Chapter 12 The British Attack on the Loss

Kazan, a turning point in the Russian Civil War. The appearance of the hesitant surname butterfly, the fierceness of the Russian Civil War greatly increased. With the assistance of the Entente fire and the input of medium fire, the firepower of the White Russian army was greatly increased.

History should be the defeat of the White Russian army under the city of Kazan in April, this time and space was not defeated, but it did not capture Kazan either. The fighting between the Red and White armies continued until the end of July, where it reached a stalemate.

Seeing that the war situation was stalemate, Kolchak personally inspected the Kazan front line and boosted morale, and at the same time brought the newly purchased arms from China, and the White Russian army, which had been replenished by arms, launched another fierce attack on Kazan with the Czech Corps as the vanguard.

The 155 howitzers and 105 howitzers bought by China, as the main firepower of the Belarusian army, played a prominent role in the past time. The scene of more than 100 cannons firing at the same time was quite spectacular, especially in the face of an army like the Red Russians, which did not have too many heavy weapons.

The last position outside Kazan was enveloped by heavy artillery fire, and some of the Red Russian recruits panicked in the artillery fire, got up and ran, and immediately found the overseers under the command of the commissar and shot mercilessly.

Seeing the scene of deserters being shot and killed from the high-powered artillery mirror, Kolchak was deeply satisfied with the artillery preparations. Although the Chinese collect money relatively darkly, the goods are quite good. In contrast, the equipment given by the Entente was light weapons, heavy machine guns were rare, and artillery was also small-caliber.

Ulla! The White Russian troops, chanting slogans, crawled out of their bunkers and enjoyed the Chinese liquor issued before the war, and the combat effectiveness of the White Russian soldiers was greatly improved.

Under the threat of the warlord under the command of the political commissar, the Red Russian troops on the position did not retreat. Once again, the attack of the White Russian army was repulsed, and the corpses left in front of the position were densely packed, and Kolchak sighed helplessly and ordered to prepare for the next attack.

When there was a fierce battle under the city of Kazan. Something happened in the Far East that was unpleasant for both warring parties.

In fact, it is not only the two sides of the Russian civil war that are unhappy, but also China and Japan, which have made great efforts.

According to Kolchak's thoughts, it is best for both Chinese and Japanese teams to come to the front line to help Belarus fight, and after killing Soviet Russia, it is best to obediently return to their own country. The problem is that these two countries have contributed the most troops, and the Chinese have sent ten infantry divisions in one go, which seems to be the hardest working among the fourteen intervening countries.

But after the Chinese occupied Irkutsk, they stopped. The Japanese, on the other hand, also stopped after using Vladivostok as a base and taking all the Russian ports in the Far East. The same goes for the US military. Stay in Vladivostok and do not move the nest.

In contrast, the armies of other countries, supported by warships, landed from the north. However, he didn't take the initiative to go south. The civil war in Russia began to look mainly at the two armies of the civil war.

It was in this form that the British government made a move. As the world leader, Britain has always liked to engage in so-called balancing, even if it is an ally. Pull one by one, this set of techniques is quite skillful.

At the Paris Peace Conference, Britain slapped the United States, a guy who wanted to take advantage of the opportunity, and turned around to see China and Japan in the Far East, one from the east and the other from the west, and the other sent 150,000 troops. One sent more than 70,000 troops, and each stood in a place, with the intention of being killed and refusing to leave. Britain is starting to worry about this again.

What to do? At the Paris Peace Conference, Britain acquiesced to China's demands and canceled the concession in China, in exchange for China not making any effort to help the United States come out, and sacrificed a little brother. You must know that the benefits of the day are pitiful. Interests in China were important to Japan because of the acquiescence of Britain. Japan lost its last leased land in China.

Although the day was very unhappy, the boss's decision was obeyed. As a result, Uchida Yasuya was severely criticized by the cabinet, and when China proposed to exchange an unknown oil field for Lushun and Taiwan, Uchida Yasuya was firmly opposed. Now that all countries have begun to withdraw their military and police from the concessions, and the Chinese military and police are stationed in China to maintain law and order in the free trade zone, Japan can only reluctantly accept this reality. Beginning on 1 July, the Japanese garrison successively withdrew its garrison patrols from Tianjin, Shanghai, Lushun and other places.

Zhu Erdian, the veteran British minister to China, appeared again in the presidential palace of the Republic of China to ask to see Sun Baoqi, and after a short meeting, Zhu Erdian left with a proud face, leaving Sun Baoqi with an angry face.

"Prepare the car and go to the Marshal's Mansion." As soon as Sun Baoqi finished speaking, Zhang Yilu, the new secretary general of the Presidential Office, raised his hand to stop him and said, "President, you might as well call Fuguo and ask him to come over." Tang Jiwu's side, just grab the medicine according to the prescription. ”

Sun Baoqi's face changed, stared at Zhang Yilu and said, "Zhongren, why do you say this?" ”

Zhang Yilu and Sun Baoqi are old friends, Yuan Shikai was enthusiastic about education and industry, and was once ready to go out of the mountain and re-enter the Yuan Shikai shogunate, but unexpectedly, the Fang family suddenly swept through Zhili, laying the overall situation of the Republican Party's governance. After Gu Weijun returned from Paris, Wang Zhengting was transferred to the post of ambassador to the United States, and Gu Weijun took over the post of foreign minister. Sun Baoqi called Jiangsu and invited Zhang Yilu to assist at the beginning.

