Chapter 473: The Hammer and the Scythe (I)
Although in order to avoid suspicion on the part of the Tsarist side, Budyonny's troops were only equipped with those captured by the Chinese government, and had no advantage over the Tsarist army; Also to avoid arousing suspicion, they did not have a special baggage force with them, so the ammunition only carried a base; In terms of troops, the Red Army is also much smaller than the enemy, and the Red Army that has come to Moscow at present is the cavalry unit led by Budyonny, with a total strength of only 50,000 or 60,000 men, less than one-third of the enemy; But the uprising was unexpectedly shattered, taking all sides by surprise......
In just one day, the Red Army took full control of the city, then opened the arsenal and armed the workers in the city, and the total number of the Red Army swelled to hundreds of thousands almost in the blink of an eye. Pen? Interesting? Pavilion wWw. biquge。 At the same time, Budyonny boldly led the army to take the initiative to meet the attack, giving full play to the advantages of cavalry mobility, and annihilated the two white armies that rushed to the rescue, killing more than 11,000 enemies and capturing more than 40,000 people, while Budyonny's troops only suffered less than 3,000 casualties, and the combat effectiveness of the Red Army returned to the west was fully demonstrated in this battle, and even the instructor couldn't help but be stunned when he learned about it, the Red Army on his own side should have such strong combat effectiveness, maybe the St. Petersburg uprising had been successful.
However, it was not too late to know, and the mentor immediately rushed to Moscow with the remnants of the defeated army after the failure of the St. Petersburg uprising to join the Budyonny group, and the problem of insufficient officers, especially political workers, was solved after the rapid expansion of the Moscow Red Army, and the strength became stronger and stronger, and soon the east reached Nizhny Novgorod, and successfully joined forces with the million-strong Red Army led by Comrade Iron himself, and the situation of the Russian Revolution was fundamentally reversed, and at this time less than a month had passed since the Moscow uprising was launched......
Together with the eastern bank of the Volga River, which was handed over by the Chinese government, the Red Army had taken control of a vast area of land west of the Urals/Ural River, north of the Caucasus Mountains, and east of Moscow, covering an area of more than 2 million square kilometers, and it was completely contiguous, and the total population of the Soviet zone had exceeded the actual control of the tsarist government......
In terms of military strength, with the release of all the remaining prisoners of war by Li Hui and the almost frenzied expansion of the Bolsheviks in the areas under their control, the total strength of the Red Army has snowballed to more than 4 million. In contrast, the strength of the White Army has shrunk to less than 3 million after several successive defeats, and the balance of strength between the two sides has been fundamentally reversed, and the situation of the Russian Revolution is very good!
After several successive field defeats, Tsar Nicholas II completely lost the courage to attack, but although the White Army retreated into the city for a little longer, it made most political groups completely disappointed in it, so that not many people participated in the Duma elections that were forced to be held in advance, and even the god Rasputin began to pack up his soft preparations and follow the Tsar's family to take refuge abroad, and anyone with a little brain could see that the Romanov dynasty had reached the end of the road.
Although the strength of the Soviet Russian Red Army was extremely inflated, the "Soviet Cavalry Front" formed after the victory of the Moscow Uprising as a fist force has never been over-expanded (of course, this is also related to the high threshold of the cavalry itself), so it still maintains a strong combat effectiveness, and even to a certain extent, they have been far stronger than during the Moscow Uprising, because the Red Army cavalry generals led by Budyonny have matured rapidly during this period of campaign. Speaking of which, it is actually easy to fall off the chain to become the commander of an army without any actual combat experience, but the fragility of the white army has quickly established their confidence, if all this is not secretly promoted by Li Hui behind the scenes, someone will definitely attribute it to providence......
After the victory, the main forces of the Red Army returned to the division and attacked westward towards the most important target, St. Petersburg, while Budyonny led his cavalry front south into the southern Russian steppe, where his task was to clear the Cossack rebels there, and at the same time recover the large Ukrainian granary as soon as possible and ensure the supply of the main forces of the Red Army in the north.
The Cossack rebels on the Black Sea coast thought that the revolutionary storm unleashed by the Bolsheviks was a God-given opportunity for their independence, but they did not expect that the Red Army had already stabbed at them before they had taken the capital and seized the status of legitimacy......
In less than two months, Budyonny's cavalry front had recovered the entire territory of Eastern Ukraine and the Crimean Peninsula (at this time Crimea was not part of Ukraine), and at the same time greatly consolidated the control of Soviet Russia over the northern Caucasus, and strongly supported the operations of the Third Front south of the Caucasus Mountains (led by Comrade Iron himself, but he did not return home, but completely cut off those separatists with blood and fire, which can only be done by his position and iron fist). During this period, more than 100,000 Cossack rebels were captured and forced to land even more, and the cavalry front was further expanded into a heavy army group with four or five hundred thousand horses.
It is worth mentioning that before the cavalry front took the Crimean peninsula, most of the sailors of the Black Sea Fleet of the Tsarist Navy declared an uprising to meet Budyonny's army, the Sevastopol naval base and most of the combat ships of the Black Sea Fleet were taken over by the Red Army, and those middle and senior officers who were unwilling to surrender to the Bolsheviks and the few units they could still control fled to Turkey, Russia's old enemy in the south, under the leadership of Kolchak, the chief of operations of the Black Sea Fleet......
However, in this time and space, the Tsarist Pacific Fleet has never been fully developed, without them to disperse the naval funds, and the Tsarist Russian Navy did not suffer much loss during the Three Kingdoms War, so the current strength of the Black Sea Fleet is only stronger than in history, not weaker, even if Kolchak and others fled to Turkey, the latter's navy is still difficult to challenge the Black Sea Fleet's dominance in this sea area.
On the day Kolchak and others escaped, the Sailors Soviet, the current supreme authority of the Black Sea Fleet, dispatched a large number of ships to escort tens of thousands of elite troops of the cavalry front to the west coast of the Black Sea and liberate Odessa, the fourth largest city in Russia.