Section 377 King of Irkutsk

This chaos in the Far East is, to some extent, exactly what China needs, because while China sends a large number of Mongol cavalry to regain large areas of the country with the rapid reaction force, the surrounding Russian forces, whether Red or White or other tribes, are hostile forces, and the best way to maintain the new frontier is to let them lose blood in the battle. After Finland confirmed that there was no danger of being attacked by the Red Russia, at the invitation of the League of Nations, the 66th Division of the Quick Response withdrew its troops from Finland and transferred to Murmansk to guard this port in order to threaten the rear of the Red Russia from the north, but in the eyes of the commander of the 66th Division, Tong Zhanpeng Tong, it was more like retaining a channel for the retreat of the White Russian masters who had a way to do it.

In line with the principle of plucking the feathers of the goose, during the entire ten years of the Republic, the 66th Division provided the Republic with more than 7,500 "useful" White Russian personnel, nearly 15 tons of gold and tons of other treasures and securities, and the White Russians, who had been severely slashed, were allowed to go to the transit port of Norway by boat, and then it was the turn of other countries to continue to go to the "White Russian supermarket" to choose the goods that their countries liked, and the rich White Russians could also go to the United States and Great Britain. The remaining impoverished White Russians had to tremble in the relief camps of the Red Cross and Tzu Chi Society, and finally France accepted most of the young Belarusian men and women, at least to fill the millions of young and middle-aged people lost by France in World War I, and as a member of the European upper class, Belarus could speak French more or less, and it was not difficult to integrate into the local French society. For a time, French bars were full of bar girls with Russian accents, and the consumption of special services has also decreased a lot, but from the perspective of a stable society, the French government is still optimistic.

In addition to going into exile in Finland through the Russian-Finnish border and the "Devil's Port" in Murmansk, the White Russians also proved to be an easy way of escape, and that was to go to the Far East via the Trans-Siberian Railway, where Admiral Kolchak, who had previously been defeated by the Red Russians, regrouped with the help of China and Japan and was confronting Vatsettis's Eastern Front in the Kras and Noyarsk regions. As long as they can pass through the theater of operations and reach Irkutsk, they will be able to enter the defense zone of the Chinese army, and neither White nor Red Russia will have no way to deal with those who have already entered the Chinese defense zone.

The Trans-Siberian Railway, which had been cut into several sections by the war, was also miraculously restored to traffic, and the trains loaded with food, medicine, liquor and "mechanical parts" paid the tolls as agreed when passing through the areas controlled by the forces of all parties along the way, and a few tons of grain or dozens of boxes of liquor or perhaps one or two thousand Mauser brand "mechanical parts" could pass through this area smoothly, and the Red Russians also abided by the rules, as long as there were White Russians or peasants willing to get on the train, The men and women, stripped of their underwear, wrapped in sacks, were sent to the empty carriages. In addition to the "hostile population", which was the goods plundered by Tsarist Russia from China and other Tatars, and perhaps some resource commodities such as ores, the grain and munitions exported by the Red Russia became a strategic reserve to support the Red Russian army on various battlefields, and the right to distribute these materials was always controlled by François. Blomstein couldn't get his hands on it.

Throughout the 10th and 11th years of the Republic, Russia, Belarus, and Ukraine were in a state of starvation, and of course there were reasons why most of the main grain-producing areas were enemy-occupied or belligerent or vacuum-populated, but even in the areas that the Red Army did control, it was difficult to collect grain. The programme of communism was unattractive to the Russian peasant class, which was the majority of yeoman peasants, so it was impossible to expect a high level of revolutionary fervor in them, as the industrial workers voluntarily offered food to support the peasant and workers' congress regime and the Red Army, as did the voluntary labor of the industrial workers and their enthusiastic enlistment in the army; The government, which had devoted all its strength to supporting the war effort, was also unable to provide the peasants with the large quantities of manufactured goods they needed in exchange for food.

