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"Mikhail. Comrade Vasilvich, please be seated. ”

Today's visit to Trotsky's residence in the Kremlin is Frunze, who has been carrying his tail between his legs after the "Simberian War" of 1920. As a result of the timely review and admission of his mistakes to Trotsky, Frunze's official fortune in these years was not bad, and he was now the deputy chief of the General Staff of the Red Army, Tukhachevsky's deputy. Although it was not as good as in history, a life was finally saved, and he did not die on the operating table due to stomach ulcer surgery.

Upon being welcomed into the drawing room by Trotsky, Frunze found it almost a small war room, with a huge map table in the middle of it. Tukhachevsky, Vatsettis, Shaposhnikov and others were looking around the map, not knowing what they were talking about. However, looking at their faces, they were full of smiles, and it seemed that there was good news just ahead.

"The chairman is in a good mood today, is there good news ahead? Conquer Bucharest, or capture Karachi? Frunze leaned in front of the map and glanced at it, only to find that it was a map of the situation in Central Asia, and his eyebrows were slightly raised, revealing a look of surprise. Oh, is there some good news on the Eastern Front? ”

"It's Japan," Trotsky said bluntly, "Takeda Heng has agreed to our request, the first batch of Japanese Red Army to aid us is already on board the island, and 10 divisions will be in place by September 20, and 15 divisions will be in place by the end of September." Although less than planned. However, there will be troops arriving in October and November, and the final total will not be less than 1 million! ”

"Great! So we can free up 1 million troops. Frunze was also overjoyed when he heard the news, and the scale of the world revolution has been getting bigger and bigger recently. The General Staff of the Red Army had been worried about the lack of troops, and now that the Japanese were willing to come up with 1 million artillery to help, Frunze was of course overjoyed.

"Yes, now we are discussing how to make good use of the 1 million Red Army liberated." Trotsky pointed to the map of Central Asia and asked with a smile: "Intelligence shows that the Chinese will soon go to war in the Far East, with the help of the Japanese comrades." We are not afraid of their attacks. But it is not the style of our Red Army to be beaten and not fight back. Therefore, we are going to start in Central Asia and launch an offensive to liberate the people of East Turkestan! ”

Trotsky threw his fist hard. The name East Turkestan was called. Born in Central Asia and well versed in the region, Frunze certainly knew what the name now meant...... However, he still feels that it is too early to consider the issue of helping the people of East Turkestan to free themselves from the colonial rule of Chinese imperialism. After all, the Chinese have deployed at least 500,000 regular troops and nearly 2 million militias there, and although those militias are not strong in combat, huge numbers are there. You can't take it lightly.

"Mikhail. Comrade Vasilvich. Do you have the confidence to lead the 1.5 million Red Army commanders and fighters of the Central Asian Front to accomplish this glorious mission? ”

Without waiting for Frunze to speak, Trotsky smiled and said: "I have discussed with Comrade Vatsettis and Comrade Tukhachevsky, and I think that you are the most suitable candidate for the commander of the Central Asian Front. ”

"Commander of the Central Asian Front, me?" Frunze was stunned for a moment, with a complicated expression on his face. As the number one general of the Leninists, although he still maintained a fairly high status in the army over the years, he was almost insulated from the post of commander of the front army. I did not expect that now Trotsky would hand over a heavy army group of 1.5 million men to himself! This was something he hadn't expected.

"Yes. It's a position that only you can handle, Mikhail. Comrade Vasilvich. Trotsky smiled and pointed at Tukhachevsky: "Comrade Tukhachevsky. Tell me about your idea of liberating East Turkestan. ”

Tukhachevsky took a baton and pointed to the Outer Frontier Bulge on the map: "The General Staff of the Red Army originally had a plan, codenamed 'Red Turk Plan', to concentrate mechanized and cavalry clusters, and under the cover of superior air force and artillery, suddenly cut off the communication between the Outer Frontier Bulge and the northern and southern Xinjiang from the eastern shore of Lake Balkhash, and swallow it in one fell swoop. But ......" Tukhachevsky hooked the corners of his lips and said with a wry smile: "However, in the Kuwait campaign, our 8 tank armies were unable to deal with Chinese armored cavalry corps. ”

"No tank army? So how are we going to lay down the Outer Frontier Salient? Frunze shook his head, the tactical thinking of the Soviet Red Army in these years was to strike in depth, the infantry artillery tore a gap, and then the tanks went in and crushed the opponent's defense line. What other ways can there be an attack? Is it like the First World War with trench warfare?

