Trotsky was also snorting at this time, and the situation today is too strange, and it is completely unforgiving for someone to come menacing, and it is not normal to look at it. And now that the momentum on the other side's side has come up, even if he is the chairman of the Military Commission, he can't stop others from joining forces, not to mention that Stalin is still playing silence is gold on the side, if he takes out the tough statement of the chairman of the Military Commission, what if they directly join forces to overturn him?

Trotsky really could not afford to lose this man, and of course he did not want to admit defeat, so he could only adjourn the meeting for the time being.

What Trotsky meant was to take advantage of the temporary adjournment to see which wind was blowing, to see if there was any compromise agreement within the Leninists, and to be ready to find out the details of the opponent before thinking about what to do.

If it was usual, Lao Tuo did it right, but this time, it was an out-and-out mistake. Because there really was no gentleman's agreement between Li Xiaofeng and Stalin. The reason for the fierce opposition to Tukhachevsky's plan was nothing more than that the Red Napoleon's methods touched the bottom line of both of them, and they were driven by common interests to unanimously oppose Tukhachevsky.

That is to say, the agreement between the two parties is not intentional, but only accidental. If the meeting continues, the conflict of interests between Li Xiaofeng and Stalin will be exposed, and the two sides will naturally still be clearly distinguished. But as soon as Trotsky called it a halt, things went bad.

The differences between Li Xiaofeng and Stalin were not openly exposed for the time being, but the agreement was evident, which prompted them to sit down and talk after the meeting, and this talk could really be agreed.

“…… It is an absolute mistake to focus on the development of mechanized airborne forces, in the current technical conditions. This is a complete waste of the precious resources of the Red Army! This is Li Xiaofeng's argument.

Stalin, on the other hand, said: "This is also not in the traditions of the Red Army." In recent years, because of the one-sided emphasis on mechanization. I have said that the normal construction of many branches of the Red Army has been greatly disturbed, and I very much hope that this erroneous practice will be corrected! ”

How to correct it?

Li Xiaofeng put forward his opinion: "The multi-turret tank scheme cannot be mass-produced without the national real test of the state, let alone the new multi-turret tank scheme. The BT-2 fast tank should abandon the dual-use scheme and should keep only the tracks, and the firepower and armor of the BT-2 must be improved. ”

Stalin did not fully agree with this, but it was acceptable: "The multi-turret scheme really should be more cautious." As for the abandonment of the dual-use design, will this wait for the experience of the BT-2 tank to equip the troops? ”

Li Xiaofeng thought about it and agreed. Because he is well aware that the dual-use scheme does not respond well in the troops, and most of the time, the wheels of the BT-2 are not used, and it is also very troublesome to use. It can be said that the design of wheels and shoes is only beautiful on paper, but in practice it is impossible to have both fish and bear's paws. The most correct thing to do is to throw it in the garbage.

But to abandon the dual-use plan of rotation and tracking, it is not enough for Li Xiaofeng to shout and beat alone, after all, the Red Army is quite optimistic about this and is looking forward to it, who will listen to your objections at this time, only when the disadvantages of the dual-use of wheels and shoes are exposed. can shout and kill naturally.

"Yes, but the BT-2 tank does not need to rush into mass production. You can try and improve while producing! ”

Stalin thought about it, this is no problem at all, anyway, his descendants are all cavalry system, although for traditional cavalry generals it seems to be a good fast tank for both wheels and tracks, but that is not a son after all. Moreover, this practice of testing while producing is also in line with the Central Military Commission's policy of setting up weapons testing centers, and is acceptable.

However, it is not unconditional for steel to accept: "In this case, I think that the resources for multi-turret tanks and fast tanks should be tilted towards cavalry, and the cavalry construction has been greatly neglected in recent years, and the boys are very dissatisfied!" ”

Li Xiaofeng understood that this was an exchange of interests, and Stalin's staunchest supporters in the Red Army were the cavalry, or the First Cavalry System headed by the First Cavalry Army. The traditional cavalry, on the other hand, has had a very unsatisfactory life in recent years under the suppression of Trotsky's and Tukhachevsky's mechanized army building ideas. If you don't make a comeback, steel won't be able to explain to the younger brothers.

