Years of the Republic of China 1913

Vladivostok, the residence of the Empresses of the Russian Empire.

Empress Catherine III of the Empire, it has been three years since the establishment of the orthodox government of the Russian Empire. The girl at that time has become a bright and charming empress in a blink of an eye. Now she is in the most beautiful and colorful years of a woman's life, but If you look closely, you can see deep fatigue and anxiety hidden deep in Catherine III's beautiful face.

When she was a child, Anastasia lived carefree under the wings of her parents as a princess. In her young heart, everything in this world was beautiful, just like described in fairy tales, and she even dreamed of growing up Later, a handsome Prince Charming became her husband, and they lived happily ever after.

But the cruel reality made her quickly understand that fairy tales are just fairy tales, and the world is far from as beautiful as she imagined, but full of conspiracy, violence, blood and scheming...At this time, she knew why when she was with her parents, the tsar and queen, whose parents were the highest rights holders of the Russian Empire, sometimes showed helplessness and anxiety behind their supreme brilliance, even before the outbreak of the revolution. Sometimes, the little princess who left Russia for a visit to China even saw depression and despair in the eyes of her parents.

Now, she finally understands, because the princess is now the empress, sitting in the seat her father once sat.Even, her weak shoulders have to take on the heavier responsibility of her father - to revive Russia!Revive the Romanov dynasty!

In the past few years, she has worked hard to do all this. The endless government affairs and the ever-changing situation made her almost physically and mentally exhausted, but the actual results were not great.Except for Pian'an Yiqiu with the support of the Chinese government, the goal of recovering the lost ground and completing the revival still seems to be far away.Many times.The queen even wanted to abandon all these and hide her name and become an ordinary person. Perhaps this is the life she wanted.

"His Majesty!"

In the imperial meeting, Minister of the Navy Kolchak, who was sitting at the bottom, saw that the queen had not spoken for a long time, and was even in a daze. He couldn't help coughing, and reminded him softly.

Get out of your mind and back to reality.Catherine III's eyes swept over the people in front of her. These people were important ministers in her cabinet, including the Minister of the Navy Kolchak, the Minister of the Army Denikin, and the Minister of the Interior Victor (Zhang Zongchang) , Minister of Industry Kerensky and Minister of Foreign Affairs Kosovitz... .

"The battle on the Siberian defense line is not optimistic. Everyone has read Baron Wrangel's report. The puppet Soviet government appointed Frunze as the supreme commander of the front line. This is a very difficult opponent. Judging from the current situation, everyone Is there any good way?"

"Your Majesty, the main problem facing the front line is the lack of troops. At present, the Ministry of the Army is stepping up the reorganization of troops. As long as it lasts for a month or two, when the cold winter comes, the enemy's offensive will inevitably come to a standstill, so I feel that the current difficulties It's temporary, although Baron Wrangel is under great pressure, but with a solid defensive line, it shouldn't be too much of a problem to defend."

It was Secretary of War Denikin who spoke.Since coming to Vladivostok, the general who was appointed as the Minister of Army three years ago has finally officially taken office.Because it is mainly the army that is fighting now.As the Minister of the Army, although he has not yet fully grasped the real power, he must be the first to stand up.

"Your Excellency, Admiral, what do you think?" The queen cast her eyes on the Minister of the Navy Kolchak noncommittally. Before Denikin was unable to perform his duties, some of the work of the Ministry of War was shared by Kolchak until now.Kolchak still has a lot of power in the Ministry of War.

Kolchak thought for a while, and said: "I agree with His Excellency Denikin. According to the report from the front, Baron Wrangel has already received assistance from the squadron, although our total strength is insufficient. But no matter what From the perspective of training and equipment, it still has certain advantages, not to mention that the Siberian defense line is solid, and it is definitely not so easy for Frunze to break through the defense line just by relying on crowd tactics."

"Where are you guys?"

The queen then asked the rest of the people. Most of the people present basically agreed with the two generals. They felt that the situation on the front line was not at its worst. Baron Wrangel should be able to hold the line of defense before the spring of next year. And by that time, the army's reorganization work will be basically completed, and when the support troops arrive, the situation on the front line will inevitably ease.

Catherine III, who was a little disappointed in her heart, sighed. Compared with the Soviet, the Russian Empire's orthodox government was far inferior in manpower and material resources, and not many of her generals could be really useful, except for a few Except for a few people, the vast majority of nobles are simply unusable.

"Today, I received a telegram from the Chinese General Staff."

"Chinese? Telegram to the Empress?"

