Eberhardt's idea of using destroyers and river gunboats to carry marines to seize Rostov made Li Xiaofeng's eyes shine, and the Bolshevik Central Committee was very distressed by what happened in Luhansk and Rostov, but it was restricted by reality and could only watch the White Army snort there.

Now, Eberhardt has taken a different approach and proposed another solution to the problem. True, Frunze's main forces were far away around Moscow and could not go south. But this did not mean that the Bolsheviks had no other military power to use.

From Donetsk all the way to Rostov-on-Don, it is in the Don system, and during the spring floods, the navigable mileage of the lower reaches of the Don River is about 1,300 kilometers. In other words, destroyers with a shallow draft, as well as river gunboats, could fully carry marines to fight in the lower reaches of the Don River!

The White Army in Rostov was at best one or two thousand people, and after the capture of Rostov-on-Don, part of the main forces of the White Army began to move north, depending on the situation, in preparation for the convergence with the main forces of the White Army in Luhansk.

To put it bluntly, only a small part of the White Army remained in Rostov-on-Don, and their vigilance in the rear is probably very questionable. In this case, it is conceivable that the Black Sea Fleet can draw a capable land force and then crush the White Army in Rostov and recapture Rostov under the cover of artillery fire from destroyers and river gunboats.

Li Xiaofeng immediately became excited, and immediately asked Eberhardt about the detailed combat strategy, and honestly recorded all of Eberhardt's speeches in a small notebook.

"I'm starting to feel like I'm going to make the right move to go to you!" Li Xiaofeng praised from the bottom of his heart, at this time, a certain immortal really felt that there was an old man in the family.

Eberhardt was also a little proud, no one had touted him in years. It's such a wonderful feeling!

Of course. Li Xiaofeng was happy, and Eberhardt was proud. It was only a matter of a moment, and soon a new problem was placed in front of them—how to implement Eberhardt's battle plan?

To put it mildly, Eberhardt's plan is just on paper, he says it wildly, and in reality he is just an outdated bad old man. He is no longer the commander of the Black Sea Fleet, and he cannot move a single soldier.

The first thing Li Xiaofeng had to do was to reinstate the old man, but how easy was it? Not to mention whether his status as a senior general of the old officer is trustworthy, I am afraid that the Bolshevik bigwigs will have to doubt this old man's ability in the first place. After all, he was almost disgraced and ousted from power. At his age, is he still capable of commanding a battle?

After thinking about it for a long time, Li Xiaofeng first appeased the old man and asked him to work as a consultant in the border police force, and then decided to go to the side to probe the tutor's tone to see if there was room for foolery.

Of course, before visiting the Mentor's mouth, a certain immortal decided to consult Sverdlov's opinion first. After all, Xiao Si was not consulted about the Jews last time, and he seemed to have some opinions. In order to avoid a bad dispute between the two sides, it is better to consult him in advance.

"With the Black Sea Fleet to recapture Rostov?" When Sverdlov heard this, he was not as surprised as a certain immortal had before, and he did not show a hint of surprise. The breath was as flat as boiled water.

So much so that Li Xiaofeng misunderstood, thinking that Xiao Si was the same as the mentor. They are all the factions that despise the navy, and they have also wasted a lot of saliva vernacular about the meaning and role of the navy's existence.

However, Sverdlov is really not as he imagined, Xiao Si smiled bitterly: "Andrey, your suggestion should be said to be good, which proves that you are also attentive to the war in Ukraine." However, your proposal is problematic! ”

Li Xiaofeng was a little stunned, and asked puzzledly, "What's the problem?" ”

"First of all, it is not uncommon to use the Navy for landing operations, especially with the Black Sea Fleet!" Sverdlov explained in a serious way: "Last year, when we launched the October Revolution, at one point Karekin's troops occupied Rostov-on-Don. At that time, in order to support the Rostov Soviet, the Black Sea Fleet sent a destroyer and two minesweepers to support the battle, and at one time drove Karekin's bandit army out of Rostov......"

