Who took the initiative to pierce this layer of window paper? Analyze it, in fact, you will know, the simplest logic, who can profit from this event?

There was only one man, and that was Trotsky. Lao Tuo has always shouted and killed Germany, and has always advocated a tough attitude to knock Germany, especially after Germany attacked West Poland, Lao Tuo has more than once wanted to promote the alliance to jointly attack Germany.

However, his repeated efforts were either tossed by Stalin or mixed up by Li Xiaofeng. So far, it has been completely complete, and I can only follow Sverdlov's rhythm. Obviously, Lao Tuo was dissatisfied and unwilling, especially after the deal between Iceland and the Faroe Islands, Lao To's dissatisfaction reached its peak.

At this point, he had to find a way to fight back, and he had to pull back a game. And the entry point he chose was to expose the "shady" of the fortress project. What's the use of that? Quite simply, the first role was to attack the leaders of the Military Commission, who had drawn up the fortification works at that time. Those who ordered the construction of the fortress back then must be responsible for the tofu scum project, right? And who are these people? The General Armament Department will never be able to run away, right?

Secondly, and what Trotsky really valued, was: since the fortress project was tofu scum, and since these fortresses could not play much role at all, did this mean that in the future war the Red Army would have to attack instead of defend?

If we can only replace defense with offense, it must be sooner rather than later, and is it reasonable to launch an offensive while the main German army is still on the Western Front?

To put it bluntly, Trotsky was not a drunkard, but he still wanted to promote his idea of rescuing Britain and attacking Germany.

I have to say that Lao Tuo's trick is very poisonous. Also hit the point. For Sverdlov. Once the response is not good, I am afraid that it may really be overturned.

So how did Xiao Si deal with it? Xiao Si didn't say anything, and it was Li Xiaofeng who stood up first to fight back: "There are indeed quite a lot of problems in the fortress project, but what is the root cause of these problems?" Is it our comrades who cut corners, and are the comrades responsible for building this project irresponsible? ”

Trotsky didn't say anything, he looked like the old god was at ease with the victory. Instead, Raddic asked, "If it's not these, then why do you say so?" ”

Obviously, the Trotskyists meant to take the lead in man-made disasters. It is to hold the General Armament Department responsible, but how could Li Xiaofeng let them succeed, he replied with a smile: "The fortress construction in Ukraine and Belarus began at the earliest, starting from 1927 and completing the main project in 1932. I must remind comrades that the overall economic situation of our country at this stage is not ideal, and military spending has been greatly affected. This also directly led to the fact that the fortress project could only be simplified because of the ugliness...... I think the comrades all know that it will not be easy to complete the project during that time period. ”

"You're whitewashing your mistakes!" Raddic replied with a sneer.

"I'm not whitewashing anything." Li Xiaofeng replied very calmly, "Including the fortress project." The large-scale infrastructure construction carried out in those years all had the same problems. For example, greed for perfection, such as unreasonable design, such as insufficient technical qualifications of construction personnel. Comrade Radek, should we now immediately start taking stock of all the projects that were carried out in those years and see what the actual situation looks like? ”

Radek immediately stopped talking, because what happened back then, really this is what happened, in order to build socialism, the entire Soviet Union was working hard and fast, capable projects had to be launched, and projects without ability had to be hard, one-sidedly emphasizing the so-called subjective initiative, advocating the so-called spiritual strength of man to conquer heaven. Obviously, this is unscientific, but the central authorities have not been able to dampen the high morale of the people of the whole country, so they can only do it head-on. As a result, there are a lot of problems.

This is also the reason why many people knew that there was a problem with the fortress project before, but everyone chose to ignore it, because the lid could not be removed. And now that Trotsky has chosen to uncover the scars, the inevitable big guys will have to hurt together.

However, Lao Tuo doesn't plan to shoulder the responsibility with the big guys, he just wants to take the opportunity to promote his own ideas. Therefore, he wants to emphasize that the problems caused by objective unscience are understandable, but the use of the fortress after the construction of the project is purely man-made!

Yes, Trotsky was ready to make a fuss about this point, but Li Xiaofeng was not stupid either, man-made disaster? Hehe, he's really not afraid of pursuing man-made disasters.

"The problem of inaction and dereliction of duty in the management and use of the fortress is indeed shocking, and on this issue, I agree to investigate to the end, and we must find out the culprit!" After a pause, Li Xiaofeng said coldly: "On this issue, the General Staff Headquarters and the People's Commissariat of National Defense cannot escape the blame, as the actual managers of the fortress area, they have not fulfilled their obligations and responsibilities at all, and the country has suffered huge losses. I believe that the leadership of the relevant comrades should be held accountable immediately! ”

Trotsky's heart jumped, and he realized that he had miscalculated, that it was the responsibility of the General Staff to build the fortress, but it was the responsibility of the General Staff to manage the fortified area. And who was the Chief of the General Staff back then? It's Tukhachevsky! Basically, the fortification works were completed during his tenure, and this board had to be slapped on Tukhachevsky's ass!

Trotsky was a little dumbfounded, this was not the result he wanted, and he immediately began to clear Tukhachevsky of responsibility: "The General Staff was not the actual manager of the fortified districts, which were originally assigned to the management of the border guards......

