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Volume 3 Far East Story Chapter 579 (Part 1) Soldiers coming to stop them

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    At 8:15 on July 23, 1918, the former enemy headquarters in Kolchak was about 5 kilometers south of Chivelisk.

    "Report to the Commander-in-Chief that the two brigades of the 3rd Don Cavalry Division failed to complete their mission. They lacked artillery. The Soviet Red Army established field defenses based on the railway line. The railway embankment protruding from the road was a natural trench, and the opponent  There are armored trains to help with mobile defense, and the threat from heavy machine guns and artillery is considerable. The two brigades of the 3rd Don Cavalry Division have each lost nearly a thousand people! They have now withdrawn to rest and are requesting artillery companies for support!"

    A White Guard combat staff officer reported with the two telegrams he had just received.

    Due to the rush of time, the communication company's wired telephone had not yet had time to catch up with the White Guards cavalry brigade, so it could only rely on radio communication. In addition, plus the time for receiving reports and translating messages, the distance of more than ten kilometers was much longer than the traditional messengers.  You can't go any faster on horseback.

    "Has the cavalry division figured out the strength and deployment of the opponent's guarding flanks? How many armored trains are there? How many cannons and machine guns? I don't believe that it can defend from Chivelisk to Cheboksary and Alexandrovna.  So tight? The depth is more than 36 kilometers. How many troops are needed to defend it? Berzin¡¯s third army only has a few divisions? "

    Although Kolchak's beard had just been shaved, the outline of his face was obviously thinner, with faint dark circles under his eyes. Obviously, this day and night of pursuit had tired not only the White Guards officers, but also the whole person who took the lead.  His Excellency the Supreme Consul of Russia.

    At this moment, his former enemy headquarters was also located in a train carriage. The 120-kilometer railway had been damaged at least 30 times by the retreating Soviet Third Army. His engineers had almost not slept all night, and they were stunned all the way.  The more than thirty railway lines that were blown up were repaired one by one. If he had known this, his five infantry divisions could have slept in Kazan until this morning and then taken the train to come along the repaired railway lines.

    Of course, the reason why we did not choose such a comfortable combat method is because the harassment by the Soviet Red Army guerrillas has not stopped in the past 24 hours. If we only send engineers instead of the main force of the infantry division to search and advance along the two wings of the railway line, I am afraid that this will happen.  The railway was repaired in front and then destroyed by the Soviet guerrillas. These Bolsheviks were not soft-hearted at all when it came to committing evil acts. The number of personnel in their own engineer regiment this night was at least more than 200, all of whom were called by Su Ye from nowhere.  Cold shot.

    Even now, on the 100-kilometer railway from Kazan to Chivelisk, there are no less than one regiment of White Guard troops left to protect the road, and armored trains are patrolling continuously. However, due to the railway being repaired ahead of schedule, it has been repaired earlier than expected.  It was beyond the expectations of the Soviet Red Army on the opposite side.

    Therefore, on the Cheboksary Alexandrovna front line in Chivilisk, the forces Kolchak could concentrate were not only five infantry divisions and a third Don cavalry division, but two elite divisions in Kazan  The Cossack Infantry Division can be reinforced by train at any time, and the trip will only take an hour and a half at most.

    The convenience and speed of the railway strengthened Kolchak's determination to attack westward along the railway line. As for the Western Route Army led by Sergey Nikolayevich Dimilev on the north bank, it had been defeated a day ago.  He ordered to abandon the battle plan of forcibly crossing the river at the Alexandrovna Cheboksary line. Kolchak's new order to Dimilev was to lead the Western Route Army westward along the northern bank of Volga and outflank it to  Go to the rear of Cheboksary, cross the river from Kozmodemyansk, and then cut off Cheboksary¡¯s back road to the south!

    Moreover, Kolchak also had a backup plan. Once the Soviet Red Army in Cheboksary on the south bank thought that the White Guards on the north bank had left and would no longer cross the river from Alexandrovna to Cheboksary, they would start from the east.  The middle route army led by Roman Mikhailovich Krasilniko, coming from the north bank, will appear at the original crossing point of the west route army at any time.

    At that time, the White Guard's center army will need to make a time lag according to the battlefield situation, cross the river in one fell swoop to disrupt the defensive deployment of the Soviet Third Army, and before the main force of this army retreats to Nizhny Novgorod, it will be surrounded and annihilated in Chiviliskche.  The iron triangle area of ??Boksary and Alexandrovna!

    Kolchak adjusted the campaign deployment in this way mainly because he listened to the advice of Chief of Staff Hastings. Admiral Guillaume Nikolayevich Hastings was born in St. Petersburg in 1874.  An aristocratic family, it is said that their ancestors have dual bloodlines from the British royal family and the French royal family. Hastings's father, like Pepe's father, both served as palace attendants to Tsar Nicholas II. One was a rear admiral and the other  He is a major general in the army.

    Of course, Hastings was able to gain Kolchak's trust and reuse, not only because he was a classmate of Kolchak's at the Petersburg Naval Academy, but also because Hastings had always been in close contact with Kolchak since graduation.  Erchak fought side by side, one was the captain, the other was the deputy captain, one was the commander of the Black Sea Fleet, and the other was the chief of staff of the fleet.When Kolchak returned from exile in the United States, Hastings followed him without hesitation.

    Originally, if there was a literary and a military person around Kolchak, then the literary person was Vasily Nikolayevich Pepelyaev, the Prime Minister of the Cabinet, and the military person was Guillaume Nicol  Lajevich Hastings, the Chief of General Staff of the All-Russian Provisional Government.

    Of course, now Kolchak, the Prime Minister of the All-Russian Provisional Government, has betrayed everyone's common cause and turned into the Prime Minister of the Volga Federation. He has also taken away hundreds of thousands of troops.  Tingsi's heart is forever aching.

    Of course, Hastings also comforted the top consul in Russia in private. As the saying goes, eggs cannot be put in one basket. If Pepe becomes the Prime Minister of the Volga Federation, our strength will not be weakened, but will become stronger.

    Kolchak naturally understood what Hastings meant, but he was not optimistic that Pepelyaev would lend a helping hand when he needed it in the future. Everything was under the control of the Allied Powers and the King of China.

    I heard that the Chinese king not only recognized multiple nationalities, he even openly assumed the title of commander-in-chief of the Volga Federation¡¯s armed forces, and also awarded military ranks and medals to the Russian generals of the Volga Federation. Look at this style, I¡¯m afraid that  The uncrowned king of Asia, he also wants to be the uncrowned king of the Volga Federation in the future!

    Looking back, Hastings, the Chief of General Staff of the All-Russian Provisional Government, worked hard for the survival and growth of the Kolchak regime. He advocated changing the original combat plan and allowing the Western Route Army to continue its westward campaign.  Advance, the Central Route Army will make up for it with a time difference, the purpose is to give the Russian Third Army, which runs as fast as a rabbit, the illusion that there is a fighter plane that can deal with Kolchak's East Route Army alone!
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