Beiyang 1917

1918年7月20ri20:00萨马拉联军总司令部

That night, at the victory celebration reception and dance after the review meeting of the Ufa Campaign, most of the division-level generals of the coalition forces and several middle and lower-level generals specially invited to attend the meeting got drunk. Although they were not in the majority, they worked together with the Japanese generals to block the vodka offensive of the Russian generals. Of course, in the end, everyone completely drank and got down for it. (hand type)()(.

Although the Battle of Ufa lasted only eight days and seven nights, the preparations for the battle began in June, and Sun Liangcheng's Southward Ranger, who was the first to start a detour to the south, set off to make a detour to the south at the end of June. It was only 20 days, but in these 20 days, the fighting of the coalition forces west of the Ural Mountains has completely changed the situation on the Russian Eastern Front.

The establishment of the brand-new Volga Federation is not the end of the coalition's journey, but just a new starting point. Of course, the news of the expansion of the entire army has already reached the ears of generals at all levels, but the credits that these division-level cadres should report have long been It was reported together with the combat summary of each unit in the Ufa Battle, and the Ufa Battle Medals and Medals were also hung on the chests of every combat hero at the celebration and commendation meeting held at each unit station at noon today.

In other words, medals and medals are the highest rewards and proofs of honor for soldiers, and are usually awarded by the country. However, Wang Geng, the allied forces of the Allied Powers, is a bit difficult to handle in terms of the concept of the country. The Allied Powers are not a country, but a multinational military Political alliance, and Wang Geng's Allied Forces, strictly speaking, should be the Eastern Front Command of the Allied Forces, to show the difference from the Allied Forces on the Western Front.

Of course, on the Russian battlefield and the Eastern Front, at this moment, the leaders of the Allied Powers such as the United States, Britain, and France can't speak. The protagonists are the Sino-Japanese Alliance and the expeditionary forces of China and Japan. It means, but emphasizes that this is a multi-ethnic allied force of the Allied Forces, in order to downplay the inevitable existence of the Sino-Japanese Alliance on the former territory of Russia, the suspicion of invaders from Asia.

Since both the Allied Powers and the Allied Powers are political and military alliances among many countries, there is no such thing as the Medal of the Allied Powers or the Medal of the Allied Powers, but only the medals issued by the governments of various countries. Of course, the French government can still give British officers in the allied forces issued their own finds, and vice versa.

For Wang Geng, it is reasonable to award Chinese medals, and even Japanese medals to the Allied Forces on the Eastern Front. The people on this land, so after the Allied Forces Command decided to establish the Volga Federation, they designed the first medals and medals of the Volga Federation in the name of the Volga Federation Zheng Fu.

Wang Geng brought the doctrine of borrowing to the extreme. Of course, there is also a relationship of time urgency and insufficient time. The coalition command directly borrowed from the design and production of the St. Nicholas Medal of the Tsarist Russian government. After soliciting opinions from various parties, it was named the Victory Medal.

The pattern of the Victory Medal is basically the same as the Order of St. Nicholas, the highest order of the Tsarist Russian government. The white cross crosses two swords, and the ribbon is a white, blue and red ribbon of national color, engraved in the center of the medal The inscription "Faith will save the people", the medal is divided into three levels, namely the first-level victory gold medal, made of pure gold, the second-level victory silver medal, made of pure silver, and the third-level victory bronze medal, made of brass.

The victory iron medal is slightly smaller, with only a beautiful cross, no crossed swords, and the inscription in the middle is "The people thank you for your efforts."

Each of the 25 coalition troops who participated in the Battle of Ufa received a Victory Iron Medal. In addition, according to their military exploits and performance, 18 people received a Victory Gold Medal and 36 people received a Victory Medal. There are 72 people who have won the Silver Victory Medal of the Second Class and the Bronze Medal of Victory of the Third Class.

