July 14, 1918 8:00 Budoni Special Cavalry Division position in the northern part of Buzuluk town

Xie Miao Mikhailovich Budoni, commander of the Special Cavalry Division of the Ninth Army of the Soviet Red Army, was born on April 25, 1883 in a poor peasant family in Kojiulin Village, Rostov Prefecture. He enlisted in 1903 and participated in the Russo-Japanese War in 1905. He graduated from the Petersburg Cavalry School in 1908 and served in the Coastal Dragoon Regiment.

After the European War began, Budonnie fought on Germany, Austria and the Caucasus fronts. After the February Revolution in 1917, Budonnie was successively elected as the chairman of the Soldiers Committee of the Caucasus Cavalry Division, the chairman of the Soldiers Committee and the vice chairman of the Division Soldiers Committee. In other words, before the February Revolution, Budonnie was just a company-level officer of the Caucasus Cavalry Division. After the February Revolution, he grew from a soldier committee to a division-level cadre along the trajectory of the company, regiment, and division.

Of course, the October Revolution and Mikhailovich Budoni made a joke. The division soldier committee of the Caucasian Cavalry Division made the decision to disband the division as a whole. In fact, this was a unified layout and arrangement for the disbandment of the Bolshevik Central Committee to dismantle the old Tsarist Russian army.

Budonni returned to his hometown Rostov in November of that year. Soon, he and his comrades established a Soviet regime in the local area. Subsequently, Budonni formed a cavalry guerrilla team in his hometown with his high sense of responsibility for consolidating the new Soviet regime and his love for military life.

Thanks to Budunny's efforts, the troops gradually expanded into cavalry regiments and cavalry brigades. In the battle to defend Chalijin, Budunny commanded a cavalry brigade to defeat the enemy, showing the talent of an outstanding cavalry commander, and won the favor of Joseph, a member of the Central Committee of the Soviet Union, and since then he has risen to the forefront of the Soviet Red Army.

This can be seen from the fact that Yegorov's Ninth Army and Voroshilov's Tenth Army were both rushing to assign Budoni's special cavalry division to their own army organization.

The biggest feature of Budjon's commanding troops is that he is not only afraid of the superiors, he dares to make battlefield judgments and arrangements, and adopts tactical styles that are unexpected to both the enemy and his own people. Of course, he is still a small cavalry division commander at this moment, and his command is only nearly 10,000 red Cossack cavalry. However, in the combat operations on the right bank of the Volga River, his cavalry division was wearing strong and held sharp edges and had already shown a proud style.

Yegorov used Budjonni's cavalry division alone in one direction, which was mostly the case during attack and retreat. Budjonni did not disappoint Yegorov. During the three days and three nights, Budjonni's cavalry division overcame difficulties and retained the heavy machine gun battalion and two artillery companies. This was not just a timely help for the Yegorov Ninth Army, who was eager to take a bloody road and retreat back to the left bank of the Volga River.

The soldiers are very fast. The infantry divisions that had just crossed the river before dawn were already exhausted. They either did not launch an attack for the time being and attacked the town of Buzuluk. The special cavalry division with artillery and heavy machine gun battalions was the first to be blasted. What's more, the early morning encounter in the cavalry division's vanguard battalion called a scout cavalry company to fight, which was terrible.

The revenge must be avenged, and the cavalry division will have to avenge it by itself! It is unreasonable for others to pretend to be a fake move! Although Budonnie was a little lacking in confidence for the first time in his heart, he would never easily show it in front of his superiors and colleagues. The black Caucasian three-bearded man was taller and more proud, and directly ordered Yegorov to send a cavalry battalion to conduct a tentative attack.

Budunny carried out the execution without any compromise. How to fight, Yegorov did not interfere, it all depends on Budunny's own command. Yegorov led several division commanders to watch the battle, and the command of the front enemy who was tentatively attacking fell on Budunny's own shoulders. In the Ninth Army, the Special Cavalry Division is a particularly capable group and a particularly united force. Even if the orders were given by the commander of the group army, if Budunny did not nod, the commanders and soldiers of the Special Cavalry Division would not be easily executed. They were all looking at their division commanders!

