Beginning in 1860 and until the Xinhai Revolution, Tsarist Russia colonized and economically invaded the Tangnu-Ulianghai Sea in the name of exploration and mining. At that time, there were already a large number of Russian immigrants in the Tangnu-Ulianghai area, and a bloody and tearful "genocide" was carried out against the local Chinese residents!

In 1912, taking advantage of the rebellion in Outer Mongolia, Tsarist Russia sent troops to directly annex Tangnu Ulianghai.

After the October Revolution in Russia, the "Dawei People's Republic" was formed. However, the Chinese government has always refused to recognize it.

Because of the independence of Outer Mongolia, the Tangnu Ulianghai region does not border China, in fact, it has become an enclave of China, Wang Tiehan before leaving Ulaanbaatar, Chen Shukang had a special explanation: no matter how His Majesty disposes of this vast land in the future, as a soldier, it is equally important to open up the territory and recover the lost land!

General Wang Tiehan understood and solemnly saluted Deputy Commander Chen: "Let Deputy Commander rest assured, Tiehan guarantees to complete the task!" ”

In the eyes of the two generals, this was an action of greater spiritual significance than practical significance, and this was an action of greater honor than military significance.

Most of the Soviet garrisons in Central Asia were transferred to the European front, with only a small number of troops stationed in Almaty. The so-called capital of the Tuvan People's Republic, Kmel, is located almost 800 kilometers from Irkutsk, where the army is concentrated. The military operations of the Youzhou Army will not be too much of a problem.

Chen Shukang confessed to Wang Tiehan that he had a different mind! Attack the Tangnu Ulianghai, that's the reconquest! Breaking the Ground...... On the side of Central Asia, there is nothing else, and the territory is there!

After sending away the Youzhou Army, Chen Shukang had to consider how to use the troops in his hands to complete the tasks assigned to the Left Route Army by the General Headquarters after the main army marched westward.

The Central Route Army under the command of the left guard had three main army corps, the Merger, the Qing Army, and the Wing, as well as the Second Guards Armored Army and the Dongying Army of nearly ten divisions.

Nearly 700,000 troops were divided into two routes, one was the Qingzhou Army, and the north went to Angarsk, the northernmost city of Lake Baikal, the largest oil refining and petrochemical city in the eastern region of the Soviet Union.

The main forces of the Central Route Army left Ulan-Ude and launched an offensive along the Soviet-Mongolian border against the remnants of the Transbaikal Military District, which had fled to the site. Ulan-Ude was restored to the name of Urkinsburg, which was the name of the Cossacks when they were first founded here, and it became the capital of the Far Communist Kingdom.

This decision also made General Kovalev very angry, doesn't this clearly show contempt for people? After the restoration of Chita, and now we have come to Urkinsburg to set the capital, and we will take a step back with our Transbaikal army, and you will chase one step, right?

While waiting for reinforcements to arrive, Kovalev followed Japan's example and sent a farewell message to Moscow.

"Dear Comrade Stalin, the fascist army is pressing on our troops step by step. The Red Army soldiers fought valiantly, but due to the heavy strength of the enemy, our troops retreated to Itkutsk.

I am determined to lead the Red Army soldiers not to take a step back again, but to fight to the death!

Long live the Soviets! Long live the Bolsheviks! ”

But the telegram sank into the sea, and the defeat of Marshal Timoshenko at Garkov caused the destruction of more than 300,000 Red Army troops by the German Southern Front under the command of Rundstedt, and the fall of Kharkov and Belgorod, exposing Stalingrad to the German armored forces.

Busy with the reinforcement of troops in the Don valley and the deployment of the Red Army High Command for the defense of Stalingrad, he could not afford to pay attention to the fighting on the shores of Lake Baikal.

"Itkutsk? It's a few thousand kilometers from Moscow! But if Stalingrad is lost, Grozny and Mykop will be lost, and without the oil of the Caucasus, our panzers cannot be moved, so what can we do to stop the German offensive? There is nothing in Siberia or even Central Asia, there is still a lot of room for our Red Army to continue to resist! Tell Comrade Kovalev to hold on! As long as we persist until the United States and Britain land in Europe, our situation will definitely improve! Well, that's it, give me a call from Comrade Rokossovsky on the Don side......"

Stalin was busy, the mustache cared a lot about being in Stalingrad, and the bearded man cared more about the city that could be named after himself, not to mention that after the occupation of the Ukrainian coal mining areas by Germany, the oil fields of the Caucasus became the most important energy source of the Soviet Union! Central Asia and Siberia had large energy reserves, but before the war, development in those areas was slow, and even oil pipelines were not completed.

So the successive defeats of the Transbaikal Military District and the Far Eastern Military District did not make Stalin very worried, or did not have the extra energy to worry about it!

More than one million German, Italian, and Romanian allied troops have approached the Don River, and the Red Army's Southeastern Front, Southwestern Front, Don Front, Voronezh Front's left flank, and Volga flotilla have all been mobilized to deploy around Stalingrad.

But the staff officers of the Supreme High Command made an even fatal mistake, and after Stalin impatiently interrupted the report on the war situation in Central Asia, the young telecommunications staff officer, thinking that Comrade Stalin had not sent an order to reply the telegram to the Transbaikal Military District, threw Kovalev's farewell message aside!

