After the meeting, some of Xiao Zhenlei's orders were quickly executed, and Cai Guodong, who was far away in Europe, received the telegram and immediately dispatched troops to strengthen the defense force at the junction of the northern and Russian defense areas, and the Chinese army had not deployed troops in the border defense area with the Russian army, but since Xiao Zhenlei's telegram order arrived, the Chinese army immediately began to move, and four divisions were transferred to the opposite side of the southwestern defense line of Tsarist Russia to monitor the movements of the Russian army.

The Chinese army in the Ural Mountains and the areas east of it began to strictly check the situation of the floating population in the areas under its control, and immediately closed the passes and passages at the junction with the Russian military defense area; all Russian officials, officers, and soldiers who wanted to enter the Chinese military defense area were blocked from entering the west side of the checkpoints and passages and were not allowed to enter the Chinese military defense area, and businessmen, traders, and other professions who were allowed to enter were also strictly interrogated and monitored by intelligence personnel. In addition, the intelligence departments have made stricter investigations of Soviet and Russian spies and intelligence personnel in the Chinese military defense zone, and not only the intelligence departments have made an inventory, but also the local Chinese officials in the Chinese military defense zone have also mobilized local Russians to carry out joint defense; once they find anyone with abnormal behavior, whether they are locals or outsiders, they can report it, and as long as it is confirmed that the suspected person is a Soviet Russian person, they will immediately give a reward, not only rewarding money and materials, but also reducing or exempting taxes for the coming year.

As a matter of fact, the Soviet and Russian authorities do not have the energy to oppose the Chinese army, and the Soviet and Russian authorities are currently busy seizing power in various parts of the Provisional Government on the one hand, and on the other hand, they are busy holding peace talks with Germany; after all, the large number of troops that Russia is currently accumulating on the border puts too much pressure on its own logistics and economy, and besides, many of these troops have no weapons and ammunition, and even if they remain in the defense zone, they will not play a big role. Moreover, Soviet Russia urgently needs to stop all wars and maintain domestic stability.

In fact, the establishment of Soviet Russia was opposed by many people in Russia, and Vladimi was after the establishment of Soviet Russia. Indicates the immediate convening of a Constituent Assembly to achieve democratic elections. At the same time, the freedom of the press is restricted. Suppression of the Constitutional Democratic Party. However, the election resulted in a clear victory for the Socialist-Revolutionaries over Vladimi's party. As a result, Vladimi said that "rely on public opinion, but we must not forget the rifle", so he ordered the dissolution of the Constituent Assembly in the Tavlida Palace in Petrograd, arrested the opposing parliamentarians, re-established a coalition government composed of his party and the Left Socialist-Revolutionary, and used the army to suppress the demonstrators against the dissolution of the Constituent Assembly, and then called "all power to the Constituent Assembly" a counter-revolutionary slogan, which aroused fierce opposition from the Socialist-Revolutionaries, the Constitutional Democratic Party and other parties.

Judging from the current situation in Russia, Soviet Russia really did not have the strength to start a war with the Chinese army. Even Fladimi didn't think about repenting of the secret treaty he signed with Hua, but Xiao Zhenlei couldn't help but take precautions.

At the same time as making some arrangements for possible military action by Soviet Russia, the Eastern Theater of the Chinese Army also began to wage war against Japan again. On November 16, the 3rd Army Corps on Kyushu Island and the 3rd Army Corps deployed on the Mongolian and northeastern borders launched attacks on the Japanese defense line on Honshu Island and the Japanese Army in Siberia at the same time.

Prior to this, Hua had sent people to persuade the Japanese troops in Japan and Siberia to surrender, but it was disappointing that neither the Japanese military government in Japan or the Japanese troops in Siberia chose to surrender within the stipulated deadline, so the Chinese army could only attack.

The Japanese army thought that the Chinese Third Army would attack Honshu Island from the north first, so they deployed a large number of troops along the western and northern coasts of Honshu Island, but they did not expect that the Chinese Third Army did not attack Honshu Island first. Instead, the landing was carried out on the coast of Iyo City on the island of Shikoku.

On the coast of Iyo City, the 46th Division of the 3rd Army Corps of the Chinese Army did not encounter decent resistance at all, and the Japanese army did not expect the Chinese army to land here first, and there was only one Japanese brigade in Iyo City. Moreover, they were distributed all over Iyo City, waiting for the Japanese to react, and the 46th and 47th Divisions of the Chinese Army had already landed in Iyo City. A Japanese battalion in Iyo City was quickly crushed, and the Chinese army captured Iyo City without difficulty.

After the landing of the 47th and 46th divisions. Other units also landed in Iyo City in a steady stream, but in three days six divisions landed in Iyo City. In the middle of this, the 46th and 47th Divisions had already begun to attack along the southwest and east, respectively.

The resistance of the Japanese is very fierce, Japan has been bombed by the Chinese Air Force for the past two years, the Japanese factories are basically not visible on the ground, the whole of Japan has become a ruin, although some factory machines have been turned to the bottom by the Japanese, but the ammunition produced by these military industries is also relatively limited, completely unable to supply the needs of the Japanese army, so most of the soldiers of the Japanese army participating in the war carried samurai swords and rifles with empty magazines to launch a decisive charge.

