Chapter 159 Siberian Cold Stream (I)

Siberia, Ulan-Ude frontline.

Above the white snowfield, the sky is gloomy. The bone-cold wind passes through the cedar forest, and crows fly up from the branches, and the quiet snow wasteland seems to be even more deserted.

The cold wind danced lightly at first, and then gradually became violent. The cold wind at more than 20 degrees below zero roared across the snowfield, then skipped through the forest, shaking the dead grass hard, making them bend down their humble bodies helplessly and tremble under the ruthless cold wind. The ice and snow were wrapped in the strong wind, rolling and flying towards unknown places, sometimes up and down, sometimes mad and sometimes excited. Suddenly, the wind stopped and the snow fell, and everything returned to silence.

The clouds disperse and the sun shines on the earth, and the snow-white ice field becomes more and more exquisite.

On the horizon in the distance, white smoke rolled and a long steel dragon whistled past. The Chinese sentry wearing a dog-skin military cap sat inside the machine gun chest on the roof, wrapped in a thick winter army coat, covered with a snow field windbreaker, and carefully made deer-skin cotton gloves. He squinted his eyes and watched the hands together to watch out for movements around him.

From Beijing to Kulun, and then to Chikto on the Sino-Russian border, military lines filled with ammunition, food, food, medicine and medicines and various military supplies are flowing continuously, day and night, transporting military supplies forward as quickly as possible.

More than 20 days ago, the Qinglong group of Chinese troops that occupied Kulun worked tirelessly, and together with the border guerrillas in the north, severely damaged the Russian troops heading south of Chaktu, and then captured the empty defense of Chaktu, and obtained a large amount of Russian troops in this material transfer station that had no time to transfer and destroy.

The large number of ammunition, food, military uniforms, tents, medicines, and horse materials prepared by Russia for the southward battle became a supplement to the Chinese army.

After sending a few troops to reconnaissance north, Yao Wu ordered the troops to go to rest, rest their horsepower, consolidate the defense of Chaktu, prepare the railway system, clean up the Russian spies in China, and various suspicious figures, and concentrate the Russians on guard. The Chinese cavalry became the most organized workers and started working hard.

On October 20, the vanguard of the Chinese White Tiger Cluster arrived in Chaktu by army.

From then on, the Chinese army's steel force continued to flow, quickly gathered to the line of Chucktu, and then searched northward to advance.

At this time, the Mongolian Front had officially changed its number to the Central Xianbei Legian Front. The ambitious Lu Zhenming arrived in Chaktu. The Chinese army went north to contact the Russian army one after another.

As of November 10, the Chinese army had concentrated twelve infantry divisions, six cavalry divisions, and four motorized rapid infantry brigades in the East and West Siberia region north of Chikto and the defense transportation line of the border troops, with the railway line as the central axis, and crossed 200 kilometers east and west, and began to roll northward.

Soon, the Chinese army felt the great power of the severe cold in Siberia.

The winter in Siberia is one of the most cruel meteorological and geographical environments in the human world. Unlike the Nordic Scandinavia and Murmansk regions at the same high latitude, the inland Siberia does not have the warmth of the Atlantic warm current, but is completely storm and severe cold. From September to April of the following year, the temperature in the northern inland region will reach minus 30-50 degrees below the northern inland region, and the blizzards have an extremely terrifying power.

In Siberian winter, even the most luxurious Russians spend most of their time in thick houses, burning the stove, drinking vodka, and waiting for the cruel winter to pass.

The Chinese Empire military, guided by "building the army through faith and strengthening the army through science", has been conducting research and preparations for more than ten years for the battlefield in Siberia. Using spy networks, caravans and even volunteers disguised as horse thieves, China has mastered Siberia's geographical, hydrological and meteorological intelligence in all aspects, and has also made careful preparations for how to defend against Siberia's low temperatures.

An ordinary Chinese soldier was wrapped in a special cold-proof fabric.

In order to make snow shoes and cold-proof clothing, the Chinese Imperial military system made up an idea of ​​the "three treasures" of the Northeast. Later, after many experiments, combined with the viscose fiber technology invented by the UK in 1891, it actually explored the artificial cotton textile technology that uses urlagra fiber, and used urlagra artificial cotton and natural cotton to make a low-cost and excellent winter military uniform.

