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Volume 3 Far East Story Chapter 426 The fighting method is not simple

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    At 8:00 on July 14, 1918, the position of the Budyonny Special Cavalry Division in the north of Buzuluk Town

    Semyon Mikhailovich Budyonny, commander of the Special Cavalry Division of the Ninth Army of the Soviet Red Army, was born on April 25, 1883, in a poor peasant family in Kozyulin Village, Rostov Region.  He was drafted into the army in 1903 and participated in the Russo-Japanese War in 1905.  He graduated from the Petersburg Cavalry School in 1908 and served in the Coastal Dragoon Regiment.

    After the start of the European War, Budyonny fought on the German, Austrian and Caucasus fronts. After the February Revolution of 1917, Budyonny was successively elected as Chairman of the Caucasus Cavalry Division Company Soldiers Committee, Chairman of the Regiment Soldiers Committee and Vice Chairman of the Division Soldiers Committee.  In other words, before the February Revolution, Budyonny was only a company-level officer in the Caucasus Cavalry Division. After the February Revolution, he grew from a soldier committee to a division-level cadre along the lines of company, regiment, and division.

    Of course, the October Revolution and Mikhailovich Budyonny made a big joke. The division soldier committee of the Caucasian Cavalry Division made the decision to disband and demobilize the division as a whole. In fact, this was a Bolshevik move.  The central government disbanded and disintegrated the unified layout and arrangements of the old Russian army.

    Budyonny returned to his hometown of Rostov in November of that year. Soon, he and his comrades established the Soviet regime there. Subsequently, Budyonny used his high sense of responsibility for consolidating the new Soviet power and his understanding of military life.  Because of his passion, he formed a cavalry guerrilla force in his hometown.

    Due to Budyonny's efforts, the troops gradually expanded into cavalry regiments and cavalry brigades. In the battle to defend Tsaritsyn, Budyonny commanded a cavalry brigade and defeated the enemy. He demonstrated the talents of an outstanding cavalry commander and won the  Joseph, a member of the Central Committee of the Soviet Union stationed in the Tsaritsyn area, was favored by Joseph, and from then on he became very popular in the Soviet Red Army.

    This can be seen from the fact that Yegorov's Ninth Army and Voroshilov's Tenth Army of the Southern Front are rushing to add Budyonny's Special Cavalry Division to their own group armies.

    The biggest characteristic of Budyonny's command of the troops is that he is not only superior but not afraid of superiors, he dares to make independent judgments and arrangements on the battlefield, and adopts tactics that are unexpected by the enemy and himself. Of course, he is still just a young man at this time.  The commander of the cavalry division only commanded a team of nearly 10,000 red Cossack cavalry. However, in the combat operations on the right bank of the Volga River, his cavalry division had already shown its superior demeanor.

    Yegorov used Budyonny's cavalry division in one direction alone, which was often the case when attacking and retreating. Budyonny did not disappoint Yegorov. The Soviet Red Army on the entire right bank of the Volga River was in panic.  During these three days and three nights of losing armor all day long, Budyonny's cavalry division overcame difficulties and actually retained the heavy machine gun battalion and two artillery batteries. This pair of troops, who were desperate to find a bloody route, retreated to Yegorov's territory on the left bank of the Volga River.  For the Ninth Army, is it more than just providing help in times of need?  !

    The soldiers were very fast and had not slept all night. The several infantry divisions that had just crossed the river before dawn were already exhausted. They would either not launch an attack for the time being and would attack the town of Buzuluk. The special cavalry division with artillery and heavy machine gun battalions would bear the brunt.  What's more, in the encounter earlier in the morning, the cavalry division's leading battalion was beaten by a reconnaissance cavalry company and was disgraced.

    This revenge must be avenged, and the cavalry division must avenge it by itself!  Others can¡¯t justify it with a prosthetic hand!  Although Budyonny felt a little lack of confidence for the first time in his heart, he would never show it easily in front of his superiors and colleagues. His black Caucasian three-goat beard was taller and more proud. He directly ordered the cavalry division to Yegorov.  The decision of a cavalry battalion to conduct a probing attack.

    Budyonny carried it out without compromise. Egorov did not interfere with how to fight, and it was all up to Budyonny to direct. Egorov and several division commanders just watched the battle, and the former enemy's command of the tentative attack fell to him.  On Budyonny's own shoulders, in the Ninth Army, the Special Cavalry Division is a particularly capable fighting group and a particularly united force. Even if it is an order from the commander of the group army, if Budyonny does not nod, the Special Cavalry Division  The commanders and fighters of the division will not execute it easily. They all have their eyes on their division commander!

