Chapter 296

The ambitions of the Americans gradually revealed themselves in the middle and late stages of World War I. The strategy of pulling in China, a land power that has been recognized by Britain and France, to confront Britain and France undoubtedly exposes the struggle of US imperialism for the right to speak on international affairs.

From the perspective of Britain and France, the seemingly loose combination of China and the United States is undoubtedly crucial in this time period. France's main ally is Russia, and the terrible old man is not strong. Fortunately, after a civil strife, Kerensky's new government decided to continue the war, and the combination of China and the United States was less threatening to Britain, France and Russia.

Therefore, Britain and France are turning a blind eye to the phenomenon that China and the United States are getting very close, how can it be said that the current French battlefield is still counting on these two countries. The Chinese Expeditionary Force has 500,000 troops, and US troops are landing in a steady stream. The U.S. military plans to mobilize 4.8 million troops (including reserves), and the first batch of U.S. troops currently landing in Europe is about 100,000. In the history of parallel time and space, the United States sent a total of 2 million troops to Europe. The First World War undoubtedly fully demonstrated the war potential of the United States, and thanks to Fang Jianxiong's order, the gap in the rifle of the American army now does not exist.

A large number of 7mm copycat K98 stocks forced the US military to abandon the caliber of 7.62 and switch to a caliber of 7mm.

The Chinese Expeditionary Force was very efficient, and an exchange group composed of all officers of the second lieutenant rank and above was stationed at the US military station. Unexpectedly, on the first day of stationing in the US military camp, he encountered tricky things.

The whole of Marseille is now a huge barracks, with new barracks erected on the outskirts as far as the eye can see. The Chinese and American armies were stationed almost next to each other, and the officer corps interacted on this day. Soldiers from both armies engaged in a multippy-man boxing match in a neighborhood in Marseille that specializes in skin. In the beginning, it was four American soldiers against two Chinese soldiers, because they both fell in love with a prostitute. The two sides did not give in to each other, and the US military relied on the hands of the outnumbered people to move first.

The question is, where are these Chinese soldiers who come down from the battlefield so easy to mess with? The two sides fought, and the US troops who fought 2 to 1 still hugged their heads and ran away. Because it was too dark, a U.S. soldier's head was opened, and a U.S. soldier's left hand was broken. Two Chinese soldiers were in pursuit of victory on the street. On the way, he met several American soldiers, and when he saw that his compatriots were being chased and killed, he immediately joined the battle group. There are also many Chinese soldiers resting on the streets of Marseille. The expeditionary force even fought the Germans, and they are still afraid of these new recruits of the Yankees? As a result, the soldiers of the two armies continued to engage in boxing tournaments, according to the results of the investigation at the time. The U.S. military committed about 500 troops. The Chinese Expeditionary Force invested about 300 troops.

Such a large-scale brawl naturally alarmed the gendarmes of the two armies. The military police regiments of the Chinese and American armies rushed to the scene, ate wooden sticks and shoe soles, and arrested more than 600 people in one go. The military police of the two armies unexpectedly cooperated very well, and after a brief meeting of the officers, they blocked the streets on one side, whether it was Chinese or American soldiers, they took it first. Then those who caught each other were sent back, which can be regarded as a good start of cooperation between the Chinese and US militaries.

Inside the headquarters of the expeditionary force. A group of U.S. military officers were listening to a lecture, and the lecture was by a Chinese colonel. Pershing, commander of the US forces, and Cai Yi, commander-in-chief of the Chinese Expeditionary Force, sat side by side in the audience to listen to the lecture.

"The German defense firepower was fierce, and the soldiers were very high and well trained. When on the defensive, the German army's firepower points were very carefully arranged. The traditional dense formation charge is no different from sending to death in the face of dense firepower, and as an attacking side, you must play to your strengths. According to the experience of our army, if it is not possible to storm the German positions within five minutes after the end of the shelling, it often means that the casualties are multiplied, so it is ...... when it comes to assaulting the German defensive positions. ”

An American officer hurried in and whispered in Pershing's ear, and Pershing was stunned for a while: "It seems that the young men are very energetic, and it is necessary to increase the intensity of training." ”

Cai Yi's adjutant Liu Mingzhao conveyed the same news, but Commander-in-Chief Cai glanced at Pershing very calmly and said to Liu Mingzhao: "I know." ”

The class continued, and after the class was over, Pershing made an apologetic gesture and said, "There's something I need to go back and deal with, I'm sorry, I have to leave first." ”

Cai Yi was a little proud to send people out, and after sending Pershing away, he said to Liu Mingzhao: "The brothers who participated in the fight will be given a bonus of ten yuan each." Sue the General Affairs Office, if something similar happens in the future, those who win will be given ten yuan, and those who lose will be locked up for three days. ”

Pershing, who returned to the US military command, had a cold face and roared at his deputy: "You can't win by fighting more or less, these bunnies have lost all the face of the American Republic, from today onwards, train them well." ”

France in the second half of 1917 was relatively calm, not because the Germans did not want to go on the offensive, but because the pig teammates had problems again. The Russian Provisional Government once again cobbled together 2 million troops, and Austria-Hungary suffered defeat as always. After a fierce debate, the German military leadership finally decided to take out Russia first and force it to withdraw from the war. Of course, this is based on the premise that it will take at least a year and a half for all US troops to arrive in Europe.

