With a loud bang, a birch desk was flipped to the ground.

"Traitor! Traitor! All of them are traitors! There is not a single good person among the GCD members and Komsomol members in the Ferghana Basin, they are all traitors, thieves, and traitors who have been mixed into the party organization! They know that they enjoy the privileges given to them by the party, they know that they abuse the power given by the party, but when the party needs them, there is no one who can rely on them! ”

In front of Baranov was a desk that had been flipped over to the strip, and he was already angry. Because he could not have imagined that the GCD committees of Andijan, Osh, and Namangan actually sent a telegram saying that the Red Guards who had been summoned a few days earlier had fled one after another after hearing about the bloody events in Kokand, and that more than 50 percent of them had fled in one day, and that the rest did not dare to carry out the task of suppressing the counter-revolution. At the same time, the activities of the counter-revolutionaries in the three places also began to run rampant, and they began to incite the masses who did not know the truth to demonstrate against the Soviet GCD and Trotsky, and some shouted slogans of separatism.

So after receiving these telegrams, Baranov was furious for more than half an hour. After getting angry, he suddenly felt very pathetic, no, it wasn't him alone, but their generation of old GCDs was really pathetic. After struggling against all kinds of reactionary forces for so many years, it was not easy to lay down a red country, and before I had time to enjoy it, I threw myself into the struggle for the liberation of all mankind. Not to mention whether human beings can be liberated in the end, even if they are, what can they do? Trotsky will eventually pass away, his own generation of old GCDs will eventually pass away, and the achievements of the Soviet revolution and the world revolution will depend on the GCDs of the future to defend them! But now. What are the younger generation of GCD cadres in Andijan, Osh and Namangan doing? When imperialism did not come to the war, they did not know how heroic and fearless they were, as if they could really dedicate their entire lives to the cause of GCISM at any time. But now. When the real disaster came, these people ran and hid...... Are he and the thousands of comrades who shed their blood on the battlefield of the world revolution fighting for such a revolutionary successor?

Thinking of this, his face was so blue that it was about to turn black, especially the thick expression of fear in the eyes of the young staff officers around him, like a sharp knife poking his heart and stirring his flesh...... You people have solemnly sworn under the sacred banner of the party! Now is the time to fulfill your vows. Why are you afraid of this? Is death really that terrible? His cold gaze swept over and over the war room, probably sensing something, and everyone didn't dare to look directly at his gaze and looked down and pretended to be busy with something. Finally, Baranov kicked the table hard. Some hysterically shouted: "Let the troops in the city of Ferghana be assembled, including the officers and soldiers of the front army headquarters, so the soldiers, party members, and regimental members must go to the front!" Go to Kokand to eliminate the insurgents, then go and retake the Kairakum reservoir. Either win. Or all sacrificed! ”

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According to the cousins of the members of the Soviet GCD in Guò, Osh, and Namangan, Baranov saw the future of the party rather than the present. At least in 1934, the Soviet GCD did not lack the courage to sacrifice soldiers, especially most of the party members and cadres in the Workers' and Peasants' Red Army. Under their leadership, the 41st Army of the Red Army, which had suffered from the enemy, was still fighting hard.

In the Khujand fortified area. The assault group under the command of Major General Jang Chung-lin, commander of the 15th Panzergrenadier Division, launched 12 attacks in two days, but by the early morning of June 20, 1934, the battle was still unusually deadlocked. The Soviets resisted desperately, and every position needed to be fought over and over again. Most of the front-line officers and men of the Soviet army who stayed here were young people in their twenties. Soviet youth, who had grown up as fighters of the world revolution and had not yet had time to soak in the great dye vat of Soviet society, were all genuinely believing in GC-ism, although most of them were not GCD-minded.

I don't know when the threshold for joining the party in the Soviet GCD became more and more bizarre, with a large number of various requirements, and it seemed as if it was ready to envelop the elite of Soviet society into the party. However, there is one thing that has been greatly overlooked, and that is the lofty ideals of GCISM! In fact, the party organization has no way to examine whether every party member believes in GCISM in their hearts, and the party has no way to know whether these new comrades are here to become officials or to realize GCISM. In a certain way, some of the views put forward by Chang Ruiqing in the Sino-Soviet polemics in his early years have been confirmed one by one......

However, there are really many fighters in the current Soviet Union who are willing to sacrifice their lives for the cause of GCISM, so Zhang Zhonglin's troops fought very hard, paying nearly 200 Stalker tank destroyers damaged (including less than 80 Hunters who were damaged again after repair, in fact, completely damaged and could not be repaired), and more than 7,000 officers and soldiers were killed and wounded before advancing less than 5 kilometers and seizing the two lines of defense of the Soviet 41st Army. At the same time, the advance of the Wehrmacht Airborne Forces, attacking from the other side, was a little smoother, advancing 10 kilometers in less than two days. However, the Soviet 41st Army still held on to a fortified strip 5 kilometers wide and 11 kilometers long. In order to break through the Khujand fortified area as much as possible and capture the Ferghana Basin before the arrival of Soviet reinforcements, under Bai Chongxi's strict order, the 4th Army of the Wehrmacht, which had just captured Tashkent, immediately transferred the strength of one army to reinforce the 18th Army without taking a break. At the same time, the 2nd Air Force under the jurisdiction of the Northwest Front also dispatched thousands of bombers of various kinds to assist in the war, and 500 kg or even 1,000 kg of heavy bombs were dropped on the heads of the Soviet troops as if they did not want money. The 3rd Army and the 36th Army on the northern and southern fronts of the Ferghana Basin also launched a fierce attack at the cost of casualties, striving to break through into the basin from the north and south.

