The assassination of Ulitsky was like a bolt from the blue, waking up the Bolshevik leadership, who had been carried away by a succession of victories since November. It is then that they realize that the regime is not stable and that their enemies are using all means to try to regain lost power.

I have to say that in a sense, the three shots that Ulitsky received are out-and-out good things. Finally calmed down a group of people who were too excited. Of course, the excitement of the Bolsheviks is also understandable, and this half month has been too smooth!

When the October Revolution broke out, the Socialist-Revolutionaries, the Cadets, and the Mensheviks did not fail to make a counterattack, but their counterattack was really ineffective, and they were defeated by the Bolsheviks. In Tsarskoye Village, the noisy Li Wofu was wiped out in minutes by the workers' Red Guards who were killed from the city, and he and Luo Fatzi could only cut their beards and abandon their robes and fled to the front line base camp.

As for the Social Revolutionaries, Kerensky's accidental capture left them in disarray, and the internal pro-Bolshevik leftists and the anti-Bolshevik right were in a fierce fight, and for a while they could not organize a decent counterattack.

And the rest of the Mensheviks, these people were pure mouth cannons from the very beginning, except for fighting verbal battles, what to do, nothing to achieve. In the face of the armed Bolsheviks, they put up no effective resistance except painless protests.

The politicians were out of their way, and the only thing that could stop the Bolshevik "iron hooves" in Russia was the front-line base camps. To explain, the so-called front-line base camp was actually the General Staff of the Tsarist Russian Empire in the tsarist era. This body is responsible for directing all operational operations in the major theaters. It is the actual brain of the Russian army.

When the February Revolution was victorious. The Tsarist Empire has become history, but the front-line base camp was retained because the Provisional Government wanted to continue to participate in the First World War, and the chief of the general staff at this time was Du Hening, who was only a regimental commander at the beginning of the war, and was gradually promoted to quartermaster of the Southwest Theater Command.

In September 1917, when Kornilov's rebellion was crushed, Kerensky took a fancy to the quartermaster in order to expand his influence in the army. In one fell swoop, he was promoted to Chief of the General Staff (a typical rocket cadre).

Therefore, Du Hening was not generally grateful to Kerensky, and after he took office, he vigorously promoted the officers of the Socialist-Revolutionaries and Mensheviks in the army, took control of the so-called army council in one fell swoop, and carried out all the orders of the Kerensky government without reservation.

After the victory of the October Revolution, upon learning of Korensky's capture, he immediately assumed the post of Supreme Commander-in-Chief, refused to obey the orders of the Soviet of Workers' and Soldiers' Deputies, recruited a large number of counter-revolutionaries, and turned the front-line base camp into a bastion of counter-revolution.

That time. Du Hening is like a new Kornilov again, in the country. He was unanimously touted by the Social Revolutionaries, the Mensheviks, and the Cadets; Abroad, the foreign ministers of Britain, France, and the United States pinned high hopes on him, directly refusing to recognize the legitimacy of the Soviet power, but instead declaring to the whole world that the front-line base camp is the only legitimate organ of political power in Russia, and that Du Hening, as the supreme commander of the front-line base camp, will receive the full support of the three countries.

It should be said that this situation was extremely unfavorable for Lenin, for the nascent Council of People's Commissars, whose base camp controlled the entire army of the Northern, Western, Southwestern and Romanian fronts, and mastered almost 75% of the Russian armed forces. Especially on the northern and western fronts close to Petrograd and Moscow, the strength of the base camp was even closer, and it seemed that with a wave of his arm, the Bolsheviks could be wiped out.

Therefore, in order to change the unfavorable situation, Lenin concentrated all his energies on plotting against the front-line army, and it should be said that he did it very effectively. On October 25, when the Petrograd uprising was about to be won, Lenin ordered the Petrograd Revolutionary Military Council to telegraph all fronts and army committees, ordering them to keep a close eye on the attitude of the commanders, arrest all officers who dared to oppose the revolution, and to inform the soldiers about the revolution and explain its significance and nature.

