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Volume 3 Far East Story Chapter 473: Meeting on a narrow road, the brave wins

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    In the end, Xiao Shanling, the commander of the 3rd Allied Cavalry Brigade, could not withstand the intrusion of Xiao Chuyin, the brigade's lieutenant colonel's combat staff and a graduate of the fifth phase of Baoding.  [Just read the novel~]

    If Yan Junliu did not do his job as the director of the war room of the Allied Forces Headquarters and was a close official of the emperor, he risked his life by parachuting to Kumertau and led the Japanese Fourth Cavalry Regiment to intercept Tukhachevs.  If you have meritorious service.

    So for Xiao Shanling, the brigade commander of the third mixed cavalry brigade of the 1st Allied Armored Division, this time he took the initiative to ask Ying to lead the 1st Cavalry Regiment to fill the gap in the battle line left by the Japanese 4th Cavalry Regiment after it went north.

    "That's not just to wipe the butts of Yan Junliu and the Japanese. Brigadier Xiao Da is on his own, and he is here to make a contribution and capture Tukhachevsky on behalf of the Third Cavalry Brigade.

    Judging from the current situation, if he leads the cavalry regiment to guard the south bank of the Belaya River and blocks Tukhachevsky's way to break out, then it is likely that Yan Junliu and his men will be the ones who take advantage in the end.  The two Japanese cavalry brigades behind Khachevsky.

    This is a cat-and-mouse and hide-and-seek battle between the cavalry units of China, Japan, and the Soviet Union. The strength of the three parties is still about the same. The Japanese cavalry regiment within the coalition forces has three cavalry brigades.  and a field artillery brigade, of which the field artillery brigade has two four-gun mountain artillery squadrons and one four-gun field artillery squadron.

    However, after Shunroku Hata commanded the 4th Cavalry Regiment in Saravat to completely annihilate the 31st Infantry Division of Tukhachevsky's First Army of the Soviet Red Army, in order to rush for time, he sent the regiment's field artillery brigade and logistics troops to  Abandoned in Salavat, captain Yonezawa Kogoro was sent to lead a cavalry brigade to search and pursue westward, while he himself led the remaining two cavalry brigade across the Belaya River and pursued southward along the foot of the Ural Mountains.  .

    In the formation of the coalition forces, the originally weak cavalry units were deliberately strengthened. Normally, a cavalry regiment has three cavalry brigades and a field artillery brigade, one cavalry brigade has four cavalry squadrons, and one cavalry squadron has three cavalry squadrons.  Team, a team is 70 people!  It turns out that a squadron of Japanese cavalry only manages two cavalry squads, and the strength of the troops inside and outside is only one-third lower. The Japanese cavalry in the coalition is much stronger and more substantial than in Japan.  [  point]

    Therefore, the two cavalry brigades under Shunroku Hata, plus the teams directly under the brigade, each have a strength of about 850, adding up to nearly 1,700 people. They lead 1,700 Japanese cavalry to chase at least 2,500 red Cossacks.  As for the cavalry, it must be said that Colonel Hata Shunroku is still quite courageous.

    For Shunroku Hata, since the 4,000-man Fourth Cavalry Regiment can encircle and annihilate more than 6,000 soldiers of the 31st Soviet Infantry Division, and the 600-man cavalry battalion of Li Fugui of the coalition blocked the attack of a cavalry brigade, then  Is it any exaggeration to lead two cavalry brigades with 1,700 cavalry troops to chase Tukhachevsky and a cavalry regiment beside him who are fleeing?  No exaggeration at all!

    Each cavalry squad of the Japanese 4th Cavalry Regiment is equipped with two coalition platoon mortars and three Browning squad machine guns, and each cavalry squadron is equipped with an air-cooled Browning heavy machine gun.  Each brigade also has an 8-gun 81mm caliber mortar squad.

