Chapter 473: The brave who meet on a narrow road wins
In the end, Xiao Shan ordered the brigade commander of the 3rd brigade of the Allied Cavalry Brigade to resist the combat staff of the lieutenant colonel of the brigade department, and Xiao Chuyin, a student in the fifth phase of Baoding. [Let's read the novel~]
If Yan Junliu was not doing the job of a close minister of the General Command's Operations Office Director, General Staff, and risked his parachuting to the Kumertao, and he would lead the Fourth Cavalry Regiment of the Ri Army to intercept the photos, Khachevsky made a contribution.
So for Xiao Shanling, the commander of the 3rd Cavalry Brigade of the 1st Armored Division of the Alliance, this time he volunteered to take the First Cavalry Regiment to fill the gaps left by the front line after the 4th Cavalry Regiment of the Riben went north.
That was not just about wiping Yan Junliu and Ri himself. Brigade Commander Xiao was alone and came to make achievements to arrest Tukhachevsky for the Third Cavalry Brigade.
Judging from the current situation, if he led his cavalry regiment to defend the south bank of the Belaya River and blocked Tukhachevsky's way out, then the last one who got the advantage was Yan Junliu and the two Ri cavalry brigades who were leading him behind Tukhachevsky's butt.
This is a desperate battle between the cavalry units of the three Soviet countries after cats and mice and hide-and-seek. The forces of the three parties are almost the same. The cavalry gangs of the Ri Army within the coalition are under the jurisdiction of three cavalry brigades and one field artillery brigades, of which the field artillery brigades are under the jurisdiction of two four-gate mountain artillery squadrons and one four-gate field artillery squadrons.
However, after Sarawat commanded the Fourth Cavalry Regiment and wiped out the 31st Infantry Division of the First Army of the Soviet Red Army Tukhachevsky, in order to hurry, he threw the field artillery brigade and logistics troops of the brigade at Sarawat, and sent the commander of the regiment Kogoro Yonezawa to lead a cavalry brigade to search westward, while this guy himself took the remaining two cavalry brigades across the Belaya River and pursued south along the foot of the Ural Mountains.
In the coalition organization, the cavalry units, which were originally weak in power, were specially strengthened. It was a cavalry regiment that had three cavalry brigades and a field artillery brigade, one cavalry brigade had four cavalry squadrons, one cavalry squadron had three cavalry squadrons, and one squadron had 70 people! It turned out that one cavalry squadron had only two cavalry squadrons, and the troops inside and outside were one third less. The cavalry organization in the coalition was much more powerful than that in the country. [ Points]
Therefore, the two cavalry brigades under Hata Shunrok, plus the team directly under the brigade, each brigade has a force of about 850, with a total of nearly 1,700 people. They led 1,700 people to chase at least 2,500 Red Cossack Cavalry. It must be said that Colonel Hata Shunrok's courage is still quite strong.
For Shinji Hata, since the Fourth Cavalry Regiment of 4,000 people can surround and wipe out more than 6,000 people from the 31st Soviet Infantry Division, and 600 people from a cavalry battalion of Li Fugui, a cavalry battalion of the coalition forces blocked the attack of an opponent's cavalry brigade, he led two cavalry brigades of 1,700 cavalry forces, and what is the exaggeration about chasing Tukhachevsky, who was fleeing in panic? It's not an exaggeration at all!
Each cavalry squad of the Fourth Cavalry Regiment is equipped with 2 coalition platoon mortars and 3 Browning squad machine guns, each cavalry squadron is equipped with an air-cooled Browning heavy machine gun, and each brigade has an 8-door 81mm caliber mortar squad.
The actual remaining troops around Tukhachevsky were about 2,700 cavalrymen. This guy left a battalion of more than 500 people in Petropavlovka village to attract the attention of the coalition forces on the other side. He pretended to cross the river. The remaining four battalions had about 2,000 cavalrymen, and handed them over to Xia Boyang to lead the Meleuz ferry directly to the direction of the Meleuz ferry.
Tukhachevskisky himself, under Furmanov's insistence, did not follow the brigade to break through, but changed into military uniforms and mixed with more than 200 cavalrymen in the group army led by Furmanov, quietly heading to the upper reaches of the Belaya River. The news was strictly blocked, and only Furkmanov, Xia Boyang, Tukhachevsky and the soldiers of the Jinghan Battalion knew about it. [Let's go to read the novel~]
Benxing, who was cunning in three holes, was perfectly reflected in Tukhachevsky. Tukhachevsky was ready to go up the mountain to fight guerrillas. The smaller the target, the less likely it was to attract attention. The old shepherd Lao Hamichi was invited to serve as a guide for this 200-man Red Army cavalry. Tukhachevsky even gave himself a pseudonym, calling himself Tushka, the political commissar of the cavalry division, Furmanov.
Xia Boyang picked a guy from the jing guard camp who looked similar to Tukhachevsky and dressed up as Tukhachevsky's original appearance. He followed him as the commander of the army who pretended to be a genuine one, and told him to shut up and not speak out without any trouble. Playing a good commander is the only task and mission of this guy.
In any case, if the remaining troops of the First Army can break through the encirclement, Xia Boyang and Furmanov, the old partners, insisted that Tukhachevsky, as the commander of the Army, must be among them. Otherwise, if commander Tukhachevsky is captured or killed in battle, the breakthrough of the First Army is meaningless.
