While the Chinese army launched an offensive to the northeast, the attack from the northwest did not begin.

The situation here is completely different from that of the Outer Northeast, which is sparsely populated, and Russia only needs to send a small number of troops to settle it at will. The number of indigenous peoples here in Central Asia is quite large, and the people here have always been restless, and have always been afraid of power but not virtuous, coupled with the religious conflict with Maozi, which has never stopped, and if there are fewer troops, they will not be able to control it at all.

Therefore, the Russians stationed much more troops here than in the outer northeast, and later mobilized a large number of troops in order to guard against China. Even the crushing defeat on the Eastern Front did not bring in troops here to support it, and by the February Revolution there were already 13 divisions of troops with a total number of 200,000 men.

Later, after the Red and White Song Meeting began, the two sides fought fiercely, and at first the two sides were only targeting each other's military personnel, but once this kind of thing developed, it became a vendetta, and the things that were done were even lower than the enemy invaders. In China in another time and space, during the civil war between the two countries, there were also white terrors such as "returning to the hometown" and "changing the species of people who have passed through the fire", which were more powerful than the devils.

This kind of thing is not patented in China, and Maozi is the same here. After the two sides killed, they both killed the red eye, and there was no lower limit to what they could do. The targets of both sides are no longer limited to military personnel, as long as the civilians supporting the other side are killed, and if it is a neutral side, it is even more unlucky, being killed by both sides at the same time. Since April, even civilians have died happily if they are discovered by the opposing army.

On the Outer Northeast side, the Red Army had an absolute advantage, while the situation in Central Asia was different. Now the Red and White Song Party is in full swing. So instead of doing it right away, China continued to send more troops, stockpile supplies, and renovate fortifications, roads, and airfields. At this critical moment, we in China should not disturb Yaxing on both sides of the house, and when they are happy enough, we will go over.

Well, the Red Army is not a turtle who does not listen to what is going on outside the window, they already know that the corrupt and degenerate white bandits have sold Central Asia to China, and they also know that China is now mobilizing troops. They are not stupid, of course they also want to organize the defense of China, but the White Army refuses to cooperate. So they simply made up their minds, ready to seize the time to clean up those hateful white bandits first, and then concentrate on dealing with the possible attack by China, so the two sides fought even more, and now even if the Red Army wanted to stop, it couldn't stop at all.

It was not until June 30 that the Turkestan White Army finally lost its hold, and the remnants of the defeated army fled to the Chinese border.

...........................................................................

Yining District, Yili City.

Yining, known as Ningyuan in ancient times, was founded in 1762 and was one of the nine cities of Ili in the Qing Dynasty and a famous historical and cultural city. The climate here is pleasant, the products are abundant, and the natural endowment is unique, and it is known as the reputation of "Saiwai Jiangnan". At the beginning of the 18th century, it became the political and economic center of the north and south of the Tianshan Mountains, and "a metropolis in the west". After the founding of the People's Republic of China, it was set up as the seat of Ili City, and after the Sino-Russian trade railway (Urumqi, Jinghe, out of Alashankou, and then through Akdouka, Semipalatinsk to Novosibirsk, Omsk, Tyumen, Yekaterinburg) was opened to traffic, the economic status here declined somewhat, but later the Ita railway was opened to traffic, and after the Sino-Russian trade railway was connected to Jinghe, it became the economic center of the northwest.

Since the September Revolution, Russia's internal political turmoil and declining productivity have led to a significant reduction in trade between China and Russia, and by the end of the Red and White War in February this year, trade between the two countries has almost been cut off. Yining is also affected here, and the wholesale market at the railway station, which used to be bustling, is now crowded.

By March, however, the depression had improved. At this time, troops were stationed one after another, supposedly to seal the border and prevent the two sides of the civil war from bringing the flames of war into the country. A large number of troops need a large amount of supplies, and the market here has also re-improved, especially the merchants who sell all kinds of food, have made a small fortune.

Wen Desi has always adhered to the glorious tradition of my big foodie empire, and he will never be stingy in terms of food, let alone the army, which is the pillar of the country. When the CSD first started its army, the food was already very strong, and now. In today's world, the food of the Chinese army is superb, whether it is taste, calories or nutrition, it is superb, especially in the variety of dishes, it is even more overwhelming than all other countries. Even at the beginning of the 21st century, this kind of food is top-notch.

