Beiyang 1917

1918年7月28ri10：00卡缅斯克-沙赫京斯基联军西南方面军、东路军前敌指挥部

In the Ukrainian campaign plan originally formulated by the Allied Forces, the East Route Army was composed of the main force of the No.12 Division of Lieutenant General Chai Goro of the Japanese Third Army, and the divisional armored regiment attached to the No.20 Division of the Allied Forces China. An infantry division of the general's Tsaritsyn Army is also attached to combat.

The former enemy commander-in-chief of the East Route Army of the Southwest Front is Lieutenant General Chai Goro, commander of the No.12 division, Colonel Ita-Gaki Seishiro as chief of staff, and Lieutenant General Yegorov as deputy commander and deputy chief of staff. The first echelon also has more than 4 people. Lieutenant General Yegorov led the remaining two infantry divisions of the Tsaritsyn Army as a reserve team stationed at the Tsaritsyn front line.

According to the original plan, in the Ukrainian campaign, the task of the Eastern Route Army was to go eastward from Kamensk-Shakhtinsky, where the campaign started, and take the first step to capture Luk Gansk, take Debalchev in the southwest in the second step, and then divide into two groups, continue to march southwest all the way, conquer Donetsk, then go south to Mariupol by the sea, and then sweep the Sea of ​​Azov Along the coast, take Berdyansk, and the other way goes directly west, with the goal of Dnepropetrovsk.

According to the wargame deduction in the War Room of the Allied Forces Command, the task of the Southwest Front Army's East Route Army is complex and arduous, because it was an area where the Don Cossack White Guards and Ukrainian forces interpenetrated, and the terrain is relatively complex and the area is large. Therefore, Whether the East Route Army can do well or not is a huge challenge for Chai Goro, head of Japan's No. 12 Division, and Chief of Staff Ban-Gaki Seishi Shiro.

However, as Wu Peifu's Southern Front Army quickly launched the Southern Campaign, and the entire Don River and the North Caucasus Autonomous Republic declared allegiance to the Volga Federation under the leadership of Denikin, the flanks of the East Route Army of the Southwest Front Army that carried out the Eastern Front offensive plan of the Ukrainian Campaign It suddenly became clear that the Don River and the North Caucasus in the south suddenly became the rear of their own from hostile forces, which made the chief of staff Ban Seishiro use his brains.

"Your Excellency, Division Commander, everyone, I think we should divide our troops into two groups instead of confining ourselves to attacking from Kamensk-Shakhtinsky. The Don River in the south and the North Caucasus are already in Dunni Under Jin's leadership, he took the initiative to join the Volga Federation. Although it will take time to completely pacify and control the entire North Caucasus, with General Wu and Denikin in the south, our flanks have no worries!"

Standing in front of the map, Chief of Staff Seishiro Sakagaki of the East Route Army of the Southwest Front pointed to Rostov-on-Don and Novochersk, Shakht and Novoshakhtinsk with a red and blue pencil in his hand. Circle, then said,

"We can follow this route and assemble a team in Novoshakhtinsk, and attack with the troops in Kamensk in two directions, so that the opponent will lose sight of the other and it will be difficult to defend. The Donets coalfield is at your fingertips. If you fight Well, when the Central Route Army was still surrounding Kharkov, we had quickly captured Luhansk and Donetsk, and our soldiers were pointing directly at Dnepropetrovsk!"

Mr. Ita-Gaki was obviously very interested. He had been weighing this idea in his mind for a few days. With the assembly of the main force of the Eastern Route Army in Kamensk-Shakhtinsky basically completed, he felt that it would be too late if he didn't mention it!

"Your Excellency, Novshakhtinsk is just a coal mining town, and it belongs to the Don River and the North Caucasus Autonomous Republic. It is the defense area of ​​General Wu's Southern Front Army and Denikin. Can we enter without authorization? Will this happen? Will it affect the relationship between the Southwest Front Army and the Southern Front Army of the Allied Forces?" Yegorov, deputy commander and deputy chief of staff of the Eastern Route Army, spoke.

In Yegorov's view, the newly established Southwest Front Army within the Allied Forces is dominated by the Japanese army, while the Southern Front Army is dominated by the Volga Federation Army, plus the Central Yang Front Army dominated by the Chinese Communist Party. The three major hills within the coalition forces are similar to those between the Southern Front Army in Tsaritsyn, Russia, and the Eastern Front Army directly commanded by Moscow in the north. If they were directly mobilized and attacked across the defense zone, the problems involved would not be as simple as imagined.

Although Alexander Ilyich Yegorov is only 35 years old, but as a military expert in the Soviet Union's Southern Front Army in the past, he has risen to a high position as the commander of the main army. He is strong and very good at building a good relationship with his superiors. Therefore, whether it is Joseph, a member of the Central Committee of the Soviet Union, or Trotsky, the chairman of the Supreme Military Council of the Soviet Union, Yegorov is regarded as the one who is infinitely loyal to the Soviet Union among the young generals born in Tsarist Russia. , and the master who can really lead troops to fight.

Naturally, at this moment, whether it is Comrade Joseph, the former Tsaritsyn and the head of the Southern Front Army who was imprisoned in Moscow after his resignation, or Trotsky, who still has great discourse power and influence in the central government and the Supreme Military Council of Soviet Russia , are ashamed to admit that Yegorov was wrong.

The former Gemini constellation of the Soviet Red Army, the Eastern Front in the north is Mikhail Nikolaevich Tukhachevsky, and the Southern Front in the south is Alexander Ilyich Yegorov. At this moment, only Tukhachevsky, who had worked so hard to escape back to the left bank of the Volga River and returned to Saransk as the commander of the Soviet 1st Army, was alone.

Yegorov, the pride of the Southern Front in the past, and his deputy, Stepin, have become traitors and sinners of Soviet Russia. This also adds a crime to the many mistakes of Comrade Joseph, the former Soviet Russian central committee member: Employment oversight.

Of course, this label of negligent employment can only be temporarily pinned on Comrade Joseph Dzhugashvili, the dead tiger, but no one dares to say that Trotsky, chairman of the Supreme Military Council of Soviet Russia, is also responsible for Yegorov's appointment. Inescapable responsibility.

In fact, for the Soviet Russian central yang, all these shames seem to have been inadvertently downplayed and blown away. The Soviet Russian central yang now intentionally or unintentionally reveals that the Volga Federation is a friendly state, and the Kolchak gang in Kazan is the one who will never die The propaganda slogan of the worst enemy of the world.

Since the Volga Federation is an allied state, the former Soviet Russian Red Army senior generals who defected to the allied state can only be regarded as deserters with their own ambitions. Besides, if they are traitors, it is a bit embarrassing for the Volga Federation, especially when the two sides reached an exchange for the Tsar’s family deal, and the Volga Federation will sell oil to Moscow by default.