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Volume 3 Far East Story Chapter 282 People who are short of food are fighting quickly.

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    On July 7, 1918, the first phase of the peripheral battle of the Battle of Ufa began. In the Eastern Front of the Soviet Red Army, the reinforced Southern Group commanded by Tukhachevsky advanced to a place ten kilometers southwest of Ufa. Except for three  The leading cavalry division and the rest of the main forces of the Southern Cluster all arrived within two days. The entire Ufa front ran northwest-southeast across an area of ??nearly 20 kilometers long in the southwest suburbs of Ufa.

    The attacking side is the Eastern Front South Cluster commanded by Tukhachevsky under the Eastern Front of the Soviet Red Army, which governs the First Army, Second Army and Fourth Army of the Eastern Front.

    Among them, Tukhachevsky's own First Army includes the Volsk Infantry Division, the 1st Turkestan Division, the 24th Simbirsk Iron Army Division, the 15th and 20th Infantry Divisions, the 1st Turkestan Cavalry Division, and the Turkestan Cavalry Division.  The 31st Infantry Division, the 13th Cavalry Division and the Mixed Cavalry Division, a total of 6 infantry divisions and 3 cavalry divisions, with more than 90,000 troops in the army, are equipped with 20 artillery companies.

    The Second Group Army has the 2nd Composite Division and the 28th Infantry Division, a total of two infantry divisions, with more than 20,000 people in the army, 3 artillery companies and a machine gun battalion!  The commander of the group army is Ma Xin.

    The Fourth Army has the 22nd, 25th, 49th and 50th Infantry Divisions, the Novozinsk Infantry Division, the Uralsk Infantry Division, the 1st Cavalry Division and other units, a total of 6 infantry divisions and one cavalry division, approximately  There are 10 artillery companies and the entire army has about 50,000 people.

    In this way, the Eastern Cluster used to launch the Battle of Ufa on the Soviet Eastern Front in Ufa had a total of 3 armies, 14 infantry divisions, 4 cavalry divisions, 33 artillery companies with a total of 198 cannons, and the total number of people on the attacking side exceeded 160,000.  people.

    On the side of the White Guards defending Ufa, the Northwest Group commanded by Ufa garrison commander, Prime Minister of the Cabinet of the All-Russian Provisional Government, and Belarusian Army General Pepelyaev has two White Guards infantry divisions and two Ufa volunteer divisions.  There are more than 40,000 people in total, with 8 artillery companies under their jurisdiction. The Southeast Group commanded by Alexander Petrovich has two White Guard infantry divisions, one Ufa Volunteer Division and a 4th Ural Cavalry Division, with more than 40,000 people, and 6 artillery batteries.  Artillery Battery.

    The remaining White Guards infantry division was used as a general reserve to guard the high right bank of the Belaya River in the center of the front.

    The total strength of the Ufa White Guards on the defensive side is 90,000, with 14 artillery batteries and about 84 cannons. There are also about 15,000 civilians, logistics and ambulance teams and workers' pickets in the city.

    The proud commander of the Southern Group of the Eastern Front of the Soviet Red Army, Tukhachevsky, set up his group headquarters in a village called Macao, which is only a little more than ten kilometers away from the southwest suburbs of Ufa.  The first line of defense is less than five kilometers away, which is almost near the boundary of the range of the Russian 76 mm caliber mountain artillery on both sides!

    "Comrade Commander, according to the cavalry reconnaissance, the Ufa garrison's front line stretches from northwest to southeast, and is at least 20 kilometers long. It seems that the White Guards are divided into two groups, but the strength in the middle is weak. According to observation, on the first line position,  The opponent has at least two divisions of troops on defense. The machine gun fire is relatively strong, but the artillery fire is still sparse. This is the specific situation. Please indicate the next action plan! "

    The person who reported the report was Vasily Ivanovich Chapayev, the commander of the 1st Cavalry Division who was at the vanguard of the First Army. This guy was brave and good at fighting. He had repeatedly made military exploits in the First Army's charge. He was a soldier under Tukhachev.  First choice forward.

    "Vasily Ivanovich, why did you fail? You, the commander of the main cavalry division, asked the White Guards to take a piece of meat before the battle started?! The northwest and southeast clusters each have only two divisions.  ? According to intelligence from the front army and Moscow, there are at least five White Guard infantry divisions and several urgently mobilized Ufa volunteer divisions. Is that Pepelyaev playing?  What a trick!¡±

    Tukhachev frowned and looked at his favorite general riding on the horse with his arms open. He saw that this guy was covered in sweat, his arms were bandaged with gauze, and there was some blood oozing out. It was obvious that he was shot when he came to the front line for a closer look.  Stray bullets or something.

