Chapter 433: Layout of the Soviet Union (Asking for subscriptions, asking for monthly passes, asking for various !! )
Chen Feng knew about the Japanese army's attack on the base area of the Eighth Route Army in Luxi, but he did not order the troops to act, as for the reasons, there are three. The first is of course because of the geographical location, although the strength of the Eighth War Zone has penetrated deep into the central Hebei region, but it is still powerless for the war that happened in Luxi. Although he could send airborne troops to reinforce the Eighth Route Army, according to the intelligence department, the Japanese army launched a brigade-level sweep this time, and the paratroopers in the Eighth Theater were obviously more than worth the losses for the sake of a battle of this scale.
The second reason is that Chen Feng believed that the headquarters of the Eighth Route Army could deal with this level of sweeping, and the strength of the Eighth Route Army at this time was obviously not comparable to the Eighth Route Army in history, which was issued in February 1939 by Zhu De, commander-in-chief of the Eighth Route Army, and Peng Dehuai, deputy commander-in-chief, to train the troops in stages, each period was three months, and the first phase began on March 1, and the training of 31 regiments totaled about 100,000 people. It stipulates that the Shandong Column will select units with good conditions and organize three basic regiments as the main force in Shandong.
However, due to the change of history, the strength of the Eighth Route Army at this time was far stronger than that of the Eighth Route Army at the same time in history, taking the Eighth Route Army in Shandong as an example, there were 12 integrated regiments in the Luxi base area alone, each regiment was full of 2,500 people, and there were also multiple detachments. Because of this, Chen Feng did not act when the Japanese army launched a sweep.
In addition, the most important thing is that Chen Feng is planning a big event, and he has no time or energy to care about the affairs of the Eighth Route Army. Compared with the safety of a Luxi base area in the Eighth Route Military Region, this matter is related to the rise and fall of the entire Chinese nation, and it is also related to the life of his Chen family.
To say that Chen Feng has actually been preparing for more than two years, if you talk about the layout, it should have started before the outbreak of the Anti-Japanese War, but there has never been a good time to implement it, and now there is finally a chance, so most of Chen Feng's energy was seduced away by this matter.
What is Chen Feng's plan? Actually, it's not a secret that troops are to be stationed in the Tyumen region. According to the agreement between the Soviet government and Chen Feng, in exchange for Chen Feng's troops sending troops to Northeast China if necessary, the Soviet Union wanted to hand over the Tyumen oil fields jointly developed by the two sides and the entire Tyumen region to Chen Feng's department. Of course, Chen Feng had to compensate the Soviet government for a lump sum of $50 million in capital investment.
For the Tyumen region, although the USSR also attached great importance to it. However, because the Tyumen region is located in Siberia, too far from Moscow, the center of gravity of the Soviet Union, and the region's economic development is extremely backward, the investment in oil field development is too large. And the USSR was not an oil-poor country. The Caucasus alone was enough for the entire Soviet Union for industrial oil. Therefore, the most important significance of the Tyumen oil fields was not to supply oil to the USSR itself. Rather, it was in exchange for foreign exchange for the Soviet government.
All in all, the Tyumen oil fields at this time were not an industry related to the economic lifeblood of the country for the Soviet Union, even if it was handed over to the Chinese. It did not affect the development of the Soviet economy at all.
But if Chen Feng's request is not agreed, then it will be impossible for the Eighth Theater of Operations to take risks for the sake of the Soviet Union at a critical time. At that time, if Germany and Japan were to attack the Soviet Union from east to west, the problem would be serious, not only because the oil fields in Tyumen could not be preserved, but even if they threatened the national security of the entire Soviet Union. Therefore, for the sake of national territorial security, the Soviet government had to hand over the ownership of the Tyumen oil fields to Chen Feng.
At the same time, according to the agreement between the two sides, after the withdrawal of Soviet troops from the oil field, Chen Feng could not station no more than one infantry regiment to protect the safety of the oil field. Although the Tyumen oil fields are located in the Siberian basin, far from the battlefield, there are a large number of caravans and bandits on the Sino-Soviet and Sino-Mongolian borders, and if there is no army to protect them, the safety of the oil fields is a problem, and there is a small town with a population of less than 20,000 people near the oil fields, where all the workers of the oil fields live, and their safety must be guaranteed.
In fact, Chen Feng, the plan for the garrison of the Soviet Union, had already begun to lay out, and from the moment he captured Yehelina, this plan was initiated. He knew very well that he could not compete with the powerful country of the Soviet Union alone, and even if he now sat on the territory of two provinces and hundreds of thousands of troops, he could not shake the giant of the Soviet Union.
