Lenin really did not want to be with the mud, or rather the Mentor would have preferred to see the Bolsheviks unite and get through the difficulties, rather than the fact that the enemy had come to the door as it was now, and Trotsky and Stalin were spending most of their energies on each other.

It is true that Voroshilov idiot is stupid enough, but what is the point of holding this idiot accountable now, to solve any real trouble? Nowadays, the most important thing is to solve the trouble, not the! Even if Voroshilov is to be held responsible, it can be done after the fact!

Did Trotsky understand this? It should be said that he understands, of course he knows that the most important thing now is not to hold Voroshilov responsible, but to quickly find a way to plug that gap. However, knowing the way is the way of knowing, but every choice made by a politician has a deep meaning. There is only one reason why Trotsky still wants to talk about Voroshilov even though he knows that the Tao is not the best reality at the moment: he is tempting!

Yes, it is temptation. As mentioned earlier, although Trotsky became chairman of the Military Commission, he did not have complete control over the Military Commission, and several Leninist bosses were nailed to the Military Commission, and his every move was constrained. Although Trotsky was helpless in such a situation, as a careerist like him, he certainly did not want to be so confined for the rest of his life, and he inevitably wanted to break the shackles imposed on him by Lenin.

And this time he fired at Voroshilov, he was testing Lenin's bottom line. If Lenin had disposed of Voroshilov as he wanted without saying a word, then Lenin would probably not be as strong as he appeared on the surface, and I am afraid that he would have asked him for military matters. That's the case. He can be a little presumptuous. Intensify your activity a little bit.

Contrarily. If Lenin did not hesitate to save Voroshilov, it meant that he had to be honest and preferably not make too many petty moves.

So, judging by Lenin's previous response, did Trotsky's tentative purpose be achieved? It should be said that there is no at all. Lenin did not say that Voroshilov would not be held responsible, nor that he would be held accountable to the end. Lenin's approach was more akin to the manipulation of later harmonious states – shelving disputes.

Lenin's choice not to talk about this question was tantamount to bounce off Trotsky's temptation with a single move. This situation made Trotsky very uncomfortable, and if he continued to probe to the bottom, he would bite Voroshilov. Then it is by excessive suspicion. After all, Lenin had already said when he put aside the controversy that "Klimante is fully responsible", and this is the confession.

If he Trotsky doesn't spare you again, then Lenin will be "furious" and have every reason to slap him in the face, and the other bigwigs will not be able to say anything - who made you Trotsky not know how to advance and retreat too much, you deserve it!

But when he was asked to put aside the controversy and leave it alone, as Lenin intended, Trotsky felt a little at a loss. It was so easy to find the mistake of your Leninists, and it was exposed by a flirtatious word from your Lenin, so I, Trotsky, am too good at talking, right?

In any case, Lenin's hand was to hold Trotsky in mid-air, not to the world or to the ground. There is a bit of a dilemma. If it had been replaced by a violent temper like Stalin, I am afraid that there would have been a possibility of an outbreak. If you can't get it right, you just flip the table. But Trotsky was not a stick like Stalin, he would not be so impulsive. After much thought, Trotsky decided to put his mind to the rest of the story, and this time to forget about it.

Trotsky was silent, and Stalin naturally would not be bored with himself, if it weren't for the timely action of the mentor, he would have almost been blown up by Trotsky just now, and now that he has the opportunity to go down the steps, of course he will not continue to go up the pole to find abuse. As a result, the tension in the conference room was suddenly alleviated.

Lenin's skillful skill in the spring breeze and rain amazed a certain immortal, and if he had been the one to deal with the dispute, the result might have been bloody. But the mentor only moved his mouth to resolve a crisis, which is worth learning from.

In fact, Lenin was also a little apprehensive at this time, the basket that Voroshilov poked was too big and too sensitive, and at the moment of moving the capital, you gave up the gate of the capital to the rebels, and to put it mildly, this is enough to shoot the crime. If Trotsky really insisted on this argument, he would really have to make concessions, or big concessions, because the matter was too disgusting and had too bad an impact.

But this level of concession was unacceptable to Lenin for the time being, and if this step was conceded, almost half of the superiority of the Leninists in the Military Commission would be lost.

In desperation, Lenin had no choice but to play an empty plan, deliberately ambiguously dealing with Voroshilov's problem, in order to make Trotsky not understand where his bottom line was, so that he could make wrong judgments.

It has to be said that Lenin was right, Trotsky was always at the critical moment when he almost kicked the door, and he could not pierce the layer of window paper. And this time is no exception, it was obviously a good opportunity to make a comeback, but he was tempted by him.

But to miss it is to miss it, and even if Trotsky comes to his senses later, it will be too late. Moreover, Trotsky did not react, and it must be said that the crushing defeat on the Brest contract greatly affected his mentality, and his self-confidence was dealt a heavy blow. This led to him driving high and going low in 1918, and if it weren't for the assassination of Lenin in history, it would have been really difficult for Lao Tuo to turn over.

"Our most urgent task now is to find out the trend of the bandit army's activities and find out whether they are heading north or east......

