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In the world of August 1919, the flames of war were still not extinguished. ()

The brutal Russian Civil War entered the world again after a brief weakening of the first half of the year when Britain and France were busy with the Paris Peace Conference. Denikin and Kolchak attacked from Tsaritsyn and Ufa, respectively, and a million troops fought each other in Europe, Siberia, and Central Asia. At the same time, Britain and France, which had finally freed their hands, also strengthened their intervening forces, urging Finland, the Czech Republic, Poland and other countries to join the encirclement of the poor party. By the end of August, the total number of ** teams gathered around Russia to bite a piece of meat had exceeded 500,000, and with the domestic opposition, the advantage that had been built up with great difficulty in the spring of 1918-1919 suddenly became precarious again.

The three largest of these theaters are in Tsaritsyn, the Urals and West Kazakhstan. Tsaritsyn deliberately handed over to Denikin's ministry when the Wehrmacht retreated, causing the offensive and defensive sides of the defense of Tsaritsyn in the parallel world to switch positions. Denikin himself was an old and spicy Cossack officer, and Britain and France provided direct military support from the Crimean Peninsula and even sent troops to help, and the defense was extremely tenacious. The Poor Red Army, on the other hand, was personally commanded by Stalin and commanded the Southwestern Front to launch an onslaught. By the end of August, a total of 700,000 soldiers on both sides participated in the Battle of Tsaritsyn, and it was not until early September that Stalin finally conquered Tsaritsyn after 150 days of fierce fighting and 100,000 sacrifices, but the entire city was completely destroyed, causing more than 300,000 deaths and injuries among the poor in the Tsaritsyn region!

Although the cost was enormous, the victory was a great encouragement to the poor party. Because Tsaritsyn was strategically important, after taking it, it not only completely cut off the connection between Denikin and Kolchak, but also opened up the passage to the Caucasus. Under these circumstances, Britain and France began to take the initiative, intervening troops entered Russian territory one after another to fight, and even launched a counteroffensive against Tsaritsyn, forcing the poor Red Army to fight on multiple fronts, and finally succeeded in encouraging Poland to enter the war.

While the situation in Europe has deteriorated sharply, Siberia and Central Asia are also bad. Although the Kolchak division suffered repeated defeats in the first half of 1919. But it has not been fatally attacked, and has been entrenched in Western Siberia, Kazakhstan and Uzbekistan in Central Asia. Although the Siberian Army and the Turkestan Army led by Frunze tried hard to attack, they never found a good opportunity to encircle and annihilate them, and operated in the Yakutsk region north of Chita. The guerrillas led by Shumyatsky could only wander around in the face of tens of thousands of Chinese National Guards and 100,000 regular troops. Far from being a deterrent, it caused the whole of Eastern Siberia to be so frightened that it was impossible to farm all summer, forcing nearly a million people to leave their homes and take ships to other parts of the world, while the rest faced a harsh winter that was likely to run out of food.

However, this is not the deadliest, the deadliest is still Central Asia! Under the pretext of stabilizing security in western Xinjiang, the Chinese National Defense Forces have continuously mobilized troops to the eastern Kazakh, Almaty, Tajik and Kyrgyz regions. 100,000 regular troops in brigades pursued and intercepted the guerrillas active in the area. In the face of the frantic sweep in the rear, Dutov was finally able to free up his hands to concentrate on dealing with the Turkestan Army Group, and repeatedly took the initiative to attack from a front of thousands of kilometers. However, due to the loss of the partisans behind enemy lines, the Turkestan Army, which had no experience and cobbled together troops, suffered heavy losses, not only losing South Kazakhstan, Tashkent and other regions, but also being forced to West Kazakhstan by Dutov for a time.

Pravda even described the precarious situation in Central Asia as precarious, for which Lenin first issued a national manifesto in which the Central Asian nationalities were allowed to govern themselves and establish independent states. Tonotsky also raised the slogan of 5 million Red Army to defend Russia. He called on the members of the whole country to take up arms and join the army, and announced the adoption of the harshest army regulations of the tsarist period to defend the proletarian power to the death. Defend Turkestan to protect the belly of Russia. Under this agitation, more and more Russians took up worn-out weapons and entered the Turkestan region, and the total number of troops skyrocketed from 2 million at the end of '18 to 4 million in '19! Although the number of troops was strengthened, the peoples of Central Asia feared a large-scale invasion by the Slavs, which in turn made them distrust Moscow.

The streets of Moscow are sparsely populated, and even if you can see them, you are in a hurry and do not dare to stop. There were military bunkers and pillboxes everywhere, and the desolate scene made many Russian people of insight secretly anxious. Raw material disruption! Factory shutdown! There is no coal in the power plant! The flames of war were frantically burning the most terrible grain failures of industrial civilization accumulated over hundreds of years, and the expropriations of the warring parties angered the big landowners and kulaks, and many preferred to burn the grain rather than leave it to the army, so that the most terrible famine began to spread, for which Moscow had to declare a wartime food rationing system. Each person was only given one-eighth of a pound of bread per day, and the continuation of the Tsarist rationing system made many people begin to waver in their support for the poor party.

The atmosphere in the Kremlin was solemn, and the members of the Politburo were nervous. Only Stalin, who had finally established his personal prestige by seizing Tsaritsyn, was in high spirits, his left hand with thick gloves was always on the conference table, and his right finger bone was slowly tapping on his knee.

