Beiyang 1917

The distance between the attacker and the defender is 2000 meters, which is about the moderate combat distance in the era of 1918. If the supply of ammunition is sufficient, the heavy machine gun can effectively block the opponent's offensive line. The problem is that you have to have so many bullets for you to squander.

Whether it was the Maxim used by the Soviet Red Army or the water-cooled or air-cooled Browning heavy machine guns equipped by the coalition forces at this time, the theoretical firing speed of the heavy machine guns of this era is generally between 300600 and 7.62 rounds per minute, and the coalition forces' 250 The mm air-cooled Browning heavy machine gun uses a 450600-round ammunition chain to feed ammunition, and the theoretical firing speed is 250 rounds per minute, which means that if it is fully opened, a [-]-round ammunition chain can be fired within half a minute.

For the allied Russian cavalry divisions like the 20rd Ural Cavalry Division, the ammunition base carried by the Browning heavy machine gun is 250 chains of 5000 rounds, a total of [-] rounds of ammunition per heavy machine gun, of course half of which are carried by the machine gun team. The remaining half is usually transported with the convoy and logistics food and ammunition, and all of it can be carried by the heavy machine gun team if necessary.

A 250-round ammunition chain weighs 7 kilograms. A heavy machine gun team of the coalition forces has a chief shooter, a deputy shooter, and an ammunition man. If it is really necessary to carry 140 ammunition chains weighing 20 kilograms, the burden is quite heavy. Fortunately, the cavalry usually suffers from the horse mounts, and the burden on the machine gun team is not heavy when marching, but it is more difficult to get people to bear the burden after entering the position.

The Second Regiment of the Fifth Brigade of the Third Division of the Ural Cavalry set off from Ufa and went all the way south to Orenburg and Sorochinsk. Although the ammunition consumption was not much, it was no longer full.

Little Antonikov faced the 3000 cavalry of the opposing Budyonny Cavalry Division, so he was destined not to bring the enemy closer and fight again as Buzuluk Town Division Commander Nerikov commanded, and the cavalry rode horses After rushing up, the momentum was much more shocking than the infantry division's attack.

Therefore, when Gorodovikov's cavalry on the opposite side launched an attack and entered a range of 2000 meters, the little Antonikov here decisively ordered the battalion's mortars to fire, and 32 81mm caliber mortars rang together, Strings of mortar shells rushed towards the attacking Red Army cavalry array like sparrows.

After Budyonny's red Cossacks charged, they were really fearless. The 3000 cavalry were divided into two and rushed towards the coalition's north and east positions. Every explosion of the mortar shells would overturn the surrounding area. Horses and knights, the casualties of the charging Red Army cavalry continued to increase, and some people and horses fell to the ground constantly, but no one retreated. Shouting Ula to charge forward was the only thing Budyonny's cavalry could do.

The brigade commander Gorodovikov and the division political commissar Xia Tenke rode horses behind the position and looked at the battlefield with binoculars. Also prostrate on the ground to form a defense line of skirmishers to strengthen their momentum.

The cavalry of the Kalmyk regiment under the leadership of the regiment commander Ryabyshev charged against the enemy's mortar fire.

This guy is obviously very scheming. When charging, the cavalry line was actually very scattered, and ran a slanted line, attacking diagonally from the middle to the south. The second battalion was 500 meters away, and the third battalion was 50 meters away. Ryabyshev led the fourth battalion to fight at the end.

The heavy machine gun that captured the coalition army roared at the rear of the position, and poured bullets on the mortar positions behind the coalition position, trying to relieve the pressure on the cavalry charge. The mortar rain of the coalition army was too dense. The first battalion in the front soon had more than half of its casualties.

To be honest, the Mongolian cavalry has not returned to the previous Temujin era, but the Mongolian horse has escaped the baptism of many heavy machine gun bullets because of its short stature. After entering 1500 meters, they opened fire one by one. The density of heavy machine guns at a distance of almost 100 meters was similar to that of the German army on the western front who harvested 6 lives from the British army in one day.

And the battalion mortars of the coalition army obviously found the Red Army heavy machine gun that was hiding at the edge of a small wood behind and opened fire. The machine gun team was knocked down by coalition mortars no less than three times, but this miraculous m1918a3 air-cooled Browning heavy machine gun seized from the coalition forces has never been blown up. Continue to shoot after the new machine gunner transfers.

At the same time, Romankov led the remaining 1000 cavalrymen of the second regiment to blow a Cossack whirlwind and rushed to the coalition position in the north. Three heavy machine guns had to guard the 3-meter front, which was relatively left behind. There is a large gap, and because Romankov followed up and seized and re-equipped the 800 platoon mortars to add to the chaos.

Therefore, the Mongolian cavalry of the Kalmyk regiment on the frontal position rushed to 1200 meters from the opponent's position after braving the rain of bullets, and Romankov's 1000 cavalry rushed to within 300 meters after paying more than 800 casualties. .

