Beiyang 1917

1918年7月14ri8:00布祖卢克镇北部布琼尼特别骑兵师阵地

苏俄红军第集团军特别骑兵师师长谢苗·米哈伊洛维奇·布琼尼，1883年4月25ri出生于罗斯托夫州科久林村的贫农家庭。--1903年应征入伍，参加过1905年的ri俄战争。1908年毕业于彼得堡骑兵学校，在沿海龙骑兵团服役。

After the beginning of the European War, Budyonny fought on the German, Austrian and Caucasus fronts. After the February Revolution in 1917, Budyonny was successively elected as the chairman of the Cavalry Cavalry Division Company Soldiers Committee, the Chairman of the Regiment Soldiers Committee and the Vice-Chairman of the Division Soldiers Committee In other words, before the February Revolution, Budyonny was only a company-level officer of the Caucasus Cavalry Division. After the February Revolution, he grew from a soldier committee to a division-level cadre along the trajectory of a company, regiment, and division.

Of course, the October Revolution and Mikhailovich Budyonny made a little joke. The Caucasian Cavalry Division’s division soldier committee made the decision to disband and demobilize the division as a whole. In fact, it was the Bolsheviks The central government disbanded and disintegrated the unified layout and arrangement of the old Russian army.

Budyonny returned to his hometown of Rostov in November of that year. Soon, he and his comrades established a Soviet regime there. In his hometown, he formed a cavalry guerrilla unit.

Due to Budyonny's efforts, the troops gradually expanded into cavalry regiments and cavalry brigades. The favor of Joseph, a member of the Central Committee sent by the Russian Central Committee to the Tsaritsyn area, has since become popular in the Soviet Russian Red Army.

This can be seen from the fact that Yegorov's [-]st Army and Voroshilov's [-]th Army of the Southern Front are scrambling to assign Budyonny's special cavalry division to their own army formation.

The biggest feature of Budyonny's commanding troops is that he is not afraid of the superior, dares to make battlefield judgments and layouts, and adopts unexpected tactics for the enemy and his own people. Of course, at this moment he is just a small The commander of the cavalry division commanded only a team of nearly ten thousand red Cossack cavalry, but his cavalry division had already shown a proud demeanor in combat operations on the right bank of the Volga River.

Yegorov used Budyonny's cavalry division alone in one direction, which was mostly the case when attacking and retreating, and Budyonny did not disappoint Yegorov. The Soviet Red Army on the entire right bank of the Volga River was in panic For three days and three nights, Budyonny's cavalry division overcame the difficulties and kept the heavy machine gun battalion and two artillery companies. For the first group army, it is not just as simple as sending charcoal in the snow? !

Soldiers are so fast, they didn't sleep all night. The infantry divisions who just crossed the river before dawn were already exhausted, and they either stopped attacking for the time being or wanted to attack the town of Buzuluk. The special cavalry division with artillery and heavy machine gun battalions was the first to bear the brunt. What's more, the early morning encounter with the cavalry division's vanguard battalion caused a scout cavalry company to be beaten in disgrace.

This revenge has to be avenged, and the cavalry division has to avenge it by itself!Others can't justify fake hands!Although Budyonny was a little lacking in confidence for the first time in his heart, he would never show it easily in front of his superiors and colleagues. The black Caucasian three-horned beard was taller and more proud, and he directly ordered the cavalry division to Yegorov The decision to send a cavalry battalion for a tentative attack.

Budyonny carried it out without any compromise. Yegorov didn't interfere with how to fight. It all depended on Budyonny's own command. Yegorov took a few division commanders just to watch the battle. The former enemy's command of the tentative attack fell to On Budyonny's own shoulders, the Second Army, the Special Cavalry Division is a particularly capable group and a particularly united force, even if it is ordered by the commander of the Army Group, if Budyonny does not nod, the Special Cavalry Division The commanders and fighters will not execute it easily, their eyes are all on their teachers!

