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Volume Three Far East Stories Chapter 675 (1) Killing the Chicken to Scare the Monkey

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    12:45, July 29, 1918, 1st Soviet Army Headquarters, Saransk

    "Comrades, the situation is very serious. You have also seen the situation outside the city. Kolchak came with bad intentions. Taking advantage of his cavalry unit, he surrounded Saransk in more than half an hour. Time is running out.  , while the enemy has not launched an siege, the headquarters has summoned you to hold a military meeting to see how to fight next. Let's talk about the situation facing the enemy!" Kebo, political commissar and chief of staff of the group army!  Zeff's tone was obviously quite solemn.

    The commander of the 1st Group Army, Tukhachevsky, was rolling a cigarette in his hand and waved his hand casually, signaling for Xia Boyang's 1st Infantry Division to quickly report the situation. At this moment, the White Guard Cossack Cavalry Division outside the city came within minutes.  With a posture that can attack the city, you don't have so much time to waste time and be humble.

    "Commander and political commissar, the frontal defense line of our 1st Infantry Division is 5 kilometers east of the city. At least one brigade of enemy cavalry has been discovered so far, passing in front of our position and heading south. Unfortunately, the enemy cavalry is beyond the range of our machine guns.  , the group army did not have enough artillery, so they could only watch the other side show off their power and trample on the villages outside the city and harm the people. Most of the villages five miles east of the city were set on fire, and smoke was everywhere. These White Guards were obviously iron.  You are determined to fight us to the end!¡±

    The 31-year-old commander of Xia Boyang's 1st Infantry Division was obviously holding back his anger. Seeing the enemies outside the city burning houses and robbing food without restraint and harming the people made the division commander Comrade Vasily Ivanovich Chapayev furious.  Furious.

    "The situation in the north of the city is similar. At least one cavalry brigade of Cossacks passed by our position and headed to the west of the city. The Saransk railway station ten kilometers away has been occupied by the enemy. After hearing the noise, the enemy has destroyed the railway, and right there  When I returned to the headquarters, I could see the enemy's artillery and heavy machine guns starting to gather five kilometers north of the city. It was possible that the enemy would use the north of the city as the first breakthrough point to launch an attack. Of course, the villages five kilometers away were basically given to the enemy.  The cavalry was lit, the fire was huge, the smoke was everywhere, and the sight was greatly obstructed. "

    The speaker was Dmitry Andreevich Furmanov, commander of the 2nd Furmanov Infantry Division. Although the 27-year-old commander of the 2nd Division was not as indignant as his old partner Xia Boyang, he  There was also burning anger in his eyes.

    "The situation in the west of the city is quite tight. The 3rd Saransk Infantry Division has only 6,000 people, and only 4,000 people with guns. It is said to be a division, but in fact it has only one brigade. The White Guard cavalry came around from the north of the city, and the nearest one even rushed into it.  When we reached a distance of 1,000 meters in front of the position, of course, our machine guns opened fire and drove the opponent out. However, the soldiers were really panicked. The opponent's cavalry seemed to be more numerous than our entire division. I beg you.  Commander, strengthen the 5th Division to the west defensive line of the city, otherwise the brothers may not be able to defend it!"

    Moscow sent 22-year-old Iyeronim Petrovich Ubolevich as the commander of the 3rd Saransk Infantry Division. This guy encountered such a serious situation for the first time as a division commander.  Although he was a staunch Bolshevik and had received relatively systematic training at the Moscow Military Academy, he was obviously a little helpless and panicked in the face of the serious situation in front of him.

    "Iyeronim Petrovich, I said, comrade division commander, I saw clearly in the telescope just now that the enemy only had a cavalry company to feint attack on your position. At 1000 meters and 1000 meters, you exposed the location of the machine gun position to me?  How many enemy cavalry did you kill?

    For a tentative attack by a small cavalry unit like the enemy, your machine gun firepower point does not need to fire at all. You can directly put the enemy on the moat and use rifle volleys to name the Cossack cavalry one by one. Why are you panicking?  Fortunately, the opponent's artillery is not in position yet, otherwise the six Maxims I assigned to you would have been taken away by now!  "Tukhachevsky lit up the freshly rolled Mohe cigarette in his hand while scolding the young commander of the 3rd Division.

    "Yes, Comrade Commander, as soon as you criticized us on the phone, we stopped shooting and immediately moved the machine gun positions. Most of the 3rd Division are new soldiers. You know, the enemy cavalry is still very capable of charging.  , the machine gunner pulled the trigger when he was nervous, but fortunately the opponent's artillery did not fire!" Ubolevich, the commander of the 3rd Division, said with a blushing face.

    "Where is the south of the city? Yona Emanujlovic, what happened to your 4th Division? Why did some troops evacuate their positions and run to the city without authorization?" Kobozev, political commissar and chief of staff of the group army, obviously saw the defense line in the north of the city.  There was a scene of vacillation in the army. At this time, he was so angry that he asked Tukhachevsky before he could.

    "Report to the political commissar that a company had food poisoning and many people had diarrhea and diarrhea. When the enemy cavalry came from the east of the city, the sound of horse hooves resounded in the sky. Under the smoke, the entire company's stomach and legs were weak. When they ran back to the city, they had to go to the toilet.  , we can¡¯t all be dragged into the trenches!It's too hot, otherwise we will stink to death before the White Guards cavalry charge on the battlefield!  "

    The previous unstable situation on the position of the 4th Saransk Infantry Division was actually exposed by the acting division commander Yona Emanuilovich Yakir with the excuse of having diarrhea. Here Kobozev  He was so angry that he almost jumped up. Several other division commanders were also dumbfounded after hearing Yakir's answer. However, the group army commander Tukhachevsky on one side waved his hand and said,

    "This will not happen next time. Any troops who dare to leave their positions without authorization in the future will be shot! Yona Emanujlovic, why did your soldiers run away and have diarrhea? Have you found out the reason?"

    "Report to the commander, the reason has been found out. When the company cook was cooking, he put a lot of wild vegetables picked by the soldiers into the soup. He didn't pick them carefully, and poisonous wild vegetables were mixed in. The division headquarters has locked up the cook.  confinement, and decided to take time out to conduct wild vegetable knowledge training throughout the division. Commander, you also know that many soldiers of the 4th Division are workers and have little experience in farm work. If they go out to pick wild vegetables, they will not be able to protect them.  There are poisonous wild vegetables that cannot be eaten!¡±

    The acting commander of the 4th Division, Yakir, stood at attention and gave a straight answer. He actually ignored the 4th Division's position being shaken. Of course, there was a legend afterwards that the 4th Division was not poisoned by wild vegetable soup and had diarrhea and weak legs, but was killed by the White Guards.  The Cossack cavalry was so frightened that their legs weakened and they left the position. Fortunately, they returned to the position immediately due to the bombardment of the company and division law enforcement team. Otherwise, Tukhachevsky would have ordered the group army to enforce the law.  The team killed the chicken to scare the monkeys and enforced battlefield discipline.
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