Chita City is already a scene of chaos. The largest city in the Russian Far East. There are seven or eight hundred thousand civilians. A small number of them were refugees who lived here before the Russian Civil War, and many more were refugees who had been exiled from the Far East and Manchuria before and after the Vladivostok Incident. Although the Russian Red Army had already arrived in the city, not many peaceful residents had evacuated from the city, in fact they had nowhere to go, and the 400,000-strong coalition forces gave them an illusory sense of security.

But overnight, the tide of battle changed dramatically. Gunfire could be heard everywhere in the west and north of the city. And shells from the 152mm cannons of the Red Army fell in the city of Chita from time to time! The officers and men of the Republic of Xianbeia and the ** Brigade of the Squadron put up a futile resistance on the last line of defense of the 285th Great Encirclement and Eight Escapes on the edge of the city. However, most of the main Japanese troops defending Chita were unknown, and the attacking Soviet Russian Red Army was several times larger than the defenders. Not only did they launch a sustained and fierce offensive on the front, but they also attacked in a roundabout way through the dense forests around the city. In the early hours of October 18, small assault units of the Red Army infiltrated the city and engaged in fierce street fighting with the defenders, causing great confusion in Chita City.

The city was filled with the sound of cries, and the streets were crowded with well-dressed citizens and Orthodox clergy, all supporters of the Semenov regime and targets of the Bolshevik rebellion. Now they are all running around with their families, as if they want to find a way to escape justice. But these people have long been eliminated and abandoned by Russian history, and what future awaits them other than labor camps and executions? These desperate crowds of refugees, the fires caused by the falling shells, and the huge columns of smoke make the city look bleak now.

Yang Jie sat in his headquarters. Do your best to deal with the crisis in front of you. Toshiro Obata, the adviser to the 285th Great Siege of Yakufu and the Battle Quest Monthly Pass Sent by the Japanese himself, personally commanded the troops to "fight the fire" back and forth on various battlefields in and around Chita Castle. His enemies were not only the Red Army from the west, but also the underground organization of the GCD among the Russians in Chita. Even several units of the Cimbrian Republic, consisting of Cossacks, were unstable. Therefore, Obata had to divide the Japanese troops in Chita Castle into several temporary detachments, some of which were used to support the defensive line outside the castle, and some were patrolling inside the castle, and wherever there was gunfire, they were busy maneuvering reinforcements. On the first day of the withdrawal of the main forces of the Japanese army from Chita, the city was already in danger!

Jiang Dengxuan and Yang Yuting strode into the headquarters, where the staff officers of the headquarters were sweating profusely burning all kinds of documents and telegrams, the signal corps were busy dismantling telephone lines, large and small boxes were stacked in the courtyard, and there were many charming White Russian aristocratic women crying and hugging aside—they were from this background. This look. There are also women with a good aristocratic education, who lived a fairytale-like life before the war, where would they have thought that they would become a plaything of a ** valve! And even the plaything can't stand anymore

Yang Jie was wearing a soldier's clothes, standing under the porch, looking at the chaotic scene in front of him with a blank expression. He didn't seem to hear the noise in the courtyard.

It wasn't until Jiang Dengxuan and Yang Yuting walked up to him and greeted him loudly that he walked out of his thoughts as if he had woken up from a dream. He nodded at the two of them and said softly, "How's the situation up front?" Will you be able to make it into the evening? ”

Jiang Dengxuan and Yang Yuting glanced at each other, and Jiang Dengxuan said: "The situation in front is not very good, the firepower of the Red Army is too fierce, the infantry impact is also fierce, and our men have suffered heavy losses." But it's not a problem to last another day or two. ”

Yang Yuting said: "Brother Geng Guang, how long do we have to keep it to finish?" ”

Yang Jie gritted his teeth and said in a low voice: "It's tonight!" ”

"What?" Jiang Dengxuan and Yang Yuting exclaimed at the same time: "It's less than 12 hours, can I let us go?" ”

Yang Jie snorted in a low voice, and said with a pale face: "Let's not take the Middle East Road, take the Trans-Siberian Railway, and walk about 300 kilometers east to cross Heilongjiang and return to China." ”

Yang Yuting looked at him: "300 kilometers." Why do you have to walk for a week? Can you walk away? ”

Yang Jie nodded: "Yes!" The main force of the Soviet Russian Red Army will definitely pursue the Japanese army retreating along the Middle Road, and the 15 divisions of the Japanese army are more valuable than us, if they can all be annihilated, the Japanese can only sue for peace and withdraw from the war! In this way, most of our countries will not be able to sustain themselves, and they will also seek peace. ”

listened to Yang Jie's words. Yang Yuting and Jiang Dengxuan breathed a big sigh of relief at the same time, and before they could say anything, they saw a Northeast Army general outside the door rushing in in a hurry, it was Zhang Zuolin's brother Sun Liechen.

