Chapter 14 The Powerful Red Army

After the January bloodbath in Petrograd, every time Hessmann arrived at Smolny Palace, he would find that the security here was even tighter than last time. If he wanted to go in and see the Bolshevik leaders, he had to pass through one after another. examine. Moreover, most of the soldiers responsible for guarding the Russian rulers were not Russians.

"Is Vasily here? I am Hessmann from the Russian-German Company. Comrade Lenin invited me here." Outside the gate of Smolny Palace, Hessmann got out of his Mercedes-Benz car (this car was not shipped from Germany) It was Gusinsky, the purchasing department manager of the Russian-German Company, who was given to Hersman by a Russian antique dealer.) came up and spoke fluently in Chinese Mandarin to the soldiers standing guard!

The reason why he spoke Chinese was because the people guarding the gate for Lenin were actually a group of Chinese - Chinese and Latvians, who were now the main force defending Smolny Palace. According to Hersman's observation, most of the Chinese in the Smolny Palace came from Northeast China and Shandong. There were about a hundred people in total, and they all had fought for the Russians (the Tsarist Russian army incorporated some Chinese workers into combat units as cannon fodder). , the leader was a Shandong man named Huang. He was very tall and his face looked very majestic. Hersman did not know his Chinese name, but only knew that his Russian name was Vasily.

"Mr. He, you are here." A Shandong man named Vasily in Russian was on duty at the gate of Smolny Palace. When Hersman arrived, he was talking to Spiridon, the chef of Smolny Palace. Speaking - Hersman was very impressed by this chef, not because his Russian food was delicious, but because he looked like a certain Russian emperor in later generations, and his surname was Putin...

Hessmann nodded from a distance to Master Putin, who was pulling a cart of food, and then handed his and Chloe's passes to Vasily Huang, and said in Russian: "Is Comrade Lenin here?"

"The document is correct," Vasily Huang nodded, and also spoke Russian. He spoke Russian well. After returning the document to Hessman, he added: "Mr. Hessman, Heinsberg Madam, please come with me, Comrade Lenin is waiting to see you."

"Okay, Chloe, let's go see Lenin." Hersman waved to Chloe, who was still standing by the car, and then the two of them walked quickly towards Lenin's office.

In an office on the second floor of the Smolny Palace, Lenin waved to Hessmann and Chloe from behind his desk. "Hello, Ludwig!" His voice was high-pitched and powerful, and he seemed to be in a good mood.

The drastic change a week ago made him a winner again. He did not need to hand over power and be labeled as a traitor to Russia and be disgraced for eternity - he was now a winner who could write his own history!

Trotsky, who was wearing a yellow-green military coat, stood up from an armchair, stepped forward to shake hands and hug Hessmann, and then kissed Chloe's hand. After signing the Treaty of Brest-Litovsk, Trotsky devoted himself wholeheartedly to the formation of the Workers' and Peasants' Red Army.

"Ludwig, you're here just in time. I have something important to tell you." Trotsky saw Hessmann and Chloe sitting down on a sofa and said straight to the point, "Russia is in a state of flux." Facing a war, internal enemies and external enemies are colluding. Just a few hours ago, foreign intervention forces occupied Murmansk. It seems that they are preparing to support the *** rebellion through this port. The current situation. very dangerous."

"Is it the British and French troops?" Hersman asked. He didn't know much about the history of the Soviet-Russian Civil War. He only knew about the foreign intervention forces and the Siberian intervention.

"There are also American troops!" Lenin said coldly, "We just want to withdraw from the war, but they want to impose war on the Russian people!"

He said this without any blush, as if it was not the Bolshevik troops who dispersed the Constituent Assembly and shot down the masses in the streets of Petrograd...

Hersman nodded and said solemnly: "That's because the social system chosen by the Bolsheviks is not compatible with Britain and the United States! Vladimir Ilyich, Germany dominated by nationalism and Russia dominated by GCism are both Anglo-American. The enemy must be eradicated, and I think a larger-scale intervention is already brewing.”

