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Volume 3 Far East Story Chapter 306: Some are happy and some are sad

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    The most unlucky thing was that they took the farthest route to sneak attack the 1st Cavalry Division of the Fourth Army behind Ufa. They first lost their way, and then were discovered by the coalition's reconnaissance aircraft in the sky.  They were bombarded by the opponent's heavy artillery within about five kilometers of the railway line, and then a coalition armored regiment jumped out from along the railway line to pursue it. The large-caliber machine gun on the rotating turret of the armored vehicle was a new weapon that the Soviet Red Army had never seen before.  .  {Update uploaded by book friends}

    The large-caliber heavy machine guns of 120 wheeled armored vehicles sprayed hot and fierce bullets. In the sky, two squadrons of fighters and bombers were strafing and bombing. The 1st Cavalry Division was chased to pieces and suffered heavy casualties. It was not an opponent of the same level at all.  , they could not get rid of the pursuing armored regiment even after they withdrew 30 kilometers, and not only from the northeast of Ufa, but also from the southeast of Ufa, an armored battalion came round. In total, there were a total of 160 wheeled armored vehicles equipped with large-caliber heavy machine guns.  The car finally surrounded more than 3,000 remaining men of the 1st Cavalry Division on a hillside.

    When I saw nearly 1,200 heavily armed coalition infantrymen disembarking from the wheeled armored vehicles that surrounded me, and when I saw the enemy planes passing overhead and I couldn¡¯t count the number of squadrons, my radio had already been broken.  The remnants of the 1st Cavalry Division put down their weapons. They faced an enemy they could not resist. For the sake of the lives of the soldiers and for the enemy who was armed to the teeth, they shouted in Russian through the loudspeaker, "The coalition forces treat prisoners preferentially and surrender their guns without killing them."  !

    Vasilyev, the commander of the 1st Cavalry Division of the Fourth Army, who had already suffered three wounds, ordered the remnants of the 1st Cavalry Division to put down their weapons and shoot at the opposite center after his political commissar committed suicide due to serious injuries and despair.  The team surrenders!

    When night fell on July 9, 1918, the first phase of the Battle of Ufa fell silent, and the coalition forces fought with lions and rabbits and achieved brilliant results!

    Beginning at noon on the same day, Li Mingzhong's troops advanced nearly 100 kilometers from the south of Ufa and captured Steerli Tamak, Ishimbai, Saravat, and Meleu at lightning speed.  Z and Kumel set.  {Update uploaded by book friends}

    Li Mingzhong's department has jurisdiction over the cavalry mixed brigade of the 1st Armored Division, the 3rd Ural Cavalry Division and the cavalry regiment of the 4th Japanese Division. The entire army has 25,000 people, almost all of whom are cavalry. Along the way, they encountered almost no decent resistance from the Soviet Russian garrison.  , the main force of the Fourth Army had already moved north to Ufa, and the local people had almost dragged their families with them to Ufa when Petrovich's Fourth Ural Cavalry Division retreated north, and then withdrew to the Urals.  east of the mountains.

    The Fourth Army's troops left behind in these places were only some logistics and local troops who had followed from the Volga River Basin. The troops in each town were no more than one company and as little as one platoon.  A small number of those captured were killed in action, and almost none escaped.

    Li Mingzhong only left a cavalry battalion with a radio station in Sterli Tamak, and the rest of the troops quickly moved south, preparing to attack from Kumertau the next day and capture the important southwestern town of Oron between the Ural River Basin and the Kazakh grassland.  Fort, and tied up the mouth of the bag at the line between Orenburg and Kurmeitao, blocking the way for the Soviet Red Army to withdraw southward in the future.

    In the evening of the same day, Sun Liangcheng's 30,000-strong Rangers, who had made a large detour from the east to the south of the Ural Mountains, captured Ural, an important town at the northern end of the Kazakh grassland, and wiped out an infantry regiment left behind by the Fourth Army. Of course, Sun Liangcheng was fighting Kazakh Ala.  The flag of the autonomous republic.

    In fact, the Alash Autonomous Republic, which declared independence last year but has few major generals, has always supported Kolchak's All-Russian Provisional Government and the Allied Powers. Now, under the pressure of the Kolchak government and the Allied Powers, it has actively dispatched  A Kazakh cavalry regiment cooperated with the operation.

    Also on the evening of July 9th, the mixed armored brigade of Jiang Hongyu's detour from the north went south along the main road from Zainsko, and captured Almedisk, 60 kilometers to the south, in one go, completely annihilating the Soviet Union's First Army.  The group army's local battalion drove a nail into Tukhachevsky's back. If we capture the line of Briguma and Bafre a hundred kilometers south, we can completely cut off Tukhachevsky.  The retreat for the Keenan cluster.

