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Volume Three Far East Stories Chapter 402 A Bolt from the Blue

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    July 13, 1918 18:00 Moscow Kremlin

    "The Allied Powers announced that after a week of fierce fighting, the coalition forces had annihilated most of the Fifth Army, Fourth Army, Second Army and First Army of the Eastern Front of the Soviet Red Army in the Ufa Plain, and captured more than 150,000 Soviet Red Army soldiers.  people, and severely damaged the headquarters of the Ninth Army of the Southern Front, and is now pursuing the remaining troops of Yegorov and Tukhachevsky in the retreat of the Soviet Red Army!" Dzerzhinsky hurried away with the telegram he had just received!  Come in!  His voice was visibly trembling when he spoke.

    "What!" The members of the Soviet Central Committee in the conference room took a breath after hearing this. The little leader Ulyanov turned around in front of the battle map with a livid face, and rushed over to send the telegram from Dzerzhin to  Ski snatched it from his hand, and after reading it in a hurry, he tore it into pieces angrily, threw down the shredded paper in his hand, waved his hands and shouted:

    "This is imperialist propaganda and a naked lie! You absolutely cannot believe it! Where did you get this telegram from Dzerzhinsky? What channel did the news come from? Are you sure the source of the news is reliable! Do you want to  Responsible to the Party, responsible to the Central Committee! Where did this telegram come from?¡± Ulyanov was almost on the verge of going berserk.

    Trotsky couldn't believe his ears. He stepped forward, picked up the telegram that Ulyanov had torn to pieces on the ground, put it on the conference table, and started to piece it together. Kamenev and Zinovi were also nearby.  The husband and Bukharin swarmed around to watch. The content of the telegram was exactly what Dzerzhinsky said. The coalition announced that it had annihilated all the fifth, fourth, and second armies of the Soviet Red Army and most of the first army.  , severely damaged the Ninth Army, and captured at least 150,000 Soviet Red Army prisoners.

    Everyone gasped. Bukharin sat back in his chair and muttered something unknown. Kamenev and Zinoviev looked at each other.  His face was also quite ugly. At this time, Comrade Sdervyov, who was originally planning to take over as the commander of the Southern Cluster, had not returned from the Volga River. There was almost no other sound in the conference room except Ulyanov's roar.

    Dzerzhinsky finally broke free from the little mentor's hands and said with an aggrieved look, "This is the telegram news release from the Ufa Allied Forces Command that the major media outlets of the Allied countries received at 4 o'clock this afternoon. At this time, all countries  I'm afraid it will be on the headlines of the major evening newspapers, and it will probably be reported in major newspapers around the world tomorrow morning!

    In fact, I can¡¯t believe this is true. I have specifically verified this with our intelligence personnel in Beijing, China, Tokyo, Japan, London, Paris and Washington. At present, it seems that Ufa¡¯s coalition forces are spreading rumors all over the world.  A big lie, either.  .  .  This is true!  "Dzerzhinsky, who was in charge of intelligence and counterrevolutionary suppression in the Central Committee of the Soviet Union, was sweating profusely and his face suddenly turned pale. Apparently, he had no doubts about the authenticity of the news.

    "How could this happen! How could this happen! Even if 200,000 pigs were placed on the Great Plains of Ufa, they wouldn't have caught 150,000 pigs in a few days! Didn't they already order all the armies to retreat quickly? Didn't they already agree?  Can they independently choose the direction of the breakout! We even agreed to the request of the army commanders to maintain radio silence! Damn it, after three days and two nights of radio silence, we ordered the radio to call the troops on the Ufa front!  Call as soon as possible! We must know what happened on the right bank of the Volga!"

    Ulyanov spitted and waved his hands and roared. After waiting for three days and two nights, he actually waited for such a completely devastating news. It came from the battle situation announced by the enemy. This made Ulyanov's  His heart ached, and the man clutched his chest and fell into the chair. Seeing this, Dzerzhinsky hurriedly poured some brandy for his leader and helped him drink it. Then he walked over and opened the window and curtains.  Also open it up to let in some fresh air from the humid night breeze!

    Trotsky was worried and left the conference room to personally command the radio to send calls to all armies. Keeping the shooting radio silent at this time was simply a joke. The enemy's propaganda wouldn't be so outrageous, right?  In other words, the situation on the front line has changed so much in just a few days.

    Here Kamenev walked to the map and took a closer look at the enemy and enemy situations on the map. It was almost the same as when the breakout started three days ago, but the three important ferries of Samara, Togliatti and Melesk  The fall of the Soviet Union has been confirmed, and it is an indisputable fact that the Orenburg and Ural lines have fallen into the hands of the coalition forces under the banner of the Kazakh Alash Autonomous Republic.

    The coalition's roundabout operation had obviously been planned long before the official start of the Battle of Ufa. Otherwise, it would have been impossible to take the line from Orenburg to the Urals in a roundabout way, let alone sweep Samar from south to north in one go.  Pulled to the ferry at Merrigans.

    "The coalition has a big appetite. I think we are on the Volga River."The troops on the shore may have suffered a major setback!  The opponent had the advantage of artillery and aircraft, and they were fighting on the inside of the city of Ufa. Neither Yegorov nor Tukhachevsky were timid and cowardly Red Army generals. At that time, they both unanimously requested to retreat, which shows that  The situation on the front line was already quite tense!  I think we need to be mentally prepared to lose the entire right bank of the Volga!  "Kamenev said in a difficult voice.

    "If all this is not the propaganda and rumors of the coalition, but the real battle situation, the next thing we have to consider is how to hold the left bank of the Volga River after the Eastern Front suffered such heavy losses. Kolchak in the direction of Kazan will not  Will miss such a powerful opportunity. The White Guards in the Ufa direction are not the main force, but the coalition forces. Kolchak in the Kazan direction has at least 150,000 elite White Guards as the main force, as well as several officers with extremely strong combat effectiveness.  Regiment, I think the Third Army on the east side may not be able to block the enemy's attack!" Zinoviev continued.

    "How did all this happen! We finally got back prisoners of war from the German prisoner-of-war camps to join in strengthening our Red Army troops. Who said that the Eastern Front Army was elite? We gave the best soldiers, rifles, machine guns and cannons to the Eastern Front  The Front Army gave it to Tukhachevsky and Rzhevsky, and we even deployed the Ninth Army from the Southern Front to reinforce them for the second time! Three days and two nights of retreat and radio silence resulted in this?  This is absolutely unacceptable!¡±

    Ulyanov took a few gulps of brandy and took a breath. After hearing the pessimistic tone of Kamenev and Zinoviev, the guy couldn't help but jumped up from the chair again, pinching his waist.  Walking back and forth in the conference room, he continued to roar and yell. Ulyanov was already an easily excited leader, and now his face was even redder, and he was panting and tossing back and forth!
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