In this era, Novonikolaevsk was just a small city located at the intersection of the Trans-Siberian Railway and the upper reaches of the Ob River. The dilapidated stations were filled with groups of Chinese workers carrying large and small bags.
The small town is not very big, with only three streets. The three-story city hall building made of stone on the east side of the small square in the city center just experienced a battle not long ago. Dozens of Soviet guerrillas tried to occupy the small town, but were defeated.
The Czech army and the Chinese who occupied the station worked together to eliminate it. The Chinese Communist Regiment implemented military control of the small town, and the surrounding Chinese workers began to gather here.
There were more than a dozen corpses of guerrillas in the square, and black smoke was rising in several places on the streets. A group of Chinese people wearing Russian military uniforms were helping residents put out the fire. The fire was not serious. They carried iron buckets from the small building.
He brought out well water in the back yard and walked slowly towards the fire site.
"Who is in charge of you?" A small group of cavalry rushed into the square. The leading lieutenant colonel reined in the horse and shouted loudly to the soldiers.
Tian Jiacheng got out of the hall door, walked down the steps slowly, walked to the white horse, raised his hand and saluted: "Tian Jiacheng, deputy battalion commander of the third battalion of the second regiment of the Hulunbuir Cavalry Brigade, sir, what are your orders?"
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"The headquarters will be moved here tomorrow, are you going to let the division commander work here?" the lieutenant colonel said with a sullen face, pointing at the window upstairs with the almost broken glass with a riding whip.
"Grandma, do you think you are a prince just because you are riding a white horse? I think I was a higher official than you back then, if not..." Tian Jiacheng cursed, but did not dare to show it, "Report to the commander, the battalion commander is leading
People are looking for glass in the city..." He tried to straighten his body and replied.
"We must first dismantle the headquarters from other places. Do you understand what I said?"
"Understood, sir!"
The wooden pier on the Ob River was surrounded by barbed wire. Dozens of wooden barges and tugboats that transported supplies in the summer were frozen on the river. Dozens of newly built rows of wooden houses densely occupied both sides of the river bank.
built a huge military camp.
"Left left, left left, left left!"
The wasteland on the riverbank was turned into a playground, and more than 2,000 migrant workers assigned to the newly established 3rd Regiment of the 37th Brigade practiced formation in the snow under the leadership of more than 100 veterans.
"This is the soldier you brought back?" Yuan Ying frowned and looked at the large, chaotic crowd in the playground.
"It's all like this. Do you think these peasants who have never worn military coats can line up like officers and cadets?" Tian Jiacheng said with a leisurely and nonchalant look, "If it weren't for these peasants, people like us would still have the opportunity to lead troops.
?Our mission is to train these people into qualified soldiers."
Hundreds of thousands of Chinese workers who were forced to stay in Siberia were forcibly recruited by the "war army" for military training. A division of the Chinese intervention army's advance team was transported from the Manchuria Railway and took control of the Siberian Railway from Omsk to Chita.
These Chinese workers were given two choices: either join the volunteer army and rush to the battlefield, and their wives and children at home could receive a limited amount of free food supplies. Or they could stay here and wait to starve to death, since there was no train to send them back to the country.
No one expected to escape back to the country. Along the railway from Chita to Omsk, there was a corpse hanging on almost every telephone pole, whether it was a yellow man or a Jew. The White Guards and the Red Guards were blaming each other that this was the fault of their opponents.
crimes committed.
In order to survive for themselves or their families, the Chinese workers were forced to put on Russian military uniforms, pick up weapons, and then enter the Chinese labor recruit camps located from Chelyabinsk to Irkutsk to receive military training.
Now only the Russian civil war remains.
In fact, the Russians had hoped to achieve "peace". British Foreign Secretary Curzon proposed a plan to dismember the Russians: various forces in Russia would implement a ceasefire within the current scope of control, and establish an independent country in Poland, Ukraine, and Finland.
, the three Baltic countries and Belarus
Rus will break away from the Russian Soviet power, a federation will be established in the South Caucasus, and the autonomous governments of Siberia and the Far East will also be recognized. In Central Asia, the Bukhara Khanate and the Bukhara Khanate, which were annexed by Imperial Russia, will regain their sovereignty and will be established
A federation dominated by Kyrgyz people.
According to this plan, Imperial Russia would be dismembered, and the territory controlled by Soviet Russia would be less than one-third of what it was during the imperial period. The Bolsheviks, who were struggling to retain power, accepted this plan.
But Kolchak refused to accept the British "peace plan" and was ambitious to unify Russia.
