Ulitsky and Raddick watched Li Xiaofeng and Trotsky engage in an earth-shattering confrontation without gunpowder, and this level of confrontation was so wonderful that it made the two of them a little bit of a mountain to look up. But they also wanted to know how Li Xiaofeng would respond when Trotsky had formally expressed his emotions.

Does someone admit this, and admit that Bubnov is better than Triandafilov, or will he carry it to the end?

In terms of seniority and political influence, Bubnov is indeed stronger than Triandafylov, but in terms of military ability and military influence, the latter is a head above the former. In short, if Trotsky insisted that Bubnov was better than Triandafilov, Li Xiaofeng would not be able to really slap the old revolutionaries and old comrades in the face.

However, Li Xiaofeng still had reason to object: "Comrade Bubnov is too old and has been out of military work for too long, so it is not suitable!" ”

Is Bubnov old? Born in 1883, he was actually only 59 years old, and according to Lenin's drawings, he was still far from being 65 years old! However, compared to Triandafilov, who was born in 1894, he does seem old. And especially the latter, from 1929 onwards, Bubnov left his military work and went exclusively to the political arena. At this time, it really seems inappropriate to let him come back as the chief armament minister.

It's just that Trotsky really couldn't think of a better candidate, so he could only temporarily grab a journalist Bubnov to make do. Now someone is openly tearing down the stage and slapping his face, this is really unbearable!

"Old comrades have the advantages of old comrades, steady and reliable!" Trotsky held back such a reason.

Li Xiaofeng smiled and said, "Comrade Triandafilov is not frivolous and reckless? ”

Trotsky gritted his teeth, don't you want to be so frustrated, I don't see that Lao Tzu can't find a reason, you are forcing me to turn my face, right?

Li Xiaofeng, of course, didn't mean that. He just seized the opportunity to deliberately provoke Trotsky and let out a bad breath, to put it bluntly, he was still petty.

Therefore, seeing that Trotsky was about to get angry, he said slowly: "Of course, Comrade Trotsky, if you think that Comrade Bubnov is the head of the General Armament, then I am also willing to give the old comrades a chance. It is still possible to let comrades take the helm, grasp the general direction, and push forward the existing work in an orderly and gradual manner, so as to tide over the difficult period. ”

This was said in an old-fashioned manner, and it was quite unkind, but Trotsky listened to it, and he was keenly aware that it was the point of Li Xiaofeng's negotiations with him.

So what are the key points? The first is to be at the helm and control the general direction, which means nothing more than that Bubnov will be the head of the General Armament Department. That is, it has the responsibility to control the main body, and the original person in charge is still responsible for the details; The second is to advance the existing work step by step, which means nothing more than that the projects under Ubolevich's tenure must be carried out, and cannot be changed overnight; The third, surviving difficult times, is actually the threat of Chiguoguo. Meaning if Bubnov can't do the first two. Then don't blame him, Li Xiaofeng turned his face and was ruthless.

Trotsky smacked his feet, and it was not that those two conditions could not be agreed. But it was too humiliating to say yes. How can he say that he is also the second mentor, and he is also the current core leader, does it mean that let a caring person be the head of the General Armament Department still depends on your Li Xiaofeng's face, what is this?

Subconsciously, Trotsky wanted to go crazy, but he held back. He knew Li Xiaofeng, and there must be a reason why someone dared to speak so ruthlessly, so he asked lightly: "I think Comrade Bubnov is still very capable, maybe he can bring the work of the General Armament Department to a higher level?" ”

Li Xiaofeng smiled. But the laughter made Trotsky a little flustered, and he quickly replied: "That's so! I think Comrade Vasilevsky is also very capable, and the current situation of maintaining stability in the Central Asian Military Region is very serious, and a capable and courageous young comrade is needed to take the helm, and I think he is very suitable! ”

"You ......" Don't talk about Trotsky, even Ulitsky and Raddick almost burst into foul language.

Because Li Xiaofeng is the threat of Chiguoguo, you said that Bubnov can bring the General Armament Department to a higher level, that's good! Then let him go. However, Lao Tzu will send your hope Vasilevsky to the Central Asian Military District as a cold bench, and you Trotskyists just want to let Vasilevsky take over Tukhachevsky's class step by step. Then I will spell out a general armament minister and directly strangle your hope, what can you do in the future? It's not a stinger!

Humiliation! Trotsky had never felt so humiliated in his life, Li Xiaofeng had simply swollen his old face, and this threat of Chiguoguo made him helpless. Who gave someone an advantage in the Military Commission? Just as he was able to acquiesce to Tukhachevsky to create trouble and pressure on Li Xiaofeng before, Li Xiaofeng can also choke his seven inches in an instant, and it is very difficult for a certain immortal to get Tukhachevsky away, but it is really a matter of one sentence to get a small character like Vasilevsky to sit on the cold bench.

After holding it for a long time, Trotsky nodded angrily and said, "I see." I am still very satisfied with the work of Comrade Ubolevich in the General Armament Department, and Comrade Bubnov has no objection to this. In times of war, it is indeed undesirable and should be avoided to change the project plan casually......"

