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Volume 3 Far East Story Chapter 388 Encounter in Wuyi Town

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    At 7:00 on July 13, 1918, Wuyi Town, about 20 kilometers south of Red Star Town in southern Ufa

    Maxin of the Second Army of the Soviet Eastern Front was a lucky man. This young Bolshevik general whose hometown was in Simbirsk followed the same hometown route of Ulyanov and Sdervyov and became the only one in the Soviet Eastern Front.  The second most trusted general after Tukhachevsky, the Second Army only has two divisions but has the organization of a group army. This is a clear proof. Of course, the Second Army does not have the ability to stand alone most of the time, either.  Slavin's Fifth Army serves as a reserve, or it serves as a reserve for Tukhachevsky's First Army.

    It can be said that from the time when the Second Army followed the First Army and marched across the Volga River towards Ufa, Mahin and the two infantry divisions of the Second Army had hardly suffered any hardships until they began to retreat across the board in Bafre and stayed.  The division behind was still a division of the Fourth Army led by Hevezin. In addition to losing the artillery company and heavy machine gun battalion under the city of Ufa, Mahin's Second Army was almost intact. It also had an under-strength infantry from the Fourth Army.  The teacher followed suit.

    Of course, good luck will not always follow the Second Army and Ma Xin. They were hidden on the shores of Lake Algar and were discovered by a coalition reconnaissance plane using fire reconnaissance. Everything that followed was like a nightmare. If the heavy rain last night could have happened earlier,  After a long time, the outcome would not be like this. The coalition air force's violent air strikes suddenly blew up the three divisions in Ma Xin's hands to pieces. This was not a war, this was a one-sided massacre!

    Deep down in Ma Xin's heart, he felt a little guilty for leaving behind the group army political commissar Kharchenko and 7,000 lightly and seriously wounded soldiers at the shore of Lake Algar. Kharchenko and the wounded were either killed in battle or captured, and there was no third way out.  But in order to break through the encirclement with the remaining 18,000 men, necessary sacrifices are inevitable.

    The six regiments that he had gathered were dispersed into six groups to break out of the encirclement. Who knew when the next wave of air raids by the coalition aviation force would come? The more dispersed the team, the better, and the further away they were from the coalition forces.  The further away the better!  The Second Group Army was already frightened, with low morale and no desire to fight. In addition to retreating to boost some morale, any other decision to stay and resist or to fight to the death would be difficult to get the response and support of the soldiers.

    When Petrovich's cavalry division caught up with three groups of the Second Army, the group led by Ma Xin himself was only a few kilometers away from the battlefield. The sound of gunfire was clearly audible, but Ma Xin did not dare to look back and only focused on the cavalry camp.  Surrounded by others, he ran desperately toward the southeast.

    After finally staying up until nightfall last night, Ma Xin counted the number of people. When he left the shore of Lake Algar, there were more than 3,000 people. Now there are only more than 2,000 people left. The remaining 1,000 people have scattered or fallen behind and are nowhere to be found.  Ma Xin did not dare to stay any longer. He gritted his teeth and led his team to fight against the wind and rain in the night. After stopping and going all night, he actually managed to cover more than 50 kilometers. At dawn, Ma Xin's team stopped at Wuyi Town.  They came down to camp and rest. There were more than 1,500 people in the team, including more than 80 people from the cavalry company of the Army Guards, and 3 battalions of the main regiment of the 48th Infantry Division. The whole army was exhausted, so they rested in Wuyi Town.  down.

    At dawn, the rain that had been falling all night finally stopped, but the sky was still overcast and windy. How could the Allied Air Force be dispatched in such bad weather, right?  Moreover, Ma Xin was confident that his overnight retreat to the southeast had left behind the pursuers. Maybe the coalition forces had already chased the two regiments retreating to the southwest, so Ma Xin did not let the troops hide in the woods outside the town.  , but broke into Wuyi Town to rest.

    Like most villages and towns on the Ufa Plain, under the allied forces' insistence on clearing out the country, Kolchak's All-Russian Autonomous Government evacuated almost all the people in the Ufa Plain, including its own provisional government.  They were evacuated to the east of the Ural Mountains. Although the area is nominally owned by the Western Siberian Autonomous Government, everyone knows that it is the territory of the coalition forces. The Western Siberian Autonomous Government is just a sign to hide people's eyes.

