Chapter 349: Ready to Go
Tokmak, a small town in Central Asia, is a small town located in the northern part of present-day Chu River Oblast in Kyrgyzstan. The town is located at the intersection of the two trunk lines of the Silk Road, where Chinese and Western merchants gathered in ancient times, and the only way for Eastern and Western envoys to pass through. Because it is located in the central and eastern part of the Chu River valley, nourished by snow water from the nearby snow-capped mountains, the land is fertile, rich in products, and has a pleasant climate, which was quite attractive for those powerful conquerors in the Middle Ages, and was once the capital of the Qarakhanid Kingdom and Western Liao.
When Genghis Khan conquered Western Liao, the Muslims killed the defenders of the city, and Jebe entered the city without a fight. In the 1830s, it served as a military outpost of the Kokand Khanate, and 30 years later, it fell into the hands of the Russian Empire, the Russians demolished the fortress, and the modern town was built by Colonel Mikhailchernyayev on May 13, 1864.
By the way, the Tang Dynasty's Broken Leaf City was not very far from Tokmak, and the Tang Dynasty poet Li Bai was born here, and Li Bai did not leave here until he was 6 years old.
As a town with some history, but now it's very desolate, Tokmak shouldn't have any problems, but..."Be careful, don't let these guys cross the cordon..."
On the platform of the railway station in the small town of Tokmak, an officer of the expeditionary force shouted loudly, while at least one company of officers and men of the expeditionary force formed a cordon with extremely serious expressions.
In fact, there is no need for them to be serious at the moment, because just outside the cordon, at least nearly a thousand Kyrgyz and Russians are eyeing the train station inside the cordon... And such a thing will happen only because of the February Revolution, which led to the complete collapse of the Romanov dynasty, which ruled Russia for 304 years ... Many people know that because of the European war, Russia is already in internal and external difficulties, and all aspects such as economy and people's livelihood have been in a mess. Originally, when the Romanov dynasty was there, because Nicholas II was listened to from top to bottom, it could at least be maintained a little, but when the rule of the Romanov dynasty collapsed, and the newly established provisional political axe was divided into two departments, the bourgeoisie and the "hammer and sickle", Russia fell into a state of complete chaos in all aspects... And this chaos also led to Tokmak, a town that should have been very rich, falling into poverty. In fact, the town used to be very wealthy, but only because of the European war and some of the reasons in the past
In any case, the current Tokmak is already poor and has nothing, and when the Romanov dynasty completely collapsed and the whole of Russia lost control, no one came forward to take care of them, that is, after falling into this situation, the inhabitants of Tokmak took aim at the military supplies transported from Dihua to the Caucasus... You must know that military supplies are not only ammunition and weapons, but also include food, and even beef and mutton and other materialsββββββ Kyrgyz people are almost all Muslims who believe in Islam, and these materials are just right for them... And because of hunger, the residents of Tokmak don't care that these supplies are being transported to the front, after all, in the eyes of the residents of Tokmak, Tsarist Russia is gone, so why should they care so much... Merely... In front of them, there are still many problems to be solved, for example, the expeditionary force of a company in front of the railway station... In fact, the domestic reaction was still very fast, and after the collapse of the Romanov dynasty, it was already expected that the current situation in Russia would definitely encounter some troubles in the transportation route from Dihua to Central Asia.
Fortunately, at this time, China had many training bases in Central Asia, and some camps responsible for recuperating wounded soldiers, and there were also many expeditionary forces in Dihua and Lanzhou that were preparing to march westward, so after the order was issued, tens of thousands of expeditionary forces had poured into Central Asia and occupied many transportation points in Central Asia.
Tokmak is one of those points.
Although there is only one company of the expeditionary force here, there are more than 150 people if you count the company, plus the "Madsen" and other weapons on hand, although there are almost 1,000 people outside the train station, they don't have to worry too much... Perhaps... Not to mention the Kyrgyz, the Russians are famous for their bravery, coupled with the pressure of hunger and cold, Russia's guns are a little overflowing, and there may not be many water beads, but there are definitely a lot of old-fashioned rifles of all kinds.
After all, this is not the front line, and their task is only to guard the train station, so it is really not worth it to lie down a few brothers here, and to die at the hands of these hungry and emaciated people... It's just that... Although the officers and men of the expeditionary force had already set up machine guns on the roofs of some platforms and other buildings at the railway station, perhaps hunger was more motivating than machine guns, and after a little hesitation, the people of Central Asia outside the railway station had already walked up slowly.
And the soldiers of the expeditionary force in charge of the vigilance, although their guns were already aimed at these civilians, their fingers on the trigger were still hesitating... What was in front of them was not an enemy army, just a group of civilians, and there were even many old people, women, and children, looking at how they were emaciated by hunger..."..."
