Tukhachevsky did not realize what Li Xiaofeng's appointment as director of the General Political Department meant, and he did not think at all that someone's acceptance of the General Political Department was actually an act of sharpening his knife against him. This extremely naïve military genius in politics was still thinking about how to teach the disobedient navy, completely unaware that he was about to be taught a lesson.

Why did the first joint operation of Stalin and Sverdlov begin with the General Political Department? The reason is very simple: The General Political Department is not only in charge of the political work cadres of the whole army, but more importantly, the General Political Department has a revolutionary military court and a revolutionary military procuratorate under it, which belongs to the adjudication structure of the army.

Previously, Tukhachevsky, taking advantage of the fact that the deputy head of the General Political Department was a Trotskyist, sent a special task force for the "Leningrad case" that completely fell to the side of the army, and thus came to a result that was very uncomfortable for the navy.

To be honest, Tukhachevsky thought he had finally pulled back a game and thought that he had regained a solid line and could consider a full-scale counterattack next. Why did Tukhachevsky have such an illusion? The reason is that Stalin and Li Xiaofeng were indifferent to this case, and they did not directly say good things for the navy on any occasion, and even expressed their stance more than once that this incident was a stain on the Red Army, and the navy needed to reflect and review.

Such a statement undoubtedly paralyzed Tukhachevsky, thinking that Stalin and Li Xiaofeng did not have the idea of helping the navy to get ahead, and naturally he had the intention of taking advantage of the victory to pursue the attack. But Tukhachevsky didn't want to think about who Stalin and Li Xiaofeng were? To put it mildly, this is an old fox and a little fox, and these two foxes used to be strong supporters of the navy. Now it's suddenly so easy to talk. No matter how you look at it, it's not normal, okay!

As the saying goes, if you want to take it, you must give it first. Both Stalin and Li Xiaofeng knew that if they wanted to take down Tukhachevsky, they had to make Tukhachevsky crazy and unscrupulous, so that he would make big mistakes and be defeated!

So did Tukhachevsky make a mistake? In the face of the "indifferent" Stalin and Li Xiaofeng, he did go a little too far with the navy, and was ready to drive all the naval cadets on the Aurora out of the army, and also hold the naval academy and the upper echelons of the navy responsible. This is obviously a bit of a lack of people's hearts.

And just as Tukhachevsky was preparing for a final attack and a victory, the Military Commissar ordered him to inspect the defense of the Far East, on the grounds that he was in response to the Japanese dogs jumping over the wall. Just as Tukhachevsky arrived in Chita, something happened suddenly. Li Xiaofeng, who had not moved for a month in office, suddenly called "Gamarnik, the head of the Leningrad case task force, to his office."

Gamalnik was not a nobody, at the time of his title in 1935, he was at the rank of political commissar of the first-class group army, and at one time also served as first deputy member of the People's Commissariat of National Defense and director of the General Political Department of the Workers' and Peasants' Red Army. Of course, this one didn't end well, in the Great Purge. Before the anti-rebel worker could reach his office, the man was forced to shoot himself.

And in this historical time and space. He had long held the deputy position of Blyukhel and was politically neutral and trotsky. Previously, Tukhachevsky instructed the establishment of a task force, and he, deputy director of the General Political Department, served as the leader of the task force, and under Tukhachevsky's instructions, he carried out the strategy of suppressing the navy.

"Comrade Gamarnik, is this the conclusion of your task force?"

Li Xiaofeng looked at Gamalik with a very unkind face, and said in his heart, Li Xiaofeng didn't want to embarrass Gamarnik too much, as long as he changed the rudder in time and didn't continue to mix with Tukhachevsky, then he could consider giving Gamalik a decent result.

However, it is obvious that Gamalik did not realize that the political wind had changed, and he did not take Li Xiaofeng, the new boss, very seriously, and said very calmly: "Comrade Andrei, after careful and careful work, the task force has basically figured out the truth of the incident, and the navy has an unshirkable ......responsibility in this case."

