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January 15, 1918, Tsaritsyn -/

The coldest month in the northern hemisphere finally arrived, the soldiers were hiding in the trenches to warm each other, the dry and hard compressed biscuits completely replaced the hot food that could still be eaten regularly at the beginning of the war, hot coffee became a dream, beef could not even be seen in a dream, cold hands and guns froze together, torn flesh and blood, and the whole of Europa and Siberia was tormented in the cold. Standing in the coldest theater of operations on the Eastern Front, there was no human figure on the entire front as far as the eye could see, and even if the officers on both sides shouted loudly, the soldiers could not scoop up any energy to launch one attack after another.

But there is a group of people who are still busy going home.

On the high ground on the northwest bank of the Volga River, two Russian-made 37-mm infantry guns were aimed at the railway coming from the direction of Moscow at an angle, and next to the cannons, there was an M1912 heavy machine gun dragging a long belt of ammunition to assist in the defense. Inside the trench, the soldiers of the 6th Infantry Division of the Second Expeditionary Force of China wore white sheets of close to the color of the surface, and rolled up their sleeves to keep each other warm. Behind him, on the Tsarizin-Volga Bridge, every half hour a train full of comrades headed east. Every time they saw their comrades who could withdraw first, the soldiers were full of envy, and they were already disgusted with this place that could freeze people to death.

"Look, there's another one."

"Good guy 2 front pulls, 20 flat wagons! Well, those boys in the mixed division are black enough. ”

"What's this? When I went to the station last day, I heard that the factories near Kyiv were about to be emptied, more than 600 trains were loaded, tens of thousands of technicians were arrested, and even banks, universities and libraries were cleaned. ”

"Wait! The bank is okay, so what are the copies of the university and the library? ”

"Stupid. Do you know what the Commander-in-Chief loves the most? Scholar! There are a sea of students in the university, and now the domestic children don't need money to go to school, how can there be so many books? I don't want to copy a little bit back and prepare it. ”

"Haha three dogs, you kid is just talking nonsense. Can Russian books be the same as our books? It was shipped back to the translation bureau for translation, and it could only be shown to students after the translation was completed in the future. ”

"That's not the same."

The soldiers huddled together and smoked cigarettes and bragging. After retreating all the way from Kyiv, they also had a lot of good things in their pockets, including looted silverware, a lot of rubles that they didn't know how to spend, and many strange things. It's worth the money. It's rare to have a souvenir of Russia's power, so after chatting for a while, everyone began to compare with each other to get something good.

As soon as the warrior with the nickname Sangou mysteriously scooped out a gold pocket watch, he heard a roar from the north wind, and everyone thought it was their own train at first, but soon found that the sound was actually coming from the direction of Moscow.

"Prepare for battle!" The company commander shouted, and the soldiers quickly gathered their things and lay down on the trench. The cold wind brushed the ground and made everyone's cheeks hurt, but who cares about it now. Because an armored train has already appeared in the distance! "Hurry up and prepare the cannon." After the company commander saw through his binoculars that the soldiers in the car were wearing red hoops, his face suddenly changed greatly, and he hurriedly pointed the 37-mm infantry gun at the enemy, and sent people to ask for support.

Seeing that the armored train was approaching, two infantry guns roared at the same time. The 37-mm infantry gun was fast, and before the poor party soldiers on the train could react, several shells had already been fired. Anyway, these guns were all temporarily looted, and they did not plan to bring them back to China in the future, so the gunners fired shells with all their might. But this small cannon was too powerful to deal with the armored train in front of it.

Boom, boom, boom.

The armored train began to fight back. The front of the position was quickly blasted into large craters, and ice, snow and gravel flew past the trenches and clanged against the steel helmets. Highland fire was quickly restrained by armored trains. If it weren't for the bunker fortifications, I'm afraid the infantry guns and machine guns would have been blown up. Seeing that the high ground was filled with smoke and lacked the strength to counterattack, thousands of poor party soldiers ran down from the carriages behind the armored train, and they quickly dispersed to try to seize the high ground to threaten Tsaritsyn and sabotage the shameless sabotage and relocation of the Chinese expeditionary force.

The poor soldiers began to charge the high ground, but the dark military uniforms became the best target for the officers and men of the expeditionary force, but the white sheets found by the Chinese expeditionary force made it very difficult for the enemy to aim, and seeing that the infantry could not break the situation, the armored train took over the battlefield again and tried to bomb the high ground with artillery. The ferocious artillery fire made everyone a little unbearable, and at this time, a more violent roar finally came from the direction of Tsaritsyn.

The armored train of the expeditionary force has arrived!

4 105 rapid-fire guns converted from naval guns and 12 75 rapid-fire guns of the 6th division artillery regiment. The poor party armored train was blown to pieces faster. After losing the most important firepower, the poor soldiers began to retreat, and just as the company commander wondered if it was time to launch a counter-charge to expand the results of the battle, a black line suddenly appeared on the ground in the distance!

