The armored train lay down by the fireplace and took a nap, although it was only November, but he could already feel the chill, he silently calculated the time, it was not long before the Lord's Nativity Day, it was two months to be full, could this war be ended in two months?

It's hard to say, because the fighting power of the Germans is now becoming more and more incalculable, sometimes they are as tenacious as rocks, but sometimes they are as weak as cheese. As for when it's like a rock and when it's like cheese, it's not true.

For example, yesterday, the armored train and his assault company chased the German devils all the way to the ground, just when he had done everything and could surround the German army and eat meat, these guys suddenly and gorgeously transformed, and their resistance was so fierce that the armored train couldn't help but change color.

Anyway, a fierce battle consumed a lot of his strength, and he had to give up the idea of continuing to attack forward to expand the results of the battle, but ordered the troops to stop and rest and recuperate first.

Speaking of which, the assault company he led really needs to be raised, and in the past six months, it has been fighting from Belarus to Poland, and most of the young men are exhausted. There is no way, the war is too urgent, so everyone has to rotate continuously, there is no vacation at all, and they can't relax, and after being tense for so long, people are prone to problems.

For example, the armored train can feel that the morale-boosting speech of the political commissar is getting worse and worse, and when you listen to similar words too much, people will be immune. It's not that the boys are bored, but they find it boring and difficult to motivate them to get up.

Similar problems exist not only in the troops of armored trains, but also widely in the Red Army on the front line. And this kind of overall weakness and inability to lift the spirit is the most headache for front-line commanders, when the soldiers are all performing tasks mechanically, the efficiency is really not good.

The armored train is also thinking about how to solve this problem, there are still solutions, the simplest is like Yevgeny said, give the fighters a holiday, let them go home to rest and rest, this is the best solution. The U.S. military has done a good job in this regard, pilots have vacations after many flight missions, ordinary soldiers will have turns off for how long they have been fighting, and going home to recharge is the best way to adjust.

But this method is not applicable to the Soviet Red Army, the entire Soviet-German battlefield is close to 15 million soldiers on both sides, and there are millions of people on each side who are desperately on the battlefield, if the Germans do not go back to vacation, how can the Red Army take vacation? Eight or nine million Red Army almost exhausted the limits of what the USSR could requisition, and there were no new replenishments in the rear, how could the front-line fighters leave their posts?

You can't be like the official ape of the devil self-defense force in later generations, clocking in and out of work, right? It's war! The greatest and most brutal world war is not a 9-to-5 mixed eating and waiting to die.

Veterans like the armored train, basically from June 1941 began to fight on the front line, up to now more than three years, in these three years most of the veterans have no time to rest, as the elite of the Red Army, they need to take on heavy tasks, on the battlefield to act as a commando, but also to bring new recruits off the battlefield. Unless you are injured, you can leave the front line to rest for a day or two. But who wants to get hurt?

"Company commander, company commander, battalion commander asked you to go to a meeting!"

Just when the armored train was thinking about how to boost morale, the herald pushed him awake. His first reaction to the news was: "There is another war!" ”

Anyway, the armored train was ready to leave immediately, and when he left the company, he instructed the deputy company commander and political commissar: "Let the comrades get ready, we may have to hurry again!" ”

Rushing to the location of the battalion headquarters, the armored train did not notice the tension of mobilization at the battalion headquarters, and it did not seem like it was going to move forward immediately. On the contrary, the people in the battalion headquarters looked jubilant one by one, as if they had eaten two catties of magpie.

The armored train easily grabbed his old friend Fat Ivan, this fat man is now getting fatter and fatter, since he served as the logistics director of the battalion, this fat man has been developing more and more horizontally, it seems that the logistics oil and water are indeed very sufficient!

"What's wrong?"

Fat Ivan looked at the armored train and said happily: "Good thing, supplies are being sent from above!" ”

"It's really nice to have supplies delivered, but it's not so exciting! No matter how good the supplies are, it is nothing more than more pork, a little cigarette and vodka on the outside, and it will not be so happy! ”

"You know what!" Fat Ivan glanced at the armored train, and the fat on his body seemed to be excited: "The pork is enough this time, and a soldier can divide a large piece!" Chocolates, candy, fine American cigarettes are available openly, and the best of all is liquor! One bottle for everyone! ”

The armored train's eyes widened, and disbelief was written in his eyes. The superiors have always said that the supplies are in short supply, especially after entering the hinterland of Poland, as the lines of communication are getting longer and longer, the supplies are not as good as day by day, although it does not make the soldiers hungry, but every day there is no meat, and Lebari can sandwich a piece of fat meat is considered delicious. As for what is open to meat, chocolate, candy and tobacco, it is really unheard of.

