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Volume 3 Far East Story Chapter 469 River Bank Warning Techniques

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    On July 14, 1918, almost no one was idle on the entire Ufa Plain. In the afternoon of the previous day, Yan Shunroku, who was airborne, led the Japanese 4th Cavalry Regiment stationed in Kumeltau northward to intercept the map.  During the time of Khaczewski, the mixed cavalry brigade of the 1st Armored Division led by Li Mingzhong stationed in Orenburg sent a cavalry regiment northward according to Wang Geng's instructions, preparing to take over the Japanese 4th Cavalry Regiment in Kumeltau.  line of defense.  -< Piaotian literature registered members recommend this work >-%.net

    The reason why Kumeltau is the best place to intercept the Soviet Red Army's southern retreat route is because the entire upper reaches of the Belaya River flows through the valley, all the way to this valley fifteen kilometers northeast of Kumertau.  After turning north, it became a plain river, and only after entering the plain river section was the Belaya River a suitable place for large troops, especially cavalry, to cross the river.

    As a river in the Bashgar region in central and western Russia, the Belaya River is the largest tributary of the Kama River, an important tributary of the Volva River. It originates from the south of the Urals at the foot of the Iremel Mountains.  , flows southwest through a narrow valley and then suddenly turns north. The valley widens and becomes a platform, with a total length of 1,420 kilometers (882 miles).

    This valley where the Belaya River flows from east to west and then turns to the north is located 15 kilometers northeast of Kumertau. The rapid Belaya River rushes from east to west and turns a corner here.  It goes to the north and flows continuously until it joins the Kama River north of Derbeshinsky.

    The main tributary in the middle is the Ufa River. The Belaya River means "White River" in Russian and is also called the left branch of the Kama River in Russia.

    The source is in the Iremel Mountains of the Southern Urals, about 100 kilometers northeast of Kumertau. It flows through the future Bashkir Autonomous Republic. It flows rapidly in the upper reaches of the Belaya River, and the right tributary Nugush River flows into it.  Later, the valley widened and became a plain river.

    The entire Belaya is 1,430 kilometers long, with a drainage area of ??142,000 square kilometers. The main tributaries include the Ufa, Joma and Sim rivers. The average annual flow at the river mouth is 970 meters per second.  Navigation is available below Ufa on a regular basis, but it is frozen from mid-November to mid-April of the following year, with a freezing period of 5 months.

    The main towns along the Belaya River are Beloretsk, Saravat, Ishimbay, Sterlitamak and Ufa.

    According to Li Mingzhong¡¯s original intention, he moved more troops to the direction of Buzuluk. 42,000 people of Yegorov¡¯s Ninth Army were intercepted in the triangle area north of Buzuluk Town. How big a dish is this?  His team fought all the way from Ufa, and the main force of the mixed cavalry brigade has not been able to fight a battle until now. Li Fugui's cavalry battalion has made great achievements in the town of Sterli Tamak.

    But this made Li Mingzhong's main force of the third mixed cavalry brigade a little helpless. Seeing that the Battle of Ufa was almost over, Jiang Hongyu and Xiong Shihui on the northern front annihilated and captured tens of thousands of Soviet Red Army troops.  , even Sergey and Petrovich of the Second Ural Cavalry Army captured more than one group army commander and political commissar, and destroyed several enemy divisions.

    Sun Liangcheng's troops on the southern front made a long detour and captured the Urals and Samara. The total number of defeated enemies was two divisions, and they also blocked the pocket of the Soviet Red Army's westward retreat on the right bank of the Volga River. Only his own unit  The main force on the roundabout route to the south achieved very few results.

    At this time, the Third Ural Cavalry Division assigned to him has caught the big fish of Yegorov's Ninth Army, but it is a Russian cavalry division after all, and there is only one cavalry brigade. His own Chinese mixed cavalry brigade  Its firepower is much stronger than that of the Russian cavalry division, but it can't use its strength in the dull Orenburg.

    Li Mingzhong's mood in the morning was very similar to that of Wu Peifu, the former commander of the Ufa Central Group. He led three Russian infantry divisions with full strength. He was stunned and couldn't win a battle, but he looked at the two men of the Second Ural Cavalry Corps under his command.  The Russian cavalry division used both sides to constantly catch up with and annihilate the main force of the Soviet Red Army. The achievements were one after another, let alone the frustration and boredom.

    The distance from Orenburg to Kumeltau is 110 kilometers. Li Mingzhong sent the 1st Cavalry Regiment from Orenburg north to take over the defense line of the Japanese 4th Cavalry Regiment in Kumeltau yesterday afternoon. This morning they left from Nezhko  From the telegram sent by his husband, he learned that the main force of Yegorov's army had been captured in the north of Buzuluk town. He left the second cavalry regiment and the artillery regiment to guard Orenburg, and he took the brigade's armored battalion and cavalry.  The third regiment headed northwest to Sorochinsk.

    As for the distance from Orenburg to Sorochinsk and then to Buzuluk, which is a full 216 kilometers, Li Mingzhong, the former enemy commander of the Southern Route Army, could not care about that much. Of course, until 18:00 that evening, Ye Ge  The remainder of Luofu's Ninth Army was encircled and had no hope of breaking out, and surrendered to Wu Peifu.

