Beiyang 1917

1918年7月14ri8:00布祖卢克镇北部乌拉尔骑兵第三师阵地

"Master! Fight! If you don't fight anymore, the enemy's horse-drawn machine guns are rushing under our noses. How long will it be if we don't fight at this time?" Maoevsky, the chief of staff of the [-]rd Division of the Ural Cavalry and the commander of the [-]st Brigade, rubbed his hands. Sleeve asked Nerikov, the teacher who had been calm and composed by his side, to fight.

"What's the rush? Have you ever seen a horse-drawn machine gun charge to occupy the opponent's position? There are no infantry and cavalry following up, so it's useless, but the cavalry on the opposite side must be commanded by that guy Budyonny. It's kind of interesting, it seems like we are going to build a heavy machine gun position with our eyelids lowered." Nerikov said while looking at the battlefield with a telescope from his command position in the bunker.

"Isn't there still hundreds of cavalry behind the enemy? These guys seem to be cavalry from our Cossack background. Look at the hat and black cloak, but why are they walking so slowly and scattered? It doesn't seem like they are going to attack and fight. Charging, it looks like I'm out for an autumn outing!" Daveski said anxiously.

"You bastard, you are still the chief of staff of my third cavalry division, and you are still a brigade commander. How can you be so rough and impatient in battle? The other party is obviously trying to lure the enemy. If we sink If you can't hold your breath and fire randomly, you will expose the target. Look at this posture, Budyonny should have artillery behind him, so he first used heavy machine guns and a battalion of cavalry to lure the enemy, and then used the rear after we exposed the firepower of the machine guns. artillery against our machine guns!"

Nerikov watched the actions of the Soviet Red Army on the opposite side of the field through the telescope, while calculating and guessing the opponent's style of play.

"Pass my order, place the heavy machine gun that is still charging in front of the opponent within 1000 meters, and do not fire beyond 1000 meters!" Nerikov gritted his teeth and gave the order.

At the same time, at the command position of the Budyonny Cavalry Division of the Soviet Red Army, Budyonny watched through the binoculars that the coalition forces on the opposite side remained calm and did not fire a single shot. It didn't take long to be so calm, Nima, everyone thinks they are Brusivov, don't they?

"Grigory Ivanovich, are your artillery in place? How sure are you that you can knock out the opponent's heavy machine guns and mortars in the first round of shooting?" Budyonny didn't even look back. Ask Grigory Ivanovich Kulik, the artillery commander of the Special Cavalry Division who is beside you.

Although Kulik has only two artillery companies under his command, he is the commander of the Du Li Artillery Regiment of the Special Cavalry Division. This artillery regiment has two artillery companies and a heavy machine gun battalion. It can be regarded as the firepower pillar of the Special Cavalry Division. Kulik To get the attention of the division commander Budyonny and the political commissar Xia Tenko, we have to start from the first three battles to defend Tsaritsyn. At that time, Kulik, who was just an artillery company commander, defeated the White Guard Krasnov with only the cannon in his hand. A division-scale attack.

At that time, the artillery company commander Kulik gathered all the artillery of the company to suddenly attack the White Guard infantry division assembled behind the hill three kilometers away, causing heavy casualties to the opponent and directly causing this attack to be strangled in the cradle before it was launched.

The offensive tactics launched by Budyonny this time came from Kulik, the commander of the artillery regiment. Of course, a tentative attack is a hard job, but Kulik still has considerable confidence in his artillery company and heavy machine gun battalion.

This guy played tricks, only the two heavy machine guns on each side of the 24 horse-drawn machine gun carriages sent out in front are real Maxim wheeled heavy machine guns, and the rest are machine guns camouflaged with truncated wood , Even if the opponent uses a telescope on the carriage running two kilometers away, it may not be possible to see the authenticity of the machine gun on the carriage.

When the twelve horse-drawn machine guns stopped at a distance of 1800 meters and began to build machine gun positions, only the two machine guns on the two wings of the 12 horse-drawn carriages that continued to charge forward were real, and the remaining ten horse-drawn carriages The machine guns on the guns are all fake. Since it lures the enemy, there is no need to reveal the real family.

