"Report to Comrade Political Commissar, our First Cavalry Corps has arrived in the area of the predetermined target Buyingcheng ahead of schedule! However, the Chinese White Army had slipped out from under the noses of the Mongolian comrades in the early hours of the day before yesterday. ”

It was Budyonny, commander of the 1st Cavalry Corps of the Russian Red Army, who spoke. The last great cavalry commander in the history of mankind was galloping to Voroshilov, the military commissar, on a sturdy war horse, and reported to him loudly.

Beside him, the officers and men of the 1st Cavalry Corps of the Brigade were lined up in a neat marching formation, covering the entire grassland. As far as the eye can see, there are fat and strong horses, dazzling sabers, horse-drawn M1910 heavy machine guns, and 1895-style 87mm cavalry guns...... However, the most powerful cavalry corps in the history of the Soviet Union, the most powerful of the 274th half of the world's five main battlefields, is not these sophisticated equipment and battle-hardened cavalry, but their officer corps, including Budyonny, Voroshilov, Timoshenko, Zhukov, Kulik, and Rokossovsky, who was sent to the Mongolian People's Revolutionary Army as the emperor, are all from this elite cavalry army!

Chang Da Revolutionary, who had been a middle school history teacher in socialist China in his previous life, had certainly heard of the prestige of the First Cavalry Army and the famous generals of the Soviet Red Army. He was not arrogant enough to think that relying on Zhao Zhen's half-hung cavalry and Zhao Sanmei's bandits could defeat these famous Red Army generals. So at the time when the Military Intelligence Bureau put the intelligence on the eastward transfer of the 1st Cavalry Army of the Soviet Red Army to Irkutsk on his desk. He played a commanding style of Chairman Chiang, and directly overstepped the rank and gave Zhao Zhen an order to abandon the sale of the south of the city and retreat to Kulun and Uriya Sutai. In addition, the order to abandon and burn Kulen was also issued to the General Headquarters of the Mongolian Front (formerly the General Headquarters of the Mongolian Army) in Beijing under the name of the General Staff Headquarters.

After hearing the news that the Chinese White Army had fled, Voroshilov snorted contemptuously. Raising his horsewhip and pointing at the cavalry surging forward under his command, he said to Budyonny the fifth main battlefield of the 274th half world war: "Semyon. Comrade Mihainovich, I have to admit that the commander-in-chief of the Chinese White Army was a rather rational military expert. He knew very well that even if he searched all over China, there would not be a single army that could confront our First Cavalry Army (this is probably true)! There is no shame in running away in the face of us! ”

Budyonny touched his big beard, cracked his mouth and smiled: "Comrade political commissar, you are right. The Chinese fled in time, otherwise this would be their burial place. Oh. I've heard that they also have a female bandit who is very good at commanding cavalry. Comrade Bartol, hahaha......"

"Beaten to the ground by a woman? It seems that Sukh. Comrade Bartol really has no military talent. Voroshilov also had a smile on his face. It seems that the defeat of the Mongols was not taken to heart at all. He smiled and asked Budyonny: "Semyon. Comrade Mihainovich, how are you going to fight next? ”

Budyonny had a solemn expression on his face, and he looked around at the vast Mongolian steppe. frowned: "I still have to find a way to find the main battle of the Chinese!" Because they won't give up Mongolia if they don't hurt Chinese, and we won't be able to leave if they don't give up...... Then we will not be able to withdraw from Mongolia in time to join the Far East, which is the real home field. ”

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At this time, on the territory of the Trans-Baikal Province in the Far East, on the roads on both sides of the Trans-Siberian Railway, several grass-green marching troops were rolling eastward, and they were the Eastern Corps of the Soviet Russian Workers' and Peasants' Red Army under the command of Blyukhel and his assistants. This corps was reorganized and expanded from the original "Red Army Aiding Russia" and now has four infantry divisions and one cavalry division, as well as one regiment of artillery, one engineer and one heavy soldier. The total number of troops was nearly 70,000, and the officers and soldiers were mainly Chinese, Koreans, Kazakhs, and Tatars in Soviet Russia. However, the main force of the regiment is still Chinese.

