Danzig.

As soon as Sukhoi jumped out of the cockpit, the ground crew shouted in his ear: "Sir, Commander Ubolevich orders you to go to the headquarters for a meeting immediately!" ”

Sukhoi nodded, he didn't particularly care, since the beginning of September, the atmosphere in East Prussia has become very solemn, whether it is in the city or in the countryside, there are crowds of people everywhere to build fortifications. Both Jews and native descendants of East Prussian Germany devoted themselves to the defense of their homeland. Let's put it this way, the whole of East Prussia turned into a big barracks!

In this atmosphere, Sukhoi would be called to the headquarters for a meeting, and as a man who controlled the air power of the East Prussian and Baltic Fronts, his flying corps was very important for the ensuing battle.

However, Sukhoi did not like meetings at all, and he considered them a tedious waste of time. He is a bit of a spontaneous person, and he only does everything with passion, and he doesn't pay attention to the work plan.

Therefore, Sukhoi plans to go back and take a shower first, soak for at least half an hour, and then have a pot of afternoon tea to make up for some snacks, and wait for the end of the meeting to listen directly to the conclusion.

It's a pity that a sentence from the ground crew dispelled his dream: "Sir, Commander Ubolevich said that the meeting is very important, it is personally chaired by General Adviser Andrei, and no one is allowed to be late!" ”

Sukhoi was stunned, he could delay the meeting presided over by Ubolevich, but he did not have the courage to drag the meeting presided over by a certain immortal himself. I can't say that I can drop my flight equipment, and I get on the motorcycle and walk away at a gallop.

Sukhoi was the last to walk into the conference room, and Ubolevich didn't have a good face for this very wayward air tractor. He didn't like this aristocratic rot that permeated his body. And extremely unorganized and undisciplined guys. If it's possible. He really wanted to kick this scourge out of his own troops.

It's a pity. Ubolevich can't do this, first of all, that mustache has a good relationship with Li Xiaofeng, and he must give someone's face; Secondly, although this pretentious guy is very annoying, his ability is not good, and he trained an elite air unit in a very short time, and he made a distinguished contribution in the previous Battle of Warsaw. So for such a contradictory guy, Ubolevich could only pinch his nose and endure it.

Li Xiaofeng naturally knew what kind of temper Sukhoi was. He is also quite speechless for this guy sometimes, he likes to drag the text and likes the so-called aristocratic demeanor, the whole thing is a, such a guy is definitely not likeable. However, he also had to admit that this cargo has a few brushes, at least the Air Force can't do without him.

"Everyone is here, now for the meeting!" Li Xiaofeng knocked on the table, in fact, he signaled a certain mustache to sit down quickly, the big guy has been waiting for you for a long time!

But what made a certain immortal speechless was that the goods sat down. But it still can't stop: "Is there Darjeeling black tea?" The black tea served by the headquarters is too unpalatable! ”

There was no way, a certain immortal could only order Wufeng Jevic to get Darjeeling black tea for this product. If he doesn't meet the requirements of this product, he will babble like a broken mouth for a long time, which will directly affect the effect of the meeting.

"In accordance with the decision of the two governments, the first task of our Baltic Front and the East Prussian People's Liberation Army is to garrison East Prussia and ensure that this region, as well as the three Baltic states, are not harassed by the imperialist invading army. That is, our mission is focused on defense! ”

There was a buzz in the conference room, and for the army commanders and division commanders below, the decision of the Central Committee was a bit sudden, and it was also a little incomprehensible to them. Before, they thought that in the next stage of the battle, they still had to take the offensive, and they should go straight to Warsaw or Szczecin, preferably all the way to the German mainland, taking advantage of the fact that the Allies had no time to react, and gaining greater strategic depth in one fell swoop, of course, it would be more ideal if they could hit France in one fell swoop.

But now, the result is completely different from what they expected, Warsaw is out of play, occupied by the Belarusian Front, and it can't even fight Szczecin, but has to defend, isn't it too passive?

Most of the officers felt a little aggrieved, it was clear that they were the ones who opened up the situation in Poland, but they did not have their share in the great merit of capturing Warsaw, and even in the future, they could only watch Tukhachevsky's Belorussian Front flourish, how could they endure this?

Li Xiaofeng knew very well the thoughts of this officer, and said unceremoniously that these people had been carried away by the previous series of victories, and they all thought that the Allied army was as vulnerable as the Poles, and they only wanted to attack and take credit.

This kind of thinking is quite dangerous! The arrogant army will be defeated, and Li Xiaofeng doesn't want his previous efforts to be in vain. So he said very strongly: "To be exact, the two governments listened to my opinion before making this decision." ”

When these words came out, these officers suddenly changed their faces, some showed thoughtful expressions, but more were angry, they felt that they were underestimated by Li Xiaofeng and thought that they were underestimated!

However, Li Xiaofeng ignored them and said to himself: "So in the next battle, our task is to cooperate with the Belarusian Front to fight, and the main task is to defend, I hope you will firmly remember this!" Now let's start laying out your defenses! ”

These words made the officers more and more angry, if it weren't for the high status of a certain immortal, they would all have the intention of scolding the street. Therefore, after the meeting, when they left the conference room with their respective arming tasks, the officers all held their breath in their hearts and secretly resolved to fight for a breath.

