On 27 September, Xiao Zhenlei convened a supreme military meeting, at which it was decided to formally divide the expeditionary force into two parts according to the different operational areas, namely the Eastern Theater and the Western Theater, of which the Eastern Theater was headed by Cai Yi as the commander of the theater, presiding over the work of the Eastern Theater Commander's Headquarters, and co-ordinating, coordinating, and commanding the expeditionary force units in the Eastern Theater; Cai Guodong is the commander of the Western Theater, who presides over the merger of the Eastern European Theater and the Southeast European Theater into the Western Theater, and establishes the Western Theater Commander's Command, which coordinates and coordinates all affairs of the Western Theater, and has supreme command over all expeditionary force units in the Western Theater.

Because the Western Theater needs to replenish a large number of combat materials, the army has just experienced a major war, and urgently needs to rest, so the Western Theater does not have the ability to attack Germany and Austria on a large scale now, and can only maintain the current situation, Xiao Zhenlei's order to Cai Guodong is to stop the all-out offensive, and it is also possible to launch local small-scale battles when there is an opportunity or necessary, but before the ability to take the initiative to launch a full-scale offensive, it is not appropriate to expand the war situation, and the task of the Western Theater at present is to let large forces rest and strengthen patrols, At the same time, it is necessary to complete the formation of the commanders and commanders of the Western Theater as quickly as possible, and make them operational as soon as possible, so as to reduce the weak points and blind spots in the strength of the defense zone.

Xiao Zhenlei gave Cai Guodong this order for two purposes, one is to give himself time to recover his strength, whether it is the wrong offensive ability or logistics supply, it takes time; The second is to let the German and Austrian top leaders rest assured that they will use their main forces against Britain and France, so as to maximize the efforts of Germany and Austria and Britain and France and consume the national strength of these old capitalist empires.

The merger of Jining, the two western theaters, will undoubtedly contribute to the unity of command. It can effectively save logistics and transportation forces, and can make more concentrated forces under unified command. The cooperation between the various corps will be closer, and the Entente countries such as Britain and France also very much appreciate and support this readjustment of the command system of China.

Cai Guodong said when convening a meeting of the main military commanders of the various regiments: "The orders of the President and the Supreme Military Council have come down. At present, our most pressing task is to set up the Western Theater Commander's Headquarters as quickly as possible, put this Theater Commander's Headquarters into operation as soon as possible, and take over the entire theater's command, the issuance and implementation of military orders, and the work of logistical transportation and supply. After the formation of the Theater Commander's Command, our task for the time being is to do a good job of defense, to get the logistics and transportation up, and to be able to engage in skirmishes if necessary or possible, but it is better to control the scale of the battle and not to expand the situation until we are capable of launching a full-scale offensive.

Let's start with the formation of the Theater Commander's Command. Under the command of the headquarters, I plan to set up a command and operations office, a headquarters office, a communications office, a military order enforcement office, an inspection office, a military intelligence office, an officer management office, a security office, a reception office, an external liaison office, a military police headquarters, and a logistics and transportation management department. With regard to the responsible persons and staff members of these subordinate organs under the Command and Operations Department, we must try to use as few people as possible to take over the work; sometimes the fewer the manpower, the higher the work efficiency, and there will be no phenomenon of passing the buck to each other. In addition to improving work efficiency, you can also be directly held accountable when something goes wrong, and whoever has a problem with your work will be contacted. Glance.

The responsible persons and relevant staff members directly under the command were mainly transferred from the two previous commands of the Eastern European Theater and the Southeast European Theater, and after the establishment of the new Theater Commander's Command, the former Eastern European Theater Command and the Southeast European Theater Command were formally abolished. Staff and officers who were not assigned to the new commander's headquarters were assigned to the regiments, and the officers were assigned their work. This is the responsibility of the Officers Management Office! As for the question of the selection of the principal responsible persons of the various organs and departments under the newly established Commander's Headquarters, the results will be achieved within two days. After the meeting, the generals and officers who have received the appointment will be responsible for putting up the shelves of the departments you are responsible for, and the manpower, office location, and supplies will be solved by the officer management office and the headquarters office respectively, do you have any other problems? ”

The participants did not speak out after listening to Cai Guodong's words, some people had no idea, and some people had the attitude of how to arrange it from above, and they would implement it, and besides, about this matter, the top level had already issued an order, even if some people objected, it was useless.

In any case, the matter of the merger of the theaters has become a foregone conclusion, and in this process, it is certainly necessary to streamline the organization and staff, and the posts of officers and generals who are incompetent and redundant will be moved, and most of them will be directly sent to the troops, and if the posts are insufficient, they may be demoted.

