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Volume 3 Far East Story Chapter 616 (Part 1) Judgment made

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    Now our troops have moved east along the railway line, preparing to choose the opportunity to destroy the railway line, and looking for fighter planes to encircle and reinforce the area between Reskovo and Yadlin. The enemy infantry cannot pose a threat to our side. What we need to guard against is  Our anti-aircraft artillery battalion is not enough to threaten the armor of the opposing armored train. Details will be reported later.

    Cavalry detachment of the Volga Front

    Detachment leader Xia Jianke, chief of staff Belov

    From the east of Reskovo

    July 27, 1918 18:20

    "Kolchak only has one brigade to defend Rescovo? Then the cavalry detachment can take advantage of the firepower of three heavy machine gun battalions and two anti-aircraft artillery battalions to try to take down Rescovo! Why a dozen  Just withdraw?" Chernavin was the first to shout after finishing reading the telegram.

    "It's all in vain. The opponent's brigade is defending Reskovo with the repaired fortifications, and there are artillery companies and heavy machine gun battalions. Armored trains and reinforcements from the northwest can come at any time. I said Vladimir Nikol  Lajevich, your courage is admirable, but Comrade Yefim Afanasyevich is a brave man who led the cavalry brigade to break through the encirclement in the Battle of Ufa. You will not think that he is cowardly in avoiding the enemy.  Fight?"

    It is said that Shatenko, who led the cavalry detachment to attack, was a cavalry general from Tsaritsyn and the Southern Front, but at this time Shatenko was serving as the political commissar of Berzin's Third Army. What's more, Berzin just looked at  This Chernavin, the chief of staff of the front army, didn't like it. Seeing that he spoke so lightly as if fighting was easy, he couldn't help but retort immediately.

    "I've said it, please be careful! Karl Ivanovich, you are the commander of the Third Army, and the Chief of Staff of the Front Army is your superior, so be polite!" Kamenev, political commissar of the Front Army, couldn't help but come out to clean up the situation.  Then he turned to Chief of Staff Chernavin and said,

    "Vladimir Nikolayevich, you are the commander of the front army. You must know that your current status is different from that of the commander of the group army. You must consider all aspects. Unity is very important!"

    "Okay! Don't talk anymore, don't look at the time, just waste time on trivial matters. Now the cavalry detachment has found out that the enemy only has one brigade left to guard Reskovo. Just now Berzin said that  The enemy in Stovo is more than one division. It seems that Kolchak's main force is not on the northern front, at least not in Kostovo!" Voroshilov made his own judgment with a wave of his hand!

    July 27, 1918 18:45 Nizhniyevgorod Soviet Volga Front Headquarters

    "Report! A call from the headquarters of the 1st Army Group in Sarask!" Before Voroshilov finished speaking, another confidential staff officer sent a telegram.  {}{.{}{}

    Chernavin, the chief of staff of the front army, stepped forward to grab the telegram, unfolded it for a quick look, raised his head and said, "Good news! Tukhachevsky, Xia Boyang, and Furmanv have returned to the 1st Army. They are surrounded only by  The remaining dozens of cavalrymen walked around the Kazakh steppe in the south, but finally returned to the Volga River! "

    All the senior Soviet and Russian generals in the front army war room were stunned when they heard this. At this moment, Tukhachevsky actually returned to the army in time, which seemed to be a good sign. The political commissar of the front army, Kamenev, could not hold back.  He grabbed the telegram from Chernavin's hand and read it hastily. Soon, he raised his head and said,

    "Comrade Mikhail Nikolayevich Tukhachevsky has sent a telegram to Moscow to assume his duties and officially took over the command of the 1st Army!"

    "What does the telegram say? Have any traces of the main force of Kolchak's White Guards been found near Saransk? What is the situation to their north?" Voroshilov, deputy commander of the front army and former enemy commander-in-chief, anxiously grabbed Gamini.  I read the telegram in my husband's hand.

    "The 1st Army and Budyonny's Cavalry Army are seizing the time to reorganize and reorganize. That is, the troops in Sarask are now short of rifles, machine guns, cannons and ammunition. No trace of the White Guards has been found within one mile nearby, but north of Sarask  The phone call in Alatri cannot be reached before this evening, and Shumerlia north of Alatri has lost contact for more than 24 hours! Tukhachevsky judged that the Kolchak White Guards were moving south from Cheboksary.  possible!"

    Voroshilov put down the telegram in his hand, feeling quite heavy. He raised his head and was speechless for a moment. Sergei Sergeyevich Kamenev, commander of the Fifth Army next to him, stood up and said  ,

    "Kliment Yefremovich, comrades, I think the situation is not good. The 1st Army and the Budyonny Cavalry Army combined have less than seven divisions, and they lack weapons and ammunition. Among them, Tuha  More than half of the commanders and fighters of Chevsky's 1st Army had just been released from the prisoner-of-war camps of the Volga Federation. Their morale was low in all aspects and their food supplies were insufficient!??The main attack!  "

    Here Berzin had already walked to the combat map hanging on the wall, made careful gestures, turned around and said, "So far, it seems that it is indeed the case. Kolchak's feint deceived us, and his main force did not come to attack."  Fugorod, but quietly left Cheboksary and headed south. I estimate that Kolchak had at least a day or a day and a half. In other words, at the latest noon yesterday, his main force had left Chebok.  Saree!¡±

    Berzin's words horrified a group of senior Soviet generals at the Front Command. Voroshilov quickly walked to the map and carefully looked at the distance and terrain from Cheboksary to Sarask on the map.  , here Berzin has already stepped into the role of chief of staff of the front army. He picked up a red and blue pencil and drew an arrow from Cheboksary to south-southwest, pointing directly at Shmerlia.

    Then he gestured the distance with his hands and said to everyone, "From Cheboksary to the southwest to Shmerlia, it is at most one kilometer. If Kolchak's main force going south is infantry, it can be reached in two days. If it is  Cavalry, hurry up and we¡¯ll be there in one day!¡±

    "I know this place, Shumerlia. It is a small town in the south of Chuvash Region, close to the right bank of the lower reaches of the Sula River. The road from Nizhnevgorod to Simbirsk passes through the center of the town, northeast of  One kilometer away in the direction is Cheboksary.

    In my opinion, it is entirely possible for Kolchak's main force, whether infantry or cavalry, to drive one kilometer south and occupy Shmerlia in one day and a half plus one night, and the Sula River can also flow smoothly.  To go down the river, the troops can even take a boat!  "Shaposhnikov, chief of staff of the Fifth Army, stood up and said.

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