The person who Li Xiaofeng called the brain in the water was Derbinko, the People's Commissar of the Navy has not had a good time recently, his wife Korentai was fooled by his mentor to go abroad as an ambassador, and he himself was forced to leave Kronstadt and Petrograd because of the time of the Black Sea Fleet, and went to Tsaritsyn with more than 10,000 sailors to help in the war.

The bad weather in Tsaritsyn gave him a headache, and the fighting environment on land was completely different from that on the sea. You can only move forward on your legs, digging trenches endlessly, and eating is really worse than that of pigs. Derbinko hated Tsaritsyn's fucking environment, and even more so for the tutors, Sverdlov and Li Xiaofeng who had tossed him here.

"I've had enough!" Dembinko slammed the glass on the table and complained to Voroshilov: "What the hell is this fighting, it's moldy every day, it's fucking breathless!" ”

The Marine Division of the Baltic Fleet, as well as the Red Tenth Army, which had suffered relatively large losses in the previous period, were regarded by Ubolevich as a general reserve, and their main task was to garrison Tsaritsyn and important transportation hubs along the route, and they were indeed too idle to mold.

Voroshilov was also quite dissatisfied with this: "Isn't it, after more than half a month, the Red Fifth Army and the Red Twelfth Army played hide and seek with the White Army, what a hell of a battle!" I said a long time ago that the little white-faced Jews are unreliable, but the central government just doesn't listen! I'm! ”

For more than half a month, the fighting in the Volga basin has indeed been carried out a little "not sluggish", except at the beginning. Ubolevich made the Red Fifth Army and the Red Twelfth Army move quickly. Straight to Tsaritsyn and Akhtubinsk. Outside of consolidating the defenses of these two cities before the Whites, he was never seen to take any large-scale military action.

The main forces of the three armies were hoarded in the transport hubs along the railway, and then they cowered. There was no intention of attacking in the direction of Volgodonsk and annihilating the White Army in one fell swoop.

Voroshilov was full of complaints about this military arrangement, and he remembered very well that the combat mission assigned by the central authorities to the Don-Volga Army was to solve Denikin at the end of May or early June. But at the moment Ubolevich is not in a hurry at all. He doesn't seek war at all, he looks like he is dead after three days of fishing and two days of drying nets, Nima, isn't this an open confrontation with the instructions of the central government!

At that time, Voroshilov thought that this was a good opportunity, and immediately made a small report to Ubolevich about the trickery, in an attempt to get this young man down, and he took over the throne of commander of the army group smoothly.

But what he didn't expect was that the central government scolded him in a callback, and the commander of the Southwest Front, Frunze, warned him directly. If you overstep the level to react to the situation, you will be relieved of his position!

This made Voroshilov angry. At that time, the table was slapped, and if it wasn't for Zhdanov's help and persuasion, this thing might have done something out of the ordinary. Anyway, since then, he has hated Ubolevich and Frunze more and more, and he has cursed them in circles behind his back.

So why did Ubolevich uncharacteristically stand still? In fact, the reason is very simple, if he could, Ubolevich also wanted to solve Denikin and the remnants of the Czech Legion as soon as possible. The problem was that the Red Fifth Army and the Red Twelfth Army, which were the main forces participating in the battle, made a rapid march from Moscow to the Don and Volga valleys.

After running for nearly 2,000 kilometers, and fighting a fierce pursuit battle, the huge consumption made the Red Fifth Army and the Red Twelfth Army already the end of the crossbow. At this time, if you forcibly launch an attack, you are simply looking for a beating! The trapped Czech Legion and the Denikin bandits, who were still fighting for the rest of the country, could have caused the Red Fifth Army and the Red Twelfth Army to suffer a big loss, and all the fruits of the victory in the previous stage of the battle had to be taken.

So, having seized the blockade of the Caucasus, an important transport hub, Ubolevich immediately stopped the military operation, allowing the troops to hurry to catch their breath. According to his idea, rest for two to three weeks, recharge his energy and then deal with the remnants of Denikin and the Czech Legion in one fell swoop.

Ubolevich's approach is undoubtedly pragmatic, the Central Committee can understand it, and Frunze agrees with it very much. It's just that Voroshilov, who has ulterior motives, doesn't like it, he just wants to pick a bone in the egg, he just wants to have nothing to do.

Of course, there is also a land war layman Derbinko, this brother is originally angry, he hates the rainy Tsaritsyn, and hates the withered Tsaritsyn. He wanted to end the damn battle so he could return to bustling Petrograd. Therefore, he was eager to start the battle quickly, and in the end, he would call it a day at once, so that he could return to Petrograd with his sailor brothers to drink a little wine and live a small life.

In this situation, he naturally found a common language with Voroshilov, and the two depressed guys were like-minded, and every day they drank and chatted and scolded Ubolevich.

But something happened on this day, and although Ubolevich let the troops rest, rest and recuperate is not the same as letting the troops herd sheep. From Rostov to Shakht to Morozovsk, along the way he was quite satisfied with the combat readiness of the troops, but after arriving in Tsaritsyn, what did he see?

