Chita City is already a scene of chaos. This largest city on the Russian Far East has 700,000 or 800,000 civilians. A small part of them lived here before the Russian Civil War, and more were refugees who went exiled from the Far East and Manchuria in China before and after the "Vladivostok Incident". Although the Soviet Red Army had already reached the city, not many peaceful residents had evacuated from the city, and in fact they had nowhere to go, and the coalition forces with a population of up to 400,000 also gave them a sense of illusion.

But overnight, the situation of the battle changed dramatically. Guns and cannons came everywhere in the west and north of the city. The Red Army's 152mm cannon shells fell into Chita city from time to time! The officers and soldiers of the Xianbei Republic and the Central ** team made futile resistance on the last line of defense on the edge of the city. However, most of the main Japanese troops defending Chita were unknown, and the attacking Soviet Red Army was several times more powerful than the defenders. They not only launched a continuous and fierce offensive on the front, but also made a detour through the dense forests around the city. In the early morning of October 18, a small group of assault troops of the Red Army infiltrated the city and launched a fierce street battle with the defenders, causing great chaos in Chita City.

The city was filled with crying sounds, and the streets were filled with decently dressed citizens and Orthodox clergy, who were all advocates of the Semenov regime and targets of the Bolsheviks' anti-counterfeiting. Now they all ran around, as if they wanted to find a way to escape the justice judgment. But these people had long been eliminated and abandoned by Russian history. Apart from labor camps and shootings, what future would there be waiting for them? These desperate escapees, the fires caused by the falling artillery shells and huge smoke columns, make the city's current picture look extremely desolate.

Yang Jie was in his headquarters and tried his best to deal with the crisis in front of him. The adviser Toshiro Ota, who was sent by the Japanese to monitor him, personally commanded the troops to "fight fires" back and forth on various battlefields inside and outside Chita City. His enemies were not only the Red Army that fought from the west, but also GCD underground organizations among the Russians in Chita City. There were even several troops of the Xianbei Republic composed of Cossacks, and there were also unstable situations. Therefore, Obata had to divide the Japanese army in Chita City into several temporary detachments, part of which was used to support the defense lines outside the city, and some patrol the city, and mobilized to reinforce wherever there was gunfire. On the first day when the Japanese main force evacuated Chita, the city was already in danger!

Jiang Dengxuan and Yang Yuting strode into the headquarters. The staff members of the headquarters were burning various documents and telegrams with sweat. The communication soldiers were busy dismantling the telephone lines. There were boxes of large and small in the yard. There were also many charming Belarusian aristocratic women crying and huddling aside - their origins, appearances, and women with good aristocratic education were living a fairy-tale life before the war. How could they think they would become a toy in the middle of the *****! And even the toys were too late to be...

Yang Jie was wearing a soldier's clothes and stood under the porch, looking at the chaotic scene in front of him with a blank expression. He seemed to have no hearing the noise in the yard.

It was not until Jiang Dengxuan and Yang Yuting walked up to him and greeted him loudly that he walked out of his thoughts as if he had woken up in his dream. He nodded to the two and said softly: "What's going on in front? Can you still hold on until the evening?"

Jiang Dengxuan and Yang Yuting looked at each other, and Jiang Dengxuan said, "The situation ahead is not very good. The Red Army's firepower is too strong, and the infantry is also powerful. Our people suffer heavy losses. But it will not be a problem to maintain it for another day or two."

Yang Yuting said, "Brother Geng Guang, how long will it take for us to finish?"

Yang Jie gritted his teeth and whispered: "It's all tonight!"

"What?" Jiang Dengxuan and Yang Yuting exclaimed at the same time: "It's less than 12 hours... Can the Japanese let us go?"

Yang Jie hummed in a low voice, and said with a pale face: "We don't take the Middle East Road, take the Siberian Railway, and you can cross Heilongjiang and return to China by walking about 300 kilometers eastward."

Yang Yuting looked at him: "300 kilometers. Why do you have to walk for a week? Can you walk away?"

Yang Jie nodded: "Yes! The main force of the Soviet Red Army will definitely pursue the Japanese army retreating along the Middle East Road... The 15 divisions of the Japanese army are more valuable than us. If they can be wiped out, Japan can only seek peace from the war! In this way, China will most likely not be able to maintain it, and we will also seek peace."

After hearing Yang Jie's words, Yang Yuting and Jiang Dengxuan were relieved at the same time. Before they could say anything, they saw a Northeast army general rushed in outside the door. It was Zhang Zuolin's brother Sun Liechen.

Sun Liechen was covered in the smell of gunpowder, and it seemed that he had just come down from the front line: "Commander General Yang, the Eastern Army of the Soviet Red Army sent an envoy, right in my military headquarters. They wanted us to... surrender, saying that it would protect the safety of our 100,000 people."

