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"Comrade President, this has just been sent back from Paris. The British delegation had already arrived in Berlin, and at noon this day Chamberlain delivered a speech in the German Parliament, declaring that the British Empire should lead the world together with Germany, China, and other responsible powers, and that this other responsible power should refer to the United States, and it seems that he also wanted to include the United States in the anti-Soviet alliance. This is the latest battle report submitted by the Japanese delegation in Moscow, the military operations of the Japanese Red Army in the South Seas are very smooth, the British ** team has handed over the defense of the Malay Peninsula to China, the main force of the British army in Southeast Asia has been transferred to Ceylon, and the main force of the Far East Fleet has been transferred to Australia. Now only the Dutch East Indies Army is still resisting, but they are no match for the Japanese Red Army, and it is estimated that the Japanese Red Army will be able to liberate most of the Dutch East Indies by the end of March. ”

Inside the Moscow Kremlin, the lights are still bright. After learning that China, Britain and Germany had reached an agreement to divide the world, the atmosphere here became more and more tense. Although the Red Army has achieved a series of brilliant victories in the past 1933, liberating hundreds of millions of oppressed people, and planting the red flag throughout most of Eurasia. However, on the most critical Sino-Soviet and Soviet-German battlefields, the Soviet Red Army suffered one setback after another, and if it were not for the contradictions between the imperialist countries that contained the forces of China and Germany, the Red Army would have lost its strategic initiative long ago.

After meeting with Daladier in Constantinople, Trotsky visited the Balkan Front and the Middle East Front to cheer up his subordinates. He returned to Moscow at the end of January, and as soon as he returned to the Kremlin's International Proletarian Command. Tukhachevsky came up to him. Stuffing a few documents to the revolutionary prophet, he led the way to the conference room and introduced the situation in a brisk voice: "This is the news from the Italian GCD. Yesterday morning. The leader of the Spanish Falangist Party, Rivera, secretly arrived in Rome, and the commander of the Italian Air Force, Admiral Balbo, personally greeted him at the airport, and then the two men held a secret meeting for three hours at the Venetian Palace, the headquarters of the Italian Fascist Party.

This was a telegram from the Indian Front, two days earlier the British Viceroy of India, Thomas, who had met with Jawaharlal Nehru, chairman of the Indian National Congress Party, in Mumbai and offered to fight jointly with the Indian National Army, promising that the National Army would agree. The British side provided 30 divisions of equipment. In addition, Thomas told Sù Nehru that China would soon send an expeditionary force of 10 armies to India. It is hoped that the National Army will cooperate.

Comrade Ubolevich sent a telegram from Baghdad, saying that recently, cult organizations in Iraq, Najd, and Hejaz have begun to stir up again, and the counterintelligence department of the Middle East Front has cracked several cult strongholds one after another. Caliph Hussein was inciting a new round of counter-revolutionary uprisings to coordinate with the British counteroffensive. That's right. Just now, there was also a call from the GC International Headquarters, and Comrade Rowrow, general secretary of the US GCD, said that he wanted to visit Moscow as much as possible. ”

Tukhachevsky rolled his lips and recounted the events of the last week, and when he entered the operational command center, the Red Army officers stopped their work and saluted Trotsky. After waving the revolutionary prophet to continue their work, he walked to the large map platform with Tukhachevsky, as well as Vatsettis, Skryansky, Vinshlicht, and Shaposhnikov, who had been waiting here for a long time. Looking at the various small flags and military symbols that littered the map, Trotsky asked: "What is going on over there in Poland?" The Germans didn't make any changes, did they? ”

Shaposhnikov stood up and said: "Before, in order to confuse the enemy. The Polish Front and the Polish GCD have ordered martial law throughout Poland, believing that Germany has not yet discovered that we are evacuating Poland. However, the Germans have recently imposed martial law in the areas east of Berlin and Czechoslovakia in Germany proper. Our intelligence network has been severely damaged, and it is now difficult to detect abnormal movements of German troops in time.

In addition, with the deepening of the evacuation and relocation work, many Polish cadres and masses have become aware of the fact that some Poles are reluctant to leave their homeland and move to Ukraine with the factory organs, while others are unwilling to stay and persist in the struggle. Now the hearts of the Polish people are fluctuating, and although Poland and G try their best to appease, they have achieved little. Comrade Rashevich was worried that sooner or later the Polish Red Army would also be affected, and he hoped that a number of political cadres who could speak fluent Polish could be transferred from the Soviet Red Army and stationed in the Polish Red Army in the name of Polish political workers to strengthen political and ideological work. ”

"There are not many such cadres, and if they are all sacrificed in Poland, it will be very detrimental to the future counteroffensive." The head of the Red Army's political department, Winshlicht, immediately spoke out against it, and he was also the boss of the Trotsky Jewish gang, but not a Russian Jew but a Polish Jew, and at the same time the boss of the "Polish gang" in the Soviet GCD. Most of the political cadres who could speak Polish were members of the Polish Gang, and if they all died in Poland, he would be a bare boss.

