In Kulen, Colonel Ivanov was going crazy.

In the past month, the army of the Chechen Khan in the east has been dispatched twice in a row, and each time Kulen received the news, he was ready to fight, but each time they did not wait for the Mongol army, they turned back halfway. This puzzling style of play made Colonel Ivanov's hair fall out a lot, and the bare top of his head was quite a bit like an eggshell blown by the wind.

In fact, this is all because Outer Mongolia is too big, and the limited strength of the Soviet Russian army that entered Mongolia seems to be very stretched. That's why Colonel Ivanov is so restless!

At present, the operational order of the Russian army entering Mongolia is to march westward, and the main force in the middle is commanded by Pisarev, commander of the 5th Russian Cavalry Division, the 5th Cavalry Division, the 103rd Brigade of the 35th Infantry Division and the Mongolian cavalry regiments, and the 2nd Brigade of the Slevensk Cavalry on the left flank The goal is to first eliminate the Mongol resistance forces west of Kulen to Tangnu-Ulianghai, and then turn back to clean up the Mongolian tribes in the east, the Chechen Department!

The right flank was originally composed of the 105th Infantry Brigade attached to the 35th Cavalry Regiment, as well as the Xie Jingjin Cavalry Guerrilla Detachment and the Choibalshan Cavalry Detachment of the People's Party Army.

However, in order to eliminate the Mongol resistance forces in the west, the Xie Jingjin cavalry guerrilla detachment and the Choibalshan cavalry detachment, which had good combat strength and were familiar with the terrain, were transferred to the middle road, and the two Mongolian cavalry regiments that had suffered large losses in the previous battles were transferred to the right flank, and new soldiers were recruited on the spot to supplement and recuperate.

The 35th Cavalry Regiment and two Mongolian People's Party armies, which could be used as the vanguard to move south, suddenly and quietly disappeared a few months ago.

Can this fun be big, lost? Still annihilated? It's a big problem, that's a team of thousands of people!

Colonel Ivanov of the 105th Infantry Brigade waited left and right, and he could not see anyone alive or dead, but if a large group of enemies attacked them, then this large group of enemies would definitely not abandon the center of Outer Mongolia, Kulen. But after waiting for more than a month, there was no news, and after thinking hard, Colonel Ivanov could only report to his old boss, the commander of the 35th Infantry Division, Neyman.

Neiman was also numb when he heard it, this matter can be big or small, but the army has arrived in Uriya Sutai, not to mention those mountains and rivers, even the straight-line distance on the map is more than 1,000 miles, it is definitely too late to wave the army to help, so he can only quickly report the matter to the commander of the 5th Army, Matyasevich, and at the same time apply for the 35th Infantry Division to stay near the Russian-Mongolian border The 104th Infantry Brigade quickly moved south to support the 105th Infantry Brigade.

When reporting to the above, Neiman also gave a death order to Colonel Ivanov of the 105th Infantry Brigade, where he could lose it, but not Kulen, and focus on defense, no matter which force came to attack, he was not allowed to leave the city, and he was guarding the city and waiting for domestic reinforcements.

As for the trading city near the border, Neiman didn't think about anyone attacking there at all, as long as he kept Kulen, it was the greatest credit for this entry into Mongolia!

Neyman's biggest concern now is the Chechen tribe east of Kulen, a tribe that has been rumored to have been fighting hard in recent months!

Neiman's plan was good, but the army of the Outer Mongolian Legion did not follow the routine at all.

For the first time, the army of the Outer Mongolian Legion was halfway and then turned back to kill the pro-Kulen elements inside the Chechen Khan, and they were caught off guard and almost all of them were captured.

As a result, Colonel Ivanov, who was in the city of Kulen, waited for a long time, but did not wait for the army of Outer Mongolia, and waited for the snowstorm and the infantry brigade that came from both roads, the 103rd Brigade of the 35th Infantry Division of the main force in the center and the 104th Infantry Brigade that remained near the Russian-Mongolian border.

The 103rd Brigade was originally responsible for the grain and grass on the way to the west, and it fell far behind the army of the Western Expedition, which was the nearest regular army to Kulun, so it was transferred by the commander of the 5th Army, Matyasievich, at the first time. If Cullen is lost, this army will also be the face of total annihilation!

And when the good news of the arrival of reinforcements spread throughout the city of Kulen, the Chechen Khan's internal response sent the news of the third army leaving the city with a falcon, and it was snowing so hard that it was impossible to judge the target of their attack, so they could only order all the controlled areas to be under martial law, and all the departments were not allowed to move without permission.

However, after waiting for a few days, there was no response, so the scouts were dispatched, but the scouts, who had always been invincible, did not report any useful information.

What's even more infuriating is that since a week ago, there have been scouts who have left the city and not only have no situation reported, but also lost contact with the city.

Then more and more scouts went missing, and by now there were ten teams. It's a whole team of hundreds, and it's all the most elite. The heavy snow covered up all the traces of qiē, and it was really a needle in a haystack to find a team of more than a dozen people in the vast Outer Mongolian desert.

