Beiyang 1917

1918年7月14ri12：00布祖卢克镇

The detoured cavalry brigade on Budyonny West Road encountered the Negev cavalry regiment reinforced by the coalition forces from Neftegorsk. At noon, the Soviet Russian Red Army opposite the town of Buzuluk. On the command position, under the personal command of Army Commander Yegorov, the infantry division of the Ninth Army launched an attack on the town of Buzuluk.

Half an hour before Yegorov's infantry division launched an attack, a battle broke out between the sharpshooters of the Ninth Army of the Soviet Russian Red Army and the sniper team of the Allied Cavalry Brigade guarding the town of Buzuluk. Each company of the infantry division dispatched two sharpshooters to fight against the opponent's snipers at a distance of 800 meters with the cover of trenches.

基克维泽的步兵第16师从剩下6000近100个连队中凑出第一批200名神枪手，顺着交通沟进入800米阵地的战壕后开始人自为战和对面联军阵地上的狙击手对she。

The distance of 00 meters is only a theoretical effective combat distance for Soviet Russian Red Army sharpshooters who only use mechanical sights to shoot sniper rifles without professional scopes. The ballistic characteristics of the Mosin Nagant rifle itself can guarantee ejection After flying 800 meters, the deviation will not be too big, but when the front sight is bigger than a human head at 400 meters, rely on naked vision at a distance of 800 meters, and use the m4 Gamma equipped with a 50x1 legal optical sight on the opposite side The showdown between the coalition snipers with RAND semi-automatic sniper rifles was destined to be a tragedy.

The sharpshooters of the poor Soviet Russian Red Army must quickly probe to see the position of the enemy on the opposite side, then shoot, and then hide in the trenches. This is not a level of competition for the coalition cavalry sniper team equipped with trench periscopes.

The 16 sharpshooters of the 200th Division of the Kikweize Infantry lost all their casualties within 5 minutes, and the casualties of the coalition snipers on the opposite side were still in single digits. On average, individual coalition sniper teams didn't even finish shooting the m1 guns in their hands. Eight rounds in the magazine of the Land semi-automatic sniper rifle.

However, almost none of the sharpshooters of the Soviet Red Army had the chance to shoot the second round. Of course, the bullets fired by the sharpshooters in exchange for their lives were far inferior to those shot by the coalition snipers with sniper rifles. They are so domineering and sharp, but after all, they also pose a threat to the coalition snipers, which makes the coalition snipers care less about injuring rather than killing each other. Therefore, the Soviet Russian Red Army sharpshooters died far more than they were injured.

Later, Egorov saw from the back that it was impossible to fight like this. There were few snipers in the coalition army on the opposite side, but one shot was one less on his side, and at least five to six fell on his side after eight shots. Such a fight is definitely useless. Send the other party meritorious service.

叶戈罗夫便下令第15师和第17师以及第19师的600名神枪手同时进入阵地，准备用密集的步枪火力敲掉对方不过30支狙击枪。

There are only 32 groups of coalition snipers after all. After a few groups of casualties, there are only more than 20 groups left. This road is full of darkness. On average, each sniper has to face 30 Mosin Nagant guns. , The pressure and casualties rose all at once.

Fortunately, Nerikov, the commander of the [-]rd Ural Cavalry Division of the headquarters behind the coalition's position, saw it clearly. Nima, more wins. This guy waved his hand and ordered the snipers to retreat. The heavy machine guns fired and the platoon mortars fired. .

Well, now the battle situation has turned into bird hunting again. Just as more than 580 Soviet Russian Red Army sharpshooters gained the upper hand, they were dismantled by the opponent to reveal the Browning air-cooled heavy machine gun with a black hole in the muzzle. Right now, since the trench dug by the Soviet Red Army at 800 meters is only 1000 meters wide, there are more than 580 sharpshooters crowded in it, which is about 1 meter and only one person.

The heavy machine guns of the coalition fired on the four of the second battalion in the middle, and immediately turned the sharpshooters who dared to show their heads in the trenches of the Soviet Red Army 800 meters away. Li dared not continue to show his face.

As a result, this became the target of the coalition platoon mortars. The 24 60mm caliber mortars of the Second Battalion fired six rounds at the trenches of the Soviet Red Army 800 meters away. More than 100 shells scored at least three The second fell into the opponent's trench, and there was nowhere to hide from the explosive power of the mortar shells in such a small space.

After 5 minutes, the 800-meter trench has become a Shura hell. Most of the original 15 sharpshooters of the 17th, 19th, and 800th Infantry Divisions were wiped out, and the rest were also dying. The heavy machine guns of the coalition forces quickly stopped shooting and withdrew from the original firepower point. It is estimated that none of the Soviet Red Army in the [-]-meter trench could withdraw.

