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Volume 3 Far East Story Chapter 750 (3) Retreat of the entire army

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    The three Tsaritsyn defense battles in 191 became one of the most important battles to protect the Soviet power.  ¡¾¡¿ After Voroshilov led his troops to break through the blockade from Donbas and come to Tsaritsyn, he greatly strengthened the defense power of Tsaritsyn City.  Voroshilov served as vice chairman of the Military Commission of the established North Caucasus Military District and became an assistant to Comrade Joseph, the member and chairman of the Central Committee of Soviet Russia. He also served as commander of the Tsaritsyn Front, deputy commander of the Southern Front, and commander of the 10th Army.

    In order to have enough soldiers, he sent people to the countryside to mobilize reliable elements to join the army, and strengthened the training of the troops.  In order to adapt to large corps operations, he organized scattered guerrilla troops into regular corps; in order to deal with the highly mobile Cossack cavalry, he formed several reinforced divisions equipped with a large number of machine guns and artillery; in order to support infantry and cavalry operations, he formed  armored column.  All these measures further strengthened Tsaritsyn's defense.  Under the command of Voroshilov, as the main group army defending Tsaritsyn, the 10th Army repelled several enemy attacks, demonstrating his outstanding commanding skills.

    Of course, among the Soviet Southern Front forces that were jointly organized in the three battles to defend Tsaritsyn, Voroshilov¡¯s 10th Army was not the only one capable of fighting well. The 10th Army Group, which received Trotsky¡¯s full support  The strength and contribution of Yegorov's 9th Army are also quite objective. However, after Chernavin went solo, the strength of the 8th Army was relatively weak, with only 4 infantry divisions.

    In any case, by the early morning of the last day of July 1918, the Soviet 10th Army, commanded by Gidis, the former Chief of Staff of the Soviet Southern Front, seemed to have the most combat experience among the entire Volga Front of the Soviet Red Army.  , the group army that has won the most victories, has the strongest military skills of its soldiers, and the strongest morale. The composure of the group army political commissar Klyuev and the vigor of the young chief of staff Pavlov have made the divisions of the 10th group army stand tall.  Surrounded by powerful enemies, he did not waver at all.

    Of course, the combat effectiveness of the Soviet 8th Army was weaker, not to mention the night attack in the middle of the night that dampened morale. Fortunately, the acting commander and political commissar Rashevich was seriously injured and was admitted to the health team to recuperate. The chief of staff and 12th Infantry  The division commander Latyski was killed in action, so the front army headquarters directly gave orders to the divisions of the 8th Army. The original 8th Army infantry"" The 12th, 13th, 15th and 16th divisions were all  It is temporarily under the command of the 10th Army Headquarters.

    Before encountering a night attack by two divisions of Cossack cavalry in the middle of the night, the defense line of the Soviet 10th Army at that time was 15 kilometers wide on the northern front and 15 kilometers wide on the western front. These 30 kilometers were formed by the 10th Army.  The 39th, 40th, and 41st Infantry Divisions were responsible for the defense. The 15-kilometer southwest defense line was originally defended by the 13th and 15th Infantry Divisions of the Soviet 8th Army, while the 16th Infantry Division defended the southern line.

    After the 8th Group Army encountered a night attack by Kolchak's cavalry troops and was penetrated through the position and took away the group army headquarters, the positions of the two divisions in the southwest of the 8th Group Army withdrew about 5 kilometers eastward, and the width of the positions also changed from  Fifteen kilometers were shortened to ten kilometers. This was originally a preparatory move by the 10th Army to shrink the positions of the two armies across the board and move closer to Simbirsk. This was because the 10th Army judged that the main force on the northern front would go south for reinforcements, and most of them would counterattack Chebok.  Sare, and follow the southward route of Kolchak's troops from Cheboksary, as possible.

    Unexpectedly, Voroshilov, the deputy commander of the front army in Beiyang 1917 Chapter 750 (The Retreat of the Third Army), who was now in Nizhny Novgorod, decided to abandon the plan of reinforcements and decisive battle on the southern front.  , withdrew all the main forces of the 10th and 8th Group armies on the southern front to the south, and used trains to take the Kuznetsov-Penza-Saransk line in the west to withdraw to the northern front and join the main force of the front army, and prepare for a decisive battle with Kolchak on the northern front.  This play was completely unexpected, but Gidis, Klyuyev and Pavlov couldn't help but applaud Voroshilov's decision!

    When the battle reaches this point, it is about to be a decisive battle between the main heavy force groups of both sides. All the territory, territory, cities, population, resources, etc. should be forgotten. Now the Soviet Red Army Volga Front should concentrate its forces and the goal is to hit the target.  Mountain, seize the vitality and vitality of Kolchak's base camp, and other things will be a matter of the future. Even if a large area of ??land, cities and towns on the southern front are occupied by Kolchak's White Guards, it will be temporary. As long as the Soviet Union on the northern front  The main force of the Red Army can reach the gates of Kazan City, so there is no need to worry about Kolchak not turning back!

    And by that time, the Soviet-Russian Volga Front, clenched into a fist, will have a clear advantage in terms of military strength and firepower. It will definitely be better than the "Beiyang 1917" and Kolcha who are working on expeditions in secondary areas such as the Southern Front.  The highly mobile cavalry troops are entangled!

    At 2 o'clock in the morning on July 31, 1918, we made wired contact with the Budyonny Cavalry Army, which was roaming fifteen kilometers behind the Kolchak position on the northern line, and confirmed that the Budyonny Cavalry Army was attacking in separate ways before dawn.  Behind Kolchak, disrupt the enemy's deployment and cooperate with the Soviet 10th and 8th Groups.After the retreat situation, Guidis issued a series of orders for the entire army to retreat in the name of the Army Headquarters:

    1. Chief of Staff of the 10th Group Army Dmitry Grigorievich Pavlov led the 1st Kameshin Infantry Division to take over the northern defense line of the 39th and 40th Infantry Divisions, breaking the rear for the entire army.  The 10th Army left 10 artillery batteries to reinforce Pavlov's 1st Kameshin Infantry Division. Pavlov's task was to pretend to be the main force of the Army and hold the position at least until 8 o'clock in the morning!

    2. The political commissar of the 10th Group led the 4 divisions of the 8th Army with nearly 40,000 troops. They began to withdraw from existing positions at 2 o'clock in the morning and retreated southward to the Kuznetsov line 35 kilometers away.

    3. The 41st Infantry Division of the 10th Army, under the command of the division commander Alexander Nikolayevich Tkachev, retreated 10 kilometers south, took over the southwest defense line of the 8th Army, and asked to hold on.  We won't be able to retreat until 9 o'clock tomorrow morning.

    4. Commander Gidis of the 10th Group Army personally led the 37th, 38th, 39th and 4th Infantry Divisions of the group army and began to retreat southward at 3 a.m. while covering the back of the 8th Group Army.

    5. The remaining one brigade of the 42nd Infantry Division of the 10th Army, under the command of the division commander Dimitri Dimievich Vasilyev, covered nearly 4,000 wounded people of the two armies, retreated eastward, etc.  After all the wounded entered the demilitarized buffer zone, the 42nd Infantry Division organized a breakout southward and headed for the railway
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