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Volume Three Far East Stories Chapter 352 Slavin Wins the Encounter

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    ~Date:~November 14th~

    Wang Geng quickly walked to the battle map and drew a large circle with Bavre and Briguma as the center. He turned around and said, "The radius of this circle on the map is 70 kilometers. The Soviet Red Army has wings."  We will begin to retreat across the board tonight, and the fifth army in the far west cannot escape this circle. Of course, Slavin's three divisions do not have the burden of wounded and can run relatively lightly, but this guy is obviously trying to create suspicion! "

    "Your Excellency, Commander-in-Chief, I'm also wondering, even if Slavin's Fifth Army wants to run away, why would he attack northwest from Briguma? Could it be that by provoking us, he will run faster and easier?" Utsunomiya Taro didn't ask.  Xie asked.

    "Slavin is a thoughtful Soviet general. Obviously with the destruction of the Fifth Army's Northern Route Army and the emergence of Xiong Shihui's armored reconnaissance battalion in Buriguma, there is no doubt that the main force of the coalition forces exists in the northwest.  He knows that even if it is a night march, our reconnaissance plane will definitely find that the Fifth Army has left the Bavre and Briguma lines tomorrow morning, and he can take away 60-70 kilometers at most! "

    Wang Geng looked at the Japanese army general with his hands behind his back, pondered for a moment, and said, "Your Excellency Taro, if you were the commander of the Soviet Fifth Army, how would you break out? Samara in the southwest has been occupied by the coalition forces, and Simbir  The ferry on the other side of Sk is obviously the next target for the coalition forces to seize in a roundabout way. The opponent's Fifth Army originally left a division of troops behind after crossing the river in Bolgar. If you were Slavin, how would you arrange a retreat? "

    Utsunomiya stepped forward and looked at the map carefully again, and said with a slight hesitation, "Obviously the best strategy is to retreat northwestward from Bolgar and Techuhi, which are still in the hands of the Soviet Red Army, and cross the river back to the left bank of the Volga River.  go."

    "Yes, since everyone thinks so, then even if the retreat to the northwest is not the safest road, it is the shortest and most familiar, because this is the road the Fifth Army took when it came! So Slavin will definitely  Making this move to retreat to Bolgar in the northwest would go against common sense and be self-defeating. Going west is the most convenient, and going east is the most dangerous, so he sent the main force to attack in the northwest!" Wang Geng smiled slightly!  said.

    "Your Excellency, Commander-in-Chief, do you mean that Slavin deliberately took the path that everyone thought he should take when retreating, and also launched a large-scale attack just to attract our attention?" Utsunomiya Taro said in surprise.

    "Perhaps he wants to scare off our forwards with his fierce attack, so that we dare not act rashly in the night, and buy time for his main force to run westward. But I guess that at this time, he is attacking from Buriguma to the north.  That division must not be the main force, the artillery company moves slowly and the target is large, Slavin is probably playing the trick of trying to escape!" Wang Geng said quite confidently.

    "So we send troops to the east and south to intercept? Let's ignore the Second Ural Cavalry Division, but But the Japanese Seventh Cavalry Regiment only has more than 4,000 people. If Slavin's main two divisions really go northeast  It's a bit difficult for the 7th Cavalry Regiment to stop the opponent's main force of more than 20,000 people in the middle of the night!" Utsunomiya Taro mumbled.

    "Whether it is the Japanese Seventh Cavalry Regiment or the Second Ural Cavalry Division, their purpose is to intercept the enemy rather than eat them. These two groups only need to find the enemy and stick to them. They are infantry, and our cavalry is  He's really outnumbered and can't defeat him, but it's no problem to stick with them, chase, harass, and slow him down. The air force will be dispatched at dawn. Let's see where Slavin goes!" Wang Geng said firmly.

    "Your Excellency, Commander-in-Chief, what if the enemies swarm south? Our troops in the south are far away! Li Mingzhong's main force is still in Orenburg, and the 3rd Ural Cavalry Division has just arrived in Buzuluk! They are all separated by more than 300 kilometers.  "Where's the distance?" Utsunomiya Taro looked at the map again and asked his question.

    Wang Geng nodded, "Normally, going south is a good and unexpected retreat direction at the beginning. At least there are no coalition ground troops within 200 kilometers, but the road to the south is long, and in the end you have to go to the Volga River.  ? No matter how far they can run south, they will have to turn west in the end. Li Mingzhong's main force is waiting in Orenburg. As long as our aerial reconnaissance finds out the direction of the opponent's main force's retreat, he will not be able to run south. Maybe the opponent will  He dispersed the team himself!"

    "Your Excellency, Commander-in-Chief, in the area of ??nearly 400 kilometers from Orenburg to Samara, only the Second Ural Cavalry Division is in this area. If the enemy swarms there, the Second Ural Cavalry Division will not be able to stop them.  Can't stop it!" Utsunomiya Taro said his own.

    "The cavalry division only needs to discover and follow the enemy. If the enemy's main force really breaks out in a swarm to the south, then the main force of Li Mingzhong from Orenburg will go north, and the main force of Sun Liangcheng from Samara will go south, plus the Wu Peifu Ufa Central Detachment behind them.  ???Main force, let's see where he goes!  "Wang Geng comforted his deputy.

