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Volume Three Far East Stories Chapter 311 Leave the Baggage and Go Lightly

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    "How should you fight? Wasn't the Fourth Army's major defeat in the southeast direction caused by your command? Tell me, what should you fight next?" Tukhachevs stared at it intently.  Zhezhevsky shouted.

    Lezhevsky hesitated for a moment, gritted his teeth and said, "With the loss of artillery advantage, I think we should at least take a big step back and strive to fight mobile warfare with the enemies of Ufa, and eliminate the enemy's forces on the move and in the field."  If we have the strength, we can no longer station a large army under the enemy's fortified city to attack the opponent's established positions like we did two days ago!"

    "A big step back? Comrade, we have more than 20,000 lightly and seriously injured people, and food is also very tight. Where are you going to retreat to? Unless we take Ufa, we will hardly have enough food to last until we withdraw to the west bank of the Volga River!" Tuha  It was not as if Chevsky had not considered retreating.

    "Comrade Commander, I think Comrade Lezhevsky's suggestion is worth considering. We are too close to Ufa now. The Fifth Army and the Ninth Army are at least 300 kilometers away from us. It will take three days at the earliest to arrive. If  If we continue to retreat westward, we can join the two reinforcements in advance, which will be safer than staying here and have more room for maneuver!" Ma Xin, chief of staff of the cluster, stood up at this time!  Support Lezhevski's suggestion.

    Tukhachevsky glanced at Maxin. He really didn't dare to ignore this group chief of staff and commander of the Second Army. He was Stervyov's secret agent and Comrade Ulyanov's Simbirsk agent.  Fellow countryman, you have to listen to what he says.

    Lezhevsky's eyes were bloodshot, and he put out the cigarette butt in his hand. He held an oil lamp and walked to the one-hundred-thousandth map hanging on the wall. He pointed at the map and pointed at the several political commissars, Ma Xin, and Tu in the room.  Haczewski said,

    "The three divisions of the Fifth Army are now about thirty kilometers west of Nurrat, the other three divisions are no more than fifty kilometers away from Chistopol on the Kamala River, and the Ninth Army has left Sa  In the Mara Reservoir area, the forward troops have arrived at Pochvestnevo. The two armies are only more than 100 kilometers away from the Briguma and Barbre lines, and they can arrive there as soon as tomorrow evening."

    Speaking of this, we scratched a line from the current position of the lower south cluster of the Ufa City until Berguma and Babre.

    "There are still 150 kilometers from our current location Chevonigovka to Barbre. I suggest that the main force of the Southern Cluster continue to move westward early tomorrow morning. According to our current marching speed, if the Ufa White Guards do not pursue us, it will take two days  In time, we can withdraw to the areas of Briguma, Barbre and October Town, which will coincide with the main force of the Fifth and Ninth Group Armies. As for whether to continue to return to attack Ufa after joining forces, or to march in other directions, when the time comes  We can discuss it based on the enemy¡¯s situation!¡±

    Before he could finish speaking.  &&Tukhachevsky grabbed the oil lamp and looked carefully at the route on the map. The political commissars of the three armies behind him looked at the three army commanders in front of them in silence. In fact, they still had to wait.  Tukhachevsky came to decide.

    The commander of the Southern Cluster plotted on the map for a long time, and had to admit that Lezhevsky's suggestion to continue withdrawing to the west was the safest way. After pondering for a long time, Tukhachevsky calmed down and turned around and said in a deep voice.  road,

    "What do you political commissars think? According to Rzhevsky, our retreat will be 150 kilometers. The soldiers have been physically exhausted these days, and with so many wounded people, we have to retreat 150 kilometers in two days.  It¡¯s no joke, this is really a runaway! Damn it! The Red Army¡¯s Eastern Front has lost all of its face! Let that guy Egorov see our joke!¡±  Tukhachevsky¡¯s face was full of confusion!

    Yankov Gayi, political commissar of the Southern Cluster and political commissar of the First Army, stood up and leaned over the map to look at it. He stood up and said, "If we really want to withdraw, I think we can withdraw to October Town. In this way, we only need to walk 120  Kilometers, and it is 20 to 40 kilometers away from Bugulima and Barbre, which is just like a corner. When the time comes, it will be easy to attack or defend!¡±

    After Yankov Gayi said this, the remaining political commissar of the Second Army, Kharchenko, and the political commissar of the Fourth Army, Hevezin, all stood up and expressed their opinions, saying that withdrawing to the vicinity of October Town was a safe and reliable strategy.  , the three armies of the Southern Cluster now need to take a breath and rest their teams, and more than 20,000 lightly and seriously injured people also need to be evacuated to a relatively safe place for treatment. The current location of Chernigovka is really too close to the enemy in Ufa.

