Beiyang 1917

1918年7月14ri20：05莫斯科克林姆林宫

Bukharin, the Central Propaganda People's Commissar of the Soviet Union and the editor-in-chief of "Pravda", continued to read the long telegram from Tsaritsyn:

The reason you proposed to make concessions to the coalition forces is that if the coalition forces cross the Volga, there will be no troops on the left bank that can stop the enemy's attack. On this point, we have a different opinion from yours. On our side, mainly the headquarters of the front army and the Eighth Army , Analysis of the main commanders of the Twelfth Army Group.

We believe that the Ufa coalition army is a force with very powerful weapons and equipment, and they have a powerful air force to provide air support. This is true, but it must be noted that the Ufa coalition army is also a complete mob.

The reason for saying this is that the time for the Ufa coalition forces to pop out from the east of the Ural Mountains is very short. The Ufa coalition forces include the squadron, the Japanese army, and the Russian troops recruited from the east of the Ural Mountains. There is also the White Guard unit under Kolchak, not to mention, they also have a volunteer unit recruited on the spot in Ufa.

The troop composition of the Ufa coalition army is varied and quite chaotic, and they don’t even have the same guns and ammunition in their hands. According to the limited information we got from the front-line feedback, the Ufa coalition army’s Japanese army uses Japanese-style weapons. They were American weapons, while the Russian troops used Russian weapons, as well as machine guns and artillery.

Due to the large number of machine guns and cannons, this Ufa coalition army has strong firepower. Moreover, the commander-in-chief of the Ufa coalition army is obviously difficult to deal with. The battles of our Soviet Red Army will become positional warfare, and every time they defend, we attack.

Since our troops participating in the battle on the right bank of the Volga River are far inferior to their opponents in terms of machine guns and cannons, in this case, let the party with inferior weapons and equipment and weaker firepower launch an attack, and the result of the battle can be imagined.

According to the careful analysis of senior commanders of the Southern Front, such as Serkin, Gidis, Voroshilov, and Chernavin, the Ufa coalition army has relatively high quality of positional warfare, but lacks the ability of field combat and encounter warfare. The cavalry unit even dismounted and dug trenches around a hill to make a bunker every time they fought, without the courage and perseverance to fight hand-to-hand.

If our troops can introduce the Ufa coalition forces into the mode of field warfare and mobile warfare, it is not impossible to defeat them. It is said that most of the Chinese troops in the coalition forces are mechanized armored forces, which have high requirements for roads and bridges. Moreover, fuel and Ammunition supply is difficult, which makes them less capable of sustaining combat.

At the same time, because the opponent has a lot of machine guns and mortars, this increases the burden on the opponent's logistics support, and makes their firepower fierce, but the consumption is also huge, and there is no possibility of continuous combat.

Of course, the advantages of the coalition air force cannot be ignored. According to Sergin's judgment, the air-ground coordination of the coalition forces in the Battle of Ufa and the large-scale formation bombing tactics were quite excellent, and their tactical literacy may not even be higher than that of the German air force fighting on the Eastern Front. However, the dispatch of the air force is restricted and affected by weather conditions.

And even so, if our Red Army is equipped with enough anti-aircraft guns and anti-aircraft weapons, it will still be able to weaken the opponent's air superiority, and the most important point to defend the Volga River bank is that the coalition army has no water power, while we have a large number of merchant ships and Volga The River Fleet was able to enforce an effective blockade of the Volga.

Moreover, even if the opponent breaks through our river bank defense line by chance, there are still huge problems in the opponent's logistical support. It is very difficult to cross the Volga River for logistical support without a fleet, and our fleet can block and attack the opponent's logistics transportation line at any time .

Based on the above analysis and judgment, we believe that although our side lost the Battle of Ufa, the coalition forces on the other side of the Volga River are already at the end of their battles. Their farthest detour troops have not even received logistical food, fuel and ammunition for a week. The supplies, the soldiers are also exhausted, and now entering mid-July, the rain has a great impact on the roads and rivers.

Under such circumstances, we believe that there is no need to be intimidated by the enemy's blackmail and ultimatums. The Soviet Red Army should seize the time to rebuild and replenish, and use the fastest speed to get machine guns, artillery, and anti-aircraft weapons from Germany or other places. No matter how much you pay, you must get it.

At the same time, the strength of the Volga Fleet was strengthened, and some shallow-draft gunboats and transport ships of the Caspian Sea Fleet were strengthened to the Volga Fleet to carry out the task of blocking the middle reaches of the Volga River.

In our opinion, defending Tsaritsyn is as important as defending Moscow, especially for all the soldiers of the Southern Front. It is difficult to convince the commanders and soldiers to give up their homeland without fighting. All the way down to the army commanders and division commanders, including military commanders and political commissars, they all believed that to defend Moscow, Tsaritsyn must be defended first.

