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Volume 3 Far East Story Chapter 400 The overall situation six days after the war started

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    July 13, 1918 12:00 Ufa Allied Forces Headquarters

    "Reporting to the Commander-in-Chief, Jiang Hong of Bavre received a call from his department. Since most of the Soviet Second, Fifth, Fourth and First Army Groups have been annihilated, the coalition forces in the north will obviously have no place to use. Jiang Hong  Yu asked if he could send the 2nd Ural Cavalry Division located in Nuralt in the far west to advance northwest to capture Bolgar and seal all the ferries on the right bank of the Volga River! "A combat staff officer brought a message from the coalition chief of staff Jiang Hongyu!  Latest request for instructions telegram.

    "Haha, Your Excellency Commander-in-Chief, Chief of Staff Chiang's Northern Route Army can be said to be the best unit with the best roundabouts, quickness and record in the entire Battle of Ufa. Why is he not satisfied? Xiong Shihui's second echelon is squatting in Almetyev  Sk, just by guarding the prisoners and transporting supplies and ammunition, I heard that he is almost going to have trouble. Chief of Staff Chiang still wants his troops to snatch Bolgar, the last piece of cake?" Utsunomiya Taro, deputy chief of staff of the coalition forces, heard.  Yan frowned and said teasingly.

    Wang Geng smiled and said nothing, then put out the cigar in his hand, walked quickly to the battle map and carefully looked at the enemy and enemy situations of the Soviet Red Army and allied forces on the map. At this time, the map represented the Soviet Red Army.  There are only a few small red flags, which is completely different from the situation when nearly 200,000 people from the opponent's five armies were piled up in a row from Bafre to Milna. Instead, they represent more captured Soviet Red Army soldiers.  small white flags, and small blue flags representing the strength of the coalition forces are covered in almost all strategic locations.

    On the northern front, the main force of Jiang Hongyu's 2nd Armored Mixed Brigade was in Bafre. Among them, the main force of Cheng Ruhuai's 4th Armored Regiment annihilated the Stepin Cluster of the Soviet Ninth Army and stayed 20 kilometers southwest of Severno County.  near the village of Kameshla; the attached Second Ural Cavalry Division is in Nurrat, 130 kilometers west of Briguma, while the Japanese Seventh Cavalry Regiment led by Kanji Ishihara is as far away as Almetyev  The Michurinsk line is 110 kilometers east of Skaya.

    Also on the northern front, as the second echelon, the main force of the 60th Mixed Brigade of the Bear Shikibu is stationed in Almetyevsk. Among them, the 180th Infantry Regiment arrived in Bafre, the 181st Infantry Regiment arrived in Briguma, and the attached Japanese 10th  The three infantry brigades are on the Aznakoyevo line, about 50 kilometers east of Almedeevsk, while the attached 5th Infantry Division of the Second Ufa Army is on the Zainsko and Almedeye lines.  It is laid out along the Fusk Highway.

    In addition, on the northern front at Mirna Yazikovo is the 2nd Infantry Division of the First Army of Ufa, which is attached to the Ufa Central Group operation, while the 4th Infantry Division is patrolling the swamp area north of Milna looking for missing traces.  The remnants of the Soviet 4th Army of the Soviet Union at Hvetzin and the remnants of the 1st Army of the Russian Army Yankovgai were also searching in the swamps, as well as a cavalry regiment of the 4th Petrovich Cavalry Division and a cavalry unit of the 5th Sergei Cavalry Division.  group.

    The First Siberian Army, which is also attached to Wu Peifu's Ufa Central Cluster, also has a third infantry division stranded on the Milna front line waiting for the coalition vehicle transport group. The first and second divisions of the First Siberian Army are under Wu Peifu's personal control.  Under the command, the pursuit of Yegorov's Ninth Army on the southern front was launched.

    On the southern front, the 1st Infantry Division of the 1st Ufa Army stayed to rest on the shores of Lake Algar, the 3rd Infantry Division turned to the southwest and continued to advance, while Petrovich's three cavalry regiments stayed 40 kilometers south of Lake Algar.  Resting and recuperating everywhere, just like the 1st Infantry Division on the shores of Lake Algar, the large number of prisoners and wounded and the wait for replenishment of ammunition and food made the 4th Cavalry Division temporarily unable to continue to launch new operations.

    In addition, the troops on the southern front are the 5th Sergei Cavalry Division and Li Fugui's cavalry battalion staying in the town of Sterli Tamak. They are also in urgent need of replenishing food and ammunition, and there are a large number of prisoners of war waiting to be transported, and the wounded need treatment.

    Further on the southern line, in Li Mingzhong's Southern Route Army, about 4,000 people from the Japanese 4th Cavalry Regiment were stationed in Kumeltau, 100 kilometers south of Sterli Tamak Town. Li Mingzhong's main force was mixed into the 3rd Cavalry.  Nearly 10,000 cavalrymen from the brigade are stationed in the southern town of Orenburg. The main force of the 3rd Ural Cavalry Division, the 6th Brigade, with 5,000 troops, is stationed in Bruzuk. A regiment of 2,500 troops from the 7th Brigade is stationed in Sorochinsk, 70 kilometers southeast of Bruzuk.  , and another regiment of 2,500 people from the 7th Brigade was stationed in Neftegorsk, 75 kilometers west of Bluzuk.

