712th War of Attrition

Blyukhel smiled faintly: "The war has been fought to this point, it would be good to have enough weak soldiers!" He pointed to the young faces on the platform outside the window: "If you look closely, these are young people between the ages of 18 and 25...... Hearing that the Red Army in our country is already conscripting female soldiers, mildly disabled people, the elderly and children, Comrade Tukhachevsky, do you think that these soldiers will be inferior to our old and weak women and children? ”

As soon as he said this, Tukhachevsky's face suddenly became difficult to look at, and the number of losses of the Soviet Red Army had far exceeded the pre-war projections since the war was fought. Seven or eight battlefields consume the lives of the USSR like seven or eight super furnaces, and on average, 600,000 people are lost every month! After 26 months of fighting, the Soviet Union has lost more than 15 million people! And more than 22 million people have put on military uniforms, and the number of the two combined is close to 38 million! That's 25% of the total population of the USSR before the war! If any country conscripts to this level, there will be no elite soldiers, and if you can gather the number of people, you should burn high incense.

And what made the Soviet high command even more troublesome was that, according to what they knew, the losses of the armies of the two imperialist countries in the war were much smaller than those of the Soviet Union! Germany's losses were only about 100,000 per month, and the maximum loss was 2.6 million in 26 months, of which the number of killed and captured was only 1 million at most; China's losses were slightly larger, but only between 120,000 and 150,000, and also included the casualties of the North Korean army and the Chinese caliphate, with a maximum of 3 million or more in 26 months, of which no more than 1.5 million were killed or captured. It is worth mentioning that the above set of figures is still counted by the General Staff of the Soviet Red Army, and the actual losses of China and Germany will definitely be smaller.

So, in this war of attrition of human lives, the USSR was already completely at a disadvantage!

Tukhachevsky's face turned pale. Blyukhel, however, had a calm complexion and continued to talk eloquently: "Comrade Chairman, Comrade Chief of the General Staff. Truth be told, this time the liberation of India was too timely for the world revolution! Now the Soviet Union has mobilized 38 million people...... While there is potential for further mobilization, it is ultimately limited. If in the next battle, we still maintain a monthly consumption of 600,000, up to two years. There were no more soldiers left in the USSR!

Thankfully, we were able to liberate India, a country of 100 million people, and still quite young! The average age of the country's population is only in their 20s, and young people under the age of 30 make up more than 90% of the population, which means that India can afford to mobilize the upper limit. Much higher than in the USSR. I estimate that we can get more than 60 million soldiers from India! These soldiers are enough for us to consume for 100 months, so that even if we don't kill the enemy, we can always get a draw. ”

"Good! Comrade Blyukhel, your analysis is so incisive! Trotsky nodded appreciatively at Blyucher, then turned to Tukhachevsky and asked: "Comrade Tukhachevsky, what do you think?" ”

Tukhachevsky pondered for a moment. As if calculating something in his heart, he nodded his head as if he suddenly realized: "Comrade Chairman, Comrade Blyukhel is truly the most outstanding military strategist of the Workers' and Peasants' Red Army, and his analysis has completely touched on the essence of this war - this war is a life-and-death decisive battle between international capitalism and the Soviet state!" And the difference between the warring sides in the strength of heavy industry is not too big, so the final victory or defeat of the war is likely to depend on the consumption of human lives! He looked back at Trotsky: "Comrade Chairman, I propose that we, the Soviet Red Army, should immediately call up soldiers in India. ”

Trotsky smiled and asked Blyukhel: "How, is it possible?" ”

Blyukhel thought for a moment and said, "It's not a big problem. Chairman Rui of the Indian GCD is an internationalist fighter who has no concept of a state in his heart, and he has long said to me: for the victory of the world revolution, even the sacrifice of 100 million Indians is worth it! ”

Trotsky smiled: "Good! This Comrade Lu Yi is indeed the greatest Marxist in Asia, and it is not in vain that we have gone to great lengths to put him in the position of Indian leader...... Comrade Blyukher, you go back and discuss privately with Comrade Lu Yi, it would be better for the Indian GCD itself to put forward the request to send fighters to support the world revolution. It would be ideal if 600,000 soldiers could be sent every month to support the world revolution. ”

Blyukhel nodded: "Yes." I'm going to discuss with Comrade Lu Yi, 600,000 people per month shouldn't be a problem, but the Middle East battlefield may need to replenish 200,000 people every month......"

Trotsky nodded: "200,000 is 200,000, Comrade Blyukher." As long as the Middle East campaign can be won, these losses are well worth it. In addition, you can also recruit local troops in the Middle East, including the Persian People's Army and the Iraqi People's Army. Also, I am allocating 250 light divisions of equipment and 200,000 tons of ammunition to you at one time, and I will supply 50,000 tons of weapons and ammunition to the Middle East Front every month in the future. ”

"Enough, enough!"

