The Chinese Volunteer Army and the Czech Army under the command of Geda stopped retreating after arriving in Uralsk. After a month of fierce fighting, Shaolin's Northern Group of the Red Army's Eastern Front failed to take another step forward. This important mountain on the east side of the Ural Mountains
The city has been reduced to ruins.
Whoosh - boom!
An artillery shell passed through the air with a piercing scream, and then exploded less than thirty meters away from the trench. A two-arm-thick linden tree was blown away, leaving only half of its bare trunk, with smoke on it.
Black smoke. Then the air was filled with the screams caused by the violent friction between the artillery shells and the air, and then there was a deafening loud noise. The artillery shells fired from the Red Russian position continued to make boom, boom, boom after they landed.
of explosions.
The 25th Brigade of the 9th Division of the Chinese Volunteer Corps and a cadet regiment of the White Guards defend the town of Aktobe. The town is located between Perm and Nizhny Tagul and is an important pass in the Ural Mountains. Aktobe is a Tatar
It is said that this name was left over from the Mongolian cavalry.
Wei Tao, commander of the 1st Battalion of the 3rd Regiment of the 25th Brigade, pressed his body tightly against the anti-artillery bunker dug in the trench, feeling the huge shock caused by the explosion of the artillery shells. Rows of artillery shells were exploding, the earth was shaking, and the sky was shaking.
Mud was splashing, and the trenches were filled with the choking smell of gunpowder smoke.
Not far from him, a platoon leader named Hao Wannian held the rifle in his hand nonchalantly, closing his eyes and seeming to be taking a nap. If it weren't for the half-hand-rolled "Mohe cigarette" burning in his hand, others would think he was
He actually fell asleep during such a violent explosion.
It turns out that those "coolies" who would tremble when they saw a shell exploding 100 meters away have become numb to the explosion of a shell after experiencing several battles.
New recruits are afraid of artillery shells, and veterans are afraid of machine guns. The artillery shells flying everywhere look spectacular, but they have limited damage to the infantry hiding in the trenches. As long as the artillery shells don't fall just on their heads, they have little effect, and the Russians are not that bad.
Multiple artillery shells plowed up the entire position.
It is difficult for the shrapnel flying in the air to hit the people hiding in the bunker, but the mud brought up by the explosion is sometimes dangerous. The mud falling from the sky will fill half of the trench and bury all the people squatting in the trench.
, at this time, you need the help of your comrades around you. If everyone moves a little slower, it is estimated that what will be dug out is a body that has been suffocated and turned white.
Beep! The artillery fire gradually became sparse and extended to the rear position. The frontline observation sentry blew his whistle. Hao Wannian opened his eyes and jumped up. He threw the cigarette butt in his hand to the ground: "Quick, everyone enter the shooting position. The enemy is coming up."
Got it!"
Da da da da!
The Russian machine guns began to suppress fire, and from time to time they penetrated into the soil beside them and made frightening whizzing sounds. The shells continued to explode, passing over the position with a screaming sound. With the sound of explosions, in the southeast
Groups of orange-red firelight rose in the direction. Occasionally, some warheads that deviated from the target fell into the swamp in the northeast, and water columns mixed with black mud would rise into the sky. The gunpowder smoke covering the position was refracted by the early morning sunlight, like a
A strange red mist.
The officers were shouting loudly, using their fists and leather boots to drive some soldiers who were forced back into the bunker by bullets into dangerous fighting positions, "Quick! Shoot forward! If you don't want to be attacked by these red Russians,
We will kill them by hanging them on telephone poles!”
"Aim! Set the sight at 200 yards! You idiot, how can you shoot!" Hao Wannian shouted loudly in Shaanxi dialect, occasionally climbing to the shooting position and firing two shots.
The sound of machine gunfire also rang out from the Chinese position. The infantrymen stood on the firing positions dug in the trenches, kept pulling the bolts of their guns, and fired bullets indiscriminately forward. On the smoke-filled forward position, it was basically impossible to see
Clear the target on the opposite side. The chaotic bullets cut out streaks of light and flew blindly towards the blurred gray shadows in the smoke. The charging Red Russian soldiers paused for a moment, and then more figures swarmed into the trenches.
Those Red Russian troops with red strips of cloth tied around their necks were very brave. They broke into the trenches at the front from the junction between the "Chinese bandits" and the Czech White Army. They had seen how the "Red bandits" dealt with the captured Chinese holding "
The Chinese machete and the engineer shovel were fighting to the death. A Chinese battalion and a White Army company composed of cadets were trapped in a prominent area on the flank. The Russian cadets ran out of bullets and pointed bayonets at the Red Army opposite.
The army launched a counterattack.
Different beliefs divided the Russians, and the two sides fighting were like feuding enemies.
The Chinese followed suit and followed the cadets.
The flank position was lost, and more than 800 people in the defensive position were killed. The Chinese quickly mobilized reinforcements and drove the Red Army back to the starting point. In terms of numbers alone, the 100,000 men under Jiang Shaowu were more powerful than the 100,000 men under Shaolin.
With more than double the number of troops, plus the more than 30,000 Czech troops in Al Qaeda's hands, the more than 50,000 Red Russian troops with high morale actually launched a fierce siege against an enemy that exceeded three times their strength.
The most intense fighting took place in Yekaterinburg. Less than 10 miles away from Yekaterinburg, a small town named Krasnovo became famous all over the world. The two warring parties fought repeatedly here, and control of the town changed hands several times.
Allenkov and Princess Olga rushed to Tobolsk, where they found the bodies of Tsar Nicholas II and his family in several cold basements. Before the Soviet regime evacuated the city, the Red Guards
The army was ordered to shoot down the imprisoned Nicholas II family. The bloody scene made Princess Olga, the surviving member of the Romanov family, faint on the spot. With red eyes, Arenkov vowed to eradicate the red devil and save the life of his dead uncle and his family.
revenge.