Li Xiaofeng followed up without hesitation: "Then hold the leadership of the NKVD responsible!" ”

Trotsky was a little strange and did not understand why Li Xiaofeng was so good at talking, and why he followed him. Why? It's very simple, Li Xiaofeng knows very well that this board will never hit the butt of the NKVD, and it is still the General Staff that pays for it in the end.

Why? Because NKVD is wronged! It is true that the fortified area was assigned to the border guards, but the fortress was handed over to them, but the corresponding funds and personnel were not inclined to them. How many border guards are needed to fill the pits in the long line of defense from the Baltic to Ukraine? Doesn't there be any money for annual maintenance?

But everyone knows that the economic prosperity of the Soviet Union began after 1935, starting in 1936. Only then did the Red Army have relatively sufficient funds to do great things. And before that. It is the new three years, the old three years, and the sewing and mending, and another three years. Only those key construction forces, such as the Airborne Forces, mechanized troops, and Stalin's lifeline cavalry, which Tukhachevsky favored, and the navy and air force, which were supported by Sverdlov and Li Xiaofeng, received relatively adequate funding. Other ordinary Red Army, especially the children of ex-wives like border guards, could only stare dryly.

In other words, it's not that the NKVD doesn't want to do a good job in the fortified area, it's really inadequate, and there is only so much funding every year. Only a little bit was allocated to the border guards, and the land and sea borders of the Soviet Union were surprisingly long, and it was not easy to maintain normal patrols of the border guards on such a long border.

Of course, there are indeed man-made disasters in this, and a considerable number of the heads of the border guards feel that everything will be fine when the fortress is built, and as for the maintenance and whether the fortress is built reasonably enough, then they don't care, anyway, they have completed the task.

In any case, subjective and objective reasons have caused the fortified area to be forgotten, and it is really necessary to investigate its responsibility. At that time, although the border guards could not escape, the People's Commissariat and the Military Commission had no responsibility? Anyway, who won't kick this ball. When it comes to accountability, the leaders of the border defense forces back then could have stiffened their necks and said: "It is the responsibility of the superiors to not allocate sufficient funds!" ”

If you really get to this point, who has no light on your face? Naturally, it was Trotsky, chairman of the Military Commission, the People's Commissar of Defense, and Tukhachevsky, the chief of the General Staff, who had to carry this pot. And this is the fundamental reason why Li Xiaofeng is not afraid to speak according to Trotsky's meaning, to put it bluntly, this product is actually deliberate, just waiting to see Trotsky's jokes.

Of course, if Trotsky had not been afraid of making jokes, had been preoccupied with investigating and insisting on putting a trumped-up charge on the heads of the border guards, Li Xiaofeng would not have sat idly by. At that time, he did not mind ruthlessly giving Lao Tuo and Tukhachevsky eye medicine and investigating the mistakes of the military guidance ideology of the Central Military Commission in those years.

What's wrong? Let's put it this way, although the Military Commission repaired these fortresses in those years, the General Staff did not like passive defense from the bottom of its bones, and according to Tukhachevsky's idea of large-depth operations, the Red Army had to take the initiative to attack and attack.

It was precisely because of Tukhachevsky's persistence that the Red Army of those years was more interested in studying offensive tactics and offensive weapons. Especially from 1930 onwards, with the improvement of the economy, most of the money was invested in this direction. Both the Military Commission and the General Staff attach importance to the offensive, and naturally the lower ones also attach importance to the offensive, while the defense of the opposite side of the offensive is ignored or even despised. At that time, there was a trend in the Red Army that it was shameful to attack and defend honorably. This naturally makes matters worse, as a fortress that represents defense, it is naturally not welcomed.

Obviously, in order to investigate the root cause of the problem in the fortified areas, we cannot ignore the radical military guiding ideology, right? And in this regard, Tukhachevsky, the chief of the General Staff of the year, and Gamarnik, the director of the General Political Department, have to be mentioned to sneak out of the court, right?

Soon Trotsky also realized that if he continued to investigate like this, he would be the one who had no good fruit to eat in the end, and that this old account of adulthood could not be turned over at all. In desperation, he could only say again: "Now is not the time to be held accountable, not the time to play ball." The situation is already like this, what we have to do is to come up with a solution to the problem. ”

Trotsky's meaning was obvious, he had no intention or interest in going through old accounts, he wanted to know now, the fortresses were already like this, it was obvious that these fortresses were useless, and now it was time to think about dealing with the enemy's aggression without the cover of the fortress! To put it bluntly, Lao Tuo still wants to replace defense with offense. And he felt that there should be no way to solve this problem.

Is there really no way? Is it really only offensive instead of defending? Li Xiaofeng wants to say no. Because the reason why the fortresses of the Soviet Union ended up being like that bird is not only the problems that have been mentioned before. The most important problem is that the value of these fortified areas has fallen!

