Ubolevich really didn't expect that with his qualifications, he would be able to enter the four general departments at the core of the Military Commission, and he originally thought that his highest level was to become the commander of a large military region in a local area. And this time, under the active activities of a certain immortal and the appreciation of his mentor, he can be regarded as a step to the sky.

Of course, this step to the sky does not mean that Ubolevich got the post of chief of the General Staff, this is impossible, in order to maintain the balance within the party, as well as the interests of various hills within the army, the chief of the General Staff Ubolevich is absolutely unacceptable.

The first Chief of the General Staff of the Red Army both normally and unexpectedly fell on Tukhachevsky, why was it both normal and unexpected? Normally, that's because, for the sake of balance, the most important chief of the General Staff definitely belongs to the Trotskyists, and it cannot belong to the Leninists; The surprise was that Tukhachevsky's relationship with Trotsky had been strained in recent months, and the old To, who was angry with Tu, had every reason to choose a new military agent. However, in the end, Lao Tuo still gave the position to Tukhachevsky, which was really surprising, and even Tukhachevsky himself did not expect this result.

Tukhachevsky is actually nothing to be the chief of the General Staff, and he is qualified to be the chief of the General Staff at his level, and in history he spared no effort to promote the regularization and mechanization of the Red Army, and Li Xiaofeng is quite satisfied with letting him follow the path of history.

The chief of the General Staff returned to Tukhachevsky, and according to Li Xiaofeng's previous ideas, he was ready to help Ubolevich seek the position of deputy chief of the General Staff, after all, although Tukhachevsky made a lot of contributions to promoting the regularization and mechanization of the Red Army in history, he also took many detours. There can be a deputy chief of general staff who is closer to Li Xiaofeng to help fill in the gaps. It also saves Xiaotu from dying by himself.

But it's more surprising. The position of deputy chief of the General Staff was not obtained by a certain immortal, and Lenin very strangely recommended Yegorov. Yegorov is actually an old acquaintance of Li Xiaofeng, and it is said that he had earlier contact with a certain immortal, and his relationship is not bad. However, in the civil war, Lao Ye helped Stalin and Budyonny carry a black cauldron, which led to some suppression later.

However, after switching with Tukhachevsky, Lao Ye also did a good job on the Eastern Front, and together with Blyukhel, he swept the Far East. He made a lot of feats in attacking the city, but in the second Battle of Warsaw later, Lao Ye only mixed a role in playing soy sauce, and basically didn't show his face much.

It stands to reason that in the position of deputy chief of the General Staff, Yegorov's voice is not as high as Blyukhel and Budyonny. In particular, Blyukher, who made a whirlwind assault in the Far East, swept away the remnants of the White Army like a clear wind and swept away the leaves, and the great hero of the recovery of the Far East attracted more attention than Yegorov.

However, what is surprising is this. Lenin chose instead of Blyukher, who was more prominent, but chose Yegorov, who was relatively less starry. Why is that?

The reasons are profound and involve many facets. Let's talk slowly. First of all, Yegorov's resume is better than that of Blyukher, who was born in a professional class, received a formal system of military school education, and at the time of the victory of the October Revolution, this was already the head of the colonel.

In the eyes of the grassroots Bolsheviks at the time, this was a "high-level" officer. Moreover, judging from the functions of the General Staff and the future building of the Red Army, people from professional backgrounds are more suitable.

And that's only the first point, and secondly, Yegorov's network of contacts is much stronger than that of Blyukher, who, as I said before, is a former left-wing of the Social Revolutionaries, a democrat in the words of the Celestial Empire.

Although the Bolsheviks were the only one, they could not consider themselves to be the best in the world. For the once influential Social Revolutionary, we still have to give some face, so as not to make foreigners crooked and say that they are dictatorial and dictatorial, right?

