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Volume 3 Far East Story Chapter 284 The Simbirsk Iron Army was disabled

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    "Call back to Hawkeye 2 and continue to observe. Especially around dusk, pay attention to whether the Ninth Army of the Southern Front in the direction of Sesselan and Samara has any signs of night movements!" Wang Geng ordered, turned around and asked again,

    "Is there any news about the return of Hawkeye 3? Has the main force of Vacetis's Fifth Army crossed the Volga River? Where is the Volga River Fleet at the moment?"

    Hawkeye 3 is the third airborne early warning aircraft modified from the Handley Petty O/400 heavy bomber. It was sent by Wang Geng to the direction of Simbirsk. If you want to cross the river from the left bank of the Volga River, you must take the east side of Simbirsk.  Jieqiushi Ferry, or Sesselan Ferry, and other places where the water flow is very fast and there are no docks and the river banks are high, so it is not easy to cross the river.

    Major General Tian Jun, director of the war room, picked up the phone and whispered a few words, raised his head and said, "There is no news about Hawkeye 3 yet. I have asked downstairs to send a telegram to ask. I will get a reply soon!"

    Then the light bulb on a red telephone came on. Tian Jun walked over and picked up the receiver, listened to it, and said to Wang Geng, "It's Pepelyayev from the northwest cluster defense line looking for you!"

    Wang Geng nodded, walked over, picked up the receiver, and said, "I'm Wang Geng. How are you? Mr. Prime Minister, is there a lot of pressure on your defense line? Well Well I've seen it all,  Don't worry, Tukhachevsky was just testing it. Don't rush to fire your cannons randomly to expose the artillery positions!

    Machine gun?  Don't worry about the machine guns. Don't expose the machine guns on the second line of position!  If one of his infantry divisions from afar breaks through the defense lines of your two divisions waiting for work, then these two White Guard division commanders can be shot!  that's all!  Don¡¯t worry, I¡¯m watching over Ufa for you!  "

    As he spoke, Wang Geng threw down the phone, walked to the window, picked up a telescope, and looked at the northwest defense line. In the distance, he saw the ant-like Soviet Red Army dispatching about a division of troops, pouring over the mountains and plains towards the White Guard positions on the northwest defense line.  , the White Guards on the front line were still calm and did not fire indiscriminately.

    The mountain artillery batteries behind the position began to fire one after another. Pepelyayev used 2 artillery batteries and 12 76-caliber mountain artillery to bombard the attacking Soviet infantry division. The shells exploding in the crowd continued to graze.  They went to harvest the fragile lives, but the attacking Soviet infantry division refused to give up. They continued to trot with their waist down regardless of casualties, and soon reached the barbed wire fence two hundred meters in front of the first position.

    Behind the attacking infantry division, the Red Army's horse-drawn machine gun rushed to the best shooting position about 1,200 meters away, turned around and started shooting. The Maxim water-cooled heavy machine gun deployed on the White Guard's first line position began to fire at the same time.  Bullets intersected on the battlefield, flesh and blood flew everywhere, and the attacking and defending sides began a collision of blood and fire.

    On the one hand, due to the terrain, the southwest is low-lying and the northeast is slightly higher, forming a gentle slope that stretches for several kilometers. Therefore, the aiming fire of the White Guard mountain artillery battery deployed behind the position quickly made the horse-drawn machine gun positions organized by the Soviet Red Army unable to withstand the density.  The accurate artillery fire caused huge losses to the horse-drawn machine gun battalion, which turned the people on their backs. The remaining carriages had to rush backwards and exit the battlefield. The originally evenly matched machine gun fire exchange turned into a one-sided machine gun attack by the White Guards.  The crowd of Soviet infantry division rained down bullets and reaped lives.

    Due to the lack of artillery support, the barbed wire that stretched in front of the position hindered the attacking pace of the charging Red Army soldiers. Any hesitation on the battlefield would lead to death. In less than half an hour, the Soviet Red Army launched an attack on the northwest defense line.  The first attack was a complete failure. The 24th Infantry Division of the Simbirsk Iron Army, which led the charge, had one-third of its soldiers killed, one-third of its soldiers wounded, and less than one-third of them were able to completely withdraw to the starting position.  .

