The division headquarters settled, and it seemed that the Chinese were not ready to rush to the front line, and in conversations with many officers, Kareni learned that many of them tended to be conservative and neutral, that is, they did not want to help the Don Army or the Soviet side.

After two days of walking, I was finally able to stop for a hot meal. Kareni was surprised to find that these Chinese soldiers had to line up before the meal, and the officers took the lead in singing the military song: "Yu Si Wannian, the Great Republic of East Asia!" The mountains are vertical and horizontal, and the rivers stretch the waves of civilization; There are 400 trillion people and gods, and the land is large and rich. Promote my five-color Republic of China emblem and sing my Republic of China song! ”

"What are they singing?" Kareni said to Adjutant Zhang beside him.

"Military song, China's military song." Adjutant Zhang said.

"But now you are fighting the flag of the Ukrainian National Army, and you should sing the Ukrainian military song." Kareni said.

"Haha, you have a point, but it's a pity that we're only going to do this!" Adjutant Zhang burst out laughing.

Kornilov now had 60,000 men at his disposal, more than the Red Guards of the Southern Military District of the Soviet Union. He now hoped to capture Tsaritsyn and open up links with the Dutov group on the Orenburg side. In order to defend Tsaritin, the Moscow side sent the Supreme People's Commissar Zhuyashvili as the chairman of the South-Western Military District, responsible for the operation between the entire South-Western Direction and the Kornilov and Nazarov groups.

The two sides had not yet formed the long and strong front of the European war, and the main forces of the White Army under Krasnov's command fought a major battle with the Red Guards in Zimryansk, after which the Red Guards had to abandon Tsimryanskaya and concentrate their forces in the Tsaritsyn area due to the arrival of reinforcements from Kornilov.

The White Army continued to advance in the direction of Tsaritsyn, with only occasional clashes and battles between small cavalry reconnaissance units. The Don Cossack corps under General Raurov also began to gradually approach Tsaritsyn from the northwest, and after crossing the Don and seizing the towns of Yertsovka and Pichuzhenskaya north of Tsaritsyn, it stopped. Because the resistance on the part of the Red Guards was becoming more and more intense, and new reinforcements were received.

He needed to wait for the arrival of Krasnov's troops, and then together they would attack Tsaritsyn.

The 9th Division of the Chinese Workers' Corps under the command of Xiao Wanshan marched behind Raurov's troops, and the Don Plain was as if it had been subjected to a severe hailstorm, and the fields were riddled with bullet marks and scorch marks from burning vegetation wherever battles had taken place. The cavalry charged through the ripe fields, which were littered with trampled horseshoe prints and fallen crops.

The lower reaches of the Don River became a gathering place for all kinds of "reactionary elements", and many high-ranking generals, high-ranking officials, landlords, and capitalists of the Russian Empire fled here in order to oppose the public ownership revolution carried out by the Soviet power, in a vain attempt to use this land as a base to realize their dream of overthrowing the social Workers' political power. Reactionary elements among officers, cadets, commandos, students and soldiers, as well as Cossacks who opposed the agrarian revolution, who fled from the north, formed the backbone of the entire Don Corps and the Volunteer Corps of Kornilov.

The 150,000 Cossack prisoners released and handed over by Austria-Hungary to Nazarov and Kornilov became the main source of strength for the "White Guards", allowing them to withstand the Red Guards offensive and gain a foothold in the lower Don and Donetsk regions. Alekseev, the former chief of the General Staff of the Russian army, also worked effectively to integrate the "motley" Cossack army, which was automatically disbanded from the battlefield, and now two divisions have been formed, and these people are now also part of Kornilov's volunteer army.

With the signing of the Brest Treaty, the "war between imperialists" was over, but the "west wind" blew the flames of war from Ukraine to the Donets and Don regions, to the homeland of the Cossacks.

Several large yellowish clouds fluttered silently over the town of Yertsovka, and a larger number of Chinese workers followed the army of Raurov and stationed outside the town. The dim sunlight shone on the windows of the farmstead at the wrong time, glowing with a dazzling golden light. Kareni followed the 25th Infantry Brigade into the town of Yeltzovka, and the chaotic sound of horses' hooves of the cavalry slanted through the town, stopping in front of an estate about 3 versts southwest of the town.