In the orders given by Chang Ruiqing to Yang Jie, they ordered them to surrender to the Eastern Legion, and now the Eastern Legion sent people to persuade them to surrender. If there was nothing wrong with this, I would probably not even believe the ghost. Several Northeast Army generals in the yard looked at each other and finally turned their attention to Yang Jie.

Yang Jie frowned and said, "Treat them first, and say we are asking the Beijing headquarters to answer them until the evening." He took a deep breath: "Although the superiors gave us the order to surrender and save our lives, we are soldiers after all, and soldiers are only killed in battle but not surrender. If they surrender, even if they save their lives, they will not have any future in the future. So I mean it is better to leave. Let's leave tonight. No matter what, you must bring the troops back, even if you take one-third back!"

His eyes swept around the people in front of him: "If we want to leave, someone will break the rear..."

Several Northeast Army generals were gasping loudly, not knowing what to say. Several people knew that those who left behind the rear were either surrendered or died, but there was no good ending! In the end, Sun Liechen took a breath and said loudly: "I will do the matter of the rear! Anyway, I am tired, and I don't want to stay in the army if I don't die. You are still young. You have a great future, so retreat first. But don't forget the defeat today, don't forget the brothers who died here in battle!" As he said that, he turned around and walked out with great strides.

Yang Jie bowed respectfully to Sun Liechen's back, and then said to Yang Yuting and Jiang Dengxuan: "Neighbor Ge, Chao Liu, just follow Mr. Jiang's instructions and remove the defense at night! All light clothes, only bring one week's rations and light weapons, head straight to Heilongjiang! You should take as many brothers as possible, no matter what you say... "

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1919, at 10:00 pm on October 18, Shenyang, the General Headquarters of the Northeast Front of the National Defense Forces.

Just now, Bai Chongxi stood in front of the huge map of Northeast China with his hands behind his back. He kept thinking and not talking. Around him were the ringing of phone calls and answering calls, adjusting the communication route of the Front General Headquarters. But Bai Chongxi seemed to hear nothing, but was immersed in his own thinking. Chang Ruiqing handed over the overall military situation of the Northeast to him, which was a heavy burden. Because his opponent was the powerful Soviet Red Army, the elite who had been baptized by the world war and fierce civil war. The hundreds of thousands of soldiers under his command, including himself, had never seen a truly modern war! Moreover, this battle was directly related to the stability of the Chang Ruiqing regime and China's international status for a long time in the future, so he could only win but not lose.

The map marked the latest development of the battle. The 15 divisions of the Japanese Xianbei Liya dispatched troops have evacuated the strong positions around Chita and are retreating to Manzhouli along the Middle East Railway. However, the transportation capacity of the Middle East Railway is limited after all. It is impossible for more than 200,000 Japanese troops to retreat by train with all their equipment and supplies. This retreat of more than 200 kilometers will take about four or five days, right? And Chita City's defense is It was handed over to the Chinese and Xianbei Lisan coalition forces commanded by Yang Jie, but Bai Chongxi was very suspicious of their determination to stick to it. Maybe they have already started to escape now, right? If they run away, the Soviet Red Army will chase after the Japanese, and the Japanese might be wiped out, right? I hope that before this, they can fight more of the vitality of the Soviet Red Army. Otherwise, they will have their own good feelings in the next war!

Since the Siberian railway line in the Far East has been severely damaged, the Middle East Railway has become a shortcut for the Soviet Red Army to Vladivostok! So in the next step, the Soviet Union will definitely march along the Middle East Road and continue to invade Manchuria in China. Maybe it will build a Chinese Soviet regime?

Behind him, a sound of military boots hitting the ground. Bai Chongxi was awakened from his thoughts and looked back at the graduate of the German School who had seen the smoke of European wars. Bai Chongxi's chief of staff Huang Xuchu is not in place yet, so Lu Yixuan is in charge of the work of the staff office. He held a telegram he had just received and whispered to Bai Chongxi: "The news about Chita, Yang Jie's army is retreating eastward. Chita is bound to fall tonight! The 15 Japanese divisions are over, and we have to fight the battle below ourselves!"

He handed Bai Chongxi a telegram from the Beijing headquarters and whispered: "The telegram from the Commissioner requires us to make up our minds to fight the Soviet Union along the Middle East Road! The Commissioner estimates that the Soviet Union will definitely become the last of its strength after annihilated the main force of the Japanese army, but most of them will still maintain their offensive, because the Soviet Union is eager to end the Eastern Front in 1919. This is the opportunity for us to give the Soviet Union a heavy blow. If we want to win the time for peaceful development in ten to twenty years, we must defeat the Soviet Union invaders at all costs!"

Bai Chongxi took the telegram, glanced quickly, and said lightly: "Zixiu, based on your understanding of the first-class European army, how big is the gap between us and them? How many times the strength advantage is needed to ensure the chance of victory?"

