On May 10, 1919, a telegram was sent from the town of Mags on the Volga River to Ufa, the provisional capital of the Tsarist Empire, causing a shock to the Tsarist military headquarters.

The Volga Army, which had been ordered to move south for the Second Battle of Tsaritsyn, was attacked by the 1st Army of the Eastern Front in Berkrovsk, and the forward units of the Volga Army withdrew backward and arrived in the town of Magern. The Russian 1st Army rushed into the ambush circle of the Volga Army, and after three days of bloody fighting, the Soviet Russian army suddenly withdrew and jumped out of the encirclement after losing to our army. In order to cover the retreat of the infantry, the enemy ordered the Turkestan cavalry division to fight, but was ambushed by the squadron and the Turkic cavalry division, almost all of them were annihilated, and only one Soviet cavalry battalion fled to Kazakhstan. More than 9,000 people of the 49th Infantry Division of the Soviet Army's covering force were all annihilated after three days of bloody fighting.

The 3rd Division of the Chinese Army under the headquarters of the Volga Army secretly attacked and recaptured the city of Berkrovsk, blocked the retreat road of the enemy's 1st Army, and cooperated with the 7th, 15th, and 11th Cavalry Divisions of the Chinese Army with a total of more than 80,000 troops to block about 90,000 troops of the 1st Army in the Aphlov Mountains and the Volga River and the riverside swamps north of the city of Berkrovsk.

A total of 31,000 Soviet troops were killed (including killed and captured) in the entire battle of Magern, including the 49th enemy division, the 1st and 5th Turkestan cavalry divisions. In Berkrovsk, the Zhang Baowu Cavalry Brigade of the Third Infantry Division under Ren Yuanxing burned to death more than 6,000 people from two infantry brigades of the Soviet Army in just one day, which can be called a great victory in the Black Forest, and of course it was called the Black Forest Massacre in the eyes of the Russians.

Now, the squadron is preparing to encircle and annihilate the 1st Army of Soviet Russia!

Including Tubanev, Yakutia, Khamanchev and others, they were speechless for a while, and Nicholas II's eyes widened and he exclaimed, "What did the Chinese do?" They...... Actually surrounded the rebels' most elite 1st Army? Protected by the Virgin Mary, they have such a big appetite? ”

Berevirje calmed down first, and he pulled the agitated Tsar Nicholas II to the map and said: "Although they blocked the enemy, what was not good for them was that their third division had to retreat all the way under the desperate attack of the rebels, and the rebels and the Chinese each occupied half of Berkrovsk, and the rebels surrounded the Chinese. And outside the city. More squadrons surrounded the rebels again - each encirclement was not tight, and the rebel river flotilla was rushing to Burkrovsk to support. Saratov, a city on the other side of Berkroske, is also making every effort to rescue it, and the situation is not as rosy as reported by the Chinese. The rebel Eastern Front, the Southern Campaign Group, and the Southern Front were sending a total of 100,000 troops to Saratov at this time. ”

"That is, whoever has the time has the victory?" Nicholas II asked, pointing at Berkrovsk on the map with his command knife.

"Yes, if the squadron can quickly destroy the 1st Army, I think they will win the whole campaign. If you can't. Instead, they will be dragged down in Berkrovsk, which is 400 kilometers from Tsaritsyn. "But we no longer have the strength to support the Volga army, and the battle of Marshal Kolchak in Kazan has entered the most critical moment of the counteroffensive." ”

Nicholas II sighed, overstretched.

Berevelje whispered: "But. We still have a force to use. ”

Nicholas II glared and asked: "Which troops?" ”

"Your Majesty, the Czech Legion, the Czech Legion has more than 30,000 soldiers, and it's in Ufa. They claim to protect your safety, but they don't want to continue fighting on the battlefield. Berevije said angrily.

