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Volume 3 Far East Story Chapter 428: Pre-emptive Strike

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    The position of the 3rd Ural Cavalry Division in the north of Buzuluk Town at 8:15 on July 14, 1918

    "On my order, the heavy machine guns and battalion mortars must be concealed and not open fire without authorization. The platoon mortars on the second battalion's position are ready to fire to knock out the enemy's 12 horse-drawn machine guns after the enemy approaches 1,200 meters.  Each mortar fires three rounds quickly and then quickly moves its position to prevent enemy artillery counterattacks. Call the artillery observation posts to observe the enemy's artillery movements in the rear. Once the enemy's artillery fire is discovered, knock out the enemy's artillery within 2 minutes!"

    Although Nezhkov did not see through the telescope the reality of the horse-drawn machine guns that the other party was charging at the front, but since the other party also kept mumbling and refused to open fire first, I have no choice but to give you some ideas.  Turn on the fire!

    "Division Commander! The enemy's cavalry is rushing up from behind. Our battalion's mortars and heavy machine guns are not firing?" Chief of Staff ?ovsky couldn't help but remind him.

    "Come on, come on, come on. There are more than 40,000 enemies on the opposite side. If you send these 500 people just to rush into our position, then I wonder if the commander of the other side is really an idiot. He is waiting for the 5,000 people on the opposite side to charge together.  That was called a charge at that time, and these 500 people were just bait to attract us to expose our firepower!

    You chief of staff, please learn from me. Petrovich's chief of staff, Sergey, commanded three cavalry regiments to kill Tukhachevsky's two infantry divisions. If it were you, you would be so restless at the slightest trouble.  , you can't even deal with two infantry regiments!  "Nezhkov scolded his chief of staff angrily.

    In fact, **Vsky was very brave in fighting, but he didn't like to use his brain very much. He spent half a month in the crash course of the coalition military officers. He only remembered that killing chickens with a knife and hitting people with a heavy hammer, and completely forgot when he should take action.  The battlefield commander must be able to remain calm when taking action and must retain sufficient reserve forces.

    Of course, Nezhkov can also understand the current impatience and anxiety of his enemy. After all, Sergei, the chief of staff of the Petrovich Cavalry Division who created the legend of defensive warfare under the city of Ufa, was commanding three soldiers at the time.  There were an infantry division and a cavalry division supported by a large amount of coalition artillery. It was not surprising that they won the battle. They had a lone army of 5,000 people, and the nearest reinforcements behind them were empty and 60 kilometers away.

    The enemy they faced was the Yegorov troops of the Ninth Army, the ace and main force of the Soviet Southern Front, with more than 40,000 people. Although the opponent's troops had been weakened a lot by air strikes and laggards before and after the retreat from Bafre, their strength was still considerable.  It is a full 8 times as big as mine, and I heard, Nima, this Yegorov¡¯s hometown is Buzuluk Town, and he is more familiar with the terrain here than he, a foreigner, is!

    "Pass my order. The enemy's cavalry are not allowed to fire unless they rush within 500 meters. Heavy machine guns and battalion mortars are not allowed to be exposed. First, ask the second battalion to use platoon mortars to knock out the enemy's twelve horse-drawn vehicles.  The machine gun boosts morale and refreshes the mind!¡±

    Nezhkov gritted his teeth and said that his command position was in a solid stone house in the north of the town. The view was wide and the height was moderate. All the wired calls from the battalion and company positions were answered. A man from the headquarters of the 3rd Ural Cavalry Division  Behind him, the communication staff and combat staff were stationed at their posts and stood ready in front of the telephone.

    Soon, the unique "dong-dong-dong" sound of mortars and the "chirp" sound produced by mortar shells flying in the air were heard from the northern front position in Buzuluk Town. More than a dozen mortar shells came from  It shot out from behind the coalition position and fell straight into the queue of 12 horse-drawn machine guns of the Soviet Red Army that was already close to 1,200 meters away.

    Finally fired!  The soldiers on both sides breathed a sigh of relief for no apparent reason. The death-like suffocation that had just been covered up by the rumble of horse hooves and the roar of horses on the battlefield was completely gone.

    The distance between each of the twelve horse-drawn carriages spread out over a 3,000-meter stretch is close to 300 meters. In fact, although the coalition's platoon mortars are quite good at shooting, they have to accurately hit the Budyonny heavy machine gun battalion one-on-one.  It was not easy to get these carriages. Fortunately, there were 24 60mm platoon mortars that opened fire on the second battalion position. Therefore, under the cover of three consecutive waves of rapid rain of bullets, six of the twelve carriages were attacked one after another.  The exploding mortar shell hit him and knocked him to the ground, leaving him with a bloody head.

