Beiyang 1917

1918年7月13ri7：50乌法南边120公里斯捷尔利塔马克镇郊西北第一集团军临时指挥部

"Comrades! The situation is serious. Although the enemy has only one battalion of troops, the terrain of Sterlitamak is very favorable to them, and they have also built very good fortifications. We lack artillery and machine guns. In such a situation, How to take down the town and eliminate the enemy, let's talk about our opinions!"

Tukhachevsky once again carried forward min zhu, tents were temporarily set up in the woods behind the hillside, and a battalion of Soviet Red Army infantrymen even dug a 300-meter-long simple fortification on the hillside. The position is about 2000 meters away. Although the coalition forces have heavy machine guns, they obviously don't know whether it is to save ammunition, or it is too difficult to be effective at such a distance, so there are no stray bullets from the coalition forces flying over to harass them.

Chabayev, commander of the cavalry division, was in a bad mood. He did not come to the command post for a meeting. He only sent his political commissar, Fumanov, to find a place to catch up on his sleep wrapped in a blanket. The first cavalry division arrived here. The elite suffered heavy losses. Only the second brigade, whose political commissar Fumanov was also the brigade commander, was still intact. Chapayev’s own first brigade had less than 200 cavalry left. Such a tragic situation is the cavalry It has never happened since the establishment of the First Division. No wonder Chapayev is upset.

Tukhachevsky can understand the mood of this beloved general under his command. Whoever beats one brigade and leaves more than one will be in a bad mood, so he didn't force it, and ordered his orderly to send a new piece to Commander Xia Boyang The roasted horse meat was gone, and at the same time as the 600 wounded from the first battle were brought back in the morning, Fumanov took the opportunity to drag back many dead horses.

Of course, the dozens of horses that were still intact on the battlefield did not have the nerve to ask the medical soldiers to do it. In fact, some medical soldiers went to lead the horses. As a result, the sniper on the coalition position broke the horse's reins with a single shot, scaring the medical staff. The soldiers sat on the buttocks and almost lost their minds. It is best to wait for the Red Army medical soldiers to withdraw the wounded on their horses. The coalition forces in the opposite town galloped out with a cavalry platoon, gathered more than 40 good horses from the position and brought them back as trophies. In the town, as for the Russian Mosin Nagant rifles and cavalry rifles thrown all over the place, the coalition cavalry simply ignored them and ignored them at all.

It is said that if the two sides cease fighting and are not ready to fight again, the Soviet Russian Red Army should also drag back the bodies of more than 1200 Red Army soldiers who died in battle, but obviously neither side has the intention of a truce, so the battlefield in the northwest is still full of corpses and blood. The tragedy of flowing into a river, for the Soviet Red Army on Tukhachevsky's side, this scene was a great blow to the morale, but now the entire infantry division is lying on the ground tired and unable to get up. On the group army's position, except for a battalion in charge of vigilance in front of the hillside, almost all the soldiers who sat down to rest in the woods behind the hillside had unconsciously fallen asleep.

Chekov, the commander of the 15th Division of the Simbirsk Iron Army Infantry, rubbed his face hard, trying not to fall asleep from exhaustion, and said in a low voice, "The commander is right. The artillery firepower is fierce, and it is equipped with snipers. Ordinary cavalry is also equipped with the M1 Garand semi-automatic cavalry rifle. This gun is the best rifle I have ever seen. It has a long range, high speed, and good precision. This battle is not easy to fight!"

"Comrade Chekov! What you are talking about is nonsense! Why are we sitting here to discuss this battle? We went to the town, took a hot bath and slept on a dry bed!" Although Chapayev did not come, he The political commissar Furmanov who was sent to the meeting was not a good person at the moment. A series of defeats and losses made every commander of the First Army very angry!

"In my opinion, we might as well surround the opponent first. After all, the coalition cavalry battalion has few people. If there are no fortifications in the field, we should be able to crush the opponent by using the crowd tactics to surround them in all directions! I think we must make use of our strengths and avoid weaknesses. It's not a good idea to attack the opponent's established position. They dug so many horse pits in front of the position, don't you break the cavalry's horses?" Boklov, the division commander of the 20th Division of the Simbirsk Iron Army Infantry, came up with an idea .

"Siege? My dear Comrade Berklov! Have you forgotten that the main force of the coalition forces chasing after us is at most one day away from us? If the weather hadn't helped, the enemy army in Ufa might have chased us behind us now Already! How can we delay and besiege each other?

Are you counting on starving the coalition forces in town or running out of ammo?When our cavalry vanguard battalion encountered the opponent for the first time in the morning, the opponent only had one platoon of troops, but each of their cavalrymen was equipped with an m1 Garand semi-automatic cavalry rifle, and each of them carried an m1911 Brown on their waist. Ning automatically shot, everyone still has at least two melon grenades like the British hanging in their waists, how long do you plan to use up the opponent's ammunition with such a strong firepower? "Fuermanov interrupted Berklov's speech rudely.

"Then what do you say? Are you going to charge with the crowd tactics? You can't charge until the opponent runs out of bullets. Do you know how many bullets 9 heavy machine guns can pour in a minute? How many lives are you going to use to fill the opponent's bullets? "Boklov, the commander of the 1th Division from Comrade Ulyanov's hometown, countered.

"Anyway, the siege is purely a dream!" Fumanov said with a gloomy face.

"How about? How about we select sharpshooters from the entire army, climb to the position 800 meters in front of the opponent's position, and use the Mosin Nagant rifle to kill the enemies on the opponent's position one by one like a hunter hunting birds? Anyway, the opponent has few people, so we can kill them." One is one, even if one is replaced, we will kill each other! Is it better than filling the hole in the opponent's heavy machine gun with human life?" Hashimov, who has been silent all this time, came up with an idea in a whimsical way.

"That's a good idea! Even if it's a one-to-one match, we can wipe out our opponents at the cost of 1000 people! If we capture the weapons in the opponent's hands, it will be very useful to deal with the main force of the coalition forces chasing us. Shock cannons are very useful, light and heavy machine guns... God! If we have so many machine guns, we can even organize air strikes to beat the enemy air force when they come again!" Chekov, the commander of the 15th division, said with bright eyes.

"Hashimov, how many sharpshooters do you have in the 31st Infantry Division? We don't have sniper rifles with scopes. How difficult is it to shoot a target by sight at a distance of 800 meters? I, Tukhachevsky, dare not say Hit the target!" Army commander Tukhachevsky was a little moved.

"Where do you go to find a sharpshooter for all this effort? You don't need a scope at a distance of 800 meters and just use an ordinary Mosin Nagant rifle to hit the target? Especially now that the wind is so strong, it's just talking nonsense!" !

"In my opinion, we should organize a volley of guns to shoot, and use the platoon of guns to organize a firepower density that can compete with the opponent's machine guns! Otherwise, the other methods are nonsense! There is no hope of success!" Fumanov finally said. My own opinion.

"If you pull down and shoot, how close do you have to climb? 500 meters or 300 meters? A volley of guns needs sufficient density. Can you use a rifle to form a machine gun fire density at a distance of 1000 meters? You are rushing to the doctor in a hurry! "Hashimov jumped out and objected!