For the government in dire need of food, the only way left is to forcibly collect it by force, so the "surplus grain collection system" has come to power under this unavoidable general trend. These policies, which now seem to be excessively radical and cruel, have certainly intensified the contradictions and conflicts between the peasants and the government, so that in the three or four years after the civil war has basically ended, rural riots and army mutinies are still frequent. However, it should also be noted that the root cause of these contradictions and conflicts that have intensified because of the "surplus grain collection system" does not lie in the "surplus grain collection system." Even without the "surplus grain collection system," the peasants are unwilling to hand over grain to the government. On the other hand, although the "surplus grain collection system" has exacerbated the contradictions, it has also solved the problem, and in any case the grain received - of course, the price is heavy and painful - but it is even more worth it.

Rather than collecting surplus grain, exchanging useless and even harmful "non-citizens" for the much-needed grain and ammunition urgently needed by Red Russia was a policy favored by all members of the Central Committee of the Peasants' and Workers' Party. François further consolidated his position as the leader of the Peasants' and Workers' Party by controlling the material exchange channels with China and the right to distribute materials, and the various armies were able to obtain material support from the central government at the most critical juncture, and the commanders and fighters of the various armies could have hope, at least not worrying that they would run out of ammunition and food, although they could not be called rich. Relying on these material support from China, Red Russia survived on various battlefields, although it was full of dangers.

In the summer of the ninth year of the republic, the Eastern Front (the middle reaches of the Volga and the Urals) became the main battlefield. At the end of August and the beginning of September, the Eastern Front (under the jurisdiction of five armies and the fleet of the Volga region) turned to the offensive against the White Guards in the middle reaches of the Volga, capturing Kazan on September 10, Simbirsk on September 12, and Sezlan and Samara in early October. Subsequently, the Red Army advanced into the Urals, liberating Izhevsk and Votkinsk by mid-November.

On the southern front (in the middle and upper reaches of the Don River, the lower reaches of the Volga River, and the North Caucasus), in July ~ November of the same year, the Red Army repelled the attacks of the Krasnov Cossack White Guards twice in a row in the Battle of Tsaritsyn; The two armies of the North Caucasus, isolated from the main forces, insisted on fighting and pinned down the northward advance of Denikin's "Volunteer Army".

After the Paris Peace Conference, the Entente freed up forces to intensify their intervention in Red Russia. In November of the ninth year of the republic ~ February of the tenth year of the republic, 130,000 British and French troops landed in Novorossiysk, Odessa and Sevastopol in the south, and successively occupied Batumi, Tiflis, Baku and other cities, and then the troops were divided into three routes to carry out the main assault on Moscow, due to the fierce resistance of the Red Russian guerrillas and insurrectionary troops, only 100~150 kilometers to the interior. The British, American, and Japanese interveners sent reinforcements to land in Murmansk, Arkhangelsk, and Vladivostok to strengthen assistance to the White Guards. But it was not only the Red Russian army that defeated them, the greater threat was the harsh climate in the Arctic and the growing war-weariness in the military. After the Chinese Expeditionary Force took over Murmansk, the Anglo-French forces withdrew their garrisons from the Arctic.

In view of the situation at that time, the Red Russian army implemented François's strategic policy and was determined to annihilate the White Guards before the White Russian army joined up with the intervention army, and then defeat the Allied army.

At this time, the White Russian army also believed that it was necessary to open up the situation in order to win Russia's independent rights after the arrival of the intervention army. On the Siberian side, the main forces of the White Russian army under the command of A.V. Kolchak carried out the main assault from the eastern front, while the armies of Denikin, N.N. Yudenich and Mirel carried out auxiliary assaults from the south, west and north, respectively, aiming at Moscow. The White Russian army committed about 1 million troops to this offensive, while the Red Russian army had only 625,000 at that time. On March 4, the 10th year of the Republic, Kolchak's army of nearly 140,000 men launched an offensive in an attempt to occupy the middle reaches of the Volga, join up with Denikin's army and march to Moscow. About 100,000 men of the Eastern Front of the Red Army were forced to go on the defensive.