Zhang Yilu saw the domestic political situation very clearly, and he was relatively close to Zhang Jian, so he belonged to the other party's dictatorship and was a person who was more disgusted. After accompanying Sun Baoqi to meet Zhu Erdian today, he saw that Sun Baoqi was a little panicked, and took the initiative to see Fang Jianxiong, so he said something to stop him. The meaning is very clear, Sun Baoqi is the president, the supreme leader of the Republic of China.

Zhang Yilu's actions are also due to interests. Although Fang Jianxiong clearly said that he would not interfere in politics, in fact, the country's major policies were based on Fang's ideas. For example, compulsory five-year compulsory education, rent and interest reductions, government power to go deep into towns and villages, confiscate civilian weapons, and abolish local militia armies. Zhang Yilu supports the five-year compulsory education, but the latter two are opposed. Because it hurt the interests of the local gentry. Zhang Yilu was a big landowner, and the development of national industry and commerce needed to be accumulated, and the easiest way was to obtain funds from the land. In the early days of the Republic of China, the power of towns and villages was actually in the hands of the local gentry, which was the so-called gentry power. Fang Jianxiong's policy of being strict hurt the gentry, and the local resistance was great. If it weren't for Fang Jian's ruthlessness, he would have killed a group of gentry who opposed these policies when he was in the alliance of the four provinces in the early days to shock the whole country, and the gentry in various places would have been in turmoil.

In the early days of the Republican Party's administration, a series of policies to encourage industry and commerce, coupled with the dividends brought by the European war, some contradictions were concealed. With the end of the European War, the economic development of the Republic of China has stagnated, and some hidden contradictions have been exposed.

After the new election, the Republican Party has been given the opportunity to remain in power, and at the same time, it has also triggered a situation in which some opposition parties collude with each other to plot the next general election. Among them, the Progressive Party headed by Liang Qichao and the Unification Party led by Zhang Jian formed an alliance, and the reason was naturally that Zhang and Liang felt the crisis. After the new cabinet was introduced, it was very smooth in Congress, and that was because the Republican Party was strong and the other opposition parties could not unite.

Zhang Jian lost his post as Minister of Industry and Commerce and was dissatisfied, feeling that he was going to stand aside, so he naturally had to struggle. Not to mention Liang Qichao, he didn't mix much, so he hit it off.

Against this background, Zhang Yilu, as a cadre of the Republican Party and an old friend of Zhang Jian, naturally wants to go to Zhang Jian. How to shake Fang Jianxiong's dictatorship, this question is a headache, because Fang Jianxiong's reputation is too strong, and he controls the army. What to do? It can only be detoured!

To say that Zhang, Liang and others are all well-educated people, they are all familiar with history books, and they are not people who come out of the way when their brains are hot. The problem is that the Chinese have been like this since ancient times, and they feel that they do not need to contribute to the world, and it is the right thing to sit in the sky. At the beginning, I was still a little afraid of Fang's fast knife, but after a few years, it looked like this, and the good life was too comfortable, and I began to toss again.

As a result, he began to constantly manipulate public opinion, talking about freedom of speech in democratic constitutional government all day long, thinking that he had mastered the tools of public opinion, and doing everything possible to smear the current government openly and covertly. In a word: it is necessary to expose the nature of the Fang dictatorship and restore a real democratic constitutionalism to the Republic of China.

Fang Jianxiong has been busy reorganizing the army recently, and he was originally concerned about disarmament, but after proposing the construction, he was collectively opposed by other people in the Military Commission, except for Sa Zhenbing. The reason is very simple, the Republic of China is so big, maintaining an army of 1.5 million is the minimum bottom line, otherwise the army will definitely not be enough. There are even more excessive, such as Duan Qirui and Feng Guozhang, who even advocate army expansion. As a result, Fang Jianxiong pressed back, and the final decision was to maintain the scale of one hundred A divisions.

Sun Baoqi understood what Zhang Yilu meant, hesitated for a moment and thought about Chen Zheng's matter, and still called Fang Jianxiong with a phone call. Fang Jianxiong was busy here, and when he received the call, he still asked politely: "What does the teacher have to say?" ”

Sun Baoqi said on the phone: "To support the country, Zhu Erdian came to the presidential palace to inform me that Britain and France have established a Far Eastern Republic in the Far East, with the former Tsarist general Semenov as the president. Let's discuss how to deal with this matter. ”

When Fang Jianxiong heard that this was the case, he didn't take it too seriously, nodded and said, "I'll go over now." ”

Before he went out, Tang Hualong made a phone call. After Fang Jianxiong answered, Tang Hualong took the initiative to say: "Fu Shuai, I think the president's call is very strange, there have been such things in the past, isn't it all discussed in the Marshal's Mansion?" ”

Fang Jianxiong didn't speak for a while, and then relieved his mind before saying, "It's not in the way to go on a trip, state affairs are important." Tang Hualong didn't say much, saying that this was over.

Why did Tang Hualong make this call, Fang Jianxiong knew very well in his heart that he was showing his attitude. In fact, Tang Hualong didn't realize this problem at first, but it was reminded by the secretary Wang Fake. Speaking of this Wang Fake, he still has a relationship with Sun Baoqi, and the matter starts when Sun Baoqi was still a minister in Germany.