Outer Mongolia's second independent statehood began after 1920, when the Anhui warlord Duan Qirui stepped down and Outer Mongolia entered a state of chaos. The "bloody baron" Engean Bai, who was driven to Outer Mongolia by the Russian Red Army, colluded with the upper princes of Outer Mongolia to attack the Chinese garrison. Outnumbered, the Chinese garrison was forced to evacuate Kulen, some to return to the interior, and some to the city of Maimai, ready for another battle.

The October Revolution in Russia also spread to the steppes of Outer Mongolia. With the support of Soviet Russia, the herdsmen-born Suhebaatar and Choibalsan formed the Mongolian People's Party. Subsequently, the troops of the Mongolian People's Party, with the assistance of a large amount of weapons and equipment from Soviet Russia, began to attack the Chinese troops in the city.

The Chinese army was in internal and external difficulties, had no intention of fighting, and was defeated one after another, and was forced to withdraw from the trading city. Since then, the Chinese army has not entered Outer Mongolia.

On March 19, 1921, the "Provisional People's Government of Mongolia" under the leadership of the Mongolian People's Party was proclaimed. This was in opposition to the Mongol upper princes in Kulen and the "white bandits" of Engaen Russia, and they began to fight. Due to the huge disparity in strength, the Mongolian People's Party invited the Soviet Red Army to enter the war in Mongolia. Subsequently, the Soviet Red Army entered Outer Mongolia and defeated Enggen's army outside the city of Maimai, saving the Mongolian People's Army from danger. Immediately in July, Kulen was captured. On July 10, the Mongolian princes and the Mongolian People's Party jointly formed the "Mongolian People's Revolutionary Government".

At the instigation of Russia, Outer Mongolia once again declared its "independence" and established the "Mongolian State". When the news reached Chinese mainland, public opinion was in an uproar for a time, and various nongovernmental organizations and democratic parties in China issued declarations one after another opposing the perverse actions of the Mongolian princes and nobles to split the motherland. Condemn the armed occupation of Outer Mongolia by Soviet Russia in China.

Cao Kun and Wu Peifu, the real power figures in the Beijing government, under pressure from the people, issued a sternly worded statement on behalf of the Chinese government, condemning Outer Mongolia's attempt to split the Republic of China and not recognizing Outer Mongolia's "independence."

Zhang Zuolin in the northeast also sent a telegram condemning Russia, and was extremely indignant at the "independence" of Outer Mongolia. Ignoring the danger of being annexed by other warlords, he sent troops to Outer Mongolia alone to fight against Outer Mongolia and the Russian army, trying to resolve the dispute between Outer Mongolia by force. However, due to the civil war. Zhang Zuolin was afraid that Cao Kun and Wu Peifu would take the opportunity to send troops to the Northeast. If you regain some of the lost territory, you will not dare to act rashly.

Cao and Wu in Beijing had to deal with Zhang Zuolin in the north and warlords from other provinces in the south, for fear that sending troops to Outer Mongolia would lose their real power in the Beijing government. Therefore, there is only one way to watch the fire from the other side. In addition to verbal condemnation of Mongolian independence. Helpless.

Since then, the Soviet Red Army has remained in Outer Mongolia. During this period, the upper Mongol princes, who had been deprived of power under the control of Soviet Russia, began to wake up. Regretting the act of splitting China, they fled to China one after another to demand that troops be sent to recover Mongolian sovereignty and drive out the Russians. However, the Soviet Union continued to increase the size of its troops in Mongolia and thwarted China's efforts to reclaim sovereignty over Outer Mongolia.

It can be said that Chen Feng wanted to recover Outer Mongolia before because of three pressures, first from the Soviet Union, secondly from the Mongolian government and army, and most finally from ordinary people from Outer Mongolia.

Although the pressure on the Soviet side is no longer there, the pressure on the other two sides remains, especially the Mongolian government and army headed by Choibalsan. In this war, although Chen Feng's troops destroyed the general armed strength of the Mongolian People's Army, they also occupied Ulaanbaatar, the capital of Mongolia.

However, in this war, Chen Feng only conquered the East Gobi Province and the capital of the Central Province among the more than 20 provinces of Mongolia, and occupied less than one-50th of the land area of the entire Mongolia.

The most important thing is that Choibalsan and the Mongolian People's Army in his hands entered Mongolia as liberators and established the state. Moreover, Choibalshan did do something beneficial to the Mongolian people after taking power, so this person's prestige among the people is very high, even equivalent to the Mongolian Stalin. If this person is determined to become independent and build a state, even without the support of the Soviet Union, this person can gallop across more than 1.5 million square kilometers of land in Outer Mongolia.

Although it will not pose any fatal threat to Chen Feng's department, it can cause great trouble and pressure to Chen Feng's department to completely control Outer Mongolia.

In addition, Chen Feng is also extremely scruples about Choibalshan himself, and Choibalshan is no stranger to Chen Feng, who is a dictatorship similar to Stalin and a tyrant. Although he was born poor, he was ambitious, and he was one of the founders of the Mongolian People's Party and one of the leaders of Mongolian independence.

