Who is the one who took the initiative to break this window paper? You will know after analyzing it. The simplest logic is, who can make a profit from this incident?

There is only one person, that is Trotsky. ※ % Lao Tuo has always been shouting for Germany and has always advocated a tough attitude to attack Germany. Especially after Germany attacked Western Poland, Lao Tuo has tried to promote the alliance to jointly attack Germany more than once.

However, his efforts were either ruined by Stalin or disturbed by Li Xiaofeng. Now he can only follow Sverdlov's rhythm. Obviously, Lao Tuo was dissatisfied and unwilling to accept it, especially after reaching the deal between Iceland and the Faroe Islands, Lao Tuo's dissatisfaction reached its peak.

At this time, he had to find a way to fight back and win a game back. The entry point he chose was to expose the "shady curtain" of the fortress project. What's the use? It's very simple. The first function was to attack the leaders of the Military Commission who formulated the fortress defense project at that time. Those who ordered the construction of the fortress must be responsible for the tofu project, right? Who are these people? The General Equipment Department will definitely not be able to escape?

Secondly, what Trotsky really values ​​is: Since the fortress project is a tofu, since these fortresses cannot play much role at all, does that mean that in the future war, the Red Army can only use attack instead of defense?

If you can only use attack instead of defense, it will definitely be too early to take advantage of it. Is it reasonable to launch an attack when the German main force is still on the Western Front?

To put it bluntly, Trotsky's intention was not to drink, but to promote his proposal to rescue Britain and attack Germany.

I have to say that Lao Tuo's move is very poisonous and also hits the point. For Sverdlov, if he doesn't deal well, he may really be turned over.

So how did Xiao Si deal with it? Xiao Si didn’t say anything. The first person who stood up to fight back was Li Xiaofeng: “There are indeed quite a lot of problems in the fortress project, but what is the root cause of these problems? Is our comrades cutting corners, are they irresponsible for the comrades responsible for creating this project?”

Trotsky didn't say anything, as if the old god was sure to win. Instead, Radick asked back: "It's not these, why do you think it's?"

Obviously, the Trotskyist meant to take responsibility for the General Equipment Department. However, how could Li Xiaofeng let them succeed? He replied with a smile: "The fortress project in Ukraine and Belarus was the earliest, and it was built in 1927 until the main project was completed in 1932. I must remind comrades to note that at this stage, the overall economic situation in our country was not ideal, and military expenditure was greatly affected. This also directly led to the fortress project being able to be simple... What does it mean to be simple? I think comrades know that it is not easy to complete the project at that time."

"You are whitewashing your mistakes!" Radick replied with a sneer.

"I didn't embellish anything." Li Xiaofeng replied calmly, "Including the fortress project, the large-scale infrastructure construction carried out back then all had the same problems. For example, greed for big and comprehensiveness, unreasonable design, and insufficient technical qualifications of construction workers. Comrade Radick, should we immediately start to check all the engineering projects carried out back then to see what the actual situation looks like and how?"

Radek stopped talking immediately because this was the case back then. In order to build socialism, the entire Soviet Union worked hard and quickly. Projects with ability must be launched, and projects with no ability must be taken. One-sidedly emphasized the so-called subjective initiative and advocated the so-called spiritual power of man to conquer nature. Obviously, this is unscientific, but the central government cannot yet attack the high morale of the people across the country, so it can only work on it. As a result, there are naturally many problems.

This is also why many people knew that there were problems with the fortress project before, but everyone chose to ignore it because the lid could not be lifted. Now Trotsky chose to uncover the scars, and the inevitable pain of everyone together.

However, Lao Tuan didn't plan to take the responsibility together. He just wanted to take the opportunity to promote his own proposal. So what he wanted to emphasize is that the problems caused by objective unscientificity are understandable, but the use problems after the fortress project is completed is purely **!

Yes, Trotsky was ready to firmly grasp this point and make a fuss, but Li Xiaofeng was not stupid either. **? Hehe, he is really not afraid of pursuing **.

"The problems of inaction and neglecting duties in the management and use of fortresses are really shocking. On this issue, I agree that if you investigate it to the end, you must find out the culprit!" After a moment of salvation, Li Xiaofeng said coldly: "On this issue, the General Staff and the People's Committee of National Defense are to blame. As the actual manager of the fortress area, they have not fulfilled their due obligations and responsibilities at all, resulting in huge losses in the country. I think the leadership of the relevant comrades back then should be held accountable immediately!"

Trotsky's heart skipped a beat. He realized that he had miscalculated. The construction of the fortress was the responsibility of the general equipment, but managing the fortress area was the responsibility of the General Staff. Who was the chief of staff back then? It was Tukhachevsky! Basically, the fortress project was completed during his term of office, and this board had to be hit on Tukhachevsky's butt!

Trotsky was a little stunned. This was not the result he wanted. He immediately began to clear the responsibility for Tukhachevsky: "The General Staff was not the actual manager of the fortress area back then. The fortress area was assigned to the border defense forces to manage..."

