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Volume 2 Beijing Story Chapter 232 Huge Results and Achievements

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    Also on the eastern front, the Li Mingzhong Division of the 9th Division of the West Route Army that attacked from Manchuria and the vanguard He Weizhen Brigade set out from Mogoitui on March 2, 1918. They traveled 160 kilometers in one day and successively occupied Afghanistan.  Kinskoye, Darazun, Novokruchninsky, and arrived at the outskirts of Chita on March 3.

    Another Xiong Shihui Brigade of the Eastern and Western Route Army advanced to Wenda, 40 kilometers southwest of Nerchinsk, in two days. Because there were no railways or trains along this route, it could only rely on road transportation, so there was a certain problem in the supply of oil.  Due to the severe shortage, the oil shipped from Manchuria was unloaded in Borgia, and then used cars to chase Xiong Shihui's brigade to transport it. Even so, after advancing to Wenda, the group had to stop and wait for the oil behind.

    On March 3, 1918, the 8th Brigade Zhang Weixi of the 3rd Division heading north also advanced to the outskirts of Chita along the Trans-Siberian Railway, and successfully joined forces with the 25th Brigade He Weizhen of the 9th Division who had arrived earlier, and encircled them.  The largest city in Eastern Siberia, Chita, the capital of Chita Oblast!

    Early on the morning of March 4, 1918, Li Mingzhong's division of the Ninth Division and Liu Zhi's 27th Brigade arrived in Chita by train. The local Soviet garrison refused to surrender under the control of the Cheka and the Bolsheviks. Li Mingzhong  He commanded three brigades to launch a campaign to capture Chita.

    Three squadrons of Handley Petty 0/400 heavy bombers taking off from Manzhouli Field Airport conducted aerial bombing of the Russian military positions in Chita, 390 kilometers away. Due to the short flight range, the bomber group was delayed in the air after flying over Chita.  Relatively generous, under the guidance and correction of ground troops, the bombing achieved satisfactory results.

    Li Mingzhong only had 20 minutes to prepare for the artillery fire. Even so, when the three brigades rushed to the Russian position under the guidance of wheeled armored vehicles, the remaining Russian troops with the bombed people on their backs raised a white flag. Chita, as the central city of Eastern Siberia,  But there are no strong fortifications like Port Arthur, Khabarovsk and Vladivostok.

    ¡°If the Cheka and the Bolsheviks hadn¡¯t put a gun to the head of the local garrison commander, there would have been no need to fight this battle at all, and they would have surrendered with a white flag.

    In fact, if Li Mingzhong had not followed what Wang Geng said to hone air-ground coordination and infantry-artillery coordination, even if there was no air support at all, he would have conquered Chita with 8,000 defenders with only three mixed brigades armed to the teeth with 30,000 troops.  Not a problem either.

    In this battle, the Russian army suffered more than 2,000 casualties, and the remaining 6,000 were captured. Li Mingzhong's casualties were only a few hundred, and Chita fell into the hands of the Chinese participating troops.

    On the same day of March 4, 1918, the Xiong Shihui Division of the 26th Brigade of the 9th Division, which received a supply of oil, conquered Nerchinsk with only 2,000 defenders in one go. The Treaty of Nerchinsk between China and Russia was signed 230 years ago.  ¡·The memorial site fell into the hands of the Russian and Chinese participating armies.

    The Sun Liangcheng Armored Brigade of the 3rd Division that had previously captured Irkutsk in a furious advance, after resting and replenishing locally, continued to advance westward along the Trans-Siberian Railway on March 3, advancing 600 meters along the railway in two days.  km, and successively captured Angarsk, Siberian Usolye, Mikhailovka, Cheremkhovo, Zima, Tulun, Nizhniyutinsk and Tashet.

    Wu Peifu's division and the 9th Brigade followed one after another and opened up the railway line from Babushkin to Irkutsk. They circled the Trans-Siberian Railway at the southern end of Lake Baikal and successively occupied Baikalsk, Slyudyanka, and Kurdistan.  Tuk, Serekhov, and finally entered Irkutsk.

    In this way, on February 28, 1918, the Chinese participating army launched a military operation against Russia to defend the 18th and regain its territory. By the time of March 6, 1918, the day of the Jingzhe, the week-long military operation had achieved fruitful results.

    The Trans-Siberian Railway starts from Tashet, the westernmost town of Irkutsk Oblast in Western Siberia, and goes east to Khabarovsk to Vladivostok. All the important strongholds and towns on this thousands-kilometer railway line have fallen into China.  At the hands of the fighting army.