In broad daylight, the posts and duty offices were either deserted, or the hangover sailors slept with their rifles in their pestles, and the streets were littered with sober sailors and Cossack cavalry. When he arrived at the Tsaritsyn City Defense Headquarters unimpeded, there were only three or two three-legged cats in a huge building, and the others, from the division commander to the chief of staff to the political commissar, did not know what to do.

After asking, I found out that the division seat Debinko and the military seat Voroshilov did not come to work at all, and the people in the headquarters had not seen these two grandsons for a day or two. As a soldier who has quite strict requirements for discipline and style, when Ubolevich saw this scene, he was afraid that the green tendons on his head were beating.

"Pull the alarm!"

Ubolevich thought that this was the only way to sober up the sailors and Cossacks, and if the battle alarm did not bring them to their senses, then only the bullets and bayonets of the enemy could sober them up.

The shrill sirens echoed over Tsaritsyn, and at the call of the sirens, the division and military seats, blushing and thick-necked, and covered with the smell of alcohol, returned to the headquarters crookedly.

"Who...... Who made you ...... Pull...... Pull the alarm! "Voroshilov's tongue is big.

Debinko is no better. With a knotted tongue, he shivered and drank, "Say...... Otherwise...... Or shoot you bunnies! ”

See this kind of scene. Ubolevich's three corpses are all light. If he had a stick or whip in his hand, he would pull it in the face without mercy.

"My order!" He shouted with a gloomy face.

Dembinko and Voroshilov squinted and looked at Ubolevich for a long time, as if they did not recognize this as their immediate boss. In particular, Dembinko, pointing at Ubolevich, grunted: "Put ...... Handful...... Handful...... Drag him down and shoot him! ”

Seeing this scene, the people in his headquarters only frowned, you are a division commander who wants to shoot the commander of the group army? I'm really confused! Naturally, no one would dare to carry out such an unjustified command. Someone even immediately reminded: "Division commander, this is Comrade Ubolevich!" ”

"Ubolevich? What wine? Dembinko thought about it for a long time, but he didn't remember who Ubolevich was, and all that was left in his mind was now: "The vodka is good, the whiskey is quite strong, just some rum!" ”

It can be said that after drinking this Cheng dù, Dembinko had nothing but alcohol in his mind, and he didn't recognize Ubolevich at all!

Suddenly. This thing came out of a daze: "Don't Ubolevich, go up...... Get on vodka! It's better to have vodka! ”

Look at the ugliness of this thing. Ubolevich couldn't take it anymore and picked up the teacup on the table and spilled it. This cup is not cold water, it is real boiling water, so hot, Debinko finally sobered up a little, and immediately screamed!

The creature shouted angrily, "Who! Which bastard poured boiling water in my face! ”

In fact, he had already remembered who Ubolevich was, and he knew that today he had hit the muzzle. This one spirit, he thought of a countermeasure.

The goods immediately slammed down: "Comrade Ubolevich? Even Comrade Ubolevich can't splash me with boiling water! What kind of behavior is this! ”

Voroshilov on the other side was actually not as drunk as Dembinko, and when he saw Ubolevich, he knew that something was wrong, but he couldn't think of any good way to deal with it for a while, just pretend to be drunk and crazy.

Now Debinko quickly found an excuse to fight back, and the goods immediately took advantage of the situation: "That's it! What an act is to pour boiling water on the faces of revolutionary comrades! This is the hostile act of Chiguoguo! You are the hero of the persecution of the October Revolution, and it would be considered that you are preparing for a counteroffensive! ”

It should be said that this is really unreasonable, it is true that Ubolevich is an old officer, but this person joined the party after the February Revolution, is not an outsider, and according to later standards, it can be properly regarded as an "old revolutionary". Even if it is on the platform, it is only an internal contradiction among the people, how can it rise to the height of the contradiction between the enemy and ourselves?

With Voroshilov's shouts and cheers, Dembinko naturally became more courageous, he had been angry with Ubolevich before, but now that he was humiliated in front of him, and he was drunk and courageous, he immediately trembled.

"This is Chi Guoguo's counter-revolutionary act, persecuting revolutionary comrades and insulting revolutionary fathers, is there any reason for this! Illonim? Petrovich, if you don't say that you are ugly today, don't apologize to your face! It's not over! ”

"Not over?" Seeing the ugliness of these two goods, Ubolevich was even more angry, he slammed the table and shouted: "This thing is really not over!" As a division commander and army commander, when the big war is imminent, I don't want to reorganize the army, but indulge in alcohol and can't extricate myself! What kind of revolutionary soldiers are you! Sue you, this is really not over! Come on, grab these two idiots, put them in a confinement room, and sober up! ”

Voroshilov and Debinko naturally didn't do it, how could they be restrained, and according to their ideas, this is their land, where is Ubolevich's turn to show off his might. Immediately, he also shouted: "Come on, arrest this traitor Ubolevich!" ”

It should be said that the two are not wrong in their thinking, Tsaritsyn is indeed their land, and here they have home advantage. The problem is that these two idiots have forgotten a little, and with their indulgence and leading the way, their headquarters are in shambles.