At this time, Lin Shuo wished he could kill this kid with his own hands.
The Czech army commanded by General Gaida crushed the winter offensive launched by the Red Army's Eastern Front and drove the Soviet Red Army back to the west bank of the Kama River. However, on the eastern and southern front, the First Army led by Gay and the Second Army led by Frunze
However, the Fourth Army achieved significant results and successively captured important cities such as Ufa, Orenburg and Orsk, and joined forces with Zinoviev's Turkestan Front.
When the harsh winter comes, humans temporarily give up their struggle in front of nature, and the earth returns to peace.
On December 9, 1918, Zhang Tingfu finally moved his headquarters to Novonikolaevsk after several days of difficult journey. He originally expected to get here in one day, but the chaotic situation of the Siberian Railway
, causing his special train to stop and go. In Volya, a small section of the railway track was damaged by guerrillas, and as a result, he stayed at that small station for a whole day.
It took them five days to travel the more than 600 kilometers of railway from Irkusk to Novonikolaevsk. On a snowy morning, the train finally pulled into Novonikolaevsk station.
The appointment of the Military Commission had been issued before he came. Based on the 3rd, 7th, 13th and 15th Divisions of the Republican Army in Russia and the 9th Division in Manchuria, each division was expanded into a group army. The original designation was changed.
After the change, officers in all branches of the army were generally promoted to one level.
Zhang Tingfu's 13th Division was upgraded to the 13th Group Army. After the troops were dispersed, they were mixed into four divisions with the Chinese workers who had just been recruited to join the army. After the expansion, the soldiers mainly came from Chinese workers stranded in Russia, and some retired Russian military officers.
The situation with soldiers and several other armies is similar, and they are all forcing these poor workers to undergo military training.
"It seems that the higher-ups are really preparing to help the Russians fight the war, but what's the benefit to us?" Yang Zaixiong said from the window looking at the workers undergoing training in the small square downstairs. He has now become the temporary commander of the 14th Division.
"The president must have his reasons for doing things. Just like letting us go to western Hubei in the first place, this can preserve this unit. Otherwise, maybe we would have been disbanded like other units." Zhang Tingfu lowered his head and was looking at his hands.
According to a previous report, the supply of troops is the most troublesome problem for him now. Soldiers are easy to find. In the past two months,
Here, the 13th Army has forced nearly 100,000 workers, but only has more than 30,000 rifles, and the guns are of various types, such as the Mosin Nagant used by the Russians, the "Springfield" rifle used by the United States, and the three-gun used by the Japanese.
Type 8, some Hanyang-made Type 88 rifles, and the Type 1915 Chinese rifle standard equipped by the Republican Army.
The 1915-type Chinese rifle is actually an imitation of the Mauser M1904 export rifle. The rifle has a caliber of 6.8 mm. Compared with the 7.92 mm Mauser rifle, it is lighter and has less recoil. This rifle has a front
It was selected as the army's standard rifle during the Qing Dynasty. After the founding of the Republic of China, Jiang Tingzi, director of the Ordnance Department of the Beiyang Army Ministry, believed that the Mauser 6.8mm M1904 rifle was very suitable for the Chinese people's physique, and selected this rifle as the Beiyang Army's rifle in early 1915.
The standard rifle was implemented since there was no impact from Yuan Shikai's proclaimed emperor and the War to Protect the Country.
Among domestic arsenals, Jiangnan Manufacturing Bureau, Guangdong Arsenal and Sichuan Arsenal had begun to imitate and produce 6.8mm Mauser rifles in the late Qing Dynasty. The Fujian Machinery Bureau, which was renovated and expanded after Lin Shuo took over, also produced this rifle according to the Qing Dynasty Army Ministry's standards.
rifle.
The bolt mechanism of the 1915-type rifle is basically the same as that of the Mauser rifle, except that the warhead is closed and the caliber is reduced to 6.8 mm. This reduces the amount of powder fired in the cartridge case by one-fifth, but does not affect the muzzle velocity and range of the bullet.
What an impact.
The Americans donated hundreds of thousands of rifles that they had used in the European battlefield to the Russian battlefield. The Japanese also provided 150,000 rifles to the Chinese intervention forces because of the huge benefits they gained in the outer Northeast. The White Guards under Kolchak
There is no shortage of weapons. The problem is that the transportation of these supplies is now a big problem.
Food and winter clothing were the first priority, and the transportation of weapons was arranged behind these supplies. Most of the workers had to use wooden fake guns for training.
Fortunately, Russia's harsh winter bought enough time for the Chinese team to supplement their training.