It is clear that the Entente bloc, which is full of shit, does not have the ability to solve the communist problem once and for all, and if they really throw all their forces into the black hole of Russia, then in the end there can only be two outcomes, either they will consume the Bolsheviks, or they will be consumed by the Bolsheviks.

Seems to be a possibility of success?

But for the Entente, a careful analysis of this possibility reveals that this is a gamble! Either you succeed or you fail, and the probability of winning or losing is 50%. For these old hooligans who have ruled the world for more than 200 years, how can they be willing to gamble with the barefoot Bolsheviks when they have already passed the age of bravery and ruthlessness, and their families are so big?

Let's put it this way, if they really dare to bet, it will definitely be kicked in the head by a donkey.

It was clear that the leaders of the Entente had not been in water or kicked by a donkey, and after some sober calculations, they were very dismayed to find that this gamble could not be bet on, and even if they could win in the end, it would be a miserable victory, and such a bad victory would not mean much to them.

Since gambling was not possible, the Entente could only take a step back, and could only tolerate the existence of the Bolsheviks for the time being, and temporarily imprison the communist devils in the bitter cold by means of blockade and isolation. Wait until they solve their internal problems, wait for the blockade to starve communism half to death, and then think of a solution to them.

Soon Hegel received the latest instructions, which did not explicitly tell him to abandon the liberation of the siege, but this is what was hidden in the Spring and Autumn brushwork. Because the Entente demanded that Hegel secure the line of defense and establish a strong blockade east of Poznan. It is imperative to keep the communist devil firmly at bay in eastern Poland.

Of course. At the same time, Hegel received another hint. It demanded that while he was holding the front, he must also show the muscles of the Entente to the Russians, and the old man was required to use the most decisive means to dispel the Russians' unrealistic delusions.

Yes, the Entente had foreseen, what if the Bolsheviks did not want to stop? What if they want to strike with a hot iron? In order to dispel such unrealistic ideas of the Bolsheviks, it was necessary to demonstrate the strength of the Entente armies!

However, it is not easy to achieve this, first of all, Hegel's forces are not enough, and the offensive is certainly impossible. But how can the Russians know that they are powerful without attacking? Speaking from the heart, this is a paradox.

Fortunately, the Russians helped the Entente to solve this paradox, because Trotsky really did not want to stop, even if the previous Central Committee had already clarified the policy and line for the later stage, but the old Tolotsky always wanted to try again, what if there was still a chance?

So Trotsky, in the name of the Military Commission, gave Frunze an order to defend Warsaw by resolute means, to dispel all unrealistic ideas of the enemy, and to launch an offensive in a local area if necessary!

When Frunze received this order, it was obvious how greasy it was. This is how Trotsky is testing Lenin's bottom line again, playing the sidelines. As soon as he let go of his side, Trotsky would definitely push him to attack in full force.

Frunze was embarrassed by the fact that he could not directly refuse Trotsky's orders, after all, he was the chairman of the Military Commission, the core of the nominal supreme leadership body of the army.

In desperation, Frunze could only send a telegram to Lenin, informing his mentor of his troubles and worries, and asking him to help him find Trotsky for an explanation.

So how did Lenin solve this problem? Lenin's instructions were simple: "Let the Belarusian Front strike back." ”

Frunze immediately understood and immediately assigned the task of the counteroffensive to Tukhachevsky, and told Tukhachevsky very clearly that this was an order issued by the Military Commissar, and it was Trotsky's meaning, so you should carry it out quickly!

Okay! This order disgusted Tukhachevsky half to death, and his Belarusian Front suffered heavy losses in the previous period, and the casualties were relatively heavy. It was easy to wait for the Baltic Front and the Ukrainian Front to come, and this narrowly turned the situation around.

Let's put it this way, the Belarusian Front narrowly escaped, but the losses were really not small, and at this time there was an urgent need to rest and replenish, and you let him continue to fight, and he took the initiative to attack the enemy, which really killed him.

If this order was given by Frunze alone, then Tukhachevsky would immediately go to Frunze's office and have a good fight with Frunze, and he would definitely argue that Frunze must give up this unrealistic order.

But it was disgusting that this order did not come from Frunze, but from Trotsky, and Tukhachevsky could argue with Frunze, but he really could not argue with Trotsky. As for Trotsky's orders, he could only carry them out if he didn't like them!

Of course, the execution was quite unpleasant and annoying, and to put it in my heart, the relationship between Tukhachevsky and Trotsky fell to a freezing point after the whole war in Poland, and the old Tokhachevsky was dissatisfied with the intention that Khachevsky had ruined the good situation, and Tukhachevsky was not satisfied with many of Trotsky's orders, believing that the old Tohsake was simply blindly commanding in violation of objective laws.

Let's put it this way, the honeymoon period between the two in the civil war is officially over, and the next is the seven-year itch, and when the problems of the two people are more and more obvious, the conflict is inevitable.

