Beiyang 1917

"Call Hawkeye No. 2 and continue to observe, especially around the evening, pay attention to whether the Ninth Army of the Southern Front in the direction of Setherland and Samara has any signs of night operations!" Wang Geng ordered, turned and asked again,

"Is there any news from Hawkeye 3? Has the main force of Vatzetis' Fifth Army crossed the Volga River? Where is the Volga River fleet at this moment?"

Hawkeye 3 is the third aerial pre-warning aircraft refitted with Handley Page O400 heavy bomber, and was sent by Wang Geng to the direction of Simbirsk. If you want to cross the river from the left bank of the Volga River, you have to go east of Simbirsk The Tetyushi Ferry, or the Setheran Ferry, the rest of the water is fast and there is no pier, and the river bank is high, so it is not easy to cross the river.

Major General Tian Jun, the director of the war room, picked up the phone and said a few words in a low voice, then raised his head and said, "There is no news about Hawkeye 3 yet, I have sent a telegram downstairs to ask, and I will get a reply soon!"

Then the light bulb on a red telephone turned on. Tian Jun walked over to pick up the receiver, listened to it, and said to Wang Geng, "It's Pepelyaev from the defense line of the Northwest Cluster looking for you!"

Wang Geng nodded, walked over to pick up the receiver, and said, "I'm Wang Geng, what's the matter, Your Excellency the Prime Minister, is your line of defense under pressure? Hmmmmmmmm...I've seen it all, Don't worry, Tukhachevsky is testing, don't rush to expose your artillery positions with your cannons!

machine gun?Don't worry about the machine guns, don't expose the machine guns on the second line!If an infantry division he came from afar breaks through the defenses of your two idle divisions, then the commanders of the two White Guards can be shot!that's all!Don't worry, I will watch Ufa for you! "

Said Wang Geng put down the phone, went to the window and picked up the binoculars to look at the Northwest Line of Defense. In the distance, the Russian Red Army, like ants, sent about a division of troops, rushing towards the White Guard positions on the Northwest Line of Defense. However, the White Guards on the front line were still calm and did not open fire indiscriminately.

The mountain artillery companies behind the position began to fire one after another. Look at the movement. Pepelyaev used 2 12-caliber mountain artillery from 76 artillery companies to bombard the attacking Soviet Russian infantry division. Going to harvest fragile lives, but the attacking Soviet Russian infantry division was not reluctant, and continued to trot with its waist down and trot regardless of casualties, and soon connected to the barbed wire fence 200 meters in front of the first position.

Behind the attacking infantry division, the Red Army's horse-drawn machine gun rushed to the best shooting position at about 1200 meters, turned around and started shooting, and the Maxim water-cooled heavy machine gun deployed on the front line of the White Guards began to ring at the same time. When he got up, bullets staggered on the battlefield, flesh and blood flew everywhere, and the offensive and defensive sides began to collide with blood and fire.

On the one hand, due to the terrain, the southwest is low-lying and the northeast is slightly higher, forming a gentle slope stretching for several kilometers. Therefore, the aimed shooting of the White Guards mountain artillery company arranged behind the position quickly made the horse-drawn machine gun position organized by the Soviet Russian Red Army unable to withstand it. The dense and accurate artillery fire caused the battalion of horse-drawn machine guns to lose huge losses. The remnants of the horse-drawn carriages had to run all the way backwards and exit the battlefield. The crowd of the Soviet Russian Infantry Division poured bullets and harvested their lives

Due to the lack of artillery support, the barbed wire stretching in front of the position hindered the pace of the attacking Red Army soldiers, and a slight hesitation on the battlefield would usher in death. In less than half an hour, the Soviet Red Army launched an attack on the Northwest Defense Line The first attack fell into a complete failure. The 24th Division of the Simbirsk Iron Army Infantry, which took the lead, killed one-third of the soldiers, injured one-third of the soldiers, and less than one-third of the soldiers could completely withdraw to the starting position. .

