In fact, Ilyich's idea is very right, the living Tsarist family is indeed a living banner, and the prestige accumulated by the Tsarist royal family over hundreds of years is not comparable to that of the newly established Soviet Russia. It was precisely because of the absence of this banner that the restoration forces of Tsarist Russia lost their core. Even the White Russian nobles gathered by Zhao Yun were still scattered into seven or eight pieces, each of them was not satisfied, and they could not be unified and condensed.

To see people alive and corpses to die, this is actually the original intention of Denikin's plan this time, and it is also the request of countless old and young people of Tsarist Russia who are wandering in Europe.

Therefore, Zhao Yuncai, who knew from later generations that all the Tsar's family had been killed, agreed to Denikin's request and sent a western expeditionary army, on the one hand, to plunder talents, scientific and technological resources, and on the other hand, to expel Soviet Russian forces in Siberia.

But before Zhao Yun's Western Expeditionary Army reached Yekaterinburg, and even when it was still far from Tyumen, he got the news that Yekaterinburg had been conquered by White Russia.

Zhao Yun was not the only one who got the news, Moscow, Kyiv, and Vladivostok also set their sights here at the first time.

Yekaterinburg is located in Tobolsk, the Urals, which sounds like an isolated town in the Urals, but in fact it is not only a remote part of Tsarist Russia, but even in the Urals. This is because of its presence in Siberia. It was a regional administrative center, with a provincial governor's residence, suitable for the entire family of the former tsar. And escorting the former tsar to Siberia can make many Soviet Russians feel that this is a just punishment, the tsar exiled many revolutionaries to Siberia, so the last moments of the tsar's family stayed in Yekaterinburg.

After Yekaterinburg was taken over by Soviet Russia, Soviet Russia maintained strict military control over the area. Therefore, Denikin's operation to get close and then search for traces of the tsar could not be carried out at all. At the time of Yegorov's Western expedition against Belarus, 6,000 soldiers were stationed there. However, after the loss of contact with the city of Omsk, 3,000 soldiers here were pulled to the Tyumen Line.

With the rise of the Kingdom of Afghanistan, the Bukhara Khanate, and the Khiva Khanate, Soviet Russia was obviously undermanned in Central Asia. So Yekaterinburg, which is relatively in the center of the Urals, was evacuated with another 2,000 people. The remaining 1,000 men were also responsible for patrolling and guarding the area where the previous 6,000 men were stationed. In the real sense of the word, only 400 people remained in the ranks stationed in Yekaterinburg.

Denikin was able to succeed, and he was not a person who completely relied on others, and in the face of such a good opportunity, he had long been lurking in the actions of the White Guards in the Soviet Russian army. With a mere 400 men, spies inside and tactics outside, the force, which claimed to be completely loyal to Moscow, was wiped out in less than an hour. After entering Yekaterinburg, Denikin immediately seized the time and began a frenzied search for "digging three feet into the ground".

As early as March 1919, a man named Sokhorov was appointed chief scout, with full responsibility for investigating the death of the Tsar and finding their remains. According to Sokhorov's "Judicial Investigation into the Murder of the Russian Emperor's Family", the firing squad threw people into abandoned mines, treated them with sulfuric acid and burned them with gasoline, leaving no corpse residue. And from within Soviet Russia, Denikin and the news they received also confirmed Sokhorov's statement.

However, everyone knows that at this time, the Soviet Russian army, which was closest to Denikin, had been pinned down on the Tyumen line. The vast territory of Soviet Russia also meant that more soldiers were needed to garrison it. As early as when Yegorov discovered that the White Russians had a large number of cavalry, he informed Tyumen to strengthen the garrison on the defensive line to avoid being quickly interspersed by the White Russian army.

And the Ural Military District, which needs to control the entire Ural region and take into account Western Siberia, has already had a very thin distribution of troops. In desperation, troops could only be drawn from seemingly stable areas, such as Yekaterinburg, and two or three districts around Yekaterinburg. This meant that the Russian army closest to Yekaterinburg could only be drawn from Tyumen.

"Destroy them!" Yegorov, who was on the march, finally received orders from Moscow, which was long overdue. The tone of the command was as cold as the Siberian wind, and Yegorov, who knew this person well, of course understood who gave the order, and it should not be groundless to speculate in his heart about the matter of that Ilyich. However, Yegorov naturally knew that this order should not have been given to the one who was still fighting on the front line in Kiev, but as Stalin's military dependent, then there must be Trotsky's people around him, and if he moved here, then Trotsky would definitely know Moscow's order. But they will only speculate, and there will be no big moves until there is real evidence.

"Order, the troops stationed in Tyumen do not move, and draw men from the two infantry divisions that have just been formed to form a commando force of 1,000 men, and go to Yekaterinburg in advance, and entangle them, lest they get news of us and run around in the area under their jurisdiction." After a little thought, and after careful consideration, it was decided that it would be better to pin down Denikin's White Guards with an attack of small forces, rather than a large force. He set up three lines of defense in Western Siberia, and if he lost all three lines of defense, it would be difficult to explain after he returned, so in order to hold the last barrier in the Urals, Yegorov was not at ease and transferred the guards on the defense line.

