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Volume 2 Beijing Story Chapter 214 The Unlucky Semyonov

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    Grigory Mikhailovich Semenov (§¤pn§Ôo?pnnmnxa?n§Ýo§Ón§écemeho§Ó) was born on September 25, 1890. This guy was originally from Transbaikal Province. In Wang Geng¡¯s previous life, Semyonov  He was the leader of Belarus in the Baikal region from 1917 to 1920.

    In his previous life, this guy was evaluated as a typical rogue Cossack leader, but he was a serious cadet who graduated from the Orenburg Military School in 1911 and participated in the battle on the Eastern Front of the European War. In July 1917, Semyonov served as the provisional government in the Lake Baikal region.  representative, responsible for recruiting Cossacks.

    This was a quite remarkable achievement for Semyonov, who was only 27 years old at the time. In Wang Geng's previous life, official documents generally described the White Guards as an army organized by royalists and generals loyal to the Tsar.  , in fact, it is quite different. The composition of the White Guards is quite complex, and it is a synthesis of various anti-Bolshevik forces.

    For example, Semenov was a speculator loyal to the Provisional Government. Of course, he was unlucky. This bet was placed on the White Guards instead of the Red Army. During the October Revolution, the Provisional Government was overthrown by the little mentor and his party.  After the coup was overthrown, Semyonov, the representative of the provisional government in the Baikal region, led the Cossacks to raise a rebellion.

    Semyonov launched a rebellion against the Bolsheviks. As a result, the temporarily assembled mob was no match for the Bolsheviks. After their defeat, they fled to China. In January 1918, with the acquiescence of the Chinese government, Semyonov went to the Middle East in  Four battalions of volunteers were recruited from Hailar, Angangxi and other places along the railway. The members mainly came from the officers and soldiers of the Tsarist Russian Middle Eastern Railway Guard Team who had been disarmed before, and Tsarist Russian immigrants living in the local areas.

    According to Wang Geng's instructions, Heilongjiang Governor Wang Tingzhen returned the Russian rifles and some ammunition that could arm 4 battalions of this guy, and asked him to leave Manchuria and return to the Lake Baikal area. In fact, he became a straggler and bandit in the Transbaikal area.  .  Robbery of trains, robberies of businesses, everything but serious business.

    He would definitely not dare to go to Chita at the moment. Unlike Vladivostok and Khabarovsk, the easternmost Russian garrisons in the Far East, which were wavering between supporting the provisional government or the new Soviet regime, Chita was completely controlled by the Bolsheviks at the moment.  Although the name of the Red Army has not been officially changed, the regular garrison of 8,000 people per strengthened brigade in Chita is not the bandit Cossacks of Semyonov's group who claim to be 4 battalions, but in fact only 1,000 people can deal with it.  of.

    As for why this guy didn't leave Suifenhe to go to Vladivostok or Khabarovsk to conquer the world, the reason is very simple. The title this guy got from the Provisional Government was just the representative of the Provisional Government in the Baikal Lake District. It is different from Khabarovsk.  Compared with the commander of the Far East Military Region, Lieutenant General Andropov, who has more than 10,000 troops under his command, this ragtag group of thousands of people cannot take the lead at all. The same is true in Vladivostok, so this guy can only focus on it first.  Baikal region.

    Ulan-Ude, the hub station on the Trans-Siberian Railway, was originally stationed by a Russian Cossack regiment of Colonel Petrovich. Although the team of more than 3,000 people was not a strong force, it was not something Semyonov dared to provoke easily, but this  Before Si Lin left, he patted his chest with Li Mingzhong, the then garrison commander of Qiqihar, and said that as long as he had the support of weapons, ammunition and food from China, he would soon be able to raise a team from the Lake Baikal region!

    When the Sun Liangcheng Brigade of the Third Division of the Chinese Army rushed to capture Ulan-Ude at lightning speed, Semyonov's team that sneaked back to his hometown was really patchwork and expanded from the original four battalions of volunteers to 3,000.  There are many people, but the weapons are uneven. There are only two horse-drawn Maxim wheel machine guns with not many bullets. There are also a variety of rifles, from the M1891 Mosin-Nagant Russian army standard rifle to the Hanyang-made rifle in China.  When it comes to Japanese 38 guns, they are so messy that two people share one gun.

