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With the support of the White Eagle Nation, Sterling gradually became complacent. He believed that as long as the Red Alliance Nation was given ten years, it would surely become one of the most powerful countries in the Eastern Continent.But Sterling's interest was quickly interrupted. More than a month after the two countries signed the covenant, a man named Kirov was assassinated and killed.

Kirov's real name is Sergei Milonovich Kostrikov. He was born in Urrum, the Red Federation country. Both his parents died when he was young. He grew up in an orphanage. Joined the cloth party.Later, he was arrested and imprisoned by the Raksha Empire many times because of his participation in the revolutionary movement.Later Kirov moved to the Caucasus and began to use the pseudonym Kirov when he wrote articles for liberal newspapers. After participating in the revolution, this pseudonym became the official name everyone called him, but no one called him by his real name.

After the establishment of the Red Federation, Kirov quickly became the military chief of the Astrakhan Party. During the civil war, he fought arduously against Denikin's troops and achieved many achievements.Later, because of his firm support for Sterling, he was elected to Buningrad as the secretary of the state party committee.

After Sterling came to power, Kirov became even more successful, and soon became the first secretary of the Buningrad State Party Committee and the secretary of the Northwest Bureau of the Buningrad Central Committee.After entering the 30s, Kirov became more and more popular, because he firmly supported Sterling, and was gradually pushed to the position of secretary of the Party Central Committee, member of the Central Organization Bureau, and member of the Politburo.

Kirov, whose reputation is rising day by day, is complacent, and everyone regards him as Sterling's future successor. However, at this moment, an unexpected incident changed everything. On December 1933, 12, Kirov was assassinated in the Smolny Palace in Buningrad.

The person who shot was called Nikolayev, who was also a member of the Budapest Party. Because he was dissatisfied with the job transfer, he thought that Kirov was a hindrance, so he shot in anger.The conclusion of the police is very clear that this was an accidental vendetta, and there was not much conspiracy in it.However, although Kirov ranks eighth in the party, he is the most loyal person to Sterling, and his identity is very sensitive.

Soon another coincidence pushed this matter to a new climax. On the day Kirov was assassinated, the guard captain Borisov who was inseparable from him was quickly arrested. He was the one who witnessed Kirov's assassination.Cheka quickly captured Borisov and sent him to Moscow, intending to let Sterling interrogate himself, but the escorted car had a car accident on the way, and Borisov died unexpectedly, but surprisingly, no one else in the car was injured .

Originally this was just a coincidence, but Sterling, who was already suspicious, completely recognized the situation.In his view, Kirov's death was an offensive launched by Trotsky's remnants against him, a harbinger of overthrowing his rule, and he felt the threat of death for the first time.

After it was determined that Kirov died in a conspiracy, Sterling highlighted his decisive and cruel side, and an order that later historians became known as the "Charter of Terror" was issued.Sterling demanded that the Kirov case must be solved as soon as possible and the murderer brought to justice.At the same time, such cases must be solved and closed within 10 days in the future, and the death sentence will be executed immediately.

In order to maintain his rule, Sterling then launched a nationwide purge movement, with Dzerzhinsky's successor Yenov, the current helm of the Cheka, as the main executor.The man known by later historians as the "poisonous dwarf" or "bloody dwarf" was unconditionally loyal to Sterling and ruthless.These two qualities combine to dire consequences.

At the beginning, Sterling only intended to limit the scope of the purge to within the government, focusing on cleaning up those political opponents and dissidents in order to strengthen his authority in the central government.However, under the auspices of Yenov, the situation quickly spiraled out of control, and in March 1934, Moscow launched a lawsuit against 3 defendants of the so-called "Trotsky-Zinoviev Terror Center", among whom Grigory Zinoviev and Lev Kamenev were among the important leaders of the Bolsheviks, and all 16 were convicted and most were executed.

The public trial seemed to set the tone for the movement, and the purge was quickly expanded. A few months later, 17 people, including Karl Radek, were indicted again, 13 of whom were sentenced to immediate death. They were shot, and the rest were sent to labor camps, or they all died in the camps.

The purges continued to expand, and the third public trial came soon. The trial meeting against the so-called "Trotsky and the Right Group" was held again. Although Trotsky had escaped, those close to him were stalked.Including the chairman of the Third International Nikolai Bukharin, the former prime minister Alexei Likov, Christian Slekovsky and the former chief of the secret police Yagoda are among the defendants. Soon they were all executed.

The purge initiated by Sterling caused a whirlwind within the government. Officials at all levels were in danger of being purged by the Cheka.Yenov's activities became more and more intensified. He began to implement a reporting system within the government, stipulating that if the report is confirmed, the reporter will be rewarded. If the report is not reported, it will be punished in the same way.

After this regulation was issued, the government became even more chaotic, and everyone was afraid of being reported by people around them and suffering unwarranted disasters.Soon someone began to secretly report, and after the Cheka confirmed it, it actually gave a generous reward.Where there is the first, there will be the second, and mutual reporting and exposing each other is getting more and more serious, and soon it becomes a trend.Many people reported their personal revenge publicly, and many people corrected others in order not to be exposed by others. The government fell into panic.

