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Volume Three Far East Stories Chapter 570 (Part 1) Westward Advance?

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    July 22, 1918 12:00 Nizhny Novgorod Volga Front Headquarters

    In fact, Voroshilov, as a representative figure among the senior generals of Tsaritsyn and the Southern Front, has considerable military talent. After Moscow captured Joseph, it made personnel appointments for Tsaritsyn and the Southern Front.  , is quite tolerant and high-profile, which makes Voroshilov, the newly appointed deputy commander of the Volga Military District and Front Army of the Soviet Red Army.  The Second Military Commissioner sincerely wants to make a good performance and win this battle cleanly.

    In Voroshilov's view, the Soviet Eastern Front committed the taboo of stationing troops under fortified cities to fight attrition, whether when Muravyov was the commander or when Vacetis was the commander.  , Kazan is a fortress on the east bank of the Volga River. If you want to advance eastward, you will not be able to continue marching without conquering Kazan.

    But for Voroshilov, from Ukraine to Tsaritsyn and now Nizhny Novgorod, his tactical thinking has gradually shifted from emphasizing the gains and losses of one city and one land to waiting for opportunities to annihilate the opponent's main force.  The direction is changing. For Voroshilov, it is more valuable to eliminate Kolchak's main force and continuously weaken his power than to simply conquer Kazan at a huge cost.

    In Voroshilov's plan for the Kazan Defense Campaign, resisting the temptation to lure the enemy deeper is the focus of the first phase of the operation. Of course, the troops defending the front line must do enough to ensure that Gore cannot  Chak's White Guards advanced too smoothly. They had to find a way to inflict pain on the opponent, but they couldn't retreat without a fight, allowing the opponent to rush forward unscrupulously and beat them up.

    Finally, Kolchak should not be suspicious and dare not let the main force penetrate deep. If the Soviet Red Army's troops defending the south bank of Kazan concentrated the strength of the 7 divisions of the Third Army to defend the bridgehead of the Volga River in a circular position,  Just like Kamenev said before, as long as the position is moved back and away from the bombardment range of the opponent's fortress artillery, it is possible to defend it, at least it will never be cooked in a pot in less than half a day.

    However, guarding the south bank of Kazan could not eliminate the main force of the White Guards in large numbers. Instead, they were repeatedly ravaged by the opponent's heavy artillery under inferior artillery fire. The casualties of the infantry were obviously not small. Such an all-out strategy was no longer Voroshilov's first choice.  , he was determined to use the Third Army's continuous resistance as bait to lead Kolchak's main force from Kazan all the way to Nizhny Novgorod.

    Cheboksary, an important town on the south bank of the Volga, is actually just his abandoned son. Of course, the Third Army will continue to resist after it withdraws to Cheboksary, but it will not receive new reinforcements. As for how to fight, it will be delayed.  Kolchak's attack should not cause too many casualties to his own troops. This is the task of Berzin of the Third Army, not Voroshilov's!

    Voroshilov's innermost plan was to build Nizhny Novgorod into the next Tsaritsyn, and defend the victory of the Tsaritsyn battle three times, allowing Voroshilov and Chernavin to win the battle.  We have full confidence and experience in the defensive battles of big cities, and the backbone troops of the three main armies of the Southern Front stood out in the battle to defend Tsaritsyn and merged into the army!

    Voroshilov was playing a big game. The fifth group army was rebuilt directly in Nizhny Novgorod. Rifles and anti-aircraft guns purchased from Germany were continuously transported to Nizhny Novgorod from the rear. 40,000  The repatriated Tsarist Russian prisoners of war have begun to be integrated into the Fifth Army.

    As for the First Army, which was rebuilt and assembled in Saransk, although Tukhachevsky still has no news, 30,000 Soviet Red Army prisoners of war repatriated from the coalition prisoner-of-war camps on the right bank of the Volga River will also arrive in a few days.  And incorporated into the First Army of the Soviet Red Army.

    In the plan of the Deputy Commander of the Front, Nizhny Novgorod was used to rely on the city and ring railway lines and armored trains to rebuild Sergey Sergeyevich Kamenev's Fifth Army.  The main 5 divisions, the 4 temporarily organized workers' divisions to strengthen Nizhny Novgorod, and the 3 workers' garrison divisions reinforced from the direction of Moscow started a decisive battle with Kolchak's main force under the city of Nizhny Novgorod!

