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Volume 3 Far East Story Chapter 458 The Kalmyk Regiment was crippled

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    The distance of 2,000 meters between the attacking and defending sides is almost a moderate fighting distance in the era of 1918. If the ammunition supply is sufficient, the heavy machine gun can effectively block the opponent's offensive front. The problem is, you have to have so many bullets for you to waste.

    Whether it is the Maxim used by the Soviet Red Army or the water-cooled or air-cooled Browning heavy machine guns equipped by the Allied Forces at this time, the theoretical firing rate of heavy machine guns of this era is generally between 300-600 rounds/minute. The Allied Forces  The 7.62mm air-cooled Browning heavy machine gun uses a 250-round bullet chain to feed ammunition, and the theoretical rate of fire is 450-600 rounds per minute. This means that if it is fully opened, a 250-round bullet chain can fire it in half a minute.  Finished.

    For allied Russian cavalry divisions like the 3rd Ural Cavalry Division, the base number of ammunition carried by the Browning heavy machine gun is 20 250-round ammunition belts, with a total of 5,000 rounds of ammunition for each heavy machine gun. Of course, half of it is carried by the machine gun crew.  The remaining half is usually transported with the baggage team and logistics food and ammunition. If necessary, it can also be carried entirely by the heavy machine gun team.

    A 250-round ammunition chain weighs 7 kilograms. A heavy machine gun group in the coalition has a main shooter, an assistant shooter, and an ammunition hand. If it really has to carry 20 ammunition chains weighing 140 kilograms, the burden will be quite heavy. Well,  The cavalry usually suffers from horse mounts. When marching, the burden on the machine gun team is not heavy, but it is more difficult to get people to carry them after entering the position.

    After setting off from Ufa, the Second Regiment of the 5th Brigade of the 3rd Ural Cavalry Division went all the way south to conquer Orenburg and Sorochinsk. Although they did not consume much ammunition, they were no longer at full strength.

    Young Antonikov faced the 3,000 cavalry of the opponent's Budyonny Cavalry Division, so he was destined not to be able to move the enemy closer and then fight like he did when the division commander Nezhkov of Buzuluk Town was commanding, with the cavalry on horseback.  After charging up, the momentum was much more shocking than the infantry division's attack.

    Therefore, when Gorodovikov's cavalry on the opposite side launched an attack and entered the 2,000-meter range, Antonikov decisively ordered the battalion's mortars to open fire. 32 81mm-caliber mortars rang out.  Strings of mortar shells pounced like sparrows on the attacking Red Army cavalry array.

    Budyonny's Red Cossacks were truly fearless after launching a charge. The 3,000 cavalry split into two and rushed towards the coalition positions to the north and east. Each explosion of a mortar shell would overturn the surrounding horses.  And the knights, the casualties of the charging Red Army cavalry continued to increase, and people kept falling to the ground with their horses, but no one retreated. Shouting Ula and rushing forward was the only thing Budyonny's cavalry had to do.

    Brigadier Gorodovikov and division political commissar Shatenko were riding horses behind the position, looking at the battlefield with binoculars. Behind them were the guard company cavalry. Although the five to six hundred lightly and seriously wounded soldiers in the two battles were not able to mount their horses and charge, they were still able to charge.  They crawled on the ground and formed a defensive line of skirmishers to build momentum.

    The cavalrymen of the Kalmyk regiment, led by the regiment commander Ryabyshev, braved the enemy's mortar fire and charged.

    This guy was obviously very scheming. During the charge, the cavalry column actually spread out very widely, and ran in a diagonal line, charging diagonally southward from the center. The regiment political commissar Balayev led 500 people from the first battalion to charge at the front, with a gap  50 meters away is the second battalion, and 100 meters away is the third battalion. Ryabyshev himself leads the fourth battalion to press the formation at the end.

    The heavy machine gun that captured the coalition forces roared from behind the position, pouring bullets on the mortar positions behind the coalition positions, trying to reduce the pressure on the charge cavalry. The concentration of the coalition's mortar bombs was too high, and the impact was too high.  The first battalion in front soon lost more than half its casualties.

    To be honest, the Mongolian cavalry's skills on horseback have not returned to the old days of Temujin, but the Mongolian horses have escaped the baptism of many heavy machine gun bullets because of their low stature. The heavy machine guns on the coalition positions were charged by the Red Army cavalry  After entering 1,500 meters, they opened fire one after another. The density of heavy machine guns almost every 100 meters was similar to the density when the German army harvested 60,000 British lives in a day on the Western Front.

    The coalition's battalion mortars apparently discovered the Red Army heavy machine gun that was hiding on the edge of a small wood in the rear and fired. A series of shells hit the direction of the small wood, and the sound of the machine gun sounded intermittently. The Red Army's temporary formation  The machine gun team was knocked out by coalition mortars no less than three times. However, this magical m1918a3 air-cooled Browning heavy machine gun seized from the coalition forces never blew up. The Red Army continued to refuel and change tactics.  The new machine gunner moved on and continued shooting.

    At the same time, Romankov led the remaining 1,000 cavalry of the second regiment, which blew up a Cossack whirlwind and rushed towards the coalition position to the north. Three heavy machine guns were required to guard the 800-meter front line, which relatively left  There was a large gap, and the 12 platoon-affiliated mortars that Romankov had captured and re-equipped behind him added to the chaos.

