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Volume 3 Far East Stories Chapter 605 (Part 2) The Three Stooges

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    18:00, July 26, 1918, Nizhny Novgorod Soviet Volga Front Headquarters

    "Kliment Yefremovich, just received a report from the front line. After resting for a few days in the Cheboksary area, the main force of Kolchak's White Guards received a large number of reinforcements from the direction of Kazan. Today they are located in  The White Guards on the Adelin line began to move westward.

    Judging from the current intelligence returned by the frontline reconnaissance team, at least three divisions, namely the 1st, 2nd and 3rd Kazan Infantry Division, have appeared west of Yadlin. Judging from the previous battle in Cheboksary,  These should be the three main divisions of the Eastern Route Army under Kolchak!  "The face of Chernavin, the chief of staff of the front army, was obviously solemn.

    "Vladimir Nikolayevich notified the Fifth and Third Armies, invited the commander, political commissar and chief of staff, and said that the Front Army Headquarters had convened an emergency military meeting! Arrive within 20 minutes.  Come!" Voroshilov whispered to Kamenev, the political commissar of the front army, and then turned to Chernavin.

    Less than 20 minutes later, Sergey Sergeyevich Kamenev, commander of the Fifth Army of the Volga Front of the Soviet Red Army, and Nikolai Alexeevich Lyubimov, political commissar of the army  Together with Chief of Staff Boris Mikhailovich Shaposhnikov.

    Within a minute, the commander of the Third Army of the Soviet Red Army, Karl Ivanovich Berzin, who had performed well in the Cheboksary Iron Triangle defense operation, hurried over with his political commissar and chief of staff.  .

    In the past three days, Berzin's Third Army was seizing all the time to replenish and rebuild, while the Fifth Army was almost reorganized and lacked cadres and commanders at all levels. Therefore, although the strength of the two armies recovered quickly,  , but the level of combat effectiveness and weapons equipment is much worse than before, especially the lack of cannons, and there are not many skilled artillerymen left.

    At this time, the front army headquarters urgently summoned, which made the main commanders of the two armies feel a little uneasy. Obviously, it is likely that the Kolchak White Guards in Cheboksary in the east have launched a new military operation. Could it be that they have already moved downwards?  Novgorod pounced?

    When stepping into the door of the operations room of the Volga Front Army Headquarters, more than one person thought so.

    July 26, 1918 18:35 Nizhny Novgorod Soviet Volga Front Headquarters

    "Comrades, the situation is very serious. I will not say more polite words. There is water in the kettle on the table, there are cigarettes on the table, but there is no food. The rations for the three of us, the political commissar chief of staff and I, are not enough to eat today.  Calling you, mainly because the main force of Kolchak's White Guard has begun to take action, I'm afraid our rest will be forced to end! Get ready to fight to defend Nizhny Novgorod!" Voroshilov said straight to the point.

    The two army commanders, Kamenev and Berzin, looked at each other and their hearts sank. Sergey Sergeyevich Kamenev, the polished army commander, had only been in office for a few days.  , even the cadres at all levels of the division, brigade and regiment under his command are not fully equipped, and the troops and sources of soldiers are all kinds of people.

    The main force of Slavin's Fifth Army of the Soviet Eastern Front was completely wiped out in the Battle of Ufa. Only two infantry divisions that remained on the left bank of the Volga River and did not cross the river to participate in the battle were retained. One of the divisions was transferred to Saransk to participate in the First Battle of Ufa.  The army was rebuilt, and the other division served as the skeleton for the reconstruction of Kamenev's Fifth Army.

    The main source of troops used by the Volga Front to rebuild Kamenev's Fifth Army were former Tsarist Russian prisoners of war returned from Germany. Among the 100,000 prisoners of war, 40,000 prisoners of war with the most Bolshevik tendencies were retained as a whole and incorporated into the Fifth Army, while the rest  The 60,000 non-Bolshevist Russian prisoners of war have been exchanged with the Volga Federation in exchange for 30,000 steadfast Russian Red Army prisoners of war captured in the Battle of Ufa.

    Most of the 30,000 Soviet Red Army prisoners of war who were exchanged were prisoners of the original Tukhachevsky 1st Army of the Soviet Eastern Front. They were already participating in the reconstruction and recovery of the 1st Army in Sarask.

    Sergey Sergeyevich Kamenev, who served as the military instructor of the Nevel area of ??the western front defense zone of the barrier army and the commander of the 17th Infantry Division, and is now the newly appointed commander of the Fifth Army, was earlier  The chief of staff of Berzin's Third Army, the two are old partners and acquaintances. When they reunited in Nizhny Novgorod a few days ago, they hugged and kissed for a long time. Both of them had tears in their eyes. They didn't expect to be separated for so long.  We can actually meet and fight side by side again.

    For the Soviet Fifth Army, the difficulty in reorganizing and training lies in whether the 40,000 Tsarist Russian prisoners of war should be mixed with the 27th Infantry Division of the original Fifth Army to form five new infantry divisions, or should they be combined with the four under-the-radar infantry divisions.  The temporarily formed worker divisions in Vgorod were mixed together to form 9 new infantry divisions!

    Kamenev preferred the former option because the Tsarist Russian prisoners of war who returned from Germany were all veterans, and they were mixed with the veterans of the original 27th Infantry Division into five infantrymen.If so, the combat effectiveness will be restored quickly. As long as the morale is improved, they will soon be an elite force.

    As for the Nizhny Novgorod Workers' Division, this is already its third formation. When the Eastern Front was first established, the Bolshevik workers' divisions with the most experience and the most resolute struggle had already been dispersed and organized into various divisions of the Eastern Front.  Went to the army group.

    Then, when the first commander of the Soviet Eastern Front, Muravyov of the Left Social Revolutionary Party, rebelled, the Nizhny Novgorod workers' division was organized again, and a large number of new generation working class backbones were formed.  He went to the front line for the second time and joined the reorganized Eastern Front armies after crushing the rebellion of Muravyov and the rest
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