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Volume Three Far East Stories Chapter 544 Medals, Medals and Olive Branches

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    July 20, 1918 20:00 Allied Forces Headquarters in Samara

    That night, at the victory reception and dance after the Ufa Battle Review Meeting, most of the coalition's division-level generals and several middle- and lower-level generals who were specially invited to attend the meeting were drunk. The number of Chinese generals  Although they did not constitute the majority, they worked together with the Japanese generals to block the Russian generals' vodka offensive. Of course, in the end, everyone was completely drunk.

    Although the Battle of Ufa only lasted eight days and seven nights, the preparations for the battle started in June. Sun Liangcheng's southward expedition, which was the first to start a roundabout southward, set out to roundabout southward at the end of June. Even today, even if the total number of steps taken together is not enough  It was only 20 days, but during these 20 days, the coalition forces' fighting west of the Ural Mountains had completely changed the situation on Russia's Eastern Front.

    The establishment of the brand-new Volga Federation is not the end of the coalition's journey, but just a new starting point. Of course, the news of the expansion of the entire army has already reached the ears of generals at all levels, but these division-level cadres should have reported their achievements long ago.  The battle summaries of each unit in the Battle of Ufa were reported together, and the Ufa Battle medals and medals were hung on the chests of every combat hero at the victory celebration and commendation meeting held at each unit station at noon today.

    It should be said that medals and medals are the highest rewards and proofs of military honors. They are generally awarded by the state. However, Wang Geng, the Allied Allied Forces, has a bit of a problem with the concept of a country. The Allied Powers are not a country, but a multinational military.  Political alliance, and Wang Geng's Allied Forces, strictly speaking, should be the Eastern Front Headquarters of the Allied Forces, to show the difference from the Western Front Allied Forces.

    Of course, on the Russian battlefield and the Eastern Front, the big bosses of the Allied Powers such as the United States, Britain and France are speechless at this moment. The protagonists are the Sino-Japanese Alliance and the expeditionary forces of China and Japan. However, Wang Geng deliberately downplayed the meaning of the Sino-Japanese Expeditionary Force.  , and emphasized that this was a multi-ethnic Allied force, in order to minimize the suspicion of Asian invaders that was inevitable due to the existence of the Sino-Japanese alliance in Russia's former territory.

    Since both the Allied Powers and the Central Powers are political and military alliances among many countries, there is no so-called Allied Powers Medal or Allied Powers Medal, but only medals issued by the governments of various countries. Of course, the French government can still give medals to allied forces.  The British generals issued their own searches and vice versa.

    For Wang Geng, it is reasonable to award Chinese medals and even Japanese medals to the Allied forces on the Eastern Front. However, after thinking about it, he always felt that it was inappropriate. In the end, in order to express the battle and sacrifice of the Allied forces on this land, it was for this  Therefore, after the Allied Forces Command decided to establish the Volga Federation, it designed the first medals and medals of the Volga Federation in the name of the Volga Federation.

    Wang Geng took the doctrine of appropriation to the extreme. Of course, there was also a shortage of time. The Allied Forces Command directly borrowed the design and production of the Order of Saint Nicholas from the Tsarist Russian government, and then solicited the first medal of the Volga Federation.  After receiving many opinions, it was named the Victory Medal.

    The pattern of the Victory Medal is basically the same as the Order of St. Nicholas, the highest-level medal of the Tsarist Russian government. The white cross crosses two swords. The ribbon is a white, blue and red national color ribbon. In the center of the medal is the inscription "Faith will save."  "People", the medal is divided into three levels, namely the first-level gold medal of victory, made of pure gold, the second-level silver medal of victory, made of pure silver, and the third-level bronze medal of victory, made of brass.

    The Victory Iron Medal is slightly smaller, with only a beautiful cross, two swords without crossing, and the inscription in the middle is "The people thank you for your efforts."

    In the Battle of Ufa, each of the 250,000 coalition troops who participated in the battle received an Iron Victory Medal. In addition, based on military merit and performance, 18 people received a Gold Medal of Victory, and 36 people received a Gold Medal of Victory.  The number of people who received the Silver Medal of Victory, Level 2, and the Bronze Medal of Victory, Level 3 was 72.

