Beiyang 1917

Also on the Eastern Front, the Li Mingzhong Division of the Ninth Division of the Western Route Army, which attacked from Manzhouli, and the He Weizhen Brigade, the vanguard, set off from Mogoitui on March 1918, 3, and traveled 2 kilometers a day, successively occupying Ajin Skoye, Dalasun, and Novokruchininski arrived in the outskirts of Chita on March 160.

Another Xiong-style brigade of the West Route Army on the Eastern Front advanced to Wenda, 40 kilometers southwest of Nerchinsk, within two days. Because there were no railways or trains on this road, it could only be transported by road, so there was a certain problem in the supply of oil. To a certain extent, the oil from Manchuria was unloaded in Borja, and then used a car to chase Xiong Shihui's brigade. Even so, this guy had to stop after advancing to Wenda to wait for the oil behind.

On March 1918, 3, Zhang Weixi, the Eighth Brigade of the Third Division, which went northward, also advanced to the outskirts of Chita along the Trans-Siberian Railway. The largest city in Eastern Siberia, Chita, the capital of Chita State!

In the early morning of March 1918, 3, Li Mingzhong's Division Headquarters of the Ninth Division and Liu Zhi's No.4 Seventh Brigade arrived in Chita by train. The local Soviet Russian defenders refused to surrender under the control of the Cheka and Bolsheviks. Commanded three brigades to launch the battle to conquer Chita.

Three squadrons of Handley Page 3 heavy bombers that took off from Manzhouli Field Airfield carried out aerial bombardment of the Russian military positions in Chita, 0400 kilometers away. Due to the short flight range, the bombers had ample time to stay in the air after flying over Chita. , Under the guidance and correction of the ground forces, the bombing achieved satisfactory results.

Li Mingzhong's artillery preparations only took 20 minutes. Even so, when the three brigades rushed to the Russian army's position under the guidance of wheeled armored vehicles, the remnants of the Russian army who were bombed and turned on their backs raised a white flag. Chita, as the central city of Eastern Siberia, But there are no strong fortifications like Lushun, Khabarovsk and Vladivostok.

If it weren't for the Cheka and the Bolsheviks holding guns to the head of the local garrison commander, there would be no need to fight this battle at all, and the white flag would be surrendered directly.

In fact, if Li Mingzhong hadn't followed what Wang Geng said to hone air-ground coordination and infantry coordination, even if there was no air support at all, he would have conquered the Chita of 3 defenders with only three mixed brigades of 8000 horses armed to the teeth. No problem.

The Russian army suffered more than 2000 casualties in this battle, and the remaining 6000 were captured. Li Mingzhong's casualties were only a few hundred, and Chita fell into the hands of the Chinese participating army.

同样是1918年3月4号这一天，获得了油料补充的第九师No.20六旅熊式辉部，一鼓作气攻克了只有2000守军的尼布楚，230年前签订《中俄尼布楚条约》的纪念地就这样落入俄中国参战军的手中。

The Sun Liangcheng Armored Brigade of the 3rd Division, which had stormed and occupied Irkutsk before, continued to advance westward along the Trans-Siberian Railway on March 3 after resting and replenishing locally, advancing [-] kilometers along the railway in two days , successively occupied Angarsk, Siberia Usolye, Mikhailovka, Cheremhovo, Zima, Tulun, Nizhny Uginsk and Taishet.

Wu Peifu's division headquarters and the Ninth Brigade followed suit, opened up the railway line from Babushkin to Irkutsk along the way, circled the Siberian Railway at the south end of Lake Baikal, and successively occupied Baikalsk, Slyudyanka, Kurutsk Tuk, Sherekhov, and eventually Irkutsk.

就这样，中国参战军在1918年2月28ri发起捍卫18收复国土的对俄军事行动，等到1918年3月6ri惊蛰这一天为止，持续一周的军事行动取得了丰硕的战果。

The Trans-Siberian Railway starts from Taishet, the westernmost town in Irkutsk in West Siberia, and goes eastward, all the way to Khabarovsk to Vladivostok. All the important strongholds and towns on these thousands of kilometers of railway lines have fallen into China The hands of the warring army.

