Beiyang 1917

~ri date:~October 10ri~

Setting the base camp of the coalition forces in Chelyabinsk can be said to be a last resort. As the railway hub and gateway to the east of the Ural Mountains, there is still a 365-kilometer straight-line distance in the air from Ufa to the west of the Ural Mountains. The reason why the coalition forces blocked The traffic from east to west in the Ural Mountains was blocked, and only people were allowed in, but not out. The purpose was not to expose the strength of the coalition forces west of the Ural Mountains prematurely. <The triumphant Tukhachevsky jumped from the commander of the First Army with 6 horses under his command to the commander of the group commanding three armies with 16 horses. The prudence that a senior commander should possess has given way to conquering Ufa once and for all The impulse to clean up the stronghold of the Kolchak gang.

If the gold from the tsarist treasury that was transferred from Kazan to Ufa can also be snatched back, Tukhachevsky believes that he must be the commander of the Eastern Front Army!Of course, there is no sign of the White Guards on the east bank of the Volga River.

The two cavalry divisions of the forward troops of the 1st Army have already occupied Almetyevsk and Bugulma, only [-] kilometers away from Ufa. If the logistics supply is not available, the local people would have run away to collect food. , the progress of his own southern cluster is even faster!

On the side of the coalition forces, in addition to starting at the base camp in Chelyabinsk to select from the demobilized soldiers of Tsarist Russia and local refugees to form and train the Russian divisions within the coalition formation, Wang Geng went south along the foothills east of the Ural Mountains. A detour force was dispatched, the composition of which detour force was as follows:

1. Cai Tingkai’s 5000st Armored Mixed Brigade under Sun Liangcheng’s [-]st Armored Division, and strengthened the division’s armored regiment, engineering regiment, and logistics regiment, with about [-] people

2. Chapayev Division, First Division of the Ural Cavalry Army, about 1 people

3、ri本No.12师团下属第24步兵旅团的No.20四步兵联队，加强No.12骑兵联队组成的特别派遣支队，支队长是联军司令部下派的，新近晋升的坂垣征四郎中佐！约5000人。

The Allied Forces Ranger has 3 troops. Speaking of which, the No. 20 Five Infantry Regiment is the first regiment in the entire Japanese Army to try to replace the American-style firearms of the Chinese participating army △ for the unified logistics supply of the Allied Forces It is a brand new attempt. At the same time, this wing is also equipped with a battalion of Chinese FD-17II wheeled armored combat vehicles and one hundred Dodge military trucks, becoming the first purely mechanized wing in the Japanese army sequence.

Sun Liangcheng, the commander of the Chinese First Armored Division, served as the commander, Seishiro Sakagaki as the chief of staff, and Chabayev, the bearded division commander of the Ural Cavalry Division, served as the deputy commander.

This army set out quietly as early as June 6th and sneaked south along the foothills east of the Ural Mountains. The scale of 20 people is not too big or small. Wang Geng's idea is a bit like Takeda in the Warring States Period of Japan In the Battle of Kawanakajima between Uesugi and Uesugi, the Rangers detoured and copied people's back roads!

At the southern end of the Ural Mountains, which stretches 12 kilometers to the south, is the Kazakh Alash Autonomous Republic that was declared independent in December last year. No military strength.

According to Taro Utsunomiya, the 3 rangers sent by the coalition forces are too few. This fellow thought that it would be great to annex the Kazakhs, the Arash Autonomous Republic, to the West Siberian Autonomous Zheng Fu, and there would be more in one breath. The land of nearly 270 million square kilometers is sparsely populated, but the climate is much warmer than Siberia. If the water conservancy project is done well, it may become an agricultural base and a granary.

At that time, Wang Geng glanced at the deputy chief of staff who was rubbing his hands anxiously, and said jokingly, "Do you still think there are not enough places?"A place like the Arash Autonomous Republic is an open and undefended land, and it is never too late to clean it up. He either votes for us or Russia. At this moment, he is Kolchak's temporary political friend, and We can also be regarded as a friendly country, we can't look too ugly, can't we?

"Your Excellency Utsunomiya, don't worry. Didn't we say that the east of the Ural Mountains belongs to Asia and is the territory of Asians? At that time, that Arashish himself will stand in line and eat fruit. Are you still afraid of him? If you don't come and hug our thick legs, you won't do it!" Wu Peifu was the one who spoke, teasing the greedy and rigid Japanese generals is now a great pleasure for this guy.

