Chapter 14 Pick 3 Cannon for Expert
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Target plane, the office of the Commander-in-Chief of the Soviet Far East Corps, Tsykhvinsky (whose name is Lalangpai).
"What did you say?!" Sitting in an office chair, Tsykhvinsky asked with some surprise after hearing the report from his subordinates.
"The main force of the Yanhuanghong Party army has been staying on the Soviet-Mongolian border for the past few days, and there has been no movement. After our repeated urgings, the other side only sent a field force of about 20,000 men to participate in our battle to encircle Ulan-Ude, citing insufficient troops, and refused to continue after the Japanese retreated to the city alley area! The adjutant standing at the desk reported in detail.
"Have you negotiated with their liaison representative?" Tsikhvinsky then asked.
"By the end of the third negotiation last evening, the representatives of the Yanhuanghong Party army officially informed us that they had decided not to participate in the final general attack on Ulan-Ude because of the lack of troops!" The adjutant looked at his boss cautiously, and although his heart was beating, he still told the result of the negotiation.
"Bastard!" After hearing this, Tsykhvinsky couldn't help but curse loudly.
It is no wonder that he was in a hurry, since it had been 13 days since the Japanese occupied Ulan-Ude, and the Trans-Siberian Railway, the main passage of life in the Far East and Moscow, had also been cut off for 13 days. Moscow sent two telegrams a day, morning and evening, asking about the latest situation of the war, and with an urgent and non-negotiable attitude, Tsykhvinsky ordered that the supply transportation of the Trans-Siberian Railway must be resumed as soon as possible at all costs.
Although Tsykhvinsky was not very loyal to Stalin from the bottom of his heart, he also knew that once the main force of the Soviet army in Moscow was finished, the peaceful and good days in his rear would also come to an end.
Thinking of this, Tsikhvinsky stood up and said: "Immediately send a telegram to General Gromyko at the front, ordering him to persuade the Red Party to participate in the offensive of Ulan-Ude at all costs, no matter what methods and conditions are used, and we need their artillery and other heavy weapons and equipment to support!" ”
"Yes!"
Four hours later, in Ulaanbaatar, the capital of Mongolia, Chen Yi, commander-in-chief of the third column of the Yanhuanghong Party, and Lin Biao, commander-in-chief of the fourth column, were meeting here.
"It seems that Lao Maozi is really anxious this time, and even stuffed a few gold bars into our negotiators, hoping that they can help change the minds of the upper echelons of our party's army!" Chen Yi checked the gold bar in his hand and said with a smile.
"Keep it, although we don't necessarily lack it, but it's better than nothing, and use it as the government's defense and military expenses." Lin Biao glanced at the gold bars on the table and replied.
"I feel like the fire is almost burning, isn't it time to start the 'Attracting Phoenix' plan?" After Chen Yi heard Lin Biao's reply, he turned his head and asked.
"Well, according to the previous plan, anyway, now the initiative is in our hands, we are not in a hurry, they are more anxious than us." Lin Biao agreed with a smile.
In the evening, near Ulan-Ude, representatives of the Soviet military and the military of the Red Party were sitting in the conference room for negotiations, at this time, the representative of Yan Huang put on an expression of "I have worked hard and worked hard", and said: "Now the commander-in-chief has finally spat out, although our army is insufficient to participate in the general offensive of Ulan-Ude, but we can provide a batch of 155mm heavy guns (Wang Fan copied the old artillery produced in advance) and enough shells (of course, the shells must be delivered in batches to prevent the Soviet people's heads from suddenly going off the line, Afterwards, it is used by your army to suppress enemy fire, and to overcome the solid firepower points established by the enemy, but ......"
"Just what?" Soviet representatives were finally relieved to hear that there was 155mm to receive. For the Soviet Union, the more than 20,000 troops of the Red Party were not taken into their eyes at all, and now the Far Eastern Military District, which has now implemented emergency mobilization, has gathered a total of 330,000 people to surround the entire Ulan-Ude. But the biggest problem of this army was the lack of equipment, especially the lack of siege weapons such as heavy artillery.