Trotsky confessed, he was also forced to have no choice at all, and in order to save Vasilevsky, he could only endure the blackmail of a certain immortal. After some arguing, the two sides reached an agreement very unhappily.

On the way back, Yakov looked at Li Xiaofeng, endured it for a long time and asked: "Do you think Trotsky will keep his promise?" ”

Li Xiaofeng glanced at Yakov and asked rhetorically, "What do you say?" ”

The corners of Yakov's mouth twitched twice, he was a little speechless, and he was stunned before replying: "If he pretends to keep his promise for the time being, when Vasilevsky grows up, when you can't threaten him like now......"

Li Xiaofeng laughed, Yakov could hear that this was Chiguoguo's ridicule, but he still insisted that there was such a possibility, at least Vasilevsky did have quite outstanding military talent, who dared to say that he would not be the next Tukhachevsky?

Li Xiaofeng replied slowly: "He has already lost at the starting line. We had Ubolevich, Triandafilov in the older generation before him. Even Yegorov wants to give me face, and the younger generation has Rokossovsky. Even on the same starting line as him were Zhukov and Konev and a large number of others. No matter how good an individual is, he or she cannot be compared to a group. Our people have a faster and greater chance of growing. Moreover, the influence of the Trotskyists in the military is too limited! ”

Unconvinced, Yakov asked: "What if Trotsky poured all his resources into Vasilevsky?" ”

Li Xiaofeng sneered again: "Trotsky will not be so stupid, if he does that, the Trotskyist power in the military will collapse faster!" ”

Yakov thought about it carefully, and it was really the truth. In order to maintain a group, it is necessary to inject interests. Unprofitable, who will mess with you? As soon as Trotsky tilted all his resources in favor of Vasilevsky, there was only one consequence: more and more people would be dissatisfied with Trotsky's approach, and more and more people would leave the Trotskyists and join other groups that could provide benefits.

In other words, even if Trotsky finally came up with Vasilevsky, he was only a bare-bones commander, how useful could one person be? You will still be beaten down by the group. And at that time, once Vasilevsky fell, the Trotskyist power in the military was completely finished.

Trotsky would not have done such a stupid thing. Even if he wants to support Vasilevsky, he will not give everything he has, at most one-third or one-quarter of the strength support, or even this level of support, I am afraid that it will lead to internal contradictions, and maybe it will be a chicken and a dog.

Moreover, Li Xiaofeng always thinks that even if Vasilevsky can grow up, what will it be. I really thought that the more than twenty years that Ubolevich had been operating in the General Armament Department were fake, without him nodding. Bubnov will be set up in an instant, and it would be nice to be a mud bodhisattva.

Therefore, to sum up, even if Trotsky is prepared not to be trustworthy, Li Xiaofeng does not need to worry at all, he can completely minimize the risks caused by Lao Tuo's lack of credit, and even make Lao Tuo pay a heavy price.

A few days later. After discussion and study, the Politburo formally made a decision to dismiss Tukhachevsky from the post of chief of the General Staff, and immediately appointed Ubolevich as chief of the General Staff and Bubnov as the head of the General Armament. Of course, the Politburo and the Central Military Commission also pretended to say: "The Party Central Committee is very satisfied with the work of Comrade Tukhachevsky since he assumed the post of Chief of the General Staff, and believes that Comrade Tukhachevsky has very satisfactorily fulfilled the tasks entrusted to him by the Politburo and the Central Military Commission." His conscientious work style is worthy of learning from every Red Army commander and fighter. I hope that all comrades can learn from Comrade Tukhachevsky and thus better serve the Soviet people! ”

Truth be told, it's not so much a compliment as a slap in the face. When evaluating the work of a military leader of Tukhachevsky's level, he must also include a few sentences such as outstanding meritorious service, outstanding achievements, or harsh praise of his military talent. But the Politburo only summed up Tukhachevsky's work in four words: conscientiousness, and there was not a single word of other praise. What does this mean?

This shows that the Politburo is not satisfied with the results of his work, and believes that Tukhachevsky's second entry into the palace has only been done conscientiously, that is, the Politburo only thinks that Tukhachevsky did his best, but did not do it well.

It has to be said that this evaluation is very low, and it is simply humiliating for Tukhachevsky, who naturally left the office that originally belonged to him, he was simply angry.

Yegorov later recalled: "Comrade Mikhail rushed out of the office with a thunderstorm, rushed out of the office building of the Military Commission, got into his car, and left. We all know he's upset, uh, or rather angry. But we also think that his anger is unjustified, and at least he should have behaved more gentlemanly when he left......"

After Tukhachevsky left this time, he never returned to the military commission. Of course, it was not because the Politburo asked him to get out of the way and not to be allowed to go near the Central Military Commission; in fact, although he was dismissed from his post as chief of the General Staff, the Central Military Commission did not get rid of him to the end, and he still retained his status as People's Commissar for National Defense and a member of the Central Military Commission, and he could continue to work in the Central Military Commission. It's just that Tukhachevsky refused to come back in order to preserve his self-esteem.

