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Volume 3 Far East Story Chapter 427 You come and I go

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    The position of the 3rd Ural Cavalry Division in the north of Buzuluk Town at 8:00 on July 14, 1918

    "Division Commander! Let's fight! If we don't fight, the enemy's horse-drawn machine guns will rush right under our noses. If we don't fight now, how long will it take?" said ?ovsky, chief of staff of the 3rd Ural Cavalry Division and commander of the 6th Brigade.  He rolled up his sleeves and asked for advice from the division commander Nezhkov, who had always been calm and composed beside him.

    "Why are you so anxious? Have you ever seen someone charge and occupy the opponent's position with horse-drawn machine guns alone? Without the infantry and cavalry to follow up, they are useless. But the cavalry unit on the opposite side must be commanded by that guy Budyonny.  This is quite interesting. We seem to be building a heavy machine gun position under our eyes." Nezhkov said while looking at the battlefield with a telescope from his command position in the shelter.

    "Aren't there hundreds of cavalry behind the enemy? These guys seem to be our Cossack cavalry. Look at the hats and black cloaks, but why are they walking so slowly and so scattered? It doesn't look like they are going to attack or charge.  , It looks like I¡¯m out for an autumn outing!¡± **Fusky said anxiously.

    "Fuck you, you are still the chief of staff of our third cavalry division. You are still a brigade commander. Why are you so rough and uncompressed in a battle? The other party is obviously trying to lure the enemy. If we remain calm,  The target was exposed by firing randomly out of anger. Looking at this posture, Budyonny should have artillery behind him, so he first used heavy machine guns and a battalion of cavalry to lure the enemy. After we exposed the firepower of the machine guns, he then used the artillery behind him.  The artillery counterattacked our machine gun firepower!¡±

    Nezhkov was watching the actions of the Soviet Red Army on the opposite side of the position through the telescope, while calculating and speculating on the opponent's style of play.

    ¡°Pass my order, put the heavy machine gun that is still charging in front of the opponent within 1,000 meters, and do not fire beyond 1,000 meters!¡± Nezhkov gritted his teeth and gave the order.

    At the same time, at the command position of the Budyonny Cavalry Division of the Soviet Red Army, Budyonny looked through the telescope at the coalition forces on the opposite side. He remained calm and did not fire a single shot. He couldn't help but wonder why the White Guards cavalry joined the coalition forces.  It didn¡¯t take long for everyone to be so calm, Nima, everyone thought they were Brusylvos, right?

    "Gregory Ivanovich, are your artillery in place? How sure are you that you can knock out the opponent's heavy machine guns and mortars in the first round of shooting?" Budyonny didn't look back.  asked Grigory Ivanovich Kulik, the artillery commander of the Special Cavalry Division next to him.

    Although Kulik only has two artillery companies under his command, he serves as the commander of the ** artillery regiment of the Special Cavalry Division. This artillery regiment has two artillery companies and a heavy machine gun battalion. It is considered the backbone of the special cavalry division's firepower. Kulik  The importance of division commander Budyonny and political commissar Shatenko can only be traced back to the previous three battles to defend Tsaritsyn. Kulik, who was just an artillery company commander at the time, defeated the White Guard Klas with only six guns in his hand.  A division-sized attack by Nove.

    At that time, the artillery company commander Kulik concentrated all six artillery pieces of the company to suddenly attack the White Guards infantry division assembled behind a hill three kilometers away, causing heavy casualties to the opponent and directly killing the attack before it was launched.  middle.

    The offensive tactics launched by Budyonny this time came from the artillery regiment commander Kulik. Of course, a tentative attack was a chore, but Kulik still had considerable confidence in his artillery company and heavy machine gun battalion.

    This guy played a trick. Of the twenty-four horse-drawn machine gun carriages sent out in front, only the two heavy machine guns on each wing were real Maxim wheeled heavy machine guns. The rest were camouflaged with truncated wood.  Even if the opponent uses a telescope on a carriage running two kilometers away, he may not be able to see clearly whether the machine gun on the carriage is genuine or not.

    When the twelve horse-drawn machine guns stopped at a distance of 1,800 meters and began to build machine gun positions, only the two machine guns on the wings of the 12 carriages that continued to charge forward were real, and the remaining ten carriages in the middle were  The machine guns on it are all fake. Since you are luring the enemy, there is no need to reveal all your real assets.

