Colonel Vlasova had been following the command of the 2nd Expeditionary Army and had sent back to France what he knew about the war. Vlasova found that since February 11, the atmosphere at the headquarters of the 2nd Army of the Chinese Expeditionary Force had become lighter, and first of all it was determined that the offensive of the German 11th Army on the northern front had stopped, and that there was a liaison group of British troops there, and the news was transmitted by the British. It's a bit of an anomaly. The German 9th Army, which was bogged down in the Vinnitsa direction, needed the response of the Germans on the Northern Front, and the Germans should not stop the offensive...... Secondly, the actions of the Chinese artillery and air forces besieging Vinnitsa weakened, and one of the second lieutenants under Vlasova reported that he found that the artillery units of the 16th Army were shifting positions, and dozens of artillery pieces towed by trucks were moving eastward. The French liaison team's attempt to go to the front line to learn about the situation of the battle was politely rejected by the Chinese army, citing the need to ensure safety. In the face of Vlasova's inquiry, General Xue Xiaocai emphasized the difficulty of street fighting, the German resistance was very stubborn, and Commander Wang was organizing various ministers to study countermeasures.

Colonel Vlasova wanted to see the Chinese annihilate the German army in Vinnitsa, for the simple reason that he wanted to see the Chinese army dragging the main German army, and the Chinese army annihilated the German army was even more pleasing to him, and he did not want to see the German army on the eastern front transferred to the western front and join the decisive battle against his homeland. However, there seems to be something wrong with the bits and pieces since the 11th......

In the early morning of the next day, Vlasova received a report from his subordinates that the Germans had broken through the encirclement of the Chinese army south of Vinnitsa last night and were crossing the Bug River in the south. He hurriedly went to General Xue Xiaocai, who was familiar with him, to understand the situation, but was blocked by the guards. Saying that the war was urgent, Chief of Staff Xue had already been sent to the direction of the 9th Army.

"The Germans' successful breakthrough seems to be real...... Abominable Chinese, isn't the 9th Army their trump card? Solasova saw Lieutenant General Van der Ping returning from outside, and hurriedly greeted him.

"Honorable General Fan, I heard that the situation in the battle has turned against us?" Colonel Vlasova gave special emphasis on "we".

Van der Ping, with a gloomy face, stood down, "The Germans broke through the Bug River unexpectedly, and it's nothing remarkable, Vinnitsa will soon be back in our hands, Mr. Colonel, please go back and wait for good news." ”

"Paris cares a lot about the situation in Vinnitsa...... Allow me to go to your army's southern front to find out what is going on......"

"The air force under the command of General Cheng Jianguo is violently attacking the German troops who have broken through. Our army is adjusting its deployment. For your safety, stay here. ”

"Don't let the Germans slip away......"

"Colonel, we have common interests, don't we?" Fan Deping had a sarcastic smile on his lips. "In such a weather. Our soldiers are bleeding and dying every moment. This qiē is all thanks to the Russians. There is important news for you, the Germans have brought in a large number of reinforcements and have broken through along Ternobol to Vinnitsa! I'm sorry. I have urgent business to deal with, and I am out of company. ”

Van der Ping dropped Vlasova. He does have important military matters to deal with. The Russian Patriot Union finally agreed to China's request on the condition that the 3rd Army under the command of Wu Nian join the Kazan-Moscow direction. Wang Mingyuan urgently recalled Fan Deping, who was inspecting the 21st Army, and he will go to the Eastern Army of the Alliance again. The domestic directive is very clear: the expeditionary force should give top priority to the extinguishment of the Buenos forces and should only provide transportation and logistical support, and should not intervene in a head-on conflict with the forces of the Burunos Aires under normal circumstances.

Wang Mingyuan decided to send Fan Deping to the Wunian Group Army first, and when the battle situation in Vinnitsa was over, he would personally take charge of the operations of the 3rd Group Army.

"It's going to be a big mistake!" Fan Deping expressed deep dissatisfaction with Beijing's latest secret telegram, "I know the situation of Kolchak's troops, to put it more strictly, they are a rabble, except for two or three divisions. If Wu Nian's army group did not directly intervene in the operation against the Red Army, it would be difficult to ensure the capture of Moscow. ”

On 23 February, the Central Committee of the Cloth Party formally established their army, which was named the Workers' and Peasants' Red Army. This news has long been verified.

