Beiyang 1917

The news that the main force of the Ninth Army of the Soviet Russian Southern Front encountered a large-scale air attack by the coalition air force on the Bavley line was quickly transmitted to the Fifth Army of the Eastern Front in the north by telegram. The commander of the army, Slavin, made the first The reaction was that the entire army stopped advancing eastward, and quickly evacuated and concealed on the spot.

The location where the three divisions of the Fifth Army stopped was [-] kilometers east of Briguma, near a village called Klyuch. Slavin started his home in the Tsarist Russian army. For air defense he Simply divide the three divisions and station them in a finished shape, each division is five kilometers apart, and when they stop, they desperately start digging air defense trenches, and use Maxim heavy machine guns to arrange machine gun positions.

Anyway, the corporal of the Fifth Army led by Slavin was killed and refused to move one step further east, and the telegram asking for the direction of the next move was also sent to Moscow and the Southern Group Command like a snowflake. Slavin said Bieg Rove also wanted to be blunt, in a situation where the coalition forces have such a huge and one-sided air superiority, please Moscow carefully consider the next move of the whole army!

In the telegram, Slavin boldly appealed: This is not only related to the life and death of the 3 people in the besieged Rzhevsky Group under the city of Ufa, but also to the life and death of all the more than 20 Soviet Red Army soldiers on the right bank of the Volga River. Live or die!

The cavalry reconnaissance battalion sent to Almetyevsk encountered the armored reconnaissance battalion of the opposing coalition forces. One battalion of cavalry was chased by 40 wheeled armored vehicles on the plain. Mosina How does the Ganqi rifle compete with the 12.7mm large-caliber heavy machine gun on the rotating turret?

In the end, less than a company of cavalry ran back. Fortunately, the opponent did not chase to the end. The battalion commander of the cavalry reconnaissance battalion under Slavin's army was also smart. Instead of rushing to the south where the Fifth Army is located, they retreated west, otherwise they could really recruit wolves to their army headquarters!

Of course, the telegram that the main force of the coalition ground forces was found north of Briguma was sent from Slavin to Moscow and the Southern Group Command like a snowflake, and copied to all the Soviet Russian Red Army groups on the right bank of the Volga River.In this telegram from the Fifth Army, the main force of the Allied Army's ground forces north of Briguma was estimated to be at least one division. Otherwise, it cannot explain why the Northern Route Army of the Fifth Army has not been heard from.

The implicit meaning revealed in the words in the telegram pointed out that there is a great possibility that the three divisions of the North Route Army of the Fifth Army have been wiped out after encountering the main force of the coalition ground forces!

All the soldiers of the main force of the southern group on the Milna-Achikovo line watched helplessly this morning, watching the huge group of coalition air force passing over the heads of their troops and rushing to the west. At that time, they did not know that the coalition forces The air strikes were headed towards the Fifth Army Slavin, or the Yegorov Ninth Army. At noon, the returning coalition fleet swaggered over the heads of the main force of the Southern Group and flew towards Ufa. , looking through the binoculars, every plane is empty under the wing.

Of course, the distance from the Milna-Azikovo line, where the main force of the Southern Group is located, to the Bavley, where the Yegorov Division of the Ninth Army of the Southern Front is located, is more than 110 kilometers, so far away in Milna, you will never hear that direction There was the sound of Bavley's explosion, but when all the soldiers of the Southern Group watched the plane flying back swaggeringly above their heads, they seemed to hear the violent and continuous explosion when the coalition air force attacked the Ninth Army half an hour ago. Voice.

The news that the Ninth Army encountered a large-scale air strike by the coalition quickly spread to all the stations in the South Group, but the group headquarters did not disclose how much the Ninth Army suffered in order to stabilize the morale of the army. The Ninth Army killed 6000 people and injured 12000. The news that nearly half of the transported food and ammunition was destroyed by air strikes and the subsequent raging fire was tightly blocked by Mahin and Tukhachevsky.

Tukhachevsky even instigated Ma Xin to order his guards to directly block the radio transmission room. Secret agents, traitors and insiders are dealt with, and after being arrested by the Cheka, they can be executed without trial!

According to Tukhachevsky, the acting commander Ma Xin should, in the name of the Military Committee of the Front Enemy of the Southern Group, notify the Fifth Army and the Ninth Army to disperse and hide or even move to a safe area, so as to avoid encountering the second and third forces of the coalition forces. The third strike!The main force of the South Group should also transfer as soon as possible to avoid the air strikes that the opponent may launch in the future.