Not only in this historical time and space, the military value of the fortresses built in the late twenties and early thirties declined, but there were also the same problems in history. Historically, at the outbreak of the Great Patriotic War, the situation with these fortresses was even worse. The reason for this is that the Soviet line of defense has advanced. After the partition of Poland. The entire line of defense of the USSR moved several hundred kilometers to the west. The fortress originally built by the guide fell in the rear. According to Stalin's plan, a new line of defense was prepared. Historically, before this line of defense was completed, war broke out, which directly led to the new line of defense not working, and the old line of defense was basically abandoned, and naturally it was a mess.

And in this historical time and space, because of the existence of East Prussia and East Poland, the significance of this line of defense was also greatly discounted. From 1936, Sverdlov and Stalin agreed on the issues of the future war. The main military forces of the Red Army were deployed on the second line, with East Prussia and East Poland responsible for resisting the first wave of the enemy's offensive, which was used to delay and weaken the enemy. And what the Red Army had to do was to wait for the enemy to be weakened, concentrate all its strength on the counterattack, and drive the enemy away in one go.

In other words, East Prussia and East Poland assumed the role of fortresses, otherwise, with Li Xiaofeng's urine, the border guards could come at will. Abandon a good fortress?

The problem with Trotsky was that he always wanted to join the war on his own initiative. He wanted to take advantage of the fact that Britain was not finished with a knife from the Germans in the back, so he deliberately weakened the shield role of East Prussia and East Poland, emphasizing how vulnerable the so-called steel defense line was, which was originally of little significance, so as to establish the operational idea that only the initiative could be attacked.

It's just that he really made a mistake in this calculation, and Sverdlov saw through his thoughts at the beginning, so he naturally wouldn't be led by his nose. It wasn't until Lao Tuo was ready to confuse the public that he moved out of East Poland and East Prussia to fight back.

"Beginning in 1939, East Prussia and East Poland began to build a line of defense covering their borders with Germany. By June 1940, East Prussia had almost completed the fortification of the border, while East Poland was under intense construction...... It was foreseeable that this line of defense would buy time for the Red Army to prepare for war, and when Germany did start a war and attacked East Poland or East Prussia, it would not be possible to do it as it did in the case of blitzkrieg in West Poland and France! ”

When Frunze said this, he was still very confident, which shows that he has great hopes for this line of defense and is relatively optimistic. However, Li Xiaofeng is not as confident as he is, because this combat method of building a defense line on the border line is really outdated. Concentrating a large number of forces on the front line may seem formidable, but at the same time it must be seen that it is vulnerable to the first wave of enemy strikes. And the striking capabilities of the Germans in the first wave, to be honest, were quite powerful.

Li Xiaofeng is really not optimistic about the combat effectiveness of the armies of East Prussia and East Poland, the armies of these two countries are still at the level of World War I, lack mobility, and most of the soldiers are recruits who only joined the army in 1939, and have no experience at all. In the face of German blitzkrieg tactics, it is really difficult to say how long East Prussia and East Poland can carry it.

In particular, the military forces of these two countries are equipped with first-line defense tactics in the front, and once they are broken through, they lack reserves, and they are easily penetrated and more easily surrounded by the same place. If the Red Army does not react in time, it will be a catastrophe for both countries.

Therefore, although Trotsky's "conspiracy" was thwarted at the Politburo meeting, Li Xiaofeng was very worried in private, especially after personally visiting East Poland, and this worry was infinitely magnified.

"Preparations for war in East Poland were abysmal, with most of the permanent fortifications being built only at the end of last year, and the progress of the works was rather slow, with most of them having only a third of the work completed by June of this year, and the most optimistic estimates were not completed until June 1941...... The level of training and equipment of the East Polish army was problematic, especially the lack of qualified officers, and the armored units were almost rarely trained because of the lack of sufficient gasoline and the lack of spare parts. More importantly, the Poles were too optimistic about the war and did not think that it would be a problem to have the Red Army to help defeat the Germans......"

Sverdlov did not expect the Poles to be so muddy that they could not hold up to the wall, and he said: "Beat them up with the Comintern, make them more vigilant, and increase the progress of war readiness!" ”

It doesn't really make much sense to do this, I'm afraid that the Poles don't care much about the beating of the Comintern, they are lax from the bottom of their hearts.

"This can't solve the fundamental problem," Li Xiaofeng shook his head and said, "We should prepare the Belarusian Front and the Ukrainian Front, especially the mechanized units of these two fronts, and once the war breaks out, enter East Poland as quickly as possible to assist them in resisting the German attack!" ”

Sverdlov pondered for a moment, and then suddenly asked: "Is it possible to attack Germany first, as Comrade Trotsky said?" ”

Li Xiaofeng sighed and said: "It is naturally best to be able to do this, but Comrade Yakov, with all due respect, we have many problems in our combat readiness work, and we will be completely prepared for combat in April or May 1941." And according to the information I have, the main forces of the German army are moving to the Eastern Front. After our troops are ready for battle, the German troops in front will basically be in place, and compared with the German army, our troops are inexperienced, and it may not be good to fight against the Germans, and it is difficult to say the consequences of the main attack. So the only thing I can tell you is that if you want to take the initiative to attack, you must make up your mind before September 1940. If you push it back, even if you take the initiative to attack, it's not interesting! (To be continued......)

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