. He was later promoted to rear admiral.

Kolchak is good at laying mines. His ships often detour and go deep into the enemy's waters to lay mines far behind. He has successively sunk dozens of German ships. In 1916, Kolchak was promoted to vice admiral and served as commander of the Black Sea Fleet.He also made outstanding military exploits in the Black Sea. He sank many German warships in Constantinople and firmly held the command of the Black Sea in the hands of the Russian army.

The revolution broke out in February last year, after which the tsar was overthrown. Kolchak was the first admiral who chose to support the interim government. Later, because the Bolsheviks grew stronger in the sailors and fleet, the commander of the Black Sea Fleet was dismissed and replaced Arranging a military inspection in the United States is actually a decent exile and exile.

After the October Revolution, the former arctic explorer and former admiral couldn't bear it any longer. He thought he was the heir to the temporary government, so he returned to China via Japan and returned to Ufa in the Urals. In 1918, the Constituent Assembly was overthrown and the January bloodshed, the Socialist Revolutionaries, Mensheviks and Bolsheviks broke up, plus some people from the original temporary government, in mid-January 1918, the Siberian autonomous temporary government was established in Ufa, Ural.

Kolchak became the interim government military leader of Siberia and served as the Minister of Military Affairs. In this capacity, Kolchak issued a call to the former Tsarist Russian army and generals throughout Siberia, including the Far East, asking them to defend the integrity of the Russians. Honor, unite under the banner of the Siberian Autonomous Provisional Government, overthrow the tyranny of the new Soviet Russian regime, and restore Russia's social order!

Colonel Petrovic, the commander of the Cossack cavalry stationed in Ulan-Ude, and his chief of staff, Colonel Sergey, planned to go to the temporary government and Kolchak in Ufa.

Let’s talk about the appearance of Wang Geng, the butterfly, the formation of the Chinese model army for participating in the war, and the subsequent recovery of Outer Mongolia and the Middle East by China, especially the failure of the final peace agreement between Soviet Russia and Germany. The whole world has changed and completely deviated from the original track.

In Wang Geng's previous life, the Allied Powers intervened in Russia's domestic situation, and it was a Czech army in Soviet Russia that played a key role. Now, the role and importance played by the Czech Legion are quite different from those in the previous life.

The 5-strong Czech Legion in Russia is composed of Czechs who were captured by the Russian army on the Eastern Front of the European War. There was no Czech country in 1918. Both the Czech Republic and Hungary belonged to the huge The Austro-Hungarian Empire, and this Austro-Hungarian Empire, was formed by Austria-Hungary, which was excluded after Prussia established the German Empire. The Czech Republic was part of the Austro-Hungarian Empire at this time.

The Czech nation can be regarded as a very individual nation in Europe. In Wang Geng’s previous life, the zb26 light machine gun that was the most popular in all Chinese war movies and TV dramas was the masterpiece of the Czech Republic in the future. Of course, this nation had no Therefore, it is their relentless pursuit to seek to get rid of the rule of the Austro-Hungarian Empire and build a country independently.

The territory of Tsarist Russia was so vast that at that time in the European part of Tsarist Russia, it was quite common for foreigners such as Finland, Germany, Austria, Romania, and the Czech Republic to serve in the Tsarist Russian army. Among them, [-] Czech prisoners of war voluntarily joined the Allied Powers to fight for the Czech Republic after the war.

This Czech Legion was organized in the Tsarist Russian army, and it can be called an elite division. However, when the revolution broke out in February last year and the Tsar was overthrown, things changed. According to the consensus reached by the French and Czechoslovak National Councils, the Czech Legion will withdraw from the Russian Eastern Front and return to the Western Front to continue fighting for the Allied Powers.

It is obviously impossible to cross the German-Austrian front and go back to the western front directly. At this time, there is no Arctic Ocean route. As a result, the Allied Powers and the Soviet-Russian temporary government negotiated that the Czech Legion went all the way east, took the train to the Siberian Railway, Take a boat from Radiostock (Vladivostok), then take the Pacific route, the Atlantic route, and then return to the French battlefield on the Western Front of Europe to participate in the war.

