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Volume Three Far East Stories Chapter 546 Waiting for Price

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    July 21, 1918 9:05 Allied Forces Headquarters Samara

    "Don't be restrained, please sit wherever you like. I'm meeting you today mainly because I want to hear your choices about where to stay in the future. Of course, I know that the Prime Minister of the Volga Federal Autonomous Government, Vasily Nikolayevich, has already met with you.  We have met, but it sounds like the outcome of the meeting has disappointed the Prime Minister of the Federation. At this time when the nation is in danger and the country is suffering, most of you actually want to disband and return home? "

    After Wang Geng invited these captured Soviet generals to sit down, he sat down casually and said casually while lighting the cigar in his hand.

    Eleven captured first-level generals of the Soviet Red Army Group Army sat in a circle in the small conference room. The orderlies from the headquarters brought tea and fruit plates. There were also several cans of cigarettes and matches on the coffee table, and a few Soviet Unions.  The Russian general quietly looked at the commander-in-chief of the coalition forces who was sitting here with curiosity and a little shame.

    Obviously, in the version circulated in Russia, the image of the Allied Forces is that of a green-faced, fanged demon who kills without blinking an eye. This image is a bit different from the yellow-skinned young man in front of him who looks aristocratic, fair and handsome.  Too big.

    The commander-in-chief of the coalition forces who appeared in front of these captured Soviet generals was not wearing any formal military uniform of a Chinese army general. He was just wearing a white shirt and a casual linen suit. He was also not wearing a tie.  He does not look like the commander-in-chief of the coalition forces commanding thousands of troops, but looks a bit like a nobleman who has just returned from a safari.

    Several Soviet generals were a little restrained at first. Encouraged by Wang Geng's warm smile, several heavy smokers reached out to the cigarettes. After lighting up the cigars and American Camel cigarettes, the whole group started to light up.  The atmosphere in the small conference room was obviously a lot more relaxed. Wang Geng waved his hand and motioned to Shunroku Hata to go do his own thing first and leave it to him.

    After sighing for a while, the Chief of Staff of the Fifth Army, Ehe, finally couldn't help but was the first to speak,

    "Your Excellency, Commander-in-Chief, I didn't expect you to be so young. You are really amazing. Vasily Nikolayevich said that you are the uncrowned king of Asia, a young hero, an idol in the military, and the dream lover of countless Russian girls. I originally thought you were  It was just that bragging, and now that I saw him, I believed that he was not exaggerating at all!" As he spoke, a flattering smile spread across his face.

    Wang Geng laughed loudly when he heard this, lit the cigar in his hand and said,

    "Your Excellency, Chief of Staff, I originally thought that you were very capable of commanding troops, but now it seems that you are even more skilled in photographing horses! I am just an ordinary Chinese, and I am lucky enough to have done something for the country and society. According to rumors,  It¡¯s unbelievable. Why do so many Russian girls regard me as their dream lover? I would like to find some bed warmers. Can you introduce them to me later?¡±

    "Hey this no problem We still have a lot of beautiful female nurses in the military hospital of the Fifth Army, but I don't know how they are doing now. I heard that all the coalition field hospitals are concentrated in Ba  The number of wounded on Frei's front line is staggering, don't overwhelm these young and beautiful nurses!" Aihe blushed at first, then shamelessly started talking again, but he was not afraid of being crowded.

    The questions and answers between Wang Geng and Ahe were full of teasing and joking. The topics about the dream lover and the beautiful female nurse obviously greatly eased the atmosphere in the small conference room. There is no shortage of romantic love in this land.  Speaking of youthful indulgence, in this era, there were not many senior Soviet generals without girlfriends in the army, but those beautiful female soldiers, doctors and nurses in the administrative, logistics and medical systems were the first to bear the brunt and became the pursuit of generals at all levels.  object.

    The tone of Wang Geng's conversation at this moment can be said to be that of a superior victor leader, rather than that of a dandy aristocratic kid who can almost find a common topic with these Soviet generals, Yegorov, Slavin, and Steph.  Pinghe Ehe, including Lezhevsky, were all senior generals of Tsarist Russia.

    Even though these people may not all have aristocratic origins when they are young, once they are promoted to the middle and upper levels of the Russian army, they will naturally gradually integrate into the upper class and the elite. Nepotism, teacher-disciple relationships, marriages, etc. are all commonplace.

