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Volume 3 Far East Story Chapter 580: An Attack that Failed

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    "Tell the telephone operators to make urgent repairs and send correspondents to the artillery positions. Even if there is only one cannon left, they are not allowed to stop firing! Tell them to fire quickly and then move their positions!" Division Commander Qupov yelled through gritted teeth.

    "Division Commander, approximately two battalions of the enemy have broken through the defense line of the 1st Regiment. The enemy's artillery fire is too fierce and the reinforcements of the 1st Brigade cannot get up!" A combat staff officer shouted from the lookout window.

    Chupov rushed to the lookout window on the right side of the division's shelter. He raised his telescope and looked to the southwest. He saw artillery shells falling to the ground and exploding on a front line more than 2 kilometers wide in the 1st Brigade and Regiment. The smoke was filled, and his sight was  It's not very clear, but at least you can see that on the middle section of the defense line, there has been a continuous influx of White Guard infantry, which looks like at least nearly a thousand people.

    "Damn it, ask the commander of the 2nd Brigade to lead two battalions to counterattack from the right wing and eat up these enemies. Political Commissar, please call the front commander of the group army and request the deployment of artillery support from the armored train of the 2nd Division on the right wing. If you don't do it,  I can't stand it anymore!" Chubov pulled the military cap off his forehead and threw it on the ground, then shouted towards the door,

    "Alexei, take the division headquarters security battalion up and block the gap with the reinforcements from the second brigade!"

    "Follow your orders! Comrade Division Commander!" Alexei Dardanevich Chupov, the battalion commander of the guard battalion of the 1st Ural Infantry Division headquarters, took out his gun and pointed at the guard battalion hidden in the trench outside.  The soldiers shouted, "The political commissar and the first company will stay to defend the division headquarters. The rest of the people will follow me and drive the White Guards bastards out of the position!"

    As he said this, he took the lead and rushed out along the traffic ditch. There was a shout of "Ula" behind him. More than 300 young men with batons from the 2nd, 3rd and 4th companies of the guard battalion raised their weapons and followed their young battalion commander.  Got out.

    "Division Commander, the call to the artillery position has been connected. They only have one gun left. The rest of the artillery squads and artillery have suffered all casualties. They are adjusting the gun positions at the moment and will be able to fire soon!" a combat staff officer reported.  .

    Chupov looked through the telescope and saw that the artillery fire of the White Guards was still intensively bombarding both sides of the breakthrough of his right-wing defense line, making it difficult for the reinforcements of the 1st Brigade Headquarters to reinforce the core position of the train station in the center to the right wing.  Reinforcements from the two battalions of the second brigade had already arrived from the back of their own position, but they only blocked the enemy's breakthrough. The soldiers from both sides were mixed together at the north of the breakthrough, and they were killed.  Rivers of blood flowed, and casualties increased dramatically.

    Fortunately, because the troops of both sides were fighting together, the White Guards' absolutely superior artillery did not dare to continue bombarding the breakthrough to avoid accidentally injuring their own people. The White Guards' artillery fire had been transferred to the two wings, suppressing the friendly forces on the left and right of the breakthrough of the 1st Brigade and the 1st Regiment.  adjacent position.

    The follow-up troops of about 2 battalions of the White Guards continued to rush toward the breakthrough one after another on the south side of the battle line. The remainder of the first regiment desperately concentrated firepower on both wings of the breakthrough to block the enemy's follow-up troops. However, after  Under the suppression of enemy artillery fire, the firepower in the trenches of the Soviet Red Army was obviously relatively weak. Seeing that the enemy's subsequent two battalions had rushed to the vicinity of the breakthrough.

    At this time, in the breach, three battalions of White Guard infantry and two battalions of Soviet Red Army infantry reinforced by the second brigade were fighting together. The number of people on both sides decreased rapidly and casualties continued to increase. In less than ten minutes, only the Soviet Red Army remained.  It looks like a battalion. Due to the large number of people on the White Guard side, there are less than 2 battalions left. The enemy's follow-up troops are already close to the breakthrough. Further away, an enemy Cossack cavalry battalion has left its position and is waving towards the breakthrough here.  He rushed over with his saber drawn.

    Seeing that the reinforcements of the 2nd Brigade were about to be unable to withstand the enemy's onslaught, more than three companies of the division's security battalion finally arrived on the battlefield under the leadership of battalion commander Alexei Dadanievich Chupov.  The joining of 300 dragons in the battle boosted the spirit of the 2nd Brigade Commander Bisov who led the remaining battalion to struggle with the enemy. The two sides joined forces and finally overwhelmed the attacking White Guards, leaving only two opponents.  Nearly half of the battalion was quickly wiped out. The remaining ones no longer had the courage to continue fighting to the death, so they shouted, turned around and retreated south.

    The commander of the second brigade, Bisov, worked hard and took the remaining battalion and the division guard battalion of Xiaochupov to drive the enemy out of the right-wing position of the Soviet Red Army and seal the gap. However,  The enemy's reinforcements, two battalions of infantry and one battalion of cavalry, had rushed to a distance of less than 100 meters in front of the breach. The White Guards battalion, which ran back from the breach and fled, also turned around and continued under the pressure and supervision of the commander.  Pounced over.

    At this time, there were only a few hundred Soviet Red Army soldiers left on each side of the first regiment. On the newly sealed breakthrough in the middle, the remaining troops of the two battalions of Bisov and Xiaochubov only totaled 500 people.  , and the enemy on the opposite side took the opportunity to pounce on at least 1,500 troops, and the artillery fire from the rear of the White Guards continued to spray ragingly on the Soviet Red Army.On the defense line, people can't hold their heads up. Every minute, several lives are taken away by ruthless shells and shrapnel.