When Lenin said this, Trotsky's thinking was immediately led astray, although he regretted that he could not take Voroshilov and teach Lenin a lesson, but after all, both sides are in the same boat, and the most important thing is indeed how to resolve the current passivity.

"Personally, I think the rebels tend to move north," Trotsky analyzed: "The defeat at Klimant was indeed terrible, but it was likely to give the White Bandits the impression that our Bolshevik Red Army was vulnerable. I'm afraid they'll be greatly encouraged, and they'll go straight north to try to finish us off quickly. that they may restore their wicked rule. ”

Lenin nodded. He agreed with Trotsky's judgment. It must be said that Voroshilov's fiasco was not completely without benefits. If you can make the enemy their tail proudly and make a wrong judgment, then it is still beneficial for the next step to destroy them.

However, this judgment was only his and Trotsky's thoughts, and it was not up to them to decide whether the enemy would go north or not, in case the enemy was very cautious.

In fact, it was Lenin, or Trotsky, or Stalin, Sverdlov, and Dzerzhinsky. They all hoped that the White Bandit Army would go north, and that they would come to attack Moscow.

Don't be surprised, it's not that the Politburo members are all brain-dead and can't tell the difference between good and bad. Their ideas are deeply grounded. As mentioned before, Voroshilov's previous task was to delay the White Army in Luhansk and buy time for Frunze's troops to move south for a decisive battle, so as to wipe out all the White Bandit Army in Ukraine and prevent them from fleeing eastward.

For the Bolshevik Politburo, the worst-case scenario was for the Whites to move eastward and open up the lines of communication in Siberia. As a result, a steady stream of assistance from the Entente group from the Far East was obtained.

Such a situation was undoubtedly the worst, for the Bolsheviks. No matter how fierce the white bandit army is in Ukraine, it is just rootless grass, and without outside assistance, they just can't grow a rabbit's tail. As long as they are firmly confined to the Jedi of Ukraine, in a state where the international environment has not fundamentally changed - to put it bluntly, before the defeat of the Allied bloc, the White Army has no play at all.

And the last thing the Bolshevik Politburo wanted was the current situation, the choice was not with them, and the White Bandit Army was free to choose where to go. In case he didn't go north directly, but chose to go east, then things would be a big deal. Once these goods escape from the Jedi of South Ukraine, in Siberia and the Far East, they will really be a bird in the sky and a fish in the sea, which means that the civil war will develop into a long-term and protracted tug-of-war.

So the Politburo preferred the White Bandit Army to move north, although their fanfare to the north might have made the Bolsheviks politically passive, and might even have some of the thieves in Moscow and the Petrograd periphery ready to move. However, as long as Frunze can defeat the white bandit army in the north, all this hustle and bustle will be ended immediately, and it is difficult to say that it can achieve the effect of a decisive battle.

"But we can't be too optimistic!" Trotsky said sadly, "Our enemy is not a fool, we cannot pin all our hopes on the enemy's obedient northward advance, we must prepare for their choice to advance eastward......

Trotsky's words were not finished, because there was only one so-called countermeasure - that is, to let Frunze's troops move south as soon as possible, and only when Frunze's troops hurried to plug the gap could they turn passive into active.

Everyone here understands this truth, even a certain immortal knows that if Frunze can quickly go south, not to mention recapture Luhansk, even if it can garrison Luhansk, it can deter the enemy and make them dare not act rashly.

But the question is, will Frunze be able to go south right away? Obviously, no. If he could go south, Frunze would have gone south a long time ago, and he wouldn't need Voroshilov's rice bucket to help buy time, and he wouldn't have had this bad thing.

"How long will it take Comrade Mikhail to be ready?" Lenin asked Trotsky with some distraught.

"Well," Trotsky didn't know how to answer this question, because whether Frunze could go south or not was not up to Frunze and him at all, it was entirely determined by objective factors, and no one could pull the strong men, but without food, he couldn't always take it from the mouths of the people, right?

Trotsky hesitated for a moment, then replied: "The main problem now is the lack of food, and the logistics department is already doing its best to collect food, but the objective reality determines that this work is very difficult to carry out, and for the time being it can only meet the operational needs of a small number of troops......

Lenin and other bigwigs stopped talking, how could they fight without food and grass and without a full stomach? There are more than 1,000 kilometers from Moscow to Luhansk, to say the least, and a slight slip-up will be all over.

After a long time, Lenin sighed and asked: "Then how long will it take for the logistics department to collect enough food?" ”

Trotsky smiled bitterly again: "Now is the time of the lack of greenery, and the time of the greatest pressure on the food supply, and the life of the masses in Petrograd and around Moscow is very stressful. The most optimistic estimate is that the food needed by Comrade Frunze will not be available until the end of April. ”

End of April? Lenin's face darkened suddenly. Even the daylily was cold at the end of April. After a month's work, maybe the rebels have fled to Siberia. Isn't that deadly!

