No matter how many torpedo boat destroyers there are on the Volga River, Wen Yongyu's current armored cavalry army will quickly take Astrakhan, and the faster the better, otherwise the longer it will drag, the more dangerous the Bolshevik Red Army that has solved the enemy in the east. On the fourth day after crossing the Ural River, when the troops advanced to ninety kilometers outside Astrakhan, snowflakes suddenly began to float in the sky.

"Damn it, didn't it say it would take a few days to snow?" The commander of the 3rd Armored Division, Guo Xianchen, was riding along with his warriors, rushing from the armored queue a few kilometers away to the cavalry commander. As soon as he saw the commanders Tao Ke, Tao Hu and Wen Yongyu, he shouted loudly. Three hundred and seventy kilometers a day, the marching of seventy kilometers every day really cost the life of the armored division. If it weren't for the towing truck and the maintenance battalion of the 4th Armored Division that was being formed, he would have lost more than half of the iron lumps.

"The will of the Heaven of Eternal Life will cause heavy snow to fall in the sky, so we can only thank God." The commander of the army, Tao Ke and Taohu, is no longer a bandit in the Mongolian bandit, but a hero of the country and a prince of Mongolia. In his opinion, the worse the environment, the weaker the enemy's resistance, and he was very happy about it.

"But my car has not changed to camouflage yet. From a distance, it all leaked." Guo Xianchen looked at the Mongolians riding on the horse and patted the iron cavalry sitting down. He felt that everyone was completely different. "There are almost a hundred kilometers left, what should I do?"

"Let's wait for the scout to come back." Wen Yongyu also rode on a low-high Mongolian horse. From the Cavalry Brigade, he was used to riding horses rather than taking a car. "Let's find a place to camp first, and don't act rashly before there is any definite news."

"Yes!" Guo Xianchen was actually not very convinced by the Mongolians, but Wen Yongyu was Yang Rui's student. He was very convinced by the founder of the Linxi Revolutionary Base earlier. Seeing Wen Yongyu talking here, he nodded and went back to make arrangements.

The sky became darker and the snow was getting heavier. In the standard Finnish military tent after camping, the mellow fragrance of horse milk wine floated in the tent. While the people in the headquarters discussed the siege strategy, they were waiting for the scouts to return to the camp. This time they led the team to reconnaise Deliger, the eldest son of Tao Taohu, and some Kalmyks. They set out first on the night when the army left Atlau. Some of them went to the city to stir up civil unrest, while others were simply scouting the battle habits of the Mongolian army still remained in the hearts of every Mongolian. The General Staff did not interfere with this.

When the time was eleven o'clock, everyone was about to doze off, the sound of horse hooves sounded outside. Wei Ji, Deliger, covered in snow, shouted a report and rushed in with a cold wind. Tao Ke Taohu did not return the gift. Instead, he grabbed his son's shoulders with both hands, looked at him and found that he was covered with blood, and asked anxiously: "Have you brought everyone back?"

"After leaving the city, I met a team of cavalry..." Deliger was not as young as ten years ago. While his beard was growing, he also became extremely experienced and calm. He didn't want to mention the reconnaissance team more, so he immediately turned the topic to Astrakhan City Defense. "The city was controlled by Red Russia. The defenders were the 45th Infantry Regiment. The first cavalry first regiment had two units, including more than a dozen machine guns and breeched 76mm cannons, but there were not many cannons. Now the city is panic. There is extremely shortage of food, and all shops are forbidden to open their doors. Tens of thousands of people have to queue up to buy bread every day..." Deliger said and took out a statement.

‘Astrakhan District, Provisional Revolutionary Military Commission: Announcement No. 1. September 22, 1918.

In view of the extreme limited amount of grain in Astrakhan and the increase in the amount of grain transported to the army, the Interim Revolutionary Committee of Astrakhan District ordered the Gubernian Food Commission and its food distribution agencies to immediately reduce the bread distribution to the basic standards, namely, one pound in the first category, one pound in the second category, and one pound in the third category...'

