The Bolsheviks were even more irritated by the creation of ethnic contradictions between Russians and Tatars, and the forced conversion of Russians to Islam. In the frenzy of agitated nationalism, they shifted from resisting the Chinese invaders to taking revenge on the Islamic believers, and stounly clamoured a national war into ethnic contradictions and religious conflicts.

Wang Maoru's move made the whole of South Russia no longer tranquil, and the conflict between the Russians and the Tatar race never stopped. It also brought a heavy burden to Russia in the future, but indirectly prompted Russia to have many excellent generals in order to pacify the frontier, which brought a lot of trouble to China.

After the 2nd Combat Group, to which Li Pinxian belonged, fought several victories in the Tsaritsyn direction and repelled the active attack of the Soviet Red Army, he secretly mobilized the 7th and 15th Divisions to immediately go north and return to support Berkrovsk. The Chinese did not take the initiative to attack, and the Soviet troops stationed in Tsaritsyn did not dare to make a light move.

The Russian 4th Army arrived in Saratov and took over the city, at this time, Berkrovsk was under heavy artillery fire, and the Russian river flotilla attacked Berkrovsk. Gay's 1st Army was replenished and immediately crossed the river, and under the protection of the river flotilla, it engaged in a fierce landing battle with the Volga Army and the Russian 1st Army, and stormed the city in one go.

However, in the street fighting, the recruits of the Soviet Russian army exposed the shortcomings of their combat skills that were inferior to their opponents, and one veteran was far more effective than ten blindly enthusiastic recruits in the street fighting. The Volga Army consciously put them in and used ruins, sewers, fences and bunkers to stop the Russian army. The 1st Army was plunged into a bitter battle, and the two armies fought repeatedly on the battlefield and fought fiercely.

After several baptisms of war, Berkrovsk has long been in ruins, the buildings are badly damaged, and from a distance, it is now a sister city with Saratov, and even a building with more than four floors does not exist. The city poured out the smoke of gunpowder, filling the entire streets. And in the street fighting, the squadron of the Volga Army showed great melee capabilities. On the contrary, it was on the Soviet and Russian side, because many soldiers were recruits. The losses were quite severe. Most of them were basically composed of students, workers, peasants and other patriots, and they had a strong nationalist and fighting spirit under the propaganda of the propaganda commissars, and they were always high-spirited. Unlike the Japanese, who like to make a sudden attack, the Russians like to take advantage of their numerical superiority to make a key breakthrough in one place. This was the traditional mode of warfare in World War I, and many Russians, who lacked officers, watched the lessons of veterans and then fought in total.

They were confronted by a Chinese intervention force armed with a large number of light weapons and with automatic firepower far exceeding that of any other unit of its time. The Soviets died in the cities in patches. In addition to the smell of gunsmoke, Berkrovsk smelled of burnt corpses. Both Soviet Russia and Volga Army Group consciously burned the bodies of the war dead. To prevent the plague in the summer, the war was about victory, not destruction on both sides, and there was a rare agreement between the two sides on the burning of corpses.

Although the Chinese took advantage of the street fighting, they began to have trouble, and their supplies and replenishment of soldiers had problems.

The light weapons of the squadron are relatively powerful, but the amount of ammunition is also very large, and a strong force requires a strong logistical guarantee. Long before the expedition, in order to deal with this situation of urgent need for ammunition, Wang Maoru asked the soldiers to carry three base ammunition (rifles use 120 rounds as a base number) six magazines, submachine gun grenades with three base bullets, and machine guns with five base bullets (submachine guns and machine guns use 7.7 mm round-headed bullets, and 120 rounds as a base number), in order to reduce the burden on the march. Wang Maoru also specially asked people to get a wheelbarrow and assigned one to each infantry squad. The personnel of the logistics department carried a large amount of ammunition, military rations, and other materials, which were also consumed very quickly.

But now, Wang Maoru deeply feels that the logistics are insufficient, and the war is consumed too quickly. I am still overwhelmed by this kind of large-scale war. Moreover, Tsarist Russia, which had always been responsible for supplying the Chinese, also had logistical problems, and their arsenal production was also insufficient. They were desperate to get to Moscow to solve the Russian government, so they made up their minds to accept Wang Maoru's construction of a great counteroffensive in Kazan.

For Wang Maoru, there were problems with the supply of his own troops and the support of Tsarist Russia, and many Chinese troops had to eat the supplies they carried. What made Wang Maoru even more troublesome was that the rear was forced to stop replenishing the soldiers due to the guerrillas' sabotage of the railway. So far, although the number of soldiers from the rear to the front has been as high as 13,000, this is far from enough to consume the war. The Chinese have eliminated 80,000 Soviet and Russian troops, and so far the casualties have reached 30,000, with nearly 11,000 dead, of which half of the wounded and infected soldiers died.

