For Chen Feng, a former soldier of the Republic, especially an officer, bandits and horse bandits are one of the annoying creatures. According to Chen Feng's previous temper, it must be to see one and deal with another. But in the Battle of Huangshi Cliff, after capturing Yehelina, Chen Feng learned that he was actually a Russian, and he was also a White Russian, Chen Feng had the idea of co-opting those horse bandits.

At that time, he was ready to train these White Russians into a surprise army, which was specially used to deal with the Soviet surprise soldiers. According to Chen Feng's previous idea, he wanted to train these people one by one into elite soldiers in a hundred battles, and then send all of them to the Soviet Union at a critical time to plague Lao Maozi and create opportunities for him and his army.

But with the development of things, especially after Yehelina proposed to marry him, Chen Feng's plan has been slowly revised, but this plan has been slowly implemented from beginning to end.

After nearly three years of development, Yehelina's White Russian troops have more than 8,000 elite soldiers, and this unit is composed of White Russian soldiers, who have always served in the cavalry group under Chen Feng. Not long ago, the cavalry group was split, and these White Russian soldiers were singled out by Chen Feng and handed over to Yehelina for command.

Chen Feng asked Yehelina to form a group of no less than 50,000 elite White Russian troops within a year, because with the changes in the war situation in Western Europe, Chen Feng predicted that the plan to invade the Soviet Union should be advanced, so the plan to form a separate White Russian army should also be advanced.

The formation of the White Russian army is not a fantasy, in fact, someone did such a thing a few years ago. The benevolent brother who took the lead in recruiting White Russian mercenaries was the famous "Dog Meat General", "Demon King of the Mixed World", "Long-legged General", "Three Unknown Generals", and "Five Poison Generals" Zhang Zongchang, Zhang Zongchang, during the Republic of China. Zixiaokun, a native of Ye County, Shandong. It is a famous local warlord during the Republic of China, this person has two major characteristics, the first is addicted to gambling, and the dominoes are with him all day long, and the locals call playing Pai Gow "eating dog meat", so Zhang Zongchang has the nickname of "dog meat general". The second is a man who is full of bad deeds and sins. I don't know how many aunts and wives Lu Dao has, I don't know how many guns Lu Dao has, and I don't know how much money Lu Dao has. Therefore, it is called "three unknown generals".

Zhang Zongchang is a microcosm of warlord melee during the Republic of China. In 1921, that is, around the tenth year of the Republic of China, he was actually unexpected. In the past, he was attached to the Beiyang government and was directly related to Feng Guozhang. Mixed into a new 6th mixed brigade commander. Later, he was promoted to division commander. In 1928, he sent troops to Hunan to aid Hunan Province. But something bad happened, retreated to Jiangxi, and was surrounded by Chen Guangyuan, the overseer of Jiangxi. Units are disarmed, soldiers are disbanded or reorganized. Zhang Zongchang secretly ran away, and then joined Cao Kun, who was directly related to him, and was not contained. He turned to Zhang Zuolin when he went out of the customs and poured out his intentions. The king of Guanwai took him in, but he did not reuse it.

During the first Zhifeng War, Zhang Zongchang seized the opportunity to quell Gao Shibin's rebellion in Jilin, and Zhang Zuolin appointed him as the division commander and the envoy of Suidong Town, stationed on the Sino-Russian border. However, Zhang Dashuai knew what kind of character Zhang Zongchang was, and was worried that Zhang Zongchang would rebel, so he had a supply limit, lack of equipment, and more soldiers with bare hands, so as to restrict Zhang Zongchang.

But miracles always happen inadvertently, one day, when Zhang Zongchang led the soldiers to climb the mountains and mountains for physical training, he found a person lying in the ravine in the distance, and he was surprised. This place is inaccessible, how can there be people? So they sent someone to inspect it, and the soldier came back to report that he was a foreigner and did not understand Chinese. Judging from the costume, it looks like a Russian officer. The man was hungry and cold, as if he were sick and dying.

Zhang Zongchang personally went down the mountain to see. In his early years in Vladivostok, he spoke Russian, but he could not read a word of Russian. Upon questioning, the man's name was Gostrauf, who had been the commander of the artillery of the White Army in Imperial Russia. During the Russian Communist Revolution, he was pursued by the Red Army and fled into the mountains on the Chinese border in desperation. Zhang Zongchang used a horse to carry him back to the division, took care of him carefully, extended medical treatment, and recovered his health after more than ten days.

Gostrlough thanked Zhang for saving his life, and seeing that Zhang's soldiers lacked guns and ammunition, he revealed that in a ravine not far from the Russian border, there was a railway branch line, and a train was parked, full of munitions, and several cannons. It was dropped by the Imperial Russian army, but there was no locomotive and could not move. If Zhang can send a locomotive to pull it back, the arms will be Zhang's. He also pointed out that the Red Army would soon come and that it must be pulled quickly.

