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Volume 3 Far East Story Chapter 265 The Allied Powers on the Eastern Front are established

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    On May 18, 1918, Soviet Russia and Germany signed the Armistice Agreement between Soviet Russia and Germany and Austria. Germany selectively repatriated 800,000 Russian prisoners of war with Bolshevik tendencies, while Soviet Russia repatriated 200,000 German prisoners of war and 50  All prisoners of war from Austria-Hungary and other Allied Powers.

    On May 20, 1918, Poland declared independence and established a republic, half a year earlier than in its previous life. Before Poland, Finland and Belarus had already declared independence.

    On May 22, 1918, Estonia, Latvia, and Lithuania declared independence.

    On May 24, 1918, Ukraine, Georgia, Azerbaijan and Armenia declared independence.

    The wheels of history are accelerating again. The successful peace negotiation between Soviet Russia and Germany has made Germany and Austria no longer have any worries about the Eastern Front. However, the governments of Finland, the three Baltic countries, Poland, Belarus, Ukraine, Azerbaijan, Georgia, and Armenia are leaning one-sidedly towards Germany.  , coupled with the strategic retreat of the Bolsheviks in the above-mentioned areas, the strength of the German and Austrian Allies has been greatly improved.

    Although the US military continues to increase its troops to the French battlefield at a rate of 10,000 per day, the Allies have also begun to mobilize the main force of the Austro-Hungarian Empire from the east to the west. No matter how weak the Austro-Hungarian army is, it will still be fighting against the old Maoist Russian army.  The combat effectiveness of this life-and-death battle division may not be inferior to that of the freshly minted US military.

    The peace and truce between the Soviet Union and Germany allowed Germany and Austria to use all their main forces to deal with the Western Front instead of only the main German forces as earlier. The 200,000 German prisoners of war and 500,000 Austro-Hungarian prisoners of war repatriated by Soviet Russia were immediately replenished.  Among the German divisions and Austro-Hungarian infantry divisions on the Western Front, this alone wiped out the numerical advantage of the US troops who had been arriving for half a year!

    For a time, the atmosphere on the French battlefield on the Western Front between the Allies and the Entente became extremely tense!

    On the Eastern Front, the Belarusian Supreme Consul Kolchak reluctantly reached an agreement with the Allied Powers. In order to retain the fire of the Russian people, Russia after the war will no longer retain the Asian part, starting from the center line of the Ural Mountains and east of Ufa.  An autonomous local government will be established in the 2.6 million square kilometers of the Western Siberian Plain under the joint protection of China and Japan, while all the land east of Irkutsk Oblast and Lake Baikal will be controlled by the Chinese according to the "China-Russia Nerchinsk"  The delimitation of the Treaty fully belongs to China.

    Kolchak paid the Asian part of Russia in return for the promise that the Allies would only recognize Kolchak's regime as the sole legitimate representative of Russia, and that in the process of the Kolchak regime regaining effective control over the remaining parts of Russia,  Provide all-round military and economic support. In addition to large amounts of food and arms assistance, China and Japan will, as members of the Allied Powers, send coalition forces to fight west of the Ural Mountains!

    By the end of May 1918, the Sino-Japanese Joint Expeditionary Forces Headquarters was established. Considering that the Chinese and Japanese troops would fight side by side for the first time, and both sides were proud soldiers on the front line, neither one was convinced by the other's master, so we thought twice about it.  , especially at the strong request of the Japanese Cabinet and the Ministry of War, Wang Geng, the Supervisor of China¡¯s Participation in the War, Chairman of the Northern Federal Autonomous Region of China, and Army General Wang Geng, stepped onto the stage for the first time and served as the Commander-in-Chief of the Sino-Japanese Allied Forces in the Western Expedition!

    The Japanese Ministry of War knows very well that there is no possibility that the Chinese participating troops will be commanded by outsiders. This team has already demonstrated military prestige and morale in military operations in Siberia and the Far East, and in fact dwarfs Japan's Western Siberia Expeditionary Force.  , it is a joke to let the generals and lieutenant generals of the Japanese Army Ministry compete for the position of commander-in-chief of the Sino-Japanese coalition forces at this time.

    Who can control China¡¯s participating armies and who is the suitable candidate? Looking at China, who else can there be besides the King of China?  With him as the commander of the coalition forces, the logistics support and arms supply are truly foolproof. You must know that the long transportation logistics line of more than 3,000 kilometers will continue to extend as the Sino-Japanese coalition forces advance westward. What if something happens?  If the supply to the front line is cut off, who can bear this responsibility?

    For China, although Wang Geng himself did not want to be the commander-in-chief, the first time he joined hands with the former enemy Japanese army to torment Lao Maozi's territory was considered the first time in history. Therefore, except for Wang Geng, this  Apart from the rising stars in the Allied Powers, it was hard to find a suitable candidate.

