Beiyang 1917

>It was originally a battle of blood and fire between the cavalry of both sides. As a result, under the admixture of the coalition air force in the sky, the battle between the ambushes, pursuit and scattered cavalry was full of twists and turns, and Petrovic was obviously at the end Only then did I realize that the mortars that the Allied Forces Command had deployed urgently for me had such enormous power. I knew that there was no need to retreat. I was so embarrassed and was chased like a dog chasing a rabbit out of breath. ( )

Chabayev, the commander of the ace cavalry division of the Soviet First Army, found sadly that in just a few days, the White Guard cavalry division on the opposite side seemed to have thrown off his own cavalry division in terms of weapon configuration. It's just that there is no coalition air force in the sky to help out. If the opponent prepares such a dense mortar group in advance, his 75-man cavalry division will not be able to make money.

In fact, when the Chabayev cavalry division withdrew from the battlefield, it had lost nearly 4 people in 6 battalions under the sweeping and bombing of the air force, as well as the intensive firepower of Petrovich's mortar group, and even lost [-] battalions. Some of the lightly and seriously wounded were not taken away in time.

Petrovic lost a cavalry company in this battle. When he went back to clean up the battlefield, he seized close horses, captured more than 9 Mosin Nagant rifles, and captured more than 5 lightly and severely wounded soldiers who were too late for the Red Army to take away. However, Petrovic I have learned from the commander-in-chief of the coalition forces the trick of throwing the burden of the wounded to the opponent, and I am always worried that the opponent's 4 infantry divisions will surround me and make my own dumplings.

The Seventh Brigade of the Second Army of the Ural Cavalry accepted it as soon as it was ready. After a simple propaganda and education to the captives, it announced that they would be released on the spot. They were going to change the captives of the Fourth Army or the Second Army. He refused to go back to the Red Army, but Chapayev's cavalry division was the trump card of the First Army, most of whom were Bolsheviks, so they were quite hostile to Petrovic's White Guards and Cossacks.

For the commanders and fighters of Chapayev's division, this battle was purely useless. They didn't catch up with the real swords and guns and put their horses to fight. It was the first time to see the power of aerial sweeping and bombing, and many people didn't even know how the White Guards moved nearly a hundred cannons from their horses like a magic trick!

If there were no repeated orders from the commander-in-chief of the coalition forces to emphasize that the captives should not be abused, most of the more than 5 lightly and seriously wounded in the Red Army who fell into the hands of the White Guard Cossacks would have suffered accidents. Those willing to surrender are expected to be shot.

In any case, because the coalition forces have intervened in the situation west of the Ural Mountains, it is bad news for the Red Army soldiers on the Soviet side, because they may encounter a series of failures and blows, but it is also good news, because even if they are reduced to The captives will not suffer the tragic fate of being shot, and even some Bolshevik Red Army soldiers with firm beliefs have finally mastered a skill, that is, when they injure themselves before becoming captives, they can be sent back as lightly or severely wounded. The Red Army, thus avoiding the fate of hard labor in the prisoner-of-war camps east of the Ural Mountains.

Chapayev's cavalry division withdrew back to the town of Acehkovo in disgrace, which surprised Tukhachevsky, who commanded 4 infantry divisions and wanted to pursue it. After asking, he was blocked by the coalition air force After encountering the rain-like attack of mortar clusters carried by the opponent's cavalry brigade and horses, they withdrew after suffering heavy casualties.

Tukhachevsky and the political commissar of the Fourth Army Heveshin looked at each other, feeling deeply that this battle would be difficult in the future, and a cavalry brigade on the other side could use mortars to attack Chapayev's cavalry division when they recovered. In order to deal heavy damage, if every infantry division and cavalry division of the opponent is equipped with so many conveniently portable mortars, how can the South Group deal with it in the future?

"Mikhail Nikolaevich, our soldiers are not brave. The enemy's artillery fire was too fierce. The mortar shells fell like rain, and the team was hit by close-fired shells in just ten minutes. , and the range of the opponent's mortar can reach at least 2 meters, and the power of the bomb explosion can catch up with the 76 field artillery!" Chabayev's arm injury was not healed last time, and today he has another piece of oil on his forehead. Like his mount, they all covered their heads and looked quite embarrassed.