    Therefore, when the Mongolian cavalry of the Kalmyk regiment in the frontal position braved the rain of bullets and suffered casualties before rushing to 1,200 meters away from the opponent's position, Romankov's 1,000 cavalry had already charged after suffering more than 300 casualties.Within 800 meters.

    The Red Army cavalry platoon, who had been temporarily transferred to artillery, under the leadership of the platoon leader Belov, jumped off the horse and used the dead horse on the ground as cover, and actually set up a mortar.  The artillery fired at the coalition position. Since it was the first time for Belov and his platoon to play with this thing, although the first round of shooting fired the artillery shells, the accuracy was all kinds of wrong.

    Because the angle was wrong, several mortar shells fired from close range directly hit the charging cavalry queue 300 meters in front. Fortunately, 20 platoon mortars on the opposite coalition position were also raining down on the attacking Red Army.  The cavalrymen smashed the shells, so Romankov and the Red Army cavalry rushing in front did not pay attention to the shells accidentally fired from behind their buttocks.

    The angle of a cannon operated by Belov himself was just right. The shells flew straight past the charging Red Army cavalry brigade and the coalition positions in front, and landed directly on the battalion mortars in the central position of the coalition forces. By accident, they killed them.  A coalition 81mm caliber mortar group.

    Now Belov became more energetic. He ordered all the other 11 mortars to adjust to the angle of his own gun, preparing to severely deal with the coalition mortars showing off their power on the central position.

    Here, little Antonikov turned around and saw that the opponent's northern front actually used the mortars that had captured his own troops and hit his own artillery position. He suddenly lost his temper and gave an order to launch a mortar attack from more than 10 battalions.  The artillery shells rained down on them, and the shooting accuracy of the coalition mortars was much better than that of Belov's platoon on the opposite side, which was improvised.

    Here, while Belov was still hurriedly directing his men to adjust the angle of the mortar, more than a dozen 81mm-caliber coalition mortar shells flew over and hit his position as if they had eyes. The 81mm  The 3.6 kilogram anti-personnel grenade of the caliber battalion mortar is far more powerful than the 1.5 kilogram shell of the 60mm caliber platoon mortar.

    Belov, who was lying down for the first time, rolled and crawled out for more than ten meters with his head in his hands. When he looked back, he saw that his platoon and the 12 mortars had been completely blown to the ground by the opponent's shelling, and all of them were injured.  Several of the cannons were crooked and obviously useless.

    However, with only so much effort, Romankov's cavalry on the northern front rushed to a position less than 300 meters away from the opponent's position after paying more than 500 casualties, while the Kalmyk regiment on the center line passed diagonally across the center line.  Pounced straight to a place less than 500 meters away from the southern front position.

    At this time, the first battalion led by Balayev, the political commissar of the Kalmyk regiment that attacked on the center line, had only more than 100 people left. Nearly 400 people were lost on the attack route, while the second battalion that followed behind had more than 200 people left.  , the third battalion has more than 300 people left, and the fourth battalion led by the regiment leader Ryabyshev has the most survivors, with more than 400 people left.

    In just such a short period of time, more than half of the cavalry of the 3,000 Budyonny Cavalry Division had been killed or injured. Moreover, as they got closer to the coalition position, more than a dozen squad machine guns and thousands of mounted rifles from the coalition forces on the opposite position also opened fire.  Hundreds of Red Army cavalry were dismounted every minute.

    If Taro Utsunomiya, the commander-in-chief of the Japanese army in the allied forces, were present, he would definitely talk to Wang Geng about the battle between Takeda and the Oda family, the iron cannon versus the cavalry, the victory of the iron cannon!

    Such intensive firepower and lethality of the coalition forces prevented the two sides from engaging in close combat. Ryabyshev's Kalmyk regiment lost half of its strength. In this case, the opponent's casualties were less than one-tenth of his own.  The balance of strength and weakness was completely reversed. Although the charge seemed not to be over yet, the outcome was already clear.

    Political Commissar Shatenko and Gorodovikov, who were watching the battle behind them, looked at each other. Political Commissar Shatenko said bitterly, "Comrade Oka Ivanovich, blow the trumpet, withdraw the troops, and implement the second plan! Give the cavalry  Master, keep some fire!¡±

    "Blow the trumpet!" Brigadier Gorodovikov's heart was bleeding. In just one charge, more than half of the casualties were suffered, while the opponent's casualties were almost negligible. This guy now deeply regrets that he should not have risked using cavalry to attack the opponent's position.  , even if it is a field position, such dense heavy machine gun firepower cannot be defeated, and it is impossible to rush forward no matter what.

    "But what Antonikov on the opposite side was thinking was, Damn, do you think you can win if you charge forward?"  If my cavalry hadn't been tired all morning and their horses had lost their strength, I wouldn't have hesitated to mount them to fight!

    The charge launched by the Budyonny Cavalry Division was defeated in a hail of bullets. When Ryabyshev's cavalry rolled up in a circle from the southeast, only more than 800 of the 2,000 people were left. Over there, Romankov's second  After the regiment was out of the enemy's fire range, less than 300 of the 1,000 men remained.

    Within a distance of 300 meters to 1,500 meters around the three sides of the coalition positions, you can see that there are dead men and horses of the Soviet Red Army who were killed. Many horses without their riders are looking around on the lonely battlefield. Of course, only 800 people were killed.  There were many people, and nearly a thousand lightly and seriously wounded were left. The seriously injured lay on the battlefield groaning and waiting for the moment to die.The lightly injured persons bandaged their wounds and crawled back with gritted teeth. The ground was already covered in blood.
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