034 First Battle
When Yezhov was molested by Mikoyan to death, Li Xiaofeng also waited for Liang Bozev, who was late in the Kremlin.
Ryobozev could have arrived a little earlier, and after receiving Karekin's "exciting" telegram, they were once again divided in the face of the impending good situation.
Both Rudnev and he advocated taking the initiative and taking the General Posts and Telecommunications and Telephone and the Kremlin, showing General Karekin from afar that Moscow had not fallen, and that his loyal men had preserved Moscow.
And the Cadets and Mensheviks opposed a large-scale offensive, isn't it? It is a rare spectacle that the Cadets wore the same trousers as the Mensheviks.
Of course, the main reason for their bizarre agreement, or the starting point, is not entirely the same. It can even be said that it is completely the opposite.
The reason why the Mensheviks did not advocate an initiative to attack was because they were still intent on continuing the negotiations in an attempt to bring the Bolsheviks to their knees at the negotiating table. This is very good for them to expand their political influence.
The main reason why the Cadets opposed the offensive was also to seize merit, or to break up with the Social Revolutionaries. After all, Karekin is their man, and it is certainly more cost-effective to have generals close to them to liberate Moscow than to make Rudnev and Liang Bozev heroes.
This quarrel lasted for two hours, and if it weren't for Li Xiaofeng's arms transportation incident that interrupted their quarrel, they would have been arguing until dawn and would not have been able to come to any conclusion.
"The Bolsheviks are preparing for a dying throe!" Rudnev shouted, "Gentlemen. Our quarrel here is completely unnecessary! See, no. When we hesitate. Our enemies are on the move! They are smuggling weapons! We must stop them! They must be given a slap in the face! ”
"I agree with His Excellency the Mayor!" Liang Bozev, who was bent on making a little more credit, quickly stood up, "We can't let the Bolsheviks continue to do whatever they want!" If they are allowed to continue to be armed, it will cause great difficulties in the next counterinsurgency work! We must nip these disgusting political clowns in the bud! ”
The Mensheviks and the Cadets really didn't want them to do it, but the arms in the Kremlin were a big problem, and if the Bolsheviks were left to arms, it would be a bit tricky.
"So be it! We agree with your troops to destroy the rebels entrenched in the Kremlin! But we must emphasize that this operation is limited to the Kremlin, and any military action beyond the Kremlin will not be accepted by the National Salvation Revolutionary Committee! The committee will severely punish those who do not obey orders! ”
This result did not satisfy Rudnev and Ryan Bozev. They are trying to expand their authority: "I am against this plan! Our military operations must not be confined to one part of the Kremlin, the General Directorate of Posts, Telecommunications and Telephone is still in the hands of the Bolshevik rebels, we must seize it, we must master the communications of the whole city! ”
After another verbal bickering, the Mensheviks and the Cadets had to back down again and authorize Ryombozev to retake the Kremlin and the General Directorate of Posts, Telecommunications and Telephones. It was already three o'clock in the morning.
In Moscow in winter, three o'clock in the morning is actually not much different from late at night, and in the darkness, Liang Bozev drove into Red Square with his contingent of non-commissioned officers and cadets.
"Damn the Mensheviks and the Cadets, you should let them take a good look at this night!" Liang Bozev scolded and chattered. "We weren't allowed to retake the power station, in the darkness. How do we fight! ”
A non-commissioned officer who didn't know the times muttered in a low voice: "We can use the cover of the night to sneak attack those chaotic parties!" ”
"What did you say!" Liang Bozev, who had a very sharp ear, yelled at him, "If you dare to express these immature opinions again, then, boy, I will shut you up immediately!" ”
Speaking of this, he glanced contemptuously at the Kremlin on the opposite side of Red Square, and said proudly: "We will not be like those Bolshevik rebels, we will only engage in some sneaky little actions, we will retake the Kremlin openly, let the world see how powerful I am!" ”
Speaking of which, he asked his subordinates, "Have you contacted the rebels in the Kremlin?" ”
"Report sir, the phone doesn't work, we're considering whether to send someone to go!"