The next day, when the People's Commissariat was formed, it immediately issued a "Letter to the Front," calling on all the armies to establish a Provisional Revolutionary Military Council, and ordering all commanders to submit to the leadership of the Committee.

At this time, the political commissar training course that Li Xiaofeng had suggested to Lenin played a key role. After accepting the appointment of the Soviets, 298 commissars rushed to the front and acted as propagandists and agitators. On the one hand, he propagated the significance of the revolution, and on the other hand, he actively investigated and supervised the situation of the army, united the soldiers who supported the revolution, prevented the base camp from mobilizing troops to the two capitals, and broke Du Hening's blockade of the army.

Thanks to the active efforts of the political commissars, the soldiers of the northern and western fronts, who were already inclined to revolution, began to defect as whole companies, battalions, regiments, and even entire divisions. Especially after the official collapse of the Kerensky government, the political commissars actively mobilized and organized the soldiers, re-elected the old army committees at all levels, and purged the Cadets, Social Revolutionaries and Mensheviks one by one. It really seized the leadership of the army and dealt a merciless blow to the counter-revolutionary officers who tried to suppress the revolution.

Du Hening, who was full of confidence at the beginning, did not expect that the strength of less than 300 people would disintegrate his northern and western fronts, so that he was ready to mobilize the troops of these two fronts back to the capital, and the plan of King Qin's plan would be completely bankrupt as soon as it was implemented.

In the face of this unfavorable situation, he was unwilling to wait for his hands to die, and launched a new counter-revolutionary move. He actively contacted the old All-Russian Central Executive Committee of the Soviets of Workers' and Soldiers' Deputies, controlled by the Socialist-Revolutionaries and Mensheviks, and got this group of unsuccessful fellows to issue a statement claiming that the Bolsheviks in Petrograd had started an insurrection and that the Bolsheviks were trying to act as an internal response to the Germans and to deal a blow to the army in the back at the front!

While slandering and denigrating the Bolsheviks, he also found the chairman of the Army Council (controlled by the Socialist-Revolutionaries and Mensheviks) with Captain Lekrestov (yes, only a lieutenant indeed!). ）。

The two of them jointly energized together. The Bolsheviks were demanded to stop the "violent" acts immediately. Immediately abandon the seizure of power by force. Kerensky was immediately released, and he had to obey the Provisional Government unconditionally, and threatened: "If the Bolsheviks do not accept it, then he will use the power given to him by God to crusade against the Bolsheviks by force until these demons are erased from the world!" ”

At the same time as he made a big statement, Du Hening ordered the seizure of all telegrams and letters sent by the Soviets of Workers' Deputies to the front, and the arrest of all commissars and commissioners appointed by the Soviets of Workers' Deputies. The commanders of all military districts and group armies are required to immediately carry out operations. Eliminate adverse effects and restore the morale of the army.

Where there is oppression, there is resistance, and Du Hening tried to solve the trouble caused to him by the Soviet of Engineer and Soldier Deputies by means of an executive order, naively thinking that this order would remove all obstacles. But he had no idea that as the Russian Revolution continued to develop in depth, his orders would simply become a dead letter.

The Northern Front, from Riga to Dvinsk, consisted of three army groups, the 1st, 5th and 12th armies. The Twelfth Army was placed on the right flank of the front, closest to Petrograd. Location is the most important thing.

Before the outbreak of the Petrograd uprising, the Bolshevik deputies of the 12th Army secretly created the Revolutionary Military Council. Immediately after the outbreak of the Petrograd uprising, the Commission took action, and on 26 October it issued a manifesto: "Declaring that its task is to unify all the military forces of the army group, so that not a single soldier of the army group will be sent to Petrograd for the shameful work of 'appeasement'." ”

The committee soon led the soldiers to block the main transportation routes and bridges, and took control of the arsenals, stations, and army group headquarters, directly emptying the military leadership of the army group headquarters.