Not only the old ties of the Social Revolutionaries, but also the new relations of Yegorov were very strong, and he had close ties with the core figures of the Leninists, such as a certain immortal, who had previously worked very happily in Finland. Another example is Stalin, Iron and Steel cooperated happily with Lao Ye in the Southwest Front, and even in the end, Lao Ye helped Iron and Steel carry the black cauldron, and Iron and Steel still owed him favors.

In other words, with Yegorov as chief of the General Staff, neither Li Xiaofeng nor Xiao Si behind Li Xiaofeng nor Stalin would oppose it. It can be said that there was no second person within the Leninists, except for Yegorov, who could satisfy both Xiao Si and Stalin.

It can be seen that no matter where you are, interpersonal relationships are quite important. Under the same conditions, it is definitely the one who has the best interpersonal relationship who wins. Like this time, is Blyukhr worse than Yegorov?

Putting aside the vain stuff like Wenpin, Blyukhel is actually no worse than Yegorov in all aspects, but it is the difference in interpersonal relationships, and Blyukhel can only regret being out.

Of course, Yegorov is not invincible, as a key figure in the history of the Red Army's large-scale in-depth combat research and the implementation of the idea of mechanized army building, this weight is really heavier than Blyukher. It would have been more perfect for him to work with Tukhachevsky as a like-minded person.

However, this also made Blyukhel and Li Xiaofeng miserable, and their hopes were disappointed. Fortunately, the east is not bright and the west is bright, and there is no longer the position of deputy chief of the General Staff, but Ubolevich has become the boss of the General Armament Department. From the point of view of army building, the General Armament Department is no worse than the General Staff Headquarters, after all, this department is the department that mainly focuses on the construction of military equipment, and the fact that this department falls into the hands of Ubolevich means that a certain immortal has gained a great say in the construction of the equipment of the Red Army!

Of course, Ubolevich's success means the defeat of Blyukhel, originally everyone thought that after Blyukhel lost to Yegorov, it would not be a problem to win the assembly, but who would have thought that Ubolevich counterattacked again and squeezed Blyukhel away.

Poor Blyukhel lost to Budyonny in the back, so that the old cavalryman gained the position of chief of the general logistics, and in the end, Blyukhel, who had been the military director, had to regret to be relegated to the General Political Department.

Speaking of which, clear-sighted comrades may see that the Military Commission of the Red Army in this book is quite different from history. The configuration of the four headquarters is more similar to that of the Celestial Empire in later generations. Especially the General Political Department. To know after the victory in the Civil War. The Red Army once abolished the political commissar system, but this time it was retained, and it was also confirmed as the same level as the General Staff.

Hehe, in fact, the bigger changes are still to come, under the General Staff, there are three operational departments in charge of the army, navy and air force (this point is of deep significance, and it will be explained later). These three chiefs of operations are directly responsible to the chief of the general staff and the deputy chief of the general staff, and in a sense, these three are actually the commanders-in-chief of the three major services.

In addition to these three most important departments, the General Staff Department also has more than a dozen departments, including the General Office, the Intelligence Department, the Communications Department, the Military Training Department, the Communications Department, the Military Affairs Department, and the Mobilization Department. To put it mildly, the chief of the General Staff is actually the commander-in-chief of the three services.

Of course, this means that, after all, there are two senior officials of the Central Military Commission above the General Staff Headquarters, and there are three other commanders in charge of equipment, logistics, and political work at the same level. When the war really broke out, the final decision was still made by the Politburo and the Military Commission.

But even so, Tukhachevsky was quite happy to be the chief of the General Staff, and he felt that he had the opportunity to show his strength. And for Trotsky for giving him this opportunity, Xiaotu is really grateful. And because of this, the tension between Xiaotu and Lao Tuo has also improved.

However, it must also be said that this improvement was relative, and as the regularization of the Red Army progressed, a series of problems would be exposed, and then the contradictions between Tukhachevsky and Trotsky might erupt again!

These are the afterwords, I won't show them for the time being, let's get back to the topic, I just talked about Ubolevich's harvest for a long time, and what did Li Xiaofeng's other little friend Triandafilov gain?

