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Volume 3 Far East Story Chapter 443 Cat and Mouse Parade

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    Semyon Mikhailovich Budyonny was by no means an unworthy cavalry general of the Soviet Red Army. In Wang Geng¡¯s previous life, Budyonny and Voroshilov¡¯s First Cavalry Group gave birth to countless dazzling generals.  Star, and became the only remaining force in the great purge carried out by Comrade Joseph in the 1930s, because the founder of the Soviet Red Army in 1918 was Comrade Trotsky, Chairman of the Supreme Military Council.

    Comrade Joseph, who later dominated the Soviet Union, had very little influence in the army at this time. Even if the Southern Front could be regarded as the team he had built, the only thing that was truly and completely in his hands was Budyonny's second army in the future.  The First Cavalry Army and the First Cavalry Army. After all, the commander of the Southern Front, Sergin, was still an expert general who defected from the old Tsarist Russian army of Trotsky's faction.

    Since the Battle of Ufa, the nearly 300,000-strong Soviet Red Army on the right bank of the Volga River has never fought a comfortable battle. The main force of Budyonny¡¯s Ninth Army did not even understand the enemy¡¯s ground commander.  The overwhelming large-scale air raids by the Allied Air Force reduced one-third of his troops, and he developed a phobia of air raids, and his expression changed when he heard about the Allied Air Force.

    Of course, because the Special Cavalry Division acted alone and did not act with the main force of the group army, in October Town, it was only given a false alarm by the overwhelming 150-plus aircraft of the Allied Air Force flying overhead.  During the retreat, the muddy roads and flooded rivers in the wind and rain became a nightmare for Budyonny's special cavalry division, but it was Si Leng who commanded his cavalry to overcome these difficulties.

    When they successfully joined forces with the main force of the group army and approached the city of Buzuluk, Budyonni's cavalry division of nearly 9,000 people was the division with the best preservation of organization and strength on the entire right bank of the Volga River.

    Good luck has always favored Budyonny's cavalry division, but good luck will not always be there. Ever since the northwest avant-garde battalion in Buzuluk was defeated by an opponent's reconnaissance cavalry company, Budyonny has been observing and studying the coalition's attacks.  Law.

    It is undeniable that the original individual quality of the White Guard Cossack Cavalry Division may not be inferior to that of the Red Cossacks of the Soviet Red Army, and even the military quality is better. After all, the Cossack Cavalry Regiment has always had a superhuman status in the Tsarist Russian army.  and strength.

    The Cossack cavalry brigade in the town of Buzuluk, which has joined the coalition, is obviously better equipped than the earlier White Guard cavalry. Judging from the firepower of machine guns and mortars, this cavalry brigade has more intensive firepower than our own.  The cavalry division is even a bit stronger!

    Of course, after losing the artillery company and heavy machine gun battalion, Budyonny's cavalry did not have the capital to fight the opponent's positional battle, so along the way, this guy has been thinking about what kind of combat method can maximize its strengths and avoid weaknesses. The coalition cavalry in front of them  It is obviously more like a mounted infantry. The dismounted troops rely on positioning and firepower in combat. The opponent seems to have avoided close combat and hand-to-hand combat.

    But this is normal. If Budyonni's own cavalry division also had the firepower of the coalition cavalry, he would not easily engage in saber or hand-to-hand combat with the opponent. Naturally, he would have to use his strengths and avoid weaknesses in a war!

    Although Budyonni came here on a roundabout mission to outflank the enemies in Buzuluk Town, he was actually mentally prepared to be intercepted by the enemy. The reinforcements from the coalition forces were only a cavalry regiment.  He still had the courage to fight. If the coalition forces came to reinforce and pursue him with a cavalry brigade, Budyonny would have no choice but to retreat.

    You can't fight without courage, and you can't rely on courage alone. When you should be brave, you must be 120% brave.  When the people who were bombed across the Domashka River were knocked over, they were mentally prepared. According to his calculations, if the coalition force was a battalion, then he would use a brigade to defeat the opponent. If the coalition force was a regiment,  He could only use the drag-and-knife strategy to disperse the opponent and then concentrate his forces to attack one of them.

    But in any case, it is key to avoid positional warfare and allow the cavalry of both sides to enter into close-quarters field battles as much as possible.