Ren Yuanxing's third division suffered the heaviest casualties, and he had to send the Imperial Allied Army to the front line to fight, but the fighting spirit and combat effectiveness of the Imperial Allied Army were not flattering, originally Soviet Russia only occupied one-fifth of the city, but after the Imperial Allied Army was replaced, it was immediately occupied by Soviet Russia Half of the city. Ren Yuanxing had no choice but to change the squadron to fight, only allowing the Imperial Allied Army to transport ammunition, carry corpses, burn corpses, and collect surplus grain for the Chinese.

――Dividing Line――

"Sergey. Lindenvich. Sabzhnikov. Wang Maoru said lightly.

Sabzhnikov sat nervously in front of Wang Maoru, feeling particularly apprehensive in his heart, not knowing what the bloodthirsty Chinese general would do to him, and he nodded.

"Have you eaten?"

Sabzhnikov looked up in surprise, saw that the general asked himself kindly, did not know how to answer, and nodded again.

"Do you want cigarettes?" Wang Maoru asked again.

"Thanks, if any."

Sabzhnikov took the cigarette and was about to light it, when he suddenly heard Wang Maoru say: "Sergei, you betrayed your political commissar, it is impossible for you to become a Bolshevik again, but you can be our spy." ”

"Marshal, I, I'm just a student." Sabzhnikov was so nervous that his cigarette fell to the ground and hurriedly said, "I'm not a spy, I won't be a spy." ”

"But we got Commissar Zinoviev because of you, didn't we?" Xiong Bingtao on the side sneered.

Sabzhnikov's face was like ashes.

"Listen to me, lad, don't be nervous." Wang Maoru smiled, of course, from the enemy's point of view, his smile was the smile of the devil. "Sergey, you have to know our plan, you are the most important executor, on the list they think you are dead, but in fact, you are still alive, you are now a hero of Soviet Russia, you are a living war dead. If you qualify in the rear of Russia and return to Soviet Russia after all kinds of difficulties, what a contribution this will be to Soviet Russia! ”

Sabzhnikov said: "But general, will they believe it? If I am discovered, not only me, but my family will be killed. ”

"They will believe you, because you are the only one who knows the whereabouts of your commissar, moreover, you are a determined Bushvik who was knocked out of the pile of dead people by a cannon blast, and when you go to rescue your commissar Zinoviev, you discover a shocking secret." Wang Mao is like a good temptation.

Sabzhnikov listened to him in amazement, he couldn't believe it, this Chinese marshal actually let himself lie, did he want to make himself a spy? He is just a traitor, he just wants to live, he doesn't want to be a spy, he looks at Wang Maoru helplessly, but he finds that Wang Maoru has no pity in his eyes. He knew that if he said no word now, what would await him would be an extra pile of ashes in the incineration pit.

"You found out that the Chinese Workers' League and the Central ** League were the ones who directly betrayed Zinoviev, and the people who indirectly betrayed him were Tukhachevsky and Gay, who had always had a very bad relationship with him." Wang Maoru's eyes showed a sparkle and lust, "Tukhachevsky partnered with Gay and joined forces to leave Zinoviev on the other side, and he did not save him at the first time, and Zinoviev was isolated. The Soviet Russian Chinese ** Regiment, which had long been linked to the Chinese intervention army, took the opportunity to capture Zinoviev alive and handed him over to the Chinese. In addition, many Chinese workers serving Soviet Russia have secretly connected with the Chinese intervention army, and when the squadron attacks, they will fight back, kill high-ranking Russian officials, create chaos, and subvert the Soviet Russian regime. ”

Sabzhnikov's eyes widened and he said in disbelief: "But if my words are accepted by the Soviets, won't all your compatriots be killed?" ”

Wang Maoru said with a smile: "Alas, instead of being killed by me, it is better to be killed by the Bolsheviks, so that they are still national heroes, do you say?" I don't want to kill each other, I'm a very kind person. ”

Sabzhnikov said in his heart that you are still a kind person?

"What do you think? If you don't agree, then I don't know if one day someone will reveal that you betrayed General Zinoviev, and your family will be affected for what you did. Wang Maoru said lightly.

Sabzhnikov immediately said: "Marshal, I promise you not to hurt my family, my mom and dad and my grandparents. I am willing to serve you, but you must keep me safe and not betray me. ”

"You're smart, young man." Wang Maoru patted him on the shoulder, "You are such an important person, how could I hurt you?" So, to prove your loyalty, here's a copy of the anti-Bolshevik proposal, which you can rewrite and sign again. ”

Wang Maoru handed Sabzhnikov a piece of letter full of Russian, Sabzhnikov is a student and not illiterate, so he can naturally understand the content of this letterhead, he looked at Wang Maoru pitifully, and saw that there was no sympathy in the marshal's eyes, but a cold and ruthless look at him, and he knew that he had no way out.

He gritted his teeth and wrote it again, and there was no way back when he chose to survive.

Wang Maoru took the ink again and said: "We Chinese like to use palm prints to guarantee, because everyone's palm prints are unique in the world, and no one can forge them, please." ”