"You don't have to say it!" Li Xiaofeng directly interrupted Gamalnik's words and said very sternly: "Comrade Orlov has complained about the working methods of the task force more than once before, and I think that you are quite prejudiced against the navy, and you have had considerable problems with your working methods and attitudes from the very beginning. Before, I did not believe that our comrades in the General Political Department would make such a childish mistake. And now it seems that Comrade Orlov's feedback is not groundless, and the working methods and attitude of the task force are quite questionable! ”

Gamalik was dumbfounded, he really didn't expect Li Xiaofeng to overturn him with one sentence and overturn the conclusion of the entire task force, and looking at the posture, there is a tendency to overturn the case. Suddenly, he was anxious: "Comrade Andrei, please respect all the comrades of the task force......"

"Comrade Gamarnik!" Li Xiaofeng's tone abruptly increased, "I now solemnly inform you that the previous task force has been disbanded, and all members will be interrogated by the KGB. According to the reaction of the KGB and the Intelligence Department of the General Staff, some members of the task force have been infiltrated by foreign spies and counter-revolutionaries and are engaged in activities to sabotage the construction of the Red Navy under the guise of investigating the case. The nature of this is extremely bad, and as the person in charge of the task force, you did not even discover this situation in time, and you were even used by these spies and counter-revolutionaries with ulterior motives. The Military Commission is extremely dissatisfied with your work, and now I officially inform you to stop your work and accept political censorship! ”

"This is persecution!" Enraged, Gamalik stood up and waved his fist in protest against Li Xiaofeng, but it was in vain, and the KGB staff quickly subdued him and took him down.

Looking at the escorted Gamalik coldly, Li Xiaofeng was silent, because this is indeed persecution, who made Gamalik ignorant of current affairs? How can a person who does not know the current affairs stay in the General Political Department?

Li Xiaofeng casually picked up the telephone and dialed Stalin: "Gamalnik is disobedient, go through the program!" ”

The so-called procedure is naturally to take Gamarnik forever, to put it mildly. The best ending of this is to be forced to retire for the rest of his life. Even worse, they will go to jail. Who made him ignorant of current affairs?

Because Li Xiaofeng had already given him a chance, if he was a little more sensible and obediently stepped aside and didn't speak, Li Xiaofeng would let him go, and he wouldn't kill the task force. But who made Gamarnik make the wrong choice? And this wrong choice will not only ruin his future, but will also bring that poor task force to the funeral with him.

"The task force was disbanded? Gamalnik was also arrested? ”

Tukhachevsky, who was inspecting the defense of the Red Banner Front in the Far East, was shocked when he learned of this, and when he left Moscow, he was still following his instructions.

"This is a decision made at an emergency meeting of the Military Commission." Lieutenant General Slavin, head of the Liaison Office of the General Political Department, who is responsible for delivering the message to Tukhachevsky, explained.

"Why didn't I be notified of the emergency meeting of the Military Commission?" Tukhachevsky was furious.

"It was an emergency meeting. And if you are in the Far East, it is simply impossible to participate. And I was appointed by the Military Commission to convey the spirit of the meeting to you. ”

After speaking, Slavin did not wait for Tukhachevsky to speak, and said to himself: "According to the discussion of the Military Commission, it is believed that Comrade Gamalik has committed the main leadership mistake, and it is determined that the work of the previous task force is extremely irresponsible, and the conclusions drawn by him are contrary to facts and counter-revolutionary. ”

If Tukhachevsky was angry or regretful when he heard that the Military Council was holding an emergency meeting behind his back, then when Slavin said the decision of the Military Council, he shuddered.

These three emotions are intertwined. Leaving Tukhachevsky in an indescribable state, in the words of Slavin: "Comrade Mikhail is completely stupid." He was crushed by the news! ”

Tukhachevsky was indeed a little devastated, and in retrospect, he realized that he had fallen into a trap, the strange calm of Stalin and Li Xiaofeng, and the sudden instruction of the Military Commission to inspect the defense of the Far East, this was to divert the tiger from the mountain, this was to catch him off guard!