In March~April, Kolchak's army occupied Ufa, Votkinsk, Chistopol, Bugulma, Buguruslan, Orsk, Aktobinsk, approached Kazan, Simbirsk and Samara, cut off the Red Army from Turkestan, and put the defense line of the Eastern Front in danger of being broken through. The Central Committee of the Peasants' and Workers' Party called on all forces in the country to fight against Kolchak. By mid-April, the strength of the Eastern Front had increased to more than 140,000 troops. In order to smoothly carry out the command of the campaign, the Eastern Front Army was divided into two campaign clusters, the southern and the northern. On April 28, the Southern Cluster switched to a counteroffensive, successively carrying out the Buguruslan Campaign, the Berebee Campaign, and the Ufa Campaign, liberating Buguruslan, Sergievsk, Bugulima, and Ufa, and on June 20, the Southern Cluster advanced to the Ural Mountains. The Northern Cluster launched the Izhevsk-Votkinsk campaign on May 25 and liberated Izhevsk on June 7.

On the southern front, Denikin's army occupied the Donbass, Don Oblast, and parts of Ukraine in June, and on the 30th occupied Tsaritsyn (present-day Volgograd). Since Kolchak had already retreated to the Urals, Denikin was unable to fulfill his attempt to join forces. In the situation of tension on the Southern Front and the victory of the Red Army on the Eastern Front, Lev. The proposal of Blomstein and Vasetidis to temporarily halt the offensive on the Eastern Front in order to strengthen the Southern Front was vetoed by the Central Committee of the Peasants' and Workers' Party. The Eastern Front, under the command of Commander S.S. Kamenev, launched a general offensive on June 21 and completely drove Kolchak's army out of the Urals by August 4.

From the end of the ninth year of the republic to the beginning of the tenth year of the republic, the Red Russian army launched an offensive on all fronts, liberating Ukraine, the Don region, the South Urals, and Shenkursk on the left bank of the Dnieper. The victory of the Red Russian army and the outbreak of the movement within the Entente against intervention in Soviet Russia bankrupted the Entente's plan to destroy the Red Russian Republic by force. French and Greek troops were forced to withdraw from the cities of Odessa, Kherson, Nikolaev, Sevastopol, etc.

The Red Russian army, under the leadership of Frunze, won a decisive victory in the republican decade, crushing the offensive of Kolchak and Denikin, and the Entente organized the Russian counter-revolutionary forces and the countries bordering Red Russia to launch two large-scale attacks on the Red Russian Republic, but both were crushed by Frunze's forces.

The Kolchak White Russian army in the Far East suffered heavy casualties and retreated to the Tomsk region, but under the encirclement and suppression of Tukhachevsky's First Army, the White Russian army, which had lost its fighting spirit, continued to retreat until the Krasnoyarsk Territory to stop the decline. More importantly, China sent troops at the request of the League of Nations, and the Seventh Army, which had been organized into the Northern Dispatch Army, crossed the Sino-Russian border under the command of Lieutenant General Du Zicheng and divided into two routes to insert itself into Russia, with the northern cluster pointing directly to the Baikal region, while the western cluster starting from Xi'an drove thousands of miles through Xinjiang and broke through the Balkhash defense line of the Kazakh cavalry.

Du Zicheng's Northern Dispatch Army Headquarters was located in Ulan-Ude, and the chief of staff, Major General Liu Boxiao, led some staff officers to set up a Western cluster forward command in Astana, and the two command headquarters, which were thousands of kilometers apart, maintained real-time contact through long-wave radio. The two armies totaled more than 80,000 troops, which seemed to be weak, but the dispatched army, which had absolute superiority in firepower, mobility, and defense, was not afraid of crowd tactics at all. When the all-motorized dispatch army galloped across the vast frozen land and strangled the White Russian Cossacks and Red Russian infantry who dared to provoke, especially the completion of dozens of field airfields and four permanent airfields, and the stationing of the 20th, 22nd, 25th, and 27th tactical support wings and the B32 bomber wing, the defensive area of the northern dispatch army was expanded to thousands of kilometers at once. For a time in the vast land of Central Siberia, Du Zicheng's nickname of the king of Irkutsk was enough to stop children from crying at night like the most vicious wolf king.