During the war, due to the constraints of the conditions, the food was poor, mainly canned food and dry food. However, when camping, as long as possible, we will try to provide fresh fish, vegetables, fruits, etc. Now the Chinese merchants have learned to be obedient, and they know that as long as there is a large army stationed in that place, all kinds of fresh ingredients will definitely not be sold.

Since last month, the number of troops has skyrocketed, with new troops arriving almost daily in the camps outside the city, and two makeshift airfields have been built outside the city. The local food market is even more popular, and vendors from all walks of life are making a lot of money.

122nd Division, Division Headquarters Office.

"The division commander, the commander of a regiment, reported that their train was delayed and is now blocked near Shanshan, and it will not arrive until at least tonight. The communications staff officer reported to the division commander Wu Peifu.

Wu Peifu frowned: "What's going on? Isn't there already military control on the railway?"

The chief of staff said with a smile next to him: "It's not that there are too many things to transport, this railway line happens to be used by the northern cluster, the southern cluster and our eastern cluster at the same time, and now more than 40 divisions and brigades in the three clusters rely on this line to transport things, so it's strange if it's not blocked." Just get past Turpan......"

The assembly place of the northern cluster is in Ili, the assembly place of the eastern cluster is in Kashgar, the assembly place of the southern cluster is in Mashhad, Persia, and the southern cluster is better, and the Persian side can still provide a large part of the supplies. And the eastern and northern clusters can only transport troops and materials through the Guò Lanxin line, and the Lanxin line will not branch until it reaches Turpan, and now a regiment is stuck in Shanshan, so it can only stare dryly.

At this time, the sound of engines came from the sky, Wu Peifu turned his head to look out the window, and saw a team of giant transport airships slowly skimming the sky, and now they had all lowered their auxiliary propellers, and it seemed that they were about to land.

"These airships are for the 113th Division...... said," said a staff officer.

"Alas, at this time, I think that the infantry is good, their soldiers can be used with airships, and our soldiers can only rely on trains......" Wu Peifu sighed with a smile.

After the surrender of Beiyang, a large number of bureaucrats inside originally wanted to continue to follow the Socialist Party, but the Socialist Party was not satisfied with these old bureaucrats, neither their style nor ability could satisfy Wen Desi, and there were still many people in it whose buttocks were not clean. Unlike the original time and space of the Great Picture Dynasty, the Socialist Party itself has no shortage of cadres at all, and it doesn't even need to let these guys transition. As a result, many of these people were dismissed from their posts and went into the wilderness, and those with shit in their butts were liquidated one by one, those who should be killed were killed, those who should be reformed through labor were reformed through labor, and those who should spit out stolen money spit out stolen money, and none of them ran away anyway. This is still the result of leniency for those who have not committed serious crimes, and for those who have not committed serious crimes, as long as they spit out the stolen money, forget it.

In the end, less than one-fifth of these old Beiyang bureaucrats were retained by the new government, and Wu Peifu was one of the lucky ones. Lao Wu has always been honest and self-controlled, loyal and upright, except for the different camps back then, there is really nothing to say. Moreover, Wen Desi also had a good impression of this person, so he retained his military position and asked him to go to the military academy for further study with other former Beiyang officers who were retained to relearn the professional knowledge of modern warfare.

Lao Wu had not received a formal military education before, and all his knowledge was obtained from practice. Therefore, in the history of the original time and space, he could barely cope with the low-intensity warlord melee, but once he encountered the red and blue parties with formal military education, he rushed to the street.

And Wen Desi is different from Datou and other contemporary leaders, he absolutely cannot tolerate such a thing as "his officers have no formal military education", so those old Beiyang generals were all sent to military academies, even those who studied in foreign military academies.

Wu Peifu is a proud person, and he was a little unconvinced at first, thinking that his experience was enough and there was no need to re-learn at all. As a result, it wasn't until he entered the school and finished his first class that he realized that he was the frog at the bottom of the well. There was no actual content in this first lesson, that is, they watched a movie, which was edited from the live videos of various exercises and actual battles on the side of the PLA and foreign armies, and of course some scenes were excerpted from "later generations" films and documentaries. The integrated three-dimensional attack of land, sea and air, infantry and artillery coordination, air-ground coordination, armored cluster charge and other new tactics and new weapons in the film completely convinced Wu Peifu and his old officers.