The blended cotton military uniform was wearing a sheepskin lapel hooded military coat, and a white cotton snow camouflage coat was wrapped around the outside. The whole face was wrapped in a thick cotton scarf, with only eyes exposed. The soldiers and officers were equipped with simple snow glasses, while the guards were each in hand.

The long felt boots on the feet covered the entire calf. The base was vulcanized rubber and Ulagra artificial cotton lining. The feet and calf were tied firmly with cotton gaits. Then a thick felt boot cover was also put on to ensure that you could not get frostbite at low temperatures of minus 30 to 40 degrees Celsius. The knees were covered with cowhide knee pads ordered in the United States, which were soft and cold-resistant.

The gloves are also blended linings, and the outside is sheepskin, which is soft and flexible.

But even so, Siberia in the cold winter still made the Chinese army, which accounted for a large part of the southerners, miserable.

The worst thing is Xie Yong and Li Yuanhong's motorized troops.

The cold winter in Siberia has put the fast-moving troops, which have been popular recently, into difficulties.

Although the Chinese military had prepared a lot of repair power in Chikto, replacing cars with deep-lined anti-skiing tires and installing anti-skid cables, engine oil freezing is a very terrible problem. Although German mime Tie had some research on the unforgettable "Moscow Winter" of the German army, roughly knowing that antifreeze is mainly ethylene glycol, there is no concept of how to prepare ethylene glycol. Even when they arrived in this era, the Chinese characters "alcohol" did not have the meaning of compounds, what is ethylene glycol? What is ethylene glycol? They said it, and everyone was confused. Later, they remembered that alcohol was ethanol, and they also added some knowledge of European and American chemistry, which was roughly clear about the possible molecular formula of ethylene glycol. However, they just recently tinkered with some samples in the laboratory, but they did not find out the process route for industrial production.

However, Mu Tie recalled that ethanol seemed to have also been used as antifreeze. Later, he tried many times and found that it was indeed possible to make antifreeze by pouring it, but it was too easy to evaporate and it was gone after use.

The Military Industry Research Institute in Beijing used the water absorption properties of glycerin to develop glycerin antifreeze, but the price was too expensive and could only make a very small amount of engine oil lubricant.

After much trouble, Mu Tie finally decided to use antifreeze made mainly by ethanol to prevent gasoline and engine oil from freezing. Ethanol can be made of calcium carbide (acetylene stone). Calcification is in large quantities in various parts of China, and Mongolia and Inner Mongolia are even more common, which is convenient. The Chinese industry led by Zheng Ying and others is characterized by large-scale scale. Soon, the military department of the Chinese Empire had produced various models of ethanol antifreeze, which were added to the gun oil, engine oil lubricant, gasoline, diesel and kerosene.

However, once you encounter extreme cold, especially when it reaches minus forty degrees Celsius, the ethanol antifreeze will also crystallize.

Fortunately, the climate from Irkutsk to Caktu belongs to a relatively warm area in Siberia, with the average temperature in January being minus fifteen degrees Celsius. As long as you don’t catch up with the blizzard, there will be no big problem.

The decline in lubricant performance has caused mechanical wear to surge. Faced with reality, Lu Zhenming and others had to give up the fantasy of sweeping East and West Siberia with a motorized column, and honestly returned to the combined tactics of infantry and artillery, and the logistics power dominated by trucks was also greatly affected.

Fortunately, the Mongolian horses used by the Chinese army are the most hard-working and tenacious military horses in the cold zone in the world. Even in such a cruel living environment, these horses still stubbornly maintain the logistics efficiency of the Chinese army under the careful care of the Chinese army's grooms.

At this time, the Russian army had also adjusted its deployment.

According to the response of the Russian commander-in-chief Nikolaevich and combat staff Liu Mengxiong, the Russian Far Eastern Front Army was to mobilize troops to the Chita-Ulan-Ude front line, and Chita's Russian army should also first reinforce Ulan-Ude. In addition, the Russian troops stationed in the Volga River Basin and even part of Europe should also urgently transfer eastwards to gather in Irkutsk to restore the Baikal Front.