"Comrade Sukhoi, you stayed for a while!"

Sukhoi finished drinking the black tea and squinted for a while, and when he was dazed and about to leave, he was left behind by Li Xiaofeng. To be honest, he was a little depressed before, why let him come to such a boring meeting? His air force is a natural offensive player, and the defense of the gods has a dime to do with him? He felt that a certain immortal was bureaucratic and redundant.

However, when he sat back in his seat, he soon found that Li Xiaofeng and Ubolevich's expressions were wrong, and they were completely free of their previous casualness and relaxation. In its place was a heavy solemnity.

"Comrade Kirikaze Jevich. You also go outside and wait. No one is allowed to approach the room without my permission! ”

Sukhoi was a little relieved, just now when he saw someone's stern appearance, he thought that he or his young men were in trouble again, was it reported and exposed with a beautiful MM to heaven without permission, or was the fight and brawl reported? Now it seems that someone is not coming to trouble him, but really has a serious matter.

"Comrade Sukhoi, please pay attention. From now on everything you hear and see is a top secret of the Soviets and the Bolsheviks, and you must not reveal it to anyone, otherwise it will be considered treason, and the State Political Security Bureau will have the power to execute you immediately! ”

Sukhoi swallowed and spit, and the mustache on his lips trembled slightly. Now he was fully aware of the power of the Bolshevik secret services, and to put it mildly, the Tsar's secret police was nothing more than a pediatric thing compared to the Cheka and the State Political Protection Bureau.

However, Sukhoi is also very curious, what kind of secret can make someone so strict?

"Your naval aviation has been entrusted with a glorious and difficult mission!" Li Xiaofeng said as he handed a brown paper briefcase to Sukhoi.

The mustache opened it and looked at it. Inside is a stack of photographs, and then there is a military map of 1:500.

"This is the Port of Kiel?" The mustache exclaimed.

Li Xiaofeng nodded and said, "That's right." This is the port of Kiel. The map already shows the location of the port of Kiel in detail, and if you don't think the map is intuitive, those photos are the results of aerial reconnaissance three days ago......"

Sukhoi raised his head and looked at Li Xiaofeng in amazement, and asked, "You mean ......?"

Before he could finish speaking, he was interrupted by Li Xiaofeng: "That's right, your naval aviation will attack the port of Kiel and be responsible for destroying the Allied fleet that has just arrived at the port of Kiel!" ”

Sukhoi swallowed and spit, to be honest, he was also very strange before, saying that he had asked his air force to support the East Prussian People's Liberation Army, saying that he had come to fight Poland to wipe the footcloth, but after arriving in Danzig, he and his boys practiced the most not bomb dropping or dive strafing, but arranged a large number of sea subjects, including familiarizing themselves with sea routes, including torpedo attacks on stationary ships.

At the time, he was still wondering if it was going to attack the port or something, but then the two months of fighting had nothing to do with it, and he forgot about it. And now Li Xiaofeng has figured out the facts, he is going to attack Kiel, and he wants to sink the Allied fleet in the port.

"When will the operation begin?" Sukhoi asked, a little excited.

"You have up to ten days to prepare!" Li Xiaofeng replied to him very calmly, "Soon, we will engage the armies of the Entente." According to the available information, the Entente is likely to follow the example of our attack on Riga and give us a left hook at sea! ”

As he spoke, he pulled out a few photos and said sternly: "Pay attention to these troop carriers, this is one of your key targets!" Destroy them as much as you can! ”

Sukhoi was somewhat disappointed, he had little interest in troop carriers, and he preferred to sink capital ships with cannons and thick armor. Those can really prove the power of the Air Force! ”

"As I said, troop carriers are one of the key targets. There were more than a dozen battleships and battle cruisers moored in and around the port of Kiel, and the number was still increasing significantly, so if you can get rid of them all at once, it doesn't matter if you can fight a few fewer troop carriers. ”

Sukhoi was so happy that he was even a little geared up, he couldn't wait to make a big move. So when he left the headquarters, he was so excited that he almost had a car accident. And when he returned to the airport, he immediately caught the pilot on the plane and began a new round of intensive training.

In fact, there was another person who was just as excited as Sukhoi, and that was Vice Admiral Basilev, a veteran who had always been full of initiative, and had already offered more than once to let the High Seas Fleet attack and kill at the gate of the port of Kiel to compete with the Allied intervention fleet.

However, Li Xiaofeng is not as crazy as Basilev, the fort in the port of Kiel is not a joke, and there is a powerful fleet in the port, so the odds of winning such a hard battle are really not good. A certain immortal doesn't want to risk the fleet that he has so hard to snatch.

So his plan was to have Sukhoi carry out air strikes first, which was not only a rehearsal of the air combat mode of World War II, but also a probe of the bottom of the port of Kiel. If Sukhoi's air force is really powerful, it can inflict heavy damage on the fleet in the harbor. That's naturally the best. At that time, there was no risk in letting Basilev go to the door to fight the reservoir dogs. It's just a military training.