    The wishful thinking of Kulik and Nezhkov, the commander of the coalition cavalry division, was to first attract the opponent to fire, and then use artillery to knock out the opponent's artillery and heavy machine gun firepower. Of course, at this moment, Kulik wanted to think about the group army commander Yegorov and several  Like the commander of an infantry division, he prayed that the opponent's cavalry brigade was not equipped with a large number of artillery.

    If the opponent only has mortars, although it is said that the coalition's battalion 81mm caliber mortars have a range of 2,000 meters, Kulik is confident that his 12 76mm caliber mountain guns with a range of more than double can completely suppress the opponent's  Mortar.

    Seeing his division commander asking, Kulik saluted and said, "Comrade Budyonny, you can rest assured that as long as the opponent's artillery fires, within 3 minutes my cannon will be able to destroy the opponent's artillery positions and  The heavy machine gun firepower point must be relied on me. Our cavalry battalion should not go up. The heavy machine gun battalion is enough to lure the enemy! "

    ???????????????????????????????????????????He glanced at this guy and said calmly, "It is Comrade Yegorov's order to send a cavalry battalion to attack the enemy positions in Buzuluk Town. Of course, the Special Cavalry Division must carry out it!"

    Kulik chuckled and scratched his head. He picked up the telescope on his chest and looked at the battlefield again. He saw that the twelve horse-drawn machine guns sent out to strike forward had approached a distance of 1,500 meters in front of the opponent's position. The coalition position was silent.  Not to mention firing quietly, not even a single person could be seen. Kulik was a little surprised when he looked at it. Damn, the commander of the coalition forces on the opposite side is not simple. Everyone is not showing off the rabbits?

    Of course Budyonni here also saw the strange phenomenon on the position. The commander of the special cavalry division frowned slightly and ordered without looking back, "Sign the flag and order the twelve carriages to rush to the 1200 meter position."  Turn around and prepare to shoot! Tell them to disperse as much as possible. The cavalry battalion begins to increase their horse speed, rush forward to a distance of 1,500 meters in front of the opponent's position, and then disperse to the two wings! "

    Political Commissar Shadenko whispered from the side, "Comrade Budyonny, are you taking this opportunity to ask Comrade Yegorov to send an infantry regiment up to the heavy machine gun position at 1,800 meters to help dig trenches and strengthen the position?"

    "No, let the infantry division rest for a while. It's enough to have more than fifty carriages and engineer battalions digging there. This distance is too far to rush up. We can dig machine gun bunkers to defend against the opponent's mortars."  Artillery fire is enough. The initial speed of mortars is slow. As long as there is a place to hide, it is not a big threat. I am just worried that the opponent has artillery. I hope our artillery can knock out the opponent's artillery first. Otherwise, this battle will not be easy to fight!  "

    For Budyonny, since it is a tentative attack and reconnaissance, the random use of dense formations and troops is definitely not his accustomed style of play. If it were not for the fact that the two rivers on the east and west sides of the town of Buzuluk were too wide and too deep,  , this guy must be planning to outflank the opponent's southern retreat.

    Cavalry detours from the flanks and centripetal assaults were the specialty of Comrade Semyon Mikhailovich Budyonny and his First Cavalry Corps in Wang Geng¡¯s previous life, but at this moment Budyonny had just expanded from a cavalry brigade  As a cavalry division, the tactics have not yet truly taken shape and matured, and the troops in hand are also limited.

    The messenger of the cavalry division quickly conveyed the latest order to the attacking team with trumpets and flags. The twelve carriages running in front obviously slowed down, knowing that they were luring the enemy and the carriages were not pulling  When the machine gun was a piece of wood pretending to be a Maxim, although the drivers of the horse-drawn machine guns gritted their teeth and rushed forward, they were always waiting in their hearts for the other party to fire and then turn around and retreat.

    Of course, with the intensity of firepower and equipment of the coalition forces, whether they can escape this disaster depends purely on luck. Many drivers are already paying attention to the low-lying and raised areas on the road while driving their carriages.  Whether you can save your life in the line of fire depends on your own cleverness.

    As 12 horse-drawn machine guns rushed over from the position about three kilometers wide in the middle, and behind the horse-drawn machine guns were more than 500 Soviet Red Army cavalry who had let go of their horses and charged forward, the atmosphere on the battlefield suddenly changed.  They became nervous. The horse-drawn machine guns had already charged to a position of 1,200 meters. The skirmisher line of the cavalry battalion was close to 1,500 meters. The heavy machine gun position at 1,800 meters behind was quickly constructed under the cover of the two waves of teams in front.  .
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