July 13, 1918 18:00 Kremlin, Moscow

"The Allied Alliance announced that after a week of fierce fighting, the coalition forces have annihilated the Fifth Army, Fourth Army, Second Army and Most of the First Army in the Ufa Plain, captured more than 150,000 Soviet Red Army and severely damaged the headquarters of the Ninth Army of the Southern Front. They are now pursuing the Soviet Red Army's retreat in the middle Yegorov and Tukhachevsky's remnants!" Derrensky hurried in with the telegram he had just received! His voice was obviously trembling.

"What!" The Soviet Central Committee members in the conference room took a breath after hearing this. The boy leader Ulyanov turned around with a blue face in the battle map, rushed over a few steps and snatched the telegram from Derrensky's hand. After reading it quickly, he was furious and shattered it in three or two hands. While throwing down the shredded paper in his hand, he waved his hands and shouted:

"This is an imperialist propaganda, a pure lie! You must not believe it! Where did you get the telegram of Derzhinsky? What channel did you get? Are you sure the source of the news is reliable? You must be responsible to the party and to the Central Committee! You say! Where did this telegram come from!" Ulyanov roared almost on the verge of rampage.

Trotsky couldn't believe his ears, so he stepped forward a few steps to pick up the telegram draft that had been torn to pieces by Ulyanov on the ground and put it on the conference table. Kamenev, Zinoviev and Bukharin rushed over to watch. The content of the telegram was exactly the same as what Derrensky said. The coalition announced that he had annihilated all the Fifth, Fourth, Second Army and most of the First Army, severely damaged the Ninth Army, and captured at least 150,000 Soviet Red Army prisoners.

Everyone took a breath, and Bukharin sat back on the chair, muttering that he didn't know what he was saying. Kamenev and Zinoviev looked at each other, and his face looked quite ugly. At this time, Comrade Sdelveyov, who had originally planned to take over as commander of the southern group, had not yet come back from the Volga River, and there was almost no sound in the conference room except Ulyanov's roar.

Derrensky finally broke free from the hands of the small mentor and said with a grievance, "This is the telegram press release from the Ufa coalition headquarters received by the major media of the Allied countries at 4 pm this afternoon. At this moment, the major evening newspapers of various countries are probably making headlines. It is estimated that this report will be made in major newspapers around the world tomorrow morning!

In fact, I can't believe that this is true. For this reason, I specifically verified it with our intelligence personnel in Beijing, Japan, Tokyo, London, Paris and Washington. At present, either the Ufa coalition forces are telling a huge lie to the world, or... this is true!" Derrensky, who was in charge of intelligence and anti-counterfeiting in the Central Committee of the Soviet Union, was sweating profusely, and his face suddenly appeared. Obviously, this guy had no doubt about the authenticity of the news.

"How could this happen! How could this be? Even if 200,000 pigs were placed on the Ufa Plain, they would not have arrested 150,000 in just a few days! Didn't the armies of the groups have been ordered to retreat quickly? Didn't they have promised them to choose the direction of the breakthrough? We even agreed to the commanders of the armies of the various armies to keep the radio silent! Seeing his ghost, the radio was silent for three days and two nights and then changed it back to such a result? Order the radio to call the troops on the Ufa front! Call as soon as possible! We must know what happened on the right bank of the Volga River?!"

Ulyanov flew in spit and waved his hands and roared. After waiting for three days and two nights, he actually waited for such a complete collapse news. It was due to the battle situation announced by the enemy side. This made Ulyanov's heart cramp. The guy covered his chest and fell into the chair. Seeing this, Derrensky hurriedly poured some brandy for his leader and helped him pour it down. Then he walked over and opened the window and opened the curtains, allowing the wet night wind to blow some fresh air in!

Trotsky was worried and left the conference room to command the radio to call the group army in person. It was a joke to keep the shots silent at this time. The enemy's propaganda would not be outrageous to this extent, right? Or, the situation on the front line had changed so much in just a few days.

On this side, Kamenev walked to the map and looked carefully at the enemy and us on the map. He was still in the state when he started breaking through three days ago. However, the loss of the three important ferries of Samara, Toriarti and Melesk has been confirmed, and it is an indisputable fact that Orenburg and Ural have fallen into the hands of the coalition forces under the banner of the Kazakh Arash Autonomous Republic.

The coalition's roundabout operations were obviously planned long before the official start of the Ufa Battle. Otherwise, it would be impossible to take the Orenburg to Ural so far, and it would be even more impossible to sweep the ferry from Samara to Melegens from south to north.

"The coalition has a great appetite. I think our troops on the right bank of the Volga River may have encountered major setbacks! The other side has the advantage of cannons and aircraft, and they are fighting on the inside of Ufajian City. Yegorov and Tukhachevsky were not timid Red Army generals. At that time, they all asked for retreat. It can be seen that the situation on the front line was already quite tense at that time! I think we must be mentally prepared to lose the entire troops on the right bank of the Volga River!" Kamenev said in a difficult voice.

"If all this is not the propaganda and rumors of the coalition forces, but the real situation of the war, the next step we need to consider is how to defend the left bank of the Volga River after the Eastern Front was hit hard. Kolchak in the Kazan direction would not miss such a powerful opportunity. The White Guard in the Ufa direction is not the main force, the main force is the coalition. Kolchak in the Kazan direction has at least 150,000 elite Bai Guard under his command, and several officer groups with strong combat effectiveness. I think the Third Army in the East alone may not be able to block the enemy's attack!" Zinoviev continued.

"How did this happen! We finally got the prisoners of war from the German prisoner-of-war camp to join the strengthening of our Red Army troops. Who said that the Eastern Front was the elite? We gave the best soldiers, rifles, machine guns and cannons to the Eastern Front, and Tukhachevsky and Lezevsky. We even drew the Ninth Army from the Southern Front to reinforce them for the second time! The three-day and two-night retreat and radio silence were exchanged for such a result? This is absolutely not allowed! This is absolutely not accepted!"
Chapter completed!