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Volume Three Far East Stories Chapter 433 The Tiger Can¡¯t Come Out of the Hole

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    Headquarters of the 3rd Ural Cavalry Division of the Allied Forces in Buzuluk Town at 9:00 on July 14, 1918

    "Division commander, commander, the enemy's cavalry is moving to the rear. Are they going to retreat? Let the artillery company fire?" ?ovsky, chief of staff of the third cavalry division, looked through the telescope and saw Su on the hillside and woods 2 kilometers away.  The Russian Red Army cavalry mounted their horses one after another, turned their horses' heads, and retreated, shouting hurriedly!

    "Why panic! The cavalry on the opposite side only has the strength of one brigade. Our artillery is used to clean up the opponent's artillery and infantry brigade. A few thousand cavalry is nothing. Our mission is to block Yegorov and the Ninth Army.  The purpose of guarding Buzuluk Town through the retreat route of the main force is not just to eliminate a few more Soviet Red Army cavalry!¡±

    While Nezhkov frowned in dissatisfaction and lectured his chief of staff who had been chirping all day, he was wondering if the Budyonny cavalry on the opposite side really wanted to retreat?  Where to retreat?

    "Division commander, even if we are afraid that the artillery shells will be consumed too quickly and we are reluctant to use them to attack the thousands of cavalry, why don't we attack the opponent's heavy machine gun position 1,800 meters away? You see, they have made the fortifications stronger and stronger!"**  Fsky said unwillingly from the side.

    "Tch, you haven't been deceived enough. Of the 12 carriages used by the enemy to lure the enemy earlier, only two Maxims were capable of firing. The rest were machine guns disguised with half tree stumps. I suspect that the opponent is now building a decent structure.  On the heavy machine gun position, there may not be that many real Maxim machine guns, maybe they are all fake!" Nezhkov said with a grin.

    "They are all fake? No way, division commander. The opponent is a group army. It is impossible to have only two Maxim heavy machine guns. If according to the usual configuration of the Soviet Red Army, if an infantry division is equipped with a heavy machine gun battalion, the opponent will at least  There can be five machine gun battalions or more, and the enemy's heavy machine gun position looks like it has at least 50 Maxims! "Why don't we fight?"

    The chief of staff of the 3rd Ural Cavalry Division and the commander of the 6th Brigade, Ivansky must say that he is still a very curious guy. In his opinion, even if there were only 2 real machine guns among the 12 horse-drawn machine guns during the charge just now,  , isn¡¯t that the enemy is luring the enemy? The heavy machine gun position built by nearly a hundred carriages 1,800 meters in front of the four-kilometer-wide front does not look fake at all.

    Furthermore, now that the attacking party is the Soviet Red Army and not the Allied Forces, there is no reason to spend so much effort building so many fake heavy machine gun positions!  Who can you scare?

    "How did you become the chief of staff? Didn't you already know the results of the prisoner interrogation this morning? Although Yegorov's Ninth Army still has more than 40,000 infantrymen left, it still needs artillery and heavy machine guns.  Only Budyonny¡¯s special cavalry division still retains one machine gun battalion and two artillery companies. I guess the reason why the opponent built the machine gun positions with great fanfare is to confuse the public and avoid our artillery attack!¡±

    The division commander Nezhkov flew up and kicked the chief of staff in the butt. The butt of this **sky was used to being kicked by his division commander. In a hurry, he actually dodged and said coquettishly, "Anyway,  , Commander, I think we are a little too polite to Yegorov and Budyonny. We don¡¯t care whether he is real or fake. Can we just use cannons to blow him up? We don¡¯t have to guess here!"

    It is not unreasonable to say what **Vsky said. Although the opponent's heavy machine gun position is built 1,800 meters away, Maxim's maximum range is 3,500 meters. Although 1,800 meters is not a very effective combat distance,  But if you do it well and shoot with face coverage, you still have a great threat.

    "You should learn more! **ski, how can I have a relative like you! Let me tell you how to lead a brigade as my chief of staff. You may not even be qualified to be a regiment leader.  , I know how to fight and kill all day long, you know? Use your brain! Otherwise, don¡¯t call him my cousin in the future, I can¡¯t afford to disgrace him!¡±

    Nezhkov said angrily, while continuing to observe the movements of the Soviet Red Army cavalry on the opposite side with his binoculars.

    "Commander! I followed your instructions and kept calling you commander. Haven't I been using my brain? Look at a plate of dishes in front of me, all within the range of our battalion's mortars and artillery company.  , You are just holding back and not letting the artillery fire. Not to mention that I can't figure it out, the brothers below can't figure it out either!" Biaofusky yelled.