Born into a poor herdsman family in the Chechen Khan region of Mongolia, Choibalsan worked as a shepherd boy as a child before being sent to a lama temple at the age of 13. In 1914, he was sent to Russia by the Mongolian Autonomous Government of Jebtsundamba as a student, and witnessed the rise of the Red Army, the October Revolution and the establishment of the Soviet Union.

In 1921, after the Soviet Red Army entered Mongolia and established the Mongolian People's Government, Choibalshan served as a member of the People's Government and a political commissar of the People's Army. After the death of Sukh Bartar for unknown causes in 1923, Choibalsan became the de facto head of the Mongolian People's Government. After the establishment of the Mongolian People's Republic in 1924, Choibalshan consolidated relations with the Soviet Union on the one hand, and on the other hand, carried out internal purges and purges within the Mongolian People's Revolutionary Party to consolidate its position of power, and promoted economic planning. Moreover, with the permission of Choibalsan, the Soviet Union entered into a military alliance with Mongolia, and Soviet troops could be stationed in Mongolia.

For heroes like Choibalshan and those who support Choibalshan, what Chen Feng actually wants to do most is to catch them all and cut down the grass to prevent future troubles. However, there are many disadvantages of doing this, and it will also make Battle and others feel sad about the death of rabbits and foxes, so how to deal with these people is very important.

Relatively speaking, although Mongolia is troublesome, it is not impossible after all, Chen Feng already has several solutions in his heart. At the time of Outer Mongolia's independence, there was a large area of land in the north of Outer Mongolia and the place where it joined Russia, which was not assigned to Outer Mongolia.

In other words, it was still legally part of China's territory, but after the independence of Outer Mongolia, this area became an enclave. There is no way for our administration to get there. So this land has been forgotten, and now it is not even marked on the map, and that enclave is Tangnu Ulianghai!

Tangnu Ulianghai is located in the northwest of Outer Mongolia, bordering the Sayan Mountains in the north and the Tangnu Mountains in the south, which is a narrow strip between the two mountains, with a total area of about 170,000 square kilometers. Tsarist Russia, from the beginning of the 17th century, tried in vain to annex the Mongolian region of China, including the Tangnu-Ulianghai, but until the middle of the 19th century, due to the strength of the Qing Dynasty. Its invasion and annexation plots have failed. As part of the border treaty, the Treaty of Brunschi was basically an equal treaty that set the course of the border between China and Russia.

When the Xinhai Revolution broke out in 1911, the princes of Outer Mongolia, who had long been coerced and lured by Tsarist Russia, took the opportunity to declare "independence" and establish themselves as "Great Mongolia". Originally, the rebel group was ready to occupy the entire Outer Mongolia region, including Tangnu-Ulianghai, but Tsarist Russia excluded Tangnu-Ulianghai from the "Great Mongolian State", claiming that Tsarist Russia had special interests in Tangnu-Ulianghai and must exercise direct control over the region. In this way, the Outer Mongolian rebel clique has betrayed another 170,000 square kilometers of Chinese territory in the criminal activities of separating from the motherland! In 1912, taking advantage of the Outer Mongolian rebellion, Tsarist Russia directly annexed Tangnu Ulianghai.

Since the current Tangnu Ulianghai is still under the control of the Soviet Union, and the Outer Mongolia dispute has not been resolved, Chen Feng's troops cannot reach there at all, so if you want to solve the Tangnu Ulianghai issue, you must first solve the Outer Mongolia issue.

According to the meaning of other high-ranking officers of the Eighth War Zone, since Outer Mongolia was recovered by the Eighth War Zone, the vast territory of Outer Mongolia, including Tangnu and Ulianghai, is still occupied by itself, and no one dares to stand up and say nothing.

First of all, these two areas are vast and sparsely populated, resources are not very rich, infrastructure and industrial production capacity are very weak, and if this place is included in his jurisdiction, it will only make the existing strength of the Eighth War Zone more dispersed.

Secondly, after this war, the Soviet Union must be frightened and frightened by him and his troops, and Stalin's character will definitely take strict precautions, once the troops of the Eighth Theater of Operations are stationed in Mongolia, then the Red Army in the Far East will inevitably continue to increase its troops to guard against him, so that he will also have to increase his troops to deal with it.

Therefore, the inclusion of these two places in the jurisdiction of Saibei Province would only reduce the strength of the Eighth Theater, and after this battle, Chen Feng wanted to concentrate his forces against the Japanese, and it was not in his interests to clash with the Soviet Union, so it would not work to annex Outer Mongolia alone.

Another thing worth Chen Feng's consideration is the views of the domestic people and the Nationalist Government, originally the Eighth Theater did not listen to the orders of the Nationalist Government, and the war with the Soviet Union without permission has caused a lot of discussion among the people in China. The communist democratic parties have quite a problem with this, after all, it is an extremely stupid thing to suddenly provoke the Soviet Union, a strong enemy, when it is waging a national war with Japan, not to mention that the Soviet Union has not helped China before.

If Chen Feng suddenly put Outer Mongolia and Tangnu Ulianghai under his jurisdiction, whether it was Lao Jiang or others, they would have opinions, and the people in China would regard themselves as a madman trying to restore, which would be extremely detrimental to the future development of the Eighth War Zone. (To be continued......)