Internally, Li Xiaofeng was more in favor of mechanization, but at this time he had to cooperate with Stalin and had to give up some of his resources to the declining cavalry.

"I agree in principle with the strengthening of cavalry construction." Li Xiaofeng gritted his teeth and replied, but his support also had a premise: "The cavalry units should be equipped with more cars and armored vehicles, as well as more powerful fire support." ”

Stalin also understood that someone's support is support, but the direction of support is also limited. To put it bluntly, such support is more like motorizing the cavalry units. Fundamentally someone, this still does not support cavalry construction.

However, Stalin gladly accepted this support for selling dog meat on the head of a sheep, because Iron himself did not necessarily appreciate the traditional cavalry. The reason why he wants to say good things about the traditional cavalry is nothing more than that his little brother and Gen'er are there. As long as a certain immortal makes a gesture of supporting the construction of the cavalry and can give a certain policy inclination, he will be satisfied and can explain.

So Steel took a puff of his cigarette and replied, "I agree, the cavalry units do need more cars in order to save the horses and their precious bodies, and the great firepower will help our cavalry to crush the enemy's resistance more quickly......"

Regarding cavalry and tanks, the differences between Li Xiaofeng and Stalin are relatively small, and as for the construction of the air force, as long as he does not rush to engage in paratroopers, does not go beyond the times and is prepared to mechanize paratroopers and suppress the development of long-range aviation, they can still accept the rest. Of course, if Tukhachevsky had had had been a little more respectful of the cavalry, Stalin would have been happier.

Let's put it this way, in fact, in the army, Li Xiaofeng and now Stalin can still tolerate Tukhachevsky, but in the navy, Li Xiaofeng and Stalin really can't get used to Tukhachevsky.

As a Continental Armyist, Tukhachevsky simply saw the air and navy as vassals. The Navy and Air Force are not valued at all. In the small picture, the navy is a gold-swallowing beast. The Air Force is the flying artillery of the Army. He believes that the construction of these two branches of the armed forces should be carried out closely around the army, and that anything that does not be of much help to the army will be resolutely resisted.

At that time, the construction cost of a destroyer was almost as high as a division of the Red Army, and this way of swallowing gold was really a bit unaffordable for the financially strapped Soviet Union. At one time, Tukhachevs made significant cuts to the naval budget. Decommissioning of some capital ships and saving funds.

According to Tukhachevsky's opinion, the four dreadnoughts of the Black Sea Fleet should be decommissioned, and the four battle cruisers of the Baltic Fleet should not be refitted.

Anyway, once the navy wanted to fight with Tukhachevsky, if it were not for the navy's staunch supporter Li Xiaofeng in the Military Commission, and the army's mechanization construction could not be separated from Li Xiaofeng's support, then the navy would be very hard.

In fact, throughout the twenties, the large warships of the Red Navy were basically squatting at home, and there were quite few seas. At one point, I couldn't even maintain normal training.

It was hard to enter the thirties, especially with the outbreak of the world economic crisis. With the Soviet blockade lifted and finances more abundant, the Red Navy felt that it could no longer be forced to work so hard, and it was natural that the resumption of normal training and the construction of new ships should be put on the agenda.

As for the Navy's request, Tukhachevsky's response was - fast air diving! He believes that there is no need for the Red Navy to engage in large-scale construction, but should be based on coastal defense, and it is very suitable for coastal defense to quickly dive into the air! Of course, the main thing is to save money!

This can also be seen from his previous plan to focus on the development of underwater forces, but this is far from Li Xiaofeng's requirements for the navy, and even Stalin's expectations for the navy. Li Xiaofeng hopes that the Red Navy will be able to go to the ocean to compete for sea supremacy in the future, and only rely on submarines to compete for sea supremacy? Were there fewer submarines in the Red Navy at its peak? It's still not a sea rat, and it can only be played hide and seek at sea with the US imperialists, what's the use?

