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Volume Three Far East Stories Chapter 245 Muravyov¡¯s Rebellion

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    The arrival of the spring of 1918 was quite painful for the Allied Powers, especially Britain and France. In the past six months when the domestic situation in Russia had changed dramatically, it was obvious that Germany benefited more from polar bears than the Allied Powers.

    Finland, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Poland, Ukraine, Georgia and Azerbaijan all fell into the hands of Germany and Austria. Although Soviet Russia ultimately did not accept Germany's asking price to sign the Brest-Litovsk Treaty, in fact, the Germans got  More than in the treaty.

    Of course, in the process of the two camps working together to carve out time and flesh from Russia, which was once its rival and ally and is now in chaos, China and Japan, two of the Allied Powers, have gained hugely. Japan occupied the eastern part of the West Siberian Plain, which is wide from east to west.  1,600 kilometers, 1,000 kilometers wide from north to south, a total of 1.6 million square kilometers of land.

    China is even more shocking. It has occupied a total of 2.11 million square kilometers of land in the east of Lake Baikal and the Irkutsk Oblast in the west. Of course, the Chinese claim to have taken back the 1689 Treaty of Nerchinsk between China and Russia.  demarcated Chinese territory.

    Compared with Germany, Austria, China, and Japan, the United States, Britain, and France gained little benefit from the collapse of Russia. If the Czech Army, which has been assigned to the French Army in terms of organization, is included, it only occupied Omsk, or  Under the banner of the Provisional Self-Government of Siberia in Ufa.

    Of course, the good luck of the Czech Army has come to an end here. Taro Utsunomiya, the commander of Japan's Western Siberian Expeditionary Force, was already holding back his anger. How could he allow the Czech Army to carry the looted wealth to Shi Shiran along the way?  Evacuate the Trans-Siberian Railway to Vladivostok, then take a boat via the Pacific route through the Panama Canal and then take the Atlantic route to France to support the Western Front?

    The conditions put forward by Taro Utsunomiya to the Czech Army were exactly the same as the requirements put forward by the Soviet Russian regime. Considering the social stability and public security situation in Western Siberia, the 30,000 Czech Army in Omsk could only lay down their weapons as civilians.  Only with your identity can you transit through eastern Western Siberia under Japanese control, otherwise there is no need to discuss it!

    Britain and France were completely beyond their control over the situation in eastern Russia, and Japan, driven by the example of China's participating troops, was obviously much more courageous than before. Of course, the benefits were also great. Japan dispatched troops to defeat its own empire within a month.  The country's wealth exceeds the gains from Japan's external expansion over the past 300 years.

    You must know that Japan¡¯s total domestic territory at the moment is only 3.77 million square kilometers. Now the troops dispatched to Western Siberia have opened up 1.6 million square kilometers in one month. What kind of gain is this?  The commander of the dispatch army, Taro Utsunomiya, was directly promoted to Army General!  The three division commanders have also been promoted to lieutenant generals and have been promoted to generals, which is just one step away from being promoted to generals in the future.

    Naturally, the Czech Legion refused to agree to the request to lay down their weapons and cross the border as civilians. Who knows if the Japanese had evil thoughts when they boarded the vehicle for inspection. The Czech Legion obtained a lot of gold from Kolchak and the Siberian Provisional Self-Government.  If the silver and treasures were confiscated by the Japanese, who would they complain to?

    ???????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????:?The?Czech Legion was stained with the blood of the Bolsheviks and Russian people during the Siberian rebellion. Who knows if this person riding a train with bare hands will be robbed by local guerrillas and people for revenge or something?

    The Czech Legion was thus delayed in Omsk, arguing with the men of Omsk's new garrison commander Semyonov all day long. The Czechs said that Semyonov's men were all Cossack bandits, and they knew how to steal things all day long.  , Semyonov¡¯s men simply said that the Czechs were robbers!  Those who came to Russia to rob were more ruthless than me.

    Although the original road map and excuse for the Czech Legion to evacuate Russia seemed funny, by April 1918, in fact, even a 50,000-strong legion could be an effective force against the British and French battlefields on the Western Front.

    Allied aerial reconnaissance and intelligence sources showed that the Germans on the opposite side of the defense line had transferred their main forces from the Russian Eastern Front back to the Western Front, and were obviously planning a huge offensive that would determine the fate of the Western Front.

    The extremely well-developed railway lines that crisscross Germany and Austria made it very smooth and easy for Ludendorff to transfer troops from the Eastern Front to the Western Front, even faster than the United States transporting troops across the Atlantic to France.

    The British and French are shuddering at the war on the Western Front. The main force of the US military has not yet arrived. At this moment, the American Expeditionary Force has only landed and assembled four divisions on the second line in France, probably more than 100,000 people. Moreover, although these four divisions are the standing army of the United States,  , but on the Western Front battlefield, they were recruits who had never fought in a war or seen the market. Their only experience was still in the previous confrontation with the Mexican guerrillas.