But in order to save his life, a conflict or even a war between him and the Soviet Union was inevitable, so how to solve the Soviet Union has always been a big problem in Chen Feng's heart. But the moment he met Yeherina, there seemed to be a solution to this problem.
A strong bunker is easiest to attack from within, and the same is true for a country, which can be destroyed from outside, but it is relatively easier to destroy itself. In Chinese history, there were more than a dozen feudal dynasties that nominally unified the whole country, but only the Song and Ming dynasties were really destroyed by foreign enemies, and more were destroyed by their own internal forces.
The Soviet Union, a powerful country, was also difficult to defeat from the outside, even if it was as strong as the German fascists, it could not be destroyed, and the Soviet Union proved to be fully capable of any external challenge, even becoming one of the only two superpowers after the World War.
Similarly, Chen Feng, who is well versed in history, knows better that the Soviet Union finally collapsed precisely because of its internal problems, which eventually led to the collapse of this actually largest behemoth.
Therefore, Chen Feng believes that the only way to deal with the Soviet Union is to attack from within it, and one blow will kill! So he thought of a group that had long been forgotten - White Russia.
White Russia is not a person, and even less a country, but a group of poor homeless vagrants. It refers to the ethnic Russians who left Russia after the outbreak of the October Revolution and the Russian Civil Revolutionary War, and almost all of the White Russians were opposed to the Soviet regime at that time.
The reason for the formation of White Russia was not Chen Feng's concern, Chen Feng just wanted to use these people who originally belonged to Russia to complete the split of the Soviet Union, only in this way could he have the opportunity to recover those forcibly occupied lands, complete his glorious mission, and save his own life.
Between 1917 and 1920, Chen Feng knew that the number of people who left Russia was estimated to be around 2 million, mainly soldiers and officers loyal to the Tsar, nobles and high-ranking officials canonized by the Tsarist Russian government, as well as some large landowners and businessmen, all of whom the Bolshevik government wanted to exterminate.
The "October Revolution" was a cannon shot, sending horses to China. Marxism-Leninism. At the same time, it also "sent" Russian refugees to China - "White Russia". After the Soviet government took state power in Russia, the White Russians, fearing purge, fled, and most ordinary White Russians first came to southern Russia and Ukraine, and then to Turkey and the Slavic countries of Eastern Europe, such as the Kingdom of Yugoslavia, Bulgaria, Czechoslovakia, Poland, etc. A large number of others emigrated to Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Finland, Persia, Germany and France. But most government and military officials, as well as those who fought against the Red Army in Siberia and the Far East, often emigrated with their families to Harbin, Shanghai, and other cities in China, including Yehelina's father.
The October Revolution was followed by a civil war in Russia, which the Soviets called the Great Patriotic War, which lasted for more than three years, until October 1922, when the Red Army won a complete victory. Since the two sides of the war were fighting from west to east, by the end of the war most of the Russian officers and soldiers had been driven to the Far East. General Titerikhs, the last head of the Russian bourgeois Provisional Government, ordered his troops to retreat near the Sino-Korean border, and announced that all those who voluntarily left the country would be allowed to leave the country with them, and thus the wave of migration from Belarus began.
Among the crowds of White Russian exiles, the first regiment led by General Borodin and the third regiment of General Morchanov, mixed with men and women who had no money, fled to the vicinity of Hunchun in China, a total of about 7,000 people. Subsequently, the White Russians who followed them traveled to Harbin and other parts of the Northeast, numbering as many as 200,000.
It is not clear how many White Russians fled to China, but according to Andrei, Victor and others, there were at least seven or eight hundred thousand, and most of these people lived in northeastern China and the northern part of China, and some lived in Shanghai.
Having lost the patronage of the state, Belarus lives in extreme poverty, and most of the refugees are destitute and relegated to the bottom of society. Some of them have been reduced to porters on the docks, some have become mercenaries, and some have fallen into the grass, such as Yehelina's father.
After the October Revolution, he did not follow the bourgeois Provisional Government nor support the Soviet Government, but moved eastward with a large number of soldiers and their families who were willing to follow him, first staying in Siberia for a while, and as the Russian Civil War continued to escalate, their temporary settlements were affected by the war, and they had no choice but to migrate again, and finally settled in the northern part of China.
Due to the pressure of life, Yehelina's father had no choice but to take his men to become bandits and become one of the many horse bandits in the Saibei grassland. You must know that they are the regular troops of the Guards Cavalry Division of Tsarist Russia, and they are the real elite, although the number is less than 2,000 people, but the combat effectiveness is not weak, far from those small groups of horse bandits on the steppe can compete.
Thus, in less than two years, this group of White Russian cavalry became one of the largest horse gangs in the northern steppe, and this power lasted for almost fifteen years, until Yeherina folded her wings on the Yellowstone Cliffs. (To be continued......)