Naturally, Li Xiaofeng is asking for the establishment of a large navy, not to mention that the construction will start immediately, but it can't just go around the submarine, right?

As for Stalin, he also supported the construction of a large navy, but his starting point was different from that of Li Xiaofeng, because in essence Stalin was a man of great joy, and he hoped that a large navy that could reflect the status of the Soviet Union would go out and earn face. He hoped to build cruisers and battleships, so that the great powers could see his majesty.

Therefore, within the scope of permission, Stalin was also willing to give support to the navy, and if he could draw the navy to his side to fight the Trotskyists together, he would be even more satisfied.

Obviously, there is a difference between Li Xiaofeng and Stalin's support for the navy, to be specific, they represent two factions in the navy, Li Xiaofeng is naturally the aircraft carrier faction, Stalin represents the big ship and artillery faction, and as for the submarine faction or the coastal defense faction, it belongs to the Trotskyist faction.

In the past, the three parties were inextricably taught, and on the whole, the Trotskyists had a slight upper hand, naturally due to economic tensions. Now that the economy has improved, Li Xiaofeng and Stalin are naturally unwilling to continue to endure it, and naturally they have to resist the Trotskyist coastal defense policy.

However, the boycott is a boycott, but the differences between Li Xiaofeng and Stalin are still quite obvious, one is ready to use the aircraft carrier as the core and the other around the battleship as the core, in essence, the two sides cannot pee together.

For example, in 1930, Stalin built a new generation of battleships and cruisers for the Navy, while Li Xiaofeng demanded the launch of new aircraft carriers.

This time, the contradiction between the two sides is still very acute, Li Xiaofeng resolutely opposes the launch of battleships, believing that the current Soviet Union's technology and financial resources are not enough to build new battleships, especially Stalin's side set the technical indicators of battleships to be not ordinarily high, it is simply catching up with the United States and Britain, and the displacement is to break through 60,000 tons and go straight to 70,000 tons, which can simply scare people to death.

"The navy doesn't have big ships, and there are no capital ships to sit in, what are you talking about?" Stalin, however, disagreed, and said eloquently: "The battleships of the imperialist countries are at a standstill, and this is a great opportunity for us to catch up!" ”

The corners of Li Xiaofeng's mouth twitched, and he was very speechless about Stalin's words. The question is where do you get the money for this kind of trickery? With the little money that the Navy can share in the cost of building ships. Build one or two super BBs, then I'm afraid other warships won't build one in the next four or five years, can you rely on one or two super BB packages to win the world?

"Funding is limited, and if all military spending is invested in battleship projects, what about other auxiliary warships? Especially destroyers, our coastline is particularly long, and we need a large number of destroyers to patrol and guard, and the destroyers of the Red Navy are really old. It can no longer meet the needs and needs to be replaced urgently! ”

Li Xiaofeng paused for a moment and said solemnly: "In this case, we should not be too ambitious, we should base ourselves on actual needs, and do our best to update the destroyers of the Red Navy!" ”

Stalin raised his eyebrows, and said from the bottom of his heart that he was not very interested in such small things as destroyers, and he preferred those that could embody the spirit of the navy. However, Stalin was not entirely unreasonable. Just as Li Xiaofeng said, the navy's military spending is only a little. It's all for the battleship, so do the others still want to live?

Seeing that Stalin hesitated, Li Xiaofeng hurriedly struck with hot iron: "And judging from the current industrial base and actual conditions of our country, it is not realistic to launch the battleship project immediately." We should further introduce technology and improve the industrial base, and when the conditions are ripe and the funds are more abundant, it will be more reasonable to launch the battleship project again! ”

In fact, Li Xiaofeng was just fooling, he didn't even think about getting on any more battleships, what did he do with that unjust money? Built and returned to the furnace as scrap steel after World War II? Isn't that brain-dead!

