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Volume 2 Beijing Story Chapter 221 Sturm und Drang takes Irkutsk

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    On March 1, 1918, in addition to Zhang Zuoxiang's 17th Division of the Eastern Route Army of the Chinese Participating Army taking Shuangchengzi and successfully joining forces with the Japanese 12th Division in Vladivostok, the progress of the 7th Division of the Chinese Participating Army Wang Tingzhen  It was even more rapid. The leading force passed the Zhigang Brigade and rushed north along the Siberian Railway.

    Along the way, it connected four towns along the way: Sozavodsk, Dalileniechinsk, Bigin, and Vyazemsky, creating a miracle of advancing 370 kilometers in a single day relying on trains and railway lines. To the north, there are  100 kilometers away is Khabarovsk (Kaboli), the base camp of Tsarist Russia in the Far East.

    Of course, due to the rapid advancement, the three brigades of the 7th Division of the participating army formed a long snake formation along the railway line. At the forefront was the 20th Mixed Brigade that passed Zhigang, followed by the 20th Mixed Brigade that stayed in Bijin.  The Duofeng Department of the 21st Mixed Brigade in Korea, trailing behind are the division headquarters of Wang Tingzhen's 7th Division and the 19th Mixed Brigade Wang Guoyu's Department.

    All towns and stations along the way are controlled by the squadron, and a steady stream of food and logistical support materials are transported from Suifen River along the railway line. In this lean spring, food is the best hard currency in the Far East and Siberia.  .

    The Chinese Army took measures to maintain the status quo for local people and officials along the way. It only took over all railways, stations, warehouses and arsenals. Russian soldiers who laid down their weapons were regarded as civilians and were treated like other local people every day.  You can get a stability maintenance ration issued by the participating armies from the local town office.

    The security of the local towns was maintained by the gendarmerie of the participating military forces. What they had to deal with was not the local people, but the dispersed Russian stragglers and bandits who were wandering around. The local police would contact the town office after registration.  Civil servants will continue to be employed.

    To consolidate the occupation of a place, the army can only play a short-term maintenance role. Only when it is recognized by the people of this land can this land truly return to the embrace of China. Of course, the participating troops have shown at this moment  The mild attitude does not mean that these soldiers from China and the blond Russian people have any sense of identity as one country and one family towards these blond Russian people.

    The strict discipline of the Participating Model Army was instilled and forged by the military song "Three Major - Nine Points of Attention to Discipline" that this unit has sung at least three times a day since its establishment. Or you can call this the Participating Army and was used by Wang Geng  This song is brainwashing, and strict discipline is the most typical feature of this team.

    Of course, the price is countless unqualified soldiers who were punished for violating military discipline. Except for those bad guys who committed capital crimes and were shot, most of the soldiers who were kicked out of the war because of violating military discipline will regret it most in the future.  The punishment of "never hired" is really disgraceful and the price is too high!

    Especially after the model army that participated in the war gradually became the pillar and the great wall of the country, those guys who fell behind will be proud of being a member of this army, and they will be kicked out no matter where they are in the future.  I feel extremely regretful and regretful for losing the troops.

    Both the Prime Minister and the Undersecretary of the Army once asked Wang Geng that in terms of geographical and administrative divisions, it might be possible to recover the land lost since the Treaty of Nerchinsk between China and Russia by chance, but now the Russian residents in the entire Siberia and the Far East exceed  How can 10 million people agree that this land belongs to China?  Conquering territory is easy, but how difficult is it to conquer people's hearts?

    Wang Geng¡¯s answer was beyond Duan Qirui and Xu Shuzheng¡¯s expectations. The man smiled coldly and said,

    "Our goal is to take back the land ceded since the Treaty of Nerchinsk between China and Russia. Who said we have to take back those 10 million people? Of course, in a humanitarian spirit, we have given the residents of this land 230 years of  They choose the opportunity to become Chinese nationals and become Chinese. If they give up this opportunity, then there is nothing we can do but ask them to go back to their homeland!¡±

    Although the Chinese participating troops made rapid progress on the eastern front, taking over more than half of the large towns in the Far Eastern Primorye within two days and controlling the Siberian Railway and stations along the way, in Wang Geng's view, this was still a steady and steady attack, and the real test  Later, how to make the local residents recognize the reality, or choose to become a Chinese national and openly be a Chinese. No matter which nationality you are, you can become a Chinese citizen!

    Or just pack up and leave. The Chinese government promises to protect the lives and property of local expatriates from infringement, but it does not indicate that it will accept you as a foreign landlord or rich farmer on Chinese territory. China has never been a colony of the Russians, only Chinese farmers.  He is the owner of this land, and others can only be tenants. If a Russian old man is willing to work as a tenant for a Chinese landlord, what is unacceptable about this?

