Chapter 1631: The First Opponent
This is also Stalin's primary purpose, in order to completely liberate and dominate the Kazakhstan region, first of all, it is necessary to defeat the Russian army on the Orenburg side, it is expected that there may be 3 to 50,000 people, most of them are regular troops, it will be the first regular battle of the Bolsheviks, for this Stalin attaches great importance to this, when the time will be sent to 4 divisions, including the first Bolshevik division, 100,000 people to attack Orenburg, with the powerful artillery fire of the first Bolshevik division, plus the combat effectiveness of the Bolshevik army, It shouldn't be a problem to take it. Pen % fun % Pavilion www.biquge.info
This is only the first step to occupy Kazakhstan, Stalin is not arrogant, after defeating the Russian army, Kazakhstan will raise his hand to vote, even if Kazakhstan is under Russian rule, for so many years, Kazakhstan has not been completely annexed, the local aristocracy and ethnic forces are quite strong, according to the memories of Kazakh soldiers, these Kazakh ethnic forces are mainly concentrated in Nogai, Kyrgyzstan, Karakali Pak and other places.
Because it is necessary to deal with the Russian army first, not Kazakhstan, so after defeating the Russian garrison, the Bolshevik army will turn from dark to light, which is also the biggest drawback, but unfortunately in order to take root in Kazakhstan, and in order to transform and change the power of Kazakhstan, they cannot attack directly and indiscriminately, leaving at most 2 divisions, making preparations, and then slowly drawing it. This would have caused even more damage, but for the sake of the overall situation of the revolution, Stalin chose the most difficult path almost without any other choice.
More than 5,000 Kazakh soldiers and nearly 3,000 Kazakh Bolshevik party members, all of whom have different tasks, will be divided into at least 300 squads, each of which has about 30 people, and cannot deal with the formed armed men, but the task of these people is not armed struggle, they are propaganda, to inform the people at the bottom about the Bolshevik policy, prospects, to encourage the people to join the Bolshevik Party, Or even to launch an armed revolution to overthrow the reactionary regime.
Armed struggle is not a tradition of the Bolsheviks for the time being, but propaganda offensive has always been the strong point of the Bolsheviks, as long as there are enough personnel in the propaganda, there are only more than 8 million people in the whole of Kazakhstan, as long as more than 7 percent of them are attributed to the Bolsheviks, the rest can be all fought, not to be **** off like the revolution, and can be sent to China to do coolies.
Nearly 10,000 people, riding away, able to come out of Central Asia, most of them will ride horses, the rest, at most, let people take a belt, relative to the speed of less than 40 kilometers a day on foot, riding horses can ensure a minimum of 200-300 kilometers a day, so that you can quickly reach the target area, propaganda at the same time, but also for the Bolsheviks.
On the first day of entry, these propagandists had just left, and there was no intelligence feedback back, they were mainly discussing the affairs of Orenburg, according to the news from the Chinese side, the Orenburg map was also sent, summarizing the information of Kazakhstani nationality and the reconnaissance report of the Chinese side, and finally got the news that the total number of Russian troops in Orenburg was reduced by a part than expected, It's about 27,000 people, and the defense of Orenburg is also very clear, the Russian army has not done a certain defense, the only problem is that the heavy firepower cannot keep up for the time being, and the artillery with the army, the largest is only 75 mm.
For the soldiers, of course, they want to fight for the best conditions, for this, Stalin did not say much, thinking of sending a large propaganda team, in a certain sense, there is no need to worry for the time being, the first battle for the Bolshevik army, no less than the first battle of Liwei, must be fought well, so in the plan, they are ready to spend about 30 days, to reach the vicinity of Orenburg, and then concentrate 2-3 divisions of heavy artillery, completely destroy the will of the defenders' defense, and show their arrival to Kazakhstan.
Stalin's location, in the middle of the entire Russian army, at the forefront, is the Cossack cavalry, a total of 2 divisions, a total of 50,000 Cossack cavalry divisions, as the vanguard of entering Kazakhstan, they need to quickly arrive in Orenburg, completely blockade Orenburg, to provide time for the follow-up troops, after all, Kazakhstan is a huge Central Asian country, with more than 8 million people, even if it is sparsely populated, there is always a policy of entering densely populated areas, Bolshevik policy, They were not allowed to exterminate all news, in case the defenders chose another method, or simply ran away, such a fist full of strength would not be empty all at once, and this was related to the first battle to show the strength of the Bolsheviks, and there was no room for failure.