The Wehrmacht's commitment finally paid off on the fourth day after the onslaught began, as Jang Chung-lin's 15th Panzergrenadier Division finally broke through the last line of defense at Khujand Fortress after three days and four nights of hard fighting. Together with the 2nd Brigade of the Airborne Forces, which was attacking to the west, the gateway to the Ferghana Territory was opened. However, the resistance of the Soviet 41st Army, which had been divided into two parts, did not stop. They were stationed on a dozen small hills on the north and south sides of Khujand Fortress for the final resistance.

According to the telegram sent by the commander of the 41 Army Bulganin to the Tien Shan Front and the Soviet High Command. The army, which originally had 80,000 officers and men, was later replenished with nearly 20,000 men, and there were less than 20,000 left, and the ammunition was almost exhausted, all the heavy weapons were either damaged or discarded, and there was little food left. However, they will continue to fight. Until the last man snapped......

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Bulganin's telegram looked heroic and tragic, but it did little to help the Kremlin's revolutionary prophet's depressed feelings. Because Trotsky knew very well that the battle of Ferghana had already been lost. Although the loss was not ugly, it was still lost! The Chinese will soon occupy the richest basin in Central Asia, and with the oil and grain there, Chang Ruiqing will be able to maintain an army of 3 million or even 4 million in Central Asia next year! In this way, the remaining areas of Central Asia will also be quickly lost. Then the flanks of Western Siberia will be completely exposed. The entire Eastern Front battlefield is almost finished!

Therefore, it is necessary to organize a counteroffensive of forces! Take advantage of the precious time before Hitler's big offensive on the Western Front to launch a counteroffensive to reverse the decline!

The instructions of the revolutionary prophet were very clear, but the Chief of the General Staff of the Red Army, Tukhachevsky, and the People's Commissar of Labor and Defense, Vatsettis, who had just returned from France, felt a little overwhelmed. Now even fools can see that the Soviet Union has been defeated, the Fergana Basin is lost, and the Chinese have spent a lot of effort to knock it down, and then they will definitely desperately hold it, and it is basically useless to take it back. And now the Chinese have deployed more than 2 million troops in Central Asia. The Soviet Union had to invest 3 million troops if they wanted to defeat them, and it was not known how long it would last. Hitler's millions of German troops weren't going to wait forever.

Therefore, it is basically useless to launch a counteroffensive in Central Asia, and now it is necessary to hold Karaganda and along the Ertiz River to defend the flanks of the Eastern Front, and hold the line of Samarkand and Dushanbe to defend the northern flanks of the Persian and Indian Fronts.

If you want to launch a counteroffensive, only two directions, Krasnoyarsk and India in Siberia, can still be considered. The Soviet counteroffensive in Krasnoyarsk had been planned for a long time, but now it has encountered some problems. Due to the rapid defeat of France and the unexpected fall of the Ferghana Basin, the strategic initiative on the Eastern Front once again returned to the hands of China, and there was no need for them to rush to a decisive battle with the Soviet troops in Krasnoyarsk. It is entirely possible to advance step by step and slowly, as long as it reaches Krasnoyarsk before the start of the major offensive on the Eastern Front next year. In this way, the Chinese can contain at least 2 million Soviet troops in Siberia and another 2 million Soviet troops in Central Asia, and then sit back and wait for the Germans to defeat the remaining strategic main forces of the Soviet army and pick the fruits of victory!

Therefore, the Soviet Union could no longer wait for the Chinese to slowly advance towards Krasnoyarsk, and had to take the initiative to launch a decisive battle with the Chinese Defense Forces in the area east of Krasnoyarsk, in order to defeat them in one fell swoop, although the hope was very slim, but it was better than sitting and waiting.

As for the Indian battlefield, it was probably the only hope for the success of the world revolution. Over the past two years, Blyukhel has shown a very high level of command, and his hundreds of thousands of Red Army troops have not been defeated in India. With his help, the Indian Red Army overcame all kinds of difficulties and expanded to millions of people! The opponents of the Indian Front of the Soviet Red Army, including the Anglo-Indian Army, the Indian National Army, the Union Army of the M-Sling, and the Army of Allah, have been losing ground for more than a year. Among them, the Anglo-Indian legion's territory on the South Asian subcontinent was only the Indian port city of Mumbai, as well as the southernmost part of the Indian peninsula, near Ceylon, the jurisdiction of Madras, and the easternmost region of India, Nagar; The situation of the Indian National Army is not much better, and most of their territory has also fallen into the hands of the Indian GCD, and now they have retreated to the area around the base camp of Calcutta, although they still nominally control the western part of Bengal, but as soon as they come out of Kolkata they are active areas of the Indian Red Army guerrillas! India's Inslin coalition and Allah are faring slightly better, with the former also in Kashmir and West Bengal, and the latter controlling at least half of Afghanistan, although the Afghan capital, Kabul, was lost in the second half of last year.

