Although it is only the beginning of October, the footsteps of winter can already be felt in Moscow at high altitude, and the sound of the autumn wind is blowing outside the Kremlin window. It's late at night, and the entire Soviet capital is in darkness, but the Kremlin is still brightly lit.

Since the full-scale outbreak of the world revolution, the lights have not been extinguished here. Every night there were members of the Political Bureau and the Revolutionary Military Council in the International Proletarian Command, which at the same time became the de facto Supreme Command. There were such outstanding military strategists as Trotsky, Tukhachevsky, Vatsettis, and Shaposhnikov in the center, as well as famous generals such as Frunze, Ubolevich, Yakil, Blyukhel, Yegorov, Garmanik, and Hapleysky, and tens of millions of GCIST fighters armed with Marxist Trotsky ideas fighting on the front line. So the start of the Soviet Union in World War II can be said to be quite good in this space-time.

As we enter October, there is a lot of good news. First of all, the Middle East Front conquered Riyadh, the home of the reactionary House of Saud, and Medina, one of the holy cities of Yaslanism, and annihilated more than 100,000 reactionary troops loyal to the caliphate!

After liberating Karachi, the largest city in northwestern India, the Indian Front under the command of Blyukherr continued to march forward in great triumph, all the way north along the Indian River, defeating the reactionary forces controlled by the M-Sling League, liberating the entire Sindh province and most of Punjab, and all the way to Delhi (New Delhi), the capital of British India. What is even more gratifying is that the cadres of the Indian GCD showed a very strong struggle in this "Indian Liberation War". On the one hand, they launched workers' and students' movements in the British-occupied areas or in the areas controlled by the Musling Union and the Congress (Autonomous Party). Disrupt order behind enemy lines and disintegrate the enemy's struggle. On the one hand, it marched with the Soviet Red Army and established the people's power of India under the leadership of the GCD in the "liberated areas". Mobilize the people of the liberated areas to carry out an agrarian revolution and a caste revolution, confiscate the land and property of the upper imams of the Brahmins, Kshatriyas, and Muslins, and organize the working people of the lower castes such as the Shudras and Dalits to rise up against the Brahmins and Kshatriyas, and other higher castes. The slogan of eliminating Brahmins and Kshatriyas from the ** and Vaishyas from the economy was also shouted!

For a time, thousands of Brahmins and Kshatriyas' heads fell to the ground, and the Shudras and Dali special surnames who turned over after the defeat of the Brahmins and Kshatriyas, also signed up for the Indian Red Army under the mobilization of the Indian G. Only September 1932. The number of the Indian Red Army has expanded from less than 10,000 to 300,000! The Indian Revolution is a great thing!

The news from the Balkans is equally encouraging. Although the reactionary dynasty of Romania received aid from German imperialism, it temporarily retained the northwestern part of the country by relying on the Carpathians. However, the Red Army's Balkan Front did not stop at the Romanian border, but forced its way across the Danube in late September 1932. Storming Sofia, the capital of the Kingdom of Bulgaria, King Boris III of Bulgaria fled to Italy with his government and family. On September 30, Dimitrov, the leader of the Bulgarian GCD, officially proclaimed the Bulgarian Soviet Socialist Republic in Sofia and declared war on the three imperialist countries of Britain, Germany and China.

But the most exciting news came from the Far Eastern Front! This was a front army of only 1.3 million (including Japanese reinforcements). After giving up part of the territory and tightening the defensive line. It actually withstood the onslaught of the powerful Northern Front of China for several days! Garmanik and Haplesky said in their report that from the early morning of September 30, the Chinese invading army dispatched aircraft, tanks, artillery and a large number of infantry to launch a fierce attack on the Red Army positions on the front line of Zabaikalsk, but under the stubborn resistance of the vast number of Red Army soldiers, the squadron had to pay a heavy price for every step forward! By the night of October 3, after four days and nights of hard fighting, the Chinese invaders had advanced an average of less than 3 kilometers, costing at least 10,000 casualties. The plain near the Zabaikalsk railway station was littered with Chinese tanks and armored vehicles that had been destroyed and wounded by Red Army soldiers......

The question of the defence of the Far East has always been a deep source of trouble for Trotsky. Now, when I heard such good news, the mood of the revolutionary prophet suddenly became much more relaxed. Since the start of the war, the face that has been stiff most of the time has rarely shown a smile.

Seeing this, Vatsetis also showed a smile, looked at Tukhachevsky, who was still frowning slightly, and said: "Comrade President, it seems that there will not be much difficulty in the Far East in the short term, and it will not be long before the temperature in the Far East will drop rapidly, and the Chinese will have to go on the defensive, and I think it is time for the Central Asian Front to attack." ”

"Comrade Tukhachevsky, what do you think? Is there confidence in the offensive of the Central Asian side? Trotsky again asked Tukhachevsky's opinion.