    The front of the White Guards' first line of defense stretches from the barbed wire fence to 1,000 meters away. The field is filled with corpses of the war dead. The closer to the barbed wire fence, the heavier the casualties are. The further back, the fewer dead are lying on the ground.  The squirming and groaning wounded were everywhere, it was too horrible to see.

    Although there were casualties on the White Guards' positions, most of them were machine gunners. The infantrymen who hunkered down in the trenches and fired their guns suffered very few casualties. This was the first collision of the entire northwest front. The Soviet Red Army's Eastern Front's First Army had the most casualties.  The elite 24th Infantry Division of the Simbirsk Iron Army suffered more than 6,000 casualties and was completely crippled.

    On the other hand, on the northwest defense line of the White Guards where Pepelyaev was stationed, the casualties on the first line were less than 300, of which more than 100 were killed and more than 200 were injured. Compared to the tens of thousands of people fighting on both sides.  In such a scene, the casualties are simply negligible.

    The Ufa White Guard defense line rang with the sound of "Ula" one after another. This group of White Guard infantry division soldiers, who were mainly demobilized soldiers from Tsarist Russia, found their long-lost courage and confidence. It turned out that the Soviet Union's human sea tactics were useless in front of the trench positions.  Wadog!  The most fierce opponents are the commanders at all levels.Commanders and political commissars, these commanders and political commissars suffered the most casualties.

    "Your Excellency, Commander-in-Chief, the White Guards in Ufa are fighting well! Now the Prime Minister of the Cabinet is more confident! Why is it that the Soviet Red Army is fighting in such a wild way? It is worse than the meat-bomb attack we launched in Lushun back then.  Ignore the casualties!" Taro Utsunomiya, deputy chief of staff of the coalition forces, who watched the entire offensive and defensive process through the telescope, was obviously in a good mood!

    At this time, the light on the red phone came on again. This was a straight line connecting Pepelyaev's headquarters and Wang Geng's general headquarters. Wang Geng walked over and picked up the phone without waiting for Tian Jun to reach out.  Telephone,

    "Yes, yes! I saw it! The infantry division fought very well Yes, yes The mountain artillery company completely suppressed the firepower of the horse-drawn machine guns covering the opponent's cover Yes, yes Ah No need for this Pass it to me  He ordered not to attack the medical soldiers who came to rescue him.

    What.  .  .  Yes, I saw it. The other party dropped more than 3,000 corpses, and there were more than 3,000 wounded lying on the battlefield.  .  .  Send someone to raise a white flag, go to the position and shout to them, and let their medical soldiers and stretcher teams come to drag back the wounded Red Army soldiers!  Don't shoot at the medics!  that's all!  "Wang Geng put down the phone.

    The commander-in-chief of the coalition forces turned around and continued to observe the battlefield with a telescope. At this time, the Red Army on the southeastern defense line also launched an offensive. However, it was obvious that the Soviet Fourth Front Army on the southeastern defense line was very careful and did not directly use human sea tactics to attack the first line of defense of the White Guards.  He was adjusting his machine gun position. Farther away, by the woods behind the position, there seemed to be two newly arrived artillery companies taking up positions.

    "Your Excellency, Commander-in-Chief, I don't understand why you are not allowed to shoot at the medical soldiers who entered the battlefield. They rescued the wounded. In the future, they will be our enemies when they return to the Soviet army after being healed. Why not continue to shoot or even cover the position with artillery fire?"  Destroy all the enemies who are still lying down?" asked Utsunomiya Taro, deputy chief of staff of the coalition, blinking.

    Wang Geng smiled and thought to himself, this guy is really not hiding anything. Originally, I wanted to learn more tricks from him, a guy who fought in the Russo-Japanese War, but now he has become a curious baby and it¡¯s up to me to mention it.  After hesitating for a moment, the commander-in-chief of the coalition forces whispered,

    "My Lord Taro, we must never lose our humanitarian sentiments. If we want to gain a foothold thousands of kilometers away from our homeland, blood and fire alone are far from enough. We must win over people's hearts and attack them first."  !" Wang Geng said in a lower voice in the ear of his deputy chief of staff.

    "More than 3,000 lightly and seriously wounded people, what a burden and burden this must be. After rescuing them, they lie there crying and howling all day long without medical treatment. How much will the enemy's military morale be shaken? How much food is wasted, how much marching speed is slowed down, such a heavy burden,  How can I afford to come all the way to Ufa if I don¡¯t let this guy Tukhachevsky carry him!¡±
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