Volume 3 Miracles of the Ages Chapter 505 The Missing Zinoviev
Wang Maoru reluctantly accepted Zhang Jianwu's proposal, and appointed Zhang Baowu as the acting commander of the 11th Cavalry Division, and the 9th Cavalry Brigade was temporarily separated from the 3rd Division and temporarily placed under the command of the 11th Cavalry Division.
The Volisk Infantry Division has lost half of its men and all its heavy weapons because of the encirclement, while the 29th Russian Infantry Division is composed of guerrillas and has very backward weapons and equipment, and it is simply unable to compete with the Chinese elite cavalry. Zhang Jianwu and Zhang Xiangjiu's decision to pursue is completely correct, but it is just a little unkind. But the battlefield is ruthless, and the opportunity is fleeting, and he ordered that he does not have to clean up the battlefield and immediately pursue the enemy, and killing the enemy is the first task.
As the vanguard of the Chinese Intervention Army, the 11th Cavalry Division repeatedly attacked, and the natural casualties were also the heaviest. In particular, when they first entered Berkrovsk, they met the Volisk Infantry Division head-on, and the Russians, with the assistance of the river fleet, lost 1,000 elite cavalry at once. The hatred of the Volisk Infantry Division was the source of motivation for the 11th Cavalry Division, but they were also very tired, and they lost their main general to the ambush of the enemy. The 11th Cavalry Division has now been reduced from 18,000 to 14,300 - and in reality, the 3,700 men lost are combatants, accounting for one-fifth of the cavalry division's combatants (the horsemen in the cavalry division are not counted as combatants, but are counted among the division's logisticians).
The Soviet 29th Division did not realize that they had ambushed and killed the commander of the Chinese cavalry lieutenant general, and after they withdrew from the swamp, they joined up with the Kursk Infantry Division and the Volsk Infantry Division, and finally the whole army safely withdrew to Tsaritsyn.
GUO Buluo. After Long Qing's death, Zhang Jianwu sent guards to secretly pull his body back. Except for a few people, not many people in the whole cavalry division knew about this matter for the time being, and everyone thought that he would report to Xiu Shuai when he returned to the headquarters. And the decision to serve as the acting commander of the 11th Cavalry Division was not a big deal. Zhang Jianwu's control of the battlefield and his sensitivity to danger displayed in the battle, and his grasp of the fighter plane, people have to admire. It's just that Zhang Jianwu is a member of the 3rd Division, and now he has suddenly become the acting commander of the 11th Division, which inevitably makes some people feel unconvinced.
After secretly sending back Long Qing's body, Zhang Jiewu apologized to Wang Maoru, saying that he had to do it in order to stabilize the morale of the army. Wang Maoru said that it was okay and hoped that the 11th Cavalry Division would catch up with the enemy and destroy the enemy to avenge the division commander Longqing.
GUO Buluo. Long Qing, a native of Dahaner, a native of Dahaner, a native of the Manchu nationality. As a former Qing military attaché, he served as a garrison in Hulunbuir, and after the deputy capital was killed, and the rebels occupied Hulun City, he led the army to retreat to the area of Ganzhu Temple in the south to continue the struggle in order to maintain territorial unity. Until Wang Maoru led the army into the grassland to recover Hulunbuir and incorporate it. Subsequently, Long Qing, as a cavalry general under Wang Maoru, united the cavalry of various nationalities such as the Mongols and Manchus. And cultivated his own Chinese cavalry, so that Wang Maoru had an invincible cavalry force.
Long Qing repeatedly led the army to undertake the most arduous and difficult combat tasks, and repeatedly achieved great results, Wang Maoru even decided to confer the title of marshal after the reunification of the Republic in the future, and the first one was awarded to Long Qing, whose age and military age and merits were enough to undertake this. But he died in battle. Wang Maoru lost his general, and some gray hair grew on his temples overnight.
On May 17, 1919, it was already dawn at five o'clock, but reality sent a regiment to try to enter. But soon these people ran out of each other's arms, and the smell was too strong. As soon as they entered, they were almost wiped out. It was not until seven o'clock in the morning that the tentative soldier reported that he was ready to act. Krasnov told every soldier to protect themselves and withdraw immediately if they were uncomfortable.
After seven o'clock, the sound of artillery sounded again, and the Volga Army began to sweep the city.
Groups of Russian soldiers in blue-gray uniforms, with water-soaked cloth bands on their faces and only their eyes exposed, protected themselves like Arabs, rushed into Berkrovsk with bayonets in their hands. They did not dare to shout loudly, did not dare to gasp for breath, for fear of inhaling too much poisonous gas, and although the concentration was already very low at this time, the strong pungent smell in the air still made many soldiers uncomfortable.
The enemy's resistance on the first line of Soviet outlying positions was very weak, and the living soldiers of the Soviet Russian soldiers were barely breathing, while the faces of the dead soldiers were distorted. The Imperial Allied Army met some resistance when they rushed forward, but most of them chose to surrender. The effect of poison gas did not kill the enemy, and it also deprived most of the Soviet troops of combat effectiveness. However, the stubborn Soviet troops occupied some of the higher buildings and engaged in a fierce confrontation with the Tsarist White Army.
