Thinking that he would bring peace to Russia and put an end to this senseless civil war, Kamenev rushed into Frunze's headquarters with what Titeririchs called his last conditions.

At this time, the whole person was already excited, and he excitedly waved the check recording the conditions of Titerichs, and said in a sharp voice with a fluttering voice: "Comrade Mikhail, you see, I have brought peace, real peace!" ”

Frunze frowned, just now taking advantage of the time when Kamenev went to negotiate, he got in touch with the Central Committee, and finally figured out what tricks this comrade stone was playing. Speaking from the heart, after learning the truth of the matter, he felt that Kamenev was pitiful.

This poor creature was played by Trotsky, and did not know that his so-called efforts were simply a delaying tactic by the second teacher. And as things stand, it's still an unsuccessful delaying tactic. Now I am afraid that only this fool himself is still in the dark, dreaming of some kind of peace and truce in his two-handed world.

Frunze quietly took the piece of paper, glanced at it, and threw it into the trash.

Kamenev was furious: "Mikhail, you ......"

Frunze calmly handed him another piece of paper, which conveyed the latest instructions of the Central Committee - to carry out operations according to the original plan and resolutely annihilate the Krasnov gang and Czech rebels in the lower reaches of the Don River!

Kamenev rubbed his eyes and said in disbelief: "It's fake, when I came, the Central Committee said ......"

Frunze interrupted him unceremoniously: "This is the latest instruction of the Central Committee, if the White Army does not surrender, then resolutely annihilate them!" ”

Kamenev didn't listen. "It's not true," he muttered in despair. This must be fake. Fake! ”

Frunze felt more and more pitiful for this goods, and was determined to let him die to understand: "After a week's arduous trek and rapid march, the advance of the Red 1st Army, the Red 5th Army, and the Red 12th Army, the main forces of our Southwestern Front, has reached Mirerovo and is pressing towards the banks of the Don River. If nothing else, we'll ......."

Frunze was well-intentioned to make Kamenev understand the current situation so that he could dispel those unrealistic ideas. But he didn't expect that this person was too deeply poisoned. I have become completely trapped in the world of the individual and cannot extricate myself.

I saw Kamenev roar angrily and roared: "Nonsense! Since the central authorities have the determination to strive for peace, they should resolutely abandon a military action and paralyze the enemy under the guise of peace, but do things like stealing chickens and cats and dogs behind their backs! It's so shameless! ”

Frunze was speechless for a while, thinking that this product should really take medicine, from beginning to end, it is good for you to shave your own head and pick your own head. Did the White Army stop military operations? You're so bad!

For this kind of idiot, Frunze was no longer interested in dealing with it, and waved his hand. I hope this thing will disappear from his eyes as soon as possible. However, Kamenev did not have this self-awareness, and he grabbed Frunze's sleeve. Aggressively said: "Comrade Mikhail, I warn you that we must stop a single military operation, and we still have a chance to correct it while it has not yet been made a big mistake!" ”

Frunze glanced at him in disgust, shook off his hand, like shaking off a piece of stinky shit, and said coldly: "I don't know what is wrong with the decision of the Central Committee, but you have been speaking for the bandits who destroy the peace and oppose the working class." You don't look like a Bolshevik in this way, you are the one who really needs to pull back from the precipice and repent! ”

Saying that, Frunze pushed Kamenev away and left without looking back, and when the unrelenting Kamenev tried to catch up again, Frunze gave an order in disgust: "Take Comrade Kamenev down, don't let him hinder us from encircling and annihilating the white dog!" ”

With Frunze's categorical words, as the main forces of the Southwestern Front rushed to the battlefield, the situation suddenly took a 180-degree turn, and the White Army, which had not yet launched a fierce attack, was attacked head-on, and Krasnov's troops were compressed to the banks of the Don River in a very short time.

In the collapsed situation, the general, who had always asked Titerikhs to cross the Don River north to cooperate with him, could no longer care about anything, and immediately grabbed a canoe and was the first to cross the Don River south under the interference of the Red Navy's artillery fire.

Krasnov narrowly escaped the river, but his army of 20,000 was not so lucky, and under the frontal attack of the Red Army and the constant interference of the Black Navy fleet, few people could cross the Don alive.

Konstantin, a White Army second lieutenant who was captured by the Red Army on the banks of the Don River and spent five long years in a labor camp, recalled the most brutal scene he experienced on the battlefield:

“…… The sound of shell explosions, the clatter of machine guns, and the air were filled with billowing smoke and flying dust...... The flash of the shell's detonation irritated my nerves from time to time, and my teeth trembled in the face of the overwhelming onslaught of the Red Army......"

"The position I was responsible for was not far from the battalion headquarters and the place where the wounded were housed, but at a glance I could see the red light of the Red Army artillery speaking on the plane ahead. I don't know what else to do but bow my head and pray right away......"