And what makes Tukhachevsky feel very sad and ashamed is that he was stupidly fooled, I am afraid that now Stalin and Li Xiaofeng are laughing at his incompetence and stupidity.

Tukhachevsky was furious, he yelled indignantly: "Prepare a plane for me immediately, I will rush back to Moscow immediately!" ”

Tukhachevsky is ready for the last fight, which can only be said to be commendable courage, but apart from this ridiculous courage, he has no ideas and strategies, in short, the courage of a horseman. Tukhachevsky's enemies, on the other hand, were well prepared and had already calculated him to death.

While Tukhachevsky was still in the air, the new task force had already begun its work with great efficiency and in a very short period of time, they had completely overturned all the conclusions of the previous task force.

The whole case was identified as a brawl caused by a lack of revolutionary conviction and lax military discipline, in which both sides of the conflict were responsible, especially those army officers who had just completed the Northern 1934 exercises. Because compared to the cadets of the Navy who only have the rank of warrant officer, they are senior officers. As senior officers, they should be more restrained in controlling their words and deeds, instead of fooling around like young people who have not graduated from military schools.

Objectively speaking, this conclusion is relatively fair and in line with the facts, and is at least closer to the truth than the conclusion of the previous task force. But don't think that this is Stalin and Li Xiaofeng presiding over justice, sometimes closer to the truth can kill people invisibly.

In fact, at first Stalin did not like this "very objective" conclusion, believing that this result was not enough to bring down Tukhachevsky. According to Stalin's thinking, the characterization of this incident should be a counter-revolutionary incident triggered by some people in the General Staff with ulterior motives to subvert the party's leadership over the army.

Stalin believed that only counter-revolutionary crimes could crush Tukhachevsky, for which he carefully prepared quite a lot of evidence. For example, evidence 1 shows that the conflict was deliberately triggered by the army, and even the army officers who participated in the brawl were armed with weapons and equipment, which is obviously preparing to rebel! For example, Evidence 2: When the Navy cadets who could not resist the army offensive and turned and fled fled back to the Aurora, the army officers who followed them attempted to "occupy" the symbolic warship of the October Revolution by force, which fully shows that they were organized and attempted to subvert the party's leadership.

Of course. None of this so-called evidence is worth mentioning. For example, so-called weapons. It was just the guns that the officers involved in the exercise carried with them, and they had just arrived in Leningrad and were bent on relaxing, so they forgot to lock up their guns. In fact, during the outbreak of the conflict, not a single army officer attempted to use his own rifles, and not a single shot was fired.

As for the second evidence, it is even more ridiculous, perhaps the army officers did pursue the fleeing naval cadets, but any attempt to capture the Aurora is nonsense, in fact, they chased it for a short time, and did not reach the dock where the Aurora was moored. Besides, the Aurora is even downgraded to a training ship. But it is not disarmed, although the cannons and machine guns on it are teaching aids, they are real guys who can use them. What kind of capture of ships with the firepower of an army officer's gun?

In any case, Li Xiaofeng would not have signed on to such a ridiculous conclusion, because no matter how troublesome this incident was, it would always have to be reported to Lenin in the end. With the intelligence of the mentor, fool him with this kind of thing? That's really death!

Li Xiaofeng knew very well that if Lenin were shown this kind of lame so-called evidence, the master would be forced to slap them in the mouth in turn, and at that time, not only would Tukhachevsky not be able to bring down Tukhachevsky, but would stabilize Tukhachevsky's position.