The coalition's firepower was very strong. Budunny's two artillery companies had poor family backgrounds and did not have many shells. Like Nezhkov, who was defending in the opposite town, Budunny did not intend to expose his artillery strength at the critical moment. His main support weapon was the division's heavy machine gun battalion.

Budunny's heavy machine gun battalion had 24 Maxim wheeled heavy machine guns installed on 24 carriages. The 24 carriages were galloping forward, driving out from Budunny's command position three kilometers away from the northern line of Buzuluk Town, and then scattered forward. One kilometer passed in an instant. The coalition forces on the position did not fire, and the horse-rad machine gun rushed forward without any obstacles.

Following the horse-pulling machine guns of the twenty-four heavy machine gun battalions, there were about fifty horse-pulling carts. It was not easy for Budjuni's cavalry division to make up these assets. He used the entire carts to pull the baggage and supplies to launch this attack. The horse-pulling carts were dragged behind the trees that had just been cut from the woods behind. Although they were all small trees as thick as bowls, it was obvious that Budjuni's cavalry wanted to use these trunks to strengthen the machine gun positions side by side.

Behind more than fifty large chariots is a cavalry battalion. More than five hundred cavalry horses are slowly advancing forward with scattered fronts, with each cavalry being more than fifteen meters apart. Although they are fighting for cavalry, they may not have to raid horses and raids every time, especially when the ground roads are muddy, and there are tripping horse piles and invisible traps in front.

Yegorov stood beside Budoni on a horse and observed the situation in front with a telescope. Beside him were a few commanders of the infantry division whispering. Obviously, everyone was a little confused about the way Budoni's cavalry division played. The cavalry did not use fast maneuvers to rush forward. Is it possible to fight a positional battle with the opponent with such a slow-death ordinance?

"Comrade Budunny, your cavalry can't exert its advantage of mobility with such a slow and organized attack. Isn't this a live target for the enemy?" Inza, commander of the 15th Infantry Division, couldn't help asking.

"The attack of the Cavalry Battalion is tentative, and its purpose is to reconnaise the enemy's machine gun fire points and weak links. You don't think that our cavalry battalion No. 500 people can attack the position guarded by the opponent, right? Otherwise, you come and this cavalry battalion will be given to you. As long as you can attack the position, even if you can, if you don't think you can't attack, then shut up as soon as possible!" Budunny said disdainfully.

"Comrade Inza, we must believe in the abilities of Comrade Buduni and the cavalry division. Let's wait and see!" The commander of the group army, Yegorov, made a smooth move, and Inza was so humming that he stopped chewing his anger.

The horse-drawn heavy machine gun of the Budjuni Cavalry Division advanced within 1,800 meters from the opponent's position and then divided into two. Twelve carriages advanced forward in a more scattered formation, while the remaining twelve carriages turned the direction of the carriage on the spot, causing the black holes in the rear of the carriage to point at the coalition positions.

At the same time, more than fifty large chariots behind us rushed over the body and unloaded the dragged wood. The engineer company of the cavalry division, who jumped off the carriage, waved shovels and pickaxes, actually dug up trenches and bunkers under the cover of the piled wood and carriage. Obviously, this position was already a position where Maxim's heavy machine gun could barely exert firepower, and Budonnie was posing as a stance to fight positional warfare and protracted warfare.

Yegorov looked at Budoni's playing style in the telescope. It was obvious that Budoni attached great importance to the enemy defending in the town. Without Hula, he asked his cavalry battalion to go to the position where the opponent was waiting for. Instead, he first established a forward machine gun fire point and planned to strengthen the bunker to prepare for anti-aircraft artillery. Even if the cavalry of the coalition forces did not have cannons, the power of the mortar was quite objective. It was impossible to expect that the coalition Russian cavalry division on the opposite side would not be equipped with heavy mortars.

In the morning encounter, an opponent's cavalry company equipped with 6 60mm caliber mortars to beat Budoni's vanguard. At this moment, the main force of an enemy cavalry brigade was on the other side. Yegorov and several surrounding division commanders were praying in his heart, hoping that the opponent's mortars would be smaller and the shells would be consumed more in the previous roundabout operations, otherwise, the casualties here would be very small.
Chapter completed!