However, the Russian army's abacus did not go smoothly from the beginning.

The North Wind Plan has been launched.

In East Siberia, the Chinese volunteers, spy networks, and the Buryat Mongolians and Kalmyk tribes who were guided by China formed a group of people to destroy many bridges, tunnels, and railway lines of the Siberian Railway, resulting in the long-term suspension of the Siberian Railway and the Russian army was in a mess. In order to protect the transportation line, the reinforcements drawn by Russia from the rear Baikal could only be used step by step, relying on the railway line to advance eastward, and arranged guard troops along the way, and advanced from Krasnoyarsk through Teshet toward Irkutsk at a speed.

In Russia and Europe, materials shortages and prices are very high, which has caused conflicts between the Russian headquarters and various alien territories. When the Russian Baikal front was wiped out, the news of Kropatkin's capture was revealed by newspapers from Britain, the United States, Germany and France, and various rumors began to spread wildly in major Russian cities like wildfires. Russia, which had already had an outbreak, suddenly began a chain reaction like a powder barrel.

Previously, under the liaison of the Russian Social Democratic Labor Party, workers in Moscow, Tharizin, Baku, Batumi and other places had already begun strikes, demanding increased wages and tax exemptions. News of the defeat came, and Moscow and other places formed workers' representative Soviets. The most radical Batumi and Baku, under the command of the Supreme Soviet of the Caucasus, began to incinerate factories, oil wells, dock facilities, and even attack police stations and municipal governments.

The Georgians, Armenians and Azerbaijanis in the Caucasus all began to connect. The dissatisfaction under the high-pressure rule of the Tsarist government began to be released. Especially the Azerbaijanis who believed in Islam were getting closer and closer with the Persians in the south.

Although the Tsar sent out the news of the dispatch of troops from Irkutsk, railway workers in Moscow, Samara, Russia, Moscow and even Novosibirsk began to work on the mill. The Moscow workers even directly formed the Soviets, the so-called People's Investigation Committee, announcing "re-examination of certain government directives."

In response to this, some terrible failures suddenly occurred in the Russian state machine.

Democratic constitutionalism has been deeply rooted in Europe since the European great* in the mid-19th century, especially the Russian December incident. Traditional Russian intellectuals and even many knowledgeable people in the government believe that Russia needs to gradually get rid of traditional authoritarianism and move towards an enlightened democratic constitutional system. This idea became increasingly strong with the Tsar's launch of this war, and due to command errors and institutional rigid corruption, it even began to resort to action.

Faced with the resistance of the lower-class people, Russian officials, gentry, even police and spies in many places took meaningful bystanders and acquiesces. Many famous intellectuals even began to get close to these civil organizations, trying to understand the other party’s true intentions and guide them.

In many places, the demands of the people have been gradually guided toward "peace", "constitutionalism", "Duma", "eight-hour working system", "minimum wage guarantee", and "trade union".

In comparison, some phenomenon that appeared in the army was even more terrifying. In Moscow, St. Petersburg, Taritzin, Kazan, and Yekaterinburg, some of the troops who received the order fell into a terrible silence.

The Baikal Front was wiped out the terrible Orientals

In private rumors, that place has been described as a terrible hell that devours life. Even officers, facing military orders, couldn't help but feel excited. They began to make various reports, requiring military needs, replenishing troops, more machine guns and cannons, winter equipment, and time to make plans... In short, it's not that they don't go, but that they need more thorough preparations.

Many so-called "garrison troops" stationed around industrial cities are mostly mobilized workers and farmers. Seeing the workers and peasant brothers begin a semi-public boycott, these soldiers who temporarily wear military uniforms push them to the side of sympathizing with the terrifying Siberian wastelands for empathy and feeling, and the fear of fighting the terrifying yellow devils in battle with the terrifying yellow devils.

In this trend, the Russian constitutionalists secretly formed the "Charitative Democratic Party", while the Socialist Party was widely active in the rural areas of Ukraine and the Volga River, mobilizing the people to "destroy the landlords", "take back their own land", and oppose "unrighteous wars and cruel recruitment."

