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Volume 2 Beijing Story Chapter 202 The Battle of Defend 18 Begins

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    In his previous life, although Trotsky did not agree to make peace with Germany under such conditions, in order to avoid a split in Soviet Russia, he finally supported the little man against his will and persuaded other Central Committee members, so that the vote was finally passed. But this time perhaps Wang Geng  The butterfly flaps its wings.

    In the last vote of the Soviet Central Committee, when the little man threatened to resign, Bukharin, Stalin, and Trotsky were not intimidated. Instead, they promoted democratic centralism. According to the opinions of the 15 Central Committee members  The vote resulted in a one-sided vote of 11 against and 4 in favor, rejecting the motion to accept Germany's harsh conditions. The little mentor resigned angrily. After being persuaded to stay, the Soviet Central Committee elected Bukharin as the new chairman!

    Immediately afterwards, the Central Committee of the Soviet Union passed a resolution to suspend negotiations with Germany, and adopted Trotsky's plan of no war, no peace. It began to restore large numbers of Tsarist Russian troops on the front line, but at the same time began to form the Soviet Red Army under the leadership of the Bolsheviks.  , considering that Petrograd was under the threat of the German army, Soviet Russia also made the decision to move the capital to Moscow!

    In the words of Trotsky at the meeting, Napoleon conquered Europe but failed to conquer Russia. Moscow was occupied by the French but did not lose the war. What is there to fear now? Most of the old Russian army is not demobilized.  They would also stand on the opposite side of the Soviet Russian regime to support the rebellion and the White Guards. They would simply demobilize the old army while forming a new Red Army, and at the same time strategically shrink and retreat to the north and east.

    The Georgian also clutched a big pipe and shouted, "The Allies will not sit back and watch Germany continue to expand its victories on the Eastern Front to gain benefits. The stronger Germany is, the more British, American, and French imperialism will tremble on the Western Front. The Germans must  Before reaping the benefits of occupying Russia, launch an offensive on the Western Front to bring back the German bull! We must not be intimidated by the superficial offensive of the German army on the Eastern Front. Whoever signed a treaty like Brest-Litovsk will stay.  The stain that cannot be washed away in the next life! He is the eternal sinner of Russia!"

    The peace between the Soviet Union and Germany failed, and the world was in chaos. Considering that the Soviet Union actually gave up the Eastern Front battlefield and made a strategic retreat to the north and east, both Germany, Austria and the Allied Powers were dumbfounded. The confidentiality of intelligence work in this era  It's quite bad. All countries have countless eyes and ears in the governments and foreign ministries of both warring parties.

    For the Allied Powers, it is certainly a good thing that the Soviet Russian government suspended the peace negotiations with Germany, but it is very inappropriate to abandon the front and flee without a fight and directly conduct a strategic retreat. That is no different from capitalizing on the enemy Germany. If Germany did not  It took no effort to occupy the oil fields in the Caucasus and the grain in Ukraine in the European part of Russia. How is this different from making peace?  This is worse than making peace!

    So at the end of February, wonders appeared on the European battlefield. Not only were the German troops advancing towards the Russian hinterland on the Eastern Front to seize territory, but the Allied Powers also landed in Russia to occupy military key points to avoid falling into the hands of the Germans.

    In China, by the end of February 1918, the tenth batch of US aid arms arrived, and six supplementary brigades of recruits were respectively sent to Suiyuan, Chahar, Jehol and Jilin, while eight elite mixed brigades veterans drawn from the above four provinces were deployed in  They were strengthened to four brigades each in Outer Mongolia and Heilongjiang.

    Before the end of February 1918, when China launched the military operation to defend the 18th and regain its homeland, the troops participating in the war were deployed on the east and west fronts as follows:

    Eastern Front Battlefield:

    Zhang Zuoxiang's Seventeenth Division and Wang Zhengting's Seventh Division, two divisions and six mixed brigades, marched from Suifen River along the Middle East Road to the Far East Shuangchengzi. After that, the Seventh Division went north along the Trans-Siberian Railway with the goal of capturing Khabarovsk, and the Seventeenth Division went south.  The goal was to capture Vladivostok; the three mixed brigades of Li Mingzhong's 9th Division attacked westward from Manzhouli at the western end of the Middle East Road, with the goal of Chita, the railway and highway hub of the Trans-Siberian Railway.

    As a reserve force on the eastern front, there are four mixed brigades deployed from Jilin and Rehe as reinforcements to Heilongjiang. Suifenhe and Manzhouli each station a mixed brigade as a reserve force, and the provincial capital Qiqihar and the hub Harbin each station a brigade as a third-line force.

    The new recruit brigades heading north from Nanyuan will supplement 2 brigades each to Rehe and Jilin.

    Western Front Battlefield:

    Three brigades of Wu Peifu's 3rd Division attacked from Kyakhta, with the goal of cutting off the Trans-Siberian Railway and occupying the south of Lake Baikal. Three brigades of Wang Chengbin's 10th Division were stationed in Kyakhta as a reserve force, while in February they sent troops from Suiyuan and Chahar  The four mixed brigades that went north for reinforcements were responsible for garrisoning Tangnu Ulianghai and Kulun as the third line of troops.

    In the battle plan that Wang Geng explained to the Prime Minister and the Undersecretary of the Army, the key to the Eastern Front battlefield was to suppress the Japanese troops who were cooperating to land in Vladivostok. We agreed to give them an excuse, but we could not let them take advantage and seize the goods.  Go, and the battlefield pressure on the Western Front will be relatively high, because it may face pressure from both the Soviet Red Army and the Siberian White Guard.

