Volume 3 Miracles Through the Ages Chapter 492 Iron Horse Chain
Just the night before yesterday, at about 7 o'clock in the evening of 3 May, Tukhachevsky repeatedly violated the military orders of the Eastern Front, arbitrarily transferred troops to fight a decisive battle with the "Central" team, and overstepped the command of Moscow, thus disrupting the Eastern Front's operational plan for the decisive battle of Kazan, which caused him to be impeached by Kamenev, commander of the Eastern Front, and other army commanders, especially Frunze and others.
Tukhachevsky transferred most of the troops of the 1st Army, which caused a huge defensive hole in the defense line along the Volga River, and led Kamenev's carefully prepared Kazan counterattack to fall short, and the Eastern Front also had to transfer soldiers to supplement the front of the 1st Army to prevent more White troops from taking advantage of the loopholes on the west bank of the Volga River that Tukhachevsky was eager to lead to enter the Iron Horse Chain Area of the Soviet Army's control of Chapter 492 of the Volga River.
Kolchak even knew about this after some of his troops entered the Soviet-occupied area, but the Russian Red Army quickly eliminated the white guerrillas of Tsarist Russia who had crossed the river and mobilized the militia and the Volga fleet to participate in the defense, so that Kolchak did not seize the opportunity.
The commander of the Eastern Front, Kamenev, together with a large number of officers, submitted a request to the Supreme Military Council of Soviet Russia to replace the commander of the 1st Army because of the strategic failure of Tukhachevsky's guidance and repeated violations of military regulations.
On the night of May 2, there was a fierce quarrel in the Supreme Military Council of Soviet Russia, and Tukhachevsky was divided into two factions: Lenin advocated rewarding the officer for his bold use of troops, but Trotsky, the supreme leader of the All-Russian Supreme Military Council, advocated limited punishment, and Stalin and others advocated removing Tukhachevsky from his post. Eventually, Lenin's efforts were ensured, and Trotsky ordered him to be transferred to other armies and removed from his post as commander of the 1st Army, but at the same time showed that he was not completely abandoned.
The post of commander of Tukhachevsky's 1st Army was temporarily deputized by Chief of Staff Gay, but in fact the Supreme Military Council of the Soviet Union had appointed Zinoviev as the political commissar of the Iron Horse Chain Regiment in Chapter 492 of the 1st Episode 1 of the 30000 Ancient Miracles, directly at the head of the army. He also demanded that the 1st Group Army resolutely implement the requirements of the Party's leadership over the army, and that all Party members must remain vigilant and maintain the purity of the army.
Former political commissar Chu Liuxin immediately escorted (escorted) Tukhachevsky on a warship of the river fleet along the Volga River and urgently transferred to the Kazan front as commander of the 5th Army. This made Tukhachevsky, a militant, both disappointed and very excited, disappointed that he could not continue to command this unit to encircle and annihilate the "Central" team, and "excited" that he could finally know that he could directly command a unit to fight the enemy head-on, instead of touching these slippery "Chinese" people. In the midst of the contradictions, he had no choice but to set off, and before leaving, he must ask Gay to carry out the operation against the [China] ** team according to the plan, and he must let the brave Soviet Russian soldiers destroy these cowardly "Chinese".
At this time, Zinoviev, who had just served as the political commissar of the 1st Army, was in the southern battlefield of Ukraine, supervising the encirclement and suppression of the Southern Army's Denikin Corps in Tsarist Russia. After receiving the order, Zinoviev thought that it would be better to deal with the [Chinese] team and use the "Chinese" people. So Zinoviev called Zhang Furong, the head of the ** regiment of the Soviet Russian Red Army, who participated in the encirclement and suppression of Denikin's regiment on the banks of the Don River.
Moreover, Zinoviev also hopes that this "Chinese" ** regiment, which can fight well, will compete with the [Chinese] interventionist army, whether it is the "Chinese" ** regiment or the "Chinese" interventionist army, he thought evilly in his heart. Zhang Furong immediately agreed to fight against the intervening army, resolutely supported the Bolshevik Soviet government, and would certainly fulfill the tasks assigned to him by the great Soviet government, and if he could not persuade the intervening army, he would destroy it by force. Zinoviev led 6,000 workers' soldiers of the Centrium Regiment to withdraw from the siege of Denikin's regiment and rushed with him to Saratov.
Zinoviev is also a legendary figure in the history of Soviet Russia, he is a veteran Bolshevik, and as early as Tsarist Russia he worked with Lenin and others to find a way to revive Russia. At the same time, because of his old qualifications, he was one of the few people who dared to directly oppose Lenin at the conference, and it was for this reason that he was twice expelled from the Bolshevik Party, but twice returned to the party.
At nine o'clock in the evening of May 3, Zinoviev, who had just received the letter of appointment, immediately ordered Gay to withdraw his troops from the town of Magen and return to Saratov on the west bank of the Volga River, and not to get entangled with the Centro-Centric detachment. The new directive was to allow the Centric Squadron to attack Tsaritsyn unimpeded, while the 1st Army would break through from elsewhere and counter-encircle the Centric Squadron. However, this order made it very difficult for Gay, who worked with Tukhachevsky to draw up a plan to annihilate the Central Force, but had to stop the plan to withdraw to the West Bank because of the struggle for power within the party, which made their efforts in vain. What was even more unacceptable to him was that the three-day offensive left more than 9,000 Red Army soldiers dead and wounded, and they rushed in vain to the trenches built by the barbed wire fence of the ** squadron, but fell a hundred meters in front of the enemy's trenches. The members of the ** committee in the army no longer trusted them, the former commanders of the Tsarist army, and they believed that the reason for the defeat in the battle was that these former Russian officers did not command well, and sent the workers and soldiers to the Chinese people in vain to be slaughtered.
