After the establishment of the Nanjing Central Government, the Wulianghai area was too remote, so it was not planned to be the "estimated recovery" territory. However, as China launched a war to the outside world became more and more smooth, the possibility of regaining these historical territories became increasingly greater, and it eventually became an unwritten plan.

This is also the reason why China has formulated the direction of sending troops to Tsarist Russia, which is the direction of Siberia. No matter whether it can attack Siberia, it can at least recover the Wulianghai area. Even if the war is stalemate, the Tsarist Russian government can obediently return these historical lands that originally belonged to China through negotiations

For Wei Rucon, the Second Northern Army of the North sent troops to Wulianghai, which was nominally an attack, but in fact, it was to recapture these areas. He already had a clear strategic idea. After occupying the Wulianghai area in the first step, he immediately carried out the cleanup work, expelled all the Tsarist Russians, and announced the restoration of Wulianghai in the name of the Nanjing Central Government.

Then the entire army stationed with Wulianghai as the base. While restoring the political construction of Wulianghai, slowing down the offensive pace and resting the entire army. This is not because the Second Northern Army dared not go to the fortification of Tsarist Russia rashly. In fact, taking the Wulianghai was considered a head-on attack on Tsarist Russia, so there was nothing to say.

The reason for resting the entire army was that Wei Rucon considered the temperate continental climate of Tsarist Russia. It is now in the cold winter. Even though Chinese soldiers lived in Mongolia for a while before, they could not easily adapt to the dry cold climate of Tsarist Russia. In such a severe cold environment, many of the army's weapons and equipment were difficult to use and could not give full play to their due advantages. Even if they could attack forcibly, they would suffer heavy losses.

In addition, Tsarist Russia has a vast territory. Even if the North First Army can quickly penetrate the enemy territory, it will sooner or later fall into the dilemma of too long military lines. If you want to truly establish a war advantage, you must control the scale and rhythm of the battlefield well, and be sure to take root step by step.

From a long-term perspective, when it is time to endure, you still have to endure and win the Wulianghai area is considered a preliminary victory, which has caused an extremely serious psychological burden to the Tsarist Russian government. There is no need to rush to achieve success in a short time.

After the spring of March and April, not only will the weather improve, but the rule of the Wulianghai area is also consolidated, and we can just let go of the attack on Siberia.

After ten days of march, the vanguard of the Northern Second Army finally arrived in the southern part of Artes Wulianghai. Taking advantage of the snowy night, a sneak attack is now in a situation of internal and external troubles. The European battlefield has made no achievements and has also dragged down many economic and military resources. The domestic chaos is everywhere. The Russian army can only rush around to suppress the peasant uprising.

Although the Northern Second Army had to grit their teeth and mobilize troops to guard the border in preparation for unexpected events, the Northern Second Army remained silent for two months, and the situation on the battlefield in South Asia was unpredictable, the Tsarist Russian authorities mistakenly thought that China would concentrate its troops to deal with South Asia and would not send Tsarist Russia.

Importantly, the Tsarist Russian government firmly believes that there is a blessing from the times, and no army can risk the cold winter of Russia. I think even Napoleon's army was severely damaged by the cold winter, let alone the "self-righteous Chinese team"

Because even though several troops were stationed on the frontier, they had almost no defense, and even the patrol team began to be lazy

The Chinese army has been walking along the way, and several times passed by the Tsarist Russian sentry stations. These sentry stations were either undetected or were ambushed and eliminated by scouts until the vanguard attacked Artes Wulianghai. The frontier troops stationed in the Wulianghai area reacted, but it was too late.

When the Russian army of Tsarist Russia arrived at Artes Wulianghai as fast as possible, the entire city and all nearby towns were surrounded by the Chinese team. Not only that, two Chinese infantry regiments were ambushing in the northwest direction, waiting for the arrival of Tsarist Russian reinforcements, these Tsarist Russian soldiers had not yet reacted, and all the troops entered the encirclement of Chinese soldiers. The next was a veritable encirclement and annihilation battle. In just three hours, the Tsarist Russian troops were wiped out.

