Chapter 788: Kolchak and Denikin
There was competition between the services, but at the same time there was more cooperation, and even the most incompatible Japanese navy and army in history did not cooperate several times in the Pacific War? For example, the sweep of Southeast Asia, and then the battle of Kuah Island, which is desperately selling blood. After entering a new environment, the estrangement caused by the unfamiliarity between each other and the treatment and other issues was gradually diluted over a period of up to a year, although the disputes and even fights between the navy and the army still existed in the Russian army training camp in China, but in the eyes of Kolchak and Denikin, the situation was already very good, and the navy and army often fought within the army, not to mention between the services?
And with more and more exchanges, Kolchak and Denikin found that their troops had their own shortcomings, and the two were fully aware of a problem, that is, the 5,000 elite of the Russian Navy and Army under the two of them would be the most elite group in the Sino-Russian military training program. It can be said that after the Second Sino-Russian War, almost all the elites of the Russian Navy and Army who were not killed are here.
Upon their return to Russia, these men will serve as the seed of junior and mid-level officers, and together with veterans recruited from all over the country, they will form a small but well-equipped force with overstaffed logistical support units, which are more mobile than ordinary Russian troops. Their salaries and expenses will be provided directly by Britain and France, and their weapons will also be a full set of Chinese goods. There were great expectations for the combat effectiveness of this unit, whether it was Kolchak or Denikin, or the high-ranking officials of Britain, France and Russia.
But the personnel who came later were not so good, and the composition of these personnel was more complicated, including those who were unsuccessful in the last screening, those who were newly appointed but performed relatively well, those who came to study in the middle of the ranks, and those who came through the back door to gild. The uneven quality of personnel was very troublesome for Kolchak and Denikin, and even more troublesome. This time, the confrontation between the navy and the army continued, with the navy sending naval personnel and the army sending army personnel, Kolchak continuing to be in charge of the navy, and Denikin continuing to be in charge of the army.
For this group of personnel. Kolchak and Denikin were not optimistic. Too much of a mess can lead to management difficulties, and the quality of these personnel is clearly not comparable to that of the first trainees. Many of their right-hand men had to return to Russia to lead the troops, and the team was difficult to manage. The personnel are complicated, and his assistants have left a group instead. In addition, there are quite a few "background" people among them. These two officers, who are not even generals, feel Alexander. If they belong to the people who are fooling around, then it will be easy to do. But it's a pity that they are people who do practical things. This makes them extremely entangled.
As a result, the two who can almost be described as old and dead have not been in contact with each other finally sat down together. The question at issue was how the two sides would manage these newcomers from Russia in the future. Among this group of people, there are some well-known "gentlemen" in the Russian circles, and there are also some secret agents who are suspected of being some "mountaintops"; Kolchak and Denikin absolutely do not welcome these guys who cannot help but can only do their backs, and they cannot control them. So the two of them remembered their benefactor, the British and French representatives at the training base, and the Russian bureaucracy could ignore their two pawns. But you have to think carefully about what the money owner says behind it. And Britain and France also deliberately want to keep this army at a certain distance from the old Russian army, after all, now Nicholas II is an ally in power, and if the old government is overthrown, it is difficult to say whether it is an ally! Comparatively speaking, an army that ended up as an Entente was more advantageous to Britain and France than an army that ended up with Russia.
In terms of supplies and equipment, Britain and France had almost separated the new army from the old army, even those who had returned to Russia. The troops brought out with them as the backbone will also appear in the battle sequence of the Russian army as an independent identity, they are not subordinate to the local army, but exist as a tsarist guard. Directly subordinate to the tsar. Moreover, Britain and France even chose the future supreme commander for this force.
According to the Anglo-French plan, this force was to be divided into two main parts, one part of which was the Russian Royal Marines under the command of Kolchak. Their task was to organize the German offensive on the Baltic coast, as well as as a strategic reserve. Denikin, on the other hand, is acting as a mobile force on the battlefield. They would be a surprise force that would constantly harass and strike at the Germans. In principle, they would try their best to avoid wars of attrition and positional warfare with the main German forces. This is very passive for the Denikin army, which does not have large-caliber cannons and relatively few troops, although this Russian army is elite, but the number will not be too much, too much, not to mention that Britain and France spend more money, and the Russian army does not agree. Of course, the most important purpose is that once something happens to the Tsarist government in the future, this army can suppress all kinds of forces that Britain and France do not like internally, and continue to carry the banner of confrontation against Germany and Austria externally, the tsar can hang it, but the war cannot be stopped!
The British and French were deeply concerned by Makanov and Denikin's request, and now that they had control of the army in terms of material supplies, the remaining task was to make personnel appointments. The British and French were waiting, waiting for the first batch of trainees to return to make a difference, and they would use all kinds of means to build up the momentum for Kolchak and Denikin, so that they could finally accept these two units smoothly and have a certain status. And now, what Britain and France need to do is to ensure the "purity" of this force, and then after receiving instructions from their own governments, the British and French officers stationed at the training ground privately hinted that Kolchak and Denikin could use all kinds of means to "squeeze" out people they don't like, as long as it is not too much.
Unexpectedly, with the success of this operation, the personal relationship between Kolchak and Denikin began to heat up gradually, in addition to the recognition of each other's personality and ability, the two found that they had similar ideals and similar principles of life. More importantly, there is the same enemy. Denikin's hometown was close to Germany, and what about Kolchak? How to say it, the existing top brass of the entire Russian Navy actually positioned Germany as the biggest enemy of the Russian Navy in the future a long time ago, and if it were not for Nicholas II's insistence, even the Russian Navy, including Makanov, would not want to run halfway around the world to compete with the Chinese Navy.
Subsequently, after successfully resolving the issue, the two began to promote communication and collaboration between the two forces. Navy personnel pay more attention to technology, and have a poor grasp of basic infantry tactics, you let them be absolutely qualified as artillery and technical troops, but if they are infantry, the performance is worse, and the army has enough infantry, but there are relatively few professional arms that are proficient in technology. Therefore, Kolchak and Denikin thought that it was necessary for them to have exchanges and training, after all, it would be good for everyone, and in the future, the two sides would have to fight independently, and it would not be a good thing for the army to have shortcomings.
Thus, thanks to the efforts of the two men, Russia's new armed forces began to expand rapidly, and before the outbreak of World War I, it became a force that could not be ignored by all sides.
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