Chapter 176: Chaos
In the summer and autumn of 1918, the army group fought stubbornly on the Eastern Front. From November 1918 to January 1919, the Perm Defensive Campaign (1918-1913) was carried out. Later, he participated in the counteroffensive of the Eastern Front (1919) and the Perm offensive (1919). In the second half of 1919, the corps and units of the army group won successive victories in the Yekaterinburg, Chelyabinsk, Petropavlovsk and Omsk offensive campaigns. Many of these corps and units are worthy of being models of heroic combat in various battlefields of the civil war. The most prominent units, such as the 37th and 82nd Infantry Regiments, were awarded the Red Banner of Revolutionary Honor, an honor that few teams could obtain in the early period of Soviet Russia. In January 1920, the group army was changed to engage in production and construction, called the 1st Revolutionary Labor Army, which belonged to the West Ural Military District. In April 1922, Moscow abolished the Western Ural Military District, and its districts and units were transferred to the Western Siberian Military District.
Moscow, fearing that Siberia would not have enough troops, had also included some other troops in its ranks to the Far East.
After the formation of the 1st Revolutionary Labor Army, Moscow again formed the 3rd Army in June 1920 on the basis of the Southern Army cluster of the 15th Army of the Western Front. It has the 2nd, 5th, and 6th Infantry Divisions, the 11th Petrograd Infantry Division, the 16th, 18th, 21st, 27th, and 56th Infantry Divisions, the 10th Cavalry Division, the Kuban Cavalry Division, and the Independent Interior Guards Infantry Division. During its formation, the 3rd Army was responsible for covering the area between the two lakes of Schau and Perik. Later, he participated in the July Battle (1920) and the Warsaw Battle (1920). It was revoked at the end of December 1920.
This time, the Far East was tight, and they were all drawn out and stuffed into the Far East reinforcements, and together with the 1st Revolutionary Labor Army, a huge "second-line" reinforcement army was formed.
Although they are construction corps that has been relegated to the second line, they are all composed of division-level personnel with outstanding combat achievements, and the number of veterans in this group army is extremely large.
The arrival of the Fifth Army was a confirmation of Wen Jiàn, and the arrival of this Far Eastern reinforcement was an urgent Wen Jiàn. But these two documents are not good news, especially the arrival of reinforcements from the Far East proves that Moscow is angry!
They came with the slogan that they had been transferred to repair the military fortifications because of the growing aggressive forces and militarism of the Japanese imperialists, and the need to strengthen the military construction in the Far East.
"Oh yes! Do you think everyone else is a three-year-old? Zhao Yun couldn't help but scold when he saw this slogan, is it necessary to send 23 divisions and 1 spy brigade to build a fortification? (228,000 people, is it true that he just helped Turkey get 200,000 troops, and Lao Maozi reported it back and reported it, and also got 200,000 to make you disgusting and disgusting?) )
There is a new move in Moscow, and the same is true in the Far East. In August 1921, by order of the Military Council of the People's Revolutionary Army and Navy of the Far Eastern Republic, the military service office of the Eastern Transbaikal District was established in Chita, which included Transbaikalia and the Baikal Coastal Oblast. In other words, Lao Maozi in Siberia also began to recruit troops on the spot. This is to recruit all the local young and middle-aged people, and once let the three barons join the Russian guerrilla team, and there is no place to supply in Soviet Russia, so they can only withdraw to the Soviet-Mongolian border to rest.
In November of the same year, the military service organs of the Eastern Transbaikal District were reorganized into the leading organs of the Transbaikal Military District. In order to fight the self-defense forces and armed interventionists in the Far East, the aircraft has done a great deal of work in the short term in terms of mobilizing human and material resources. The troops of the Military District (based on the 1st Transbaikal Army) took an active part in the fight to crush the bandits of Baron Ungamlen, General Capelli and the White Guards operating in Vabel and Mongolia.
In fact, there was information from within the Far Eastern Republic that the Military Council of the People's Revolutionary Army and the Navy of the Far Eastern Republic considered abolishing the military service organs in May 1922, and its units were subordinate to the Military Council of the Revolutionary Army and the Navy of the Far Eastern Republic.
As many corps and units of the former Military Region took part in the defeat of the White Guards and Japanese occupation forces in the Far East within the establishment of the People's Revolutionary Army. Therefore, during the interlude of the war, most of the corps and units remained on duty in the Far East and Transbaikalia. All the personnel of the Corps and its units, while conducting comprehensive military and political training, also helped the Far Eastern Republic to restore and develop the national economy.
In fact, this article means that Moscow began to rotate the teams that had been fighting the Japanese on the front in the Far East, and was ready to pull 23 divisions and 1 special service brigade up to fight the Japanese to the death, and strive to get the Japanese as much as possible. After several major battles, the 21 divisions of the Fifth Army, which urgently needed to recuperate, were withdrawn for recuperation. The military service apparatus in the Far East was populated into these ranks to replenish the losses of officers and enlisted men.
Of course, these 21 divisions, in addition to resting on the spot, also have an important task, which is to exterminate the remnants of the White Russian bandits in the territory.
"Hehehe! 21 divisions! "In order to get a 35th Infantry Division, I almost dispatched the whole army, this will be a lot of fun, 21 divisions! (126,000)
"Moscow is so angry!" Zhao Yun scratched his head, if he wants to pass the test this time, he has to think about the original vast area of Soviet Russia! If so many troops really poured into Siberia together, Zhao Yun was very worried about whether he could resist!