Hearing Catherine III suddenly mention this matter, the people present looked at each other in blank dismay, secretly thinking about what was said in the telegram. It seems that today's impromptu meeting should be related to the telegram from the Chinese, otherwise the empress would Don't purposely bring this up so early in the meeting.

"Before telling everyone the content of the telegram, I would like to ask you a question." Catherine III did not immediately take out the telegram, but instead asked another question, which was to judge the situation on the Siberian front.Ekaterina III briefly stated the situation on both sides of the front line, especially focusing on the tactical characteristics of Frunze's movement, and his intention to use this tactic to train soldiers to achieve the purpose of rapid reorganization.

"Everyone, Frunze is definitely not a simple person. According to his current combat plan, by next spring, the so-called Red Army of the Soviet puppet government will be fully restored, and even stronger than before to a certain extent. With more than one hundred An opponent with tens of thousands of troops can't fight with our national defense force alone. Even if the Chinese government sends troops to fight at that time, I'm afraid it will face huge losses. What's more, compared with the western lands, they have huge human resources and can completely ignore the loss of troops , but can we do it?"

"Your Majesty, what do you mean...?" Foreign Minister Baron Kosovitz stood up and asked, just as Catherine III said, the Far East is thin and sparsely populated, and there is a huge difference between them and the Soviet government in terms of manpower. Almost all of them have experienced the European War. Didn’t Tsarist Russia use this trick to block the invincible German elite?In the absence of an elite force that is balanced against the opponent, it is clumsy to use countless human lives to accumulate and change quantity for qualitative change, but the actual effect is not bad.

"Victor, tell me..." Ekaterina III directly called Zhang Zongchang's name. Zhang Zongchang, who hadn't spoken since the meeting, stood up, and said slightly to Ekaterina III. He saluted, and then started talking.

"The Chinese General Staff recommends that we immediately stop the reorganization of defectors...."

Zhang Zongchang just said the first sentence, everyone was in an uproar, especially Denikin couldn't sit still, he immediately stood up and asked the reason for doing this, you must know that these defectors are all original Red Army!If it is not compiled according to the procedures, what should we do if something goes wrong?Now in order to guard against these hundreds of thousands of troops, the Russian Imperial Government Army has reduced the front-line reinforcements, just to worry about accidents.

"Don't be in a hurry, please be patient and listen to me slowly." Zhang Zongchang cleared his throat and shouted after making a downward gesture with both hands, and he continued to speak after everyone sat back to their seats one after another.

It took about ten minutes for Zhang Zongchang to explain the content of the telegram sent by the Chinese General Staff in detail, and explained the actual analysis, and finally came to a conclusion that the Chinese people's suggestion is desirable. It is also the best way to solve the current problem.

"I have a question!" Kerensky asked with a frown, "According to your statement, General, it sounds feasible in theory, but who can guarantee that these troops will not mutiny or defect again after they are drawn to the front line?"

"Of course no one can guarantee this..." Zhang Zongchang replied, seeing that Kerensky's face changed and he was about to ask a question, he preemptively asked: "Your Excellency, can you guarantee that they will definitely mutiny or defect again Obviously not? You must know that the bloody methods of the Soviets have been known to the outside world, especially the commanders and soldiers of the former Red Army. The Bolsheviks are not as easy-talking as us. Their only way to deal with traitors is to cleanse them. That is to kill people! Not only killing each other, but even their relatives and even friends are on the list of purges. Therefore, once they surrender to us, these people become the targets of Soviet suppression. In this case, they defect and have What's the benefit? Is it because you want to escape and get shot?"

"Or what you said is reasonable, but your Excellency, you must know that Frunze's tactics are based on fanatical Bolshevism. Without New Year's support, how can these surrendering troops still have combat effectiveness?" Kolchak said in A sentence was inserted aside.

Zhang Zongchang said with a smile: "Of course, without spiritual support, these Red Army troops are scum. But your Excellency, don't forget that it is not necessary to pull all these troops up in the plan, but to use them one after another. Besides, apart from fanatical Bolshevism, we give Except for them, we can still provide other things.”

"Oh, so what can we offer?" Kolchak asked with interest.

Zhang Zongchang blinked, and gave an example with a smile: "Money, spirits, women... and of course bloody means... such as a team of supervisors with machine guns and so on! We can use the former to anesthetize them, and then use the latter Come to drive them to work hard, as long as they can survive the washing of the battlefield, then the soldiers who survive are loyal to us, and they will be reborn in the flames of war!" (To be continued..)