    The actual remaining troops around Tukhachevsky are about 2,700 cavalry. They left a battalion of more than 500 people in the village of Petropavlovka to attract the attention of the coalition forces on the other side, pretending to cross the river, and the rest  Four battalions of cavalry, about 2,000 men, were led by Xia Boyang and headed straight towards the Meleuz Ferry.

    Tukhachevsky himself, at Furmanov's insistence, did not follow the brigade to break out. Instead, he changed his military uniform and mingled with more than 200 cavalrymen from the group army's guard camp led by Furmanov.  , quietly went upstream to the Belaya River. The news was tightly blocked, and only Furmanov, Xia Boyang, Tukhachevsky and the soldiers in the guard camp knew.  [Just read the novel~]

    The nature of the Three Cunning Rabbits is perfectly reflected in Tukhachevsky. Tukhachevsky is ready to go up to the mountains to fight guerrillas. The smaller the target, the less noticeable it is. The old shepherd old man Hamich  Invited to serve as a guide for this 200-man Red Army cavalry, Tukhachevsky even gave himself a pseudonym and called himself Tushka, the bodyguard of the cavalry division political commissar Furmanov.

    Xia Boyang picked a guy from the guard camp who was similar in size and appearance to Tukhachevsky, dressed up as Tukhachevsky, followed him around and pretended to be a real group army commander, giving him orders.  Keep your mouth shut and don't say anything. Acting as a good commander is this guy's only mission.

    In any case, if the remnants of the First Army can break through the encirclement, the old partners Xia Boyang and Furmanov insist that Tukhachevsky, the commander of the group army, must be among them. Otherwise, if the commander Tukha  If Chevsky was captured or killed, the First Army's breakout would be meaningless.

      For Xia Boyang and Furmanov, the rest of the cavalry division risked their lives to send Tukhachevsky out of the enemy's encirclement. It didn't matter that the First Army did not have Xia Boyang and Furmanov.  But without Tukhachevsky, the founder of the First Army, Xia Boyang and Furmanov would not be able to see the folks on the left bank of the Volga River.

    At 14:00 on July 14, 1918, in a valley twelve kilometers across from the Meleuz Ferry, Xia Boyang led more than 2,000 cavalrymen and encountered the third mixed cavalry brigade of the Allied Forces on the way to the Meleuz Ferry.  A battalion of more than 500 Chinese cavalrymen led by lieutenant colonel Xiao Chuyin heard gunshots in the valley. The green mountains and green valleys witnessed the imminent cavalry battle between China and Russia.

    Since the coalition cavalry led by Xiao Chuyin had been in a state of high vigilance in searching and advancing after crossing the Belaya River at Mereuz Ferry, Chu Dashan, commander of the second battalion of the first regiment of the cavalry brigade, led the vanguard company through the entire battalion.  One kilometer ahead, Xiao Chuyin followed with the main force of three companies, so Chu Dashan's vanguard company was the first to notice the movement of the Soviet Red Army cavalry brigade approaching from the opposite side with the sound of horse hooves.

    This guy didn't dare to neglect. He ordered the entire company to dismount and seize advantageous terrain on both sides of the valley, deploying all machine guns and mortars. He also ordered the messenger to quickly send a message to Xiao Chuyin behind: It was discovered that the Soviet Russian cavalry brigade was running westward from the other side of the valley.  Come, listen to the noise and look at the dust. There are no less than 3,000 or 4,000 Russian cavalry on the opposite side!

    Not to mention the courage of the battalion commander Chu Dashan, who fought in a roundabout way on the south road from Ufa, Xiao Shanling's third mixed cavalry brigade has never been able to fight a big battle, from the brigade commander Xiao Shanling himself to the regiment commanders and battalion company commanders below.  They were all screaming with pain, and the battle reports from the Ufa Allied Forces Headquarters came one after another. Today it was about how the 2nd Armored Brigade annihilated the three divisions of the Soviet Fifth Army's Northern Route Army and captured tens of thousands. Tomorrow it was about the Russian cavalry.  One division and one brigade destroyed two enemy divisions.