Money has to be spent on the blade, anyway, Li Xiaofeng is a fierce fool, citing the subjective and objective reasons, there is only one argument -- it is not appropriate to launch the battleship project now.

So did Stalin eat his flicker? You then look down, and Steel listens to someone's reasons and doesn't say anything, just smokes a cigarette. After a full five minutes, the man said slowly: "These reasons are indeed very realistic, then, Comrade Andriy, when the conditions are more ripe in the future, are you willing to support the battleship project?" ”

Li Xiaofeng didn't hesitate at all, patted his chest and said: "There is no problem with this, as long as the conditions are ripe, I am willing to give greater priority to the capital ships." ”

Li Xiaofeng is playing a clever trick, please note that he is saying that he will give greater priority to the capital ships, not the battleships. There's a difference! According to the statement of the year, the capital ship only included battleships and battle cruisers, and in addition, his ships were all for the capital ships.

It seems that a certain immortal is promising to give priority to battleships in the future, but who said that the concept of capital ships is a given, as long as the time comes, a certain immortal can completely modify this concept. For example, he can issue a Soviet version of the capital ship manual, which clearly stipulates that the capital ship is an aircraft carrier, and you bite him when the time comes?

Anyway, as long as the big guy understands one thing, a certain immortal is a fool, or a fool regardless of the cost, and its purpose is only one, to temporarily appease Stalin and let the steel follow his rhythm.

So did Li Xiaofeng succeed? Unfortunately, he did not fully succeed, and it was not for nothing that Stalin was able to become a victor in history, if he was really a fool who could bluff so many clever ghosts among the Bolsheviks? Don't underestimate the political wisdom of the old revolutionaries within the Bolsheviks at that time, not everyone can fool them!

Obviously, Stalin was not easy to fool, so after listening to the words of a certain immortal, he buried his head in smoking for a while, and then suddenly said: "It is immature to immediately mount a battleship, but the Red Navy is also in urgent need of a cruiser, can it be launched on the cruiser project?" I think the 26th cruiser is a good plan......"

Li Xiaofeng was a little frustrated, the reason was very simple, he knew that Stalin was not fooled, from the beginning Steel was not ready to launch the battleship project, what Steel really wanted was this Type 26 cruiser. The battleship project was nothing more than a bargaining chip for steel.

And now Li Xiaofeng really can't directly refuse the Type 26 cruiser, because there is no reason, on the contrary, the reason for steel is very abundant, and the construction of the Type 26 cruiser can be used as a practice, just to accumulate experience in building battleships in the future. If Li Xiaofeng is against even cruisers, then it is really a lie to support the construction of battleships in the future.

After thinking about it, Li Xiaofeng knew that he had to compromise, otherwise there would be no way to talk about it next. But he also has conditions. I only heard him say: "I have no objection to the development of a new type of cruiser, but I am not optimistic about the Type 26 cruiser, compared with the imperialist heavy cruiser, whether it is speed, armor, or artillery Type 26, there is a big gap, and the construction of the Type 26 cruiser will not bring us closer to the gap with imperialism!" ”

Stalin was stunned and asked, "Then what do you mean?" ”

Li Xiaofeng waved his hand and said: "In my opinion, the new cruiser of the Red Navy should be aimed at the imperialist treaty-type cruiser, and I should develop a new type cruiser of about 10,000 tons!" ”

Stalin was surprised and very happy, he had thought that someone would not be able to speak well, but who knew that someone was very happy this time, and a little bit of a happy meaning. In the blink of an eye, it is about to catch up with the world's advanced level, and the displacement of the new cruiser has been greatly relaxed, from 7,000 tons of Type 26 to 10,000 tons, which is too bold and happy, right?

Why is Li Xiaofeng so happy? That's not without reason, his pleasure is actually a bargaining tool...... (To be continued......)