After the capture of Tsaritsyn, the leaders of the White Guards gathered in Rostov for a joint meeting of the Don junta and the Volunteer Army to discuss the formation of a unified government, which was attended by Dutov in Orenburg and Denikin in Transcaucasia.

Wars broke out one after another in Russia.

In Siberia, a rebellion broke out against the Czech Legion, an intervention corps of fifty thousand Czech prisoners of war, which crushed the Red Army in a major battle near Bizinchuk. From Penza to the line of Syzran, all military vehicles were rioting. The White Army is marching on Saratov and Astrakhan. The Czechs, for their part, occupied Samara and other places, cutting off railway communications.

During Kerensky's administration, in order to obtain material support from Britain and the United States, Kerensky agreed to hand over Czech prisoners of war in Russia to a so-called "Czech government" in exile in London. With the help of the Americans and the Japanese, a "Czech Legion" was formed mainly from this group of Czech prisoners of war.

In fact, at the beginning of the war in Europe, a number of Czechoslovakians living in Russia were drafted into the Russian army, and later the Tsar formed the Siberian Volunteer Division, along with the Czechoslovakians captured in the war, to fight against the Austro-Hungarian army on the Eastern Front. A small number of Czechs and Slovaks, instigated by the British-backed independents, gathered under the Bohemian flag to fight for national independence.

According to Kerensky's agreement with Britain and the United States, the Czech Legion transported the Trans-Siberian Railway from Vladivostok to the Persian battlefield, continued the battle against Germany and Austria, and helped the British defend India. The Czech Corps, consisting of about 50,000 men, began its march towards Siberia via Kursk, Penza, Chelyabinsk and Samara.

After the seizure of power by the Bolsheviks, due to the loss of American support and the chaos in the country, the transit of the Czech Legion was halted, and the Czech troops were forced to stay along the Russian railways. The Germans and Austria, of course, did not want to see these 50,000 men present on the battlefield in Asia Minor, and after the signing of the Treaty of Brest, they demanded the transfer of the Czech Corps to Austria-Hungary.

Under pressure from both Germany and Austria, Umilyanov ordered the Soviet power along the Trans-Siberian Railway to return the Czechs to prisoner camps or exterminate them on the spot. The Czech troops along the Trans-Siberian Railway did not want to be disarmed, so they rebelled. The unrest first took place in Irkutsk, where the Czech army defeated the Red Guards in battle and occupied Irkutsk. A few days later, they repelled a counter-attack by the local Red Guards.

The riots then began to spread along the railway line, and the Czech Legion soon joined forces with the anti-Soviet power everywhere to form a powerful anti-social force of the Workers' Party. In less than three months, the Czech Corps, together with the rebellious Dutov White Army, captured all the stations on the railway from Irkutsk to Penza and overthrew the local Soviet regime.

The Rostov Conference ended unhappily, and the atmosphere of the meeting was cold, and Nazarov hoped to combine the Don Army with the Volunteer Army to establish a unified Don government and a unified military command structure, but Denikin was excluded. At the meeting, Denikin accused Nazarov of betraying the Russian cause and defecting to the Germans.

Now the Denikins were outnumbered, with 230,000 Caucasian regiments under his command, more than Nazarov and Kornilov combined. He was now ambitious and wanted to sit in the position of Supreme Commander, but Nazarov and Kornilov did not buy him.

Germany and Austria-Hungary also sent their own representatives to the Rostov Conference, but were soon overwhelmed by the Russians' own quarrels.

Krasnov quarreled at the meeting with Denikin's representative, General Romanovsky, Chief of Staff of the Caucasian Corps, Krasnov unreservedly supported Nazarov's idea of establishing a so-called "Greater Donets-Don republic", while Denikin hoped to restore his rule over all the Romanovs' territories and rebuild Great Russia.

Krasnov answered Romanovsky's question calmly and politely on the surface: "At the critical moment that determines our entire cause, even the help of the original enemy has no reason to refuse. I consider the Don junta to be the representative of the entire Great Don district of 12 million Cossacks, an independent government that is not supported by anyone, and we have the right to decide the future of the Cossacks. We are convinced that our decision is in the interests of the Cossacks, and that the mission of this independent republican government that we have established is to defend the interests of all Cossacks. You don't need to put your fingers on us from the moral point of view of the Russians. ”

Krasnov said this, supported by the German-Austrian deputies, who made it clear that they did not want to interfere in the affairs of the Great Don region, who was not a Cossack, did not want to interfere in the affairs of the Great Don region.

Negotiations soon broke down, Romanovsky hurried back to Transcaucasia, they were no longer able to meddle in the affairs of the Don region, and the German representative, General Hoffmann, also vaguely expressed his intention not to allow Denikin's troops to enter the Don region.

The question now is who will become the leader of the Don Army, Nazarov or Kornilov, and neither side is willing to hand over military power to the other. In the end, a compromise was reached, and the elderly Alekseev became commander-in-chief of the Great Don Cossack Army, while Nazarov and Kornilov continued to act separately.

Russia began to split, and at the Rostov Conference, both Denikin and the Don Army parted with hatred and hostility in their hearts. From this time on, relations between the Caucasian Corps and the Don Army continued to deteriorate and take a sharp turn for the worse.

With the support of the Germans and Austrians, the White Guards established the so-called "Greater Don Cossack Republic" headed by Alekseev in Donets and the southern Don region, and Germany, Austria-Hungary, Ottomans, and Bulgaria then recognized the independence of the "Don Cossack Republic" and stationed diplomatic envoys in Rostov-on-Don, although these so-called diplomats were actually military delegations.

At the same time, the Don junta was negotiating with the government of the "Protector Army" led by Duke Dutov, which was entrenched in the Orenburg-Astrakhan region, in preparation for a common anti-Soviet alliance. To the east of the Urals, a Menshevik-dominated Siberian Provisional Government was established. In the north, with the support of the British, Yudenich also formed a new provisional government in Murmansk.

The whole of Russia had been torn apart, and the Red Soviets were now in control of only the parts of the former Muscovy and Kazan, which was the end result that Hirton had hoped.

However, where was the White Army able to withstand the Red Army's counteroffensive?

It is impossible to know now, and in the end, it is possible that the German and Austrian armies will need to intervene to help them maintain the situation. However, now was not the time, the power of the White Army soared, and Dutov even shouted the slogan of hitting Petrograd.

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