Sun Liechen was covered with the smell of gunsmoke, and it seemed that he had just come down from the front line: "Commander-in-Chief Yang, the Eastern Legion of the Soviet Russian Red Army sent an envoy, right in my military headquarters, they want us to surrender, saying that they can ensure the safety of our more than 100,000 people." ”

In the order Chang Ruiqing gave Yang Jie, they were ordered to surrender to the Eastern Legion, and now the Eastern Legion has sent people to persuade them to surrender. If there is no greasy thing in this, I'm afraid I don't even believe in ghosts. Several generals of the Northeast Army in the courtyard looked at each other, and finally turned their eyes to Yang Jie.

Yang Jie frowned and said, "Let's deal with them first, just say that we are asking for instructions from Beijing, and we will give them an answer in the evening." He took a deep breath: "Although the above gave us an order to surrender to save our lives, but after all, we are soldiers, and soldiers only die in battle and do not surrender." If he surrenders, even if he survives, he will have no future in the future. So what I mean is to go, leave tonight, and bring the troops back no matter what, even if it's a third of it! ”

He swept around the few people in front of him with burning eyes: "If we want to leave, someone will break off."

Several generals of the Northeast Army were panting loudly, not knowing what to say. Several people know that those who stay behind will either fall or die, in short, there will be no good end! In the end, it was Sun Liechen who breathed a sigh of air. He said loudly, "I'll do what happens after the break!" I'm tired anyway, and I don't want to stay in the army anymore if I don't die. You are still young. We all have a great future, so let's retreat first. Just don't forget today's defeat, and don't forget the brothers who died here! So saying, he turned and strode out.

Yang Jie bowed respectfully at Sun Liechen's back, and said to Yang Yuting and Jiang Dengxuan: "Neighbor Ge, Chaoliu, just follow Mr. Jiang's instructions, and disarm at night!" One qiē lightly armed, with only a week's rations and light weapons, went straight to Heilongjiang! Say whatever you want to bring back as many brothers as possible."

1919, October 18, 10:00 p.m. Shenyang, General Headquarters of the Northeast Front of the National Defense Forces.

Just settled down in the original marshal mansion of Jiang Jishi, Bai Chongxi stood in front of the huge map of the Northeast with his hands behind his back. I kept thinking and didn't speak. Around him. It was the constant ringing of telephones, and several staff officers were constantly making and answering calls, adjusting the communication lines of the General Headquarters of the Front Army. But Bai Chongxi didn't seem to hear anything, just immersed in his own thoughts. Chang Ruiqing handed over the entire military situation in the Northeast to him, which was a heavy and abnormal burden. Because his opponent was the powerful Soviet Russian Red Army, which was the elite of the baptism of world war and fierce civil war. And the hundreds of thousands of soldiers under his command, including himself, have never seen a truly modern war! Moreover, this battle is directly related to the stability of Chang Ruiqing's regime and China's international status for a long time to come, so it can only be won and cannot be defeated.

On the map, the latest development of the battle is marked, and the 15 divisions of the Japanese Xianbeilian Dispatch Army have withdrawn from the fortified positions around Chita and are retreating along the Eastern Railway Line towards Manchuria. However, the capacity of the China Eastern Railway is limited after all. It was impossible for more than 200,000 Japanese troops to retreat by train with all their equipment and baggage. This retreat of more than 200 kilometers will take about four or five days, right? The defense of Chita City was handed over to the [China] and Xianbeilian coalition forces commanded by Yang Jie, but Bai Chongxi was very skeptical of their determination to hold on. Maybe they've started to run away now, right? If they run, the Russian Red Army will chase after the ass of the "Day" himself, and the "Day" himself will be wiped out if he can't do it, right? I hope that before that, they can spell out some more of the living forces of the Soviet Russian Red Army. Otherwise, in the next war, there will be something good for you!

Since the Trans-Siberian railway line in the Far East has been sabotaged by Yan zhòng. The Eastern Railway has become a shortcut to Vladivostok for the Russian Red Army! Therefore, in the next step, Soviet Russia will definitely march along the Middle East Road and continue to invade Manchuria in China.

There was a sound of military boots hitting the ground behind him, Bai Chongxi was awakened from his thoughts, and looked back at the graduate of the German ** school who had seen the smoke of the European war. Bai Chongxi's chief of staff, Huang Xuchu, is not yet in place, so the work of the staff office is in charge of Lu Yixuan, who holds a telegram he has just received in his hand and reports to Bai Chongxi in a low voice: "News from Chita, Yang Jie's army is retreating eastward, and Chita is bound to fall tonight!" My 15 divisions are finished, and the next battle will depend on us to fight! ”

He handed Bai Chongxi a telegram from Beijing, and said in a low voice: "The telegram from the commission asks us to make up our minds to fight a decisive battle with Soviet Russia along the Middle East Road!" The commission estimated that the Soviet Russian Red Army would definitely become the end of the crossbow after annihilating the main force of the Japanese army, but most of them would still maintain the offensive, because the Soviet Russia was eager to end the operation on the Eastern Front in 1919. This is the opportunity we have given Soviet Russia to deal a heavy blow, and if we want to win 10 to 20 years of peaceful development, we must defeat the Soviet Russian aggressors at any cost! ”

Bai Chongxi took the telegram, glanced at it in a hurry, and said lightly: "Zixiu, with your understanding of the first-class armies in Europe, how big is the gap between us and them?" How many times does it take to have a multiplier superiority in forces to guarantee the odds of victory? ”

Lu Yixuan smiled faintly: "The strength of the first-class armies in Europe is not based on their elite soldiers, but on their industrial strength!" What is being fought now is an industrial war, which is comparable to the comprehensive national strength and the contest of the country's overall strength, and as for the army and soldiers, they are just consumables. By the time the war had ended, the battlefields of Europe had become full of old men, children, and colonial troops, and even Russian women had come to the battlefield with bayonets! How elite can such a unit be?

