It is planned that in February next year, that is, at the beginning of February 1919 in the Gregorian calendar, the European Expeditionary Force will return to the northeast, and the second division that has returned at the same time will go directly to Vladivostok to take over and accept the leadership of Xu Shuzheng's First Route Army -- Wang Maoru sneered, Xu Shuzheng, don't be delusional, I am determined to participate in the second division of the army. At present, the five northeastern provinces are also forming armed police brigades to protect local security, and the military police who replace the army with armed police are unknown, and military personnel will no longer interfere in government affairs.

At that time, the Northeast Frontier Army would have 15 divisions, including the Second Division of the army participating in the war, and 10 armed police brigades; in addition to the armed police brigade that could not move and had to be appeased, the Fifth Division guarding Liaodong could not be mobilized in order to guard against the Japanese, and in addition, some troops could not be mobilized, such as the Eighth Division guarding Shenyang, the Second Division guarding Shanhaiguan, the Fourth Division guarding Liaodong, the newly formed 14th Division guarding Harbin, the 13th Division guarding Changchun, and the 12th Division guarding Mongolia. It is still unknown whether the 10th Division of the Yi Army, which is composed of the Yi Army, will be able to complete its reorganization and be put into the battlefield next year.

At this time, fifteen divisions could only mobilize a maximum of nine divisions, and the first route group army in Jiang Fangzhen's plan was led by Wang Maoru with seven divisions, with Li Pinxian's first division, Ren Yuanxing's third division, Fei Chaogui's sixth division, Jiang Dengxuan's seventh division, Yijun's tenth division, and Guo Buluo. Long Qing's 11th Cavalry Division, the 15th Division, the 2nd Division of the former Participating Army (which had been annexed), was the first to prepare to enter Manchuria and prepare to set off, and then set off into Russia when the weather was slightly warmer.

The commander of the Second Route Group Army was Li Delin, who would lead Gong Xiaoqi's Fourth Division and Zhang Kuiwu's Ninth Division to enter Aihui County to prepare. When the weather is a little warmer, it enters the Russian Far East. That is, the Outer Northeast of China.

The operational plan of the General Staff Headquarters represented by Jiang Fangzhen was to assemble in Manchuria in March next year, and Wang Maoru personally led the First Army to set off from Manchuria to the north and arrive at Omsk by the Eastern Railway.

Speaking of which, the commander of the Tsarist Third Army is still Tulecher, a subordinate of Wang Maoru's old friend Berevelde, who was originally the commander of the 28th Brigade of the 10th Division of the Tsarist Russian Mercenary Army of the Northeast Frontier Army. The Third Army of Tsarist Russia had 70,000 troops, including 40,000 regular troops, and some were composed of volunteers from all over the country and peasants who opposed the Bolshevik system of collecting surplus grain. A total of ten divisions.

After Wang Maoru's 170,000 men of the First Army of the Chinese Intervention Army and the Third Army of Tsarist Russia made peace in Omsk, they rushed to the front line to support Kolchak of the First Army of Tsarist Russia and confronted the Eastern Front of Soviet Russia head-on.

At this time, the confrontation with Kolchak in Kazan was the commander of the Eastern Front of Soviet Russia, Mt. Vatsettis. It has jurisdiction over eight group armies of Soviet Russia, namely...... As well as the Turkestan Army Group. More than a million troops from both the White Army and the Red Army fought in Kazan, Ulyanovsk, Izhevsk, Kirov, Samara, Saratov and other places. Before the war, the Russian army had 400,000 men, and the Soviet Russian army had 700,000 men, and the two sides fought the heaviest battles on the great Russian Tatar plain.

Due to the full support of Tsar Nicholas II in the rear of Kolchak, the Chief of the General Staff of the Tsarist Army, Beravierje, implemented a compulsory military system in the occupied territories of Tsarist Russia, and followed the example of the Bolshevik government of Soviet Russia to implement a surplus grain collection system to ensure the supply of front-line troops. Thanks to the strong support of the Chief of the General Staff Beravier in the rear, Kolchak was not defeated as in history, but instead engaged in a protracted and brutal war with the Soviet Russian Eastern Front.

The Russian Red and White sides fought a dead-month battle in Kazan, which began in July 1918 and lasted until the onset of winter, when the two sides had no choice but to withdraw to their own front and continue the confrontation, with 400,000 soldiers killed on both sides. Kolchak's army grew from 400,000 at the beginning to 600,000 in the later period. Vatsetis's Eastern Front was greatly increased to 1,100,000 troops after the promulgation of the universal military service system by Trotsky, chairman of the Supreme Military Council of the Soviet Union.

Although the Soviet Russian army has more, the Soviet Russian army lacks officers, guns and ammunition, and often the average soldier of a unit has no guns, so they can only wait for their comrades to die and pick up the guns of their comrades, and even some units only account for a quarter of the number of soldiers in the army, which is also the reason why the number of Soviet Russian troops is twice that of the Tsarist Russian army, but it cannot break the defense line of the Soviet Russian army.