    "Comrade Ehe, you can rest assured about the situation of the captured female soldiers of the Soviet Red Army. Don't dare to say anything else. The military discipline of my army is definitely better than that of your Soviet Red Army. There are three major disciplines and nine disciplines."  Pay attention to the military song. As long as it is my soldier, regardless of military rank or position, he must sing it every morning and evening. Don¡¯t worry, you know that in the past six months and more, the number of soldiers killed on the battlefield by the coalition forces may not be more than those who were shot by our own people for violating military discipline.  !¡±

    Wang Geng waved his hand casually and said with a smile, but there was a sense of solemnity and solemnity in his tone. As the saying goes, there are all kinds of birds in the forest. It has only been a year and a half since the establishment of the Chinese Participating Army, and  From its establishment to the present, the Allied PowersIn less than half a year, soldiers in the army come from all over the world. It is just a good wish to completely eliminate the bad apples and desperate scum.

    There are always people who drink and become sexually promiscuous, and there are always people who are obsessed with sex. For Wang Geng, the way to run an army is to be strict with yourself and treat others with leniency. You must be tolerant of your own people and strict with your own troops. Along the Trans-Siberian Railway  In stations and towns throughout the country, notices were posted proclaiming the execution and hanging of the scum in the army.

    "Your Excellency, Commander-in-Chief, the coalition forces have strict military discipline. We have heard a little bit about this. But when we came from the camp in a car just now, the people who were being shot on the streets of Samara did not seem to be soldiers of the coalition forces. They looked very disloyal.  Like the local people!" The one who spoke boldly was Ma Xin, the commander of the Second Army, and the only one who publicly expressed his willingness to be deported back to Soviet Russia.

    "People were being shot on the streets of Samara when you came? Wait for me to ask!" Wang Geng rang the bell, and a guard with the rank of lieutenant colonel appeared at the door of the small conference room, "Lao Wu, call the military police  The command asked, who was shot on the street this morning?"

    "Understood, Your Excellency, Commander-in-Chief!" The lieutenant colonel saluted and went out to make a phone call. The small conference room here was silent for a while. These captured senior Russian generals were transported by plane from the Bafre prisoner of war camp yesterday.  Arriving at a building in Samara, it was obviously a temporary detention center under heavy security. However, except for the freedom to leave the building and the service of female confidential officers or nurses, each of the eleven senior Soviet generals had a room and food.  The living and clothing conditions were pretty good, even better than those in the officer corps of the prisoner of war camp.

    Soon, the lieutenant colonel named Duan Laowu returned and said, "Report to the Commander-in-Chief. The response from the Gendarmerie Headquarters is that this morning in the central square of Samara, a group of recent passengers were sentenced and shot.  During the war, the rebels who were violently fighting against the Volga federal government were smashing, looting and burning in Samara and nearby towns. The Gendarmerie Headquarters said that the Commander-in-Chief should rest assured that they were all deserters from the White Guards and the Soviet Red Army who had died innocently, as well as those from the left bank of the Volga River.  Bandits, and they all have lives on their hands, I will never accuse them unfairly!¡±

    Wang Geng waved his hand gently, and Duan Laowu, the guard chief with a neat military appearance, saluted again, glanced at the captured Soviet Red Army generals who were a little restless at the side, turned around and closed the door and went out.

    "Everyone, please understand that this is a time of war and chaos. As the saying goes, heavy laws are used in troubled times. You must not be merciful when it is time to kill. Otherwise, it will still be the common people who will suffer. The Volga Federation is now in the initial stage of being full of waste, so what is implemented is  In a wartime system integrating military and political affairs, the Allied Military Police Headquarters is responsible for justice and security in the occupied areas.

    Speaking of which, as the commander-in-chief of the coalition forces, it is not easy for me to deal with them sometimes. These bastards only care about regulations but not human relationships. They have spoiled me!  The good thing is that they act fairly!  Otherwise, with so many teams in such a big place, everything would be in chaos!  "Wang Geng gently scratched his head and smiled to comfort the Soviet and Russian Red Army generals present.

    "Your Excellency Commander-in-Chief, according to the "Samara Peace Treaty" signed by your Volga Federation and Moscow and the principle of repatriation of prisoners of war, the places of Saratov, Voronezh-Kursk and Tsaritsyn should have been handed over, right? What about the repatriation of prisoners of war?  When can we do it? I want to go back to my comrades as soon as possible!" Ma Xinluo, who wanted to go back to Moscow, blushed and frowned.

    When Ma Xin asked, several other Soviet generals such as Yegorov and Slavin were a little restless in their chairs. Obviously, compared to the determined Bolshevik soldier and commander of the Second Army Ma Xin,  It was said that Slavin and Yegorov's will to fight seemed to have disappeared. From the moment they ordered the team to put down their weapons in the coalition encirclement, these people seemed to have accepted their fate.