    The list of those who were lucky enough to receive eighteen first-class victory gold medals is:

    Commander-in-Chief of the Allied Forces Wang Geng, Chief of Staff Jiang Hongyu, Deputy Chief of Staff Wu Peifu, Taro Utsunomiya, Vasily Nikolayevich Pepelyaev, Sergey Ivanovich Bala  Yanov

    Sun Liangcheng, commander-in-chief of the coalition's southward roundabout detachment (commander of the 1st Armored Division),

    Xiong Shihui, Commander-in-Chief of the Second Echelon of the Allied Forces North Road (Commander of the Reorganized 20th Division),

    Li Mingzhong, Commander-in-Chief of the Southern Route Army (Commander of the Reorganized 9th Division),

    Hu Zongduo, commander of the second mixed armored brigade (one brigade wiped out three infantry divisions in Ehe), Cheng Ruhuai, commander of the fourth armored regiment (one armored regiment, with the cooperation of the aviation team, defeated more than 20,000 troops in the entire army)

    Petrovich, Commander of the Second Ural Cavalry Corps (Milna fought twice), Sergey, Chief of Staff (Milna, May Day Town, Sterli Tamaktown¡¯s struggle)

    Commander of the 3rd Ural Cavalry Division, Alasty Mikhailovich Nezhkov (Buzuluk¡¯s Fight, one of the examples of the Dragon Quest), Commander of the 2nd Regiment of the 5th Brigade, Alley Jr.  Ksey Khashikovitch Antonikov (a regiment defeated a complete cavalry brigade led by the political commissar of the Budyonny Cavalry Division Shatenko)

    Khabaro Andrenovovich Bozhnev, commander of the second brigade of the 1st Ural Cavalry Division (this guy led his own cavalry brigade to finally capture Bolgar!)

    Li Fugui, commander of the 1st Battalion of the 1st Regiment of the 3rd Combined Cavalry Brigade of the Allied Forces (one battalion blocked the attack of Tukhachevsky's infantry division and a cavalry brigade in the town of Sterli Tamak),

    Colonel Hata Shunroku, Director of the Operations Room of the Allied Forces Command (for his contribution to the Allied Forces Command and after airborne Kumeltau, he led the team north to completely annihilate the 31st Russian Infantry Division and annihilate the remainder of the Xia Boyang Cavalry Division)

    Commander of the Allied Air Force, Army Major General Huang Jingbo, and Commander of the Allied Air Force Fighter-Bomber Detachment, Naval Lieutenant Colonel Shim Deok-seop

    Among a total of twenty recipients of the First Class Victory Gold Medal, there are 11 Chinese generals, 7 Russian generals, and 2 Japanese generals. When determining these lists, although the Japanese commander Taro Utsunomiya wanted to argue with reason,  But compared with the performance of the Japanese generals in the Battle of Ufa and the above-mentioned people who received gold medals, they really couldn't stand it, so they had to hold their noses and admit it!

    You must know that the commanders of the 1st and 2nd Ural Cavalry Divisions only received a second-level Silver Medal of Victory. The commander of the 5th Brigade of the 3rd Ural Cavalry Division, Dominik Mikhailovich Nedev, did not.  After catching Budyonny, I only got a second-level silver medal for victory!

    Xiao Shanling, the brigade commander of the third coalition mixed cavalry brigade, only received a second-level Silver Medal of Victory.

    Of course, the reprimand telegram from the Imperial Japanese Army Staff was unavoidable. At the same time, Taro Utsunomiya also received domestic instructions. In the next stage of the war, all Japanese generals in the coalition forces must work hard!  Bring glory to the empire!

    It must be said that the twenty dazzling first-class gold medals of victory awarded after the Battle of Ufa are quite fair. The recipients of the medals were selected with good results and achieved great success. The Commander-in-Chief of the Allied Forces has always instilled the spirit of gathering talents.  The concept of not avoiding relatives has been fully reflected.

    But looking back, it is a miracle that the arsenals in Chelyabinsk and Yekaterinburg were able to produce nearly 250,000 iron victory medals in such a short period of time. Although Russia's industrialization was slow,  , but the potential is quite large, as can be seen from the speed and quality of the production of these medals and medals.

    Not to mention how the coalition generals who were drunk at the celebration banquet and the dance spent a sleepless night full of alcohol and emotions with their medals pinned on their medals, and how the coalition commanders spent half a day haggling in a small conference room behind closed doors.  Gentlemen, after fierce debate, the promotion and appointment list after the army reorganization finally has a preliminary draft.

    In the draft, Wang Geng still vetoed the proposal for Chinese and Japanese generals to directly serve as first-level commanders of Russian divisions. He only said that outstanding senior generals from China, Japan and Russia could command front armies and group armies.

