Chapter 474: The Hammer and the Scythe (Part II)

The main forces of the Budyonny cavalry front, after a short period of repair, crossed the Dnieper and advanced into Western Ukraine, which is now occupied by the Poles, well, the Russians at this time were more accustomed to calling it "right-bank Ukraine". Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. biqUgE。 infoThe land area of right-bank Ukraine is only a fraction of that of the later Western Ukraine, but it is still very important to Russia, not to mention that it is the world enemy and the anti-bone Poles who occupy it......

The fall of Tsarist Russia into a civil war was a blessing to the Polish independence movement led by Joseph Clemens Pilsudski, who now not only did not have to worry about the repression of the Tsarist army, but even had to realize what he had dreamed of so many times - to dismember Russia in order to completely remove its threat and restore the glory of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth!

Thus, after a little internal consolidation, the Polish army immediately counterattacked into Russia in two directions, of which the Northern Route Army first invaded Belarus to the east, and then approached the Baltic coast to the north, while the Southern Route Army advanced all the way to the southeast and entered the right-bank Ukraine, which was once Polish territory. But the Poles never imagined that the Red Army would develop so rapidly, and Budyonny's cavalry front would come so quickly, and the Southern Route Army had not yet gained a foothold in right-bank Ukraine, and Budyonny came over with hundreds of thousands of troops......

Although the Polish army reacted quickly and began to concentrate its troops as soon as it discovered that the Red Army had begun to cross the river, the Polish Socialist Party was not as well organized as the Bolsheviks, and the Polish army was far less well-trained than the Red Army, and inevitably suffered a crushing defeat. The Polish army lost more than 20,000 dead and more than 70,000 prisoners, and less than 10,000 escaped, and the Polish Southern Route Army that "invaded" right-bank Ukraine was almost completely annihilated, and then Budyonny's Red Army swept the entire right-bank Ukraine almost without hindrance, like the autumn wind sweeping away the leaves......

Compared with the time of the Moscow Uprising, Budyonny has now made a radical progress, and the experience of fighting with all kinds of different enemies and in all kinds of different environments has allowed him to integrate the military knowledge he learned in China, so that he can quickly grow into an excellent general, and his mentor also gave him high praise, calling him "the iron hammer of the Soviets", saying that he smashed all stubborn reactionaries like a hammer.

At the same time that the cavalry front was invincible in the southern theater of operations, the main force of the Red Army led by Frunze also won a decisive victory, and more than a million Red Army troops were as unstoppable as a steamroller at full power to St. Petersburg, and Tsar Nicholas II fidgeted like an ant on a hot pan, but could not think of any way to turn the situation around. The British and French ambassadors expressed their support on behalf of their respective governments, but the revolutionary situation was developing so rapidly that the British and French governments were determined to send troops to intervene in the revolution, and it was simply too late in time!

Nicholas II did not expect, but the nobles and bureaucrats thought they did, and they staged a coup d'état called "Revolution" to depose the last Tsar, and then put all the blame on Nicholas II, trying to sacrifice the Tsar to break up the Red Army, at least to delay for a while.

But from the day of its birth (a formal split from the Social Democratic Labour Party), the aim of the Bolsheviks was not only to overthrow the Tsar, but to completely destroy the Russian system of cannibalistic exploitation and to create a new Russia in which the workers (and peasants in form) were in charge.

As a result, the clumsy tactics of the nobles and bureaucrats in St. Petersburg plunged the White Army into chaos, and no matter how bad the tsar was, there were still some supporters in the army, especially so many non-commissioned officers and students who were unusually promoted.

After learning of this heavenly opportunity, Frunze, the commander and political commissar of the First Front of the Red Army, decisively ordered a full-scale attack, and did not wait for the friendly forces that had not yet followed, and as a result, the White Army in St. Petersburg and its vicinity was really vulnerable, and the First Front successfully captured St. Petersburg, the capital of Tsarist Russia, with only 670,000 troops, killing and capturing more than 500,000 enemy troops, and more than 2 million White troops laid down their arms and surrendered. All the others became prisoners, including the former Tsar Nicholas II......

Originally, it was not difficult for Tsar Nicholas II to escape, after all, he was a noble tsar, and it was far more convenient to call up resources than others, even if the situation was extremely urgent, he could find a ship to send himself and his family abroad at any time, but he did not expect that those nobles and bureaucrats would have the courage to betray him. When the Red Army entered the city, the Tsar's family was under house arrest by troops loyal to the so-called "Provisional Government", and they could not get out, but could only become prisoners of the Bolsheviks in despair.

However, the Tsar and his wife were slightly luckier than their close friend and favorite Rasputin, at least they were still alive, and the wheath had been killed before the coup d'état. After the coup d'état, those adults who cuckolded him had revenge and revenge, and completely liquidated it, not to mention the burning of his body, and even his proud capital was cut off and sent to the museum as a rarity for display.

In addition, the nobles and bureaucrats also pressed countless charges on him, except for the one that seduced a married woman, the others were either Nicholas II's own idea, or someone else's crime was placed on him, or even made up nothing. But then again, a grass man can have such an opportunity as him in just a few years, including the beautiful and noble queen, countless noble ladies in St. Petersburg have been tasted by him, and there seems to be nothing to regret and grievance......

However, it must be admitted that this person is still very knowledgeable, and when he was murdered, he predicted the end of old Russia, for the simple reason that if it were not for the fact that the tsar had lost his original authority, those people would never have the courage to poison him, and with the urine of those nobles and bureaucrats, after taking over the power, they were afraid that they would not do as well as the tsar, and the country would not perish, is it possible?