After Xiao Zhenlei and Armland exchanged views on the matter of supporting Kolchak against Soviet Russia and reached a consensus on the matter, Xiao Zhenlei arranged for his own diplomats to hold multinational talks with Armland, the United States, France, and other ministers in China.

As far as the current situation is concerned, the Entente side will hold minister-level talks on supporting Kolchak against Soviet Russia at a slightly lower level, but if they can reach an agreement on some aspects this time, it will be beneficial for future high-level talks between the countries.

During the talks between the envoys of various countries, the representatives of China and the British Prime Minister's special envoy Armtland both said that before the countries finally reached a consensus, the two countries would first provide support to Kolchak, especially weapons, ammunition, equipment, and daily necessities.

This proclamation made the ministers of France and the United States unable to sit still, and even the envoys of other countries, such as Belgium, Italy, Turkey, Romania, Bulgaria, etc., who did not know that Russia is a big cake? Who doesn't want an extra piece of the pie?

After many days of consultations, the high-level meetings of various countries basically agreed that the threat posed by Soviet Russia was too great and that it was necessary to bring it down and nip it in the bud when its regime was still unstable.

Representatives of various countries secretly gathered in the capital of China to discuss a joint confrontation with Soviet Russia, and after several days of discussions. The representatives of all countries unanimously decided to deal with Soviet Russia and destroy it. Re-establish a new regime in Russia. There were two options for dealing with Soviet Russia, the first. large-scale support for Kolchak in terms of weapons and equipment, ammunition and household supplies, helping him train the army; Second, directly send troops to the war, but this point cannot be achieved for the time being, after all, the Allies have not yet been defeated, and the main task of the Entente is to defeat the German-Austrian alliance, and to support Kolchak in terms of weapons, ammunition, equipment, and living materials. After the defeat of the German-Austrian alliance, depending on the situation, if necessary, they will jointly form an intervention army and send troops directly into Russia to fight against Soviet Russia.

The two programmes were unanimously agreed upon by the representatives of all countries. At this stage, the first plan is temporarily implemented, and various countries have raised weapons, ammunition, equipment, and materials to transport them to China, and then from China to Ufa, after all, China's railway transportation lines are already very developed, and there are road transportation lines that can be used, and it is very convenient to travel to Ufa.

The delegates were busy discussing the matter of supporting Kolchak, and Xiao Zhenlei was talking to Jiang Baili here.

"The great president, General Cai Guodong and General Zhang Xiaobrio sent back a telegram saying that the Second Army Corps had been severely reduced some time ago, and now there are only 500,000 people left in the Second Army Corps. Compared with the 1.1 million people who went to the European battlefield three years ago, they have been reduced by almost 60%, and although the remaining 500,000 people have become elite, they are very tired mentally and physically and mentally after being out of the war all year round. The combat effectiveness was greatly reduced, and the same was true of the First Army, which was not so seriously attritional. But they were the first to be sent to the battlefields of Europe, and the soldiers were a little homesick. General Cai Guodong, General Wu Shiyou, and General Zhang Xiaobrio jointly called to apply for a report, please allow the First Army Corps and the Second Army Corps to be transferred back to China for rest! ”

listened to Jiang Baili's report. Xiao Zhenlei's expression was a little trance, yes, this battle has been fought for four years, it has been three years since the Chinese army sent the expeditionary force to join the European battlefield, the first and second army corps have been in the European theater for three years, nothing more than died in battle or seriously injured and can no longer participate in the battle, no one else has ever returned, even if the soldiers and officers have a major event in their homes, no one has ever returned home, and soldiers from Britain and France and other countries because of the close distance, they generally go home for one or two months every year to visit relatives, and they will be sent back to China if they are slightly injured. However, the Chinese Expeditionary Force is not good, and the soldiers do not have this kind of treatment, the main reason is that the road is too long, and it takes more than half a year to come and go, and it is impossible for the top management to give the soldiers and officers family leave.

Xiao Zhenlei thought about it, it was time for the First Legion and the Second Legion to return to China, but new problems arose. If the First Army Corps and the Second Army Corps were to be repatriated, then the Chinese Expeditionary Force in the European Theater would only have 600,000 men in two corps, while Austria-Hungary had one million on the Eastern Front and two million German troops in the North, and it was too risky to use 600,000 against 3 million.

Xiao Zhenlei expressed his worries: "If we are transferred back to the First Army and the Second Army now, the strength of our expeditionary force on the defensive line will be greatly weakened, and once the German army gets the news, I am afraid that it will be desperate for a large-scale counterattack!" ”

Xiao Zhenlei's worries are not unreasonable, Germany and Austria-Hungary have been beaten badly by the Chinese army before, if the Chinese army's strength in the Balkans is suddenly empty, Germany and Austria will definitely not let go of such a good opportunity.

Jiang Baili thought about it and suggested when he heard this: "Then why don't you immediately send the Third Army and the Fourth Army to Europe?" ”

Xiao Zhenlei was surprised: "After Japan surrendered, didn't the establishment of the Third and Fourth Army Corps be revoked?" ”

Jiang Baili nodded and said: "The establishment has been revoked, but the original armies and divisions have not been disrupted, but they are scattered in Siberia, North Korea and Japan, if it is ??????."

