Section 376 The Eastern Front is in a fierce battle

Through the snowflakes that melted like grease on the train's glass, Li Jin stared at a horse-drawn carriage parked on the platform. A column of white smoke erupted from the locomotive's chimney, skimming the faces of Gao Liang and Fang Fei on the driver's seat of the carriage. On the platform, the train is being unpacked. The dispatcher blew the whistle and shook the steam-laden signal flag, the horns of which flickered, pushing the bulky locomotive around with invisible force. The military vehicle whistled, and the whistle shook the sparks bursting out of the boiler chamber. Several stretchers of "typhoid patients" were lifted from the train. Gao Liang was loudly soliciting customers in broken Russian, and he was selling kvass in barrels when stretchers rushed up to fence the wagon. A few peasant women next to her lamented that the cheese they wrapped in cold-proof cotton jackets was not cared for. What was surprising was that the kvass in the barrel was contaminated, and a strange thing was suspended in the wine, slimy like a tongue of flesh. There are still wisps of undissolved blood on the walls of the barrel! Not good! Something happened! (Later, it was learned that the red Russian blue hat had found a bullet in the barrel, so he pressed the Chinese merchant Mr. Li into the barrel and choked to death.) Twenty quick guns were hidden from the stretcher and put into the carriage. The two horses pulling the cart snorted and the white flesh around their nostrils fluttered, and they drove out of the road that the crowd had given way and quickly disappeared into the black locust forest along the roadbed.

In the woods, the leaves creak as they are compacted by the wheels. Underneath the pile of logs, there are still pieces of snow from the next year, like pieces of wood chips from the fall of the seasonal lumberjack's axe. Arctic Mountains: Several mixed coniferous and broad-leaved forest belts entangle the folds of the mountains. The fir bark is smooth and dark, and the branches are densely covered with down, and the conifers are clumped. In the mirage of Lin Lan swayed some figures with guns, with Caucasian belts tied around their waists. It's the enemy! Fast! A piece of canvas torn off by the wind on the roof of the car fluttered, and the hooked vines and wild thorns retreated like horse's mane. The bullet hit the driver's seat, the wheels crackled, and the black oil that lubricated the axles shook and fell straight down. Gao Liang pressed Fang Fei down on the seat.

"I'm scared to death!" Fang Fei shuddered as if he was on fire. "You don't look scared, you don't even bend over! Shouting that you lie down and your voice is hoarse! "I'm scared, forget it, I'm too clear, I'm not ashamed." Fang Fei didn't want to tell the heart she was carrying for the other party, she bit her lip and raised her gun to shoot back, but Mosin Nagant was too heavy for a woman. Some hanging branches broke and fell, and the leaves rained down with a bang, like countless sharp axes swinging and chopping. A Red Russian Cossack with a fuse pulled into the ditch with one foot and blasted up foul blocks from the bottom of the ditch!

Another bomb flew over, and the flying shrapnel tore the collar of the high-shine collarbone into strips. Fang Fei hugged him, his lips swelled up and tears welled up, and the horse's mane spread out in the wind. Suddenly, there was a dull sound of gunshots, and a large snowbag climbed onto the road like a monster from the glade beside the road, a small snowbag on top of it spewed fire snakes, and the chasing blue hats behind them fell to the ground like felled trees, and only the horses scattered and fled. From the high ground beside the road, some men in white cloaks and dogskin hats covered with white cloth, as if sketched out of thin air by the snowflakes themselves, jumped up from the snowdrifts and fled before the fierce white spots on the forehead of the horses. A stream of white foam trickled down the horse's mouth. Fang Fei stopped the carriage and looked at these guys who came out at a loss, especially behind the big snow bag, there was actually a door, and two guys in leather clothes came out of it, and after jumping out, they began to stomp their feet and complain about the ghost weather in Russia.

"Hey, are you Chinese or Japanese? Girl. A guy in a dogskin hat approached, and he seemed surprised that it was a yellow-skinned girl who was driving the car.

Hearing the long-lost Chinese, Fang Fei's tears rolled down like pearls with broken threads. "I'm Chinese, and so is he, a man."