As the follow-up troops of the Second Northern Army continued to advance, the Tsarist Russian army only gathered a small corps of less than 10,000 people. Moreover, due to organizational problems, the corps was in serious internal chaos. So in the end, we watched helplessly as the Chinese team occupied the Artes Wulianghai, while the Tsarist Russian army only dared to build fortifications thirty miles away, and no commander dared to take the initiative to launch an attack.

Soon, after occupying Artes Wulianghai, Wei Rucon did not leave the troops idle. He directly set up the army headquarters in Artes City, and then dispatched a force to confront the Tsarist Russian army in the northwest. The main force advanced northward without stopping to regain the other two areas of the Wulianghai within one month.

Wei Rucon announced an order in Artes City to lift all laws of the Tsarist Russian government in Wulianghai, and to use the laws of the Republic of China to act instead. This means eliminating the serf system that the Tsarist Russian government has implemented for hundreds of years, and to pay full attention to equality for everyone. Not only that, the Tsarist Russian landlords in the Wulianghai area were afraid of war and fled a few days before the attack began. So the Chinese team easily confiscated a lot of land.

With the support of the Chinese team, some banner officials from Artes Wulianghai formed a temporary local government and divided the confiscated land equally according to Wei Rucon's instructions. Of course, the so-called equal division is just a slogan at present. After all, because of the mixed races of the Wulianghai area, it is impossible for all the people to divide the land into one piece.

The temporary local government first releases the good news to appease the hearts of the local people, and then starts to set up a household registration system, prioritizes the restoration of Mongolian banner status that originally belonged to China, and then registers Tsarist Russians who are willing to become Chinese nationality.

The rule of the Tsarist Russian government has long lost the people's hearts, especially the working people of the middle and lower classes. They not only pay ordinary labor, but also can't even eat a meal. I heard that the Chinese team abolished all Tsarist Russian laws and distributed land equally to the people. Whether it was the Mongolian banner or the Tsarist Russians, they were all very happy. They expressed their willingness to support the provisional government and obey the management of the Chinese team.

In an era when you can't even fill your stomach, what kind of national justice and national self-esteem are all nonsense, let alone the Tsarist Russian people lag behind, but they still know who caused all this. It is precisely because of the high-ranking emperor and national government. All of them are given by the Bolsheviks walking around and propaganda.

By January 20, 1916, the main work of the Northern Second Army Command was no longer on the battlefield, but on how to appease the people in the occupied areas. The former was because the Tsarist Russian army was completely vulnerable. When the main Chinese troops attacked, the Tsarist Russian army either ran away with their heads or retreated, and did not dare to fight head-on. The previous ambush outside the Ulianghai of Artes caused extremely serious psychological shadows on the Tsarist Russian border guards.

As for the latter, it was because the Army Command and the Provisional Government never expected that the Tsarist Russians in the Wulianghai area would be so enthusiastic that they believed the news spread by the Provisional Government to be true, and they were waiting for the realization.

Wei Rucon's previous plan was to expel the Tsarist Russians as much as possible and restore the Wulianghai to the Qing Dynasty. At worst, they could immigrate from the country after the war was over. He originally thought that the war would scare away the big landlords, the aristocratic class, and the middle and lower classes of ordinary people would follow their "boss". Even if someone responded, it should be only a few.

In order to let the Tsarist Russians know clearly about China's attitude towards the Wulianghai region, he deliberately selected only the banner-owned people to form a temporary government, and also gave priority to the restoration of the assets of the banner-owned families. The purpose is to tell the Tsarist Russians that the Chinese team will only protect the interests of Chinese compatriots first, and it is hard to say when it will be the turn of Tsarist Russians.

But I can only blame the rule of the Tsarist Russian government for being too dark. With the Provisional Government, these Tsarist Russians have more or less hope. With the Tsarist Russian government, there is no hope.

Regarding the civil affairs work of appeasement in the area, Wei Rucon held a military and political meeting
Chapter completed!