The sentinels and guards are hungover! I don't even hear their orders. The people brought by Ubolevich were different, they were all strong and strong, and they were tied up tightly in one look. Sent directly into the small black room.

Of course. Ubolevich also knew. According to the rules, he has no right to dispose of these two goods, at most he will report to his superiors how incompetent these two goods are, and apply for their removal from their posts and investigation. He was angry just now, so he made a tough move and cleaned them up.

But it has already been done, and Ubolevich does not regret it. A long telegram of complaint was immediately drawn up and sent to Frunze, asking him to make decisions for him.

When Frunze received this telegram, he was also very painful, he used to think that the Southwestern Front, that is, Voroshilov, was uneasy, but now it seems that the Central Committee has sent him all the wonders. Especially the goods Debinko, although he is only a division commander, the problem is that this goods also has a string of scary titles, what kind of People's Commissar of the Navy. What a member of the Supreme Military Council.

Let's put it this way, in the entire South-Western Front. The status of this goods in the party was even higher than that of the commander of the front army as him, and only the political commissar Stalin could overpower this goods.

What Frunze is most afraid of is this situation, it is really a headache to go down, Ubolevich doesn't cause trouble, he provokes two great gods as soon as he makes a move, and Voroshilov is a good match? Stalin behind this goods is very difficult to mess with!

But it has already happened, and the plot is quite bad, according to Ubolevich, the combat effectiveness of the Marine Division of the Baltic Fleet and the Red Tenth Army has been zeroed out by alcohol. It is difficult for the whole army to find two sober and understandable people, thanks to Denikin and the Czech army did not attack them, otherwise it would have been crushed at the first touch!

As a real soldier, Frunze can also understand Ubolevich's anger, and when he sees this situation, he will also rush up and punch and kick those two goods, which is so infuriating!

"Can't just listen to Ijeronim? Petrovich's one-sided words! Stalin suddenly came up with this sentence.

Frunze was quite jealous of Stalin, and sometimes he really felt that his mentor looked up to him too much, and sent some of his masters to cooperate with him. Sometimes he wondered if the mentor would be any more helpful.

"I have already sent Comrade Blyukhel to find out the situation." Frunze also replied very calmly.

He knew from the beginning that Stalin was absolutely going to intercede for Voroshilov, and that it would be quite difficult to do if he didn't get hold of that stupid big man. So immediately after the incident, he sent Blyukhel to understand the situation, and he still trusted Blyukhel's character and integrity.

Stalin was somewhat upset, believing that Frunze should at least consult his commissar before sending Blyukhel to find out the situation. But Frunze didn't discuss it with him at all, and sent someone directly, which is a bit of a nobody! In any case, this matter should be managed by him, the political commissar.

So he added coldly: "It's very inappropriate to send Comrade Blyukhel only!" If such a serious incident occurs, at least a special team must be organized to investigate and understand the situation...... No matter how you say it, the conclusions reached by a person are biased and not objective enough! ”

Frunze knew too well what Stalin's true intentions were, and he took the lead in preventing this man from opening his eyes for Voroshilov under the guise of a task force.

He replied lightly: "Special affairs, especially when the big war is approaching, there is not so much time and manpower to prepare for the task force, and then wait for them to slowly come to a conclusion." Comrade Blyukhel has been tested for a long time and is infinitely loyal to the party, and I am sure that he will handle this matter impartially! ”

Stalin became more and more upset, and Frunze especially accentuated the word impartiality, which seemed to imply something. He could only think that Frunze was really slapping him in the face, and suddenly snorted: "Comrade Mikhail, your attitude towards the mud is too improper!" Such a big matter must be handled by a special task force, and I suspect that there are counter-revolutionaries operating in it! ”

Frunze took a deep breath, if he could, he really didn't want to confront Stalin head-on, but now this guy is going to be a dagger, if he can't stick to his principles, what kind of party member is he, and how will he lead the Southwestern Front to fight in the future?

"I have already reported this matter to the Military Commission, and even if a special task force is to be dispatched, the Military Commission is responsible. Of course, if you insist on sending a special task force, you can take the lead in forming it by the Political Department of the Southwest Front! ”

As soon as these words came out, Stalin's face immediately changed, he didn't expect Frunze to come to this hand, it seemed that this thing kicked the ball away, and it seemed that no one would be offended. But everyone knows that the current chairman of the Military Commission is none other than Trotsky, who admires Ubolevich. It is self-evident who the task force sent by the goods will lean towards. When the two task forces come to the exact opposite conclusion, then it will be quite exciting!

Stalin also knew that the matter would immediately be stabbed to Lenin, and with the temper of the teacher, perhaps the board would be slapped to Voroshilov's ass.

Stalin couldn't sit still, he felt that he had to rush to Tsaritsyn immediately and quickly arrange one or two, otherwise Voroshilov would have to shed a layer of skin if he didn't die this time!

But before Stalin could leave, he received another extremely strange news - Debinko had run away! (To be continued......)

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