    The reason for this decision is that while Wang Geng is reorganizing and expanding the Russian troops, he is preparing to start increasing troops from the country to the Volga Federation. Based on the current Chinese Third Army and the Japanese Third Army, he will directly expand the Chinese and Japanese troops in the coalition.  Japanese troops, in this case, the generals of the Chinese and Japanese armies may not be enough on their own, and there is no need to compete with Russian generals for positions.

    As soon as Wang Geng said this plan, Jiang Hongyu, Wu Peifu and Utsunomiya Taro immediately stopped insisting and began to think about how to expand their own troops. Should they recruit new soldiers from China and Japan through thousands of miles of mountains and rivers, or mix them with others?  Combine part of Western Siberia¡¯s military resources?  Do we only need yellow-skinned Asian soldiers, or do we just grab eyebrows and beards and throw them into the basket?

    In fact, everyone here knows very well that the three Russian infantry divisions of the First Siberian Army, which were trained and built by the coalition forces, were not included in the previous 13+16 reorganization plan with a total of 290,000 troops. The commander-in-chief of the coalition forces obviously has no intention of  The Russian troops under the puppet sign of Western Siberia have other plans. Not all Russian troops will be put under the sign of the Volga Federation.

    And until now, the three Russian infantry divisions of the First Siberian Army, the division and brigade commanders are still directly selected from the Chinese Third Army and the Japanese Third Army. Of course, these three use Japanese three  The Russian infantry division, equipped with eight rifles and allied machine guns and mortars, never fought in the Battle of Ufa. It spent the whole day on a long-distance armed parade, so it didn't feel like it was participating in a battle.  It was just the first large-scale live-fire exercise that the new division participated in.

    Considering that the performance of the Russian generals in the Battle of Ufa was quite good, the draft list of appointments and promotions for 8 group armies and 4 cavalry corps is as follows:

      1. Ufa Group Army, commander Balayanov, has jurisdiction over the 1st, 2nd and 3rd Ufa Infantry Divisions

    2. Samara Group Army, Commander Pepeliaev, oversees the 4th, 5th and 6th Samara Infantry Divisions

    3. Kursk Group Army, Commander Slavin, oversees the 7th, 8th and 9th Divisions of Kursk

    4. Saratov Group Army, Commander Rzhevsky, in charge of the Saratov 10th Division, 11th Division and 12th Division

    5. Voronezh Group Army, Commander Stepin, in charge of Voronezh 13th Division, 14th Division and 15th Division

    6. Tsaritsyn Group Army, Commander Yegorov, in charge of Tsaritsyn 16th Division, 17th Division and 18th Division

    7. Orenburg Group Army, Commander Petrovich, in charge of the Orenburg 19th Division, 20th Division and 21st Division

    8. Ural Group Army, Commander Nezhkov, in charge of the 22nd, 23rd and 24th Ural Divisions

    Since the Siberian Army was not included in the above-mentioned troops, the remaining 30,000 men were recruited from the people of the Volga Federation on the left bank of the Volga River.

    In fact, due to the great victory of the Allied Forces in the Battle of Ufa, ordinary people from all over the Left Bank these days. After the Soviet Red Army and Soviet government personnel withdrew northward, there was an endless stream of young people and refugees coming to the Volga Federal Government to join the army.  The young man was a deserter from the Soviet Red Army.

    As for the Volga Federation with a population of 7.4 million, although the nearly 2 million people on the right bank of Volga have not yet returned to their places of origin from the evacuation, the vast majority of them still stay east of the Ural Mountains, and they have to recruit from the remaining 2 million young people.  30,000 new recruits were a no-brainer.

    Among the above-mentioned list of group army commanders, two Russian cavalry division commanders in the coalition, Petrovich and Nezhkov, were appreciated and favored by the commander-in-chief of the coalition forces with their outstanding records. Although they were cavalry generals, Wang Geng felt that  With their abilities, they are more than enough to command infantry.

    Speaking of Petrovich, the commander of the Second Ufa Cavalry Corps, before the Battle of Ufa, he was just the commander of the Cossack Cavalry Division who came from Orenburg. However, as the Battle of Ufa progressed, this guy became more and more confused.  Gradually, he was able to stand alone without the support of his golden partner Sergey.

