In fact, Tukhachevsky's tactics can be summed up in one word, that is, retreat! Retreating in great strides, to put it bluntly, he was ready to continue to abandon Poznan and retreat to Warsaw in one go.

There may be comrades who want to ask, what's the use of retreating like this? Tukhachevsky's meaning is still to lead the snake out of the hole, isn't the Entente intervention army a flat push? Then he will retreat, leaving room for these goods to sprint, and he will not believe that the other party can always keep the complete formation unchanged.

In fact, no one can maintain this formation all the time, there are no two identical leaves in the world, and no two people are exactly the same. There will be differences if it is a human being, and there will inevitably be differences in a group such as the military, which is made up entirely of human beings. Even if it is the same order, different people have different ways to carry it out. What's more, not everyone can remain calm in the face of war exploits, so Tukhachevsky has a loophole to exploit.

Even Tukhachevsky had already made it very clear to Trotsky that if the Entente intervention forces had rushed to Warsaw and there was no chaos, then abandon Warsaw and continue to retreat, and he would not believe that the Entente intervention forces would be able to work together in Brest or Minsk.

All in all, Tukhachevsky was ready to use space to disrupt the state of the Entente's interventionist armies in parallel in order to find fighters. From a military point of view, this approach is not at all problematic, and can even be said to be very clever.

But from a political point of view, this approach is not so reasonable. In fact, there were similar situations in World War II, for example, Zhukov once urged Stalin to abandon Kiev and retreat in strides to gather the army and then maintain the front. But Stalin could not afford to abandon Kiev's political influence without firing a single shot.

As the mother of all Russian cities, Kiev has a very unusual significance. No politician can give up lightly. Similarly. Like Stalin, Trotsky was a politician. And Kievan Rus is based on the importance of Russia. Equivalent to Warsaw based on the importance of the World Revolution.

Therefore, like military strategists like Tukhachevsky and Zhukov, if they say give up, they will give up, but it will not work, and they will be torn to pieces by the angry Central Committee members in a minute. Trotsky was well aware of this, and that is why he used the methods of advance and retreat in the previous chapter.

The mobilization of the troops of East Prussia was rejected by Lenin, and Trotsky was able to justifiably propose: "Then the Belorussian Front can only continue to retreat, use the depth of space to disrupt the order of the imperialist intervention army, and thus create warplanes." ”

Seeing that there is none, this is the means of the political zhì family. Compared with directly proposing the strategy of exchanging space for fighters. It is undoubtedly much better to throw stones first and ask for directions. Even Lenin could only agree with a wry smile, otherwise? Otherwise, Trotsky would have bitten his nerve and asked East Prussia to send troops to make a feint.

To be honest, this kind of method is very similar to the "official" in Go, and the reasonable collocation technique of Tong Guò cleverly takes advantage. And it is clear that Trotsky's official skills were so skillful that even Lenin could only acquiesce.

As a result, a strange scene appeared on the Polish battlefield, the Belorussian Front began to retreat without firing a shot, directly surrendering Poznan, which had been occupied with great difficulty, to the Entente, and they retreated very decisively and completely, and withdrew to Warsaw almost in one breath.

This is a challenge for the Entente bloc, and it is good that there is no enemy for hundreds of kilometers ahead, but it cannot be ignored and rushed forward. Otherwise, it will be a mess. When the time comes, the polar bears will be able to make them drink a good pot with a counterattack.

That's not all, it's more important. The Entente bloc is still insufficient, and if it continues to advance, the front will become longer and longer, and then the originally tight front will become full of holes.

Whether to move forward or to wait, that's the question!

As the commander-in-chief of the Entente bloc, Foch naturally didn't want to fall into this pit, originally the coalition forces were standing side by side on the hills, and he was still sure that a bowl of water would be leveled by a flat push. And once they rushed, it is quite difficult to say whether either the British or the Americans can fully obey his dispatch as commander-in-chief.

And as a soldier, he saw through Tukhachevsky's attempt at a glance, how did the Russians get Napoleon back then, they didn't take advantage of the vast strategic depth to retreat, and even Moscow gave up directly, how do you think that now the Russians are ready to repeat the old trick again.

Foch was not Napoleon, although both of them were French, but this does not mean that he was stronger than Napoleon, in fact, since Napoleon, the French army has not had any decent military strategists. One by one, they became more conservative than the British, resting on their laurels and self-righteousness.

Fortunately, Foch was still a little self-aware and maintained a considerable vigilance, anyway, for the Entente, having defeated the German-Austrian alliance, victory was already a certainty. It is perfectly possible to repair the Russians to establish a new order in Central Europe, and there is no need to be in such a hurry.

Without pressure, Foch naturally wouldn't do anything risky, so he didn't rush at all when he was honest. I can't wait to accumulate a little more strength and push it down "hard".

