Volume 334 - Recovering Outer Mongolia (1)

When he was about to rest, Zhang Yiwei, the secretary general of the official document of the headquarters, ran to say that there was an emergency report, and said: "Chen Yi, the general secretary of the Republic of China in Outer Mongolia Kulun, and the prince of Outer Mongolia, Batma Dorji, have just arrived in Manchuria and asked to meet Xiushuai and bring a message about Outer Mongolia. ”

Wang Maoru asked strangely who this Chen Yi was, could it be the generalissimo of later generations? It's impossible, according to his age, the generalissimo is only a schoolboy at this time, and who is Batma Dorzi?

Zhang Yiwei replied: "Chen Yizi Shike, a native of Huangpi, Qizhou. Former tribute student, graduated from Lianghu Academy. He has served as a counselor of the Faculty of Education, a library compiler, and a member of the statistics department of the Constitutional Museum. After the founding of the Republic of China, he served as the secretary of the presidential office of Yuan Da and the general office of the General Affairs Department of the Mongolian and Tibetan Academy. In the second year of the Republic of China, Chen Yi participated in the Kyakhta negotiations with Bi Guifang in the capacity of an adviser to the plenipotentiary of the Beijing government. After the signing, he stayed in Kulun and was appointed as the commissioner of the government of the "China" country in Uriya Sutai, and in January this year, he was promoted to the office of the office in Kulun, and Terdorji was the Minister of Internal Affairs of Outer Mongolia, which is equivalent to the "General" of Outer Mongolia, but he had no military power under him, just an empty "general", and when he was canonized, because he was excluded by other nobles, he was only canonized as a prince, and was not canonized as a prince, so Chen Yi privately reported that Bateldorji very much hoped that the central government could canonize him as a prince. ”

"Yes, let them come." Wang Maoru said with a smile, "I want to meet this Commissioner Chen, as for Battelldorji...... he thought about it, and said with a smile: "Dingmeng, it is estimated that the key is really on this person." ”

Subsequently, the Heiji coalition army dispatched troops, and Wang Mao spoke like an army and an army. Received the soldiers and officers of the army, and told everyone to keep warm, be safe, and wait.

Three days later, the Fourth Division of Gong Xiaoqi was the first to march, and the Fourth Division first went to the southernmost border of Hulunbuir, Xinbarhuzuo Banner, on the Sino-Mongolian border, and from there moved south into Mongolia. The next day, the main force of the 3rd Division was stationed in Manchuria to prepare for garrisoning and preventing the Russian turmoil from spreading to China. From here, it is planned to head west into Mongolia. And Wang Maoru will accompany the Sixth Division to set off directly to the west, and the students and teachers are in high morale and ready to go, after Wang Maoru finished speaking. Fei Chaogui, the commander of the Sixth Division, also publicized to the soldiers: "Today, we will seal the wolf and recover Outer Mongolia." Cast a name for the ages! It made the soldiers extremely excited, and they regarded themselves as big heroes like Huo Quai.

But I didn't want Chen Yi and Batma Dorji to come here, seeing that there was a strong fighting spirit here, the steel guns were clenched, the soldiers of the Heiji Army were high-spirited, and the army that set off could not see the end from the beginning. Especially when he saw the Han military camp that could not be seen, Batma Dorji was so frightened that his feet were weak, and Chen Yi hurriedly said to Wang Maoru: "Your Excellency General Shangwu, why is your army so vigorous? There are only more than 5,000 soldiers in Outer Mongolia, and the Living Buddha of Outer Mongolia has long had the heart to return to the central government. ”

Wang Maoru said: "What about the Russian army in Outer Mongolia? I've heard people say that before. Is there a division where? ”

Chen Yi couldn't cry or laugh after hearing this, and pulled Batma Dorji to confirm: "The Russians originally had a division in Mongolia, but because they participated in the European war, they had already been transferred back to Europe, and now the total number of Russian troops in Mongolia is less than 1,000. It was also divided into four places, and there were only 300 Russian troops in Tangnu Ulianghai. After speaking, he showed a map and said: "This is a map of the Mongolian garrison, which I surveyed and drew together with Batma Dorji, and there are 4,000 Mongolian troops around Kulun, and 200 Japanese teaching regiments. Two hundred Russian guards, except for other places, there are only flag soldiers, and the flag soldiers are low in combat effectiveness and are not vulnerable at all. Batma Dorzi nodded again and again, and said: "The Russians have beaten themselves and returned to Russia, and there is still a team of overseas Chinese guards, less than two hundred people, all of whom are temporarily formed by Russian scoundrels, criminals, thieves and swindlers, not regular troops." ”

Wang Maoru patted his head, it was broken, thousands of calculations, but he didn't count that there were only so many people in Outer Mongolia, and the biggest resistance to the Russians was gone, which made him feel like he was punching cotton huā with his fists, and he was depressed. The next day, he found Chen Yi alone and asked with concern: "If my army enters Mongolia, how many princes will oppose it?" ”

Chen Yi didn't think about it and said: "If it was hard to say a year ago, but now with the support of 95% of the princes, the Russians treat the Mongols like slaves and livestock, and the treatment of princes and nobles is not as good as that of the former Qing Dynasty, they still feel that the government of the Republic of China is good to them." ”

"Your Excellency Batma Dorzi supports us, what are the conditions?" Wang Maoru was very puzzled.

Chen Yi couldn't help but laugh and said, "The only condition is to crown him as a prince and double the size of his grassland." ”

Wang Maoru was surprised, "He is the general manager, why is he so ......?"