The decisive action of the Twelfth Army gave a "bad" head to the other armies of the Northern and Western Fronts, and the 1st and 5th Armies, as well as the 2nd, 3rd and 10th Armies attached to the Western Front, immediately launched effective actions to ensure that Petrograd and Moscow would not be attacked by Dukhinin.

According to a soldier of the 10th Army, when the news of the victory of the Petrograd uprising reached the Western Front, there was a jubilant scene in the trenches and barracks, and all the comrades-in-arms shouted "hula" and immediately held a regimental meeting and unanimously adopted a resolution in full support of the new regime...... Comrades-in-arms from other regiments also responded, breaking with the division and regimental committees controlled by the compromisers, electing the Bolshevik soldiers, who represented the will of the soldiers, as soldiers' representatives, and reorganizing the committees at all levels to seize the leadership of the army......

Almost overnight, the Northern and Western fronts changed owners, and after the soldiers had taken action, the old officers had to be forced to accept their opinions, or they would be dismissed from their posts or shot as counter-revolutionaries.

So much so that some of the Socialist-Revolutionaries and Mensheviks began to say in a fit of rage: "Let the Bolsheviks be straightforward here, do you guarantee that an armistice will be concluded with the Germans tomorrow?!" ”

In the face of their provocations, the ordinary soldier replied with confidence: "Do not think that the Bolsheviks will give us the ready-made peace, bread and land, as simple as taking a cigarette out of a purse." No! Peace and land must still be fought for with practical actions, and we must act like the Bolsheviks! ”

With the support and support of the front-line soldiers, Du Hening's attempt was completely bankrupt, no soldiers were willing to carry out his orders, and even most of the soldiers were full of resentment towards him, and this resentment would explode violently at the right time, making the chief of the General Staff suffer the consequences.

Beginning on 1 November, the armies at the front held a general meeting of all the soldiers, established a revolutionary military council led by the Bolsheviks, dismissed the political commissars and commissioners appointed by the Provisional Government, declared the "National Salvation and Revolutionary Committee" a criminal organ of treason and counter-revolution, and announced the immediate dismissal and arrest of those who dared to carry out counter-revolutionary activities.

On 7 November, in the name of the executive committee of the army committee, he sent a telegram to the whole army, asking all fronts and group army committees to initiate the establishment of a new political power on behalf of the combat units and to propose a candidate for prime minister. On behalf of the base camp, he proposed Chernov, a right-wing extremist of the Socialist-Revolutionaries, as a candidate.

This was presumably intended to establish a "legitimate" new regime to counteract the authority of the Soviets of Workers' and Soldiers' Deputies. He thought he could redeem everything in this way of stealing concepts. He even jumped over the wall in a hurry. It also made a false statement of agreement in principle to an armistice and to strive for peace. In this way, the enormous impact of the Peace Decree is attempted to be undone. To this end, he also threw out the slogan that was already notorious in Petrograd - a government of all socialists would be organized.

In fact, he didn't use his brains, and he didn't want to think that the People's Committee was already an all-socialist government, and it would be humiliating to use this slogan to confront the People's Committee.

In fact, it was indeed self-inflicted, and the soldiers at the front had long learned the tricks of the Cadets, the Social Revolutionaries and the Mensheviks in the matter of peace, and would no longer believe their nonsense. What's more, the tutor is not a vegetarian either. As soon as I saw that these people were ready to play tricks again, trying to engage in the trick of painting cakes to satisfy their hunger, they immediately came up with a trick to draw salaries from the bottom of the kettle!

On 8 November, the Soviets and the Council of People's Commissars sent a note to the ambassadors of the Entente group, proposing that armistice negotiations be held immediately on all fronts and that a just democratic pact be concluded. At the same time, an order was issued to Du Hening, urging him to immediately propose to the command of the enemy's army that the military operations be stopped immediately after receiving this notice, so that peace negotiations could be commenced.