The list of honored winners of the [-] First Class Victory Gold Medals are:

Commander-in-Chief of the Allied Forces Wang Geng, Chief of Staff Jiang Hongyu, Deputy Chief of Staff Wu Peifu, Utsunomiya Taro, Vasily Nikolaevich Pepelyaev, Sergei Ivanovich Barra Yanov

Sun Liangcheng, Commander-in-Chief of the Allied Forces' Southward Roundabout Detachment (Commander of the 1st Armored Division),

Xiong Shihui, Commander-in-Chief of the Second Echelon of the United Army North Road (Commander of the Reorganized 20th Division),

Li Mingzhong, Commander-in-Chief of the South Route Army (Commander of the Reorganized 9th Division),

Hu Zongduo, commander of the second mixed armored brigade (one brigade wiped out three infantry divisions in Eich), and Cheng Ruhuai, commander of the fourth armored regiment (an armored regiment with more than 2 troops in Stepin with the cooperation of the aviation team)

Petrovich, Commander of the Second Ural Cavalry Army (Milna fought twice), Chief of Staff Sergey (Milna, Wuyi Town, Sterlitamak Town)

Alasti Mikhainovich Nerikov, Commander of the [-]rd Ural Cavalry Division (Buzuluk’s struggle, one of the models of Dragon Quest), and Ariel, the commander of the [-]nd Regiment of the [-]th Brigade Kesey Hashkovich Antonikov (a regiment defeated a complete cavalry brigade led by political commissar Xia Tenko of the Budyonny Cavalry Division)

Khabaro Andrenovich Brinev, commander of the second brigade of the first Ural cavalry division

Li Fugui, commander of the [-]st Battalion of the [-]st Regiment of the [-]rd Mixed Cavalry Brigade of the Allied Forces (one battalion blocked Tukhachevsky's attack by an infantry division plus a cavalry brigade in the town of Sterlitamak),

Commander Hatatoshi Sixth Commander, Director of the War Room of the Allied Forces Headquarters (after the contribution of the Allied Forces Headquarters and the airborne Kumertau, he led the team to the north to wipe out the 31st Soviet Russian Infantry Division and the rest of the Xia Boyang Cavalry Division)

Major General Huang Jingbo, Commander of the Allied Air Force, and Lieutenant Colonel Shen Dexie, Commander of the Fighter-Bomber Detachment of the Allied Air Force

Among the 11 recipients of the First-Class Victory Gold Medal, there are 7 Chinese generals, 2 Russian generals, and [-] Japanese generals. , but the performance of the generals of the Japanese Army in the Battle of Ufa compared with the above-mentioned people who won the gold medals, they really couldn't do it, so they had to hold their noses and admit it!

You must know that the commanders of the [-]st and [-]nd Divisions of the Ural Cavalry only received a second-level silver medal for victory. After catching Budyonny, he only got a second-level silver medal for victory!

Xiao Shanling, the brigade commander of the [-]rd Brigade of the Combined Cavalry of the Allied Forces, won only a second-level silver medal for victory.

Of course, the subsequent reprimand telegram from the Japanese Imperial Army Staff Headquarters is inevitable, and at the same time Utsunomiya Taro has also received domestic instructions. In the next stage of the war, all Japanese generals in the coalition forces must work hard!Glory to the Empire!

It must be said that the [-] golden medals awarded after the Battle of Ufa are dazzling first-class gold medals for victory. The concept of not avoiding relatives has been fully reflected.

But looking back, it is a miracle that the arsenals in Chelyabinsk and Yekaterinburg were able to produce nearly 25 iron victory medals in such a short period of time. , but the potential is considerable, as can be seen from the speed and quality of the production of these medals and medals.

Not to mention how the coalition generals who drank in a mess at the celebration banquet and the ball spent a sleepless night full of alcohol and high spirits with their medals on. Brothers, after intense debate, the list of promotions and appointments after the reorganization of the army finally has a preliminary draft.

In the draft, Wang Geng still vetoed the proposal that the Chinese and Japanese generals directly serve as the first-level commanders of the Russian divisions. He only said that the outstanding senior generals of China, Japan and Russia could command the front and group armies.