For Xia Boyang and Furmanov, the remaining troops of the cavalry division were willing to send Tukhachevsky out of the enemy's encirclement. It doesn't matter if the First Army had no Xia Boyang and Furmanov, but without the words of Tukhachevsky, the founder of the First Army, neither Xia Boyang nor Furmanov had the shame to see the fellow villagers on the left bank of the Volga River.
At 14:00 pm on July 14, 1918, in a valley 12 kilometers across the Meleuz Ferry, Xia Boyang led more than 2,000 cavalrymen to encounter a battalion of more than 500 Chinese cavalry led by Xiao Chuyin, a battalion of lieutenant colonel officer of the 3rd brigade of the coalition forces, and gunfire sounded in the valley, and Qingshan Cuigu witnessed a cavalry battle between China and Russia.
Since the coalition cavalry led by Xiao Chuyin crossed the Belaya River at the Meleuz Ferry, they were in a highly vigilant state of searching forward. Chu Dashan, the battalion commander of the 2nd Battalion of the First Regiment of the Cavalry Brigade, led the vanguard company to walk 1 kilometer in front of the entire battalion, and behind him was Xiao Chuyin with the main force of the three companies, so Chu Dashan's vanguard company was the first to discover the movement of the Soviet Red Army cavalry brigade with the sound of horse hooves rumbled across the opposite side.
The guy did not dare to be negligent. While ordering the entire company to dismount and seize advantageous terrain on both sides of the valley, the machine guns and mortars were all deployed, he ordered the messengers to quickly send a letter to Xiao Chuyin behind him: he found that the Soviet cavalry brigade was coming from the other end of the valley, and he heard the noise and looked at the dust. There were no less than 34,000 Soviet cavalrymen on the opposite side!
Otherwise, the battalion commander Chu Dashan was brave enough to fight in the south. Xiaoshanling's 3rd Mixed Cavalry Brigade had never fought a big battle. From the brigade commander Xiao Shanling himself to the regiment commander and the battalion company commander, they were screaming. The battle reports of the Ufa coalition commander one after another. Today is the Second Armored Brigade, how could annihilate the three divisions of the Northern Route Army of the Soviet Fifth Army, captured tens of thousands of prisoners, and tomorrow is the Russian cavalry division, one brigade of the Russian cavalry division, and eliminate two enemy divisions.
Even Li Fugui camp, which stayed in a place where birds were not shit in Sterlitamak Town, turned the tide and showed his face, causing Tukhachevsky, the pride of the Soviet Eastern Front Army and Xia Boyang, the cavalry commander below, to be beaten to the blue-faced face and terrible escaping.
Li Fugui's battalion was in Tukhachevsky, Sterlitamak Town, and a cavalry brigade and an infantry division. Damn, is this battalion not as good as Li Fugui's battalion? What's more, the cavalry of the Soviet Red Army opposite is already a stray dog, fall into the water, everyone shouts to beat him. What's the fear of Chu Dashan?
The terrain was favorable. Although Chu Dashan only brought his own avant-garde company, he had no idea of fear. This was a long valley heading northwest and southeast, with a length of more than ten kilometers. At this time, Chu Dashan and the opponent's Soviet and Russian cavalry encountered were exactly in the middle section, at least five kilometers away from the entrances of the valley on both sides. The valley was only 200 meters wide, with green trees on both sides, and the mountain was steep and not easy to climb up. It was an excellent place for ambushing.
Chu Dashan asked the first company commander to guard the north slope with two platoons, and he led three platoons to guard the south slope with three platoons. The light and heavy machine guns and mortars quickly took their place. When the Soviet Red Army Forewart Battalion crashed into 1,000 meters, the six platoons of Chu Dashan fired, and a series of mortar shells sang like sparrows and sang songs and then smashed over. Then the third platoon of the air-cool Browning heavy machine guns fired, sweeping down a large area of cavalry in the Soviet Red Army Forewart Battalion opposite like leeks.
Xia Boyang's 2,000 cavalry team has nearly 4,000 horses, because they are one person and two horses, so they look like nearly 4,000 horses. No wonder, no matter whether Hata Shunruo who chased from the north saw the horse's hoof print Yiwei Tukhachevsky's side, it was no wonder that Chu Dashan heard with his ears that there were at least 4,000 horses on the other side.
The Soviet Red Army's vanguard battalion suddenly encountered an attack from the opposite side of the valley, and for a moment, the troops were crowded together. At this time, when the enemy was not clear and ambushed, retreating first and stabilizing the position was the first choice for all commanders. Xia Boyang led the commander of the First Regiment of the Second Brigade of the Cavalry Division of the vanguard battalion, Yelansky.
The vanguard cavalry battalion under Yelanski was caught off guard and was ambushed by the coalition mortar shells and heavy machine guns. The guy shouted desperately and finally restrained the team to retreat beyond the opponent's mortar. The ground in front was already in a mess and left all the bodies and wounded.
Yelansky had experience in fighting in the town of Sterlitamak. He heard that the opponent had only the firepower of a heavy machine gun and several mortars. A stone fell to the ground in his heart. While ordering the first company to occupy the hillsides on both sides of the valley, he ordered the commanders to go back and deliver letters to the division commander. The Forward Battalion was ambushed by about one company of the coalition forces. The opponent had heavy machine guns and mortars. Please instruct the next action.
Yelansky did not dare to make a rash mistake and let his vanguard battalion rush forward along the valley. Who knows how many troops the coalition forces on the opposite side have? If they get ambushed, the narrow and long terrain of the valley will be unfavorable, and it will be difficult to squeeze in front of the back and turn around!
Chapter completed!