Beiyang 1917

1918年7月20ri萨马拉18：00联军司令部

As the coalition forces accepted Saratov, Voronezh, Kursk, and Tsaritsyn on the other side of the Volga, Wang Geng also moved the headquarters of the coalition forces from Ufa to Samara, in order to facilitate the gathering of coalition forces from all walks of life. General meeting. [.

At the coalition headquarters in Samara, the post-war review meeting for the Battle of Ufa was held all day long. The brigade and above generals of the coalition forces who rushed to Samara from both sides of the Volga River gathered together, and Chinese, Japanese and Russian were intertwined. , Even gestures and hand gestures, as the victors of the Battle of Ufa, these coalition generals are full of confidence, and the entire combat conference room is very lively.

Among the brigade generals present at the meeting, one was Li Fugui, the cavalry battalion commander of the [-]nd Mixed Cavalry Brigade of the Allied Forces who had made great achievements in the town of Sterlitamak, and the other was leading the cavalry battalion in Meleuz to block Tuha Chevsky's Lieutenant Colonel Xiao Chuyin, the staff officer of the [-]nd Cavalry Brigade, and Antonikov Jr., the commander of the [-]nd Regiment of the [-]th Brigade of the [-]rd Ural Cavalry Division.

Another regiment-level general who attended the meeting caught up with the chief of staff of the Ninth Army retreating along the road on the road near the village of Kameshla, [-] kilometers southwest of Severnau County. Cheng Ruhuai, commander of the [-]th Armored Regiment of Stepin's [-]nd Hybrid Armored Brigade.

Speaking of which, in the entire Ufa Battle, apart from the infantry and artillery units showing their skills during the Ufa defensive battle in the first stage, the protagonists of the subsequent detour and pursuit operations were all coalition armored and cavalry units. Among them, Sun Liangcheng led The first hybrid armored brigade took the farthest route and occupied the most places, while the second hybrid armored brigade led by Jiang Hongyu achieved the greatest results among the armored troops. It almost wiped out the Slavin Fifth Army of the Soviet Russian Eastern Front. .

The performance of the Russian cavalry units was also quite amazing. Petrovich and Sergey’s second cavalry army achieved the greatest results, annihilating the main forces of the first and second two armies successively, while the third Ural cavalry division under the command of Li Mingzhong, And played the most beautiful defensive battle in Buzuluk.

The performance of the Chinese cavalry units in the coalition forces was not satisfactory, mainly because they could not win battles. The fighting of Li Fugui's cavalry battalion in the town of Sterlitamak was a bright spot, which delayed the retreat of the Tukhachevsky First Army. At the same time, the cavalry battalion led by Xiao Chuyin also blocked Xia Boyang's cavalry unit, although with the cooperation of the Japanese cavalry regiment led by Hata Junliu, more than 2000 Xia Boyang cavalry troops were wiped out.

However, not only Tukhachevsky, but also Xia Boyang ran out of the encirclement. It cannot but be said to be a great pity. Tenko converged and led about 7 Soviet cavalrymen, crossed the Volga River at a ferry between Saratov and Samara, and returned to the team.

And Tukhachevsky, Xia Boyang, and Fumanov, after crossing the mountains and mountains of the Ural Mountains, led cavalry with less than 100 people and ran directly to the Kazakh grassland. In fact, after 7 At the end of the month, Tukhachevsky, Xia Boyang, and Fumanov, disguised as Cossack White Guard reconnaissance troops, led a small group of cavalry and sneaked back to the left bank of the Volga River from the north of Saratov, and re-emerged. Back to the embrace of the Soviet Red Army.

At the review meeting of the Ufa Battle, the generals of the coalition forces summarized several reasons for the overwhelming victory of the coalition forces in the Ufa Battle:

1. The command of the coalition forces is well planned, the command system of the whole army has smooth communication, and the generals of each army are resolute in executing orders. The troops of China, Japan and Russia in the coalition forces are sincerely united and work together!

2. The coalition forces are well-equipped, well-trained, and well-supported. The coalition forces have overwhelming aerial reconnaissance and firepower superiority, as well as ground artillery superiority. The coalition army's armored and cavalry units have high mobility and powerful firepower.

3. The Allied Forces made full use of their strengths and circumvented their weaknesses, using positional warfare with strong firepower, which eliminated the local strength advantages of the Soviet Red Army, especially the dismounted combat method of the Allied Cavalry Troops, which greatly improved the cavalry's positional warfare capabilities, while still maintaining high mobility. .

4. The equipment of the Soviet Red Army is still in the state of the traditional light infantry division. Compared with the coalition forces, the number of machine guns and cannons is far insufficient, and there is no air superiority and air defense capability. Changes in color, lack of courage to continue fighting.

5. The Soviet Red Army’s involvement in the Allied Forces and the amount of troops invested are unclear. They have been in a state of blind men riding blind horses, and have been trying to overwhelm the Allied Forces’ positions with overwhelming field battles. Once they encounter strong resistance and casualties However, the troops' fighting will was not strong, the commanders were at a loss, and Moscow's excessive interference with the front-line commanders also caused the troops to be at a loss.

Of course, in the summary of the campaign, the generals from all walks of life exaggerated the commanding art of the coalition headquarters, especially Wang Geng, the commander-in-chief of the coalition, who had strategized and commanded the demeanor of a general. The Chinese general was calmer, looking at his commander-in-chief except for the usual admiration, no one was talking nonsense about flattery.