Intelligence Minister Qian Zhuangfei was keenly aware of the chaos caused within the Red Alliance, but he believed that the scope of the cleansing was not large enough to deal a fatal blow to the Red Alliance.Soon a red action plan was issued to the Military Intelligence Bureau, and Hu Di became the specific implementer of this action.

As the number one figure in the Military Intelligence Bureau, Hudi already knew the Cheka's spies in the country like the back of his hand, and he quickly concocted a forged document himself.At a drinking party, he pretended to violate the routine regulations of the intelligence department and brought the forged document, but after being "drunk", he confided the truth.

Hu Di deliberately pretended to be drunk in front of the Cheka spies. Those words that seemed to leak secrets after drinking naturally aroused the spies' ideas.The spy took a risk and stole the document, which was quickly sent back to Moscow by means of underground information networks.

After "sobering up", Hu Di was furious at the lost documents and ordered a thorough investigation. As a result, the Cheka spy was caught and shot for leaking state secrets.Hu Di's pretentiousness made Cheka more sure that the information was true, and they quickly analyzed and sorted it out and sent it to the residence of the dead Sterling.

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In that document, there are many handwritings of the Red Allied Army and government officials, the most striking of which is the various correspondence between the Red Allied Army Marshal Tukhachevsky and Trotsky hidden in Hualan.In the letter, Trotsky tried his best to encourage Tukhachevsky to rebel, but the other party kept refusing.

After reading these letters, Sterling was furious. When Hudi forged these letters, the most clever thing was to push and hold. It seems that Tukhachevsky was afraid of Sterling's authority and was in love with his own power. Can't make up my mind.Such an approach is more convincing than a straightforward rebellious letter, even as shrewd as Sterling was eventually caught in the trap.

Tukhachevsky and Blyukher were more supportive of Trotsky at the beginning. Although they have kept a low profile for so many years, Sterling still has a grudge.This incident was just a trigger, triggering Sterling's distrust of the military, and a major purge against the military is about to begin.

Tukhachevsky has been feeling restless these days, but he can't guess what is going to happen.He had heard about the purges within the government, but it seemed that Sterling was afraid that the army's combat effectiveness would be damaged, so he did not let this movement spread to the army, and the army was temporarily calm.

On the morning of August 8, Tukhachevsky, as usual, took a few personal guards and went to work in the Kremlin in his GAZ car.When the car was driving near the Red Square, it was suddenly stopped by a group of people with red armbands.The people wearing the red armbands are members of the Cheka organization, except for the military discipline personnel. Seeing the soldiers with live ammunition surrounded the car, Tukhachevsky frowned. He was very disgusted with these obviously Cheka personnel. .

"What happened?" Tukhachevsky opened the car door and asked.

The leading officer saluted and said, "Are you Marshal Tukhachevsky?"

"It's me, what's the matter?" Tukhachevsky looked at the other party and asked.

The officer said: "I was ordered to arrest you on suspicion of treason. Please cooperate with us. This is an arrest warrant." Waving, the soldiers immediately stepped forward and grabbed Tukhachevsky.

Those guards still wanted to resist, but the Cheka men held their heads with guns.Tukhachevsky waved his hands and said: "Don't act too aggressively, everyone is your own, I will go with you."

Seeing that Tukhachevsky did not make any resistance, the guards had no choice but to watch their marshal being taken away by the Cheka.Tukhachevsky had a very high reputation in the army, and many middle and senior commanders were single-handedly selected by him, and now they were taken away by the Cheka, which immediately caused a shock in the army.

Many commanders wrote letters to the Supreme Revolutionary Committee, asking the Cheka to release Marshal Tukhachevsky and clear his name from suspicion.A group of veterans who are soldiers are naturally not too tactful in writing letters. All kinds of abuse and verbal provocations are filled in the letters, making the political commissars who inspect the letters shake their heads.

Tukhachevsky's prestige in the army is so high, but Sterling feels the crisis even more. He feels that he seems to have the possibility of an army that he cannot control.Those who complained about Tukhachevsky did not expect that they wrote such a large letter to the Supreme Revolutionary Committee, which made Sterling even more suspicious.Three days later, the situation became more serious. Marshal Blyukher was also arrested, but this time the person responsible for the arrest was Yegorov, one of the five marshals.

The marshal arrested the marshal. This was the first time in the history of the world. It caused confusion in the army's thinking.Originally, the officers believed that the Cheka was persecuting the army, but now it seems to have turned into a power grab within the army. For a while, the officers who supported the marshals became wary of each other.Sterling just hopes that there will be chaos in the army, so as to avoid any excesses due to the one-sided appeal for Tukhachevsky.

In fact, Marshal Yegorov also felt wronged.He is a centrist, never willing to choose sides, but when Supreme Leader Sterling ordered him to carry out the arrest mission, he was unable to disobey the order, and as a result, the hat of infighting was so confusedly put on his head.

