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Volume 3 Far East Story Chapter 587 (Part 1) Who bears the responsibility?

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    18:00, July 23, 1918, former enemy headquarters in Cheboksary Kolchak

    "Alexander Vasilyevich, I didn't expect the Soviet Red Army to be so tenacious and Berzin's Third Army to be so capable! Not only did he bite our teeth, but he actually ran away on the train!"  Guillaume Nikolayevich Hastings, Chief of Staff of the Russian Provisional Government and Chief of Staff of the White Guard Army, murmured.

    "Bullshit! It's not that the opponent can fight at all, but that the performance of our Western Route Army is too disappointing. I say Sergey Nikolayevich, you led the 4th and 5th Don Cossack Divisions.  How could the 4 artillery companies be blocked by an enemy infantry division? I'm waiting for your explanation!

    Alexander Vasilyevich Kolchak, the top executive of the All-Russian Provisional Government and the commander-in-chief of the White Guard Army of All-Russia, turned pale and slapped the table hard and shouted.

    "Alexander Vasilyevich, please listen to my explanation!" Lieutenant General Sergey Nikolayevich Dimilev, the former enemy commander-in-chief of the White Guard's Western Route Army, wiped the sweat from his head and said  He was busy trying to explain.

    "I'm listening! If your explanation is not sufficient, I will kill Ma Su with tears!" Kolchak said with a gloomy face.

    "The enemy we are facing is not an infantry division at all, but at least a division plus a regiment, and its combat effectiveness is very strong. Although they do not have artillery, the firepower of machine guns and rifles is very good. Although we have 4 artillery companies,  No matter how hard you hit the opponent, you still haven¡¯t lost your fighting power!¡±

    "And you also know that the number of ferries and rafts we collected was insufficient, and the time was too short. In the end, most of our cavalry had to swim across on horses. They were exhausted just fighting the rapids of the Volga River, and it was difficult to free their hands.  Let's cross the river and shoot at the same time!" Dimirev explained plausibly.

    "Bullshit! Even if the cavalry is swimming across the river, you can't set up machine guns on the north bank to organize fire cover? I don't believe that your four artillery companies and 24 cannons can't hit a landing site for the troops to go ashore!" Kolchak was so angry that  Breathing heavily, he slapped the table!

    A bunch of White Guard division commanders sat on both sides of the conference table in the large conference room of the headquarters. They all sat upright. Many of them did not dare to breathe. After two consecutive days of fighting, the battle situation was unexpectedly difficult. Except for Gao Gao,  In addition to the huge casualties suffered by the Eastern Route Army commanded by Erchak himself.

    Other troops on the north bank of the Volga that outflanked and crossed the river failed to complete their tasks. That is to say, the former enemy commander-in-chief of the Central Route Army, Cavalry General Krashilnikov, was a lucky general and led the 6th and 7th Don Cossack Cavalry Divisions smoothly.  After crossing the Volga River and occupying the deserted Alexandrovna, the results of other participating troops were all good.

    Dimilev, the commander-in-chief of the Western Route Army who failed to cross the river and cut off the railway line south at the most critical point of Kozmodemyansk, bore the brunt and became the first person named and held accountable by Kolchak at the combat review meeting that day.  The target, if anything goes wrong, he may be removed from his post and investigated for minor work, or he may be dragged out and shot.

    Everyone knows that Dimilev's ex-wife Anna is now Kolchak's personal secretary. Although she has stayed in Kazan and has not gone to the front line with her, the senior generals here actually know in their hearts that Anna is still  There is no one lover who is the highest consul in Russia, and Kolchak¡¯s wife and children have been sent to France at this time. Anna¡¯s identity as Kolchak¡¯s confidante is already semi-public in Kazan  secret.

    Dimilev and Kolchak were both superiors and subordinates, close comrades-in-arms, and love rivals. Of course, before and after the October Revolution, Anna had broken up with Dimilev and dissolved their marriage without hesitation, so,  This triangle relationship is even more confusing. Dimilev is still single at this time, and obviously he has not given up his longing for Anna. This cuckold on his head does not affect Dimilev's becoming Kolchak's subordinate.  One of the most reused generals.

    However, the greater the responsibility, the heavier the burden. In the battle plan drawn up by Kolchak, the detour and cross-river attack of the West Route Army are the most lethal links. Just like this afternoon, if the West Route Army  Even if only one of the river-crossing areas is successful, Kolchak can successfully encircle the opponent's Third Army. Once the opponent is encircled, there will be no suspense in annihilating and eating Berzin, the Soviet Third Army.

    In this way, on the northern front, the main army group of the Soviet Red Army was completely lost. The troops of the Volga Front of the Soviet Red Army temporarily assembled and reorganized in Nizhny Novgorod only had subpar combat effectiveness at best, and were not at Kolchak at all.  In the eyes!

    The problem is that all this came to nothing. Although Kolchak succeeded in using the Eastern Route Army's tepid attack and troop deployment to attract the main force of the Third Army to defend Chivelisk, the empty Cheboksary in the rear actually  Rely on one infantry division plus a temporarily formed workers' division.Stopped at the ferry.

    However, Dimilev's two powerful Cossack cavalry divisions, which had high hopes, failed to successfully seize the Kozmodemyansk ferry and go south to cut off the railway line, thus cutting off the Soviet Red Army's retreat route.  .

    "Who says it's not, Alexander Vasilyevich, needless to say, I concentrated the firepower of 2 heavy machine gun battalions and 4 artillery companies, and beat the Soviet Red Army position at the ferry across the river to a pulp.  Of course, the landing site was also opened! The 10th Brigade of the 5th Don River Cavalry Division also successfully crossed the river and rushed to the river bank. But who knew that the other party had taken advantage of the terrain of the ferry to set up a second trench and defense line 1.5 kilometers away.  It's a horse trap and a tree stump, and the cavalry can't break through it!"

    "Sergey Nikolayevich, what do you want me to say about you? Can't you rush? If you can't rush, you can't dismount and fight? The cavalry of the Allied Allied Forces in the Battle of Ufa never fought with a saber.  Fight, are your cavalry carrying fire sticks? Are they not Mosin-Nagant rifles? You can't fight without swinging your saber?" Kolchak shouted angrily.

    "But, Alexander Vasilyevich, the Cossacks of the 5th Don Cavalry Division did dismount and fight with rifles, but did our cavalry dismount and charge with rifles, lacking machine gun fire cover? Our own artillery on the other side of the river  Just out of reach, the opponent's Maxim heavy machine gun fire had the upper hand, and a large area of ??the Cossacks of the 5th Division were knocked over, including their men and horses! We were blocked like this. Due to the small landing area on the south bank of the ferry, the follow-up troops  We can¡¯t even continue to cross the river and get ashore!¡± Dimilev shouted aggrievedly.
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