"Idiot!" Liang Bozev scolded, "Of course the phone doesn't work!" That's because we haven't recaptured the General Directorate of Posts, Telecommunications and Telephone! ”
Speaking of this, he seemed to be reminded of unpleasant memories, glanced at the Mensheviks and the Cadets military representatives sent by the National Salvation Revolutionary Committee behind the line to monitor his movements, and muttered in a low voice: "The Mensheviks and the Cadets of the dog day, make trouble for Lao Tzu!" He actually asked Lao Tzu to recapture the Kremlin first, and then he could go to recover the General Telephone Office...... Damn idiots! You just don't want Lao Tzu to make meritorious contributions! ”
Glaring at his subordinates, standing there dumbfounded and motionless like a pillar, Liang Bozev raised his leg and kicked him, shouting, "What the are you doing standing here!" Send someone to the Kremlin immediately and let the rebels surrender immediately! ”
The kicked one quickly got up from the ground, nodded and was about to carry out the order, but who knew that Liang Bozev called him back again: "Slow down!" I have to tell you a word of advice, send someone with imposing force! You have to scare the rebels well, preferably to scare them! ”
Liang Bozev's order was strictly enforced, and his subordinates did find a very imposing, uh, or altitude-rich non-commissioned officer to go to the Kremlin to intimidate Li Xiaofeng. It was two meters tall, with a fat head and big ears that looked like a bear. Probably Liang Bozev's subordinates think that being tall and big is the so-called imposing.
"I ...... It's mine...... Sir...... Send me, send me to give the ultimatum! ”
Who would have thought that this guy who looked like a bear turned out to be a stammer, which made Li Xiaofeng quite speechless. Could it be that Liang Bozev can't pick out normal people. How did you send this goods to show your eyes?
"Who's your chief?" Li Xiaofeng asked with some amusement.
"I ...... I...... My Long ...... Long...... The prefect was Colonel Liang Bozev. He...... He...... He authorized...... I...... I'll come to warn after the most reluctance...... Warning you! Immediately...... Open the door immediately and cast ...... Cast...... Cast ......"
"Surrender!" Li Xiaofeng kindly prompted, "What if we don't surrender?" He asked rhetorically.
The stammering polar bear made a throat-cutting gesture, and the expression on his face was even more hideous, probably because his superiors specially instructed him to have momentum and intimidate the other party.
"I ...... I...... I, our cannons will ...... Yes...... Will ...... Will you ...... Explode...... Fried ......"
Li Xiaofeng shook his head. Again, he said, "Blow to smithereens!" ”
"Right...... Right...... Right! The stammering polar bear nodded heavily.
According to Li Xiaofeng's previous thoughts, he estimated that Liang Bozev would send people to persuade him to surrender, or to coerce and intimidate, just as he did to Ensign Tymoshenko in history. Originally, Li Xiaofeng was ready to tease Liang Bozev, but now, the other party actually sent such a strange person to persuade him to surrender, and he suddenly had no intention of teasing the other party - it was too difficult to communicate with this goods.
"Well, we agree to surrender!" Li Xiaofeng said with some interest, "Tell your sir, we will open the door immediately!" ”
The stammering polar bear was simply overjoyed. When he was first sent on a mission to persuade him to surrender, he was terrified. Everyone knows that the negotiation of the road is to find someone with a good mouth. It's better to have the kind of hara in your mouth that is as corrosive as sulfuric acid. He stammered, he couldn't even speak clearly, how could he be qualified for this job?
At that time, he expressed strong opposition, but what was the use. The order of Colonel Liang Bozev is placed there, as the tallest big man in the whole army, who will you go if you don't go?
