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Volume 3 Far East Story Chapter 327 Shocking at every step

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    ~Date:~November 02~

    >It was originally a battle of blood and fire between the cavalry of both sides. As a result, with the interference of the Allied Air Force in the sky, this battle between the ambush, pursuit and humiliation of the cavalry was full of dramatic twists and turns. It was obvious that Petrovich finally  It was discovered that the mortars assigned to them by the Allied Forces Command were so powerful. If they had known, they would not have to retreat in such an embarrassing manner. They were chased like a dog chasing a rabbit and were out of breath.

    Chapayev, the ace cavalry division commander of the Soviet First Army, sadly discovered that in just a few days, the White Guards cavalry division on the opposite side seemed to have thrown away his own cavalry division in terms of weapon configuration. In this pursuit battle,  There is no coalition air force in the sky to help. If the opponent prepares such a dense mortar group in advance, the 7,500-man cavalry division will not be able to gain advantage.

    In fact, when the Chapayev Cavalry Division withdrew from the battlefield, it had already lost nearly 1,600 troops in 4 battalions due to strafing and bombing by the aviation fleet, as well as the rapid firepower of Petrovich's intensive mortar group.  Some of the lightly and seriously wounded were not taken away in time.

    Petrovich lost a cavalry company in this battle. When he returned to clean up the battlefield, he captured nearly 300 horses, more than 900 Mosin-Nagant rifles, and captured more than 500 lightly or seriously wounded people that the Red Army had no time to take away. However, Peter  Rovich had already learned from the commander-in-chief of the coalition forces the trick of throwing the burden of wounded soldiers on the opponent, and at any time the opponent's four infantry divisions would surround him and make his own dumplings.

    The 7th Brigade of the 2nd Ural Cavalry Army stopped as soon as they saw fit. After giving a brief propaganda and education to the prisoners, they announced their release on the spot and wanted to replace the prisoners with the 4th Army or the 2nd Army. Maybe someone would stand up and never return.  They refused to go back to the Red Army, but Chapayev's cavalry division was the trump card of the First Army, and most of them were Bolsheviks, so they were quite hostile to Petrovich's White Guards and Cossacks.

    For the commanders and fighters of Chapayev's division, this battle was purely useless. They didn't even have time to fight with real swords and guns, but they were stunned by the opponent's firepower from above and below. Many Red Army cavalry divisions  It was the first time they saw the power of aerial strafing and bombing, and many people had no idea how the White Guards could conjure up nearly a hundred cannons from horseback!

    Without the repeated orders from the Commander-in-Chief of the Allied Forces to emphasize not to mistreat prisoners, most of the more than 500 lightly or severely wounded Red Army soldiers who fell into the hands of the White Guard Cossacks would have suffered misfortune.  Anyone willing to surrender will probably be shot.

    In any case, because the coalition forces have intervened in the situation west of the Ural Mountains, it is bad news for the Red Army fighters in Soviet Russia, because they may suffer a series of defeats and blows, but it is also good news, because even if they are reduced to  Prisoners will not suffer the tragic fate of being shot. In fact, some Bolshevik Red Army soldiers with firm beliefs later mastered a skill, which is to injure themselves before becoming prisoners, and then be repatriated to the Red Army as lightly or seriously wounded.  There, thus escaping the fate of hard labor in prison camps east of the Ural Mountains.

    Chapayev's cavalry division withdrew to the town of Acehkovo in disgrace. This surprised Tukhachevsky, who commanded four infantry divisions and wanted to pursue them. After asking, he found out that they had been blocked by the coalition air force.  After encountering a rain-like attack from a mortar cluster carried by the opposing cavalry brigade, they suffered heavy casualties before withdrawing.

    Tukhachevsky and the political commissar of the Fourth Army, Khvezin, looked at each other in confusion. They felt that this battle would be difficult to fight in the future. Once the opponent's cavalry brigade had recovered enough, it could use mortars to attack Chapayev's cavalry division.  With heavy damage, if each of the opponent's infantry division and cavalry division is equipped with so many portable mortars, how can the Southern Cluster cope with it in the future?

    "Mikhail Nikolayevich, it's not that our soldiers are not brave, it's just that the enemy's artillery fire was too fierce. The mortar shells fell like rain. In just ten minutes, my team was hit.  Nearly 300 rounds of artillery shells, and the range of the opponent's mortars can reach at least 2,000 meters, and the power of the bomb explosion is comparable to that of the 76 field artillery! "The injury on Chapayev's arm was not healed last time, and his forehead was scratched again today.  A piece of oily skin, like his mount, had its head covered, looking quite embarrassed.

    "According to my order, the two infantry divisions of the Second Army will establish an outpost defense line in Acehkovo. They will leave a regiment of the Bayev Cavalry Division along the small river in front of the town to station in the west of the town and move forward with the cavalry reconnaissance post.  Send them 5 kilometers ahead! Follow me back to Milna with the rest of the troops!" Tukhachevsky said as if he was still the commander of the group, forgetting that Ma Xin had taken his place at this moment.