The shouting officer just now cursed in a low voice, looking at the chaotic people in the distance, looking at the appearance of his brothers, how could he not know the thoughts of his men. But he couldn't say anything, because he couldn't do it... To be honest, it's okay to deal with the enemy, but to deal with the common people... But the military orders are like a mountain, and he can't just let these rebels capture the train station and take away the remaining supplies on the train station, after all, those are the things used by the front-line brothers to save their lives... But... Just as the officer was about to give the order to open fire when the rioters reached a distance of 200 meters, a train whistle was suddenly heard in the distance.
Hearing the whistle, almost everyone was stunned, especially the officer, who was about to give the order, and even began to rummage through the notepad, because he remembered that there should not be a train arriving at this time... Just as the officer was about to find the ugly man on the timetable, the train had already entered the train station.
Looking at the train that was coming into the train station, the officer, who had already thrown the timetable aside, slapped his forehead fiercely.
"Oh no!"
After saying that, he was ready to put his brothers on guard, but he knew very well how much the supplies of such a train would stimulate the people outside who had been starving for a long time.
In fact, he was right, after seeing such a 40-car train entering the train station, the people of the town outside the train station were all red-eyed. Even those who were originally a little afraid of machine guns are now full of courage, and the source of their courage is the "supplies" in the train cars.
And yet..."bang"
With a bang, the door of a train was pulled open from the inside, and then at least a dozen soldiers in black uniforms jumped out of the carriage, and it seemed that there were more soldiers inside. Not long after the doors of this train were opened, the remaining thirty or so carriages were all opened, and in the carriages, there were constantly pouring out of the expeditionary force soldiers wearing black military uniforms.
Just when the expeditionary force at the railway station and the people of the town outside the train station were dumbfounded, the entire train station was already crowded with people, and many soldiers of the expeditionary force who could not stand even ran to the railroad tracks under the platform. Seeing so many soldiers pouring out of the train, the people of the town, who were originally red-eyed, immediately sobered up and hurriedly disappeared from around the train station.
And getting off the train, a colonel officer with the highest rank walked up to the person in charge of the railway station regardless of it.
"The contemptible man is Chu Zhongqin, the commander of the 149th Regiment of the 37th Division, who was ordered to occupy Tokmak Town, and your department has been temporarily under the jurisdiction of our regiment, cooperating with our regiment to occupy Tokmak Town, this is a document..."
Saying that, Chu Zhongqin handed over a document to the person in charge, and the person in charge just glanced at the document and hurriedly saluted.
"Please rest assured, sir, I will do my best to cooperate..."
The commander of the infantry regiment is the rank of colonel, and the company commander is only a captain, and his humble position is indeed worthy of the name... As for the next task to capture Tokmak? The captain was not at all worried, for there were only a few thousand men in the whole Tokmak. (In the 21st century, it was only a small city of tens of thousands of people), and now there is a regiment of more than 2,000 people at the railway station, and it is really easy to capture such a small town.
The only question now is how to make an ingenious entry ceremony after taking the town. Even the captain felt that if the colonel commander next to him during the siege of the city was willing to promise free food to the people in the town, he might be able to easily take the entire Tokmak without a single shot... But...]
The captain is still a little curious, that is, why did the colonel use the word attack?
According to the captain's understanding, the Republic of China and Russia are now allies, and they are allies, and capturing the cities of the allies may easily cause a backlash from the allies, right? Although this ally is now taking care of itself, isn't there still Britain and France? If there's any reaction... In fact, the captain was not alone in his worries, because by the time Tokmak arrived on a train, a large number of expeditionary forces had already captured the cities in other towns in Central Asia, and were camping around them... And all this, apart from the protests of the "Hammer and Sickle Party", was not opposed by anyone, including the bourgeois political axe. Because long before the expeditionary force launched the operation, it had already contacted the British, French and even Russian provisional political axes, claiming that in order to ensure the safety of the expeditionary force, troops should be stationed along the entire transportation route.
Of course, the temporary political axes of Britain, France and Russia are not so two, but if it is just such a one, it is a reason why no one will believe Yan Guang. Therefore, Yan Guang added a few more after such a reason, such as waiting for the situation in Russia to stabilize before returning, and for example... At the same time as the expeditionary force occupied the towns along the Central Asian route, the expeditionary force would also go out to all the "hammer and sickle parties" in the towns along the way, and close to retaining the members of the bourgeois regime... When Yan Guang did this, the Russians didn't mention it for the time being, but Britain and France all gave a thumbs up, because Yan Guang did it in the eyes of Britain and France... And facing the happy British and French, Yan Guang smiled at the same time, but also sneered slightly in his heart.