As I said before, Trian Dafilov also mixed into the four general departments, specifically the General Staff, but his position in the General Staff is not so prominent, after all, his qualifications and military exploits are there, and it is unlikely that he will become the boss in charge.

In the Army Operations Department under the General Staff, Trian Dafilov occupied a position, and he liked to study mechanized warfare, and he became the head of the new branch of armored troops. To tell the truth, the armored corps of the Red Army looked so pitiful compared to the huge total number of the Red Army, with only a few tanks and armored vehicles, and these tanks and armored vehicles were scattered among the infantry units and existed only as a support force for the infantry. Its status is a notch lower than that of artillery.

In order to correctly use the armored forces, and also to allow the armored forces to obtain independent arms qualifications, Li Xiaofeng has spent a considerable price, he has written letters and reports to Lenin and the Politburo more than once, repeatedly emphasizing the importance of the armored forces.

The greatest resistance during this period came from Stalin, Steel and his two extremely important military allies, Budyonny and Voroshilov, who strongly resented the presence of armored forces. As grand cavalryists, Budyonny and Voroshilov believed that cavalry was the foundation of the Red Army, that it was the cavalry that helped the Red Army win the civil war, and that tanks and armored vehicles were flashy waste.

In order to safeguard the interests of the cavalry, Budyonny and Voroshilov, as well as the descendants of the First Cavalry Army, made every effort to suppress the significance of the existence of the armored forces, believing that the Red Army had the cavalry, a mobile and fast assault force, there was no need to repeat the construction of similar armored troops, and that this was a waste of the precious resources of the Red Army.

For a while, the protests of the cavalry were boiling, and if it weren't for the strength of the armored troops, it would have really exploded. In order to counter the protests of the cavalry, Li Xiaofeng united with Tukhachevsky, and through real examples on the Polish battlefield, the Politburo and the Military Commission saw the superiority of armored troops over cavalry.

When the Grand Elders saw that the cavalry was bleeding head-to-head in front of the enemy's strong lines, while the tanks could lead the infantry to break through the line of barbed wire, dense trenches and reinforced concrete fortifications with relative ease, they chose to give the armor a chance.

However, there is another theory in this, that is, the great elders believe that the strength of the cavalry department in the Red Army is too strong, and there is already a tendency to have a big tail, in order to balance the power of the military branches. It was inevitable to suppress the cavalry. So how to suppress the cavalry? Then find a military class similar to cavalry to fight against Taiwan!

Arguably. The armored corps began on the day it was formed. It attracted countless hatreds, and throughout the twenties, the armored corps had to face harassment and suppression by cavalry, and it can be said that Triandafilov's life was quite difficult.

Let's see what opponents he has, the first cavalry supervisor of the Red Army was Voroshilov, and he was succeeded by Timoshenko, which is the descendant of the First Cavalry Army, and they will definitely not give any good face to the armored soldiers who rob business!

Anyway, Trian Dafilov lived quite a fulfilling life throughout the twenties. That is true that life is more than just fighting. Of course, fortunately, Triandafyelov is not fighting alone, although his opponent is strong, but his friends around him are not bad, whether it is Tukhachevsky, Ubolevich or Egorov, they are firmly behind him.

Even more than the other two, Triandafilov was quite lucky. The first one was Sukhoi, the mustache we are all too familiar with. In this round of cake-sharing, he also found a position in the General Staff, and as the chief of aviation supervision under the Naval Operations Department, Sukhoi encountered no less trouble than Triandafilov.

Yes. As long as the interests of the arms are involved, it will break the head wherever it goes. As a representative of the naval aviation school. He can't pee with the traditional old navy. In the eyes of the traditional old navy, the lifeblood of the navy is the big ships and huge guns, not the winged planes and the weakly defended flat-topped ships. In order to tilt their limited military spending more towards large ships and artillery, they will inevitably suppress the HNA .

