Beiyang 1917

On March 1918, 3, in addition to Zhang Zuoxiang's No.1 Division of the Eastern Route Army, which took down Shuangchengzi and successfully joined forces with Japan's No.17 Division in Vladivostok, the progress of the Seventh Division of the participating army Wang Tingzhen It was even more swift, and the vanguard of the Guozhigang Brigade rushed north along the Siberian Railway.

Along the way, the following four towns along the way, Sozavodsk, Dalylenethensk, Bigin, and Vyazemsky, have created a miracle of advancing 370 kilometers by train and railway line alone. 100 kilometers is Khabarovsk (Khabarovsk), the base camp of Tsarist Russia in the Far East.

Of course, due to the fast advancing speed, the three brigades of the Seventh Division of the participating army formed a long snake formation along the railway line. The Duofeng Division of the 20st Mixed Brigade in South Korea, and the division headquarters of the 21th Division of Wang Tingzhen and the Wang Guoyu Division of the 19th Mixed Brigade were dragged behind.

All the towns and stations along the way were controlled by squadrons, and a steady stream of food and logistical support materials were transported from Suifenhe along the railway line. In this blue and yellow spring day, food is the best hard food in the Far East and Siberia. currency.

The Chinese army took measures to maintain the status quo with the local people and officials along the way. It just took over all the railways, stations, warehouses and arsenals. The Russian troops who put down their weapons were all regarded as civilians. You can receive a stability maintenance ration issued by the participating troops from the local town office.

The law and order of the local towns is maintained by the gendarmerie of the participating army. What they have to deal with is not the local people, but the dispersed Russian army stragglers and bandits who are scattered around. civil servants will continue to serve.

To consolidate the occupation of a place, the army can only play a short-term maintenance role. Only with the approval of the people on this land can this land truly return to the embrace of China. Of course, the troops participating in the war are now showing His gentle attitude does not mean that these soldiers from China in the pass do not have any sense of identity with these blond-haired and blue-eyed Russian civilians.

The strict discipline of the model army participating in the war is instilled and forged by the military song "Three Great Disciplines and Nine Points of Attention" that this army has sung at least three times a day since its establishment, or you can call this army participating in the war and used by Wang Geng The song is brainwashing, and discipline is the most typical feature of this team.

Of course, the price is countless unqualified soldiers who were punished for violating military discipline. Excluding those villains who committed capital crimes and were shot, most of the soldiers who were once kicked out of the army for violating military discipline, what they regret most in the future is, The punishment of "never hire" is really shocking, and the price is too high!

Especially after the model army that participated in the war has gradually become the pillar and the Great Wall of the country, those who have fallen behind halfway, no matter where they are and what occupation they will be in, will be proud of being a member of this army and feel that they were driven out. I feel very regretful about leaving the army.

Both the Prime Minister and the Undersecretary of the Army once asked Wang Geng that in terms of geography and administrative divisions, it might be possible to recover the land lost since the Sino-Russian Treaty of Nerchinsk. However, the Russian residents in Siberia and the Far East now exceed How can 1000 million people agree that this piece of land belongs to China?It is easy to conquer territory, but how difficult is it to conquer hearts?

Wang Geng's answer was beyond Duan Qirui's and Xu Shuzheng's expectations, and the guy sneered and said,

"Our goal is to take back the land ceded since the Sino-Russian Treaty of Nerchinsk. Who said we have to take back the 1000 million people? Of course, in the spirit of humanitarianism, the residents of this land for 230 years, we Give them the opportunity to choose to become a Chinese citizen, if they give up this opportunity, then there is nothing we can do but ask them to go back to their homeland!"

Although the Chinese army made rapid progress on the Eastern Front, capturing more than half of the large cities and towns in the Primorsky Krai in the Far East within two days and controlling the Siberian Railway and stations along the way, in Wang Geng’s view, this is still a steady and steady effort, a real test In the future, how to make the local residents realize the reality, or choose to become a Chinese citizen, and be a Chinese in an upright manner. No matter what nationality you are, you can become a Chinese citizen!

Either pack up and leave, China-zheng fu promises to protect the lives and properties of local expatriates from infringement, but it does not mean that you can accept you as a foreign landlord or rich peasant on Chinese territory. China has never been a colony of the Russians, only China Farmers are the owners of this piece of land, and other people can only be tenants. If the old Russians are willing to come and be tenants for Chinese landlords, what is unacceptable?