"Laugh, laugh, you laugh slowly, when you cry..."
The expulsion of the "Hammer and Sickle Party" and the retention of only the opposing party were naturally Yan Guang's deliberate actions.
Because Yan Guang knew very well that after a while there would be another revolution in Russia, and in this revolution the party opposed to the "Hammer and Sickle" would disappear, and that only one Soviet power would be left in the form of the "Hammer and Sickle Party".
In other words, China's opponent is only such a "hammer and sickle party".
In fact, after Russia tried its best to survive the October Revolution, the Soviet Union's sphere of influence was only limited to the territory of early Russia, such as Kazakhstan in Central Asia, and in fact was not directly incorporated into the Soviet Union.
This is also why Yan Guang will keep the bourgeoisie and only expel the "Hammer and Sickle Party", because after the "October Revolution", the "Soviet Russian Civil War" and the White Army and Britain, France, and the United States will be defeated, and China will only face a Soviet Union, and all bourgeoisism will disappear.
And at that time, if you don't want to keep messing around in Central Asia, which you have just incorporated into the palm of your hand, you must first drive out all the "hammer and sickle party" in Central Asia...ββββββββββ after sending troops into Central Asia, it only took one or two months for Yan Guang to completely control the entire Central Asia. Of course, since the "October Revolution" had not yet taken place, Yan Guang did not take action against the local bourgeoisie, but only expelled all the forces of the "Hammer and Sickle Party" in Central Asia... The reaction of the "Hammer and Sickle Party" to this was naturally very fierce, but in the case of Britain and France as well as the opponents, and the expeditionary force had a large number of troops stationed in the Caucasus and Central Asia, the reaction of the "Hammer and Sickle Party" was really useless.
After all, nominally, the "Hammer and Sickle Party" still has to obey the temporary political axe.
It's just that it is also because of this incident that the desire of the "Hammer and Sickle Party" to seize power has become even stronger.
And these are exactly what Yan Guang wants to see the most.
In fact, he is not only happy with prejudices, but also fuels the fire. After successfully occupying the entire Central Asia, Yan Guang secretly ordered Jiang Baili to hand over all the Turkish military equipment captured by Jiang Baili in the Caucasus to the Russian "Hammer and Sickle Party"... Not only was Jiang Baili surprised by this, but even the Russian "Hammer and Sickle Party" was not clear.
After all, they really don't understand what Yan Guang means by expelling the "Hammer and Sickle Party" in Central Asia while sending them weapons in the Caucasus. However, in the end, the "Hammer and Sickle Party" decided to accept these weapons, firstly, because the weapons seized from the Turks were indeed of good quality, especially the rifles used by the Turks, all of which were German Mauser G98 rifles, which were much stronger than the Russian Mosin Nagant.
Moreover, in what is now Russia, the "Hammer and Sickle Party" is in the hands of the soldiers and workers, and the Provisional Political Axe is in the hands of the officer ranks. At present, the soldiers in the hands of the "Hammer and Sickle Party", because Russia was too chaotic in the past and lacked weapons, many soldiers have one less weapon to take advantage of, and a soldier without weapons is still a soldier?
This is also the reason why the "Hammer and Sickle Party" will accept it, because they really lack weapons.
Moreover, after the seizure of power was confirmed, Lenin and others also had a premonition, and they had a premonition that after the seizure of power was successful, Britain and France would never give up, and even the Romanov dynasty that was overthrown by them would probably jump out and make a fuss, and it was really that time... For them, these weapons are very important... Therefore, after receiving a batch of weapons, Lenin and others even contacted Jiang Baili and Yan Guang through secret means, asking if there were any more? And Yan Guang's answer to these addicted Russians is only one: "If you want it, you will exchange it for hard currency..."
This hard currency must not be the currency of Russia, after all, Tsarist Russia is gone, and the currency of the New Deal Axe has not yet been established, so the hard currency can only be something like gold and silver.
It's just a pity that although the power of the Soviets is not small, they are also notoriously poor, so in the end Lenin they were not able to come up with anything.
But Yan Guang didn't care, after all, it was not yet the end of the October Revolution. When the October Revolution was successful and the Soviet Union was beaten by other countries, Yan Guang would definitely secretly help the field while occupying the territory.
Just like now, Jiang Baili some time ago only provided more than 10,000 Mauser rifles, and for such a long time, the expeditionary force captured at least 100,000 Mauser rifles from the Turks, just waiting for the civil war between Soviet Russia and Russia, these weapons can all be given to the Russians, and all of them are given for free... But now..."It is time to prepare well until the October Revolution takes place..."
Iron ambition, the first step to realize this dream, is to start by dismembering polar bears...
(To be continued)