The larger-scale intervention of course refers to the "Siberian intervention". Not only Britain and the United States will send troops, but Japan will also join in and dispatch a large number of troops to fight the Red Army.

"Well, you can imagine!" Lenin said, "Since they are going to take action, they will definitely put in more effort. There may be hundreds of thousands of foreign intervention troops and millions of Japanese troops! We are really facing an unprecedented crisis! To this end, we will form an army that will temporarily obey the leadership of the Bolshevik Party - the Workers' and Peasants' Red Army!"

The Red Army that makes capitalism around the world tremble is finally coming! But how long will the Red Army obey the leadership of the Bolsheviks? 70 years?

Hessman suppressed the question and nodded: "Vladimir Ilyich, we will defeat them! No matter how many intervention troops and *** troops there are, we can defeat them!"

He spoke with confidence, as if to reassure Lenin and Trotsky.

"But how are we going to defeat them?" Trotsky on the side shook his head, hesitating. Although he is the chairman of the Military Revolutionary Committee, he does not know much about military affairs.

"It's very simple!" Hessman said, "No matter how many enemies there are, the revolutionary army will be twice as many as them!"

"Twice as much?" Lenin laughed. "This is the advice of military experts! Lev Davidovich, what do you think?"

"This is impossible. We don't have that many officers, it's difficult to recruit that many people, and we don't have enough weapons and equipment."

Lenin looked at Hessman again - Hessman was actually a military adviser to the Bolsheviks.

"The question now is not whether there are officers, but whether they can recruit so many people into the army. How many people are there on the Communist side now? How many people can they mobilize? If they can recruit 1 million people, Then we will have 3 million people! This will ensure victory. As for the officers... they can be recruited from the tsar's officers or promoted from the soldiers. This is not a problem. Five years of battlefield training is more effective than ten years of military school education. . Weapons and equipment are also easy to handle. Now we are not fighting the German army, which is armed to the teeth. We are fighting the Russian army, which also has no good equipment. We don’t need much good equipment. "

As Hessmann spoke, he looked at Lenin and Trotsky. The two revolutionary leaders had expressionless faces and seemed dissatisfied with Hessman's answer. He paused and began to throw out the dry goods.

"We still have a lot of Mosin-Nagant rifles, Japanese-made rifles and Maxim machine guns, as well as bullets (these were seized from the Tsarist Russian army. The Tsarist army lost millions in a few years), and we can provide them all. Here it is! In addition, the speed of handing over prisoners of war can be accelerated, and all captured officers can be handed over to you immediately... Of course, you must also hand over 500,000 Russian Germans and the Tsar's family to us as soon as possible. "

During this period, under the management of the Russian-German Economic Promotion Company, the railway traffic from Petrograd to Riga via Pskov was not only fully restored, but also extremely busy - Major Halder (who had just been promoted) was in Riga A transfer station was established where prisoners of war, weapons and equipment shipped from the west, grain, coal, and a much smaller number of prisoners of war (German and Austrian prisoners of war) from the east all met. In addition, according to the plans of the Grand General Staff, the Gulf of Riga will also be the center of the future Baltic Principality.

Lenin and Trotsky looked at each other, and Hessmann helped them solve two big problems. With the firearms, ammunition and officers (captured officers of the Russian army) provided by the Germans, the progress of organizing the Red Army can be greatly accelerated!

It's just that the Germans insist on asking for Tsar Nicholas II, which still makes people a little worried, but I'm afraid it won't work if they don't give it...

"Ludwig, what if the Tsar himself is unwilling to leave Russia?" Lenin asked tentatively, "I think even the Bolsheviks can't force the Tsar to leave, right?"

But could the Tsar be forced to die? Hessmann swore, and then said seriously: "Then use a closed train to escort the Tsar's family to Berlin! Vladimir Ilyich, this is the request of His Majesty the German Emperor. Please do not refuse. However, Please rest assured that Germany will not hand over Nicholas II to the Bolshevik opposition, because those people are the lackeys of Britain, the United States and France, and we in Germany undoubtedly support the Bolsheviks!”

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