From the map, it seems that the Indian revolution will be completely victorious with a little more effort! After taking India. Whether it is north into Tibet or east into Myanmar, it is enough for Chinese to drink a pot. At the same time, more than 300 million people can also provide tens of millions of soldiers! Although the combat effectiveness of Indian soldiers is very problematic, the almost unlimited number can always cause a lot of trouble for China and Germany!

So Tukhachevsky and Vatsettis consulted for a long time. The result coincided with Trotsky's. The Soviet Indian Front and the Indian Red Army must launch a final offensive and liberate India within 1934!

At the same time, the Soviet Eastern Front had to give it a go, mobilizing at least 25 army groups to launch a counteroffensive against the squadrons advancing towards Krasnoyarsk.

As for the Central Asian side, it is also necessary to increase the number of troops. The Kazakh Front was expanded to 8 army groups; The Tien Shan Front will be reorganized into the South and Central Asia Front, and its strength will be expanded to seven armies, excluding the two group armies that will soon be completely annihilated.

But this adjustment plan was put on the desk of the revolutionary prophet. He was slapped on the table by a somewhat angry Trotsky. "Comrade Tukhachevsky, Comrade Vatsettis! Don't you understand? Now the Soviet Motherland has reached its most dangerous moment! We must mobilize the national strength of the entire country without reservation, leaving no room for anything...... I have roughly calculated that at the moment the population of the occupied territories is not included. The Soviet Union had at least 150 million people, but the Red Army, including the internal guard and logistics units, had only about 16 million people, just over 10% of the population, including about 3 million Polish, Romanian and Bulgarian revolutionaries who joined us. Don't you think that's too little? I think the total strength of the Soviet Red Army should have reached more than 15% of the population. That's 22.5 million! Among them, the field troops should reach more than 18 million. Ordinary army groups should have more than 160 units, infantry divisions more than 650, cavalry divisions more than 160, and tank armies more than 50. Only in this way will it be possible for us to win the war and keep our proletarian Motherland! ”

Tukhachevsky and Vatsettis looked at each other and felt a little tingling at Trotsky's proposed figures for the expansion of the army. As for the number of the Red Army, they certainly also thought that the more the better. But the strength of heavy industry in the USSR was clear. Now all the factories are working overtime, and they can only produce 1,000 tanks, assault artillery, 700 aircraft, 1,500 cannons of various calibers and less than 3,000 cars a month. When the war on the Western Front begins, the production of these heavy weapons will definitely not be worth the consumption, where is there anything extra to equip so many recruits?

Of course, the production of rifles, machine guns, mortars and other small arms and ammunition is sufficient. But does it make sense to form a whole bunch of cannon fodder troops with no heavy weapons?

"Now I can't manage so much, it's better to have troops than no troops!" Trotsky turned his head to look at the dejected president of the GC International: "Comrade Skryansky, take up your spirits and go and make a call to the proletarians and GCDs of the whole world to unite in the defense of the Soviet Union!" We need help now, the more the better...... By the way, go and generate electricity for the French GCD and see if we can organize a group of French pilots and French engineers and skilled workers to support the USSR? ”

"Okay, I'm going to send a telegram to the French GCD."

After Skryansky left, Trotsky said to Tukhachevsky: "Tell Sù Baranov not to attack Kokand again, that is to send him to death, the GCD people are not afraid of death, but they must not die in vain!" Let him defend the city of Ferghana and arm the GCD, Komsomol and young men in the city! Delay as much time as possible. The units of the 42nd Army were ordered to enter the city of Ferghana as much as possible, and if they really could not get in, they would rely on the mountains to fight guerrillas, and in short, they would persevere to the end...... By the way, let Baranov send someone to find a flat land in the center of Fergana where planes can take off and land, and if it really can't be defended, send an SB2 bomber to pick up Comrade Baranov, I need a commander like him.

In addition, Comrade Egorov was appointed commander of the South and Central Asian Front, increasing the total strength of the South and Central Asian Front to ...... 25 armies and 8 tank armies. Sue Yegorov, we must recover the Fergana Basin by May next year! ”

Tukhachevsky looked at Trotsky in embarrassment: "But ......"

The revolutionary prophet interrupted with a sharp wave of his hand: "There is nothing but it, go and carry it out!" Then, without waiting for Tukhachevsky's answer, he said to Vatsettis: "Comrade People's Commissar of Defense, follow my instructions to draw up a conscription plan, next year we need 22.5 million Red Army, and we may need more!" In addition, in the future, the technical weapons equipped with by each group army and each infantry division can be appropriately reduced. In short, we must arm as many Red Army troops as possible with limited weapons and equipment! ”