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Volume 3 Far East Story Chapter 304 Some people died on the battlefield, some people laid down their weapons

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    Soon, the call to withdraw troops was blown from the position behind the Fourth Army. The remaining three infantry divisions of the Fourth Army, which were not full of troops, followed the retreat of the Second Army and began to retreat to the rear. There were not many artillery shells left.  The six mountain artillery batteries were at the forefront, followed by the heavy machine guns of two horse-drawn machine gun battalions.

    The remnants of the three infantry divisions remaining on the position were obviously abandoned by the group army. Cries and curses suddenly broke out on the position. Many soldiers who were still able to move couldn't help but jump out of the trenches and ran towards their own positions. This time  The reckless move was greeted by warning shots from the White Guard artillery group on the high ground behind them. Nearly a hundred artillery shells fell simultaneously and exploded three hundred meters behind the position. The fastest running Red Army soldiers were directly torn apart and blown away by the shells.  .

    The remaining soldiers either lay down on the spot in the field strewn with wounded and corpses, or rolled and crawled back to the White Guards' first-line trenches!

    The sound of a loudspeaker sounded again from the White Guard position opposite:

    ¡°The High Command of the White Guard Army in Ufa once again announced:

    As long as you lay down your weapons, we will treat the prisoners preferentially. It is very unwise to try to escape or fight like a trapped beast. The main force of your group army has retreated and they have given up on your rescue. Now please lay down your weapons. All personnel who have laid down their weapons will  Be treated like a prisoner of war and accept the protection of the Geneva Prisoners of War Convention!

    In yesterday¡¯s battle, all of your wounded in the northwest have been taken back to your positions with our permission, so don¡¯t doubt our sincerity, fellow Russians!  We are relatives on the same land. Although we may hate each other now, blood is thicker than water, and sooner or later we will still be relatives like we used to be!  Please put down your weapons, all the wounded who have put down their weapons, we will allow your medics and stretcher teams to take you back to your positions later, but the premise is that everyone must put down their weapons!  "

    The friendly and skillful Russian from the loudspeaker echoed over the position. Due to the charge and attack of the Fourth Army regardless of losses, especially the fire attack on the high ground and the second line position by the four forward field artillery batteries, the White Guards on the second line position  The casualties also exceeded 2,000, but this was simply negligible compared to the huge casualties of the three Red Army infantry divisions opposite.

    Finally, new changes occurred among the remnants of the three infantry divisions trapped in the front-line trenches. Messy gunfire rang out in many places on the positions. It was political commissars at all levels who were shooting those who tried to put down their weapons and walk out of the trenches with their hands raised.  people, and then the political commissars were torn to pieces by the bullets of the Red Army soldiers who had decided to lay down their arms.

    "When one person stands up, a group of people will stand up. Many people give themselves very good reasons, just to allow their injured comrades to go back. So what if they are just a prisoner of war!"  After all, there are only just over 5,000 able-bodied soldiers on the battlefield, and the number of wounded is more than 10,000. This account can be justified no matter how you calculate it. What cannot be justified is those stubborn political commissars. Damn it, I did not fall to the artillery fire of the White Guards.  Why, you actually have to have your own political commissar enforce that bullshit battlefield discipline!

    As the saying goes, the first strike is the strongest. Since the political commissars and Chekas are not merciless in shooting at their own people, is it possible that I have a fire stick in my hand?

    Soon, messy and intensive gunfire came from the position, and then groups of Soviet Red Army soldiers walked out of the trenches with their hands raised, and behind them were the dead bodies of the Cheka and political commissars.

    The nearly 6,000 soldiers of the Soviet Fourth Army who remained on the position put down their weapons and walked towards the White Guard's second line position with their hands raised high. However, the retreating soldiers of the Fourth Army a few kilometers away turned their heads and silently watched their comrades become  captured by the White Guards.