Regardless of whether they resist or not, one thing is certain: the Japanese who are stumbling in the Far East will definitely not be able to withstand the attack of Lao Maozi. Thinking about it, the hatred between the Japanese and the Soviet Russians is also poured out with blood, and the old Maozi who will be there for a while just wants to beat the Japanese hard, showing the anger of the Tsarist era.
However, if Lao Maozi drove the Japanese back to their island country with a stick, then it must be Timur and them who will be cleaned up next!
"It's not easy, huh?" Facing the menacing old Maozi, Zhao Yun began to scratch his head again. Sometimes, to look at things is not only to look at the surface, but also to look at the other side, with the collection of information from all walks of life, Zhao Yun found that what was sent was not all bad. The "hamster plan" is already starting to bear fruit.
In fact, Zhao Yun's plan was also a fatal blow to Soviet Russia, even greater than the movements made by the Japanese in the Far East. However, due to the concealment and effectiveness of the "hamster plan", it was not very powerful at all in the early days. But four months have passed, and the destructiveness of the "hamster plan" has swept through a small half of Soviet Russia, and it is the most elite region of Soviet Russia.
During the Russian Civil War from 1918 to 1921, in order to ensure the maximum supply of materials to the Soviet Russian regime, the leaders of Soviet Russia began to implement the "wartime policy" in June 1918. The policy mainly included: compulsory expropriation of all grain for the peasants except for subsistence (i.e., surplus grain collection), nationalization of all large and medium-sized enterprises, state monopoly of all foreign trade activities, prohibition of commodity trading and the introduction of planned rationing, strict management of workers, and immediate execution of strikers.
This policy is definitely very problematic in the eyes of us modern people, but it was even used in the national assembly at that time.
This "absolutely problematic" wartime policy soon led to the collapse of the Russian economy, and by 1921 Russia's heavy industrial output was only 20% of what it had been in 1913 before World War I, and between 1918 and 1920 Petrograd had lost 75% of its population, while Moscow's population had lost 50%. The surplus grain collection system also severely discouraged the peasants' enthusiasm for farming, which became the main cause of famine in the future.
Due to the protracted civil war and the implementation of the surplus grain collection system, the food supply declined significantly, and after the civil war was basically over in the European part of Soviet Russia, the Soviet Russian authorities did not end the wartime policy, and in the spring of 1921, there was a severe famine that affected more than 30 provinces, during which it is estimated that more than 5 million people in Russia starved to death, and even the tragic phenomenon of cannibalism.
This is why so many Soviet and Russian national grain depots did not report it immediately after discovering that the grain depot was stolen, but collectively adopted a negative attitude of concealing it and not reporting it, but the "hamster plan" was not covered after all.
Because at the same time as the famine, the peasants in Soviet Russia also had a strong resistance to the Soviet Russian regime, and there was a Tambov rebellion against the grain requisition. On February 21, 1921, the Kronstadt Incident took place in Petrograd, when the Kronstadt sailors, who had played an important role in the October Revolution, demanded freedom of speech, the lifting of trade restrictions, and new elections. Lenin sent Kalinin to persuade Kalinin to no avail, and decided to use force, which allowed Trotsky and Tukhachevsky to capture Kronstadt and quell the sailors' revolt. (Reference: The Russian Famine of 1921)
The successive civil rebellions of 1920-1921 made the Russian leaders aware of the problems of wartime policy, and in March 1921 the Russians abandoned their wartime plans in favor of the "New Economic Policy". Its main contents are: abolishing the surplus grain collection system and implementing a tax in kind; stop rationing and allow the buying and selling of goods; deregulation of foreign trade and encouragement of investment by foreign-funded enterprises; The New Economic Policy allowed a certain amount of private enterprise economy, etc., and the New Economic Policy gradually restored the economy of Soviet Russia.
However, in just one year, that is to say, only the grain harvested after the new policy in 1921 was stored in the granary of Soviet Russia, but in the "hamster plan" it was a heavy loss, and the subsequent series of policies such as the transfer of troops in the Far East made the grain in Soviet Russia begin to be stretched, and many people began to revisit the wartime policy.
But what worries the Russian leaders at the moment is a repetition of the Tambov rebellion, so they have been hesitating. But the spiritual leaders in Soviet Russia had a little trouble,
Due to the intense revolution and war, Ulyanov's health as the leader of Soviet Russia has been severely damaged. And in August 1918, after Ulyanov was assassinated after giving a speech to workers at the Mikhelson factory outside the capital, Moscow, a Browning pistol fired three shots at close range from three paces, the first bullet hitting Ulyanov in the left shoulder, the second hitting his left chest and piercing the neck, and the third hitting the neighbors who were talking to him.
5th Division, 29th, 30th, 51st, 62nd Infantry Division, Ural Infantry Division, 10th Cavalry Division, etc., as well as 1 Special Service Brigade.
First formed in June 1918, it consisted of corps and units of the Eastern Front fighting against the Czechoslovak rebels and White Guard detachments in the Perm, Yekaterinburg (Sverdlovsk) and Ishim regions during the period of the Russian Civil War and foreign armed intervention.