Beiyang 1917

This is Nizhny Novgorod, not Cheboksary, Moscow has already issued a death order, no step back! "

The Chief of Staff of the Front Army, Chernavin, seized the opportunity and talked to Biel in a vicious way.

"Vladimir Nikolaevich, don't use Moscow to scare people. When my third army was fighting bloody battles at the front, I don't know whose army didn't fire a single shot. Just a telegram was sent 50 kilometers away from the defense line on the left bank of the Volga River, why didn't anyone stand up and yell at him not to take a step back?" Berzin pushed back desperately, and said to Cherna, who was trembling all over I can't speak.

"Okay! Pay attention to proportion, it's almost enough. Let me ask you, do you still think that I, the military commissar of the military region and the front army, is there? Is this the time for you to act on your will? Karl Ivanovich, and the superior of the front army When the leader speaks, he must have the awareness of the lower-level commanders! Now it is time to discuss matters, and Moscow’s order is not to take a step back, and this point must be communicated to every Red Army soldier in all the army groups!"

Lev Borisovich Kamenev, member of the Central Committee of Soviet Russia, member of the Volga River Military Region and First Military Commissar of the Front Army, couldn't help but slapped the table. Of course, the Third Army was the only remaining main force of the former Eastern Front Army formed by Moscow. In addition, Kamenev's performance in the battle from Kazan to Cheboksary was indeed worthy of the name of the Central Yang Army, so Kamenev slapped the table loudly, but his eyes were not sharp when he looked at Berzin.

Of course, Berzin will not be so stupid as to push on all the time. Enough is enough to express his position and attitude. The Volga Military Region and the Eastern Front of the Central Plains Moscow and the Southern Front of the original Tsaritsin will coexist for a long time. Going down, Berzin has the explicit and covert support of Moscow and Kamenev, so naturally he doesn't like Chernavin. If the Volga Front Army Command becomes the cadre of the Southern Front Army, it will be troublesome!

"Sergey Sergeyevich, you are the commander of the Fifth Army. What do you think, do we need to send a powerful force to stop the opponent's offensive halfway? Your army has completed the training? The line of defense Are they all set up? Can the soldiers find their commanders? Have the bullets and shells been fired?"

Voroshilov, the deputy commander of the front army and the former commander-in-chief of the enemy, frowned, stopped talking to Berzindo, and turned to Kamenev, the commander of the Fifth Army.

Kamenev pondered for a while, stood up and walked to the map, pointed to the line from Yadrin to the southeast suburb of Nizhny Novgorod, and expressed his thoughts,

"Krement Yefimovich, the rest time for Kolchak's main force is less than three days. According to my judgment, the enemy should have launched a second round of offensive in a haste. Of course, in order to concentrate our forces Guarding Nizhny Novgorod, the main force was shrunk back to the front line of Nizhny Novgorod.

Therefore, from the opponent's outpost Yadrin to here, the southeastern suburbs of Nizhny Novgorod, along the 150-kilometer railway line, the militia guerrillas organized by the local Soviet will absolutely be unable to stop the enemy, and the front army reconnaissance unit also no! "

Kamenev turned around, gestured again to the west of Nizhny Novgorod, and said with a wry smile,

"Everyone, my Fifth Army has been formed in a hurry. The soldiers come from different places. Tsarist Russian prisoners of war, workers from Nizhny Novgorod, and the garrison division in Moscow. As of this evening, seven divisions at all levels have just been assembled. The cadres and commanders are barely complete, and weapons and ammunition are being distributed. For the western defense line, part of the trench has been dug, but it is still far from being completed.

To put it bluntly, if Kolchak's main force turns back to the west to attack us at this moment, with the current personnel and equipment, although I have 7 divisions, I can support them for at most 3 days. As long as the attacking force does not exceed five divisions, I agree with the idea of ​​the Front Army Command, which can send powerful troops to stop the enemy halfway!I'm done! "

Kamenev walked back to his seat and sat down. What he was muttering in his heart was that it is impossible for Berzin not to see that he can delay the opponent's advance and attack as much as possible, and he will be able to buy more time, at least for now. However, the combat effectiveness of my Fifth Army is not much at all, and it is a big deal for every soldier to find his own company headquarters.

Among them, the Tsarist Russian prisoners of war had only returned to China for less than ten days, and the work of ideological education had just started in all aspects. At this time, Kamenev had no idea what kind of performance he would be able to perform by forcing them to go to the battlefield.

As for the source of troops for the Nizhny Novgorod Workers' Division, their political awareness is naturally considered passable, but their military skills and combat experience are almost a blank sheet of paper. Many people can pull the bolt of the Mosin Nagant rifle. Break the skin of your hands.

Due to chronic hunger and malnutrition, these 16 or 7-year-old young Red Army soldiers generally looked like bean sprouts. They could skillfully lie in the trenches, reload bullets, aim at shooting, and survived the enemy's machine guns and cannons. There is still a long way to go before the workers and fighters of the Fifth Army.

As for the sources of troops of the two garrison divisions in Moscow, they barely possessed certain military skills and combat experience, but the pride of the working class and the sense of superiority of the Muscovites made them obviously think highly of themselves. Rhodes' workers and soldiers didn't think much of them, let alone the former Tsarist Russian prisoners who had just returned to China and were still relatively weak in spirit and physical strength.

This group of worker guards from Moscow obviously couldn't understand why these people who came back from Germany became prisoners of war and didn't fight to the end for the motherland?For Kamenev and his political commissar chief of staff, to knead such an army group into a team with combat effectiveness and cohesion, not to mention only three days, even 30 days may not be enough.

Of course, time is not in the hands of the Fifth Army, nor even in the hands of the Volga Front. The attacker has the initiative. is the master of time.

"I agree with Sergei Sergeyevich. We need more time to restore the combat effectiveness of the troops. It is too uncomfortable to sit passively and be beaten, and it is not easy to find the enemy's intentions. In case the enemy has other things that cannot be done How can we know about the attempt to sue someone when we are 150 kilometers away from them?

I think we should send a powerful force to the east to stop the opponent. Even, I was thinking just now, why must we be led by the nose by the enemy? Xia Jianke, Berzin's political commissar of the group army, suddenly stood up and stated his position.