The firepower of the coalition forces is fierce. The two artillery companies of Budyonny are not well-off, and there are not many shells. Just like Nerikov who is defending in the opposite town, Budyonny does not intend to expose his own strength until the critical moment. Artillery strength, his main support weapon is the division's heavy machine gun battalion.

Budyonny's heavy machine gun battalion had 24 Maxim wheeled heavy machine guns mounted on 24 carriages, and the 24 carriages galloped forward, from Budyonny's command position three kilometers away from the northern line position in Buzuluk Town After driving out of the side woods, they scattered and galloped forward, and the position of one kilometer passed in an instant. The coalition forces on the position did not fire, and the horse-drawn machine guns rushed forward without hindrance.

Immediately after the 24 horse-drawn machine guns of the heavy machine gun battalion, there are probably more than 50 horse-drawn carts. It is not easy for Budyonny’s cavalry division to make up these family fortunes. Used to launch this attack, these horse-drawn carts dragged the trees that had just been felled from the woods behind. The trunks were lined up to reinforce the machine gun emplacements.

Behind more than 50 carts, there is a cavalry battalion. More than 500 cavalry slowly advance forward in a skirmish line. The distance between each cavalry is more than 15 meters. Although it is a cavalry battle, But it may not be necessary to gallop wildly every time, especially when the road on the ground is muddy, and there are horse tripping posts and invisible horse traps ahead.

Yegorov stood beside Budyonny on horseback and observed the situation ahead with binoculars, surrounded by several whispering infantry division commanders. Obviously, everyone was a little confused about Budyonny's cavalry division's style of play. Playing a fast-moving and forward-moving combat method, is the offense of such a slow-death regulation fighting a positional battle with the opponent?

"Comrade Budyonny, your cavalry's slow and methodical attack cannot take advantage of their mobility. Isn't this a living target for the enemy?" Inza, the commander of the 15th Infantry Division, couldn't help asking.

"The cavalry battalion's attack is tentative. The purpose is to find the enemy's machine gun fire points and weak links. You don't think that a cavalry battalion with 500 people can break into the enemy's 5000-man position? Otherwise, you come, this The cavalry battalion is entrusted to you to command, as long as you can attack the position, you can do it, if you think you can't attack, then shut up as soon as possible!" Budyonny said disdainfully.

"Comrade Inza, we have to believe in the capabilities of Comrade Budyonny and the cavalry division, we will wait and see!" Army Commander Yegorov tried to smooth things over, and Inza stopped humming.

The horse-drawn heavy machine guns of the Budyonny Cavalry Division advanced to within 1800 meters of the opponent's position and then split into two. The twelve carriages advanced in a more dispersed formation, while the remaining twelve carriages turned around on the spot. The direction of the carriage was changed, so that the Maxim wheeled heavy machine gun in the dark hole at the rear of the carriage pointed at the coalition position.

At the same time, more than fifty carts from behind caught up and crossed the body, while unloading the dragged wood. Those who jumped out of the carriage were actually piled up with shovels and pickaxes by the engineer company of the cavalry division. Under the cover of horses and carriages, trenches and bunkers were dug on the spot.Obviously, this position is already a position where the Maxim heavy machine gun can barely exert its firepower. Budyonny assumed a posture of fighting positional warfare and protracted warfare.

Yegorov looked at Budyonny's style of play through the binoculars and nodded slightly. Obviously, Budyonny attached great importance to the enemy's defense in the town. If he didn't hula la, he would let his cavalry battalion go to the enemy's ready position. Establish a forward machine gun fire point, and plan to strengthen the bunker to prepare for artillery defense. Even if the cavalry of the coalition army does not have cannons, the power of the mortar is quite objective. It is hopeless that the Russian cavalry division of the coalition army on the opposite side is not equipped with heavy mortars. superior.

In the encounter in the morning, a cavalry company of the opponent was equipped with six 6mm caliber platoon mortars and beat Budyonny's vanguard battalion. He and the surrounding division commanders were secretly praying in their hearts. They only hoped that the number of mortars on the other side would be less, and that the shells would have been consumed in the previous roundabout operations. Otherwise, the casualties here would be serious.