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Volume 3 Far East Story Chapter 451 Must retreat as soon as possible

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    During the more than an hour when Yegorov commanded the main force of the Ninth Army's infantry division to launch an attack on the coalition forces in Buzuluk Town and ended dismally, the remaining 3,000 troops of the First Brigade of the Budyonny Special Cavalry Division of the Soviet Red Army  On the upper reaches of the Domashka River, they were playing hide-and-seek with the 1st Regiment of the 5th Brigade of the 3rd Ural Cavalry Division of the allied forces who were chasing behind them.

    Rybalko, the commander of the second regiment who was in charge of the rear of Budyonny's first cavalry brigade, led the rearguard battalion and ran into the coalition's leading cavalry battalion. As a result, Rybalko used 50 cavalrymen tied to the dust raised by tree branches to sing about the empty city strategy.  , forcing a cavalry battalion of the opponent to retreat, but Rybalko, who had gone too far, pursued too hard with 250 cavalry, and was knocked down by the machine guns and mortars of the coalition cavalry battalion who dismounted to organize positions and counterattack.  cavalry.

    When division commander Budyonny led the cavalry brigade back to support, the three subsequent battalions of the first regiment of the fifth brigade from the coalition forces also arrived one after another.

    On one side, 3,000 Soviet Red Army cavalrymen were exhausted and retreated all the way. Before crossing the river, they were severely beaten by Nezhkov's divisional artillery battery in Buzuluk Town. On the other side, more than 2,200 troops from Neftegorsk rushed to reinforce Buzuluk.  The first regiment of the 5th Brigade of the 3rd Ural Cavalry Division that Luke came over was, of course, tired and out of breath after driving 90 kilometers all morning.

    Semyon Mikhailovich Budyonny, commander of the Red Army and commander of the Special Cavalry Division, participated in various battles on the Eastern Front in the Tsarist Russian cavalry in his early years. He was awarded three St. George medals, and his opponent was the allied forces that caught up.  Dominik Mikhailovich Nedev, commander of the 5th Brigade of the 3rd Ural Cavalry Division, joined the Cossack Cavalry Regiment with his cousin Nezhkov at the age of 18. He also won three St. George Medals on the Eastern Front.  In terms of wisdom and courage, he is by no means inferior to Budyonni.

    The two Mikhainovich each led the cavalry and started a stop-and-go cat-and-mouse game. Budyonny's cavalry had more travelers, but its equipment was not even inferior to that of Nedev's cavalry regiment, but  Nedev's cavalry regiment traveled a long distance of 90 kilometers all morning, and the men and horses were exhausted and exhausted.

    Although Budyonny's cavalry brigade did not sleep all night, they had only run less than 30 kilometers in the morning. In terms of physical strength and horse speed and endurance, Budyonny's cavalry brigade's mount Binedev  You must be more energetic. You must know that the 3rd Ural Cavalry Division is only one of the first three Russian cavalry divisions formed by the coalition forces.

    The Budyonny Special Cavalry Division is the earliest and the only cavalry division of the entire Soviet Southern Front in the direction of Tsaritsyn. The breed and quality of the horses of the Budyonny Cavalry Division are carefully selected and superior horses.  The quality of the mounts in Nedev's cavalry regiment was much better.

    After such an ebb and flow, although the coalition Nedev cavalry regiment is chasing behind, in fact, if Budyonny really runs away, Nedev's cavalry will be pulled further and further away from them after a while, and they will not be able to catch up.  When the husband wanted to dismount and bully Budyonny in front with machine gun and mortar fire, Budyonny picked up his horse and ran farther, which forced Nedev to get on his horse and catch up.

    The two sides started playing a cat and mouse game. For Budyonny, the commander of the Soviet Red Army cavalry division, from the moment they crossed the Volga River to the Ufa Plain, the Soviet Red Army never had a chance to compete with the coalition forces in the field.  The fight turned into a positional battle, and the Soviet Red Army with weak firepower was always attacking, while the coalition forces with strong equipment relied on positional defense.

