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Stalin pointed to the map of the Far East, and there was a dark look in his eyes, as if worried: "Alas, Comrade Tukhachevsky, you should understand how much influence the Empress Anastasia has on the Russians!" Especially among the intellectuals, the peasants, and the Christians. If the Empress were to take possession of all of Eastern Siberia and the Far East, we would be back to the situation we had in 1920. So we have to hold the Amur line! But we can't afford to spend two million troops on the Far East, let alone a few thousand tanks...... Now there were not so many tanks in the USSR as a whole.

In the Far East there will be 1.5 million troops, relying on a 2,000-kilometer-long defensive line consisting of deep trenches, barbed wire, minefields, armored batteries and other modern fortifications. Just like in World War I, this defensive posture of the Red Army was very difficult to break! And according to what we know, there is a great deal of uncertainty in the relationship between China and Japan. Although Japan also supported Empress Anastasia in fighting against the Soviet Union, there have always been calls within the military to unite with the Soviet Union against China. If China encounters a setback in the Far East, the Japanese may turn to us at any time. In the same way, if China successfully captures the entire Far East and Eastern Siberia, Japan will likely be "confused" and "confused" by China's victory, and firmly stand on China's side! ”

Stalin's eyes flickered, looking at the generals below, and he accentuated his tone: "Comrades, our Motherland is about to face the worst moment since 1812!" So we must concentrate all our forces to defeat the imperialist invasion! In order to achieve this strategic goal, the Workers' and Peasants' Red Army needed to be massively expanded, and it was necessary to upgrade its technical equipment and training level...... And our industry needs to provide the Workers' and Peasants' Red Army with the best weapons and adequate supplies. For this reason, the Second Five-Year Plan will make a comprehensive adjustment, suspend all investment projects that cannot be directly used in the military industry, and concentrate all financial and material resources on expanding the Red Army and building military projects! ”

Seeing that the generals below were all holding their breath and concentrating with solemn expressions, Stalin finally nodded slightly with satisfaction and changed his tone to a calmer tone: "The Workers' and Peasants' Red Army will be reorganized, and several first-level military district command organs will be formed; On the Western Front, the Leningrad Special Military District, the Western Special Military District, and the Kiev Special Military District will be established, and these three armies will prepare Germany and Poland for the imaginary enemy, and will be responsible for defending Leningrad, Belarus, and Ukraine respectively, and will be responsible for building the 'Stalin Line' on the Western Front from Leningrad in the north to Kiev in the south. By January 1938, the three special military districts planned to have 10 to 15 infantry corps, one or two cavalry corps, one tank corps, one or two aviation brigades, and a strong force of independent artillery units! The commanders of the three special military districts, tentatively designated: Comrade Belov, commander of the Leningrad Special Military District; Comrade Ubowlevich, commander of the Western Special Military District; Comrade Yakir, commander of the Kiev Special Military District.

In addition, on the Eastern Front, a special military district for the Far East and a special military district for Central Asia will be formed. The Far Eastern Special Military District will be commanded by Comrade Blyukhel, and Comrade Tukhachevsky will be the People's Commissar of Defense; By January 1938, the Far Eastern Special Military District would have 30 infantry corps, three cavalry corps, one tank corps, two aviation brigades, and independent artillery units under its command. The task of the Far Eastern Special Military District is to defend the Far East, and the targets of the war will include China, Japan, and the White Army entrenched in Vladivostok, Nikolaevsk and Magadan regions! If necessary, the Far Eastern Special Military District can abandon the Far Eastern Primorsky zone south of the Amur River and retreat to the Amur River defense line for entrenchment.

The commander of the Central Asian Special Military District will be Comrade Budyonny, who will be responsible for defending the Central Asian region, and the hypothetical enemy is China; Before January 1938, the Central Asian Special Military District would administer 10 infantry corps, 5 cavalry corps, 1 aviation brigade and independent artillery units. At the same time, he was responsible for building a defensive line in Central Asia to defend against the offensive of Chinese imperialism. In addition, the Workers' and Peasants' Red Army will also form a strategic reserve, including 30 infantry corps, five cavalry corps, one tank corps, five artillery divisions, and five aviation brigades.

