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    In the sky above Yekaterinaburg in early May, the cold fog was as thick as silk, and the tall Orthodox church spire in the distance was completely obscured.

    After finishing the trip to St. Petersburg and going to the front line in Ukraine to pretend to be concerned, Yang Qiu¡¯s special train has been parked here for three days.  The war on the Western Front was too far away from Russia, so this place, like most other border cities in Russia's interior, was still immersed in the pain of the change of old and new regimes.  No matter how great a country is, such a major event as a change of dynasty can never be passed quietly. Since the new government announced the continuation of the war again last month, the city was full of slogans advocating an armistice and launching a strike. Soldiers and soldiers left over from the Tsarist era  The police continued to work hard to maintain order in the city, but the number of careless and busy attempts to make money and take advantage of the opportunity to make a final profit also began to increase.  .

    For example, in the largest train transfer hub in the Ural region on the outskirts, several Russian nobles and officials led a small team of soldiers to try to take over the temporary warehouse area of ??the station. The reserves of arms and supplies worth hundreds of millions of dollars were enough to attract countless eager and greedy eyes.  But what was waiting and answering them was the Second Expeditionary Force of the Republic of China on the Eastern Front, Tangnu Wulianghai Camp, not, it should be the cold muzzles of the soldiers of the reinforced regiment.

    Since the outbreak of the February Revolution, Yang Qiu ordered an infantry regiment of the 123rd Mixed Division stationed here to be merged into the battalion. He also sent letters overnight to Britain and France requesting authorization to temporarily take over Russia's second largest arms and supplies warehouse.  The reason is to prevent weapons and supplies from flowing into the hands of those in Russia who oppose the continuation of the war and causing unpredictable situations.  For Britain and France, Siberia and the Far East were beyond their reach. In addition, they were worried about Russia's withdrawal from the war, so they quickly agreed to the proposal and handed over the custody of the warehouse area and transfer station to the Chinese Expeditionary Force.  When visiting St. Petersburg, the Russian interim government also promised to temporarily take over the Chinese government, saying that whenever the Russian army needs to receive it, a joint warrant from the Russian Army Staff and the government will be issued, and the handover will be carried out after the political situation in Russia stabilizes.

    So don¡¯t say that the Commander-in-Chief¡¯s special train is still parked at the station at this moment, even if it is not, there is no Russian government document.  They want to come and get weapons without a warrant from the Russian General Staff. Do you really think that our treaty is a vegetarian?  "Get out of here! I'm warning you again, this is the military property of the Allied countries. If there are any trespassers, shoot and kill them!" The warrant officer held up a chicken feather as a command arrow, and slapped on the Allied countries' hat, and the Russian official with ulterior motives looked on his face.  It¡¯s all white!  The world is really turned upside down, there is no distinction between hell and heaven!  How many years has this been?  Back then, Siberia and the Far East were Slavic back gardens, and the Chinese were not shy about it, but now they have become a member of the Entente, and they are pretending to be powerful and taking over the property belonging to Russia!

    Of course there are those who are willing to be Russian traitors.  Major Chekov, the liaison officer of the Tangnu Ulianghai Regiment of the Russian Expeditionary Force in China, had a look of dismay on his face. He was wearing a Chinese Expeditionary Force standard cotton coat, with a bottle of Shanxi Laobaigan vaguely visible in the coat pocket. He belched wine and translated for the tiger: "Leave.  If you need arms, bring a warrant, otherwise, shoot and kill."

    The officials and soldiers were so angry that their foreheads were smoking. Is this guy still a Slav?  !  But the wine seems to taste good.

    This Slavic scum bought off by wine!

    Although the officials coveted the priceless supplies in the warehouse, the black muzzles of the guns that popped out from behind the sandbag bunkers left them helpless, and in the end they had to curse a few times and go back.  However, when I arrived at the door, I found that even the few trucks I had brought with me were missing.  After asking for a long time, I found out that the driver and the truck had been temporarily detained by the Chinese Communist Army in the name of being recruited for the treaty for military transportation. It really cost my wife and my troops.