Of course, Yegorov and several division commanders here are also angry; their faces are livid, and the artillery commander Kulik lost his two concealed 2mm mountain cannons because he was 76 minutes late in the battle. The opportunity for the four heavy machine guns to fire, naturally, the heavy machine guns of the coalition fired so accurately and decisively, and the evacuation was so clean and neat, this was also missed by Kulik in command of the heavy machine gun position and the two heavy machine gun battalion commander Malikov. One of the reasons for the shooting opportunity.

Of course, the heavy machine gun battalion deployed by the Soviet Red Army at a distance of 1100 meters from the coalition positions still did not fire. This is why the battalion commander Malenkov is well-versed in the use of troops. The task of the heavy machine gun is to provide fire support for the infantry to attack or defend, not Fighting against the opponent, if the commander of the group army orders a charge, Malikov's heavy machine gun will fire immediately to suppress the opponent's machine gun fire.

As far as machine gunners are concerned, although the Maxim wheeled machine gun has a shield, the casualty rate of heavy machine gunners has always been high as the target of the opponent's key attack. There are even specially designed chest armors worn by heavy machine gunners to improve the survival rate of machine gunners, and the same cast iron armor weighing tens of kilograms is often worn by sentries on guard.

Of course, at the moment on the Eastern Front in Russia on the Ufa battlefield, neither the machine gunners of the Soviet Red Army nor the machine gunners of the coalition army are equipped with such armor. The main task is to pour the most ammunition in the shortest time to the areas most in need of fire support.

These areas may be the opponent's heavy machine gun firepower or artillery shooting positions, or it may be the gap where the opponent is about to break through, or the place where the opponent's personnel and weapons are most densely fired. Wherever the firepower is covered, there is absolutely no time at this time to lie on the trenches with their heads hugged like infantry to avoid the opponent's bullets.

The machine gunner is a brave and fearless existence, and the battalion commanded by Malenkov, which has 24 water-cooled Maxim wheeled heavy machine guns, will actually become the most important one after Yegorov's ninth army infantry division launched an offensive strength.

In view of this, Kulik deployed 1000 Maxims at a distance of nearly 20 meters on the left side of the position, while only 2000 Maxims were deployed on the positions of nearly 4 meters on the center and right. Yegorov formulated a countermeasure early on. If 24 Maxims were evenly distributed on a 3-kilometer-wide position, the density and firepower of the Soviet Red Army's heavy machine guns would be far inferior to the opponent's.

Although the main direction of the planned attack is the left, Yegorov also sent a regiment of infantry to attack in the three directions of the left, center and right. The one-kilometer-wide trench at the position of 800 meters is withdrawing the sharpshooters. At the same time as the wounded, 2000 infantrymen quietly crawled in, and two people were squeezed in almost one meter. If the coalition forces launched shelling at this time, Yegorov's troops would suffer huge casualties.

Fortunately, Nerikov, the commander of the coalition forces here, was not prepared for Yegorov to stuff so many people into the trench so quickly and quietly. Secondly, Nerikov always thought that it was wrong for him to stick Yegorov The first priority is to eliminate him. The most feared thing is to beat Yegorov away. Should I chase him or not?

If you chase after leaving the established position, you will lose the advantage of defense, and the opponent has more than 32000 infantry after all, and you only have 5000 cavalry.

And once the opponent is scattered to herd the sheep, ten fingers will not know which way to chase the enemy, so Nerikov ignored the yelling of the chief of staff and cousin Kevsky next to him , The use of heavy machine guns and mortar firepower has always been reserved and introverted, the purpose is not to scare Yegorov away from the pain.

Yegorov ordered the main regiment of Inza's 15th Infantry Division to attack from the left trench 1100 meters away, and let the main regiment of Kikweize's 16th Infantry Division attack from the middle trench. In the trenches, the main regiment of the 1100rd Infantry Division of Ust-I was attacking.

For Yegorov, if he fails to attack in the first assault, his morale will only be lowered if he fights again. With the consumption of heavy machine guns and ammunition, his offensive firepower will become weaker and weaker. Therefore, Yegorov Rove gritted his teeth and sent 6000 people to attack simultaneously on a front as wide as 4 kilometers.

At this time, there was no telegram from Xia Jianke, the political commissar of the cavalry division on the detour in the south, and Budyonny's cavalry brigade was completely gone.

Yegorov decided not to wait any longer. If 6000 people could not attack, he planned to retreat!Withdraw to the north 10 kilometers to cross the Buzuluk River again, take a detour, and then hesitate to stay, the reinforcements of the coalition forces may catch up behind them at any time, and there will be no way to enter the earth.

At this moment, Yegorov regretted a little. He should have agreed to Budyonny's request at that time, and crossed the river south under the pretext of personally commanding the cavalry division to fight in a roundabout way. At that time, he could advance and retreat freely, compared with being trapped in the narrow and long area where the two rivers meet now. Facing the solidly defended enemy positions, and the coalition forces chasing troops that will appear behind at any time, the situation is much better!

Nima, the price of pretending to be big!Yegorov scolded himself secretly in his heart!