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Volume 3 Far East Story Chapter 333 Slavin had a falling out with the political commissar

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    ~Date:~November 05~

    >In the early morning of July 11, 1918, nearly 10,000 remnants of the Soviet Eastern Front¡¯s Fifth Army¡¯s North Route Army, which was surrounded by 25,000 soldiers from Jiang Hongyu¡¯s North Route Army, laid down their weapons and became prisoners of the coalition forces. Chief of Staff of the Fifth Army  Ekh, the commander of the 4th Petrograd Infantry Division Kodich, the political commissar of the 1st Smolensk Infantry Division Botchikov, and the commander of the 25th Simbirsk Iron Army Division Pinsky were all captured, while the other division commanders and political commissars were all captured.  Killed in action.  {/Updates uploaded by friends}

    In this battle, the coalition forces set a record of one armored mixed brigade defeating the opponent's three infantry divisions in a night battle. Of course, the coalition air force's night bombing also played a key role in crushing the opponent's courage to resist. In contrast, from the rear  After outflanking, the Second Ural Cavalry Division and the Japanese Cavalry Regiment, which appeared darkly behind the Red Army, were just the last straw that broke the opponent's belief in resistance.

    In this battle, the three infantry divisions of the North Route Army of the Fifth Group Army of the Soviet Eastern Front were completely wiped out, with six artillery companies and three heavy machine gun battalions. Nearly 7,000 people were killed, more than 14,000 were injured, and the remaining 9,000 people were in desperate situation.  After that, he laid down his weapons and surrendered to the coalition forces. If the White Guards were on the opposite side, there is no doubt that the remnants of Ehe's Red Army would fight to the end. However, the other side was the Allied Forces. In the past six months, propaganda leaflets about the preferential treatment of prisoners have been scattered all over the west and east of the Ural Mountains.

    After Ehe ordered the entire army to lay down their weapons and surrender, he took out his gun and wanted to commit suicide. However, Botchikov snatched the gun away and said, "If you keep the green hills, you won't have to worry about running out of firewood! Living is better than anything else!"

    The casualties of Jiang Hongyu's troops were around 200, and two armored fighting vehicles were lost. This was the first cluster bombardment by six Baifang artillery batteries. Most of the wounded were injured by stray bullets from the opponent's Maxim machine gun.

    July 11, 1918 7:30 Ufa

    "Reporting to the Commander-in-Chief, the Northern Route Army Jiang Hong received a telegram from his troops. After a fierce battle in the middle of the night, with the cooperation of the air force, our troops have completely annihilated the opponent's three infantry divisions going south, captured countless people, annihilated more than 7,000 of the opponent's people, and captured 23,000 people.  , nearly 14,000 of them are lightly or seriously wounded. Our department is currently resting in place and asking for instructions on how to deal with the wounded and prisoners, as well as the next step of action!" Tian Jun, director of the war room, rushed into the war room with a telegram.

    "Your Excellency, Commander-in-Chief, I am very pleased to congratulate you. I did not expect that the Allied Forces of Jiang Hongyu's troops are so powerful! Now our army has no worries on the northern front!" Taro Utsunomiya was the first to congratulate Wang Geng.

    "But I'm really worried about them. It's not that I'm afraid of how powerful the opponent's combat capabilities are. It's mainly because I'm afraid that my own air force will blow up my own armored forces. I'm finally relieved!" Wu Peifu, deputy chief of staff of the coalition, was standing aside.  He breathed a sigh of relief.  {/Updates uploaded by friends}

    "By the way, Commander-in-Chief, what should we do with the prisoners and the wounded?" Utsunomiya Taro then asked.

    "Send the Japanese cavalry unit to escort the lightly wounded and prisoners back to Almetyevsk. The seriously wounded are a problem. If not, transport them to Chistopol first." Wang Geng pondered for a moment and made a decision!

    "Chiang Hongyu's troops will rest in Chistopol for a day and wait for new orders from the Allied Forces Command. Order the car transport group at the Almetyevsk Military Station to seize the time to replenish ammunition and fuel to Jiang Hongyu's troops, and call Jiang  The Hongyu Department rushed to repair the field airport in Chistopol, and then transported the prisoners above the brigade commander to me directly to Ufa using the Air Force's Handley Petty 0400 bomber!" Wang Geng continued.

    The results of Jiang Hongyu's troops made Wang Geng make a bold decision, that is, not to give up the plan of letting Jiang Hongyu's troops continue to detour back to Bolgar and Jieqiuxi to cut off the opponent's retreat. Of course, Jiang Hongyu's troops needed to first  Rest and replenish ammunition, fuel and food in Chistopol.

    The logistics of the Allied Forces Command currently has three vehicle regiments with a total of 1,200 Dodge one-and-a-half-ton military trucks west of the Ural Mountains. It is barely enough to provide logistics supplies for all the troops in the entire theater. This is why Wang Geng wants to cluster the Soviet Union in the south.  The reason for attracting them as far as possible to Ufa is that the shorter the distance from Ufa and the railway line, the more powerful the logistics transportation and preparation will be for the coalition forces, which are highly mechanized and believe in firepower first.

    Also on this morning, the news that the three divisions of the Soviet Fifth Army's Northern Route Army had lost radio contact was like a huge stone on the minds of everyone at the Fifth Army Headquarters who arrived at Buriguma in the middle of the night.  If a malfunction occurs, it is impossible for the division radio stations and cluster radio stations of the three divisions to have problems at the same time.

    "Comrade Commander, do you think Chief of Staff Ehe's Northern Route Army will encounter the main force of the coalition?!" Political Commissar of the Fifth Group Army Blumberg looked at Group Army Commander Sla who was pacing back and forth in front of him with his hands behind his back.  Literary.

