Now only the civil war of the Russians remains.

In fact, the Russians had hoped for "peace," but Austria-Hungary Foreign Minister Chernin proposed a conciliation plan: a ceasefire would be achieved among the various forces in Russia within the scope of the present control, a federation would be established in the South Caucasus, the governments of the Don River and Siberia would be recognized, and in Central Asia, Bukhara Khan, who had been annexed by Imperial Russia, would regain sovereignty and establish a federation with the Kyrgyz as the main body.

Under this plan, Imperial Russia would be dismembered, and Soviet Russia would occupy less than a quarter of the territory of the empire, and the Bolsheviks, struggling to retain power, finally agreed to accept the "peace" plan.

Kolchak, however, rejected Chernin's "peace construction" and wanted to unify Russia with ambition and restore Tsarist rule.

The Austrians simply agitated for a separate peace between the Don junta and the Soviet power in Moscow, and under intense pressure from Kolchak, the Moscow side finally signed a peace agreement with Alekseev's representatives in Kiev, recognizing the "independent" status of the Don and the republic. The two sides ceased fighting, and the Soviet power was able to concentrate its efforts on dealing with the threats from both Kolchak and Yudenich.

On the Ural Front, the White Guards, with the support of the Czech Corps, crushed the winter offensive launched by the Eastern Front of the Red Army and drove the Soviet Red Army back to the west bank of the Kama River. However, on the southern front in the east, the First Army led by Gay and the Fourth Army led by Frunze achieved heavy success, successively capturing important cities such as Ufa, Orenburg and Orsk, and joining up with Zinoviev's Turkestan Front. The remnants of Dutov fled to the territory of the Don.

In the spring of 1919, Kolchak organized a 150,000-strong White Army to march to Moscow, but the "Chinese Volunteer Corps" gave up support for Kolchak and began to retreat to the east.

Kolchak's White Guards were initially advancing smoothly, and General Gaida's Czech corps actually attacked the Ryazan line near Moscow, and the situation seemed to be extremely unfavorable for the Red Army. Ulyanov, the Supreme People's Commissar of the Soviet Union, even issued a call for "one for the Eastern Front" and "Kolchak must be crushed", and a large number of Party members and workers' Red Guards were sent to the battlefield on the Eastern Front, and the Red Army, which had been replenished, began to launch a counterattack, and the shape of the war was gradually reversed.

By June, the White Guards under Kolchak's command began to retreat, Frunze commanded the Fourth Army and the Turkic Army Group to launch the Ufa Campaign, the Turkestan Army Group forced the Belaya River, and inflicted heavy losses on the White Guards Orenburg Group led by the French general Nange, and the Fifth Army led by Tukhachevsky liberated Ulyanov's hometown of Simbirsk.

In the Far East, the U.S.-led Allied intervention forces had landed at Vladivostok one after another, and two Japanese divisions advanced eastward along the Trans-Siberian Railway, seizing the railroad from Suifenhe to Harbin and from Manchuria to Chita.

After the Russo-Japanese War, the United States regarded Japan as a potential competitor in the Pacific region and has always been strongly wary of Japan. After President Wilson approved the sending of troops to intervene in Siberia, he has been trying to win over the Beiyang government to send troops together. This is the "balancing principle" used by Britain and the United States, which is intended to prop up China against a powerful Japanese empire in the region.

However, the Japanese reacted much faster than the Beiyang government, and immediately after the Entente decided to jointly send troops to intervene in the Russian Civil War, they immediately dispatched a naval fleet to seize Vladivostok, and at the same time sent a division to advance westward along the Middle East Road, and a division of the Kwantung Army stationed in Liaodong went north along the South Manchurian Railway, along the North Manchurian Railway, all the way to Harbin.

Subsequently, the Japanese 7th Division, under the transport of the navy, went up the Heilongjiang River, and after going ashore at the Mohe River, it went straight to Manchuria, and then advanced westward along the railway line, and advanced to Chita within two months.

At the same time, the Japanese used all kinds of excuses to obstruct the Beiyang Army's northward movement of the Guò Manchurian Railway, and as a last resort, the Beiyang Government could only send troops from Rehe and march north on foot, and the speed of the march was far from catching up with the Japanese army.

"General Xu, you don't have to lose your temper so much, your target now is not the Japanese."

After forcing Mongolia to withdraw its autonomy, Xu Shuzheng had to lead his troops north and occupy Verkhniy Udinsk before the Japanese arrived. However, before the Beiyang Army entered, a small group of Japanese soldiers had already entered Verniy Udinsk by train and occupied the railway station, and was currently relying on the construction of the station to confront the Beiyang Army.

Xu Shuzheng, who arrived later, was furious when he heard the report, and wanted to order the direct destruction of this Japanese army. There were not many Japanese troops in Verkhnito Uginsk, there was less than a squadron, and it was really easy to eat them, but after that it was difficult to end, and it was not good not for the Chinese to fight with the Japanese first.

"What do you think we should do? I can't just watch the little devils make trouble for me. Xu Shuzheng said angrily.

"Your main enemy now is Russia, and now is the period when the Russians are at their weakest, and all we have to do is to occupy this place in the name of the Entente under the banner of opposing the Bolsheviks and helping Russia, and then slowly gain a foothold. For at least a few years, the Russian Socialist Workers' Party did not dare to openly oppose the Entente. Now is the opportunity for the Moscow regime to declare the region east of the Macro-Yenisei as an independent Far Eastern Republic, which is tantamount to a temporary renunciation of its territorial claims. You can take advantage of this opportunity to slowly complete the control of Eastern Siberia, and the arrival of the Japanese may be a great help to your cause. ”

"However, it is clear that the Japanese have great ambitions for Siberia." Xu Shuzheng said.

"The Japanese don't have to worry, they can't be regarded as a standard power at present, this country has limited resources, I believe that as long as it takes 15 years of steady development, China will be able to surpass Japan in terms of national strength." "And from the perspective of geopolitics, a strong Russia is a big problem for China." If you don't solve it now, you will find it difficult to find such an opportunity in the future. Of course, sooner or later there will be a war between you and the Japanese, from the point of view of the Japanese, of course, I hope that this war will come as soon as possible, and if you stand on the side of the Chinese, if this war is thirty years later, then you can pinch them to death without much effort. Although the recent period was the weakest in Russia's history, if only the Chinese side sent troops, then they would never back down, but if there was a mixture of Americans, Japanese, and even Britain and France, then they would have thought twice about sending troops. ”

"Then we're going to let the Japanese run rampant in Siberia?"

"Oh, of course not, after the situation stabilizes, we will intervene to force the Japanese to withdraw from most of the territories they currently occupy. Of course, it is impossible to get them to withdraw completely, and the rest of the problems need to be solved by war yourself. ”

Xu Shuzheng nodded, and then said to the combat staff officer behind him: "Send a report to Song Huanzhang and tell him that he will not retreat after retreating to Tomsk!" Then he turned to Singh and said, "That's what you mean, right?" ”

Singh nodded, "Very good, it's better to bring the Japanese together, we can provide you with the necessary equipment, but you have to solve the food problem yourself." ”

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