After the two Marshals Tukhachevsky and Blyukher were arrested, Voroshilov became arrogant. Originally, because he had the least military exploits, he was the most trailing one of the five Marshals.Now that the two marshals who have a bad relationship with him are imprisoned, it is time for him to make a big fuss against his political opponents.

When there was chaos in the army, Voroshilov began to spare no effort to collect evidence, hoping that when the two marshals died, the situation became more and more difficult. Many discerning people realized that there might be a storm in the army. There's a storm.

The national turmoil in the Red Alliance country made Cheka's work much more difficult, especially the counter-espionage work was almost difficult. Taking advantage of this opportunity, some military personnel from the Hualan Kingdom secretly entered the territory of the Red Alliance country in batches. On August 8, in a shop in Nizhny Novgorod, the two groups finally met.

"Hello, Lieutenant General Xiao Jun." Qingniao saluted a person with biochemical skin.

The person opposite is Xiao Jun, the captain of the Snow Leopard Commando. He waved his hand at Jade Bird and said, "You're welcome, we are operating secretly now, so don't reveal your true identity easily."

"The situation this time seems to be very complicated." Blue Bird asked with a smile.

Xiao Jun nodded: "The situation is very complicated, otherwise you wouldn't have put the best Gale Force of your intelligence department together with our Snow Leopard commando team. The people to save this time are very important, we can only fail." fail."

Jade Bird nodded and said: "I hope the mission can be successfully completed. We came here to perform a mission once, and it was very dangerous at that time. My old brothers and I are about to retire, and I don't want to stumble in this last mission."

"Don't worry bro, with our special forces here, I promise you won't suffer." Xiao Jun smiled and waved: "Bring all the guys here and let the brother troops get acquainted, so that they won't be difficult to deal with."

Hearing Xiao Jun's obviously showing off, Blue Bird couldn't help curling his lips secretly. As the most elite unit of the intelligence department, the Gale Force is also equipped with a lot of professional equipment. He doesn't think Hualanguo has any high-tech equipment that he has never seen before.

When Xiao Jun ordered the equipment to be brought up, Qingniao and the others were astonished.Infrared night vision devices, rapid-fire machine guns, assault pistols, external grenade launchers, magnetic mines, time bombs, incendiary grenades, flash bombs, smoke bombs, and more.

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Most of the death squads used small spy equipment. Those weapons were well concealed but not powerful enough. This time, the special forces brought all the powerful weapons for individual soldiers. Naturally, Qingniao and others had never seen them.As fighters, as long as they see powerful weapons, they always love them. The Blue Bird and the others try this and touch that, and they like it very much.

Several members of the Snow Leopard Commando surrounded them, pointing to Qingniao and others carefully, telling them the essentials of using various weapons.Although the five members of the Gale Death Squad have not used the special equipment of these special forces, they have also undergone rigorous training. They are very quick to use various weapons, and they have mastered the essentials of all weapons in just ten minutes.

"This is for you. This is a nylon body armor lined with ceramic plates." Xiao Jun and several soldiers brought the body armor.

Qingniao laughed and said, "Our biochemical skin can block bullets, why do we need body armor?"

Xiao Jun said: "The bulletproof ability of the biochemical skin is limited. It is good if it is only a light weapon attack, but this time we may face the army. The shrapnel of large-caliber shells and large-caliber machine gun bullets are not so resistant. Multiple guarantees can always be safe. Some." Seeing his seriousness, Qingniao nodded and took the body armor.

Everyone quickly changed their attire, put the body armor on the inside, and the hound and Liuli went out to connect.Because the five members of the Death Squad can speak several foreign languages, if they go out pretending to be civilians, there will be no danger of passing through the gang.They belonged to the intelligence department and were very familiar with the local intelligence system connection points. The two came back in just over three hours.

"The situation has been clarified. The target is in the basement of the Nizhny Novgorod government building. The government building is a reinforced concrete structure, and there is an infantry battalion in the building. It is said that after the arrest of the two marshals, Sterling was afraid Some people will lead troops to rebel and rescue the two marshals. So after the two were arrested, they were not thrown into prison, but were monitored by heavy troops in the government building." Liuli introduced the situation to everyone in a low voice.

The Hound added: "The building is heavily guarded, and no one else is allowed to enter, not even the daily cleaning personnel, so our insiders cannot obtain information inside the building. They only learned that the target was detained through side-by-side reconnaissance. In the basement, where exactly they don't know."

"Really?" Xiao Jun asked casually, "What is the formation of that infantry battalion, and where is it from?"

The hunting dog said: "I heard that it is an infantry battalion of the First Guards Army of the capital garrison. Its organization is not much different from that of ordinary troops. I just don't know if it has strengthened equipment when performing such special tasks."

"The enemy's blockade is too tight, and the information is too vague. This time it will be difficult for us to fight." Xiao Jun said with a frown.

"Is it the regular army? Maybe I have some ideas." Blue Bird showed a smile.

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