    "It's possible, but even if they encounter the enemy, it won't be too late to send an alarm to the army headquarters? Unless they fall into the enemy's encirclement during the march and quickly lose their resistance, who can put Ehe's  Eat three divisions in one go? Kolchak can¡¯t do it! Are you and I even capable of that??Awesome?  Slavin said with a frown.

    "The last telegram from the Northern Route Army was sent at around 8 o'clock last night, saying that everything was normal along the night march Could it be that the road was lost? Or the radio was out of power?" Blomberg clumsily tried to comfort him.  My own partner.

    "Wake up, my comrade! Pies and puddings won't fall from the sky. The Northern Route Army must be in big trouble. It's a pity that we don't have reconnaissance planes to conduct reconnaissance! Pass my order, and the Southern Route Army will immediately set off south to fight for  Get to the Bavre line as soon as possible and send me the cavalry reconnaissance battalion of the group army north to conduct reconnaissance in the direction of Almetyevsk!" Slavin turned his head and made a decision!

    "Commander, why don't we go north? If Ehe's Northern Route Army is in danger, we should race against time to reinforce it. Why do we continue to march south instead?" Blumberg, the political commissar, was thinking slowly.  I didn't understand Slavin's military intentions.

    "My Comrade Political Commissar! If Ehe's three divisions are eaten by the main force of the coalition forces, our Southern Route Army here will only have three divisions. Even reinforcements will not play a decisive role. Instead, they may suffer the same fate. So  The top priority of the Southern Route Army is to get closer to Ma Xin's Southern Group and Yegorov's Ninth Army as soon as possible. I have a hunch that the Ehe troops in the north may have encountered something unexpected!" Slavin's tone was very serious!  !

    "But what if they encounter an enemy ambush and are surrounded by the main coalition force and then stand still waiting for help?" Blumberg asked unwillingly.

    "Then their emergency telegram has been sent over a long time ago! It's impossible that all the radio stations of the three divisions were destroyed at once? The matter was settled like this. Half an hour later, the team set off and rushed to the destination at the speed of a rapid march.  Baffrey's front line! Report the news of the loss of contact with the Northern Route Army to the Southern Cluster Headquarters!" Slavin, commander of the Fifth Army, pounded the table hard.

    "But Comrade Commander, Almetyevsk is only fifty kilometers away from us, and Bavre is still 36 kilometers away from us. We expect to go south. Why don't we send a telegram asking the Ninth Army to come north to meet at Briguma? Then we will go  Searching and advancing to the north? We can't leave Ehe's Northern Route Army alone and ignore it?" Political Commissar Blumberg couldn't help but ask.

    "You don't read the map? If the Northern Route Army was ambushed by the main force of the coalition last night, the coalition must have gone north from Almetyevsk. In other words, Almetyevsk has already fallen into the hands of the opponent.  , At this time, our Southern Route Army only has three divisions. How can we not move closer to the Ninth Army of the South? How can we resist if the opponent is so outnumbered?" Slavin was obviously tricked by his political commissar.  A bit big-headed.

    "Comrade Slavin! I think you are frightened by the Allied Powers and the Allied Forces. The enemy does not have three heads and six arms. What is the main force of the Allied Forces? The telegram forwarded by Tukhachevsky said that the enemy was not found in Ufa.  A strengthened armored regiment! If the Ufa coalition forces are strong, how can the ten main divisions of the Southern Cluster retreat calmly from the city of Ufa?" Political Commissar Blumberg obviously went all the way.

    "Comrade Political Commissar, the Fifth Army only has the seeds of the three divisions of the Southern Route Army. I heard that the two cavalry divisions assigned to the First Army together have less than one brigade left in Ufa. If the North  The Route Army has encountered an unexpected situation, and our first choice is to move closer to the Ninth Army!" Slavin patiently did ideological work for his stubborn political commissar!

    "Comrade Slavin! As the political commissar of the Fifth Army, I firmly disagree with your approach of fleeing without fighting. We are the main force of the glorious Eastern Front. Even if there are three divisions left, we are still the main force. Don't forget that we  There are still 9 artillery companies! There are also three heavy machine gun battalions! Even if we don't go north to reinforce and find the Northern Route Army, we must not abandon Briguma and run directly to the Ninth Army!  Cluster headquarters, ask Moscow for instructions!¡±

    Political Commissar Bloumberg's military qualities were not very good, but his Bolshevik party spirit was very good. Speaking of which, this guy was Sdervyov's spy placed beside Slavin, and he was always on guard against the group army commander's rebellion.  The Lord, whose water had been pulled over by Kolcha, now saw that Slavin was trying to escape without fighting, and couldn't help but have questions in his mind, so he firmly opposed the retreat to the south!

    Seeing that he could not convince his political commissar, Slavin slapped the table angrily and said, "Okay, okay! If you don't listen to me, you, the political commissar, have the veto power, so we will just wait here for the Southern Cluster Command and Moscow.  Call me back! If something goes wrong and causes losses to the team, don't put the blame on me!" The guy said and walked out with his hands behind his back.

    Political Commissar Bloumberg did not dare to neglect. While he ordered the entire army to be on alert, the three divisions set up a field position north of the town of Buriguma. At the same time, he ordered the cavalry reconnaissance battalion under the group army headquarters to dispatch urgently to Almedyye.  Launch reconnaissance in the direction of Fusk.?

    At the same time, in the name of the Fifth Army Headquarters, this guy sent telegrams to the Southern Cluster, the Ninth Army and Moscow, informing the Fifth Army that the three divisions of the Northern Route Army had lost contact, and asked for instructions on the Fifth Army's next course of action!
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