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Volume 3 Far East Story Chapter 294 Reinforcements are urgent

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    "Your Excellency Taro, what I want is to encircle and annihilate the main force of the Soviet Eastern Front Army in the first battle of Ufa west of the Ural Mountains, not just to defeat it. The entire Eastern Front Army of Vacetis has a total of 330,000 troops.  The 80,000-strong Yegorov Ninth Army of the Upper South Front is heading north for reinforcements. If we wipe out the 410,000-strong main Soviet force before winter comes, then the entire right bank of the Volga River will be safe until next spring."

    Wang Geng once again emphasized his strategy to his two deputy chiefs of staff. In his opinion, Tukhachevsky's southern cluster was just a piece of cake. What he wanted was to capture Tukhachevsky under the city of Ufa.  When he wanted to withdraw, the camp was full of wounded soldiers and lacked food, and there was no place to run.

    Therefore, if we want to hurt him, we should not let him despair of taking Ufa from the beginning. Instead, we should force him to urge Moscow for reinforcements, then surround the Tukhachev Group, and then destroy the Northern Group that comes for reinforcements.  The main force of the Fifth Army and the main force of the Ninth Army of the Southern Front.

    "What do you mean, even if the main force of the Soviet Eastern Front is eliminated, we will not fight all the way to Moscow?" Utsunomiya Taro asked doubtfully. No one can really guess the inner plan of the commander-in-chief of the coalition forces. Utsunomiya must follow Utsunomiya's instructions.  In Miyataro's own opinion, after encircling and annihilating the Eastern Front Army, he would head straight to Moscow with overwhelming force.

    "Russia is too big, Your Excellency Utsunomiya, and it will be very difficult when winter comes. As long as the opponent's effective forces are eliminated, those cities will be taken over sooner or later!" Wu Peifu, deputy chief of staff of the coalition, obviously understands the thoughts of his commander-in-chief better.  More profoundly, although he felt that Wang Geng was still too cautious in his deployment of the Battle of Ufa.

    "Whether we want to fight to Moscow or not, I'll let Mr. Kolchak worry about it at that time. We just give him the territory east of the Volga River. The winter climate in the Kazakh steppe in the south will be warmer in the UK.  Then we can consider going to Tsaritsyn to meet that little Comrade Joseph with the big nose!" Wang Geng revealed a little bit about the direction the coalition forces may consider in using troops in the winter.  -<Piaotian Literature registered members recommend this work>-(

    "Commander-in-Chief, I think this Battle of Ufa is a rare training opportunity for all the soldiers of the coalition. Many battles in the future may involve hundreds of thousands fighting against hundreds of thousands. Ufa is a rare opportunity to wait for work and progress step by step.  During the process, can the generals of our coalition regiments and regiments and above come to the Ufa front line in batches to observe this defensive operation?" Wu Peifu came up with an idea.

    "You're right, but don't come in groups, come in batches to observe. We will have to fight defensive operations for at least two to three days under the city of Ufa. The first batch of Russian infantry divisions formed in Chelyabinsk now have new recruits.  It¡¯s been almost a month since we started training in the camp, right? We¡¯ll start taking trains to Ufa tomorrow, and then the White Guard divisions who will replace the front line will also go into battle to train.¡±

    In this Ufa battle, in addition to using five Ufa White Guard infantry divisions, three Ufa volunteer divisions, and one Ural Fourth Cavalry Division to defend Ufa, the coalition headquarters also used a total of 30,000 armored and armored personnel from Sun Liangcheng's Einsatzgruppe in advance.  The cavalry group made a large detour east of the Ural Mountains, targeting the Urals at the northern end of the Kazakh steppe, and then moved northwest to capture Samara and Seseran.  , closed the middle reaches of the Volga River.

    Secondly, after the Battle of Ufa started, the 25,000 cavalry group of Li Mingzhong's South Route Army detoured southward along the foothills west of the Ural Mountains. The goal was to outflank the main force of the Fourth Army of the Soviet Union's South Cluster in the gap after it moved north.  Terli Tamak, Ishimbai, Saravat, and Meleuz went all the way south to Kumertau and Orenburg, and finally set up pockets to close the gap along the line of Orenburg and Kumetauer.

