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Volume 3 Far East Story Chapter 419: Finding Another Way

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    July 13, 1918 21:30 Moscow Kremlin

    "Tsaritsyn received a call back. The North Caucasus Military District and the Southern Front Front Military Committee unanimously requested to defend Tsaritsyn and never hand over their land to the enemy. Otherwise, nearly a million villagers and elders in Tsaritsyn would not agree and defended Tsaritsyn three times.  The fallen soldiers of Tsaritsyn cannot agree, and the 200,000 soldiers of the Southern Front cannot agree!¡±

    Dzerzhinsky quickly opened the door and came in, reading the telegram in his hand as he walked. It was obvious that Tsaritsyn's rhetoric was beyond the expectations of the person in charge of Cheka, and also made him feel ashamed and happy.  After the world's major media released two battle reports on the Battle of Ufa, the atmosphere of the Soviet Central Committee that night was really depressing.

    The reply from Tsaritsyn and Joseph was like a spring breeze, which suddenly blew away many of the gloomy clouds hanging on the faces of the Central Committee members in the large conference room of the Central Committee. When Bukharin heard this, he was the first to jump up and take a few steps forward.  He snatched the telegram from Dzerzhinsky's hand, his eyes lit up as he read, and his voice was as passionate as a street speech:

    "Tsaritsyn must be defended. Tsaritsyn can be defended. The Southern Front must not only defend Tsaritsyn, but also cross the river from Saratov to assist Yegorov's Ninth Army to withdraw to the left bank of the Volga River. Listen,  What a heroic and heroic spirit, Joseph and the Southern Front are really good, unlike some Central Committee members who were frightened by the defeat and the enemy, and even planned to surrender Tsaritsyn to the enemy without a fight! "

    When Ulyanov heard this, he first raised his eyebrows, a smile appeared on his face, and then frowned again. He came over and took the telegram from Bukharin, read it carefully, and then handed it to  Trotsky said,

    "Comrade Trotsky, please take a closer look at Tsaritsyn's suggestions. It seems that sometimes we really need to listen to the opinions of the commanders below. This Voroshilov really has two brushes," Joseph said  Under Comrade Voroshilov's careful analysis, the Southern Front unified its opinions and resolutely defended Tsaritsyn and the left bank of the Volga River! "

    Trotsky disagreed in his heart, but like Bukharin, he was actually very pleased to see the Southern Front's high morale and fighting spirit. Of course, if it could hold Tsaritsyn and the banks of the Volga River, why not Moscow?  Why?  Do you have to humbly negotiate for peace with Ufa's enemies?

    ¡°The recommendations of the Southern Front Front Revolutionary Military Committee are as follows:

    1. Recruit the 300,000 previously demobilized prisoners of war who were released from Germany as soon as possible to join the Soviet Red Army to enrich the effective strength of the Southern Front and Eastern Front.

    2. Urgently purchase from the German and Austrian Allies as soon as possible machine guns, rifles and bullets that can arm 500,000 people, and a large number of anti-aircraft guns and anti-aircraft machine guns are needed. The sooner the better, the more the better!  Of course, there¡¯s also food!  "

    3. In view of the fact that Ufa¡¯s enemy¡¯s Allied Air Force has huge air superiority and has repeatedly changed the situation on the ground, it is recommended that Moscow negotiate with the German and Austrian Allies and lease flying squadrons from them to Russia to assist us in the fight. This can be done in the name of the German Volunteer Army, or  Pilots of Slavic or Russian origin were selected from the Luftwaffe to participate in the war.

    4. In view of the limited strength of the Southern Front, the North Caucasus Military District and the Southern Front can only find ways to defend the Volga River bank and Tsaritsyn south of Saratov. If the Southern Front Army is required to defend the entire Volga River bank of nearly 800 kilometers, then  It is necessary to let the Southern Front uniformly command the Eastern Front and the Southern Front. To this end, it is recommended to establish the Volga District Front to uniformly organize and command all Soviet Red Army troops on the left bank of the Volga River.