The reason for this decision is that while Wang Geng is reorganizing and expanding the Russian troops, he is preparing to increase troops from the country to the Volga Federation. Based on the current Chinese Third Army and the Japanese Third Army, he will directly expand the Chinese army in the coalition. And the Japanese army, in this case, the generals of the Chinese and Japanese armies themselves may not be enough, and there is no need to compete with the Russian generals for positions.

As soon as Wang Geng mentioned this plan, Jiang Hongyu, Wu Peifu, and Utsunomiya Taro stopped insisting immediately, and began to think about how to expand their troops. Integrate part of the military resources of West Siberia?Is it only the yellow-skinned Asian soldiers, or is it the food that is pulled into the basket with eyebrows and beards?

In fact, everyone here is well aware that the three Russian infantry divisions of the First Siberian Army organized and built by the coalition forces were not included in the previous 13+16 reorganization plan with a total of 29 horses. The Russian troops under the puppet signboard of West Siberia have other plans, and not all Russian troops will be put under the signboard of the Volga Federation as long as they are Russian.

And until now, the commanders of the three Russian infantry divisions of the First Siberian Army were still directly selected and deployed from the Third Army of China and the Third Army of Japan. The Russian infantry division equipped with [-] rifles and coalition machine gun mortars has never won a battle in the Battle of Ufa. It's like the first large-scale live-fire exercise that the recruit division participated in.

Considering the performance of the generals of the Russian troops in the Ufa Battle is quite good, the draft list of appointment and promotion of the 8 army groups and 4 cavalry corps is as follows:

1. Ufa Group Army, Commander Balajanov, under the jurisdiction of the 1st, 2nd and 3rd Ufa Infantry Divisions

2. Samara Group Army, Commander Pepelyayev, under the jurisdiction of the 4th, 5th and 6th Divisions of the Samara Infantry

3. The Kursk Army, Commander Slaven, governs the 7th, 8th and 9th Divisions of Kursk

4. The Saratov Army, Commander Lezhevsky, under the jurisdiction of the 10th, 11th and 12th Divisions of Saratov

5. Voronjeri Army, Commander Stepin, administers the 13th, 14th and 15th Divisions of Voronjeri

6. The Tsaritsyn Army, Commander Yegorov, under the jurisdiction of the 16th, 17th and 18th Divisions of Tsaritsin

7. Orenburg Army, Commander Petrovich, administers Orenburg 19th Division, 20th Division and 21st Division

8. The Ural Army, Commander Nerikov, administers the Ural 22nd, 23rd and 24th Divisions

Since the Siberian Army was not included in the above-mentioned troops, the missing 3 people recruited new recruits from the common people on the left bank of the Volga River in the Volga Federation.

In fact, due to the great victory of the coalition forces in the Battle of Ufa, these days, after the Soviet Russian Red Army and Soviet government personnel withdrew northward, there was an endless stream of young adults and refugees who came to the Volga Federation government to join the army. Many of them were even deserters from the Soviet Red Army.

As for the Volga Federation with a population of 740 million, although nearly 200 million people on the right bank of Volga have not yet returned to their hometowns after being evacuated, most of them are still staying in the east of the Ural Mountains, and they need to be recruited from the remaining 200 million young adults. 3 recruits is no effort at all.

In the above-mentioned list of group army commanders, Petrovich and Nerikov, who were born as Russian cavalry division commanders in the two coalition armies, have won the appreciation and favor of the commander-in-chief of the coalition army for their outstanding performance. Although they are cavalry generals, Wang Geng feels that With their abilities, commanding infantry is more than enough.

To say that Petrovich, the commander of the Second Ufa Cavalry Army, was just the commander of the Cossack cavalry division who came from Orenburg before the Battle of Ufa, but as the Battle of Ufa progressed, this guy's brain became more and more violent. Gradually, he was able to work independently without the support of his golden partner Sergey.

So Wang Geng brought Petrovich up to command the Orenburg Army. As for the general who was born in the Cossack cavalry, would he take advantage of the loopholes and slowly toss the three infantry divisions of the Orenburg Army into cavalry divisions? Waiting and seeing is a little bit of anticipation. As for Petrovich's original partner Sergey, Wang Geng has even greater expectations.