    Wu Peifu, Zhang Zuoxiang, and Wang Tingzhen have only commanded three brigades. Now they are asked to command the Sino-Japanese coalition forces with a total of hundreds of thousands of people. They may not be insufficient in terms of ability, but they will definitely not be able to suppress them in terms of prestige!  How to live in town?

    The Sun Liangcheng brigade that recaptured Siberia last time was from the main brigade of the Third Division. After the last battle, he had already sent a telegram directly to the headquarters in Nanyuan, Beijing to ask for the next plan, and directly ignored the people behind him.  The division commander Wu Peifu and the other two brigades were hundreds of miles away.

    At the end of May 1918, the number of new recruit brigades once again reached 8 brigades. Including the remaining 1 brigade last month, there were a total of 9 brigades of recruits. Wang Geng stationed in Rehe, Heilongjiang, Jilin, and Fengtian in one go  Each of the five divisions assigned one to twoThe army brigade was organized into the 24th, 25th and 26th divisions of the participating armies. They were still equipped with the US aid arms that arrived at the end of May and all the fine art equipment produced by Xuanhua Arsenal.

    The nine new brigades were replenished to the above-deployed divisions, and the participating army expanded to 26 infantry integrated divisions plus one armored division, bringing the total number of the army to 810,000.  In addition, there are 6,000 aviation personnel, including 2,000 all-weather pilots, 6,000 ground staff, and more than 500 aircraft of various types.

    Taking into account the logistical pressure, Wang Geng's Sino-Japanese coalition forces initially organized only one group army each. The main force of the Chinese participating armies was Wu Peifu's Third Army. The third group army included the participating armies Zhang Weixi's 3rd Division and Li Mingzhong's 9th Division.  and Xiong Shihui's 20th Division, and Sun Liangcheng's Armored Division as a mobile force directly under the command of the coalition headquarters.

    The defense lines of the Third Army's original Chita, Nerchinsk, and Ulan-Ude military divisions were handed over to the newly formed 24th, 25th, and 26th Divisions as reserves.  Garrison, in fact, the three newly formed divisions are all veterans, the 24th Division Commander Bai Chongxi, the 25th Division Commander Sun Lianzhong, and the 26th Division Commander Liu Ruming!

    The Japanese side of the Sino-Japanese Allied Forces also deployed three divisions originally stationed in Kanto Prefecture, Qingdao, and Taiwan to the eastern part of the West Siberian Plain as a second-line reserve force. The 7th, 12th, and 12th divisions of the original West Siberia Expeditionary Army  The Fourth Division was organized into the Third Army of the Japanese Army and joined the Sino-Japanese Allied Forces. Taro Utsunomiya and Wu Peifu served as deputy commanders of the coalition forces respectively.

    Of course, it is not appropriate to call it a Sino-Japanese coalition. In fact, in order to better carry out military operations in the Ural region of Russia, Kolchak's White Guards also formed a Ural Cavalry Group Army to join the Sino-Japanese Coalition Army. This group has three cavalry divisions.  Thirty thousand people, considered to be the elite division under Kolchak, were all from Tsarist Russian Cossack cavalry, and the horses were called "slip".

    The Soviet Union and Germany and Austria joined hands, and here the White Guards joined hands with China and Japan. The establishment of the China-Japan-Russia Allied Forces marked that the European War entered a new stage.

    On June 1, 1918, the Sino-Japanese-Russian Allied Forces Command was officially established in Omsk in the West Siberian Plain. This also marked the beginning of the formal transfer of Kolchak's Russian power to the land east of the Ural Mountains. Omsk would become  The base camp of the Sino-Japanese-Russian coalition forces.

    In view of the fact that the Japanese occupying forces have never been able to eliminate the guerrillas in the eastern part of the West Siberian Plain, after previous diplomatic consultations and bargaining similar to a tug-of-war between China and Japan, Japan finally agreed that before the Russian issue was finally resolved, the West Siberian Plain would be based on the Northern Federal Autonomous Region of China.  It will be managed according to the management method, that is, land tax will be exempted for three years, and the land of rich farmers and landlords exceeding 40 acres per capita will be purchased by the government and then leased to farmers with no land or little land for cultivation.

    In addition, the Kolchak government officially announced that the land in the West Siberian Plain will not be affiliated with Russia. The future of the people on this land will be handed over to a local autonomous government. Before that, it will be managed by China, Japan and Russia. Of course,  , in fact, Russia is just playing a role in it. As for how China and Japan will be divided in the future, we will see who is more popular, or in other words, whose arms are thicker!

    The newly established Western Siberian Autonomous Government with Omsk as its capital is a completely puppet regime. However, the local people have really lived a good life. They have been exempted from land tax for three years. Bandits, bandits and guerrillas are being harassed by coalition aircraft in the sky all day long.  Chasing like a duck, the Chinese *** team not only did not grab food, but also transported a large amount of food and commodities. Although the discipline of the Japanese army was poor, the Chinese *** team acted as the gendarmerie of the Sino-Japanese coalition forces!
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