Beiyang 1917

Wu Peifu, Deputy Chief of Staff of the Allied Forces, Commander of the Third National Army, and Commander of the Ufa Central Group, was very depressed. He finally took the lead again and led a mighty 9 army to clean up the precarious Su Onan Group. He did not expect the enemy to withdraw so quickly.

Although the four White Guard infantry divisions of the Ufa First Army had good combat effectiveness, rapid marching was not the strong point of the infantry, which was dominated by the old Tsarist soldiers. Sergey Balajanov led the four divisions from Chernigor When Fuka set off, it was already past 11 o'clock in the afternoon on the 4th. The White Guards of 4 divisions marched westward along the main road, and could only march 7 kilometers per hour. At that time, the Ufa First Army had just walked halfway between Cherni and Acehkovo, and was burying pots for cooking.

Army Commander Balajanov quickly received an order from Wu Peifu, commander of the Ufa Central Group behind him. The Second Ural Cavalry Army was blocked by two infantry divisions in Acehkovo, and the Ufa First Army immediately set off. , Surround Acehkovo north with the first and third divisions, and encircle Acehkovo south with the second and fourth divisions. The targets are the areas 30 kilometers north and south of Milna and Acehkovo.

To say that Wu Peifu has a very keen sense of smell, since the Second Cavalry Army encountered only two enemy infantry divisions in Acehkovo, while the Fifth Army from the West launched an attack north of Brigoma with a force of one division, Then Wu Peifu's judgment coincides with Wang Geng of the Ufa coalition headquarters. The Soviet Red Army is likely to have retreated overnight instead of attacking. At this time, the enemy is not afraid of going west or east, but is afraid of fleeing north or south , the strength of the coalition forces in these two directions is relatively empty.

Li Mingzhong in the south is still 400 kilometers away. In the north, only Cherny has a White Guard infantry division sent from the direction of Kazan, from Cherny on the Kamala River to Zainsko and then to Almetyev There are logistics transportation lines for hundreds of miles in Sk, and there are almost no troops that can be used to intercept them.

As for Wu Peifu in the west, he is not worried. In the southwest, Sun Liangcheng's main force is in Samara, and in the northwest, Jiang Hongyu's main force is an armored cavalry unit, who can go south to close the Nurrat line at any time.

Therefore, Wu Peifu judged that the enemy would either swarm to the west to see if they could kill a bloody road, or they would retreat to the open Kazakh grassland to the south with a feint, avoiding the encirclement of the coalition ground forces and finding another way to retreat to the left bank of the Volga River.

The Ufa Allied Forces Command quickly called back and agreed to Wu Peifu's deployment, but reminded him not to underestimate the enemy when marching at night. The combat effectiveness of Tukhachevsky's troops is still very strong. When chasing, be careful not to avoid the enemy's ambush and dragging the knife back to the carbine.

Wu Peifu himself commanded the three Russian recruit divisions of the First Siberian Army to continue to advance westward. The campsite scheduled for the march that night was the Milnaya Chikovo line. Although the pursuit mission is important, the premise is to ensure that your combat effectiveness will not be dragged down. In Wu Peifu's eyes, even if the Soviet Red Army ran out for half a day in the dark, he still has enough confidence to catch up with the opponent, provided that the air reconnaissance after dawn can determine the direction of the opponent's main retreat.

The cavalry brigade that Petrovich pursued to the west finally encountered an ambush on the way. The left side of this place happened to be a large swamp. Petrovich gave the order to disperse, the artillery and mortars retreated to the south of the road to set up positions, two cavalry battalions to the left, and two cavalry battalions to the right, outflanking the opposing positions from left and right.

As a result, the cavalry battalion on the left stepped into the swamp after crossing the main road, and almost all the cavalry of the leading battalion sank in. They were shot into a hornet's nest by the dense platoon guns on the Red Army's position 300 meters away, and the cavalry of the two battalions were in a panic. Withdrawing back, half of the troops have been lost.