    5. In order to hold the defense line from Saratov south to Tsaritsyn, the Southern Front Army needs to be strengthened to at least 300,000 men. In order to hold the river area defense line south of Kazan to Tsaritsyn, the Volga River Front Army should at least be strengthened.  to half a million people, and by the end of July, arms and food aid from the German-Austrian Allies had to be in place, as well as anti-aircraft guns, anti-aircraft weapons and flying squadrons.  "

    Trotsky frowned while reading the telegram sent by the Southern Front. Although Tsaritsyn's fighting will was surprising, the conditions offered by the lion were also outrageous. At this moment, it was really  With the massive assistance of half a million Soviet Red Army troops and the German-Austrian Allies, would Moscow need to be humble and negotiate for peace with its enemies in Ufa?  !

    ¡°Last time, the 300,000 prisoners of war released from Germany were deemed during the screening process to be not firmly Bolshevik in their tendencies, and not revolutionary enough in terms of family background and personal performance, so they were sent back to their hometowns to make a living on their own.  There is still a widespread food shortage in Russia, and these people who returned to their hometowns are desperate. A small number of them have become bandits, and many of them have followed the White Guards. It is almost impossible to get them back to join the Red Army at this time!" Kamenev frowned!  He frowned.

    "Comrade Kamenev is right when he said that the thirty people who were demobilized at that time?One-third of the prisoners of war were originally soldiers from the right bank of the Volga River and west of the Ural Mountains. Across the river was the territory of the White Guards. They were either recruited as strong men or became bandits. Only a few returned to their hometowns to continue farming and working.

    As for those who stayed on the left bank of the Volga River, many of them were directly coaxed by the White Guard regimes of Krasnov and Denikin to join the White Guards. As for those prisoners of war of Belarusian and Ukrainian origin, those two had already been declared a prisoner of war.  After taking back the government, this road will not work!  "

    Zinoviev gently knocked on the table and rejected the possibility of recruiting soldiers from the prisoners of war who were demobilized last time to supplement the Soviet Red Army.

    "Then mobilize the working class to supplement the Soviet Red Army. There is no way to raise half a million troops. The key is the lack of weapons and ammunition, and the food problem must be solved. All of this depends on Chichev's negotiations with Ludendorff in Berlin.  As a result, this Chechev doesn¡¯t know what he is doing. He has been in Berlin for so long and has not yet come up with the results!¡± Bukharin shouted, waving his arms.

    "Bukharin is right, and even if the 300,000 released prisoners of war are available, didn't we discuss it last time? We must learn from the Eastern Front's Southern Group's tragic defeat on the right bank of the Volga River, and our Soviet Red Army's fighting will  It is not resolute enough, and the ideological quality of many soldiers is not pure. After being captured by the Germans, it is easy for them to lose their legs and put down their weapons in the face of the advantage of the coalition forces, so they would rather not use it than take any more risks." Ulyan!  Nov waved his arm and said.

    "We must carry forward the role of Bolshevik party members as the mainstay of the Soviet Red Army, we must retrain political cadres in the army, and we must educate our soldiers who you fight for!" Bukharin is the People's Propaganda Commissar and "Pravda"  Editor-in-Chief, when this guy is in his right mind, his combination of theory and practice is very confusing.

    "Tsaritsyn and Comrade Joseph underestimated the difficulties. In the Battle of Ufa, the Southern Cluster of the Middle East Front and Yegorov's Ninth Army combined a main force of nearly 300,000 people, 50 artillery batteries, and a total of 300 cannons and heavy machine guns.  There are more than 20 battalions. Under such circumstances, they still failed. The Southern Front now only has two armies with 120,000 men left. Artillery and machine guns are limited. Under this situation, it is said that it can hold Saratov to Tsaritsyn.  First line, too optimistic and lacking in evidence!¡±

    Trotsky spread his hands. Obviously, while appreciating Tsaritsyn's fighting spirit, he did not believe that the Southern Front's current strength would be able to fulfill the promises they made to Moscow in the telegram. There are so many prerequisites that Moscow simply cannot meet now.  Satisfied, when the conditions are met, the Ufa coalition will have already crossed the river!