The big man who drove the ducks to the shelves was full of resentment and frustration about his trip, and he doubted that the Bolshevik commander would think that the reason why he had sent this stammering man to persuade him to surrender was an insult in disguise.
Anyway, this poor big man is already ready for the possibility of failure, and even he feels that his trip is like a meat bun beating a dog. And now, the commander of the Bolsheviks was so eloquent that he surrendered directly and simply before he could utter the threatening and intimidating words that his superiors had given him. It gave him a sense of happiness that he had been hit in the head by a pie falling from the sky, and he stammered, "Really...... True...... It's true? ”
"It's true!" Li Xiaofeng replied angrily, "Now you hurry back and inform your chief, we will open the door and surrender immediately!" ”
The big man who stuttered walked away happily, and from the fact that he got carried away and stepped on the stairs and fell with a blue nose and swollen face, it can be seen that he was already dizzy with joy.
"Let's hope our Colonel Liang Bozev is like this fool!" Li Xiaofeng shook his head speechlessly. Then he asked: "Comrade Konstantin, is everything ready?" ”
Rokossovsky replied without hesitation: "Machine guns have been set up, as long as the enemy dares to come in, let them have no return!" ”
The doors of the Kremlin slowly opened, like a hungry monster opening its bloody mouth. However, Liang Bozev did not realize the danger coming, and he proudly boasted to his subordinates: "See! I said a long time ago that the Bolsheviks were simply vulnerable! I just scared and scared them, and immediately, they obediently surrendered! ”
Speaking of this, he seemed to be very touched, and sighed: "What a bunch of wretched!" I'm ashamed of their incompetence! There is no need to leave such a waste, as soon as the Kremlin is recaptured, they will be shot on the spot! ”
Ryobozev glanced in the direction of the Kremlin and immediately turned his attention to the General Directorate of Posts, Telecommunications and Telephones. In his opinion, the Kremlin was completely out of the question, and it was better for him to quickly plan a plan for retaking the General Directorate of Posts, Telecommunications and Telephones.
"Why don't you draw a scoop according to the gourd and send another person to threaten you?" Liang Bozev thought to himself, "That big man just now performed well, he seems to be a talent, maybe he can give me a surprise?" ”
There were indeed surprises, and the surprises came so suddenly that Dorian Bozev didn't even realize that the surprise had come.
The sound of machine-gun fire came from the Kremlin. There seemed to be a dozen mackins spewing tongues of fire. With the roar of machine guns. Terrible screams came from the Kremlin.
At this time, Liang Bozev raised his head and said very dissatisfied: "What the hell are you doing?" Shoot a few rebels, with so many machine guns? How many bullets are wasted! Our ammunition is tight, don't waste it casually! ”
His men were about to explain a thing or two, but Ryobozev interrupted him without hesitation: "And," he pointed to the Kremlin gate, where several soldiers were stumbling out. "How can you let them escape? I can't do any small things, how can I follow me to do big things in the future! ”
After a chattering reprimand, at last, his poor subordinate found an opportunity to speak, and he screamed: "Colonel, those are not rebels, they are our brothers!" It's a trap! The despicable Bolsheviks set a trap for us! ”
Liang Bozev raised his head in shock, and at this time, several soldiers who had stumbled and fled were thrown to the ground like logging, and the rain of machine-gun bullets directly knocked them into a hornet's nest. Then the door that had just been opened slowly closed again. Only a few cold corpses and blood stains all over the ground were left to laugh at Liang Bozev's incompetence!
"Shameless villain, despicable executioner!"
Liang Bozev vented his anger violently. Of course, he was not angry at the poor soldiers who died, for him, the soldiers at the grassroots level were just gray animals, and he would not feel distressed no matter how many people died.
What really drove Liang Bozev crazy was that he was teased and molested by the enemy, and he felt that his dignity was very hurt and his personality was insulted. For a noble Russian officer, a good aristocrat, such a shame must be washed away with the blood of the enemy!