Li Xiaofeng was stunned, he really didn't know that Lu Dao had such a history, but it was normal to think about it, he was in Moscow at the time, busy fighting the White Army on one side, and fighting against steel on the other side, where did he have the leisure to care about the situation of the Black Sea Fleet and Rostov-on-Don. Now he realized that the Black Sea Fleet had already done the same thing!

Thinking of this, Li Xiaofeng couldn't help but complain about Eberhart, he felt that he had been fooled by the old man, what kind of groundbreaking suggestion was this, the old man was obviously painting a tiger according to a cat!

But this really can't blame Eberhardt for not being interesting, after all, he has been retired for two years, and the news about the whole of Russia during the October Revolution was chaotic, and even Li Xiaofeng, the people in the authorities, did not know that the Black Sea Fleet had combat experience, let alone him!

And there Sverdlov continued to describe the combat experience of the Black Sea Fleet during the October Revolution: "Not only in Rostov, but also in Rostov, the Black Sea Fleet participated in a series of operations on the Black Sea coast during the October Revolution...... At the end of November last year, the Black Sea Fleet organized 2,500 soldiers to Belgorod and dealt a heavy blow to Kornilov's rebels, preventing their attempts to join the remnants of Karekin; From January 13 to 17 of this year, the Black Sea Fleet took part in fierce battles with the bandits of the Central Rada of Ukraine in Odessa and Nikolaev, driving the bandits out of the Black Sea coast ......"

Li Xiaofeng listened very carefully, and he realized that the existence of the Black Sea Fleet was not useless. Judging only by the examples of these battles told by Small, the presence of the Black Sea Fleet helped the Soviet power to stabilize the situation around the Crimean peninsula and drive the forces of the White Army to the Don and Volga valleys. If it were not for the sudden backlash of the Czech Legion, the situation in southern Ukraine and around the Black Sea would have been far from so bad.

Historically, too, before March, the Black Sea Fleet controlled the situation around the Black Sea so well that the White Army and the Central Rada of Ukraine did not dare to cross the minepool. Unfortunately, there is no such thing as a powerful immortal in history. In March. The German-Austrian forces in order to force the Bolsheviks to sign the Brest Pact. Onslaughts were launched in the Odessa, Nikolaev directions, and even the entire Crimean peninsula was occupied. So much so that the Mentor had to tragically order the Black Sea Fleet to sink itself.

The German-Austrian turmoil was an almost devastating blow to the Black Sea Fleet, and it was only after the disappearance of the forces capable of controlling the Black Sea coast that the White Army wreaked havoc. Whether it was Denikin or later Wrangel, who was able to pull hundreds of thousands of troops to fight, the source of weapons and equipment was partly the support of foreign interventionists, and the other, or most of it, was the remnants of the destruction of the Black Sea Fleet.

In a sense. If the Black Sea Fleet had always existed and had always obeyed the orders of the Bolsheviks, it would not have been easy for the White Army to develop and grow. And now, because of Li Xiaofeng's existence, the Black Sea Fleet has been fortunately preserved, and I have to say that this is great news.

The existence of the Black Sea Fleet is really meaningful, Li Xiaofeng is quite happy about this, in his opinion, as long as the Black Sea Fleet proves the meaning of existence, then even the mentor will not easily despise the Navy, right?

And since the Black Sea Fleet is useful. There were precedents of landing to support land battles before, and Li Xiaofeng thought that even if he didn't need to help Eberhardt come to power. Will it also be possible to use the Black Sea Fleet to recapture Rostov? But why didn't Sverdlov care much about it just now? What's going on?

Sverdlov sighed and said: "The Black Sea Fleet has indeed achieved considerable success, but their strength has been seriously dispersed in the battles for Odessa, Nikolaev and Belgorod. The marines and a considerable number of sailors have landed in battle, and now I am afraid that they will not have the spare strength to retake Rostov......"

