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Volume 2 Beijing Story Chapter 239 The Occupied Areas with Distinct Lines

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    In mid-March 1918, when the Central Committee of the Soviet Union formed an expanded Red Army and established the first front of the Red Army, the Eastern Front, it was engaged in a confrontational offensive and defensive battle with the Kolchak White Guards-Czech Army who occupied Kazan.

    On the West Siberian Plain west of the Yenisei River, three divisions of the Japanese West Siberian Expeditionary Force, with Tashet at the northwest end of Irkutsk as their temporary base camp, launched a military intervention operation to occupy the West Siberian Plain.

    The vanguard of the dispatched troops was the Japanese Army's Third Division - the famous Nagoya Division. Because the situation in Western Siberia was so complicated in March, the Soviet regime and their opponents, the Socialist Revolutionary Party, appeared in every city.  , Mensheviks and Constitutionalists organized rebellion and established a provisional government.

    The Japanese Third Division's military operation to occupy Western Siberia was as smooth as the Chinese army's occupation of the eastern Lake Baikal area. The local Soviet Russian local government was already at loggerheads with the rebels and was armed to the teeth with all its strength.  The three Japanese divisions were like hunting dogs that broke into a duck farm, driving away ducks that quacked and flew all over the sky.

    Due to the intervention of the Allied Powers of China, Britain, France and the United States and China's de facto silence, the Japanese occupying forces' operational plan to capture Omsk was abruptly stopped on the grounds that the local Soviet regime had been overturned.  The part of the Czech Army of about 30,000 people that was at odds with the Erchak White Guards over treatment and pay turned around and evacuated Kazan, heading straight for Omsk instead.

    Of course, the banner is still that of the Siberian Provisional Self-Government with its capital in Ufa. This group consists of most of the Czech Army and a Cossack division led by Semyonov, the Cossack leader who has defected to the Provisional Government.  troops, occupying Omsk before Japan's Western Siberian Expeditionary Force.

    Of course, the Japanese Expeditionary Force to West Siberia is unwilling to accept it. The commander of the Expeditionary Force, Taro Utsunomiya, known as one of the Three Tar¨­s of the Japanese Army, does not have such a good temper. However, if the Japanese Expeditionary Force to Western Siberia looks at the three divisions, the total number is only 70,000.  The team entered this Western Siberia, and there were 4 to 50 large and small towns along the way.

    Japan also has a small land and the people are afraid of being exhausted. Now look at the three divisions in Siberia. They are spreading pepper to 50 towns. Think about how much each town can get?  With only one brigade of troops, if they had to fight against the 30,000 elite Czech Army troops and nearly 20,000 Semyonov's bandits who had occupied Omsk, they might not be sure of winning.

    Taro Utsunomiya, who held his breath, had no choice but to set up his headquarters in Novosibirsk. This city would later become the third largest city in Russia after Moscow and Petrograd. Of course, in March 1918,  This city only has a population of 200,000.

    Don¡¯t underestimate a city with a population of 200,000. There are not too many cities like this in mainland China. In the vast Siberia, Novosibirsk, with a population of 200,000 in 1918, is considered one of the largest cities.

    Oba Jiro's Nagoya Division headquarters is stationed in Kuibyshev, 250 kilometers to the west from Novosibirsk. As the westernmost division guarding the gateway, this division has a brigade in its hands. The rest of the troops and the 7th Division  The troops of the 12th and 12th Infantry Regiments, like the troops of the 12th Division, spread their joy over the vast plains of Western Siberia and occupied those towns with ten fingers pressing fleas.

    The headquarters of the 12th Division of China's Tongshiba Goro is stationed in the easternmost Krasnoyarsk, which is a major station on the Trans-Siberian Railway. This guy only has a regiment of troops in his hands.  The rest were scattered among the Russian towns dotted around for hundreds of miles.

    Fujii Kotsuchi's 7th Division was divided into two. The commander of the dispatch force, Taro Utsunomiya, had a brigade of his own and only gave Fujii a regiment. The division headquarters was stationed in New Kuzne, far away from the railway line.  Tsk.  There are densely packed Russian towns for hundreds of miles around, no matter how big or small, but there are no trains, so we have to travel by road.

    The Trans-Siberian Railway, which passed through more than 3,000 kilometers under the control of the Chinese combat troops, was kept in check by the iron-blooded methods of the Chinese combat troops stationed in towns and stations along the route to maintain public security and order. The Japanese Western Siberian Expeditionary Force arrived at the designated area for Japan.  On the Western Siberian Plains that I occupied, I could finally breathe a sigh of relief.