It wasn't until Cai Guodong spoke up for the second time to ask the participants if they had any other questions that someone stood up and asked: "Report sir, I want to ask, whether the transfer of officers in the navy and air force, and the transportation and deployment of weapons, ammunition, equipment, and materials are also under the jurisdiction of the Theater Commander's Command?" ”

Cai Guodong said: "Of course, since it is a unified command, our Western Theater of course includes the air force and navy that are expeditioning to the West, and their officer transfers, weapons and equipment, and ammunition and materials are all under the responsibility of the officer management office and the logistics and transportation management department under the command, and the command of the expeditionary force's naval fleet and air force units are also under the command and operations bureau of the Navy and the Air Force command and operation bureau under the command and operations department under the command."

At this time, in Seoul, North Korea, Cai Ye was also presiding over the same meeting, and unlike Cai Guodong's side, there were only two corps under the upcoming Eastern Theater Commander's Command on Cai Ye's side, namely the Third Army Corps and the Fourth Army Corps, and the newly appointed commander of the Third Army Corps was Wu Peifu, Deputy Army Commander Zhu Xi, and Chief of Staff He Liangchen; The commander of the Fourth Army is Chen Jizu, the deputy commander is Luo Shan, and the chief of staff is Liu Zhijie.

Compared with Cai Guodong's Western Theater, the formation of Cai Yi's Eastern Theater Commander's Headquarters is simpler, after all, the total strength is less than half, and the Western Theater currently has 1.6 million people, while Cai Yi's Third Army Corps and Fourth Army Corps in the Eastern Theater have a total of only 600,000 people.

The number of troops is small, and the requirements for the commander's command ability are also low, and the 600,000 troops are still very easy for Cai Ye to command, and the command of the Eastern Theater was formed in just a week, and he transferred He Liangchen, deputy commander of the Third Army Corps, and Luo Shan, deputy commander of the Fourth Army Corps, to assist him in commanding and liaising with the Third and Fourth Army Corps respectively, and two generals from the Navy and the Air Force were respectively responsible for commanding and liaising with the Navy and the Air Force, in terms of logistics management and transportation. The Eastern Theater is much simpler and faster than the Western Theater in terms of transportation compared to its neighbors, and many domestic ships that cannot go to the ocean can go to Japan and Vladivostok. In the face of insufficient transportation strength, the logistics department of the Eastern Theater even handed over some tasks of transporting soldiers, wounded and sick to these small civilian cargo ships, which greatly reduced the transportation pressure of the logistics department.

In the Eastern Theater of Operations, the Chinese Navy had already blocked the Japanese Strait, cutting off the Japanese army in Vladivostok from the Japanese mainland, and before that, Russia's industry was basically concentrated in the European part, and there was no industry in Siberia, so the Japanese army in Siberia could not replenish weapons and ammunition, especially the bullets were very scarce.

Limited to the alliance with China, the United States could only sell weapons and ammunition to the Europeans, but not to the Japanese, so in order to save bullets and shells, the Japanese troops in Siberia basically did not conduct shooting training, and for nearly a year or so, they only conducted training in white-knuckle warfare such as stabbing and stabbing.

In order to solve the problem of insufficient ammunition, the Japanese army in Siberia could only forcibly organize the Russians in Siberia and let them dig and mine, extract sulfur and nitrate from the ore, and use them to make some explosives, and the power of these explosives is still very small, after all, after China blockaded the Sea of Japan, Japan itself could not send military experts to Siberia, and there was no equipment in Siberia to refine the ingredients for making explosives with higher purity.

Since the Japanese occupation of Siberia, the Russians in Siberia have almost suffered from the poisonous hands of the Japanese army, because the Chinese navy blockaded the Sea of Japan, so that the Japanese army into Siberia almost cut off logistics, in order to solve the problem of survival and ammunition, the Japanese army will all the Russians in Siberia forcibly organized, let them open up wasteland, farming, mining, and do not give the Russians in Siberia a good meal, if they do not obey, they will be killed.

Since the Japanese army in Siberia forced the Russians to open up wasteland for farming, mining and mining, a large number of Russians are dying of exhaustion and starvation every day, and there are not a few who die of disease. In the case of not having enough to eat, and having to engage in a lot of manual labor, no one can stand it, for more than two years, the number of Russians in Siberia has been more than several thousand deaths every day, until now, the Russian population of Siberia has been reduced by more than half, many vast areas are thousands of miles uninhabited, and there are many cities where only a few Russians have died, and there are even more empty cities. (To be continued......)