Beiyang 1917

1918年7月14ri9:00布祖卢克镇联军乌拉尔第三骑兵师指挥部

"Master, commander, the enemy's cavalry is moving to the rear. Are they going to retreat? Let the artillery company fire?" the chief of staff of the 2rd cavalry division, Kavsky, saw through the binoculars the Soviet Union on the hillside and the edge of the woods [-] kilometers away. The Red Army cavalry got on their horses one after another, turned their horses' heads and retreated, shouting hastily!

"What are you panicking about? The cavalry on the opposite side only has the strength of a brigade. Our cannons are used to deal with the opponent's artillery and infantry brigade. What are a few thousand cavalrymen? Our task is to block Yegorov and the main force of the Second Army." The retreat channel, defending the town of Buzuluk, is not just to eliminate a few more cavalrymen of the Soviet Russian Red Army!"

Nerikov frowned dissatisfiedly and taught his chief of staff who was bluffing all day long, while wondering if the Budyonny cavalry on the opposite side really wanted to retreat?Where to withdraw?

"Master, even if you are afraid that the shells will be consumed too quickly and you are reluctant to use them to attack the thousands of cavalry, why don't we attack the enemy's heavy machine gun position 1800 meters away? You see, the more they repair the fortifications, the stronger they are!"** Fusky said unwillingly from the side.

"Cut, you haven't been fooled enough. Out of the 12 carriages that the opponent used to lure the enemy earlier, only 2 Maxims could fire, and the rest were machine guns disguised with half tree stumps. In the heavy machine gun position, there may not be so many real Maxim machine guns, maybe they are all fake!" Nerikov grinned and said disdainfully.

"It's all fake? No division commander. The opponent has the strength of a group army. It is impossible to have only two Maxim heavy machine guns. If an infantry division is equipped with a heavy machine gun battalion according to the usual configuration of the Soviet Red Army, the opponent can at least There are five machine gun battalions or even more, and the heavy machine gun position built by the enemy in front of us looks like at least 50 Maxims! Why don't we fight?"

The chief of staff of the 12rd Division of the Ural Cavalry and the commander of the 2st Brigade, Kevsky, is still a very curious guy. In his opinion, even if there were only 1800 real machine guns among the [-] horse-drawn machine guns in the charge just now, then Isn't the enemy trying to lure the enemy? The heavy machine gun positions built by the opponent's nearly [-] carriages at [-] meters in front of the four-kilometer-wide front don't look fake at all.

Furthermore, now that the attacking party is the Soviet Red Army instead of the coalition forces, there is no reason to put so much effort into setting up so many fake heavy machine gun positions!Who can scare?

"How did you become the chief of staff? Didn't the results of the interrogation of the prisoners in the morning already be clear? Although Yegorov's army still has more than 4 horsemen left, it also needs cannons and heavy machine guns. Budyonny’s special cavalry division still retains a machine gun battalion and two artillery companies. I guess the reason why the other party builds machine gun positions with great fanfare is to confuse the public and avoid our artillery attacks!"

The division commander Nerikov flew up and kicked the chief of staff's buttocks. The ass of this Davsky was used to being kicked by his own division commander, and he even dodged it in a hurry, and said embarrassingly, "Anyway. , Master, I think we are a little too polite to Yegorov and Budyonny, let's care if he is real or not, just use cannons to bombard him and turn his back on his back? Save us from guessing here!"

It's not unreasonable to say that ** is not unreasonable. Although the opponent's heavy machine gun position is built 1800 meters away, Maxim's maximum range is 3500 meters. Although the position of 1800 meters is not a very effective combat distance , but if you fight well, shooting with your face covered still poses a great threat.

"You just need to learn more! How can I have such a relative as you, Davesky? Let me see you don't even bring a brigade to be my chief of staff. You may not even be competent as a regimental commander. You know how to fight and kill all day long, you have to learn to use your brain, understand? Use your brain! Otherwise, let alone my cousin in the future, I can't afford to lose this person!"

Nerikov said angrily, while using binoculars to continue to observe the movement of the Soviet Red Army cavalry on the opposite side.

"Master! I followed your instructions and have been calling you Master. Haven't I been using my brains all the time! There is a plate of dishes in front of me, all within the range of our battalion-owned mortars and artillery companies. Inside, you are holding back to prevent the artillery from firing, not to mention that I can't figure it out, the brothers below can't figure it out either!" Bowski yelled and said.

"A bunch of bastards, why can't we figure it out? If we are as lucky as Sergei Mikhainovich, with our backs against the fortified city of Ufa and the coalition headquarters covering it, we can certainly make it Hit each other with cannons, but don't forget, now we are just a cavalry brigade hanging alone in Buzuluk!"

