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Volume 3 Far East Story Chapter 425 Falsehood and Temptation

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    July 14, 1918 7:50 Buzuluk Town

    "Division Commander, let our artillery fire? I looked at the many Soviet Red Army cavalry on horseback on the hillside opposite. Maybe there was Yegorov among them!" Chief of Staff of the 3rd Ural Cavalry Division and 6th Brigade  Chang **ski was a little restless, and the enemy on the opposite side didn't launch an offensive for a long time, which made **ski a little anxious.

    "Why are you so anxious? If you kill the commander and division commanders of the Ninth Group Army with a single shell, we will lose even if we win this battle. At this point in the Battle of Ufa, the opponent's army level  The commanders were not killed, only captured. Why can we, the Third Ural Cavalry Division, only capture the dead Egorov?" Nezhkov, the commander of the Third Division, said with a disdainful grin.

    "Oops, ouch! No! Division commander, more than 20 carriages came out from behind the opponent's position This is the horse-drawn heavy machine gun battalion This is bad, hurry up and order the artillery to open fire, right?" **ski saw  The opponent actually retained a heavy machine gun battalion, and his expression suddenly changed. Damn it, the firepower of more than 20 heavy machine guns is not easy to deal with!

    "Hmm This Yegorov still has some skills. The Ninth Army was on the run for three days and three nights. He didn't have enough money to deal with it. Just for this reason, we have to capture this guy alive. **Fu!"  Why are you panicking? There are only about twenty Maxims. The artillery is not allowed to fire without my order. The soldiers on the position are told to take cover. If they are hit by machine gun stray bullets and cause attrition, don't blame me for being unkind! "

    The opponent's army group consisted of tens of thousands of people, but they could only muster more than 20 Maxim heavy machine guns. While the chief of staff ?ovsky was making a fuss and couldn't calm down, Nezhkov, the commander of the 3rd Ural Cavalry Division, breathed a sigh of relief.  , Nima, I have 32 m1918a3 Browning 7.62mm air-cooled heavy machine guns in two regiments, 8 cavalry battalions, and 32 cavalry companies. You Yegorov¡¯s 20-plus Maxims are really not enough for me!

    "Commander, bullets don't have eyes. When the Maxim machine gun fires, it doesn't distinguish between the Allied Forces and the Soviet Red Army. Once it hits our side, it will be either dead or injured. I think we should use artillery to kill the opponent's heavy machine gun first."  If he knocks it off, the rest of the battle will be easier to fight!" **Vsky said unwillingly.

    Nezhkov looked back at his chief of staff and shook his head, "No hurry, no hurry, our artillery is used to clean up the opponent's artillery. Since Yegorov still has the heavy machine gun battalion, I think he might  There are also artillerymen hiding behind, and the artillery observation post on the bell tower should pay attention to search and observation. As soon as the opponent's artillery fires, our artillery shells must hit the opponent's artillery position within 2 minutes!"

    As he spoke, Nezhkov raised his head and glanced at the sky again. The dark clouds were still dense and billowing in mid-air. Although the clouds were a little higher than yesterday, they were still limited. In such bad weather, the Allied Air Force obviously could not see the ground at all.  Air support and reconnaissance are obviously still not expected. As for ground troop reinforcements, Wu Peifu's two infantry divisions will have to arrive at least in the evening. This battle must be fought on their own.

    Of course, Nezhkov breathed a sigh of relief at the result of the prisoner interrogation in the morning. Yegorov was so ambitious that he actually built a pontoon bridge on the shoal ten kilometers to the north to cross the Buzuluk River.  This means that there will be no large enemy troops to the south to detour and attack, so that the main force of the two cavalry regiments can be used to defend the northern position, which greatly enhances the self-confidence of the division commander Nezhkov.

    There are two big rivers on the west and east sides of Buzuluk Town. If the opponent attacks from the north and the south, the defensive pressure will be very high. Moreover, if the back road is cut off, it is not in line with the tactical principles and will easily affect morale. Now it is easier to handle.  Nezhkov left a cavalry company in the southern position to monitor, and the rest of the troops returned to the town to hide. 64 81mm caliber mortars from 8 battalion mortar platoons were deployed in Kuanda.  The rear of the 4-kilometer position was hidden.

    Use the 12 cannons of your two artillery companies to protect the enemy's possible artillery, and the battalion mortars are used to prepare to remove the opponent's heavy machine gun position. If the opponent does move the heavy machine gun to the front as you expected,  If it is within 2 kilometers in front of your own position.

    Although the Russian-made Maxim wheel-type heavy machine gun has a range of up to 3,500 meters, its actual effective range is within 1,500 meters. Even at a distance of 1,500 meters, it can only shoot with rough coverage. If you want to accurately hit the target, the effective range is only 1,000.  The rice looks up and down.

    Just like the maximum range of the coalition's 12.7mm large-caliber heavy machine gun is more than 7,000 meters, but the effective range for ground combat is only 1,800 meters. This is like the main battle tanks of various countries in Wang Geng's previous life. Although the range of advanced tank guns exceeds 8,000 meters  meters, but in actual direct-aim shooting, the distance to the target is often only 2000 meters to 2500 meters.