"The order of the two infantry divisions of the Second Army established an outpost line of defense in Yazikovo, along the small river in front of the town. Chapayev's cavalry division left a regiment stationed in the west of the town to maneuver, and the cavalry reconnaissance post went further. Send out 5 kilometers ahead! The rest of the troops go back to Milna!" Tukhachevsky's tone seemed to be the commander of the group, and he completely forgot that Ma Xin had taken his place at this moment.

Fortunately, the two division commanders of the Second Army didn't care too much. They didn't care so much about who was the commander of the group. Tukhachev was only the commander of the First Army, and he still commanded the divisions of the Second Army. Weixin didn't think there was anything strange, and obediently led his two divisions surrounded by Tukhachevsky to join the main force of the cluster to the west.

Here Petrovich’s Seventh Cavalry Brigade took the captured horses and weapons, turned and retreated eastward towards Chernigovka, leaving a cavalry battalion as a rear guard and an outpost, stationed east of Acehkovo Dmitrievka, a village 5 kilometers away, can be regarded as an outpost alert position. As for more than [-] captured Red Army casualties, after some education and publicity, they were released on the spot and let them go west to find themselves team go.

As Moscow made adjustments to the leadership of the Soviet Union’s Eastern Front Army’s Southern Group, Tukhachevsky, who had been on the rise before, was dismissed and retained. This made several front-line armies shudder, and no one dared to suggest continuing to retreat westward. Therefore, the main ten divisions of the Southern Group, which originally planned to retreat westward to the line of October Town, Bavly, and Bliguma, stopped at the line of Milna and Acehkovo, 75 kilometers away from Ufa.

When Tukhachevsky and Heveshin returned to the Southern Group Command in Milna, the acting group commander and second army commander Ma Xin organized a military meeting of the Southern Group Front Revolutionary Committee, which discussed and passed the The main force of the southern group is organizing the defense line at Milna and Acehkovo, waiting for the decision of reinforcements from the fifth and ninth armies!

After telegram communication with the Fifth Army and the Ninth Army, it was confirmed that the three divisions of the Northern Route Army of the Fifth Army of Slavin had reoccupied Chistopol, and the vanguard brigade of the Northern Route Army had moved southeast along the main road. The main forces of the three divisions plan to rest in Chistopol for half a day, and march towards Almetyevsk in the evening. Therefore, in the absence of air supremacy, the troops should march at night and rest in concealment during the day as much as possible, so as to avoid enemy aerial reconnaissance and attacks to the greatest extent.

After this afternoon, Yegorov's Ninth Army also planned to take a concealed rest during the day and march at night. Fortunately, he rarely found coalition reconnaissance planes above his head, so the pressure was not great, especially his vanguard. The troops, the Special Cavalry Division of the Ninth Army under the leadership of Budyonny, have rushed to a place 2 kilometers southwest of Bavley, and they will reach Bavley this evening.

And Slar's Fifth Army South Route Army has arrived about [-] kilometers west of Briguma, and can rush to Briguma to set up camp at midnight today!

July 9 ri7: Ufa

"Eagle Eye reported that the three divisions of the Northern Route Army of the Fifth Army of the Soviet Russian Eastern Front had left Chistopol and moved southeast to Almetyevsk. Twenty kilometers to the southeast, rest and wait for the brigade, the Cossack cavalry battalion has retreated to the designated location where the three rivers meet!"

"The Jiang Hongyu Department of the Northern Route Army called. The mixed armored brigade has arrived at the scheduled ambush battlefield and joined the retreated Ural cavalry battalion! The second Ural cavalry division and the Japanese cavalry regiment have begun to move eastward. If the division marches overnight, the battle is expected to start before midnight!"

"Southern Route Army Li Mingzhong received a call. Half an hour ago, they successfully captured Orenburg through a surprise attack and wiped out a battalion of the defenders. After the team rests, they will send the [-]rd Ural Cavalry Division to the northwest overnight."

"Sun Liangcheng's Department of the South Road Rangers called. The main force of the South Road Rangers was 3 people. They dispatched from the Urals to Samara early in the morning. At this moment, they have arrived at the southeast of Samara. Samara and cut off the Volga crossing!"

"Reporting to the commander-in-chief, all the more than 1 Russian Red Army prisoners of war have been transported to Chelyabinsk east of the Ural Mountains. The three Russian recruit divisions transported from Chelyabinsk have arrived in two, and the remaining one division It can be finished by eight o'clock in the evening."

"Xiong Shihui's second northern detachment called. They got off from Cherny on the Kamala River half an hour ago. They are expected to arrive in Zainsk tonight and Almetyevsk before noon tomorrow!"