    In fact, the Cossacks would not be so embarrassed. From ancient times to the present, Cossacks have been professional soldiers who have prepared their own horses and weapons and accepted the government's recruitment to participate in battles. However, Russia is currently in chaos in 1918. Tsarist Russia has always participated in European wars.  General mobilization, this battle lasted from August 1914 to March 1917. Two and a half years of bloody battles led to the recruitment of high-quality soldiers from the Russian Don River and the Siberian Cossacks, including their own weapons and equipment.

    After the February Revolution last year, the provisional government conducted a second large-scale recruitment campaign in order to continue the war on the Eastern Front. It was at this time that Semyonov, a 27-year-old young officer, got involved with a representative of the Baikal region.  Identity, I came back to my hometown to recruit Cossacks to the Provisional Government.

    As a result, the quality of this second team was much worse than when the Tsar recruited him two years ago. Most of the brave and fearless Cossacks fell on the bloody battlefields of the Eastern Front and Germany and Austria. Those who survived were either  The so-called revolutionary soldiers who defected to the Bolsheviks were either stragglers who became displaced after the Russian army was demobilized.

    It was this second batch of Cossacks whose troop quality was much worse. After the Semyonov rebellion, theyAfter being defeated by the former Russian army loyal to the Soviet Union, it experienced its second disintegration. This was the third time that Semyonov returned to his hometown to recruit troops. Not to mention weapons and equipment, he could get a man and a horse.  , it¡¯s already quite difficult.

    The temperature at the end of February was still below zero. Semyonov and his growing gang had eaten up all the food they had obtained after the last robbery. They were so hungry that they decided to go to Ulan-Ude, sixty kilometers west of Ulan-Ude.  The city of Selenginsk is close to Lake Baikal, right at the mouth of the Selenge River entering Lake Baikal. The area to the north of the city facing the lake is a rare impact plain area, and it is also one of the largest grain-producing areas in the Baikal region. Although it is spring now  It hasn¡¯t arrived yet, but even if there is food left over from last year, I think it should be more abundant than elsewhere.

    When Semyonov's team of more than 3,000 Cossack bandits broke into Selenginsk and looted the city, they sadly encountered Colonel Petrovich's Cossack Cavalry Regiment that had withdrawn from Ulan-Ude. They were dumbfounded.  When Drovich's Cossack Cavalry Regiment evacuated from Ulan-Ude in a frustrated and hasty manner, they did not even have time to take away the arms and supplies.

    The cavalry regiment of more than 3,000 people escaped from Ulan-Ude before evening. They did not dare to stop for a moment and walked along the Trans-Siberian Railway. Since Ulan-Ude had been occupied by the squadron, one column  The train from east to west could not be seen, and the train from west to east was because the Semyonov gang broke into Selenginsk and intercepted the train. Therefore, Colonel Petrovitch's regiment rode away.  In the middle of the night, after walking this hundred kilometers, I saw the blazing fire of Selenginsk and heard the sound of gunshots.

    Colonel Petrovich, who was covered in sweat, cold, tears and snot, could not believe his eyes.

    "Chief of Staff Have the Chinese surrounded our retreat? Did they even occupy Selenginsk? Can they really fly?" Petrovich's nose was red, and he asked tremblingly as he asked the person wrapped in thick clothes around him.  Chief of Staff in coat.

    "Can't you? We're across a mountain. Maybe someone's house in the city caught fire?" The chief of staff couldn't believe his eyes. The whole group walked in the middle of the night, tired, cold, and hungry, just hoping to make it there.  Let¡¯s take a break in Selenginsk City to catch our breath and get something to eat!  If the Chinese army takes the retreat again now, the morale of the army will be shattered, and how can the battle be fought?

    The surrounding Cossack soldiers were also surprised and confused. Fortunately, the Cossack who was the leading scout quickly led a few fellow villagers who had escaped from the city to their regiment commander and chief of staff. After a few words of questioning, it turned out to be Semyono.  Gangs of husbands and bandits are looting the city and stealing food, causing harm to the people!

    Hearing that the Semyonov gang was in the city, Petrovitch suddenly jumped up with confidence!  "Semyonov?! Didn't that Cossack scum escape to Manchuria after being defeated last time? Why did he sneak back so quickly!"

    "The entire regiment obeys my order! The target is the Semyonov gangsters in Selenginsk City. The entire army will attack! Anyone who dares to resist will be shot to death!"

    Last time, Petrovich's regiment participated in the Soviet Russian government's counter-insurgency battle against the Semyonov gang, and they did not pay any attention to the defeated generals who came to their door!
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