    In fact, the truck has really been requisitioned. It is currently parked next to the station platform to load the American bombs that have just arrived from Vladivostok.  Thousands of Chinese workers laughed while transporting arms. Most of the Chinese workers here came from the Northeast region.  Many of them were originally making a living in Russia. Who hasn't been angered by those tyrannical soldiers?  But now our own soldiers waved their hands and made them suffer. This is something that has not happened in hundreds of years!  So I am even more motivated to do things.  The agreement is indeed a good thing!  The Chinese workers sighed with emotion and murmured about what the treaty was. It could actually make even the arrogant Maozi move large boxes off the train without being easily offended.

    The long box contains the Russian version of the American M1903 Springfield rifle using 7.62*54r bullets, the short one contains a 500-round bullet box, the slightly smaller one contains a Colt 9mm revolver, and barrels with eye-catching colors**  , a heavy French 75 rapid-fire gun, hundreds of barrels of different sizes.  There are also generators, trucks, aircraft engines, etc. There are many kinds of them.  These supplies were part of the aid provided by Britain and France, and of course were ordered by the Tsar from the United States.  Although the payment for the goods has not arrived, considering its own interests and the willingness of Britain and France to provide guarantees, even if the revolution broke out in Russia, after Yang Qiu visited St. Petersburg and the provisional government stated that the war would continue, the United States continued to transport them from San Francisco to Vladivostok.  Or big??.  Then it was transported here by rail to wait for transfer to the Eastern Front battlefield.

    After the Tangnu Ulianghai Regiment took over, they made a detailed inventory of the reserves here. Even excluding the arms and material vehicles that still arrive in at least two trains every day, the reserves in this transit arsenal include 300,000 rifles, 200 million rounds of bullets, and various types of ammunition.  600 cannons, 780 Russian M1910 heavy machine guns with Sokolov wheel mounts, and more than 5 million artillery shells. As for guns, copper ingots, aluminum ingots, spare barrels, generators, cars, barrels, raw rubber,  Even urgently needed machine tools and equipment are worth hundreds of millions of dollars!  In addition to orders from the United States, there is also assistance from Britain, France and other countries, as well as self-produced equipment throughout Siberia and the Far East, including Ekaterinaburg. Of course, there are also a small number of republic-produced weapons and equipment purchased by Russia.  The reason why they are all stored here is because of the large backlog caused by transportation difficulties in winter. In addition, the Russian provisional government has not sorted out its internal affairs so far. Opposition to the continuation of the war in the military is rising. It is difficult to obtain a joint document signed by the government and the military.  More difficult.

    Of course, Britain, France, the United States and other countries are not yet aware that the backlog is so large. As for the Tannu Ulianghai Regiment, they also send people to collect the finished products from various arsenals in Yekaterinaburg every day according to the rules and transport them here. They stop all transport trucks to unload and wait for transfer, and then follow the rules.  The agreement negotiated was protected and awaited the arrival of someone with a joint call order from the Russian government and military.  In fact, if someone can really get this official letter, then Li Liejun will also distribute it according to the amount and on time. After all, everyone is still nominally in the same boat, but he didn't even want to pay attention to someone who just came to take over with nothing.

    And these things and Yekaterinburg, Russia's second largest metallurgical, weapons, and industrial manufacturing city, are also the key to Yang Qiu's lingering nostalgia.  certainly.  There is no second person method for these.

    "Brother Xia Ru, you are very happy here."

    Two figures at the door of the warehouse looked at the leaving Russian officials and then walked towards the train. One of them was Shi Xiaolou, the current commander of the Eastern Front Expeditionary Force, and the other was Li Liejun, the commander of the Tangnu Ulianghai Regiment.  While speaking, the former also patted the latter on the shoulder.  It looks very intimate.  In fact, there is a connection between them, because both of them are graduates of the Japanese Military Academy. When Shi Xiaolou arrived in Japan, he was bullied by Japanese students. It was Li Liejun who took the lead to stand up for him, so the two have always had a good personal relationship.  When the Kuomintang started its uprising, Li Liejun even thought of wooing Shi Xiaolou to control the Hubei army. Unfortunately, by then he had been recruited by Yang Qiu to join the National Society, so their different political pursuits kept the two from getting together for many years.  But Shi Xiaolou always remembered that kindness.  Therefore, when Li Liejun was sent to Wulianghai, he went to see him off and presented him with a Minyuan-style pistol for self-defense.  Although Shi Xiaolou behaved very enthusiastically, Li Liejun had long lost the free and easy mentality of the past, because the junior fellow in front of him who was two years younger than him was already the commander of the front army, and he was also the commander of the reserve regiment. He said: "  The commander is on the front line like he is here, and if these Russians didn't come and make trouble a few times that day, I don't know what would happen if I really gave them a good look."