    In war, it is an inevitable choice for every battlefield commander to exploit strengths and avoid weaknesses. In Budyonny's view, the coalition's fighting style is deeply rooted in the three flavors of exploiting strengths and avoiding weaknesses. In terms of bravery and tenacity, the Russian troops from the White Guards of the coalition will definitely not be better than the Bolshevism armed forces.  How strong is the Soviet Red Army that has lost its mind?

    Moreover, even if the White Guards on the Ufa battlefield are well trained, they may not be stronger than the main forces of the Soviet Red Army¡¯s Eastern and Southern Fronts. The White Guards¡¯ elite troops are in the direction of Kazan, as well as in Crimea and the Caucasus Don River Basin, Ufa  They are all second-line troops, and the White Guards east of the Ural Mountains are even more of a mob with basically no combat experience.

    The main components of the Eastern Front and Southern Front of the Soviet Red Army are workers' divisions and advanced Bolsheviks repatriated from Tsarist Russian prisoner-of-war camps in Germany. They have both the purity and revolutionary nature of the working class and the veterans of Tsarist Russia's old army.  Combat experience and military training reserves, so compared with the quality of individual soldiers on both sides, the Soviet Red Army is definitely not at a disadvantage.

    Therefore, the Russian troops in the coalition forces try to avoid field battles and melee battles as much as possible, but blindly drag the battle into positional warfare, using trenches and the firepower of light and heavy machine guns and mortars to make up for the lack of combat experience and the low quality of individual soldiers. Even, as long as one  When the fighting started, the coalition's cavalry immediately retreated to favorable terrain to organize defense. Machine guns and mortars were quickly set up and they fired desperately, as if they had unlimited ammunition and no money.

    Budyonny was a Soviet Red Army general with both wisdom and courage. He made up his mind to win the battle and not let the enemy follow behind.The cavalry regiment was in pain, and it was impossible for the brigade to retreat, so the two sides started a cat-and-mouse game.

    Running in the southwest were more than 700 Red Army cavalry led by Budyonny. Behind him, 1.5 kilometers away, were a cavalry battalion of more than 500 people led by Antonikov, the commander of the first regiment of the 5th Allied Cavalry Brigade.  One kilometer behind the cavalry battalion are the main force of more than 1,700 people from three battalions of the first regiment of the fifth brigade led by brigade commander Nedev.

    The 700 cavalry led by Budyonny and Rybalko were a decoy. Previously, he sent Timoshenko to lead 1,000 cavalry to the west, and Tyulenev led 1,000 cavalry to the south, thinking of using a drag-and-knife trick to defeat the pursuing coalition forces behind him.  The cavalry laid an ambush, and the location of the battlefield was also chosen. There was a small lake with a radius of ten kilometers five kilometers away to the southwest. The groves beside the lake were suitable for concealing troops.

    However, in order to buy time for Timoshenko and Tyulenev to arrive at the predetermined location to ambush, Budyonny led 700 cavalry to the southwest before starting to stop and go.  , almost like an armed parade with the coalition pursuers behind them.

    Not long after, Rybalko beside him couldn¡¯t hold back his anger. He couldn¡¯t help but grab the horse¡¯s belly and catch up a few steps and said to Budyonni,

    "Comrade Budyonny, has the other party seen through our plan? You see, there are more than 500 cavalry chasing them in front, but there are more than 1,700 people behind them. How can we defeat his ambush? Timoshenko and Tyuleny  As soon as I attacked the 500 people on the other side, the mortars and machine guns of the 1,700 coalition cavalrymen behind us came over. We couldn't help but reveal our intentions!"

    Budyonni didn't take any breath, so he rode up to a small hill. He turned his horse's head and looked behind him through the binoculars. He saw that the opponent was chasing him slowly, and as soon as his team stopped, the opponent's cavalry began to dismount at any time.  He was preparing to seize powerful terrain and deploy firepower to defend, but he seemed to be a bit weak in his provocation strategy.

    "It's a bit difficult to handle. The commander of the coalition forces seems to want no merit but no fault. You can see that the other team behind always controls the team in an open area with good visibility. Maybe they have seen our plan.  To ambush him, Rybalko, do you think that if the 2,000 men led by Timoshenko and Tyulenev were carried up from the back, could they eat the opponent's 1,700 cavalry?"

    Budyonny frowned and asked the commander of the second regiment of the first cavalry brigade beside him.