After the completion of this series of expansions, the Workers' and Peasants' Red Army will have a powerful field force of more than 110 infantry corps, 20 cavalry corps, five tank corps, fifteen aviation brigades, and at least fifteen independent artillery divisions! In addition, there will be hundreds of thousands of second-line reserve troops stationed throughout the country. By that time the total strength of the Workers' and Peasants' Red Army would be 6 million to 700 men! It has 6,000 tanks and armored vehicles, more than 20,000 artillery pieces, 2,000 aircraft, and three impregnable lines of defense! ”

Speaking of this, Stalin straightened his back, his face seemed to be full of confidence, and he waved his arms vigorously: "Comrades! The Workers' and Peasants' Red Army, with such a large number of troops and technical equipment, would definitely be able to defeat a formidable enemy from all sides! And after defeating these fascist bandits armed to the teeth, we will also "plant" the red flag all over the world, realize the legacy of Comrade Lenin, and liberate all mankind!! ”

With a thunderous round of applause, the long enlarged meeting of the Revolutionary Military Council of the USSR finally came to an end. After the meeting, the Chairman of the Revolutionary Military Council Voroshilov (the Revolutionary Military Council was retained because of the restoration of the Romanov dynasty), the People's Commissar of Defense Tukhachevsky, the Chief of the Main Directorate of the Red Air Force Baranov (thanks to the fact that the Soviet aviation industry was developing slower than history, the plane that killed Baranov was not produced), and the head of the Red Army Intelligence Department, Berzin, were called to interview Stalin.

In a lavishly decorated office that smelled of vodka and fine tobacco, the diminutive, slightly fat Stalin stood by the window, pipe in one hand, looking down at a map of the Soviet Union spread out on the table. Seeing Voroshilov and the others entering, he turned around and walked up to them, shook hands with them one by one, and invited them to sit down. Stalin sat in the armchair behind his desk, no longer in the vigor of the moment, his eyes were red, and he looked very tired. He smoked a cigarette and said slowly in a deep voice:

"We will win, Comrade Tukhachevsky, do you say yes?"

"Comrade Stalin, I am convinced of this!" Tukhachevsky replied.

"Really? I thought I'd hear something different from you. Stalin exhaled a puff of grayish smoke, pointed to a document on the table with his pipe, and said with a smile: "This is the document appointing you as People's Commissar of Defense." Comrade Tukhachevsky, this is the trust of the Soviet people in you, and the Soviet people do not want you to be the last People's Commissar of Defense of the USSR! In order to live up to this expectation, I think you should say whatever you want, and don't worry about the scourge that will cause you, in fact, the only scourge now is defeat! ”

The attitude of the GCIST dictator is now sincere, and with the collapse of international Trotskyism after Trotsky's death and the unprecedented external crisis of the Soviet Union, it seems unlikely that the Great Purge will take place.

"Well, Comrade Stalin, I'll tell you the truth, I'm worried. We are going to use more than 6 million Red Army troops to resist more than 10 million heavily armed fascist bandits, and the intelligence from all sides shows that the enemy's weapons are more advanced than ours, and their will and skill in fighting are no less than those of the Red Army! ”

Stalin smiled faintly and took another puff of his cigarette: "As I thought, the Soviet Motherland is facing an unprecedented crisis!" Comrade People's Commissar of Defense, how are you going to defend the country? ”

Tukhachevsky took a deep breath, took out a red and blue pencil from his pocket, sketched it on the map spread out on his desk, and said as he draw: "Comrade Stalin, we are now facing an attack from both the east and the west, whether it is China, Germany, or Poland and Poland, all of which have great military strength, and the Soviet Union must not win on two fronts at the same time. ”

