Chapter 12: The Collapse of Moscow
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Soon after the Battle of Odessa began, the huge and decaying war machine of the Russian Empire had already appeared in its original form, and the bureaucrats and soldiers of the empire had no intention of fighting, and their combat ability was basically similar to that of the Qing Empire's army. In the face of the strong artillery cover of the Chinese Navy and the coordinated operation of the land, sea and air forces, the fortress of Odessa soon collapsed, although the squadron also paid the price of more than 500 casualties. After the troops of Deng Shichang and Cao Kun occupied Odessa, they also took advantage of the victory to occupy Mykolaiv.
The city of Nikolaev, located 74 km from the Black Sea, was founded as a shipyard in 1788, the following year and as a commercial port in 1862. There are railways through Krivoy Rog, Donbass and the Crimean Peninsula, and there are three large shipyards, including the country's largest Nikolaev Nashinko shipyard and alumina plant, the equipment of which was quickly dismantled and transported back to Heilongjiang by order of Song Xiaofei.
"The Russians have so many soldiers, aren't they so bad?" Feng Guozhang received Cao Kun's good news, and he couldn't believe it, and sent a telegram to Cao Kun to confirm.
Cao Kun replied: "At first, I couldn't believe it, but that's the way it is. The current Russian ** team, their actions are completely abnormal, they are like a group of blind people, some appear here, some appear there, and they just run from rout to destruction. Now I can make up for it and go back to the President. ”
Cao Kun was transferred to Indonesia by Song Xiaofei because of Yang Cuixi's sexual bribery case, but considering that this matter is nothing in a society with three wives and four concubines. Cao Kun was more loyal and could fight, so he let him go to Russia to make up for his mistakes.
At the same time, the German army, which could not wait to expand, also stepped up the offensive, dispatched 300,000 elite troops, and captured Kiev and Warsaw in a flash. Pushed the front against the Bolsheviks near Moscow.
The German army fought relatively smoothly in the early stage, because the Ukrainians and Poles had suffered the bloody suppression of the Bolsheviks, and their national hatred of the Russians was very deep, and the arrival of the Germans was warmly welcomed. In the four months of the war, 20 divisions of the Bolshevik army broke through in a small number and more than 160,000 people were annihilated, including more than 10,000 officers. The regular army was almost depleted. But when the Germans pushed the war to Smolensk, near Moscow, the heart of the Russian population, the situation was completely different, the Germans encountered fierce resistance, and the Bolsheviks built a strong line of defense with the flesh and blood of the Russian people.
Lenin ordered the Bolsheviks to be red. The army, like the army that fought against Napoleon, carried out a scorched earth war of resistance. With artillery and rocket artillery, they set fire to the settlements in the 40 to 60 km deep areas on both sides of the roads in the forward positions, organized small detachments, and set fire to villages and cities, where there were no Germans, the people were displaced, and hundreds of thousands of people died. The Russian people have suffered another catastrophe.
On July 12, 1906, the NKVD of the Bolsheviks formed 20 "Cheka" combat groups, which were responsible for guarding the Kremlin, Belarusian stations, hunting markets and other important targets. In order to carry out the underground resistance movement in the future, 59 secret arsenals were set up throughout Moscow, nearly 105 hectares of forest were cut down near Moscow to delay the German army, a large number of anti-aircraft guns were installed on high-rise buildings, a large number of anti-aircraft balloons were set up in mid-air, and martial law and light control were imposed in the city at night. Mines were laid in advance in the Bolshoi Theatre, the Central Telegraph Office building, the "Metro" and the "National" hotels. Even an explosive device was set up in St. Basil's Cathedral, as there was speculation that Kaiser Wilhelm II would probably take advantage of the German capture of Moscow. If the German soldiers did break into Moscow, what awaited them would be a people's war.
In order to hold Moscow, Lenin sent a telegram to Song Xiaofei, asking China to send troops to help defend Moscow. Song Xiaofei ordered Feng Guozhang to lead 150,000 new troops into Moscow. It was important to end the fighting before the winter of 1906.