In Moscow, St. Petersburg, Taritzin, Samara and other places, the Russian Social Democratic Labor Party carried out extensive and in-depth mobilization among workers and soldiers. However, Jewish Bund, who had returned to the Social Democratic Labor Party, was connected in a large manner along the Baltic coast and Poland, inciting the people to resist taxes, strikes, marches, and petitions. All of this has been secretly supported and cooperated by many local nationalists. Mixed with class sentiment and national feelings, this trend gradually began to show a prairie fire.

Few people know that behind all this is a pair of hands from the hinterland of East Asia. The large net set up by the Eastern country in Europe for more than ten years has finally begun to fully awaken, pushing another trend of time and space sweeping Russia to another unmeasurable height.

The delays of the Russian army have made the activities of Chinese guerrillas in East and West Siberia more and more rampant.

During the day, a large number of planes taken off from the front-line field airport of the Chinese army bombed the railway lines west of Ulan-Ude, railway platforms and material warehouses. At night, the Chinese army's airship troops used aviation maps and compass to frequently attack Russian railway lines and stations at night under the guidance of guerrilla bonfires, forcing the Russian army to slow down the marching speed and increase and transform a large number of temporary air defense weapons.

As the Russian Far Eastern Front's plan to reinforce Chita-Ulan-Ude was found by the Chinese army's code-breaking department, the Russian army's plan to dispatch troops was destroyed by the Chinese army. With the support of the Chinese army's aviation and air force, and the train and artillery units, the Chinese army launched a full-scale attack on the secret retreat of the Russian army with the support of the Chinese army's aviation and air force, as well as the train and artillery units. The Russian army was already exhausted after a long period of time, and its morale was low in the severe cold and storm. It was supported by the good news of "victory" and some expectations after winning, and maintained by military discipline.

Now that the order is ordered to retreat, the soldiers at a loss have begun to have all kinds of speculations, and all kinds of terrible rumors spread among the troops, and the order of the troops has become chaotic. Under the fierce attack of the Chinese army, the Russian army's rear troops did not support it for too long. The fierce attacks of the Chinese aviation troops and long-range heavy artillery have caused the order of the Russian army to be in chaos during the retreat. The Chinese cavalry units that were raising their strength surpassed the pursuit, while the infantry crossed mountains and ridges, chasing the small paths and chasing the wind and snow. As a result, a large number of Russian troops were divided and surrounded, and the remaining troops abandoned their baggage and fled in a panic.

The Russian troops returning to Petropavlovsk and other departure points were unable to implement the planned assembly. The Chinese airship troops had already destroyed the Russian Far East railway line with the cooperation of the guerrillas, and soon bombarded the railway from Ussurisk (Shuangchengzi) to Petropavlovsk (Berli) with heavy artillery.

In the direction of Chita, the Xuanwu Cluster of the Chinese Army annihilated the exhausted Russian troops in the Manzhouli-Hailar direction, and had already cooperated with the western cluster of the Chinese Northeast Front to approach Chita, forcing the Chita defenders to give up their attempts to further reinforce Ulan-Ude and shrink their defense. The fierce Chinese cavalry cut off the railway traffic from Chita to the east and west sides, cooperated with the infantry to say that Chita was isolated, and used the railway line to start gathering troops and supplies for the siege. The Chinese Army and the Korean Front troops who completed the Liaodong-Korean Battle began to regroup their forces. Except for some of the troops forming a Japanese dispatched army, commanded by Xu Fan to station in Japan, most of the remaining forces were mobilized to Vladivostok.

The strategy of the Chinese base camp is very clear, which is to first concentrate troops to capture Ulan Ude Chita, cut off the Siberian Railway, cut off the connection between the Russian Far Eastern Front and the local area, and then rely on Ulan Ude Chita to move into defense on the western front, mobilize most of the attacking forces to the eastern front, eliminate Vladivostok-Shuangchengzi-Berli and Blagoveshensk's Russian Far Eastern Front, completely lay the foundation for victory, and wait until spring is in full swing to attack westward.

At the end of October, the Russian army replaced the password system, and the intelligence intercepted by the Chinese army through the telegrams dropped sharply, and they had to start accumulating the telegrams again and deciphering new passwords. Faced with this situation, the Chinese army base also issued an order to conquer Ulan-Ude and Chita before the end of November

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