Liang Bozev roared hysterically: "Attack! Fire! Kill all these dog mongrels! ”
He was fully confident that his troops would be able to break through the positions held by the vile Bolshevik rebels and put an end to the battle. As soon as the cannon is fired, they will immediately turn into panicked rabbits, either fleeing or throwing up their hands in surrender. Victory will be his!
Based on this realization, Liang Bozev's mood became cheerful, and with the arrogance inherent in an officer and nobleman, he watched the infantry on the task of attacking advance in a neat and steady formation, while waiting with anticipation for the moment when the flag would be planted on the top of the Kremlin spire.
At the same time, the artillery under Liang Bozev began to fire. Several field guns opened fire at the same time, creating a spectacular scene in his opinion.
But to be honest, small-caliber infantry artillery really didn't pose much of a threat to the Kremlin's walls. Soon Rokossovsky will show him that the so-called spectacular has no meaning at all.
In the process of Liang Bozev's infantry advancing to the ground, the Kremlin, which had been silent, suddenly erupted into a burst of extremely fierce machine gun fire, and a dense rain of bullets sprayed from the city walls, roofs, and minarets to the lower ground, sweeping Liang Bozev's attack line upside down!
"O my God! How many machine guns do they have? "The officers of the White Army, who witnessed all this, drew a cross on their chests.
The attacking troops sent by Liang Bozev were completely exposed to crossfire from machine guns. Even by the most conservative estimates, officers still believe that at least a hundred soldiers have been killed or wounded. And until the Bolsheviks had exhausted a chain of bullets, their soldiers could neither advance nor retreat, but could only continue to lie on the hard, damp ground of Red Square.
The attacking forces seemed to be trapped. However, most of the White Army officers, including Liang Bozev himself, still believed that there was still a chance to win, or to get out of the current predicament. After all, no matter how serious the threat of a machine gun is, it will always stop, cool the barrel or change the chain, and that's the chance.
Everyone waited, it didn't take much time, according to the way the Bolsheviks fired, it would not take more than two minutes, and this time passed quickly. Sure enough, it wasn't long before the machine guns stopped firing, as they had guessed.
"Forward!" Liang Bozev couldn't help but shout.
"Forward!"
Although no one heard it, the second lieutenant who led the charge must have shouted. Liang Bozev clearly heard a scream similar to "Ula" erupt from the soldiers, and at the same time got up from the ground and continued to charge forward.
There were still two hundred meters to go, and as long as they crossed this distance, victory would be theirs, and during this time it seemed impossible for the Bolsheviks to replace their machine guns with new chains...... No!
It was only by this time that Rybozev and his officers realized that they had been so wrong that the Bolsheviks were able to inflict heavy casualties on them without machine guns, when their lads got back on their feet and shouted for Ulla to charge. The submachine gun replaces the machine gun that is changing the chain or cooling, and pours bullets into the pile with the fastest rate of fire!
Rows of soldiers were thrown down, and blood was splattered on the ground of Red Square, but this time, the remaining White soldiers did not lie down again, but continued to charge forward screaming, led by the officer.
It must be admitted that this was the only reasonable move, otherwise they would have paid much more in the face of alternating machine-gun and submachine gun fire. At the very least, Liang Bozev and his officers were convinced that the cost of a forward assault was smaller than staying put.
However, they will soon find out how wrong they will be. When the walls of the Kremlin were vividly visible, just when the White soldiers thought they had fought their way out. The black grenades that suddenly flew down from the city walls told them that things were definitely not so easy.
The explosions and the flying shannuns killed the last hope of the White Army, and not a single person could rush under the walls of the Kremlin.
When the last standing White Army was knocked down by a single shot, when the gunfire and explosions gradually stopped. On the other side of Red Square, there was the angry roar of Liang Bozev: "Despicable Bolshevik dog mongrel, I'm not done with you!" (To be continued......)