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Volume 3 Far East Story Chapter 287 Nanji Group¡¯s Review Meeting

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    On the afternoon of July 8, 1918, the first exploratory attack launched by the Soviet Eastern Front's Southern Group towards Ufa ended in a disastrous failure. On the northwest and southeast fronts, each about 10 kilometers wide, the main attack on the northwest defense line of the White Guards was  The First Army suffered heavy casualties, and the 24th Division of the Simbirsk Iron Army, the main division of the Army, was completely disabled.  *.*

    More than 3,000 people were killed and nearly 4,000 were injured. Only less than 3,000 people were completely withdrawn. The corpses of the Soviet Red Army were scattered within 800 meters in front of the White Guard position.

    Fortunately, the White Guards on the defensive side, under the strict orders of the general headquarters, did not continue to shoot at the medical soldiers and stretcher teams of the First Army who rushed into the battlefield to rescue the wounded at the risk. This order puzzled both the Red Army and the White Guards.  But the White Guards on the defensive side finally stopped.

    After a period of deathly silence, the loudspeaker on the White Guard defense line sounded:

    "Listen to the Red Army opposite. Under the orders of our Ufa High Command, in the spirit of humanitarianism, we are now officially informing you that we can send medical soldiers and stretcher teams into the battlefield to drag your wounded and fallen soldiers back! The premise is that  You are not allowed to bring weapons into the battlefield! Please remember that you are here to rescue the wounded, not to retrieve weapons and ammunition! If someone violates this agreement,  , we will still shoot!"

    The Russian language on the loudspeaker kept repeating, and the voice was cold and expressionless. This voice floated back and forth along the ten-kilometer defense line of the White Guards' northwest cluster in Ufa. It not only boosted the morale of the White Guards, but also made the Soviet Red Army on the opposite side a little confused.  Cuo, the red and white sides have been fighting to the death for the past six months. Why did they encounter such a rare thing in Ufa?  Who was the commander of the Ufa garrison?  Could it be that we were the Bolshevik underground workers who broke into the White Guards?

    Time is life when it comes to rescuing the wounded. After a short period of silence, the Red Army finally sent dozens of medical carriages with eye-catching signs into the battlefield to rescue the wounded, while the lightly wounded who could walk or crawl in front of the position were  After a simple bandage, they threw down the weapons in their hands and supported each other towards their positions.

    The first offensive of the First Army under Tukhachevsky towards the northwest of Ufa was dismal. Just clearing the battlefield and recovering the wounded took a lot of time until the sunset. In such a bleak and bloody scene with a trace of  Given the human touch, it was obvious that a second offensive could not be launched that day.

    Although the subsequent offensive launched by Lezhevsky of the Fourth Army in the southeast was also frustrated, the casualties were much smaller. A total of 30 Malamax machine guns were lost, and the total casualties were less than 200.  .  In contrast, Tukhachev's direct First Army was obviously quite disgraced.

    The emergency operational meeting of the Soviet Eastern Front's Southern Cluster Headquarters was held again in the village of Macao, ten kilometers southwest of Ufa. The division commanders and political commissars of the Red Army felt a little heavy when they passed the field hospital set up on the edge of the village. Not only did the First Army  His own Iron Fist Simbirsk Iron Army 24th Division was defeated, the division commander Kimilnov was seriously injured, the political commissar Posey was killed, and more than half of the brigade commander below was injured.

    "Comrade Lezhevsky! Why did your Fourth Army launch the attack 20 minutes later than scheduled?! Why did you agree to attack with one division, but you only sent five heavy machine gun battalions! Are you disobeying the South?  The battle order of the cluster headquarters, you are derelict in your duty, you must take full responsibility for the heavy casualties of the Red Army today! I want to report to the front army and the Supreme Military Council!¡±

    Although Tukhachev is young, he has always looked down on others. He boasts that he can command a front army, and he has won the appreciation of Comrade Ulyanov by relying on himself. This guy is very good at shirk responsibility and eliminate dissidents.

    No, as soon as the Fourth Army Commander Lezhevsky arrived at the cluster headquarters, he was scolded by him, and his roar resounded throughout the conference room!

    "Who said that each of them is responsible for the offensive on their own front? The 90,000-strong First Army will attack the 40,000 White Guards on the opponent's northwest defense line, and the 50,000-strong Fourth Army will also attack the 40,000 White Guards on the southeastern defense line of Ufa. This way  Is the arrangement fair?