Another leader who led the Third Ural Cavalry Division to fight Yegorov in Buzuluk, division commander Alasti Mikhainovich Nerikov, Wang Geng also had higher expectations for him.

In Wang Geng's opinion, Nerikov is more comprehensive than Petrovich, and he is fully qualified to be the commander of the group army alone, because Wang Geng of the four cavalry corps has further plans and arrangements. Therefore, Nerikov Kov can only temporarily leave the post of cavalry general to command an infantry army - the Ural Army.

1. The First Army of the Ural Cavalry, Commander Chabayev, under the jurisdiction of the 1st and 2nd Divisions of the Ural Cavalry

2. The Second Volga Cavalry Army, Commander Sergey, under the jurisdiction of the 3rd and 4th Volga Cavalry Divisions

3. The Third Army of the Don Cavalry, Commander Negev, under the jurisdiction of the 4th and 5th Divisions of the Don Cavalry

4. The 6th Voronjeri Cavalry Army, Commander Brilev, the 7th and [-]th Divisions of the Samara Cavalry

Among the commanders of the four cavalry corps, Chapayev was promoted to commander from the commander of the Ural [-]st Cavalry Division, while Brilev was also promoted from the post of commander of the [-]nd Ural Cavalry Division, and Sergey was promoted from the position of commander of the Ural Cavalry Division. The political commissar of the Second Army turned into the commander of the Second Volga Cavalry Army. The fastest progresser was actually Negev who did not win the first-class victory gold medal.

Nejev himself was only the brigade commander of the fifth brigade of the third Ural cavalry division. What Wang Geng valued was the wit and courage shown in his dealings with Budyonny. Fighting fiercely is not necessarily the best way. Budyonny, who can command a cavalry regiment and a superior force, can fight for a long time without losing the wind. Wang Geng admires Nejef quite a lot.

Of course, another reason is that Nerikov, the division commander, was transferred from the [-]rd Ural Cavalry Division to be the commander of the Ural Army. His cousin, the brigade commander Nejev is obviously the best candidate, but the blustering brigade commander of the sixth brigade, Nerikov's cousin, Nejevsky, couldn't make Wang Geng so relieved, Therefore, he was only promoted to the chief of staff of the Volga Second Cavalry Army.

The division commanders of the two cavalry divisions of the Volga Second Cavalry Army were respectively promoted to the Antonikov brothers. The two brothers jumped from cavalry regiment commander to division commander, and their brigade commander to army commander. Like the commander, the generals of the [-]rd Division of the Ural Cavalry seem to have become the most eye-catching members of the entire army.

Of course, in this draft of the whole army plan and the appointment of generals, the most eye-catching ones are not Petrovich and Nerikov, who have become the commanders of the group army, but the four senior commanders of the Soviet Russian Red Army who are still in the prisoner-of-war camps. Members, Slavin, Rzhevsky, Stepin and Yegorov are all listed as candidates for the commander of the army group.

Although Pepelyayev and Barayanov both had bitter faces, and Jiang Hongyu, Wu Peifu, and Utsunomiya Taro were a little bit disapproving, the authority, patient and meticulous explanations established by the commander-in-chief of the coalition forces, and In the end, the unquestionable look in his eyes finally convinced everyone.

"Everyone, I believe that apart from Ma Xin, the above-mentioned four outstanding Soviet Russian Red Army generals, Slavin, Lezhevsky, Stepin and Yegorov, and the division commanders under them will not be able to refuse The olive branch offered by us is absolutely irresistible.

And even if they reject us, there is no loss. This is like the story of buying a horse bone with a thousand gold mentioned in the ancient Chinese "Warring States Policy Yan Policy [-]". We will definitely attract more people with such a broad mind and heart More talents and people of insight to join our cause! "

In the conference room late at night, the commander-in-chief of the coalition looked at his assistants confidently, stood up and waved his fist.