The Red Army cavalry platoon who was temporarily caught and turned into an artilleryman, under the leadership of the platoon leader Belov, jumped off his horse and used the killed horse as a cover, and actually set up a mortar The artillery blasted towards the coalition positions, and since Belov and his platoon were working with this thing for the first time, although the first round of shooting fired the artillery shells, the aim was all wrong and outrageous.

Because of the wrong angle, she's closest mortar shells directly smashed into the formation of her own cavalry who was charging 300 meters ahead. Fortunately, the 20 platoons of mortars on the opposite coalition position were also raining towards the attacking Red Army. The cavalry hit shells, so Romankov and the Red Army cavalry rushing forward did not pay attention to the shells that were accidentally shot from behind their buttocks.

A cannon shot by Belov himself was at the right angle, and the shell shot straight across the charging Red Army cavalry brigade and the coalition positions in front, and fell straight to the position of the battalion-owned mortars in the central position of the coalition forces. An 81mm caliber mortar group from the coalition forces.

Now Belov was excited, and he ordered the other 11 mortars to be adjusted to the angle of his own gun, and was going to clean up the coalition mortars that were showing off their might in the central position.

Here, Antonikov turned around and saw that the opponent's northern line actually used the mortars captured by his troops and smashed them on his artillery positions. The artillery shells rained down; the coalition mortar artillery shot to the head was much better than Belov's platoon that was facing the crouching platoon.

这边别洛夫还在手忙脚乱的指挥着部下调整迫击炮的角度时，10几发81mm口径的联军迫击炮弹像长了眼睛一样飞了过来砸在他的阵地上响成了一片，81mm口径营属迫击炮那3.6公斤重的杀伤榴弹威力远非60mm口径的排属迫击炮1.5公斤的炮弹可比。

Waiting for the first time, Belov, who was lying down and hiding, hugged his head, rolled and crawled out for more than ten meters, and then looked back. His platoon and the 12 mortars had been completely blown to the ground by the opponent's shelling, and there were almost no casualties. A few guns were also crooked, obviously they were reimbursed.

But with such a little effort, Romankov's cavalry on the northern line paid more than 500 casualties and rushed to a position less than 300 meters away from the opponent's position, while the Kalmyk regiment on the center line swept across the center line obliquely. Go straight to the place less than 500 meters away from the southern line position.

At this time, there were only more than 100 people left in the first battalion led by Balayev, the political commissar of the Kalmyk regiment that attacked on the center line, and nearly 400 people were lost on the attack route, while the second battalion that followed up had more than 200 people left. , There are more than 300 people left in the third battalion, and the fourth battalion led by the head of the regiment, Ryabyshev, is the most preserved, with more than 400 people left.

In such a short period of time, more than half of the cavalry of the 3000 Budyonny Cavalry Division had suffered casualties. Moreover, as they got closer to the coalition position, more than a dozen squadron machine guns and thousands of cavalry rifles of the coalition army on the opposite position also opened fire. Hundreds of Red Army cavalry were dismounted every minute.

If Utsunomiya Taro, the commander of the Japanese army in the coalition army, was present, he would definitely talk to Wang Geng about the battle of the long gun between Takeda and Oda Jiazheng.

Such intensive firepower and lethality of the coalition forces prevented the two sides from engaging in hand-to-hand combat, and Ryabyshev's Kalmyk regiment lost half of its troops. In this case, the opponent's casualties were less than one tenth of his own. The comparison of strength and weakness was completely reversed. Although the charge seemed to be unfinished, the outcome was already clear.

Political commissar Xia Tenko and Gorodovikov, who were watching the battle behind them, looked at each other. Political commissar Xia Tenke said bitterly, "Comrade Oka Ivanovich, blow the horn, withdraw troops, and implement the second plan! Give the cavalry Master keep a little tinder!"

"Blow the horn!" Brigadier Gorodovikov's heart was bleeding. In just such a charge, more than half of the casualties were lost, while the opponent's casualties were almost negligible. Now this guy deeply regrets that he should not take the risk of using cavalry to charge the opponent's position. , Even if it is a field position, the dense heavy machine gun firepower cannot be defeated, and it is impossible to rush up.

And Antonikov, who was on the opposite side, was thinking, Nima, do you think you can win by rushing up?If Lao Tzu's cavalry hadn't been tired all morning and the horses had lost all strength, I wouldn't be ashamed of you if you got on the horse and killed me!

The charge initiated by the Budyonny cavalry division was defeated in the hail of bullets. When Ryabyshev's cavalry came out from the southeast in a circle, only 2000 of the 800 men were left. Romankov's second army over there After the regiment was out of the opponent's range of fire, there were only less than 1000 of the 300 people left.

Within a distance of 300 meters to 1500 meters around the three sides of the coalition forces, looking at the past, there are dead people and horses of the Soviet Red Army who were killed. Many horses who lost their riders are looking around on the lonely battlefield. Of course, only 800 people died in battle. There were many people, and the rest were nearly a thousand lightly and seriously wounded. The seriously wounded lay on the battlefield moaning and waiting for the moment to die. The lightly wounded bandaged their own wounds and crawled back gritted their teeth. The ground had already flowed into rivers.