cpa300_4(); Every time Hersmann arrived at the Smolny Palace after the bloody January upheaval in Petrograd, he found it more heavily guarded than the last time, and had to pass one check after another to meet the Bolshevik leaders in order to enter it. see

"Is Vasily there? I am Hesman of the Russian-German company, and Comrade Lenin invited me to come. Outside the gates of the Smolny Palace, Hersmann got out of his Mercedes car (it was not shipped from Germany, but from the Russian-German purchasing manager Gusinsky, who was given to him by the antique dealer) and spoke fluent Mandarin Chinese to the soldiers standing guard!

He spoke Chinese because it was now a group of Chinese - Chinese and Latvian - who were now the main force defending the Smolny Palace in order to see the gates for Lenin. According to Hersman's observations, most of the Chinese in the Smolny Palace came from northeast and Shandong, numbering about a hundred, all of whom had fought for the Russians (the Russian army incorporated some Chinese laborers into the combat unit as cannon fodder), led by a Shandong man surnamed Huang, who was very tall and looked very imposing with a Chinese face. Hersman did not know his Chinese name, only that his Russian name was Vasily.

"Mr. He, you can come." When Hirschmann arrived, he was talking to Pyridon the chef of the Smolny Palace, who was impressed not so much by his delicious Russian cuisine, but by the fact that he resembled a certain Russian emperor who was also surnamed Putin......

Hersman nodded from afar at Master Putin, who was pulling a cart of food, before handing him and Chloe's pass to Vasily. Yellow, in Russian, said: "Is Comrade Lenin there?" ”

"There is nothing wrong with the documents," Vasily. Huang nodded, and also spoke Russian, he spoke Russian well, and after handing over the documents to Hersmann, he said: "Mr. Hersmann, Ms. Heinsberg, please come with me, Comrade Lenin is waiting to see you." ”

"All right, Chloe, let's go see Lenin." Hersmann beckoned Chloe, who was still standing next to the car, and the two of them walked briskly to Lenin's office.

In an office on the second floor of the Smolny Palace, Lenin waved at Hersmann and Chloe from behind his desk. "Hello, Ludwig!" His voice was high-pitched and imposing, and he seemed to be in a good mood.

The upheaval a week ago made him a victor again, and he didn't need to hand over power, and he was once again labeled as a Russian traitor, leaving a stench for thousands of years -- he is now a victor who can write his own history!

Trotsky, dressed in a yellow-green military coat, got up from a reclining chair, shook hands with Hersmann, hugged him, and then kissed Chloe's hand. After the signing of the Brest Treaty, Trotsky threw himself into the formation of the Workers' and Peasants' Red Army.

"Ludwig, you've come just in time to have something important to tell you." Trotsky, seeing Hersmann and Chloe sitting down on a sofa, got straight to the point: "Russia is facing a war, and the internal enemy and the external enemy are colluding." Just a few hours ago, foreign intervening forces had occupied Murmansk, and it seemed that they were preparing to support the counter-revolutionary rebellion through this port, and now the situation is very dangerous. ”

"Is it the British and French troops?" Hersman asked. He didn't know much about the history of the civil war in Soviet Russia, only that there were foreign intervention armies, and that there was a Siberian intervention.

"And the U.S. military!" Lenin said coldly, "We just want to withdraw from the war, but they want to impose the war on the Russian people!" ”

His words were not at all blushing, as if it were not the Bolshevik army that dispersed the Constituent Assembly and shot the masses in the streets of Petrograd......

Hersman nodded and said solemnly: "That's because the social system chosen by the Bolsheviks is intolerant of Britain and the United States!" Vladimir. Ilyich, Germany dominated by statism, like Russia dominated by GCISM, is an enemy that Britain and the United States must eradicate, and I think a larger intervention is already in the pipeline. ”

A larger-scale intervention would of course be the "Siberian Intervention," in which not only Britain and the United States would send troops, but even Japan would join in, sending a large number of troops to fight the Red Army.