"This is not a big problem, although we will give up Poland for the time being, we will not give up the Polish comrades, and we will not use the Polish Red Army as artillery fire. The General Staff had drawn up a plan that would allow the safe transfer of most of the Polish Red Army to Ukraine and Belarus in the event of a German attack. Tukhachevsky waved his hand and said that he did not have to worry about the safety of the Polish Red Army, but looked at the large "red zone" on the map and said: "The most worrying thing now is that the fall of Poland will cause some negative feelings in other countries liberated by the Soviet Red Army and in the Soviet Union....... Blockade news, anyway, the fall of Poland will certainly be temporary. ”

"I agree with Tukhachevsky."

Without waiting for Trotsky to speak, Skryansky, who was standing next to him, spoke first: "Now that the world revolution has spread over a wide area, and there are many countries and nationalities that we have liberated, everyone's morale is very high, and we should find ways to maintain it. ”

When Trotsky heard this, his face was a little embarrassed: "I am afraid that there is a certain degree of difficulty, and now that the imperialism of China, Britain and Germany has been temporarily united, it is inevitable that the revolution will have a temporary low ebb...... Poland is probably not the first region to be abandoned, and we can't hide all the setbacks, right? He said with a wry smile: "None of them, Britain, and Germany have concealed the heavy blows that capitalism has suffered in India, the Middle East, the Balkans, Northern Europe, and the South Seas, and their citizens do not seem to have had a nervous breakdown." Are we not as good as capitalism on this issue? The Soviet people, who have been educated by our Party for many years, are not as strong as the nationals of those imperialist countries? ”

That's a misguide. There seemed to be signs of conflating the world revolution with the imperialist war, but from Trotsky's mouth, no one dared to point it out.

Trotsky was also unaware of his gaffe. Instead, he continued to say in a solemn tone: "Comrades, in the past year or so, our world revolution has achieved great results, the red flag has been planted almost half of the world, and more than 400 million oppressed people have been reborn, which is a remarkable achievement. But...... Imperialism did not collapse completely and faced the fate of inevitable destruction. The last struggle and counterattack of imperialism will soon begin! On the side of our revolutionary progressive forces, we have exhausted our energies because of the constant offensive of 1932 and 1933 and must now temporarily turn to the defensive. Over the next year to a year and a half. We need to deplete the enemy's vital forces in the defense, and at the same time accumulate new offensive momentum. Before the world revolution can achieve the final victory, I am afraid that we will have to go through several rounds of such offensive and defensive transitions before we can finally plant the red flag all over the world!

…… Although the final victory must be ours. But the road to victory is bound to be difficult and tortuous. Comrades. I hope you can do your best to fight and use your wisdom and strength to bring happiness to the working people all over the world! ”

The revolutionary prophet glanced at Winshlicht: "Comrade Director of the Political Affairs Department, take note of what I have just said and convey it to all the Red Army soldiers!" I am confident that they will be able to give full play to their full potential to win the victory after knowing the difficulties facing the world revolution! ”

Trotsky smiled at several senior Red Army officers with a tired expression: "I have slept less than 10 hours in the past week, and now I am going to get a good night's sleep." The road to revolution is still a long one, if I always don't have a good rest. I'm afraid it won't be able to support the day when the red flag is planted all over the world. With that, he strode out of the operations command center.

Looking at the tired back of the leader, a little ominous appeared in the hearts of Vatsettis, Tukhachevsky and others. The USSR and the Soviet Red Army seem to be like the Prophet himself. The continuous operations and attacks have exhausted their strength, and what is most needed now is rest. But the power of imperialist China and imperialist Germany has grown over the past year or so and has now reached its peak! Their counterattack will soon begin, and the initiative of the war is about to change hands.

The attack on Northern Europe and the meeting with French Prime Minister Daladier were Trotsky's last two attempts to seize the initiative in the war.

It is a pity that the Soviet offensive in Northern Europe had an unexpected counter-effect, not only did not intimidate Sweden, but also contributed to the precise unity of Britain, Germany and China. The indecisive French, unaware of the impending danger, gave up the opportunity to defeat their old enemy. Therefore, the only way out in front of the Soviet Union now is defense, but the battlefield to be defended is too large and too wide. From the Arctic Circle to the Indian Ocean, from the Polish-German border to the Far East, there are eight major battlefields scattered across tens of thousands of miles, even if the Red Army's book number has reached 20 million (including the Red Army or People's Army of the Soviet Union, Poland, Romania, Bulgaria, Finland, India, Persia and other countries), it seems a little stretched after being dispersed to the eight battlefields.