"What are you doing with Moscow? Well? Wang Mingyuan asked rhetorically, "I think the instructions of the General Staff are correct, and Kolchak or Kornilov will be friendly to us if they are in power?" Don't be naïve! Ulyanov also made it clear that he would return 1 million square kilometers to us, including Vladivostok, which the president has always forgotten! If it is not of my race, its heart will be different! Don't trust foreigners! You hurry to Wu Nian, the 3rd Army, which is advancing westward, can turn north as planned, but only to occupy Kazan. Moreover, try to use the arms of the Patriot Union. ”

Having received the task, Van der Ping left Vinnitsa in a hurry, and he no longer cared about the Battle of Vinnytsia.

After the Treaty of Brest came into force, Berlin was anxious to end the war on the Eastern Front and secretly transfer the main forces of the Eastern Front to the west, so Berlin happily approved the construction of Huttier. The agreement entered into force at 8 p.m. on 10 February. The two sides moved quickly, and the fighting on the northern front was the first to stop, Shi Dashou received Wang Mingyuan's telegram order to withdraw to the siege of Ternobor, and began to lead the two armies of the Western Front to secretly return east along the railway line, and the German 24th Army did not leave the same place one step. On the main battlefield in Vinnitsa, after the Chinese and German armies sent radio liaison groups to each other, the actions of the two armies were easily coordinated. Huttier commanded the main forces of the 9th Army to begin the evacuation of Vinnitsa on the evening of February 10 in accordance with the route drawn up by the Chinese army, and the units of the 27th Chinese Division withdrew from the defensive line and handed over the two bridges over the South Bug River to the German forward units in their entirety. The German forces of the Huttier Division, which had been engaged in a fierce offensive with the main forces of the 9th Army near the town of Kolinsk, also retreated to the southeast, and the two armies disengaged in the early hours of February 11.

The Huthier-Wang Mingyuan agreement was a very special agreement on the Russian front in the European war, and both sides kept it secret. The Chinese side did not want to cause diplomatic disputes, while the German army wanted to deceive the British, French, and American forces, and try to mislead the main forces of the Entente on the Western Front into believing that the German army was still fighting with the Chinese army in Ukraine. Therefore, both sides kept the agreement strictly secret. It was only after the Paris Peace Conference the following year that legends about the Battle of Vinnitsa began to circulate, and China categorically denied the accusations of France and Britain.

February 12th. Vinnitsa was recaptured by the 1st Army. There had been some intermittent fighting between the two armies, but it was no longer important.

On 15 February, the main forces of Huttier had crossed the South Bug River, the main forces of the 15th Army returning east had joined the 9th Army, and the 7th Army had also disengaged from the Germans. The liaison group led by Lieutenant Colonel Chen Hao completed its mission and returned to the unit, bringing Wang Mingyuan a personal gift from General Hurtier, a German-made pistol.

General Wang Mingyuan thought that the battle of Vinnitsa was over, so he left the broken Vinnytsia and returned to Kiev to return the 2nd Army to General Shi Dashou, who took stock of the battle of Vinnytsia. In this battle, the expeditionary force invested 9 corps in the three battlefields. A total of more than 23,000 casualties were inflicted, including more than 12,000 killed or seriously wounded. The expeditionary force seized a batch of abandoned military equipment of the German army in Vinnytsia, the most valuable of which were dozens of cannons that needed to be repaired and about 40,000 shells, of which the ammunition of the 75mm caliber howitzer was exactly the same as that of the Chinese expeditionary force. The prototype of the Wehrmacht's howitzer of this caliber was originally from Germany. It is impossible to tell if it was a deliberate expression by Hurtier or a last resort. They retreated south, broke out of the encirclement, and effectively left the line of communication. The transportation of heavy equipment is indeed extremely difficult. Seasonally. The bitter cold is receding, spring is returning to Ukraine, and then it's the muddy season that causes headaches for all military commanders. The Germans, who were forced to leave the lines of communication, could hardly carry more burdens.