    As for the military discipline of the Japanese dispatched troops, it cannot be said that it is really bad. After all, this newly occupied land will be operated by Japan as an overseas colony in the future according to the results of secret consultations between China and Japan.  Since this is their own territory in the future, the food and appearance cannot be too ugly, so the military discipline of the Japanese occupying forces is barely passable.

    However, the Japanese Army Ministry does not have the luxury of the Chinese Participating Army. There is no such thing as free distribution of rations to residents in towns and stations along the Siberian Railway in the occupied areas. The health clinics are like imitating the Chinese Participating Army in treating local people.  Open to residents, but not free.The most expensive thing sold was the penicillin temporarily allocated by the Chinese to the Japanese Expeditionary Forces.

    Moreover, unlike China, Japan travels thousands of miles from the northeast to the garrisons in Siberia and the Far East to transport large amounts of food and logistical support materials. The Japanese Ministry of War thinks that the charges for the China Eastern Railway and the Siberian Railway are too expensive, and the dispatch of carriages and trains is difficult, so Japan  The food transported from Kanto Prefecture to the Japanese dispatched troops in Western Siberia, which is 4,000 kilometers away, is only enough to meet half of the needs of the three local divisions.

    For the remaining half of the food supply, the Japanese Army Ministry asked Taro Utsunomiya to collect food on the spot in Western Siberia to solve it on his own. To say that the Western Siberian Plain is more developed in agriculture, there is almost no industry and mining.

    But at this moment, the whole of Russia is experiencing a huge and terrible food shortage. Food in the rural areas of Western Siberia is already tense. If the Japanese occupying forces continue to collect food like this, they will immediately have a bad image compared with the Chinese participating troops east of Lake Baikal.

    Speaking of grain requisition, it is the same as the so-called surplus grain collection system of the Soviet Red Army. When the army or work teams go to the countryside to requisition grain, the farmers will hide the grain and refuse to sell it. According to the decree promulgated by the Soviet Russian government, all people who hide surplus grain must not sell it.  The peasants who surrendered were all enemies of the new regime, and enemies should be dealt with with iron and blood.

    The grain collection operation in the Japanese occupied areas was essentially the same as the surplus grain collection system in Soviet Russia. In late March when the famine was spreading during the lean years, the large-scale grain collection activities of the Japanese occupying forces quickly aroused resistance from the local residents, and then naturally  The words evolved into a campaign of Japanese occupying forces going to the countryside to grab grain.

    The residents of Maozi began to riot and in turn robbed the food of the troops stationed along the railway. Guerrillas were everywhere. The Japanese dispatched troops were unable to do anything and were forced to start raids and eradication. The West Siberian Plain turned into a pot of gruel!

    Different from the Western Siberian Plain occupied by Japan, the Chinese-occupied area stretches from Irkutsk in the west of Lake Baikal to Chita to Nerchinsk and then to Hailanpao, Khabarovsk, Shuangchengzi and Vladivostok. The towns along this 4,700-kilometer railway  The density is much smaller than that of the station, and because the Chinese occupying forces provide free food rations and medical services at health clinics on their left hand, their right hand is a ruthless and ruthless method of suppressing all resisters.

    Therefore, the security situation, market prosperity, and people's lives in the Chinese-occupied areas are much better than those in the Japanese-occupied areas. By the end of March, China officially established the Baikal Military Region, the Far East Military Region, and Irkutz Military Region.  Croatian Military District.

    From Vladivostok, Shuangchengzi, Khabarovsk, Hailanpao, to Skovorodino, it falls under the jurisdiction of the Far Eastern Military District and the Far Eastern Territory, mainly including the Primorsky Krai and Khabarovsk Territory of the former Tsarist Russia and the Amur Oblast  Territorial area, the northern boundary extends all the way to the Grabiqi River, the ridge of the Outer Xing'an Mountains, and all the way to Temple Street at the mouth of the Heilongjiang River.

    The headquarters of the Far Eastern Military District and the capital of the Far Eastern Territory are still located in Khabarovsk.

    From Skovorodino to the west, Mogocha, Slitensk, Nerchinsk, Barey, Shilka, Chita, Shilok, Petrovsk, Ulan-Ude, Selenginsk  Babushkin, which reaches the shore of Lake Baikal, belongs to the Baikal Military District and the Baikal Territory.

    The capital of the Baikal Krai was changed from Chita to Ulan-Ude, and the headquarters of the Baikal Military Region is also here.

    From the southern end of Lake Baikal to Baikalsk, Sludyanka, Kurtuk, Serekhov, Irkutsk, Angarsk, Mikhailovka, Cheremhovo, Zima, Tulun,  From Nizhny Uginsk, Arzamai to Taishet are the Irkutsk Military District and the Irkutsk Territory, with the capital still in Irkutsk.
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