The Third Reich: The Return of the King

The train in Mainz arrived in the northeastern region of the Far East on June 22.

Prior to this, Mainz met Kolchak in Siberia, who had retreated from the Urals.

Although De Yizhi is currently doing business with the woolly bear, Mainz does not see Kolchak as an enemy, on the contrary, he is interested in the leader of the White Army, whom the red bear sees as the greatest threat.

Kolchak had originally planned to go to the Far East to accumulate strength in the Outer Northeast near the Western Pacific, and he planned to go to the footbasin to seek support, relying on the support of the footbasin to launch a counterattack.

Historically, Kolchak did just that, of course, before he could reach the footbasin, hundreds of thousands of people were frozen to death in the Siberian region by snowstorms and extreme cold, and then he was betrayed by mercenaries and handed over to the Soviet army, and then he was shot by the Soviet army.

In fact, even if Kolchak had not encountered that blizzard, his strategy would not have succeeded.

The Far East is not the essence of the woolly bears, it is too far away from the European part of the woolly bears, and although they can avoid the attack of the Red Army for a while, they will not survive in the Far East!

At present, the population of the Far East is probably not even a million people, and the army under Kolchak, together with the landlords, nobles and family members, totals nearly 1.2 million.

So many people suddenly ran away to the Far East, but I am afraid that it will be difficult to even support themselves, and once it is winter, they are afraid that they will still freeze to death because they lack food and clothing.

And in that case, they can probably only march south to plunder the Celestial Empire!

This result is naturally unacceptable to Mainz, since it is clear that going to the Far East is a dead end, and he wants to make Kolchak hold on for a while longer and create more trouble for the woolly bear, then it is natural to dissuade Kolchak.

So Mainz suggested to Kolchak that he take his troops south from Siberia into Central Asia, where the climate is much milder than in the Far East, and where there are two places suitable for growing grain, the Aral Sea and the Caspian Sea, where the population and products are not comparable to those of the Far East, where they can not only recruit troops, but also collect supplies on the spot to feed themselves, and if they really have the ability, they can even put down roots here.

As long as they do well enough, Central Asia can even become their base camp, providing them with enough support to counterattack the red woolly bear.

Moreover, Central Asia is adjacent to the A-3 colony, from which they can get the support of the Sunset Empire, and if they are at a disadvantage in the battle with the Red Army, they can even retreat south and enter the colony of the Sunset Empire, and they will definitely not dare to pursue unless the woolly bear is willing to go to war against the Sunset and the entire Entente.

As long as the hairy bear does not dare to pursue, they will not be able to completely wipe out the power of Kolchak, and Kolchak can continue to get support from the people on whom the sun never sets, and can also call on the woolly bears all over the world to support him.

After hearing Mainz's suggestion, Kolchak pondered for a long time, and had to say that Mainz's proposal was much more complete than the plan he had in mind.

He had been too whimsical before, and it was naïve to unilaterally expect the Footbasin Man to support him against the woolly bear.

So far, although the footbasin has shown a strong interest in intervening in the woolly bear's civil war, it is difficult to say how much strength the footbasin itself can contribute and how much support it can provide, after all, the support of the footbasin has remained mostly verbal.

And compared with the old traditional powers such as the United States and the United Kingdom, the foot basin is undoubtedly much weaker, so if you can seek the support of the United States and Britain and other countries, then you should naturally hold the thickest thigh

Kolchak eventually followed Mainz's advice and headed south with his huge force into Central Asia.

After separating from Kolchak's White Army, Mainz and his party entered the Celestial Empire along the Trans-Siberian Railway.

The Northeast region is currently controlled by the Feng warlord Zhang Zuolin, and standing behind Zhang Zuolin is the footbasin man who is eyeing East Asia.

At this time, the situation of the Celestial Empire was very complicated, and Yuan Datou died of illness soon after the restoration in 1916, and after Yuan Datou died of illness, there was no one in the Beiyang government whose prestige and ability could effectively integrate and suppress others.

As a result, after Yuan Shikai's death, the warlords of the provinces successively established themselves and nominally obeyed the leadership of the Beiyang government in Beiping, but in fact they went their own way, and warlord melee began to break out in order to compete for power.

Among them, the three relatively large warlords are the Feng warlords entrenched in the three northeastern provinces, with Fengtian Province as the core of the northeast region as the foundation, and the main representative is Zhang Zuolin.

The second is the direct warlords supported by Britain and the United States, and the direct warlords are mainly entrenched in the provinces of Jiangsu, Jiangxi, Hubei and Zhili, and the representative figures are Feng Guozhang, Cao Kun and Wu Peifu.

The third warlord is also an Anhui warlord supported by a foot basin, and the main area controlled is Anhui, Zhejiang, Fujian, Shandong, Shaanxi and other provinces, and the representative task is Duan Qirui.

At this time, the strength of the Feng warlords was not considered the strongest, the strongest were the Anhui warlords supported by the foot basin and the direct warlords supported by Britain and the United States, and the two warlords were currently vying for the presidency of Beiping.

However, Beiping is not far from the south of Shanhaiguan, so the two warlords fighting for this place have to consider the existence of the Feng warlords, which makes Zhang Zuolin in a more advantageous position in the warlord melee, coupled with the fact that the Northeast has a large number of various resources and hundreds of thousands of square kilometers of fertile land, making Zhang Zuolin slowly stand out in the warlord melee.

Mainz knows that in history, it was the Feng warlord who finally won the warlord war, and Zhang Zuolin also won the throne of the president of the Beiyang government as he wished, of course, he did not sit on this throne for long, because he failed to meet the footbasin people who supported him, and was blown up by the angry footbasin people.

The location of the Northeast region is very critical, although Zhang Zuolin is a bandit, but he is still knowledgeable, I heard that he developed a military industry in the Northeast, and also introduced a large number of advanced weapons from abroad to imitate, which made Mainz have a strong interest in this Northeast king, and he plans to visit this person.

Before the footbasin fully controlled the northeast, he wanted to do as much as possible for Deyi Zhi and the Celestial Empire.