Beiyang 1917

1918年7月11ri19:00米尔纳-亚齐科沃

About 36000 troops from the four divisions of the second and fourth armies withdrew to the front line of Milna in the afternoon, and the position of Acehkovo was handed over to the two infantry divisions of the first army. The forces of the two divisions went east to block the enemy forces in the direction of Ufa, thus creating conditions for the main force to break through.

Of course, this guy didn't intend to take these two divisions to such a heavy burden. The Volisk Infantry Division and the Turkestan 1st Division took on the heavy responsibility of stopping the enemy at the Acehkovo position, and the political commissar of the First Army Yankov Garrett Yi then provoked the important task of commanding the two divisions.

Tukhachevsky left a cavalry battalion escort for his political commissar, ready to escort the political commissar to retreat at any time when the situation is not good, and Tukhachevsky himself led the remaining troops half an hour ago. The three infantry divisions and the Chapayev cavalry division with only one brigade left Milna and retreated south.

Yankov Gayi was destined to command the two divisions. Shortly after nightfall, they were attacked by two cavalry divisions of the Second Ural Cavalry Army chasing from the direction of Ufa. At that time, Petrovich and Sergey commanded two divisions to surround the two infantry divisions of Yankovgay in Acehkovo and beat them up.

These two Cossack cavalry divisions have strengthened the platoon and battalion mortars equipped by the coalition forces, and each cavalry division is equipped with four artillery companies drawn by horses. It took only one and a half hours for 2 well-armed Cossack cavalry to divide, surround and annihilate the two Soviet Russian infantry divisions left behind in Acehkovo.

The battle between Petrovich and Sergey was fought cleanly. Before Wu Peifu's brigade came up, they used their mobility and firepower advantages to kill the enemy's two infantry divisions. The Soviet Red Army killed more than 4000 people, and the remaining 14000 people Captured, almost half of the prisoners were wounded, less than 2000 people broke through the encirclement of the cavalry army in the night, but the political commissar of the group army, Yankov Gai, was surrounded by the cavalry battalion before the position was completely encircled. The scattered troops ran westward and disappeared.

The political commissars of two divisions of the Soviet Red Army died in battle, and two division commanders were captured, while the two cavalry divisions of the Ural Second Cavalry Army suffered combined casualties of less than a thousand in the attack.

The two captured division commanders refused to speak. The prisoners below did not know how the group army's breakout plan was arranged. They only knew that the political commissar Yankov led the two divisions to block the pursuers in the direction of Ufa. Others One question and three questions.

Now Petrovich was dumbfounded, and he made a calculation with Sergey, leaving a cavalry regiment to guard the prisoners and clean up the battlefield, and the rest of the troops pursued in three directions, while heading towards Wu Peifu, who was clustered in the center of Ufa, and the Ufa coalition headquarters Report the situation of this battle and the news that the enemy has retreated across the board and the direction is unknown.

Petrovich himself led the Fourth Ural Cavalry Division to pursue to the west, Sergei led a cavalry brigade to pursue to the south, and another cavalry regiment of Sergei's division pursued to the north. This guy was careful and calculated the time. Before evening, the Hawkeye pre-alert plane's enemy report was that the southern group was changing defenses but did not leave Milna and Acehkovo. This guy ordered both the north and the south to chase out for 30 kilometers. If the enemy has not been caught, then search in east and west directions. , No matter how tired you are tonight, you must find the enemy.

Although Petrovich led his own cavalry division to be exhausted, he still encouraged them to pursue westward from Acehkovo. When they arrived in Milna at [-]:[-] p.m., they found that the main force of the southern group of the Soviet Russian Red Army was empty. Cursing loudly, I vaguely felt that I wasted time on the two infantry divisions who were blocking the attack, and it seemed that I was in the opposite direction. Tukhachevsky made it clear that he had lost his pawn and saved the car!

After resting for 15 minutes, Petrovich led a cavalry brigade and continued to chase west, but each sent a regiment to chase north and south. This guy, like Sergey, knew that catching up with and sticking to the enemy was the first priority of the cavalry army. task, and it doesn't matter whether they can annihilate the opponent. When Wu Peifu's brigade comes up, the opponent will definitely not run away.

As a result, something went wrong. It turned out that after leaving Milna with four divisions led by Maxin and Hewissing, they did not retreat westward along the main road, but left the main road and walked in the dark along the north and south sides of the road for three kilometers each. Xi, these two people have no confidence in what Yankov can do with only two divisions to fight against.

By the time Petrovic and the others annihilated the two infantry divisions that Acehkovo was fighting against, Ma Xin and the others had already traveled for an extra three hours and arrived at a place about 3 kilometers southwest of Milna. near the village.