In Wang Geng's plan, all the Trans-Siberian Railways will be opened up, and after controlling all the railway lines and stations east of Lake Baikal, the local residents' naturalization screening will be carried out. As for Ri himself, they can go to the north of Xing'an Mountains Toss, of course, if Japan is willing to act as a villain for the Chinese participating army to destroy the subversive elements in Siberia and the Far East or the Soviet-Russian guerrillas that will inevitably appear, the Chinese participating army will be happy to see it.

If necessary, let Ri himself become the devil in the minds of the aboriginals and immigrants of Soviet Russia on this land, and let the enlisted troops who came later play the role of angels who save the common people. How can this deal not be done?

Of course, what Wang Geng revealed to Prime Minister Duan and Vice-Chairman Xu in private was that the Chinese participating army would control all the land east of Lake Baikal, and at the same time, use the Trans-Siberian Railway to transport the Japanese division to the vast area west of Lake Baikal Going forward, how much Japan can gain depends on their results against the Soviet Red Army in the Ural region and west of the Ural.

At the same time, it also depends on whether their cooperation with Kolchak of the Siberian Provisional Autonomous Government and the Czech Legion can be successful. Kolchak is the object of Japan's heavy bet.

Also on March 1918, 3, the Western Route Army on the Eastern Front of the Chinese Army continued to expand its results. Li Mingzhong's Ninth Division, which attacked from Manchuria, occupied Borja and Krasnokamensk the day before. Continuing to advance rapidly, the No.1 Fifth Brigade, led by Jiangxi veteran brigade commander He Weizhen, advanced 20 kilometers along the branch line of the Middle East Railway to the direction of the Trans-Siberian Railway.

Along the way, they successively occupied towns and stations such as Sherlova Yagora, Mayaka, Belka, Kurinda, and Aga, and at 3:[-] p.m. on the same day, they occupied Mo Goytuyi wiped out a Cossack cavalry battalion of the local station guards and cut off the Trans-Siberian Railway!

This Mogoitui is a large-scale hub site of the Trans-Siberian Railway in the Transberkah Krai. The railways and highways converge here. From here to the southwest and then to the north is Chita, and from here to the northeast is Nibu Chu, a place famous for the "Sino-Russian Treaty of Nerchinsk".

The No.20 Sixth Brigade of Xiong Shihui, which occupied Krasnokamensk the day before, pushed northward in one go and occupied the two important towns of Savo Borja and Berezovka, [-] kilometers to the north. The goal of this brigade is to occupy Nerchinsk and go east along the Trans-Siberian Railway to copy the back road of Khabarovsk.

Li Mingzhong's Ninth Division led Liu Zhi's No.20 Seventh Brigade to follow the footsteps of He Weizhen's No.20 Fifth Brigade and continued to advance in the direction of Chita. This guy has a big appetite and thinks that he will win Chita The No.20th and No.20th Brigades are more than enough, and the No.20th Brigade of Xiong Shihui shoulders the responsibility of sweeping Nerchinsk and continuing to develop eastward.

In Li Mingzhong's words, the number of Lao Maozi's army in the east is limited, and there will be no reinforcements. First, his main force must take down Chita, and second, he must quickly go west to support Wu Peifu's third division. If Mao Zi came to grab Siberia and the Far East, he would definitely have to come from Kazan and Omsk, the Siberian Railway line!

On the same day, Wu Peifu's third division was not idle at all. Sun Liangcheng's armored brigade directly loaded the vehicles on the flatbed train and continued to assault westward, taking Selenginsk and Babushkin on the shore of Lake Baikal successively. In Babushkin, Sun Liangcheng unloaded the armored vehicle from the train and jumped directly across the frozen Lake Baikal to Irkutsk, the important town in the west of Lake Baikal, 140 kilometers away to the west!

If you continue to take the railway, the Trans-Siberian Railway will go south around the southern end of the entire lake area, and the distance will be doubled, and there will be four large towns along the way: Baikalsk, Slyudianka, Kurtuk and Sherekhov And the station, Sun Liangcheng did not stop doing two things, after notifying Wu Peifu, the division commander who had arrived in Ulan-Ude, he led his armored brigade through the frozen Lake Baikal and directly onto the land on the other side.

On the evening of March 1918, 3, Sun Liangcheng's armored brigade, the vanguard of Wu Peifu's third division, appeared on the streets of Irkutsk. Into the hands of the Chinese participating army!