Colonel Ivanov believed that something had happened to them.

But even if a regiment was sent out of the city to search, it would be attacked, and given a few shots of black guns, and if a pursuit was ordered, as soon as the pursuing team was scattered, it would be ambushed again.

This kind of search can be described as very hard.

After three or four futile pursuits, the 105th Brigade held an internal meeting to unify opinions, and chose to follow the advice from above, no matter what the enemy was, that is, to guard the city behind closed doors, wait for the next year, return to the earth in spring, and then settle accounts with the Chechen Khan.

"When the time comes, we must rob all the Chechen Khan Urge!" Colonel Ivanov thought fiercely in his heart.

Baron Valentin, Baron Vitariye, and Baron Boris have been chased by the Soviet Russian army in the past few days. But now they are not in a bad mood, but they are worried that the team behind them will be lost.

Here in the southern woods between Ulan-Ude (Verkhniy Udinsk) and Chita, the pursuers behind the three barons were partly Soviet Russian troops and partly the People's Revolutionary Army of the Far Eastern Republics.

The Far Eastern Republic was proclaimed on April 6, 1920 in the Transbaikal region under the leadership of the Far Eastern Bureau of the Communist Party of Russia.

It was the power of Soviet Russia that developed and grew in the Far East in the form of a republic, and although it was declared to be an independent democratic republic distinct from the Soviet power at the beginning of its establishment, it was in fact under the leadership of the Soviet government. Moreover, most of the members of the government were Bolsheviks, and some of the country's diplomatic measures and principles had to be approved by the Central Committee of the Russian Communist Party or the People's Commissariat for Foreign Affairs. It is equivalent to a plug-in opened by Soviet Russia.

Therefore, in terms of foreign relations, it basically follows the foreign policy of Soviet Russia. The main task was to establish and develop economic and trade relations with foreign countries, such as Britain and the United States, using their non-Soviet forms. At the same time, it used various forms to attack Japan, because Tsarist Russia and Japan were defeated in the war for the northeast region of China, lost part of their rights and interests in the northeast, ceded South Sakhalin Island, and lost the only ice-free port in the Pacific Ocean, which had been painstakingly operated for a long time, Lushun. At the time of the Russian Civil War, Russia's influence in the Far East was shrinking, Japan intervened with arms, and occupied large areas of territory in the Russian Far East. The Far Eastern Republic is designed to create a buffer zone between the two countries.

The Far Eastern Republic has the same type of People's Revolutionary Army and People's Navy as the Soviet Russian army. In the early days, it had 10,000 troops, 13 guns and 30 aircraft. By August 1921, after the civil war in Soviet Russia basically subsided, it had 21,800 infantry and more than 9,800 cavalry.

Most of the Soviet Russian troops that entered Outer Mongolia set off from the Far Eastern Republics, and it can be said that the logistical supplies of the Soviet Russian troops in Outer Mongolia were basically obtained from here.

The local indigenous people, the Buryat Mongols, also the Balhu Mongols.

The Mongol branch of the Balhu was very extensive, and with the continuous migration of pastures, it was dispersed to the east and south of Lake Baikal. During the Kangxi period of the Qing Dynasty, some of the Balhu Mongols were incorporated into the Eight Banners and stationed in the vast area of Butha, east of the Great Khing'an Mountains, and some became the subordinate departments of the Chechen Khans.

Because of their common ancestry, the Mongols who entered the Chechen Khanate in the Far Eastern Republic also gained a lot of terrain and other information.

This time, the army that followed the three barons consisted of more than 7,000 men, divided into four regiments. Only one regiment of the Soviet Russian army participated in the war, that is, one of the 104 infantry brigades that was ordered to go south to support, and the rest of the infantry regiments went south to reinforce, and the main force of this regiment was not to fight bandits but to supervise the work, because the other three were the People's Revolutionary Army of the Far Eastern Republic.

It is said that it is the People's Revolutionary Army, but the composition is still very different, one of the regiments is adapted from the militia group, and the combat power is really not good, and the other two regiments are temporarily formed by the incorporated White Russian Army, of which the White Russian Army accounts for more than 70%, so the combat power is acceptable but the loyalty is very questionable.

But in the final analysis, the three barons made too much movement in the vicinity, although it was repeatedly unsuccessful, but as the supporters of Tsarist Russia in various parts of Soviet Russia became fewer and fewer, there were still a large number of bandits in Siberia, which greatly affected the political status of the leaders of the Siberian Military Region, so while a large number of mobile troops went south into Mongolia, they also pieced together the troops of four regiments to encircle and intercept.

Now one regiment is stationed in Ulan-Ude, one is responsible for baggage, two regiments are responsible for Soushan, and Baron Valenjing is encircled.