"Comrade Lenin." Frunze, who returned from the front, was tired with a tired face, he was the commander-in-chief of the Eastern Front. Both the Siberian Army and the Turkestan Army were under his command, and he was deeply guilty of not being able to open up the situation. Standing in front of the map and pointing to the situation map, he introduced the battle situation to everyone: "Kolchak and the Dutov gang did not have the advantage, and the main energy of Britain and France has changed from supporting him to agitating Denikin and the Czech and Polish lackeys!" Their supplies are dwindling, and ammunition is seriously insufficient! So we're building an advantage step by step. But. His finger circled around East Kazakhstan: "The squadron is attacking these areas in a big way. Comrade Suleymanov reported to me that since July, more than 20,000 soldiers and comrades have been killed or captured, and the squadron has taken control of East Kazakhstan, Almaty, Bishkek and eastern Tajikistan. At present, they are attacking Dushanbe and Andijan, and the casualties of the troops are very large, so they can only temporarily take refuge in the mountains such as Andijan! The squadron has also adopted a policy of eviction, and non-Kazakh, Kyrgyz and Tajik residents living there have been ordered to leave or be killed! Some 800,000 permanent residents have been forced to leave for these areas.

Comrade Shumyatsky was also pinned down in the Yakutsk region, where their situation was even more difficult, with a lack of weapons and ammunition in their eyes, and about 30,000 Chinese National Guard soldiers who took advantage of the summer to launch encirclement and suppression from all sides.

My biggest concern now is whether they will continue westward once they have cleared these areas. Judging by the news from China. That His Excellency Yang Qiu was heading to the northwest. And the Cheka reported that Kolchak had also left for the Irkutsk region, and I suspect that the two are very likely to meet and attack together! Look at it from a distance. East and West Kazakhstan is not out of reach, China has 3 huge well-equipped cavalry divisions in the northwest, and if you take the initiative, it will only take ten days to cross the steppe and reach Orenburg! ”

Frunze's analysis made the atmosphere even heavier, and Lenin shook his body. His body was severely damaged by his round-the-clock work and internal and external troubles, and his cheeks were more than a decade older than they had been during the October Revolution. After recording all the analysis, he looked at Tonotsky: "Comrade Tonotsky, do you think China will cooperate with Kolchak to launch an attack on us?" ”

Tonotsky also looked solemn. But he was clearly in a much better spirits than Lenin, saying: "I cannot judge, but I think that his actions seem to be connected with one thing." ”

"Oh? What's the matter? Lenin leaned forward slowly, and even Stalin was attracted by his words.

"Cancel all the unequal treaties of the Qing government!" "At the Paris Peace Conference, Yang Qiu proposed to end all the unequal treaties of the Qing government, and has already received the consent of the United States, France, Portugal and other countries, and is ready to issue a joint proclamation in Shanghai on January 1 next year!" Britain and Japan have not yet responded, but I think it will be difficult for them to hold on. First, Britain provoked an Asian naval race by selling four warships to Japan in one go. It has already aroused serious dissatisfaction in the United States, so it also hopes to isolate Britain and force it to give up its interests in China and gradually weaken the Anglo-Japanese alliance.

Secondly. Yang Qiu actively promoted military action in Turkestan, and I think it was also a disguised way to force Britain to agree to cancel the unequal treaties, because these actions would also threaten the security of India and Persia, so he hoped to show his strength through these positive actions, and take advantage of Britain's weakest inability to go to full-scale war, and force it to agree to terminate all unequal treaties. And our country is also a signatory to these unequal treaties, successive tsars have coerced the Qing government to sign a large number of land cession treaties, and he must also hope to take this opportunity to cancel these treaties and recover the lost land! ”

"Comrade Tonotsky, you mean if we also announce the termination of the treaty. Then the Chinese will withdraw from the Turkestan region? ”

Lenin's somewhat weak voice made Tonotsky cry out in his heart that he already had the idea of the Brest Entente. But it was Brest who had pushed Russia into civil war completely, and if another 3 million square kilometers of the Far East were ceded to China, it would not only lose access to the Pacific Ocean, so that the poor party would eventually be completely encircled by capitalism and slowly weaken to death, but it would also seriously hurt the Russian people in the Far East. Prompt them to stand on the side of hostilities in Moscow! So he said firmly: "I don't think decisions should be made so arbitrarily, the armament of Kolchak and Dutov is already very weak." As for the squadron, they are not omnipotent, long supply lines will affect the supply, and morale will drop with the weather when winter comes! So we're not at the moment of despair. I would also like to suggest that we reach out to the Japanese, who are the weakest in this East Asian contest and who have some common words and needs. ”

Lenin had a special affection for Japan. At that time, Japan and Akashi Motojiro financed him and the poor party a lot of money, so that the first revolution strengthened its prestige and made the Bolshevik ideology deeply rooted in the hearts of the people, but Japan defeated the tsarist army and caused damage to Russia, which also made the Russian people suffer many disasters from then on, not to mention that Japan now occupies the area near the Holtsk Sea and Sakhalin Island (Sakhalin Island), can it open a special relationship with Japan again?

Lenin's face was a little pale, he looked at Stalin and thought: "Comrade Stalin, what do you think?" ”

Stalin had previously stood firmly on Lenin's side and agreed to sign the Brest Treaty, but his opponent was the powerful industrial Germany. He was reluctant to compromise with China, which was weak ten years ago, not to mention that Turkestan is a mud pit that is not easy to fill, and it is a hundred times more complicated than Tsaritsyn, where the contest is no longer just a military issue, but a competition between China, the United States, Britain, Japan, and Russia, and if it is not operated well, it will affect his personal image and prestige, so he cleverly avoided: "I think Poland should be solved first!" The security of Europe is far more important than that of the East. ”

Tonotsky frowned and looked at the triumphant Stalin

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