Chapter 80: What Should Come Is Still Coming
"He actually said that the working class wants to rest, so they can't revolt!"
"He's a traitor! Should be shot! ”
"Yes, we don't need them, the Spartacists can do it themselves!"
Chairman of the Independent Social Revolutionary Party, Hugo. Haaz was gone, and the rest of the room was Spartacist figures and internationalist fighters. Everyone saw Hu Guo clearly. Ha'az's true face - he was delaying the uprising, not leading it.
"That's right! We'll do it ourselves! "Carl. Liebknecht waved his hand, and the people who were talking about it suddenly fell silent. "We do it ourselves...... When the workers get their salaries (the workers in Berlin are more affordable than the workers in Petrograd, and the wages must be paid), tomorrow we will issue a call, and on the 7th and 8th we will start a general strike, and on the 9th we will march into the barracks and mobilize the soldiers to work with us! Then go to occupy the Parliament, the town hall, the police station, the station and the telegraph headquarters. ”
"And Palazzo Glinico!" A man with a pair of attractive ears, but very handsome eyebrows, and a very tall man, interjected in German with a Baltic accent.
He was born in the Baltic region of the Latvian revolutionary Jan Jan Brown. Karlovich. Berzin, the future chief of intelligence of the Red Army, would be Stasi's biggest opponent. In its original history, he should have led the Bolshevik organization in Latvia in Riga.
However, in this time and space, because of the strong repression of the Baltic Wehrmacht and Stasi, and the number of Baltic Germans due to the addition of Russian Germans, a part of the "ethnic unknown" population has been classified as Germans, thus reaching 1 million, and the Latvians have been reduced to more than 400,000 for various reasons - this trick is more deadly than the Wehrmacht and Stasiga together - so Berzin was not sent to Riga to die, but came to Berlin with Yulovsky to help the German Bolsheviks seize power.
"Palazzo Glignico is also going to be occupied?" "It's close to Potsdam and not the main imperial palace. In the event of an uprising in Berlin, Wilhelm II would most likely have fled to the German command in Belgium. ”
At the mention of the German troops at the front, Liebknecht could not help frowning. Contrary to the extreme war-weariness of the Russian front-line troops, the German front-line troops generally wanted to fight. Most of the Spartacists were demagogic by the reserve forces and navy in the rear, which had limited combat effectiveness on land. Once the Kaiser mobilized his front-line troops to fight back, the revolution was likely to fail.
"Palazzo Gliniko was the residence of the Tsar's family." Berzin reminded that "the tsar is now an ally of the Kaiser...... He was helping Germany broker an armistice, and if it succeeded, the German revolution would be extinguished immediately. ”
"We need to take control of the Glinico Palace," Liebknecht nodded, "and when we get to Berlin, which we control, we will send someone over!" ”
"The Tsar's whole family should also be killed!" Yurowski added in stiff German.
"They will be extradited," said Liebknecht, glancing at the thin, gloomy Yurowsky who seldom spoke, "and will hand them over to the Russian comrades as soon as the German Soviet Government is formed...... Nicholas II was sentenced to death by Russia, not by Germany. ”
"But......" Yurovsky tried to speak, but was stopped by Berzin's eyes. Liebknecht clearly did not want to kill the Tsar, and he was now not a Bolshevik, but an independent Social Democrat. This shows that Liebknecht still had illusions about the German Social Democrats. But so what? Berzin and Yurowsky infiltrated with a special squad! As long as the Berlin uprising spreads to the Gliniko Palace, killing a few people is not a piece of cake?
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A dilapidated horse-drawn carriage carrying Hersman, Chloe and Olga was parked in a quiet alley off Kurthou Street. It's the early hours of November 6, the streets of Berlin are deserted, and the storm of revolution seems to have not yet swept here.
Several young men in shabby suits and masks emerged from the café on the corner, their right hands tucked into bulging suit pockets, their eyes looking around warily.
"Who are they?" Archduchess Olga got out of the car and immediately noticed them.
"I don't know......" Hersman, who was also wearing a large mask, glanced at the men - they were all Stacy's agents! Led by Captain Stockhausen himself, they secretly lurked in Berlin.
Before leaving the Glinico Palace, Hersmann gave Stockhausen, codenamed "Shadow", an order to take people to stand guard near his residence in Berlin. However, looking at the swaggering appearance of these spies, they are still too immature.
"It's supposed to be the secret police, right?" The Grand Duchess actually guessed their identities, and when she went upstairs with Hersman, she suddenly said to Hersman: "I heard that the United Duchy of Polo has a secret police organization called 'Stasi'...... Ludwig, I want you to take charge of them! You must get it well, don't make it as useless as the original spy bureau! ”
"Your Majesty, let's wait until we get to Riga." Hersman smiled at Olga as a thank you for "promoting" herself, even though she had no authority to appoint Stasi's director.
Upstairs, Hersman noticed that there were guests visiting the house. It was Schleicher, who had been the head of Thor's group during the General Staff, and he was now about to soar. His old boss, William. Admiral Glerner replaced Ludendorff as First Quartermaster General on 25 October, and Schleicher became Grener's right-hand man. For more than 10 days, he has been running on behalf of Grener, liaising with the leaders of the Social Democratic Party and the Independent Social Democratic Party.
When Hersman arrives home, Schleicher is talking to Hirschman's Jewish stepmother, Odeya. Odeya returned to Berlin at the beginning of August, and her husband, the elder Hersmann, had recovered fully under her care and returned to the front to the front. However, he was no longer a battalion commander, but was promoted to a first rank, became a colonel, and received a Red Eagle Medal of the first class.
But the old man's mood was not at all happy at all because of the promotion and the receipt of the medal. The letters to Hersman were full of worries about the situation in the rear, and there were many hints of low morale at the front. Although there were still many soldiers willing to fight, the wavering morale of the soldiers was evident - from the end of October, the situation in Germany began to deteriorate sharply. There were strikes, anti-war protests and riots everywhere. In addition, deadly colds are also prevalent in the army, and many people fall ill or even die. Inevitably, the morale of the front line has dropped sharply because of this.
At the same time, however, the Allied offensive was resisted by the Germans (in fact, it also had the effect of a cold, and the situation of the American troops was particularly serious, and almost all the front-line troops fell ill). Moreover, the pattern of the First World War was too favorable for the defending side, and the German army was superior to the Allies in combat effectiveness - just look at the casualties of the Allies and the Allies in World War I, although the Allies were defeated, but the losses of personnel were far less than those of the opponents - even in the case of unstable rear.
But with the surrender of Austria-Hungary and the rise of the German revolution, it seemed that the heroic resistance at the front would eventually come to naught.
"Odeya," Hersman greeted Schleicher first, and then pointed to a tired Ogali in a blue tweed dress to his stepmother, "She's Chloe's cousin Elizabeth, take her to the guest room to rest." ”
After setting up Olga, Hersman and Schleicher went into their study. Before beckoning the other party to sit down, Schleicher preemptively spoke: "Ludwig, change into our military uniforms and follow me to General Grener!" ”
"Now?" Hersman was stunned and looked at his watch, "It's five o'clock." ”
Schleicher's face was slightly ugly, "Something big is going to happen!" The Admiral will see you soon. I called to the Gliniko Palace and they said you went back to your accommodation in Berlin. That's why I came overnight to wait for you! ”
"What's wrong?"
"Don't ask, you'll find out when you get to the Capitol."