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Volume 2 Beijing Story Chapter 207 The West Route Army conquered two cities in succession

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    "Blind chicken - bullshit! You guys want to sit in the train and be a living target for me? A few guerrillas will plant a gun for you on the roadbed and then explode it and you will get on the plane! I have worked hard to practice  The elite soldiers who came out can't take such risks!

    The supervisor said, we are not in a hurry to grab any time. We should just treat it as a camping exercise. Winning three points in the Far East depends on military and seven points on politics!  Your group quickly set up camp for me, heated my feet, set up security and went to sleep!  Before the lights-out signal sounds, your group sings "Three Major - Nine Points of Attention to Discipline" three times!  How about I join the second group from the first group tomorrow?  "

    "Hey! Brigadier, don't we usually sing it once? But why don't we fetch some water and chop some firewood for the Russian fellows?" Zhang Zhihai laughed and made trouble with his elder brother.

    "I said it three times, three times! What nonsense, if anyone in the whole brigade breaks the chain and violates military discipline in the Far East, I will skin him!" Zhang Zhijiang raised his foot to kick him, but Zhang Zhihai hurriedly avoided it.  He walked over, then snapped me to attention, "I obey my orders!"

    On February 28, 1918, the Chinese Participating Model Army officially launched the Eastern Front Campaign to defend the 18th and regain the territory. Zhang Zuoxiang's 17th Division all crossed the Suifenhe boundary line. The vanguard Zhang Zhijiang's 49th Brigade advanced to a distance not far from Shuangchengzi.  5 km to the town of Bosbiceco.

    The headquarters of the 17th Division and Han Chunlin's 51st Brigade stayed in the town of Pogranicny, while Jiang Dengxuan's 50th Brigade advanced to Wuyi Town. The entire division formed a long snake along the 100 kilometers of railways and roads.  The formation, the railways and stations along the way were all placed under the control of the Seventeenth Division. Xu Tu's strategy of slowing down the advance was Wang Geng's main tone.

    The participating army came to regain the land in the Far East, and they did not intend to give up every inch of land. Therefore, it was not that the light cavalry rushed in and captured the city. In fact, the stations along the railway line from Suifenhe to this side that the participating army controlled were not only used for military purposes.  In addition to materials and fuel, the most transported thing is food.

    Tomorrow morning, in all the towns and stations along the way occupied by the Chinese ** troops in the Far East, the logistics troops of the participating armies will be responsible for opening warehouses and distributing grain, and each household is limited to one ration per day!  Railways and stations will temporarily enter military control.  The original administrative agencies and civil servants in Tsarist Russia's towns, villages and along the route will be retained and will continue to be responsible for maintaining local order.

    The first article of entry instructions for participating troops is to protect the life and property safety of local residents from infringement. The second article is that participating officers and soldiers are prohibited from breaking into private houses. Unless necessary to perform tasks, participating officers and soldiers are not even allowed to enter privately.  local village.

    In addition to Zhang Zuoxiang's 17th Division, Wang Tingzhen's 7th Division also crossed the border after the 17th Division. The leading brigade was the 20th Brigade of the 7th Division. This guy was also an outstanding person from the 16th Mixed Brigade. Wang Tingzhen  The 7th Division was a meritorious unit that recovered the Middle East Railway. It was adapted from the 16th Division directly in the early days. The 7th Division was born in the Guards and had good quality soldiers, and it had been tempered by actual combat in recovering the Middle East Railway.

    Therefore, Wang Tingzhen's 7th Division advanced north faster than the 17th Division, which was ahead. On February 28, Guo Zhigang Brigade left Suifenhe at 10 a.m., and by 6 p.m., they had already advanced to the small town of Siba.  Scodarini!  A full 120 kilometers have been advanced.

    In addition to the armored reconnaissance battalion advancing along the road, the Guozhigang Brigade also directly moved its locomotives to advance along the railway line. However, for the railway line that advanced by train, only one battalion was sent to the front station, and the rest of the troops were sent out on the second train half an hour apart.  , on the third train.

    The war strategy of the participating armies in the Far East is what Wang Geng said: three parts military and seven parts politics. According to prior reconnaissance and intelligence, the main force of the Russian Far East Military Region is more than 10,000 people in the base camp of Khabarovsk, and there is a regiment of 3,000 people in Shuangchengzi.  There is a brigade of 6,000 people in Vladivostok, and another 8,000 people in Chita.

    The 6 mixed brigades of the 17th Division and the 7th Division of the participating army totaled 60,000 elites. Together with the follow-up road protection troops and logistics depot troops, it would not be a problem to capture Shuangchengzi and Vladivostok, as well as Habaro, the base camp and capital of Tsarist Russia's Far East.  Fusk will take a little more trouble. The city has complete fortresses and fortifications. It is said that the strength is as strong as the Lushun Fortress of the year.

    During the Russo-Japanese War, 30,000 Russian troops held Port Arthur for a full year under siege by the Japanese army. The Japanese army, which was besieged by superior forces, launched four meat-and-bomb offensives, resulting in 60,000 casualties and failed to capture Lushun. In the end, the Russian side still managed to capture Port Arthur.  The commander-in-chief, Army Lieutenant General Anatoly Mikhailovich Stessel, considered that the main position was lost, there was no hope of reinforcements, and any further fighting would be massacre, so he announced that he would lay down his weapons and surrender.