    At that time, at least four remaining divisions of the Third Army will also withdraw to Nizhny Novgorod to participate in the defensive battle. In this way, the Volga Front will concentrate about 160,000 troops from the Third and Fifth Army in Nizhny Novgorod.  , and the total total of Kolchak's main force on the opposite side was only 200,000 people. What's more, during the battle of crossing the river and advancing westward, the Third Army's continuous resistance could consume at least 10,000 to 20,000 troops of the opponent.

    The Nizhny Novgorod arsenal is working overtime to produce Maxim heavy machine guns, rifles, and machine gun bullets. Although the production capacity of 76mm mountain field guns is only less than 20 units a month, the production of shells can definitely meet the needs.  And on average, two new cannons can be added to the defenders' strength in three days.

    What's more, when the opponent attacks, the Maxim heavy machine gun is the protagonist of defending the city, not to mention there are 6Assisted by the strength of the artillery battalion.  In fact, artillerymen from 10 artillery batteries originally belonging to the Moscow city defense force also came to Nizhny Novgorod along the railway to participate in city defense.

    The operational plan formulated by the Central Committee of the Soviet Union and Moscow for Voroshilov to lure the enemy deeper and launch a decisive battle with the main forces in Nizhny Novgorod and Kolchak was unanimously adopted after a small-scale debate, and Moscow also learned from it.  We have learned the lesson of the Battle of Ufa, as the saying goes: do not trust those you employ and do not trust those you trust!  That's it.

    Since the troops of Voroshilov and Chernavin created huge and brilliant victories in the three battles to defend Tsaritsyn, this victory should be replicated in any city similar to Tsaritsyn, Cheboksary  The only reason it was not chosen as such a battlefield was that Cheboksary was too small and the troops could not move away from it, and the other was that it was close to Kazan and far from Moscow.

    If the battlefield is chosen in Cheboksary, Kolchak's main force will probably turn around and withdraw if there is any sign that something is wrong. After all, it is only 120 kilometers away, and the battlefield is chosen in Nizhny Novgorod, one is against high altitude.  As far as Erchak is concerned, Nizhny Novgorod, a heavy industrial base and armament base, is bound to win. Secondly, Nizhny Novgorod is still 220 kilometers away from Cheboksary, plus the previous 120 kilometers.  kilometer.

    This 340-kilometer road can wear down Kolchak¡¯s troops so much that he won¡¯t be able to run back even if he wants to!

    What's more, destroying the railway to delay the opponent's attack and retreat is much less expensive than blowing up the Volga River Bridge, and it will be much easier to repair in the future. After the Third Army retreats westward, from the south bank of Kazan to Nizhny Novgo  The 320-kilometer railway line in Rhodes will be riddled with holes by the engineers of the Third Army.

    The 340 kilometers of damaged railway from Kazan to Nizhny Novgorod, coupled with the constant resistance of Berzin's Third Army, made Voroshilov think that Kolchak was using the Cossack cavalry as the vanguard to pursue him.  There will be no time for more than a week to catch up. Of course, Voroshilov's order to Berzin is to stay on guard for at least ten days!

    Within ten days, the re-established Fifth Army of the Volga Front will be expanded back to eight divisions, and the remaining five worker divisions will be used to supplement the Third Army, even if the Third Army successfully withdraws to Nizhny Novgorod.  Rhodes has only 3 divisions left, so the total strength of the Soviet Red Army defending Nizhny Novgorod will exceed 160,000.

    In the southwest, the rebuilt First Army of the Volga Front in Saranks can be restored to at least 50,000 people, plus the restored and rebuilt First Cavalry Army of Budyonny, which has at least 20,000 people, plus the left bank of the Volga River from Samar  The four divisions of Chernavin's Eighth Army that were pulled to the front line in Simbirsk, plus the eight divisions of the main force of Gidis's Tenth Army from Simbirsk to the other side of Bolgar.

    The total strength of the Soviet Volga Front will reach 350,000, and form a huge ring of encirclement. When Kolchak's main force of 200,000 White Guards was beaten to death in Nizhny Novgorod, Gidis  The 10th Army led by him will quickly move north to cut off Kolchak's retreat, and wait for an opportunity to conquer Kazan, which has weak defenses. It will draw fuel from the bottom of the cauldron and completely eliminate Kolchak's regime!
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