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Volume 3 Far East Story Chapter 350 An evacuation plan with the same purpose but different approaches

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    ~Date:~November 13~

    July 11, 1918 16:50 The main force of the southern cluster near Milner

    "Lezhevsky, the traitor! Ehe, the scum! They actually laid down their weapons and surrendered to the coalition forces! The Soviet Red Army has disgraced them both!" Tukhachevsky slapped the table and shouted!

    "It's useless to say this now, let's quickly discuss how to withdraw? Moscow is just messing around. It disbanded the Southern Cluster Command and told our Second and Fourth Group Armies to retreat in the direction of Bentetsyuhi. We are now 100 meters away from Bafredu  How many kilometers is it? Could it be that the main force of the coalition forces who have eaten the Ehe North Route Army will just sit back and watch us retreat all the way to the west? "

    Ma Xin was a little angry after reading the telegram. Even though he, the acting commander of the cluster, was not even hot, the South cluster was disbanded. At this time, the Second Army only had 2 divisions, and they had to cross the vast Ufa Plain to return to the other side of Teqiushi.  Bolgar, just thinking about it feels like a journey of death.

    "Time is running out now. Since Rzhevski has laid down his arms and surrendered, the main force of the coalition forces will soon rush towards us from Ufa. In my opinion, the four divisions of the Second and Fourth Army will retreat westward.  On the one hand, we went to Bafre to replenish the food and ammunition shipped by the Ninth Army, and on the other hand, we attracted the main force of the coalition forces in Ufa.¡±

    After the Southern Cluster was disbanded, Ma Xin, an army with only two divisions, naturally had to listen to Tukhachevsky's First Army, which still had five infantry divisions and half a cavalry division. This guy seemed to regard himself as the backbone of everyone.  He sat directly on the main seat and arranged combat plans for the remaining units of the three group armies.

    Ma Xin puffed up his cheeks and stopped breathing. Hevezin, the political commissar of the Fourth Army, felt a little guilty and couldn't hold his head up because of Rzhevsky's surrender to the coalition forces. The Fourth Army only had two dissatisfied members.  The division of the Communist Party of China was short of food and ammunition, so he lowered his head and talked, let's look at Tukhachevsky's arrangements!

    When Tukhachevsky saw that neither Maxin nor Hevezin objected to his arrangement, he felt happy and then said,

    "The whole army has five days of food left. You four divisions will retreat westward. You will not be able to reach Bafre in two days. In this way, you can allocate two days of food to the first group army. The first group army will divide its forces.  Two routes, one heading east to block the main force of the pursuing coalition forces, and the other heading southeast to the south of Ufa, detouring southward along the Ural Mountains, and finally looping back to the Volga River from the Kazakh grasslands!  Problem, find a way to solve it on the grassland!¡±

    Originally, Ma Xin and Hevezin were not happy, feeling that they had become a bait to attract the main force of the coalition forces to pursue them. Now they heard that Tukhachevsky was going to send the First Army eastward to block the main force of the coalition forces. They were surprised.  The two looked at each other and were a little speechless for a moment. Since Tukhachevsky had put the burden on the shoulders of the First Army, he would obviously be asking for trouble if he spoke out against it.

    The retreat was decided. Ma Xin and Hevitin commanded four divisions to prepare to retreat westward at night. It was not dark yet, and it would be a big loss if the coalition reconnaissance planes were provoked to expose the movement of the entire army.  !

    Both Slavin and Yegorov, including Tukhachevsky, all ordered operations after dark, and the entire army maintained radio silence!  The last telegrams sent to Moscow stated that all troops would compromise and surrender to the enemy, and that they would definitely take the team back to the left bank of the Volga River!

    July 11, 1918 17:00 Ufa

    Rzhevsky finally faced reality under the persuasion of his old partner Ehe, and ordered the 30,000 soldiers in the Chernigovka encirclement to lay down their weapons and surrender to the coalition forces. Wang Geng immediately met with Rzhevsky  Ji and Ehe, as well as the division commanders and political commissars who had laid down their weapons together, were comforted. Considering that Ufa was still a battlefield, it was difficult for these Soviet Red Army prisoners of war who had just laid down their weapons to face their former comrades.

    The coalition command ordered that more than 23,000 wounded Red Army soldiers and more than 7,000 prisoners of war be transported overnight by train to Chelyabinsk, east of the Ural Mountains. A large prisoner of war camp has been established near Chelyabinsk, the coalition base camp.  Although we cannot say how good the conditions are in the camp, they can at least meet the needs of survival, and the medical conditions are better than those in Ufa. Of course, prisoners of war, except for the wounded, still have to be screened after rest and sent to work in mines and construction sites, and are provided with food.  Still nervous, they have to earn that ration for themselves!