If the millions of working class and citizen comrades in Moscow do not go hungry, they need food support from the Volga River Basin, and the lower Volga River south of Saratov and the Tsaritsyn region is the breadbasket of the whole of Russia. One of the grain-producing areas, when the whole of Russia is starving, it is the grain grown by the people near Tsaritsyn on the Volga River that feeds everyone's stomachs.

Under such circumstances, as soon as the Ufa coalition forces yelled at us, we handed over the country and homeland of our parents who gave birth to us and raised us to the aggressors. Is this worthy of the folks who support the Soviet regime?The Engineer Soviet in Tsaritsyn must never agree to such a request, whether it is from the Ufa coalition or from Moscow, it cannot be accepted by everyone! "

Bukharin read up to this point in one breath. After all, this guy is in charge of the party’s propaganda and speeches. He speaks clearly and full of breath. He has learned the tone of Comrade Joseph in the telegram. The impassioned Russian echoes in the Kremlin. In the large conference room of the palace, the magnificent chandeliers on the palace-like high ceiling seemed to be shaking slightly.

When Bukharin stopped to drink water to moisten his throat, the meeting room was quiet only the sound of this guy pouring water. The careful and detailed analysis in Tsaritsin's telegram and Joseph's heroic tone obviously impressed everyone present. Yang committee members received a shot in the arm.

"Tsaritsin is full of confidence. Comrade Joseph is worthy of being a Bolshevik leader with an iron will!" Ulyanov stepped forward, took the telegram from Bukharin, and glanced at it quickly. This long telegram draft, while muttering.

Trotsky walked back to the combat map hanging on the wall, groping up and down the terrain of the upper, middle and lower reaches of the Volga River, thinking about whether it was feasible to hold the Volga River as mentioned in the Tsaritsyn telegram.

Here Kamenev couldn't help but said, "No more? What are you talking about next? If the Tsaritsyn side does not agree to give up the south of Saratov and Tsaritsyn, how can we reply to the Ufa coalition forces? Tomorrow the coalition forces will cross the river." What should we do? Germany’s weapons and equipment can’t be obtained so quickly even if they are transported by plane! How to fight this battle?”

"Yes, the telegrams from the Southern Army and Comrade Joseph can certainly boost morale and strengthen our confidence and courage to fight the enemy, but it is obviously not enough to rely on this telegram to resist the enemy's next attack! Comrade Joseph only intends to defend the Chase Rizin, he just stood by and watched the difficulties in Moscow?" It was Zinoviev who spoke.

Here, Ulyanov looked at the telegram draft in his hand, but his face became ugly. The man hummed and stuffed the telegram draft into Bukharin's hand after drinking the water, and said angrily, "Comrade Bukharin, please read the following part of this telegram for everyone to hear. Some of our comrades have started negotiating terms with Zhong Yang before we have won the battle!"

Seeing this, Bukharin quickly put down his water glass, unfolded the telegram that Ulyanov had stuffed back, smoothed it out, glanced at it, and continued to read aloud:

"We believe that Moscow's recent diplomatic and internal affairs measures and progress have been unsatisfactory. The hasty launch and final failure of the Ufa Campaign, although the Eastern Army's Southern Group should bear the main responsibility, Moscow's Central Committee Comrade Trotsky, chairman of the Supreme Revolutionary Military Council, should assume leadership!"

"The Bolshevik movement in Russia has multiple centers, first Petersburg, then Moscow, and now Tsaritsyn is also one of the centers of the Bolshevik movement. The defense of Tsaritsyn is as important to the Soviets as the defense of Moscow. For this reason, we recommend ,

The Volga Military District and the Volga Front Army were established to unify the forces of the former Eastern Front Army and the Southern Front Army, integrate the resources of the upper, middle and lower reaches of the Volga River, and integrate Nizhny Novgorod, Simbirsk, Syzran, From Saratov to Tsaritsyn, to the North Caucasus.These places are unified under the leadership of the Volga Military Region!

At the same time, since the established Volga Military District and the Volga Front Army will serve as the barriers of the Soviet in the north, east and south, and the Volga River Front Army will become the main Soviet Front Army. For this reason, we request that the Volga River Military District Revolutionary Military The committee will be authorized to negotiate with foreign countries and implement an administrative management model that integrates the military, government, engineering and soldiers.

In other words, the diplomatic representatives of the Volga Military District will be responsible for all diplomatic negotiations and arms assistance related to the Volga Military District, and can also carry out armistice negotiations with the Ufa coalition forces according to the actual situation. Of course, this requires Moscow to Authorized by zhong yang.

In this difficult time, we believe that if we work in the right direction and obtain the support and authorization of Moscow for the conditions we have proposed above, we can hold off the enemy on the right bank of the Volga, hold the Volga, and hold Tsaritsyn And Saratov, hold Nizhny Novgorod line.

When the time is right, we will launch a counter-offensive to expel Kolchak and the Ufa coalition forces from the west of the Ural Mountains. Victory belongs to the Bolsheviks, and victory belongs to the Soviets!Ulla~

Front Enemy Military Committee of the North Caucasus Military District and Southern Front

Military Commissar Joseph Vissarionovich Dzhugashvili

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