Moreover, fighting a war is not just a matter of people, it also requires the consumption of a huge amount of supplies, weapons and ammunition. According to the information available to the Soviet Union, a German panzer division would consume more than 180 tons of supplies per day, a German panzergrenadier division would consume 120 tons of supplies per day, and a German infantry division would consume at least 80 tons of supplies. The consumption of the Soviet army is slightly less than that of the German army, but the materials needed to maintain a normal operation of the Red Army infantry division/cavalry division for a day will not be less than 50 tons in any case, and now there are more than 800 infantry divisions/cavalry divisions in the Soviet Red Army, if all of them are in wartime, at least 40,000 tons of materials will be consumed every day, and if the consumption of logistics and transportation is taken into account, I am afraid that 80,000 tons will not be able to stop...... If such a war of attrition lasts for a year, it will cost more than 28 million tons of materials, which will be a great test for the industrial and agricultural production of the Soviet Union!

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"Yu Xun and Youlin, what do you think? Max of the Germans. How successful can the Hoffman plan be? ”

Chang Ruiqing returned to Nanjing on February 5, 1934, and as soon as he returned to his official residence, he invited Zhao Zhen, chief of the General Staff, and Wu Shi, commander-in-chief of the army, to study the Max he brought back from Germany. Hoffman planned.

"I think it's too risky," Zhao took a morning to roughly add Max. A copy of the Hoffman plan was read through. "I didn't expect the Germans to learn the lessons of the last world war and want to go to war on two fronts...... This is really crazy, although the German army is strong, but the French army is not vegetarian. France had defeated Germany in the last world war, and this time, if it could not win, it would have been able to drag on the war for a few years, so that Germany would not be able to launch a large-scale attack on the Soviet Union for the time being. ”

The Maginot Line did not appear on this plane, but the French worked with Belgium and the Netherlands to build a line against the "Soviet Union", and the Ardennes Forest region in southern Belgium seems to have a soft underbelly. But the French armored forces at the moment are very strong, with up to 15 armored divisions. And in addition to the French version of the Stalker tank destroyer, the French also have several very good tanks, such as the 20-ton Somoan S35 tank and the B1BIS heavy tank, although the monthly tank production is only half of Germany's, but more than half of Germany's forces are held back by the Soviet Union, while France can concentrate its forces against Germany. As for Italy, the little accomplice of the Germans, it can really be ignored directly, so Zhao Zhen does not believe that Germany can quickly defeat France.

"Is it possible to achieve miraculous results through the sneak attack of the Ardennes Forest?" Chang Ruiqing asked quietly again.

"It's hard to say the effect of the sneak attack," Wu Shi shook his head and said, "In the end, you still have to fight a decisive battle with the main force to divide the victory and defeat, right?" However, I think the advantage of the Germans is still obvious, their armored forces have been tested in battle, and they have an advantage over the French recruits. Moreover, the strength of the Luftwaffe is too strong, with tens of thousands of combat aircraft, as well as such excellent fighters and bombers as the BF109, BF110, JU87, JU88, HE111, Fokker D.21 and Fokker D.25 (new products of Fokker). In contrast, the strength of the French Air Force is somewhat weak, with only about 2,000 combat aircraft, and there are no dive bombers with outstanding performance, and the ability to strike tactical strikes on the ground is limited. Judging by the experience of several congress battles in the last year, the role of air power on the battlefield is increasing, sometimes even decisive, so I am optimistic about Germany!

And we can only be optimistic about Germany, otherwise what else? Now Hitler was determined to fight France. At that time, France and the Soviet Union will be allies, and we and France will be the natural enemies! If the Franco-German war really ends, there is a high probability that the USSR will press the main forces to the east against us!

So I built YÌ to go all out to attack the Soviet Far East, Baikal and Central Asia, even if it was to bring the main forces of the Soviet Red Army over. In Baikal and the Far East we have logistical advantages, we are invincible. Central Asia is a little troublesome, and it is a big deal to give up foreign Xinjiang and surrender to northern and southern Xinjiang. As long as we take Baikal and the Far East, we will still earn. ”

"Yu Xun's analysis is reasonable, we only have one choice, which is to support Germany!" Chang Ruiqing yawned and said with a smile: "I've been busy studying Hoffman's plan for the past few days, and I haven't slept well, and now I really can't bear it." Yu Xun and Youlin, you bring a copy of the Hoffman plan back to the General Staff to study it carefully, and the 1934 battle plan will be adjusted as soon as it should be adjusted, and maybe this year it will be fought well, and the overall situation of the world war will be decided! ”