Chapter 4 Domineering China
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Astana, which means "capital" in Kazakh, was called "Akmola" in 1910 and is known as the heart of Eurasia. The city of Akmola is a military fortress and a strategically important railway junction that connects Central Asia, southern and southeastern Kazakhstan with Russia and northern Kazakhstan.
This attack on the Akmola railway station was led by Zhang Zongchang's White Russian army. He collected more than 5,000 of Kolchak's White Russian army, more than 3,000 rifles, and about 30 machine guns, 10 field guns, ammunition, and a number of communications equipment. Among them, the independent cavalry brigade was the most formidable, with more than 700 people, all of whom were Cossacks, with a fierce style and brave battles, and its brigade commander was Colonel Petrogobsky of the White Russian Army.
Amid the roar of rifles, artillery, and tanks, the Cossack cavalry, brandishing sharp knives, rushed into the Akmola railway station. The Bolshevik garrison at the railway station, having resisted for less than an hour, had to surrender with their weapons abandoned. Soon, Zhang Zongchang's White Russian army occupied Akmola. Zhang Zongchang was not only interested in the White Russian soldiers, but also showed a strong interest in the White Russian women, and he selected five young and beautiful White Russian women from the exiled White Russian women in Akmola in one go, and formed the White Russian Girls Dance Troupe for him to enjoy, which made Zhang Zongchang himself feel particularly respectful. He is a big man of 1.85 meters, and he is a little physically exhausted. At this time, Zhang Zongchang was proud of the spring breeze, and from time to time he also wrote heroic poems such as "The cannon bombarded his mother, and Weijia returned to his hometown".
Kolchak after learning the news of the entry of the squadron into the Central Asian region. He immediately conveyed the news to the envoys of Britain and the United States. The British and American governments, although they had learned of the invasion of Central Asia by the troops of the Chinese Empire, did not say anything, in their opinion. The Chinese simply wanted to take advantage of the Russian civil war to occupy Central Asia, just as they had recovered the Outer Northeast and the Far East. They feel that Central Asia is already the limit of the squadron, even Kolchak, he does not believe that the Chinese will have such a big appetite and swallow the whole of Siberia. Governments also want to use China's military. Get the damned Bolsheviks as soon as possible. When they found out that the Chinese did not even intend to let Siberia go, it was too late, the vanguard of Xu Shichang's First Army, the 15,000 squadron. It was not far from Chelyabinsk, where there was only one regiment of Bolsheviks.
Just as the Bolshevik army was building a temporary position outside the city, a tsunami-like cannonball flew and a huge bombardment sounded. It shook their guts. The shelling of the Chinese artillery units began! The tanks also rumbled over, and these Bolshevik troops, who were mostly peasants, hooligans and scoundrels, had never been on the battlefield, and soon abandoned their positions and fled with their hands and feet. The soldiers and police in the city, simply could not put up effective resistance, finally. Some Bolshevik leaders, with their families and looted gold, silver and jewelry. Got on board the train to Yekaterinburg and fled. Chelyabinsk, a historic city, also fell into the hands of the squadron.
The military operations of Xu Shichang's First Group Army and Feng Guozhang's Second Group Army in Russia were frequently reported by good news, and these good news were soon transmitted back to China by radio, and the major Chinese media, such as "Qiangguo Bao" and "Declaration", reported in large articles. Listening to Rong Rong's report every day on the good news coming back from the front, Song Xiaofei was naturally very happy, and ordered Xu Shichang's First Army to seize the time to occupy Yekaterinburg as quickly as possible and blockade the entire Ural Mountains, and at the same time ordered Cao Kun's Third Army of 200,000 people to set off from Outer Mongolia and reach the Caspian Sea coast as quickly as possible, where a blockade line of sufficient length was built to ensure China's occupation in Central Asia, and quickly carried out a migration from the Far East, and 500,000 people from the Far East moved out to form a de facto rule. Chinese who voluntarily relocate acquire large amounts of land, forests and mineral resources.