What's going on? Is it a day before you are ready to be a complete loser at one time? Anyway, this idea was left in the head of the armored train at that time.

Fat Ivan didn't notice that the armored train was stunned, but continued to whisper happily to his ear: "Old man, come to me tonight, and I'll leave you something better!" ”

The armored train also became interested and asked in a low voice: "What is it?" ”

"Beef!" Fat Ivan couldn't help but lick his lips when he said this word, "Beef stew with potatoes, Cuban cigars, and French red wine are enough!" ”

The armored train also heard the light of eyes, and asked curiously: "Where did it come from?" ”

"The beef is distributed from above, and it can only be supplied to some officers, and the cigars and red wine are naturally seized, which are all reserved for the enjoyment of the dignitaries of the German devils, and they run away just cheap us!"

The armored train said happily: "Forget about red wine, what is the meaning of what my mother drinks." If you have Huaxia to come to Lao Baigan, that's good enough, you have to drink this potato beef stew! ”

"You kid is here to fight local tyrants," Fat Ivan also smiled, he punched the armored train and said: "Lao Tzu knows that you like that, don't worry, Lao Tzu will leave it for you!" ”

"Okay, then let's get drunk at night!" The armored train replied happily, but when Fat Ivan left, he came to his senses, he came to the battalion headquarters to take over the mission, maybe he would have to pull it out immediately, what cigarettes, wine, meat, it didn't seem to have anything to do with him.

Thinking of this, the armored train couldn't help but feel a little annoyed, and made up its mind at the moment, don't rush to leave after taking the task, go to Fat Ivan's and take the beef, tobacco and wine with him!

The armored train hurried into the battalion headquarters, and the excitement of beef, tobacco, and good wine made him a little impatient. The camp headquarters is also full of joy, it is conceivable that the people in the battalion headquarters are close to the water and the building is the first to get the moon, and they are naturally plucked for good things, anyway, the armored train feels that the people in the battalion headquarters are a little fluttering, and it is estimated that they are all happy.

"Where's the battalion commander?" The armored train slapped Yevgeny, who was dozing off on the table, this kid didn't look at the fact that he entered the army later than him, but he was promoted faster than him, and at this time he was already the political commissar of the battalion of the major.

Yevgeny stretched and replied with a yawn: "I went to the regiment headquarters for a meeting, and I guess I'll be back soon!" ”

The armored train sat down next to Yevgeny, put his arm around his shoulders and asked: "We are old comrades-in-arms, tell me first, is it a good thing or a bad thing for the battalion commander to call me?" ”

Yevgeny laughed: "What is a good thing and what is a bad thing?" ”

The armored train pointed out the window: "The big guys are busy distributing supplies, at this time, let's go on the road to fight a surprise attack, isn't that a bad thing?" When we come back from the battle, you will have all the good things...... I can tell you, you are also from us, and you can't turn your elbow out! ”

Yevgeny smiled and pushed the armored train: "Don't worry, you don't suffer, it's a good thing!" ”

When he was about to continue, the battalion commander Makarov ran in in a hurry, and he hurriedly said: "The battalion commander is back, let him tell you!" ”

Everyone is a veteran and an old comrade-in-arms, so naturally there is no need to say so many scenes, and three times five divided by two will go straight to the topic.

The battalion commander took out a small box and said as he opened it: "Comrade Victor, after discussion and approval by the higher-level leaders, it is unanimously agreed that your current military rank and position are no longer in line with your actual ability, and the organization has decided to grant you a new position. Now please stand! ”

When the captain's collar badge and epaulettes of the armored train were replaced with majors, he was still a little confused, he really didn't expect that he would be promoted so quickly!

However, this is not the most important news, because the battalion commander immediately said: "I will soon be the chief of staff in the regiment, and our battalion will be taken over by Comrade Yevgeny, he will be the battalion commander, and you will be the deputy battalion commander and the commander of the first company." Leave it to you, boys, and don't let me down! ”

The armored train was left at the battalion headquarters and eaten, which was both a pick-up for him and a send-off for the battalion commander, anyway, the armored train was dazed, and it was already evening when he woke up.

Some comrades may want to say that this is wartime, and the main commander is drunk, which is a taboo for soldiers! Not really, the reason why they dared to drink openly on the armored train was due to the order brought back by the former battalion commander from the regimental headquarters. Their battalion was ordered to temporarily withdraw from the battle and rest for three days, after which they were to be the first to attack Poznan as the Sharp Knife troops.