Kovalev waited in Irkutsk for several days and did not wait for a call back! Comrade Commander even suspected that the High Command was already dissatisfied with him, and the commissar should have received an order to execute him secretly! During the period of the Great Purge, many generals in the army were shot in such an unclear situation.

Until a staff officer reported: "Comrade commander, a motorized infantry division of the Han army bypassed the defense line of our army and attacked Nizhny Udinsk on the banks of the Uda River overnight, and the Red Army of a regiment of the local defenders was completely annihilated, and we have been surrounded!" ”

A little delirious who had been tormented by the telegram question for a few days, Kovalev only then reacted! In order to wait for the telegram from the high command, the only remaining two armies of the entire Front Army actually waited in Irkutsk for three days!

Kovalev slammed his fist on the table! In these three days, the last way of life of the Transbaikal Front has also been ruined, if a decision is made earlier......

Now the only retreat is the narrow passage between the Lena and Angara rivers, but ...... Kovalev remembered the 6th Guards Tank Army, which was transferred, and the 12th Air Force Army, which was wiped out in the empty point, without armored assault forces, and was seized by the Allies with complete air supremacy.

Kovalev was not a mediocre man, he distinguished himself during the civil war and played a great role in the battle against Belarus. This time, too, his judgment was completely accurate.

The Youzhou army sent by Chen Shukang was inadvertently killing two birds with one stone. When Zuo Shou learned of the signs that the Soviet troops were holding on to their positions in Irkutsk, he judged that this would be a good opportunity for a great annihilation battle. Especially when he learned that Wang Tiehan's Youzhou army had arrived at Kusugul Lake a few days ago, and when the troops sent Kemele, he immediately asked Ye Weixun to adjust the battle plan and change the pursuit battle to an annihilation war!

Therefore, the battle of the 75th Mobu Division of the Youzhou Army attacked Udinsk at night, and while Kovalev was still waiting for the telegram, he cut off his retreat in the direction of Novosibirsk. The more than 200,000 Soviet Red Army troops were forced to abandon the idea of holding on to Irkutsk and continue to retreat north.

But just as Kovalev thought, the Qingzhou Army, which captured the Angarsk oil refining city, under the command of Lieutenant General Lin Guowei, was working day and night on Ust-Kut, trying to close the last door to encircle and annihilate the Transbaikal Front.

And the escape of the Soviet army was by no means smooth, if the poor road conditions in Siberia were fair to both sides, then the endless bombing of the world was definitely a nightmare for the Soviet Red Army.

The General Headquarters of the Allied Far Eastern Front mobilized more than 600 bombers to take off from airfields in the Far Eastern Kingdom and Outer Mongolia to bomb the Soviet troops in turns.

What annoyed Kovalev even more was that some of the bombers dropped not bombs, but propaganda leaflets, a letter from Queen Anna to the Russian people.

Nima, this letter is written like a lover calling a man who has gone to war to come home! Kovalev's eyes were a little moist when he saw it, and he didn't know if he would be able to see his wife and two children again!

Every day, the political commissars chased after and collected these "evil fascist leaflets" and even executed several soldiers who had stolen the leaflets. Comrade Commander could see that the soldiers were already dissatisfied with the staunch Bolsheviks, and that these Red Army soldiers, who had been forced to put on military uniforms by the peasants and workers, were on the verge of collapse under the double blow of such a fierce bombardment and spiritual offensive of the Han army.

The battle for Ust-Kut was undoubtedly the last straw that broke their will. Lieutenant General Lin Guowei, commander of the Qingzhou Army, personally led the 16th Mobu Army, advanced lightly, and with the support of the Air Force, forcibly crossed the Lena River, and captured the only gateway for the Soviet army to flee north at the cost of more than 4,000 casualties - Ust-Kut!

The Transbaikal Front was already encircled by the Allies. Political Commissar Jiming proposed to fight against the water, relying on the banks of the Lena River to hold on, waiting for Moscow's rescue. But when he shouted hoarsely: "We will carry forward the revolutionary spirit and resolutely resist to the end...... Comrade Stalin will definitely send fraternal troops to our rescue", the commanders at all levels in the conference room looked at him with idiotic eyes!

"The more determined the Bolsheviks, the more insane? 200,000 infantry, unresupplied and bombed to the point of no morale, resisting in an encirclement that has no danger to defend? Still fighting against the odds? ”

Kovalev stood up, as the chief officer, he had to take responsibility at this time! Don't let 200,000 young Russians bury those crazy people.

"Moscow is no longer capable of rescuing us, I decided to ......"

"No! You are betraying the great Soviets...... Bang......"

A gunshot rang out, and the staunch Comrade Bolshevik Zimin threw himself on the rudimentary conference table! And his hand, just touched the gun on his waist, he was going to take out his pistol and shoot Kovalev, a traitor, but compared to the military quality, than the speed of drawing the gun, there is no doubt that this political commissar who was a university lecturer is several streets behind!

On June 1, 1942, Kovalev led the 230,000 Red Army of the Transbaikal Front to surrender to the Allies. Ye Weixun agreed to his request to surrender only to the Far Eastern Kingdom, and with the "help" of the Allies, after accepting the reorganization, it was transformed into the Second Army of the Russian Far Eastern Kingdom, and Kovalev still served as the commander of the army.