"The big in-depth assault still has to be fought, but we can't rely on tanks anymore, but on our red cavalry!" Tukhachevsky frowned and said: "The north and south of the Tianshan Mountains are either grasslands or deserts, and they have been active battlefields for cavalry since ancient times, and our Soviet Red Army happens to have the most powerful cavalry in the world, and now we should maximize their role." ”

"By cavalry?" Frunze shook his head: "But...... The enemy's Northwestern Front has at least one armored cavalry corps under its command! How could our cavalry be an opponent of the Type 31 tank? ”

"No, no, the Red Cavalry does not need to fight with the armored cavalry of the Chinese, and it cannot be defeated." The baton in Tukhachevsky's hand suddenly pointed to the northern foot of the Tianshan Mountains, and said: "The red cavalry will carry out a large outflanking and directly insert into the Northern Xinjiang Province behind the enemy!" ”

"Straight into the north!" Frunze swept his gaze over the map, took a breath and said, "There are always more than 700 kilometers, right?" The cavalry will have to run for at least 10 days, and the Chinese tongguo Ili River Highway and the Idi Railway will mobilize mechanized troops, and the entire armored cavalry corps can be transported from Almaty to Dihua in 3 days! ”

"Then find a way to make their armored cavalry army unable to move!" Tukhachevsky sneered: "The preliminary plan is already there, we will launch two large assaults in depth. Once with tank units as sharp knives, once with cavalry. And it is the tank for the void, and the cavalry for the real. The Chinese will definitely not think of it. ”

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Harvester scheme?

Liu Mingzhao handed Bai Chongxi a hundred-page plan for the battle of the three frontiers in Central Asia, and before he could read it, Commander Bai was stunned by the strange name on the cover. The Wehrmacht has always had the habit of naming battle plans, but what are they "Qin Lei", "Han Guang", and "Tang Feng", the meaning is naturally obvious, but what does this harvester mean? Moreover, the days when he left the General Staff Headquarters were not long, and how could his disciples and grandchildren in the General Staff overturn a large number of war plans against the Soviet Union that had been formulated in the past. What kind of "harvester plan" has it been replaced?

Seeing Bai Chongxi's strange expression, Liu Mingzhao smiled slightly and explained, "Jian Shuai. The name of the program was given by the Prime Minister himself, implying that the life of the USSR was harvested in large quantities. When the ministry left Nanjing, the prime minister said to the ministry: 'Only by massively destroying the living forces of the Soviet Union will we have the last laugh.' Therefore, the purpose of this Central Asian three-frontier battle is not to seize territory. Rather, it is to reap the life, the life of the enemy! ’”

"A war can only be won if you kill a large number of enemies...... This is the consistent view of the General Staff Staff, but it is easier said than done. Bai Chongxi nodded emphatically. The Russians are fierce and martial, and have always been known as a fighting race in Europe, hundreds of years ago they were just a small Muscovy, but they have built a vast empire through continuous military expansion on land. Now it is even more through the signboard of GCISM and the liberation of all mankind. I want to achieve my dream of conquering the world. Moreover, the heavy industry of the USSR was huge and extremely rich in resources. The strategic depth is incomparably vast, and the only way to defeat this country is to kill people, kill more Soviets!

Liu Mingzhao nodded noncommittally, and said: "The prime minister also said that the battle of the three frontiers in Central Asia will be a very long battle, and our goal is not to fight a quick victory, but to fight a protracted war, a war of attrition, and cut the lives of the Soviets as leeks, preferably millions!" ”

Bai Chongxi glanced at Liu Mingzhao and smiled bitterly: "It seems that the Prime Minister's requirements are not low, Brother Bo Cheng, now you are my chief of staff, give me a staff now, how to harvest the lives of the Soviets." ”

Liu Mingzhao stretched out his hand to open the plan on his desk, turned to the chapter titled "Mobile Defense and Rapid Counterattack", pointed to the title of the chapter, and said: "Jian Shuai, the guiding guidance of the General Staff is to use the cavalry corps and the armored cavalry corps to form a powerful mobile corps, and in the way of mobile warfare, to break through the enemies who have broken into the northern and outer frontiers, and then take the opportunity to break into the Soviet Union and Central Asia to seek a decisive battle opportunity......