Nicholas II gritted his teeth. "Let the Czech corps of Gaida immediately dispatch to Berkrovsk." ”

"Yes." Bereviger walked out of the palace, sighed, and said to himself: "King, I can only help you get here, you must know that no Russian general wants to support you." ”

Ren Yuanxing's troops were attacked by the Soviet army in Berkrovsk, and the street fighting in the city was very beneficial to the defenders, Ren Yuanxing did not engage the Soviet army on the outskirts of the city, and he gave full play to the characteristics of the superiority of the team's melee firepower. Draw them into street battles and use infantry guns, machine guns, submachine guns, and grenades to resist and eliminate them one by one. The commander of the Soviet 1st Army, Gay, in order to avoid being attacked on the back of the abdomen. The Soviet soldiers were ordered to charge with Chinese bullets until they reached the river. The enemy's desperate dispatch made Ren Yuanxingbu feel unbearable, and the rate of bullet consumption was not even as fast as the increase in the speed of the Soviet soldiers, so after two days of hard fighting, half of the city was occupied.

After receiving the dangerous news that the 3rd Division of the Army was about to be counter-encircled by the Soviet and Russian troops, Wang Maoru immediately ordered the 3rd Division to withdraw from Berkrovsk one by one. Don't fight hard with the 1st Army, which was blocked and almost insane, causing more casualties.

Ren Yuanxing, commander of the 3rd Division and commander of the 1st Cluster, was relieved to receive a telegram from Xiushuai, and fought for two days. The 3rd Division suffered extremely heavy casualties under the frantic attack of the Soviet army, except for the 9th Cavalry Brigade, which attacked and harassed the Soviet Army on the periphery, suffered slightly light casualties, the 3rd Infantry Brigade and the 13th Brigade suffered more than 30% casualties, and the commander of the 13th Brigade, Shu Hejun (formerly an officer of the Yi Army), was even killed on the front line. Although the Soviet casualties were greater, the 3rd Division could not withstand the attrition and could only fight and retreat.

However, if the enemy withdraws from Berkrovsk, the enemy will definitely flee, and it will be easier for the Soviet army to hold its position, so that the entire battlefield will begin to be extremely unfavorable to the squadron. Ren Yuanxing immediately replied to Wang Maoru about his concerns, and then Ren Yuanxing received a secret telegram reply from Wang Maoru, and finally relieved himself and ordered the soldiers to withdraw one by one. It turned out that Wang Maoru's plan was to let the heavy artillery carry all the poison gas bombs to Burkrovsk, and not fight with the Soviet Russian soldiers one by one for street fighting. Ren Yuanxing was very skeptical about the effectiveness of this tactic, after all, poison gas bombs are not omnipotent.

Later, Wang Maoru specially sent Ma Liang into the Berkrovsk battlefield and said to Ren Yuanxing in person: "Xiushuai doesn't want your troops to suffer too many casualties, our army supports and interferes in the Russian civil war, and it is not necessary to put the lives of all soldiers on the line of Russia." Therefore, in the next step, Xiushuai is ready to let the Imperial Army clean up the battlefield, and our army is only responsible for strategic offensives and not tactical offensives. Ren Yuanxing thought about it and sighed, so that the opportunity to destroy the 1st Army of Soviet Russia with his own hands was lost, and for a general, what a temptation to destroy another army.

At this time, the good news suddenly came, the 9th Cavalry Brigade under the 3rd Division, Zhang Pingwu, secretly attacked the Soviet army headquarters, and actually directly killed the commander of the 24th Division of the enemy's Simbisk Iron Army and the general staff, including the division commander, more than 20 senior Russian generals were killed, which directly led to the loss of command of this iron army. Subsequently, Zhang Pingwu led his army to attack the enemy's 24th Division, and with the assistance of the enemy's 15th Division, the 24th Division was able to survive.

