Crimson Dawn

"All for the front, all for victory!" Called by the Russian Bolshevik Central Committee, the Russian people threw themselves into the war.

1919 was a difficult year for the Russian Communist Party, but also a glorious year.The foreign invaders, the domestic White Army, and the Mensheviks finally stood together naked.In Russia, in addition to the Soviets established by the Bolsheviks, a large number of Mensheviks also established their own Soviet regime.While resisting the White Army and foreign intervention forces, the Bolsheviks worked hard to win over the masses and forcefully wiped out the Menshevik regime everywhere.

Any regime that does not stand with the people, any regime that cannot unite with the people, will be helpless in the face of people's war.In this regard, countries around the world are actually no different.

From a strategic point of view, the Russian Communist Party has never allowed the two military forces of Kolchak and Denikin to converge.Had the two been fully connected with each other in 1918, the results would have been dire.

However, in 1919, the Bolsheviks established their own grassroots organizations in the vast Russian countryside, uprooting the weak grassroots organizations of the White Army and the Mensheviks from the Russian land, and the remaining battles became a heavy encirclement and suppression of the enemy. That's all.

In July 1919, the Red Army besieged Kolchak's stronghold, and the war in Zlatoust had entered a critical moment.But when a small number of British troops resolutely broke through the Red Army's control area and entered Kolchak's control area, the situation became even weirder.

The Russian Communist Party did not want an all-out war with the Entente, and any conflict that would lead to a greater pretext for the Entente to intervene was something the Red Army was trying to avoid.In particular, the British army openly used the banner of delivering humanitarian aid, and the Red Army did not want to stir up trouble.After all, this is just a British army with a size of less than one regiment. It is impossible for such a number of troops to fundamentally reverse the situation of the battle.Moreover, after the British army joined Kolchak, they retreated quickly.

Next, the Red Army soon discovered that the situation had changed a lot.

Kolchak's army is not bad in number, and its combat ability and level are no less than that of the Red Army. Their biggest problem is low morale.As an army of exploiters, they are not fighting for themselves.This army is not rooted in the people of this country, but attached to the ruling class.When it is simply a downwind battle, the army may still be able to demonstrate a certain degree of combat effectiveness.Such an army wilts when it enters into a brutal war of attrition, or when it takes great willpower to overcome the fear of death.

Although the Russian Red Army does not have the systematic theoretical construction and extensive practice summary of the Workers and Peasants Revolutionary Army under the People's Party, compared with Kolchak's troops, the Russian Red Army is still a force rooted in the Russian people.

Therefore, through the difficult battles in the early stage, the Fifth Army and the Second Army of the Red Army have completed the preparations before the battle.Then the Fifth Army that attacked Zlatoust and the Second Army that attacked Yekarinaburg were stubbornly resisted by Kolchak's troops.

This is really tenacious resistance. In every trench, every highland, and every battle site, the Kolchak army fought bravely.Originally, the qualities of being strong and unyielding, fighting to the death, and persevering to the end possessed by the Red Army were vividly displayed in Kolchak's troops.

The most special thing is the spirit of daring to attack. The Red Army relies on this offensive spirit to finally overwhelm the enemy in every battle.When the Kolchak army encountered heavy casualties, it always quickly lost morale, or tried to find an easier route to victory, or mobilized firepower to try to overwhelm the Red Army.The Red Army relied on willpower to defeat these experienced White Army time and time again.

Now the Red Army is facing the White Army that is fighting to the death during the day. Many White Army are in danger of breaking through their positions. They did not call for artillery support, nor did they abandon their positions and flee.Under the leadership of the officers, the White Army launched a countercharge against the Red Army with their bayonets in hand.The officers in front were knocked down, while those behind held up the flag of the White Army and continued to charge.When entering the bloody competition of combat capabilities and combat techniques, the advantages of the White Army are revealed.Many positions were taken by the Reds at great sacrifice after all the defending Whites had been killed.

After a day of hard fighting, the White Army launched a counterattack at night.The exhausted Red Army had never encountered such a large-scale full-scale night counterattack. Both the Fifth Army and the Second Army of the Russian Red Army suffered heavy losses in night battles.