    Yegorov looked at the young and energetic Ma Xin with mixed emotions, wondering whether he would be promoted as a heroic and unyielding hero with a firm revolutionary will after he returned, or would he become a scapegoat in the Battle of Ufa?  One thing was that Yegorov had made up his mind. From the moment he ordered the Ninth Army to lay down its weapons and surrender, he had no intention of returning to the arms of the Soviet Red Army. It was not that he had no shame in going back, but that the risk was too great.

    After Ekh and Rzhevsky laid down their arms and surrendered to the coalition forces, Moscow immediately declared that Ekh and Rzhevsky were traitors to the Soviet Union, hostile elements, secret agents and spies who had infiltrated the Bolsheviks.  The Cheka arrested, interrogated, exiled and shot the families of the two. Although the coalition forces used the principle of repatriation of prisoners of war in the "Samara Peace Treaty" to temporarily protect the families of the prisoners of war behind the Soviet Union, who knows when Moscow will  Will he become angry and settle the score later?

    Especially in Yegorov¡¯s view, he was originally a military expert-type Red Army general from the Tsarist Russian army who was single-handedly promoted by Trotsky, but he switched to Georgia after Central Committee member Joseph came to Tsaritsyn.The man's arms and camp, at this moment.  .  .  Joseph was captured in one fell swoop by Trotsky and Ulyanov in the name of the Central Committee of Soviet Russia, and all his positions inside and outside the party were eliminated.

    If Yegorov chooses to voluntarily be deported back to Moscow, he will become a lost dog who has lost his troops and his biggest supporter. At that time, there is a great possibility that he will become the scapegoat for the defeat of the entire Ufa Battle and be sent to the military.  Court and even being shot!

    As for Tukhachevsky, who broke out and escaped the encirclement of the coalition forces, it is conceivable that once he returns to the Soviet Union, he is likely to be promoted and promoted as a positive example. No matter how useless the war is, this  After all, Tukhachevsky would rather die than surrender and fight to the end. He even broke through and went back, but he stayed in the allied prisoner of war camp in disgrace!

    Therefore, Yegorov has no intention of returning to the Soviet Union. Instead, he is waiting for a price to see what options and developments can be found in the Volga Federation. As Wang Geng judged, since the Volga Federation is now in conflict with the Soviet Union,  The government belongs to a friendly country that has signed a mutual recognition peace treaty during the armistice. Choosing to stay and be loyal to the Volga Federation is far more valuable to these captured senior Soviet generals than to the Kolchak White Guards who have been fighting life and death with the Soviet red regime.  Surrender is easier to accept!

    What's more, Comrade Alexander Ilyich Yegorov is originally from Buzuluk Town, Samara Region, and he stayed to serve for the Volga Federation, whose capital is in Samara. Who can say that it would be wrong to serve for his hometown elders?  choose?

    Yegorov even thought that if Simbirsk on the other side of the Volga River was also classified as the territory of the Volga Federation, then Comrade Maxin, who was born in Simbirsk, would not be as righteous as he is now in wanting to return to Soviet Russia.  Go over there?

    Like Yegorov, the result of private communication among these ten Soviet Red Army generals except Ma Xin is that if the Volga Federation can provide them with suitable arrangements, their first choice is of course to serve for the Volga Federation. In any case, the Volga Federation is now  It is a friendly country recognized by Moscow and has established diplomatic relations. If it is loyal to the Volga Federation, it cannot be regarded as surrendering to the enemy. It is just choosing a different political power to serve.

    ¡°If they were in the prisoner-of-war camp of the White Guards in Kolchak, these senior Soviet generals would not have laid down their weapons so easily, and they would not have been willing to stay and change camps so easily.

    The reason why these Soviet generals did not relent and agreed to serve when Vasily Nikolayevich Pepelyayev came to recruit them, but instead said that they were willing to stay, as long as they left the prison camp and returned home.  As a common citizen, if you don't get involved in politics and war, you will never become an enemy of the Volga Federation.

    In fact, it was just a strategy of retreating in order to advance. Of course, it was also because Pepelyayev did not offer any attractive positions or prices at the beginning, and these Soviet generals had deep feelings for Pepelyayev.  The prime minister of the former Kolchak government did not have a high opinion of him. He felt that this guy was just a loser. He would follow whoever had thicker legs. He had no faith and was bent on climbing up in the camp.
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