Chapter 205: The Decision of the King of Xinjiang
After Tsarist Russia joined the war, many people in China turned their eyes to Xinjiang. Whether Shengshicai was preparing to turn on the power to the enemy has become a hot topic that the public is discussing. Many casinos even offered odds to bet whether Shengshicai wanted to be a traitor. The official reaction was much more dull. Since even former president-level figures surrendered to the enemy and became traitors, what's the point? The principal quietly sent several telegrams to Shengshicai, and Shengshicai took a look and threw them into the toilet paper basket.
The nickname of the Xinjiang King Sheng Shicai is Sheng Shicai. This master relies on the power of the Tsarist Russians (the capital and arms instructor even directly sent troops to help Sheng Shicai eliminate dissidents). After the rise of Xinjiang, he immediately implemented high-pressure rule in Xinjiang. In short, if he doesn't obey me in my territory, he will die.
It is not that the prosperous times are born cruel and bloodthirsty, but that Xinjiang and even the northwest are a place with difficult natural conditions. If you don’t eat people, you will be eaten by others. Only those with wolfish nature in your heart can survive. The saints will become cruel to survive when they arrive here - Muhammad is not a vegetarian and kills people when necessary.
Suddenly, Yangnovsky and Sheng Shicai, the supreme leader of the Tsarist Russian division stationed here, received news that Tsarist Russia was preparing to declare war on Nanjing Chiang. After living here for a while, Yangnovsky knew that Sheng Shicai was not an easy warlord to surrender. When Sheng Shicai personally brought people and drinks to work in the Tsarist Russian Army Division stationed in Xinjiang.
Smelling the strong aroma of wine, the division commander Yangnovsky's belly surging wineworms but he didn't dare to drink it first. There is no drug test equipment here. What if the poison is poisoned by this Shengshicai? This Shengshicai promised to turn on the electricity to surrender to Tsarist Russia tomorrow.
Sheng Shicai also saw the doubts of Commander Yangnovsky. He laughed and raised his glass to shout "Tsar Alexeikulla". He drank a small cup first, and then chewed it with his roast lamb legs.
There will always be no different wine poured out from a bottle. With this idea, the master Yangnovsky was relieved to start eating and drinking. As far as he knew, this warlord named Shengshi Caisky was also very caring for his life.
The situation outside the camp was similar. The people brought by Shengshicai to make a drink first. According to the unwritten regulations of the wine party of various ethnic groups, if the friend refuses to drink after sending the wine, the friend is not a friend. The Slavs are also a nation that has no alcoholic pleasure, and they quickly got rid of suspicion and started to eat and drink. Later, the guards arranged by Yangnovsky came over and drank it - all the hospitality friends here and there is no danger. The officers were drunk and who would care about who was on duty.
But before the carnival was over, Yangnovsky noticed something strange: "Why is it dark? Why can't I see anything?"
Sheng Shicai, who had just drunk a small glass of wine and started eating meat hard, snorted coldly at this time: "It's just a little inferior wine, it seems that the effect is pretty good. Go back and say to your God, Xinjiang can only be my Sheng Shicai."
Yangnovsky, who was blind, first heard the sound of the pistol turning on the insurance, and then with a "pop", Yangnovsky, the commander of the Army Division of the Tsarist Russian mine in Xinjiang, lost all his consciousness.
The gunshots were the orders. When the people brought by Sheng Shicai heard the guns, they took action one after another from the somewhat shocked or drunk Tsarist Russian soldiers or officers, and then fired at the people who were drinking and eating meat together just now.
For the Slavs, friends are people who drink and eat meat together, and the enemies are people fighting each other on the battlefield. No one is who was drinking just now. He immediately took action against his friends. Well, it is indeed a little difficult to explain what the Hongmen Banquet is. There is no similar allusion to learn from in their history. (No, isn’t the last dinner?)
While most people were drunk or carnival, the Tsarist Russian Army Division was in a tragedy. Shengshicai's army only killed one person, and the price of several minor injuries solved this division, obtained more than 700 artillery pieces of various types (including more than 500 mortars of 50 mm), 600 light and heavy machine guns, nearly 1000 intact rifles, nearly 1,000 intact pistols, and forty light tanks. Twenty-nine armored vehicles, more than 500 cars that can be driven, and thousands of military horses. Bullets, guns, drugs, gold rubles and other goods are supplied countless.
Sheng Shicai, who had been the king of Xinjiang for two years, had only more than 10,000 people under his command and had formed two short-term B divisions. He believed that this was the Tsarist Russia to control its scale so that he could easily eliminate it when he was disobedient at any time. The Tsarist Russian mine protection troops stationed in Xinjiang had 15,000 people.
With this batch of equipment provided by the dead man Yangnovsky, Sheng Shicai believed that his original troops would increase a large part of their combat effectiveness, and could form two more divisions - don't doubt that although the regular army of Tsarist Russia is not very large, compared with domestic warlords, they are regular army after all, and all personnel and facilities are complete.
For example, warlords like China, it is very common that there are very few auxiliary troops and auxiliary troops. They often dare to call the division commander if they raise three regiments of troops. This is still good. There are many people who dare to claim to be the commander of the army if they have hundreds of people or dozens of guns.
Sheng Shicai did not want to turn his subordinates into a large organization like a reorganized division trainer. In his opinion, a division had three infantry regiments of more than 1,000 people, a cavalry regiment of 100 people, an artillery regiment and some direct companies (communication, health, reconnaissance, air defense and transportation engineers), six or seven thousand people were enough.