"The deputy chief of staff of the coalition forces, yes, is the current commander of the Ufayang Group. The two infantry divisions led by Wu Peifu will arrive in the evening at the earliest. Do you understand the full hours of the day!"

Nerikov babbled to brainwash his cousin Kevsky, "What is our task? It is to defend Buzuluk and hold Yegorov, the main force of the Soviet Union's Southern Front Army, waiting When reinforcements arrive, surround and annihilate each other!"

"That's right! Cousin, don't we use artillery to beat the opponent's cavalry or heavy machine guns to kill the opponent's cavalry or heavy machine guns? Don't we have to beat the opponent early and late? How can we beat the opponent without firing?" He argued forcefully.

"Don't call me cousin, there's only your teacher here! Nima, I've been teaching you for a long time, you're so dumbfounded, our task is to defend Buzuluk, if the cannons run out of shells, they won't even be as good as firesticks. Before the artillery company fought with the opponent, it took 2 rounds of Qishe in 12 minutes, do you know how many shells we carry are enough to fight for 2 minutes? You know how to fire and fire?"

When Nerikov said this, ******ski finally understood that his cousin, the teacher who was in love with him, was afraid that he would run out of ammunition in the back. Hey, how could I forget this!It turned out that the Third Ural Cavalry Division was the Russian cavalry unit in the coalition formation. The artillery company of the cavalry division division carried a base of ammunition of 75 rounds for the 60mm mountain guns and field guns of the coalition. The gun carries 90 rounds of shells.

Don't underestimate the 90 rounds of mountain artillery and field artillery shells, which add up to nearly 600 kilograms. Also don't think that 90 shells are a lot. According to the coalition army's 75mm 810-type mountain artillery and 10-type field artillery with an average firing speed of [-] rounds per minute, Theoretically, the artillery company can consume all the shells it carries within [-] minutes after firing!

At this moment, Nerikov's [-]rd Cavalry Division and [-]rd Brigade will hold the town of Buzuluk for at least an hour. Under such circumstances, how can this guy be willing to squander all the shells he carries?Nerikov had already made up his mind that the long-range artillery battery must be used when and where it is most needed.

For example, the artillery used to annihilate the enemy, for example, used to bombard the opponent's infantry division assembly area to disrupt the opponent's deployment, for example, when used to intercept the opponent's cavalry division brigade-scale charge!

In terms of the ammunition base of the coalition cavalry divisions, the 81mm mortars in the mortar platoon of the battalion carry the most ammunition. Each mortar carries 120 rounds of grenades per kilogram, while the platoon belongs to the mortar squad 60mm mortar, each gun only carries 90 rounds of mortar shells weighing [-] kg.

The Third Division of the Ural Cavalry came all the way from Orenburg. Lien Chan and Lianjie successively captured Solochinsk, Buzuluk and Nevtegorsk. Although the ammunition was not used much, it was still better than the starting point There is less time. At this moment, facing the more than 4 enemies of the Southern Front Army of the Soviet Russian Red Army who are forced into a desperate situation, Nerikov is really worried that he will not have enough ammunition by then.

"Furthermore, just keeping Buzuluk is useless. The most important thing is to hold back the enemy and stick more than 4 people like Yegorov to Buzuluk so that he can't get out. It's only early in the morning. What if the other party is beaten away by the first attack, and what if he withdraws?" Nerikov took the trouble to instruct his cousin Livsky.

"Retreat? Then let's chase after him. Yegorov is an infantryman. How could his two-legged infantry outrun our four-legged cavalry?" ** said with bright eyes.

"Chasing? Let a 5000-man cavalry brigade go out to fight a field battle with the opponent's 3 infantry and 9000 cavalry? How many lives are not enough for you? You will be drowned by the sea of ​​people tactics alone. We have two in this town." The big rivers constitute a natural danger, otherwise the town of Buzuluk guards the confluence of the Samara, Buzuluk and Domashika rivers."

"If it's really a town that is surrounded by enemies, we may not be able to defend it with just a cavalry brigade! You are content with you! If you keep chasing, no one is allowed to leave the position to pursue without authorization until the opponent is beaten to the ground. I give Ye Ge If Luo Fu comes, he will not enter, let the wind blow and the rain hit the river, I will stand still and wait for you to come up!"

While Nerikov chattered to Mrs. Nerikovsky, he also made up his mind to fight a protracted war. Nima, the tiger doesn’t come out of the hole. It doesn’t matter whether the cavalry on the opposite side of you is forward or backward, anyway, before the reinforcements arrive No matter how weak you are or how you lure the enemy, I will not attack, first defend Buzuluk!