    Okay, since you are the commander of the group, the Fourth Army is a stepmother. I, Rzhevsky, admit it. How to organize the attack is my responsibility. There is no coward in the Fourth Army, but like the 24th Division of the Simbirsk Iron Army  To initiate human wave tactics without the cover of artillery fire and machine guns is dereliction of duty!  "

    The deputy commander of the cluster and the commander of the Fourth Army, Lezhevsky, slapped his military cap on the conference table and roared louder than Tukhachevsky!

    The six division commanders and political commissars behind him were equally nervous. It was the 1st Group Army that suffered heavy losses in the defeat. No matter how badly the 4th Group Army fought, the charge of the five heavy machine gun battalions destroyed the opponent's first line of defense.  onThe Guards were frightened, which is an indisputable fact. Although they lost more than a battalion of heavy machine guns under the opponent's artillery attack, they withdrew with no heavy casualties, and they also found out the opponent's true and false intentions.

    The commander of the Southern Cluster of the Soviet Eastern Front, Tukhachevsky and the deputy commander, Rzhevsky, slapped the table and shouted at each other. The division commanders and division political commissars in the dark room all lowered their heads and did not dare to breathe.  The commanders of the group armies all have hot tempers, but even several division commanders of the 1st Group Army felt that the attack in the afternoon was launched too hastily. For this, Tukhachevsky, the group commander, actually bears considerable responsibility.

    As for Lezhevsky, fighting is always about using your brain. The Fourth Army can attack and defend well in his hands. In fact, its combat effectiveness is no worse than that of the First and Fifth Army, but the recruitment of personnel and equipment always lags behind that of the First Army.  The two armies, including the Fifth Army, are short of men in Moscow. Comrade Trotsky's supreme military command has obviously been challenged by some military commissars and Central Committee members.

    And Rzhevsky was a subordinate of Brusilov, the Tsarist Russian God of War. In the Soviet Red Army, after Muravyov, he was a military member who could be appointed but was difficult to be truly trusted and defected to the Soviet Union.  Experts and generals like Rzhevsky might have been squeezed out and purged from the ranks of the Soviet Red Army if Trotsky hadn't managed to survive in Moscow.

    "Comrades, commanders! This battle has just begun. The occasional setbacks are nothing. The Red Army's own lack of unity is the problem. Instead of arguing here, it is better to think about the next step of fighting. As the saying goes, where do you fall?  Get up wherever you are. The blood of the martyrs of the 24th Simbirsk Iron Army Division must not be shed in vain. We, the Southern Group, must unite and resolutely capture Ufa and report the good news to Moscow and the Central Committee!¡±

    The one who came out to act as peacemaker was Ma Xin, chief of staff of the Southern Cluster and commander of the Second Army. With a smile, this man pulled Tukhachev and Rzhevsky to sit on the chairs, and at the same time ordered the kitchen to start dinner and let the division level  The commanders and commanders first filled their stomachs and marched in a hurry. Because of the shortage of food, the whole army had not had a few full meals.

    Soon, the bread and cabbage and potato soup were steaming hot. The orderlies entered the room and worked diligently to prepare the soup for their leader, and brought the black bread to them. For a while, the whole room was full of people.  The smell of soup and chewing filled the hot and humid air with the aroma of cabbage and potatoes.

    The commander of the Southern Cluster, Tukhachevsky, gnawed the black bread in his hand with his head sullenly. He was actually quite remorseful and thought to himself, "Nima, although the number of Ufa's defenders is small, their machine gun firepower is not weak at all. I will do it this afternoon."  The attack launched was really a bit reckless. In the absence of artillery support, it was a mistake to rely solely on the human sea tactics to attack. Lezhevsky was a good guy and knew how to send a small force to increase the fire test first. He could not do this this time.  What a big loss!¡±

    "Commanders of the Red Army! Don't just keep your head down. Tell us how to fight next. It can also be used as a reference for the commanders. It is a fine tradition of our Red Army to work together to mobilize the masses!" The speaker was the one who had just entered the door.  Yankov Gayi, Tukhachevsky's political commissar of the army group and political commissar of the Southern Cluster, this guy is not good at fighting, but he is good at mass work and mobilization. Just now he took advantage of the meal to check on the injured  Patients can be regarded as doing the work of political commissars at home.

    "According to me, the White Guards' first-line position only has the strength of one division at most, but the opponent has a lot of machine guns. I counted them in the telescope in the afternoon and found that there is a Maxim heavy machine gun fire point 80 to 100 meters away. Although it is  A division can be equipped with at least more than 100 heavy machine guns. If it cannot suppress the opponent with firepower, it will definitely not be able to attack them based on their numbers, and the casualties will not be worth the loss!"

    The person who spoke was Temov, the division commander of the Volsk Infantry Division of the First Army. The division he led was the earliest infantry division of the First Army, so he was also considered a close general of Tukhachevsky.
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