If, of course, the air strikes on Sukhoi do not work well. Then he will not let Basilev take risks, and then follow the routine of Eberhardt and Kolchak, continue to play mine-laying tactics in the Baltic Sea, and slowly grind with the Entente.

It should be said that Li Xiaofeng's plan is still very reasonable, but what he didn't expect was that his ideas actually coincided with the Entente, or specifically with the British. At the end of World War I, the Royal Navy's Grand Fleet had the German High Seas Fleet firmly locked in the harbor. But the Royal Navy was unable to completely wipe out the High Seas Fleet. In the end, it is actually a stalemate, to see who can't stand it first.

And for this kind of egg-hurting confrontation situation, the British are actually quite annoyed, they really hope that the victory or defeat will be decided in a battle, and it is best to destroy the high seas fleet in one breath. In order to achieve this, the British used their brains to figure out how to do it. In the end, their eyes were firmly fixed on the Air Force, believing that only the Air Force could achieve this goal.

Therefore, at the end of the war, the British built or renovated aircraft carriers at full capacity, and developed the world's first torpedo machine, which was to prepare to sink the high seas fleet in the harbor in one go. Of course. History played a joke on the British, whose rather creative ideas were "snuffed" by the Germans who surrendered "early".

So in those years, the big move that the British had prepared for a long time was abolished before it was released. But this was back then. And in this time and space, the Germans surrendered much later, so by September 1919, the British's ultimates were basically mastered, and there was no shortage of opponents at all. Even compared to the heavily defended German High Seas Fleet, Danzigs, Königsberg and Kronstadt were much more vulnerable.

Therefore, the British naturally also had the idea of using air strikes to solve the opponent's fleet, but their intelligence acquisition channels were not as strong as those of a certain immortal, and they could not take such detailed aerial photos.

But the British also had a big advantage, their aviation industry was much more developed than the Russians, their air power was much stronger, and they were able to put more aircraft into this task!

Of course, this kind of large-scale air raid is not something that can be played just by wanting, and before that, whether it is a certain immortal or the Entente, it will take a lot of time to prepare. So the decisive battle between the two sides did not start from the sky, and the battle, according to the military tradition of the time, was first fought on the ground!

On September 11, after the capture of Warsaw, Tukhachevsky did not stop to rest, but advanced non-stop in the direction of Poznan. After defeating three or four overwhelmed Polish troops, Tukhachewski became more and more proud.

Perhaps in the eyes of the genius commander, the capture of Poznan was only a matter of time, and it only depended on how fast his cavalry could run. As for the resistance of the Poles, he didn't pay attention to it at all, and a bunch of native chickens and dogs had nothing to worry about. Even the Entente intervention forces did not care too much, and he wrote in his diary:

"The progress of the troops is very smooth, the Polish army is fleeing, and everything is going in a good direction, and in five days it will be possible to occupy Poznan, and it is optimistic that we will be able to advance to the outskirts of Berlin at the beginning of October...... I can't wait to give the Entente troops a little color, and I'm going to stab their lines with a quick intersperse, and then tear them to shreds! ”

Tukhachevsky's morale was high, but he was too optimistic. The Entente's response was not as slow as he thought, and they moved quite quickly!

On the one hand, they quickly advanced into the German hinterland, and on the other hand, they also demanded that the German troops be stationed in place. The former World People's Volunteers, who had set out from Szczecin, moved even faster, and with the full cooperation of the Albert government, they arrived in Poznan before the Belarusian Front, helping Pilsudski to secure his precarious position, and helping him to pull out the strong man again. With the assistance of the Entente, Pilsudski's army again began to rebuild.

Five days later, when Tukhachevsky's forward force arrived in Poznan "as promised", he did not know that Poznan was not an empty city in front of him. The Entente armies were already in good gear and gave Tukhachevsky a dismount in the initial encounter.

At that time, Tukhachevsky's troops were first subjected to artillery fire when they charged with cavalry and machine-gun wagons according to the pattern of warfare in the country, and when they stumbled to the front of the Allied positions, they had already lost most of their men and horses, while the rest were blocked by barbed wire, trenches and mine arrays.

Of course, this loss is nothing to the Belarusian Front, after all, it was only a tentative attack, and not many troops were invested. So Tukhachevsky didn't take it to heart when he received this war report, he just felt that the reaction speed of the Entente was still very fast, which was worthy of admiration, and as for the defeat in the battle, it was just an accident!

Tukhachevsky, who did not go to his heart, still acted according to the original plan, and ordered the follow-up troops to speed up and rush to Poznan, preferably while the enemy was not firmly on the ground. He also dreamed of rushing under the city of Berlin and dreaming of celebrating his great victory at the Brandenburg Gate.

Tukhachevsky, who was full of confidence, did not think that Berlin should not expect anything more, and whether it could take Poznan or not was a big question! (To be continued......)

PS: Bow and thank you to Ma Shen Bobo, Shen Shanshan, gd4255 and Comrade Juventus!