    There is still 170 kilometers to go from Briguma and Bafre to Tukhachevsky¡¯s southern cluster, which is camped 20 kilometers southwest of Ufa city. Unless Tukhachevsky can cut off his wrists and throw away 20,000 light and heavy soldiers.  The wounded were evacuated westward overnight, otherwise the 170-kilometer road would have been impossible for the Soviet Red Army's Southern Group, which retreated after the defeat, to complete it in three days.

    In the evening of the same day, the 2nd Ural Cavalry Division and the Japanese 12th Cavalry Regiment marched westward along the Kamala River after detouring on the northern route and dividing their troops in Zainsko. They marched 100 kilometers long and captured the Kamala River in one fell swoop.  In the important town of Chistopol, a battalion of the Soviet Red Army stationed there was completely wiped out.

    July 9, 1918, 19:00, the former enemy headquarters of the coalition forces in Ufa city, the coalition battle that dayat the review meeting.

    "Your Excellency, Commander-in-Chief, I still can't understand why our six infantry divisions on the Ufa defense line don't pursue the victory?" Pepelyayev was obviously a little bit upset that the results of the second day were not expanded. His northwest  The cluster just fought an artillery battle. Sit back and watch the five infantry divisions of Tukhachevsky's First Army retreat intact under your nose. Forget about the awkwardness in your heart!

    "Your Excellency, Commander-in-Chief, I also have the same question. At that time, the Soviet Fourth Army across my defense line only had three infantry divisions that were not full of troops, and its morale was extremely low. If you had agreed to let me lead the cavalry division to attack, or  Let the three infantry divisions on our defense line join in the pursuit, and I can guarantee that we can at least annihilate one or two of the opponent's divisions! It is even possible to annihilate the opponent's fourth group army!"

    Although Alexander Petrovich's southeastern defense line severely damaged the Fourth Army of Rzhevsky opposite him in today's battle, this cavalry division still did not seize the opportunity to pursue the victory, so it stood up now to ask what happened.

    "You two, today the Battle of Ufa achieved the first stage of victory. This is inseparable from the bloody battle of the Ufa defenders. Lieutenant General Petrovich and Major General Sergey's command of the southeastern defense line was excellent. Opposite side  The Fourth Army lost almost half of its strength, which is gratifying! Of course, the artillery battle on the northwest defense line commanded by Pepelyayev was also quite good. It suppressed the opponent's five infantry divisions and did not dare to act rashly. The same credit was given.  Big drop!¡±

    Wang Geng, Commander-in-Chief of the Allied Forces and Commander-in-Chief of the Battle of Ufa, smiled and raised the champagne glass in his hand. Although Russians like strong vodka, at this moment when the revolution has not yet succeeded, all Ufa garrison prohibits strong alcohol!

    Pepelyaev and Petrovich looked at each other helplessly, and had no choice but to raise their glasses to signal, and drank down the champagne that was not satisfying to them at all.

    "Your Excellency, Prime Minister and Lieutenant General, let me answer this question for you on behalf of the Commander-in-Chief," Taro Utsunomiya, deputy chief of staff of the coalition forces and commander of the Japanese Third Army, took a sip of the champagne in his hand and said with a smile.

    "Oh? I'd like to hear the details!" Pepelyaev and Petrovich fixed their gazes on the cheerful face of the Japanese army general opposite.

    The Japanese commander Taro Utsunomiya was of course in a strangely good mood. Today, Petrovich and Sergei's southeastern defense line could defeat the Soviet Fourth Army's attack. The Japanese army's three ** field artillery regiments and two field artillery regiments  Artillery played a decisive role, and Major General Tian Jun, who led a Chinese armored battalion to outflank the Russian cavalry division, annihilated an entire cavalry division with only 160 wheeled armored combat vehicles and the cooperation of the aviation team.  .

    This time, the generals and soldiers of the Imperial Japanese Army have won face for the empire in front of the Chinese allies and the Allies!  Taro Utsunomiya even attributed the results achieved by the two roundabout troops on the South and North Routes to the contribution of the two Japanese cavalry regiments, completely forgetting that the Ural Cavalry Division and the Chinese Mixed Armored Brigade actually played a greater role.

    "Your Excellency Pepelyayev, the victory is gratifying, but don't forget that our heavy artillery is deployed on the riverside highlands in Ufa city, so if His Excellency Pepelyayev launches a pursuit in the afternoon, he will leave  With the support of our artillery, your four infantry divisions are chasing the opponent with five infantry divisions and one cavalry division almost intact. What do you think your chances of winning are, regardless of the fact that the opponent still retains at least 10 artillery batteries and more artillery?  ¡±

    Wang Geng smiled slightly when he heard this. This Taro Utsunomiya is really a guy who refuses to accept his old age. He will show off in front of the Russians every chance he gets.
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