Li Xiaofeng followed up without hesitation: "Then hold NKVD's leadership accountable!"

Trotsky was a little strange. He didn't understand why Li Xiaofeng was so easy to talk to, so why did he follow him? Why? It was very simple. Li Xiaofeng knew very well that this board would definitely not hit NKVD's butt, and the General Staff was still the one who paid for it in the end.

Why? Because NKVD is wronged! It is true that the fortress area was assigned to the border defense forces, but the fortress was handed over to them, but the corresponding funds and personnel were not tilted towards them. How many border defense forces need to fill the pit from the long defense line from the Baltic Sea to Ukraine? Doesn’t the annual maintenance require funds?

But everyone knows that the Soviet Union's economic prosperity was after 1935. Since 1936, the Red Army has relatively sufficient funds to do major tasks. Before that, it was the new three years and the old three years. Only those key construction units, such as the airborne troops, the mechanized troops, Stalin's lifeline cavalry, and the navy and air force supported by Sverdlov and Li Xiaofeng, could obtain relatively sufficient funds. Other ordinary Red Army, especially the ex-wife children like the border defense forces, could only stare at them.

In other words, it is not that NKVD doesn’t want to do a good job in the fortress area, but it is really too hard to do it. The annual funding is only so much. Only a little bit of it is allocated to the border defense forces. The Soviet Union’s land and maritime border lines are amazingly long. It is quite difficult to maintain the normal patrol of the border troops on such a long border line. How can there be extra funds invested in the fortress area?

Of course, there are indeed **s. A considerable number of the leaders of the border defense forces think that everything will be fine if the fortress is built. As for maintenance and whether the fortress is built reasonably enough, they will not care. Anyway, they have completed the task.

Anyway, subjective and objective reasons have caused the fortress area to be forgotten, so we must really hold them accountable. At that time, the border defense forces could not escape, but the People's Committee and the Military Commission had no responsibility? Anyway, no one can play this ball. After all, the leaders of the border defense forces could have hindered their necks and said: "The superiors do not allocate enough funds, this is the superiors' leadership responsibility!"

If it really comes to this point, who has lost his face? Of course, it was the chairman of the Military Commission Trotsky, the National Defense People's Committee member and the Chief of General Staff Tukhachevsky, who took the blame. This is also the fundamental reason why Li Xiaofeng is not afraid of speaking according to Trotsky's intention. To put it bluntly, this guy is actually deliberately waiting to see Trotsky's joke.

Of course, if Trotsky was not afraid of making jokes, he would investigate it carefully and insist on putting a false charge on the border defense forces, Li Xiaofeng would not sit idly by. At that time, he would not mind taking advantage of Lao Tau and Tukhachevsky's erroneous penises and pursuing the wrong problems of the Military Commission's military guiding ideology back then.

What's wrong? Let's put it this way, although the Military Commission repaired these fortresses back then, the General Staff did not like passive defense from the bottom of his heart. According to Tukhachevsky's idea of ​​fighting in depth, the Red Army had to take the initiative to attack and attack.

It was precisely because of Tukhachevsky's persistence that the Red Army was more interested in studying offensive tactics and offensive weapons. Especially since 1930, with the improvement of the economy, most of the funds were invested in this direction. The Military Commission and the General Staff attached importance to offense, so naturally the ones below paid attention to offense, and the defense of the opposite attack was ignored or even despised. At that time, there was a trend among the Red Army, that was, the defense was glorious and shameful. This naturally made even worse. As a fortress representing defense, it was naturally not welcomed.

Obviously, if we investigate the root cause of the fortress area problem, we must not ignore the extreme military guiding ideology, right? In this regard, the Chief of General Staff Tukhachevsky and the Director of the General Political Department, we have to sneak out and go through the court, right?

Soon Trotsky realized that if he continued to investigate this, he would still be the one who had no good results in the end. This old adult account could not be reprinted at all. In desperation, he could only say again: "Now is not the time to hold the responsibility, nor is it the time to play the ball. The situation is already like this. What we need to do is to come up with a solution to the problem."

Trotsky's meaning is very obvious. He is not planning or interested in getting old accounts. He wants to know now that the fortress is like this. It is obvious that these fortresses are useless. Now we should consider dealing with the enemy's aggression without the cover of the fortress! To put it bluntly, Lao Tuo still wants to use attack instead of defense. And he thinks that this problem should not be solved.

Is there really no way? Is it really possible to use attack instead of defense? Li Xiaofeng wants to say no. Because the reason why the Soviet fortress finally became that bird-like was not just the problems mentioned before. The most important question is that the value of these fortress areas has declined!