Bai Chongxi took out his glasses and began to study the "Harvester Plan" seriously, and as the pages of paper turned over, he was gradually attracted by this extremely complex and huge battle plan.

The whole plan was divided into three parts, namely the Northwest Theater, the Mongolian Baikal Theater, and the Manchurian Far East Theater. A total of 50 corps will be committed, including 10 armies, 4 armoured cavalry corps, 5 cavalry corps and 31 infantry corps. As many as 150 militia divisions will also be mobilized to assist in the war, and the Air Force is also preparing to dispatch nearly 4,000 aircraft from 10 air divisions to cooperate. The total number of troops invested is as high as 4.5 million! The sheer scale, the vastness of the battlefield, and the large number of troops invested are unique not only in the history of national defense operations, but also extremely rare in the world's military history.

However, the goal of such a large-scale combat plan was not to seize Central Asia, Eastern Siberia, and Northern Mongolia. Rather, it was the mass destruction of the living forces of the USSR! It is to turn the three battlefields of the Northwest Theater, the Mongolian Baikal Theater, and the Manchurian Far East Theater into a huge black hole that is constantly devouring Soviet lives.

"Murder!"

It took nearly 4 hours for Bai Chongxi to carefully read the entire plan, close the cover, and Bai Chongxi spit out four words in a low voice. This is his comment on this "Reaper Plan", and it is also the comment of later historians on this World War II!

For nearly a month, from late August to mid-September, the entire northern region of China was enveloped in an atmosphere of impending war. The volume of radio communications has increased dramatically, the main roads leading to the border areas are full of military vehicles, the number of military trains has also increased greatly, all passenger trains to the three northwestern Xinjiangs, Mongolia, and Manchuria have been cancelled and replaced with military vehicles equipped with military supplies for soldiers, and the Chinese Air Force has even entered the war ahead of schedule, dispatching hundreds of planes every day to bomb military airfields, military facilities, and transportation hubs on the Soviet side.

In other parts of the world, the various killing machines made by the Soviet Union, Germany, Britain and China are also running at the highest speed, but not "idling", but thousands of lives are swallowing up one life after another!

On August 25, the Romanian capital Bucharest was liberated by the Soviet Red Army, and the Romanian government fled to the northwestern city of Cluj-Napoca. On the same day, Alexander Ander, General Secretary of Romania. Stefansky proclaimed the establishment of the Romanian Soviet Socialist Republic in Bucharest, and invited the Soviet Red Army to help the Romanian people liberate the entire country, and at the same time declared war on China, Britain, and Germany!

On the 26th, by von. The German Army Group Southeast, with General Zeckert as commander-in-chief, was formally formed, and more than a million heavily armed German troops marched into Romania and Hungary.

On August 29, the vanguard of the Indian Front of the Soviet Red Army, which had invaded India, occupied Karachi, an important town in northwestern India. On the same day, the General Secretary of the GCD of India Roy extended an invitation to the leaders of the Indian National Congress Party, the Muslim Alliance and the Indian Autonomous Party to form an all-India coalition government. Also on this day, the Viceroyalty of British India also issued a public statement, announcing that the Indian people would be granted full autonomy and that the British Empire would cooperate with the Indian political forces that were willing to cooperate to help the Indian people form an autonomous government that could truly represent their interests. However, Indian political forces such as the Congress Party, the Muslim Alliance, and the Autonomy Party turned a deaf ear to the appeals of the British and Soviet (Indian) sides, and they all acquired weapons through various channels to expand their armies.

The "lull" of the Middle East theater was broken in early September 1932. With the help of the GCD in Iraq and Kuwait, the Soviet Red Army finally raised enough camels, horses, and food. On September 2, 600,000 Soviet Red Army and 200,000 Persian People's Army soldiers launched attacks on Transjordan, Riyadh, Medina, Ras Al Khaimah and other places in four routes, and the beacon of the Middle East war was ignited again!