“…… Disappointment and tiredness were engraved on everyone's faces, and the screams of the wounded soldiers could be heard from time to time. I witnessed the scene of a wounded man at the front of the position with the lower half of his body blown up and crawling alone towards the wounded storage. No one dared to help him, the artillery fire of the Red Army plowed our positions over and over again, and after a violent explosion, the poor guy disappeared from my view forever......"

“…… Deserters constantly passed me in twos and threes, and according to the battlefield orders issued by my superiors, as a company commander, I should not hesitate to shoot them. But at that time, I forgot that order, I understood them very well, and if I hadn't been the company commander, I would have run away with them! ”

"The bad news is one after another, the first line of defensive positions has been completely lost, and the 23.5 heights have also been occupied by the Red Army. My good friend Second Lieutenant Nikolai told me that General Krasnov had fled with his staff to the south bank of the Don. We have been ruthlessly abandoned! ”

"After hearing the news. I looked confused. It wasn't until the battalion commander's herald crashed headlong into my bunker with shells and bullets flying that I woke up. To be honest, I admired his courage and sweated for him at the same time. He brought the battalion commander's order: 'Take your company and go and take back the 23.5 heights, the battalion commander wants me to tell you, your company is the last hope of the whole battalion, hurry up and carry out the order!' ’。 After speaking. He turned around and left, and that was the last time I saw the heroic herald. ”

"To be honest, I am personally skeptical of a counterattack, the 2nd and 3rd companies have tried several times before, and there is no point in retreating except leaving corpses all over the ground and wounded soldiers and wolves. I am very suspicious that with these dozens of people on my hands, what is the difference between this and sending them to death? ”

"But an order is an order, and soon I gathered all the people, and I don't need to say more, the big guys know what to do. Just as we packed our bags and prepared to die generously. Suddenly, there was a loud 'boom' not far away. My eyes immediately followed the direction from which the explosion was coming and found the battalion headquarters, which was already surrounded by raging fire. Under the explosion of that kind of Cheng dù. No one can escape. But I had to repent, and the first thought that came to my mind at that time was not to avenge my comrades and commanders, but to breathe a sigh of relief from the bottom of my heart, the battalion commander was finished, and no one could order me to die......"

Konstantin's company "held" overnight on the north bank of the Don River, and after dawn it was to face a new tsunami-like onslaught of the Red Army. The machine guns covering the attacking troops prevented the White troops in the trenches from raising their heads blindly and pulling the trigger, or throwing grenades indiscriminately. This senseless resistance lasted only ten minutes, and when Konstantin ran out of ammunition from his gun, he immediately chose to raise the white flag and surrender......

The effect of the Red Army's onslaught was very significant, and on the first day of the battle, Krasnov's troops were compressed and divided on the banks of the Don River, and all that was needed was to slowly tighten the encirclement and swallow the White Army little by little.

However, the Red Army also paid a lot of price for this, and the Red Army recruits and soldiers were brave, but the combat experience was too lacking, and in many cases they paid unnecessary casualties. Of course, more than the casualty report, the new political commissar of the Southwestern Front and commander-in-chief of logistics, Stalin, was the consumption of ammunition.

On the first day of the attack, the Red Army had almost exhausted all the shells, and the consumption of machine-gun ammunition was an astronomical amount, so Stalin had to urgently ask for help in the direction of Moscow, demanding that the arsenal immediately work overtime and start at full capacity, and that the railway workers restore the communication lines at any cost.

For this reason, Lenin had to call on all Party members, League members and workers to work on Sunday and to meet the urgent needs of the front with 120,000 enthusiasm.

Of course, the defeat of Krasnov's troops was still of considerable importance, and the collapse of the White Army on the north bank of the Don River meant that the White Army could no longer directly threaten White Kalitva, and that the Petropavlov regiment, which had been Krasnov for five days in the village of Dyadin, could breathe a sigh of relief.

At the same time, for the Czech Legion, the fall of the Krasnov Group was a sign that the catastrophe was about to befall them. In his frustration, a frenzied Titerikhs ordered his troops to launch a final assault on Baikalitva that afternoon, hoping to break through the node and break out of the encirclement.

However, the morale of the Red Navy, which was supported by friendly forces, was high, and they did not give up on White Kalitva in the most difficult times, let alone when they were about to embrace victory?

Under the stubborn resistance of the Red Army, the so-called final assault of the Czech Legion was more like a perfunctory affair, and nearly a week of fierce assault greatly weakened their sharpness, and the offensive was always greater than the defensive casualties. After a few days of fierce attack, the Czechs have already paid nearly 6,000 casualties, and at this moment, they can't move!

In the evening, when the defenders of White Kalitva had repelled the last symbolic attack of the Czechs, Frunze proudly wrote in his diary: "Before the twilight of May 8, when the last of the White bandits were driven out of our positions, I knew that victory would be mine, to the great Bolsheviks and Soviets!" ”

With no hope of attacking, Titerijs knew that there were few options left for him, and that his only solution seemed to be to the south. Fled in the direction of Shacht. However, it is not easy to escape and ascend to heaven. Voroshilov to the west finally got Luhansk. With the Red Tenth Army, it has already pressed over. On the north bank of the Don River, the Red First Army and the Red Fifth Army, which had just defeated Krasnov, could not wait to prepare to force the Don River, and the front of the troops was directed towards Kamensk. Several directions were firmly entangled by the Red Army, so that Titerikhs simply could not let go and escape.

