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Volume 3 Far East Story Chapter 323: Put your pockets in and kill the enemy

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    ~Date:~November 02~

    , nbsp; Moscow¡¯s response to the frontline situation and the strongly worded telegram shocked the entire Soviet Eastern and Southern Fronts. Tukhachevsky did not expect that Rzhevsky, who had lost the battle, would become  He was a lone hero, but after leading the army to retreat, he became a street rat and was actually fired from his position as the commander of the Southern Cluster.

    Holding the telegram in his hand, Tukhachevsky seemed to have aged ten years all of a sudden. The stubble on his face looked haggard and lonely. The political commissar Yankov Gayi beside him also felt uncomfortable and did not know.  How to comfort your commander? He muttered for a long time and said,

    "Mikhail Nikolayevich, don't feel too uncomfortable. Moscow doesn't know much about the situation on the front line. They don't know how powerful the coalition's aircraft and artillery are. Fortunately, you are still our number one."  Commander of the Army Group, our First Army Group still has a chance to make a comeback!"

    Tukhachevsky sat dejectedly on the chair, his eyes were a little dull, and he seemed not to have heard the political commissar's words at all. He regretted a thousand times that he should not have listened to Ma Xin's words and led the team to withdraw in such a hurry, or rather  , now that we have withdrawn here, we should not ask Moscow for instructions on the next step of action. Instead, we should confidently flaunt our tactics of luring the snake out of the hole to lure the enemy deep, and wait to rejoin the Fifth and Ninth Group Armies and then come back.  Gun, annihilate the main force of the pursuing Ufa enemy in the field in one fell swoop!

    Mistaken decision.  .  .  Could it be.  .  ¡ÔWere we really intimidated by the Allied forces?  Tukhachevsky's heart was filled with self-blame and bitterness. He had failed to live up to the trust of Comrades Sdervyov and Ulyanov, and had failed to live up to the expectations of the Moscow Central Committee for him, a young Red Army general!

    "A telegram from Moscow? What did you say! Do you have any instructions for Moscow on the next step of action?" After hearing the news, Ma Xin, who rushed back from the ambush site with a dusty face and sweat dripping from his face, stood on the side of the road two kilometers away.  After lying in the field for an hour, I didn't see the Ufa Cossack Cavalry Division that was pursuing me. After receiving the letter, I hurried back!

    Tukhachevsky silently pushed the telegram in his hand into Ma Xin's hand, and said with difficulty, "Congratulations, Comrade Ma Xin, you have been appointed by Moscow as the acting commander of the Southern Group of the Eastern Front. I have been dismissed.  If I take the post of commander of the Southern Group, I will lead the First Army back to Ufa and fight to the death!¡±

    "What?" Ma Xin, chief of staff of the Southern Cluster and commander of the Second Army, was shocked when he heard this. He snatched back the telegram and read through it. He raised his head and said, "Mikhail Nikolayevich, from the gate of Ufa.  My proposal during the retreat was to withdraw you. No, I will send a telegram to Moscow! At least the leadership of the Southern Cluster will bear the blame, and I have a greater responsibility than you!"

    With that said, Ma Xin turned around and started to walk out!

    "Stop! Come back! Comrade Maxin, Moscow decided to let Comrade Sdervyov serve as the commander of the Southern Cluster. I think this decision is correct. As the commander of the Southern Cluster, of course I am fully responsible for the previous situation of the Southern Cluster.  Moscow is right about the responsibility. No matter how poorly Lezhevsky fought, he and his men held their position twenty kilometers southwest of Ufa and did not surrender. We withdrew with the main force in one breath without asking for instructions.  Yuan, we have a guilty conscience!¡±

    Tukhachevsky stopped the turbulent Maxin. In his opinion, it would be too late to wait until Stelvyov came to take office, so this battle actually had to be fought by the Southern Cluster itself, with Maxin as the chief of staff of the cluster.  He cooperated quite well with me when they were young. Now that he serves as the acting commander of the cluster, he actually gives the command of the Southern Cluster a chance to atone for their sins. As long as the Rzhevski cluster is rescued, even if the city of Ufa is not captured,  The South Cluster can also be invincible.

    "Mikhail Nikolayevich! Moscow really doesn't understand the situation. Now that the Ufa coalition has officially joined the war, we must be cautious. You should not be responsible for the retreat alone!"  Xin grabbed Tuhechevsky's arm and said sincerely.

    "It's useless to say all this. We are old friends and we have cooperated quite well before. Don't worry, I am still the commander of the First Army. I will fight the next battle well under the leadership of you, the acting commander of the group. Moscow  Instruct the Southern Front to send the 10th Army to bring reinforcements with grain, grass and ammunition. We can't retreat westward this time. How about it? Has the White Guards Cavalry Division in Ufa caught up? "

    Tukhachevsky hit Ma Xin on the shoulder and turned the topic to the ambush he had arranged before, but his tone was still that of the boss of the group commander. After he finished speaking, he felt that he should adjust his mentality and put his position in the right position.