Feng Guozhang drove into Moscow with 150,000 Chinese elites, according to the official Bolshevik account, as the Germans approached Moscow. The people of the city shared the same hatred for the enemy, and countless volunteers joined the combat operation and spontaneously rose up to defend their homeland. But in fact, Feng Guozhang found that in the early days of the defense of Moscow, many Bolshevik officials and civilians chose to abandon the city and flee.
After Feng Guozhang arrived in Moscow, the Bolshevik Defense Committee adopted a resolution "On the evacuation of the inhabitants of the capital". Many Russians understood it as: "The city of Moscow was soon given to the Germans." "The city quickly became a mess: the subway was closed, the trams were out of service. Some Bolshevik officials were the first to flee the city in a hurry. On the first day, 779 Bolsheviks were preparing to flee the capital, carrying with them 25 million rubles worth of money and valuables, and they also used 100 cars and trucks to transport their families. Among those who fled were old cadres such as Kamenev and Zinoviev, members of the Central Committee of the Bolsheviks.
After these people were captured by Feng Guozhang's sentinels, Feng Guozhang sent a telegram asking Song Xiaofei what to do. After Song Xiaofei learned the truth of the matter, he was overjoyed and immediately gave Feng Guozhang, telling him to deal with it in this way, and to make Lenin and the Bolsheviks have nothing to say.
Feng Guozhang received Song Xiaofei's telegram and couldn't help but applaud: "Attacking the shield of the son with the spear of the son, the president's trick is really clever!" Now the Bolsheviks were completely finished. ”
Feng Guozhang gathered all the 779 arrested Bolshevik leading cadres in a Moscow square for a public trial, and invited about 100,000 poor workers, peasants, and homeless people in Moscow. Kamenev and Zinoviev were also in the crowd, their hands tied behind their backs, angry, shouting: "You cunning Chinese, we asked you to help the Russian people defend their homeland, but you have arrested us, the leaders of the Russian people." It's really unbelievable. Let us go. Otherwise, our comrades will take revenge on us. ”
Feng Guozhang smiled slightly, hid his knife in his smile, waved his hand and signaled the Chinese soldiers who were escorting them to begin to untie them, and then took out the money and valuables that had been seized from them, and let them go to retrieve their belongings and reunite with their families.
Kamenev and Zinoviev snorted and said: "It's about the same. "They took the lead in getting back their cars, cash and so on.
When these Bolshevik cadres took back their property and were about to leave with their families, Feng Guozhang shouted: "Take it all for me!" ”
The Chinese soldiers quickly attacked, pressed these Bolshevik leading cadres down on the square, and tied them up again! ”
Kamenev roared angrily: "What are you doing here? ”
Feng Guozhang laughed, "What are you doing?" You rotten and depraved bourgeois lackeys. We proletarian brothers are also worthy of being called comrades! I am now representing Ma. Gram. Think, on behalf of the world proletariat, destroy you! ”
Zinoviev's hands trembled, and he shouted: "You are crazy! We are all Bolsheviks, cadres leading the proletariat! What nonsense are you talking about. ”
Feng Guozhang turned his head, spat on the ground, and said loudly, "Bah! Although I Feng Guozhang has not read horses. Gram. Thinking of the book, I also know what the bourgeoisie is. What is the proletariat. Isn't it divided according to the amount of assets, the rich and the property are the bourgeoisie, and the poor, that is, the proletariat, the unowned? Just like the rich peasants, middle peasants, and poor peasants in the countryside, you belong to the bureaucratic bourgeoisie! He shouted to the onlookers in Moscow: "Workers, brothers. Do you think so? On what basis are classes divided? Isn't it just property? We unite to wipe out the world's rich! ”
The ragged residents of Moscow, especially the rich who had been communist, responded loudly: "It's like this, it's like this." Let's unite and wipe out the rich! ”
For a while, there was a lot of noise, and Feng Guozhang raised his hand to signal the crowd to be quiet. "Now I begin to publish the assets of these bourgeoisie, Kamenev, 1.5 million rubles, two cars, 1,000 grams of gold, a Swiss watch, Zinoviev. 1,000,000 rubles, 2 cars, 1,500 grams of gold, a Swiss watch......"