"What for?" A company of Raurov's 8th Donets Infantry Regiment had taken possession of the estate, and several sentries with rifles stopped them outside the estate.

"We have been ordered to take over this manor and call your chief out." Kareni rode an iron-blue Don hippopotamus to the front and said to the sentries.

"Why? Sir, we have managed to find such a place to live. The company commander slowly walked out of the manor, listened to Kareni's introduction, and said with great reluctance.

"No, man, they have a higher rank than we do." Kareni said.

"These yellow monkeys?" The company commander named Brenikov said.

"What do you say? it. But Huang Yisheng, the commander of the 25th Brigade, understood this sentence, he was leading troops in Heilongjiang, and he might not be able to do anything else, but Mao Zi would always say a few words of swearing, and no matter what kind of language, swearing words are always the easiest to learn. So he picked up his horsewhip and shone it on Brenikov's face.

The Cossacks pulled the bolt and pointed their guns at Huang Yisheng, while the brigade commander's guards surrounded the Cossacks.

"His grandmother's, this is a rebellion, do you want to be a Red Guard?" Huang Yisheng pulled out the pistol attached to his waist and aimed it at Brenikov's head. Eventually, due to the much larger number of Chinese, the Cossack company was disarmed and thrown out of the manor, and several people were beaten.

Beaten, Brenikov ran to the town of Yertsovka to go to Raurov's chief of staff for comment, only to be scolded by the chief of staff and warned him not to provoke the Chinese again. and brought Brenikov's company safely to the edge of the forest outside the town to rest, where they set up camp.

"Oh my God, we're now slaves to the yellow race!" Brenikov cursed in his tent in his new tent, and because he was angry and had no one to plead for him, he fled from the camp with his company that night and went to join the Red Guards.

"Look, I just don't like this kid, and he looks like a red molecule." After hearing the news, Huang Yisheng not only did not feel the slightest frustration at the heavy losses suffered by his impulsiveness, but was complacent, as if he had cleared the troops of the "scum" for Raurov. "Hey, tell me what's going on with those reds." He said to Kareni.

"How to put it......" Kareni did not know where to start for a while, so he simply stated some of the Bolshevik ideas, such as the representative of the working class, the power of the proletariat, the abolition of exploitation, the confiscation of the landlords' land and the distribution of such things to the poor.

"That's a good way to say that!" Huang Yisheng said, "I am actually from a poor background, my family was poor when I was a child, and my father and mother died early, so I could only beg for food everywhere, and two of our five brothers starved to death." Later, Yuan Dashuai ...... Oh, it was President Yuan Da recruiting soldiers, I was asking for food in Dexian County at the time, I was so hungry that my eyes were dizzy, and I ran to sign up as soon as I gritted my teeth, but I was also young and thin at that time, and people didn't accept recruitment. I just cried, just being handsome...... Oh, President Yuan saw it, and asked me where I was and why I was crying. Let's just say that we want to be a soldier, and it's no reason. In fact, I was really hungry. The marshal praised me for my sincerity, so he asked the recruiter to accept me, and became the marshal's personal soldier. Later, he slowly stayed up and was slowly promoted to the battalion commander. ”

"Ah, I didn't expect Brigade Commander Huang to be poor in the past." Kareni said.

"Yes, yes, later in the Republic of China, there was a turmoil in Mongolia, and the marshal asked me to bring a cavalry regiment into Chahar to quell the rebellion, and later transferred to Hulunnaoer and Hailar to garrison." Huang Yisheng said, "In fact, there is a 'Sun Cannon' in our country, and he also advocates equal division of land rights, I think he is right." At that time, when he was in Beijing, I took the president's guard battalion to stand guard for him. However, later he opposed President Yuan Da and caused a riot, and he became our enemy again. ”

"Brigade Commander Huang also wants to divide the landlord's land equally?" Kareni said.

"Yes, yes, those rich people are slamming the door, when we asked for food, we were not less angry with those rich people." Huang Yisheng said, "The most taboo thing to be a man is to be unkind to the rich, and one day you will tell me about the Red Party in detail." ”

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