July 23, 1918 18:00 Cheboksarre Kolchak Front Command

"Alexander Vasilyevich, I didn't expect that the Soviet Red Army was so tenacious. The third army of Bernzin was so capable! Not to mention our teeth, he even ran away by the train!" Guillaume Nikolaevich Hastings, the chief of the General Staff of the All-Russian Provisional Government and Chief of Staff of the White Guards, murmured.

"Bad! It's not that the opponent can fight at all, but that our Western Route Army's performance is too disappointing. I said Sergei Nikolayevich, you brought the 4th and 5th Division of the Don River Cossack, but you specially strengthened 4 artillery companies. How could you be blocked by an enemy infantry division?! You couldn't get in and cut off the railway line! I'm waiting for you to explain it to me!"

The highest consul of the All-Russian Provisional Government and the commander-in-chief of the All-Russian Belarus Guard, Alexander Vasilyevich Kolchak, looked ashen, slapped the table hard.

"Alexander Vasilievich, please listen to my explanation!" Lieutenant General Sergei Nikolaevich Dimilev, the commander-in-chief of the Western Route Army of the White Guards, tried to explain while wiping the sweat on his head.

"I'm listening! If your explanation is not sufficient, I will kill Ma Su with tears!" Kolchak said with a gloomy face.

"The enemy we faced was not an infantry division at all, at least one division and one regiment, and the combat effectiveness was very strong. Although they did not have cannons, the firepower of machine guns and rifles was well configured. Although we had 4 artillery companies, no matter how we hit the opponent, we did not lose our combat effectiveness!"

"And you also know that the number of ferries and rafts we collected was insufficient, and time was too hasty. In the end, most of our cavalry swam across the mountain on horseback. The battle between the light and the Volga River was so exhausted that it was difficult to free up our hands to cross the river while shooting!" Dimilev explained with striking explanation.

"Bad! Just cavalry swim, you won't set up machine guns to organize fire cover on the north shore? I don't believe that you can't even smash a landing ground where the troops can get ashore!" Kolchak was so angry that he gasped and slapped the table!

A bunch of White Guards commanders sat on both sides of the conference table in the command center's conference room, each sitting upright, and many people were afraid to breathe. After two consecutive days of fighting, the battle situation was unexpectedly difficult, except for the huge casualties of the Eastern Route Army commanded by Kolchak.

The other troops who crossed the river in the north bank of the Volga River did not complete the task. That is, General Krashielnikov, the commander-in-chief of the Central Army, was considered a blessing general. He led the 6th and 7th Divisions of the Don River Cossack Cavalry to successfully cross the Volga River and occupied the empty Alessandrovna. The other participating troops had all the achievements of all.

Dimilev, the commander-in-chief of the Western Route Army who failed to cross the river and cut off the railway line in the most critical Kozmodimyansk, was the first to be held accountable by Kolchak at the combat review meeting that day. If not, it would be possible to dismiss the post and investigate the matters, and it would be possible to drag it out and shoot it directly.

Everyone knows that Dimilev's ex-wife Anna is now Kolchak's private secretary. Although she stayed in Kazan and did not go to the front line, all the senior generals here knew in their hearts that Anna was the lover of the highest consul of Russia, no one. Kolchak's wife and children were sent to France at this time. Anna's identity as Kolchak's confidante was already a semi-public secret in Kazan.

Dimilev and Kolchak are both relationships between superiors and subordinates, close comrades, and love rivals. Of course, around the October Revolution, Anna had already broken up with Dimilev without hesitation and dissolved her marriage, so this triangle relationship was even more inconsistent. Dimilev was still single at this time, and obviously did not give up his longing for Anna in his heart. This cuckold on his head would not affect Dimilev becoming one of the reused generals under Kolchak.

But the greater the responsibility, the heavier the burden. In the battle plan formulated by Kolchak, the detour and crossing river attack of the Western Route Army are the most lethal links. Just like this afternoon, if the Western Route Army succeeds in only one of the two crossing areas, Kolchak can successfully encircle the opponent's third army. Once the opponent is encircled, there is no suspense that the Soviet Third Army, the Soviet Third Army, will be annihilated and eaten.

In this way, on the northern front, the main army of the Soviet Red Army was completely lost. The troops of the Volga Front of the Soviet Red Army, which were temporarily assembled and reorganized by Nizhny Novgorod, were at best not tolerate combat power, and were not in Kolchak's eyes at all!

The problem is that all this has become a bubble. Although Kolchak used the tepid offensive and force configuration of the Eastern Route Army to attract the main force of the Third Army to defend Tseverisk, the empty Cheboksare in the rear actually defended the ferry with an infantry division and a temporary worker division.

The two powerful Cossack cavalry divisions of Dimilev, who were highly anticipated, were unable to successfully capture the Kozmodemyansk ferry and cut off the railway line southward, thereby cutting off the retreat of the Soviet Red Army.

"Who said no, Alexander Vasilyevich, is that more than anything else? I concentrated the firepower of two heavy machine gun battalions and four artillery companies, and beat the Soviet Red Army positions at the ferry across the river to a huge blow. Of course, the landing ground was also opened! The 10th Brigade of the 5th Division of the Don River Cavalry also successfully crossed the river and rushed to the river bank. But who knew that the other party had used the terrain of the ferry and had already stuck a second trench and defense line 1.5 kilometers away. There were horse pits and tree stumps everywhere, and the cavalry could not rush at all!"

"Sergei Nikolayevich, what do you want to tell me about you? If you can't rush? If you can't rush, you won't stumble off the horse to fight? The cavalry of the Allied forces in the Battle of Ufa had never fought with sabers. Could it be that your cavalry had a fire stick on their backs? Not Mosinnagan's rifle? If you don't sabers, you can't fight?" Kolchak roared in anger.
Chapter completed!