Following Xu Shichang's orders, the vanguard chose to move rapidly westward, along the railway line already destroyed by the Bolsheviks in the direction of Yekaterinburg, and many villages and towns along the way were recaptured with little resistance. Soon, Yekaterinburg was also surrounded by well-equipped squadrons!
With the large-scale invasion of Central Asia and Siberia by the troops of the Chinese Empire, the British and French governments understood Song Xiaofei's appetite and ambition, expressed concern about the squadron's action of breaking away from the joint ** team, and raised their vigilance. After all, this time Song Xiaofei did not only move the Far East, but the two major territories of Siberia and Central Asia, which are almost equivalent to the area of a continent. If the Chinese Empire, which is developing rapidly, is allowed to annex these two areas, then counting China's original territory, China will surpass the historical Mongol Empire and the former Russian Empire to become the world's largest empire in terms of territory, and all the territories of the "Empire on which the sun never sets" will have to fight.
In this regard, the "New York Times" once again called on the US government to intervene, arguing that "if such a behemoth as the hegemonic Chinese empire is allowed to swallow these two places, then, after twenty or thirty years of development, China will completely become an unprecedented super monster, and it will be difficult for any country to compete with China!" ”
Britain was particularly dissatisfied with the "hegemonic China", and the army of the Chinese Empire not only occupied the whole of Southeast Asia, but also bit off a large piece of the entire Indian subcontinent, and also wanted to annex Siberia and Central Asia, with appalling ambitions. However, the British ** team was also almost consumed by the German army in the European theater at this time, completely throwing a whole generation of young people in the trenches of the Western Front, and even the regiments of the overseas colonies were transferred back to the European theater, and it was impossible to send troops to war with China. Therefore, he asked Zhu Erdian, the ambassador to China, to make representations to the Chinese Foreign Ministry and lodge a solemn protest.
Song Xiaofei thought to himself, if the protest of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs is useful, why do you need the army? But he laughed it off and replied to Zhu Erdian: "China is worried about the spread of the Bolsheviks in these places. ”
The slogan shouted by Song Xiaofei was "dealing with the Bolsheviks," and there was a market for public opinion in Europe and the United States. Even the most radical bourgeois politicians believed that the Bolshevik threat should be resolved first. Then the problem of the Chinese occupation of Central Asia and Siberia was resolved. The opinions of the parliament were not unanimous, and the British government finally had no choice but to ask the British ambassador to China, Zhu Erdian, to make another strong protest.
At this time, Germany did not say anything about China's actions. It can even be said that Germany is in favor of China. Because Germany was not idle at this time, occupying a large area of Russian territory. Kaiser Wilhelm II's ambitions for the "land under the sun" did not disappear, and the Germans decided to use victorious actions to redeem the adverse effects of their previous defeats in the European theater. Under the command of the Chief of the German General Staff Schlieffen and the commander of the Eastern Front, Ludendorff, the German army marched on the Eastern Front, Soviet soldiers. It simply could not withstand the German artillery and tanks. The Russians are actually a people who bully the weak and fear the hard, and the more the German army ravages the Bolsheviks, the more they are afraid of the German army. Defeat and retreat. All the heroic resistance was propaganda in the Bolshevik newspapers, and the Bolshevik newspapers were the place where there was no news. It's like Pravda. The name is "Truth", and in fact it is all nonsense! After the German army seized a large area of land from Soviet Russia, it still had relatively strong strength. At that time, the German army not only solved the Soviet Russia, but at the same time, its troops also stayed in the territory of Luxembourg and Belgium, and did not withdraw from northern France, which made the actions of the French ** team walk on thin ice.
In 1910, Germany may not have been able to win the war. But there is definitely the ability to fight. So while the UN was seeking peace, unanimously against the Bolsheviks. However, in the eyes of the German government and German politicians at the time, the signing of a peace treaty without land reparations or territorial benefits was tantamount to political suicide. As a result, Germany demanded to retain the Belgian territories it occupied, much to the displeasure of England and France, and their armies were held in check.
