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Volume 3 Far East Story Chapter 297 The Perseverance of the Cavalry

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    Discovered by the coalition's airborne early warning aircraft, the 13th Cavalry Division in the north had not even finished crossing the railway line when it was violently attacked by machine guns and artillery from White Guard armored trains reinforced from Ufa. The Cavalry Division itself lacked heavy weapons and  The artillery and armored trains suffered greatly in both artillery battles and machine gun fire. Seeing that the situation was not good, Markov ordered the entire division to quickly evacuate eastward, away from the attacks of the White Guards' armored trains on the railway line.

    By the time the 13th Cavalry Division was disgraced and running wildly. When it ran eastward to the Belaya River and was blocked by the wide and fast river, it was less than 20 kilometers away from the railway line. When it stopped to count the troops, it was already on the armored train.  After losing two battalions of troops under the scorching fire attack, Markov sent scout cavalry to scout along the river in both northwest and southeast directions while looking for a suitable place to cross the river.

    Although forcibly crossing the wide Belaya River is not part of this battle plan, for a senior cavalry division commander like Markov, who was born in the Fifth Army, it is necessary to take one step at a time and look at three steps. Of course, the 13th Cavalry Division encountered  The battle report of the armored train attack was immediately sent back to the Southern Cluster Command. Tukhachevsky had to be consulted on the next step.

    But in the face of the long and majestic armored trains on the railway and the arrogant machine guns and artillery on them, the 13th Cavalry Division obviously lacked enough heavy weapons to deal with it. If Tukhachevsky ordered his division to attack the armored trains, Marko  The husband doubts whether he has the courage to accept the order!

    Soon, a reply from the Southern Cluster Command came. In the telegram, Tukhachevsky severely criticized the 13th Cavalry Division for lacking the will and courage to fight and being frightened by the White Guards' armored train. In the telegram, Tukhachev said  Ski asked Markov to lead the cavalry division to resolutely overcome the difficulties and find ways to destroy the railway so that the armored train could not function. He even asked the cavalry division to seize the armored train and use it to attack Ufa!

    Finally, the commander of the Southern Cluster asked Markov's political commissars at all levels of the cavalry division to play the role of model warheads, resolutely overcome the right-leaning sentiments of some generals in the team, carry forward the fine traditions of the Red Cossack cavalry, defeat the armored train, and seize the northwestern part of Ufa.  Railway bridge, and then capture Ufa!

    "It's simply a fantasy! What Tukhachev's 14 infantry divisions and 33 artillery batteries couldn't do, how can I do it with the more than 7,000 cavalry? The White Guards armored train just carried at least one regiment of infantry  Troops, there are so many artillery pieces on this armored train, and the machine gun firepower is so dense, how can you get close? It's completely unrealistic and blind!" Markov tore the telegram to pieces with two hands, and tore apart his own.  Collar, his face was livid with anger!

    "Commander, I think we should find a place to rest for a while, and find a place to cross the river. Otherwise, we will be caught between the railway and the Belaya River. We will be trapped and unable to fly! Besides, all the soldiers of the division are gone.  How can we fight if we don¡¯t sleep a wink all night?¡± Markov¡¯s political commissar Nils said from the side.  {Update uploaded by book friends}

    "Where are the orders from the commander of the cluster and the army? Will you, the political commissar, be blamed then?" Markov squinted at his old partner.

    "What does this have to do with the situation? The war is in chaos. Let's just say that after sending the report, we were attacked by enemy planes. The transmitter was damaged. We didn't receive a reply from the group army! I was just guarding the transmitter. We only have this telegram.  I copied it, but I didn¡¯t send a response signal at the end to indicate that it was accepted!" Political Commissar Nils said with a smirk.

    "How can that be done? When we left the radio station, our eyes were darkened. We didn't even know where the cluster and army were. What should we do if there is a situation that needs to be reported?" Markov shouted.

    "I said, Commander, please stop holding on. I'm not from the Cheka side, and I won't let you take the blame alone. When we need to send a telegram to the group army and cluster, we will send it again. Could it be that the transmitter  If it's broken, it won't be repaired?

    In my opinion, we have to do a radio silence, and then try to find a larger forest to hide in, otherwise, the reconnaissance aircraft marked by the Western Siberian Autonomous Government in the sky will buzz like flies and stare at us.  trouble!  "

    Although the political commissar Niels was born as a Bolshevik, his family used to be a nobleman. Although he has betrayed the master of his family and class, in this world, who knows what will happen tomorrow, at least for now he has to find a way to survive.