The front of the first line of defense of the White Guard stretched from the barbed wire to 1000 meters away. The fields were full of dead bodies. The closer to the barbed wire, the heavier the casualties. The squirming and moaning wounded were everywhere, it was horrible.

Although there were also casualties on the White Guards' positions, most of them were machine gunners. The infantrymen who were hiding in the trenches and firing guns had very few casualties. This was the first time the entire Northwest Front collided. The most elite 24th Infantry Division of the Simbirsk Iron Army suffered more than 6000 casualties and was completely disabled.

On the other hand, on the northwest defense line where Pepelyaev was in charge of the White Guards, the casualties on the front line were only less than 300 people, of which more than 100 were killed and more than 200 were injured. Compared with the tens of thousands of people fighting on both sides, This casualty is simply negligible.

The sound of "Ula" sounded one after another on the defense line of the White Guards in Ufa. The soldiers of the White Guards Infantry Division, mainly composed of demobilized soldiers from Tsarist Russia, regained their long-lost courage and confidence. tile dog!The most vicious ones were the commanders and political commissars at all levels, and it was these commanders and political commissars who suffered the most casualties.

"Your Excellency, Commander-in-Chief, the White Guards in Ufa fought well! Now the Prime Minister's confidence has grown! Why did the Soviet Red Army fight so wildly? It was worse than the meat-bomb attack we launched in Lushun back then. Regardless of the casualties!" Utsunomiya Taro, the deputy chief of staff of the coalition forces who watched the entire offensive and defensive process through the binoculars, was obviously in a good mood!

At this time, the light on the red phone turned on again. This was a straight line connecting Pepelyaev's headquarters and Wang Geng's headquarters. Wang Geng walked over to pick it up without waiting for Tian Jun to reach out. on the phone,

"Yes! I saw it! The infantry division fought very well... yes yes... the mountain artillery company completely suppressed the horse-drawn machine gun firepower of the opponent's cover... yes yes... ah... this is not necessary... pass me order, not to attack the medical soldiers who came to rescue the other party...

What. . .Yes, I saw it, the other party dropped more than 3000 corpses, and there were more than 3000 wounded lying on the battlefield. . .Send people to fly the white flag, go to the front and shout at them, and send their medics and stretcher teams to drag the wounded Red Army back!Don't shoot at the medics!that's all! "Wang Geng put down the phone.

The commander-in-chief of the coalition forces turned around and continued to observe the battlefield with binoculars. At this time, the Red Army on the southeast line of defense also launched an offensive, but obviously the Soviet Russian Fourth Front Army on the southeast line of defense was very careful. He adjusted his machine gun position, and at the edge of the woods behind the further position, it seemed that there were two artillery companies that had just arrived.

"Your Excellency, Commander-in-Chief, I don't understand why you are not allowed to shoot at the medical soldiers who entered the battlefield. They rescued the wounded. In the future, they will return to the Soviet Russian army after being wounded. They are our enemies. Why don't you continue to shoot and even cover them with artillery fire? Eliminate all the enemies lying down and moving in front of the position?!" Utsunomiya Taro, deputy chief of staff of the coalition forces, asked with blinking eyes.

Wang Geng smiled, thinking that this guy is really not hiding anything, originally I wanted to learn a few more tricks from him, a guy who fought in the Japanese-Russian War, but now he has become a curious baby, so I have to mention it After clicking him, he hesitated, the commander-in-chief of the coalition forces whispered,

"My Lord Taro, you must not lose your humanitarian feelings at any time. If you want to gain a foothold in this place thousands of kilometers away from your homeland, blood and fire alone are not enough. We must win people's hearts and attack them first." !” Wang Geng whispered in the ear of his deputy chief of staff in a lower voice.

"There are more than 3000 lightly and severely wounded, what a burden and burden it is. After they are rescued, they lie there all day crying and howling, lacking medical care and medicine, how much can the opponent's morale be shaken? How much food is wasted on the opponent, and how much marching speed is slowed down. Such a heavy burden, How can Tukhachevsky be worthy of coming all the way to Ufa if he doesn’t memorize it!”