    The firepower of the coalition forces is very fierce. The two artillery companies of Budyonny are not rich and do not have many artillery shells. Like Nezhkov who is defending in the town opposite, Budyonny does not intend to expose his own power until the critical moment.  Artillery strength, his main supporting weapon is the divisional heavy machine gun battalion.

    Budyonny's heavy machine gun battalion's 24 Maxim wheeled heavy machine guns were mounted on 24 carriages. The 24 carriages galloped forward from Budyonny's command position three kilometers away from the northern front position in Buzuluk Town.  After driving out of the woods, they scattered forward and ran forward. The one kilometer position passed in an instant. The coalition forces on the position did not fire, and the horse-drawn machine guns rushed forward without any hindrance.

    Following the twenty-four horse-drawn machine guns of the heavy machine gun battalion, there were probably more than fifty horse-drawn carts. It was not easy for Budyonny's cavalry division to collect these assets. The entire carriage pulling baggage and supplies  They were all used by him to launch this timeAttacking, these horse-drawn carts were dragging behind them trees that had just been cut down from the woods behind. Although they were only small trees as thick as a bowl, it was obvious that Budyonny's cavalry wanted to use these tree trunks to line up to strengthen the machine guns.  position.

    Behind more than fifty carts, there is a cavalry battalion. More than five hundred cavalrymen advance slowly forward in a skirmish line. The distance between each cavalryman in front, back, left and right is more than fifteen meters. Although it is  Cavalry battles do not necessarily require a galloping raid every time, especially when the roads on the ground are muddy and there are horse stumbling blocks and invisible horse traps ahead.

    Yegorov stood on horseback beside Budyonny and observed the situation ahead with a telescope. He was surrounded by several infantry division commanders who were whispering. Obviously, everyone was a little confused about the fighting style of Budyonny's cavalry division. The cavalry was not  Using a fast, mobile and forward-moving combat method, how can an attack with such a slow-to-death rule engage in positional warfare with the opponent?

    "Comrade Budyonny, your cavalry attacks in such a slow and methodical manner that it cannot take advantage of its mobility. Isn't this a living target for the enemy?" Inza, commander of the 15th Infantry Division, couldn't help but ask.

    "The attack of the cavalry battalion is tentative. The purpose is to conduct fire reconnaissance to find the enemy's machine gun firepower points and weak links. You don't think that 500 people in a cavalry battalion can attack the enemy's position guarded by 5,000 people? Otherwise, you come,  This cavalry battalion is under your command. As long as you can attack the position, you can do it. If you think you can't attack it, then shut up as soon as possible!" Budyonni said disdainfully.

    "Comrade Inza, you have to believe in the capabilities of Comrade Budyonny and the cavalry division, let's wait and see!" Group Army Commander Yegorov tried to smooth things over, and Inza stopped gnawing.

    The horse-drawn heavy machine guns of the Budyonny Cavalry Division advanced to within 1,800 meters of the opponent's position and then split into two. Twelve carriages advanced in a more dispersed formation, while the remaining twelve carriages turned around.  He changed the direction of the carriage, causing the Maxim wheel-type heavy machine gun in the dark hole at the back of the carriage to point at the coalition position.

    At the same time, more than fifty carts behind them caught up and crossed the car body, unloading the lumber they were dragging. The engineer company of the Special Cavalry Division jumped out of the cart, wielding shovels and pickaxes, and actually started digging at the piled lumber.  Trenches and bunkers were dug on the spot under the cover of carriages and carriages.  Obviously, this position is already a position where the Maxim heavy machine gun can barely exert its firepower. Budyonny adopted a stance of positional warfare and protracted warfare.

    Yegorov looked at Budyonny's fighting style through the telescope and nodded slightly. Obviously Budyonny paid great attention to the enemies defending in the town. Instead of sending his cavalry battalion to the enemy's well-prepared position, he first  Establish forward machine gun fire points, and plan to strengthen bunkers and prepare for artillery defense. Even if the coalition cavalry does not have cannons, the power of the mortars is quite objective. It is impossible to hope that the Russian cavalry division of the coalition forces opposite is not equipped with heavy mortars.  superior.

    In the morning encounter, a cavalry company of the enemy was equipped with six 60mm caliber platoon mortars and beat up Budyonny's leading battalion. At this moment, the enemy's main cavalry brigade, Yegoro, was on the opposite side.  The husband and several division commanders around him were praying secretly, hoping that the other side would have fewer mortars and more shells would be consumed in the previous roundabout operations. Otherwise, the casualties here would be huge.
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