Years of the Republic of China 1913

"Where are the cavalry of Comrades Joseph Rodionovich Apanashenko and Comrades Oka Ivanovich Gorodovikov now?"

Timoshenko, who was standing beside Tukhachevsky, turned around and checked the situation with the combat staff officer, and then put the two small red flags on the sand table back to their current exact positions.

"What about Comrade Grigory Ivanovich Kulik's artillery preparations?" Tukhachevsky continued to ask, squinting at the sand table.

"Comrade Grigory Ivanovich Kulik was ready 10 minutes ago," Timoshenko replied.

"What about the rest of the troops?" [

"Everything is ready!"

"it is good!"

A smile appeared on Tukhachevsky's face, he took out a pocket watch from his pocket, looked at it, and gave the final order: "Tell all the troops to act on time at 11 o'clock tonight, and the First Cavalry Army will cut off the enemy's rear at the fastest speed." On the way, the Second Cavalry Army is fully charged in mobile operations, and the enemy cannot escape one by one. The artillery group must bombard me at the beginning of the battle to completely suppress the enemy's artillery and reinforcements. After the battle begins, all troops will attack according to the leeway plan! Attack! Attack again! Comrades! Victory is ours!"

"Ouch! Long live the Soviet Red Army! Long live victory!"

At the headquarters, cheers rang out, and everyone was immersed in the excitement of the upcoming victory.In order to ensure the thorough implementation of the tactics, Tukhachevsky specially sent political commissar Andrei Vasilyevich Khrulev to the front to supervise the battle. Chest responded loudly, and left the headquarters with his guard battalion without stopping.

At the beginning of the 20th century, wars were basically fought during the day, and there were very few battles at night.In the entire European war, night battles only accounted for a small proportion.And most of them are just sneak attacks or squad reconnaissance tactics.Night operations on such a large scale are almost non-existent.

If we talk about the famous night battle in the European War, the only one that comes to mind is the Battle of Jutland.But the Battle of Jutland was a whole naval battle, and the entire battle lasted for three days, of which the night battle was only a part of the battle, not all of it.The main battles still take place during the day, not to mention unlike the army.Naval warfare is very different in terms of tactics and fighting methods.

Tukhachevsky is an excellent military strategist. His decision to use the night battle to win this victory was not a fever, but a deliberate one.Even though fighting at night is not conducive to fighting in terms of environmental factors, it is also his greatest advantage.The Soviet Siberia, which has two full cavalry corps, is far more mobile than the Russian Imperial Army, and in today's battlefield, it happens to be the most suitable plain for cavalry operations.

The enemy has broken through the central position and is advancing in depth, in other words, the enemy has stepped out of the protection of the trenches.Distributed their forces on the plain.Moreover, the smooth attack of the Russian Imperial government forces during the day also gave the enemy a sense of numbness. At night, when this situation is not conducive to large-scale battles, the Red Army suddenly launched an attack on the enemy in the opposite direction. An unexpected step at all.

Also, during the daytime battles, under the command of Tukhachevsky.The artillery of the Red Army did not play much role, not because their artillery was far less powerful than the enemy.But deliberately.The main force of the artillery of the Red Army has been transferred long ago, and the area where the Russian Imperial Government Army invaded was the position of the Red Army before. The Red Army is well aware of the terrain, range, distribution of defense lines, etc., and the artillery has set parameters before. Once the attack is launched, it can give the enemy a heavy blow as quickly as possible.And at this time.Due to the darkness of the night, the artillery support of the Russian Imperial Government Army is definitely not as easy to determine the position during the day, so its advantage is obviously on the side of the Soviet Red Army.

These were all in Tukhachevsky's plan, and once the battle started, everything was just as he imagined.The moment when the pointer finally points to 11 o'clock at night.The quiet night was suddenly broken by overwhelming artillery fire. The Russian Imperial government troops stationed in the garrison were exhausted after a whole day of attacking. Most people had already fallen asleep. When the artillery fell on their heads, many people I just woke up in a daze, not knowing what happened.

"Enemy attack!"

Sharp and panicked shouts suddenly sounded all over the position. The soldiers hurriedly looked for hiding places to avoid the artillery fire. Some people were torn to pieces by the falling cannon just after they ran out of the camp, and their flesh and blood flew all over the place, causing even greater panic.