Before Jiang Baili's words were finished, Xiao Zhenlei waved his hand: "No, no, no, not to mention that the establishment has been revoked, just say that they are scattered all over the place, and it is not easy to assemble them, besides, if they are transferred away, what will happen to the garrisons in Siberia, North Korea and Japan?" Transferred troops from the country again? This is too troublesome, it is better to form the Seventh Army Corps and the Eighth Army Corps again, the establishment of the garrison divisions in various parts of the country is ready-made, if the organization is fast, it should be possible to quickly complete the formation of the two corps, so let's do this, within three months the first and second corps will be transferred back from Europe to rest and recuperate, and at the same time, within three months, the seventh and eighth corps will be transferred to Europe respectively to take over the defense areas of the first and second corps. If you transport a division over, you will transfer back a division, and there can be no loopholes in the defense line and troops! ”

Jiang Baili thought for a while and said: "This is feasible, but the strength of the four group armies is 1.2 million people, which is still a little thin compared to the 3 million German and Austrian army!" ”

If Jiang Baili didn't remind him, Xiao Zhenlei hadn't remembered that the Second Army Corps was a Southeast Asian Army Corps, and the total number of troops was still 500,000, plus the wounded were only more than 600,000, while a regiment of the Chinese National Defense Force was only 300,000 people, and if only two officers of the National Defense Army were sent over, the strength would be reduced by nearly 400,000, which was not a small number.

After weighing it up, Xiao Zhenlei clapped his hands and said, "Then recruit 500,000 troops from Southeast Asia, Japan, and North Korea again to form the Ninth Army Corps." In this way, the size of the expeditionary force has reached 1.7 million, and it should be able to cope with any scale of war! ”

Xiao Zhenlei's idea was not impossible, but Jiang Baili still said with some concern: "Recruit troops from Southeast Asia again?" Will this cause dissatisfaction among Southeast Asian countries? Will it put our country in a passive position politically? ”

Xiao Zhenlei shook his head and said: "You just need to think about military matters, political matters, I will coordinate with the cabinet to solve them, we will transfer the Second Army Corps back to rest, disband them by the way, and let the soldiers and officers go home, whether it is a soldier who is still alive or a soldier who died in battle, they have all received honor and money, in addition to this, they have also practiced their skills, what else is there to say about Southeast Asian countries?" It's not that all of them will never go back, besides, this time only 500,000 troops will be conscripted, which is more than half less than three years ago, and the population of Southeast Asian countries themselves is quite large, even if there are suddenly millions less people, there is no problem, this matter is so decided, after you go back, prepare for the formation of the seventh and eighth legions, and also prepare enough generals and officers for the ninth legion in Southeast Asia! ”

Jiang Baili agreed: "Okay, then how many soldiers will be conscripted by Korea, Japan, and Southeast Asian countries on the issue of conscription?" ”

Xiao Zhenlei asked, "What is your opinion?" ”

"Japan now has enough troops to use, and it only needs to organize those surrendered troops and issue them weapons and ammunition to be able to fight, and the Japanese army has strict military discipline, so we only need to station military police, war supervision teams, principal officers and some translators in each unit, even if one million are requisitioned, it is not a problem."

Xiao Zhenlei weighed Jiang Baili's suggestion, and soon made a decision, he said: "In this way, recruit 30,000 troops from Korea and Southeast Asian countries and provinces that have joined our country, and form a total of 300,000 troops to form the Tenth Army Corps, appoint Yao Chengcheng as the commander of the corps, and then transfer 500,000 elites from the Japanese army to form a super-staffed Ninth Army Corps, and appoint Cai Wei as the corps commander."

appointing Yao Chengcheng as the commander of the Tenth Army Corps, Jiang Baili has no opinion, after all, Yao Chengcheng has many facets, participated in two Northern Expedition Wars, has rich experience in commanding operations, and is not inferior to Wu Shiyou, Huang Yingjie, Zhang Xiaozhun and others, but let Cai Wei be the commander of the Ninth Army Corps 500,000 Japanese elites, Jiang Baili is a little uneasy, although Cai Wei followed Xiao Zhenlei from the beginning, but only participated in the Northern Expedition once, and then has been commanding troops locally, and often disobeys the rules during his studies at the military academy, He often failed the strategic and tactical command course, and this person was a bit ruthless in personality, and he often liked to act arbitrarily in the army.

Xiao Zhenlei paid attention to Jiang Baili's expression, knowing that he was not worried about Cai Wei being the commander of the Ninth Legion, so he smiled and said, "Are you worried that Cai Wei will not be competent?" Any idea why I use him? With the character of the Japanese, the average military generals can't suppress them at all, Cai Wei's fierce and authoritarian character can just suppress them, and Cai Wei's command style is often non-conformist, I just like him, fighting with the Germans in the European theater is to play cards out of common sense, you think about it, with the German staff system, as long as our army has any moves, the German staff officers will immediately analyze our army's intentions, but a commander who does not play cards according to common sense, they will not be able to touch the context of our army! ”

Jiang Baili thought about Xiao Zhenlei's words, and felt quite reasonable, and finally agreed to let Cai Wei be the commander of the Ninth Legion. (To be continued......)