Beiyang 1917

The horsewhip in Alexander Petrovich's hand was about to hit Pochka, the commander of the seventh brigade of the main force, in the face. This stubborn subordinate still refused to let go. In a blink of an eye, the brigade of the seventh cavalry brigade had arrived at a small hill. In the town of Acehkovo on the hill, Turkin, the commander of the vanguard battalion, came back on his horse and reported excitedly,

"The town of Acehkovo opposite to Master Alexander is an empty town. Our vanguard battalion captured more than 100 Red Army stragglers. They lost their shoes and were too hungry to walk. They rested in the town, and we caught them all. didn't run away"

The First Division of the Ural Cavalry was expanded into the Cavalry Army, and Petrovich put down his orderly Turkin as a battalion commander. This big orderly rode a good horse and was good at marksmanship. Over the years, I have secretly learned a lot of skills by my ears and eyes, and I am still decent when I am put down to command a cavalry battalion, but I am not used to being called a teacher, and I call him a master all day long.

"Turkin, you son of a bitch, there are no masters at the moment, only the army commander and general. How about it, have you been interrogated by the captives? Where did Tukhachevsky go?" Petrovich scolded with a smile. !Book*

"The captives were mainly from the Infantry Division of the Fourth Army of the Soviet Russian Red Army. They fought with us for several days and knew that we treated prisoners preferentially, so they simply fell behind the team if they couldn't run. They wouldn't be shot anyway if they were captured. According to the confession of the prisoners, the main force of the Southern Group passed two hours ago, and the destination is still unclear. Anyway, the order was to go to the west to join the Fifth and Ninth Army."

"It passed two hours ago? Nainai's running like a rabbit, little Pochka, tell the whole brigade to be alert, rest for 10 minutes and bring the map." Petrovic jumped off the horse and wiped his face with his hat. Khan, while walking to the shade of a tree by the side of the road

"Commander, don't we go to the town to rest?" The brigade commander, Major General Pochka, asked with a strange face. In his opinion, the town is 1 kilometer ahead. Of course, let's go to Acehkovo town.

"I said you are tender, do you think I am just chasing you casually, Commander? Just learn from Turkin, pick a company from your battalion and put on a captive Red Army uniform, continue to reconnaissance westward, one platoon walks the road, The two platoons walked a distance of 500 meters on both sides of the main road, searched forward, fired at the enemy and reported the police, and then quickly retreated." Said Petrovich strode to the shade of a tree, found a stone and sat down, the guards and Cossack cavalry behind him The men got off their horses to rest one after another, those who drank water drank water, those who gnawed dry food ate dry rations, and those who were vigilant.

"Commander, I don't understand, why don't we go to the town to rest, there are houses and wells, and it's convenient to drink horses, but we can also bury the pot for cooking." Little Pochka threw the horse's reins to the guards, and hurriedly followed

"Isn't this a small river now? Let's take a rest here to catch our breath and fill our stomachs. This Acehkovo town is on a high ground. If our brigade rushes in to take a break, let alone whether the enemy has descended into the well or not." It’s poisonous, it’s the smoke rising from the kitchen, which can be seen at a glance from ten miles away, I guess Tukhachev’s old boy may not be so easy to deal with, and his marching limit this morning is around here.”

Petrovich took a gulp of water, handed the water bag to little Pochka, and explained

"But the prisoner didn't mean that the main force of the southern group had passed by two hours ago, and now I don't know where to go." Little Pochka took the water bag and didn't drink it, waiting for his army commander to answer his questions

"If you say you're stupid, you're really stupid. The rest of the Soviet Russian Eastern Army's southern group are basically infantry. After walking for a whole morning, they are already tired and can walk in two hours. How far, up to ten kilometers" said Petrovich with his head down, looking for his location on the one-fifty-thousandth military map, and soon found Yazikovo, made a gesture, and was away from Cherniggo Fuka is at least 55 kilometers away