However, just because Foch is not in a hurry does not mean that no one else is in a hurry. Pilsudski was quite anxious, and he almost became the "king of the dead country", because he lost the capital, because of the loss of the country, he was attacked quite a lot, and the political pressure was not ordinarily great. So he hoped that the coalition forces would move as quickly as possible.

Inevitably, there was a lot of conflict between Pilsudski and Foch, and the two people looked at each other unpleasantly, complained to each other, and fought every day. And this state of disunity annoyed the leaders of the Entente bloc even greatly.

Of course, their internal controversies are not small at all, some are eager for a quick victory, and some are calm and demand to fight steadily. Anyway, it was no less than the commotion between Pilsudski and Foch. Fortunately, after arguing for several days, the politicians came to an agreement:

"Retake Warsaw as quickly as possible, while maintaining calm."

When Foch received this order, he was quite annoyed. In his opinion, this is Pilsudski, the bastard, who has poured ecstasy on his head and let that very dangerous set of quick victory rhetoric prevail!

I have to say that Foch thinks too highly of Pilsudski. That didn't have that much influence on the Entente. It really led the Entente group to make the decision to speed up the pace. Not Pilsudski. Rather, it is the increasingly restless proletariat within the countries.

With the victory of the Russian Revolution, the Bolsheviks proved to the proletariat of the whole world that the road to the armed seizure of power by the proletariat was possible! Inspired by Russia's victory, the proletariat of all countries, which aspired to a better life, began to draw closer to the example, and rally, marched, and went on strike one after another. Even the American workers, who had lived fairly well, began to take to the streets, not to mention the proletariat in England and France, who were living in "dire straits".

From 1918 onwards, the workers' movement was at an all-time high, and even the surrender of Germany and Austria could not change this trend. That is to say, within the imperialist bloc is indeed as Trotsky said. They were very unstable, and they had just won the world war, and before they had time to taste the joy of victory, they faced an even more violent internal turmoil. At this moment, the imperialist bloc was indeed unable to exert all its strength against the nascent Bolshevik Russia.

In this case, the goal of intervention in Russia within the imperialist bloc is certainly not very high, and it is of course best to get rid of the Bolsheviks, but if it is not possible (very likely), then it would be better to weaken the aggressiveness of the Bolsheviks and confine them in the bitter cold of the far north.

Guided by this ideology, the Entente did figure out a quick and decisive battle to solve the problem. They simply can't afford to maintain the attrition of the First World War. Naturally, the quicker the problem is resolved, the better. And the reason why he didn't put pressure on Foch before. The reason is that they haven't agreed yet.

Foch was under so much pressure that even if he was reluctant, he couldn't defy the consensus within the group, unless he didn't want to be the commander-in-chief. Under pressure from above, Foch had to adjust his deployment, abandon his previous first-line flat push tactics, and finally stretched out his fists, and as soon as he stretched out, there were three fists.

Among them, the French fist is in the center of the main attack, and this fist includes five divisions, that is, the strength of an integrated army. On the left and right flanks of the French, three divisions of the British Expeditionary Force and four divisions of the American Expeditionary Force were responsible for covering the auxiliary attack. In other words, this fist includes 12 divisions, 160,000 people, and 8,000 troops.

And that's not all, behind these three fists, Foch also has a second wave of striking forces ready, and if the upper forces can be cashed in on time, the second attack wave will consist of one division each from Canada, New Zealand and Australia, and two divisions each from France and the United States. Although the seven divisions were inferior to the first wave, in Foch's opinion, as long as the first wave of attacks was not too bad, it would inevitably consume a lot of the strength of the Belorussian Front. When the second wave catches up, what is needed is probably to beat the water dogs.

Of course, to Foch's regret, the second wave of troops was not fully in place, and most of them were still on their way from France through Germany, and optimistic estimates would take a week to ten days to reach Poland. And this is the main reason why he was so cautious before, after all, the Belarusian Front in front of him also has four armies and a huge strength of more than 200,000 people. In terms of strength alone, it surpassed him.

However, Foch did not think that he was inferior, and compared with the Bolshevik Red Army, which was full of guerrilla habits, the troops at his disposal were all elite soldiers who had been tested by the First World War and "sparred" by the Germans, and the combat effectiveness of the two sides was very different. It is problematic to swallow the Belarusian Front in one bite with his existing 12 divisions, but it is not much of a problem to defeat them.

"It's too big!"

This is Liervin's evaluation after hearing about Foch's deployment, indeed, Foch's existing troops do have an advantage in the face of the Belarusian Front, but there are more than the Belarusian Front on the Polish battlefield. In East Prussia, the Baltic Front and the East Prussian Liberation Army together also have 200,000 troops, and even if they cannot devote themselves to the battlefield with all their might, investing three to five divisions can greatly change the balance of victory and defeat.

However, M thought that Learvine was too unfounded, the second wave of troops was on the way to Poland, and the third and fourth waves were also being reassembled, and this was only the regular army of the Entente, and the servant army would be even more powerful if it was included. For example, the German government of Albert promised to commit at least five divisions of the intervention army, and this group of German troops had been assembled on the Polish-German border and would soon be ready for battle. By that time, the intervention forces of the Entente on the Polish battlefield would have exceeded 24 divisions. More than 300,000 regular troops against 400,000 Red Army and the East Prussian Liberation Army. Is it a big problem?