Not only in this historical space and time, the military value of fortresses built from the late 1920s to the early 1930s decreased, and there were also the same problems in history. In history, when the Patriotic War broke out, the situation of these fortresses was even worse. The reason was that the Soviet Union's defense line advanced forward. After the division of Poland, the overall Soviet defense line moved westward for hundreds of kilometers, resulting in the original fortress being built in the rear. According to Stalin's plan, a new line of defense was prepared to be built. In history, the war broke out before this line of defense was completed, which directly led to the failure of the new line of defense, and the old line of defense was basically abandoned, which naturally became a mess.

In this historical time and space, the significance of this line of defense was also greatly discounted because of the existence of East Prussia and East Poland. Since 1936, Sverdlov and Stalin reached an agreement on the issue of future wars. The main military forces of the Red Army were deployed on the second line, with East Prussia and East Poland responsible for resisting the first wave of attacks by delaying and weakening the enemy. What the Red Army had to do was wait for the enemy to be weakened, and then devote all its strength to counterattack and drive the enemy away in one breath.

In other words, East Prussia and East Poland assumed the role of fortresses. Otherwise, with Li Xiaofeng's urinary nature, the border defense forces could do whatever they wanted and abandon the good fortresses?

The problem with Trotsky was that he always wanted to take the initiative to join the war. He wanted to take advantage of Britain's failure to kill the Germans from behind, so he deliberately weakened the shield role of East Prussia and East Poland, emphasizing how vulnerable the so-called steel defense line, which originally had little significance, was established to establish the combat idea of ​​only taking the initiative to attack.

However, his plan was really wrong. At the beginning, Sverdlov saw through his thoughts and naturally he would not be led by him. It was not until Lao Tuo was about to confuse the public that he moved out of East Poland and East Prussia to slap in the face.

"Since 1939, East Prussia and East Poland have begun to build a defense line covering the border between the two countries and Germany. By June 1940, East Prussia had basically completed the fortification of the border, while East Poland was under intense construction... It can be foreseen that this defense line will be ready for the Red Army to win time. When Germany really launches war and attacks East Poland or East Prussia, it is impossible to hesitate like blitzing West Poland and France!"

When Fu Longzhi said this, he was still very confident, which shows that he had great hope for this line of defense and was optimistic. However, Li Xiaofeng was not as confident as him, because this way of combating building a line of defense on the border is really out of date. Concentrating a large number of troops on the front line seems to be very powerful, but at the same time, it is also necessary to see that he is prone to the first wave of attacks of the enemy. The Germans' first wave of strike ability, to be honest, is quite powerful.

Li Xiaofeng is really not optimistic about the combat effectiveness of the East Prussia and East Polish army. The armies of these two countries are still at the level of World War I and lack mobility. Moreover, most of the soldiers are recruits who only joined the army in 1939 and have no experience at all. Faced with Germany's blitzkrieg tactics, it is hard to say how long East Prussia and East Poland can last.

Especially the military forces of these two countries are equipped with front-line defense tactics. Once they are broken through, they lack reserves and are easily penetrated and are more likely to be surrounded on the spot. Once the Red Army fails to react in time, it will be a disaster for these two countries.

So although Trotsky's "conspiracy" was defeated at the Politburo meeting, Li Xiaofeng was very worried in private, especially after visiting East Poland in person, this worry was infinitely magnified.

"The preparations for war in East Poland are very bad. Most of the permanent fortifications were started at the end of last year, and the progress of the project was quite slow. As of June this year, most of the fortifications had only completed one-third of the workload. The most optimistic estimate would not be completed until June 1941... The training and equipment level of the East Poland army is very problematic, especially the lack of qualified officers. The armored troops rarely train because they do not have enough gasoline and lack of spare parts. More importantly, the Poles were too optimistic about the war and believed that it would be no problem to have the Red Army help defeat the Germans..."

Sverdlov didn't expect the Poles to be so muddy. He said: "Blow them through the Communist International to make them more vigilant and strengthen the progress of combat readiness!"

This is actually not very meaningful. I am afraid that the Poles do not care much about the Communist International’s attacks. They are slacking off from the bottom of their hearts.

"This cannot solve the fundamental problem," Li Xiaofeng shook his head and suggested: "We should prepare the Belarusian Front and the Ukrainian Front, especially the mechanized troops of these two Fronts. Once the war breaks out, enter East Poland as quickly as possible to assist them in resisting the German attack!"

Sverdlov pondered for a moment and suddenly asked, "Can you attack Germany first as Comrade Trotsky said?"

Li Xiaofeng sighed and said, "It is naturally the best to do this, but Comrade Yakov, I am bluntly, we have many problems in combat preparations. We have been fully prepared for combat in April or May 1941. According to the information I have, the main force of the German army is shifting to the eastern front. After our troops are ready for combat, the German army will basically be in place. Compared with the German army, our troops lack experience and may not be able to fight against the Germans. The consequences of the main attack are difficult to say. So the only thing I can tell you is that if you want to take the initiative, you must make up your mind before September 1940. It is meaningless to push back even if you take the initiative to attack!" (To be continued, please search for Astronomy, the novel is better, updated and faster!

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