Since China and Russia are now at war, the morale of the Eastern Army is inevitably low. Although the officers and soldiers of Chinese origin were very positive in front of the political and work cadres of Soviet Russia, and their mouths were full of slogans to defeat revisionism, no one expressed any "non-Bolshevik" views on the current Sino-Russian war, and even the number of applications to join the Russian GCD also surged. However, Blyukhel still faintly felt an oriental negativity and perfunctory pervasiveness that permeated the entire Eastern Army.

When the troops stop to rest and have lunch. Blyukhel and Ren Fuchen walked around the troops with their hands behind their backs to inspect. Each company is its own food unit. They sat around and ate the famous Russian black bread, no meat or milk, just a little salt and water. However, the officers and men still ate quite well, and no one complained, and the instructors of the various companies also took advantage of the meal to do political and ideological work. But they spoke Chinese, which Blyukhel didn't understand.

At this time, he suddenly thought: "This unit is not only brave in battle, but also able to endure hardships and stand hard work, and obey discipline, although it is not the most capable of fighting in the Red Army, but it is the best unit...... If that Chinese revisionist can turn all the squadrons into something like the Eastern Legion, I'm afraid this war will not be easy to fight! ”

Thinking of this, he asked Ren Fuchen with his hands behind his back: "Ren, do you think Zuo Xiu (referring to Chang Ruiqing) will send reinforcements to Chita?" In the event that our Eastern Army engaged the revisionist army in Chita, would the morale of the officers and men be maintained? ”

Ren Fuchen arrived at the troops before the Eastern Army was drawn from Petrovsk, and he had been working in the Cheka system before, and he had no experience in leading troops to fight, but he still knew that most of the middle and senior officers of the Eastern Army were sent from China by Chang Ruiqing! It would be difficult for them to fight against Chang Ruiqing's army. Thinking of this, he sighed softly.

"Comrade Commissar. I don't know much about Zuo Xiu, but I still know some of the way of thinking of the middle ** valve. The army is their property and capital, and they will not sacrifice it. Now it is the Japanese who are fighting with us for the Far East, and the Chinese Manchuria region near the Far East is not Zuo Xiu's territory, it belongs to Zuo Xiu's political enemies. Chiang J-shi, a warlord of the Chinese Kuomintang. Although he was supported by Japan, he refused to send his troops to the Far East battlefield to fight with us. ”

Blyukhel was silent for a long time, and finally nodded lightly, and smiled at Ren Fuchen: "Ren, let's go eat too." When you have eaten enough, you will study how to defeat Japanese imperialism...... It's not 1905 anymore, and we, the Workers' and Peasants' Red Army, are not a rotten tsarist army! This time we will definitely be able to defeat them and regain the Far East. If possible, the Eastern Army will also take on the task of liberating Manchuria in China! At that time, Comrade Zhang Guotao and you will be the great leaders of the Chinese people! ”

Listen to Blyuhel's blank promises. Ren Fuchen just smiled faintly and turned his head to look at the southern sky. The people there already have a great leader, and they will not need themselves and Zhang Guotao...... Probably, the Far Eastern Soviet Socialist Republic is the final destination for himself and the Eastern Army, right? Of course, the premise is that the Eastern Legion cannot be consumed as cannon fodder in this war! If the troops are exhausted, Comrade Lenin will have to play the trick of hiding all the birds......

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At this time, in the city of Shenyang in Manchuria, the commander-in-chief Chiang and his generals of the Northeast Army, who were heavily responsible for the rupture of Sino-Russian relations, were also facing a dilemma. On the one hand, he, like all warlords, wants to preserve his strength. Chang Ruiqing has already told Song Meiling to give him a message, and when his strength is exhausted, please go to Nanjing obediently to be an empty vice chairman! This is not what Jiang J Shi wants. On the other hand. The Japanese are bent on their more than 200,000 Northeast Army on the front line of the anti-Russian battlefield! Although Little Japan also knows that after Lao Jiang is exhausted, Chang Ruiqing will unify China! But now defeating Soviet Russia is the first priority, as long as Soviet Russia is defeated, how can a China that has just begun to rise be an opponent of Japan?