    "Hey, it's okay, just a few scratches. However, my vanguard battalion suffered a bit. I chased the Cossack scout cavalry too hard and penetrated the second line of defense of the two groups in the middle. The White Guards  The machine gun fire on both sides was so fierce that there were not many people left after they retreated. What a pity, Yenov, the battalion commander and his political commissar, both of them died!" Chapayev said with a nonchalant expression.  , I actually felt very uncomfortable.

    "We will avenge them! Don't worry! Comrade Vasily Ivanovich, this time our troops and artillery are at least twice as strong as the White Guards opposite. When we take Ufa, we will give you the battalion commander and battalion political commissar.  Revenge!" The speaker was the commander of the Second Army, Ma Xin. Although the Second Army only had two divisions, this Ma Xin was Comrade Ulyanov's fellow Simbirsk fellow and a member of the Central Committee and Military Member of the Supreme Revolutionary Military Committee.  Sdervyov¡¯s relationship is veryIron.

    Therefore, although the Second Army only has two divisions, it is still a group army, and Maxin was also appointed by Moscow as the chief of staff of the Southern Group, considered Tukhachevsky's deputy.

    "The White Guards on the opposite side are much more confident than before. There don't seem to be many people on the front line, but you see, they are not panicking at all, and they are well concealed. The trenches are well-made, and they look a bit like a regular army!" Pictured  Riding next to Khachev, looking forward on the high ground with a telescope on a horse, was the commander of the Fourth Army, Lezhevsky, who was considered the deputy commander of the Southern Group.

    "Well, the defense line on the other side is well organized this time. The southeast cluster's position is centered on two highlands. They actually have such a long barbed wire. Even if the Ufa White Guards are so generous? The cost and effort spent are not small. How about it?  "Comrades, tell me how to fight!" Tukhachevsky is also riding a Don River bay horse, wearing a big cloak and a top-notch Red Army hat. If you don't look carefully, he doesn't look like a senior commander.  , more like an ordinary cavalryman.

    This group of senior generals of the Soviet Red Army are currently on a hillside 200 meters above sea level, observing the defense line of the Ufa defenders. The sight line of the northeastern defense line looks good. There are two large woods one kilometer in front of the hillside.  It looks like a very suitable artillery position.

    "Commander, please give the order. Brothers can't wait. In my opinion, if we send three divisions to the northwest and southeast to advance together, and send a cavalry division to each flank to detour, we can advance to the Ufa River in one day.  Side!" Chapayev was eager to avenge his sacrificed comrades and couldn't help shouting anxiously.

    "At least wait until the artillery positions are in place and the artillery fire is ready before launching an attack. My comrade, division commander, if you don't knock out those machine gun firepower points, the cost of just using the number of people will be too high!" Ma Xin, chief of staff of the cluster, said disapprovingly.

    "The artillery is still ten miles behind the team. When they come up and set up their positions, I think it's already dark. How can we carry out this attack! Wait for tomorrow? We don't have much food. Every day we use it, we lose a day!"  He said convinced.

    In his opinion, the whole army only has Tukhachevsky, the cluster commander and the commander of the 1st Army, who can command him at this moment. The others stand aside, and their arrogance is fully revealed. Ma Xin, the cluster chief of staff, blushed when he heard this.  He thought to himself that the Second Army had only a small number of people and lacked confidence. Chapayev was just a division commander of the First Army, yet he dared to contradict himself at will.

    "Food is indeed a problem. The food supported by the Southern Front has just been transported to the Samara front line. Yegorov of the Ninth Army began to yell that the team was in a hurry and needed to rest for a day or two before moving forward."

    Rzhevsky, commander of the Fourth Army and deputy commander of the Southern Cluster, muttered dissatisfiedly. Seseran and Samara were originally the territories recovered by the Fourth Army, but now he came north to replace Tukhachev.  As cannon fodder, the fat and oily Samara and Sesselan have become the headquarters of the Ninth Army!

    "Has the main force of the Fifth Army of the Northern Cluster going south crossed the river from Simbirsk?" Tukhachevsky turned to ask his political commissar Yankovgai.

    "Vacetis's telegram last night said that there were not enough boats to ferry. At this time, only two divisions have crossed the river, and the other troops are still resting in Simbirsk!" Yankovgai, political commissar of the First Army, said helplessly  answer.

    "How long will the entire army have enough food?" Tukhachev raised his binoculars again and looked at the Ufa White Guards defense line and asked.

    ¡°The Second Army has enough food for ten days!¡± Ma Xin was the first to answer.

    "There are more soldiers in the fourth group. The food they brought will probably need to be eaten in no more than ten days. All the people on the right bank of the Volga River have fled, and almost no grain can be collected. It seems that we must capture Ufa as soon as possible and enter the city.  Just food!" said the Fourth Army Commander Lezhevsky with a frown.

    "You are all doing well. The First Army only has eight days of food. If we cannot capture Ufa in eight days, we will have to start killing horses and eating meat!" Yankovgai, the political commissar of the First Army, complained.
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