With Tukhachevsky gone, Ubolevich coming, the most noticeable change was that Tukhachevsky's long-planned and ongoing Minsk counterattack was immediately halted, and all the troops that had been mobilized returned the way they came. Based on the current situation on the battlefield, Ubolevich believes that the time is still premature for an active counterattack. In 1942, the main task of the Red Army remained to stabilize the defensive line.

To be honest, Ubolevich was right, although the Red Army won the battle at Kursk, the distribution of forces on the entire front was still not ideal, some areas were hoarded with too many troops, and others were as weak as a piece of paper. And the Red Army received a large number of recruits and new equipment. A considerable number of commanders and fighters still have a weak understanding of tactics and new equipment, and are not enough to give full play to their combat effectiveness. Under such circumstances, it is very risky to blindly counterattack, and more time should be left for commanders and fighters to run in.

Of course, what Ubolevich did not expect was that the Germans did not give him much time to run-in. As mentioned earlier, Hitler actually wanted to continue the offensive, and before Paulus was destroyed, he advocated launching a new offensive, but he had to wait because of the serious shortage of armored forces.

By the end of September. Hitler could no longer endure any longer, and he desperately wanted to teach the Russians a hard lesson again, preferably a war of annihilation. This time, Hitler's target was still Bryansk.

"As of September 15, a total of 350 No. 4 F2 tanks have been produced, and with the addition of 100 Panther D and 50 Tiger tanks that have been produced before, our army initially has the ability to carry out large-scale armored assaults again......"

The Führer's report pleased the Führer, a civilian military expert who was very adept at tearing down the eastern wall and replacing the western wall, sketched a map with a huge arrow aimed at the Bryansk Front.

In order to realize the military attempt to break through the lines of the Red Army again. Hitler not only threw the newly produced tanks in this direction, but also transferred the 4th Panzer Group, which had originally belonged to Army Group North. Handed over this formidable armor to Herman. General Hult commanded. The 3rd Panzer Group, which was originally commanded by Hott, was handed over to Erich, the former commander of the 4th Panzer Group. Directed by Hopna.

As Hitler envisioned. The 3rd Panzer Group was to launch a surprise attack in the depths of Minsk with the cooperation of some troops, and the 1st Panzer Group and the remnants of the original 2nd Panzer Group were to attack in the direction of Kiev, striving to firmly attract and contain the main forces of the Red Army in these two areas. When the main forces of the Red Army were pinned, the newly formed 2nd Panzer Group and the original 4th Panzer Group concentrated all their efforts on the fierce attack in the direction of Bryansk from Gomel, striving to crush Rokossovsky's 2nd Belorussian Front in one go, and then advance at high speed in the direction of Moscow.

This set of plans is actually quite simple. In fact, Hitler was not satisfied with this simple plan of warfare. His whimsical head was actually even crazier. According to his original plan, he was ready to concentrate all the armored forces in Gomel, to take away the Second Belorussian Front with a wave of armored torrents, and then to rush straight into the Russian hinterland.

But his idea was strongly opposed by Halder, Yodel and Keitel, in the opinion of the three. The Führer was probably crazy, although it was right to concentrate armored forces for a surprise attack. But with all the armored forces together, this Nima is terrifying.

First of all, such a transfer is basically impossible, and according to the most optimistic scenario of the General Staff, it will take at least three months to carry out a transfer of this magnitude. For such a long time, it is difficult to guarantee that the Red Army will not find out the clues. And once it is discovered by the Red Army, it can launch an attack first. For example, in the Kiev region, the Red Army has quite a strong armored force, which can completely take advantage of the weakness to defeat Army Group South in one go.

As soon as Army Group South was crushed, the front collapsed, and it was the turn of the Red Army to take the Germans directly away in waves. At that time, the Third Reich was greeted not by victory, but by a total collapse!

Secondly, it is also not necessary to concentrate all the armored forces in one place. The space on the battlefield is limited, and if a large number of troops are piled up in a certain area without control, the final result will inevitably lead to battlefield congestion, so that all troops cannot be used. This will lead to inefficiency, and a large number of troops will be congested together, which will inevitably become a key target of the enemy's air force, and will only cause unnecessary losses.

Persuaded by Halder, Jodel and Keitel, Hitler reluctantly dismissed this crazy idea, but he still threw his best armoured troops in the direction of Gomel.

So did Ubolevich find out about Hitler's attempts? Not at first, because the Red Army was also a mess. Tukhachevsky's previous plan was not much stronger than Hitler's, and it was also a large-scale and large-scale transfer of armored forces. And as we all know, the level of infrastructure in the USSR was terrible, and such a large-scale transfer and then abrupt suspension inevitably led to chaos.

In order to minimize the chaos, Ubolevich personally went to the front line to conduct mediation. In fact, Ubolevich also meant to end the chaos as soon as possible, so as not to be taken advantage of by the Germans, but he did not expect that the Germans would move so quickly...... (To be continued.) )