    In Wang Geng¡¯s plan, after the entire Trans-Siberian Railway is opened and all railway lines and stations east of Lake Baikal are controlled, local residents¡¯ naturalization screening will be carried out. As for Japanese, they can apply anywhere north of the Xing¡¯an Mountains.Let them toss, of course, if the Japanese are willing to play the role of villains for the Chinese combatants to wipe out the subversive elements or Soviet guerrillas in Siberia and the Far East that will inevitably appear, the Chinese combatants will be happy to see it happen.

    ¡°If necessary, let the Japanese become the devils in the minds of the natives and immigrants of Soviet Russia on this land, and let the soldiers who joined the war act as the angels who save the people. How can this deal be impossible?

    Of course, what Wang Geng privately revealed to Premier Duan and Chief Xu was that the Chinese participating troops would control all the land east of Lake Baikal, and at the same time, use the Trans-Siberian Railway to transport the Japanese divisions to the vast area west of Lake Baikal.  , how much Japan can gain depends on the results of their battle against the Soviet Red Army in the Ural region and west of the Ural.

    At the same time, it also depends on whether their cooperation with Kolchak of the Siberian Provisional Self-Government and the Czech Army can be successful. Kolchak is the target of the Japanese who have placed a heavy bet.

    On the same day of March 1, 1918, the Western Route Army on the eastern front of the Chinese participating armies continued to expand its results. The 9th Division of Li Mingzhong, which attacked from Manchuria, occupied Borja and Krasnokamensk the day before.  , continued to advance wildly, and the vanguard 25th Brigade, led by Jiangxi veteran brigade commander He Weizhen, pushed forward 160 kilometers along the China Eastern Railway branch line toward the Trans-Siberian Railway.

    Along the way, they successively occupied towns and stations such as Sherlova Yagora, Mayaka, Belka, Kurinda, and Aga, and at 3 o'clock that afternoon they occupied the hub station of Mo where the China-Eastern Railway branch line merges into the Trans-Siberian Railway.  Goitui, completely annihilated the local station guard and a Cossack cavalry battalion, and cut off the Trans-Siberian Railway!

    Mogoituy is a large-scale hub of the Trans-Siberian Railway in Zaibelga Territory. Railways and roads converge here. From here to the southwest and then to the north is Chita, and from here to the northeast is Nibu  Chu, a place famous for the Treaty of Nerchinsk between China and Russia.

    The 26th Brigade of Xiong Shihui, which occupied Krasnokamensk the day before, pushed northward in one go and occupied the two important towns of Savobolja and Berezovka, 80 kilometers to the north.  The goal of this brigade is to capture Nerchinsk and then head east along the Trans-Siberian Railway to take the back road to Khabarovsk.

    Li Mingzhong's 9th Division led Liu Zhi's 27th Brigade and followed in the footsteps of He Weizhen's 25th Brigade and continued to advance in the direction of Chita. This guy had a huge appetite and thought he could capture Chita.  The 25th and 27th brigades are more than enough. Xiong Shihui's 26th brigade is responsible for sweeping Nerchinsk and continuing to develop eastward.

    In Li Mingzhong's words, Lao Maozi's army in the east has a limited number of troops, and there will be no reinforcements. His main force must first capture Chita, and secondly, rush west to support Wu Peifu's third division. In the future, Lao Maozi  If you want to seize Siberia and the Far East, you will definitely have to come from Kazan and Omsk along the Trans-Siberian Railway!

    Also on this day, Wu Peifu's Third Division was not idle at all. Sun Liangcheng's armored brigade directly loaded the vehicles onto flatbed trains and continued its assault westward, successively capturing Selenginsk and Babushkin on the shores of Lake Baikal.  In Babushkin, Sun Liangcheng unloaded the armored vehicle from the train and rushed directly across the frozen Lake Baikal to Irkutsk, an important town in the west of Lake Baikal, 140 kilometers away!

    If you continue to take the railway, the Trans-Siberian Railway will go south around the southern end of the entire lake area, the distance will be twice as long, and there will be four large towns along the way: Baikalsk, Sludyanka, Kurtuk and Serekhov.  and station, Sun Liangcheng worked nonstop, and after notifying the division commander Wu Peifu who had arrived in Ulan-Ude, he led his armored brigade through the frozen ice of Lake Baikal and directly onto the land on the other side.

    On the evening of March 1, 1918, the Sun Liangcheng Armored Brigade, the vanguard of Wu Peifu's 3rd Division, appeared on the streets of Irkutsk. The entire city was caught off guard. After slight resistance, a battalion of the defenders laid down their weapons, and the important town in the west of Lake Baikal  It fell into the hands of the Chinese combatants!
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