The War Department estimated that the German losses were around 20,000, and this estimate was recognized by Wang Mingyuan. The analysis of the battle loss ratio is no longer meaningful, Wang Mingyuan believes that he has won, he has successfully brought the troops back to Ukraine from Poland, and the next step can be to calmly cross the Dnieper River without enemy pressure and continue to withdraw the main forces eastward depending on the situation. Now he can't give up Kyiv yet, because diplomatically it is required that the expeditionary force remain in Ukraine and confront the German army, which does not exist (he thinks that the German army will definitely spare no effort to move west). He succeeded in pinning down two German army groups for a month, directly aided the main battlefield on the Western Front, and, moreover, crushed the German army's attempts to quickly occupy the entire territory of Ukraine. More importantly, the strength of the 1st and 2nd armies of the expeditionary force has been preserved, and now the 9 corps and two independent heavy artillery divisions in his hands are the essence of the Wehrmacht, and the Republic will definitely need to use them in more foreign wars in the future, and the officers and non-commissioned officers tempered by the European war are incomparably valuable essence, and they should not be lost in the meaningless battles with the Germans.

Wang Mingyuan's plan for the Battle of Vinnitsa was not approved by Long Qian, and he had little contact with Beijing during this time. After returning to the headquarters in Kiev, Wang Mingyuan personally drafted a telegram to Long Qian, in the first part of the telegram, he reported in detail the causes, processes, results and significance of the Battle of Vinnitsa, and made a prediction of the next move of the expeditionary force, Wang Mingyuan believed that when the German army launched the offensive on the Western Front, the Entente might ask us to return to Poland and further develop the offensive to the German mainland, and he would never approve of such an action, how to solve the diplomatic problem, The President is also requested to make early plans.

In the second part of the telegram, Wang Mingyuan gave a detailed account of the decision he had made in the Battle of Vinnitsa, and was willing to bear the consequences of it.

The third part analyzes the situation in Russia and the military strength of the Patriot Alliance, arguing that a large-scale civil war in Russia is inevitable, and it is difficult to say whether the Patriot Alliance can achieve a final victory, and he cannot judge. But he made it clear that it would be unwise to throw the expeditionary force into the quagmire of the Russian Civil War, and that in the south of Russia the industrial base, especially the arms industry, was simply not enough to support the attrition of the UPC, let alone the expeditionary force. He believed that the best outcome would be to cause a split in Russia, and that it would be ideal to establish two regimes that would be in a fairly long-term confrontation, so that the Patriot League would have to settle with China diplomatically, and the pressure on China's northern frontier would be completely relieved, and the Japanese question and westward expansion would be freed up.

In this 15,000-word report, Wang Mingyuan also commented on the combat effectiveness of the 1st and 2nd group armies of the expeditionary force, the military and political affairs of the main generals, and the withdrawal of 2~3 armies, the war in Russia has basically ended, and there is no need to retain such a large army. In this part of the report, Wang Mingyuan proposed that some generals should be promoted to higher ranks, and especially praised the air force units, believing that the air force had exceeded expectations, and that they could completely confront the Luftwaffe head-on and win the battle, and that Long Qian further increased his investment in the air force.

Two days later, Long Qian telegraphed back to Wang Mingyuan, appreciating his choice of the Battle of Vinnitsa and fully agreeing with Wang Mingyuan's analysis of the situation in Russia, but at present the expeditionary force should not abandon Kiev in order to deal with the Entente. As for the Russian civil war, the principle of appropriate intervention should be implemented to ensure that the UPC is not quickly defeated, and the coalition troops should be consciously trained to have the strength to confront the armed forces of the Bruxapunes.

Unlike Wang Mingyuan's long report, Long Qian's reply was very short, less than 1,000 words. At the end of the telegram, "Once again, congratulations on the great victory of the expeditionary force led by you." The people of the whole country, who are working to build the country, rejoice. Russian affairs are completely in your hands, take care of your country, and make persistent efforts in order to achieve a complete victory in Russia's strategy. (To be continued......)