    The third route is Jiang Hongyu, who took the train north from Ufa after the Ufa peripheral battle started. The North Route Army, an armored brigade, a Ural cavalry division and a Japanese cavalry regiment, is in the important town between Ufa and Kazan.  Get off the train at Chelny on the Kamala River, and then outflank it from the north to the southwest. This road also has a force of 25,000 people.

    The three teams responsible for outflanking and outflanking are all highly armored, mechanized and cavalry units, with a total strength of 80,000. The rest are the 150mm temporarily formed by the coalition's divisional heavy artillery regiment and the ** field artillery regiment.  The heavy artillery brigade, and of course the three Japanese field artillery regiments combined, only have 72 150mm heavy howitzers.  A heavy artillery regiment of the participating armies has 54 150mm heavy howitzers.

    After dispatching these troops, there are also 60,000 reserves of the Third Army's Xiong Shihui Division and the Japanese Seventh Division at the airport ten kilometers northwest of Ufa and the coalition's frontline base camp. This shows the extent of the coalition's investment in the Ufa campaign.  After all, if so many troops are used and only Tukhachevsky's Southern Cluster is defeated in the end, then I don't know how long it will take to seize such an opportunity to catch them all.

    Since it is good for the coalition forces to rest during the day, they ordered that in the first half of the night, the 7th Field Artillery Regiment and the 7th Field Artillery Regiment of the 7th Japanese Division were temporarily deployed.An infantry brigade of the 7th Division entered Highland 203, east of the Ural River, southeast of Ufa. It is across the river from Highland 201, west of the Ural River. The distance is less than five kilometers away. During the day, an infantry division of the White Guards was in the city of Ufa.  The regiment's troops were also sent to the high ground by coalition troop transport trucks. Before 1 o'clock in the evening, a decent defense line appeared on the high ground 8 kilometers south of Ufa city.

    At the same time, the 12th Field Artillery Regiment of the 12th Division, a Japanese field artillery regiment that Wang Geng promised Petrovitch, also entered the defensive position of the southeast cluster of Ufa that night. Sergey suddenly had the equivalent of  The artillery of 15 artillery batteries, these guys are gearing up and waiting to teach the Fourth Army in front of them a bigger lesson the next day!

    On the night of July 8, 1918, both the offensive and defensive sides of the Battle of Ufa had a sleepless night.

    Tukhachevsky, the commander of the Southern Cluster of the Soviet Eastern Front, sent a telegram to Moscow and the front army reporting the news that the main force of the Southern Cluster had encircled Ufa. Of course, this encirclement was obviously an exaggeration, at least until the outflanking troops from the north and the south would start.  It's not too late to start a fight behind the Ufa garrison.

    In addition to reporting that 14 divisions of the Southern Group and 4 cavalry divisions were encircling the city of Ufa, Tukhachevsky's telegram also claimed that the 1st and 4th armies of the Southern Group launched a tentative attack on the enemy's defense line in the afternoon.  attack, and figured out the enemy's troop deployment and firepower configuration.  The soldiers of the Southern Cluster are united and confident that they will capture Ufa in the short term and pay tribute to the Central Committee of the Soviet Union in Moscow!

    The second paragraph of the telegram is Tukhachevsky's strong complaint about the slow movement of the Fifth Army of the Eastern Front's Northern Group and the ineffective reinforcement of the Southern Front's Ninth Army.  Go up to the southern cluster and have an absolute advantage in strength!

    However, since the firepower density of the defenders in terms of artillery and machine guns is not weaker than that of the attackers, and the food in the southern cluster is only enough for another week, at the same time, the defensive positions of the Ufa defenders are quite complete and strong, while the northern line of Kazan  Kolchak's main force in the direction may take a train south for reinforcements at any time.

    Tukhachevsky proposed to Moscow that every effort must be made to allow the Fourth Army and the Ninth Army to reinforce the Ufa defense line as quickly as possible, especially to escort food. At the end of the telegram, Tukhachevsky  It was emphasized that whether the Battle of Ufa was successful or not, in addition to the brave fighting as always by all the soldiers of the Southern Cluster, it was very critical to capture Ufa before the reinforcements from Kolchak in Kazan and the coalition forces east of the Ural Mountains.

    To achieve this, the Fourth Army and the Ninth Army's rapid advance towards Ufa will play a decisive role!
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