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In the skies over Yekaterinburg in early May, the cold fog was thick and silky, and the spires of the tall Orthodox churches in the distance were completely obscured.

After ending his trip to St. Petersburg and going to the front line in Ukraine to pretend to be concerned about a circle, Yang Qiu's special train has stopped here for three days. The war on the Western Front was so far away from Russia that it was still in the throes of regime change as most of Russia's interior frontier cities. No matter how great a country is, such a major event as a change of dynasty can never be passed in peace, and since the new government declared the continuation of the war again last month, the city is full of signs proclaiming an armistice and a strike, and the soldiers and policemen left over from the tsarist era continue to work hard to maintain order in the city, but the wealth of the Urals in Chapter 433, where the careless and busy accumulation of money takes advantage of the opportunity to make a final profit, also begins to increase.

For example, in the largest train transit hub station in the Urals on the outskirts, several Russian nobles and officials with a small team of soldiers tried to take over the temporary warehouse area of the station, stockpiling hundreds of millions of dollars worth of arms and materials enough to attract countless eager and greedy eyes, but waiting and answering them was the Second Expeditionary Force of the Republic of China to aid the Eastern Front.

Since the outbreak of the February Revolution, Yang Qiu ordered the incorporation of an infantry regiment of the 123rd Mixed Division, which had been stationed here at that time, into the battalion, and sent letters to Britain and France overnight requesting authorization to temporarily take over the second largest Russian munitions warehouse, on the grounds that it would prevent weapons and supplies from flowing into the hands of those who opposed the continuation of the war in Russia and lead to an unpredictable situation. For Britain and France, Siberia and the Far East were already beyond their reach, and they were also worried about Russia's withdrawal from the war, so they quickly agreed to the proposal to give the guard of the warehouse area and the transit station to the Chinese expeditionary force. During his visit to St. Petersburg, the Russian Provisional Government also promised to temporarily take over the Chinese side, saying that a joint warrant would be issued from the Russian General Staff and the government whenever the Russian army needed to receive it, and the transfer would be carried out after the Russian political situation stabilized Chapter 433 The wealth of the Urals.

So don't say that at the moment the commander-in-chief's special train in the station is still parked, and even if it doesn't, there is no Russian government document. I don't have a warrant from the General Staff of the Russian Army to come and get weapons, is it really true that our entente is vegetarian? "Get out of here! Again, I warn that this is the military property of the Entente powers, and if there is any trespasser. Lawfully kill on sight! "The warrant officer took the chicken feather as an arrow, and the big hat of the Entente powers was buttoned down, and the face of the scheming Russian official turned white! Heaven and earth are reversed, hell and heaven are no longer separated! It's only been a few years? I think that Siberia and the Far East were the Slavic backyards at the beginning, and the Chinese didn't avoid them, but now they have become a fucking member of the Entente, and they have also taken over the property belonging to Russia!

Of course, there are also those who are willing to be traitors to Russia. Major Chekov, the liaison officer of the Russian Expeditionary Force stationed in the Chinese Expeditionary Force, was full of sorrow, wearing a cotton coat of the Chinese Expeditionary Force, and a bottle of Shanxi Lao Baigan was faintly visible in the pocket of the coat. ”

Officials and soldiers are so angry that their heads are smoking, this guy is still not a Slav?! But it seems to taste good.

This Slavic scum bought by fine wine!

Officials salivated over warehouses of priceless supplies, but the muzzles of the Hessian guns that popped out from behind the sandbag bunkers left them helpless, and they had to curse a few times and go back. However, when I arrived at the door, I found that even the few trucks I had brought were missing. After inquiring for a long time, I learned that the driver and the truck had been temporarily detained by the squadron ** in the name of the entente conscription for military transportation.

