The day after the Orthodox Patriarch publicly supported the royal family, Tsar Nicholas II, who had been forced to work like never before under an existential crisis, made an unprecedented statement that he would convene a parliament and implement constitutional government, which drew cheers from the bourgeois liberals in the country. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ｂｉｑUｇE。 ｉｎｆｏ

Soon after, Tsar Nicholas II officially signed the Declaration on the Improvement of the State System, declaring the inviolability of the people, freedom of conscience, speech, assembly and association, the Duma as the national legislature, and the time of the Duma elections was set as quickly as possible, which quickly had an immediate effect.

The overjoyed major parties in Tsarist Russia enthusiastically participated, and the Bolsheviks, who still insisted on the armed struggle, were quickly isolated, and their situation inevitably deteriorated rapidly. In particular, the Orthodox Church relied on its deep-rooted influence among the people of Tsarist Russia to rob the people of the Bolsheviks, and at the same time used its clerical power to severely crack down on those who spread "dangerous ideas", which greatly hindered the development and growth of the Bolsheviks.

As the situation changed, many of those who had previously joined the insurrection returned to the arms of the Tsar, and those who were skeptical began to distance themselves from the Bolsheviks so as not to be implicated and suppressed, and in just a few days, the total number of the insurrectionary forces had plummeted from a few hundred thousand at its peak to about 100,000, and these staunch revolutionaries were almost all Red Army. It is clear that the Bolsheviks are now completely alone, and none of the political groups in the country, large or small, whether right or left, stand by their side......

However, the Bolsheviks are not as weak as they were during the 1905 revolution, and they are not only more numerous, but also more politically reliable.

More importantly, thanks in part to the foundation laid by the Russian army, and even more thanks to the training opportunities provided by the Chinese military schools (although not too long, at least it is much more complete than Whampoa). Among the thousands of comrades brought back from China, there were more than 3,000 qualified military cadres, who had a fairly deep understanding of various advanced tactics and military concepts, and their quality was only higher than that of the vast majority of the officers in active duty in the Tsarist army, and the number of qualified political workers who were not only good at developing organizations but also knew basic military knowledge was even more numerous.

The reason why the Russian army is vulnerable, in addition to the weakness of the national strength and the backwardness of the military system and tactics, is mainly because most of the officers from the aristocracy and bureaucracy, especially the middle and high-level officers, are generally corrupt, incompetent and brutal, so the morale of the Russian army has not been high (except when the oil and water are very strong). Now that the Bolsheviks had those seven or eight thousand military and political cadres as the backbone of the Red Army, the troops were not only extremely cohesive, but also their morale was always high.

However, after Tsar Nicholas II isolated the Bolsheviks through huge political concessions, the forces that could be used to suppress the revolution had increased significantly, and although the Russian Red Army was brave and good at fighting, in the face of the White Army, which was more than ten times larger than his own, the mentor could only give up the plan to seize St. Petersburg and lead the crowd to break through. At that time, Tsar Nicholas II was able to fully control less than 100,000 troops, and not all of them were in St. Petersburg, and the hope of success was not small, but the seemingly good revolutionary situation made the mentor overly optimistic and chose to give priority to the development of the organization and the expansion of the Red Army, and as a result, once the opportunity was missed, it would not come again.

However, it was actually normal for the mentor to make such a choice at that time, because the success of the revolution could almost be guaranteed by staying in China, so he was naturally reluctant to gamble with the backbone he had worked so hard to cultivate. And there was also a good thing about the choice at that time, that is, the consciousness of the Red Army in the hands of the Bolsheviks had changed significantly, although after the brutal fighting, the number of the Red Army had been sharply reduced to less than 50,000, but instead of collapsing, the cohesion was stronger. The mentor believed that no matter how difficult the situation was, with these seeds, the revolution would surely achieve ultimate success.

However, considering that Russia, which had been traumatized by the war in the past few years, could no longer endure a long period of war, and was even more worried that Russia would be unable to resist the intervention of the Western imperialist powers after losing too much blood, the mentor decided to play the card that would almost certainly bring victory, but would attract criticism from the Bolsheviks......

Comrade Steel's work in reforming Russian prisoners of war and developing organizations was greatly affected by the large number of cadres he took with him when he returned home, but his remarkable ability to formulate and implement plans was fully displayed, and less than a month after his departure, the number of Bolsheviks in China reached a record high. What's more, the Russian Red Army, which has now been transformed and resettled on the east bank of the Volga, has exceeded a million people, and half a million of them have been fully armed by the Chinese government.

With Comrade Steel's temperament, if the mentor is not in a hurry to send back the telegram, I am afraid that he will not send troops until he has completed all the work of reforming prisoners of war, and then crush the reactionary army loyal to the tsar to slag with the strongest strength, but as soon as the mentor's telegram comes, he can only choose to obey, although he has his own ideas on many issues, but Comrade Iron and Steel is still always in awe of the mentor, the founder of the organization and the ideological mentor, this position is not something that can be challenged by mastering the army......

The Red Army's offensive did not start from the east bank of the Volga, because according to the agreement, China was to release the rearmed Russian prisoners of war back to Russia, and then the Red Army cleverly took advantage of the loophole, dressed in Tsarist uniforms, and fully armed on the train, and made its way to Moscow unhindered. Originally, these Red Army troops should have tried their best to wait for more reinforcements before they could have a better chance of winning, but at this time, the Tsar suddenly transferred the troops of two army groups from Moscow, resulting in the Tsarist Russian army in Moscow being sharply reduced to only one group army of more than 100,000 people, such an opportunity is too rare!

As the highest-ranking commander of the Red Army in Moscow, the former Cossack cavalryman Budyonny, who had been unusually promoted from the prisoner of war camp by Comrade Iron to become the commander of the First Army, had been given the power to act cheaply, and he had already opposed waiting silently, because he was afraid that the Red Army would show its bottom in a scattered state and cause the enemy to attack and suffer a big loss, but now it was just right that Budyonny did not have much trouble convincing everyone to immediately launch an uprising!