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Volume 3 Far East Story Chapter 675 (4) Cavalry Battle

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    "Commander, how can we let Yakir lead the 4th Division to attack? The risk is too great. I think it is better to let Xia Boyang or Furmanov lead a regiment to fight out from the south of the city. The enemy is now exhausted.  We are running out of horses. We may be caught off guard and capture a few prisoners. The main forces of the 1st and 2nd Divisions cannot move lightly on the battlefield. How about we transfer the main force of the 5th Division?" Kebo, political commissar of the group army?  Zev shouted anxiously.

    "No need, Comrade Political Commissar, let Yakir lead the main force of the 4th Division to attack. The 3rd Division and the 1st Division each send a regiment to prepare to fight out from the southwest and southeast to meet the retreat of the main force of the 4th Division.  I personally command the artillery group of the group army to provide fire cover, and strengthen the heavy machine gun company of the 5th Division to the south of the city. Political Commissar, you personally go to the 4th Division position to command the remaining troops to hold the position! What do you think of this fight?  Haczewski frowned as he spoke.

    "As for me, it was my idea to attack, Comrade Commander! How can we let the 1st Division and 2nd Division just sit back and watch? Especially my 1st Division, the enemy is not ready at the moment and will not attack at all.  A full-scale attack, their shelling in the north of the city is just a fire reconnaissance to test our strength!" Vasily Ivanovich Xia Boyang became really anxious.

    As a senior division commander of the 1st Army, Xia Boyang believed that Furmanov and his own judgment were the same as Commander Tukhachevsky's, that is, the enemy in the north of the city was just conducting exploratory fire reconnaissance.  Although the artillery fire was quite accurate, it did not pose a fatal threat to the position of the 2nd Infantry Division. However, several earthen houses on the edge of the new city were hit and caught fire, but they were quickly drawn out of the moat by the soldiers of the 2nd Infantry Division.  The water was put out.

    Unexpectedly, Tukhachevsky waved his hand and said, "If the enemy attacks, it will not be in the south of the city. The enemy will be either in the east or north of the city. It is now noon. I see that the enemy is exhausted from racing around the city. In addition to the shelling in the north of the city,  In addition to testing and intimidating us with firepower, I'm afraid it is also used to buy time so that the opponent's cavalry can dismount, drink water, rest and eat. With this posture, the opponent will not launch a major offensive before 3 o'clock!"

    "Xia Boyang and Furmanov both rushed back to their respective command posts. Without my order, no one from the 1st Division or the 2nd Division is allowed to attack. As long as you two main divisions can calm down, Saransk will  Stable as a rock! Yona Emanujlovic, your 4th Division attack force must select the most capable personnel to attack. The key is to be full and able to run. Go ahead, give you half an hour to prepare!  At 20 minutes, the 13th Regiment of the 4th Division attacked on time from the south of the city along the boulevard to Ruzayevka! "

    It must be said that Tukhachevsky's courage and judgment are quite good. After experiencing the tragedy of the Battle of Ufa, his opponent has changed from the unfavorable Allied Powers to the Kazan White Guards. Xiaotu's luck is obviously good.  Regardless of the extremely peaceful posture, even if the strength of the opponent's troops previously observed from the frontal positions of the four divisions were all true, Tukhachevsky believed that the Kolchak cavalry troops surrounding him were only 2 to 3 divisions.

    Capable generals have always used troops, and they have no trouble arranging troops. They have focused on the deployment and allocation of troops. According to Tukhachevsky's judgment, Kolchak's main force will obviously cut off Saran.  The road and railway connection between Skopje and Nizhny Novgorod in the north was a top priority. The occupation of the railway station ten kilometers away from the northern suburbs of the city and the destruction of the railway lines all reflected the intentions of the White Guard commanders.

    If it were Tukhachevsky himself, the first move to attack Saransk would be to cut off the connection between Saransk and Nizhny Novgorod in the north. Don¡¯t think that 250 kilometers is far away. From Nizhny Novgorod, use  If the train sends troops and reinforcements along the railway line, it can reach Saransk in half a day!  And if the railway to the north is not cut off, the Soviet Red Army in Saransk can retreat northward to Nizhny Novgorod along the railway line at any time. No matter how mobile the Cossack cavalry is, chasing the train is just a joke!

    Since the enemy surrounded Saransk with only 2 to 3 divisions, and each line of defense could at most put out the offensive frame of a cavalry brigade, even though Yakir only led an infantry regiment to attack, he could rely on his familiarity with the terrain.  With the cover of the boulevards in the southwest suburbs of the city, Tukhachevsky was not worried that this regiment could be eaten by the opponent's cavalry brigade.

    Although the opponent was in the form of a cavalry brigade, the Cossack cavalry that could be observed through the telescope were basically in battalion units, burning, killing and looting in the villages on the outskirts of the city. The 13th Regiment of the 4th Infantry Division were all strong Bolsheviks, although they were new fighters.  , but they are the backbone mobilized from the Moscow workers' picket team. They can be regarded as old revolutionaries. The Mosin-Nagant rifle in their hands is not a fire stick. As long as Yakir can keep his composure and maintain his position, this battle can be fought.

    Of course, Tukhachevsky repeatedly told Yakir before setting off, not to go too far away from the city. 5 kilometers is the limit. Artillery fire from the rear cannot support it any further. The goal of the 13th Regiment of the 4th Division is just to expel  and recaptured 2 villages in the southwest suburbs of the city. The battle was completed.?You can withdraw. If the opponent's troops are strong and outflank them, the 13th Regiment can withdraw at any time!

    Tukhachevsky handed over Pasboev, commander of the 1st company of the group army's cavalry reconnaissance battalion, who had returned in the morning, and his cavalry company to Yakir, commander of the 4th division. This made the young acting division commander feel more confident.  There was a lot of damage, and Pasboev suffered a loss in the morning, losing his battalion commander and the main force of the battalion. At this time, more than 1,500 people from an infantry regiment, led by the commander of the 4th Division, went out to counterattack.  This guy is also very eager to try.

    The battle between the Soviet Red Army and the White Guard Cossack cavalry in the south of Saransk began!

    July 29, 1918 14:00 Saransk Soviet 1st Army Headquarters

    "Report! Acting division commander Yakir led the 13th Regiment of the 4th Division to drive out a Cossack cavalry battalion from the villages of Mokov and Bashitar in the southwest suburbs of the city, captured more than ten enemy people, and eliminated about 3 platoons of the enemy.  More than 30 horses were captured, and we suffered more than 20 casualties. The remaining troops of the opponent's Cossack cavalry battalion have already fled east! The division commander is on his way back to the city with his troops and asks the army's artillery group to be ready to respond at any time! "  A messenger jumped off the mule with sweat dripping from his body, and reported the victory to the commander who was looking at the south with a telescope at the top of the city wall!
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