The little adviser who knew Russian immediately read out the contents of the notice, but no one noticed that the last signer of the announcement was Chairman Sergei Mironovic Kirov. This was the person who was stabbed in history. Comrade Stalin felt that the party and army were all counter-revolutionaries, so he launched an unprecedented purge.

After reading the notice, Deliger took out another hand-drawn drawing and said: "The city is now under martial law. It is divided into six districts, and each district has a commander appointed by the Chairman Kinov. These commanders are affiliated with the city defense conference set up by the Revolutionary Committee. The headquarters of the City Defense Conference has been moved to the siege by the municipal government where the former Revolutionary Committee is located, which is here..." Deliger pointed to a point on the map, "just on the Volga River. The towering house is said to have been the strategic location of Astrakhan before. It was completed in the fourth dynasty of Ivan and the sixteenth century."

It is obvious that even the fourth dynasty of Ivan in Russia did not know when it was, but everyone knew that this was a fortress established hundreds of years ago. However, considering that there were only two regiments in the city, one infantry regiment and one cavalry regiment in the defense city, and considering that the Red Russian troops have always lacked organization, it can basically be concluded that there were only more than a thousand people defending such an important city.

Before the introduction was finished, Deliger finished speaking and said: "There are many rebels in the city. I have made an appointment with some people in the city without authorization. In the past two days, they will launch a rebellion..."

Just a few soldiers were going to launch a rebellion. Guo Xianchen sat on the chair and said deflatedly: "There is actually a rebellion, so why are you fighting? Tonight, the battle will be over, and the battle will be over."

Guo Xianchen was discouraged, and the others were relieved. When mobilizing before departure, the headquarters asked the troops to fight with all their strength, but they didn't want to attack a city that was basically empty. When Deliger introduced other situations in the city, Wen Yongyu quietly began to think about Chalijin.

According to the Intelligence Bureau, there are about thirteen armies of the Red and Russian army now, among which the 10th Army defended Chalijin. Although the last war was severely weakened, Hu Wenyao believed that through the transfer and re-recruitment, it could immediately recover to the previous 40,000 people by at least the number of people. The 10th Army was in Chalijin, and the 11th Army was in the North Caucasus. According to the intelligence provided by the British, there were 100,080 infantrymen, 18,000 cavalrymen, more than 490 machine guns, and more than 160 cannons. However, there were no more than 50,000 troops capable of fighting, and most of them were wounded numbers and some typhus fever patients.

If Astrakhan is occupied by the Revival Army, then the army will cut off support, especially the army lacks ammunition. Five hundred kilometers away, there are also large grasslands and the Astrakhan desert in the middle; the final result is that they will be eliminated by Denikin's White Army, and the 40,000 people under the command of the Cossacks, who are loyal to the Tsar, will step north on the corpse of the 11th Red Russia Army. With current diplomatic relations, China still recognizes old Russia and belongs to the Allies Group. Although the two countries have not signed a contract, they have at least had a ceasefire. He has a full legal basis to go north to take over Astrakhan and Taritzin...

This is the case in the south. In the north of Chalizin, the first, second, fourth, fifth, and four armies of the Red Russia led by Trosky himself. In August, the second and fifth armies captured Kazan after a bloody battle. The first and fourth armies captured Samara. Although the second army of these four armies was pursuing the Czech army eastward, the other three armies seemed to be resting in Kazan. They were only one thousand kilometers away from Chalizin, and it would only take two to three days to go downstream. This means that after the army occupied Astrakhan, if the other party knew about their troops and combat intentions, it was very likely that they had just arrived in Chalizin, and the opponent's vanguard also arrived at the periphery of Chalizin.

According to the headquarters' combat plan, the cavalry army first seized Astrakhan, and then if everything goes well, then the fleet set out from the Krasnowotsk port south of the Caspian Sea at the same time can reach the estuary of the Volga River on the day or the next day when the cavalry army occupied Astrakhan. There are few grain ships in the Caspian Sea, and the total tonnage of Persian fishing boats is not 100,000 tons. These fleets can only transport one division and one regiment at a time. The real function is to transport the troops from the Krasnowotsk port to Astrakhan, and then transport the troops to Taritzin by railway.