At the end of his two-year study, he felt that he could not understand modern warfare well, so he volunteered to go to the grassroots level for temporary training to familiarize himself with the most basic things of the PLA. At first, he was a company commander as a colonel, and then he was promoted again one level a year, and during the Sino-Japanese War, he participated in the battle as a battalion commander, achieved good combat achievements, and was promoted to regiment commander after the war. After the start of the European War, he was selected to join the observation group to observe modern warfare in Europe. After returning from a rotation in Europe in June 1916, he entered the military academy for advanced command courses, and after graduating last year, he was appointed deputy commander of the 122nd Division. After the division commander was promoted in January this year, he took over the post of division commander and was promoted to brigadier general.

Wu Peifu was very excited about this, although the 122nd Division was only a Type B division, it was an armored division! The division had two tank regiments, one mechanized infantry regiment, one self-propelled artillery regiment, one air defense battalion, one engineer battalion, one armored reconnaissance battalion, and various units directly under its jurisdiction. There are a total of 156 armored fighting vehicles (tanks), half each of Wolverine and Red Wolf, 60 infantry fighting vehicles, 108 armored transporters, 122 various self-propelled guns, as well as more than 80 other various armored vehicles, as well as more than 800 various vehicles...... A veritable torrent of steel.

Lao Wu is very confident that as long as he commands this steel division, he can definitely fly ten times the enemy's infantry troops, or three times the number of armored troops.

........................................................................

"Really, if the war starts at this time, it will be troublesome, a group is the main force of our division......" Lao Wu said dissatisfiedly, picked up a can of very Coke, opened it with a bang, and drank it hard. He has been fond of the carbonated drink ever since he drank something like Coke in a prisoner of war camp in the People's Liberation Army.

"Rest assured, the General Staff will not make such a mistake and let the ......troops that have not been assembled attack," the political commissar said with a smile.

One regiment is equipped with 78 of the latest "Red Wolf" tanks, which is the biggest source of Lao Wu's self-confidence, he believes that there will be no stronger armored combat vehicles in this world than the Red Wolf. If one regiment is missing, the combat effectiveness of the 122nd Division is estimated to drop by about half.

Wu Peifu looked at the airship that was landing at the airport, and said with a sigh: "I remember that our airship can transport red wolves, the largest whale-class airship has a payload of 240 tons, and can transport 7 red wolves......

The chief of staff said: "Hehe, this is unlikely, unless it is an emergency, the upper authorities will not use airships to transport combat vehicles, it is too wasteful." There are only 20 Xiangjing-class airships in the country, and all of them carry out strategic transportation tasks. We don't need to be in such a hurry. ”

Lao Wu Yemu has a way, those large and giant transport airships are under the jurisdiction of the Joint Logistics Command, and his face is not so big, and the Joint Logistics Command will not make an exception for him.

At this time, an orderly ran in and said, "Chiefs, it's time to eat." Are you going to eat in the cafeteria, or are you going to be delivered here?"

"Okay, let's go eat first. Wu Peifu greeted everyone, and everyone put down their work and went to eat.

After everyone sat down in the officers' cafeteria, the non-commissioned officers of the canteen came up to greet them: "Ladies and gentlemen, today's dish is Dongpo elbow, large plate chicken, shallots mixed with tofu, stir-fried green beans, and hot and sour crucian carp soup, the staple food is steamed buns, baked cakes, knife-cut noodles, rice noodles and rice, and the after-dinner snack is creamy pine nut cake and banana ......"

"Bring me a bowl of knife noodles, and two baked cakes...... Wu Peifu is from Shandong, and he still prefers noodles. After he ordered, the other officers each ordered their own staple food. After a while, the food was delivered, and everyone didn't say much, but buried their heads in eating.

In the food standard of the Chinese army, except for the older and unhealthy officers, they eat similar food to the soldiers, for example, the menu of this lunch is exactly the same as that of Lao Wu. Of course, it is impossible to achieve absolute "equality of officers and soldiers", there is no difference in the ingredients, the difference is only in the fineness and coarseness of the cooking, the soldiers are big pot dishes, and the officers above the middle level are small stoves. If the officers have special requirements, they can also pay for the tooth sacrifice at their own expense.

Wu Peifu had just finished nibbling on a baked cake when a communications non-commissioned officer on duty ran over. "Report to the division commander, the cluster command informs that all brigade and above positions immediately go to the headquarters for a meeting......"

"Okay, it looks like it's time!" Wu Peifu stood up as soon as he threw the bowl away.