Therefore, Aoki Nobujun, the governor of the Kwantung Prefecture of Japan, rushed from Dalian to Shenyang on July 28, 1919, that is, the day Japan declared war on Soviet Russia under the pretext of the Soviet Russia's invasion of the Republic of Simberia. also lived in Jiang Jshi's marshal's mansion. He had only one task, which was to urge Lao Chiang to send reinforcements to Mongolia and the Republic of Xianbeilia!

At this time, negotiations on the Sino-Japanese alliance, as well as negotiations on the establishment of diplomatic relations between China and the Republic of Cimbella, were still ongoing. Theoretically, China and Japan are not military allies.

"The crux of the matter now is not how the bureaucrats in Nanking and Tokyo bargain, but how to deploy the army to Chita as much as possible!"

In the war room of the Marshal Jiang Shi's mansion. The uninvited Lieutenant General Aoki tapped Chita on the map with a fat hand and said loudly to Jiang Jishi: "Chita is the intersection of the Trans-Siberian Railway and the Eastern Railway, the gateway to the Republic of Simperia and Manchuria, and once the Russian Red Army captures Chita, the initiative of the entire war will fall into the hands of Soviet Russia." We will have to deploy our troops in two directions, the Trans-Siberian Railway and the Eastern Railway! So the top priority now is the Eastern Railway, which quickly transports as many troops as possible to Chita for defense! In addition, it is necessary to send troops to closely protect the Eastern Railway and turn this railway into a lifeline for the logistics of the Japanese and Chinese armies.

In addition, the empire also hoped that the Northeast Army under Commander-in-Chief Chiang could accept the unified command of the Imperial Far East Army, so as to maximize the combat effectiveness of the Far Eastern Army and the Northeast Army! ”

Hearing Aoki Xuanchun's request, Jiang Jishi's face suddenly became ugly. He shook his head and said coldly: "My commander-in-chief of the Northeast Frontier is appointed by the Nanjing Nationalist Government, and my Northeast Frontier Force is also part of the Chinese National Defense Force...... It was under the command of the Nanjing Military Committee! Whether you want to go abroad to fight, whether you can accept the unified command of your country's Far East Army, Jiang can't be the master, General Aoki should go to Nanjing and ask the Standing Chairman what he means! ”

Jiang Jishi's words were a little ugly, and Aoki Xuanchun's fat face also showed anger, and the atmosphere in the room suddenly became tense. Wang Boling, chief of staff of the Northeast Army, hurriedly came out of the round, and he said with a smile: "General Aoki, there is no problem for your country to figure out how to transport troops and materials on the Guò Eastern Railway, and our Commander-in-Chief Chiang will definitely do his best to ensure the safety and smooth operation of the railway. But we want our Northeast Army to obey the command of your Far East Army, this, this...... I'm afraid it's not right, right? Of course, if you have any requests from the Far Eastern Army, we can do it as long as we can do it. However, this name must not be bearable, otherwise Nanjing will have no way to explain! ”

Aoki was silent for a moment. He said in a deep voice: "Then the empire will now put forward a request for the Northeast Army to send troops to Chita!" This shouldn't be difficult to do, right? Are you going to do it? ”

The request he just made for the Northeast Army to accept the command of the Far Eastern Army was nothing more than a sky-high price, and he himself knew that it was impossible, and it was the instructions of the Japanese military headquarters to let the Northeast Army send troops to Chita.

Hearing that Aoki had conceded a step on the issue of the command of the Northeast Army, Jiang Jishi also secretly breathed a sigh of relief. The command of the army cannot be handed over, and sending some troops to Chita is negotiable. He glanced at Yang Jie, commander of the First Army of the Northeast Army.

Yang Jie hurriedly shook his head and said, "General Aoki, now we have just lost the battle on the Mongolian side. The city was captured by the Russian army, and General Zhao Zhen's Third Army of the Northwest Army suffered heavy losses in the battle of the city, and the next step may be to give up even Kulun! In this way, the gateway to the west of Manchuria was a hole. Our Northeast Army must send heavy troops to the area west of the Great Khing'an Mountains. I really can't spare many troops to support Chita. ”

