Beiyang 1917

On the evening of July 191, 7, in view of the indisputable fact that the appearance of the coalition forces west of the Ural Mountains, after discussions between Wang Geng and Kolchak via telegrams, the two sides agreed that the White Guards and Volunteer Divisions in Ufa would be formally included in the Allies The command and command structure of the coalition forces.

At this time, Ufa had five White Guard infantry divisions, three Ufa volunteer divisions, and one Ural fourth cavalry division. Wang Geng asked Petrovich to use the nearly [-] horses he captured after defeating the opponent's two cavalry divisions. Among the eight infantry divisions of the defenders, the infantry of Cossack origin was selected and converted into cavalry, and mixed with the fourth Ural cavalry division to re-establish the fourth and fifth Ural cavalry divisions.

These two cavalry divisions formed the Second Ural Cavalry Army, led by General Alexander Petrovich as the commander of the cavalry army and commander of the fourth division, and Lieutenant General Sergei Mikhainovich as the chief of staff , and also served as the commander of the fifth division. The second cavalry army has a total strength of 2 people, basically skilled cavalry from Cossack background. Each cavalry division is equipped with two horse-drawn 2-door Maxim heavy machine gun battalions and three A 24 mountain artillery company with 6 doors.

五个步兵师和三个志愿者师，则在从乌法工人纠察队和后备志愿者中补足了两天战斗中伤亡的缺额，部队番号则整编为乌法步兵第一师到第八师。其中第1、2、3、4师组成了乌法第一集团军、第5、6、7、四个师组建了乌法第二集团军。

b. Pepelyaev became the fourth deputy chief of staff of the Allied Forces Command, and was also the commander of the Ufa Second Army, which was mainly composed of volunteer divisions. The position of the commander of the Ufa First Army was handed over to Lieutenant General Sergei Barayanov, the polished commander of the Ural Cavalry Army, served as Lieutenant General of the Cavalry. The three cavalry divisions here were used by Wang Geng to detour in three directions, and he himself became the commander of the polished Ural Cavalry Army. Geng handed over the Ufa First Army to this fellow.

In this way, the number of Russian troops under the Ufa coalition forces reached three group armies, eight infantry divisions and two cavalry divisions, with a total strength of 10 troops. There are 5000 people in the Yu Department, 5000 people in Li Mingzhong's Department used to detour on the southern line, and 3 people in Sun Liangcheng's Department that took the Urals farther away. On the Ufa line of defense, there are two field artillery regiments And four 54 heavy artillery regiments with 150 guns, as well as Xiong Shihui's divisional armored regiment and a special armored battalion strengthened for the Japanese army.

Of course, how many coalition forces are still in the forward base ten kilometers northeast of Ufa is still a bigger mystery.

191年7月9ri21：32莫斯科克林姆林宫

"Comrades! Shocking news came from the front line of Ufa. The southern group of the eastern army that launched the attack was repelled by the opponent under the city of Ufa. Now Tukhachevsky's troops have retreated [-] kilometers. Camp near Chernivka!" Sdrviyov pushed open the door of the conference room and rushed in with the telegram he had just received in his hand.

"Being repelled? What's going on? It doesn't mean that the number of enemies in Ufa is less than half of ours. How is this possible?" Kamenev snatched the telegram from Sdrviyov's hand, and Ji Noviev got together and read together!

Ulyanov turned back from the map, put his hands on his hips, and said suspiciously, "What's going on? Sdrviyov, is it a telegram from Tukhachevsky? What happened in just a day?" Such a big change? What is this Tukhachevsky up to? Kamenev, read it quickly, what did the telegram say?"

As a leader, Ulyanov is in the habit of pinching his waist and directing others. Because he is exhausted from reading documents and writing articles, most of the time, as long as someone is present, he asks others to read letters and telegrams for him.

Kamenev held the telegram draft, first quickly scanned it, his face became serious, he cleared his throat, and read:

To Ulyanov, Supreme Leader of Moscow, Trotsky, Chairman of the Supreme Revolutionary Military Council, and Comrade Sdrviyov, Military Commissar,

The Southern Group of the Eastern Front launched a heroic attack on the Ufa enemy line this afternoon, and the night before, we sent two outflanking and detour cavalry units to the south and north, totaling the strength of three divisions.

In order to ensure the victory of the battle, the military committee of the front line of the group used two-thirds of the artillery in the entire southern group, a total of 20 artillery companies, to strengthen the fourth army responsible for attacking the southeastern defense line of Ufa, and also strengthened the second army of the group's general reserve The attack in the southeast direction, the attack in the southeast direction is under the full command of Comrade Rzhevsky, the deputy commander of the group and the commander of the Fourth Army!

In order to ensure the smooth attack of the Fourth Army in the southeast direction, the First Army launched a heroic attack on the White Guards on the northwest line with three divisions in advance this morning, in order to attract the attention of the Ufa defenders and serve Rzhev The attack commanded by Ski created the conditions! "

"This arrangement is good! How could it be repelled!" Ulyanov couldn't help but snatched the telegram from Kamenev's hand, and read it himself:

"The soldiers of the First Army made great efforts and wiped out the artillery units of the enemy's positions during the attack. At the same time, we carried out soil work in front of the enemy's front and braved the enemy's artillery fire to dig a trench stretching nearly 10 kilometers. Victory The balance is tilting towards us!" Ulyanov said while slapping the telegram in his hand,

"Listen, how well the First Army fought, how did it get repelled?!" Before the words fell, Trotsky, who was waiting on the sidelines, honestly snatched the telegram from the chairman of the Central Committee. After reading the manuscript, I glanced at it and continued to read:

"However, the Fourth Army's attack in the southeast direction suffered huge losses. Lezhevsky's pre-war reconnaissance was ineffective, he misjudged the enemy's situation, and rashly used the human sea tactics with three infantry divisions at a distance of 10 kilometers. At first glance, the venture was a success, because the first line of defense and the trenches of the Ufa defenders were captured!"

Trotsky frowned while reading, and Ulyanov, who had been robbed of the telegram manuscript, didn't bother to argue with him at this time, and surrounded Trotsky with several other central committee members, listening What happened after he read it down!

"Lezhevsky used three infantry divisions to attack and occupy the opponent's first-line positions and trenches, but was unable to advance to the second position 1000 meters away, because the heavy machine gun firepower of the White Guards was obviously denser than ours. There are many, and their terrain is strong! Even the number of people is no less than that of the attacker!" Trotsky continued.

"Who drafted this telegram? It's stinky and long. I think it was Gorky who was writing novels or doing reportage!" Bukharin, the editor-in-chief of "Pravda" and a member of the central yang propaganda committee, shouted dissatisfied.

"Quiet! Be quiet, Bukharin!" Ulyanov blushed, and gave Bukharin a dissatisfied look, urging Trotsky to read on quickly.

"Lezhevski's command error was that he did not understand the deployment and quantity of the enemy's artillery on the southeastern defense line at all. After the three infantry divisions rushed and occupied the opponent's first line of trenches, the enemy's ambushed artillery suddenly opened fire. !" Trotsky's tone became urgent.

The surrounding central committee members looked tense, Bukharin muttered in his stomach, this Trotsky reading a telegram is like telling a story, and he is playing with both emotions and yin and yang, and he doesn't even look at the time!