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Volume 3 Far East Story Chapter 318: Take a break while making rice

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    At 12:13 noon on July 10, 1918, the headquarters of the Southern Group was located in Milna, a small town 75 kilometers west of Ufa.

    "Mikhail Nikolayevich, we must stop and rest. The soldiers have been marching from 4 o'clock in the morning to now, and they have rested for less than an hour. If we keep running like this,  The 100,000-strong army is about to run away, and now more than one-tenth of the army has fallen behind."

    The speaker was Yankov Gayi, political commissar of the Southern Cluster and political commissar of the 1st Army Group. The team got up at 3 o'clock in the morning and set off at 4 o'clock. At this time, they ran fifty-five kilometers in one breath. Although the fully armed infantry division traveled five kilometers cross-country  The fastest speed can reach 3540 minutes, and it is absolutely impossible to run 10 five kilometers continuously. The ten main divisions of the Southern Cluster set out from near Chernigovka. By noon, they had marched for 8 hours, excluding the middle  With two breaks of 30 minutes each, the walking march time has reached 7.8 kilometers per hour. It can be considered that the retreat was quite fast.

    "Our current location is in Milna. The terrain conditions of Yazhikovo, which is ten kilometers to the east, are not bad, but it is too close to Ufa. Milna is ten kilometers away, but the terrain is low in the west and high in the east.  It¡¯s not conducive to defense. I¡¯m worried about setting up camp here.¡± Tukhachevsky, commander of the Southern Group of the Russian Eastern Front and commander of the First Army, with a stubbled face and a thin face, raised his head from the map spread on the small table.  Looking at his own political commissar-book_)

    "Report a call from the headquarters of the Fourth Army in Chernigovka." A staff officer from the headquarters outside the door grabbed a telegram and reported loudly. As soon as the team stopped, the radio station of the headquarters was turned on, but it received a message from Rzhevsky.  An urgent call came

    Tukhachevsky rushed over and grabbed the telegram, unfolded it and read it.

    ¡°To the Southern Cluster Command, Tukhachevsky,

    Our unit has picked up 4,000 lightly and seriously wounded soldiers from Ufa early this morning, organized the lightly wounded soldiers and distributed weapons, contracted and established a circular defense line with the Uralsk Infantry Division, and then repelled the Ufa White Guard Cossacks.  A cavalry brigade attacked. The mood of the soldiers and the wounded was still stable, but it was observed that two cavalry divisions of the Ufa White Guards pursued the retreat in the direction of the main force of the cluster."

    "Our unit is now surrounded by about four divisions of the Ufa White Guards Infantry Division. Coalition aircraft appeared above our heads and passed two squadrons. Previously, there was an armored battalion of coalition troops passing by both sides of the position. After asking about the wounded of the cavalry division,  When the 1st Cavalry Division of the Fourth Group Army was defeated yesterday, the opponent dispatched about a reinforced armored regiment of ground troops with considerable firepower and mobility, and the opponent's air force also cooperated in strafing and bombing the cavalry division."

    "Our department will stand firm and wait for reinforcements according to the previously determined combat plan. However, considering that the coalition forces have officially participated in the war in Ufa, the specific number of troops dispatched is unknown, but their combat power is quite strong. Therefore, I suggest that the Revolutionary Committee of the Southern Cluster Frontline formulate the next step.  When planning the operation, the safety of the more than 30,000 people in our unit should not be the key consideration, but the fate and future of the main force of the Southern Cluster and the Fifth and Ninth Group Armies should be the key consideration."

    ¡°Everything for the Soviets

    Fourth Army, Rzhevsky

    ¡°Chernigovka, July 10, 1918¡±

    After reading the telegram, Tukhachevsky, Mashain, Kharchenko, Hevezin, and his own political commissar Yankovgai all had serious expressions on their faces. Hevezin, who arrived last, only heard  In the last paragraph on the left, this guy couldn't help but said,

    "Have the coalition forces officially joined the war? How many troops are there? Why did Rzhevsky tell us not to worry about the Chernigovka cluster? Don't we go back to Ufa to save them? They only have four days of food and weapons.  We are running out of ammunition and we must not leave them alone," the political commissar of the Fourth Army and Rzhevsky's old partner Hevezin shouted emotionally.

    Tukhachevsky frowned. What was buzzing in his mind was the news that the coalition forces had officially joined the war. He was simply afraid of what would happen. There were reconnaissance planes flying in the sky, buzzing like flies all day long.  Now they have blatantly dispatched ground troops and launched a coordinated air-ground attack. This is really difficult to handle.