The more than 2000-kilometer railway line from Nerchinsk to Khabarovsk has no major strongholds or fortresses along the way, except for Blagoveshchensk, the capital of the Amur Region, which is more than 600 kilometers away from Khabarovsk (Hailanpao ).

The Seventh Division started from Khabarovsk and swept westward along the Siberian Railway, while the Xionghui Brigade of the Ninth Division advanced eastward along the railway line from Nerchinsk, and easily captured Hailanpao's Seventh Army a week later. Division No. 20 brigade Zhigang Department, and the Xiongshihui Brigade of the Ninth Division joined forces in Skovorikita.

In this way, two weeks after dispatching troops, the squadron completely opened up the 2-kilometer railway line from Taishet, Irkutsk Oblast, west of Lake Baikal, to Vladivostok, Primorsky Krai in the Far East, creating a milestone in the history of modern warfare. Miracle.

Of course, the entire distance of the Trans-Siberian Railway from Moscow in the west to Vladivostok in the east is as long as .. kilometers, and the Chinese participating troops only controlled less than half of the lines.

During the week when the Xiongshihui Brigade of the Ninth Division and the Guozhigang Brigade of the Seventh Division opened up the Nerchinsk-Khabarovsk railway line, the westernmost Sun Liangcheng Armored Brigade of the Third Division of Wu Peifu transferred to rest and consolidate the railway on the spot Along the route, the high-intensity continuous week-long battles under extremely cold temperatures have greatly overdrawn the troops' mental and physical strength.

Wu Peifu's 600rd Division Division and Ninth Brigade are stationed in Irkutsk, but Sun Liangcheng's leading armored brigade is in Taishet, 1000 kilometers away to the west, and Zhang Weixi's Eighth Brigade is [-] kilometers away. Chita.

In contrast, Li Mingzhong of the Ninth Division was relatively concentrated. The Division of the Ninth Division and the Liu Zhi Division of the 27th Brigade were stationed in Chita.

At the moment when the squadron was rushing forward, Japan's No.12 Division and the Seventh Division were idly basking in the sun in Vladivostok. In view of the fact that China and Japan will carry out interventions in Siberia and Russia at the same pace , and the default area occupied by Japan is far west of the Yenisei River.

As for the place north of the Outer Xing'an Mountains in the north, the Seventh Division, the dispatched army from the Outer Xing'an Mountains, didn't have the heart to endure hardships. Fujii Yukizuchi volunteered to take charge of the railway for the Chinese squadron. In the security and mopping-up work in the villages on the two wings, although the Soviet Russian guerrillas were not yet in the air, they hid in the woods and shot at the occupying troops every now and then.

Of course, it is more of the disbanded Soviet and Russian stragglers who became bandits in the mountains and forests. Sometimes the reasons for hatred are so complicated that you can’t find the reason at all. Ration distribution and health centers have been set up, but there are still many ungrateful local Russians.

Many local residents even went to the station to collect the rations during the day, and at night they gathered together to figure out how to overturn the train by paving the tracks and hinder the Chinese from transporting military supplies and food to the west.

Of course, the most anxious thing is the Japanese military headquarters. Seeing that the Chinese only dispatched 4 divisions, they occupied the vast and vast Siberian Railway of more than 4000 kilometers. fell into the hands of the Chinese.

Carloads of munitions and food were transported from Manzhouli to the west, and from Suifenhe to the east. The Middle East Railway was extremely busy, while the coal, iron ore and even logs from Irkutsk kept passing by. The return train was transported back to Heilongjiang.

The Chinese obviously paid a small price and gained huge benefits. Of course, I don’t know what Wang Geng thought, but the Chinese participating army provided so much food to those Russian people with malicious intentions in Siberia and the Far East for free. and medical supplies.

If it hadn't been frightened by the bloody wrists of the participating troops to maintain the security of the occupied area, the Japanese No. 12 Division might really be able to grab the food and medical supplies received by the local residents! <Huang, if the free supply is changed to using the military to resell food, how much fur and gold and silver will be returned?