Chapter 541: The Red Soviets
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China's series of moves in the Far East have taken the opportunity to wrest back a lot of national rights from the Western powers. Although these actions left a domineering impression in Western countries, Feng Yong didn't care. No matter how much Western countries are afraid of China, they will not be able to use force against China for at least a few years.
The Western world suffered huge losses in the First World War, and it is definitely not possible to regain its strength in the short term. Moreover, China also left room for the three largest capitalist countries, Britain, France, and the United States, and did not take back their concessions in China by force, but sent representatives to negotiate with them. In the face of the aggressive attitude of the Chinese government, Britain, France and the United States finally began to formally discuss the issue of the concession. If China is rising, then the Western countries can only give up their concessions in Chinese mainland, even if they are no longer willing. After all, it is impossible for a powerful country to allow its territory to fall into the hands of another country, unless a fight to the death breaks out between the two sides.
If it was some time ago, Western countries would only be afraid of China, but since China has battleships, Western countries no longer dare to underestimate China. Just like the new China in the original time and space, although its national strength is not weak and it has won several foreign wars on the mainland, China's national security has never been guaranteed. It was not until China successfully developed nuclear weapons that China really had a bargaining chip to defend its homeland and country.
During this period, although the battleship did not have the great deterrent power of nuclear weapons in later generations, it was also a strategic weapon, which could greatly enhance China's international status and protect China's national security.
In the Western theater, the Allied armies were advancing and wanted to expel all German troops in France. The German army resisted very stubbornly, but it was difficult to hold the position, and the battle line was compressed step by step.
Faced with the situation of defeat on the battlefield, the German government is brewing a new battle plan, wanting to concentrate all its forces and have a big war to recover the decline and achieve a greater victory. With regard to the battle plan drawn up by the German General Staff, it was difficult for the Allied intelligence agencies to obtain effective information despite their efforts. This was a heavy strain on the Entente. After all, the German staff system is too strong, and it can be said that the title of the German Army No. 1 in the world is definitely not boasting.
Compared with the fierceness of the world war and the tension in the Far East, the internal situation in Tsarist Russia collapsed to the extreme. The Tsar concentrated a million-strong army to encircle and suppress the rebellion in the St. Petersburg region. But the revolutionaries also went on a counteroffensive. Because of his hatred of the bourgeois revolutionary government, the Tsar issued an order to kill these revolutionary parties without mercy. For a time, bloody terror enveloped the entire Tsarist Russia. Bloodshed took place in almost all the large cities controlled by the tsars. Large swaths of Soviet party members and bourgeois revolutionaries who participated in the revolution were bloodily slaughtered. But many more fled and entered St. Petersburg. In just half a year, although the Tsar did not suppress the rebellion in St. Petersburg, he also limited the sphere of influence of the revolution to the St. Petersburg region. Finally, the situation in which the revolutionary forces were in full bloom throughout the country was avoided. Unlike the Red Soviets that swept the whole country of Tsarist Russia in a short period of time, the Tsarist Russia in this life was more resolute because of the bourgeoisie, and it also grasped revolutionary sovereignty during the February Revolution. Thus, in the course of this year, the influence of the Soviets was weakened in the revolutionary army. The more than 400,000 troops to which the revolutionary army belonged also basically fell into the hands of the bourgeois revolutionaries. Many of these bourgeois revolutionaries were officials of the former tsarist government, and they were very good at political struggle, and although the members of the Red Soviets were enthusiastic about serving the country, they were suppressed everywhere because it was always difficult to gain the leading power of the revolution.
Even the bourgeois in power in Tsarist Russia created several frictions with the Red Soviets, causing the entire revolutionary forces of Tsarist Russia to fight endlessly, far from being able to exert their due combat effectiveness. Otherwise, with the revolutionary situation in Tsarist Russia at that time, it would not have been in the St. Petersburg area for more than a year. ..., there was also a great disagreement within the Red Soviets. The compromisers always had the upper hand in the Soviets. The hardliners, led by Lenin, were suppressed. In order to solve the problem of rebellion in the country as soon as possible, the tsar returned to the circle of world war, and despite the government's weak financial resources, he gathered an army of nearly two million to encircle and conquer the St. Petersburg region.
The entire revolutionary occupation area was in turmoil, the revolutionaries were unstable in their thinking, and many revolutionaries even took the opportunity to flee the country. The idea of surrender also emerged among the revolutionaries, and the entire revolutionary force was facing a situation of collapse.
On July 15, 1918, under the pressure of two million troops of the Tsarist government, a mutiny broke out among the revolutionaries in St. Petersburg. The Red Soviet hardliners, led by Lenin, instigated the police forces throughout St. Petersburg, launched a seizure of power by force, and arrested all officials in the bourgeoisie. However, because this mutiny was too hasty, several officials fled, which in turn affected the morale of the army, causing turmoil in the entire revolutionary army, which was seized by the Russian government army to break through, and after the first war, the revolutionary army lost more than half.
