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Volume 3 Far East Story Chapter 582 (Part 1) Prepare for a rainy day

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    At 12:00 on July 23, 1918, the former enemy headquarters in Kolchak, five kilometers southeast of Chivelisk

    "Alexander Vasilyevich, after a whole morning of fierce fighting, I didn't expect that the Soviet Red Army on the opposite side was really tenacious. Our 1st, 2nd and 3rd Kazan Infantry Divisions suffered considerable casualties, and the Don River Cavalry Division  The 3rd Division also suffered nearly a thousand casualties. It seems that we will suffer a bit if we continue to fight like this!" Chief of Staff Hastings said to the highest consul in Russia on the opposite side while using a knife and fork to deal with the grilled steak on the plate.

    "Well, the one guarding Chivelisk is the main division of the opponent's Third Army, the 1st Ural Infantry Division. It is said that one-third of them are Bolsheviks, so they fight very tenaciously. They are neither afraid of death nor panic. But if it weren't for our  The shell consumption was too great. We had a chance to break through the opponent's position before noon!" Kolchak wiped his lips with a napkin and took a drink of the red wine in front of him.

    The weather was fine, and it was originally a good season for outings, but now the two sides were fighting to the death. Kolchak and Hastings were dining outside the tent of the former enemy headquarters in the grove, holding a large  Umbrellas, if it weren¡¯t for the thick smoke a few kilometers away and the occasional sound of gunfire and cannon fire, it wouldn¡¯t be easy to tell that a fierce battle had been going on all morning on the front line.

    "Alexander Vasilyevich, I just feel that it is not worthwhile for us to engage in a war of attrition with each other. It is better to let the Western Route Army and the Central Route Army ambushing on the north bank launch a cross-river battle at the same time, so that Berzin's third  The army group will definitely collapse. When the time comes, we will chase them like the autumn wind sweeping away fallen leaves. Wouldn¡¯t it be better than chewing hard bones now? "

    Chief of Staff Hastings obviously realized that it would not be easy to repel the Soviet Third Army with the strength of the Eastern Route Army alone, let alone encircle and annihilate the opponent.

    "Guillaume Nikolayevich, you have forgotten that our purpose is to encircle and annihilate the Third Army. Now that we have never been able to break through the opponent's right-wing defense line, we cannot cut off the railway line behind the opponent's defense line. Say  It's ugly. If the other party gets on the train and runs away again, we will regret it too late. If our troops on the north bank launch a cross-river attack at this time, what do you think the Soviet Union's Berzin will do? "

    Kolchak took a sip of red wine, put down the glass gently, squinted his eyes and looked at his old friend Hastings, the chief of staff of the All-Russian Autonomous Government, and sighed secretly in his heart. Obviously, after a fierce battle all morning,  The expected results were not achieved, and it was not only himself, the commander-in-chief of the White Guards, who was anxious and frustrated. Even Hastings, the always calm and wise chief of staff, began to lose his composure.

    "But, Alexander Vasilyevich, if the Western Route Army crosses the river in Kozmodemyansk at lightning speed, the Soviet Union will have no time to react. When the Western Route Army crosses the river and goes south to cut off the railway line, we will not  This will cut off the Soviet Union's third army's retreat and encircle the opponent!" Hastings said unwillingly.

    "My dear Chief of Staff, before the main force of the Soviet Third Army is attracted to Chivelisk for reinforcements, I do not intend to cross the river as a Western Route Army. You must know that there is at least one Soviet Red Army infantry division on the other side of Kosmodemyansk.  of troops on the defensive.

    Although our West Route Army has 5 divisions, it is limited by the conditions of the ferry. If the division guarding the river bank of the other party mainly relies on the river bank position to block it for more than an hour, Berzin will be able to load the main force of his Third Army on a train.  Withdrawing to Nizhny Novgorod, our plan to encircle and annihilate our opponents in the iron triangle of Cheboksary Alexandrovna and Chivelisk will come to nothing!  "

    As he spoke, Kolchak turned around and called out a map. A combat staff member hurriedly moved the map shelf to the dining table. Kolchak stood up, holding red wine in one hand and pointing to the map with the other,

    "It is 36 kilometers from Alexandrovna to Chivelisk, 38 kilometers from Chivelisk to Cheboksary, and to the west, the railway junction going south through Kosmodemyansk is only 20 kilometers, which adds up to only 94  Kilometers away, as long as the opponent can hold on to the ferry for an hour, the main force of Berzin's Third Army can get on the train and escape back to Nizhny Novgorod, and our plan will fail!" Kolchak was obviously prepared!  Come.

    "But my Lord Commander-in-Chief, we are blindly strengthening the offensive against Chivelisk with the purpose of moving the opponent's main force from Cheboksary to Chivelisk. The problem is that Berzin is probably more worried about his retreat than we are.  , you see, when the artillery battle in the southwest group was at its most intense, the third armored train did not come from the direction of Cheboksary, but instead pulled back the second armored train of reinforcements. "

    "Under this situation, and the Soviet infantry division defending Chivelisk on the opposite side has suffered at least more than half of its casualties, I am very worried whether Berzin of the Soviet Red Army will insist on fighting us in Chivelisk.  Once he gives up and continues to fightFirst, what should we do if we are already preparing to retreat while we are careless?  "Hastings obviously thought deeply.

    "Well, Guillaume Nikolayevich, the situation you mentioned is not impossible, but doesn't our 3rd Don Cavalry Division each have a cavalry regiment on both wings to monitor the opponent's movements? If Berzin  We will find out about the full retreat, and then we will attack across the board to catch him off guard!

    The key now is to transport the artillery shells up from Kazan as quickly as possible. The prodigal artillerymen below, even if their artillery fire is not accurate, they set off the artillery shells as uncontrollably as fireworks. They destroyed one and a half of the cannon shells in the morning.  If this attack continues, my treasury will be destitute!  Kolchak shook his head, apparently trying to dispel the chief of staff's doubts.

    At least in Kolchak's own view, if the White Guard's West Route Army and the Middle Route Army initiate a crossing, the Soviet Union's Berzin's Third Army will have no other choice but to retreat as soon as possible. And if the White Guard Army  If the West Route Army and the Middle Route Army do not cross the river, then Berzin may withdraw, or he may insist on fighting. After all, the attacking side will suffer more casualties than the defending side. The difference in military strength and firepower between the two sides on the Chivelisk battlefield is not yet considered.  big.

    Kolchak has five infantry divisions. Among them, the 4th and 5th Kazan Infantry Divisions of the White Guards are on the two wings, confronting the 2nd and 4th Ural Infantry Divisions of the Soviet Third Army respectively. The Kazan Infantry Division is concentrated in the middle.  The 1st, 2nd and 3rd Mountain Infantry Divisions attacked the opponent's 1st Ural Infantry Division.
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