Helmek Mountain is located six kilometers east of Khmelnyk. It is the dividing line between Russia and the Soviet Union. It is sparsely populated on weekdays. After all, no one wants to be arrested and questioned by patrol officers and soldiers.
But today, the mountain seemed very lively. Thousands of people made the Helmek Mountain a bustle. They cut down trees and dug trenches, as if they wanted to live here permanently.
That's right, this is the vanguard of the 24th Division occupying this mountain and planning to build fortifications on it, and the leader of them is their regiment commander Mizik.
Now Mizik is assigning tasks to his subordinates in a shack. From the green tree trunks and the still green grass cover on the shack, it can be seen that this shack was built not long ago.
"The 12 mountain guns in your artillery camp need to be placed in the nest behind the position, which will help provide firepower for the front-line positions. The other field guns can be placed on the back of the mountain. As long as the observation posts are arranged on the top of the mountain, there will be an advantage in counter-shelling. You can assign them to
The engineer company will help you build artillery positions, and we can help you after we are done."
Mizik was in the shack, describing his requirements to the artillery battalion commander assigned to him. Behind him, a soldier was hanging up a precise map of the area, and on the other side, there were officers and soldiers busy
Laying field telephone lines.
The artillery battalion commander, who was listening carefully to Mizik's story, nodded and replied, "No problem, I'll do as you say."
After Mizik saw off the artillery battalion commander, Lieutenant Colonel Dalton, who was sweating profusely after walking around the position, came in. Mizik asked quickly.
"What was the result of the inspection?"
"Don't mention it."
Lieutenant Colonel Dalton, who was thirsty and took a gulp of water, sat down and said. "I just went for a walk. The first battalion building the front position is doing well. The soil there is not bad, and the tunnel has been built to a height of half a meter.
The Second Battalion on the right is having a hard time. There is a section of rock underneath them that they need to completely repair. If you dig hard, your shovel will break into a gap. The Second Battalion Commander asked me to tell you if you can dig that hole.
The fortifications have to be moved back two hundred meters."
After hearing the words of deputy captain Dalton, Mizke couldn't help but ask, "Which section is it?"
"It's that section of the 5th Company of the 2nd Battalion. I looked at the terrain, and it happened to be much higher than other places. If we move it back two hundred meters, it will become a breakthrough on the flank, which will give the enemy an advantage.
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Hearing Dalton's words, Mizik couldn't sit still. He picked up his military cap and said, "Then I'll go take a look."
After Mizik came to the Second Battalion's position for on-site observation, he found that, indeed, as the deputy commander said, there was a tiny hill protruding from this section. Halfway through digging a pit, there was no way to dig it down anymore. The bottom was full of rocks.
If we abandon this place, it will cause great damage to the defense line of the second battalion. Seeing the battalion commander beside him who was hesitant to speak, Mizk said. "I will come to the regiment later to get some explosives. I will let the engineer company
Someone will teach you how to use it and blow it up to create a trench."
There was no way, retreating two hundred meters would be too harmful, so the only solution was to use explosives. Mizik had to make a choice at this time, and he chose to use the few explosives in the regiment.
His words surprised the second battalion commander. "Use explosives. How much explosives are needed?"
"Don't worry about it, just use it as I tell you. According to my estimation, one hundred kilograms of explosives is enough to blast a line of defense."
I have no choice but to use some of the supplies I have stored now.
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The Romanian army's move to occupy Helmek Mountain was quickly learned by the Soviet army. There was no way that so many people were in Helmek Mountain. It would be strange to not be discovered when they were opening mountains and firing artillery.
When the Soviet patrol discovered Romania's move, they immediately asked it to withdraw from the Hermek Mountains. However, the Romanian side, who was looking for trouble, refused on the spot. Seeing Romania's behavior as if it wanted to stay here permanently,
The Soviet soldiers immediately retreated.
Mizik led others to witness the withdrawal of the Soviet patrol.
Looking at the Soviet troops riding away, Mizik turned to Dalton and asked, "Do you see any difference between them?"
"This unit should be affiliated to the border guard force of the State Political Security Administration. If my prediction is correct, it should be affiliated to the 22nd Tomir Border Guard Corps of the border guard force."
Dalton is right, this is indeed a patrol team affiliated with the 22nd Zhitomir Border Guard Corps. After the October Revolution, the Russian Border Guard Independent Army that originally guarded the border disintegrated and was abolished by the Soviet regime. Workers and Peasants
After the formation of the Red Army, the border guarding mission was temporarily handled by the Red Army. After the signing of the Brest-Litovsk Peace Treaty, the Soviet Revolutionary Military Council decided to establish two groups of convoys in the north and west to guard the western border and perform customs tasks at the same time.
After the end of the Soviet Civil War, the Tomir Border Guard Corps was established on the 22nd. Considering the tense relationship with Romania, the Corps has eight independent border defense battalions, each of which has three companies and attached cavalry.
Detachment, serving as border patrol. Obviously this is one of the company-level patrol teams.
After the patrol leader saw Romania occupying Helmek Mountain with great fanfare and ignoring his request, he knew that this matter was not simple. So after the request was rejected, he immediately sent people to report to his superiors non-stop.
So it didn't take long for news about Romania's provocation to reach Zhitomir.
The commander of the detachment also knew that this matter should not be neglected, and immediately reported the news to his superiors. After being passed on from level to level, the news fell into the hands of Mainsky, the director of the State Political Security Service.
This Mainesky took over the post from Dzerzhinsky, and this was also a ruthless character. The expulsion of Trotsky from the Soviet Union was done by the State Political Security Service led by him, although it was done by
Stalin's instructions, but it can also be seen from this that Stalin attaches great importance to him.
In 1927-1928, all prominent opposition figures, about 150 in total, were deported from Moscow to outlying cities under the supervision of representatives of the OGPU.
In addition, he initiated several trial cases. The "Shakhtin Case" (1928 "Case of Destructive Organization of Bourgeois Experts in the Shakhtin Mining District of Donbas"), a series of cases of the "Industrial Party"
(1930 "Sabotage Case in the Industrial Sector"), "Working Peasant Party" Case (1930 "Sabotage Case in the Agricultural Sector").
This man is unscrupulous in his political struggle.
Once, someone approached a close associate of Trotsky and said that he had a way to get an offset copy machine to copy their documents for the opposition. But at this time, people from the Political Security Bureau came to search and determined that
The man was an old officer of Wrangel. So, it was announced to the whole country that the opposition was connected with the Belarusian counterrevolutionaries living abroad. Later people found out that the so-called old officer was a spy sent by the State Political Security Service.
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Trotsky was subsequently expelled from the Soviet Union under the surveillance of the OGPU.
So when he received the report of Romania's provocation, he immediately set off for the Kremlin. Now he needed to let the great Comrade Stalin decide his attitude towards the Romanians.