    For the two divisions on the eastern front of the participating armies, the only tough battle may come from Khabarovsk. If the Russian army is smart, it should abandon its troops and retreat from Vladivostok and Shuangchengzi, and concentrate its troops to the first payment of Khabarovsk in the north.  To advance, you can concentrate your forces to defend Khabarovsk, and to retreat, you can strategically retreat west to Chita.

    As for the Cossack leader who led a group of rabble back to SiberiaSemyonov has no other positive meaning except being a puppet. For Wang Geng, the activity area designated for Semyonov is north of Lake Baikal. That place belongs to Russia, and he can do whatever he wants.  No matter how hard it is, for the areas designated as belonging to China in the Treaty of Nerchinsk, the participating armies do not need any puppet government.

    Wang Geng even convinced the Prime Minister and the Undersecretary of the Army that China has plenty of people but lacks arable land. We welcome the old Maozi residents of the Far East who are willing to stay, and we will send them off to those who are willing to return to the West to Russia. You can¡¯t take the land with you anyway.  Walk!

    The Chinese participating troops crossed the border singing the Three Major Disciplines and Nine Points of Attention. This does not mean that the war will be bloodless. The participating troops will never fire the first shot at the local residents, no matter who they are or what they are wearing.  The military uniforms still only carry shotguns. As long as anyone dares to fire the first shot at the participating troops, the participating troops will fire the second shot and the third shot, chasing the enemy like a rabbit with nowhere to escape!

    On February 28, 1918, the 9th Division of Li Mingzhong, a participant in the western section of the Eastern Front, also crossed the border from Manchuria. A battalion stationed by the Russian Customs on the opposite side laid down its weapons and surrendered. The three brigades of the 9th Division launched an all-out attack.  They occupied Borja, a road and railway hub 100 kilometers away from Manchuria, in one day. An infantry regiment of the Tsarist Russian defenders resisted and refused to lay down their weapons. They were surrounded and annihilated by Li Mingzhong's leading brigade!

    A mixed brigade of the participating army, armed to the teeth with nearly ten thousand people, attacked a Tsarist Russian infantry regiment with only a few artillery pieces and a dozen Maxim machine guns. For the first time, aircraft from the participating army appeared in the sky to help out. It was a typical case of killing a chicken with a knife.  tactics.

    More than 2,000 Russian prisoners were directly transported back to Qiqihar by train to serve hard labor in the coal mines. More than 1,000 old Tsarist Russian prisoners were neatly eliminated, and as many as 2,000 were killed. The Shandong men of Li Mingzhong's 9th Division screamed that their morale was greatly boosted and they joined the war.  The casualties were only a few dozen. The victory on the Western Front made Wang Geng more excited than the progress on the Eastern Front. This was the first battle in which the participating armies fully utilized firepower, infantry and artillery coordination and air-ground coordination!

    In fact, when the infantry accompanying the armored battalion tanks rushed to Lao Maozi's position, Lao Maozi, who was knocked upside down by the artillery and aircraft bombardments of the participating armies, immediately put down his weapons. The difference in strength and firepower between the two sides was too great.  The Russian army in the Far East has never seen such powerful firepower, and this battle is impossible to fight!

    This battle was all due to the Borja garrison, because the Tsarist Russian Colonel Pisov Nislaki looked down on the Chinese ** team!  This guy was still a top soldier when he followed the Eight-Nation Allied Forces into Beijing to grab a big hit. During the Russo-Japanese War, he escaped disaster and became a platoon leader. By 1918, he was already an infantry colonel. In his concept, he was a platoon leader.  Except for the lack of braids on the back of his head, the team is still at the level of the Qing Dynasty in other aspects.

    Because of this guy¡¯s blind arrogance and wrong judgment, the lives of more than 1,000 Tsarist Russian soldiers were sacrificed for him!  90% of them died from large-scale shelling and bombing by the participating armies!

    Li Mingzhong was quite bold in his use of troops. He sent one brigade to Borja, 100 kilometers northwest of Manzhouli, and another brigade went directly north to capture the important town of Krasnokamensk, 80 kilometers away.

    In the words of the War Supervisor Wang Geng who often taught him, the brigade commander of the First Division, there is no way to allow others to sleep soundly on the side of the couch. Either the Western Route Army on the eastern front will not fight, or if it fights out, it will have to destroy the transportation hub city of Borgia and  Krasnokamensk in the north was captured, otherwise it would pose too great a threat to the Ninth Division's flanks.

    Krasnokamensk (kpachoka?mehck) is an important town in the Transbaikal Territory of Russia. It is 535 kilometers southeast of Chita, the capital, and 80 kilometers away from Manzhouli in China. It has 15,920 local residents. This place will be Russia's largest uranium mine in the future.  In 1918, it was the second largest city in the original Chita region.

    Less than 2 kilometers away from the city, there is a labor camp in Tsarist Russia. It contains more than 1,000 prisoners who were exiled to Siberia during the Tsarist era, mostly political prisoners!
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