    There are no large strongholds or fortresses along the more than 2,000-kilometer railway line from Nerchinsk to Khabarovsk, except for Blagoveshchensk (Haylanpao), the capital of the Amur region, which is more than 600 kilometers away from Khabarovsk.  ).

    The 7th Division set out from Khabarovsk and swept westward along the Trans-Siberian Railway, while the 9th Division's Xiong Shihui Brigade set out from Nerchinsk and advanced eastward along the railway line. A week later, they easily captured the 7th Division at Hailanpao.  The 20th Division's 20th Brigade passed through the base and met with the 9th Division's Xiong Shihui Brigade in victory at Skvorokita.

    In this way, two weeks after dispatching troops, the Chinese ** team completely opened up the 4,700-kilometer railway line from Tashet in Irkutsk Oblast west of Lake Baikal to Vladivostok in Primorsky Krai in the Far East, creating a milestone in the history of modern warfare.  Miracle.

    Of course, the entire distance of the Trans-Siberian Railway from Moscow in the west to Vladivostok in the east is as long as Piaotian. Registered members of literature recommend this work. The Chinese participating army only controls less than half of the line.

      During the week when the 9th Division's Xiong Shihui Brigade and the 7th Division's Guozhigang Brigade opened up the railway line from Nerchinsk to Khabarovsk, the far west Sun Liangcheng Armored Brigade of Wu Peifu's 3rd Division transferred to on-site rest and reorganization  Consolidating the railway line, a week of high-intensity operations in extremely cold temperatures caused a large overdraft of the troops' energy and physical strength.

    Wu Peifu's 3rd Division Headquarters and 9th Brigade are stationed in Irkutsk, but his leading armored brigade Sun Liangcheng's troops are in Tashet, 600 kilometers away to the west, and the 8th Brigade Zhang Weixi's troops are in Tashet, 1,000 kilometers away.  Chita.

    In contrast, the Li Mingzhong Department of the Ninth Division was relatively concentrated. The Ninth Division Headquarters and Liu Zhi Department of the 27th Brigade were stationed in Chita, He Weizhen Brigade was stationed in Nerchinsk, and Xiong Shihui's Department stayed in Skvorokita.

    While the Chinese troops were advancing wildly, Japan's 12th Division and 7th Division were doing nothing and basking in the sun in Vladivostok. In view of the fact that China and Japan will actually coordinate their intervention operations in Siberia and Russia,  The area designated for Japanese occupation was far west of the Yenisei River.

    As for the barren place to the north of the Outer Khingan Mountains, the Seventh Division, the Outer Khingan Range dispatched troops, had no intention of enduring the hardships. Fujii Yukitsuki volunteered to take charge of the railway for the Chinese Army.  Although the Soviet and Russian guerrillas were still insignificant in terms of security and sweeps in the villages on both sides, they were hiding in the woods and shooting at the occupying troops from time to time.

    Of course, more often than not, the Soviet and Russian stragglers who were dispersed became bandits in the mountains and forests. Sometimes the reasons for hatred are so complicated that you can¡¯t find the reason at all. The Chinese participating troops gathered in all the occupied towns and stations along the way.  Ration distribution and health clinics were set up, but there were still a lot of unappreciative local Russians.

    Many local residents even went to the station during the day to collect their share of rations, and at night they got together to figure out how to pull up the rails and subvert the trains to hinder the Chinese from transporting military supplies and food to the west.

    Of course, the most anxious one was the Japanese military. Seeing that the Chinese only dispatched 4 divisions of troops, they occupied the vast and vast 4,000-kilometer Trans-Siberian Railway. The entire Lake Baikal region of Siberia and major towns and strongholds in the Far East fell.  into the hands of the Chinese.

    Carloads of arms and supplies and food were transported from Manchuria to the west and from Suifenhe to the east. The Middle East Railway was extremely busy, while carloads of coal, iron ore and even logs from Irkutsk continued to pass through.  The return train went back to Heilongjiang.

    The Chinese have obviously paid a small price and gained huge benefits. Of course, I don¡¯t know what Wang Geng thought. The Chinese participating troops actually provided so much food for free to the ill-intentioned Russian people in Siberia and the Far East.  and medical supplies.

    "If it hadn't been frightened by the bloody tactics of the participating troops in maintaining security in the occupied areas, the Japanese 12th Division might have actually been able to rob the food and medical supplies received by the local residents!

    When did the Chinese become so rich?  Food is free!  The whole of Russia is experiencing a spring famine. If we change the free supply to using military trains to resell food, how many furs, gold and silver will we get back?
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