    At the turn of the spring and summer of 1918, under the threat of a terrible food shortage and the Soviet government's surplus grain collection system, all products went to the government, evacuating the Russian people who were under the rule of the All-Russian Autonomous Government was much easier than imagined.  Wherever there is food to eat, work to do, and land to grow, Russian peasants move with their families to escape famine. In order to survive, in the face of food and bread, the so-called folks who cannot leave their homeland can only take a back seat!

    After fighting the stormy night all night, the rest of Ma Xin's troops were exhausted. They entered the town and hastily set up a warning, and most of the people fell asleep. Even the horse meat soup cooked in the kitchen was hard to wake up the sleeping Ma Xin.  It was really tiring to wake up more than 1,500 people in Yubu.

    Just after 8:15, several crisp gunshots were heard outside May Day Town. This was the warning post deployed by the remaining Soviet Second Army Group and encountered the Sergei Cavalry Division coming from 20 kilometers north.At the front of the unit, gunfire woke up most of the sleeping Soviet Red Army soldiers. Ma Xin and his guards had just rushed out of the house in disheveled clothes. The captain of the guard cavalry company rode his horse into the yard, rolled his saddle and dismounted.  The company commander¡¯s eyes were bloodshot and he shouted at Ma Xin,

    "Comrade Commander, a large number of coalition Cossack cavalry are coming from the north. The security force is almost finished. You must lead the team to retreat immediately!" There was a trace of panic on the face of the company commander, and his voice was trembling.

    "Why are you panicking! Assemble the team quickly! Send my order, the first battalion will leave cover, and the rest of the troops will retreat to the southeast!" Ma Xin tied the armed belt around his waist and turned to order the messenger!

    Before he finished speaking, the west and east sides of the town remembered the sound of gunfire at the same time. A mortar shell had landed directly in the center of the town. However, the gunfire from the north became sparse, and the sound of horse hooves became deafening!  At this time, the warning sentry that Ma Xin had previously placed on the roof was shouting from the roof into the yard,

    "The coalition cavalry from the north has rushed into the town, and large groups of cavalry have appeared from the east and west at the same time. It's over! The south seems to have been detoured too! We are surrounded! Comrade Commander! What should we do!" Before he finished speaking, Bei  Several crisp gunshots were heard in the distance, and bullets whizzed past the roof. One of the bullets shot through the chest of the Red Army soldier on the roof. A blood flower bloomed on the uniform. The guy opened his arms and his face  He showed a shocked expression, and then lowered his head. He fell down and rolled along the roof, falling straight down into the yard. He saw that he had no chance of survival!

    "Assemble the team! Come with me, all the Bolsheviks are following me!" Ma Xin was furious. He climbed on the mount brought by the groom, waved the revolver in his hand, clamped his legs under the horse's belly, and the mount squeezed away the cavalry company commander.  The horses rushed out from the courtyard gate. A group of guards behind them hurriedly mounted their horses to follow, and the cavalry company commander was the second to follow and rushed out of the courtyard.

    At this time, gunshots were heard all around Wuyi Town. Countless panicked Soviet Red Army soldiers rushed out from under the eaves of the house with rifles in their hands. The streets were full of gray Soviet Red Army soldiers who were messing around.  Channeling, the troops had been disrupted by the sudden attack and lost control.

    Ma Xin was still riding his horse around in the middle of the street, surrounded by crowds of crying and running Soviet Red Army soldiers. Although there were intensive gunfire around the town, not all enemy cavalry seemed to have rushed into the town. Ma Xin felt that although  He was extremely panicked, but his face was obviously livid and calm. He held up his gun and fired several shots into the air, almost roaring angrily,

    "No chaos! Follow my command, everyone rush north out of the town! Everyone rush north out of the town! Paulus! You lead the cavalry company to open the way, and when attacked, all those who block the way and disobey orders will be shot to death!  "Ma Xin turned around and shouted at his guard cavalry company commander.

    Hearing this, the cavalry company commander Paulus waved the gun in his hand, turned around and shouted at the dozens of cavalry soldiers who had gathered behind him, "Bolsheviks, follow me! Ula!"
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