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Volume Three Far East Stories Chapter 343 Dare to Fight and Sacrifice

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    ~Date:~November 12~

    , nbsp; The news that the main force of the Ninth Army of the Soviet Southern Front encountered a large-scale air attack by the Allied Air Force on the Bavre line quickly reached the Fifth Army of the Eastern Front to the north via telegram. Army Commander Slavin made a statement  The first reaction was for the entire army to stop advancing eastward and quickly evacuate and hide on the spot.

    The location where the three divisions of the Fifth Army stopped was 20 kilometers east of Briguma, near a village called Klyuch. Slavin's home was built by crawling in the Tsarist Russian army. In order to defend him against air attacks,  Simply separate the three divisions and station them in a Zigzag formation, with each division five kilometers apart. Once they stopped, they desperately began to dig anti-aircraft trenches and set up machine gun positions with Maxim heavy machine guns.

    Anyway, the corporal led by Slavin of the Fifth Army refused to move further east after being beaten to death, and telegrams requesting instructions on the next step of action were also sent to Moscow and the Southern Group Headquarters like snowflakes. Slavin said Biego  Rove also wanted to be blunt: With the coalition having such a huge and one-sided air superiority, Moscow is asked to carefully consider the next course of action for the entire military!

    In the telegram, Slavin boldly appealed: This is not only related to the life and death of the 30,000 people in the Rzhevsky Group under siege in Ufa, but also related to the more than 200,000 Soviet Red Army soldiers on the right bank of the Volga River.  Life or death!

    The cavalry reconnaissance battalion sent to Almetyevsk encountered the armored reconnaissance battalion of the opposing coalition. The cavalry of one battalion was chased by 40 wheeled armored vehicles on the plain, Mosina.  How can the Ganqi rifle compete with the 12.7-caliber heavy machine gun on the rotating turret?

    In the end, less than one company of cavalry came back. Fortunately, the opponent did not pursue them to the end. The commander of the cavalry reconnaissance battalion under Slavin's group army was also smart. He led the remaining company of cavalry to retreat wildly.  , instead of running to the south where the Fifth Army was, they retreated to the west, otherwise they could really attract wolves to their own army headquarters!

    Of course, the telegram that the main force of the coalition ground forces was discovered north of Briguma was sent like snowflakes from Slavin to Moscow and the Southern Group Headquarters, and was copied to all the Soviet Red Army armies on the right bank of the Volga River.  This telegram from the Fifth Army estimated that the main strength of the coalition's ground forces north of Briguma was at least one division. Otherwise, it would not explain why there has been no news about the Fifth Army's Northern Route Army.

    The implicit meaning in the telegram points out that there is a high possibility that the three divisions of the Fifth Army's North Route Army have been completely wiped out after encountering the main force of the coalition ground forces!

    All the soldiers of the main force of the Southern Cluster on the Milna-Yachkovo line could be said to have watched helplessly that morning, watching the huge coalition air force cluster pass over the heads of their troops and rush to the west. At that time, they did not know that the coalition forces  The air raid was directed towards Slavin of the Fifth Army, or towards Yegorov's Ninth Army. At noon, the returning coalition aircraft flew over the head of the main force of the Southern Cluster in the direction of Ufa.  , looking through the telescope, there is nothing under the wings of every aircraft.

    Of course, the distance from the Milna-Yachkovo line, where the main force of the Southern Group is located, to Bafre, where the Yegorov Department of the Ninth Army of the Southern Front is located, is more than 110 kilometers. It is impossible to hear that direction from Milna at that distance.  The sound of Bavre's explosion was heard, but when all the soldiers of the Southern Cluster watched the planes above them flying back with great swagger, their ears seemed to hear the violent and continuous explosions when the coalition air force attacked the Ninth Army half an hour ago.  Voice.

    News that the Ninth Army suffered a large-scale coalition air attack quickly spread to all the stations in the Southern Cluster. However, in order to stabilize military morale, the cluster headquarters did not disclose the extent of the losses suffered by the Ninth Army. The Ninth Army suffered 6,000 killed and 12,000 wounded.  The news that nearly half of the transported food and ammunition were destroyed by air strikes and subsequent raging fires was tightly blocked by Mahin and Tukhachevsky.

    Tukhachevsky even instigated Ma Xin to order his guards to directly block the radio transmission room. No idlers were allowed to approach, and they were not allowed to inquire about the news from the translators and transmitters. Otherwise, they would be  Agents, traitors and traitors are punished, and the Cheka can execute them without trial after being arrested!

    According to Tukhachevsky's wishes, acting commander Ma Xin should, in the name of the former enemy military committee of the Southern Cluster, notify the Fifth Army and the Ninth Army to disperse and hide or even move to safe areas to avoid encountering the coalition's second and second forces.  Third strike!  The main force of the Southern Cluster should also be transferred as soon as possible to avoid possible future air attacks by the opponent.