Another intention of the cavalry army to seize Astrakhan was to seize or requisition a large number of fishing boats in this huge harbor. Although there are many factories in the city, many people in the city are fishermen. There are countless fish processing plants in the city. These fishing boats can provide another part of the transport capacity, but no matter how they calculate, the ships are not enough. For this reason, Wen Yongyu inevitably had a question: Why not take the Krasnowodsk port as a base to take Baku across the sea? In this way, the fleet will be turned into ferries, and some troops can also be transported by railway.

Although they will fight against the Turks and fight against the Red Russia in this way, they may not understand their intention to go north. Once they occupy Baku, they can quickly transport the troops to Taritzin via Astrakhan, which is much faster than sea transportation. As now, two cavalry divisions, one armored division, and thousands of Kalmyk cavalry, a total of more than 30,000 people. Even if the first batch of infantry divisions transported to Astrakhan, the total number is only more than 40,000 less than 50,000. These people may be enough to occupy Taritzin, but how easy is it to withstand the attack of nearly 200,000 people from the three armies heading south by the Red Russia?

Wen Yongyu felt that the headquarters' combat plan did not occupy Baku was a problem. Although the combat plan must be kept confidential, it was insufficient in any case. This was actually a big problem with Russian combat: that is, Russia is too large, and the transportation network is as sparse as in the country. The troops often have to maneuver hundreds of kilometers or thousands of kilometers in combat, which brought great trouble to the logistics.

The Fuxing Army, which starts with the Krasnowodsk port in the southern Caspian Sea, will compete with the Red Russian army starting with Kazan or Kozlov (here is only 600 kilometers away from Chalizin). Although the Fuxing Army has the first-mover advantage, the final victory will only be the Red Russian Workers' and Peasants' Red Army. What is really beneficial to itself is that compared to the temporary patchwork, the Fuxing Army has more powerful firepower and the soldiers are more capable. After occupying Chalizin, if the vanguard troops can withstand the Red Russian army going south and wait for the reinforcements behind to head north, the war will definitely be the victory of the Fuxing Army; but if...

When Wen Yongyu was thinking about these issues, the staff had adjusted the enemy-to-we-stage chart based on the latest intelligence. The city where the defenders' headquarters were located and the commanders' stations of the six districts were marked. In addition, a monastery was also specially marked. This is the headquarters of the rebels. They allegedly had three thousand rifles and two three-inch breech guns. The staff members did not believe that if there were three thousand rifles, why not launch an uprising immediately and eliminated only two regiments of the Red and Russian troops? These people were obviously "bourgeoisie" with no courage. Wen Yongyu was deeply impressed by this word Hu Wenyao.

"Precaution here first." Wen Yongyu pointed at a place called Narimanov in the north of Astra. "One armoured division and one cavalry division together must cut off the way for the defenders to retreat north, and do not leave a Russian army. In addition, we must cut off the telegraph lines on the railway, so that we can have more days."

"Yes." Guo Xianchen and Naidan Zabu, the commander of the 1st Cavalry Division, nodded together. Everyone knew the plan before the combat, but they didn't expect that there were so few Russian troops guarding the city and there were internal supporters.

After ordering the north, Wen Yongyu said again: "The 2nd Cavalry Division is responsible for capturing Astrakhan. Pay special attention to whether there are radio antennas in the city. If an antenna is found, try every means to blow it up to prevent the Russian army from sending a radio telegram."

"Yes!" Hada, the commander of the 2nd Cavalry Division, agreed immediately. He had been eager to try it out. Unfortunately, the enemy was too weak.

"The rest of the troops act as usual, pay special attention to the periphery from now until tomorrow evening. Don't leak news before the attack." Wen Yongyu said that, but he was worried, and said again: "Let's do this, except for the offensive troops, the other troops will camp on the spot during the day tomorrow until the offensive troops take Astrakhan."