"Cavalry! Look the fuck, at least 2 cavalry regiments! ”

Although the cavalry will be very heavy in casualties when attacking the high ground with heavy machine guns and infantry guns, it will not be able to stand up to many people's families! So everyone became nervous, for fear of a terrible cavalry onslaught. But before they could prepare for the hard battle, everyone's eyes suddenly fell to the ground.

"Grass! What the hell are they doing? ”

When the three dogs scolded, two cavalry regiments rushed into the scattered poor infantry, and the unprotected infantry in the field was like cabbage in front of the cavalry, and in a few moments the cavalry drowned out the infantry who were using the train carriage for cover. These cavalry were extremely ruthless, and even though many of the poor infantrymen had surrendered, they still slashed with their swords. In the shadow of the sword's light and blood, the heads were slashed by the blades, and pools of piercing scarlet soon appeared on both sides of the railway. When Sangouzi and everyone were surprised who these cavalrymen wearing the same military uniform were and why they were helping themselves, Shi Xiaolou saw Denikin who had fled back to the North Caucasus in the dispatch room of the Tsaritsyn Railway Bridge controlled by the expeditionary force.

Denikin is the commander of the former Russian Southwest Front and the Romanian Front, and Shi Xiaolou has seen him since he arrived at the front line, so the two didn't have much to say hello, so they pushed a large suitcase in front of him: "General Denikin, we will be stationed in Tsaritsyn for another 15 days, so I hope you will send someone to take over here as soon as possible, these are one of our supports for you." ”

After signaling Zhang Zhidan to open the suitcase, a box full of rubles and dollars appeared in front of everyone, not to mention the several officers behind Denikin, and even Peng Jianxin and others who were on the side swallowed their saliva. Shi Xiaolou didn't see it, compared to the things that were transported away by taking advantage of the chaos for a while, these were just a drop in the bucket. What's more, the ruble has depreciated sharply, it is better to scoop it out as a favor, and as for the dollar, the main thing is to tell these people that behind China is the entire entente. "In addition to these, we will leave you 100,000 rifles, 200 heavy machine guns and 120 cannons, as well as the corresponding ammunition before leaving, I believe these should ensure that you hold Tsaritsyn until the end of the war." Of course, even after leaving, we hope to continue to use the Caucasus Railway safely and ensure the interests of our country. ”

Denikin habitually touched his goatee, and he naturally knew where the money and the so-called support came from. As the former commander of the Southwestern Front and the Romanian Front, he knows too well how much weapons, ammunition and factory supplies Kyiv has stockpiled. But he doesn't care about that, he cares about the city of Tsaritsyn! Both the poor party and he wanted to get this important city that held the mouth of the Volga River and connected the Caucasus with the Black Sea. In the parallel world, he led his troops in the first battle under the instigation of Britain and France, but when both sides were ready to attack, the city fell into the hands of the Chinese expeditionary force.

Although Kiev was about to be demolished, and all the Russian cities and cities were plundered along the way, in order to ensure that Denikin's ministry had a better base, Tsaritsyn was basically untouched, so Denikin agreed to immediately send troops to take over the city without any hesitation, and promised that as long as he was here, China could continue to use the Caucasus Railway, and three days later led more than 10,000 remnants of the old army gathered into the city.

Shi Xiaolou breathed a sigh of relief by handing over the security of Tsaritsyn to the Ministry of Denikin, and also announced the end of the military operations of the Wehrmacht in Europe west of the Russian Urals, with the withdrawal of the expeditionary force to Yekaterinburg, the machinery and equipment and a large number of gold, silver, books and other materials recovered from Ukraine and other places have also returned to China along the Siberian Railway. A total of 3,510 trains transported supplies of all kinds through the Caucasus railway from Tsaritsyn to the Urals, plus the return to the country, and together with the supplies obtained from the east of the Urals, a total of 13,000 trips.

After receiving the news of Tsarizin's handover, Cai Yi officially bid farewell to Yang Qiu and went north to Ural to inspect the troops.

According to the secret agreement reached at the conference, after Britain and France divided Baku and other places, they finally agreed to transfer the Belga Lake region from East Kazakhstan and Irkutsk to the Amur and the river basin under the actual control of China to the provisional jurisdiction of the Chinese government, but under the pressure of Britain and France, Vladivostok was finally under the joint jurisdiction of Britain, the United States, France, and China, and Sakhalin Island was not included in the scope of discussion.

Although Britain was always reluctant to remove the word "temporary" in the agreement on the talks, this was a big step forward for the government of the Republic of China, which participated in a similar conference on the partition of the colonies for the first time, but Tang Shaoyi raised a strong protest on the Sakhalin issue. The news that the originally desired jurisdiction over the Sea of Okhotsk and Kamchatka was eventually shelved along with Sakhalin in the face of strong protests from the United States, was a heavy blow to the newly inaugurated Yoshiichi Tanaka government.

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