"The right thing to do. It is telling the truth, and the determination of facts can be biased. But not excessively. Don't make the accusations too sensational, so that Comrade Lenin will not believe them at all. ”

Misty Wind Jevich frowned and asked humbly, "But how can such a painless charge defeat Tukhachevsky?" In my opinion, even the defeat of Gamarnik is enough to choke! ”

Li Xiaofeng smiled and asked: "You don't understand, Comrade Lenin would not think that there is any counter-revolutionary group in the army, and this cannot deceive him. What really worried Comrade Lenin was the problem of gangs and factions in the army, especially the very bad behavior of pulling sides. And Gamarnik did exactly that this time! ”

Li Xiaofeng said eloquently: "Do you think Comrade Lenin believes the conclusions reached by Gamarnik's task force? What would be the nature of an obvious drunken brawl in which the blame was magnified and completely shifted to the Navy, in the eyes of Comrade Lenin? I think Comrade Lenin could well have thought that this was a struggle between the branches of the Red Army, that this was the fight against dissidents by vile means! ”

"If this is the case," he continued, "then Comrade Lenin should have objected to the conclusion of the Gamarnik task force!" ”

Li Xiaofeng said with a smile: "The reason why Comrade Lenin did not speak is also obvious, that is, taking into account the face of the Trotskyists and Tukhachevsky, he must be able to see whose handiwork it is, in order to maintain the authority of Trotsky, who is about to succeed him, he can only choose to turn a blind eye to such a trivial matter, as long as they are not too excessive!" ”

After a pause, Li Xiaofeng continued: "And now, the situation is completely different, we have completely denied this conclusion, the whole incident has escalated, we and the Trotskyists have been fully shouldered, at this time we are still objectively conclusions, if they are overturned by the Trotskyists, then we will face a total collapse, at this time, Comrade Lenin is probably more inclined to accept the conclusion we have reached that is more in line with the facts and less influential!" ”

Kikikaze jevic raised his eyebrows and asked, "But what's the point of this, this conclusion is not enough to defeat the Trotsky?" ”

Li Xiaofeng shook his finger and said inscrutablely: "No, this will crush the Trotskyists. All comrades can see that Tukhachevsky's counter-attack by means of this has completely failed, that his and Trotsky's prestige in the Military Commission will fall further, and that we will have the upper hand in all aspects. The impact will be comprehensive, which means that everyone knows what to do next. ”

"But that didn't bring Tukhachevsky to ruin!" Kirikaze jevic emphasized.

"It is not permissible for Comrade Lenin to directly bring down Tukhachevsky, and if we do that, Comrade Lenin will teach us a hard lesson." Li Xiaofeng said lightly.

Kikōkazevich touched the back of his head and asked, "But I told Stalin before that the General Staff would belong to them, and now Tukhachevsky has not fallen directly......"

Li Xiaofeng stretched out his hand to stop him: "After you listen to me, it is unwise to directly bring down Tukhachevsky, but you can come indirectly!" Tukhachevsky can step down on his own initiative! ”

"How is this possible?" Kikikaze Jevic's eyes widened and he asked.

"Quite possibly!" Li Xiaofeng replied with a smile, "What do you think Tukhachevsky is feeling now?" Especially if we support him to hold an emergency meeting of the Military Commission, do you think he will be better off and will give up? Especially what do you think he will do when he learns of our charges against Gamalnik and the decision to punish the Gamalik task force? ”

Kirikazevich was stunned, because with his political wisdom, it was not difficult to guess what Tukhachevsky would do - he was afraid that he could not and could not endure it, and if he endured it, then who would still mess with him as the chief of the General Staff in the future?

It is clear that Tukhachevsky will inevitably fight back, and it will be a fierce counterattack, so if he wants to rescue Gamalik and the task force, he will inevitably overturn the conclusions of the second task force!

The fun was great, and for Lenin, the conclusions and punishments of the second task force were more acceptable, because Stalin and Li Xiaofeng were not excessive. If Lenin chooses to support the conclusions of the second task force, then Tukhachevsky will be forced into a corner, and then Tukhachevsky will be able to bear this breath? If he can't, then he can only fight it with more drastic means...... (To be continued......)