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    "Chief of Staff, how about letting the 3rd Kazan Infantry Division launch another attack on the opponent's left defense line?" Kolchak looked through the telescope at the front line as his southwest artillery group smashed the opponent's armored train like a dead snake.  He said with a sudden thought.

    "Alexander Vasilyevich, in my opinion, it is better to have the 2nd Kazan Division and the 3rd Division send a regiment of troops at the same time to launch a feint attack on the enemy in front of them. In addition, the 3rd Don Cavalry Division on both flanks  Can the two cavalry regiments once again carry out outflanking and detour combat missions?" Hastings pondered.

    "The cavalry regiment of the Third Division? They are like a mouse seeing a cat when they see the armored train. I can't see it. The cavalry lacks artillery and cannot compete with the armored train. They sacrifice in vain and destroy their morale.

    Simply, let all the second brigade of the 3rd Cavalry Division be concentrated on our left wing. After we kill the opponent's armored train, under the cover of two clusters of artillery fire, we use the cavalry to launch an attack, tear apart the opponent's right wing defense line, and attack from behind.  Go to the north of Chivelisk and catch them all!  "Kolchak's mind was spinning very fast, and another strategy came up in the blink of an eye!

    "Okay, as you wish, Your Excellency, Commander-in-Chief, if we take Chivelisk, the defense of the iron triangle of the opponent will be completely broken. I think Berzin has no other choice but to retreat. We are on the west road of the north bank.  Can the Army and the Center Army be ready to cross the river?" Hastings asked.

    "There is no rush. After all the opponent's armored trains have gathered in Chivelisk, we will have the Western Route Army and the Central Route Army launch a river-crossing campaign in Cheboksary and Alexandrovna at the same time. In this way, the opponent will not be able to look at each other from the beginning to the end, and will completely collapse.  Yes!" Kolchak said confidently.

    At the same time, Soviet Russia

    At 10:45 on July 23, 1918, about 15 kilometers northwest of Chivelisk, the former enemy headquarters of the Soviet Third Army

    "Karl Ivanovich, the armored train regiment that reinforced Chivelisk failed to withdraw smoothly. It turned out that Kolchak ambushed an artillery group opposite our right-wing defense line, with at least six artillery batteries of artillery. The armored train group  The regiment was suddenly attacked by the opponent's intensive firepower and hit the power locomotive. Now it has lost its mobility.

    The stopped armored train is trying its best to engage in an artillery battle with the opponent's artillery group, but it has suffered heavy losses. It is estimated that it can last for 20 minutes at most.  The First Iron Regiment and the First Division were both asking for assistance on the phone."

    Group Army Chief of Staff Merzheninov put down the phone and said to Commander Berzin solemnly.

    "Order the 2nd Armored Train Regiment to rush to Qivelisk's aid urgently and concentrate firepower to knock out the opponent's artillery!" Berzin frowned.

    "Comrade Commander, as a result, the northwest defense line of the Second Ural Infantry Division will be empty. There is only one armored train left to take care of the 36-kilometer defense line from Cheboksary to Chivilisk. If the enemy comes from  What to do when we cross the river on the north bank of Cheboksary? And if the enemy¡¯s cavalry brigade makes another roundabout attack, I¡¯m afraid we won¡¯t be able to handle it!¡±

    "Lyuba Mikhailov cannot hold Chivelisk. This iron triangle defense cannot be defeated at all. First, send the 2nd Armored Regiment to reinforce it. One of our armored vehicles is equivalent to 3 artillery companies and a heavy machine gun battalion.  , even if only half of the artillery of the Iron Armored Regiment is left, our nearly 5 artillery companies may not suffer a loss against the opponent's 6 artillery companies, and we can find a way to hang the carriages of the Iron Armored Regiment on the locomotives of the 2nd Iron Armored Regiment, giving  Drag it away from the battlefield!"

    Berzin, the commander of the Soviet Third Army, obviously thought carefully and made his determination quickly. Of course, if, as Chief of Staff Merzheninov feared, Kolchak's White Guard West Route Army would be on the north bank.  If they initiate a river crossing, then the Third Army will have no choice but to retreat across the board, but even if it retreats, Chivelisk must hold on until the 29th Infantry Division and the 4th Infantry Division on the northeastern defense line have withdrawn before giving up.

    The so-called battlegrounds for military strategists refer to the core positions like Chivelisk that can affect the whole body. In fact, at the most intense moment of the Chivelisk war, Berzin did not forget the missing Gorcha on the north bank of the Volga River.  As soon as the Kexi Route Army and the Middle Route Army cross the river, they will be ready to retreat across the board. The question is, where is the other side hiding?  Should we cross the river or not?

    On the morning of July 23, 1918, Kolchak commanded five infantry divisions and one cavalry division, and launched a fierce battle with the Soviet Third Army in the area with Chivelisk as the core. The two sides competed with each other in wits and courage.  With little difference in strength and firepower, the Soviet Third Army on the defensive side had a relatively long front line, which caused the 1st Ural Infantry Division that was entrenched in Chivelisk to fall into a bitter battle.

    The 2nd and 4th Ural Infantry Divisions on both flanks were composed ofEach has to guard a 15-kilometer-long front, so it cannot provide greater support to the 1st Division in terms of strength. However, Chubov's 1st Ural Infantry Division, although the core position it guards is only five kilometers wide, has to  After enduring the attacks of three White Guard infantry divisions for a whole morning, and repelling the fifth White Guard attack with the help of armored trains, the 1st Ural Infantry Division had exhausted all the strength of the 2nd Brigade as a reserve force.  , the casualties of the entire division have exceeded half.

    Among them, more than 2,000 people were killed and more than 3,000 were injured. The attacking White Guards were not much better. At least 3,000 people were killed and 4,000 were injured. In the artillery battle in the southwest, the Soviet-Russian armored train group failed to survive the armored 2  With the reinforcements of the regiment, they left the battlefield, because shortly after the reinforcements of the Second Iron Armored Regiment from the Soviet Union, the 7 artillery companies of the White Guards' central cluster joined the artillery battle in the southwest after moving their positions. This made the artillery comparison between the two sides become that of the White Guards.  The firepower of 13 artillery batteries hit 5 artillery batteries of the Soviet Red Army.

    Seeing that the situation was not good, the commander of the 2nd Armored Regiment of the Soviet Red Army withdrew from the battlefield to the northwest without waiting for an order from the group army. However, the commanders and fighters of the 1st Armored Regiment had to reluctantly abandon the armored train under the enemy's superior artillery fire and put all their energy into it.  The dismantled machine guns were all dismantled and withdrawn to trenches not far away. The armored soldiers also became a typical infantry battle. Fortunately, at least more than ten Maxim heavy machine guns were moved from the armored train to the trenches on the right flank.  , which objectively strengthens the defensive firepower density of the ground position.

    Therefore, a regiment-sized cavalry attack by the 3rd Don Cavalry Division of the White Guard failed in the face of the heavy rain of Maxim heavy machine gun firepower of the Soviet Red Army. The price paid by both sides was that more than half of the Soviet Red Army's  The Maxim heavy machine gun firepower point was destroyed by the opponent's intensive artillery fire, while the Cossack White Guard cavalry lost at least one battalion of cavalry in front of the Soviet Red Army's position.

    At 12 noon on July 23, 1918, the sound of guns and artillery on the battlefield gradually subsided. The two warring parties seized the time to lick each other's wounds and rescue the wounded. They were eating and replenishing themselves, waiting for the next round of fierce fighting to break out.  .

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