The decisive charge of the Soviet Russian army only provided the "Medium" ** team with a tool to practice target shooting, and they did not have as many cannons as the "Medium" ** team, and the soldiers died in vain on the way to the charge. In order to prevent maggots from growing in summer, the Chinese had to send the Imperial Army to clean up the battlefield, put the enemy's corpses back together, and pull them to the back by cart to bury them. Of course, in this process, the Soviet and Russian soldiers did not harass, and they also knew that the enemy was burying their comrades, and did not intend to annoy the other party and expose the corpses of their comrades to the wilderness.
The former commander Tukhachevsky asked him to continue the offensive, and the commissar Zinoviev asked him to withdraw his troops, leaving Gay in a dilemma, but finally decided to follow the words of the commissar and withdraw the army. In order to cover up the truth of the withdrawal, he will order the soldiers to continue the offensive and not let the enemy find out.
On the night of May 3, Gay ordered some of his soldiers to evacuate back to the rear at night, and mobilized the 5th Moscow Workers' Division to harass and attack the "Central" team overnight, so as to paralyze the "Chinese" people. In the middle of the night, the recruits sent by Gay to inform the cavalry unit suddenly broke into an ambush of the Chinese and were captured by the Turkic cavalry division belonging to the Volga Army.
Perhaps because the Turkic cavalry hated the Russians to the core, they tortured and killed all the cavalry of the Soviet Russian Red Army who escorted a company of information, so not only did the Turkestan cavalry unit of the Red Army not get this news, but even the ** team did not get it. That's why Wang Maoru and all the officers and staff officers of the Volga Army were puzzled, why did they deliberately send them to death in a nervous state?
Tukhachevsky also returned to the rear on the night of May 3, returned by boat to Saratov on the west bank of the Volga early the next morning, and then took a train north to the Kazan front.
The first and fifteenth divisions retreated to the fourth line of defense to rest, and the third and seventh divisions defended the first three lines of defense. In order to prevent the confusion caused by the change of defense and take advantage of the enemy, the ** team focused on defense, so it did not notice the anomaly of the Soviet army, which gave the Soviet army a lot of time to rearrange the army.
Of course, the Soviets did not know that the [Central] ** team had changed their defenses, and in order to cover the retreat, they met to attack at 8 o'clock in the morning on May 4, and their frenzied attack was just a false illusion created by Gay in order to cover up the withdrawal of the 1st Army. However, because the change of defense in the battlefield of the [China" country almost caused the "China" country to miss the position, it can be regarded as an accident. Gay was also a ruthless stubble, the last attack and charge of the Soviet army exceeded the sum of the previous two days, and the first team of the "Middle" team successively suffered more severe casualties, of course, the casualties of the Red Army were even heavier.
That night, the Soviet-Chinese armies had a very rare tacit understanding, and neither of them carried out a night attack on each other.
Wang Maoru made a mistake, he thought that he had Tukhachevsky's character, admired this man's indomitable character very much, and thought that he would definitely try all kinds of ways to fight him. Therefore, he ordered his soldiers to be prepared and did not send troops to detect the enemy's withdrawal.
At dawn on May 5, 1919, in fact, the main force of the 1st Army of the Russian Red Army had withdrawn, and only the 49th Division of the Soviet Infantry Division, which had less than 10,000 people, remained in the front.
The 49th Division of Soviet Russia is a light infantry division, which is not capable of cooperating with the cavalry attack at all, and once they attack, they will expose their insufficient strength, so as to let the [Medium] ** team know about the retreat of the main force. The infantry suddenly stopped moving, and the Russian cavalry unknowingly launched a decisive charge towards the "Medium" ** team, everyone knows that once the cavalry charges up and the speed increases, it will be difficult for any enemy to resist in the First World War when armored vehicles and tanks have not yet appeared. At this time, the cavalry was the king of land warfare, and the only way to stop the cavalry was heavy machine guns and heavy artillery or to use other cavalry to fight.
When the Soviet cavalry approached, Wang Maoru, commander of the Volga Army, looked at the enemy on the sand table excitedly, they finally entered the encirclement, slapped the table fiercely, and said: "The enemy is about to launch a general attack, we will also launch a general attack, order the heavy artillery and airship units to shell their cavalry units, after two hours of shelling, we will first eat their cavalry and send a signal flare to the Turkic cavalry division." ”
"Boom! Rumble! Rumble! Rumble! Once again, the artillery of the Chinese people was fully activated, and the enemy's cavalry units were blown back and forth in the cultivated fields. Cavalry is a highly aggressive, defensive class that is a live target until the enemy is attacked. After the cavalry charged, it was unstoppable, and the Soviet commander had no chance to give the order to retreat, because the heralds could not catch up with the forward troops. The attack of the heavy artillery of the Chinese people made the more than 9,000 cavalry of the Soviet army unbearable, and everyone attached themselves to their horses and shouted God bless in their hearts, brandishing their sabers and continuing to advance.
"Iron Horse Chain, give it to me!" Fei Chaogui, the commander of the Sixth Defense Division, who was in charge of the rear, gave the order to attack!!.