Lu Yixuan smiled faintly: "The strength of the first-class European army is not based on their elite soldiers and generals, but their industrial strength! Now we are fighting an industrial war, comparing the comprehensive national strength, and a contest of the overall strength of the country... As for the army and soldiers, they are just consumables. Later, the European battlefield was already full of old people, children, and colonial troops. Even Russian women took bayonets to the battlefield! How elite can such troops be?

Also, the black army commanded by Germany on the African battlefield did not still make the white army of the Allied countries exhausted? In Gallipoli, Turkey, the British were still defeated by Turkey. So we don’t have to be afraid of the Soviet Red Army. Even if they have experienced many battles, what if they have done so? How many people will be left after they have finished fighting? How many weapons and ammunition? We use our superior forces to defend the defense line, are we still afraid that we cannot defeat them?"

Bai Chongxi focused his head heavily and said with a serious expression: "Zixiu, you are right! We will definitely defeat the Soviet Union!" He turned his eyes to the map, took a baton, and tapped the position of Hailar on the map: "Let's fight the Soviet Union Red Army there! Zixiu ordered the First Army and the Fifth Army to arrive at Yakesh within 24 hours, and then use two days to open the transportation line between Yakesh and Hailar, and then complete the expansion around Hailar, occupy the favorable terrain, and wait for the main force to arrive." After saying that, he turned his head to Lu Yixuan and said: "Zixiu. I decided to move the forward command post to Hailar. You will preside over the command headquarters in Shenyang!"

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In Moscow, the capital of the Soviet Union, thousands of miles away, on the evening of October 18, the news of the Chita victory spread rapidly through the GCD organization system throughout the city. Then the entire city seemed to be jubilant in an instant. This was the first victory that the Soviet Red Army achieved since the outbreak of the "Four-Nation War" and after a series of setbacks, the Soviet Red Army won! The people of the Soviet capital spontaneously rushed to the streets to celebrate and gathered on the Red Square in the center of Moscow to cheer at the Kremlin at the top of their lungs. The cheers broke through layers of deep walls and spread to the ears of the Russian GCD Politburo members who had a meeting overnight.

Lenin pushed open the window of the conference room and pointed out the window and shouted to the Politburo members in the room: "Comrades! Listen, the people of the capital outside the window are cheering for our Red Army soldiers! How eager they are to win and how eager they are to liberate the Far East that has been trampled by the iron hoof of Japanese imperialism! Can we disappoint them?"

Lenin walked back to the conference table, pressed his hands on the table, and looked at Trotsky, chairman of the Revolutionary Military Commission, with bright eyes. He seemed to be waiting for an affirmative reply.

Trotsky looked at Lenin with some embarrassment and replied carefully: "Comrade Lenin, now may be the best time for us to end the Eastern Front War and sign a treaty with Japan and China... The main force of the Japanese army in Chita is expected to suffer a devastating blow, and North Korea also has a revolution. If we allow Japan to retain the Far East State, they will definitely withdraw from the war. Once Japan withdrew, China will inevitably be unable to maintain the war alone. If we propose Mongolian autonomy as a condition for a ceasefire, Chang Ruiqing will most likely have to accept it. In this way, we can transfer the troops on the Eastern Front to fight Polish imperialism and recover the lost territory of Belarus and Ukraine."

Lenin waved his hands vigorously: "We have defeated Japan, why should we allow them to occupy the Far East? Moreover, the Chinese revisionists have no power. We can completely overthrow their reactionary rule in China and liberate the working people there!"

This great mentor of the world revolution seemed to be extremely dissatisfied with our Changda revisionists. He shouted: "Chang Ruiqing and his revisionist line cannot be overemphasized on the cause of our party! If the Beiyang warlords ruled China now, I would not mind reaching a peace agreement with them for the time being... Because the Beiyang warlords are just a weak opponent and an unworthy opponent, and when can we easily defeat them in the future.

But we cannot treat Zuomin revisionism like this, because this kind ofism has absorbed the nutrients of socialism to a large extent and uses the superiority of socialism to improve China's backward capitalist system. Of course, this system cannot lead China on the path of socialism and GCism, but in order to make China's weak capitalist system stronger in a short period of time, China is likely to grow into an imperialist country in the next ten to twenty years. If we do not find a way to completely defeat the Zuomin revisionists now!"

Trotsky did not express any disagreement with this judgment of the great mentor, but just frowned: "Comrade Lenin, what should we do if we cannot defeat the Chinese revisionist army in a short time?"

Lenin smiled slightly and replied decisively: "If you can't defeat it, you can unite! But before joining, I hope that the Workers and Peasants' Red Army can do its best to fight and defeat the revisionist enemy!"

Trotsky cast an admirational look at Lenin. This great mentor did not lose his rationality because of his hatred of Leftist Ministry. On the contrary, he chose the most correct route at present. Trotsky looked at his leader and said solemnly: "Comrade Lenin, please rest assured that the Workers and Peasants Red Army will do its best to defeat the enemies of revisionism and imperialism!"
Chapter completed!