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Volume 3 Far East Story Chapter 368: Attacking the heart with one go

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    The horizontal bombing of 96 fighter planes of the coalition air force at an altitude of 3,000 meters not only avoided the anti-aircraft fire of the Maxim heavy machine guns temporarily set up by the opponent, but also completely destroyed the nine artillery batteries and five heavy machine guns that relied on the barrier of Step.  After the battalion lost its artillery and anti-aircraft weapons, Stepin and the division commander Liukin of the Voronezh Division were completely dumbfounded.

    The 96 coalition aircraft overhead lingered, apparently cooperating with the opponent's ground armored forces to hand over their guns. Division Commander Liukin Voronezh was about to cry without tears. He only trembled at the lips of the Army Chief of Staff, with tears in his eyes.  Trembling,

    "Chief of Staff, I didn't expect the enemy's air force is still so powerful How about we break out in separate groups? The enemy may not be able to catch us if we run away Without artillery and heavy machine guns, we can't stop the opponent.  Armored troops!"

    "Block? The densely packed coalition fighter planes in the sky are clearly waiting to swoop and shoot. Do you think we still have a chance to fight against the opponent's armored forces? The coalition air force planes will not fly away until they have fired all their machine gun bullets! Run away!  Can you run on four wheels? Can you outrun a plane in the sky? Give me the order to put down all the responsibilities!  !¡±

    If the opponent's sky was not so densely threatened by air force fighters, Stepin might still want to lead his troops to fight with the opposing coalition armored regiment. But now, if the 96 aircraft swoop down and shoot, his troops will rely on rifles.  Masturbating with ****?  On the opposite side, the large-caliber heavy machine gun on the opponent's wheeled armored vehicle fired demonstratively. The bullets fired from 1,000 meters away casually broke up small trees as thick as a bowl, sending sawdust flying across the branches and leaves all over the sky. This is not the same level.  Contest!

    Death in battle is definitely not the choice I should make now. The chief of staff who ordered the troops to lay down their weapons was not me, Stepin. There were Ehe and Rzhevsky in front of me. At this time, Slavin's army was also wiped out. Ninth  No matter how glorious the group army is, if it cannot defeat others, it must admit defeat. For the sake of these soldiers and their relatives behind them, I, the chief of staff of the group army, must shoulder this responsibility!

    At 3:30 pm on July 12, 1918, the Voronezh Division of the Ninth Army lost the battle under the command of the Army Chief of Staff Stepin and had to lay down its weapons and surrender under the pressure of the Allied Air Force and ground armored forces. In this battle, the air raid  The Ninth Army suffered 1,500 killed and 2,000 wounded. The remaining more than 6,000 soldiers of the Voronezh Division and the original more than 8,000 lightly wounded soldiers of the entire Ninth Army, as well as chief of staff Stepin, division commander Liukin, division political commissar Shokhov, etc., all became coalition forces.  of prisoners.

    The Fourth Armored Regiment of the Second Mixed Armored Brigade set a new battlefield record. With the cooperation of the aviation team, an armored regiment of 2,500 troops solved the opponent's team of nearly 18,000 people and captured 16,000 people. Cheng Ruhuai arranged the troops  Collect the opponent's weapons and treat the wounded, camp on both sides of the road, and report the victory to the 2nd Brigade Headquarters and Jiang Hongyu at the same time!  And asked Ufa to urgently airlift medicines to the local prisoners to rescue and treat the wounded. Otherwise, more than 1,000 wounded people may not see the sun tomorrow and the day after tomorrow.

    The captured Ninth Army Chief of Staff Stepin, division commander Liukin, division political commissar Shokhov and the following brigade commanders were escorted back to Bafre by an armored company sent by Cheng Ruhuai. Engineers were already in Bafre.  The emergency repair of a field airport near Frey not only facilitates air transportation of supplies, but also facilitates SE5 and DH4 fighters with short combat radius to stop and refuel. It reduces the time wasted on traveling to and from the Ufa Air Force base and improves the response speed of the coalition air force to the entire Ufa Plain battlefield.  .

    July 12, 1918 4:00 pm Ufa

    "Jiang Hong received a call from his troops. The 4th Regiment of the 2nd Armored Brigade, with the cooperation of air strikes, completely annihilated the Stepin Division of the 9th Army and captured 16,000 Soviet Red Army personnel, including about 10,000 wounded. According to the preliminary interrogation results of the prisoners, it was confirmed  The main force of the Ninth Army had broken out to the south the night before!"

    "Wu Peifu called, a cavalry regiment from the 8th Brigade of the 4th Division of the 2nd Ural Cavalry Army, with the support of the aviation team, defeated the three divisions of the opponent's 2nd and 4th Group Army on the shores of Lake Algar 50 kilometers southwest of Milna  , captured a total of 7,000 people below the political commissar of the opponent's Second Group Army Halchenko, most of whom were wounded after the air raid. The commander of the opponent's Second Group Army, Ma Xin, with less than two divisions left, has fled south. Now,  Three cavalry regiments, the 7th Cavalry Brigade and the 8th Cavalry Brigade, are pursuing at the same time!¡±

    "One division of the First Army of Ufa has rushed to the shores of Lake Algar to receive prisoners and wounded. Another division is searching southward twenty kilometers to the east. Sergei's three cavalry regiments are searching a little further east of this division.  Move forward. Wu Peifu asked the aviation team to increase aerial reconnaissance to the south of Algar Lake to guide the pursuing troops," said Tian Jun, director of the war room.

    Wang Geng breathed a sigh of relief. Ma Xin, the commander of the opponent's Second Army, only had two divisions with less than a little strength. As long as Petrovich did not advance rashly, the three cavalry regiments with a combined strength of 7,500 could catch up with the enemy.The queen will never suffer a loss, but it will take time for the two air forces to return to the scene to replenish fuel and ammunition before dispatching again. During this period, air support cannot be counted on for the time being.