    "Okay! Old man! I don't think we can go south to Ufa and throw ourselves into a trap. I have been to Ufa before the war. The wide Belaya River is simply a natural moat. If we can't take the railway bridge,  It is absolutely impossible to rush across the river under gunfire from the north. I think we should just go north, and then find a way to cross the Belaya River and jump to the right bank. This way there will be much more room for maneuver! "Markov is on the map!  After wandering around for a long time, he raised his head and looked at his political commissar.

    "Okay! That's it, we'll findCross the river in the opposite direction, and then go around northwest of Ufa. Maybe that is the rear. The White Guards' defense is relatively empty. We can look for opportunities to cut off the Siberian Railway line, or attack the opponent's transport trains. Finally, we can even go around in a circle.  Go around to the south and join the two cavalry divisions on the south road!  "Commissar Niels is obviously very smart!

    "Just do it, order the whole division to mount up and march northwest along the river. Let's go and capture Kazan!" Markov gave the order in a nonsensical manner. The soldiers of the 13th Cavalry Division were used to their division commanders and political commissars.  The pair's commanding style quickly packed up, got on their horses, ate some brown bread and drank some cold water, while galloping towards the northwest.

    The southern route roundabout troops were obviously much luckier. There were no crazy machine gun fires and artillery bombardments from the armored trains in front of them. However, it took a lot of trouble to cross the wide Belaya River. The current was very fast and there was no ferry. The Engineer Battalion sent a  The team of young men with good agility swam nearly 800 meters across the river, and then pulled up a rope on the river. Obviously, there was no such condition for building a pontoon bridge. The two cavalry divisions could only ride horses and pull the rope to swim across it.

    In this way, the two 12 76mm caliber mountain guns specially strengthened for the cavalry division would not be able to survive. But if there were no guns, how could they beat the White Guards in the Hexi Highlands when they occupied the high ground under Ufa City?  While crossing the river in pain, the engineer battalion dismantled the carriage and assembled a raft, and returned from logging in a small forest 2 kilometers away. After more than two hours of tossing, the men, horses and artillery finally crossed the Beyala River.

    Although the engines of buzzing reconnaissance planes could be heard from time to time overhead, fortunately the other side did not launch a ground attack, nor did it attract any fighter or bomber squadrons. However, it was obvious that the roundabout actions of the cavalry division had fallen into the sight of the White Guards.  Vasilyev, the commander of the 1st Cavalry Division of the Fourth Army, sent a telegram back to ask for instructions, saying that the roundabout operation on the south route had been detected by the opponent's reconnaissance plane and whether he should continue crossing the river and proceed as planned.

    As a result, Tukhachevsky responded with a scolding call, saying that the reconnaissance planes of the coalition forces over the mountains had appeared above the Soviet Red Army when they had just crossed the Volga River from the Southern Cluster. They had been with them almost day and night for the past half month. Could it be that they had arrived every day?  The enemy can scare off the heroic Red Army soldiers by sending a reconnaissance plane for patrol!

    At the end of the telegram, the commander of the Southern Cluster strictly ordered the 1st Cavalry Division and the Mixed Cavalry Division on the south route to seize the opportunity and march northward at lightning speed, seizing the high ground east of the river before the Ufa White Guards could react.  Artillery bombarded the White Guards' defense line in Hexi!  Whether a breakthrough can be achieved in the Battle of Ufa today depends entirely on the performance of the troops encircling the southern route!  If he hesitates and misses the opportunity to fight, the division commander and political commissar will all be dismissed and the company will become soldiers and charge!

    Vasilyev felt frustrated and cursed in his stomach, but the order had to be carried out. Anyway, it was the mixed cavalry division of the 1st Group Army that went to seize the highlands east of Hedong. His own 1st Cavalry Division just took a detour to the northeast of Ufa.  Find a way to cut off the Siberian Railway.

    The two cavalry divisions crossed the Belaya River and divided their forces to move north. The mixed cavalry division of the First Army moved northwest along the right bank of the Belaya River, while Vasilyev's First Cavalry Division moved all the way due north.  Running away.

    The second day of the Battle of Ufa gradually began!
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