    The American aircraft are made in France, the cannons are made in France, the tanks are made in France, and even the gas masks are given by the French. Because the m1917a1 Browning heavy machine guns produced by Colt are all ordered by China  After all, there are not enough U.S. troops on the front line at the moment.?Equip yourself with machine guns.

    The advance detachment sent by China last year is still serving as the guard battalion of Commander Pershing of the American Expeditionary Force. The pair Zhang Zizhong and Zhang Zhizhong may not have learned anything else but gentlemanly demeanor.

    Of course, these two Chinese military attach¨¦s who were watching the war were very serious about it. At the same time, they all recognized Wang Geng's move of not sending follow-up troops to the battlefield on the Western Front. Damn it, this war on the Western Front is not fought with one division and two divisions.  Without ten or twenty divisions, it is impossible to defend a section of the front, and to attack, it is impossible to attack without thirty or fifty divisions!  We, who have joined the war army, have such a small fortune that we cannot easily go to the Western Front to deal with it!

    Throughout the beginning of April, the British and French on the Western Front were well prepared to deal with the large-scale offensive that the Germans were about to launch. However, Ludendorff's German hammer kept being raised high, but it never came down. This not only made the British and French, but also the German generals themselves a little confused.  No idea.

    In fact, the reason is very simple. The outbreak of the Soviet-Russian Civil War attracted Ludendorff's attention. Especially by the end of March, the Soviet Russian regime seemed to be in dire straits. It seemed that the so-called White Guards in three directions alone had made the Red Army besieged on all sides.

    This made Ludendorff a little hesitant. If Soviet Russia was overthrown by the White Guards, it would mean that the Russia behind him would wake up at any time and become an important member of the Allied Powers again. This is something Germany will never tolerate. What are the doctrines and laws of Soviet Russia?  No matter how evil he is, at least Comrade Ulyanov will never lead his comrades to stab Germany in the back!

    The Russian bourgeois provisional government and Kolchak are Germany's mortal enemies, especially Kolchak. They have caused the German navy to suffer a lot in the Baltic Sea and the Black Sea. If Kolchak is really allowed to sail from Kazan  If we go to Moscow, this will probably get worse!

    The situation on the Eastern Front of the Soviet-Russian Civil War made Ludendorff, who was already preparing to attack the Western Front, hesitant. The Soviet Russian regime was indeed facing huge challenges at this time. At the end of March 1918, he was previously appointed as the Eastern Front.  The commander of the front army, the left-wing Socialist-Revolutionary M. A. Muravyov, rebelled at the front.

    On March 28, 1918, Muravyov led a force of nearly a thousand people from Cheboksary, where the front army headquarters was located, to Simbirsk. He claimed that he did not recognize the current foreign policy of the Soviet Russian regime, and called the People's Committee,  The German Embassy and the Czechoslovak Army Headquarters declared war on Germany, calling themselves the "Commander-in-Chief of the Anti-German Army".

    The troops who were deceived by him occupied the post office, telegraph office and radio station, surrounded the Executive Committee building and the headquarters of the Red Army Simbirsk Group, and arrested the commander of the 1st Army M. N. Tukhachevsky.  Many Soviet and Bolshevik functionaries.

    Muravyov ordered the Eastern Front Army and the Czechoslovak Army to advance westward, pretending to resist the German attack.  On March 29, the People's Commissariat of Soviet Russia issued an order exposing the counterrevolutionary nature of Muravyov's actions and declaring that he was not protected by the law.

    The Bolsheviks in Simbirsk, under the leadership of Provincial Committee Chairman Jo M. Varekis, did a lot of explaining to the soldiers and city residents, and won over the troops who originally supported Muravyov.

    On the evening of March 29, Muravyov was invited to attend a meeting of the Simbirsk Executive Committee, thinking that the Executive Committee was going to surrender to him.  When his telegram on cessation of military operations against armed interventionists and the White Guards was read out at the meeting, the Bolsheviks demanded his arrest. Muravyov resisted arrest and was shot dead on the spot. His accomplices were arrested and executed.

    The betrayal of Muravyov, the commander of the Eastern Front of the Soviet Red Army, reversed the Red Army's previous advantage west of Kazan. Kolchak took the opportunity to launch another offensive from Kazan, and Muravyov stayed in Che  Boksary's direct troops launched a rebellion after learning that Muravyov was executed, and cooperated with Kolchak inside and outside to capture Cheboksary, the capital of Chuvash.

    The situation on the Eastern Front of Soviet Russia took a turn for the worse, and the remaining troops of the Eastern Front suffered a disaster. All the Red Army generals with leftist socialist revolutionary backgrounds were arrested and executed.  The suppression of counter-revolutionaries put the entire Eastern Front army in a state of almost collapse.

    The Eastern Front is in danger for Moscow!
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