In fact, the truck was really requisitioned, and at the moment it was parked next to the station platform to load the American ** fire that had just been transported from Vladivostok. Thousands of Chinese workers laughed while transporting arms, and most of them were from the northeast. Many of them used to make a living in Russia, who hasn't been angry with those tyrannical big hairy soldiers? But now their own soldiers waved their hands and made them deflated, which has not happened in hundreds of years! So I even have a lot of motivation to do things. The Entente is a good thing! The Chinese workers sighed a few times, and muttered what the agreement was, and when they could make the arrogant Maozi dare not offend easily, they also moved large boxes from the train.

The long box contains the Russian version of the American M1903 Springfield rifle using 7.62*54R bullets, the short box contains 500 rounds of ammunition, and the smaller box contains a Colt 9mm revolver, as well as barrels marked with eye-catching colors**, a dead French 75 rapid-fire gun, and hundreds of barrels of different sizes. There are also generators, trucks, airplane engines, and so on. These supplies were one of the aids provided by Britain and France, and of course there were also orders from the United States by the Tsar. Although the payment for the goods was delayed, in consideration of their own interests, and Britain and France were willing to provide guarantees, even if the revolution broke out in Russia, after Yang Qiu's visit to St. Petersburg and the Provisional Government said that the war would continue, the United States still transported them from San Francisco to Vladivostok or Dalian. It was then transported here by rail, waiting to be transferred to the battlefield on the Eastern Front.

Even if you don't count the arms and material trucks that arrive at least two trains a day, there are 300,000 rifles, 200 million rounds of ammunition, 600 cannons of various types, 780 Russian M1910 heavy machine guns with Sokolov wheel mounts, and more than 500 shells. In addition to orders from the United States, there is also assistance from Britain and France, as well as self-produced equipment from the entire Siberia and the Far East, including Fort Yekaterina, and of course a small number of weapons and equipment made in China purchased by Russia. The reason why they are all stored here is also because of the large backlog caused by transportation difficulties in winter, and the fact that the Russian Provisional Government has not yet sorted out its internal affairs, and the voice of opposition to the continuation of the war in the military is rising, and it is even more difficult to obtain a joint document from the government and the military.

Of course, Britain, France, the United States, and other countries still do not know that the backlog is so large, and as for the Tangnu-Uliang Regiment, they also send people to collect the finished products of the Yekaterinburg arsenals every day according to the rules and transport them here, stop all the transport trucks to unload and wait for transshipment, and then protect them according to the agreement and wait for the people with the joint call order of the Russian government and the military. In fact, if someone can really get this official letter, then Li Liejun will also issue it on time, after all, everyone is still in the same boat in name, but he didn't even want to pay attention to it if he came to take over without anything just now.

And these things and Yekaterinburg, Russia's second largest metallurgical, weapon, and industrial manufacturing city, are also the key to Yang Qiu's lingering nostalgia. Of course. There is no second way for these things.

"Brother Xia Ru, you are very happy here."

Two figures at the door of the warehouse looked at the departing Russian officials and walked towards the train, one of them was Shi Xiaolou, the current commander of the Eastern Front Expeditionary Force, and the other was Li Liejun, the head of the Tangnu Ulianghai Regiment. The former also patted the latter's shoulder as he spoke. It looks very intimate. In fact, there is a relationship here, because both of them are graduates of the Japanese non-commissioned officer school, when Shi Xiaolou arrived in Japan, because he was bullied by Japanese students, it was Li Liejun who took the lead in standing up for him, so the personal relationship between the two has always been very good. At the beginning, Li Liejun of the Kuomintang also thought about winning over Shi Xiaolou to control the Hubei army, but unfortunately he had already been accepted by Yang Qiu to join the National Society at that time, so the different political pursuits made the two not get together for many years. But Shi Xiaolou always remembered that kindness. Therefore, when Li Liejun sent Wulianghai, he also went to see him off, and gave him a Minyuan-style pistol for self-defense. Although Shi Xiaolou was very enthusiastic, Li Liejun had long lost the free and easy mentality he had back then, because the junior in front of him, who was two years younger than himself, was already the commander of the front army, and he was still a reserve regiment commander, and said: "The commander is not as good as here on the front line, these Russians don't come to make trouble a few times that day, I don't know what will happen if they really give them a good face." ”