    20 minutes later, the gunfire from Sergey and Petrovich's southeastern defense line finally subsided completely. The White Guards captured nearly 6,000 remnants of the three infantry divisions of the Fourth Group Army who had laid down their weapons, and sent a regiment of troops to regain the 4th Army.  A frontline position.

    At the same time, the retreating Fourth Army received reports of the slightly wounded soldiers who had been released from their home. With a red face, Lezhevsky turned around and sent the medical team and carriage back to the front line where blood and flesh had been scattered just now.  position, under the surveillance of the White Guards' machine guns, they began to rescue the lightly and seriously wounded who were evacuating themselves.

    If the 24th Division of the Simbirsk Iron Army, the main offensive division of the First Army of the Southern Cluster of the Soviet Eastern Front in the northwest attack yesterday, was crippled, then today in the southeast direction, after being strengthened, it has 20  The artillery batteries and the Fourth Army offensive group of eight infantry divisions also suffered heavy losses.

    The three main divisions that launched the attack were almost completely wiped out. Nearly 10,000 people were killed, 14,000 were wounded, and 6,000 were captured. Of the 20 artillery batteries, only six mountain artillery batteries were left intact.  They were exhausted in the battle, and half of the four heavy machine gun battalions were lost.

    After Tukhachevsky withdrew the two divisions of the Second Army,The Fourth Army had only three undermanned infantry divisions left. In addition, there were 14,000 lightly and seriously wounded soldiers who had been released by the Ufa White Guards. In addition, there was no news about the cavalry division that had taken a long way across the river from the south to take Ufa's retreat.

    The losses suffered by the White Guards southeast of Ufa were that the infantry lost 2,500 people under enemy artillery attacks on the second line of position, of which 800 were killed and 1,700 were wounded. More than 30 Maxim heavy machine guns were lost, and the artillery battery  Four mountain artillery batteries were lost, and the field artillery battery suffered almost no losses.

    The two generals, deputy commander of the Ufa garrison, former enemy commander of the southeastern group defense line, cavalry lieutenant general Alexander Petrovich, and his chief of staff Sergei Mikhainovich became famous in one battle and became the members of the entire All-Russian Provisional Government.  A famous god among the generals of the White Guards under his command!

    Of course, at the Ufa Church General Headquarters, the deputy chief of staff of the coalition, Taro Utsunomiya, was very happy. The offensive and defensive battles in the southeast were completely won. All this was in line with the Japanese army's strengthening of the Sergei position and the Hedong Highlands.  The huge contributions of the two field artillery regiments are inseparable. Even the 150 heavy artillery group by the riverside in the urban area commanded by Wu Peifu that played a decisive attack was also composed of 54 150 heavy artillery pieces from the three independent field artillery regiments of the Japanese Third Army!

    It can be said that the Japanese artillery used two field artillery regiments (each regiment has 36 75 field guns and 18 75 mountain guns) and three ** field artillery regiments (each regiment has 24 150-caliber heavy howitzers)  , fought a beautiful artillery decisive battle under the command of Sergey and Wu Peifu!  In one fell swoop, he crippled the Russian Fourth Army of Rzhevsky opposite the Soviet Union!

    Major General Tian Jun, director of Wang Geng's war room, also commanded the Hedong Highlands well. He used a field artillery regiment and a regiment of White Guards infantry to severely damage the Soviet First Army's chaotic attack from the south.  The Soviet-Russian mixed cavalry division, which attacked Highland 203 in Hedong under intensive artillery fire, ultimately suffered more than 6,000 casualties, and only one regiment of troops left the battlefield.

    The second day of the Battle of Ufa was exactly the opposite of the first day of battle. The progress made by the Soviet First Army in the northwest was to dig a shallow trench 2,500 meters in front of the opponent's position, which was abandoned in the afternoon.  , and in the artillery battle between the two sides, Pepelyaev's 8 artillery batteries, which did not have such a great terrain advantage, lost 3, and the 13 artillery batteries of the First Army lost 2. The difference was not too big.
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