After Wen Yongyu said that, he looked at the commander Tao Ke Tao Hu. Tao Ke Tao Hu had no objection to this. He didn't know what the armored division was, but what was going on with his subordinates. He knew very well that a brigade had enough troops to take Astrakhan, and it was enough to go north to blockade and send a regiment. For the sake of confidentiality, there was no need for the entire army to join.

"General..." The Fuxing Army had no objection, but the Kalmyks stood up, "Our army is willing to send 300 warriors to follow the army."

Thinking of taking Astrakhan, the Kalmyks' blood was about to boil. Will they leave it to them after the city was captured? But the grassland from Atlau to Astrakhan was extremely plump. The tribe didn't exert some effort, so it was embarrassed to pick it up in the future. So the leader Bai Yinbao stood up excitedly when he saw that the Chief of Staff did not give him a task.

Seeing this, Tao Ke Taohu looked at Wen Yongyu. Seeing the Chief of Staff nodding and smiling, he smiled and said, "Okay! But your troops must obey orders in any manner and must not do whatever they do!"

"I swear in the name of Changshengtian and absolutely obey the general's military order!" Bai Yinbao was not a soldier, so he did not make any military orders, but just swears.

"Sit down!" Tao Ke Taohu saw Bai Yinbao so serious and immediately smiled. "The real hard battle in Chalijin, the real grassland heroes are going to gallop there."

The Revival Army, ninety kilometers away, has arranged a siege plan, but Kirov, the chairman of the Astrakhan Interim Revolutionary Committee, could not sleep. In order to save fuel, the city has already implemented arms control, but the committee headquarters has lights for 24 hours. Since the Soviets in the revolution took over the city, Astrakhan has never seemed to be as restless as in the past two days. It was very wrong! Kirov thought to himself.

‘Lingling…’ The phone suddenly rang late at night, with a hint of coldness in the ringtone.

"I am Kirov." Kirov, who was not sleeping, immediately opened his eyes. There was a lack of telephone lines during the war. In addition to the phone calls in the city, even the Forty-Fifteenth Regiment outside the city did not train the headquarters. This phone number must have been called in the city, but what's going on when it's so late?

"Comrade Chairman, the rumor-producing rich peasants arrested today have confessed." The phone was the voice of Yakofenk, the captain of the Workers' Soviet Inspection Team. He was at the municipal government at this time, and after evacuating the city defense headquarters, it became the territory of the inspection team. Many bourgeois elements here detained the wealth of the working people who had defrauded these people must be liquidated.

"Is that true! What's going on?" Kirov tightened his hands holding the receiver.

"We have cracked a conspiracy to rebel, Comrade Chairman. The rich peasant confessed that a rich peasant named Karabarei and a Social Revolutionary Party sent by Rostov were preparing to launch a rebellion." Although Jakofenk's voice remained calm, the pride was undepressed. "They established a secret hiding point in the Monastery of Blagovesichensky, where they had nearly three thousand rifles, a machine gun, and even two three-inch field guns that had been hidden before. Comrade Chairman, we are about to go..."

"No!" Kirov was surprised and turned his eyes and immediately denied Yakofink's plan. "With so many weapons, it is definitely not just a few rich peasants who can plan it. They must have accomplices. Now that we know the place where the rebellion was initiated, we must find a way to capture all these counter-revolutionaries in one place!"

After making this decision, Kirov knew that he had missed something, and said immediately: "Comrade Yakofink, I will report the efforts of you and the members of the inspection team to Moscow, but we must find out all the counter-revolutionaries hidden in the dark. It is best to surround them and kill them when they are about to launch a rebellion."

"Yes. Comrade Chairman!" Yakofink responded on the phone, "But, Comrade Chairman, I'm worried that the rebels will really get the weapons in hand. If there were so many weapons in the monastery, it would be a disaster."

