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On the "border" between China and Russia in the Far East, there is a large temporary camp, which is a simple camp built by taking advantage of the terrain. It's so simple that there's just a campfire and everyone sleeps on the floor. Although the Russians defended the camp with heavy ammunition, the Chinese soldiers did not care. The Russians did not have many weapons in their hands, and even less ammunition for a threatening large-scale battle. Therefore, the Chinese soldiers looked cheerful, held megaphones, and shouted to the Russian crowd in Russian, whether they were fluent or not. The Russians looked at the Chinese soldiers who were "recruiting" with a cold face and a numb look.

The shouters were all dressed in Chinese military uniforms, some Chinese, others Russians with high noses and deep eyes. Their fluency in Russian is proof of this. The Russians who were still following Kolchak even recognized some of them as Russians who had chosen to defect to the People's Party a few months earlier on the western border between Russia and Mongolia.

"This is the last chance, and when the weather cools down, the border between China and Russia will be closed. At that time, there was no longer the opportunity to take refuge in China. "Not just open recruitment, some boat-civilian Russians began to lobby within Kolchak's ranks.

The Russian army, which had fled thousands of miles from the Ural Mountains to the Far East, had less than 500,000 men left. Centered on the golden train escorted by Kolchak, the team fled from west to east. The Red Army did not spare Kolchak's intentions, and Trotsky's troops pursued Kolchak for their lives. If it weren't for the fact that Trotsky's troops had to take care of the border with China, I am afraid that Kolchak would have been destroyed long ago.

Left behind, fleeing, Kolchak's troops were getting smaller and smaller. Especially when entering the border between China and Mongolia, the Chinese army defended China's border line on the one hand, sold some materials to the Kolchak side on the other, and recruited engineers and technicians in the Kolchak team.

At least a hundred thousand Russians chose to leave the ranks and follow the Chinese. Most of those who broke away were with their families, and there were also some nobles who were not strong-willed. Those who did not choose to leave continued to move forward by buying food and daily necessities from China with gold.

Reaching Chita near Lake Baikal, Kolchak's troops refused to move on. As soon as the Chinese troops had blocked the railway from here to the east, they told Kolchak that the land in front was already Chinese territory. Despite the fact that the number of Chinese troops was not very large, the Kolchak troops, who had fled thousands of kilometers, no longer had the will to fight.

After negotiations with the commander of the Chinese army, Hua Xiongmao, Kolchak paid the price of 100 tons of gold, which was recognized by China. Not only did they provide recognition, but the Chinese even provided train transportation services to Kolchak's team. Those who remained loyal to Kolchak continued to follow Kolchak eastward, but some of them chose to stay in Chita with a firm attitude. According to the records left by the Revolutionary Army of Workers and Peasants, the Russians wept, but refused to go further east. Led by the bishop and others in the procession, they wept and prayed all day in churches and other places. It is better to waste time like this, to be caught and shot by the Russian Red Army that is following them, and these people are not willing to go any further.

The Central Military Commission ordered the Ninth Army in Outer Mongolia not to get involved in Russia's internal problems, and Hua Xiongmao certainly knew very well how cruel the class struggle was. However, everyone has compassion, and except for the people who owe the people's blood debt, the rest of the killing is on the battlefield, not against these guys who have completely lost the will to fight.

Hua Xiongmao immediately ordered the troops to retreat, and the order of the Central Military Commission that there was no resistance was certainly one of the reasons, Hua Xiongmao had been in the center for so long, and he smelled something very disturbing from the order. Before the retreat, a small number of Russians secretly handed over their children to the Workers' and Peasants' Revolutionary Army, and asked them to take them with them and take them to China. Hua Xiongmao agreed on his own initiative.

It didn't take long for the facts to understand that the Central Military Commission's order was by no means unfounded. The cavalry of the Red Army's pursuing force drove many Russians to the new Sino-Russian border, and killed the fugitives on the spot near the new border. Survivors who fled to China recounted the merciless massacre of the Russian counter-revolution by the Russian Red Army at Chita.

What Baikal is red, what corpses are like mountains. Hua Xiongmao didn't believe the, the southern shore of Lake Baikal is under Chinese control, and the lake is still blue, showing no signs of turning red. The Russian Red Army arrested these people, and the Russian Red Army also purchased a lot of grain from China. Judging by the total amount of food, it should include the basic rations of the captured personnel on the Russian side. It was necessary to shoot some of the counter-revolutionaries who committed huge crimes, but Hua Xiongmao never believed that the Russian Red Army could shoot two or three hundred thousand people.