    The remaining six carriages ran in a diagonal direction toward their positions. Among them, the two carriages equipped with real Maxim heavy machine guns that were lucky enough not to be overturned by the shells started shooting backwards as they ran, 1,200 meters away.  The heavy machine gun bullets flying from outside were in vain, hitting the deserted coalition positions, causing the soil to scatter in all directions.

    The coalition's mortar positions are all arranged in specially dug depressions behind the positions. The characteristics of the direct-fire weapons were instilled into the minds of every artillery and artillery commander in the coalition mortar crash training course. The trench periscope became  A must-have for mortar soldiers.

    "Nah! I was really fooled. The opponent only had two real Maxim machine guns."??The rest were half pieces of wood painted with colors to pretend to be fake. I ordered the mortars of the platoon of the Second Battalion of the First Regiment to stop shooting and move their positions, and called the artillery observation posts to prepare to capture the location of the opponent's artillery positions!  "

    Nezhkov saw clearly through the telescope that the carriages that were blown up were not equipped with wheeled Maxim heavy machine guns at all.  Roll up your sleeves and get ready to take down the opponent's cannon.

    "Hey! The other party has finally been fooled! Kulik, what are you waiting for? The other party has more than 20 mortars shooting. Hurry up and knock them out! Hurry! Sign the signal and order the cavalry battalion to withdraw the heavy machine guns.  Behind the battalion position!" Budyonni turned and shouted at the artillery regiment commander from his position!

    Kulik grinned and muttered, "Comrade division commander, from discovering the enemy's target position to adjusting the angle of our cannon to shooting, there has to be a process. Even if I am a god, I can't just slap my head and my cannonballs will have eyes."  It seems to have flown by, right? There aren¡¯t many shells, so if it misses and is wasted, who¡¯s to blame?¡±

    Having said that, the artillery observation team behind Artillery Regiment Commander Kulik had quickly determined the position of the mortar launch on the coalition position, and reported back to the artillery position two kilometers behind by wired phone. It was too late, then  Soon, less than 3 minutes after the coalition's mortars launched the bombardment, the Soviet Red Army's artillery, which had been silent for a long time, finally let out a rumbling roar from the artillery position hidden behind the position.

    The two artillery companies of the Kulik Artillery Regiment have a total of twelve 76mm cannons, four of which are mountain guns and eight are field guns. The reason why Kulik became the artillery expert of the Soviet Red Army in the Tsaritsyn Battle is because of his  Skillful use of artillery is inseparable from command skills. For example, his unique knack is to raise the angle of a mountain cannon with a low trajectory and then fire a curved attack shell like a field artillery.

    In fact, no matter in the past or present, the real artillery that relies on direct visual shooting is mainly mountain cannon and cannon. The ballistic trajectory is low and the range is short. It is mainly used to attack the opponent's armored targets or solid fortifications and firepower points point-to-point. Anti-tank guns and tank guns  In theory, both cannons and naval guns fall under the category of cannons, while howitzers are deflection weapons and surface destruction weapons, relying on shrapnel from exploding grenades to kill surface targets. The ballistics of mortars are similar to those of howitzers, but because of the low muzzle velocity of the charge, the range is limited  It is still far from the powerful and field artillery howitzer.

    Kulik's 12 76mm-caliber mountain guns were obviously well-trained. Within three minutes, the first batch of shells fell on the coalition mortar position. The long-lost roar of the Soviet Red Army's cannons and the whistling of the shells made the Red Army  There was a deafening "Ula~~~" sound on the position. Almost all 12 artillery shells hit the coalition position, and the soil exploded at the impact point and log chips flew everywhere.

    The mountain guns equipped by the Kulik Artillery Regiment are four 1904-type 76mm mountain guns and eight 1902-type 76mm field guns. The shells of both the mountain guns and the field guns are - kilograms. To say that the artillery of Tsarist Russia is not behind this era at all,  However, the production of the new m1906/09 mountain artillery was originally small, and almost all were lost in the four years of the Eastern Front battlefield. Therefore, the artillery in the hands of the Soviet Red Army only had the old 1902 and 1904 models.

    The maximum range of the Russian 1904 76mm mountain gun is only 5,500 meters, while the 1902 76mm field gun is better and can hit 8,000 meters. The theoretical rate of fire of both mountain guns can reach 6-8 rounds per minute.  However, this is closely related to the maintenance of the artillery and the training level of the artillery. If you are not a skilled and well-trained artilleryman, you basically have to rely on bragging to achieve the theoretical rate of fire.

    For the artillery combat theory of this era, preemptive strike is an irrefutable truth!
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