孙良诚的第一装甲混成旅辖三个装甲团和一个炮兵团，每个装甲团还有一个六门的炮兵连（3门75野炮和3门75山炮），每个装甲团120辆中华ft-17ii型轮式装甲战车，360度旋转炮塔上安装一挺12.7口径的勃朗宁大口径重机枪，并搭载一个包含8名武装步兵的车载步兵班。

<b田式步枪。此外60迫击炮被装备到排，每排辖一个2门的60迫击炮班，而81口径迫击炮被装备到营，每营有一个8门的迫击炮排！

The artillery regiment of the armored mixed brigade has two field artillery battalions and one mountain artillery battalion. Each battalion has three companies and six guns, all of which are towed by Dodge 6-ton trucks. The combined firepower of an artillery regiment is 1 36-caliber field artillery And 75 18-caliber mountain guns.Coupled with the three regiment artillery companies with six mountain artillery pieces each, the artillery of a mixed brigade reached an astonishing 75 pieces!And this is just the standard configuration of the mixed brigade of the participating army.

The strengthened divisional artillery regiment is equipped with 54 150-caliber heavy howitzers. Although the requirements for the heavy artillery on the road are greatly enhanced, Wang Geng has full confidence in the reinforced Dodge 1 ton truck. Sending a detachment, the presence of heavy artillery is quite critical to the future performance of this team, because the air support of the air team will always be affected by weather and night.

What makes people laugh is that the helmets worn by Wang Geng’s participating troops are not the flat helmets of the British and French troops, but the helmets designed by referring to the German helmets. Compared with the helmets of the Allied Powers, the German style The steel helmet can better protect the neck. Of course, Wang Geng doesn't have the tip of the helmet that is close to the top of the Prussian helmet!

According to the combat plan formulated by the coalition forces, the campaign code-named "Defend Ziyou" will start in early July, and the mission of the Southward Ranger is to sneak 7 kilometers south along the eastern foot of the Ural Mountains before the campaign, and then spare At the southern end of the Ural Mountains, turn to the northwest, after the battle of "Defending Zi You" officially started near Ufa.

Sun Liangcheng's ranger will drive straight in, and copy the back road of Tukhachevsky's southern cluster from the southeast. It will take a journey of [-] kilometers to go all the way. The goal is to take Orenburg, Bluzuk, and Samara successively. , to close the Volga River crossing in Setherland, and cut off the retreat of the southern cluster.

Fortunately, the southern end of the Ural Mountains is the Kazakh grassland, which has relatively little impact on the fully mechanized Rangers. If it is in the mountains and forests, the road ahead will be much more difficult.By the end of June, Sun Liangcheng's task force had successfully arrived at the Kazakh prairie.

In order to avoid alarming the enemy, all herdsmen encountered along the way were detained and marched together in the baggage train to avoid leaking the wind. Of course, the reconnaissance plane of the d4 squadron even set up a protective net and reconnaissance net in the sky. The benefits of reconnaissance are obvious, and the importance of air supremacy to modern warfare has become more and more deeply understood by the Chinese, Japanese and Russian officers and soldiers of the Special Forces.

Speaking of the First Ural Cavalry Division in the Einsatzgruppen, this group of Cossack cavalry from the former Tsarist Russian era really impressed Sun Liangcheng and Seishiro Sakagaki. They were taken over by this Cossack cavalry division when they played forward to scout the road and cut off the rear. The sturdy Cossacks It can be seen that, in the words of the bearded division commander Chapayev, this is the best camouflage. A cavalry on the grassland will not be too eye-catching. If the wheels are rolling, it will easily make people suspicious.

Of course, Zisantaro, the captain of the No. 20 Fourth Regiment of the Infantry, doesn’t think so. In his opinion, Chapayev’s cavalry is rushing to be the forward to explore the way. In addition to the fact that the Cossacks are more adaptable to the local climate and environment, the more important thing is It is only when they play the vanguard that they can hold their ground and prevent the whole army from advancing too fast. After all, the cavalry can be as tired as dogs after running [-] kilometers, while the infantry can only take a nap after driving [-] kilometers with a car.