Lenin's attitude towards Tukhachevsky, not to say that he appreciated, but on the whole he was relatively recognized, at least believing that Tukhachevsky was capable of making the Red Army better. Now, however, Li Xiaofeng said that Tukhachevsky's problem was very big, and this immediately attracted the attention of his mentor, and once Li Xiaofeng and Tukhachevsky had a major conflict in ideas, it would be a devastating blow to the Red Army's armament buildup.

Lenin was quite aware of Li Xiaofeng's role in the Sverdlov system, and this kid was actually the pillar of the Sverdlov faction in the army. His network in the army is too huge, what Ubolevich, Triandafilov, and Mironov are all sworn friends of this goods, in addition, someone in the navy and air force has a considerable right to speak.

Let's put it this way, once a certain immortal instigates his henchmen to contradict Tukhachevsky, then it is true that the two tigers will be injured in each other's fight, and it is very likely that Tukhachevsky will be injured even more seriously.

Lenin did not want to see such a lose-lose situation, so as soon as he heard that a certain immortal expressed great dissatisfaction with Tukhachevsky, he had to pay attention to it, and he had to dispel and channel it, otherwise he, as a teacher, would be truly incompetent.

Therefore, the tone of his sentence just now was quite heavy and strict, and it was obviously a sue to Li Xiaofeng, who was very serious about it and could not tolerate a little joke and nonsense.

"I'm telling the truth!"

Li Xiaofeng actually didn't mean to joke, the trend of Tukhachevsky's performance in history and now is really painful. Sometimes Li Xiaofeng wants to learn steel and clean the goods directly.

Let's put it this way, in the historical Tukhachevsky case. Except when the German spy was purely framed and sub-fictional. The destructive effect on the armament building of the Red Army was still very large. Shooting him wasn't entirely excessive.

For example, the multi-turret projects such as the T-28 led by this cargo are really cheating. Another example is the mechanized army he led, which was quite improvisable in later battles (Voroshilov, who had a terrible command ability, was also responsible for this, but this synthetic army was indeed a bit too big and inadequate). Another example is his bad relationship with the Air Force, this guy has always denied the strategic strike capability of the Air Force, believing that the Soviet Air Force should focus on the development of front-line support aviation, rather than the development of long-range aviation.

All in all, this contribution to the Red Army was as much as the problem. You really can't simply use a dichotomy to evaluate him.

In Li Xiaofeng's view, it is necessary to affirm Tukhachevsky's achievements, but it is not possible to elevate them indefinitely, and he can only be regarded as exploring the building of the Red Army in a specific historical period and has achieved certain results. At the same time, his unrealistic ideas that are ahead of the times must be criticized, especially this guy's emphasis on quantity over system in army building.

The Red Army, in thirty years, because of Tukhachevsky's intervention, did turn into a large, beautiful-looking army, but after those huge numbers of tanks and planes. We must also be aware of the low logistical support capability of the Red Army. The overall quality of the Red Army remained unsatisfactory. Especially in the thirties, when science and technology were developing with each passing day, tanks and airplanes that were once very advanced quickly fell behind, and to put it bluntly, the Red Army spent a lot of unjust money, and the price of renewing weapons and equipment was not ordinarily high.

Therefore, Li Xiaofeng cannot let Tukhachevsky play, and he cannot let him spend too much unjustly in the thirties. It is okay to carry out the exploration of the army's equipment technology and military thinking, but the scale should really not be so large and inappropriate, after all, the national strength of the Soviet Union at that time was not abundant!

Lenin also fell silent after listening to the various reasons listed by a certain immortal, although he was not an expert in military affairs, but basically he could still hear who was justified and who was unreasonable. Before, he had been worried that Li Xiaofeng and Stalin were making trouble unreasonably and interfering with the normal construction of the Red Army, but now it seems that at least Li Xiaofeng's side is not making trouble. Whether or not all of these opinions are correct, at least they can be listened to and enlightened.

Li Xiaofeng further said: "In the past few years, with the lifting of the capitalist blockade of our country and the improvement of the national economy, a very bad trend has emerged in socialist construction, especially in army building. The one-sided pursuit of high performance requires the best and the greatest in everything. But can our national strength really withstand such a toss? Isn't it a crime that quite a number of flashy, large, and inappropriate projects have been launched in a grand manner, and after spending a lot of money, the actual results and gains are indeed quite meager, and in the end they have only earned face for some of our leaders. ”

Hearing this, Lenin's expression became more and more grim, because what Li Xiaofeng said was the truth, and in recent years, especially after the goals of the Second Five-Year Plan were formulated, there was indeed a suspicion of great success, and he pursued more and faster construction one-sidedly, and even once shouted the slogan of flattening the gap with the developed capitalist countries within 10 years. Quite a lot of leaders are blindly pursuing scale, demanding big things, and are quite impetuous.

Even Lenin felt that he had such a problem, because of the economic crisis in the capitalist world, and his prediction of the future was unilaterally positive, and he really thought that he could run and think about the communist society.

