Beiyang 1917

1918年7月14ri7:00布卢祖克西北五公里处

Budyonny's cavalry division was the last trump card in Egorov's hand. Although this unit should have belonged to Voroshilov's Tenth Army before, because the Southern Front lacked cavalry units, the Sixth Army was selected again. Going north to deliver food, grass and reinforcements to the southern group of the Eastern Front Army in the Battle of Ufa, so Budyonny took the initiative to ask for a battle, and squeezed into the sequence of Yegorov's Army.

Of course, it is normal for the cavalry division to serve as the pioneer of the army group. It went all the way from Tsaritsin to Saratov, and then from Saratov to Samara. The taste was quite good, at least wherever the Special Cavalry Division went, it aroused the admiration of the infantry soldiers of the Eastern Front who stayed behind.

This team can be called strong and strong. There are two brigades and four regiments, plus the team directly under the division headquarters. The entire army has a cavalry establishment of nearly 6 people. Budyonny's special cavalry division also dragged a 76-door 1904mmmm[-] mountain artillery company, Plus a battalion of heavy machine guns.

It must be fortunate that Budyonny's cavalry has been acting alone before the large army of the group army, which allowed the cavalry division to retain the cannon and the heavy machine gun battalion. Stepin withdrew westward, and then fell into the abyss of abyss.

When Budyonny's cavalry division caught up with Egorov's main force yesterday afternoon in the village of Troitskoye, more than 60 kilometers north of Bluzuk, the Soviet Red Army soldiers who hugged each other burst into tears. , the cavalry is always the backbone, especially when the infantry division is exhausted, the sound of rumbling horseshoes and the appearance of the special cavalry division gave Yegorov a shot of blood, and the low morale of the team was stunned. encouraged.

Due to the bad weather, he was still on the side of the Soviet Red Army. After the meeting, Yegorov did not act rashly. He kept the whole army evacuated and rested until nightfall. Then, according to the order of the Tsaritsyn Southern Front Army Command, he abandoned Samar in the southwest direction. Instead, it turned to the south, preparing to go straight to the Ural-Saratov line after passing through Bluzuk, and cross the river from Saratov back to Tsaritsin.

Voroshilov's Tenth Army will go north along the Volga River and meet his team at the Saratov Ferry, while the Budyonny Cavalry Division will continue to serve as the pioneer of the First Army, marching south before the brigade .

As a result, in the early morning of the next day, Budyonny's vanguard battalion crashed into the security patrol unit photographed by Bluzuk's Ural Cavalry Third Division. There are more than 400 people in the avant-garde battalion, and there are more than 100 cavalry companies on the other side.

"The second company ran to the left, the third company ran to the right, the first company and the fourth company rushed with me, and the correspondent went back to report to the regiment leader, Ulla." Bishov tried his best to pinch the sitting horse as he gave the order, intending to eat it in one charge. Drop the cavalry company on the opposite side.

Since the retreat from October Town, I have been chased by invisible enemies for three days and three nights. Now it is finally our turn to eat meat. Although I have not slept in the middle of the night and my spirit and physical strength are at a low ebb, Bi Shao Like his teacher Budyonny, the husband is full of spirits when he hears the charge.

Unexpectedly, instead of running away, the White Guard cavalry company on the opposite side retreated to a small hillside to organize resistance on the spot, and then suddenly there was a burst of crisp machine guns, and the sound of rattling sounded into one piece. The firepower of at least three or more machine guns swept down four or fifty people.

This is not over yet, and then the sound of heavy machine guns rang out again, and the cavalry of the third company charging from the right flank was swept down by the heavy machine guns set up on the other side's hillside like mowing grass. , the instructor of the third company who rushed to the front was the first to die, and then the commander of the third company and the cadres of the platoon also fell under the hot bullets of the opponent, and the remaining dozens of soldiers ran back throwing away their armor and armor. sweat and fear.

The second company turned around from the open space on the left, because there was a small pond whose depth was unknown. The knights in front stepped on it and immediately sank into it, but it turned out to be a swamp, and the cavalry behind had to detour. Nima, the mortars of the White Guards on the hillside rained down on them like raindrops, turning the second company's bombers upside down through the water bubble 300 meters away, and the remaining dozens of cavalry hurriedly retreated.

The battalion instructors with a company rushing to the head were already beaten into a hornet's nest by the opponent's squad with machine guns. When Bischov blew the horn and gathered the cavalry under him, he counted them. Damn, one of the front guard battalions was almost damaged. Half of the troops lost more than 200 cavalry, and they didn't even see the opponent's face clearly.

Immediately afterwards, the opponent's mortars and heavy machine guns began to shoot, and the rain of bullets rushed straight to the location where Bischov was assembled 500 meters away, splashing the grass on the ground, and the mortar shells in the sky followed up. He came over and smashed among the cavalry, and the whole team ran around like a herding sheep to avoid the opponent's attack.