The Japanese army dug a large number of defensive positions in dangerous places in various places, and immediately after learning that the Chinese army had landed on the coast of Iyo City, Shikoku Island, a large number of earthen mines were laid on the road leading to Ozu and Matsuyama and Ehime Prefecture, and the Japanese industry had been completely destroyed, and it was unable to make enough bullets and guns, so it could only use the sulfur at the foot of the volcanoes and the saltpeter dug up from various places to make the simplest and least explosive black powder, and to make a large number of the simplest mines. The Japanese planted these mines on the road that the Chinese army had to pass through, so as to delay the pace of the Chinese army's attack, and some Japanese generals wanted to use mine arrays to fight ambush warfare, and then kill the Chinese army from the ambush after the mine exploded.

"Boom!"

"Boom!"

"Boom!"

There were three explosions in a row, and the soldiers who were scouting in front of them fell to the ground one after another, only to see three dirt pits on the road, and four soldiers fell to the ground, two of the soldiers had been killed, and the other two soldiers were seriously injured.

After the wounds of the two wounded soldiers had been treated and carried to the back, the squad leader, who was crouching in the grass beside the road, observed the surroundings and found that it was very easy to set up an ambush, and the trees on the slopes on both sides were overgrown with weeds.

At the signal of the squad leader, several soldiers began to shoot on the hillsides on both sides, one shot at a time, and no movement was heard after more than a dozen shots, the squad leader felt that the possibility of an ambush here was extremely high, and his intuition had always been very accurate, the unwilling squad leader let the machine gunner strafe the left hillside, and let the soldiers with grenadiers on their backs fire several times with grenadiers, and finally forced the Japanese troops hiding on the slopes on both sides to show their feet.

Several screams on the slopes on both sides announced the bankruptcy of the Japanese ambush attempt, and the Japanese collectively rushed down the middle road under a loud order, and the squad leader immediately ordered everyone to retreat while fighting, although the weapons in their hands were very good, but after all, the number was too small and too small, and the terrain was extremely unfavorable to them, so they could only retreat while fighting and report to the main forces in the rear.

The squad machine gun played a great role in the retreat, and all the Japanese troops who rushed to the front were taken care of, and when almost all the heavy fire and ammunition were exhausted, the reconnaissance squad finally broke away from the Japanese army, and the Japanese did not pursue again.

The Japanese commander was very annoyed this time, and in the course of the battle, all the mines planted on the road exploded, but the problem was that the Chinese army did not enter the mine-laid area, and the two Chinese soldiers who were killed and the two soldiers who were injured just entered the perimeter of the mine-laid area and stepped on the mine and exploded, so only the three mines that exploded at the beginning killed two and injured two, and the other mines were blown up.

"Baga, in the words of the Chinese people, this time is really a big loss!" The Japanese commander was furious.

A dirty-dressed Japanese soldier next to him asked, "Your Excellency, Wing Commander, what should we do now?" ”

"What to do? What else can we do? Now that the Chinese army has discovered us, do you think they will still be fooled? Give the order to retreat! After saying that, the Japanese commander turned around and left.

The jeep in which Chi Chuanshi, the commander of the 47th Division, was riding slowly among the soldiers, and after three explosions were heard in front, the driver immediately drove the jeep to the side of the road and stopped, Chi Chuanshi jumped down from the car and shouted: "Adjutant, adjutant!" ”

The adjutant rode over from behind, "Master, I'm here!" ”

Chi Chuanshi immediately said: "There was an explosion in front of me just now and there was a large number of gunshots, I was worried about the situation, so I immediately ordered the troops to stop advancing and enter a state of alert and defense!" In addition, send someone to the front to inquire about the situation! ”

"Yes, I'll go right away!" The adjutant let out a loud voice and rode forward.

Soon the adjutant rode back and reported to Chi Chuanshi: "Division, the order has been conveyed, I have already sent someone to ask just now, someone in the front reconnaissance force stepped on the mines laid by the Japanese, and there were Japanese ambushes on the slopes on both sides of the road, the reconnaissance force used fire reconnaissance to force the ambushed Japanese out, and then retreated, the Japanese rushed for a while and paid some casualties and did not pursue again, and have withdrawn, according to the report of the reconnaissance force, a large number of mines were planted on the road in front of the Japanese, Although there was an explosion just now, it was difficult to ensure that there were still mines on the road ahead, so I asked to send sappers to clear mines in front, and they were responsible for protecting the sappers! ”

Chi Chuanshi agreed after a little thought: "Okay, pass on my order, order the engineer battalion to send people to the front to clear mines, the speed of mine clearance should be accelerated, and we must rush to the periphery of Dazhou City before dark today!" In addition, the officer of the unit who was in charge of the reconnaissance just now"

The adjutant saluted: "Yes, Master!" ”

After asking for details, the fact that the Japanese had been able to make improvised mines made Chi Chuanshi vigilant, and this matter must be reported so that the higher authorities could pay attention to it, maybe the Japanese had some weapons behind their backs. (To be continued......)