    So Wang Geng brought Petrovich up to command the Orenburg Group Army. As for whether this general with Cossack cavalry background would take advantage of the opportunity to slowly turn the three infantry divisions of the Orenburg Group Army into cavalry divisions, Wang Geng really  It¡¯s a bit exciting to wait and see. As for Petrovic¡¯s original partner Sergey, Wang Geng has even greater expectations.

    Wang Geng also had higher expectations for another leader of the 3rd Ural Cavalry Division in the battle against Yegorov in Buzuluk, division commander Alasty Mikhailovich Nezhkov.

    In Wang Geng's view, Nezhkov is more comprehensive than Petrovich, a lucky general, and is fully qualified to serve as the commander of an independent group army, because Wang Geng has further plans and arrangements for the four cavalry armies. Therefore, Nezhkov  Kokov could only temporarily leave his post as a cavalry general to command an infantry group - the Ural Group.

    1. The 1st Ural Cavalry Corps, commander Chapayev, has jurisdiction over the 1st and 2nd Ural Cavalry Divisions

    2. The Second Volga Cavalry Corps, commander Sergei, is responsible for the 3rd and 4th Volga Cavalry Divisions.

    3. The Third Don Cavalry Corps, commander Nedev, has jurisdiction over the 4th and 5th Don Cavalry Divisions

    4. The Fourth Voronezh Cavalry Corps, Commander Bozhlev, the 6th and 7th Samara Cavalry Divisions

    Among the four cavalry corps commanders, Chapayev was promoted from the commander of the 1st Ural Cavalry Division to the corps commander, while Bozhlev was also promoted from the position of commander of the 2nd Ural Cavalry Division, and Sergei was promoted from the post of commander of the 2nd Ural Cavalry Division.  The political commissar of the Second Army was turned into the commander of the Second Volga Cavalry Army. The one who made the fastest progress was actually Nedev who did not win the first-level gold medal for victory.

    Nedev himself was only the brigade commander of the fifth brigade of the Third Ural Cavalry Division. Wang Geng valued his wit and courage in dealing with Budyonny. Of course, he was a little cautious. Commanding a cavalry corps, relying solely on fierceness  Rushing and fighting is not necessarily the best way. Budyonni, who can command a cavalry regiment and a superior force, has been able to deal with it for a long time without losing the upper hand. Wang Geng admires this Nedev quite a lot.

    Of course, another reason is that the division commander Nezhkov was transferred from the 3rd Ural Cavalry Division to be the commander of the Ural Group Army. The remaining cavalry units need to be commanded by someone whom Nezhkov can trust, and Nezhkov  His cousin, the brigade commander Nedev was obviously the best candidate. The babbling commander of the 6th Brigade, Nezhkov¡¯s cousin ?ovsky, could not make Wang Geng so reassured.  Therefore, he was only promoted to chief of staff of the Second Volga Cavalry Army.

    The Antonikov brothers were promoted to the division commanders of the two cavalry divisions of the Second Volga Cavalry Army.The two brothers rose from cavalry regiment commander to division commander, just like their brigade commander rose to corps commander, and division commander rose to group army commander, the generals of the 3rd Ural Cavalry Division have become the most eye-catching in this entire army.  of a large family.

    Of course, the most eye-catching thing in this draft of the army reorganization plan and the appointment of generals is not Petrovich and Nezhkov who became the commanders of the group army, but the four senior commanders of the Soviet Red Army who are still in prisoner-of-war camps.  Members, Slavin, Rzhevsky, Stepin and Yegorov were all listed as candidates for group army commanders.

    Although Pepelyaev and Balayanov both had sad faces, and Jiang Hongyu, Wu Peifu and Utsunomiya Taro were also a little disapproving, the authority established by the commander-in-chief of the coalition forces, his patient and meticulous explanations, and  In the end, the unquestionable look finally convinced everyone.

    "Everyone, I believe that in addition to Ma Xin, the above-mentioned four outstanding Soviet Red Army generals Slavin, Rzhevsky, Stepin and Yegorov, as well as the division commanders under them, will not be able to refuse  The olive branch we extend is absolutely irresistible.

    And even if they reject us, we will not lose anything. This is just like the ancient Chinese story of buying horse bones for a thousand gold in "Warring States Policy: Yan Ceyi". With our broad tolerance and mind, we will definitely be able to attract more people in the future.  Talents and people of insight join our cause!  "

    In the conference room late at night, the commander-in-chief of the coalition forces looked at his assistants with confidence, stood up and waved his fist.
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