    "Damn it! Why hasn't the armored train arrived yet? I have to use my life to fill it! Pass my order and have all the reserves of the second brigade and second regiment go up to reinforce the right-wing position! Ask Bishov to move the enemy closer.  Fight, otherwise you will be hit by enemy shells in vain!" the division commander Qupov shouted with a livid face.

    As the main division of the Third Army and the commander of the 1st Ural Infantry Division, Chupov felt for the first time the threat that the right-wing position might not be able to hold. As the second brigade in reserve, the first regiment had already been led by the brigade political commissar.  We arrived at the left defense line with reinforcements, and the second regiment was brought up by brigade commander Bishov just now with 2 battalions. The remaining three battalions are equivalent to the last reserves of the entire division. If we continue to fight like this, our position will be  Sooner or later, the White Guards would have to break through. Damn, I don¡¯t know what Kolchak was thinking. In just such a long time, there must be at least several thousand bodies of the White Guards dumped in front of his position, but he didn¡¯t feel bad at all!

    The 1st Ural Infantry Division had typically suffered nearly half of its casualties up to this point. Without follow-up support, especially fire support from armored trains, the battle was about to slip away. Division Commander Chubov's heart felt like it was being stabbed by an invisible force.  My hands were clenched so tightly that I couldn't breathe!  It is impossible to fight without machine guns and artillery, and it is absolutely impossible to fight with machine guns alone. Artillery is the god of the battlefield!

    "Division Commander, Division Commander, our armored train reinforcements are coming! Hey! Good fight! Now the enemy is dizzy! Good! The Cossack cavalry turned around and retreated The White Guard infantry also withdrew! Good! Fight hard and chase.  Knock their ass off!" Xiao Huofu, the division political commissar, shouted excitedly at the observation window, and several staff officers hugged each other and cheered.

    Chupov looked through the telescope and saw an armored train coming from the northwest. The guns and cannons on it were firing. The heavy machine guns and cannons beat the attacking enemy to pieces and fell backwards. The 1,500-man team collapsed in the same way.  After retreating, the shells fired from countless armored trains exploded in the crowd of White Guards, overturning countless people and causing blood and flesh to fly everywhere. Waves of cheers of Ulla could be heard from the Soviet Red Army positions on this side of the position.

    "The armored train! It's finally here!" Division Commander Chupov's eyes couldn't help but become a little moist. The position of the 1st Ural Infantry Division finally arrived in the direction of the 2nd Division. An armored train with 18 carriages came over.  After stabilizing with reinforcements, the artillery fire of the White Guards also became sparse at this time. Of the more than 1,500 cavalrymen who had just launched the offensive, only more than 1,000 were withdrawn, and the remaining 500 or so fell on the nearly 1,500-meter gap between the two army positions.  On open ground.

    July 23, 1918, 10:30, the former enemy headquarters in Kolchak, five kilometers southeast of Chivelisk

    "Report to the Commander-in-Chief, the telephone number of the 1st Division Headquarters, the attack launched by the 1st Kazan Infantry Division on the left flank failed. The enemy's armored train arrived on the battlefield at the critical moment and regained the battlefield initiative. The 2nd Brigade of the 1st Division was lost.  Nearly 1,500 people!" a combat staff officer put down the phone and reported.

    "I saw it, a bunch of trash. Why was the First Division so afraid of wolves in front and tigers in the rear when it charged? The three battalions in front had already charged in. Why were the two battalions at the back so behind? Also, the third battalion of the Don River Cavalry  What does the division's cavalry regiment do? Why don't they rush in at once?"

    Kolchak, the supreme consul of Russia and commander-in-chief of the White Guards, stood next to the woods on the edge of a highland, looking through the telescope at the battlefield situation ahead. The railway line was winding under the highland, and his armored train was parked below.  However, the telephone lines have been pulled up, and a tent has been set up in the woods, making it look like his former enemy headquarters.

    In a morning's attack, within two and a half hours Kolchak used three infantry divisions to take turns to attack the Soviet Red Army positions in Chevelisk. The scale of the attacks launched successively on the right, center and left range ranged from battalion level to regiment level.  Level, just now the First Division launched an attack with brigade-level troops while strengthening a cavalry regiment, but the result was a failure.

    The Assault Regiment of the Second Brigade of the 1st Kazan Infantry Division suffered one battalion casualties before and after attacking and approaching the Soviet position. The remaining three battalions of infantry tore open a hole and rushed in under the cover of their own artillery fire.  However, the two battalions of the second regiment of the reserve force and the two battalions of the cavalry regiment did not follow up in time. They watched in shock as the other party continued to reinforce from the rear, annihilating most of their three battalions and driving them out.

    What followed was a tragic scene. The White Guard follow-up troops, about a regiment of infantry and cavalry, who rushed forward as if they had just woken up from a dream, were exposed to the rapid fire of the enemy's armored train and suffered heavy casualties. They had to crawl back withdrew.  From the starting position, the offensive failed completely, with at least more than 1,500 casualties.

    From the morning to now, the three infantry divisions of the White Guards have launched multiple offensives in three directions, and the cumulative casualties have exceeded 6,000.  On the opposite side of the Soviet Red Army's position, although the Soviet Red Army suffered heavy casualties, at least the position was still standing.?Made Kolchak quite frustrated!
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