    "Okay! The Southern Cluster Front Military Committee voted and unanimously agreed to move the main force of the Southern Cluster towards October Town in order to join the Fifth and Ninth Group Armies as soon as possible and make thorough preparations for the next step of taking Ufa! That's it!  "Tukhachevsky made a decisive decision. This is not the time to hold on to the situation. He, the commander of the Southern Cluster, has to be responsible for all the soldiers.?Even if he is very reluctant to make Lezhevsky's proposal a reality, he can only make concessions first!

    Of course, being too close to Ufa, who knows when the opponent's heavy artillery shell will hit his head is also an important reason.

    "We can't just withdraw like this, we have to leave behind the troops! It's best if we can retreat overnight, leaving only the rearguard troops here to pretend to be the main force. If the organization is good, we can even ambush the opponent's pursuing troops and kill the opponent's spirit.  !" Lezhevsky couldn't stop talking.

    "Evacuate overnight? More than 20,000 lightly and seriously wounded people had to be carried on horses. We had just set up camp in the evening and many soldiers were so tired that they couldn't stand up. At this time, if we pick up the people and run west, let alone the wounded people can't bear it.  Even uninjured soldiers are not made of iron. It¡¯s strange that the team is not separated!" Tukhachevsky said with a tiger face, thinking that this Lezhevsky is really a thorny moth, how can he think of where he is?  ?

    "Is it possible that the cluster can keep all the lightly and seriously injured here, and there is no need to retreat with the main force of the cluster" Ma Xin suddenly came up with an idea from the side!

    "What do you mean? Abandoning the wounded? Are you crazy, Comrade Ma Xin? When will the Red Army abandon the war and ignore it?!" Yankov Gayi and Hevezin couldn't help shouting.  , Ma Xin¡¯s partner Kharchenko frowned and hesitated to speak. Obviously the three political commissars were unprepared for Ma Xin¡¯s idea and were firmly opposed to it!

    Tukhachevsky and Lezhevsky looked at each other, mentally weighing the feasibility of Ma Xin's bad idea.

    However, Ma Xin, the chief of staff of the cluster, continued, "There are no outsiders here, and I am hiding myself. I won't tell you how the battle ended in the past two days. Our wounded are all released by the enemy's Ufa White Guards."  Come back, didn¡¯t you send someone to deliver a message just now, asking us to go to the Ufa position early tomorrow morning to pick up 4,000 lightly and seriously wounded soldiers from the two cavalry divisions!¡±

    "Comrade Ma Xin! Although these words are true, I think the commander of the other side's Ufa may not have good intentions. Maybe the other side wants us to carry the burden of these 24,000 lightly and seriously wounded people and delay our retreat. There may be something behind it.  How big a conspiracy there is, we can't take it lightly, let alone forget that the other party is our sworn enemy!" the cluster political commissar Yankov Gayi warned with a serious face.

    "No matter what his intentions are, we have to catch him by surprise. We must not be led by the enemy. He wants us to carry the burden of the lightly and seriously wounded, but we refuse to let the other side do what he wants. Let's take off this burden!"  Ma Xin clenched his fists and waved his arms.

    In the headquarters conference room located in the center of the town of Chernigovka, there were only three army commanders and their own political commissars at the moment, so they were not afraid of the news leaking out.

    "Comrade Ma Xin! Have you considered the consequences of doing this? This is not 240 wounded, nor 2,400 wounded. This will be 24,000 wounded! And they are unarmed! The weapons are all thrown on the battlefield. If, I mean if  , after the main force of the Southern Cluster retreated, the Ufa White Guards captured and massacred the lightly and seriously injured people we left behind. Everyone in this room today, including you and me, will be subject to a military court in the future!" Tukhachev!  Sky was fighting fiercely in his heart, but he gritted his teeth and said.

    "The Ufa White Guards may not really capture and massacre these wounded. If the other side wants to eliminate us wounded, these wounded of mine will not be able to evacuate from the battlefield at all!" Ma Xin stood up and argued!

    Lezhevsky remained silent. Most of the 24,000 wounded were wounded from the Fourth Army. Even though he agreed with Ma Xin's suggestion in his heart, he must not agree easily at this moment, otherwise, if something went wrong,  Don't say that you can't lead the Fourth Army. When Moscow's front and back accounts are settled together, you will definitely become the scapegoat for the anger of both humans and gods!
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