The problem was that the October Revolution overthrew the provisional zheng fu, and the eastward movement of the Czech Legion was delayed again and again. When the Constituent Assembly was overthrown in January 1918, the Czech Legion was still stranded west of Kazan. At this time, the Soviet Russian government asked the Czech Army to continue to move eastward and retreat, but it was possible to lay down their weapons and leave Russia as a civilian!

To say that a legion of only 5 people can play a very limited role even on the western front of France, but in the eastern part of Russia at the beginning of 1918, this legion can play a considerable role. At the same time that the Soviet Russian central government announced its retreat, it was demobilizing the Tsarist Russian army on a large scale, and absorbed the Bolsheviks among them to join the newly formed Soviet Russian Red Army.

Throughout Siberia and the Far East, military forces loyal to Soviet Russia are quite limited. In places like Vladivostok and Khabarovsky, the local garrisons have always been between supporting the bourgeois temporary government of the Socialist Revolutionary Party or the new Soviet Russian red regime. Swaying, the Bolsheviks' grip on the army was in a state of slight, but by no means secure.

This is also the reason why the Russian army will resolutely resist the landing operations of the Japanese army in Vladivostok (Vladivostok). This is also the first time that the Cossacks in Ulan-Ude faced the sudden appearance of the squadron Reaction is the reason for a resolute counterattack, but with the establishment of the Siberian Provisional Autonomous Government in Ufa, in the vast Siberia and Far East east of the Ural Mountains, the vast majority of Russian generals will choose to join the Provisional Government's White Guards.

Of course, the Soviet Russian Bolsheviks will organize guerrillas, and there will be a situation in which the Allied Intervention Army, Soviet Russian guerrillas and temporary government White Guards coexist on this land for a long time.

The reason why Britain, France, the United States and other allied countries reached an agreement with China and Japan that China and Japan will send troops to the east of Lake Baikal to control the situation is because the area west of Lake Baikal to the Ural Mountains, until Kazan, and until Ufa, this part of the area will use the Czech Legion as the Allied Powers The main force of the intervention in Russia.

According to the agreement reached by the National Council of France and Czechoslovakia earlier, the Czech Legion stranded in Soviet Russia has become part of the French Army since December 1917, and has become an independent army in the French army, while according to Czechoslovakia The agreement signed by the National Committee, the Allied Powers and the Soviet government in Penza in early 12 allowed the Czech Legion to pass through Siberia as a "civilian rather than a combat unit".

The Czech Legion would eventually embark at Vladivostok and return to Europe via the Panama Canal.However, after the bloodshed in January, in the face of the rebellions and riots caused by the Socialist Revolutionary Party, Mensheviks, Royalists, and Constituent Assembly factions in various places, the awakened Soviet Russian government demanded that the Czech Legion must hand over when it passed through Siberia. Ordnance, only carry a small amount of self-defense weapons.

Under the instigation and arrangement of Britain and France, the Czech Legion refused to implement it, which triggered the so-called rebellion of the Czech Legion in Soviet Russia. Facing this well-organized and well-equipped legion, the fragmented Soviet Russia temporarily did not have enough Power can be contained.

According to the arrangement of the Allied Powers, one week before the Chinese and Japanese troops launched the Allied Military Intervention in the Far East and the east of Lake Baikal on February 1918, 2, the leaders of the Czechoslovak National Council Masaryk and Benes After a series of bargains with Britain and France, it was agreed to use the Czech Legion to stage an insurrection in Siberia.

The rebellion of the Czech Legion sent a considerable armed force to the interim government of Siberian autonomy that had just been announced in Ufa. After the support of the 6000-strong legion, Kolchak commanded the newly established White Guards and the Czech Legion under the temporary government to go west and launch an attack on Kazan.

The Czech Legion not only maintains the integrity of the command of the legion, but also cooperates under the command of Kolchak. In just one week, Kolchak's White Guards and the Czech Legion were invincible, and quickly captured Lower Kam Insk and Kazan, especially in Kazan, the former Tsarist Russian general Garrison Commander Infantry Lieutenant General Suchenov who was stationed led his division to revolt on the battlefield and declared his allegiance to the temporary government and accepted the command of Kolchak.

The day Kolchak captured the important town of Kazan happened to be February 1918, 2.