From Chita to the west coast of the Pacific Ocean, the Russians crossed the two control areas of the Outer Mongolian Military Region and the New Northeast Military Region. When Hua Xiongmao met with Mu Husan, commander of the Northern Command of the New Northeast Military Region, to hand over the work, the two reached a common conclusion that the People's Party was not seeking to seize Kolchak's gold at all, "The central government is really far-sighted. ”

Mu Husan said very calmly: "This batch of gold is like a magnet, condensing Kolchak's men into a ball. In order to protect the safety of this gold, they will definitely choose to leave our territory. There is no need for us to covet what is not ours in the first place. ”

Hua Xiongmao had heard of Mu Husan's name for a long time, and it was inevitable that young comrades would be anxious for quick success, and it was rare to be able to be tempted by immediate interests like Mu Husan. Hua Xiongmao replied: "It would be nonsense to say that you are not greedy, but it is a good thing to be able to get out of trouble." Kolchak's gold is just right to attract the firepower of other countries for us, and the new frontier is so big, thank God that it doesn't happen. ”

At the end of August 1921, after Kolchak's troops arrived in the Far East, as Hua Xiongmao and Mu Husan expected, they again bought some food and other daily necessities, and then continued north, looking at the posture to run to the north of the new Sino-Russian border as soon as possible.

The BJP conducted its last "recruitment" among these people, and few of them chose to join the BJP. Those who were able to run all the way from the Ural Mountains to the western Pacific had many opportunities to escape. Having reached the western Pacific, how could they choose to join the Chinese army under the banner of a sickle and hammer?

"Commander, the Russians have accelerated their retreat north." The political commissar was very appreciative of Mu Husan's judgment. Before the "recruitment" of Kolchak's subordinates, the party committee was very suspicious that a large number of Russians would defect to China. However, the Russians not only did not defect to the Chinese, but left quickly, which saved everyone.

Mu Husan didn't want to be complacent at all, before Hua Xiongmao met, Mu Husan was very worried that the oldest soldier of the Workers' and Peasants' Revolutionary Army would ask Mu Husan to make a fortune from Kolchak as much as possible. However, the old revolution is the old revolution, and after making a fortune, Hua Xiongmao's reasonable and restrained attitude did make Mu Husan completely relieved. Hua Xiongmao's first consideration is to stabilize the border line of the republic, but not the benefits and merits that the idea of gold can bring.

Compared to Kannai, the Tohoku is already cold to death. After entering September, the area under the responsibility of the Northern Command of the new Northeast Military Region showed a trend of cooling down significantly earlier than the traditional northeast region. In September, when the autumn tigers are raging in Kannai, the northern regions of the Republic must begin to prepare winter equipment in an all-round way to survive the half-year winter. Although not to explain the Manchus, Mu Husan somewhat understood why the Manchus had abandoned these areas so easily. To maintain a military presence in such a place, it is necessary to have a strong national strength. If it were not for the hundreds of thousands of railroad soldiers who are now completely free of food production in the Northeast and specialize in building railways. Mu Husan simply did not believe that he would be able to maintain the presence of tens of thousands of troops on such a long border line in the middle of winter.

In such a region, maintaining the "presence" of tens of thousands of troops capable of going to war in winter is a terrible job in itself.

According to intelligence, Kolchak's destination was the easternmost part of Russia, from the Lena River to the Kamchatka Peninsula. Russians with a lot of winter experience should have only two options: either to set up winter camps here in a hurry, or to enter other countries from these regions. Regardless of their choice, in the winter when transportation is almost cut off, China's new Northeast Command must tense its nerves and guard against any possible variables.

Compared with these troubles, Mu Husan felt that the gold was not worth mentioning at all.

The attitude of the two commanders of the Northern Military District made the Central Military Commission feel very reassured. The Central Military Commission could not directly say that if the two commanders were full of plans to make meritorious contributions, they would carry out orders in defiance of the order and secretly beat Kolchak's idea of gold. The Central Military Commission can only remove them from their posts and investigate them.

The recent situation in Asia has been very delicate, with the exception of the Republic and the regions with which close trade relations are maintained, all countries and regions are in economic crisis. When confronted with such problems, the imperialist countries invariably transfer their internal contradictions abroad. China must not be targeted at this time.