50,000 cavalry, 130,000 horses, some even guaranteed one person and three horses, plus the follow-up logistics troops, the two divisions have a total of 180,000 horses, it is such a huge number of horses, to the two Cossack cavalry divisions brought a strong mobility ability, on the first day, in the follow-up of the large army, when the march of 37 kilometers, the cavalry division broke through 300 kilometers, and it is expected that in a maximum of 3 days, it will be able to reach the vicinity of Orenburg, at least about a month faster than the main force.
The Cossack cavalry, excited, even when they were in Siberia, did not have such a hearty feeling, even the main force of the Cossacks, can not guarantee one person and two horses, after a long run, before entering the combat state, must be rested, but under the premise of one person and two horses or even three horses, you can not spare horsepower, full force rush, the feeling of 300 kilometers a day, for most Cossacks, is a feeling that has not been enjoyed for a long time, They roamed freely over the vast fields, and only when it was getting late did they begin to camp in fixed positions, which must have been sparsely populated and suitable for large cavalry camps.
The Cossacks felt amazing about this, but it was not at all difficult for the planes in the air, for the central part and this part of the assault force to maintain reconnaissance and early warning, because the speed of the Russian army below was very slow, they only had to determine the position, and then within a radius of 100-150 kilometers, as long as there were no large-scale hostile forces, it was fine.
It's just that the vanguard cavalry unit must ensure safety, and a total of 4 groups are keeping an eye on here, but it seems that Kazakhstan has not reacted at all, and has not found out at all that such a powerful force has entered the territory of Kazakhstan.
For the well-informed Chinese Air Force, among the subjects of the exercise, even large-scale parachute drops and airdrops of strategic transport planes have been done, and when the strategic aircraft group is sufficient, the rapidly advancing armored units can even rely on the airdrop to fight continuously for more than two weeks and break through 5,000 kilometers.
After the cavalry unit entered Kazakhstan for more than 2 days, it almost reached the periphery of Orenburg, divided into different parts of the troops, and kept annihilating the Russian troops.
It's a pity that all the movements of the Russian army are under the detection of the aircraft, and as soon as the Russian army left Orenburg, the cavalry troops were informed of the situation with the help of the radio, and the rear according to the map, several plans were proposed, and finally the cavalry division chose a sneak attack, with the help of the intersection of the two mountains, and finally 50,000 people completely surrounded the brigade of less than 3,000 people, whether it was the number of people or firepower, it was far from being the opponent of the Bolsheviks, and after resisting for 1 hour, the Russian army of this brigade chose to surrender.
With the addition of this brigade, the entire Orenburg army lost almost one-seventh, which is not a small number, and the defenders of Orenburg no longer had the courage to come out to resist, they began to shrink, and all the troops sent out around them were shrunk back.
This choice cannot be said to be wrong, if there are only two divisions of cavalry, this is the most correct choice, relying on a relatively strong city defense, used to resist the strong front of the cavalry, in the case of resolute resistance and reinforcements, they should be able to achieve victory, but unfortunately the current Russian army in Kazakhstan is isolated, and it can't even be communicated to the outside world, this side of Central Asia, it is not a place where cable telegraphs come through, Russian cable telegraphs are laid through the Trans-Siberian Railway, after Siberia is occupied by China, The whole of Central Asia is in a state of poor communication, and if you want to communicate, you still need to use the messenger method as in the past, and this kind of efficiency has fallen far behind compared with this era.
Now, the situation is reversed, not only the dominant Bolshevik army has reinforcements, but the Russian army does not, the Russian army also misjudged the state of the Bolshevik army, thinking that this is just a revolutionary party's armament, training is not good, weapons are not good, if they force a breakthrough, even if the Cossack cavalry is strong, it is impossible to react, after all, they are not familiar with the place, but when they shrink down, the Cossacks can calmly occupy some points, when the strategic points and passages around Orenburg are blocked, The remaining Russian army, which is less than 22,000 people, has become a turtle in the urn, and it can be taken only after the main forces of the Bolsheviks arrive.
Things went smoothly, even more than Stalin expected, after determining that there was no blocking force ahead, the follow-up troops began to speed up, although the field march with heavy equipment was not fast, but it was not unacceptable, the road after half a month, 500 kilometers passed, where a temporary base camp was established, and then with the equipment that could be carried, began to speed up the march, and it is expected that after 8 days, it will be able to reach Orenburg. (To be continued.) )