Blyukhel left with joy, Trotsky's promised equipment and ammunition had greatly exceeded his expectations, and he was well aware of the current difficulties of the Soviet Red Army, the losses of troops a while ago were too great, and then he had to prepare for a major battle on the Western Front, I am afraid that his own equipment was not enough, and now he was able to squeeze out 200 divisions of equipment for the Middle East Front, which really made him overjoyed.

Watching Blyukhel leave, Trotsky turned his head to look at Tukhachevsky, who had a painful face, and said with a smile: "Why, don't you want to give up those 200 light armorers?" ”

Tukhachevsky nodded with a wry smile: "Comrade Chairman, now the supply of equipment for the Red Army is very tight, and if you take out 200 lightly armed divisions at once, I'm afraid Comrade General Armament Minister will vomit blood." ”

"Comrade Tukhachevsky, don't worry, Comrade Rosengolitz (Chief of the General Armament of the Red Army) is in good health and will not vomit blood." Trotsky patted Tukhachevsky on the shoulder and said with a smile: "Moreover, the situation on the Western Front in 1935 is probably not as bad as imagined, so the supply of equipment for the Red Army will not be so tight." ”

"What do you mean, Comrade President?" Tukhachevsky was stunned.

Trotsky smiled coldly: "GC International has just sent me a telegram that the United States will soon declare war on us!" ”

"The United States is going to declare war on us!" Tukhachevsky's face suddenly turned black. Didn't the Allies lose the last world war because of the United States' entry into the war? Moreover, before the United States entered the war, the Allies also defeated Tsarist Russia and were in an advantageous position on the Western Front, which is like the current Soviet Union is completely under the suppression of China and Germany! The pressure from China and Germany is already unbearable for the Soviet Union, and if one more United States is added, how many days will this red flag of GC doctrine be fought?

"Comrade Tukhachevsky, you don't have to worry. The Soviet Union would not follow in the footsteps of Germany and Austria-Hungary. Trotsky seemed to know Tukhachevsky's doubts, he smiled faintly, and took a few steps behind his back: "Because this time, the United States is not the savior of the capitalist world, but has come to compete with China and Germany for the spoils of war!" But China and Germany have been fighting hard with us for two years, paying millions of losses and untold fortunes. How can they be willing to let the United States take the fruits of victory and become the final big winner? I remember a Chinese proverb about a monk carrying water to drink, two monks carrying water to drink, and three monks having no water to drink...... I think that now China, the United States and Germany are those three monks who have no water to drink! ”

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"The five countries of the United States, Germany, China, Britain and Italy shouldered heavy responsibilities and made great sacrifices in this war, on the grounds that they enjoyed the interests of occupying the territory of the Soviet Union and Japan after the war, so the Soviet Union and Japan after the war should be divided into five parts, and the United States, Germany, China, Britain and Italy should occupy them separately. It is also necessary to redivide the territory of the Soviet Union and Japan into a new state and form a government of the new state under the joint supervision of the governments of the five countries and in accordance with the principles of national self-determination and democracy......"

As soon as Roosevelt's conditions were exported, Chang Ruiqing and Hitler's faces were difficult to look at. Today is the second day of the "Second Berlin Conference" (the last meeting of China, Britain, Germany and Italy held in Berlin, historically known as the First Berlin Conference) because the discussion involved the post-war spoils. Originally, China, Germany and Britain had reached a "Berlin Agreement" in Berlin, and reached an agreement on the distribution of spoils after the war. But now there's a new one in the United States. Moreover, Roosevelt's demands show that the United States does not recognize the Berlin Agreement at all and does not intend to negotiate on its basis.

Chamberlain did not say anything, smoking his cigar indifferently, Mussolini had a complicated expression, his eyes rolled and did not speak, and Roosevelt's eyes turned around Chang Ruiqing and Hitler. I wonder if you want to find a breakthrough among them?

"Yesterday, Chancellor Hitler and Chang Ruiqing briefed me on the huge cost paid by the Chinese and German armies in the war against the Soviet Union over the past two years, with more than 3 million Chinese and German officers and soldiers killed and wounded and missing in just two years. Such a price was too heavy to be borne by China and Germany alone, so the United States decided to send a large number of troops to the first and second battlefields in order to share the responsibility of eliminating the evil Soviet regime. Roosevelt continued. His tone was very slow, and as he spoke, he was speculating about what opinions Chang Ruiqing and Hitler would have to refute it, obviously these two guys must be very angry in their hearts, after all, the Soviet Union was about to be defeated by them, and the United States intervened at this time to make it clear that it was to pick peaches!

"Moreover, the United States believes that the evil Soviet regime should be treated differently from the peoples of the Soviet Union and Japan, who are also victims of the evil Soviet regime, and that we are waging this war to liberate them, not to enslave them. Otherwise, how would we differ from the evil Soviet regime? Roosevelt paused for a moment, then went on slowly. This time the issue of post-war claims was probably raised, and it didn't matter if the American people had money or not, but China and Germany could ......