    No matter how stupid Ulyanov is, he can see that Tsaritsyn at most believes that the Southern Front can hold the south of Saratov. With the reinforcement of troops and anti-aircraft weapons, although it leases aviation from the German-Austrian Allies,  The team may not be a good idea, but to actually negotiate the matter and make it useful, I really don¡¯t know what happened in the Year of the Monkey. When Germany was fighting against the Allied Powers on the Western Front, it had been suffering from insufficient number of aircraft. How could it still be used under such circumstances?  Are there any surplus aircraft to lend to Soviet Russia?

    "It is too early to say how to form the Volga Area Front. The top priority is to replenish and restore the strength of the Eastern Front as soon as possible. The arsenal in Nizhny Novgorod must seize the time to produce cannons and machine guns. As for rifles, Chichev can follow  The Germans want it. They must have captured a lot of Mosin-Nagant rifles from the Russian army, and since they are of different standards from Mauser, there is no use for them to keep them!" Ulyanov said while turning his hands behind his back.

    "Since Tsaritsyn's comrades do not agree to give up Tsaritsyn, how can we proceed with negotiations with the Ufa coalition?" Zinoviev asked.

    "Think about it, is there any other way to achieve a truce with the Ufa coalition without giving up Tsaritsyn? Does the Chinese king have any personal preferences? Is it possible to bribe the other party? Sdervyov?  There are a lot of tsarist jewelry and antiques stored nearby, and we can use them to bribe the Chinese king!

    As long as his coalition forces agree not to cross the river, everything else is easy to negotiate!  We are not afraid of the White Guards crossing the river. No matter Kolchak, Krasnov or Denikin, they do not have a strong air force or aircraft and cannot take advantage of us!  "Ulyanov frowned and looked at the several Central Committee members in front of him.

    "Comrade Ulyanov, the method you mentioned is probably very difficult to implement. As far as I know, if this Chinese king is not the richest guy in the world, at least he is the richest guy in all of China, but he has named himself  All properties and shares owned by the company in China have been donated to the China Charity Foundation, and all the symbolic royalties from the penicillin patent have been donated to an international charity and science foundation. Such a person cannot be impressed by gold, silver, or jewelry.  !¡±

    Zinoviev grinned and said, he did not expect that Comrade Ulyanov, the leader of the Bolsheviks, would actually make such a move in front of so many Central Committee members.Come on, this kind of thing is usually brought up by subordinates like Dzerzhinsky or Chicherin. Comrade Chairman was obviously a little sick and rushed to seek medical treatment without caring about his own appearance.

    "Gold, silver and jewelry can't impress him, but what about beauty? Does he like beautiful women? Dzerzhinsky, are there any suitable candidates in the Cheka? Some noble daughter, princess, etc., is there any beauty that works?  A good girl who can die for the Bolshevik cause?" Ulyanov rolled his eyes and asked expectantly.

    "Uh Comrade Chairman, most of the children of Tsarist Russian aristocrats have either followed their families to the right bank of the Volga River, or they were suppressed and exiled along with their families in the torrent of revolution, but we need to find a few stunning beauties.  There is still a way Is it just that the Chinese king is obsessed with women?

    "Everything depends on human effort. Revolution is not a dinner party. Don't the Chinese have an old saying? Was it said by Confucius or Mencius? "Food, sex, and nature". As long as they are human beings, they all have their shortcomings. Dare you say that you  Don't like beauties?

    Ah, I¡¯m blushing, Comrade Dzerzhinsky, the Bolsheviks are also human beings, and the King of China of the Ufa-Ufa Allied Forces is also a human being. Where did I hear last time that this Chinese King¡¯s house in Beijing is a golden house?  Having several concubines, such a person must like beautiful women!

    I leave this matter to you. You must prepare it for me within three days. One is definitely not enough, more is better. Twins are the best. They must be well-educated and one of the best in body and appearance. Nonsense!  Of course a virgin!  "

    The members of the Soviet Central Committee in the conference room stared at Ulyanov, who was proudly walking around in circles assigning tasks to Dzerzhinsky with his hands behind his back. They were stunned for a moment!
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