    At the same distance and range, the exchange of fire between heavy machine guns is purely a matter of consumption and firepower density. The side with more machine guns can destroy the opponent's machine guns faster with denser firepower, and thenTherefore, the concentrated firepower will be stronger, and the opponent will be more sparse. In the end, it will either be suppressed and unable to raise its head, or it will be completely consumed and lost in the unbalanced firepower exchange.

    Terrain is of course also a factor in developing firepower. For both the offensive and defensive sides in 1918, without exception, machine guns were often placed on both wings of their own positions to provide cross-fire coverage and support.

    When your own troops jump out of the trenches and charge forward, the higher the position of the machine gun's firepower point, the easier it is to extend the firing range and sweep towards the enemy's rear instead of being blocked by your own charging team. This is often similar to Mark during the charge.  The reason why heavy weapons like the Qin-wheel heavy machine gun have to be constantly dragged forward to constantly choose new positions and positions.

    So when Nezhkov saw that the opponent only deployed more than 20 horse-drawn heavy machine guns, he became more confident in winning.

    For the 3rd Ural Cavalry Division of the coalition guarding the town of Buzuluk, controlling the use and consumption of ammunition is the most critical point. Since the front of the northern position complies with the coalition's position construction regulations, horse tripping posts and horse traps are almost  It is a compulsory course that cannot be shaken. When the firepower density of the self-confident heavy machine gun reaches a Browning heavy machine gun close to 100 meters, any charge launched by the Soviet Russian cavalry will lead to a huge tragedy for the Ninth Army.

    ¡°If the attack were the infantry of the Soviet Red Army, how could they lie on the ground to avoid bullets when the opponent¡¯s machine guns opened fire, while the cavalry charging on horseback could move forward without cover?  Human and horse targets are more likely to be hit by bullets. The risk of being thrown off the horse during high-speed impact is even higher than the risk of being shot.

    The northern line of the 3rd Ural Cavalry Division is crisscrossed with communication trenches and ravines. You can enter the first-line position directly from the town along the communication trench without showing your head. Of course, you can also withdraw to the second-line position near the town. If the 3rd Ural Cavalry Division  If you visit the positions on the Ufa defense line, you will find that the patterns of the defensive positions constructed by the two are exactly the same. Of course, the Ufa defense line has a third position, while Buzuluk here has only two.

    Nezhkov sent four dismounted cavalry battalions of the first regiment into the position defense on a 4-kilometer front. Each battalion was responsible for defending a one-kilometer position, and each battalion placed three companies on the front-line position.  There is an average of four soldiers per soldier in the trench, which is similar to the platoon density of the attacker's skirmisher line when attacking.

    The difference is that in addition to 32 heavy machine guns, the coalition's 4-kilometer defense line also has 96 Browning squad machine guns and 192 60mm caliber platoon mortars!

    Although Nezhkov only allowed the first regiment to enter the northern front position for defense, he reinforced all the light and heavy machine guns and mortars of the second regiment to the northern front position. Waiting for Yegorov's Ninth Army, the soldiers  It was a baptism of blood and fire. Of course, Nezhkov did not dare to overestimate it. The heavy machine gun positions on the northern front had anti-artillery shelters, and the trees in the woods that had been felled outside the positions were cleared.  Used in the construction of northern front positions.

    Moreover, since there are large rivers on the east and west sides of the northern line position, it is quite easy to realize the drainage design when the coalition forces build trench positions. No matter how hard the rain falls, there will be no water accumulation in the trenches. The trenches are short in the middle and high at both ends.  The rainwater flowed directly into the Buzuluk and Domashka rivers along the drainage ditches in the trenches.

    The construction of the coalition's defensive positions is not simply a line of trenches, but the trenches on the front line are the lowest, and they get higher as they go up the slope of the terrain. Thirty meters behind the front line trenches are irregular pre-set machine gun fire points like plum blossoms and bamboos.  The coalition's Browning air-cooled heavy machine gun is much lighter and easier to move than the water-cooled Maxim.

    Coincidentally, Nezhkov also participated in the wartime training courses for officers organized by the Allied Forces Command after the initial formation of the Allied Forces. He adhered to the requirements of the Allied Forces Command in terms of firepower layout and use. In the first battle, he showed that the enemy was weak and moved closer.  Kill the chicken with a bull's-eye, and the combat principle of not using all your troops and firepower until the last moment. In a word, you should have more backup options in the war, and don't let your opponent quickly test out all your strengths and weaknesses.

    Yegorov of the Ninth Army was a very outstanding army commander in the Soviet Red Army at that time. Yegorov, together with Budyonny, was one of the first five marshals of the Soviet Red Army in Wang Geng's previous life. Of course,  Among the five marshals in the previous life, only Budyonny and Voroshilov made it to the end because of their hard-core relationship with Joseph. The other three were all shot during the great purges, and Yegorov was the last one to die.  .

    Of course, at this moment, on July 14, 1918, the decisive Egorov ordered Budyonny's cavalry division to send a cavalry battalion to attack the town of Buzuluk in order to test the strength of the opponent's defensive position. What was the result?  Unexpected!
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