The Tyumen team quickly followed Egorov's orders, but, before they could get out of Tyumen, they received a startling news.

Denikin telegraphed the whole of Russia on the radio that the remains of the Tsar had been found. This is not surprising, but the second half of the message stunned Moscow, Kyiv, Ulan-Ude, Vladivostok everywhere.

Denikin advertised that he had found the royal princess, the Grand Duchess of Tsarist Russia, who had been incognito here.

When the news spread, countries in Europe and the United States were shocked. However, the Quartet, representing Russia's domestic forces, remained silent on the first day, with no orders to attack, no solidarity, as if nothing had happened. But there were already rough waves everywhere.

In the eyes of Europe and the United States and Zhao Yun, when encountering such a thing, Moscow and Kiev, where the central figures of Soviet Russia are located, should have jumped out for the first time, but because the Ilyich did not appear, everyone was suddenly surprised to find that compared to the long-dead tsar, the living Ilyich has not appeared in everyone's sight for a long time. Perhaps there were still people who took the rumor that Ilyich had died of illness and that Stalin was not mourning as a deaf ear, but after seeing such a serious incident, Ilyich had not yet appeared, and Moscow panicked.

Trotsky in Kiev, on the one hand, inquired about Moscow, and on the other hand, felt a crisis at Moscow's order to return as much as possible.

The Ukrainian civil uprising that began in 1922, and at the end of that year, the Soviet Russian army marched into Kiev, which was considered to have temporarily suppressed this popular uprising.

Of course, this is how Moscow at this time propagandized with the people of Soviet Russia. In fact, the food crisis in Ukraine has led to popular uprisings that have spread across Ukraine.

On January 18, 1923, the Ukrainian Guards stationed in Lviv and the Crimean Peninsula, near Poland, launched a rebellion at the instigation of Mora and other generals. The army's rebellion quickly gained echoes from Ukraine's previously unorganized popular uprisings.

The rebellion that broke out this time quickly spread to large and medium-sized cities such as Mariupol, Klivoy Rog, and Odessa. Among them, Mariupol and Odessa are important port cities, one is the outlet of the Sea of Azov and the other is the outlet of the Black Sea.

Most of the units of the Ukrainian army and air force (about 120,000 people), which were already in arrears of salaries, as well as the "Foreign Legion", consisting of Poles and Czechs, took part in the rebellion. Taking advantage of the hesitation of the Ukrainian government, the rebels quickly divided their troops into two routes and occupied Zhytomyr all the way, and the front of the troops pointed directly at Kiev, which had just been recaptured by the Soviet Russian army.

On the other hand, it occupied the southern and western provinces of Ukraine, and on January 30 set up a "National Defense Ruling Council" in Zhytomyr in an attempt to flank Kyiv in the southwest and then seize power in the country. After the rebellion, in the face of the call of Soviet Russia, few people of all walks of life in Ukraine responded, which had a certain relationship with the fact that Soviet Russia scraped the ground here too much before. After the rebels raised the banner of taking up arms to defend the country, a total of 300,000 people signed up for the People's Guard, a militia group, within two days.

And these people were armed with weapons that were eliminated by France and Britain in World War I, and the rebels were no less than ordinary local garrisons of Soviet Russia in terms of armament.

Originally, the rebels were also planning to carry out a mutiny in Kiev, but the arrival of Trotsky quickly quelled the rebellion in the city. Rebellions in large and medium-sized cities such as Poltava, which was close to Soviet Russia, were also quickly quelled by the "sharpening of knives" of the Soviet Russian army.

The rebels only control the economically backward provinces of southern and western Ukraine. The Russian army controlled most of the industrial and political centers, but the important ports and agricultural areas were still in the hands of the rebels.

In February 1923, the White Russian army in Siberia was fighting a frenzied battle with the Russian Far Eastern Army. In fact, Soviet Russia was already fighting on two fronts.

At the Moscow resolution meeting, the Soviet Russian top brass made a strategy of putting Europe first and then Asia, first making every effort to settle the war in Europe, and then sweeping away the remnants of White Russia.

Of course, a plan is a plan, and no matter how good and correct the plan is, it also needs people with good execution to achieve it. The Great Purge that became famous in Soviet Russia was not unreasonable. Perhaps in the later period, it has developed to the point of making people feel the style and change the style, but in the early stage, there are also certain historical reasons. Soviet Russia developed too fast, and in just a few years, it developed into a behemoth with millions of troops, and there were too many unstable factors.

Although Moscow put together a large army for Trotsky, everyone knew what the military discipline of Lao Maozi was. After Trotsky's army entered Ukraine, Lao Maozi made Trotsky's head several times bigger because of problems with military discipline. And there are still quite a few "hills" in the various units, which preserve their strength during battles and protect their shortcomings when they violate the law.