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Volume Three Far East Stories Chapter 344 Moscow is in a dilemma

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    ~Date:~November 12~

    , nbsp; After the last unauthorized withdrawal of the main force from Ufa, which led to the encirclement of the Rzhevsky cluster, the Moscow telegram reprimanded and adjusted the leadership of the Southern cluster, and Tukhachevsky, the former cluster commander, learned from the past.  This makes Ma Xin, who has a more tactful and cowardly character, dare not act arbitrarily and shoulder the responsibility of acting as the commander of the cluster.  [Shared by netizens]

    In other words, Comrade Ma Xin would never dare to decide to retreat without Moscow's order, or to have the Fifth and Ninth Group Armies turn around and head west. Therefore, in addition to copying telegrams from several armies to Moscow and asking Moscow to decide  Ma Xin really didn't dare to order the ten divisions of the main force of the Southern Cluster to retreat westward without a single step of action.

    Of course, he, the acting cluster commander, had only been in office for a day, and the last telegram expressing his determination and loyalty to Moscow was sent out just over half a day ago, saying that the main force of the Southern Cluster would never retreat without permission to avoid fighting. Could it be that in the blink of an eye, it was less than one day?  The time has come to say that the situation has become out of control and the whole line must retreat and run west?

    What to do with the 30,000 soldiers of the Rzhevsky Cluster?  What to do with the honor of the Eastern Front and the Soviet Red Army?  Where does Moscow put its face and dignity?  The new commander of the Southern Cluster, Comrade Sdervyov, was still on the train heading to the Volga River. The main force on the front line fled under the command of his acting commander?

    Ma Xin cannot bear this responsibility, so Yegorov is right. At this moment, all the Soviet Red Army troops on the right bank of the Volga River have to wait for a call back from Moscow to know what to do next?  Regardless of whether it is attacking or retreating, the Southern Cluster Command has actually given up its decision-making responsibility on the former enemy and has become a hands-off shopkeeper.

    Tukhachevsky could not persuade Ma Xin to command the entire army to retreat, so he had to do the next best thing. He first tried to find a way to get him to promise that the main force of the Southern Cluster would move away from the place as soon as possible. Tukhachevsky instinctively sensed the massive scale of the coalition forces in the morning.  After the air strike, the atmosphere of the entire Ufa Battle was completely different from before. In other words, the coalition forces, which had been showing weakness for a long time, finally showed their fangs and rolled up their sleeves to start fighting!

    The main force of the Southern Cluster was deployed on the front line of Mirna Acehkovo at this time. A total of four divisions of the Second Army and the Fourth Army were stationed near Acehkovo, and five divisions of the First Army were stationed in Milna.  Stationed nearby, the remaining 6,000 troops of Chapayev's Turkestan Cavalry Division are following the operations of the cluster headquarters.

    Tukhachevsky finally persuaded Ma Xin to let the two divisions of the Second Army move northwest under the leadership of political commissar Kharchenko, and the two divisions of the Fourth Army moved southwest under the leadership of political commissar Hevezin  Movement, the five divisions of the First Army were like open palms, divided into five groups and left Milner to move westward.

    The description of the divisions below is to open a big net, not only preparing to receive the food and ammunition delivered by the Ninth Army's reinforcements, but also evacuating and concealing the troops to a safe area that can avoid large-scale coalition air strikes. Of course, as for the coalition reconnaissance aircraft  Everyone tacitly avoided mentioning the fact that it was always hovering three thousand meters above the sky.

    The ten divisions of the main force of the Southern Cluster and the acting commander of the cluster Ma Xin had to express their deep gratitude to Tukhachevsky for his keen sense and persistence.  Although they were hasty and busy, they managed to escape the second wave of sudden large-scale air strikes by the coalition forces that afternoon.

    Although 150 coalition fighter planes, under the guidance of Hawkeye 3, quickly arrived at the Myrna Yachkovo front line, which had begun to evacuate and hide in separate routes, they were faced with the 100,000 Red Army troops on the ground who had been evacuated to a radius of 20 kilometers in the wilderness plain.  Troops, the bombing effect was not satisfactory. Although most of the villages near Milna and Acehkovo were razed to the ground by coalition air strikes, the main force of the Southern Cluster that had been evacuated escaped.

    The results of the second large-scale bombing by the coalition forces that day were much smaller than those achieved in the morning's bombing of the Ninth Army. In this air attack, the Soviet Eastern Front's Southern Group lost nearly a thousand soldiers and injured nearly two thousand.  The total loss of the main force of the cluster was no more than the strength of more than one regiment.

    Of course, due to the lack of machine guns, the main force of the Southern Cluster was unable to respond to the afternoon air raid. The coalition air force returned unscathed after dropping the bombs.

    190Moscow Kremlin

    "Comrades! The situation is changing very quickly. No, it should be said that the situation is deteriorating very quickly!" Trotsky frowned and approached the conference room. Ulyanov, Kamenev, Zinovi  Yeev, Dzerzhinsky, and Bukharin were still arguing about the situation on the right bank of the Volga River.