"Well, you can imagine!" Lenin said, "Since they want to attack, they will definitely make more efforts, and maybe there will be hundreds of thousands of foreign intervention troops and millions of counter-revolutionary troops!" We are facing an unprecedented crisis! To this end, we will form an army temporarily subordinate to the leadership of the Bolshevik Party - the Workers' and Peasants' Red Army! ”

The Red Army, which makes capitalism tremble all over the world, is finally coming! It's just that for a long time the Red Army was subordinate to the leadership of the Bolsheviks? 70 years?

Hersman suppressed the question, nodded and said, "Vladimir. Ilyich, we will defeat them! No matter how many intervention and counter-revolutionary armies there are, we can defeat them! ”

He spoke confidently, as if to reassure Lenin and Trotsky.

"But how are we going to defeat them?" Trotsky, who was on the side, shook his head, a little hesitant. Although he was the chairman of the Military Revolutionary Committee, he did not know much about military affairs.

"It's easy!" "No matter how many enemies there are, the revolutionary army will be twice as large as theirs!" ”

"Twice as much?" Lenin laughed, "This is the advice of military experts!" Lev. Davydovich, what do you think? ”

"It's impossible, we don't have that many officers, it's hard to recruit that many, and we don't have enough weapons."

Lenin looked again at Hersmann, who was in fact a military adviser to the Bolsheviks.

"The question now is not whether there are officers or not, but whether so many people can be brought into the army. How many people are there on the side of the counter-revolution now? How many people can they mobilize? If they can pull 1 million people, then we have to have 3 million! That's a sure win. As for the officers...... It is not a problem that the tsar's officers can be recruited or promoted from among the soldiers, and five years of battlefield training are more effective than ten years of military school education. Armament is also easy to handle, now it is not a battle with the German army, which is armed to the teeth. Rather, it was to fight the Russian counter-revolutionary army, which also had no good equipment, and did not need much good equipment. ”

As he spoke, Hersmann looked at Lenin and Trotsky, both of whom were expressionless and seemed not satisfied with Hersmann's answer. He paused, and began to throw dry goods out.

"Mosin. We have a lot of Nagan rifles, Japanese-made rifles and Maxim machine guns, as well as bullets (these were captured from the Tsarist army, the Tsar lost millions of troops in a few years), and they can be supplied to you! In addition, the transfer of prisoners of war can be accelerated, and all captured officers can be handed over to you immediately...... Of course, you also have to hand over 500,000 Russian-Germans and the Tsar's family to us as soon as possible. ”

During this time, under the auspices of the Russian-German Economic Promotion Company, the railway traffic from Petrograd to Riga via Pskov was not only fully restored, but also extremely busy: Major Halder (who had just been promoted) set up a transit station in Riga, where prisoners of war, weapons and equipment from the west and grain, coal, and a much smaller number of prisoners of war (German-Austrian prisoners of war) were brought in from the east. In addition, according to the plans of the Grand General Staff, the Gulf of Riga will also be the center of the future Baltic principality.

Lenin and Trotsky looked at each other, and Hersmann helped them solve two great problems. With the guns and ammunition provided by the Germans and the officers (captured officers of the Russian army), the progress of organizing the Red Army could be greatly accelerated!

It's just that the Germans insisted on asking for Tsar Nicholas II, which is still a little worrying, but I'm afraid it won't work if you don't give it......

"Ludwig, what if the tsar himself is not willing to leave Russia?" Lenin tentatively said, "I suppose even the Bolsheviks could not force the Tsar to leave, right?" ”

But could the Tsar be forced to die? Hersmann sneered for a moment, and then said solemnly: "Then use a closed train to escort the Tsar's family to Berlin!" Vladimir. Ilyich, this is the request of His Majesty the Kaiser of Germany, and I beg you not to refuse. But rest assured, Germany will not hand over Nicholas II to the Bolshevik opposition, because those people are lackeys of Anglo-American law, and we in Germany are undoubtedly supporting the Bolsheviks! ”

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