"Don't run around! Organize the defense! Quick! Organize the defense!" The officers were the first to react. On the battlefield of light and darkness, some officers watched their soldiers running around without even holding guns. He was so angry that he jumped into a rage, brandished his pistol and shouted loudly. After a lot of effort, he managed to gather a part of his troops.

At the division headquarters, the major general jumped off the camp bed at the first moment of the bombardment, hurried to the bunker to take a look, and was stunned by the scene on the ground.He never expected that the enemy would launch such a fierce attack on him at this time, and they would hit him so fiercely and accurately. The sound of rumbling guns and the screams of soldiers could be heard everywhere in his ears. Overwhelmed, the major general hurriedly picked up the phone to contact the rear, asking his own artillery to suppress it.

The artillery of the Russian Imperial Government Army was not slow to respond. Only ten minutes later, the cannons of the Russian Imperial Government Army also rang out. Where to fight, in the dark night, the artillery method can judge the exact position of the enemy's running group, and can only rely on the direction of the flashing fire to bombard randomly. Although the cannons are overwhelming, they have no effect at all. Just be brave.

The major general is an excellent soldier, he clearly knew that when the opponent bombarded him so violently at this time, there must be more serious battles waiting for him in the future.The most important thing now is to gather the soldiers and enter the combat state to resist the coming attack.

Judging from the current situation of the troops, the Imperial Russian government forces were suddenly overwhelmed, and it is not so easy to gather troops to resist effectively.It took about ten minutes for the major general to gather some troops, but before they all entered the position, there was a rumbling vibration from the ground...

"Cavalry! Cavalry! Machine guns! Where are the machine guns?"[

Everyone reacted in a short time. There is only one explanation for this shock, and that is the charge of a large number of cavalry.The major general, who has been responding properly since the shelling, suddenly changed his face. If it was during the daytime when the troops were in a defensive posture, he would not be afraid of more cavalry charging. In front of the firepower net formed by the machine guns, these cavalry were just targets for death. .But the situation is completely different now, the entire position has been bombarded in a mess, and even a small half of the troops gathering in front of them can't even find their guns, let alone machine gun fire defense?

Before the soldiers who entered the position found a few preset machine guns in the dark, but the machine gunner, deputy shooter, and medicine man didn't know where to go. A few smart guys barely fiddled with the machine guns and completed the program. When they found the target and were ready to shoot, the black cavalry rushed in front of them.

The infantry without the protection of the machine gun fire net was almost massacred in front of the cavalry. The resistance of the position lasted only a few minutes, and the machine guns that fired a few times were completely silent.Then one team after another cavalry rushed in across the trench, and under the waving of sharp sabers, one soldier after another fell down screaming.

"Retreat! Retreat!" The general situation was over, and the major general understood that it was delusional to rely on the position to block the cavalry, so he hurriedly made the most correct choice to retreat.Lead the troops to retreat desperately, hoping to return to the original defense line before the battle yesterday, and block the opponent's attack with the firepower net of the troops behind.

But he didn't expect that just after the battle in the central position started, the various divisions of the Soviet Red Army also started the most violent attack since the two sides fought.The Red Army on the two wings restrained the Imperial Russian government army with the most violent firepower and attacks since the beginning of the war, and another cavalry army cut through in a roundabout way, cutting off the retreat path of the Imperial Russian government army in the central position in one fell swoop.

When the news that the retreating road was cut off by the cavalry reached the ears of the major general, the major general almost fainted to the ground in a flash.He knew very well what this situation represented. Without the protection of the position, his troops almost became toothless tigers.

In the continuous artillery fire, the major general's face became hideous and terrifying. He stared at the thousands of remnant soldiers and defeated generals around him, and then turned his head to look at the continuous fighting sound from the other side of the position and the screams of the soldiers before they died.Gritting his teeth and stomping his feet, the major general shouted loudly: "Warriors of the Russian Empire! For the Empire! For Russia! For Her Majesty the Empress! Kill!"

"Kill!"

Everyone knows that surrender is absolutely impossible. The deep hatred between the Russian Imperial Government Army and the Soviet Red Army dooms them to be immortal opponents.With the several revolutions of the Soviet government, almost all the officers and soldiers of the Russian imperial government army had their family members buried under the suppression of the other party. Rather than being shamelessly labeled as a reactionary and humiliatingly executed, it would be better to die before death. Pull a padded back.Lao Maozi has never lacked courage, and the burst of strength at this time drove them to turn around and fight the enemy for the last time.

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