    Three hours ago, Yegorov of the Ninth Group Army sent a telegram. The group army encountered a large-scale air attack by the Allied Air Force on the Bavre line. More than 160 aircraft were dispatched by the opponent, and the Ninth Army was in a hurry and could not evacuate the team and  Food and ammunition, therefore suffered huge losses in the air strikes, although many coalition fighter planes were shot down and injured.? However, nearly 6,000 people were killed in the army, more than 12,000 were injured, and half of the ammunition and food were lost.

    Yegorov's telegram strongly questioned that the main force of the Southern Cluster, which had been fighting fiercely with the Ufa enemy for three days, did not give advance warning. All the officers of the Ninth Army had no idea that the coalition had such a huge air power. This made the Ninth Army  There was no preparation in advance, and after the air attack came, they lacked air defense weapons and were unable to carry out counterattacks and air defense operations against enemy aircraft.

    In view of the fact that the Soviet Red Army did not have air superiority on the right bank of the Volga River, Yegorov asked Moscow to allow his Ninth Army to quickly move to a safe area, and suggested that Moscow carefully consider the next direction of the Ufa Battle!

    Yegorov almost shouted out that we must retreat!  Retreat to the left bank of the Volga River to organize defense instead of remaining on the right bank of the Volga River where there is no air superiority and suffer the ravages and massacres of the Allied Air Force.

    The previous news that the 30,000-strong Fifth Army Slavin's Northern Route Army had lost contact had already shocked Moscow. The additional telegram from the Fifth Army later confirmed that coalition ground troops were found 30 kilometers north of Briguma.  The main force, Almetyevsk, has gathered a large number of coalition ground troops, and the Northern Route Army is likely to have been completely wiped out.

    Not long after receiving the telegrams from Yegorov and Slavin, an urgent telegram was sent from the Sezran garrison opposite Samara. Samara on the other side of the Volga River was suddenly attacked by a group of soldiers under the banner of the Kazakh Alash Autonomous Republic.  Unidentified troops occupied the area, and the Ninth Army's brigade left behind in the local area was hurriedly taken over by the enemy and annihilated without even having time to warn.

    Sdervyov was already on the armored train heading to Syzran. The Moscow Central Committee was at a loss to deal with the rapidly changing situation. Telegrams from several frontline armies, including Ma Xin, the acting commander of the Southern Group, emphasized the coalition ground forces.  An attack on the Red Army may be launched at any time with the cooperation of the air force. The telegrams sent by the commanders of each group army revealed a message:

    That means the battle on the right bank of the Volga River can no longer be fought. If we don¡¯t retreat quickly, the entire army will be in a situation that is beyond redemption!

    Ulyanov also obviously lost his mind. Kamenev and Zinoviev insisted that although the coalition had the advantage in the air, it was impossible for the ground forces to dispatch such a large force. The last time the Southern Cluster judged that the coalition was  There is at least one division of ground troops. How come it has been less than two days and now the enemy's main force is everywhere?  Where did the main force come from?  The main force falling from the sky?

    Trotsky firmly advocated that the Fifth and Ninth Army and the main force of the Southern Group should merge and retreat westward, first regain the Samara Canal area, open up the connection with Syzran, and then decide whether to withdraw across the Volga River to organize defense, or  After being reinforced with anti-aircraft weapons, they continued to march towards Ufa.

    Kamenev and Zinoviev firmly opposed Trotsky's proposition. The main force of the Eastern Front of the Soviet Red Army was strengthened in the direction of the Southern Cluster, and they also joined forces with the Ninth Army, the main force of the Southern Front. At this moment  When they were finally able to unite and launch a powerful offensive against the enemy in Ufa, they were actually frightened by the enemy's air strike and fled?

    How is this appropriate?  If the lack of air superiority and anti-aircraft artillery is used as the reason for withdrawing troops, can the Red Army retreat faster than the opponent's aircraft?  If allied aircraft also launched air strikes against the Red Army troops on the left bank of the Volga River, would the Soviet Red Army also turn around and flee?  The Red Army will never have an air force that can compete with the opponent in the short term, and the number of anti-aircraft guns and anti-aircraft machine guns is also quite limited. So, at this stage, as long as coalition aircraft appear in the sky, the Soviet Red Army on the ground will not have to fight.  ?

    To be fair, what Kamenev and Zinoviev said is not true. If the war cannot be fought without the air force, then how can the Soviet Red Army still defend the red regime?  But Trotsky's proposition has more practical significance, that is, when the enemy situation has undergone such complicated changes, and when Samara has been captured by the enemies in the Ural direction at lightning speed, the coalition forces must be faced.  The possibility of encircling the entire right bank of the Volga River through a large roundabout of the Soviet Russian army!

    Once it is surrounded by the coalition forces, will it become the second Rzhevsky Cluster?  If the main force of the Southern Cluster cannot protect itself even with 200,000 troops after strengthening the Fifth and Ninth Army, who else can rescue them?  The Third Army in the Kazan direction strengthens the two divisions of the First Army, with less than 100,000 troops. Opposite Kolchak in Kazan has at least 150,000 elite White Guards!

    The Tenth Army in the Tsaritsyn direction has prepared to move north to reinforce the Samara direction, but it only has seven divisions!  And when the Ninth Army has already moved north and the Tenth Army is about to move north, it is a bit risky to rely on the Eighth Army alone in the direction of Tsaritsyn in the south.

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