He had already drawn two huge arrows on the map of Belarus and the Far East, and on the map of Belarus was a red "color" arrow, pointing in the direction of "Poland"; In the Far East, a blue arrow pointed to Soviet Siberia. He pointed to the arrow in the direction of Poland and said: "Among the three countries of China, Germany, and Poland, China is the largest, Germany is the strongest, and Poland is the weakest. We can concentrate our forces to strike before they are ready for war, and we can choose the end of 1937, when we can concentrate all the tank corps and cavalry corps, use them to form sharp knives, and launch a surprise attack on the "Bo" Lan under the cover of aircraft and heavy artillery! Strive to defeat Poland before Germany and China react, and force it to withdraw from the anti-Soviet alliance. Then we can concentrate our forces on the war with Germany...... We may even consider carving up Poland with Germany in exchange for peace. ”

Later, he pointed to the blue arrow in the Far East and said: "While we are concentrating our forces to deal with Poland and Germany, the Far East can only adopt the scorched earth tactics of fortifying the walls and clearing the wilderness, destroying all infrastructure and 'communication' facilities that can be used by the Chinese, burning all towns and farms, leaving nothing to the Chinese, and using the harsh natural conditions of Siberia to block the invasion of the Chinese." At the same time, we can also find ways to negotiate with Chinese, and if they are willing to call us the "empress" Anastasia and destroy the Tsarist regime in Vladivostok, we can cede the Far East to them...... This was, of course, a delaying tactic so that we could gain enough time to defeat Germany. Germany is our greatest threat, as long as Germany is defeated, we will tear up the peace treaty and go back to fight China, regain everything we have lost, and if possible, help China GCD liberate the whole of China! ”

"It's gambling! Comrade Tukhachevsky, your suggestion is to gamble on the fate of the Soviet Fatherland. Voroshilov shook his head desperately, and he said: "Poland has a security treaty with Britain and France, and if we raid Poland, we will face simultaneous war with Germany, England, and France!" And the Chinese are not so easy to deceive, they only need to wait for us to be defeated by Germany, Britain, France to annex the whole of Eastern Siberia and Central Asia, and there is no need to "exchange" the "empress" with us. ”

"And our raid on Polan could also face failure!" Baranov, head of the General Directorate of the Red Air Force, also disagreed with Tukhachevsky's suggestion, saying: "The German Army may not be mobilized until the spring of 1938, but their air force will prepare for war in advance!" The training of pilots takes longer. Now Germany's aviation industry is far ahead, and the "sexuality" of the aircraft they have jointly developed with China far exceeds ours, and by the winter of 1937 there will be at least a few thousand German planes ready for war. It is simply impossible for our mechanized troops to attack under the attack of so many aircraft, we will be defeated by the "Polishes"! ”

"Comrade Baranov, we still have three years to develop the Air Force, and I know that Comrade Bolikar Bolikar has designed a very good monoplane fighter, and all the indicators of this aircraft are superior to the F3 series fighters jointly developed by China and Germany! Moreover, the Soviet Union is still in absolute leadership in terms of heavy bombers, we have taken the lead in forming a heavy bombing regiment, and we also have the TB-3 four-engine heavy bomber with excellent "sexuality", while China and Germany only have double-engine HE-111 bombers. Tukhachevsky went on to say:

"I don't believe that Britain and France will fight us for Poland, and even Germany may see Poland destroyed by us! A strong "Poland" was not in Germany's interests, and Hitler would have been willing to annex "Poland" first and then attack the Soviet Union. The Germans are very arrogant, they will think that their own strength alone will be enough to bring down the USSR! As for whether China will compromise with us, I am really not sure, Comrade Berzin, you are the head of the Red Army Intelligence Department and have served as an adviser to the Central G, do you think it is possible for the Kuomintang China to make peace with us? ”

"To be honest, it's not very likely." Berzin shrugged his shoulders and said with a wry smile: "As far as I know, the leaders of the largest faction in the Chinese National Defense Force, and the leaders of the Chinese main battle faction, Marshal Luo Yaoguo and Wang Zhongyi are not the same kind of people, he is still quite trustworthy to his allies, and he has never betrayed his allies. And we all know that he had an unusual relationship with Empress Anastasia, and that it was certainly in the marshal's best interest to raise her to rule Russia. Even more troublesome...... This marshal has always had the greatest hostility towards the Soviet Union! ”

"Comrade Berzin, then you don't agree with Comrade Khachevsky's suggestion." Stalin said.

