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Volume 3 Far East Story Chapter 748 (2) How to transport troops?

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    As soon as Berzin said this, everyone was shocked. Originally, the southern battlefield was just a secondary battlefield used to contain Kolchak's main offensive, while Nizhny Novgorod on the northern front was the Soviet Volga Front's plan.  Now he has to travel thousands of kilometers to the south for a decisive battle with Kolchak?  The Soviet generals present were obviously surprised.  

    "Karl Ivanovich, does the south refer to the line between Kuznetsov and Sezlan in Penza? How can we mobilize the main force of our northern line so far away? Who will defend Nizhny Novgorod? Who will come from Moscow?  Defense? We don¡¯t have many cavalry troops, and at least half of Kolchak¡¯s main force is the Cossack Cavalry Division. Are you sure that what you just said is that you want the entire army to go south and fight Kolchak¡¯s White Guards on the southern front?¡± added the Political Commissar of the Front Army.  Minev asked in surprise.

    "What I'm talking about is to concentrate the main force of the Volga Front and fight Kolchak's main force on the southern front. In this way, the southward retreat of Gidis and Rashevich's two armies will be smooth, and their southward retreat will be effective.  To attract Kolchak's main force to continue pursuing southward, the Penza-Kuznetsov-Sezlan line is the best battlefield. The only main forces of the 3rd and 5th armies in Nizhny Novgorod can follow the railway.  Take the train south!¡±

    As he spoke, Berzin grabbed the red and blue pencils, starting from Lower Novgorod, and drew a long route all the way south. He explained as he drew,

    ¡°Take a train south from Nizhny Novgorod, the first step is to Arzamas, then follow the railway line southeast to Saransk, and then south from Saransk to Penza, the whole journey is only 35o kilometers.  It seems that we can get there in one night by train. It is only a little over 100 kilometers from Penza to the east to Kuznetsov. In this way, our vanguard troops will be able to reach Kuznets along the railway line at noon tomorrow at the latest.  Zoff!"

    Berzin's words made the atmosphere in the entire Volga Front headquarters suddenly lively. Merzheninov and Shaposhnikov even bumped shoulders with each other and almost shouted "Ula". This  Chernavin, the chief of staff of the frontier army, said suspiciously, "It doesn't seem to be impossible, but where are there so many locomotives and wagons to transport troops?"

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

    "The key depends on how many troops are mobilized south? What troops are left on the northern front to defend Novgorod? Even if the Kuznetsov and Penza front lines on the southern front are lost, it will not be a big problem, but if Kolchak has insight into us  If the main force of the northern front moves south and the main force of the White Guards turns around and goes north, or if the Northern Group of the White Guards entrenched in Cheboksary rushes towards Nizhniy Novgorod in one go, what troops will we rely on to hold Nizhniy Novgorod? "Commander of the 5th Army?  Sergey Sergeyevich Kamenev stood up and asked.

    In fact, as the commander of the rebuilt Soviet 5th Army, Sergei Kamenev, like Tukhachevsky, did not agree with hastily pulling out the formed troops to fight in the field and relying on solid city defenses for defense.  Combat may be the best way to train the troops to become stronger as they fight. After all, defense is easier than offense in terms of logistics, material support and combat durability, and the morale of the formed infantry division is also easier to maintain.

    "Sergey Sergeyevich, since it is a decisive battle going south, of course we must strive to complete the victory in one battle. The seven divisions of my 3rd Army can do it." Chapter 748 of Beiyang 1917 (2. How to transport troops?)  To dispatch them all, it will be necessary to recruit and dispatch about 3o trains! The important task of defending Nizhny Novgorod can be left to your 5th Army. The 5th Army has the strength of 7 infantry divisions. Although the firepower is poor, it can rely on the city defense fortifications.  With the favorable terrain, it is not a problem to block the attack of the three Kazan infantry divisions of the Kolchak North Cluster, not to mention the cavalry detachment commanded by Shatenko to harass the enemy's flanks and transportation lines! "

    The commander of the Soviet 3rd Army, Karl Ivanovich Berzin, had a very firm tone. Since the main force on the northern front to fight southward had been his long-planned plan these days, being the first to propose this risk and benefit were the same.  The initiator of the huge combat plan, Berzin and his main 3rd Army had to take the lead!

    As early as Berzin's 3rd Army withdrew from the south bank of Kazan all the way to the Cheboksary Iron Triangle, and then had a head-on bloody battle with Kolchak's main force, and successfully retreated to Nizhny Novgorod, Soviet Russia  The replenishment and reconstruction of the 3rd and 5th armies of the Volga Front took a lot of trouble at that time.

    For Sergei Kamenev's Soviet Fifth Army, the difficulty in reorganizing and training the "Beiyang 1917" was to get back 40,000 Tsarist Russian prisoners of war from the Germans, which was the same as the infantrymen of the original Fifth Army.  The 27th Division was mixed together to form five infantry divisions, or rather, it was mixed together with the four temporarily formed worker divisions from Nizhny Novgorod to form nine infantry divisions!

    At that time, Sergei Kamenev preferred the former option because the Tsarist Russian prisoners of war who returned from Germany were all veterans, and they were mixed with the veterans of the original 27th Infantry Division to form five infantry divisions.??, once the combat effectiveness is restored, as long as the morale is improved, it will soon become an elite force.

    Because the Nizhny Novgorod Workers' Division was already organized for the third time at this time. When the Eastern Front was first established, the most experienced and resolute Bolshevik workers' divisions had already been dispersed and organized into the Eastern Front.  Went to various armies.

    Immediately following the rebellion of Muravyov of the Left Socialist Revolutionary Party, who was the commander of the Soviet Eastern Front, the Nizhny Novgorod workers' division was organized again, and a large number of working class backbones were reorganized for the second time.  He went to the front line for the first time, and after crushing the rebellion of Muravyov and the rest, he joined the reorganized Eastern Front Army Groups.

    So in late July 1918, in order to resist the attack of the Kazan Kolchak gang, the working class in major factories in Nizhny Novgorod was once again armed and mobilized, and organized into four workers' divisions.  But these are the working class left over after six months of selection. Their quality and abilities are completely different from those of the two earlier waves of workers.

    At that time, among the four Nizhny Novgorod weavers, some were old, some were young, and many of the younger ones were apprentices. The apprentice was only 16 to 18 years old. Because his father and brother had gone to fight on the front line, he took over from them.  In the remaining factory jobs, many older people with gray beards stood there with rifles on their backs and their waists were no longer straight. It was heartbreaking to see the situation.

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