"Hahaha." The surrounding soldiers suddenly let out a hearty laugh, and when Fang Fei was at a loss to help the injured Gao Liang get out of the car, a soldier went over to support Gao Liang who was a little confused after blood loss, and put him in through the hatch of the big snow bag, Fang Fei saw that it was a car, an ironclad car, but it was painted white on the outside and there were large and small backpacks and boxes hanging on it, but they were all wrapped in white cloth, and it was impossible to see any difference with the snow bag from a very close distance. The spinning snow pack above was, of course, the machine gun tower, and the thick, steaming barrel sticking out of it was enough to tell him who he was.

"Don't worry, we are the Chinese Expeditionary Force, you are safe, come with us." The soldier explained, "I am the leader of this squad, the second lieutenant of the Wehrmacht Wang Feng. ”

Fang Fei, who is engaged in small business, and her man Gao Liang can be regarded as escaping, but for the Chinese in Russia who are struggling on the line of life and death and the large number of Belarusians who have fled, this disaster has just begun.

At the Paris Peace Conference, in order to strangle the nascent Red Russian regime, the Entente countries seized the opportunity to carry out armed intervention and support the White Russian forces to launch an armed rebellion. From March of the ninth year of the Republic, British, French, and American intervention forces landed in Murmansk. On April 5, Japanese, British, and American intervention forces landed in Vladivostok. In addition, Entente troops invaded Russian Central Asia and the South Caucasus. In April~May, Germany and the Ottoman Empire, which was on the eve of collapse, violated the "Brest Peace Treaty" and invaded Crimea and the South Caucasus.

At the end of May, the Czechoslovak Corps, composed of 50,000 Austro-Hungarian prisoners of war, launched a rebellion on its way back through Siberia and occupied the middle reaches of the Volga, the Urals, Siberia, and the Far East. The Cossack White Guards in Krasnov in the Don region and the "Volunteer Army" of Denikin in the North Caucasus rebelled one after another, formed a counter-revolutionary government, and began to expand the rebel forces. In the middle of the year, as the Peasants' and Workers' Party introduced a surplus grain collection system, the Socialist-Revolutionary Party took the opportunity to encourage the peasants to support the rebellion and establish an anti-Red Russian regime. By the summer of the same year, Red Russia had lost three-quarters of its territory and was in danger of being attacked on all sides.

In order to dismantle the Tsarist army, which was the pillar of the Tsarist autocracy, the Peasants' and Workers' Party's propaganda activities within the army before it seized state power were mainly to agitate soldiers against the authority of the officers and the organizational discipline system of the army. As a result, in the face of the rebellion and offensive of the White Russian army, the Red Russian government had a serious shortage of troops at its disposal, and was exhausted in the face of sieges from all directions. Moreover, even these limited armies lack effective organization, management, restraint and command because of the massive loss of officers. The retained officers had a considerable part of their questionable loyalty, and even hid a large number of saboteurs. Those officers who were loyal to the new regime also often found it difficult to establish their authority and play a role comparable to that of the officers in the old army or the White Russian army because of the proliferation of liberal ideas and the lack of organizational discipline caused by the propaganda of the military movement in the early days of the peasants and workers.

On the surface, it seems that Red Russia is in danger, but Wu Chenxuan knows very well that Red Russia still has a long life, and believes that the bald brains, which have the secret support of China, will have a way to deal with those opposition who look like they are distant. At present, the solution to the military problem of Red Russia is also very simple: to re-establish a regular and effective system of organization, command, and political work within the peasants' and workers' army, and if it is not possible to establish a new system to replace it in a short period of time, then simply restore the old system. By grasping this crucial point, we can ensure the Red Army's troops, discipline, loyalty, and combat effectiveness, and we will be able to solve the vast majority of existing problems.