"There is nothing to worry about in the operation in Central Asia." Tukhachevsky frowned and said: "But I still can't understand the Far Eastern battlefield. Chinese has an overwhelming superiority, both in terms of the number of troops and the quantity and quality of technical equipment, but their offensive is ......."

"I know, they're feinting." Trotsky's military talents were still outstanding, and as soon as he saw the report of the Far Eastern Front, he knew that the Chinese were not doing their best. "But that's exactly what we need, the revolutionary form of the Indian revolution is very good, and I believe that in a year at most, Blyukhel and Rui will be able to liberate 350 million Indians from the oppression of imperialism and feudalism, and the number of the Indian Red Army will soon expand to 10 million! When the time comes, it will be our turn to teach China a hard lesson, a revisionist imperialist country. Now, let's teach them a little lesson. ”

Tukhachevsky understood the meaning of Trotsky's words, and the Soviet Red Army had been studying the dilemma of fighting on two fronts. And the only way to solve this problem is to concentrate on killing an opponent first! In contrast to Chang Ruiqing's conjecture, Trotsky had always been hesitant to defeat Chinese revisionism or German imperialism first.

"Comrade President. Let's still look at the results of the Central Asian Front and then decide on the next strategy. Tukhachevsky advocated the destruction of the scourge of Hitler first, but he did not want to argue with Trotsky on this issue, since the defeat of Germany and the defeat of China were not immediately on the agenda.

"Yes. Let's look at the results of Central Asia first! Trotsky pondered, looked at Vatzedis and said: "Comrade Vatzetis, go and give orders to Comrade Frunze, let him beat hard!" We must beat the Chinese to the bitter and afraid! ”

"All right," Vasetis agreed, but instead of moving, he hesitated. He asked: "Comrade Chairman, the day before yesterday, Comrade Frunze called to ask for instructions, what should be done with the more than 10 million Chinese immigrants in Outer Xinjiang and Northern Xinjiang after the liberation of Xinjiang?" Do you want to rebuild the Chinese People's Revolutionary Party and the Chinese People's Revolutionary Army? ”

These words were asked about Trotsky's aching feet. After two painful defeats, the international movement had lost much hope for the Chinese revolution. After summing up the lessons of Jīngyàn, Trotsky pointed out: "China's deep-rooted Confucianism and traditional culture are the greatest obstacle to the victory of the Chinese revolution, and if the Chinese revolution wants to achieve victory, it must start by overthrowing Confucianism." Only the fate of traditional Chinese culture has been revolutionized. Only then will it be possible to break the feudal mentality that is deeply rooted in the thinking of Chinese, and only then will it be possible for the GC revolution to take place in China......"

Since it is necessary to reform the life of culture before the life of Chinese revisionism can be reformed, then there is no need to bother to support the third Chinese revolution at the moment, Trotsky shook his head and said: "There is no need to consider the question of the Chinese revolution for the time being, the time is not yet ripe, and there is no suitable candidate to take advantage of it." As for the Chinese immigrants from the Outer and Northern Frontiers......" Trotsky paused for a moment, took two puffs on his cigar, and continued: "Sue Comrade Frunze. All of them were colonizers, and they all owned land. belonged to the landlords and kulaks, and their land and property, especially grain, should be confiscated. According to intelligence, the Ili River region of China's outer frontier province has had bumper harvests year after year, and all the granaries are full of grain, which is ironclad evidence that the Chinese colonizers plundered the people of Central Asia, and should confiscate all of them and use them to support the world revolution. ”

Grain production in the Soviet Union has always been a perennial problem, and now that a large number of agricultural laborers are in the Red Army, the domestic food supply is even more difficult, so Trotsky began to fight the idea of the occupied territories. Romania and Bulgaria have been hinted at providing military rations for the world revolution, but these two countries do not have much grain in stock, unlike China's outer provinces, which have bumper harvests year after year, but are constrained by poor transportation and can only stock up large quantities of grain. Trotsky took another puff of his cigarette and turned to Vatsettis: "One more order is issued to put the Karaganda labor camp under the management of the Central Asian Revolutionary Military Council, and that they should immediately start building a railway connecting Bishkek and Almaty, that the prisoners in the camp could be used, that the railway should be built by June 1933 in any case, and that they should be ready to meet the counterattack of the squadron after June 1933."

In addition, there is a large amount of cultivated land on both sides of the Ili River, and it should not be left barren, but can be cultivated by labor camps. Remember, our struggle against Chinese revisionism is likely to be long-term, and we should use all the forces we can use. ”

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October 3, 1932.