The cavalry who outflanked from the right were tormented by the horse trap temporarily dug by the Soviet Red Army. Countless horse legs were broken by the small holes dug out of the dark ground, and the men and horses fell to pieces. The three positions of the Russian Red Army infantry in the upper Soviet Union were fired in a dense row, and the casualties here were almost the same as those in the swamp.

Petrovich hurriedly ordered the trumpet to gather the troops to withdraw to the south of the road and confront the opponent across the main road. After counting it, it took only 20 minutes of chaos, and three battalions of cavalry were lost due to the unknown terrain.Smoke Petrovich's indignant orifices.

Fortunately, the artillerymen of the cavalry brigade showed their power quickly and sorted out the entire Soviet Russian Red Army position on the opposite side. The raindrops of shells hit the opponent's blood into rivers. The shells were not in hand, and the casualties of the troops continued to increase. He gritted his teeth and ordered two battalions of troops on each side to defend the second line of defense. The wounded also stayed and continued to fight. He led the rest of the division, about 5000 people, in the dark Turning north, Sa Yazi ran through the previously proven swamp.

Half an hour later, Petrovich and the artillery bombarded the opponent's position, and there was no return gunfire, so the dismounted cavalry cautiously touched it. As a result, the opponent's bombed trenches did not know where to go. A slice of human heads popped up and continued to shoot.Petrovich quickly withdrew the cavalry and plowed the opposite position again with artillery fire. It took more than an hour for Petrovich's cavalry brigade to occupy the opponent's position.

In this battle, Petrovich's First Cavalry Brigade suffered more than 1500 casualties, and the division that Hevezin ambushed killed more than 1500 people, wounded and captured more than 2000 people, and left less than 5000 people under the leadership of Hevezin It disappeared into the swamp in the north without a trace.

Petrovich's cavalry brigade suffered a big loss. Due to the drag of the wounded and prisoners, and the exhaustion of men and horses, Petrovich had to camp on the spot, waiting for the news of gathering the second brigade and Sergei behind, and heading west and In the three directions from north to south, this guy sent a cavalry company to continue the reconnaissance, and the main force of the second cavalry brigade stopped in place.

Although Hevsing won this battle, it was a miserable victory. First, the black lights took advantage of the terrain, and only a cavalry brigade of 5000 troops came to catch up. The infantry division in his hand was more than 8500. The third Because of the lack of artillery and machine gun firepower, this guy has laid three trenches in a row from the bottom to the height. The first row is lying on the stomach, the second row is squatting, and the third row is standing. The same caused huge casualties to the opponent.

Of course, the Petrovich cavalry brigade's underestimation of the enemy was also a factor. Just now two cavalry divisions defeated the opponent's two infantry divisions. How can a cavalry brigade kill the opponent's one division now?As a result, although the enemy was repelled, the pursuit was blocked by the swamp, and his own casualties were as high as one-third. Coupled with the drag of the wounded and prisoners, he lost the ability to continue the pursuit in a short time.

The horses of the political commissar of the Soviet Fourth Army, Hevshin, and the cavalry company have long since fallen into the swamp and disappeared. The remaining less than 5000 people in the entire division were all struggling forward in the swamp with guns or wooden sticks. Let's go, obviously venturing into the swamp is the only way to stop the pursuers. Of course, Hevey Xin is also very annoyed. If he knew that the opponent would only catch up with a cavalry brigade, if Ma Xin's three divisions did not retreat to the south, they would attack from north to south. If there is a big ambush, maybe they can make dumplings for the opponent's cavalry brigade and teach the coalition a lesson.

But it’s too late to say anything now. It’s a victory to get out of the swamp before dawn. Now thousands of people are divided into more than a dozen long lines tied together with ropes to crawl and roll in the muddy water. Grasshopper, we can only live and die together through joys and sorrows. For a moment, Heveshin thought of Rzhevsky. Is Comrade Commander suffering in the small black prison of the prisoner-of-war camp at this moment?Or has it become a guest of the bourgeoisie and imperialist enemies?