    In Tukhachevsky's view, there is no doubt that the Allied Powers are involved in the situation west of the Ural Mountains on a large scale. Moreover, the size of the Allied Air Force has exceeded everyone's previous estimates, and it can actually dispatch 162 aircraft at a time to carry out air strikes.  There are even advanced all-metal monoplanes in the sky that have never been seen before.I don¡¯t know where the Chinese got such aircraft, but judging from the scale of the opponent¡¯s air force, the ability to fly in formation, and the effectiveness of command bombing, the coalition air force can be regarded as an elite division.

    From this, it can be imagined that the three divisions of the Northern Route Army of the Fifth Army have lost contact and there is no trace, and the possibility of the main force of the coalition ground forces appearing north of Briguma is very high. Tukhachevsky told Ma Xin  In addition to sending a telegram to Moscow to inform Moscow of the military situation, the top priority is to transfer and merge the main force of the Southern Cluster as soon as possible.  .  .  Move closer to the Ninth Army to the west.

    "Comrade Ma Xin! Moscow must be debating the next step of action now. Waiting here is definitely not the answer. We must move as soon as possible. Under the current circumstances, we can join the main force and go east to relieve Rzhevsky.  It's pure fantasy. Since the coalition forces have the ability to swallow up the three divisions of the Fifth Army's Northern Route Army in one go, are they unable to deal with the Lzhevsky Cluster, which is full of lightly and seriously wounded soldiers? Are they using Lzhevsky?  The cluster is used as bait to catch this big fish, our main force in the southern cluster!¡±

    Tukhachevsky earnestly tried to convince the acting commander of the Southern Cluster, Ma Xin, that it was Ma Xin¡¯s idea to abandon the wounded from the city of Ufa and retreat. Unexpectedly, he, the commander of the cluster, took the blame. Looking back now,  Lezhevsky lost the battle and suffered heavy losses, but he was still okay in the encirclement of the coalition forces and asked for support leisurely. He was served by more than 500 flower-like female medical soldiers. Maybe the coalition forces were because of these more than 500 women.  Will the soldiers be cruel to Lezhevsky?

    And Ma Xin, the initiator of the retreat, turned out to be the acting commander of the cluster who took over his position. Only he became a veritable scapegoat, and Tukhachevsky, one of the majestic red duo, was kicked off.  To take the title of cluster commander and perform meritorious deeds to see the consequences?  !

    To say that Maxin was the initiator and vested interest in Tukhachevsky's dismissal, speaking of it, only Tukhachevsky's First Army in the Southern Cluster has maintained the best strength, compared with the White Guards on the northwest defense line of Ufa.  The battle can be regarded as a mutual advance and retreat with victory and defeat, and many artillery batteries were close to the enemy but they lacked artillery shells.

    If Ma Xin was not the acting commander of the South Cluster, he would have definitely dragged Tukhachevsky away based on his previous temperament. He quickly ordered everyone to evacuate and retreat to the west as fast as possible. This guy became the acting commander of the cluster, and there was another  Tukhachevsky was dismissed from his post because of the retreat. This guy was a little hesitant. The last telegram sent by Moscow to the Southern Cluster severely criticized the right-leaning opportunism of the Southern Cluster leadership team.

    What was criticized by name in the telegram was Tukhachevsky's pre-war rhetoric and his subsequent flight without a fight. What was criticized without naming was the entire leadership team of the Southern Cluster. The Central Committee even warned some members of the leadership team of the Southern Cluster.  Senior commanders, even commanders at the army level, said that they were less than fifty meters away from the position of the Left Socialist Revolutionaries and the Mensheviks!  If the central government hadn't been educating and saving them, these people might have slipped to the enemy's side at any time!

    As for the air superiority possessed by the coalition forces, Moscow has repeatedly emphasized in its last call back that there are not enough and convenient air defense weapons, let alone aircraft that can go to the sky to compete with the opponent for air supremacy. However, the Soviet Red Army can still win the war and still has  To win the battle, field battles, hand-to-hand combat, brave and courageous charges, and human aviation skills were once the magic weapons for the Soviet Red Army to defeat the enemy. The Southern Cluster cannot stop fighting because there is no anti-aircraft guns, and cannot give up fighting just because our aircraft do not have air superiority overhead.  !

    Certain commanders must never be allowed to make the same mistake again. Several coalition planes flew overhead, and hundreds of thousands of Red Army troops dropped their wounded and fled like a tide. This was a shame for the Bolsheviks, a shame for the Eastern Front and the Southern Group!  These shames can only be washed away by the victory you are about to win!  The prerequisite for victory is that all soldiers of the Southern Cluster have the courage to fight, sacrifice and dedication!

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