    "If the cavalry charges against the saber, I think it's possible, but looking at the opponent's posture, he seems to be ready to dismount and fight at any time. The coalition cavalry is equipped with a Browning squad machine gun, and that thing can be controlled by a single soldier while riding.  They can fire immediately, and as long as the opponent dismounts and deploys machine gun and mortar positions, let alone 2,000 of us attacking his 1,700, even if I attack with 10,000, I may not be able to kill the opponent in one bite!"

    Rybalko said his thoughts honestly while wiping his sweat. The density and intensity of the coalition's firepower obviously left a deep impression on Budyonny's generals. If they were not careful before, the other party would use all their firepower.  The heavy machine guns and mortars killed three of his own troops in one random attack. If he hadn't run so fast, half of the 700 people around him would have been thrown there.

    "The commander of the coalition cavalry is very vigilant. How can he approach his opponents unexpectedly and slash them with his saber!" Budyonny murmured while looking through the binoculars.

    "Comrade Budyonny, I have an idea!" Rybalko has also been thinking about how to turn around and bite the opponent. In this battle, he can't reach the opponent and just get beaten.

    "Being shy is not your style, Rybalko. If you have anything to say, say it quickly. If the other party hadn't been too tired to run, they would have caught up with us and launched a mortar attack on us!" Bu Qiong said.  Ni said angrily.

    "I think it's such a cat-and-mouse situation in broad daylight. It's too difficult to get close to the opponent unnoticed without being discovered. The opponent doesn't even approach the edge of the woods. I suggest that I lead the 700 cavalry to lead the opponent's brigade away, division commander.  You take the security company to meet Timoshenko and Tyulenev."

    Rybalko¡¯s voice became softer as he spoke, and the sweat on his forehead broke out again. This guy with a Chinese character face is thick and short, and he usually sweats a lot.

    "I'm going to meet up with the main force of the brigade? What happens after that?" Division Commander Budyonni obviously realized something from Rybalko's expression and asked in a deep voice.

    "This is what happens next, Commander, here we are, I'm going to say some nonsense and you'll just think it's fart if you hear it, don't think like me," Rybalko said with a slightly unnatural expression.

    "You say it, I'll listen!" Budyonny waved away the cavalry soldiers from the guard company who were about a dozen steps away. "You guys spread out a little bit and be on guard!" As he said that, Budyonny got off his horse and held his hand.  Reins turned and looked at Rybalko.

    When Rybalko saw this, he quickly jumped off his horse, held the reins of the horse and walked over. The two horsesThe knights were rubbing against each other and snoring on both sides. Rybalko leaned over and whispered in Budyonny's ear,

    "Commander, I, Rybalko, am by no means a greedy person, but why did Comrade Yegorov suppress the telegram from the Tsaritsyn South Front to prevent the people below from knowing it!"

    "Huh? Where did the rumor come from? Have you heard about this? Who told you? Comrade Yegorov didn't want to make it public. He was just afraid of being fooled by the enemy's propaganda, saying that our troops on the right bank of the Volga River are other than ours.  Except for tens of thousands of people, the rest of the army was wiped out, hundreds of thousands of people were captured, tens of thousands of people died in the battle, and Mahinslavin and the others were all taken prisoner. Can you believe this? "

    Budyonny narrowed his eyes and looked at Rybalko in front of him. He didn't expect that this guy's eyes and ears were quite good. The battle report of the Ufa Allied Forces forwarded by Tsaritsin, Yegorov strictly ordered that it be limited to division commanders and  The divisional political commissar level knows about it and is not allowed to leak it to the subordinates.

    Although Budyonny disagreed, he only communicated with the two brigade commanders, Timoshenko and Gorodovikov. None of the regiment and battalion commanders below revealed anything. Unexpectedly, Rybalko actually knew about it.  It seems that I can¡¯t hide it anymore!

    "Commander, don't care who told me. Of course I can't believe all the propaganda of the Ufa Allied Forces, but we are so cowardly in this battle, sometimes we really have to be more careful. But that's not what I want to say now, Commander  , I think we can no longer be entangled with the coalition forces on the right bank of the Volga River. Our brigade should continue to retreat as soon as possible while the opponent's horses are a little weak!"
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