The wishful thinking of Kulik and Nerikov, the commander of the cavalry division of the coalition army, is to attract the opponent to fire first, and then use artillery to knock out the opponent's artillery and heavy machine gun firepower. Like the commander of an infantry division, he prayed that the cavalry brigade of the opponent was not equipped with a large number of artillery.

If the opponent only has mortars, although it is said that the 81mm caliber mortars of the coalition battalion have a range of 2000 meters, Kulik is confident that his 12 76mm caliber mountain field artillery with a range more than double can completely suppress the opponent mortars.

Seeing his teacher's questioning, Kulik saluted and said, "Comrade Budyonny, you can rest assured that as long as the opponent's artillery fires, within 3 minutes my cannon will be able to destroy the opponent's artillery positions and Heavy machine gun firepower, follow me, our cavalry battalion should not go up, there is enough heavy machine gun battalion to lure the enemy!"

Budyonny glanced at the guy, and said calmly, "It is Comrade Yegorov's order to send the cavalry battalion to attack the enemy's position in Buzuluk Town. Of course, the special cavalry division must execute it!"

Kulik scratched his head with a chuckle, raised the binoculars on his chest and looked at the battlefield again. Seeing that the twelve horse-drawn machine guns dispatched to attack the striker had approached the distance of 1500 meters in front of the opponent's position, the coalition position was silent. Quietly let alone open fire, he couldn't even see a person, Kulik was a little surprised when he saw it, damn, the commander of the coalition army on the opposite side is not easy.

Of course, Budyonny also saw the strange phenomenon on the ground. The commander of the special cavalry division frowned slightly, and ordered without looking back, "Signature, order the twelve carriages to rush to the position of 1200 meters. Turn around and prepare to shoot! Tell them to disperse and disperse as much as possible, the cavalry battalion began to increase the speed of the horse, rushed forward to a distance of 1500 meters in front of the opponent's position, and then dispersed to the two wings!"

Political commissar Xia Jianke whispered from the side, "Comrade Budyonny, do you want to take this opportunity to ask Comrade Yegorov to send an infantry regiment up to help dig trenches and strengthen the position at the heavy machine gun position at 1800 meters?"

"No, let the infantry division rest for a while longer. Fifty or so carriages and engineer battalions are enough to dig there. This distance is too far to rush up. The machine gun bunker can be dug to prevent the opponent's mortars. Shelling is enough. The initial speed of mortars is slow, so as long as there is a place to hide, it is not a big threat. I am just worried that the opponent has cannons, and I hope our artillery can knock them out first, otherwise, this battle will not be easy to fight! "

For Budyonny, since it is a tentative attack and reconnaissance, the random use of dense formations and troops is definitely not his accustomed style of play, if the two rivers on the east and west sides of Buzuluk town are too wide and the water is too deep , this guy is definitely planning to outflank the other party's south retreat.

The cavalry's detour from the flanks and the centripetal assault are the forte of Comrade Semyon Mikhainovich Budyonny and his First Cavalry Army in Wang Geng's previous life, but at this moment Budyonny has just expanded from a cavalry brigade to a cavalry brigade. For the cavalry division, the tactics of play have not really formed and matured, and the number of troops in hand is also limited.

The messenger of the cavalry division quickly delivered the latest order to the attacking team with the sound of trumpets and semaphore. The twelve carriages running ahead obviously slowed down. When the machine gun was a piece of wood pretending to be Maxim, although the drivers of the horse-drawn machine guns gritted their teeth and rushed forward, they were always waiting for the opponent to turn around and retreat after firing.

Of course, with the firepower density and equipment of the coalition forces, whether they can escape this catastrophe depends on luck. Many drivers have been paying attention to the low-lying and raised areas on the road while driving the carriage. Whether you can save your life in the line of fire depends on your own cleverness.

With 12 horse-drawn machine guns rushing forward from a position about three kilometers wide, and behind the horse-drawn machine guns are more than 500 cavalrymen of the Soviet Red Army who have let go of their horses and charged forward. The atmosphere on the battlefield suddenly became tense. When I got up, the horse-drawn machine gun had rushed to the position of 1200 meters, the skirmish line of the cavalry battalion was close to 1500 meters, and the heavy machine gun position at 1800 meters behind was quickly established under the cover of the two previous waves of troops.