I have to say that the power of matter is powerful, and when good wine and meat are delivered to the front line, the morale of the soldiers is suddenly boosted. Li Xiaofeng, who was in charge of this work, said to Wufeng Jevic with a little bit of concern at that time: "A thousand slogans shouted by the political commissar are not worth a good meal." ”

However, there are quite a few people who complain about this. The Central Committee member said: "Now that the country's economic situation is so tense, and the material supply is even more scarce, at this time, we are not diligent and thrifty, but are wasting lavishly, what is there to be proud of?" ”

The momentum of this group of guys is really not small, and it was full of wind and rain for a while. When this kind of complaint reached Li Xiaofeng's ears, he immediately became in politics. The administrative bureau proposed: "Some comrades said that it is necessary to be economical, and I think this opinion is very good. Of course, when there is a shortage of materials, we must be thrifty, and we Bolsheviks have always advocated thrift, and I think this is good, and thrift is from it. Yang to start. Starting today, in. Don't drive the cars of the Central Committee members. The food standard of the central government can also be appropriately lowered, and the people will share the suffering! ”

Good guys, those guys who have a lot of complaints are dumbfounded, they never thought that someone would come to this hand, they were the ones who asked for thrift before, and they were still the ones who enjoyed the privilege and refused to be thrifty. Now Li Xiaofeng has blocked their retreat to death, making them complain.

"This kind of guy is scum, I don't even need to investigate, the bureaucracy is the most serious in the work, and the results are the most average, but they are the ones who take advantage of the public to gain benefits for themselves! To crack down on such people, we are anti-bureaucracy, starting with them! ”

Dzerzhinsky and Ruzutak applauded Li Xiaofeng's speech loudly, because some party members and cadres are indeed too disrespectful. The front-line soldiers are desperately trying to protect their homes and defend the country, and they can't see it, but if the front-line soldiers eat a little bit of meat, they will have to take care of it, and strangle the stomachs of the soldiers under the banner of hardship and simplicity, and even be proud of it instead of being ashamed. And look at themselves, sitting in a car issued by the government, living in a small villa of the former tsarist nobles, and the point that leaks from their fingers is a hundred times more luxurious than the front-line soldiers eating meat. These people have always been strict with others and lenient with themselves, and if such bureaucrats are not eradicated, what future will the Soviet Union talk about.

Dzerzhinsky has heard on more than one occasion that the high-ranking cadres of certain ministries and commissions are engaged in privilege under the pretext of holding meetings and eating working meals, and want to drink red wine imported from France, caviar from the Caspian Sea, bear's paws from Siberia, and cod from the Atlantic. It is shameless to have the face to say that you are thrifty and thrifty!

Before, because during the war, in order to take care of the overall situation, Dzerzhinsky was not good at openly slapping these guys in the face, but this time, through reform, through the words of a certain immortal, he also stood up and said it.

"Our party needs serious rectification, and a considerable number of comrades are arrogant and lascivious and have forgotten their own beliefs and pursuits. He has been corrupted and degenerated into a shameful moth. These false public servants, fake revolutionaries, dressed in the coat of Bolsheviks, have formed a new privileged stratum of the elite in our party. Only by defeating this stratum can our party be purified and the flame of revolution can be preserved. I propose that such a campaign be launched immediately within the Party to purify our Party! ”

Naturally, Sverdlov did not agree with it, because Lenin and Trotsky had previously given the Central. When the Central Committee wrote a letter about reform, he just didn't agree with it, and he knew very well who this reform was for. It's not that he said that he wants to expand the government. It is clear that his ideas touch on the old government. The core interests of the governance situation, but it is inconvenient for them to openly oppose it, so they beat him in the name of reform.

In the face of the outspokenness of Lenin and Trotsky, and the endorsements of Li Xiaofeng, Ruzutak, Dzerzhinsky and others, Sverdlov was naturally powerless to resist. But he was unwilling to admit defeat, so he took advantage of Li Xiaofeng's opportunity to improve the lives of the front-line soldiers to incite a group of middle school soldiers. Central Committee members made trouble. Originally, Xiao Si meant to show off his muscles, so that Li Xiaofeng could also see his Sverdlov's strength. But who would have thought that this muscle would have the opposite effect.

The talent on his side shouted two sentences, and Dzerzhinsky openly wanted to launch a campaign to purge the party, and this is still necessary?