For example, this time Trotsky ordered a counterattack, Tukhachevsky pinched his nose and admitted it, he seriously organized the counterattack, and threw the last bit of the essence of the Belarusian Front into it.

So what is the result? Four words - loss of soldiers!

In front of Hegel, who was single-mindedly defensive, Tukhachevsky could not bargain for a little, and the counterattack of the Belarusian Front kicked the iron plate, and Tukhachevsky was so painful that he gasped for air. If it were not for the urgent help of the Baltic Front, it would be questionable whether the attacking forces of the Belorussian Front would have been able to retreat.

This counterattack fully exposed the problems of the Red Army, especially the Belarusian front, which still lacked heavy firepower. The offensive organization is still slightly rough and chaotic. Anyway, it's all faults up and down. Even Tukhachevsky himself believed: "This is an unnecessary battle!" ”

Is it unnecessary?

Anyway, after Trotsky heard Tukhachevsky's assessment of the counterattack. It was quite angry, and I almost didn't just flip the table. In Trotsky's view, Tukhachevsky was his man, and he could only speak to him anyway, even if this counterattack was really unnecessary, then you had to jump left and right to help wave the flag and shout, and you had to shout that you must resolutely carry out the counterattack to the end!

And what kind of attitude do you Tukhachevsky have now, even turning your elbow outward. Actually helped Lenin speak, are you going crazy?

Trotsky, who was angry at the time, was close to removing Tukhachevsky from his post and once again ordered Frunze to carry out a counterattack. This time, Frunze did not listen, and he signed a letter with Ubolevich and Tukhachevsky, demanding that Trotsky respect the opinion of the former committee and stop blindly directing.

At this time, Trotsky is quite faceless, and it must be seen that the weight of Frunze's joint letter is still very heavy, after all, they represent the attitude of the three fronts, and the three main fronts are all against the chairman of the Military Commission.

In the end, even Lenin was "alarmed" and very unceremoniously taught Trotsky a lesson. If he was asked to stop daring to command, Trotsky would end up in a shameless situation. Privately scolded Tukhachevsky for being ungrateful.

So was Tukhachevsky really ungrateful? Certainly not, he was willing to respect and carry out Trotsky's wishes, but only if Toll's opinion was not too wrong. And this time Trotsky's meaning was really unpopular, the three armies of the front line had been fighting for more than two years, and to be honest, they were really tired of the war, and they could still muster up their strength to fight back desperately when the imperialist army pressed the border.

And now, the enemy has abandoned the offensive and turned to the defensive, and the enemy has revealed his willingness to negotiate, and it is really difficult for a strong man to continue to ask the Red Army soldiers to continue the offensive at this time.

And it must also be noted that at this time the economic situation in the country was still a mess, and a large number of Red Army soldiers received letters from home that they learned about negative information, and it was inevitable that they would also have a stomach full of opinions. At this time, it is really perverse to ask them to continue to contribute to the world revolution!

And it was precisely because Tukhachevsky understood the thoughts of the fighters that he opposed Trotsky's opinion on the basis of the actual situation, which objectively was right about things and not about people. However, the matter of politics has never been as simple as being right about things and not about people, and if you want to be really right about things and not about people, you can only learn from Dzerzhinsky to be a saint.

It's a pity that Tukhachevsky didn't have the potential to be a saint, and he didn't have this kind of thought, so in the twenties and thirties when the party struggle intensified, he really became a rat in the cracks, and he lived quite uncomfortably!

Tukhachevsky's miserable life will be discussed later, and now, with the unanimous opposition of the former Committee against Trotsky, the conclusion is clear: a negotiated settlement. Of course, this kind of negotiation will also be a very long process, and it will be a constant bargain, and such a bargaining behavior is a kind of torture for Foch who is besieged in Warsaw.

At this time, Foch had become an old man in his old age, his hair and beard were completely white, his skin was covered with various age spots, and the whole person was like a zombie. Actually, it's not wrong to say that he is a zombie, because the old man is very sick now!

The situation in Warsaw is slightly better than outside the city, but it is only as good as it really is. The problem of eating and keeping warm that plagued Foch was not fundamentally solved, tens of thousands of people just drank porridge every day, and they couldn't see any dry goods at all, and even he, Shuai Yuan, could only drink sweet potato porridge with him, and it was really painful to be an egg that day!

As for the problem of keeping out of the cold, although there are houses in the city, there is no need to worry about the problem of sleeping in the open air, but the problem is that the winter in Poland is really cold, and the cold air from Russia brings snowfall after snowfall, even staying in the house can freeze people enough, in this case, heating is a must.

The problem is that Warsaw is being blocked, and even food can't be brought in, let alone coal or anything. After depleting the stockpiles of Warsaw's inhabitants and burning all the wooden furniture, Foch's army began to consider demolishing the houses. You can imagine how difficult it has been.