"You also know that the army's heavy artillery must be recorded, and it is impossible to lose a large number for no reason, in terms of quantity, this is far more than the normal scrap and battle damage, so the meaning of our column commander is to exchange artillery for some materials and personnel that can cope with the inspection above." said the Red Party negotiators.
"And what do you want?" The Soviet negotiators, not quite understanding what the Red Party meant, asked.
"Ahem, that's right! We know that the Great Patriotic War of the Soviet Union is now going on at the most critical moment, and any support for the front line is precious, so this exchange does not involve military supplies. Our suggestion is that 10 tons of gold, plus that your country is not imprisoned in Siberia a large number of 'Trotskyists' and 'anti-party elements', many of whom are technicians and workers (by May 1933 there were 800,000 people in Soviet prisons and prisons, which the Soviet people dubbed 'recuperation for engineers and technicians'), and that your country is well aware of the situation in our country, there is an extreme shortage of workers who can understand machinery and operate production.
We want to take these criminals, who are workers, teachers, engineers and technicians, and keep them under strict care in our country, and at the same time let them use their surplus heat to squeeze out the last surplus value of these 'imperialist agents, spies, and spies', so that they can spend the rest of their lives on the production lines of the factories to atone for their crimes. In this way, your country can also save some of the material consumption used on them, killing two birds with one stone, how about it? ”
"This~~"
"Of course, it doesn't have to be changed, but the introduction of some domestic lack of technicians, in order to block the above investigation and questioning, if this deal does not work, we can continue to talk, not in a hurry~~" The Red Party negotiators knew that they couldn't eat hot tofu in a hurry, so they said with a smile.
"Well, I need to ask Commander-in-Chief Tsykhvinsky about this." The Soviet representatives had no right to be the master at all, so they had to delay.
"Okay, then I'll wait for the good news!"
That evening, a telegram was sent to Vladivostok, and half an hour later from Vladivostok to Moscow. After seeing the telegram, Stalin immediately saw that the Yanhuanghong's demand for gold was fake, and the robbery was real. As soon as he thought that the great Soviet would be coerced by the weak Yanhuanghong, he couldn't help but feel angry and his back teeth hurt.
However, at this delicate critical point, the threat of the German army is increasing, and the defense line in the central theater of operations is precarious. Once the entire defense line in the central part of the Soviet Union was broken through by the German army, and the strategic space in the southern Caucasus had been lost, the Soviet Union could only be greeted by abandoning Moscow and leaving the Baikal area. Even to put it pessimistically, when the Soviet Union, which has lost the essence of Europe, will be able to counterattack Germany, which has unified Europe, will be a question to be determined.
Stalin, who had been thinking about it for a night, finally called Vladivostok back and agreed to the deal of the Yanhuang Red Party, but at the same time asked Tsykhvinsky not to trade real talents to Yanhuang, and it was better to use some waste to prevaricate the emergency.
When Tsykhvinsky received Stalin's telegram, he did not dare to slack off and immediately prepared to carry it out, but soon he found a dozen materials on his desk. It is all a record of his own actions against Comrade Stalin, such as where he went at such and such a time, and with whom he talked about what; Or some tsarist relics that he embezzled in private.
However, these are not the main things, the most shocking thing to him is the two watches, the attached paper is very clearly written, as long as the rules and regulations are handled in accordance with the requirements of Yan Huang, once he encounters danger to his life in the future, such as losing the trust of Comrade Stalin, then he only needs to smash the watch, he can safely arrive in Yan and Huang, and the Red Party will ensure that he will live a peaceful life for the rest of his life.
Tsikhvinsky was not convinced at first and scoffed. But it was written very clearly on the note, and the reason why he was given two was so that he could experiment with it. Suspicious and hesitant, Tsikhvinsky returned to his apartment that night, and when there was no one in the house, he smashed one of his watches, and white smoke soon appeared in the house......
The next morning, suddenly refreshed Tsykhvinsky, gave the order to agree to a deal with the Reds.
In northern Siberia, the Gulag concentration camp, near the Arctic Circle, was a place of ordinary criminals, prisoners of war in the Civil War, bankrupt officials of domestic companies, and assassins during the Tsarist era. After the founding of the Soviet Union, the size of the area expanded dramatically over time, and later the Gulag became synonymous with the Soviet concentration camp system, referring to all kinds of concentration camps in the Soviet Union.
