Beiyang 1917

"How do you fight? Didn't the Fourth Army's major defeat in the southeast come about under your command? Tell me, how do you fight next?" Tukhachevs stared at shouted Rzhevski.

Rzhevsky hesitated for a moment, gritted his teeth, and said, "In the case of losing the advantage of artillery, I think we should at least take a big step back, try to fight the enemy in Ufa, and eliminate the enemy's forces in motion and in the field. With a living force, we can no longer gather a large army under the enemy's fortified city to attack the opponent's established position like the two days ago!"

"Retreat in great strides? Comrade, we have more than 20000 lightly and severely wounded, and food is also quite scarce. Where are you going to retreat? If Ufa is not captured, we hardly have enough food to persist until we retreat to the west bank of the Volga River!" Tuha Chevsky apparently hadn't thought about retreating.

"Comrade Commander, I think Comrade Rzhevski's suggestion is worthy of our consideration. We are too close to Ufa now. The Fifth Army and the Ninth Army are at least 300 kilometers away from us, and it will take three days at the earliest to arrive. If If we continue to make great strides to retreat westward, then we can join the two reinforcements in advance, which is safer than staying here, and there is more room for maneuver!" Ma Xin, the chief of staff of the group, stood up at this moment Support Rzhevski's suggestion.

Tukhachevsky glanced at Ma Xin. He really dared not ignore the chief of staff of the group and the commander of the Second Army. Fellow countryman, he has to listen to what he should say.

With bloodshot eyes, Lezhevsky smothered the cigarette butt in his hand, and walked to the one-hundred-thousandth map hanging on the wall with the oil lamp in his hand. Hachefsky Road,

"The three divisions of the Fifth Army are now about 100 kilometers west of Nurrat, and the other three divisions are no more than [-] kilometers away from Chistopol on the Kamala River. The Ninth Army has already left Sasha. In the Mala Reservoir area, the forward troops have already arrived at Pokh Westnevo, and the two armies are only more than [-] kilometers away from the Briguma and Babre lines, and they will arrive there at the earliest tomorrow night."

As he said this, he drew a line westward from the current position of the southern group of Ufa City until Briguma and Babre, and pointed at this line,

"There is still 150 kilometers from our current position in Chevonigovka to Babre. I suggest that the main force of the Southern Group continue to move westward tomorrow morning. According to our current marching speed, if the Ufa White Guards do not pursue it, it will take two days. In time, we can retreat to the area of ​​Briguma, Babre, and October Town, which happens to join the main force of the Fifth and Ninth Army. We can discuss it according to the enemy's situation!"

Before he finished speaking. && Tukhachevsky snatched the oil lamp in front of him, looked carefully at the route according to the map, and the political commissars of the three army groups behind him silently looked at the three army commanders in front of them. In fact, they still had to wait Tukhachevsky came to make up his mind.

The commander of the Southern Cluster gesticulated on the map for a long time, and had to admit that Lezhevsky suggested that it was the safest way to continue to retreat westward. road,

"What do you political commissars think? According to Rzhevski, our retreat is 150 kilometers. The soldiers are exhausted these days, and with so many wounded, it is not a joke to retreat 150 kilometers in two days. Just kidding, this is really running away! Nainai! The Eastern Front of the Red Army has made us lose all face! Then let Yegorov see our jokes!" Tukhachev Ski's face is full of confusion!

Political Commissar of the Southern Cluster and Political Commissar of the First Group Army Yankov Gayi stood up and leaned over the map, looked at it, stood up and said, "If we really want to withdraw, I think we can withdraw to October Town, so we only need to walk 120 kilometers away. Kilometers, and the distance from Bugulima and Babre is 20 to 40 kilometers, which happens to be a corner, and it will be easy to attack or defend at that time!"

When Yankov Gayi said this, the remaining Political Commissars of the Second Army Kharchenko and the Political Commissar of the Fourth Army Heveshin stood up and expressed their opinions, saying that withdrawing to the vicinity of October Town is a safe and reliable way of attack Right now, the three armies of the Southern Group need to take a breath to rest and reorganize their teams, and more than 20000 lightly and severely wounded also need to be evacuated to a relatively safe place for treatment. The current location of Chernigovka is really too close to the enemy in Ufa.