The Russian army often rushed to the opposing positions with rifles and bayonets in hand, singing "The Internationale", a skirmish charge that was considered a suicidal charge in the later wars of World War I, but this tactic was the most common and effective tactic during this period. They ignored the bullets and died bravely on the way of the charge, and those behind picked up the guns of their fallen comrades in front of them and continued to move forward. At the back were the political instructors and party representatives of each unit, who generally advanced with pistols and shot those who retreated from behind, of course. Resolutely party members also died the most on the road of the charge.

The Russian army originally planned to break through the defense line of the Tsarist army before the arrival of winter, but it broke its foot like a steel plate and lost its soldiers. I had to give up for the time being.

With the advent of winter, both sides stopped large-scale military operations.

However, both Soviet and Tsarist Russia were accumulating strength and were ready to fight their opponents with all their might. On the part of the Russians, the Germans who threatened them on the Western Front were defeated this winter, and the Supreme Council of the Soviets immediately declared all agreements with Germany null and void, and the troops of the Western Front were transferred to the Eastern Front one after another. However, without waiting for Soviet Russia to catch its breath, 130,000 Anglo-French troops landed in Novorossiysk, Odessa, and Sevastopol on the Caspian Sea, and quickly occupied Batumi, Defris, Baku, etc.

However, the offensive of the intervention army was met with strong resistance from the Soviet Russian partisans, especially in the western and southern regions, and the Soviet Russians quickly formed the Northern Front (the 6th and 7th armies) and the Southern Front...... Army Group) (8th and 9th armies rushed to the Southern Front to join the Southern Front and came under the command of Stalin). The Eastern Front of Soviet Russia faced the Kolchak Corps of the First Army, the main army of Tsarist Russia, the Northern Front of Soviet Russia faced the Second Army of Tsarist Russia composed of Semenov and Karachev and the Czech Corps, and the Southern Front of Soviet Russia faced the Anglo-French forces and Denikin's Czarist Caucasian Corps, and the war was precarious.

At the time of the Harbin Conference, the Soviet and Russian Southern Front fought a large-scale battle in the North Caucasus with the Russian Caucasus Corps and the Anglo-French forces, and they drove the Caucasian Corps out of the North Caucasus. The Soviet Military Council studied that the most important thing in repelling the enemy was to defeat the enemy's main force, the First Army, that is, Kolchak's army, so they mobilized soldiers and prepared heavy forces against Kolchak. In response to the strategic intentions of Soviet Russia, the chief of the General Staff of Tsarist Russia, Beravierje, ordered the Third Army to assemble quickly, and stuffed all the recruits recruited from the rear into the Third Army, so that the number of the Third Army increased to 120,000 to support the First Army. The 170,000 troops of the Central ** Regiment will also support the operation in the form of reinforcements, and coordinate with the First and Third Armies against the Eastern Front of Soviet Russia.

The offensive and defensive center of both sides is the main battlefield in Kazan.

To the advantage of Tsarist Russia, at this time Kazan was in the hands of Tsarist Russia, and the railway in the rear had been constantly transporting supplies and reinforcements.

After Wang Maoru issued an order to his troops to prepare for battle, all units actively reorganized for battle.

The form of China's participation in the Russian civil war had already been decided, and many traitors in Soviet Russia jumped out at this time and published articles in newspapers opposing China's interference in the internal affairs of other countries, criticizing the local governments in Northeast China, especially Wang Maoru. Of course, this is very different from the overwhelming propaganda of Wang Maoru some time ago, and the national hero has almost become an executioner all of a sudden, which shows that the newspapers of the Republic of China are flooded with news, and there is no concept of news management.

However, this unfavorable news is not available in Wang Maoru's territory, where news control is imposed, and even Japanese newspapers dare not publish opinion articles at will. Even the Japanese had to seek permission from the Information Administration of China before publishing controversial content, and the director of the Information Administration, Li Ziwen, knew how to write and had 300 censors under his command who kept an eye on the newspaper every day. In the five northeastern provinces and regions, people can only see several kinds of newspapers, two kinds of news newspapers, three kinds of entertainment newspapers, and two kinds of art newspapers.

Wang Maoru: No matter what freedom of speech is not free, I am just not free, what's wrong? In my turf, just listen to me, intellectual critics, if you are not satisfied, you can go, but if you break the law, you will be punished as espionage. Duan Qirui and other old Beiyang warlords did have great respect for those intellectuals, and even those who scolded them did not dare to move, so they had to be scolded honestly. But Wang Maoru is different, he knows how much freedom of speech affects a government. It is also the voice of Wang Maoru that cannot be heard in the five northeastern provinces at all, and the newspapers are full of news of the Jilin Provincial Governor's election and world news.

Of course, many Bolshevik loyalists appointed by the Soviets came to the Northeast to privately print newspapers and wanted to circulate them, but the implementation of the household registration system, the identity card system, and the most important system of the urban neighborhood committee management system, forced many Soviet and Russian spies to show their figures. If they are from the five northeastern provinces, their families will also be implicated and sent to hard labor, and if they are from other places, their families will be hunted down and arrested.

For Soviet and Russian spies, other warlords are still very willing to cooperate with the punishment, and they must announce to the people that this person is a traitor, and the whole family is a traitor, and let the people see that our warlords are not all only fighting civil wars. rs