At this time, the Japanese quietly became active in the international community, and wanted to realize the reunification of the Japanese island under the pretext that North Japan in Hokkaido, which was also a country supported by the Bolsheviks. Britain, France and other countries expressed their support for Japan to counter the Chinese threat. At the same time, on the other side of the ocean, the U.S. Congress has also made a decision to consider whether to support Japan to counter pressure from China.
The actions of the United Kingdom, the United States, Japan and other countries in private, Song Xiaofei had already received the information. He also knew very well that no matter what the final outcome of this war was, Japan would have the support of the Great Powers against China. Song Xiaofei was also looking for another opportunity to completely attack Japan, which was gradually recovering its national strength, so he turned a blind eye. Let's take Central Asia and Siberia first, and then China, at this time, has the qualifications and capital to be domineering! Whether it is military power or industrial power, there is no need to fear any country anymore!
Feng Guozhang's Second Army swept across Kazakhstan, and dozens of towns along the way were captured almost without any resistance. Unlike Siberia, the climate and geography of Central Asia are much more advantageous, and the terrain of Central Asia is mostly plain, and it is one of several large granaries of Russia. Having occupied Central Asia, a million Chinese immigrants were given, and according to the proclamation of the Imperial Chinese government, all peasants who voluntarily moved to these areas were given at least ten acres of land, as in the Outer Northeast. Moreover, some capable farmers can "stake their land". Moreover, Song Xiaofei asked some of the Chinese ** people to form a garrison to be responsible for the safety of the railway and stabilize their rule in Central Asia.
When the five-color flag representing the Chinese Empire was hoisted over the city government of Yekaterinburg, it also meant a major victory in China's "military operation" in Siberia.
Yekaterinburg is located on the Siberian Road connecting Russia and Eurasia, and was the center of the metallurgical industry in the 18th century. In the first half of the 19th century, the metallurgical industry led to the rapid development of Yekaterinburg. In the last quarter of the 19th century, Yekaterinburg became the economic, financial, and cultural center of the Urals, as well as an important hub of the railways to Perm, Tumen, and Chelyabinsk, as well as a communication center for the Ural and Siberian regions.
It took five days for Cai Yi's men to capture the city with 2,000 artillery pieces of various calibers. The artillery fire turned the city into ruins, and more than 50,000 Chinese soldiers charged. The Bolsheviks were also not afraid to break through and rushed out of the trenches, but the squadron fired countless tongues of fire in unison, harvesting the Bolshevik soldiers who rushed to the front one by one. Although the Bolshevik soldiers on the front line were not afraid of death and launched counteroffensives again and again, those die-like machine gunners did not mean to be soft at all, but just harvested over and over again, like harvesting wheat. It was very difficult for the Bolsheviks to fight their way out of the encirclement and suppression of the Chinese army. Sometimes love to fight is not necessarily to win, it is possible to face just hopeless death! By the time the Bolsheviks had to choose to retreat, the battlefield was already covered with Russian corpses, and many wandering wild dogs were roaming the clearing!
With the capture of Yekaterinburg by the squadron, the first step of China's entire military plan, that is, to separate the European part of Russia from Siberia by occupying the Ural Mountains, was completed, and the next step was to clear all the Bolshevik forces in Siberia, which was not very difficult, it was similar to suppressing bandits.
Beijing, Guangzhou, Shanghai, Tianjin, Harbin, these international metropolises in China, almost all held grand celebrations, those already very lively streets, crowded with people on the streets to celebrate, people waved the national flag, sang the national anthem loudly. Especially the people in the northeast are very excited, no longer afraid of being bullied by the old Maozi, many old people are even more tearful, in the late Qing Dynasty, the northeast people are fed up with the bullying of the Russian old Maozi, and now, it is finally the turn of the Chinese to completely beat the Russians! (To be continued......)