After receiving the news of the mutiny within the revolutionary army, the Russian commander was completely relieved and commanded the army to go on a rampage, wanting to pull out the cancer of the revolutionary army at one time.
Faced with this situation, Lenin concentrated all the forces of the Red Soviet and reorganized the defeated revolutionary army into the Soviet Red Army. Under the command of Lenin, the Red Army took advantage of the arrogance of the Tsarist government army to take advantage of the favorable terrain to carry out an ambush, killing more than 300,000 Tsarist government troops at one time. The Russian government forces were shocked. Immediately change tactics, from rampage to pressing step by step.
The Soviet Red Army made several attempts, but the government troops were cautious and returned in vain, and looking at the base areas that were being compressed layer by layer, Lenin finally decided to take the risk and send the most elite units of the Red Army to attack the government army headquarters at night.
Perhaps it was the predestined emergence of the Red regime, and the elite of the 20,000-strong Red Army, led by their commander Stalin, miraculously bypassed the millions of Tsarist government troops. It was even more coincidental that he directly touched the general command of the government army. and defeated it in a battle. The entire government army was in chaos in an instant. The main forces of the Red Army took the opportunity to cover up and break the encirclement and suppression of the government army. For a time, the name of the Red Soviet spread throughout Tsarist Russia, and the revolutionary forces that had been suppressed by the tsarist government and were almost annihilated once again reared their heads.
After this battle, the whole of Tsarist Russia was shaken. Tsar Nicholas II, faced with the resurgence of revolutionary forces, had to give up his desire to end the civil strife as soon as possible and enter the world war. And use some veterans against the revolutionaries. Nicholas II admits that he has never underestimated the revolutionary movement, but this time, Nicholas II once again experienced the threat of annihilation. This kind of Red Army, dominated by the Red Soviets, broke the encirclement of 2 million men with less than 200,000 men, which shows that its commander-in-chief must not be a simple person. Moreover, the tsar knew that although this all-out encirclement and suppression also dealt a heavy blow to the strength of the revolutionary army, causing it to lose more than half of its strength, it also solved the problem of civil strife in the revolutionary army, and even brought the Red Soviet to power. Moreover, the defeat of the two million army put the Tsarist government under heavy pressure. Tsarist Russia had to seek external state assistance. Naturally, the Far East does not need to think about it, it is all a confrontational country. The world war in Europe was in full swing, and he couldn't take care of himself, let alone Tsarist Russia. Eventually, Nicholas II set his sights on the United States, far away in the Americas.
The contact between Tsarist Russia and the Americans was not as difficult as imagined, and the United States did not make it difficult for the war loan proposed by Tsarist Russia. After all, the government will not be at odds with money. The world war is nearing its end, and as long as the Entente resists the last decisive counterattack of the Allies, the world war will not last long. The prosperity of the US economy is built on the huge arms market, and the entire US military industry has swelled dozens of times compared with the pre-war period. Behind the seemingly extremely prosperous lies a huge crisis. Once the war is over, the boom in the world arms market will also be over. Although the US military products are advanced, they are no worse than those of the Western countries, and the war-tested weapons of war are even more competitive than those of the United States. And without war, the arms market would inevitably face a Great Depression. The United States does not want to trigger an economic crisis in the United States because of the end of the war. …,
Rather than reducing the size of the arms industry chain, the US Government is more inclined to look for new markets, first ensuring the stability of the arms market, and then gradually reducing them. And the civil war in Tsarist Russia was undoubtedly a good choice. Although Tsarist Russia is rotten internally, as the largest territorial power in the world, civil wars often involve hundreds of thousands of people, and such large-scale war attrition, although it is not as terrible as World War I, it is still no problem to maintain the stability of the military market. If a large number of U.S. military products can pour into Tsarist Russia, it will not only maintain the prosperity of the military industry and economy, but also expand the influence of the United States to Eastern Europe.
Moreover, the US National Intelligence Service has carefully studied the situation of the civil war in Tsarist Russia, and in any case does not believe that the Tsarist government army, which has the absolute upper hand, will lose. Therefore, borrowing money from the Russian government army is still trustworthy. It can be said that during this period, only Feng Yong of China knew the horror of this red regime. Once given time to grow, it will inevitably spread throughout Eastern Europe in the shortest possible time.
For the Red regime, Feng Yong's thinking was very complicated. After all, he was really born in New China in his previous life, grew up under the red flag, and the red brand was deeply rooted in his bones. Even the administrative system of the current Beijing government has a lot in common with the later Red Celestial Empire. The only difference is that the later Celestial Empire was cloaked in socialism, while the Beijing government under Feng Yong was cloaked in capitalism.
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