"The general doesn't know." Chen Yile said, "There are many princes and princes in Outer Mongolia, although Batma Dorji is the general manager, but Kulun is a living Buddha who has the final say, the place is the lama, and the army is still the prince of Zasak, he wants money or no money, or he has no power, otherwise he will not even be able to get a prince." He only wanted to be a prince with a playground and an army now, and it was far better than being splinted in Kulen. ”

Wang Maoru laughed and said, "It's a wonderful person." Holding the map and looking left and right, he was angry, and he had been preparing for a long time, but he didn't expect Outer Mongolia to be strong at all, and he was very disappointed and said: "Why are you such an enemy, who will we kill." ”

Chen Yi wiped a cold sweat and said: "The Mongolian army was beaten by the general last time and lost its armor, but later it used the strength of the whole country to come to the border to confront, general, if you conquer Mongolia, I'm afraid few will dare to resist." And the affairs of the Russians themselves are already troublesome enough, how can they help the Mongols. Now, not to mention anything else, it is the bullets of the Mongol army, and they also hit one less and did not replenish it. May I ask General Shangwu, how many troops have you really prepared to recover Mongolia, and I have been seeing troops in the past few days? ”

Wang Maoru said: "Five divisions and 110,000 troops. ”

Chen Yi was surprised: "General, in fact, one elite brigade is enough. ”

Wang Maoru was also depressed, and sighed and said: "Insufficient intelligence, insufficient intelligence, alas." "But after preparing for so long, I suddenly disrupted the plan with a message on my back, it seems that the net of the Intelligence Department should not only be sprinkled in the four northeastern provinces and North China provinces, but also spread the net all over the world, but in this way, the sales of the Intelligence Department will be larger. But now that none of the generals under his command are willing to withdraw their troops, it is better to continue to march west into Mongolia by three routes according to the original plan.

The next day, the airship troops arrived in Hailar, and Batma Dorji was so frightened that he ran to Wang Maoru and said that he was willing to lead the way and let the Mongols surrender to the Heavenly Army. On October 7, Wang Maoru and the 6th Division set out westward along the Yuju River from the Right Banner of Xinbalhu, during which Dolzi Palam finally caught up with Wang Maoru on horseback, saying that he was also willing to lead the way. Wang Maoru asked him to go to the Fourth Division to lead the way for Gong Xiaoqi, and Batma Dorji was the leader of the Sixth Division.

The Third Route Army's conquest of Mongolia sounds so majestic and loud, but unfortunately, the real situation of the Third Route Army is that it fights with Mongolian beasts and mosquitoes far more than the Outer Mongolian border army, and the Outer Mongolian border army has long been frightened and fled when it encounters tens of thousands of Han troops. And the general manager of Outer Mongolia, Batma Dorzi, personally went to the various banners to persuade the Sixth Division to go all the way unimpeded.

On the Double Tenth Festival, six prefectures in Heilongjiang began to run for governor, and because the "August 13 Case" some time ago the Chinese People's Party and Zhongbu were involved in the case of party members, so that after the election, the National Renaissance Party was far ahead in the votes. And because of the support of the chaebol, especially two catties of white flour for one vote, for ordinary people, a family can produce four or five votes, and there will be a few months of food, in this hungry era, those who do not vote for the National Renaissance Party are fools except for those who have money at home.

Although the Bolshevik Party and the Nationalist Party were still very popular, after 10 days, 99 percent of the votes cast by each state for the National Baath Party were counted, and all six National Baath Party governors were re-elected. This is a democratically elected governor, unlike Yuan Shikai's civic group and Duan Qirui's Anfu faction councilors, this pure popular election truly reflects the will of the people. Even in the Bolshevik Party, which is closest to the people's livelihood, some party members could not resist the temptation of two pounds of white flour and actually gave their votes to the National Renaissance Party, which also caused great turmoil in the Bolshevik Party.

Subsequently, Xi Ma Liuzhou, the leader of the National Renaissance Party, announced that he would recruit party members in the six prefectures of Jilin and strive to win again in next year's gubernatorial election. However, in the end, it is good that there is still a six prefectures in Jilin, so naturally they have focused their energies on the six prefectures of Jilin, and sent cadres to various parts of Jilin to win party members. In fact, the Heilongjiang election campaign in full swing has also attracted the attention of other places, especially some southern provinces, who are more enthusiastic about the general election than the northern provinces. Because there are many intellectuals who support the Kuomintang at the time of the parliamentary elections, they prefer to hold a general election. In the northern provinces, on the other hand, those in power are military officers, who are quite unattractive in the elections and are reluctant to run for office. But he didn't want a cannon to go off, and Heilongjiang Province, the northernmost province, actually took the lead in firing the first shot of the people's election, which had to surprise some people who shouted for the "people" lord every day.

Later, reporters from all over the country flocked to Qiqihar City again, and some of the larger newspapers simply set up a news office in Qiqihar City, Heilongjiang Province, to collect news anytime and anywhere. The reporter's investigation learned that the election of people in Heilongjiang is in fact also restricted, and the first requirement is that the person must be an adult male, because the Republic of China stipulates that the adult age of a man is 16 years old, so the voter must be a male citizen over 16 years old. The second condition is that there is no criminal record, and that he has committed homicide, theft, robbery, and ...... Traitors are not eligible to run for election or to be elected. The third condition is that the person must have lived in the local area for more than three years before he can participate in the election and obtain votes on behalf of the local area, and he must have witnesses to prove that the person has indeed lived and served the local area for three years. It is precisely because of this that although Heilongjiang Province has a population of more than 5 million, the number of voters is only 1.5 million, and less than 30 percent of the 2 million people actually participated in the election, and many rural people do not know that there is still an election.