Although the new tactics of the German army were sharp, they had a very fatal weakness, and that was the life of the tank. A tank can only last 200 hours before it needs to be overhauled, and the German industrial capacity during the war obviously cannot keep up with the speed of consumption in the construction of tanks, and the German army lacks enough fuel. So after every battle, it takes a considerable amount of time to replenish.

This is also the reason why the Germans, after the capture of Paris, had to stop their armored forces. In World War I, Germany's tank production capacity was far from sufficient.

The world war is fought against the extreme riot capability, the industrial capability, and the logistical capability. Obviously, with the course of the war, Germany's comprehensive strength was declining, and the phenomenon of insufficient various strategic materials restricted the German army's combat effectiveness.

The great historical inertia is still rolling forward, although the history of China has been changed, and the history of the European war has also been distorted, but the butterfly wings have not been able to stop the great changes in Russia.

The main forces of the German army turned to the Eastern Front and in a short time again inflicted heavy losses on the Russian army. In fact, the Russian army at this time had no fighting spirit, and the Provisional Government's policy of insisting on war was undoubtedly self-defeating. After the February Revolution, the mainstream voice of the Russian army was not to war, but to ask for bread.

When the Russian army was defeated again, the October Revolution inevitably broke out, and the resistance of the Winter Palace was only a few cadets, many of whom were girls, and the fate of these girls was difficult to know in the "rolling revolutionary torrent".

As a result of the revolution, the Bolsheviks temporarily took power, and the Bolsheviks meant the majority, so is this really the case? What happened next in Russia?

During the October Revolution, Lenin repeatedly said: "The liberal bourgeoisie and its parties are trying to make the revolution fall apart, to preserve the monarchy, and for the monarch, the old government, to convene a constituent assembly and to achieve a constitutional monarchy." The proletariat and its parties sought to carry the revolution through to the end, to abolish the monarchy altogether, and to convene a constituent assembly by a provisional revolutionary government, to achieve a democratic constitutional system, that is, a democratic republic. ”

However, the development of events was not what he expected. With the Bolsheviks in power, the elections were held from 12 to 15 November, and the Bolsheviks received 23.9 per cent of the vote, out of 703 seats, only 163 out of 703 seats, far below the 40 per cent of the votes received by the Socialist-Revolutionaries. By the time the Constituent Assembly was convened in early 1918, the final results were revealed: out of a total of 707 seats, the Bolsheviks won 175 seats, or 24.7 percent, only slightly higher than the initial result. The Socialist-Revolutionaries received 410 seats (of which 40 were for the Left Socialist-Revolutionaries), 16 for the Mensheviks, 17 for the Cadets and 86 for the national parties, with the remaining seats belonging to a few small organizations. That is to say, the Bolsheviks won only a quarter of the seats in the election they presided, and even with the Bolshevik-allied Left Socialist-Revolutionaries, Lenin held only 30 per cent of the seats, while the main Narodnik party, the Socialist-Revolutionaries, if not counting its leftists, had 370 seats, a clear majority.

Obviously, the Bolsheviks lost this election, and badly. The misery is not that it received few votes, but that it was an election organized by it under the conditions of its administration. There is no reason, and indeed it does not, accuse the election of fraud or bribery. The reason for the Bolsheviks' objection was that the elections to the Constituent Assembly were held in accordance with the laws of the Provisional Government, which were now outdated. Opponents point out that this argument is clearly too far-fetched: why should this election be organized in the first place, given that it has no legitimacy in the first place? Kautsky also argued: "It is a pity that such a conclusion was reached after the Constituent Assembly was in the minority." ”

This is truly a historical event full of irony! But history is history and does not fade away because of some cover-up.

"Arm the correction ballot box!" This act of tearing off the mask reveals the essence of the revolution once and for all.

Gorky, a leftist writer who had always sympathized with the Bolsheviks during the Tsarist era, wrote an article entitled "January 9 and January 5", in which he severely condemned the Bolsheviks. Among them was the following text: "The rifles of the Bolsheviks dispelled the dreams for which the best elements of Russia had fought for nearly a hundred years." ”

Rosa? Luxemburg said: "Lenin and Trotsky had strongly called for the convening of the Constituent Assembly," and that the elections for the Constituent Assembly after the October Revolution were "based on the most democratic elections in the world" and "the first popular referendum under conditions of complete freedom," the Bolsheviks "had no reverence and simply declared the results of the vote worthless," which was an act of "going against the tide of history."

Kautsky said: "The Soviet organization is superior to universal suffrage in that it is more arbitrary, and it can exclude an organization that it does not like to see." "Our Bolshevik comrades have bet on the card of the general revolution in Europe, and because this card has not been obtained, they feel compelled to replace the conditions they lack by exercising the most naked power, that is, by imposing a dictatorship." (To be continued.) )

ps: (ps: Don't vomit or be unhappy, I personally think that the former Soviet Union is the most evil regime in the history of mankind, there is no one. This is a personal opinion and should not be accepted by anyone. ）