Lenin asked with a calm face: "Can't you just go a little faster?" ”

Trotsky smiled bitterly and spread his hands, saying: "This is already the most optimistic estimate, but in reality it is almost impossible to achieve. Realistically, before the end of May, the Red Army was largely incapable of attacking. ”

Lenin felt more and more that the egg hurt, Voroshilov's fiasco was too inopportune, and if that thing could honestly entangle with the rebels around Luhansk for a month or two, where would there be so much trouble now. Is it really possible to watch the White Bandit Army wreak havoc?

Lenin looked in Stalin's direction with annoyance. If this bastard hadn't recommended Voroshilov, saying that the goods had a high reputation in Luhansk and would definitely be able to hold Luhansk, how could he have handed over such an important node to that straw bale!

Now Lenin had the idea of beating up Stalin, but when he saw a certain immortal sitting behind Stalin whispering to Sverdlov, the mentor's heart lit up, how could he forget this treasure, maybe this kid had some crooked idea?

"Comrade Andrei, Comrade Yakov, what opinion can be expressed to your face! It's not okay to bite your ears! Let's talk about it. What do you have to do to deal with the food problem? ”

Li Xiaofeng couldn't laugh or cry. It was true that he and Xiao Si bit their ears, but the main conversation was about Voroshilov, and the two of them were just making fun of the stupid big man. For the current predicament, there is nothing to be done.

The goods spread their hands very honestly and said: "The amount of food that Comrade Frunze needs is not a small number, and I can't think of any way to get so much food in a short period of time!" ”

Lenin did not like this answer, and he asked: "You can no longer think of a way from abroad?" ”

Li Xiaofeng bared his teeth, he is not an immortal who is omnipotent, his immortal power is limited, and it is impossible to get those grains at all. Besides, he still has nearly 20,000 mouths to be fed, and he can't stop the Red Eagle Regiment and the border police force from cooking, and go to Frunze! Besides, even if you can do that, it's not enough! There are more than 100,000 troops in Frunze, and it is not enough to sell him as an immortal!

"Haven't you always been a little smart?" Lenin frowned and taught: "Unleash all your ingenuity!" ”

Is Li Xiaofeng really completely helpless? It should be said that it is not, after all, Pavel had made a guarantee about the food issue before, and he could completely let the other party fulfill his promise in advance, and with the urgency of the tutor now, it is not impossible to blow the firewall plan to him in advance!

However, this idea was given up by Li Xiaofeng in an instant, the firewall plan was too widely implicated, and many of the details were not suitable for the current occasion. The attitude of Trotsky, the attitude of Stalin, and the attitude of Dzerzhinsky are difficult to say. Without complete certainty, Li Xiaofeng didn't want to take risks. So he just shook his head at Lenin's unreasonable demands.

It is true or false to say that Lenin was not disappointed, but this cannot be completely blamed on Li Xiaofeng, several Politburo members are not in a rut, and it is normal for someone to be unruly. He sighed and was about to let a certain immortal sit down, but at this time, Li Xiaofeng suddenly spoke.

Of course, what he wants to talk about is not about the food issue, and this matter cannot be talked about openly for the time being. He had something else to say: "Comrade Lenin, the Politburo's biggest concern now is that the White Bandit Army may advance eastward, right? ”

Lenin nodded angrily and said: "That's right, once the White Bandit Army develops to the empty Ural Mountains and Siberia, then it is very likely that they will receive assistance from the Entente bloc, and then the situation will be complicated." ”

Li Xiaofeng followed Lenin's train of thought and said: "In other words, if the White Bandit Army chooses to go north, it will be beneficial to us, right?" ”

Lenin glared at him with some impatience, who doesn't understand such an obvious truth, if the White Army goes north, they will still be annoying!

Li Xiaofeng hurriedly said: "I mean, although we can't completely expect the White Army to make a mistake and go north, we can completely lure them north!" ”

Lenin and the others were stunned, these bigwigs couldn't keep up with the thinking of a certain immortal, "You said to lure the white bandit army north?" How does it work? Trotsky interjected.

Li Xiaofeng cleared his throat and explained seriously: "Now the White Army has two choices, going north and going east, which direction they will choose, we don't know the way, and we can't decide. But we can completely mislead them, if we deliberately show weakness to the enemy, and create a situation in which the Red Army is vulnerable and the defense in the direction of Moscow is empty, then it will certainly be more attractive for the White Army to go north than to go east......"

Li Xiaofeng's words were tantamount to poking open a layer of window paper, yes, the Bolsheviks could not decide where the White Army was going, and it seemed to be very passive. But they can lure the White Army north! As a certain immortal said, if the White Army felt that going north was profitable and a shortcut to success, then it was entirely possible that they would go north as the Bolsheviks wished.

"Suspend the relocation of the capital!" Lenin immediately said, "Spread rumors that the Luhansk fiasco had made us disappointed in the nascent Red Army and worried about moving the capital to Moscow!" ”

Trotsky immediately chimed in: "It is also necessary to disseminate the news of the weakness of Moscow's defenses and the demoralization of the Red Army, and it is better to create a state of panic" (to be continued............

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