After killing Yangnovsky's Tsarist Russian Army Advisor with Hongmen Banquet and Industrial Alcohol, Sheng Shicai neither issued a telegram to fight against Russia nor invested in Chiang. Instead, while compiling the new army, he promoted his set of propaganda of Sheng Shicai in Xinjiang. For example, slogans such as Sheng Shicai was the gospel savior of the Xinjiang people were painted on the wall with various Chinese texts. Among the Chinese textbooks tampered with by Sheng Shicai, Sheng Shicai was one of the six world leaders on par with Roosevelt, Adolf, Alexek, Yuen, Principal Jiang and others.
After Tsar Alexek and Nanjing Principal Jiang learned about the series of practices of Sheng Shicai in Xinjiang through various relationships, they were so angry that they both felt so angry that they left one sentence: "Let's deal with you when you look back."
This is also impossible. Although Tsarist Russia and Xinjiang have a border of more than 3,000 kilometers of national defense lines, there are not many troops near the border between the two countries because there is no railway nearby, and the number of troops that can be maintained in combat is also very limited.
Yangnovsky, the strongest, also let Sheng Shicai hold a Hongmen Banquet and kill it, and the weapons and equipment fell into Sheng Shicai's hands. This shows that Sheng Shicai's troops have at least the strength of two Tsarist Russian army divisions. Now, in order to calm Sheng Shicai, three to five fully organized military divisions have to send three to five full army divisions to fight in Xinjiang without railway supplies. This seems to be very difficult for Tsarist Russia. Those troops that transport supplies thousands of miles to these three or five army divisions will need thousands or even tens of thousands of trucks and tens of thousands of personnel to support them.
If it weren't for the help of the Tsarist Russian army in Xinjiang, there would be no other forces except Shengshicai's Ministry with the help of the armed forces of the Tsarist Russian army, Tsar Alexek and his cabinet would rather choose another force to support it to fight against Shengshicai.
However, Tsar Alexek and the Tsarist Russian cabinet knew that this prosperous era would not be laughing for long. Since the beginning of supporting the prosperous era, the Tsarist Russian cabinet planned to pull a branch line from the Siberian Railway to Dihua (now Urumqi). The route was about Moscow - Samara - Astana - Akdoka - Aka Pass - Dihua. When this railway was repaired, there was no need for prosperity and other things to exist.
Of course, Tsarist Russia would not build a railway of more than 2,000 kilometers for a prosperous era and Xinjiang (the railway cost is not cheap these days). Among them, a section of Moscow-Astadt, a railway of thousands of kilometers had been built long ago during the last Tsar's tenure. What Tsarist Russia had to do was to continue to extend the railway eastward.
Naturally, a small Dihua and Shengshi would not be the terminal of this railway. In the eyes of Tsarist Russia, if this railway is connected with the Longhai Line in Lanzhou and Xi'an, it would be too convenient for Tsarist Russia's aggressive war. Judging from the current process of laying the railway, it will take several months to pave the railway to the Alasan Pass, so Tsar Alexek and the Tsarist Russian cabinet both felt that Shengshi had to jump around for another two days.
As for the principal, there is no way to deal with Sheng Shicai's almost independent behavior. Now the military and political departments in Xinjiang are all Sheng Shicai's people - those who are not him have been dragged out to shoot targets long ago. The Central Army has not yet bordered Sheng Shicai, so he can only let Sheng Shicai go. The principal decided to wait until the Russians and Japanese devils were killed and most of the warlords in China before resolving the Xinjiang Wang Shengshicai - it is impossible to do it. Xinjiang is indeed too far away, and the principal also relies on railway transportation most of the time.
At this time, Jin Batian in Yan'an also told Zhang Zhizhong that he wanted to go back to Peking. After all, he was on duty in the Ministry of Military Affairs and the 29th Army of Peking. The battle in Shaanxi was over, and if he stayed, he was just watching Zhang Zhizhong train the troops and guarding against the natural dangers of the Yellow River.
What are the mercenaries under their command? War hunting dogs, and they want to go wherever they fight. After fighting here, most people will of course think about leaving.
Of course, Jin Batian also happily handed over more than 500 second-hand 150-heavy mortars to Zhang Zhizhong for treatment. This kind of guy is enough to take up the tonnage, and it is not worth the cost to bring them back. The underground military factory in Peking produces new artillery every day, and when needed, it will be transferred to a batch.
After Zhang Zhizhong received this batch of heavy mortars, the question he thought was where to find people to build two military heavy mortar brigades. Of course, another problem was that after Jin Batian left, he gave the female captain of more than 500 people from the female standing team to Zhang Zhizhong for handling. Although Jin Batian knew that selling it to the Eight Great Hutongs could be sold at a good price, he was unwilling to ruin his reputation for these two small money, so naturally Zhang Zhizhong was the same.
Zhang Zhizhong first handed the female prisoner camp to the 36th Division for the 36th Division, and believed Zhang Zhizhong, his own old unit of the 36th Division of the 71st Army. But soon Zhang Zhizhong discovered that the military pay in the pockets of the officers and soldiers of the 36th Division turned into lipstick, snowflake paste, beautiful flower cloth, comb, and mirror entered the female prisoner's personal belongings.
Chapter completed!