    Even Li Fugui's battalion, which was left in a sterile place like Sterli Tamak Town, turned the tide and showed its face in a big way, bringing down Tukhachevsky, the pride of the Soviet Eastern Front Army, and the guy below him.  Xia Boyang, the cavalry division commander, had his nose bruised and his face so badly beaten that he rushed over and retreated.

    Li Fugui¡¯s battalion is standing still in Tukhachevsky, Sterli Tamak Town, with a cavalry brigade and an infantry division. Damn it, isn¡¯t this battalion inferior to Li Fugui¡¯s battalion?  What's more, the Soviet and Russian Red Army cavalry on the opposite side are already bereaved dogs. Everyone is shouting and beating them. How afraid is Chu Dashan?

    Looking around, the terrain was favorable. Although Chu Dashan only brought his own vanguard company, he had no fear at all. This happened to be a long valley running from northwest to southeast, with a length of more than ten kilometers. Chu Dashan  The encounter site with the opposing Soviet Red Army cavalry was exactly in the middle, at least five kilometers away from the mouth of the valley on both sides. The valley was only 200 meters wide. It was lined with trees on both sides and the mountains were steep and difficult to climb up. It was an ambush.  The perfect location.

    Chu Dashan asked the first company commander to lead two platoons to guard the north slope, and he led three platoons to guard the south slope. Light and heavy machine guns and mortars were quickly put into position. When the Soviet Red Army vanguard battalion crashed into within 1,000 meters, Chu Dashan's 6  The mortars belonging to the door platoon opened fire, and a series of mortar shells chirped like sparrows and sang songs before they smashed over. Then an air-cooled Browning heavy machine gun in the third row rang out.  They swept down a large area of ??cavalry from the Soviet Red Army's avant-garde battalion opposite like leeks.

    Xia Boyang's 2,000-man cavalry team had nearly 4,000 horses since they were ridden by one man and two men. No wonder that Shunroku Hata, who was chasing down from the north, looked at the horse's hoof prints and realized that Tukhachevsky still had 4 horses left by his side.  , 5,000 cavalry, no wonder Chu Dashan could tell that the opponent had at least 4,000 cavalry.

    The avant-garde battalion of the Soviet Red Army suddenly encountered an attack from across the valley. For a moment, the troops were huddled together in chaos. At this time, when the enemy's situation was unclear and they were ambushed, retreating first to stabilize their position was the first choice of all commanders. Xia Boyang  Yelansky, the commander of the first regiment of the second brigade of the cavalry division, led the vanguard battalion.

    Caught off guard, the avant-garde cavalry battalion led by Yelansky was ambushed by coalition mortar shells and heavy machine gun bullets, and half of the company's troops were wiped out. The men shouted desperately and finally restrained the team and retreated within the range of the opponent's mortar fire.  Outside, the ground in front was littered with corpses and wounded.

    Yelansky had experience fighting under the town of Sterli Tamak. When he heard that the opponent only had one heavy machine gun and a few mortars, he was heartbroken and ordered the first and third companies to occupy the valley.  On the hillsides on both sides, he ordered the messengers to go back and deliver a message to the division commander. The avant-garde battalion was ambushed by about a company of coalition forces. The opponent had heavy machine guns and mortars. Please give instructions on the next step.

    Yelansky did not dare to be reckless and let his vanguard battalion rush forward along the valley. Who knew how many troops the coalition forces on the opposite side had. If they were ambushed, the narrow terrain of the valley would be unfavorable. Then there would be people crowded behindIt's difficult to turn around in front of me!

    Division Commander Xia Boyang, who led the main cavalry one kilometer behind the leading battalion, quickly caught up with his guard company before the sound of gunfire and mortars rang out in front, before the ordering troops could return.
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