“…… It is necessary to disengage from the Red Bandits as much as possible, and I demand that all units shrink in the direction of Kamensk as much as possible, and the troops stationed in Kamensk immediately begin to build fortifications...... If we want to escape this hell, we must work together, we must be united! We will drag the red bandits with Kamensk. We're going to have a big street fight! ”

"I ask all of them to be truly engaged in defensive operations. No one is allowed to retreat, and every trench, every crater, and every bunker is held. Even if the defense line is broken through by the red bandits, they should stay in their own positions and fight the red bandits by one means...... The honor of the army lies in defending every inch of land entrusted to us, and Czechoslovakia awaits us to fulfill our obligations! ”

Despite the fact that Kamensk's troops were racing against time to build fortifications, and despite the sonorous and powerful call of Titeririchs, in fact, almost everyone in the Czech regiment, from the commander to the rank-and-file soldiers, was thinking about how to escape, hoping to be saved from this hell on earth.

On the other side of them, Frunze had the exact opposite in mind, and he was going to do everything in his power to encircle and annihilate the Czechs. In fact, he was already aware of Titeririch's intentions. In order to "hold" the Czechs, Frunze chose to attack with insufficient preparation. Only by attacking, only by sticking to the Czechs, can they be annihilated!

At seven o'clock in the morning of 9 May, after a rapid artillery preparation, the 1st Red Army began to force its way across the Don River from the north, and its front was directed towards Kamensk, while at the same time the 12th Red Army, which supported White Kaletva, and the 10th Red Army, which was pressing from the direction of Luhansk, launched a fierce attack at the same time.

Voroshilov's Red Tenth Army quickly achieved results in Donetsk-on-Don (this city seems to be called Donetsk, and I added it to distinguish it from the Donetsk in Ukraine. The city is quite close to Kamensk, and the two cities are almost back-to-back. The officers and men of the Red Tenth soon discovered that the battle seemed to be far less brutal than they had anticipated, that many seemingly fortified positions had been taken down with a single charge, and that many of the Czechs' carefully constructed barricades and positions had long since been empty!

The reason is simple, the Czech troops defending the city have fled. They poured into Kamensk, where Titerikhs would return them to the battlefield with rifles, machine guns, and bayonets.

However, the battle will not always be smooth sailing, and Titerikhs has already set a hurdle for the Red Army, and his close assistant Colonel Hamsik has led elite troops to build strong fortifications in the city of Kamensk, which has long been ready for battle.

"In Kamensk, I have redeployed all the troops I can find as planned, many of them have been completely disrupted and I have had to regroup and distribute them," Hamsik's diary wrote. The Russians soon followed, and tried to take my position on the same day (9 May). But I believe I'm capable of making these damned Russians deflated, and I'll tell them the truth that they want to take Kamensk unless I'm dead! ”

Sure enough, the first to hit the nail was the 1st Red Army, which, under the cover of naval ships, crossed the Don without much effort and penetrated into the city of Kamensk, and a fierce battle began.

Hamsik's troops were at ease and well prepared, and the vanguard of the 1st Red Army, which was not strong enough and did not have sufficient combat experience, could hardly shake the Czechs' positions. The two sides fought fiercely for a morning, the vanguard of the Red First Army suffered heavy losses, and at one o'clock in the afternoon, there was a rare tranquility on the stalemate battlefield, both sides were waiting, both were accumulating strength, and at this time an interesting scene occurred.

Colonel Hamsik picked up a loudspeaker and shouted mockingly in his stiff Russian: "Red bandits, you are surrounded. Yes! Doubt no more, you are already surrounded. The wisest thing you can do is to lay down your arms and become prisoners, and I will forgive you! ”

Although Hamsik could try to be quick for a while, when the main force of the Red First Army arrived on the battlefield, the shape immediately turned against him. Soon after, after considerable fierce resistance, Hamsik's forces were divided and surrounded...... His stronghold was the first to be stormed, and after a fierce battle, he broke out of the encirclement alone (the rest of the Czechs chose to lay down their arms and surrender), and as he ran barefoot through the muddy ground, he was followed by a shuttle of machine-gun bullets, and then he died.

For Titerikhs, the fate of his group will depend on two things: first, how long Kamensk can hold out, and if it falls prematurely, he may not be able to run far, and second, it is simpler, that is, how fast his troops can run.

In fact, Taterichs also forgot one thing, that is, Frunze would not watch him run away, in addition to attacking Kamensk in the front, a unit of the Red Twelfth Army was also rushing in the direction of Shacht! (To be continued......)

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