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Volume 3 Far East Story Chapter 335: Vow to Death Not to Be a Scapegoat

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    ~Date:~November 05~

    At 10:00 on July 11, 1918, Kalezhevsky in Chernigov, twenty kilometers southwest of Ufa, was surrounded.

    "Comrade Commander! There are only two days of food left. More than a hundred seriously injured people have died in the past two days. With a lack of medical treatment and medicine, we can only watch them die. The injuries of many wounded people are getting worse. Nan  When will the main force of the cluster come to relieve the siege?" Saveyevich, the commander of the Uralsk Infantry Division, broke into Rzhevsky's house with a stubble on his face.

    ¡°The main force of the Southern Cluster is not far from us, just on the line between Milna and Yachkovo, 60 kilometers to the west!¡± Lezhevsky answered while shaving in front of a broken mirror hanging on the wall.

    "But I heard that Tukhachevsky has been dismissed from his post and is no longer the commander of the Southern Cluster! Has the Southern Cluster merged with the Fifth Army and the Ninth Army? The soldiers can't hold on anymore.  More than 30,000 people are running out of food and medicine here. If the main force of the cluster does not come to relieve the siege, you should know what will happen, Comrade Commander. "Savijevich's heart is the same as that of his soldiers!  Full of despair and fear.

    In order to avoid shaking the morale of the military, the news that Moscow had dismissed Tukhachevsky as the commander of the South Cluster was blocked by Rzhevsky. Maxin was more clever than courageous, and he lacked courage and willpower.  If you act as the commander of the Southern Cluster, the possibility of the main force of the cluster returning to Ufa is not getting bigger, but getting smaller!

    As for Sdervyov, a member of the Supreme Revolutionary Military Council in Moscow, he was more than a thousand kilometers away, and Rzhevsky was not worried at all.

    After seeing the power of the Allied Air Force, Rzhevsky even vaguely believed in his heart that the main force of the Southern Group could withdraw across the left bank of the Volga River as soon as possible with the support of the Fifth Army and the Ninth Army.  Before knowing the strength of the coalition forces west of the Ural Mountains, any blind attempt at a decisive battle would be full of risks and uncertainties.

    As for the 30,000 Soviet Red Army soldiers who are now besieged with them in Chernigovka, the coalition forces on the opposite side may be using their group as bait, hoping to attract the main force of the Southern Group and the Eastern Front to near Ufa for a decisive battle.  , and Lezhevsky himself was trying to use his 30,000 people to attract the main force of the coalition forces. At least the White Guards of the four surrounding divisions did not dare to neglect or move to the west to attack the main force of the Southern Cluster.  Bar.

    Thinking of this, Rzhevsky wiped the soap suds on his face with a towel, and turned to the Uralsk Infantry Division Commander Saveyevich seriously, "Comrade Division Commander, you are a senior commander of the Red Army.  Where is the sloppy military discipline? Our mission is to persevere! If we persevere one more day, we will create more opportunities and time for the main force!

    Savievich could not help but take a step back, touched the beard stubble on his face, and said to himself,

    "But food is scarce, how can we persevere? Comrade Commander, tell us how we can persevere? Seriously wounded people are dying every day, and the wounds of lightly wounded people are getting worse! There is no medical treatment, no medicine, no food, how can we persevere?"  If it doesn't work, Comrade Commander, I will take the lead with the whole division and break out to the west. The main force of the Southern Group is only more than fifty kilometers away from us. I will rush over no matter how hard I try! But Tynov's cavalry regiment will protect you and the headquarters.  We can definitely stand out!"

    "Leaving 24,000 lightly and seriously injured people to break out? Savievich, how long have you been following me? It's been almost a year. To tell you the truth, Tukhachevsky was dismissed from Moscow because he withdrew westward with his main force.  Leaving 30,000 of us to suffer here, the reason why I lost the battle while still being the commander of the Fourth Army and was not arrested and executed by the Cheka is because my division and I are still holding our position here in Chernigovka.  ! Wake up, my comrade!"

    Lezhevsky¡¯s tone was filled with sadness and helplessness!

    "But how can we survive without food?" Savievich insisted with a pout.