    Although Semenov has reached a tacit understanding with China, Kolchak and Japan before, once the war starts, we cannot take it lightly and rely solely on these guys!  Right to center?For the participating armies, all captured and captured prisoners must be robbed, but the local people must not be disturbed. They must always be wary of Japan as a friendly force and the White Guards as a tacit agreement.

    In order to prepare for this war, the participating armies took the time to repair frontline airports as early as last year when they regained the Middle East Road and Outer Mongolia. Kyaktu, Manzhouli and Suifenhe all repaired frontline field airports. Since the maximum range of the SE5 fighter jet is only 483 kilometers  , which is equivalent to a combat radius of only 220 kilometers on the front line. Therefore, the front line field airport is an indispensable preparation for the smooth deployment of the combat air force.

    The dh4 reconnaissance bomber has a maximum range of 770 kilometers and a combat radius of 370 kilometers, and can be stationed at second-tier airports. As for the Handley Page 0/400 heavy bomber, the maximum range is 1,120 kilometers, with a combat radius of 550 kilometers, and can be stationed at third-tier airports.

    The big killer in Wang Geng's hands are two Handley Page v/1500 prototypes imported from the UK. The first domestic v/1500 copied by Wang Geng's China Aircraft Manufacturing Company in January passed a smooth test flight.  All indicators met the requirements of the prototype. In February, the production of three more v/1500s was completed. At this time, Wang Geng had six Handley Page v/1500s in his hands.

    The v/1500 has a maximum range of 2,090 kilometers, a combat radius of 1,000 kilometers, and a bomb load of 6.5 tons. It is the undisputed aerial giant of this era!

    After last year's military operations to recapture Outer Mongolia and the Middle East Road, the frontline participating armies have become accustomed to their commander-in-chief setting up his headquarters in Nanyuan, Beijing, instead of places like Kulun or Harbin on the front lines. For Wang Geng, the action plan is his own.  It is designated by the Ministry's Staff Headquarters, and the rest is left to the frontline commanders to perform. The conditions have been created for them. Even if they can't win, even going up by themselves may not be useful.

    The commanding abilities of Wu Peifu and Wang Chengbin on the Western Front are absolutely top-notch. As for the Eastern Front, Zhang Zuoxiang and Wang Tingzhen are both veterans. They are operating with Japan. How can we be sure that they know what they know? The only thing that makes people worry is that the Ninth Army attacked from Manchuria.  Teacher Li Mingzhong.

    Although this guy was the first of Feng Yuxiang's five great kings in his previous life, he is now fighting in an unfamiliar area. Although among the five divisions fighting on the east and west fronts, Lao Maozi's interpreters and guides are deployed at the battalion level, but when the battle really starts,  But it depends on the frontline generals¡¯ ability to adapt to changes in situation!

    Among the nine SE5 fighter squadrons of the participating army aviation forces, 2 were deployed in Kyaktu and 1 in Kulun in Outer Mongolia, while the DH4 reconnaissance bomber squadron was equipped with 1 in Kyaktu and two in Kulun.  .

    In addition, the SE5 fighters and dh4 reconnaissance bombers on the front lines of Manzhouli and Suifenhe are equipped with two each. The Handley Page 0/400 heavy bomber squadron is equipped with three in Culun, and the Mudanjiang Field Airport behind Suifenhe is equipped with three.  , and three are configured in Qiqihar.

    As for the six Big Mac v/1500s, they were placed by Wang Geng as a strategic maneuver force in Beijing Nanyuan as a reserve team. The special operations battalion of Wang Geng¡¯s first division began parachute training last year and became a model army participating in the war.  The first special forces unit in China, when necessary, can be parachuted to the required area at any time to perform tasks alone.

    The Handley Page v/1500 has a load capacity of up to 6.5 tons, making it easy for a v/1500 to carry 60 fully armed paratroopers. During World War I, except for Germany, all Allied pilots were not equipped with parachutes. The reason was actually for fear of contributing to the  Cowardly and avoiding war, Wang Geng ignored that. Pilots are priceless treasures. All pilots of the military aviation force participating in the war were equipped with parachutes and received parachute training.

    The Soviet Union basically has no air force in the Far East, and little Japan now only has a few purchased French aircraft to fill the scene. The aviation fleet of the participating armies will mainly be used to deal with ground targets for reconnaissance and bombing. Of course, if necessary,  Both the 0/400 with a load capacity of 3 tons and the v/1500 with a load capacity of 6.5 tons can serve as transport aircraft!

    Wang Geng has not forgotten the 1,600 tons of gold in the treasury of Tsarist Russia. By March, the production of v/1500 will reach 6, and in April it can rise to ""The Flying Sky Literature Registered Member Recommends This Work"" The Uncertain Eagle  viii aircraft engines can be copied successfully.  Even if you only use the 27 Handley Petty v/1500s on hand to transport Tsarist Russian gold, you can transport 175 tons at one time and complete the shipment in 10 sorties!

    Wang Geng was thinking so beautifully in the war room of Nanyuan Headquarters while issuing combat orders.

    With an order, at 8 a.m. on February 28, 1918, the Chinese participating armies launched a campaign to regain their territory from three directions: Kyaktu, Manzhouli and Suifenhe!
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