Speaking of this, Sverdlov added: "Actually, after the fall of Rostov and Luhansk, the Central Committee also thought about using the Black Sea Fleet to recapture these two cities. However, having consulted the Black Sea Fleet Commission, it was abandoned! ”

"Because there are no extra troops?" Li Xiaofeng asked in frustration.

"That's not the main reason, the sailors can still be transferred, the main thing is that there are more serious problems," Sverdlov sighed again, and said: "According to the information from the Black Sea Fleet Commission, there is something wrong with the atmosphere in the fleet...... A part of the soldiers and officers seemed to have an opinion about the Brest Treaty, and a wave of counter-revolution began to spread among them...... The fleet committee suggested not to send the fleet for the time being, otherwise there would be a possibility of mutiny once it went to sea! ”

Li Xiaofeng was dumbfounded, he thought that the collusion between some officers of the Black Sea Fleet and Kolchak should be exclusive news, and he also wanted to warn the mentor to take advantage of this to get a credit! And now it seems that he is probably fooled by Li Erwen, and his feelings are the news of the road!

Li Xiaofeng had the heart to settle accounts with Li Erwen, and he wondered before that girl how could she be so kind and obediently send him important information. After doing it for a long time, this Nima is the news of a cheating father. Only then did a certain immortal realize that when she was separated from Li Erwen, the girl would say that she would definitely find the field next time.

However, being provoked by Li Erwen like this, the arrogance of a certain immortal also came up, and he got up from where he fell, and he didn't believe that he couldn't cure a girl. It's a big deal to dig a pit next time and kill that girl.

But how to get back to the field is a matter of later, and now, the most important thing for Li Xiaofeng is to deal with the Black Sea Fleet. Even if Sverdlov said that things are not what a certain immortal thinks, Li Xiaofeng still wants to do this well!

"Actually, I have also received relevant information," Li Xiaofeng said honestly: "According to the information I have received, Kolchak, the former commander of the Black Sea Fleet, has already sided with the White Army, and is trying to use his influence to induce some officers and men of the Black Sea Fleet who have a problematic position to defect!" ”

Sverdlov was shocked, the news he had received before was only wind vane, and the fleet committee of the Black Sea Fleet had only discovered this kind of sign, but he did not know who was behind it.

And the name Kolchak Sverdlov is well understood, and at the time of the outbreak of the October Revolution, the tendencies of the Black Sea Fleet were not clear for a time. When the bandit armies of Karekin and Kornilov were in full swing. The Central Committee ordered the Black Sea Fleet to participate in the suppression of bandits, but with the intervention of Kolchak, the fleet committee did not command the Black Sea Fleet for a time. It wasn't until the Fleet Council sent the gift out of the country. The Black Sea Fleet was able to carry out the operation.

And now this haunting Kolchak is going to use his influence to make a difference. At this moment when people's hearts are fluctuating, it is really difficult to say whether the Black Sea Fleet will defect again!

In this regard, even Sverdlov had to pay attention to it, as soon as the Black Sea Fleet defected, even if it was not completely defected, or part of it, it would make the situation in Ukraine and the lower reaches of the Don and Volga even worse!

"That's why you want to change the commander of the Black Sea Fleet?" Sverdlov asked thoughtfully.

Li Xiaofeng nodded: "At that time, I thought that the reason why the Black Sea Fleet had a fluctuating situation in people's hearts. It is quite possible that the prestige and prestige of the fleet committee are not enough to suppress and eliminate those who are half-hearted...... I wondered if I could find someone with high prestige, old qualifications, familiar with the situation of the Black Sea Fleet, and strong enough to suppress the mutiny to deter it. ”

A certain immortal really picked up a good thing to say, the four points he mentioned were all beneficial to Eberhardt, compared to Kolchak, Eberhardt was really old enough, and he also had the historical experience of successfully suppressing mutinies.

However, Sverdlov was not optimistic about whether Eberhardt was reliable enough, and in his opinion the senior generals of the old army were generally inclined to continue fighting the Germans in favor of the Tsar. The most obvious examples of this are that Kornilov and Kolchak.

