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Volume 3 Far East Story Chapter 315 North Road Detour Second Echelon

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    "Report! A call came from the headquarters of the Second Ural Cavalry Army. The tentative attack launched by Petrovich's 7th Cavalry Division against the Soviet Red Army position in Chernigovka was repelled by the opponent. We suffered nearly 300 casualties.  Horse, it is estimated that the Red Army on the opposite position has about two divisions of troops, but the density of Maxim heavy machine guns is very high. There are at least more than 100 heavy machine gun fire points in the five-kilometer circular position. Petrovich requested Ufa artillery support  !¡± The tentative attack of the Ufa Cavalry Second Corps obviously hit the wall.  -<Piaotian Literature registered members recommend this work>-(

    "Should we send out the air force for bombing?" Taro Utsunomiya cheered up and rushed to suggest. It would be difficult to hear gunshots 20 kilometers away in Ufa, and it was obvious that Petrovich's cavalry division did not bring cannons when dispatching light cavalry.  .

    "The 4,000 wounded members of the opposing cavalry division captured yesterday have been put back. The presence of the coalition air force and armored regiment in Ufa no longer needs to be concealed. There are three SE5 fighter squadrons, three dh4 reconnaissance bomber squadrons and three squadrons of dh4 reconnaissance bombers at the base camp of Ufa Airport.  Three Handley Page 0400 bomber squadrons can take off at any time to carry out missions!" Wu Peifu, deputy chief of staff of the coalition, said from the side.

    "No rush, order Petrovich and Sergei's two cavalry divisions to dispatch in full, outflank the enemy behind Chernigovka, and send reconnaissance cavalry westward to reconnoiter the main force of the Tukhachevsky South Group.  "Wang Geng ordered Pepelyayev to lead all four divisions of the Second Army of Ufa to mobilize to encircle the enemy in Chernigovka from the east, but not to launch an attack. Just dig trenches to surround the enemy." Wang Geng.  While looking at the map, he gave orders without looking back.

    "Isn't the field artillery unit coming? Petrovich said that there are a lot of heavy machine guns on the opponent's position!" Utsunomiya Taro said anxiously.

    "Just transfer the three mountain artillery batteries of the First Army in Ufa and the remaining two mountain artillery batteries of the Second Army to go with Pepelyaev. The Russian field artillery is heavy and clumsy. There is no need to drag it to the front line for the time being.  No need to worry, Major General Tian Jun took the armored reconnaissance battalion to reconsider the terrain around Chernigovka, and then reorganized a war game plan for encirclement and reinforcements. The focus is on predicting the direction of the opponent's attack and retreat!  Judgment, as well as the best position of our artillery positions, just relying on reconnaissance planes is not enough!¡±

    After issuing a series of orders, Wang Geng thought for a moment, fearing that Pepelyaev's Ufa Second Army would be unable to encircle it and allow the enemy to break through and escape, so he continued, "Order the air force to dispatch an SE5 fighter squadron.  We will monitor the movements of the Soviet Red Army on the ground with a dh4 reconnaissance bomber squadron above Chernigovka. If the opponent attempts to break out, we will launch a strike from the air to resolutely eliminate it!"

    "Then what if the opponent doesn't break out? How about we use the air force to take out the heavy machine gun on his current position?" Utsunomiya Taro obviously felt that it was a bit unsatisfactory. How much would the air force burn every extra minute it was deployed in the sky?  Aviation fuel, it¡¯s always good to save a little!  What's more, when the aviation team was cooperating in the air to attack the opponent's cavalry division yesterday, it was really a pleasure to hear Shunroku Hata say that it was like cutting melons and vegetables in the wind and residual clouds!

    Wang Geng glanced at Utsunomiya Taro and thought to himself, you are 57 years old, why are you so restless like a 27-year-old boy? After all, you are also the commander of the Japanese front line, and you are shouting and killing all day long.  No one has the consciousness of being the commander-in-chief of an army.

    "Don't rush to attack now, just monitor. The group of wounded troops left behind by Tukhachevsky is just the bait for us to continue fishing for the Soviet Red Army. If you rely on him to support and defend the position  How can anyone still be determined to hold on even if the machine guns are shot down? Once the opponent chooses to break out, our one-man show will no longer be able to continue!" Wang Geng comforted Utsunomiya Taro with a smile!

    Wu Peifu, who had been meditating in front of the battle map, turned around and said hesitantly, "Commander-in-Chief, we only have a force of 25,000 from Jiang Hongyu's troops on the north road. If we want to encircle and detour back to Jieqiuxi and  If we cut off the opponent's retreat on the opposite side of Simbirsk, will our troops be a little thin?"