Bischov ran northward for a kilometer with his vanguard battalion in disgrace, and only then did he avoid the opponent's firepower coverage. At this time, Budyonny personally brought the vanguard regiment and several horse-drawn machine guns to catch up. , while ordering the troops to dismount and occupy the organizational defense line, they set up horse-drawn heavy machine guns and fired at the opponent to stabilize the situation. It took a long time to stabilize the situation.

"What's going on! Bishov, where's your team? Where's your position? Where's your horse?! All the avant-garde battalion gather! Gather!" Budyonny's face was livid, and his hand holding the whip was trembling uncontrollably , the black Cossack leather hat was crooked, and the Cossack cavalry cloak was pulled off by the comrade commander!Budyonny stared fiercely at the commander of the vanguard battalion in front of him with his hands on his hips.

During the retreat, Bishov's horse was killed by shrapnel from the opponent's mortar shell that cut off half of its head, and even threw Comrade Battalion Commander off the horse. Lame, at this time, seeing the master questioning with a livid face, Bischov said with a mournful face,

"The whole battalion encountered a patrol team of a cavalry company from the White Guards. I thought the other party had few people, and I was afraid that the other party would run back to report the news, so I ordered the whole battalion to chase after it. I didn't expect the enemy's firepower to be so fierce. There were countless light and heavy machine guns, and countless mortars. When we were caught off guard, the team collapsed and the battalion instructor was killed!"

"Bullshit! Bastard! There are countless light and heavy machine guns, and countless mortars. You are scared out of your wits by the enemy's firepower. I heard the gunshots just now, and the opponent only has a heavy machine gun and no more than 6 small-caliber mortars. If you organize the attack well, you will never be able to fight like this! You are also the commander of the vanguard battalion, and you are ashamed of me as a company commander!"

Budyonny, with his hips akimbo furiously, walked back and forth quickly in front of a pile of crooked melons and cracked dates, and continued to curse,

"The glorious Special Cavalry Division, the Vanguard Sharp Knife Battalion, it's embarrassing to beat up a cavalry company, look at you, is that the glorious Budyonny's cavalry division? Are you ashamed? 500 people beat more than 100 people on the other side, even if you get off the horse and shoot with a volley of guns, you won’t be chased by the other side?! How many do you have left? What about your comrades? What about the wounded? Throw them all away ? You should all be shot!"

Budyonny looked at the vanguard battalion with less than 250 people left in front of him, and he was so angry. Nima, was he scared when he heard the sound of heavy machine guns and mortars?The enemy is only one company, pinning down the opponent head-on, copying the opponent's back, as long as the opponent withdraws, catch up and chop them with a saber, they will be hacked to death!

"Look at you, the horse is lost, the gun is lost, and even the saber is lost. It is really embarrassing for the red Cossack! What about Kadiayev! You, the regiment leader, bear the inescapable responsibility! You brought this out Soldiers!" Budyonny turned around and yelled at Kadiayev, the head of the avant-garde regiment.

Kadiayev, the head of the avant-garde regiment here, was also unambiguous. He took a step forward with a bull's eye, and shouted with a wave of his hand, "Comrade commander, don't say anything, give me two horse-drawn machine guns, and I will take the avant-garde." The rest of the battalion go up, if you don't take down the opponent's position, you will dismiss me! No! You kill my head!"

Speaking of which, the commander of the regiment, Kadiayev, jumped on his horse, untied the Cossack cloak on his body, threw it on the ground, drew out the saber from his waist, swung it with a knife, and pointed at the remaining 250 soldiers of the avant-garde battalion. cried the cavalry,

"Everyone in the Vanguard Battalion is there, get on the horse with me!"

More than 250 Red Army cavalrymen of the vanguard battalion, who were ashamed and ashamed, got on their horses one after another. Many of them only had a saber in their hands, but their faces were determined. Obviously, Budyonny's swearing made most people wake up. Seeing that the enemy was afraid It is not the tradition of the Budyonny cavalry division. The enemy can be killed, but the enemy must not be scared to death!

Kadiayev, the head of the "Ulla" vanguard regiment brandished a saber, and took the remaining half of the vanguard battalion to the south and killed them back.Budyonny's livid face here finally eased a lot and with a wave of his hand, four horse-drawn machine guns rushed south along with the charging team.

Budyonny rode his horse up to a nearby hillside, and looked at the battlefield in the south with binoculars. Although he scolded the avant-garde battalion just now, he looked calm and did not take the enemy seriously, but the opponent A cavalry company is so well-trained, and its firepower equipment and use are remarkable, which makes the commander of the cavalry division feel very heavy. If the enemy on the opposite side is the Ufa coalition army, this battle will be really difficult to fight!