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Volume Three Far East Stories Chapter 592 (Part 2) The Battle of the White Guards on the Don River

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    Fortunately, this guy still had some reputation among the Cossack troops, but the Bolsheviks wanted to convert this Cossack cavalry commander into the revolutionary ranks, so Krasnov promised not to quarrel with the Soviets and the Bolsheviks again.  After defeating the enemy, he was released.

    But Krasnov turned around, and after sneaking back to his hometown on the Don River, he pulled up a team to fight with the Soviets and the Bolsheviks, as if he was loyal to the provisional government to the death and was incompatible with the Soviets.  Most of the White Guards who were disbanded and demobilized and returned to their hometowns defected to and followed the leader of the Don White Guards.

    Krasnov is a bit like the direct Cao Kun and Cao Sanye in China. He is not good at fighting, but he is good at winning people's hearts. Therefore, even Denikin, who served as the chief of general staff of Kerensky's provisional government,  After fleeing to the North Caucasus, he raised a volunteer army and became the commander. In the end, he was willing to merge with Krasnov's Don Army and became his deputy. In fact, he was responsible for the military command of the entire Don White Guard Army.  The relationship between Denikin and Krasnov is a bit like the relationship between Wu Peifu and Cao Kun in Wang Geng's previous life.

    Krasnov is the political leader of the Don Army, and Denikin is the military leader of the Don Army. The cooperation between the two is really a perfect match, but in comparison, Krasnov's Don White Guards were the first to  It was established with the support of the Germans, while Denikin's Volunteer Army was established with the support of the Allied Powers, Britain and France, so the cooperation between the two was not impeccable.

    Moreover, after the Soviet Russian government and the German-Austrian Alliance signed the Brest-Litovsk armistice and negotiated peace, Krasnov's troops lost the support of the German side and became unsustainable. They were short of arms, food and pay, while Denikin's troops were  With the support of the Allied Powers, Denikin became the actual head of the Don White Guards.

    "Anton Ivanovich, what does Kolchak mean by this? Do you have to leave our hometown all the way to fight for him in the north? This is what we agree to. Can the Cossacks agree? Let me tell you, Kazan's  It is only right that the Cossacks should go back to the south. This is the Don River and Rostov, the homeland of the Cossacks since ancient times!¡±

    Krasnov, the commander-in-chief of the Don White Guards, became furious after reading the telegram handed over by Denikin, slammed the table and shouted.

    "Peter Nikolayevich, the Volga federal government has given us an ultimatum before, and now Kazan is playing this trick again. I think we can't delay it any longer, and we must make a decision on the next step as soon as possible.  , otherwise everything will fail inside and out, and things will be out of control!" Denikin stared at Krasnov.

    "Others are afraid of the Volga Federation, but I am not afraid of Krasnov. My Don White Guards are all brave and capable knights, and they are not comparable to those Bashkir shepherds on the Ufa plains! That Pepelyaev is nothing more than  He's just a clown, just a puppet, and he's actually giving us an ultimatum! Is he an idiot?" Krasnov said dismissively, lighting up the cigar in his hand.

    Denikin was quite disapproving when he heard this, and cursed in his heart, you are just a idiot. How can you be better than the Prime Minister of the Volga Federation when leading troops to fight?  With the support of the Allied Powers, they defeated the 300,000-strong main force of the Soviet Red Army. How about you, the leader of the White Guards of the Don River?  You clamored to go into battle in person, but failed to attack Tsaritsyn three times. At least two of them were at your hands!

    Of course I wanted to think so. Of course Denikin was not here to bully Krasnov at this moment, so he just smiled lightly and said,

    "Your Excellency, Commander-in-Chief, if we don't make a decision as soon as possible, we will lose our status as soon as Kazan announces it. The Volga Federation will definitely treat us as bandits and drive us into the sea! Don't forget, we have to face  That¡¯s right, it¡¯s the Allied Forces, not the Prime Minister of the Volga Federation Pepelyaev!¡±

    "Making a decision? Didn't we make the decision when we sent the last telegram? The White Guards of the Don River can only fight to the end for their hometown elders and the invaders. They must not leave their hometown and go 1,000 kilometers north to replace Kolchak and him.  Those people are working hard, if we can't even save our hometown on the Don River, how can we have the dignity to go out and mess around?" Krasnov stared with a look of surprise on his face.

    Denikin said helplessly, spreading his hands and saying, "I'm telling Peter Nikolayevich, Kolchak must have made a deal with the Volga Federation. If we choose to lead the troops north, then everything will stop. We will still  He is a general under Kolchak, and our Don White Guards are still part of the All-Russian Provisional Government!

    But if we choose to disobey orders, not only will the land under our feet no longer belong to us, but our team may be declared rebels and bandits. What will we do then?  !  "

    "What should we do? This team of the Don River White GuardsWe are the soldiers we have raised with the support of the elders in our hometown. Of course we cannot give up the land under our feet. Otherwise, what should we say to the elders in our hometown?  He Kolchak declared us rebels?  Well, we will declare that we will not recognize the All-Russian Provisional Government that humiliated the country and ceded territory and paid indemnity. We will set up an All-Russian Provisional Government ourselves and declare that Kolchak and his troops must accept our leadership!  Otherwise, you are a rebel!  "

    ???????????????????????Although Krasnov¡¯s military talent is negligible, his political acumen is not lacking. No, in the blink of an eye, this guy is still talking plausibly.

    "Peter Nikolayevich, what do you think about joining the Volga Federation? Since we don't plan to go north to help Kolchak fight with Moscow, there is no big moral obstacle for us to choose to join the Volga Federation.  .

    Of course, setting up your own all-Russian provisional government as you mentioned is one of the options, but the north is cut off by Tsaritsyn, and we are nowhere near the Soviet-controlled areas. No one will regard us, isolated in the south, as an all-Russian regime.  Treat it!  Are we going to fight the Volga Federation?  Do you think we can defeat the Allied forces armed to the teeth?  Denikin said in a gloomy tone.

    "Join the Volga Federation? Become a subordinate of Pepelyaev's guys. I say Anton Ivanovich, what do you really dare to think about? If you are willing, I am willing, but can the Cossacks of the Don River be willing?  ? Don¡¯t look at the Allied Powers¡¯ victory over the Soviet Red Army in the Battle of Ufa. The Soviet Red Army is just a bunch of ragtag forces. How can it compare with the main forces of Germany and Austria? Now the Allied Powers and the Volga Federation are expanding rapidly. It¡¯s just a boast.  The angry ball might burst when it encounters the sharp thorn of the German army! "
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