    "Call back and tell Wu Peifu that the opponent's five most capable divisions, Yegorov's five divisions and Tukhachevsky's three divisions, have not been found yet. You must not be careless when searching south. Jingzhou has been ambushed by the enemy, especially Yegorov's three divisions.  There is a Budyonny Special Cavalry Division under Gorov's 9th Army. The combat effectiveness of that division is said to be very strong, so it should be treated with caution. The first task of the forward troops after discovering the enemy is to stick to the enemy until the main force and the aviation team arrive.  It¡¯s not too late to resolve the battle!¡± Wang Geng ordered Tian Jundao.

    "Your Excellency, Commander-in-Chief, if Petrovich uses three cavalry regiments to defeat the opponent's two divisions, won't the strength be a little insufficient?" Utsunomiya Taro, deputy chief of staff of the coalition forces, couldn't help but ask.

    "Although the strength of the troops is 1:2, the firepower and morale of Petrovich's cavalry are stronger. As long as they don't rush forward, they can overwhelm the opponent's infantry by chasing after them! Petrovich should be able to deal with the two divisions of Ma Xin!" Wang  Geng replied confidently.

    "Wu Peifu called again. He said that since Ma Xin's troops have been discovered and pursued, using one division of the First Ufa Army plus Petrovich's three cavalry regiments is enough to deal with the opponent's remaining less than two divisions, and given that  The third division of Ufa's First Army and Sergei's three cavalry regiments have advanced southward and pursued to the Kalinovka line! It is estimated that if three divisions of Tukhachevsky's First Army and one cavalry brigade are discovered!  If so, you won¡¯t suffer a loss.

    He suggested using 800 Dodge military trucks from the 1st and 2nd regiments to transport the three Russian divisions of the First Siberian Army of the Ufa Central Group to the west of Bavre to join the search and pursuit of Yegorov's five infantrymen.  division and a cavalry division," Major General Tian Jun, director of the coalition operations room, took a just-received telegram from the incoming combat staff, read it in a hurry and reported.

    "Haha, Your Excellency Commander-in-Chief, Wu Sang is anxious. He thinks Tukhachevsky's three and a half enemy divisions are not enough for him. He is going to the east to chase Yegorov's six divisions!" Utsunomiya  Taro smiled on the side after hearing this.

    After listening to Wu Peifu's second telegram, Wang Geng returned to the battle map hanging on the wall and looked carefully. He felt that since Yegorov and Tukhachevsky had fully withdrawn south, they would eventually have to  Turn to the west to find a way to cross the Volga River. At this time, there are not many coalition ground troops in the east. Jiang Hongyu's Armored Second Brigade pursued three major battles in a few days and captured a large number of enemies.  , the blade is blunt and in urgent need of rest and replenishment.

    Yegorov's Ninth Army still retains a main force of nearly 50,000 troops. In this case, it is better to let Wu Peifu lead three divisions of the First Siberian Army to rush to the western front to pursue the pursuit. There is a ready-made road from Milna to Bafre.  Troops can be transported by car, and there is also a road from Bafre southward to Abdulino Orenburg, and to the southwest the road leads directly to Samara, making it convenient to transport troops and logistics supplies by car!

    Thinking of this, Wang Geng made a decision, discussed it with Taro Utsunomiya, raised his head and said to Tian Jun,

    "Call back to Wu Peifu and ask him to take the armored battalion and three Russian divisions of the First Siberian Army to transport 800 vehicles of the First and Second Regiments from Milna to Bavre. The journey is 110 kilometers, and although the road conditions are  The air strikes and bombings were a little bad, but there were still 3 and a half hours before nightfall, so we managed to make it to Bavre!¡±

    "Commander-in-Chief, 800 vehicles can only transport about two divisions of troops at a time" Tian Jun hesitated and reminded.

    "Uh If you didn't tell me, I would have forgotten. It seems that only three car transport groups on the front line are not enough. Now the transportation capacity of the Trans-Siberian Railway is tight. The Dodge one-and-a-half-ton military trucks produced by China Fuda Motor Company are all gone.  There is a backlog of 1,200 vehicles in Manchuria, and we have to squeeze out the trains to find a way to transport them here. Unfortunately, it is still too early for the railway line in Outer Mongolia to be built, so we can only take a detour to the northeast. In this case, Wu Peifu was asked to take the two members of the First Siberian Army first.  The infantry division has passed, and there is only one division left to wait for the car transport group to return!" Wang Geng said helplessly.

    "What about the north? Your Excellency, Commander-in-Chief, the political commissar of the Fourth Army and the political commissar of the First Army have at least 7,000 remaining people who entered the swamp after breaking through. We need to send the second and fourth divisions of the First Army of Ufa into the swamp.  Search? Each of the two divisions is temporarily equipped with about a regiment of cavalry to fight together!" Utsunomiya, the deputy chief of staff of the coalition, thought of the enemies in the swamp.

    "Strange! The reconnaissance plane hasn't found the other party yet? It's almost dark if we keep trying. It's too dangerous to enter the swamp at night. Let's wait for them to come out on their own, and then ask the two divisions and the cavalry regiment to guard around the swamp. The planes  Strengthen reconnaissance and search! If you don¡¯t believe that the opponent can stay hidden, ask the reconnaissance plane to drop leaflets in the swamp, telling them that the Fifth Army was annihilated, Slavin surrendered, and the Ninth Army¡¯s Stepin Division was annihilated.  castSurrendered, Ma Xin's department was surrounded, political commissar Khaldchenko surrendered!  Tell the other party all this on the flyer!  "Wang Geng thought for a while and said.
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