Even M thinks that if the miscellaneous armies of the client states are included, the balance of forces between the two sides will change profoundly, and that the total strength of the intervention army opposing the Bolsheviks will exceed 600,000, and that the total strength of the Bolshevik intervention army and the East Prussian People's Liberation Army will only be 500,000. No matter how you look at it, the Bolsheviks did not have the slightest advantage!

Is M's algorithm correct? It should be said that there is no major problem, historically, the Entente bloc did engage in an armed intervention in Russia with a total strength of more than 600,000 troops in the European direction, and helped Poland and Romania and a group of client states cut a lot of meat on the polar bear. But. It must also be noted that these 600,000 people did not destroy the Bolsheviks, or even dealt a fatal blow to the other side.

This hastily armed unit put on a few poses, frightened the Bolsheviks, and after reaping some benefits, they dispersed. To describe it as an idiom, it is thunder and rain, and I am very sorry for the onlookers.

Moreover, the present situation is still quite different from history, and before the end of 1919, the civil war in Russia ended, and the Bolsheviks no longer had to fight fires at both ends and could deal with imperialist intervention wholeheartedly.

Even the Hungarian revolution at this time, as well as the Czechoslovak revolution, did not fail. In the heart of Europe, small countries that are ready to follow the Entente in taking advantage of polar bears have to weigh the consequences. The main thing is that Poland has been completely crippled. You can't contribute two or three hundred thousand footcloths to act as a-stirring stick as in history. Moreover, the Russians also gained a powerful little friend - the Jews.

All in all, the Russians are much stronger than the leaky state in history, and they are fully capable of wrestling with the Entente, not to mention having an advantage, but they will not be beaten. On the contrary, the Entente bloc has to weigh more, and if one does not get it right, it will be disgraced and disgraced.

Just as Foch commanded the first wave of attacking teams to stride towards Warsaw, Tukhachevsky nervously stood in front of the telephone and maps looking for fighters. Another decisive battle was fought in Kyiv, and after receiving very limited support, Frunze's Ukrainian Front reversed the situation of passive beatings, and in August and September accumulated small victories into big victories, little by little eating away at Petliura's troops.

Especially after he received the support of Mironov and the Western Ukrainian Jokers, Petliula was so distracted that he could hardly cause much trouble to the Red Army. By 20 September, the remnants of Petliura's defeated army had been left to fer in Kiev. The only hope that sustained Petliura's continued fighting was the promise of the Entente bloc that if we continued to hold out, we would be able to wipe out the Belorussian Front and the Jews of East Prussia in a month at most, and that it would be a piece of cake to clean up Frunze!

For the Entente bloc, Frunze's 100,000 or so people were a side dish, but this side dish could not be put on the table at this time, because there were still two big dishes on the table, and Frunze could choke them to death before the troops of Tukhachevsky and Li Xiaofeng were eliminated.

The longer Petliura held out, the better it would be for them, and even if Makhno was too weird, they wanted to enlist this anarchist weird to help them hold back.

Speaking of Makhno, this benevolent brother and Mironov are really a happy couple, and they have fought side by side to get Denikin and Wrangel in history. And in this time and space, they are facing each other on the battlefield and fighting happily.

On September 20, when Frunze launched an attack on Kyiv, Mironov and Makhno also began a struggle near Vinnitsa. One of these two is a brilliant cavalry general, the other is an expert in guerrilla warfare and sports warfare, and when they collide together, it is like a battle between a lightweight boxing champion.

What's even more interesting is that these two fought very lively, but the damage to each other was really weak. Why? Who made these two experts in sports warfare, both of them are the kind of military strategists who are particularly good at grappling and getting rid of. If there is a slight mistake, he will immediately leave the battle.

As a result, although the battles were frequent, the scale was really small. Quite often, the two sides have just made contact and are separated again in the blink of an eye. How many casualties can there be in such a combat mode?

Of course, this model is actually even more unfavorable to Makhno, after all, Mironov only fought with Frunze, who was tortured by Makhno and Petliura. And now that Makhno is entangled by Mironov, naturally there is no way to harass Frunze. With Frunze's ability, it would be difficult to clean up Makhno and Petliura at the same time, but it would not be a problem to deal with either of them alone.

In other words, Mironov can completely seek merit but no fault, as long as he entangles Makhno, it is enough. And once Makhno can't get rid of the entanglement, when Petliula is finished, he will definitely be dead.

"I can't go on like this!" Makhno was keenly aware of the danger, he could no longer entangle with Mironov, "Since you can't get rid of Mironov, then destroy him!" (To be continued......)

PS: Bow and thank you to Chuan Liu Hua Gui, hzwangdd and Comrade Juventus!