"No, on the contrary, I support this proposal, except for making peace with China, there is no possibility of 'sex'." Berzin's answer was unexpected.

"Oh, tell me your reasoning." Stalin looked at the intelligence minister with interest. Berzin took a summary of intelligence from his briefcase and put it in front of Stalin. He said: "This is information about the 'Polish' and German cooperation, compared with the Sino-German cooperation, Germany has no sincerity in the 'Polish' and German cooperation, all the weapons provided to the 'Poland' are outdated, and the heavy industry project to help the 'Poland' is also progressing slowly." And the "Poland" land also did not trust Germany, they have been quietly building a defense line on the "Poland" and German borders, in contrast, the Soviet "Poland" border is lax in defense, obviously "Poland" Lan did not expect the Soviet Union to attack them first! And by this time Pilsudski was already seriously ill and could die soon! And no one within Poland can replace Pilsudski as the head of the whole power, and Poland is likely to be caught in a struggle for power. As he spoke, he took out another document and spread it out on the table:

"This document is top-secret information sent back by our spies who had been planted inside Germany and that Hitler intended to annex Austria, the Czech Republic, Lithuania, Estonia, and Latvia before attacking the Soviet Union...... The timetable for annexation would be Austria in 1936, the Czech Republic in the first half of 1937, and the Baltic states in late 1937 and early 1938. In other words, we can take advantage of Germany's settlement of the three Baltic states to suddenly attack Poland! I think it is quite possible that Germany will sit idly by while we attack Poland......

Of course, after the defeat of Poland by us, Germany will certainly send troops to help the Polish reactionaries in exile in Germany to counterattack, so as to help them regain control of the Polish power and act as a puppet of Germany. This would be in the best interest of Germany, because after helping the "Polish" reactionaries to return to their country, the Germans would be able to receive a reward for the inclusion of Danzesk in Germany, and at the same time, a "Poland" under complete German control would not share with Germany the territory seized from the Soviet Union. ”

"What's in it for us?" Stalin thought for a moment and asked.

"There are great benefits." Berzin smiled: "First of all, without the two million troops of 'Poland', our pressure on the Western Front will be greatly reduced. Second, a "Polish" land, which was completely controlled by Germany, could not afford to contain Germany and maintain the balance in Europe. Would Britain and France still support Germany in defeating the Soviet Union? Will France tolerate a Germany that controls all of Eastern and Central Europe to appear on her side? If Britain and France switch from supporting the attack on the Soviet Union by China and Germany to opposing the attack on the Soviet Union by China and Germany, they may support Japan's alliance with the Soviet Union, and the pressure on our eastern front will also be greatly eased. ”

Stalin unconsciously tapped the ashtray with his pipe, and was silent for a long time before he whispered: "Comrade Berzin, you mean that we will first defeat the 'Poland', and then retreat to the Stalinist line, and 'hand' the 'Poland' to Germany, so as to create a situation in which Germany will dominate Central and Eastern Europe, so as to win the transfer of Britain and France from the side of China and Germany to the side of the Soviet Union, and then to the side of the Soviet Union along with Japan." Is that so? ”

Belzin nodded affirmatively. Stalin laughed and said: "Very well, Comrade Berzin's proposal is very feasible, but the Far East still cannot be abandoned!" We will defend the Far East with 1.5 million troops, Central Asia with 600,000 troops, and 400 to 5 million troops to defeat Germany and Poland! ”