Sverdlov hurriedly said: "Comrade Felix, is your judgment too arbitrary, and you can't say that some comrades have said something and one-sidedly think that they are arrogant and corrupt, right?" Our party still needs to be open to the public, and whether it is necessary to listen to different voices. And I'm afraid it's not appropriate to engage in sports at this time, right? ”

However, what Sverdlov did not expect was that as soon as his words fell, not only Dzerzhinsky refuted him, but also Ruzutak jumped out and loudly criticized him: "I think Comrade Felix's statement is not arbitrary at all, and there are still fewer problems of bureaucracy and corruption in our party?" I fully agree with this campaign, and it is necessary to clean up these evil forces! ”

Good guys, Ruzutak directly defines bureaucracy and corrupt elements as evil forces, which is quite serious. Anyway, Sverdlov's face changed at that time, but before he could express his opposition, Li Xiaofeng, Trotsky, and Ulitsky rushed up in a group to respond, and even Sverdlov was useless even if he wanted to oppose it.

Soon the government. The governance bureau adopted a proposal on the development of the "social ... Communist Re-education Movement", Dzerzhinsky and Ruzutak were put in charge of the movement. These two are the kind of people who are in a hurry, and they really started the sport quickly.

Soon, some time ago, Li Xiaofeng was publicly or semi-publicly accused of wasting a batch. The members of the Central Committee received the letter to the Society. An official letter from the Committee on Re-education asked them to put aside their work for the time being and go to China. The Central Party School reported on the study.

This makes this group of people itch with hatred, and the big guy lives a lot of nourishing life in various ministries and commissions. And it's all old revolutionaries, what else to learn? To learn, it is also good for young people to learn. At that time, a group of people shouted: "We are too busy with our work now, we really can't leave, let's wait for further study!" ”

Obviously, this is what Sverdlov gave them, didn't you let us learn? Don't interfere with the work at hand! Is the Great Patriotic War important or social. The re-education movement is important, so we must always distinguish between priorities and priorities!

Anyway, this group of people was ready to prevaricate and delay, but what they didn't expect was that Dzerzhinsky and Ruzutak went directly to the door, "visited" them one by one, and when they slept in the office or were caught at a ball or a concert hall or an opera house, they didn't have any excuses to be busy. You're so busy that you're asleep, you're all working in dance halls, concert halls, and opera houses, do you still have the face to say you're busy?

Anyway, Dzerzhinsky and Ruzutak didn't listen to their explanations or beg for mercy at all, and directly asked the staff to take the goods away, some of them were thrown directly into the ****** for interrogation, and the other part was light in nature. Central Party School.

After the leaders of this group were defeated, the remaining ones saw that the situation was not right, so they naturally did not dare to engage in confrontation anymore, and went to the middle honestly. Reported by the Central Party School. And after this group of leaders is subdued, the rest of them will naturally be honest.

Sverdlov was also helpless about this. The situation is decided, he can't speak against it, and both Ruzutak and Dzerzhinsky openly ask people to arrest them, and he can't help those people say good things. Of course, this still makes him angry, and he believes that these spearheads are aimed at him, in order to shake his position at the core of the next leadership, and for this he must fight to the end.

The problem is how to fight is philosophy, and Sverdlov also discovered that he may not be able to take advantage of hard against hard, so he poured all his hopes into politics. In terms of political reform, he constantly visited those middle forces, promised them benefits, and spared no effort to win them over.

Yakov asked: "Is it just that Sverdlov is allowed to go around buying people's hearts and minds without paying attention?" ”

Li Xiaofeng smiled: "What is there to pay attention to?" The moths have been imprisoned. The Central Party School, the group of corrupt elements who are the easiest to buy, has been locked up. Society. The re-education movement is not only about education, but also about punishing those who have done wrong. Do you think Dzerzhinsky and Ruzutak are the kind of people who only engage in persuasion education? ”

After a pause, he continued: "As for the current middlemen, most of them belong to people who have no serious problems or only minor problems. After the Communist Education Campaign is launched, if they are not too stupid, they will not easily take sides, and if they are really that stupid, then there is nothing to worry about such people. ”

Yes, Sverdlov immediately found out that the effect of his trip to buy people's hearts was really not ideal, except for a small number of people who expressed their support for him, the rest hummed and did not express their position, and it was clear that they would look at next year's plenum to make a decision. This made Sverdlov really tired and half dead, but it didn't work out much.

"He was wrong in the first place!" Trotsky put it quite bluntly, "If I were Yakov, I would not have gone into tandem at this time, but I should have paid attention to that society first. The re-education movement, which is the fundamental problem. He's giving up his roots! ”

Why did Trotsky say that? In fact, look at what Li Xiaofeng said before, "She. The "Communist Re-education Movement" is not just about persuasion education, it should be understood...... (To be continued.) )