    Fortunately, the two division commanders of the Second Army did not care. They did not worry so much about who would be the commander of the group. Tukhachev only served as the commander of the First Army and still commanded the divisions of the Second Army. As for the Fourth Army, He  Weixin didn't think there was anything strange at all, and he led his two children obediently.?Swarmed Tukhachevsky and headed west to meet the main force of the cluster.

    Here, Petrovich's 7th Cavalry Brigade took the captured horses and weapons and turned east to retreat towards Chernigovka, leaving a cavalry battalion as a rear guard and as an outpost, stationed east of Acehkovo.  The village of Dmitrievka, fifteen kilometers away, is considered an outpost warning position. As for the more than 500 captured Red Army lightly and seriously wounded soldiers, they were released on the spot after education and publicity, and they were allowed to go west to find their own troops.  go.

    As Moscow made adjustments to the leadership team of the Soviet Eastern Front's Southern Cluster, Tukhachevsky, who had risen to prominence before, was dismissed and retained. This made several armies on the front line tremble. No one dared to propose continuing to retreat westward.  Therefore, the ten main divisions of the Southern Group, which originally planned to withdraw westward to the lines of October Town, Bafre and Briguma, retreated to the lines of Milna and Yazhikovo, 75 kilometers away from Ufa.

    After Tukhachevsky and Hevezin returned to the Southern Cluster headquarters in Milna, Acting Cluster Commander and Second Army Commander Maxin organized a military meeting of the Southern Cluster Front Revolutionary Committee, at which the resolution was discussed and adopted.  The main force of the Southern Cluster is organizing a defense line on the front lines of Milna and Acehkovo, waiting for the decision of reinforcements from the Fifth and Ninth Army!

    After telegram exchanges with the Fifth Army and the Ninth Army, it was confirmed that Slavin's three divisions of the Northern Route Army of the Fifth Army had reoccupied Chistopol, and the leading brigade of the Northern Route Army had moved southeast along the main road.  direction movement, the main forces of the three divisions planned to rest for half a day in Chistopol and wait for the evening march to Almetyevsk. This was to gain time, and secondly it was Slavin's idea.  , in the absence of air superiority, the troops should march at night as much as possible and rest in concealment during the day, so as to avoid enemy aerial reconnaissance and attacks to the greatest extent.

    After this afternoon, Yegorov's Ninth Army also planned to rest in hiding during the day and march at night. Fortunately, he rarely found coalition reconnaissance planes overhead along the way, so there was not much pressure, especially on his vanguard.  Troops, the Ninth Army's Special Cavalry Division, led by Budyonny, has arrived 20 kilometers southwest of Bafre and will arrive at Bafre this evening.

    "Slar's Southern Route Army of the Fifth Army has arrived about fifty kilometers west of Briguma, and will be able to reach Briguma and set up camp at midnight today!

    July 10, 1918 16:00 Ufa

    "Eagle Eye 1 reported that the three divisions of the Northern Route Army of the Fifth Army of the Soviet Eastern Front have left Chistopol and moved southeast toward Almetyevsk. His leading brigade is at a distance from Chistopol.  We are resting and waiting for the group twenty kilometers southeast of you. The Cossack cavalry battalion has retreated to the designated location where the three rivers meet! "

    "There was a call from Jiang Hongyu of the Northern Route Army. The mixed armored brigade has arrived at the scheduled ambush battlefield and has rendezvoused with the retreating Ural Cavalry Battalion! The Second Ural Cavalry Division and the Japanese Cavalry Regiment have begun to move eastward. If the opponent's three divisions  If we march overnight, the battle is expected to start before midnight!"

    "There was a call from Li Mingzhong of the Southern Route Army. They had successfully captured Orenburg through a surprise attack half an hour ago and wiped out one battalion of the defenders. After the team rests, they will send the 3rd Ural Cavalry Division to the northwest overnight."

    "There is a call from Sun Liangcheng of the South Road Rangers. The main force of the South Road Rangers is 30,000 people. They dispatched from Ural to Samara early in the morning. They have now arrived 100 kilometers southeast of Samara. It is expected that they can enter the Samara Reservoir area to fight tomorrow afternoon. They will get it before evening.  Go down to Samara and cut off the Volga crossing!¡±

    "Reporting to the Commander-in-Chief, all the more than 10,000 Soviet Red Army prisoners of war have been transported to Chelyabinsk east of the Ural Mountains. Two of the three Russian recruit divisions transported from Chelyabinsk have arrived, leaving one division.  It can be shipped before eight o'clock in the evening."

    "The second northern detachment of Xiong Shihui called. They got off the train from Cherny on the Kamala River half an hour ago. They are expected to arrive in Zainsk at 10 o'clock tonight and Almetyevsk before noon tomorrow!"
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