This trick is used. punctured Du Hening's lies and made him embarrassed. If he does not accept this order, then his fake and genuine reactionary face will be completely exposed, and naturally no soldier will bird him at that time; However, if the ...... is accepted Well, let's put it this way, how could he possibly accept it?

So for this order, Du Hening directly turned a deaf ear and was ready to remain silent and avoid facing it. But his little Jiujiu has long been seen through by the mentor, do you think you can get away with it if you don't answer? The too young, too simple Tucson is broken!

That night, Lenin directly connected to the base camp and asked for a direct dialogue with Du Hening, and waited until four o'clock in the morning the next morning, Du Hening always refused to call under various excuses. At this time, Du Hening, who had no choice but to refuse.

Lenin waited for Du Hening's refusal, and on the spot, he announced the dismissal of Du Hening, and immediately informed the front of the news, called on the soldiers to stand up and crush the counter-revolutionary conspiracy in the base camp, and appointed a new supreme commander-in-chief on the same day, Bolshevik officer Warrant Officer Krylenko (by the way, this rank is also lower).

On 10 November, Krylenko, escorted by a detachment of Red Guards and sailors, boarded a special train to the front. In the evening of the same day, he arrived in Pskov and immediately asked the commander of the Northern Front, Cheremisov, to come to the talks, but the latter refused to go and was immediately dismissed from his post. On the 12th, Krylenko arrived in Dvinsk, and the commander of the Fifth Army also refused to meet with him and was also dismissed.

In this situation, in the face of Krylenko, who was approaching step by step, Du Hening seemed to maintain an optimistic mood, and declared to the outside world: "No matter whether I am the supreme commander or not, I will always oppose the thugs until the birth of a nationally recognized regime!" ”

In view of Du Hening's stubborn adherence to the counter-revolutionary position and opposition to the revolution, the All-Russian Soviets of Workers' and Soldiers' Deputies and the Council of People's Commissars declared him an enemy of the people. In order to completely eliminate Dukhinin, the Council of People's Commissars formed a unit in Polotsk, where the Third Army was located, and prepared to attack Mogilev, where the base camp was located.

When the leaders of the base camp heard that an army was coming to attack them, the group of unplanted goods immediately panicked and immediately began to pack up and run away. And the Cossacks, who had sworn to defend the base camp to the death, once again turned back, saying that they would remain neutral.

Suddenly, the scene was chaotic, and the fleeing dignitaries and the angry soldiers who heard the news collided head-on, and the two sides fought...... In the midst of the uproar, Du Hening, who knew that he was finished, showed the most hysterical and released all the important political prisoners imprisoned in the base camp, including Kornilov and Denikin, from prison. In the midst of the chaos, this pair of brothers and sisters was extremely embarrassed to escape from the raging soldiers.

However, the initiator Du Hening was not so lucky, this brother's goal was too obvious, and he didn't forget to take the special train when he ran away, but he was intercepted by the rioting soldiers halfway, and the angry soldiers rushed into the carriage one after another, breaking through the barrier of Du Hening's guards, dragging the pretentious supreme commander-in-chief out of the carriage, and then beating him to death.

That is to say, by November 12, 1917, the noisy base camp of the front had also been lost, and there was no force in Russia that could stop the advance of the Bolsheviks. It was in this situation that the Mentors, whether they were Trotsky, Sverdlov or Stalin, were a little proud and relaxed.

And now, the sudden assassination of Ulitsky is undoubtedly the best alarm bell, which makes Lenin's nerves tense again: "Immediately convene an enlarged meeting of the Central Committee, the assassination of Comrade Ulitsky indicates that a new enemy counterattack is beginning, and we must be vigilant and ready for battle!" (To be continued......)

PS: A month is going to pass again...... Bow and thank the three comrades of Ma Shen Bobo, the Riding King, and the Million Thirty!