    However, Ma Xin didn't take it seriously and stamped his feet and said, "The Ufa White Guards Cavalry Division has not caught up with them yet. I have sent the group army's cavalry reconnaissance company to go back along the original route to conduct reconnaissance to see where they stopped.  whatplace!  If not, just bring the other party over!  "

    "This is a good idea! Comrade Ma Xin, you are now the acting commander of the cluster. You and political commissar Yankov stay at the cluster headquarters to command the overall situation. I will personally go to the ambush position of the Second Group Army to take command! Don't argue with me! Forget it!  Can you give me a chance to redeem myself? That¡¯s it!¡±

    As he spoke, Tukhachevsky grabbed his military hat belt from the table, saluted Ma Xin, turned around and left the room, and shouted directly outside the house, "Leave the guard camp to protect the group headquarters, listen to Ma Xin."  Commander Xin and the political commissar command, follow me, we will give the chasing White Guards a lesson!"

    "Comrade Comrade Ma Xin, just let him go. It doesn't matter if he fights for a while to make him feel better. We will stay at the headquarters to control the rear for him!" Yankov Gayi, political commissar of the cluster, grabbed him.  Ma Xin is about to go out to save him.

    The current location of the main force of the Southern Cluster of the Eastern Front of the Soviet Red Army is in the town of Milna, 75 kilometers west of Ufa. In order to prevent an ambush from the pursuing White Guard Cossack Cavalry Division, pocket formations were set up on both sides of the mainland two kilometers east of the town.  Two divisions of troops were ambushed and prepared to deal with the Ufa White Guards cavalry division that was pursuing them.

    Let¡¯s talk about the Cossack cavalry division pursued by Ufa. Both Petrovich and Sergey were new officers. The cavalry division expanded from one division to two divisions. The two Cossack generals were in high spirits at the happy event and led the Uraldi cavalry division.  The Second Cavalry Corps bypassed the defense line of the Rzhevsky Group in Chernigovka and pursued westward.

    It took the cavalry division less than two hours to complete the fifty-kilometer road. However, the order given by the coalition headquarters was to encircle the western retreat of the Soviet Fourth Army left behind in Chernigovka. Although  They were also asked to follow and pursue the main force of the Southern Cluster that was retreating westward, but they did not let Petrovich lead two divisions to pursue them that far.

    Therefore, five kilometers west of Chernigovka, Petrovich and Sergei discussed it, and the itchy Alexander Petrovich left Sergei's 5th Ural Cavalry Division and his 3rd Division behind.  A brigade of the Fourth Division stayed in place and established a simple line of defense.

    The commander of the 2nd Ural Cavalry Corps personally led the 7th Brigade, the main force of the 4th Ural Cavalry Division, to continue the pursuit westward. Along the way, he also captured hundreds of infantrymen from the Southern Cluster Infantry Division who had fallen behind and could not walk.  This made Petrovitch even more self-aggrandizing.  Fortunately, the brigade commander of the 7th Cavalry Brigade, Xiaobo Chika, was quite cautious. In the morning, he tentatively attacked Lezhevsky's defense line. As a result, he lost a battalion of troops under the opponent's intensive Maxim machine gun fire.

    At this moment, the more he chased, the more uneasy he felt, and finally he grabbed the reins of the horse of the army commander beside him, who was full of enthusiasm and high spirits, and said,

    "Your Excellency, General, we can't continue chasing like this. The opponent has ten divisions! Even the cavalry has a main division, the Chapayev Division. I think the main force of our brigade will stop and rest first. I will lead a vanguard battalion.  It¡¯s enough to catch up and find out what¡¯s going on! It¡¯s too late to run by then!¡±

    "Run? Last time we ran back from Orenburg, I made a rule for myself. The glorious Fourth Ural Cavalry Division will never do this embarrassing thing of running away without a fight again! If you are afraid of death, you can bring a camp.  Take the prisoners back first, and I will chase them myself!" Petrovich was in high spirits. It is quite addictive to win a battle and chase down the enemy, especially when the opponent is an infantry and you are a cavalry, it is a great pleasure!

    If he hadn't been afraid of leaking the news about the hundreds of straggler infantrymen of the Soviet Red Army who had been captured along the way, he almost said "Don't take prisoners!" Fortunately, before he came, Chief of Staff Sergei warned the coalition forces.  Although the Commander-in-Chief is young, he always means what he says. He said that prisoners are not allowed to be tortured, which means that prisoners are not allowed to be tortured. These days, not to mention in the coalition forces, even in the entire China and the entire Far East, no one may dare to disobey him. We  But it's not a joke to kill a few prisoners for fun, and offend the commander-in-chief of the coalition forces!

    "Commander, what are you talking about? The chief of staff has given me the final answer. When the main force of the brigade stops ten kilometers in front of the enemy's formation, the commander is absolutely not allowed to rush in front personally. Even if you shoot me, I can't let you."  Lead the team and charge forward!" Pochka held on to the reins of his commander's horse with a serious look on his face!

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