After receiving Trotsky's supreme instructions, Frunze, the former number one general under Lenin, immediately exerted his strength to urge the Central Asian Front of the Red Army to launch an offensive. In addition to the 24 cavalry divisions lurking near Ayaguz, the remaining 12 infantry armies (each army group had four infantry divisions and one tank brigade) were divided into three clusters, the eastern, western, and southern routes, and launched a fierce attack on China's outer frontier provinces from the east and southwest of Lake Balkhash and the southern foothills of the Tien Shan Mountains. To the east of Lake Balkhash, where the main direction of attack was located, Frunze threw in a full 6 army groups, 2,000 artillery pieces, and launched a frantic onslaught with nearly 500 tanks of various types and 6 semi-motorized rifle divisions of 6 tank brigades as the vanguard.

Hundreds of thousands of artillery shells roared in, overwhelmingly falling on the thin defense line of the Chinese National Defense Forces, the main force of the Chinese National Defense Forces had already moved south, and only a small number of militiamen were holding the front line, which could not stop the Red Army's overwhelming offensive at all. In just two hours, the defensive line deployed between Lake Balkhash and Lake Alaa was completely shattered. The border towns of Gancharal and Lepso fell within 24 hours of the Soviet attack, and tens of thousands of National Guard soldiers were so badly defeated by the "sudden" attack that they lost their armor and retreated. Soviet military correspondents who followed the Red Army offensive sent back one extremely optimistic report after another, and for a time the entire world revolutionary camp was cheering for another great victory that the Soviet Red Army was about to achieve.

This is indeed a battle of great significance for the world revolution. Since China and Germany have always been regarded as the two greatest obstacles to the world revolution, the Soviet Red Army has been avoiding a decisive battle with the main forces of China and Germany since the beginning of the war. And this Central Asian three-frontier battle took place precisely between the Soviet Central Asian Front and the Northwest Chinese Front! If the Soviet Red Army can win, then there will be a huge crisis in the defense of China's northwestern frontier, and the raging flames of the world revolution will also burn to China proper. On the contrary, if the Soviet army is defeated, then they will lose the aura of invincibility since the beginning of the war, and the Northwest Front of China will also take advantage of the victory to attack the Central Asian region of the Soviet Union. The Soviet Union will be forced to transfer a large number of troops to Central Asia, which is absolutely not good news for the Soviet Union, which is already showing signs of straining its forces. So for the Soviet Union, the Battle of the Three Frontiers in Central Asia was definitely one of the most remarkable major battles (which battle could afford to lose?). ）。

However, the smooth operation of the initial operations did not bring much joy to the command of the Central Asian Front of the Red Army in Karaganda. The cacophony of telephone ringing in the war room, the headquarters built in the concentration camp had a very complete network of wired telephones and telegraphs, and Frunze could completely control all the Soviet troops on the entire battlefield without leaving home. Since the start of the battle, Frunze has moved the camp bed into the lounge next to the war room. He himself sat in the war room for more than 36 hours, listening to the staff officers constantly report on the progress of the front, which sounded like good news, but Frunze's furrowed eyebrows showed no sign of loosening.

Malinovsky, chief of staff of the Front, also did not close his eyes for 2 days and 2 nights, walked up to Frunze with a tired face, and sighed before he could report: "As soon as the day dawns, the activities of the Chinese Air Force become frequent, and all 6 tank brigades report that they have been subjected to fierce air attacks and have suffered heavy losses!" Among them, the largest losses were the 1st Separate Tank Brigade, 12 of their 35 T28 tanks were blown up, 15 of the 38 T28s were blown up, and if you count the 11 T28s and 18 T26s that could not be driven due to mechanical problems, this tank brigade is now only 11 T28s and 18 T26s can still operate. The other five tank brigades fared slightly better, but the equipment was only around 50 per cent. Comrade Commander, it seems that we have been underestimating the wēixié from the air all along......"

Frunze listened to the report of Chief of Staff Malinovsky with a calm face, waved his hand and said: "I don't have anything to say about strengthening air defense, just go and report to the General Staff and the People's Commissariat of Labor and Defense." He stood up, walked to the map table, stared for a moment, and asked, "Haven't you found the shadow of the Chinese armored cluster yet?" ”

Malinovsky shook his head and said: "I don't know where their armored cluster is, but there are signs of the main force of the squadron gathering near the Komsomol City in the southeast of the Saryesik Atyrau Desert, and it is estimated that their armored forces are also there." ”

"Komsomolskaya?" Hearing this somewhat affectionate name, Frunze often frowned.

"It is the original Taldi Kurgan, which was changed to the Communist Youth League City when the Chinese G was engaged in GCISM in other Xinjiang, and also called on the Chinese mainland Communist Youth League members to go there to engage in development and construction, and also invested heavily in urban construction, and it is said that it wants to make it the capital of the entire GCISM ...... District"