Chapter 106: The Collapsed Empire (8)
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Richie was surprised because he knew very well that even if the situation in Lübeck was stabilized, all the surrounding cities would still be in chaos and turmoil. He knew a little better, Karl. Liebknecht and Rosa. Luxembourg formed the Spartacist League, which would become the provisional transitional government of Germany.
Despite the fact that Carl. Liebknecht and Rosa. The Provisional Transitional Government of Luxembourg was in power for a very short time, but it is important not to underestimate what happened during that time.
[These two have hit the Junkers to the point of doing everything. They were encouraged by the victorious powers of the Entente to believe that the destruction of the Junker military bloc would be recognized by the victorious powers. But it is clear that Britain, France, and the United States could not make Germany a Soviet-like state......]
Li Qi was woken up from a state of distraction.
Andreas. Fane. Felix urged excitedly: "Lieutenant Colonel, please organize the soldiers into the city immediately!" ”
Not even the telegram had been read, and the necessary confirmation procedures had not been carried out, how could Li Qi lead his army into the city?
After some confirmation, the telegram was indeed from the Berlin Chancellery and the War Office, and they made it clear that Litchie's brigade should enter the city to maintain order, and issued a strict order to open fire on all the disorderly elements.
The turmoil here in Lübeck is not the only one, something similar is happening in almost all the cities of the Second German Reich. In some cities, only the workers and citizens were in revolt, and the garrisons of many cities joined in, but the number of troops who joined them was not great relative to the agitated workers and citizens.
[The soldiers' dissatisfaction with the war has long been there, but from the side, there is a veterans' fund that has been in operation for nearly a year, and the soldiers' emotions have been appeased, and they are probably mostly wait-and-see? 】
"Command!" Li Qi confirmed the authenticity of the telegram, even if something happened, there were people who carried the blame, and the result he wanted had already appeared, without the slightest politeness: "The army is ready to march into the city, and when it encounters a procession, it is mainly to drive away, and when it encounters the militants, let them disarm!" If there is a firefight, annihilate the other side! ”
The officers who had been waiting for the order for a long time immediately stood upright, their boots knocked crisply, and they all saluted and replied loudly: "Yes!" ”
It was as if the sound of the air raid siren sounded in the barracks, it was not that the enemy was coming to attack the army, but that such a sound was used to signal to the soldiers that the troops had entered the combat state.
"Lieutenant Colonel!" Andreas. Fane. Felix looked at Richie and said in a tough tone, "You didn't order the Socialists to be arrested or shot. You should order your men to arrest or shoot them! ”
Li Qi didn't look at the mayor, who was a little older. He was a speculator, knowing that the Socialists would be in control of the government in the coming months, and that he would only take a tough stance against the Socialists when he was sick.
Andreas. Fane. Felix couldn't help but be a little anxious when he saw that the lieutenant colonel didn't intend to pay attention to himself, and he said quickly: "We can't let what happened in Russia happen in our city!" ”
"I would love to shoot them all, but ......," Richie explained very seriously, "but I'm a soldier." I was given the order to restore stability to the city, not to go to war, let alone to go in as an executioner and go on a killing spree. ”
Whoever does this will be liquidated in the coming months, an all-encompassing reckoning with a means far darker and more cruel than anyone could have imagined. It was precisely because of the actions of the Socialists who had stolen state power that they were soon met with a concerted counterattack by the Junker military clique and the capitalists and enlightened socialists.
Li Qi was not a member of the Junkers military clique, and once the Bolsheviks, who had stolen the German state power, wanted his life, those Junker military cliques would not work hard to keep ......, and in fact, even if they were members of the Junkers military clique, many Junkers were not saved.
It is not just Li Qi who is wise enough to protect himself, he is just trying to protect himself and doing some practical things, but there are many more powerful people who are adding fuel to the fire, planning to use the actions of the Bolsheviks to achieve some shady ends. Some people are going to succeed, like Friedrich. Albert and Hugo. Haze, there are also more people who think highly of themselves have suffered the bitter fruit, among which the Juncker military group has suffered the heaviest losses.
Friedrich. Albert, the leader of the right wing of the German Social Democratic Party, would become the first president of the Weimar Republic; Hu Ge. Haser was one of the key figures of the "Second International", who was only active in the early years of the Weimar Republic, and was later counterattacked by the Juncker military clique and liquidated by the capitalists.
The army had entered the city, and to all those in Lübeck, they agreed that it was good news.
The various Socialists believed that they represented the interests of the broad masses and could persuade the soldiers to join them, acting as an aid rather than an obstacle to their control of Lübeck.
Ordinary citizens, after just one morning of chaos, felt that there was nothing worse than this, and desperately hoped that order would be restored.
Instead of doing the brain-dead act of being at the forefront of the whole army, he first arranged for his troops to control the city's main transportation arteries, and then occupied the radio station and the city radio system, and arranged for the soldiers to escort the mayor of Lübeck, Andreas. Fane. Felix returns to the city government building. While doing these things, he stayed in the barracks with several officers and did not go anywhere.
Sure enough, the Socialists were shouting at the soldiers, talking about their own people, hoping to gain the approval of the soldiers, and to join them in what they considered to be great causes. However, they soon discovered that the soldiers were completely indifferent, and were even fired at with warning when they approached.
The soldiers' actions were confusing to the confident Socialists, and according to the Russian experience, should not the soldiers join them with tears in their eyes as if they had found their families?
If there was no veterans' fund, perhaps the soldiers would have joined it, as the Socialists thought, but the Richie veterans' fund has been operating, and the groups that help and benefit are very large, so that Richie has a lot of prestige among the soldiers, so not only are the soldiers here in Lübeck not selling the Socialists' accounts, but the soldiers in other cities who join the uprising are actually far less than the Socialists expected.
The vast majority of the soldiers throughout Germany did not join the Socialists. However, with the exception of the brigade led by Litch himself, the garrisons in other areas also refused the suppression orders from Berlin. This is also something that Li Qi does not know, and if he knew, it is estimated that he would choose to "watch from the sidelines" rather than charge into battle.