After three days of fighting, the party members and backbones of the Fifth Army and the Second Army were exhausted, and the White Army also suffered heavy casualties.At this critical moment, it was the Bai Army who "must up the courage".They launched a desperate attack with fanatical fighting spirit, and almost completely defeated the Fifth Army and the Second Army of the Russian Red Army.Seeing that the two armies of the Red Army could no longer achieve the purpose of the campaign, they could only retreat all the way with hatred.

The Russian Communist Party was not without gains. After interrogating the White Army personnel captured in these two battles, they finally figured out that the "humanitarian aid" provided by the small British army to the White Army was a kind of medicine.Through the channels of people who sympathized with and supported the Russian Revolution in the Allied countries, the Russian Communist Party learned that these medicines were "magical body protection pills" purchased by Britain from China.

According to intelligence obtained from Britain and France, Britain and France had no intention of continuing the war with China after World War I.Because this kind of "Magic Body Protecting Pill" developed by the Chairman of the People's Party Chen Ke showed terrible power in the just-ended world war, the British and French high-level officials just imagine that the British and French ground troops who invaded China faced millions of people taking it. The squadron charged with this drug completely lost the will to fight.No one wants to fight a doomed war.

After the Russian Communist Party obtained a small amount of "Shengong Body Protection Pills" through channels, it conducted experiments in the Russian Red Army.Physical strength, mental strength, and concentration, no matter which aspect, the trial participants have shown great improvement.Moreover, this drug can promote a strong attack desire, which is one of the pillars of victory on the battlefield.The ability of drugs to trigger biological impulses that overwhelm class consciousness came as a great surprise to the Russian Communist Party.

Chen Ke's chemist attributes are recorded in the files established against Chen Ke in various countries around the world.The sulfonamides and Chuanbei loquat ointment used by the People's Party's medical team to help Britain and France treat the "Spanish flu" worked well, which made the Russian Communist Party more convinced of the credibility of the drug.

The only thing that can make the Russian Communist Party feel "relieved" is that this kind of "magic body protection pill" is expensive, and Britain only provided it to Kolchak's troops when the situation was extremely unfavorable.It is said that the British own stock is also very limited.But this "relief" itself is also very limited.Because Britain can purchase these drugs in large quantities from China and provide them to the various White Army including Kolchak.

Even without British hands, Kolchak controls the western part of the Urals, and they can buy these drugs directly from China overland.

This counterattack also repelled the attack of the Russian Red Army, especially in order to win the victory on the Eastern Front, the Red Army recruited a large number of Party members, Communist Youth League members, and trade union members to the front line.Although the reckless fight with Kolchak caused Kolchak's heavy losses, the backbone of the Russian Red Army also suffered heavy losses.

The most important thing is that Kolchak already has a brand-new method of controlling the army. If the medicine can effectively stimulate the fighting will of the White Army, Kolchak can use a large number of troops with weak fighting will to launch a terrible attack on the Red Army. offensive.This would be a terrible question.

Next, the Russian Communist Party really saw a chain reaction. In June, a counter-revolutionary rebellion broke out at the Red Mountain Fort and the Gray Horse Fort near Bede Gele. The Red Army Navy adventurously sent a fleet and a large number of troops to suppress the two forts occupied by the counter-revolutionaries.Even brutal hand-to-hand combat cannot make the enemies in the fort lose the will to fight.The rebels can stay up for days and nights, fiercely resisting day and night.

After tightly blocking the news, the Russian Communist Party had to formulate a new strategy.This new situation made the Red Army feel extremely difficult when the enemy might break out of unexpected combat power.

The Central Committee of the Russian Communist Party believes that a large number of "magic body protection pills" must not be allowed to continue to flow into the Russian Civil War, even if it is torn apart with the British and French intervention forces, such a drastic change in the situation cannot be allowed.In addition to controlling the contact between the foreign intervention forces and Kolchak, it is necessary to find a way to prevent China from providing the "magic body protection pill" to the White Army.According to the news brought back by Comrade Berkov, Chen Ke made a territorial claim to Russia, and according to Chen Ke, Chen Ke may want to paralyze the Russian Communist Party, or he really wants to maintain a good relationship with the Russian Communist Party.Anyway, the People's Party did not hold hostility towards the Russian Communist Party at this time.Then negotiation is an effective way to solve the problem.Even if deceit is used, China, which seems to be the weakest link in the imperialist chain, must be pried off from the noose that imperialism puts around the neck of the Russian Communist Party.