    "Dantinov's cavalry regiment is almost out of horse feed, isn't it? There are 30,000 people, and each person has a pound of horse meat every day. If you kill 50 horses every day, chop it up and chop it up. That's almost enough!" Rzhevsky said.  He went out with a washbasin and poured the wash water in the yard. The kitchen was short of manpower, so this guy's orderly went to the kitchen early in the morning to help. Of course, the advantage was that he could get an extra piece of horse meat for Lezhevsky!

    "It's such a good day! Anyway, Comrade Rzhevsky, I think our persistence here is meaningless. The cavalry of Chapayev's Cavalry Division regard their horses as their second life. You said that you are so light every day."  Go kill fifty horses, and the cavalry will fight to protect their mounts!" Savievich muttered and followed him out of the house.

    ??At 10:05 in the morning on July 11, the sky was blue, the sun climbed up to the branches, and there were not a few clouds in the sky.??The sound of women chattering and washing clothes and sheets came from the camp. There were more than 30,000 people in the encirclement, including more than 500 female medical soldiers left from the Southern Cluster. They were a beautiful sight in the camp. Of course, discipline still remained.  Strictly speaking, those who dare to violate discipline and provoke female soldiers will be shot!

    However, the war was so cruel that in many cases, harmless jokes, jokes and ambiguous looks would still circulate among the young men and women of the Soviet Red Army from time to time.

    Lezhevsky climbed up to the roof and looked at the surrounding White Guard encirclement with his binoculars. Just like the previous days, the four White Guard infantry divisions outside the encirclement showed no intention of relaxing. Maxim machine gun points were still scattered all over the position.  In the case of artillery support, it is necessary to pay a huge price to break through the opponent's machine gun fire network. What if you get out by luck?

    Moscow, the Eastern Front and the Southern Cluster cannot accept such a disastrous defeat. Countless people are looking for scapegoats for potential failures with their eyes wide open!

    The commander of the Uralsk Infantry Division, Savievich, followed him and climbed onto the roof. This house was the estate of the largest landowner in the local town. Of course, the landowner¡¯s family had already gone to the east of the Ural Mountains. The strange thing was that almost all of them  The local poor peasants and laborers also fled to the east of the Ural Mountains like a swarm of swarms. This made Rzhevsky even more unclear about the prospects and future of the Soviet regime. Of course, under the system of surplus grain collection and the return of everything to the Soviets,  Under the high pressure of the policy, it is conceivable that all rural strata with thousands of years of small-scale peasant consciousness became alienated from the Soviets!

    At this time, there was a buzzing sound in the air from the direction of Ufa. Both Lezhevsky and Savievich heard the sound and turned to the east. They saw a group of coalition aircraft flying in from the northeast of Ufa.  It flew towards me!

    "Oh my God! Where are there so many coalition planes!" Savievich was stunned!

    "Air raid siren! Air raid siren! Order the whole army to take cover! All the troops take cover! Shooting in the air is strictly prohibited unless the opponent fires!!!!" Lezhevsky was the first to come to his senses and shouted from the roof.  The ignorant soldiers in the yard shouted!

    The whole yard was suddenly in chaos. As the alarm horns and bells from the army headquarters rang, more and more people in the camp heard the roar of huge aircraft engines in the air. Good news  The weather and field of view allowed most people in the camp to stand on tiptoe and see the large coalition aircraft formations flying towards Chernigovka in neat formations in the direction of Ufa in the distance!

    "Comrade Commander! Let's quickly find a place to hide! Your house is a big target. If the other party wants to attack, the bomb will be the first to come to us!" Savievich's tone was a little trembling. He was just here  I counted how many coalition planes were flying over from the opposite side, and found that they were countless. They were too densely packed. This may be the first time this boy has seen so many planes in the sky!  It's still the enemy's!

    Flying at high altitude, flying in front are three squadrons of SE5 biplane fighter jets, which is 48 fighter jets. Slightly behind at mid-altitude are three squadrons of dh4 reconnaissance bombers, which is another 48 bombers, followed by three squadrons that were not seen before.  I have seen the Handley Page 0400 twin-engine heavy bomber formation, a total of 36 twin-engine heavy bombers.

    At higher altitudes of the entire formation, there are two squadrons of 24 Chinese FR18 fighter-bombers that have never been seen by the Soviet Red Army. This Chinese-made all-metal monoplane fighter-bomber is almost unheard of and unseen by everyone.  .  .  
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