"Don't worry." Kirov had already thought of a countermeasure in his mind. "I will draw some reliable comrades from the First Cavalry Regiment to arrange them around the monastery in advance. Once these counter-revolutionaries enter, they will be beaten up..."

Kirov said a few brief words to relieve Yakofink and then hung up the phone. The next morning, he drove to the First Cavalry and Forty-Fifth Infantry Regiment outside the city to draw a group of Bolshevik party members. The more than 400 troops would be arranged around the monastery to wait for these counter-revolutionaries to react and rebellion. Another confession from the rich peasant was that the White Army outside the city would attack Astrakhan one night in these days. He just thought this was the nonsense that they were tortured. The White Army was blocked hundreds of kilometers away by Sorokin's 11th Army. Even if a small number of White Army escaped the net sneaked out of Astrakhan, as long as they cleared the counter-revolutionaries in the city in advance, they would do nothing.

With this in mind, Kirov prepared a fake signal that night to send soldiers from a company to fire guns outside the city, so as to attract the counter-revolutionaries in the city to launch a rebellion, and then encircle and annihilate them. At twelve o'clock in the night, the company arranged outside the city began to fire guns and shout randomly. The Red Army in the outer city of Blagovesichensky Monastery in the city sucked and waited. Sure enough, more and more shadows gathered from all directions in the night. But just as Kirov ordered the artillery to aim at the monastery, more intense gunfire sounded from the east of the city...

The front page of the China Times on September 26 is "Dalhan on Snowy Night". Because of confidentiality, four days later, the news that the Fuxing Army cavalry captured Astrakhan was only published in the newspapers in China. To be honest, most of the Chinese people didn't know where this city was called Dalhan, but when they saw that it was the Fuxing Army and defeated the Russian soldiers and captured a big city, they didn't say loudly. However, everything is exceptional. At the Chinese anarchist headquarters where the number 4 was issued by Devotz Road, Hong Kong, anarchist soldiers were indignant about it.

Under the black flag hanging high on the wall, Comrade Du Wen, the president, did not scold like others. After reading the front page of "Dalhan on Snowy Night", he accused him loudly. Instead, he read all other articles in the China Times that criticized the Russian Bolshevik Revolution, and then said unexpectedly: "This publicity is very good. What's the problem? Are there any problems?!" All the party members sitting proudly, like Du Wen,

"At least, the Restoration Council government recognized the Bolsheviks as a revolution, not a Marxist-Leninist cult among a small group of people, but thought that he was a little more brutal and a little more '**'. So would Restoration be a revolution or a counter-revolution? When he initially treated his enemies with brutality and ***, it might be like a revolution, but later he could establish his foothold, becoming more and more like a centrist and a sect, and was often played by the politics of the domestic exploiting class reactionaries.

In essence, some people in China cannot even accept improvement, but the Russian Soviets do not have these concerns and ties. Although they started later and the internal and external situation is more sinister, they will never be teased by domestic counter-revolutionaries while engaging in large-scale wars against foreign reactionaries like the Revival?

I think that the attitude towards the Russian Bolshevik Revolution is the touchstone of the true and false revolution. In fact, since a few years ago, the Revival Society Group has established its position under the threat and temptation of internal reactionaries: that is, as long as the workers and peasants do not rebel, the core target of relying on the domestic and Western bourgeoisie. For this reason, they have to interfere in the entire Central Asia, which is not the entire territory of the Han and Tang dynasties, and suppress the Soviet revolution there..."

Since she got a big deal from Switzerland and took up the position of Prime Minister, Comrade Du Wen's speech has become longer and longer. After saying this, Zheng Bi'an, the only one who was not confused, said: "Prime Minister, we should support the Bolsheviks. For this reason, I think the strike planned before should be advanced."

"In advance?" Strikes and troubles are the requirements of the Germans. After all, you have to do things with money, but the foundation of the Huiming Academy is only in the south, to be precise, just Guangzhou. In addition to shipbuilding, all military production is in the Yangtze River and the north. What is the use of a strike in Guangzhou?
Chapter completed!