In Tukhachevsky's view, there is no doubt that the Allied Forces' large-scale intervention in the situation west of the Ural Mountains is beyond doubt, and the size of the coalition air force surpassed everyone's previous estimates. There were even unprecedented advanced all-metal monoplanes in the sky. I don't know where the Chinese got these planes, but from the scale of the opponent's air force dispatch, the ability to fly in formation, and the effect of command bombing Look, the Allied Air Force can be called an elite division.

From this, it is thought that the three divisions of the Northern Route Army of the Fifth Army have lost contact and there is no trace, and the possibility of the main force of the coalition ground forces appearing north of Briguma is very high. Tukhachevsky told Ma Xin In addition to sending a telegram to report the military situation to Moscow, the most urgent task for the main force of the Southern Group is to transfer and merge as soon as possible. . .Move closer to the Ninth Army to the west.

"Comrade Ma Xin! Moscow must be arguing about the next action plan now. It is definitely not an option for us to wait here. We must transfer as soon as possible. Under the current situation, the idea of ​​​​joining the main force and going east to rescue Rzhevsky It is purely a fantasy. Since the coalition forces have the ability to swallow the three divisions of the Fifth Army and the Northern Route Army in one go, will they not be able to deal with the Lezhevsky group full of light and heavy wounded? They are using Lezhevsky The cluster is used as bait to catch the big fish that is the main force of our southern cluster!"

Tukhachevsky earnestly tried to convince Ma Xin, the acting commander of the Southern Group, that it was Ma Xin's idea to drop the wounded from the city of Ufa and retreat. He didn't expect that he, the commander of the group, was the scapegoat. Looking back now , Lezhevski lost the battle and suffered heavy losses, but he was fine at all. He leisurely asked for support in the encirclement of the coalition forces. There were more than 500 beautiful female medical soldiers around him, maybe the coalition forces were because of these 500 women Will the soldiers be cruel to Lezhevski?

And Ma Xin, the instigator of the retreat at the beginning, turned into the acting commander of the cluster to take over his position. Only he became a veritable scapegoat. Lost the title of cluster commander to make a contribution to see the aftermath? !

To say that Ma Xin was the initiator and vested interest in Tukhachevsky's dismissal, it is said that only Tukhachevsky's First Army in the southern cluster has the best strength, and the White Guards on the Northwest Defense Line of Ufa The fight can be considered to be well-founded and win or lose, and there are still many artillery companies that lack shells.

If Ma Xin was not the acting commander of the southern group, according to his previous temperament, he would definitely drag Tukhachevsky and quickly order everyone to evacuate and retreat to the west as soon as possible. Knowing the lessons learned from Tukhachevsky's dismissal because of his retreat, this guy is a little hesitant. In the last telegram sent by Moscow to the Southern Group, he severely criticized the right-leaning opportunism of the Southern Group's leadership.

The name-calling in the telegram was Tukhachevsky’s rhetoric before the war, and the fleeing without a fight afterwards, and the name-calling was the entire leadership team of the Southern Cluster. The Central Committee even warned a certain member of the Southern Cluster leadership Some senior commanders, even the commanders at the army level, said that they were less than 50 meters away from the position of the Left Socialist Revolutionary Party and the Mensheviks!If it wasn't for Zhong Yang to educate and save them, these people might slip to the enemy's side at any time!

As for the air superiority possessed by the coalition forces, it has been repeatedly emphasized in the last call from Moscow that there are not enough and convenient air defense weapons, let alone aircraft that can go to the sky and compete for air supremacy with the opponent, but the Soviet Red Army can still win battles and have Conditions to win battles, field battles, hand-to-hand combat, brave and courageous charges, and crowd tactics were all the magic weapons for the Soviet Red Army to defeat the enemy. Give up fighting!

Some commanders will never be allowed to make the same mistake again. Several coalition planes flew overhead, and 10,000+ Red Army flooded the wounded and turned around and fled. This is a shame to the Bolsheviks, this is a shame to the Eastern Front and the Southern Group!These disgraces can only be washed away by the victory you are about to achieve!The prerequisite for victory is that all soldiers of the South Group have the courage to fight, sacrifice and dedicate themselves!