In Sverdlov's opinion. Eberhardt was supposed to be on the same page as Kornilov and Kolchak, and it was difficult to guarantee the old man's loyalty. What if he goes to the Black Sea Fleet and is worse than Kolchak?

"I thought about that possibility!" Li Xiaofeng admitted honestly, "So I took a closer look at this Andre. Eberhart. As far as I know, although this person is an old officer, he is also a high-ranking general. But it had nothing to do with the remnants of Tsarist Russia and the Provisional Government. Even, his relationship with these two forces is still very bad. He was dismissed in embarrassment, and the reason given by the Admiralty of Tsarist Russia was simply an insult to him......"

Indeed, as mentioned earlier, there are two main reasons for Eberhardt's resignation:

One is that he is too conservative to take the initiative to attack, and only knows how to play blockade. But in reality, his successor is still the same. What is annoying is that everyone is a style of play, the old man is scolded, and Kolchak is praised. And to tell the truth, in the entire First World War, the best performance of the Russian Navy was only the Black Sea Fleet, which was also in closed seas, and the Baltic Fleet almost became a soy sauce;

Another reason is that for Eberhardt, the insult is even more serious. At that time, Grigorovich made a big fuss about this by saying that the old man was not a purebred Russian, but had foreign roots, especially by pointing out his name with a strong German flavor. almost pointed at his nose and scolded the old man for being a traitor.

The conscience of heaven and earth, Eberhardt's name is very German, and it does have foreign roots. But his ancestors were authentic Swedish nobles, and he had a woolen relationship with the Germans!

To put it mildly, if the issue of Eberhardt's pedigree is very important, he is not fit to be the commander of the fleet. Then Kolchak should not have come to power, is he Kolchak a purebred Russian man?

Nima, Kolchak has Turkish ancestry, is it good to be a mixed Turkish-Russian! The biggest enemy opposite the Black Sea Fleet is none other than the Turkish Navy. Lords of the Admiralty, aren't you afraid that General Gao will defect to Turkey with the fleet?!

Neither of these reasons is valid, and to put it mildly, Eberhardt has suffered a great disgrace, and what good color can he have for the old Tsarist government? Can you get in touch with them again? Historically, Eberhardt would rather choose a life of poverty, died of poverty in Petrograd, and did not join the White Army!

And if Eberhardt could be given a chance to prove himself again when he was at his most depressed and had no way out, not to mention that he would be grateful to the Bolsheviks, at least he would not repay his grievances with virtue, right?

However, Sverdlov was still not too relieved, and he said cautiously: "Don't be afraid of 10,000, just in case!" What if this Eberhardt colludes with the officers of the Black Sea Fleet? Isn't that shooting yourself in the foot? ”

In this regard, Li Xiaofeng smiled and said: "Comrade Yakov, don't you know the relationship between that old man and his subordinates back then...... said that a certain immortal explained in detail the contradictions between Eberhardt and the middle and low-ranking officers of the Black Sea Fleet, "The old officers of the Black Sea Fleet are probably not very welcome to this former commander." They broke up unhappily back then, and now it is naturally impossible for them to be complicit! ”

Sverdlov was amused by Eberhardt's maverick, and he didn't expect this old man to be so individual, and to make himself unpleasant, which is also strange. However, if this history is true, then I really don't worry too much about the old man being in cahoots with his former subordinates. If the relationship between them is really that bad, then if the old man wants to regain his foothold in the Black Sea Fleet, he must have the support of the fleet committee, otherwise he will not be able to move an inch.

"If these are true," Sverdlov said after a moment's silence, "then let him try...... If he can eliminate the hidden danger of a mutiny in the Black Sea Fleet, it will be good news for us...... However, it is necessary to seek the opinion of Comrade Lenin on this matter, so I will talk to him directly before I ......" (to be continued......

PS: Bow again and thank you for the second kill Comrade Potato!