    Sorochinsk is 140 kilometers away from Orenburg in the southeast, while Neftegorsk is 85 kilometers away from the Samara region in the northwest.

    Sun Liangcheng's troops were the first to go south to implement the southern roundabout plan. The main armored brigade was in Samara, and the attached main armored brigade of the 1st Ural Cavalry Division occupied Arkhangels opposite Simbirsk.  Koye, the Second Brigade occupies Meleksi, 60 kilometers southeast, and Meleksi is 125 kilometers away from Samara. Nearly 5,000 people from the Japanese 12th Cavalry Regiment, also attached to Sun Liangcheng's department, are in  Under the leadership of Itagaki Seishiro, they guarded Tolia, the most important ferry north of Samara.? Togliatti is also 50 kilometers away from Samara.

    The Battle of Ufa lasted until noon on July 13. After six days of fighting, the coalition forces first captured 10,000 people of the Fourth Army during the Ufa defense battle. Then Jiang Hongyu captured the Fifth Army in the southeast of Chistopol.  23,000 people from the Hebe tribe, followed by 30,000 men from the Rzhevsky tribe in Chernigovka, laid down their weapons and became prisoners.

    Then Chiang Hongyu's troops annihilated the Fifth Army and captured more than 27,000 Slavin soldiers. Then Petrovich's Second Cavalry Army annihilated two and a half divisions of the opponent's First Army in Acehkovo and captured more than 16,000 people.  Then Petrovich defeated a division blocked by Hvitzin and captured more than 2,000 of the opponent's men. Then the Turkin regiment of the 4th Petrovich Cavalry Division captured 7,000 of the remnants of Kharchenko's troops on the shores of Lake Algar.

    Then Petrovich¡¯s three regiments of the Fourth Cavalry Division continued their efforts and annihilated the three regiments of Mahin¡¯s Second Army 30 kilometers south of Lake Algar, 9,000 people and captured 6,000 people!

    On the same day, Jiang Hongyu¡¯s 4th Regiment of the 2nd Armored Brigade, with the cooperation of the aviation team, overtook and annihilated the Stepin Cluster of the Soviet 9th Army retreating westward, capturing 16,000 people!

    Then Sergei fought three times in one morning, capturing the remaining 1,000 people from Mashin's army, annihilating the 15th and 20th Infantry Divisions of Tukhachevsky's First Army, and capturing 8,000 people.

    Adding all this together, Ufa's coalition forces have captured more than 146,000 people from the other side, about half of whom were lightly or seriously wounded. This shows the strong firepower of the coalition forces and the fighting bravery and tenacity of the Soviet Red Army!

    Among the more than 100,000 prisoners, in addition to the 30,000 people from the Rzhevsky cluster and the first 10,000 people captured in the defensive battle southeast of Ufa, they have been transported by return train to the prisoner of war camp near Chelyabinsk, east of the Ural Mountains.  In addition, the remaining more than 100,000 prisoners of war are still stranded on the battlefield of the Ufa Plains with a radius of several hundred kilometers, so the logistic support burden of the coalition forces is quite heavy and tense.

    The Almedeevsk temporary prisoner of war camp where Guangxiong Shihui's main force was stationed held 50,000 prisoners of war from the Slavin Division of the Fifth Army. The coalition's temporary prisoner of war camp in Milna held 18,000 prisoners of war, mainly the Soviet First Army.  The temporary prisoner of war camp on the lakeside held 13,000 prisoners of war, mainly from the Soviet Second Army. In addition, the town of Sterli Tamak held 8,000 prisoners of war from the First Army and 1,000 prisoners of war from the Second Army. Far to the west, Kameshla  The temporary prisoner of war camp near the village also manages 16,000 prisoners of war from the Ninth Army.

    If during the Battle of Ufa, the coalition logistics only had to ensure the supply of food and materials for about 100,000 troops around Ufa, then just six days later, just feeding more than 100,000 Soviet Red Army prisoners has reduced the food supply.  The number of troops must be nearly doubled, and the coalition troops and prisoners are scattered throughout the Ufa Plain, a huge land that is 450 kilometers wide from east to west and 400 kilometers from north to south. The pressure and difficulty of logistical support can be imagined.

    At this time, the strength of the coalition forces on the Ufa battlefield was 25,000 from Jiang Hongyu, 25,000 from Xiong Shihui, 25,000 from Li Mingzhong, 30,000 from Sun Liangcheng, 40,000 from the First Ufa Army, 30,000 from the First Siberian Army, and the Ural Cavalry.  There are 20,000 people in the Second Army and 30,000 people in the Ufa Second Army. The total coalition ground troops exceed 220,000 troops. The pressure of eating ammunition and replenishing food is very great, not to mention the 10 people who are stranded in the prison camp on the battlefield.  There are more than 10,000 mouths of prisoners of the Soviet Red Army, and the supply of medicines for nearly 40,000 of them, who are lightly or seriously injured, is a problem.

    "Your Excellency, Commander-in-Chief, do you want the 2nd Ural Cavalry Division to dispatch from Nurrat and march northwest to capture Bolgar? At most, there is only one infantry division of the Fifth Army stationed there!" Utsunomiya, deputy chief of staff of the coalition forces  Seeing Wang Geng standing in front of the battle map, holding his chin in deep thought for a long time, Taro couldn't help but remind him.
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