"Captain! This time, the White Russian bandit army could not escape. It actually got into the pocket we set up, and to the east there was a regiment of the People's Revolutionary Army of the Far Eastern Republic, more than 2,000 people. In the west, when our regiment was fully manned, two main cavalry companies were formed, each with nearly two hundred men, and an infantry battalion sent by the Far Eastern Republic to cooperate with our People's Revolutionary Army, which together we had six times as many men and horses. Now it's up to us to go into the mountains and destroy them. ”

When the regiment commander Govorov heard this, he disagreed, and said: "The three of Valentin are all cunning as foxes, good at drilling mountains, they have escaped the first few times, and they are not all incompetent to lead the troops, our Fifth Army has also surrounded and suppressed them, but also let the three of them escape."

Don't underestimate them, the three of them are not small, we must be caught in the first battle, in case they let them run away again, even if they catch us next time, it will be shameless. ”

After a pause, "Pass my order that the commanders and fighters of all battalions, companies, and platoons must strictly prevent the White Russian bandits from taking advantage of the opportunity to escape, and keep guard posts day and night. All sentries are sent to double posts! I also sent a warrant to the commander of the People's Revolutionary Army, Sokolovsky, to step up the search of the mountains, urging them to find out the White Russian bandits. At the same time, in order to strengthen the ties between the two armies and prevent the White Russian bandit army from escaping from the mountain and forest paths, once they encounter the White Russian bandit army, they will burn wolf smoke during the day and light red lights at night, so that the two armies can meet each other. ”

"What are these Russian troops waiting for? Why haven't you come in yet? Jiya Saiyin looked at the snow-white snow in the mountain nest with a telescope, and squatted for a long time, but he didn't even see half a figure

"Why are you in a hurry? So you're going to tease them? ”

"You know what? This is called prudence! Rokossovsky was the last to speak.

Rokossovsky, Giyasayin, and Dakou Achi have been in the mountains for many days with Outer Mongolian reinforcements.

Fortunately, there were only a few hundred Mongol cavalry who needed to light a fire for cooking, so the goal was not big. But every day the plane came to take two laps, which made everyone very depressed.

The Soviet Russian army only besieged and did not attack, that is, it was comparing the endurance of the two teams. Originally, the Soviet Russian army thought that the White Russian army was nested in the mountains without supplies and could not hold back for a few days. But they forgot that the supplies of the Soviet Russian army needed to be transported from Chita or Ulan-Ude, far away, and after a week, the Soviet Russian army had not yet exhausted the defeated soldiers of the three barons, and they were a little overwhelmed.

"It's coming, I've heard that a mountain search team has entered the mountain from the east today." Dakou Achi happily rushed into the cave.

"Really, there's a fight going on." The money leopard is also suffocated here, and waiting without a goal is the most test of people's willpower.

"I stayed in the mountains all day and the cold wind blew, and I froze, and now I can finally move. Ay! Captain, what are you thinking? Gyasayin patted Rokossovsky, who was beside him

After a few days of contact, several people have become one, after all, they are all comrades in the trench in the future, "I want to see the terrain." Rokossovsky stood up.

"What do you think of your old comrades?" Dakou Achi asked with a big sting, Rokossovsky's identity is not a secret among these people at all, and of course it was announced to the public that he had sacrificed his life for the country.

"Because of the Cheka's existence, the interior of Soviet Russia is not what you think!" Rokossovsky talked about the answer.

"What's the Cheka?" Dakou Achi wondered.

Rokossovsky looked lonely and did not answer, "It's the brocade guard of the Ming Dynasty!" Jiya Saiyin gave an answer, which made a Mongolian man like Dakou Achi tremble.

The Ming Dynasty was a terrifying existence for the Mongols, especially their Jinyiwei Even after hundreds of years, they may not know who the emperor of the Ming Dynasty is, but they still have lingering fears about the Jinyiwei who infiltrated various tribes!

The twilight was dark, the moon was faint behind the thin clouds, and in a moment the sky was already full of stars.

The four of them took the guards, led the war horses, and after seeing the nearby terrain clearly after leaving the camp, they had the intention to take advantage of the moonlight to peek into the Soviet Russian military camp, so they ran all the way to the hill near the Soviet Russian army's station.

Stop and go, stay until the moon is on the branches, and the group will reach the hill.

Immediately looking from a high place, I saw the lights in the Russian military camp shining, the figures flickering, bursts of laughter and laughter coming from the wind, and at the same time the unique accordion sound of the Russians.

"Wow! Their horses are really good! Dakou Achi carried the binoculars and saw a lot of war horses at a glance.

Everyone was quietly inspecting, contemplating countermeasures, and suddenly a rapid sound of horses' hooves came from far and near, and everyone immediately became alert.

Under the moonlight, reflecting the white snow, it was clear that it was a Soviet Russian cavalryman galloping under the post.

"Who's on?" Jiya Saiyin just asked.

"I'll go!" Dakou Achi took it, and before he finished speaking, the war horse under his crotch had already jumped out.

The rest of the people did not dare to let this "Ma Daha" go alone, and hurriedly let people outflank and catch up. Intercept the way of this Russian cavalry.

The vigilance of the Soviet Russian cavalry was very high, and as soon as they found that someone was chasing, they immediately whipped their horses twice, and accelerated their mounts under their crotch.