At the reception and dance after the campaign review meeting, the Japanese generals and Russian generals almost drank too much. Vodka is too lethal, and these generals are rarely allowed to drink to their heart's content, so I laughed and laughed at my feelings Deep mouthfuls are endless, and it is obvious that the Japanese generals are not Lao Maozi's opponents, but the Chinese division and brigade commanders are full of blood. They may not be able to win the Russian generals in drinking capacity, but they will never lose in momentum.

The commander-in-chief of the coalition forces, Wang Geng, led Jiang Hongyu, Wu Peifu, and Utsunomiya Taro. After toasting a few glasses to all the generals attending the reception, they joined forces with Pepelyaev and Barayanov, two of the coalition forces. The Russian chief of staff went into the small conference room to discuss the next step of the military plan.

The troops successively invested by the coalition forces in the Battle of Ufa are as follows:

1. Sun Liangcheng's First Armored Division of the Allied Forces, the First and Second Mixed Armored Brigades and the Third Mixed Cavalry Brigade under its jurisdiction all went into battle successively.

2. The three Ural cavalry divisions of the Ural First Cavalry Army

3. Four Infantry Divisions of the Ufa First Army

4. Four Infantry Divisions of the Ufa Second Army

5. Three Infantry Divisions of the First Siberian Army

6. The two cavalry divisions of the [-]nd Ural Cavalry Army Petrovich and Sergei

7. The 20th Mixed Infantry Brigade of Xiong Shihui Infantry No.60 Division

8. Japan's third, seventh and No.12 cavalry regiments and the No.13 infantry brigade of the seventh division

9、在乌法西北10公里的联军大本营基地内的总预备队：熊式辉步兵No.20师的第61、62混成旅、ri本第七师团的No.14步兵旅团

10. The divisional heavy artillery regiment of the three divisions of the Chinese Third Army of the coalition and the du li field artillery regiment of the three divisions of the Japanese Third Army.

That is to say, in the first Sino-Japanese-Russian coalition formed at the time, all three Russian cavalry divisions participated in the Battle of Ufa, while the Chinese and Japanese armies only participated in the battle with all artillery, and the infantry only had the entire First Armored Division and the [-]th Infantry Division. , The Seventh Division of Japan entered the west of the Ural Mountains to fight.

The main forces of the coalition forces still include Zhang Weixi's 12rd Division and Li Mingzhong's [-]th Division. Cross the Ural Pass.

Add up, the Allied Forces, together with the reserve team, invested a total of 25 ground combat troops in the Battle of Ufa, in addition to 300 combat aircraft, and three Chinese heavy artillery regiments and three Japanese divisions. Field Artillery Regiment.

Of course, we must not forget the contribution of 1200 Dodge one-and-a-half-ton military trucks from the three coalition logistics regiments to support logistics, and we must not forget about [-] civilians in Ufa City who were transported from the east of the Ural Mountains to support logistics.

At this time, there was only the coalition army in the Volga Federation, and there was no national defense force belonging to the Volga Federation. Whether it was the two infantry armies in Ufa, or the Ural Cavalry Army and the Second Cavalry Army, including the Siberian First Army, it stands to reason that these were Russian troops. Troops, however, they all now belong to the Allied Forces, not the Wehrmacht of the Volga Federation.

Of course, in name, at least the Ufa First and Second Army Groups must be regarded as soldiers of the Volga Federation, and the five Cossack cavalry divisions obviously belong to the direct line of the coalition army, and they only serve the coalition army and do not accept Pepelyaev's dispatch. The three infantry divisions of the First Siberian Army that came from the east of the Ural Mountains belonged to the West Siberian Autonomous Government in name, and of course they only listened to the dispatch of the Allied Command!

Wang Geng took the opportunity of the review meeting of the Ufa Battle, and between the reception and the dance, he called a meeting of several coalition chiefs and deputy chiefs of staff, mainly to discuss the plan for the next step of reorganizing and expanding the army.

In the past three days, although the repatriation of the Soviet Red Army prisoners of war in the Battle of Ufa has not yet officially started, the principle of repatriation of prisoners of war in the annex to the peace treaty between the Volga Federation and the Soviet Russian government has been formally communicated to all prisoners in the camp The prisoners of the Soviet Russian Red Army preached. Of course, the middle and senior generals of the Soviet Russian Red Army who were captured in the officer camp were also conveyed one by one.

Ekh and Lezhevsky, two senior generals who were originally from the Tsarist Russian army, immediately chose to serve the Volga Federation, because after they put down their arms and surrendered to the coalition forces, these two guys were declared by Moscow as Soviet traitors and infiltrators. The spies of the Bolsheviks and the Soviet Red Army.

The family members of Ekh and Rzhevski were immediately arrested, interrogated, and shot by the Cheka!This makes these two guys at odds with Moscow, absolutely unable to come together and swear allegiance to the Volga Federation. No matter what, it is better than surrendering to the Kolchak White Guards who killed themselves before and killed them.

This kind of thinking is the reason or excuse most of the Soviet Russian prisoners of war in the coalition prisoner-of-war camp told themselves. The mutual recognition of demarcation means that after these prisoners of war choose to serve the Volga Federation, they do not need to turn their guns and shoot at their former comrades-in-arms and relatives. This is very important!