Of course, he is making excuses when he says this, the current war is not the era of Genghis Khan that can be fought all over the world with scimitars and bows and arrows! The Russian Red Army needed a large supply of heavy weapons and ammunition to maintain its combat strength, so how could it walk more than 1,000 kilometers deep into Manchuria to fight? However, the generals of the Northeast Army present nodded one after another. In the end, Jiang Jishi said with some distress: "General Aoki." The matter of troops can always be squeezed out, and if it is really not possible, it can still be recruited...... But military pay is difficult! I am not satisfied with you for saying that our Northeast Army has not been paid full salary since its establishment, and it is okay if we don't fight in peacetime, but we have to go to the front line to fight Lao Maozi, and we are going abroad to fight, so we can't do it without money! ”

As soon as he heard this, Aoki Xuanchun knew that Jiang Jishi was reaching out to ask for money, but fortunately, Japan had already prepared for this...... As long as China can be dragged into the war in the Far East. The tens of millions of yen in military pay are still worth it. He gritted his teeth and said, "The empire can lend 20 million yen to the Northeast Army, but the Northeast Army must send troops to Chita within a week, and the scale of the troops must not be less than 50,000!" ”

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"Yaoshuai, Jiang Jshi is ready to send 50,000 troops to fight in Chita!" The voice of Lu Yixuan, deputy chief of the general staff, rang out in the war room of the national defense force base camp in Tangshan, Nanjing.

Chang Ruiqing stood on the edge of a huge sand table with his arms crossed, and was with Bai Chongxi, Wu Shi, and Lan Tianwei beside him. and several Belarusian and American advisers talking in a low voice. Hearing Lu Yixuan's report, Chang Ruiqing took a moment and set his eyes on his White Russian military adviser Kerber.

Kerber was Kolchak's confidant, and he was the one who led the raid on Kazan last year and captured 600 tons of gold. The young White Russian general did not now stay in Zhangbei, where the Belarusian army in exile was located, but was sent by Kolchak to Nanjing to serve as Chang Ruiqing's military adviser and liaison officer between Chang Ruiqing and Kolchak.

This White Russian general is the same as Kolchak. They were all extremely outstanding military men (Kolchak was an excellent naval officer). This man entered the junior military academy at the age of thirteen, joined the Russian army at the age of nineteen, and by the beginning of World War I he was already one of the youngest regimental commanders in the Russian army. Before the February Revolution, he was already a division commander of the Tsarist Army, and then fought for a year and a half on the side of the Russian Provisional Government against the Soviet Russian Red Army.

His eyes were firmly fixed on the Chita on the sand table, and after a moment of silence, he spoke fluent English: "Chita is related to the initiative in the Far East War, and the key to Chita's gains and losses is the Eastern Railway...... The Trans-Siberian Railway in the Far East was under the threat of the Red Army partisans and could not become a logistical lifeline to sustain hundreds of thousands of troops. Therefore, the China Eastern Railway is the only lifeline that the 'coalition forces' on the Chita front can rely on, and as long as this lifeline continues, Japan can continue to send troops and baggage to the Chita front.

According to my analysis of the combat effectiveness of the Red Army and the Japanese Army, with equal logistical support, they should be evenly matched. However, the Japanese army was on the defensive, relying on its positions and occupying favorable terrain, at least three times as advantageous. If the Japanese were to be defeated in a frontal battle, the Red Army would need to have more than three times as many troops, which they did not have. ”

He glanced at Chang Ruiqing, who was frowning and listening, and then said slowly: "If I were Frunze (commander of the Eastern Front of the Red Army), I would use a force to attract the main force of the coalition army to Chita, and then use a strong cavalry corps to raid the Manchuria-Hailar line in the rear of the coalition army through northern Mongolia, completely cutting off the lifeline of the coalition army. ”

Chang Ruiqing nodded and said with a smile: "General Kerber, do you think the cavalry units of the Red Army have the ability to travel more than a thousand kilometers to send their troops to the Hulunbuir grassland?" ”

Kerber smiled coldly and replied, "Your Excellency, Chairman! You underestimate the military value of the GCIST system, and you underestimate the determination of the Bolsheviks to win the war. More than a thousand kilometers of steppe is not an obstacle at all as long as they wish, and they will mobilize every Mongol in the steppe to transport supplies and equipment for them, and will not provide them with the necessary food...... For them, these Mongols are just one-time consumables! In fact, their soldiers are also consumables, they can only be used a few more times. ”！！！