This fellow walked further to the west, and the small town of Milna, ten kilometers to the west, seemed to be in sight. Well, it is probably here. Petrovic punched Milner hard, raised his head and said,

"The enemy must have stopped to rest as far as Milner, the sun is so poisonous, our cavalry are tired, hot and hungry, not to mention they are almost all infantry, tell the whole brigade to drink water, horses and eat quickly Rest for dry food. We will set off in half an hour and meet Tukhachevsky with me." Petrovich took a piece of dried horse meat sprinkled with salt from the orderly and took the lead in chewing it

"Do you want to turn on the radio and ask the coalition headquarters?" Pochka asked cautiously

"It's not too late to report after the fight, at least grab a few tongues and come back to find out the opponent's deployment and next move at the moment? But it's okay to send a telegram back first, just say that my department followed and chased them all the way in Milner Enemy traces are found nearby, please indicate the next direction of action," Petrovic said nonchalantly, gnawing at the horse meat,

"Damn it, the horse meat sent by the Red Army these days is enough. The Red Army on the opposite side probably won't even be able to eat black bread," said the commander of the Ural Second Cavalry Army, spitting wildly.

Petrovich and the Cossack cavalry of the Seventh Brigade had a short rest when a call back from the Allied Forces Command came,

"To His Excellency Petrovich, Commander of the Second Ural Cavalry Army, the primary task of your department is to cover the direction of the Rzhevsky Group in Chernigovka to break through to the west, and to pursue the main force of the Southern Group is not one or two cavalry The task that the division can complete, if Tukhachevsky is in a hurry, you will suffer a loss. According to the aircraft reconnaissance, the main force of the southern group stays within a five-kilometer radius of Milna. You are too close to the enemy. I hope you send a small group The troops can keep tracking and reconnaissance, and the cavalry brigade should turn back as soon as possible to avoid the threat of the enemy's main force

Ufa Coalition Command"

Petrovich had just finished reading the telegram when there was a burst of gunshots in the distance to the west, and then he saw Turkin's advance battalion occupying the town of Acehkovo withdrawing in a panic, followed by the faint sound of horseshoes in the distance to the west earth-shattering sound

"Master Alexander, almost all the three platoons of the reconnaissance company have been made dumplings. The entire company has withdrawn less than ten people. There are at least tens of thousands of Red Army ambushing on both sides of the road. The other side has now dispatched a cavalry division. You are chasing us, hurry up and get rid of the master." Turkin ran down the hillside with hundreds of Cossack cavalry in a panic.

"Calm down the whole brigade, listen to my command, get on your horse and prepare to fight." Aleksandar Petrovich was taken aback, and his back was covered in cold sweat. If it hadn't been for the delay of little Pochka just now, and Turkin's vanguard camp had captured 100 soldiers. Many prisoners asked about the situation. At this moment, my cavalry brigade should be filled with dumplings by at least five divisions!

The Cossacks got on their horses in a hurry, and the team of more than 4500 people was in a hurry. Turkin had already rushed to the front with his battalion. Petrovich wanted to lead the cavalry brigade to make a charge before retreating, but Xiaobo couldn't hold back Chica took the reins of his horse and retreated, shouting orders as he retreated,

"Everyone in the Seventh Brigade is retreating to the east and quickly retreating to the east." The battles between cavalry divisions are often either chasing and fleeing to see who can't run first, or charging each other and wielding sabers to fight to the death.

At this moment, the opponent is a cavalry division, and I am only a cavalry brigade. There is a huge gap between the number of people and the opponent is waiting for work to rest for at least one to two hours.

In this way, Petrovich showed his good qualities again, and used a cavalry company to walk out of the ambush circle of the four infantry divisions of the Soviet Red Army, and turned his head and retreated eastward before the opposing Chapayev cavalry division caught up. Of course, Chapayev, the commander of the Turkestan Cavalry Division, the titan of the Soviet First Army, was not in vain. At least he rescued the hundreds of fallen Red Army prisoners who were captured by Petrovich’s Seventh Brigade along the way.

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