On the southern Ural front, the Red Army's progress was smooth.
The 3rd Division of the 1st Group Army of the Red Army raided Aktobesk, intending to cut off the retreat of the Southern Group led by the White Guard General Tolev, but was counterattacked by the Chinese Army Regiment led by Zheng Yijing. After being connected to the Tolev Group
, the Chinese abandoned Aktobeinsk and retreated to Petropavlovsk.
The Red Army's front was stretched, supplies became difficult, and the Chinese almost completely destroyed the railway.
At the end of September, the 5th and 3rd armies of the Red Army under the command of Aldrog crossed the Tobol River. The White Guards fought and retreated until they retreated to the Ishim River. It started to snow and the temperature dropped suddenly. The White Guards launched
Counterattack, intending to eliminate the main force of the Red Army between the Ishim and Tobol rivers.
Princess Olga held a saber in her hand and wore a white fox fur cloak, riding on a war horse to cheer for the white army.
With the princess watching the battle, the White Guards seemed to have regained their courage.
Under the watchful eyes of his wife, Arenkov led his Cossack cavalry division to attack the enemy on the opposite side, the 25th Division of the Red Army led by Soviet hero Chapayev.
The White Army's sudden counterattack caught the Red Army generals by surprise. Although these workers' commanders fought bravely, they lacked the ability to discern the battlefield situation. Under the attack of the dominant White Army, the entire defense line of the 25th Division, which was hurriedly transferred to the defense, was destroyed.
Being broken through, Arenkov's cavalry rushed towards Chapayev's division headquarters.
During the retreat, Chapayev's mount tripped over a crater. The famous Red Army commander fell off his horse. The Cossack cavalry roared past, and the war horse trampled over him. The division commander died on the battlefield.
The Red Army's defense line finally collapsed. Tukhachevsky was keenly aware of the White Army's intentions. The 5th Army quickly retreated across the Tobol River and relied on the river bank to block the White Guards. But Merzheninov was not so
Fortunately, the 3rd Army of the Red Army fell into the siege of the White Guards and was almost wiped out. Only less than one division of troops withdrew across the Tobol River and lost all its heavy equipment.
The Red Army was at its most dangerous critical moment, and the White Army's attack suddenly stopped.
In November 1919, a riot broke out in Omsk, instigated by the left-wing Socialist Workers Party. Overnight, the rioting workers, the Red Guards and the rebel White Army occupied the provisional capital of the Belarusian government, and the supreme provisional ruler Kolchak
Prime Minister Peryaev and key members of the government were arrested, and power was transferred to the Mensheviks.
The entire White Army front line was in a state of chaos.
A regular Chinese infantry division sent to the front line from Irkutsk arrived in Omsk. The army quickly quelled the rebellion of the socialists. Two more Chinese infantry divisions arrived by train. The Chinese took control of Omsk.
The situation in Muskk.
Kolchak and the main members of the provisional government were all executed in the riot. Zhang Yi'an, the commander of the 7th Division of the Republican Army, found Shen Gang, the commander-in-chief of the Siberian Central Army Regiment, Lin Rong, the chief of general staff and the 13th Republican Army who had just arrived.
Zhang Tingfu, the commander-in-chief of the group army, looked anxious: When the Republican Army soldiers were cleaning Kolchak's residence, they found a large amount of gold, jewelry and a large number of valuable cultural relics in the basement.
Three Republican generals rushed to the scene and found hundreds of boxes of gold nuggets and gold coins in a basement with two iron doors. After carefully looking through the files of the Provisional Government, they figured out that these batches of gold nuggets were
The origin of gold.
It turned out that after the outbreak of World War I, the Russian army was retreating steadily on the battlefield. By 1915, the German army was approaching the Russian capital Petrograd. For safety reasons, the Tsar ordered the transfer of the national gold reserves to the rear. Soon, about 600
Tons of gold bars and coins were shipped to the Imperial Bank in Kazan.
In early 1918, this batch of gold had been stored in Kazan for three years. By this time, the Tsar had been overthrown and the Soviet regime was subsequently established, but the domestic situation failed to stabilize.
The Soviet regime in Kazan was quickly overthrown and the power was in the hands of the Constitutionalists, but they did not know the secret of the gold. Then the Red Army reoccupied the city. After the Czech Legion launched a riot, Petrov led
The White Guards raided Kazan and discovered the gold in the bank's vault. In order to keep the gold, Petrov handed the gold to the "Supreme Consul" Kolchak, the leader of the White Guards in Omsk.
After receiving this batch of gold, Kolchak, who was suffering from financial problems, was overjoyed. He quickly transferred the gold to his hometown of Omsk. According to the records of the provisional government documents, this batch of gold totaled 583 tons, and there were also a large number of treasures.
and precious cultural relics, with a total value of nearly 600 million US dollars.
The three generals Shen, Lin, and Zhang discussed for a while and decided to withhold the gold privately and destroy all records about the gold. Because the Republican Army sent troops to Siberia, the total military expenditure was expected to be as high as nearly 2 billion yuan. Such a large amount This amount of funds is used to make up for the tight financial situation of the central government.
With the support of the Chinese, General Tolev, who advocated accepting international mediation, became the highest provisional governor, while the Czech Army Commander Gaida and the Frenchman Nange became the top military commanders of the provisional government. Together, the three took control of the Siberian Provisional Government. The military power of the government.
With the arrival of winter, the Red Army and the White Guards were in a stalemate on the Tobol River and Yekaterinburg front lines.