Beiyang 1917

1918年7月23ri8:15齐维利斯克以南约5公里处高尔察克前敌指挥部

"Report to the commander-in-chief that the two brigades of the [-]rd Don Cavalry Division failed to complete their tasks. They lacked cannons. The Soviet Red Army established field fortifications based on the railway line. The railway embankment protruding from the road was a natural trench, and the opponent There are armored trains to help mobile defense, and the threat of heavy machine guns and artillery is quite great. The two brigades of the [-]rd Don Cavalry Division lost nearly [-] people each! Now they have been withdrawn to rest and ask for artillery support!"

A White Guard combat staff officer reported with two telegrams just received.

Due to the rush of time, the wired telephone of the communication company has not had time to catch up with the footsteps of the White Guards cavalry brigade, so it can only rely on the radio to communicate, plus the time for receiving and translating the telegram, the distance of more than ten kilometers, compared with the traditional messenger You can't go anywhere fast on a horse.

"Has the cavalry division figured out the configuration and deployment of the troops guarding the two wings of the opponent? How many armored trains are there? How many cannons and machine guns? So tight? The depth is more than 36 kilometers, how many troops are needed to hold it? The third army in Berzin only has a few divisions in total?"

Although Kolchak's beard had just been shaved, his facial contours were visibly thinner, with faint dark circles under his eyes. Apparently, this day and night of pursuit had exhausted not only the soldiers of the White Guards, but also this leading soldier. His Excellency the Supreme Consul of Russia.

At this moment, his former enemy headquarters is also set up in a train carriage. At least 120 places along the 30-kilometer railway were destroyed by the retreating Soviet Russian Third Army. His engineers almost didn't sleep all night. The more than 30 broken railway lines have been repaired one by one. Had he known this, his five infantry divisions could have slept in Kazan until this morning, and then took the train along the repaired railway lines.

Of course, the reason why we did not choose such a comfortable combat method is also because the Soviet Red Army guerrillas have been harassing for 24 hours. After the railway was repaired in front, it was destroyed by the Soviet Russian guerrillas. These Bolsheviks are not soft-hearted at all. The loss of at least 200 people in their engineering regiment this night was all caused by Su Yeye. Cold gun shot.

Even now, on the 100-kilometer railway from Kazan to Tsivelisk, there are no more than one regiment of White Guard troops left to guard the road along the way, and armored trains patrol uninterruptedly. Contrary to the expectations of the Soviet Red Army on the opposite side.

Therefore, Kolchak could concentrate not only five infantry divisions and the third Don cavalry division on the Tsivelisk Chevesary Alexandrovna line, but two elite troops in Kazan. The Cossack Infantry Division can be reinforced by train at any time, and it will take at most an hour and a half on the road.

The convenience and speed of the railway made Kolchak firm in his determination to attack westward along the railway line. As for the Western Route Army led by Sergey Nikolaevich Dimilev on the north bank, it had been defeated a day ago. He ordered the abandonment of the battle plan to forcibly cross the river on the Alexandrovna Chelesaray line. Kolchak's new order to Dimirev was to lead the Western Route Army westward along the northern bank of the Volga, outflanking the Go to the rear of Chivesaray, cross the river from Kozmodemyansk, then go south to cut off the back of Chivesaray!

Moreover, Kolchak also left behind. Once the Soviet Red Army on the south bank of Chelesaray believed that the White Guards on the north bank had left, they would not cross the river from Alexandrovna to Chelesaray from the east. The Central Route Army led by Roman Mikhainovich Krashiniko, who rushed over from the north bank, will appear at any time at the original crossing point of the West Route Army.

At that time, the Central Route Army of the White Guards needed to make a time difference according to the battlefield situation, and cross the river in one fell swoop to disrupt the defensive deployment of the Soviet Russian Third Army. The area of ​​the Iron Triangle of Lesarey and Alexandrovna!

Kolchak adjusted the deployment of the campaign in this way, mainly at the suggestion of Chief of Staff Hastings. Admiral Guillaume Nikolaevich Hastings was born in St. Petersburg in 1874. An aristocratic family, it is said that the ancestors have the dual blood of the British royal family and the French royal family. Like Pepe's father, Hastings' father was a court attendant of Tsar Nicholas II. One was a rear admiral and the other It's a major general.

Of course, Hastings can gain the trust and reuse of Kolchak, not only because he is a classmate of Kolchak's Naval Academy in Petersburg, but also because Hastings has been with Gao since graduation. Kolchak fought side by side, one was the captain, the other was the deputy captain, the other was the commander of the Black Sea Fleet, and the other was the chief of staff of the fleet. When Kolchak returned from exile in the United States, Hastings followed him without hesitation. .

Originally, if Kolchak was surrounded by a man of letters and a man of arms, then the man with the man was Vasily Nikolaevich Pepelyaev, the cabinet minister, and the man with the man was Guillaume Nicholas. Lajevic Hastings, the Chief of Staff of the All-Russian Provisional Government.

Of course, now Kolchak’s all-Russian interim government’s prime minister has betrayed everyone’s common cause, turned himself into the cabinet prime minister of the Volga Federation, and took away 10,000+ troops, which became Kolchak and Hess Tins' heart is forever aching.

Of course, Hastings comforted Russia’s highest consul in private, saying that all eggs should not be put in one basket, and that Pepe became the Prime Minister of the Volga Federation. Instead of being weakened, our strength has grown stronger.

Kolchak naturally understood what Hastings meant, but he was not optimistic that Pepelyaev would lend a helping hand when he needed it in the future. Everything was under the control of the Allied forces and the King of China. .

I heard that the king of China not only recognized multiple nationalities, but he even held the title of Commander-in-Chief of the Volga Federation Armed Forces, and awarded military ranks and medals to the Russian generals of the Volga Federation. The uncrowned king of Asia wants to be the uncrowned king of the Volga Federation in the future!

Looking back, Hastings, the Chief of Staff of the All-Russian Temporary Government, has worked so hard to ensure the survival and growth of the Kolchak regime. Moving westward, the Central Route Army made up the time difference to make up for it. The purpose was to give the Soviet Russian Third Army, which was running as fast as a rabbit, the illusion that there was a fighter opportunity to deal with Kolchak's Eastern Route Army alone!

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