    Li Mingzhong¡¯s Armored Reconnaissance Battalion and the Third Cavalry Regiment, who had traveled all day, had just passed 20 kilometers northwest of Sorochinsk. Li Mingzhong, who had made an empty trip, failed to capture the Battle of Buzuluk.'s tail.

    It is said that the flowers planted intentionally did not bloom, but the willows planted unintentionally made shade. According to Wang Geng's instructions, the first cavalry regiment of the third mixed cavalry brigade, which went north from Orenburg to fill the gap in Kumeltau, gave the Battle of Ufa a perfect ending.  period.

    The man who led the first cavalry regiment to Kumertau was Xiao Shanling, commander of the mixed cavalry brigade. He graduated from the third phase of the Baoding period and was born in 1892. Xiao Shanling was born in a scholarly family.  In order to control the influence of the Hunan Army, he decided to devote himself to the discipline. He graduated from Hunan Army Primary School and Baoding Army Officer School, and first served as the platoon and battalion commander of the Hunan Army.

    Last year, when Bai Chongxi defected to join the Chinese Army from the north of Guangxi, when passing through Hunan, he pulled in his classmate who had become a battalion commander in the Hunan Army and joined the Chinese Army. Originally, this guy was the head of the 12th Mixed Brigade, Bai Chongxi's department.  After it was expanded into the 24th Division of the participating army to garrison Chita, this guy was left in Sun Liangcheng's 1st Armored Division to serve as the brigade commander of the 3rd Mixed Cavalry Brigade.

    Since Li Mingzhong, the chief officer of the South Route roundabout force, is one of the oldest division commanders participating in the war, although the main force of the South Route roundabout army is the third mixed cavalry brigade of Xiaoshan Order, all major and small matters are actually attributed to Li Mingzhong, the commander of the roundabout army.  As a matter of fact, this time the brigade commander Xiao Shanling only brought his own cavalry regiment north to Kumeltau, but he felt very happy and could finally show off his skills on his own.

    The road from Orenburg north to Kumeltau is relatively easy to walk. Since the heavy rains for days are mainly concentrated on the Ufa Plain north of Kumeltau, the southern route is originally close to the Kazakh steppe. Although there are many rivers here,  The surface of the earth is still a relatively dry zone. Although it is cloudy these days, there is not much real rain.

    The 116-kilometer road from Orenburg to Kumeltau set off at 2 pm on July 13. At 10 pm, the main force of the first regiment of the 3rd Cavalry Brigade led by Xiao Shanling entered the town of Kumeltau.  In the center, there is still a baggage squadron left by the Japanese 4th Cavalry Regiment.

    Xiaoshan Ling was also a man who knew soldiers. After the troops entered Kumertau, he sent an advance guard battalion carrying a radio to the direction of the Belaya River overnight, and turned the Belaya River from east to west and then flowed northward.  The river valley in the flat area was monitored.

    When Li Mingzhong led the South Route detachment to go south, in order to establish the Kumeltau defense line, Xiao Shan ordered the reconnaissance battalion to personally walk along the east and west sections of the Belaya River. At that time, it was confirmed that this section of the river valley from west to east had to cross the Great Wall  Troops and heavy weapons were simply out of the question. The mountains were high, the water was deep, and the currents were rapid. There were whirlpools and boulders everywhere. Not to mention finding a suitable place to get into the river, even if we got into the river, we would be swept away by the rapids.

    Even so, Xiao Shanling did not dare to neglect after taking over the defense line. Early in the morning on July 14, he dispatched a new security force on the south bank along the upper reaches of the east-west Belaya River.  The method that Commander Wang Geng taught when he was teaching at the Officer Training Corps was to use the beacon relay method to send out sentries to guard a road section or front line when there was no condition to set up a wired telephone.

    The Xiaoshan Order set up a guard post every 500 meters on the east-west section of the upper reaches of the Belaya River, bringing dry food and water bottles, so that starting from the turning point of the valley 15 kilometers northeast of Kumertau, all the way to the east  Extending to the upper reaches of the Belaya River and into the Ural Mountains, about 40 kilometers of the river, there is a two-person lookout guard post every 500 meters, and four cavalry platoons of nearly 170 people have formed a river defense warning network.

    Since the terrain on the south bank of the upper reaches of the Belaya River is relatively flat, while the north bank is covered with towering mountains. Therefore, as long as the Soviet Red Army is found trying to cross the river in these upstream sections where it is almost impossible to cross the river, the main force of Xiao Shanling's cavalry regiment will have enough  At that time, when the river defense sentry relayed the alarm with gunshots, he arrived in time and intercepted it.

    In the plain area after the Belaya River turns to flow north, from the river valley to the town of Meleuz in the north, a roughly 15-kilometer stretch of river, two cavalry platoons are also responsible for security duties.

    Xiao Shanling, commander of the Third Cavalry Brigade, placed a cavalry battalion in Melieuz, a cavalry battalion in the direction of the river valley, and a cavalry battalion in the middle of the east-west river section of the upper reaches. He led a cavalry battalion in Melieuz.  Uzi and Kumel maneuver in the middle position.
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