Krasnov looked at his watch, in fact, he thought that he should attack again an hour later, but Wang Maoru stopped him, saying that if he delayed any longer, the place could be safely evacuated. But according to the staff officers' calculations, the poison gas in Berkrovsk would have completely dissipated by nine o'clock in the morning, which means that they had only two hours to advance. In order to speed up the progress, Krasnov ordered the Tsarist Imperial Allied Army to ignore the few remaining Soviet firepower points, mainly to divide the enemy, cut off the enemy's retreat, encircle and annihilate a large number of Soviet troops, and then gradually eliminate the small strongholds in the rear.
The soldiers of the Imperial Allied Army of Tsarist Russia were taken prisoner almost everywhere they went, but they encountered strong resistance when they were at the Berkroske Public School, and what made them even more unexpected was that the people who fought with them were actually Chinese, and the flag of the other side also hung the five-color flag of the Chinese. If it weren't for the fact that the other side shot at themselves, the Russian soldiers would have thought that the Chinese had sent a force into the city to occupy the middle school first.
Krasnov was not polite to this part of the Chinese, and ordered the troops to storm but met with fierce resistance, in order not to delay too long, Krasnov ordered to stop the air and turn into surveillance, and the Chinese did not launch a counterattack.
Wang Maoru was very surprised when he received the news that there was a squadron in the city of Berkrovsk, and then ordered part of the troops of the 3rd Division to enter the city of Berkrovsk at 12 o'clock in the morning, where the poison gas had dispersed, and sent someone to inquire which part of the resisting squadron belonged.
Thanks to the five-color flag of the Chinese intervention army, the Soviet Russian regiment defending the middle school was not attacked too fiercely, and the White Russian army only temporarily surrounded them in order to occupy other places. Several organizational breakthroughs ended in failure, leaving only one corpse and thousands of wounded in the middle school. When the poison gas occurred last night, it also caused heavy losses to the ** regiment, killing more than 2,000 people, more than 1,800 people were poisoned and injured, and there were only more than 1,900 capable fighters. However, they lacked ammunition and ammunition, which was also due to the lack of timely support due to the rejection of them by the Soviet 1st Army, and the soldiers of the ** regiment did not receive a single bullet after arriving in Berkrovsk. The Soviet army was afraid that they would deal with themselves, and Zinoviev did not intend to let the ** regiment immediately enter the battlefield, which caused the tragedy of the ** regiment at this time. Now, apart from caring for the wounded, they could only hold rifles with bayonets, ready to die in sorrow.
Several breakouts by the Chinese were brought back not only because the Chinese soldiers lacked ammunition, but also because the combat effectiveness of the Russian Imperial Allied Army was gradually improving. At first, most of them were strong men who had been brought in, and after several battles, they had grown into qualified warriors. The competitive and stubborn Russians are the most force-loving race, and if the people of Northeast China are rectums, the Russians are simply earthworms, with only one intestine and one tendon. After being reluctantly pulled into the soldiers, the soldiers of the Imperial Association Army became addicted to fighting, and they couldn't tell why they carried out the order to kill the other party, as long as they shot and killed people, they completely became a killing machine.
The 3rd Chinese Infantry Division entered Berkrovsk with a clear division of labor and was responsible for the southernmost part of the city, and they also met with partial resistance. Especially when it came to the banks of the Volga, because the water dissolved and absorbed poisonous gases, the troops on the banks of the river did not receive much effect. When they recovered, they frantically attacked the city and rescued many wounded Soviet soldiers. About 22,000 of the 63,000 Soviet troops fled to the river, where they held on to the riverside and escaped from the pursuit of the squadron with the assistance of the Volga flotilla.
At noon, the Soviet and Russian troops suddenly launched a large-scale attack on the city from the riverside, which somewhat made the Chinese and Russian soldiers of the Volga Army strange, they finally escaped and lost a large number of artillery, why did they rush into the city like crazy with only light weapons?
The Imperial Allied Army learned from the mouths of the captured Russians that it turned out that Zinoviev, the political commissar of their army group, had lost ...... Not long after he entered the city with the Soviet Central ** Regiment, he held a meeting of the whole army and went to each unit one by one to boost morale, but he disappeared because of the poison gas attack launched by the Chinese, and now it is not known which unit he is in, and he may have died.
Zinoviev here?
After receiving the information, the Russian soldiers became excited, especially Krasnov, the commander of the Imperial Allied Army, shouted with ecstasy: "Catch him, catch him before the Chinese!" Caught Gregory. Yevseyevich. Zinoviev! ”
As a result, the Russian Imperial Allied Army frantically searched for Zinoviev throughout the city, and the Chinese 3rd Division had to withstand the counterattack of the frenzied remnants of Soviet Russia.
On the Soviet side, the news that Zinoviev was trapped in Berkrovsk reached Moscow, and Lenin immediately ordered that Zinoviev must not fall into the hands of reactionary forces, and even ordered the 1st Army to cross the Volga, to capture Berkrovsk, to find and rescue Zinoviev.
So the Chinese strangely found that after the Russians had painstakingly returned to the city of Saratov on the west bank of the Volga, they had to return to the east bank again with great difficulty. Gay sadly took on the task of this counteroffensive and secretly saved Zinoviev, and he reluctantly lamented his unfortunate life.