"The European battlefield does not need the US military to join, and we Europeans can solve the war in Europe by ourselves!" Hitler evaded Roosevelt's request, and then commented on the combat effectiveness of the US army: "And the Soviet Red Army is a fairly powerful army, only Germany and the squadron, which are stronger than them, can compete with it, if a semi-amateur army appears on the European battlefield, I am afraid it will only become a drag on friendly forces, and when the time comes, the Wehrmacht will still spare energy to protect them, but it will really be powerless." ”

As long as the US military could not enter the European continent, it would naturally be impossible to exert any influential opinion on the ownership of the territory of the Soviet Union after the war. Seeing that Hitler had found a reason to reject Roosevelt, Chang Ruiqing also hurriedly painted a scoop on the gourd and said: "The conditions on the Sino-Soviet battlefield are very, very difficult, the climatic conditions there are harsh, and it is difficult to transport supplies. Front-line officers and soldiers can only fight under the most difficult conditions, and only hard-working, brave and good fighters can adapt. If it is replaced by an army that has too high requirements for logistical supplies and living materials, it will only add unnecessary burdens to the logistics line. ”

Chamberlain secretly cursed the two insatiable allies, and Roosevelt's request was completely in the hands of Britain, but he did not intend to mix in the troubled waters, because he knew that the Soviet Red Army was not a soft persimmon. The main force to defeat them can only be China and Germany, not even the United States, let alone Britain, if China and Germany come and ask Britain to send large troops to the first and second battlefields, then there is really no place to cry.

"The road into the Soviet Union was not just east and west." Seeing the somewhat embarrassing scene, Chamberlain had to propose a compromise: "The third battlefield we are about to open in the Middle East can also lead to Moscow, and there may be a shortcut, because the Soviet Union depends on the large oil fields of Persia, Kuwait, Baku and Grozny for its oil." As long as we occupy these oil fields, the USSR will be defeated without a fight. ”

Roosevelt smiled kindly at Chamberlain: "Then the United States will enter from the south of the Soviet Union, as long as it can lead to Moscow." The United States does not care about detours. ”

In fact, he did not really want to send troops to the Soviet-German and Sino-Soviet battlefields, but only wanted to use the United States to send troops to attack the Soviet Union and overturn the plan of the post-war powers in the Berlin Agreement to divide the world.

Hitler smiled contemptuously: "Mr. President, then I wish the US military a smooth sailing and an early arrival in Moscow, the capital of the Soviet Union, where we can discuss the new post-war world order." ”

Roosevelt frowned, he thought about it, and still shook his head: "Mr. Hitler." I still think that the Soviet authorities and their people should be treated differently, otherwise we will be aggressors and not liberators, and all the Soviets and Japanese will take up arms to resist to the end, so that we will probably not be able to reach Moscow and Tokyo! ”

Hitler snorted lightly, and his face sank: "We will go to Moscow!" Neither the Soviet authorities of the USSR nor their people could stop the Wehrmacht! He paused for a moment, then said in a sudden accentuated tone, "And we will soon be able to master a powerful secret weapon!" A super-bomb that is enough to raze Moscow to the ground! If the Soviet people are really stubborn. I don't mind using this extremely inhumane weapon! ”

Roosevelt was slightly stunned, and he quickly turned his gaze to British Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain, who nodded slightly, as if in recognition of Hitler's remarks.

That superbomb is, of course, an atomic bomb. In the first quarter of 1934, the world's first heavy water production plant was put into operation in Shun LĂŹ, Norway, which has rich hydropower resources, and at the same time, the German company Siemens also produced high-purity graphite. With these two important neutron moderators, at the end of July, the world's first experimental nuclear reactor, jointly designed by scientists from China, Britain and Germany, was officially completed in a secret base in Qinghai Province, China, and the first self-sustaining chain reaction was successfully carried out! Through this test, scientists from the three countries gained a large number of important technical data to further understand the principle of chain reaction, and accumulated important experience for the design of the first atomic bomb and the production of plutonium-239 from nuclear reactors.

At the same time, isotope separation plants in China, Britain and Germany are also under construction and operation day and night. By the end of June 1934, Britain and Germany had built large-scale isotope separation plants, of which the British factory in Scotland had 10,000 gas separators, and the German factory in the Czech Republic had 20,000 identical gas separators! In a few months, the two countries will have enough weapons-grade uranium-235 to make an atomic bomb!

Although the Americans have long been aware of the possibility of using uranium-235 to make superbombs, because they began to develop nuclear weapons relatively late, and because European physicists and chemists have been recruited by the Sino-British-German U Engineering Committee at this time and space, the number and quality of scientists serving the US nuclear program cannot be compared with those of previous generations. As a result, the U.S. nuclear program is now far behind that of China, Britain and Germany, and until now no gas separator has been built, only the Lawrence method for the electromagnetic separation of uranium-235 has been invented.

Of course, Britain has promised to transfer to the United States the technology they have to manufacture nuclear weapons after the United States formally declares war on the Soviet Union, but the huge gap between the United States and China and Germany in the field of nuclear weapons manufacturing will not be able to catch up in the short term. This also means that the gap between the military strength of the United States and China and Germany will further widen in the next few years!

And this world, after all, has to speak with strength!

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