Beiyang 1917

The person who stood up and asked the question was the division commander of the 5th Division of the Kazan Infantry, Nakri Navievich Nevichvile. This guy is a Chuva from Chelesaray, and he was also a general of the Tsarist Russian army. , After defecting to Kolchak's Kazan regime, he became the commander of the 5th Division. He usually claims to be the number one wise general in Kazan, but no one believes it.

Hastings frowned when he heard this. To be honest, if he had brought five cavalry divisions in the Western Group, he might have swooped over and eaten Saransk Tukhachevsky's 5st Army first, and captured Saransk. Lance said again, but in this case, the Eastern Group in the east will not have the upper hand in terms of strength. At most, it can be a stalemate with the Soviet Russian 1th Army and the Budyonny Cavalry Army. It is almost impossible to defeat and eliminate the opponent. , full text hand typed

If such a situation arises, it may depend on whose reinforcements from both sides arrive first and join the Eastern Front battlefield. If the 8th Group of Soviet Russia goes north to get reinforcements in place first, the Eastern Group will have 6 infantry divisions and 2 cavalry divisions. That troop strength is still much worse than the opponent's 11 infantry divisions and one cavalry army. I'm afraid they will have to retreat instead of talking about defeating and destroying the opponent.

So although it was a bit of a pity, Hastings still understood Kolchak's intentions, that is, to feint a shot in Saransk, and the main force of the western group relied on the high mobility of the cavalry to move eastward quickly and join his own eastern group. Together, encircle the Russian 10th Army and the Budyonny Cavalry Army stranded on the Buinsk Line. Read the latest chapter, please come to ""

Thinking of this, Hastings patiently explained, "Saransk is an ancient city and fortress, easy to defend and difficult to attack, and Tukhachevsky is an outstanding young general who is rising in the Soviet Red Army. Although the 1st Army was completely annihilated in the Battle of Ufa, tens of thousands of captives returned to Saransk and rejoined the 1st Army as targets of repatriation by the Volga Federation. The main body is still the soldiers of the former Soviet Russian Eastern Front Army Ace Group Army, but there is only one more experience of being captured."

"Furthermore, although the five infantry divisions of the opponent's 1st Army, although the dissatisfaction is only 5 people, it is not so easy to take down the strong fortress. What's more, the Western Group is composed of our precious Cossack cavalry divisions. Using cavalry to attack the enemy's fortress defended by cannons and machine guns is too low a price to pay at all. Field battles on the plains and detours are good battlefields for cavalry to kill the enemy. So Your Excellency Kolchak decided to move his troops eastward and eat them first. Let's talk about the opponent's 4th Army."

After Hastings explained this, several division commanders understood. Obviously, concentrating their forces on annihilation battles and field battles is the current choice for the two armies of the White Guards. Hashik stood up and said,

"That makes it all clear. The Western Group will arrive tomorrow. I wonder if it would be better for us to wait for His Excellency Kolchak to return to his position before launching an attack? At this moment, use 4 divisions to attack the 7 places in the area. Division, and the 10th Army of the Soviet Union is the master of strong troops. It has never suffered from the Ufa Battle. The 1st Division of the Cossack Cavalry in the last encounter only took advantage of the beginning. , We played more offense with less play, is this a bit exaggerated?"

The words of Hashik, commander of the 6th Division, resonated with a group of division commanders and chiefs of staff in the tent. Many people said that in the last defensive battle of the Vegetable Saray Iron Triangle, our troops were superior, but we didn’t take advantage of it, and the casualties were heavy. The 3rd Army of Berzin ran away, and the 10th Army of Soviet Russia was said to be the main force of the former Soviet Russian Southern Front Army, the master of Krasnov and Denny who beat up in Tsaritsin.

"We can't wait for the enemy on the other side to run away. The purpose of our attack is not to annihilate the opponent, but to stick the opponent so that they cannot easily withdraw. We only need to hold on until tomorrow, and wait for the main force of the Western Group of His Excellency Kolchak to catch up." Now, this what Gidees’ 10th Army has become a bird in a meat cage on our chopping board, and can no longer escape our hands.” Hastings explained patiently.

There was a lot of chatter in the tent. After talking about it, they all felt that it would be safer to dig trenches and build a defense line to hold the position first. Even if they wanted to attack, they had to wait for the 8th and 9th Kazan Infantry Divisions to catch up behind them. Come up and start again.

There was a lot of hustle and bustle here, when suddenly the sound of rumbling guns came from outside the tent of the headquarters, and then a staff officer broke into the tent and reported out of breath:

"The Soviet Red Army has launched an attack, and at least two divisions have been dispatched. The direction is the eastern section of our position." Immediately after that, the phones in the war room tent next to the tent rang, and all the divisions were reporting encounters with the Soviet Union. The artillery bombardment of the Red Army asked the artillery of the East Group to fight back and asked for reinforcements, all of them said that the enemy was attacking their positions

Here, Hastings was so angry that he took a group of generals out of the tent and went directly to the high ground next to the headquarters. Looking through the binoculars, the shells on the White Guards position 3 kilometers away in front of them were continuously exploding one after another. , The sound of Maxim's heavy machine guns rang out, and the opponent launched a full-scale attack in front of the ten-kilometer-wide front. Of course, at this moment, the forwards of the Soviet Red Army in gray-blue uniforms were at least at least 1500 meters away from their front-line positions. There is still a distance of [-] meters.

Guillaume Nikolaevich Hastings listened carefully to the opponent's seemingly dense gunfire, but for a moment he couldn't tell whether the opponent was roaring menacingly with 40 or 50 cannons. , Chief of Staff Timilev of the Eastern Cluster said in a low voice, "The other party has probably invested 6 to 8 artillery batteries to fire. We will fight back, Commander-in-Chief."

Hastings blushed when he heard this, turned his head and shouted with a sullen face, "Pass my order, the 8 artillery companies will open fire across the board, must suppress the opponent's artillery, and tell the divisions not to panic, pay attention to the artillery, the Soviet Red Army If you are still thousands of meters away, ask Lao Tzu for reinforcements. Whoever’s team is shaken, the commander will shoot the division commanders and go back to their own command posts. Without my order, they are not allowed to attack, let alone retreat, and the troops must pay attention to anti-aircraft artillery and heavy machine guns. Wait for the enemy to enter 500 meters before firing.”

If Hastings yelled like this, the division commanders and chiefs of staff finally calmed down, saluted one after another, climbed on their horses and rushed back to their respective positions under the service of their orderlies.

Since Hastings' Eastern Group only had 4 divisions, his first-line position was about 7 kilometers wide, that is, [-] divisions of [-] kilometers each. Of course, it was better than the Soviet Red Army on the opposite side. After all, not long after the troops arrived here, the [-]th Kazan Infantry Division was used by Hastings as a reserve and mobile force.