Zhang Zongchang was overjoyed and asked for a locomotive from the Eastern Railway, led by Gostrlouf, and brought back all the arms of a train, and more than 300 White Russian soldiers followed, Zhang Zongchang took them all in and organized them into a White Russian Corps, led by Gostrauf. At that time, a large number of Belarusians were exiled to Northeast China, many of whom were soldiers, and most of them joined Zhang Zongchang's command, which soon grew to more than 1,500 people, becoming a strong force with strong combat effectiveness. Later, Zhang Zongchang relied on this White Goose mercenary corps to make repeated exploits, won Zhang Zuolin's favor, and gradually emerged in the non-descendant Feng army, and the number of the White Russian mercenary corps even exceeded 10,000 at the most.

Chen Feng, who Zhang Zongchang can do, does not believe that he can't do it, and he now has more than 8,000 elite White Russian soldiers, and in the past few years of war, Chen Feng has treated these White Russian officers and soldiers equally, whether in terms of promotion or food and salary, they are the same as the Han and Mongolian ethnic groups. There are several hundred high-ranking officers such as Posa and several hundred junior officers, so these Belarusian officers and soldiers in the Eighth Theater of Operations have a great sense of belonging.

After many investigations, Chen Feng learned that although more than ten years have passed, there are still many White Russians living in China, and these White Russians are living in poverty. So much so that many Belarusian women had to sell their bodies, so much so that Shanghai's large and small dance halls seemed to be monopolized by Belarusian women, and their unique blonde hair, high nose and colorful neon lights became the main representatives of Shanghai's nightlife. According to statistics, 22% of Belarusian women between the ages of 16 and 45 are engaged in selling. Kinky work.

The White Russians who fled to China were almost destitute, and because life was so difficult, young White Russian women began to go to the places of sensuality, and eventually inevitably became prostitutes. The influx of refugees has completely changed the face of the Belarusian community, and the difficulties they face are enormous, first of all, they have lost their nationality.

In 1921, the Soviet government revoked the citizenship of all those who had fled to Belarus, and the only identity they had was the passport of the League of Nations, which was recognized by only 51 countries, including China.

After learning about this, Chen Feng began to support Yeherina in recruiting Belarusian refugees in 39 years, and after more than half a year of hard work, the results were quite remarkable, a total of 38,000 Belarusian refugees came to Saibei, mainly Belarusian in the northeast and Belarus in Shanghai.

When these people arrive in Saibei, they will be assigned to work as long as they are vetted, and they will even be recruited into the army and undergo rigorous training.

Originally, Chen Feng planned to slowly develop the White Russian troops in this way, and send this force to the Soviet Union at a critical time, but because of that agreement, Chen Feng saw an opportunity to enter the Soviet Union in advance.

On 3 April, Chen Feng personally inspected the Eighth Theater Railway Garrison Brigade stationed in the Second Company, but in fact, only Yeherina and a few high-ranking officers knew that this railway garrison brigade was actually composed of Belarusian soldiers. Moreover, although this unit is only a brigade-level military unit, the allocation of officers is quite high, and the brigade commander is Yeherina herself, with the rank of lieutenant general.

The deputy brigade commander is as many as three, all of whom have the rank of major general; 2 chiefs of staff, with the rank of major general; 4 deputy chiefs of staff with the rank of colonel. This railway garrison brigade has two infantry regiments and one cavalry regiment, and the officers of all combat units are assigned according to one or two officers or one officer and three officers, and they are all of high ranks.

It is important to know that the military rank of an officer in the Eighth Theater is not an ornament, not to mention anything else, and the salary can increase a lot with each rank raised, and the military expenditure of such a large number of officers alone will increase a lot every month. Therefore, all the officers of the Railway Garrison Brigade are aware that their force may be expanded at any time.

In fact, the purpose of Chen Feng's visit this time was to transfer 2,000 backbone personnel from this unit to the Tyumen region with a part of Chinese soldiers to serve as a garrison, which in Chen Feng's opinion was the best opportunity to infiltrate the Soviet Union.

At this time, the Tyumen region was only a very small town, with a permanent population of less than 300,000 within a radius of several hundred kilometers, and the Soviet government did not attach much importance to it, and the original permanent troops were only a few hundred, so Chen Feng believed that the entry of this White Russian army into the Tyumen region would not arouse the vigilance of the Soviet government, after all, Chen Feng's troops had foreign soldiers for all to see.

There were not only Russians, but Jews from other countries, Koreans and Americans. Moreover, given the relationship between the Soviet government and Chen Feng's subordinates, the Soviet government would not suspect that Chen Feng would harbor evil intentions and attempt to subvert the Soviet regime.

Most importantly, the Soviet government did not consider a single Chinese infantry regiment or a mixed Chinese and foreigner infantry regiment to pose a threat to the Soviet government, and they could take out the infantry regiment in the heart of the Soviet Union at any time if they wanted to.

According to the plan formulated by Chen Feng, Yeherina and others, this infantry regiment was not in a hurry to infiltrate after arriving in Tyumen, but to purchase industrial equipment and oil refining equipment for oil extraction from the Soviet government, and at the same time let some Jews get off directly in the Tyumen region, where to establish a base area, and then slowly develop.

According to Chen Feng's predictions, if the capital and labor can keep up, the Tyumen region will soon be able to form a huge oil industrial zone, which will become a springboard for Chen Feng to send troops to the Soviet Union.

On April 6, Yeherina took this infantry regiment away, taking not only one infantry regiment with her, but also Chen Feng's hopes. (To be continued......)