    All prisoners of war above the cadre level of the Soviet Red Army were placed separately in officer prisoner-of-war camps. They did not need to participate in labor. In addition to no freedom, other living arrangements were provided. Even the orderly soldiers of the original group army commanders, political commissars and division commanders were not required to participate in labor.  They were selected from ordinary prisoner-of-war camps and returned to them. Of course, when they will be freed and where their future will be, these are questions worth pondering for everyone who has just stepped into the prisoner-of-war camp.

    The highest-ranking people in the prisoner-of-war camp were, of course, the commander of the Fourth Army, Rzhevsky, and the chief of staff of the Fifth Army, Ekh Moss.Ko declared that these two former senior Red Army commanders were traitors, traitors and enemies of the people, and announced that the Cheka had arrested and tried the relatives of these two generals who stayed in Moscow, and that all adult immediate family members had been shot!  Of course, neither Lezhevsky nor Ehe will believe this news at this moment, and Wang Geng is not in a hurry. It cannot be true or false, and there will be a day when they believe it.

    Wang Geng had expected that Moscow would be determined to retreat, but he was a bit unexpected that Moscow could directly disband the Southern Cluster and order the armies to disperse and break out to decide on their own next move.

    After the Rzhevsky Cluster laid down its weapons, Wang Geng ordered the Fourth and Fifth Cavalry Divisions of the Second Ural Cavalry Corps to advance eastward to catch up with the main force of the Southern Cluster.  One division followed the two cavalry divisions and advanced eastward, preparing to push flatly from the east to encircle the Southern Group of the Soviet Eastern Front Army on the Milna line.

    But after the 30,000 people in the Rzhevsky cluster laid down their weapons, they counted the prisoners, collected the weapons, and arranged transportation. It was not a small project to transport more than 20,000 wounded people from Chernigovka, 20 kilometers away, back to Ufa. Wang Geng mobilized  400 Dodge one-and-a-half-ton trucks from the 3rd Alliance Logistics Vehicle Regiment were used to transport a division of Russian recruits to Chernigovka and get off the truck, then pick up Rzhevsky's wounded back to the city, and then transport them again  The second division of Russian recruits goes to Chernigovka.

    This rotation took most of the afternoon to transport Rzhevsky's 30,000 prisoners and wounded back to the city and put them on trains, while three Russian recruit divisions set off from Chernigovka, followed by the early morning  The four divisions of the First Army of Ufa, which set off within an hour and a half, moved eastward.

    When Rzhevsky's 30,000 wounded Red Army soldiers saw brand-new Japanese 38 rifles and American machine guns, as well as three Russian infantry divisions wearing coalition uniforms, they were so shocked that many people burst into tears again. They did not expect the strength of the enemy.  They are so powerful. These three Russian infantry divisions are obviously very different from the White Guard infantry divisions that they have competed with before. Although the entire army looks like many soldiers are still very immature, their discipline is obviously much stronger and their morale is much higher. Russian  The military song "Three Major Disciplines and Nine Points of Attention" was so loud that it made the captured Soviet Red Army soldiers feel like they had entered a fairy tale world!

    Wu Peifu, deputy chief of staff of the coalition forces and commander of the Chinese Third Army, finally got the title of commander-in-chief of the enemy before the Battle of Ufa. Two cavalry divisions of the Second Ural Cavalry Army starting from Ufa and four White Guards of the First Army of Ufa  The infantry division and three Russian new divisions of the First Siberian Army were temporarily organized into the Ufa Central Cluster, with Wu Peifu serving as the cluster commander.

    The task given by Wang Geng to Wu Peifu was to command the entire Ufa Central Cluster of more than 90,000 people and start the second phase of the campaign to encircle the Soviet Red Army from the east. Wang Geng assigned a brigade armored battalion of Xiong Shihui Division to Wu Peifu as a guard battalion.  , following the actions of the cluster headquarters.

    Taro Utsunomiya, who was also the deputy chief of staff of the coalition forces, shouted that he would quit and wanted to lead troops to attack. Wang Geng stopped him. Of course, Wang Geng said very politely, "Your Excellency Taro, let young people do such menial work as killing and killing."  Just go ahead and do it. We should be drinking and playing chess. It is your duty to strategize! No matter how we fight this battle, no one can take away your credit and contribution in the future!"

    "But your Excellency, Commander-in-Chief, the honor of the Imperial Japanese Army cannot be lost from my hands, Taro Utsunomiya. You have to let me or my people perform on their own, right? Look at how many troops we have sent out.  The Imperial Japanese Army is basically auxiliary and subordinate. If this continues, I won't be able to explain to my subordinates and Japan!" Utsunomiya complained bitterly.

    "Your Excellency Taro, the big battle is still to come. In this way, the next group of troops sent out must have Japanese generals as enemy commanders. Is this okay?" Wang Geng said with a smile.
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