Comrade Lenin felt very uncomfortable in his heart when he imagined that millions of squadrons taking medicine entered Russia from the direction of the empty Siberia, and even went to Moscow through Central Asia.If you want to solve the Chinese problem through diplomacy, you cannot simply send a comrade Berkov.Before the Central Committee of the Russian Communist Party decided on a candidate, the White Army had already launched another attack on Moscow from all directions.The White Army, supplemented by lumpen proletarians, rich peasants, and even a large number of middle peasants, showed considerable combat effectiveness on all fronts.

The failure of the Eastern Front offensive triggered a chain reaction.Not only these white troops, but also the cannon fodder troops of the intervention army dispatched by small countries around Russia also showed a considerable degree of "combat effectiveness" in the ensuing battle.After a series of bloody battles from July to September, the Red Army finally stabilized the situation.Every White Army and Intervention Army that "performed well" showed signs of taking drugs before the war.In the pockets of the corpses of many officers, a small amount of "magic body protection pills" were found.

Such losses are almost unbearable for the Russian Red Army. The backbone members of the Red Army, especially the political commissars, took the lead in a large number of attacks during the battle, and the loss rate far exceeded that of ordinary soldiers.In previous battles, as long as these elite backbones defeated the enemy's backbone, the rest of the enemy's troops would collapse without fighting.In the current battle, the elite of the Russian Red Army must be exchanged for the enemy's cannon fodder troops. This exchange ratio is almost unbearable for the Red Army.

The main force of the Red Army is also composed of ordinary people. Without enough leading role models, they will feel afraid and panic.When these armies faced the follow-up elite troops of the White Army, the outcome of the two sides was not in favor of the Russian Red Army.

In order to avoid the worst situation, the Central Committee of the Russian Communist Party finally chose Trotsky and Comrade Berkov to go to China together.Before this super-high-level diplomatic team started to go to China, the Russian Communist Party got good news that the "Shengong Body Protection Pills" purchased by the Allied Powers during World War I were almost used up.If the supply channel from China can be cut off, the pressure on the Soviet Communist Party in the subsequent war will be reduced a lot.

Although Kolchak controlled the eastern part of Moscow, the Russian Communists opened up lines of communication.Through this line of communication, the delegation of the Russian Communist Party can contact the People's Party as soon as possible.

In mid-October, the delegation of the Russian Communist Party, which took the risk of notifying the People's Party in advance, finally met the Chinese troops entering Russian territory through China's Outer Mongolia.This encounter itself proved one thing to the Russian Communist Party. The People's Party is still willing to establish a good relationship with the Russian Communist Party as they said.

When the delegation of the Russian Communist Party went south from Outer Mongolia, they found that China was intensively building a railway from Kulun to southern China, and some sections had even been temporarily opened to traffic.As with most railway trial runs, the "rolling" freight cars were the first to run, and a lot of things were loaded on the cars.There are naturally railway building materials on the vehicles from south to north.From north to south is a large amount of ore and wool and other goods.

If China and Russia go to war, this railway will be China's main transportation artery.Russia does not have many people in the Far East and Siberia. Such a railway will allow a large number of Chinese troops and supplies to reach the front line of the war.A protracted war on the ice would be a disaster for Russia.

The place where the two parties met was not Wuhan, but Zhangjiakou.The Propaganda Minister of the People's Party, Zhang Yu, was already waiting for Comrade Trotsky in Zhangjiakou.

In this meeting, Trotsky first stated that the Russian Communist Party is willing to implement good-neighborly and friendly relations with China.However, he personally does not support the action of changing the border line. "Peace is definitely not something that one party unilaterally imposes on another party. If you want to maintain real peace, I think mutual recognition based on the current status quo and an agreement on future friendship is the the most important."

"Comrade Trotsky, the treaty we want to sign with the Russian Communist Party is different from the "Contract of Brest." Zhang Yu didn't care about provoking Trotsky's mood. It is because you, the Russian Communist Party, are trying to inherit the treaties imposed on us by Russia. Of course, it is easy to have a kind of self-confidence in this kind of thing. But what we advocate is that we want to get back what we have been forcibly deprived of. This mood is more urgent and more intense than the righteous mood you have."

Trotsky knew what the People's Party advocated, but he didn't expect Zhang Yu to be so tough.