The establishment of the Red Army and its victory in the first battle laid the foundation for the defense of the power of the Congress of Peasants' and Workers' Deputies and the victory over the counter-revolutionary forces at home and abroad. On March 4, the Supreme Military Council was established to exercise unified command of the armed forces throughout the country; In April, local military institutions were established, and the system of universal military training was implemented throughout the country; On 29 May, the All-Russian Central Executive Committee adopted a decree on the introduction of universal military service. The Central Committee of the Peasants' and Workers' Party and the Peasants' and Workers' Government also decided to mobilize the manpower and material resources of the whole country to shift all work to the wartime track.

In order to unify the leadership of the troops fighting on the Eastern Front, the Eastern Front was established on June 13; On September 2 the country was declared a unified military camp and established by Lev. The Military Council of the Russian Revolution chaired by Blomstein. Vatsetis was appointed commander-in-chief of the armed forces of the republic. On September 11, the Revolutionary Military Council of the Republic ordered the expansion of the troops, in addition to the Eastern Front, the Southern Front, the Northern Front, and the Western Defense Region (reorganized into the Western Front in February of the following year), and in December of the same year, the Caspian Sea-Caucasus Front was formed. On 30 November, the Committee of Peasants' and Workers' Defence, chaired by François, was established to coordinate and direct the activities of the military and civil authorities and to ensure the unity of the front and the rear. All these measures ensured the building of the peasants' and workers' army and its initial victory on all fronts.

Although in the course of the civil war the areas controlled by the Peasants' and Workers' Government at one time occupied only a small part of the country's territory, the core areas of all Russia remained under the control of the Government of the Congress of Peasants' and Workers' Deputies*, both in terms of geography and in terms of industrial transport. In this way, not only was the actual connection between the various branches of the White Russian army geographically isolated, but more importantly, the government of the Congress of Peasants' and Workers' Deputies took control of the industrial elite areas in the west and even in the whole country, as well as the hubs and trunk lines of railways and inland waterways. Relying on the industrial zones, the Red Army not only had an overwhelming advantage in the production and supply of weapons and ammunition (the supply of arms to the White Russian Army could only rely on seizures in the early stage, and in the later stage, the Allied countries had to travel thousands of miles from overseas to transport them), but the industrial workers living in these areas also became a stable and reliable source of troops for the Red Army. With the help of a complete network of water and land transportation, the Red Army's soldiers and weapons could be easily transported to where they were needed and to achieve local advantages. Despite its advantages in industrial production, troop mobilization, and transportation, the Congress of Peasants' and Workers' Representatives* also faced a fatal but intractable bottleneck -- a shortage of means of subsistence, especially food. The lack of effective control of the Peasants' and Workers' Congress and the Red Army over the vast agricultural areas beyond the above-mentioned core areas, and the scarcity of agricultural products, especially food, became one of the most serious problems that constrained the government of the Peasants' and Workers' Congress throughout the course of the civil war.

As a result, for the Russian peasants, the evil system of collecting surplus grain was invented by the political commissars, and the machine-gun workers' grain convoy went to the countryside to sweep the countryside, which was simply the most terrible nightmare of the Russian peasants, but it was only by taking grain from the peasants that François and his Peasants' and Workers' Party were able to survive the most crisis of the republican nine years.

However, with the conclusion of the Paris Peace Conference, an Entente intervention army group composed of Britain, France, the United States, China and Japan had been formed, and the Red Russians thought that they could breathe a sigh of relief if they repelled the attack of the White Russians, and the guns and bullets of the intervening army told them that this would not work, so the Russian Revolution quickly entered the stage where the intervention army was the backbone, the White Russian army was the servant, and the Red Russian peasant and industrial army fought in the vast territory of Russia. Those who had fled from Red Russian-controlled areas and the White Russians began their escape along the long Trans-Siberian Railway, while the Chinese expeditionary force was transferred from lush France to the cold Siberian theater of operations before the dust was washed. The 99th Rapid Response Division was the first to enter the vicinity of Irkutsk and Ulan-Ude, a valiant army that stood in the middle of the Trans-Siberian Railway, crushing one Red Russian army after another, and gathering a large number of refugees from the west. Rescues like Fang Fei and Gao Liang are still being staged on the shores of Lake Baikal.