Beiyang 1917

"Food shortage is a quick battle. There is not a single grain to be found on the [-]-kilometer journey from the right bank of the Volga River. In this way, the artillery companies of the various armies are asked to speed up. Our side will make a tentative charge first. Don’t be intimidated by a group of ordinary people with guns lying in the trenches on the opposite side of the White Guard’s defense line, it’s a joke!”

It was the first time that Tukhachev, the commander of the Southern Group, commanded an army of 10,000+ to fight. He was really afraid that he would be taken advantage of by the empty city plan sung by the Ufa defenders. He waved his hand and prepared to order an attack. Ma Xin, the chief of staff of the group, hesitated reminded,

"Comrade Mikhail Nikolaevich, we have come all the way, the reconnaissance plane of the government of West Siberia, which declared itself west of the Ural Mountains, has been lingering like flies over our heads for half a month. Go, now that we are here, it disappears instead, just to be cautious, should we find a way to extend the reconnaissance to the two wings before launching the attack?"

Since this guy is the chief of staff, he really doesn't regard himself as an outsider. If he should remind him, he must remind his young commander, Comrade Tukhachev!

"Afraid there will be a bird? The coalition forces in the east of the Ural Mountains in the capital, bearing the signboard of the West Siberian Autonomous Government, will dispatch to interfere in the situation west of the Ural Mountains, but this battle will not be fought? Now the Ural Mountain Pass is tightly blocked by the other side. In fact, the situation on the other side of the mountain is not clear at all. The local guerrillas are basically wiped out in sevens and eighties, and the rest are hiding in the deep mountains and old forests and dare not show up. What if they really show up in Ufa? If you want to fight, you have to do it as soon as possible!"

Tukhachevsky grinned dissatisfiedly, thinking that this Ma Xin is really ignorant of current affairs, how can the army not attack Ufa when the arrow is on the string, let alone whether the commander of the group and the commander of the 1st Army can continue If you keep going, the 10,000+ main force of the Red Army will starve out without food alone!

Ma Xin pursed his lips, turned his head and remained silent. Anyway, my Second Army has always been a reserve team. You Tukhachev is very capable, and your First Army has a strong force of 9 troops. You should go to the front line!Don’t say I didn’t warn you when you suffer, this fellow was thinking, while thinking about sending a telegram to Comrade Sdrviyov in Moscow immediately, to report and ask for instructions on the situation on the front line.

"In this way, Comrade Rzhevsky, your Fourth Army is responsible for attacking the defense line of the southeast Ufa group, my First Army is responsible for the defense line of the opponent's northwest group, and Mahin's Second Army continues to serve as the group's reserve force. At one o'clock in the afternoon, an attack will be launched in half an hour, and an infantry division will be sent in each direction to test it out! What do you think?" Tukhachevsky made up his mind.

"Comrade Commander of the Cluster, it's a bit of a stretch to send one infantry division each. The White Guards on the opposite side have at least two divisions each. There are fewer troops to attack and more troops. The opponent has a perfect trench position. Such a tentative attack lacks the threat and urgency to the enemy. Power!" Lezhevsky frowned.

"Then it's up to you. If you want, the Fourth Army can all press it! Anyway, the southeast direction is handed over to your Fourth Army. Everyone, the Eight Immortals cross the sea and show their magical powers! Let me make it clear first, whichever army advances to the city, it will be captured." Take the lead, just stop making small reports with the Front Army and Moscow!" Tukhachevsky said coldly!

"Hey! Why bother? We are all comrades, so don't say a few words!" Ma Xin, the commander of the Second Army, hurried out to smooth things over. Anyway, his two divisions are the reserve team, and he is happy to watch the excitement. He didn't think too much about the capture. With Tukhachev's First Army and Chabayev's overbearing and brave cavalry division commander, who could snatch things better than them!

"Okay, then the Eight Immortals cross the sea to show their magical powers, and whoever reports to Moscow is the one!" Rzhevsky, the commander of the Fourth Army, was not a good-tempered master. Turning the horse's head, he led his division commanders and political commissars to leave the slope, and rushed back to his team to organize the attack and arrange positions.

In his view, the First Army has six infantry divisions and three cavalry divisions with 9 people in charge of one direction of attack, while his own Fourth Army has only six understaffed infantry divisions and one cavalry division, totaling only 5 people Left and right, they are going to attack the [-] White Guards in the solid and well-equipped trenches on the opposite side. This is clearly a bullying arrangement!

Otherwise, at least the two divisions of the Second Army should be strengthened in this direction of attack. However, Lezhevski is also a master who can fight tough battles. He wants to see if his 5 people can create a miracle. Faster and better progress than the Tukhachevsky guy's 9.