"Zhang Jianwu is good." Ren Yuanxing laughed and said, "Adjutant General Ma, this Zhang Jianwu is a general, I hope you will say a few more kind words in front of Xiushuai." ”

Ma Liang said with a smile: "Don't dismiss the teacher's instructions, Xiu Shuai sees it in his eyes, Brigade Commander Zhang is indeed a talent." ”

Subsequently, Ren Yuanxing ordered the other troops of the First Group to cover the slow withdrawal of the Third Division from Berkrovsk, and ordered to burn all the boats crossing the river, even the planks and forests by the river in the coming year, and burned all the wooden buildings along the Volga River, cut down all the urban trees and threw them directly into the river and went downstream with the Volga River. He also ordered the shelling of troop carriers sent by the city of Saratov on the opposite bank to delay the enemy's support across the river.

As for the citizens of Berkrovsk, Ren Yuanxing ordered them to evacuate together, but they were strongly opposed by many citizens. The execution of Soviet prisoners of war on the Volga River by Zhang Jianwu caused a lingering fear among the citizens, who feared that the Chinese would take them away in order to slaughter them.

Staff officer Yan Shichao forced them to evacuate with a bayonet, Ren Yuanxing smiled bitterly and said We don't have time, but his staff officer Huang Chengyu said that as long as the women and girls are taken away, the rest of them will definitely evacuate together because they want to protect their families. Ren Yuanxing said that this was a good idea, so he ordered the evacuation of all women between the ages of five and forty, and his family also voluntarily chose to evacuate with the women, or he could abandon the women and stay in Berkrovsk to wait for the arrival of Soviet troops.

Huang Chengyu didn't know how to do it, and he actually forced most of the citizens of the city to withdraw from the city, because everyone was really relieved that they couldn't leave their wives and daughters. Of course, there were some Bolsheviks in the cities who insisted on staying to meet the Soviet soldiers, and these dead-eyed people would eventually become funeral objects, and the Chinese would have no pity for them. And the inclusion of citizens in the squadron also made the attacking Soviet Russian army a little jealous, and these damned invaders actually withdrew their troops in this way of taking hostages. However, the real situation is that the Soviet army has frantically attacked Berkrovsk in the past two days, causing more than 14,000 casualties of its own, and it is no longer able to pursue the enemy.

After the 3rd Division of the Squadron gradually resisted under the cover of artillery fire and support from other armies, and slowly withdrew from the city of Berkrovsk, most of the Russian 1st Army entered the city. However, the Volsk Infantry Division, the enemy's most elite unit, suddenly broke through to the south, apparently preparing to use the strongest army to disrupt the battle plan of the Volga Army, and to take the opportunity to take advantage of the Soviet 29th Infantry Division, which was supporting the support from the Southern Military District.

After breaking through the encirclement of the 7th Division, the Volisk Infantry Division moved south along the Volga River, and after withdrawing more than 100 kilometers south under the protection of the Volga River Flotilla, it suddenly turned back and launched a counteroffensive against the squadron.

This time, Zhang Paiwu's Ninth Cavalry Brigade, which met with the Volisk Infantry Division, Zhang Paiwu gave full play to the characteristics of strong cavalry mobility, did not engage the Volisk Infantry Division head-on, used portable infantry artillery and mortars to harass, and used the advantage of cavalry to divide and strangle, and delay the enemy's attack.

He perfectly dragged the Volisk Infantry Division to Dawa Village, and after reporting to Ren Yuanxing, the 3rd Army Division that had withdrawn from the city immediately rushed to Dawa Village to prepare to destroy the enemy's Volisk Infantry Division, and at the same time, the 11th Cavalry Division was also transferred by Ren Yuanxing to participate in the encirclement and annihilation plan.

However, after the Volisk Infantry Division successfully mobilized the squadron, it suddenly broke through to the south and jumped out of the encirclement of the squadron, and the two legs actually ran faster than the four legs.

After Ren Yuanxing learned that the Volisk Infantry Division had fled, he beat his chest angrily and said: "God-given opportunity, God-given opportunity, it's too late to regret, it's too late to regret." ”