It can be said that Tukhachevsky's problem is not at all his personal problem, but a complex projection of Soviet society as a whole. In that hot era, everyone had a hot brain and went crazy.

In fact, Lenin also sensed that something was wrong from the reports and figures of the national economy, a large number of projects were launched in a swarm, and all indicators were aimed at breaking the world record.

Of course, reflection and introspection are necessary, but Lenin did not think that this upsurge should be completely rejected, and this is correct in the general direction. The only question is how to make good use of this craze scientifically and rationally.

"Then how do you think the future armament building of the Red Army should proceed?"

Li Xiaofeng was waiting for this sentence, and he immediately replied: "I think, in the last five years. The armament building of the Red Army should be carried out in small steps. The focus should be on development and exploration. Don't equip too much new gear in one go. Rather, it is constantly improving and improving on the original basis......"

Lenin nodded solemnly and suddenly asked, "But what if war breaks out suddenly?" Wouldn't such small steps fail to meet the demands of war? ”

Li Xiaofeng smiled and asked rhetorically: "Comrade Lenin, do you think that war will break out immediately?" It can be said that no one is ready for war, but if they really want to make preparations, will there be no sign at all? ”

Even Li Xiaofeng patted his chest and said, "In my opinion." In the next five years, our country will not face the risk of large-scale war, and even if there is a war, it is very likely that it will be a short-term small-scale local war and conflict. ”

Saying that, he further agitated: "As the so-called ship is small and good to turn around, like Comrade Tukhachevsky to make the scale so big in one go, if it is wrong in the end, is the price too high?" If we take small steps and do not blindly pursue scale, we can save a lot of money in the field of exploring new technologies. This will help catch up with the world's advanced level! ”

Lenin finally nodded, agreeing with Li Xiaofeng's statement. "The modernization of the armed forces is actually carrying out scientific exploration, and blindly pursuing quantity is incorrect, and there is no particularly urgent requirement for quantity in the current environment, and it is also beneficial to have less exploration of higher quality!"

With Lenin's words, Li Xiaofeng is relieved enough, because it means that Tukhachevsky can't be as open as in history, and in an environment where there is obviously no external threat, he can produce a lot of scrap iron of little significance, which is really a loser.

Of course, Tukhachevsky must have been unhappy with this result, having previously chaired a working meeting on the mass production of the BT-2 tank, demanding that in 1933 another effort be made to produce 500 units to meet the urgent needs of the mechanized troops. As a result, as soon as the meeting ended, the Politburo issued a circular urging the arms building to be carried out in small steps and not to blindly increase the scale and quantity.

At first Tukhachevsky did not know that this notice was directed at him, but soon Trotsky told him: "Comrade Mikhail, for the time being, the BT-2 tanks should not be produced too much, it will be enough to meet the needs of two or three tank regiments." ”

This made Tukhachevsky dumbfounded, the Red Army still admired the fast tank, and even more praised the unique wheel-tracked Christie suspension system, and was really ready to produce a thousand of his vehicles in one go.

And now, the output of 1,000 vehicles has become two or three tank regiments, and how many tanks were in the tank regiments of the Red Army back then, that is, about 100 tanks, and the number of three tank regiments was not 300.

In fact, the Politburo's request for the number of BT-2s to be produced is not to exceed 300 units, and it is required to carry out follow-up and more advanced rapid tank research projects.

"Why did the Politburo suddenly impose such big restrictions on BT-2, this was not the case before!" Tukhachevsky asked unhappily.

Trotsky pouted: "This is the proposal of Comrade Lenin, which has been accepted by the Politburo. ”

In fact, Trotsky heard some gossip that it was said that a certain immortal had crooked his mouth at the Mentor and that he wanted to run in small steps to save money and catch up with the world's advanced level.

However, in Trotsky's view, this was always mere gossip, and he did not believe that anyone had so much influence on Lenin. He thought it was likely that Lenin was dissatisfied with the excessive investment in armaments, so he found an excuse to cut spending.

"But the construction of a mechanized army requires a large number of tanks, and now there is a big gap. Is it possible to produce the T-26 in full force? ”

Trotsky sighed and said: "The T-26 will not be produced too much, the number is about the same as that of the BT-2......"

Tukhachevsky was furious: "Isn't this nonsense? How can mechanized troops be created without a sufficient number of tanks? ”

Trotsky sighed again and said: "Comrade Lenin means that the mechanized troops can be carried out a little, but not too much, not too large. Mostly for exploring! ”

While talking about Trotsky, he secretly took Khachevsky's face, because he was far less concerned with mechanization and tanks than Tukhachevsky. Instead, Lao To's focus is on heavy industry, such as the Dnieper hydropower station. That's what he's most concerned about. Lenin had already promised him. Money saved on the part of mechanized troops. In addition to strengthening research and development, most of them have been invested in hydropower plants. After receiving such a big benefit, Lao Tuo really would not oppose Lenin's proposal.