"I'm talking about Comrade Ma Xin. I think we can no longer retreat in a dispersed manner. The opponents must be cavalry. If we are too dispersed, our firepower will be weak, and we will not be able to fight at all. We will be divided and wiped out by others." Fourth The political commissar of the Army Group, Heveshin, caught up with Ma Xin's team and wiped the sweat from his forehead.

"The gunfire in the east has stopped for a long time. Do you think it was Yankov who blocked the enemy, or...the two divisions were completely wiped out?" Ma Xin listened for a long time, and there was a red light in the eastern sky. But the artillery can no longer be heard. When they had just left Milna, they could still hear the rumbling artillery from the direction of Acehkovo. It hasn't been broken through yet, the battle is still going on, here it will be, and when the people who are leaving are tired and tired, they turn around and listen, and there is no movement.

"Comrade Heveshin! What do you mean? Do you want us to stop and be prisoners?" Mahin's political commissar Kharchenko said dissatisfied.

"The soldiers can't walk anymore, and they have to rest for at least half an hour before they can continue on their way. However, what I think is that if the opponent is chasing up cavalry, our two legs cannot run with four legs, and we are expected to drag the team to exhaustion. If we can't resist, we might as well stop and build a position to ambush it! If the carbine is successful, at least there won't be any pursuers coming to harass us tonight!" Hevishing put forward his suggestion with a serious face!

"Ambush? No heavy weapons, no machine guns. What can I use to resist the impact of the opponent's cavalry? Last time, Chapayev's cavalry division was defeated by a cavalry brigade. The opponent's mortar and machine gun fire was terrible. You Don't look at the strength of our four divisions, but how can the Mosin Nagant rifles in our hands resist the opponent's shells and heavy machine guns?" Kharchenko was obviously frightened by the fiery firepower of the coalition forces and lacked the will to fight. .

"Comrade Hevshin, you are right. You have to set up an ambush for the opponent, but you can't have all four divisions stay in an ambush. That would lose the meaning of ambush. Our main purpose is to hold the enemy and mislead the enemy. Let me say , leave one division in an ambush in the north of the road, and the other three divisions should not go west along the main road. Let's go to the south and leave the main road farther away. After going 10 kilometers, we will go west. There are several lakes over there. , cavalry operations are limited by terrain."

Ma Xin rolled his eyes, and came up with an idea, it sounds really good, but Lubei's division to lure and ambush the opponent, whose division should he send?Going there must be a hard job of cannon fodder and narrow escape!

"Hey! This battle was really useless. Hundreds of thousands of troops were chased by dogs and rabbits and fled. This is our heroic Soviet Red Army!" Kharchenko, political commissar of the Second Army The emotional rain was out of control, and I couldn't help but raised my throat and roared.

"Comrade political commissar, if you keep green hills, don't be afraid of running out of firewood. We don't have air supremacy, and we don't have enough artillery and machine guns. Now I even suspect that we may not even have more troops than our opponents. How can we fight this battle? We can only fight first." Withdraw, if 20 people retreat with a regiment, the opponent can blow us up to ashes with just a [-]-kilometer airstrike, and we can only retreat in a scattered way, asking the opponent to press ten fingers on fleas can't do everything!" Ma Xin Pat your partner on the shoulder to comfort each other.

"I agree with Comrade Ma Xin's method. I will lead a division of the Fourth Army to ambush in the north of the road. After the enemy catches up, I will ambush. Then I will retreat to the north while fighting. Ma Xin, you take three divisions to the south. Go as far as you can, don't look back, don't care how fierce the fighting is, I'll give you the seeds of the remaining division of the Fourth Army!" Hewiesin gritted his teeth and took on the burden of the end.

Ma Xin's heart became hot, and he held Hevey Xin's hand tightly, and then the two hugged again. Ma Xin jumped off his mount, handed the rein to Hevey Xin's hand, and said, "Ride on my horse. , but a good horse, a descendant of the Don He horse, only 3 years old, a good horse that can see the night road clearly at night, Comrade Hevesing, remember my words, you and the soldiers must remember, keep the green hills Don’t worry about running out of firewood!”

Hervey smiled hard, and thought that you might as well let me surrender. I am still a political commissar, a Bolshevik, no more than your army commander, division commander, etc. I am a military commander. In the White Guards, I am much more popular than our political commissar. !If I, the political commissar, dared to surrender, let alone whether the Cheka in the team wanted to shoot me in the back, even if I went to Ufa, I might have to be shot by the White Guards to sacrifice the flag!

Heweixin and Ma Xin divided their forces accordingly. Heweixin led a division of the Fourth Army to set up a position in the north of the road to ambush and pursue the troops, while Ma Xin led the troops of three divisions to head south in the dark.

The battlefield situation changed ever-changing that night, and countless people could not sleep all night!