However, Zhang Yu was just the beginning, and he handed Trotsky a thick document. "Comrade Trotsky, when we want to promote our army, we are only based on facts. To what extent these facts will stimulate our army's will to fight, I hope you can read these before we talk about it."

Trotsky opened the documents, some in Chinese and some in Russian.The top part of this is the record about the Hailanpao tragedy.

1900年7月16日至21日沙皇俄国对居住于海兰泡的中国居民进行屠杀的事件，该事件共造成5000多名中国人死亡。海兰泡惨案与1900年7月17日发生的江东64屯惨案并称为“庚子俄难”。

After the "Heilongjiang Incident", an atmosphere of terror was shrouded inside and outside Hailanpao City, and incidents of persecution of Chinese people continued unabated.The representative of the Chinese residents asked Gribski whether the Chinese in the city needed to evacuate. He lied to the representative that the Chinese "can stay where they are without worrying."Then he ordered the Chinese to be prohibited from crossing the river, detained all the ferry boats, and sent cavalry to disperse the crowd preparing to cross the river.

On July 1900, 7, Gribski ordered the arrest of all Chinese

Chinese people, a frenzied raid began, and heavily armed Tsarist Russian soldiers broke into the houses and shops of Chinese people, regardless of men, women, or children, and arrested and took them away. "Even the babies in their arms were forcibly pulled out." More than 1500 Chinese fled to hide outside the city, but were also searched out by Russian soldiers. Many of them were stabbed to death with bayonets, and those who were alive were "driven into the police station like they were locked in a stable for animals."A total of nearly 3500 people were arrested that day, but the police station could not accommodate them, and they were escorted to a sawmill by the Jingqili River that night.

On July 1900, 7, the police station in Hailanpao City drove all the detained Chinese to the bank of Heilongjiang, falsely claiming to use boats to cross them across the river.But there was not even a boat on the shore.When they reached the river, the Russian soldiers swung their sabers and "drove all the Chinese into the water." "While the women threw their babies on the shore, begging to spare their lives at least, the Russian soldiers caught the babies, picked them up on bayonets, and cut them into pieces."A mother "leaves her child on the bank while she walks into the river", but after walking a few steps, she comes back to hold her child and walks into the water, and finally has to go ashore again "to lay down her precious child". The Russian soldiers swung their knives and stabbed the child and his mother to death.

A Russian soldier who participated in the massacre described the entire process of the massacre:

"When we arrived in Blagoveshchensk, the sky in the east was red, and the water in the Heilongjiang River was like blood. The Russian army with bayonets surrounded the crowd, opened up the river bank, and kept compressing the encirclement. The officers waved their hands. Fighting swords, yelling frantically: "Anyone who does not obey orders will be shot immediately!" The crowd began to be crushed into the turbid current of Heilongjiang like an avalanche. The crowd shouted like crazy, and the sound shook the blue sky. Some trampled women and babies who had been knocked down, trying to escape. These people were either kicked into the air by the horseshoes of the cavalry, or knocked to the ground by the bayonets of the cavalry. Immediately, the Russian soldiers fired in unison. Shouts, Crying, gunshots, and cursing were all mixed together, and the misery was indescribable. It was a scene of hell."

Yang Jigong wrote in a pen and post style of the vice capital of Aihui: "At eleven o'clock before noon on the 21st (July [-]th in the Gregorian calendar), looking at the other side, Russia drove countless overseas Chinese circles around the river, and the noise shook the field. A closer look at the Russian soldiers Each holds a knife and axe, chops east and west, smashes corpses and bones, the sound shakes the nose, the seriously injured dies on the bank, the lightly injured dies in the river, and the uninjured are all thrown into the water and drowned, the bones overflow and fill the river." .

Those who witnessed the massacre felt "horrified and heartbroken".Even the massacre was condemned by his conscience. A Russian volunteer soldier said, "The murderer is completely inhumane. They are either devils or animals. To see such a tragic scene in the world...is simply a scene of death. Nightmare. If the people who were killed were men who were able to struggle, maybe it would not be so miserable", but when seeing "some mothers who hugged their babies and tried to escape were stabbed one after another and fell from their arms. When babies are crushed to pieces", "Only those utterly inhuman beasts can stand it!"

Zhang Yu looked at Trotsky with a frightening face, and said coldly: "These facts are our propaganda materials. And this is only 12 years away."