Also, didn't the black armies commanded by Germany in the African theater overwhelm the white armies of the Entente? At Gallipoli, Turkey, the British were still defeated by the Turks. So we don't have to be afraid of the Red Army in Soviet Russia. What if they are battle-hardened? By the time they finish fighting, how many people will be left? How much weapons and ammunition? Let's use superior forces to defend the defensive line, are we afraid that we won't be able to defeat them? ”

Bai Chongxi lowered his head. said with a solemn face: "Zixiu, you are right!" We will definitely defeat Soviet Russia! He turned his gaze to the map, took a baton, and tapped lightly on the location of Hailar on the map: "Let's meet the Russian Red Army there!" Zixiu gave orders to the First and Fifth Armies to reach Yakesh within twenty-four hours, and then spend another two days to open the line of communication from Yakesh to Hailar, and then complete the deployment around Hailar, occupy favorable terrain, and wait for the arrival of the main force. After speaking, he turned his head to Lu Yixuan and said, "Zixiu." I decided to move the forward command post to Hailar. You will preside over the headquarters of Shenyang! ”

In Moscow, the capital of Soviet Russia, thousands of miles away, on the evening of October 18, the news of Chita's victory spread rapidly through the GCD organization system throughout the city. Then the whole city seemed to rejoice in an instant, after a series of setbacks since the outbreak of the "Four Kingdoms War". The first victory of the Russian Red Army was of sufficient weight! The people of the Russian capital spontaneously poured into the streets to cheer and celebrate, gathered on Red Square in the center of Moscow, and shouted hoarse cheers at the Kremlin, which pierced through the deep walls and reached the ears of the members of the Russian GCD Political Bureau who met overnight.

Lenin pushed open the window of the conference room, pointed out the window and shouted to the members of the Political Affairs Bureau in the room: "Comrades! Listen, the people of the capital outside the window are cheering for our Red Army soldiers! How they yearn for victory, how they yearn for the liberation of the Far East, which has been trampled by the iron hooves of Japanese imperialism! Can we let them down? ”

Lenin walked back to the conference table, pressed his hands on the table, and looked at Trotsky, the head of the Military Council of the Revolution. It seems to be waiting for an affirmative answer.

Trotsky looked at Lenin with some embarrassment, and replied thoughtfully: "Comrade Lenin, now may be the best time for us to end the war on the Eastern Front and conclude treaties with Japan and China. They will definitely withdraw from the war. As soon as Japan withdraws, China will inevitably be unable to sustain the war alone, and if we propose Mongolian autonomy as a condition for an armistice, Chang Ruiqing will most likely have to accept it. In this way, we will be able to divert the troops of the Eastern Front to the Western Front to fight Polish imperialism and regain the lost territories of Belarus and Ukraine. ”

Lenin waved his hands vigorously: "We have already defeated Japan, why should we allow them to occupy the Far East?" Moreover, the revisionists in China have no power, and we can completely overthrow their reactionary rule in China and liberate the working people there! ”

This great teacher of the world's revolution seems to be unusually dissatisfied with our Changda revisionists. He said loudly: "Chang Ruiqing and his revisionist line cannot be overemphasized the danger of our party's cause! If it is the Beiyang warlords who rule China now, I don't mind making a peace agreement with them for the time being, because the Beiyang warlords are only a weak opponent, an opponent that is not worth mentioning, and we can defeat them lightly at some point in the future.

However, we cannot treat Zuomin revisionism in this way, because this kind of doctrine has absorbed the nutrients of socialism to a great extent, and it is to use the superiority of socialism to improve the backward capitalist system of China. Of course, it is impossible for this system to lead China onto the road of socialism and GCISM, but in order to make China's weak capitalist system stronger in a short period of time, it is very likely that China will grow into an imperialist country in the next 10 to 20 years, if we do not find a way to completely defeat the leftist revisionists now! ”

Trotsky did not disagree with this judgment of the great teacher, but only furrowed his eyebrows: "Comrade Lenin, what should we do if we have no way to defeat the revisionist army of China in a short time? ”

Lenin smiled slightly and replied categorically: "If you can't beat it, you will unite!" But before uniting, I hope that the Workers' and Peasants' Red Army will fight with all its might, to defeat the revisionist enemy! ”

Trotsky looked at Lenin with admiration, and the great teacher did not lose his reason because of his hatred of leftism. On the contrary, he chose the most correct route at the moment. Trotsky looked at his leader and said solemnly: "Comrade Lenin, rest assured that the Workers' and Peasants' Red Army will do its utmost to defeat the revisionist and imperialist enemy!" ”……)！！！