The United States has repeatedly asked China whether it is willing to participate in the work of dissolving the Anglo-Japanese alliance with the United States. This incident has sparked a lot of controversy within the People's Party, and Chen Ke is trying to use this incident to unify the opinions within the party and make an overall adjustment of thinking about the future strategic plan. If the Kolchak gold, which the United States, Britain, Japan, and Soviet Russia were concerned, would immediately meet with the opposition of all the neighboring countries.

Chen Ke looked grim at the meeting of the Politburo Standing Committee, and what he said was indeed very unexpected by the comrades, "I personally believe that maintaining the status quo is of practical significance. The Anglo-Japanese alliance certainly has a restraining effect on China, but the Anglo-Japanese alliance is now on the defensive, and this alliance itself faces a great challenge from the United States. China is also developing rapidly, and this alliance will become a noose around the neck of Britain and Japan in a few years. It is necessary to allow the existence of this alliance at this stage. ”

"Early death, early life! What's so bad about dissolving this alliance now and replacing it with a future alliance between China and the United States? "You Mo is one of the more radical ones. Because of the direct threat of the Japanese fleet to important coastal cities, the first thing that You Gou wanted to solve was the Japanese navy.

"It's easy to die first, it's hard to die later! So we have to let the Anglo-Japanese alliance die later, not let them die first. Chen Ke said.

"Why can't you trust the United States?" Shang Yuan asked: The United States did not really work for China's interests at the Paris Peace Conference, and Shang Yuan was quite dissatisfied with the Americans. But the U.S.-China partnership does share a lot of China's pressure. Chen Ke's attitude expressed a firm distrust of the United States, which could not but make Shang Yuan ask clearly.

"The United States cannot be trusted because of the principle of unanimity among the great powers." Zhang Yu concluded, "Once the Anglo-Japanese alliance is dissolved, a new system of great power unanimity must be established in the Pacific." Where exactly is the biggest conflict between the Americans and the Anglo-Japanese alliance? I think everyone should understand. ”

"The biggest contradiction in the Pacific right now is the naval issue." Chen Tianhua also began to show his support for Chen Ke, "Our navy can't even defend itself, let alone participate in the new Pacific system." Rather than dismantling the Anglo-Japanese alliance, it is better to let the Anglo-Japanese alliance continue to exist, and the contradictions of the imperialist countries must be fully exploited. ”

You Gou didn't expect that no one in the Politburo Standing Committee supported her position, and this result surprised You Gou very much. She couldn't help but ask: "The United States does not have the ability to threaten our homeland, even if the great powers are unanimous, we should be able to withstand the pressure." ”

Chen explained: "The status quo is already in our best interest, so what good can we do to change the current situation? The purpose of the new system among the great powers was to prescribe the future order, and their unanimity was bound to be directed against China. At that time, China lost its cooperative relationship with the United States, and lost its essentially trade system with Britain, which was tantamount to the loss of internal and external interests. What's in it for us? ”

"The reality is that the Anglo-Japanese alliance does threaten us, and we and Japan may not have a showdown anytime soon. At that time, we unilaterally undertook the blows of Japan and Britain, and the Americans did not necessarily fall into the ground. "It's not without his own considerations.

Chen Ke was very much in favor of You's attitude towards the United States, and he smiled: "Since we don't believe in the Americans, we might as well keep the Anglo-Japanese alliance that the Americans desperately want to break up." The Anglo-Japanese alliance is not only a yoke for us, but also a yoke for the United States. We do not need to risk the United States becoming our adversary. There are some troubles that must be tolerated temporarily. ”

Since this issue has been agreed by the vast majority of the Standing Committee, and You Yu is not strongly opposed, tolerating the continued existence of the Anglo-Japanese alliance has become the direction of diplomacy in the near future.

Chen Ke again discussed the problem of the unfriendly neighbor to the north, "There is news from Europe that Tukhachevsky has been defeated under the city of Warsaw. Russia's attempts to attack Western Europe failed. If nothing special changes, the situation in Russia will be decided, and it will not be long before Russia will demarcate its territory with its present borders. ”

"How does this affect us? Will Russia backtrack? "Shang Yuan is very distressed by the huge amount of money invested in the north, and it would be too regrettable if he continued to invest.

"Russia is beaten like that, what guts does it have to open another front in the East." Zhang Yu is very perceptive, "Will Britain and France put their energy back on the world?" ”

"Yes. We need to be ready for Britain to rearrange around the world. Chen Ke agreed with Zhang Yu's answer.