Beiyang 1917

The arrival of spring in 1918 was quite painful for the Allies, especially Britain and France. In the past six months when the situation in Russia changed dramatically, it was clear that Germany had benefited more from polar bears than the Allies.

Finland, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Poland, Ukraine, Georgia, and Azerbaijan all fell into the hands of Germany and Austria. Although Soviet Russia did not accept Germany's asking price to sign the Brest Treaty, in fact, the Germans got More than on the treaty.

Of course, in the process of the two camps scrambling for time to carve out meat from Japan's opponents and allies in the past, Russia, which is now in chaos, the two countries of the Allied Powers, China and Japan, can be said to have gained a lot. Japan occupied the eastern part of the West Siberia Plain, It is 1600 kilometers wide from east to west and 1000 kilometers wide from north to south, covering a total of 160 million square kilometers of land.

As for China, it is even more shocking. It has occupied a total of 211 million square kilometers of land in the east of Lake Baikal and the Irkutsk region in the west of the lake. Of course, the Chinese claim to have withdrawn the 1689 "Sino-Russian Treaty of Nerchinsk" demarcated Chinese territory.

Compared with Germany, Austria and China, the United States, Britain and France have hardly benefited from the collapse of Russia. If the Czech Legion, which has been assigned to the French Army in terms of organization, is counted, it is nothing more than the occupation of Omsk. Under the banner of the Provisional Self-Governing Government of Siberia in Ufa.

Of course, the good luck of the Czech Legion has come to an end here. Utsunomiya Taro, the commander of Japan's West Siberia Dispatch Army, was already full of anger, so why would he agree to Shi Shiran, who brought the stolen wealth with the Czech Legion? Withdraw to Vladivostok along the Trans-Siberian Railway, and then take a boat through the Pacific route, take the Panama Canal, and then take the Atlantic route to France to support the Western Front?

Utsunomiya Taro's conditions for the Czech Legion are exactly the same as those put forward by the Soviet Russian regime. Considering the social stability and public security situation in West Siberia, the [-] Czech Legion in Omsk can only lay down their weapons in the form of civilians. The identity can pass through the eastern part of West Siberia under the control of Japan, otherwise there is no need to talk about it!

Britain and France are completely out of reach for the situation in eastern Russia, and Japan, driven by the example of the Chinese participating army, is obviously much more courageous than before. Of course, the benefits are also great. The land that has been conquered is more than the harvest of Japan's external expansion in the past 300 years.

You must know that the total territorial area of ​​Japan at this moment is only 377 million square kilometers. Now the West Siberia dispatched troops have opened up 160 million square kilometers in one month. What kind of harvest is this?Utsunomiya Taro, commander of the dispatched army, was directly promoted to general of the army!And the heads of the three divisions were all lieutenant generals with the title of general, and they were only one step away from being promoted to general in the future.

The Czech Legion naturally refused to agree to the request to put down their weapons and pass through the border as a civilian. Who knows if Ri himself would have evil thoughts when he boarded the car for inspection? If gold, silver and treasures are confiscated and confiscated by the Japanese, who can they complain to?

Moreover, the Czech Legion was stained with the blood of the Bolsheviks and Russian common people in the hands of the Siberian rebellion. Who knows if this bare-handed train ride will be robbed by local guerrillas and common people for revenge?

The Czech Legion was delayed in Omsk like this, arguing with the men of Semenov, the new Omsk garrison commander, all day long. The Czechs said that Semyonov’s men were all Cossack bandits, and they knew how to rob things all day long. However, Semyonov's men simply said that the Czechs were robbers!Those who came to Russia to rob were more fierce than themselves.

Although the route map and excuses for the Czech Legion’s withdrawal from Russia looked ridiculous, in April 1918, even a 4-strong legion could be a vital force for Britain and France on the Western Front.

Allied aerial reconnaissance and intelligence sources indicated that the Germans on the opposite side of the line had transferred their main force from the Russian Eastern Front back to the Western Front, and it was clear that they were planning a huge offensive that could decide the fate of the Western Front.

The criss-crossing and well-developed railway lines in Germany and Austria made it very smooth and easy for Ludendorff to transfer troops from the east to the west, even faster than the United States transporting troops across the Atlantic to France.

Britain and France are fighting shudderingly on the western front, and the main force of the U.S. military has not yet arrived. At this moment, the U.S. Expeditionary Force has only landed and assembled four divisions in the second-line position in France, with about 10 people, and although these four divisions are the U.S. standing army However, on the Western Front, they are recruits who have never fought in the market. Their only experience is still in the scene of the previous confrontation with the Mexican guerrillas.