After announcing the property of these Bolsheviks, at least 10,000 rubles, the proletariat in Moscow Square came to their senses, and it turned out that these people were the real proletariat. Angrily shouted: "Kill them!" Kill these bourgeois lackeys!"
Feng Guozhang said loudly: "These assets are all recognized by yourself, you claim to be the proletariat, but in fact you are all bourgeoisie. And it's all bureaucratic bourgeoisie! I have not wronged you! According to the criteria set by the Bolsheviks, those above 500 rubles belonged to the bourgeoisie. Come on, wipe out all these big bourgeoisie! ”
"Bang bang bang ......bang" The square immediately resounded with bursts of machine-gun fire. These 779 Bolshevik leading cadres fell in a pool of blood with their eyes wide open, and they did not know why they died like this, or whether they were wearing the hat of the evil bourgeoisie. The 100,000 Moscow proletariat, although they had endured starvation and had little strength, saw this scene and burst into cheers and shouted: "Long live the proletariat!" ”
After that, Feng Guozhang asked the 100,000 real proletariat to give the wives of the 779 Bolshevik leading cadres to the common wives, and the scene was full of scramble. The strange thing is that when Feng Guozhang ordered the glittering gold, cars, jewelry, and rubles in front of him to be distributed to the beggars who were so poor that they only had underwear left, the beggars didn't dare to ask for it, muttering to themselves: "In that case, haven't I also become a bourgeois?" ”
In this way, Feng Guozhang announced that the money and valuables worth 25 million rubles would be nationalized, and in fact they were smuggled back to China.
Because these Bolshevik leading cadres who had fled should have died if they were caught, Lenin did not have much to say. But when Feng Guozhang stretched out his hand to the Bolshevik leading cadres who were defending the city, and shot and killed more than 5,000 Bolshevik cadres for three days in a row, Lenin couldn't help but get angry and ran to the headquarters of the squadron to find Feng Guozhang: "Comrade Feng Guozhang, are you sent by the German army to make trouble?" ”
Feng Guozhang said with an innocent face: "There is nothing wrong with me, I just like to be more serious." By your standards, I'm killing the bourgeoisie! I will never allow the bourgeoisie to mix in the ranks of the proletariat and undermine the purity of the proletarian revolution! ”
Lenin said: "Just leave this work to the Cheka comrades!" ”
Feng Guozhang smiled and said, "I'm sorry, among the more than 200 cadres I arrested today, more than 100 of them are Cheka!" Their property is also amazing, with the assets of leading cadres amounting to 1 million rubles. Doesn't this belong to the bourgeoisie? Every person I shot, I announced their property to the proletarians in Moscow. A large number of people's hearts, the masses applauded one after another. If they could afford firecrackers, I think they would set them off for you, Comrade Lenin. ”
Lenin was speechless. Now I realized that I really lured the wolf into the house. And Feng Guozhang still seriously ordered people to search for Bolshevik leading cadres in the whole city every day, and announced the wealth, and then the bourgeoisie, he was immediately shot and his property confiscated. In less than half a month, the Bolsheviks in the city of Moscow were routed and fled, and Moscow soon collapsed.
Lenin had to reflect on the erroneous policies and theories of the early Bolsheviks, such as Cup-and-Water Doctrine, as well as economic policy. After discussing with Bukharin, he prepared to introduce a new economic policy, including the collection of surplus grain by levying a grain tax, that is, the peasants pay a certain grain tax in accordance with state regulations, and the surplus grain in excess of the tax amount is owned by individuals, which greatly reduces the burden on the peasants and allows foreign-funded enterprises and enterprises that the state is temporarily unable to operate to restore the role of commodity-money relations in regulating production. (To be continued.) If you like this work, you are welcome to come to the starting point (qidian) to vote for recommendation, monthly pass, your support, is my biggest motivation. For mobile phone users, please go to m.qidian to read. )9