At 1918:7 p.m. on July 8, 1, the southern group of the Eastern Front of the Soviet Russian Red Army launched an attack from the north and the south. Since the artillery of the Soviet Russian Red Army was not in place yet, the attackers did not have artillery preparations, but lined up scattered. The line of soldiers launched an impact on the first line of the White Guards.

The tallest building on the banks of the Belaya River in Ufa, on the commanding heights of the bell tower of the Orthodox Church, is the former enemy headquarters of the coalition forces. This is the brain and command center of this Ufa battle. The church hall is the center of all telephones and radios , Looking southwest from the platform of the bell tower, you can see 10 kilometers away with a telescope.

Pepelyaev personally commanded the defense on the second line of defense in the northwest, while Alexander Petrovich handed over the command of the southeast cluster to his chief of staff, Sergey Mikhainovich. I personally led the cavalry division's main brigade of more than 3000 Cossack elite cavalry to lie in ambush behind the high ground on the left of the front, ready to kill at any time to pick up a bargain.

"Hawkeye No. 20 radio report: The horse-drawn artillery unit of Suonan Group is ten kilometers behind its position. It is expected to enter the battlefield before dark. The artillery size is about [-] artillery companies. Hawkeye No. [-] asked if It is necessary to launch a ground attack!" The commander-in-chief of the coalition forces, Wang Geng, put down the phone behind him and reported to his war room director, Major General Tian Jun.

Hawkeye No. 01 is a Handley Page 0400 heavy bomber numbered e3000 of the coalition air force. At this moment, it is used as a battlefield air pre-warning aircraft circling at an altitude of 5000 meters southwest of Ufa, and the higher cloud layer is 5 meters , is an escort SE[-] fighter squadron of sixteen aircraft.

"Ask Eagle Eye No. [-] to continue to observe, especially after the opponent's artillery enters the position, immediately send back the position of the position and the elements. No ground attack is allowed without order!" Wang Geng looked at the wriggling creature in the distance with a telescope The Russian Red Army, like ants, ordered without looking back.

"Your Excellency, Commander-in-Chief, are we being too lenient towards the enemy? With their equipment and firepower, we don't need to fight any positional warfare at all. The air bombing and heavy artillery can blow Tukhachevsky upside down. Already!" The Deputy Chief of Staff and Commander of the Japanese Third Army, Utsunomiya Taro, was a little worried about Wang Geng's cautiousness.

"Your Excellency Taro, if our goal is only the 16 troops of Tukhachevsky's Southern Group, then of course we can do this, but I want to reinforce the Eastern and Southern Fronts in the [-]-kilometer area southwest of Ufa. All the main forces of the army will be circled in and killed, which means that we cannot expose our strength too early, and we must show Tukhachevsky the news of taking Ufa, and we must consume as much of his food as possible, so that when the time comes He just wanted to withdraw, but he was too hungry to run!"

Wang Geng smiled and said to his deputy chief of staff, speaking of it, Utsunomiya Taro is really a rare talent among the senior generals of the Japanese Army who can be alone. His energy is no less than that of the following division leaders!

"Sogar, you're too hungry to run? Great! Your Excellency Commander-in-Chief, you are planning to use rice tactics. Hashiba Hideyoshi also used it when he conquered the Western Kingdom. The hungry opponent obediently surrendered!" Utsunomiya narrowed his eyes. Eyes smiled.

"Surrender? It would be great if they could surrender at that time, I'm afraid they will fight to the death, and I don't know what these people think!" Wang Geng murmured while watching the Soviet Red Army's mobilization in the distance. road.

"I'm not afraid of this. I heard from that Pepelyaev. As long as the political commissar and Bolsheviks in the captive team are pulled out and shot, the rest of the prisoners will be easy to deal with! Or, the prisoners can let their political commissar and Cheka The personnel are killed, what is this called in your China, yes, it is called a vote certificate! Just like our Japanese Warring States period, you have to have a vote certificate to sincerely defect to your new employer!"

Utsunomiya Taro, the deputy chief of staff of the coalition army and the head coach of Japan's third army, has a very harmonious relationship with Wang Geng recently.

"Eagle Eye No. 2 radio report: The Ninth Army of the Southern Front in the direction of Setheran has all crossed the Volga River, but according to observations, it seems that the other party stopped at Samara after crossing the river, and did not go in the direction of Ufa. Exercise!" Major General Tian Jun, the master of the war room, put down the other phone receiver and reported to Wang Geng.

Hawkeye 2 is also an air pre-warning aircraft modified from a Handley Page 400 heavy bomber, but it flies farther. Now it is directly hovering on the line between Setherland and Samara in the middle reaches of the Volga River. Hawkeye 2 is escorted by four new Chinese FR-18 "Superior" multipurpose fighters.