    "Comrade Commander Moscow, please tell me that we in the Southern Cluster cannot make decisions without authorization on the issue of combating the coalition forces," Political Commissar Yankovgai suggested.

    "What do you think?" Tukhachevsky turned to Maxin and his political commissar Khalcenko.

    Ma Xin said with a bitter look, "No wonder the Ufa White Guards fought so confidently two days ago. It turns out that the coalition forces have officially intervened in the battle in the direction of Ufa, so our combat targets are completely different. We need to ask Moscow for instructions on this matter."

    "Didn't Lezhevsky say how many troops the coalition forces have in Ufa? How will we answer when Moscow asks?" Halchenko, the political commissar of the Second Army, was more thoughtful and couldn't help but remind him.

    Tukhachevsky looked down at the telegram in his hand, raised his head and said, "The Allied Air Force dispatched a ChineseA squadron of fighters and a squadron of reconnaissance bombers, 36 aircraft, ground troops. I guess the heavy artillery group in Ufa must be the artillery of the coalition. Yesterday, in the ground battle east of the Ural River, the opponent dispatched a reinforced armored regiment and defeated the 1st Cavalry Division."

    "In this case, the coalition forces will have at least one division in Ufa. The main force of the coalition forces is the Chinese participating army. Their integrated division has a 54-gun 150-caliber heavy artillery regiment and a divisional armored regiment equipped with 120 vehicles.  Wheeled armored fighting vehicles," Ma Xin, chief of staff of the cluster and commander of the Second Group Army, frowned.

    "Did the coalition only dispatch one division in Ufa? Then what do we have to fear? After the rounds with the fifth and ninth armies, we will turn back and fight back to Ufa. Our strength is at least three times that of the opponent. This  If we don¡¯t dare to fight, the Eastern Front Army can be wiped out from the establishment in the future. We will be too frightened to go back for rescue. If we abandon more than 30,000 people in Rzhevsky to the enemy, the Soviets will not forgive us.¡± Fourth  The political commissar of the army group Hevesin gritted his teeth and said

    "The telegram said that the White Guards dispatched two cavalry divisions to pursue them. Ma Xin, how about we ambush him? If the ten infantry divisions of the Southern Cluster are driven around by the two cavalry divisions of the opponent, then we still have the face.  Are you going to be the commander and chief of staff of the political commissar?" Tukhachevsky suddenly changed his mind and turned to the pursuers.

    "But the enemy situation of the Ufa Allied Forces is unknown. Why don't we continue to go west to join the Fifth and Ninth Group Armies?" Chief of Staff Ma Xin said hesitantly. He maintained a very cautious attitude towards the appearance of the Allied Forces. In fact, this was also  The reason why he urged the main force of the cluster to retreat westward yesterday

    "The soldiers have traveled nearly 60 kilometers in one breath. The sun is so hot right now. If we continue walking, the team will be scattered. Whether we continue to retreat or turn around to ambush the opponent, we have to stop and rest first. We are all hungry.  My chest is pressed against my back. I didn¡¯t dare to let the kitchen prepare dry food last night because of the confidentiality. Now it¡¯s time to make rice.¡± The attitude of the political commissar of the cluster, Yankov Gayi, was very firm.

    As a political commissar, he has the responsibility to think about the soldiers. Just when he stopped to rest for a while, many soldiers collapsed on the ground and couldn't get up. One was tired and the other was hungry. Their whole bodies were soaked with sweat. It was noon  The sun is so hot, it makes your mouth dry, your tongue dry, and your mind dizzy.

    "The coalition's reconnaissance plane found us three hours ago. Since the coalition has already joined the war, why didn't they launch a ground attack to delay our retreat? Why did they just hover over the Rzhevsky position without launching an attack?  What are the coalition's plans?" Halchenko, political commissar of the Second Army, couldn't help but raise his own questions.

    "What is basically confirmed now is that the commander-in-chief of the opponent in the Battle of Ufa must have been sent by the coalition forces. Maybe he was the legendary King of China. Otherwise, we would not have been allowed to recover the 24,000 lightly and seriously injured people, and we would not have been allowed to just let them go.  The reconnaissance plane is staring at us without launching an attack. I can't guess the coalition commander's thoughts now, but guessing is useless. Let's just do what the political commissar said. Let's stop and make rice and rest for a while."

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