But Tukhachevsky understood how enthusiastic Trotsky was about mechanization, and the thing was almost going mad. If he had been in favor of saving money on mechanization, Tukhachevsky would have to turn against him.

In desperation, Trotsky had no choice but to push the blame out. Lenin's decision, who can oppose it? In fact, Trotsky was just looking for excuses.

However, Tukhachevsky did not know about Ha, he completely believed Trotsky's pretext, and naturally he was furious, and he was bent on asking Lenin for an explanation, and he just did it, and he wrote a letter of 10,000 words and handed it to Lenin.

The book of 10,000 words is naturally very long, so I won't repeat it here. On the whole, Tukhachevsky did not tire of emphasizing over and over how correct his claims were. Mechanization is so imperative, a style that the whole world is drunk and I am sober. Of course. The most important thing is to scold the strategy of running in small steps as worthless, and it is almost impossible to say that this strategy is nonsense and bastard.

Let's not talk about anything else. This attitude made Lenin very dissatisfied, throughout the twenties and early thirties, the Red Army was up to you, this is to nurture you, make you feel that Lao Tzu is the best in the world? Don't you Tukhachevsky have a problem that all the ideas and propositions are completely correct?

Anyway, Lenin was not very happy to see this letter of 10,000 words at that time, and felt that Tukhachevsky was a bit overbearing, and he couldn't hear the meaning of the correct opinion. However, the tutor saw that the relationship between the Trotskyists and the Leninists was relatively tense at this time, and that Tukhachevsky's previous merits were on the Internet, so he did not bother with him. On the contrary, he persuaded Sù Tukhachevsky that the Central Committee had already known about his reaction and would study it.

In fact, Lenin's words were just a haha, to give Tukhachevsky a step down, so that he would not be too embarrassed. But Tukhachevsky was a more honest person. When I heard that the central authorities were studying his report, I was quite panicked, thinking that I would soon be able to set things right.

However, this wait was more than a month, and I didn't see it anyway, but what I saw was that BT-2 and T-26 stopped mass production one after another, and switched to a small-scale production mode while improving. Suddenly Tukhachevsky thought that he had been deceived, that his heart had been hurt, and that his heart was broken, and that really exploded.

This time, he directly wrote an open letter to the Central Committee, strongly criticizing the strategy of running in small steps, and directly denounced it as playing the piano indiscriminately. Well, this time he really stabbed the hornet's nest, Lenin felt that I had already given you face last time, and you still didn't give up, this is kicking your nose in the face!

It's worth it, you have to be cleaned up!

Soon Tukhachevsky was hit on the head, and the Politburo issued a document to launch a campaign to criticize him. almost branded him as a pseudo-authoritative and reactionary black officer, anyway, Tukhachevsky was disgraced for a while.

However, what made Tukhachevsky most angry was not that he was criticized, but that he thought that Trotsky did not support him enough, that he betrayed him in half, and that he took all the firepower alone! Suddenly, the relationship between Tukhachevsky and Trotsky fell to the freezing point since 1919.

As the saying goes, where there is oppression, there is resistance, and Tukhachevsky, who is full of anger, really let himself go, and in the discussion of the Military Commission on armament building, he has become even more extreme, and in order to insist on his ideas, he has almost become hysterical.

For example, in May of that year, at a special meeting of the Air Force on the development of new bombers, when Arksnis proposed to focus on the development of long-range aviation, Tukhachevsky jumped to his feet: "The idea of destroying enemy planes on airfields with bombers is simply flashy, and according to the results of previous exercises, it is almost impossible to realize." The Air Force should pay more attention to practical problems, and the real problem is how the Air Force should complete the close support mission, which is a more realistic choice! ”

Arksnis has long objected to Tukhachevsky's attempts to turn the Air Force into a flying artilleryman, and the focus on close support missions would be tantamount to putting the Air Force in a dominant position. This is something that Arksnis, who has always believed in air supremacy, cannot endure.

Immediately the two of them tore up, the scene was really quite hot, and in the end, Tukhachevsky put down the cruel words: "The Air Force must immediately come up with fast bombers and attack aircraft to support the front-line battle, this is an order!" ”

How could Arksnis carry out this order, although Tukhachevsky is the chief of the General Staff, he is only the chief of operations of the Air Force, but if he is ruthless and does not carry out Tukhachevsky's order, it will be enough for Tukhachevsky to drink a pot.

Especially at present, Tukhachevsky's authority has been greatly affected, and there are not a few supporters behind Arksnis, such as Li Xiaofeng, his biggest supporter.

As a latecomer, Li Xiaofeng knew how hard the strategic bombing of the US imperialists in World War II hit the Nazis, and how wonderful it would be if the Red Army's air force could do the same. Therefore, at the request of a certain immortal, the General Armament Department did not understand Tukhachevsky's urgent need for front-line support bombers, and gave the long-range bomber project a higher priority.

And when Tukhachevsky found out, he was naturally angry and anxious, especially since he also learned a gossip that it was someone who asked Lenin to run in small steps, and suddenly new and old hatreds came to his heart...... (To be continued......)

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