Listen to him call himself commander. Shi Xiaolou knew that he hadn't completely come out of what happened back then, but this matter had a lot to do with Yang Qiu, so don't talk about himself, even Song Ziqing usually never talked about it. So he pretended not to hear it and continued: "Brother Xia Ru has a great responsibility now, pinching the logistics of the Russian army and us, I don't think it will be long before you will rise again." ”

Li Liejun smiled bitterly, what if it goes up further? I can't take off the hat of the Kuomintang on my head.

The two chatted as they walked towards the special train, and seeing that Li Liejun didn't want to talk more about this topic, Shi Xiaolou had no choice but to change and ask, "Have you heard about the Western Front?" What do you think of this battle? "Yue Peng sent encrypted telegrams to the Urals after the war, so Li Liejun also knew that the Western Front Expeditionary Force had a big battle to fight. He is also a soldier, and he was also obsessed with military affairs before the Kuomintang, and seeing that Shi Xiaolou, Chen Huan and others, who were similar to him back then, are now fighting with heavy troops in their hands, and there seems to be a fire burning again in his heart. said, "I've heard about it." But it's not very detailed, I just know that there is a tough battle to be fought. ”

Shi Xiaolou told Yue Peng's battle plan, and when he heard that the target was the main force of the German First Army, Li Liejun's eyes suddenly widened, and he asked as if he couldn't believe it: "You want to eat a German army group army?!" I'm afraid this is not a small price. He didn't dare to say that he didn't believe it, but Shi Xiaolou heard it. I happened to have walked to the side of the car. Hearing Lei Meng say that Yang Qiu was discussing things with Lu Zhengxiang and Wu Tingfang, he simply pulled him into the carriage, took the opportunity to wait, took out the sketch of the western front he had drawn and said, "You can see it yourself." ”

After reading the sketch, Li Liejun gradually understood Yue Peng's tactics, he wanted to take advantage of the opportunity to quickly break through the gap as a bait, take advantage of the time difference when the German reserve forces did not have time to help, use the night cover to make a long-distance detour, and then wait for the main German army to go south the next day to intercept and completely eliminate it with superior forces in one fell swoop. Moreover, he also skillfully used the Aisne River as a moat, and boldly temporarily abandoned the two divisions that came from the direction of Sedan and Ilson, as for the German army at Verdun to come to the aid of it was simply unrealistic, because first of all, they had to pull out Moronvilier, and the French Fourth Army would kill hundreds of thousands of people, let alone break through quickly. The northern support was blocked by the Aisne River, the eastern support was covered by the Fourth Army of Moronvillierfa, and the three French armies in the west gathered on the Siegfried Line, so it was decisively invested in 5 infantry divisions to quickly cut off the connection with Reims, cleverly creating a vacuum! In this way, the German First Army was left without any support for at least three or four days. Seeing this deployment and calculation, Li Liejun also had to admit that Yue Peng was an officer who was extremely proficient in tactics, and it was hard to imagine that this was the first time he commanded a major campaign of more than 400,000 people in 22 divisions.

Thinking that now that the German First Army was afraid that it had been surrounded, and even after it had started fighting with all its might, even he was a little envious: "Commander Yue's hand is powerful, if only he could see it with his own eyes." ”

"There's no chance."

Yang Qiu's voice suddenly appeared behind the two, Shi Xiaolou and Li Liejun hurriedly saluted, but when they saw that Wu Tingfang and Lu Zhengxiang were all on their faces, a heat suddenly rose in their hearts, and the former even pretended to have the courage to ask: "Yue Peng's fight over there?" ”

"It's over, the German First Army is finished!"

"Oh my God."

In Lu Zhengxiang's joyful answer, Li Liejun suddenly realized that his identity in the Kuomintang seemed to make him miss a lot of things......!!!