    "You guys, what can't you think of? If we were as lucky as that Sergey Mikhailovich, with the strong city of Ufa behind us and the Allied Forces Headquarters covering our backs, of course we could make the most of it.  Use your cannons to hit the opponent with all your strength, but don¡¯t forget that we are just a cavalry brigade hanging alone in Buzuluk!¡±

    "The deputy chief of staff of the coalition forces, right, the current commander of the Central Cluster in Ufa, and the two infantry divisions led by Wu Peifu will arrive in the evening at the earliest. In other words, one of our cavalry brigade has to resist eight times the number of enemies.  Do you understand that there are nine full hours of daylight?¡±

    Nezhkov rambled to himself:??Cousin **sky was washing his mind, "What is our mission? It is to guard Buzuluk, hold back Yegorov, the main force of the 9th Army of the Soviet Southern Front, wait for the reinforcements to arrive, and then encircle and annihilate them.  other side!"

    "That's right! Cousin, don't we use artillery to beat the opponent's cavalry or heavy machine guns to kill a few or a few? Do we have to beat them in the morning and in the evening? How can we beat the opponent without firing?"  Wu Zi argued forcefully.

    "Don't call me cousin, you are the only one here! Damn, after teaching you for a long time, you still don't understand. Our mission is to guard Buzuluk. If the cannons run out of shells, it will be worse than burning a fire stick.  In the previous artillery battle between the artillery company and the opponent, we fired 12 rounds of salvos in two minutes. Do you know how many artillery shells we carry are enough to last two minutes? You are a pig and you know how to open fire?"

    When Nezhkov said this, **Vsky finally understood. He was worried about his cousin, the division commander, who was worried that he would run out of ammunition when he hit the back. Hey, how could he forget this?  It turns out that the 3rd Ural Cavalry Division is a Russian cavalry unit within the coalition. The base number of ammunition carried by the artillery company of the cavalry division is 1.5. The base number of ammunition for the coalition's 75mm mountain cannon and field artillery is 60 rounds. The base number of 1.5 is  Each gun carries 90 rounds of shells.

    Don¡¯t underestimate 90 rounds of mountain artillery and field artillery shells. The total weight is nearly 600 kilograms. Likewise, don¡¯t think that 90 rounds of artillery shells is a lot. According to the coalition¡¯s 75mm Type 41 mountain artillery and Type 38 field artillery, the average rate of fire is 8-10 rounds per minute.  Speed, in theory, the artillery battery can consume all the artillery shells it carries within 10 minutes after firing!

    At this moment, Nezhkov¡¯s Sixth Brigade of the Third Cavalry Division has to defend the town of Buzuluk for at least nine hours. Under such circumstances, how can this guy be willing to waste all the artillery shells he carries?  Nezhkov had already made up his mind that long-range artillery batteries must be used at the most needed moments and in the most needed directions.

    For example, artillery used to annihilate the enemy, for example, used to bombard the opponent's infantry division assembly area to disrupt the opponent's deployment, for example, used to intercept the opponent's cavalry division and brigade-sized charge!

    Talking about the ammunition base of the coalition cavalry division, the 81mm mortars of several battalions belonging to the mortar platoon carry the most ammunition. Each mortar carries 120 rounds of grenades weighing 3.6 kilograms each, while the platoon belonging to the mortar squad carries the most ammunition.  Each 60mm mortar carries only 90 mortar shells weighing 1.5 kilograms.

    The 3rd Ural Cavalry Division came all the way from Orenburg. Lien Zhan and Lianjie successively captured Sorochinsk, Buzuluk and Neftegorsk. Although the ammunition was not consumed much, it was still better than what was set out.  There is little time. Facing more than 40,000 enemies of the Ninth Army of the Soviet Red Army's Southern Front who are cornered and struggling, Nezhkov is really worried that he will not have enough ammunition by then.

    "Besides, it's useless to just defend Buzuluk. The most important thing is to hold off the enemy. Yegorov and more than 40,000 people are stuck in Buzuluk so that he can't escape. It's only nine o'clock in the morning.  , What if he beats the opponent away when he comes up, and he withdraws?" Nezhkov took the trouble to remind his cousin ?ovsky.

    "Withdraw? Then let's pursue him. Yegorov is an infantryman. How can his two-legged infantry outrun our four-legged cavalry?" **Vsky's eyes lit up.

    "Chasing? We have a 5,000-man cavalry brigade to chase the opponent and fight in the field with more than 30,000 infantry and 9,000 cavalry? How many lives you have are not enough. The human sea tactic alone will drown you. We have two lives in this town.  The big river constitutes a natural barrier, otherwise how can we say that the town of Buzuluk guards the confluence of the Samara, Buzuluk and Domashka rivers?¡±

    "If a town is surrounded by enemies, we may not be able to defend it with just one cavalry brigade! You just have to be content! If you still chase, no one is allowed to leave the position to pursue without knocking the opponent down. I will give it to Ye  If Gorov doesn't get in, no matter how windy or rainy he is, I'll stand still and wait for you to come up!"

    While Nezhkov was nagging Nezhsky, he was also determined to fight a protracted war. Damn it, if the tiger doesn't come out of its hole, it doesn't matter whether the cavalry opposite you is moving forward or backward. Anyway, before the reinforcements arrive,  , no matter how you show weakness or lure the enemy, I will not attack, first defend Buzuluk!
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