Anyway, after suffering for more than ten days, Foch fell completely ill. I can't say what the disease is. But it's just uncomfortable and can't lift a little energy. Actually, it's not a disease at all. It is just a normal human reaction when faced with a desperate situation.

Why did Foch despair? It stands to reason that a soldier like him, the former commander-in-chief of the army, must have a very strong will, and it is almost impossible to be driven into a desperate situation. On the contrary, Foch was desperate, not only because of the current difficult situation, but also because of the ruthlessness of the head of the Entente group.

Judging from the information obtained by Foch, the entire responsibility for this fiasco has been placed on him, that is, he is now in an encirclement. So that those politicians in the rear could not directly whip him, but even so, he was constantly criticized in the newspapers.

In just one month, the famous general who led the allies to victory became the culprit, who can stand such a change?

It is true that Foch did make mistakes in this battle, but objectively speaking, no matter who came to Foch, the mistakes he made were still unavoidable. And the old man's troops were always inferior in terms of strength, especially when the Baltic Front and the Ukrainian Front entered the battlefield, and the Red Army had an almost one-sided superiority in strength. Under these circumstances, it was not easy for the old man to continue to hold out in Warsaw.

However, whether it is military or political, they only talk about the result, and the winner is the prince and the loser is the thief. To lose is original sin, and in Stalin's words it is to be the victor who is not condemned. Unfortunately, Foch was not the winner. So he has to pay for it!

With Foch falling, the Entente forces in the encirclement were even more leaderless, and if they hadn't been forced to surrender from above, they would have been sent to court-martials for conviction after the war, otherwise these disheartened officers and soldiers would have run away in a swarm. Under the pressure of survival, these people expose the ugliest side of human nature.

It's nothing to fight for a loaf of bread, a piece of candy, or a cigarette, they are already desperate for these things, for example, the French soldier Naris, who lived through that tragic time, recalled: "The winter of 1919 was the hardest winter in my memory, in Warsaw I was faced with hunger and cold and moral tests, yesterday morning, the company commander took us into a house, and after turning the house upside down, we found nothing, but we were so hungry that our eyes were green, Hunger deprived us of the last of our senses, and we began to torture the man frantically, forcing him to tell him where the food was stored...... A dozen of us took turns to fight, and for half an hour, the poor fellow was beaten to death...... It's not that he didn't explain the location of the grain, but that we all suddenly went crazy, forgot our original purpose, and simply vented our anger at this poor worm......"

It's just that this kind of memory was nothing in Warsaw at that time, and Naris didn't have to be embarrassed at all, because his friends had done worse things than this, and it was said that there had been cannibalism.

And what made Naris feel the most guilty was not the killing of the man, but their next behavior, "When we found that the man had fallen in a pool of blood, everyone was stunned, and after a few minutes, when the hostess's terrible cry woke us up, we all felt incredulous about the previous violence, but soon we forgot about this shock, because we realized a very strict problem, what should we do next?" Robbery and murder are two very different crimes, the former will make us stay in the office at most, while the latter may kill us! ”

“…… I don't know who fired the first shot, but soon we started the operation in unison, killing all the family, including the three children, after doing this qiē, in order to cover up the crime, we started to do it to the neighbors of this family, and then we couldn't stop it, we killed a lot of people, and directly set fire to this neighborhood......"

Atrocities such as Naris's were numerous in Warsaw at the time, where ordinary people were killed every hour in the hungry and cold city, and large numbers of Polish footcloths were discarded and their possessions fled in a hurry.

According to preliminary statistics after the war, the population of Warsaw fell by nearly 75%, of which as many as 100,000 died directly in the war! Other famines, diseases, and bitter cold have claimed countless lives. So much so that Warsaw at that time turned into a ghost town!

The stalemate lasted until the end of December, when an overwhelmed Foch committed suicide by swallowing a gun, and the poor old man ended his life in a humiliating way, but although he was relieved, the people of Warsaw and the soldiers he brought in were still struggling on the line of death!

During this period, both Hegel and Frunze were restrained and calm, and both sides formed a strong defensive line around the small town of Prushków, and every day they sat and waited except for the necessary shelling and harassment.

What are you waiting for? Sit back and wait for the final outcome of the Warsaw negotiations. From December 1, the Bolsheviks and the Entente finally sat down at the negotiating table, and the two sides continued to bargain over the Polish question and the East Prussian question.

It should be said that the differences between the two sides are enormous, and there is hardly a day when there is no quarrel, and there are even three times when the two sides directly announce the breakdown of the negotiations, and then the battlefield begins to be lively again, and after a round of fighting, they feel that they cannot take advantage of it, and then they continue to talk, and this talk talks about 1920...... (To be continued......)

PS: Bow and thank you Comrade Juventus!