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Volume 3 Far East Story Chapter 747 (4) Getting out of trouble

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    "Well Saransk is due west of Simbirsk. The straight-line distance is less than 200 kilometers. If you remove the 50 kilometers of demilitarized buffer zone on the left bank of the Volga River, the distance is only 150 kilometers. If Tukhachevsky is transferred  The main force of the 1st Group Army marched eastward. If the infantry division traveled 150 kilometers, it would take at least 2 days or even 3 days. It was a bit too late!

    Moreover, the 1st Army Group has just been reorganized and is extremely short of food. It is said that there are 42,000 people, less than 3,000 guns, and almost no artillery. If they can barely defend Saransk, they will make a long journey eastward and encounter Kolchak.  If the cavalry attacks, the team is likely to collapse thousands of miles away. Don't forget that Kolchak only sent a cavalry brigade before and blocked Tukhachevsky in the city without daring to move at all.  "

    The person who raised objections at this time was the political commissar of the front army Le. Bao Kamenev. The cigarette butt of the Mohe cigarette in his hand was stubbed out by this guy and then smashed into pieces. He slowly and subconsciously rubbed it while staring at the 50,000 points.  one of

    After looking at the combat map for a long time, the political commissar of the front army obviously did not support the suggestion of moving the 1st Group Army eastward.

    "" Moreover, the reason given by Kamenev was also very grand. When the situation was favorable before, Tukhachevsky's 1st Army refused to leave Saransk and march eastward. Now after two days, food is tight.  At a time when the enemy's situation is complex and dangerous, once the rebuilt 1st Army, which has been demoralized and has low morale, leaves the city, it may become the next piece of meat that comes to Kolchak's doorstep!

    "Comrade Political Commissar, our main force on the northern front is concentrated in Nizhny Novgorod, and we are beyond our reach on the southern battlefield near Simbirsk. We can't just sit back and watch the 10th and 8th Group Armies be annihilated by the opponent's superior forces, right? At any rate, artillery fire is going south now.  The front-line troops still have a certain advantage, and the main artillery force on Kolchak's southern front is only 20 companies!" Chernavin, the chief of staff of the front army, was concerned and confused, and he was obviously a little impatient!

    "The more critical the situation, the more critical it is to stay calm, Vladimir Nikolayevich, my comrade chief of staff!" Kamenev glanced at Chief of Staff Chernavin angrily, thinking  If your 8th Army hadn't made a mistake and had the Cossack White Guards pretending to be the Budyonny Cavalry Division to break through the defense line and use a black tiger to rip out the heart, then" "The situation on the southern front battlefield would be completely different at this moment.  Not so passive.

    "Karl Ivanovich, you and the 3rd Army have the most dealings with Kolchak's White Guards. Do you have any solution to the current predicament on the southern front?" Voroshilov, the deputy commander of the front army, put down his voice.  He stood up, forced a smile on his face, and asked the opinion of Berzin, the commander of the 3rd Army, who was still looking at the battle map carefully and pondering.

    What Voroshilov is most frustrated about now is that his main army group is surrounded on the southern front, and the 3rd, 5th and even 1st group armies that he wants to command on the northern front are all in a state of being unable to command and running smoothly. This is very embarrassing.  The previously confident commander-in-chief of the former enemy of the Front Army felt unspeakable distress. If the 10th and 8th Group Armies were really wiped out by Kolchak's main force on the southern front, he, the former commander-in-chief of the enemy, would inevitably assume leadership responsibilities and be removed from his post.  They are all light, and they may just follow in the footsteps of Comrade Joseph

    "The first step is obviously as Sergey Sergeyevich suggested. The southern front troops must adjust their deployment and shrink the defense line. Now Gidis's defense line is too large. After losing the main force of the 12th Infantry Division of the 8th Army  Later, the troops of "Beiyang 1917 Chapter 747 (Four Escapes from Dilemma)" were at a complete disadvantage in terms of strength, and they were attacked from two sides to three. In my opinion, there are two ways out for the southern front troops!  "

    The commander of the Soviet 3rd Army remained silent. At this moment, he opened his mouth and revealed two ways out for the southern front troops. This made the eyes of the Soviet generals in the front army headquarters brighten.  Everyone was watching Berzin closely to see if he had any clever ideas that could help the Gidis and Rashevich groups on the southern front get out of trouble!

    July 3ori23, 1918: 55 Nizhny Novgorod Soviet Volga Front Headquarters

    "Hurry up and tell me, Comrade Berzin, let alone two ways out at this time, even one way out is much better than no way out!" Kamenev, the political commissar of the front army, urged the commander of the 3rd Group Army, Berzin, to hurry up.  Talking about his wonderful plan, a group of senior Soviet generals around him were also crowded with expectant eyes.

    "It is necessary to shrink the strength of the southern front, but I personally oppose the shrinkage to the north, which is what Comrade Kamenev said, gathering the main forces of the two armies and nine divisions of the southern front to Simby" Beiyang 1917 "Lsk  Fifty kilometers to the west, I guess the reason why Comrade Kamenev proposed to adjust the defense line in this way is to shorten the distance from the northern line, that is, the distance from Kazan Cheboksary Nizhny Novgorod! "

    Berzin grabbed the red and blue pencils and drew a long line northward on the square defense line of ten kilometers in length and width that Sergei Kamenev had just drawn, all the way to the main railway line on the Volga River.  Then he turned around and asked Sergey Sekamenev, "Sergey Sergeyev??, I was wondering if this was your consideration just now?  "

    Here, the commander of the Soviet 5th Army, Sergey Sergeyevich Kamenev, nodded slightly when he heard this, and confirmed with an expression of admiration,

    "Indeed, the assembly near Simbirsk, on the one hand, takes into account that the northern defense line of the 10th Group Army is the strongest, and they have been stationed for a long time and are familiar with all aspects of the terrain. On the other hand, it can shorten the southern battlefield and the northern line.  distance, so that once we can capture Cheboksary along the northern railway line and advance to the bridgehead on the south bank of Kazan, we will be able to move south to relieve the 10th and 8th Army! ""

    "The railway from Simbirksk to the north to the left bank of the Volga River is about 150 kilometers. There are two major roads, one is from Kanash to Simbirsk, and the other is from the south bank of Kazan to Simbirsk. We  Whether the main force on the northern front is to encircle Wei and rescue Zhao, or to take advantage of the situation and rush to Kazan City, they will have to go south to reinforce Gidis and Rashevich's troops. This 150-kilometer journey will take 2 to 3 days at most!"

    At this point, Berzin changed the subject and continued, "But don't forget, precisely because Simbirsk is only 15o kilometers away from Kazan, once we choose Simbirsk as the location for the decisive battle on the southern front, we will be happy  It¡¯s not just us, Kolchak and his White Guards are equally happy because his logistics transportation line is the shortest. Every 1 kilometer the battlefield extends southward, the opponent¡¯s logistical difficulties increase by one point!¡±
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