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Volume 3 Far East Story Chapter 747 (3) Outflanking the retreat

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    The 8th Army, which Rashevich lost, lost 10 artillery batteries tonight. Tomorrow Gidis and Rashevich will attack more with less. The situation is very serious. As the deputy commander and chief of staff said, the situation is very serious.  serious!  "

    Karl Ivanovich Berzin and his Soviet 3rd Army played a decisive role in the entire Volga Military District and Front Army. On the one hand, this 3rd Army has been fighting at the forefront of the fight against the Kazan White Guards.  , on the other hand, as the only fully organized main force group in the Soviet Eastern Front after the Battle of Ufa, it played a mainstay role in the previous Battle of Kazan Bridgehead and the Battle of Cheboksary Iron Triangle.

    Facing the offensive of Kolchak's White Guards who had superior strength, the outnumbered Berzin 3rd Army of the Soviet Union was like a hard walnut, and it suddenly fell out of Kolchak's teeth in Cheboksary.  The fact that the 1st, 2nd and 3rd Kazan Infantry Divisions, the main force of the White Guards, were seriously injured after the Iron Triangle Battle and did not participate in the southward campaign is a clear proof. Although the 3rd Army also paid a huge price for this, after a series of battles  More than 40,000 main troops suffered casualties, but the casualties of Kolchak's main troops were as high as 55,000.

    " "It can be said that at this point in the war, among the Soviet Red Army that was severely weakened after the Battle of Ufa, Berzin's 3rd Army stood out and became the first-class main group army, giving priority to replenishing priority equipment. Of course, personnel and equipment  It can recover quickly, but its combat effectiveness will inevitably become weaker than before with the loss of combat backbones, but the spirit of the troops is very strong, which also encourages and supports the 3rd Army and Kolchak's main force  An important factor in fighting to the end.

    "Is this going to be a decisive battle?!" Kamenev, the political commissar of the front army, realized that the situation was a bit serious. He thought he could sit back and watch Kolchak and the Volga Federation fight in the demilitarized buffer zone, but now he was beaten by these generals.  They all swore to analyze one by one, and it turned out that it was all wishful thinking of Moscow and itself. Obviously, as a member of the Central Committee of the Soviet Union sent by Moscow, although Kamenev also had his own understanding of military affairs, at this moment, he was not the same as these Soviets.  Compared with the generals at the level of the Russian Army Group, this guy is much less sensitive to changes in the battlefield situation.

    "If Kolchak is not stupid, that's basically it. His troops will start taking action early tomorrow morning, even if it is to cooperate with those two" The cavalry division broke out of the encirclement to the west, and Kolchak's remaining 12  The infantry and cavalry divisions will not stand idly by. No matter in which direction, the opponent has the advantage in strength. It is very difficult for Gidis and Rashevich to win this battle" said the deputy commander of the front army and the 2nd Army!  The tone of political commissar and former enemy commander-in-chief Voroshilov was quite serious.

    Here, Berzin and Sergei Kamenev had a rare opportunity to get together in front of the big battle map hanging on the wall. They studied the current defense lines of the two armies on the southern front and the positions of surrounding friendly troops. It was obvious that  I hope to find a way to win. If the two armies on the southern front collapse, Kolchak's power will expand. By then, Saransk on the northern front will definitely not be able to hold it, and Nizhny Novgorod will also  Once again becoming the target of the opponent's attack, the situation becomes quite passive

    "How about encircling Wei and rescuing Zhao? Order Gidis's 10th and 8th armies to shrink and move closer to Simbirsk. Although nearly 10 artillery batteries of artillery were lost, at this time the two armies still have at least nearly 30  The artillery company has 180 mountain field guns. It still has the advantage in artillery fire. It shrinks the defense line. The northern defense line shrinks to ten kilometers, the west is also ten kilometers, and the south is another ten kilometers. In this way, the front line position is in three directions. "Beiyang 1917 747  Chapter (3) Outflanking the Rear Route "Just place an infantry division on each side! And by concentrating the artillery on the central artillery position, it can support the front lines in three directions at the same time!"

    The 37-year-old Sergey Sergeyevich, commander of the 5th Army, used the red and blue pencils in his hand to draw a square fifty kilometers west of Simbirsk, with almost ten kilometers on each side.  Obviously, this commander who once served as the chief of staff of Berzin's 3rd Army Group was at an emergency moment now, and he did not care about keeping a low profile and keeping a low profile, so he was the first to stand up and express his thoughts.

    "Of course, shrinking the defense line is the first choice when the troops are weak, but Sergey Sergeyevich, when you talk about shrinking the defense line, is it to buy time for the tactics of encircling Wei and rescuing Zhao? Then, we want the main force of our northern front to attack Cheboksa  The White Guards Northern Cluster in the Thunder-Iron Triangle launched a counterattack?" Chernavin, the chief of staff of the front army, his eyes lit up and he stared at Sergei Kamenev and asked.

    The commander of the 5th Group Army nodded when he heard this, and replied helplessly to his colleagues who were waiting for his answer, "This is the best way I can think of at the moment. Of course, due to the differences between the 3rd and 5th Group Armies,  The main force of the "Beiyang 1917" is still in Nizhny Novgorod, so even if we fight eastward along the railway line back to Cheboksary, we may not be able to eat the three Kaboks guarding Cheboksary in one bite.  The main force of the Shanbai Guards Infantry Division, saidWhether to surround Wei and rescue Zhao, in the end it depends on who can persevere to the end!  "

    "Afraid that the northern line is too far from the south, even if Kolchak knew that the White Guards could not hold Cheboksary, he would not turn around and go north for reinforcements, but would order the three divisions to fight and retreat along the railway line  To withdraw the Kazan bridgehead, I think it would be better to mobilize the main force of Tukhachevsky's 1st Army in Saransk to the east and threaten Kolchak's flanks and rear?

    If the 5 divisions of Tukhachevsky's 1st Army, with more than 40,000 troops, can join the southern battlefield, there will be a positive change in the strength ratio between the enemy and ourselves. In addition, where is the current position of Budyonny's cavalry army?  , can they be allowed to turn back south and outflank Kolchak's retreat?  "

    The speaker was the Chief of Staff of the 3rd Army, Mezheninov. This man pointed out the weakness of Sergei Kamenev's method of encircling Wei and rescuing Zhao, which was that the two battlefields in the north and south were hundreds of kilometers apart, and Kolchak was  If you want to help the north, it¡¯s too late to turn around. "So it¡¯s very possible to go all the way to the dark side and eat the two Soviet armies in the south first. This is like fighting in a group close to each other. It¡¯s too late to parry, so it¡¯s better to beat someone than who is.  It hurts, who can resist it better!

    "Pull them down If Tukhachevsky is willing to join forces with Budyonny's cavalry army, the battle situation on the southern front will never be as passive as it is now. There are 42,000 people from his 1st Army joining Gidis and Rashevi  If the two army groups fight together, it will be Kolchak and his main force going south who will be driven around now!" Chernavin, the chief of staff of the front army, obviously said to Tukhachevsky.  I was still a bit resentful about the fact that I had disobeyed orders and refused to march eastward from Saransk.
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