Later generations have calculated that the entire Gulag system, which started with only a few tens of thousands in 1928, reached 1.7 million by 1940 with the Great Purge launched by Stalin in the Soviet Union (and by 1950, a total of 2.5 million Soviet citizens and Axis prisoners of war were imprisoned by the Soviet government for a long time), and with the Soviet invasion of eastern Poland. It also occupied Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Besselabia and other Eastern European and Baltic countries, and millions of indigenous inhabitants of these regions were also imprisoned in the Gulag system.
At this time, the Gulag system was distributed throughout the concentration camps in the Far East, and a large number of imprisoned "criminals" were on the verge of death due to insufficient food supplies, severe scarcity of warm clothing, overcrowding, and lack of necessary medical care.
"Come out, come out! Assemble, assemble! A Soviet soldier with a gun opened the gates of the barracks.
Ten minutes later, the "criminals" lined up on the playground stood up one by one, waiting for the commander's lecture.
"Now I announce the order, it turns out to be the workers, technicians, engineers, teachers, scientists, researchers, agronomists, doctors, professors to be listed!" A Soviet officer, who looked like a commander, said loudly.
"Hurry, hurry!" Seeing that no one was moving, the vigilant soldiers began to hit the crowd with the butts of their rifles.
Half an hour later, the people who were singled out, tied with long ropes, pulled onto cars, carriages and other means of transport, and sent to the nearest nearby railway station. At the same time, if these people were imprisoned with their families, they would also be transferred together, which is also the way that Tsykhvinsky thought of fooling Stalin: Great leader, look, I fooled a group of women as teachers, how awesome it is!
Four days later, as the first train full of Soviet workers and technicians passed through Mongolia and entered Shaanxi, the "Attracting Phoenix" plan to rob Soviet talent began to reap the fruits. It lasted more than 30 days, and a total of about 470,000 people were introduced. Among them were about 200,000 Yan and Huang expatriates who originally lived in the Soviet Union and were later arrested.
Readers are likely to wonder why there are so many Yan and Huang expatriates, and why are they arrested? This is because on October 23, 1937, Yezhov, an important executor of Stalin's purge, signed Order No. 00693, emphasizing that agents of foreign espionage agencies entered the Soviet Union under the banner of political asylum, so that all defectors, regardless of their motives and circumstances for entering our territory, should be immediately arrested and brought to trial. As a result, the Soviet Union's fraternal cadres from other countries who came to escape persecution, as well as foreign workers who came in search of a better life, were arrested.
Historically, on April 12, 1938, the Soviet newspaper Moskva Gazeta published an editorial stating that "every German citizen living abroad in Germany is an agent of the Gestapo". As a result, members of Germany, Austria, Hungary, Romania, Finland, Estonia, Yugoslavia and other countries in the Soviet Union at that time were arrested.
As for the Yan and Huang diaspora, most of them went to the USSR not for ideals, but for livelihood. Before the October Revolution, there were about 500,000 people in the Soviet Union, most of whom were recruited to work in the rear during the First World War.
In addition, some Yan Huang ** people worked in the Comintern and studied at Sun Yat-sen University and the Oriental Laborers' ** University. Li Lisan, a former member of the Politburo of the Yanhuanghong Party, attended the Seventh Congress of the Communist International in 1935 as a representative of the Yanhuanghong Party, but was later arrested on February 23, 1938. The Soviet Military Inquisition accused him of being a counter-revolutionary Trotskyist, a Japanese spy, and the head of a terrorist group.
In 1938, a wave of large-scale persecution of the Yanhuang diaspora broke out in the Soviet Union. In Vladivostok, the NKVD officials were able to arrest people on the streets and on buses without even asking for their documents, and they arrested workers, including women and young children, from entire bungalows. Citizens of the Yan and Huang who worked in the organs of the Comintern and studied at the universities of the Soviet Union were arrested.
Therefore, taking advantage of this opportunity, the Yanhuang Red Party and Wang Fan took advantage of Stalin's orders and the transportation channels mastered by Tsykhvinsky to save the Yanhuang people who were unjustly imprisoned in the Soviet Union, and all that they could take care of and could save.