    Hear him call himself commander.  Shi Xiaolou knew that he had not completely gotten over what happened that year, but this matter had a lot to do with Yang Qiu, so let alone himself, even Song Ziqing never talked about it.  So I pretended not to hear and continued: "Brother Xia Ru has a heavy responsibility now. He is responsible for the Russian army and our logistics. I'm afraid you will be promoted again in a short time."

    Li Liejun smiled bitterly, so what if it goes up further?  I can¡¯t take off the label of the Democratic Party from my head.

    The two of them chatted while walking towards the special train. Seeing that Li Liejun didn't want to talk more about this topic, Shi Xiaolou had to change it and asked: "Have you heard about the Western Front? What do you think of this battle?" Yue Peng encrypted the code after the war.  The telegram was sent to Ural, so Li Liejun also knew that the Western Front Expeditionary Force had a big battle to fight.  He is also a soldier, and he was obsessed with the military before the Kuomintang. Seeing Shi Xiaolou, Chen Huan and others who were similar to him back then, now holding heavy troops and fighting fiercely in all directions, he felt like a fire was burning in his heart.  Said: "I heard a little bit. But it's not very detailed. I just know that there is a tough battle to fight."

    Shi Xiaolou explained Yue Peng's battle plan. When he heard that the target was the main force of the German First Army, Li Liejun's eyes widened immediately and he asked as if he couldn't believe it: "You want to eat a German Army?! This  I'm afraid the price is not small." He didn't dare to say that he didn't believe it, but Shi Xiaolou heard it.  I happened to have reached the car.  Hearing that Lei Meng said that Yang Qiu was discussing things with Lu Zhengxiang and Wu Tingfang, he simply pulled him into the carriage, took out the sketch of the Western Front he had drawn while waiting, and said, "Xiaru, you can see for yourself."

    After reading the sketch, Li Liejun gradually understood Yue Peng's tactics. He wanted to use the opportunity of quickly breaking through the gap as bait to create a time lag when the German reserve troops were too late to assist. He used night cover to conduct a long-distance detour, and then waited for the main German army the next day.  When heading south to intercept them, they surrounded and completely destroyed them with superior force.  Moreover, he cleverly used the Aisne River as a natural moat, and boldly temporarily abandoned the two divisions coming from the direction of Sedan and Ilsson.It is simply unrealistic for Erden's German army to come to help, because first they have to pull out Moronvilliers, and the French Fourth Army has to kill hundreds of thousands of people until they are weak, let alone a quick breakthrough.  The northern support was blocked by the Aisne River, the eastern support was covered by the Fourth Army of Moronvilliers, and the three French armies in the west gathered on the Siegfried Line. Therefore, five infantry divisions were decisively deployed to quickly cut off the connection with Reims, and cleverly  Create a vacuum zone!  This left the German First Army without any support for at least three to four days.  Seeing this deployment and calculation, Li Liejun had to admit that Yue Peng was an officer who was extremely proficient in tactics, and it was hard to imagine that this was the first time he had commanded 22 divisions in a major battle involving more than 400,000 people.

    Thinking that the German First Army was probably surrounded and had even started fighting with all its strength, even he was a little envious and said: "Commander Yue has great skills. If only he could see it with his own eyes."

    "No chance."

    Yang Qiu's voice suddenly appeared behind the two of them. Shi Xiaolou and Li Liejun quickly saluted, but when they saw Wu Tingfang and Lu Zhengxiang's faces blooming, a feeling of heat suddenly rose in their hearts. The former was even pretending to be brave.  He asked: "Is the fight over with Yue Peng finished?"

    "It's over, the German First Army is finished!"

    "God"

    Amidst Lu Zhengxiang¡¯s joyful reply, Li Liejun suddenly realized that his status as a member of the Democratic Party seemed to have caused him to miss out on a lot of things.

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