"Good! After a vote, the Front Military Committee of the Southern Group unanimously agreed to move the main force of the Southern Group towards October Town, with a view to joining up with the Fifth and Ninth Army Groups as soon as possible, and making comprehensive preparations for the next step of taking Ufa! That's it !" Tukhachevsky made a decisive decision. This is not the time to insist on the situation. He, the commander of the Southern Group, is responsible for all soldiers, even if he is very reluctant to let Lezhevski He can only make concessions before he advocates a plan to become a reality!

Of course, being too close to Ufa, who knows when the opponent's heavy artillery shells will hit his head again is also an important reason.

"We can't just retreat like this, we have to leave behind the broken troops! It's best if we can retreat overnight, leaving only the rear guard troops here to pretend to be the main force. If we organize well, we can even attack the opponent's pursuit troops in an ambush and kill the opponent's vigor. !” Lezhevski’s words were not surprising and endless.

"Retreat overnight? More than 20000 lightly and severely wounded had to be carried on horses. As soon as the camp was set up in the evening, many soldiers were too tired to stand up. At this time, they would be kicked up and run west, let alone the wounded. Even uninjured soldiers are not strong, so it’s no wonder that the team doesn’t disperse!” Tukhachevsky said with a stern face, thinking that this Lezhevsky is really a thorny moth, how could he think of where? ?

"Is it possible that the group can leave all the lightly and seriously wounded here, instead of retreating with the main force of the group..." Ma Xin suddenly came up with an idea!

"What do you mean? Do you want to abandon the wounded? Comrade Ma Xin, are you crazy? When will the Red Army abandon the war and ignore it?!" Yankov Gayi and Heveshin couldn't help shouting , Ma Xin's partner Kharchenko frowned and stopped talking. Obviously, the three political commissars were unprepared for Ma Xin's idea, and they firmly opposed it!

Tukhachevsky and Lezhevsky looked at each other, both weighing the feasibility of Ma Xin's bad idea.

However, Ma Xin, the chief of staff of the group, continued, "There are no outsiders here, and I am also hiding everything. I will not talk about the outcome of the battle in the past two days. Our wounded are all released by the Ufa White Guards. Come back, didn’t you send someone to send a letter just now, telling us to go to the Ufa position early tomorrow morning to bring back 4000 lightly and seriously wounded from the two cavalry divisions!”

"Comrade Ma Xin! Although this is true, I think the Ufa commander on the other side may not have good intentions. Maybe the other party wants us to carry the burden of 24000 lightly and seriously wounded people and hold us back. What a big conspiracy, we can't take it lightly, let alone forget that the other party is our sworn enemy!" Yankov Gayi, political commissar of the group, warned with a serious face.

"It doesn't matter what Ande's thoughts are, we can only do it by surprise, and we must not be led by the nose by the enemy. He wants us to carry the burden of the wounded, but we just refuse to let the other party do what he wants, and we will unload this burden!" Ma Xin clenched his fists and waved his arms.

In the conference room of the headquarters in the central yang of the town of Chernigovka, there are only three army commanders and their own political commissar at the moment, so they are not afraid of leaking information.

"Comrade Ma Xin! Have you considered the consequences of doing this? It's not 240 wounded, not 2400 wounded, it will be 24000 wounded! And they are unarmed! Weapons are thrown on the battlefield, if, I mean if After the main force of the southern group retreated, the Ufa White Guards captured and massacred the lightly and severely wounded left behind by us. Everyone in this room today, including you and me, will be court-martialed in the future!" Tukhachev Ski was fighting fiercely in his heart, but his mouth was clenching his teeth.

"The Ufa White Guard may not really capture and slaughter these wounded. If the other side wants to eliminate us wounded, my wounded will not be able to withdraw from the battlefield!" Ma Xin stood up and argued!

Rzhevski kept silent. Most of the 24000 wounded were wounded from the Fourth Army. He agreed with Ma Xin's suggestion in his heart, and he must not easily agree with him at this moment, or if there is a mistake, Don't say that I can't take the Fourth Army with me, when the time comes, I will definitely become the scapegoat for the wrath of both men and gods!