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    "Three divisions of the opponent's Fifth Group Army, six divisions of the Ninth Group Army, plus the remaining ten divisions of the main force of the Southern Group that Tukhachevsky withdrew, a team of nearly 200,000 people, we are detouring on the southern front  We have 55,000 troops, but there are only 25,000 troops on the northern front. Even if we can first take down the three infantry divisions of the Fifth Army in Chistopol on the northern front, I'm afraid it will be a bit of a loss by then.  Don¡¯t stop!¡±

    "Are you worried that when Tukhachevsky is too anxious to break through to the west and south, he will go north instead? To the north is the wide Kamala River, and on the other side is Kazan Kolchak's White Guard guarding it. This guy is going north  It¡¯s not worthwhile to meet in person!¡± Wang Geng said with a slight frown.

    ¡°Even if he breaks through to the west, if we want to hold the 200 kilometers along Tetyushi, the other side of Simbirsk, Seseran and Samara,If the river bank is too small, such a small number of troops would seem insufficient!  "Wu Peifu insisted on his opinion.

    Wang Geng shook his head and thought to himself, Damn, from the right bank of the Volga River to the Ufa Plain, in the future they will be all Kolchak's bottles and jars. Who said I have to stick to one city and one place?  The strategic goal of the coalition is to eliminate as many effective forces of the Soviet Eastern Front and Southern Front as possible before winter arrives!

    But then I thought about it, Jiang Hongyu's side of the roundabout north road is full of mobile troops mainly cavalry. When the time comes, using cavalry troops for defense and consumption is really far from worthwhile!  Thinking of this, Wang Geng said thoughtfully, "According to your wishes, send another roundabout force from the north? Who should be sent?"

    "I'll take a group there"

    "I'll take an armored regiment with me!"

    Utsunomiya Taro and Wu Peifu shouted one after another!  If Shunroku Hata hadn't already led his staff and the armored reconnaissance battalion to Chernigovka, he would have raised his hands and rushed to go!

    Wang Geng thought for a moment, shook his head and said, "You two are my deputies. The headquarters has to direct the overall situation. Ishihara and Itagaki have gone out to lead the troops, and even Tian Jun sneaks out from time to time. How can this still allow you two?"  I want to quickly command a division of troops!

    In this way, the 60th mixed brigade of the Xiong Shihui Division, the 13th Infantry Brigade of the 7th Division, and a White Guards Infantry Division from the Second Army of Ufa will be deployed as the second echelon of the northern route. How about this arrangement?  ?  "

    "Who will the commander send?" Wu Peifu and Utsunomiya Taro said in unison.

    "Both Xiong Shihui or Fujii are fine, but you two just can't do it!" Wang Geng said with a chuckle.

    Wu Peifu and Utsunomiya Taro refused to give in to each other. In the end, they drew lots. Wu Peifu was more lucky and won the position of commander of the second echelon of the north route bypass for Xiong Shihui. Xiong Shihui was very happy when he rushed to the war room after hearing the news.  He jumped up and hugged his group army commander in a bear hug. Next to him were the commanders of the 7th Division, Fujii Yukitsuchi and Utsunomiya, who also rushed over, with helpless and lost eyes.

    The total strength of the second echelon on the northern route is more than 27,000 people. The 60th mixed brigade of the Chinese participating army is the main force. It has three infantry regiments, one artillery regiment, one armored reconnaissance battalion, one engineer battalion and one supply battalion. The entire brigade is about  There are 10,000 people. The 13th Infantry Brigade of the Japanese 7th Division has two infantry regiments with about 7,200 people. The Ufa Second Army has a White Guards infantry division with about 10,000 people.

    The roundabout force was personally commanded by Xiong Shihui, commander of the 20th Division of the Chinese Third Group Army of the Allied Forces. It set off from Ufa in the morning and took a military train to be transported along the railway line to Cherny on the Kamala River. After getting off there, it walked along the original route.  Jiang Hongyu's troops took a circuitous route to the southwest.

    It is expected to arrive in Zainsk later that night and arrive in Almetyevsk tomorrow evening, closing the gap left by Jiang Hongyu's troops heading west.

    In this way, by July 10, 1918, the two outflanking troops of the Allied Army on the southern front totaled 55,000 people, and the total number of outflanking troops on the northern front would reach 52,000.  In Chernigovka, the coalition forces used four divisions of the Second Ufa Army, a total of 40,000 troops, to surround the 33,000 troops left behind by the Soviet Eastern Front's Southern Group. Among them, 24,000 were lightly or seriously wounded, and one person was left.  An undermanned infantry division and a cavalry regiment of 2,500 men.

    Rzhevsky was mentally prepared to be surrounded by the superior strength of the White Guards in Ufa. To his surprise, dozens of arrogant coalition fighter jets and bombers appeared in the sky, and a machine gun flew overhead from the Red Army position.  One of the fighter jets opened fire, and the result was great. The opponent's plane was not shot down. Centered on this machine gun, the trenches and fire points around 500 meters were completely destroyed by the opponent's stormy air raid retaliation!

    Nearly all the troops of a battalion of the Red Army Infantry Division defending this position were killed, which forced Lezhevsky to urgently order that unless the opponent's aircraft launches an attack, any ground weapons are strictly prohibited from shooting into the air!  Anyone who dares to disobey orders will be shot!
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