    Therefore, when the allied forces on the opposite side pressed forward with at least one regiment of troops, Budyonny made up his mind to conduct a centripetal assault with flowers blooming on all sides. The key was to mobilize the allied cavalry and let them mount their horses, instead of dismounting and lying on the ground at every turn.  Machine guns and mortars were set up on the ground to take advantage of themselves.

    Budyonny asked Timoshenko and Tyulenev to withdraw first with 1,000 cavalry each. He led the remaining 1,000 cavalry to bluff the coalition forces and buy time for Timoshenko and the others. There was a field five kilometers to the south.  There is a dense forest and a medium-sized lake on the edge. Budyonni plans to teach the coalition cavalry a lesson here.

    Of course, he didn¡¯t expect that the opponent¡¯s cavalry was the same as the coalition cavalry in Buzuluk Town. They were also equipped with 81mm battalion weapons with a range of 2,000 meters.Mortars, and the artillery deployed and attacked very quickly, which forced him to evacuate and retreat with his cavalry in advance. After running out of the opponent's mortar attack range, there were only more than 700 cavalry left out of 1,000.  , making Budyonni so angry that she scolded her mother.

    When he turned around and saw that the other party's cavalry could not help but catch up, Budyonni secretly thought that he had come just in time, and then he and Rybalko led the remaining 700 cavalrymen of the second regiment and rushed southwest towards Juechen. The cavalryman was a  As a highly mobile assault force, Budyonni planned to use himself as bait to lead the opponent to pursue him in the southwest direction.

    Wait until you have passed the ambush position of Timoshenko and Tyulenev, then kill a carbine, attack from three sides, and eat the opponent's forward in field battles and hand-to-hand combat!  Then consider whether to retreat or continue to deal with this coalition cavalry regiment. If you can use a drag trick and annihilation battle to capture the opponent's heavy machine guns and mortars, Nima, I will cross the river and fight back to Buzuluk Town.  Take the retreat route of the coalition forces in the town.

    In this way, Budyonny led more than 700 cavalrymen of the Rybalko Second Regiment to stop and run in front, seducing the allied cavalry battalion chasing after them 1,500 meters away, while Timoshenko and Tyulenev  Each of them brought 1,000 cavalry and arrived at the ambush location mentioned by Bujoni in advance. They took advantage of the cover of the woods and lakes to hide, preparing to rush out and cut the retreat of the overtaking coalition forces.

    On the opposite side, Antonkov kept in mind the instructions of his brigade commander and led a battalion of cavalry to chase and follow Budyonny's cavalry. The two sides always maintained a distance of 1,500 to 1,800 meters. Whenever Antonkov  When they wanted to hurry up and shorten the distance, Budyonny's cavalry ran forward for a while. When Antonikov's camp was far away, Budyonny stopped and waited. The two sides played a game of cat and mouse.

    Negev, commander of the 5th Brigade of the 3rd Ural Cavalry Division of the Allied Forces, led the remaining three battalions of the main cavalry of the 1st Regiment and slowly fell two kilometers behind the leading battalion of Antonkov. The battle was fought  The meaning is revealed. It seems that the 700 Soviet Red Army cavalry led by Budyonny and the 500 coalition cavalry led by Antonkov have each become bait used to lure the other party's main force into a trap, but I don't know who will bite whom first.  first bite of meat.

    In fact, the physical strength and horses of both sides were exhausted. As for the coalition Nedev cavalry regiment, they set off from Neftegorsk early in the morning and the water was still wet, and they ran long distances on the muddy road.  Now I have run at least 90 kilometers in total, and I am very tired.

    For Budyonny's cavalry brigade, they didn't sleep all night. Even when other infantry divisions were making up for their losses in the morning, the cavalry were still struggling to attack the town of Buzuluk. Then they crossed the river and were beaten hard by allied artillery fire.  The distance traveled now is only much longer than that of the coalition cavalry regiment, and it is quite tiring.

    Once this cat-and-mouse game between Budyonny and Nedev begins, it seems that no one can stop. Those who run away cannot escape, those who chase cannot catch up, and neither side shows its backhand.  Seeing that the two kilometers ahead were the scheduled ambush location, Budyonni was a little worried. The coalition battalion that caught up with them had been unwilling to take advantage of the opportunity, and the opponent's main force behind was obviously following suit. This ambush maneuver could still make the enemy  Are you motivated?
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