The American planes are made in France, the cannons are made in France, the tanks are made in France, and even the gas masks are given by the French. Because the m1917a1 Browning heavy machine gun produced by Colt Company has been accepted by Chinese orders Scrape away, the U.S. military on the front line at this moment does not have enough heavy machine guns to equip themselves.

The advance detachment sent by China last year is still serving as the guard battalion of Pershing, the commander of the American Expeditionary Force. The pair of Zhang Zizhong and Zhang Zhizhong may not really learn anything else, but they have learned a lot about gentlemanly demeanor.

Of course, these two Chinese military officers watching the battle are very good, and at the same time, they all agree with Wang Geng's action of not sending follow-up troops to the Western Front. Nima, the battle on the Western Front is not just one division and two divisions. There are no ten or twenty divisions that can't hold a certain front line at all, and there are no thirty or fifty divisions that can't attack at all!With such a fortune in our participating army, we can't easily go to the Western Front to toss it all over!

Throughout the beginning of April, Britain and France on the western front were preparing to deal with the upcoming large-scale offensive by the Germans. However, Ludendorff's German hammer had been held high, but it had not been smashed down. No brains.

In fact, the reason is very simple. The outbreak of the Soviet-Russian Civil War attracted Ludendorff's attention. Especially at the end of March, the Soviet-Russian regime seemed to be in a state of distress.

This made Ludendorff a little hesitant. If Soviet Russia is overthrown by the White Guards, it means that Russia behind him will wake up at any time and become an important member of the Allied Powers again. This is absolutely unbearable for Germany. No matter how evil, at least Comrade Ulyanov will never lead his comrades to stab Germany in the back!

However, the Russian bourgeois temporary government and that Kolchak are the sworn enemies of Germany, especially Kolchak, who suffered a lot from the German navy in the Baltic Sea and the Black Sea. Shanda has gone to Moscow, I'm afraid this thing will get worse!

The situation on the Eastern Front of the Soviet-Russian Civil War made Ludendorff, who was already ready to attack the Western Front, hesitant, and the Soviet Russian regime was indeed facing a huge challenge at this time. At the end of March 1918, he was appointed as the Eastern The commander of the front army, the left Socialist Revolutionary party M. A. Muravyov, mutinied at the front.

On March 1918, 3, Muraviev led an army of nearly a thousand people to Simbirsk from Cheboksary, where the headquarters of the Front Army is located, and claimed that he did not recognize the current foreign policy of the Soviet Russian regime. The embassy and the headquarters of the Czechoslovak Army declared war on Germany, calling themselves the "Commander-in-Chief of the Anti-German Army".

The troops deceived by him occupied the post office, the telegraph office and the radio station, surrounded the executive committee building and the headquarters of the Red Army's Simbirsk Group, and arrested the commander of the 1st Army, including M. N. Tukhachevsky. Many Soviet and Bolshevik workers.

Muraviev ordered the Eastern Front and the Czechoslovak Army to advance westward, pretending to resist the German attack. On March 3, the Soviet Russian People's Committee issued an order, exposing the counter-revolutionary nature of Muraviyov's actions, announcing that he was not protected by law.

The Bolsheviks in Simbirsk, led by the chairman of the provincial committee, Yomy Varikis, did a lot of explaining work to the soldiers and city residents, and won over the troops that had originally supported Muraviev.

On the evening of March 3, Muraviyov was invited to attend a meeting of the Simbirsk Executive Committee, thinking that the Executive Committee would surrender to him.When his telegram about the cessation of military operations against the armed interventionists and the White Guards was read at the meeting, the Bolsheviks demanded his arrest. Muraviev resisted the arrest and was shot dead on the spot. His accomplices were arrested and executed.

The mutiny of Muravyov, commander of the Eastern Front of the Soviet Red Army, reversed the previous advantage of the Red Army west of Kazan. Kolchak took the opportunity to launch another offensive from Kazan. Boksary's direct troops launched a rebellion after learning that Muraviev was executed, and cooperated with Kolchak to take down Cheboksary, the capital of Chuvash.

The situation on the Eastern Front of Soviet Russia took a turn for the worse, and the rest of the Eastern Front Army suffered catastrophe. All the Red Army generals who were born as leftist Socialist Revolutionaries were arrested and executed. The elimination of counter-revolutionaries put the entire Eastern Front almost in a state of collapse.

The Eastern Front is at stake for Moscow!