    The night of July 11, 1918 was a sleepless night for both parties.

    At nightfall, Slavin's Fifth Army divided into two groups. Army Commander Slavin personally led Hao's First Division, six artillery companies, and three heavy machine gun battalions to advance towards Buriguma in the dark. Of course,  Soon they encountered the armored reconnaissance battalion sent by Xiong Shihui five kilometers southeast of Briguma.

    Slavin's military command ability was by no means inferior to that of Ekh and Rzhevsky, who had surrendered to the coalition forces. These divisions were divided into three groups and marched together in the dark. The commander of the 1st Siberian Infantry Division led the 1st Brigade.  The vanguard regiment opens the way in front, then on the left is the division political commissar Simbik leading a regiment of the second brigade, on the right is the commander of the first brigade leading a regiment, and on the right is the commander of the first brigade leading a regiment, Slavin and the commander of the second brigade leading a regiment and the artillery and heavy machine gun battalions  Go in the middle.

    Xiong Shihui's armored reconnaissance battalion was relatively well alerted. It discovered the leading group that had come out of the dark in advance. The two sides started fighting without saying a word. Of course, a mere 2,500-man Red Army infantry regiment couldn't take down an armored reconnaissance battalion. Xiong Shihui's brigade  There are 40 fd-17ii wheeled armored fighting vehicles belonging to the armored reconnaissance battalion. The 12.7 large-caliber machine gun on the 360-degree rotating turret is quite powerful when strafing.

    But this time Slavin came well prepared. He led the leading group to attack with a skirmish line. Although the casualties were heavy, he refused to retreat. At this time, Slavin had already deployed six artillery batteries behind him, and  Let two heavy machine gun battalions accompany the two regiments on the left and right to carry out a roundabout outflank.

    The commander of the armored reconnaissance battalion opposite was Xiong Shihui's distant cousin Gu Xiaosi. He was also a bold leader. The enemy had just come up with a regiment. Although they were not afraid of death when they charged, they saw that they lacked heavy weapons, so he ordered the whole battalion to disperse.  , the vehicle-borne infantry got off the vehicle and entered the position, preparing to eat this Red Army infantry regiment that did not know the heights of the sky and the earth.

    As the fight was getting heated, the sound of the opponent's Maxim heavy machine gun rang out from both wings at the same time, sending sparks flying from the turret armor of one's own armored vehicle, and then the cannons of the artillery battery behind the opponent's position rang out!

    The third company and the second company successively reported that the enemy outflanking from the left and right wings had at least one regiment or more of troops. Listening to the sound of artillery, the opponent had at least 30 cannons roaring behind the position. If it hadn't been for the whole battalion being dispersed just now.  Er Ke really suffered a big loss.

    Armored battalion commander Gu Xiaosi immediately ordered a retreat. Fortunately, this armored reconnaissance battalion was well-trained. When running, the bullets fired back by the large-caliber heavy machine gun on the 360-degree turret were like rain, while the vehicle-mounted infantry squads were all  They have developed the ability to get on and off vehicles while moving at low speeds, so before the second wave of artillery shells from the enemy group came, the armored battalion had already retreated 100 meters, and then rushed back the way it came.  , of course, the night also played a good covering role, making the first wave of artillery shells from the opponent's artillery group less accurate.

    Under Slavin's sudden artillery attack, three armored vehicles of the Armored Reconnaissance Battalion were destroyed and then abandoned. The coalition forces killed 12 people and injured more than 30 people. The wounded and weapons were all taken away during the retreat. The three damaged armored vehicles even  The wreckage was detonated by coalition soldiers before retreating.

    On Slavin's side, 123 people from the leading group were killed and 236 injured. In less than 20 minutes of fighting, more than a battalion lost its combat effectiveness - the combat effectiveness of the armored forces made the soldiers of the Fifth Army shudder.

    Slavin personally inspected the coalition positions. To his disappointment, no prisoners were captured in this battle. Although the corpses of twelve coalition soldiers were placed next to the 123 corpses of the Soviet Red Army, the Soviet Fifth Army's  The Red Army soldiers saw the strange and mysterious Nirvana of the coalition soldiers for the first time. Several dead coalition soldiers with relatively intact faces looked very young, and the armbands wrapped around the arms of the military uniforms were dazzlingly red under the torchlight.

    Slavin walked up and took off an armband and looked at it. It had a red band with white circles and black Chinese characters. The embroidery and piping were very delicate. The guy turned around and asked who knew these characters. Here, the Siberian No. 1 was wrapped in gauze.  The commander of the First Division, Hao, stepped forward and looked at it and said, "Comrade Commander, this is the armband of the Chinese participating army. These three characters are Chinese characters and are called "Model Army.""

    A piece of skin was scratched on his forehead by shrapnel from a mortar shell from the coalition armored reconnaissance battalion. The injury was not serious, but he was bleeding a lot!  At this time, his face looks more ferocious!

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