Even if Li Xiaofeng personally went out to work for the head of the Naval Operations Department, it was his old friend Eberhardt, and there was not much room for tactfulness. The stubborn old man thought that a certain immortal was a deviant, a layman guiding an insider, and almost tore his face on both sides.

In the face of this painful situation, Li Xiaofeng can only use killer tools, and if he can't convince the old man, he will go to Ubolevich's work, and the county officials are not as good as the current management, although the General Staff is awesome, but if the general equipment does not cooperate, don't think about using it in military spending, especially what kind of equipment to produce.

Anyway, under the help of Ubolevich to open the back door, the big ships and huge guns don't want to go to the slipway, let alone battleships, the cruisers are built less (no way, I really don't have money), before Eberhardt asked to continue to build at least two Izmail-class battlecruisers, but his report was kicked back after a turn in the military commission.

Not only did he kick back, but he didn't have a single Izmail-class battlecruiser that he wanted, and the four battlecruisers that had been launched and were waiting to be outfitted were all rebuilt, two Izmail-class battlecruisers were converted into aircraft carriers, and the other two were turned into fast support ships (supply ships).

At that time, the old man almost vomited blood in anger, but what could he do about vomiting blood, who let the Red Army have no money? Historically, none of these four Izmails were saved, and they were directly returned to the furnace to make steel.

Moreover, a certain immortal had already reported to the Politburo on the issue of naval construction before, and at that time, the Politburo was dismissive of a certain immortal's suggestion, and thought that the pattern of a certain immortal was too small. And now, the evaluation is completely different, even if you don't fully agree with a certain immortal's plan, it is 90% agreed. It can even be said that on the issue of the Navy, the Politburo prefers to listen to the opinion of a certain immortal.

However, on the whole, the Red Navy in the 20s was aggrieved, and almost no new ships were built, and more of it was about patching up the old ships and practicing their hands, and the overall idea of army building was just two words -- make do with it, make do with the new three years and the old three years and make up for another three years, let's get alive!

As for the Air Force, although there is no big internal dispute between the arms, life is not easy. What they are facing is not an internal struggle, but an external struggle, and in the eyes of the Army, giving the Air Force independent branch qualifications, it is really annoying to let these winged flies sit on an equal footing with themselves. As the undisputed big brother of the Red Army, the Army has always wanted to turn the Air Force into a little brother who will help him. In Tukhachevsky's words, the Air Force is nothing more than winged artillery.

Even Tukhachevsky had this attitude, one can imagine how difficult life was for the Air Force, and if it weren't for the fact that a certain immortal had been helping the Air Force to say good things in the Politburo, the Red Army Air Force in the twenties would have turned into a gas bag.

In fact, it is not only the air force that is subject to the army's anger, but also the navy's anger, and if it were not for the conspicuous performance of the navy in the three-year civil war and the subsequent war against the intervention of the Allies, perhaps Tukhachevsky would have used the navy as land infantry.

Fortunately, Li Xiaofeng had expected this before, and he had a full understanding of Tukhachevsky's virtue, and he foreshadowed it in advance. Remember the three operational departments under the General Staff? Why should it be distributed according to the army, navy and air force?

That is to prevent the army from claiming to be the big brother and prevent them from interfering excessively in the construction of the navy and air force. If we follow the historical pattern, the General Staff of the Red Army is really the army's word, and the other two are quite miserable.

Now, starting from the system, the status of the navy and the air force has indeed been raised, and at least theoretically, the three armed forces are at the same level, which has avoided a lot of troubles for the later army building.

On the whole, the building of the Red Army army in the twenties was a tortuous advance, and there were many problems, but the general trend was good. And this decade was the decade of the Red Army's recovery, and it was not until the thirties that the Red Army entered a period of rapid development, and our new volume of stories will begin from this period...... (To be continued......)

PS: Bow and thank you for the second kill Comrade Potato and Comrade hzwangdd!