254 No Return

If Ishim is defended now, it is equivalent to trapping the 70,000 forward troops of the White Russians between the two lines of Ishim-Tyumen, and on these two lines, the Russian army can send out a team of equal strength to encircle and suppress them.

As we all know, the elite of the White Russian Army is very few, and the vanguard is generally composed of elite troops, so don't look at the 150,000 White Russian Army under the city of Omsk, and at the same time there are 150,000 troops marching towards Ishim, but God knows how many guns there are in these 300,000 troops, what equipment they have, and how many troops can fight.

After all, due to the lack of intelligence, Yegorov did not know that the Tsarist Russians in Europe had joined forces with the White Russians and informed the White Russian expeditionary army of the location of some of the arsenals that had been hidden.

In Yegorov's view, as long as the 70,000 White Russian troops in front of him are destroyed, the predicament can be reversed in one fell swoop, and even if it cannot be eliminated, according to the words of Ishim, those people and troops on the Omsk defense line can be withdrawn. In addition to working as coolies here in Soviet Russia, these people are still high-quality soldiers, but in White Russia, the same situation is true. So if Yegorov gave up on them, it would be equivalent to sending hundreds of thousands of troops to Belarus.

"That's?" At the same time that Yegorov was asking about the scout cavalry, he had just gone to pursue the direction of the Mongol cavalry, and the sound of rumbling water rushing was heard again.

"Huh?"

Yegorov's eyes suddenly showed a light of surprise.

At this moment, in the distant sky, many black dots suddenly appeared, as if moving towards the direction of Yegorov and his party.

"It's the White Russian cavalry!" The Russian cavalry, who had just gone out to pursue, rushed all the way to their own ranks, shouting all the way.

"It's the main force of the White Russian cavalry, and it looks like it's definitely more than 10,000?" After a while, all the people on Yegorov's side saw that those black dots were all war horses, and some of the war horses were knights on their backs, and some were carrying supplies.

"There are more than 10,000 war horses, but there are definitely not tens of thousands!" Seeing that the other party was the same as his own family, many people on the Soviet side looked at their own head, Yegorov.

Even if the cavalry of the White Russians is superior in numbers, but in terms of the elite brought from Moscow by Yegorov's men, of course, it is nothing, one to five, a bit exaggerated, but one to three is still no problem. But the question of whether to destroy these White Russian cavalry or rush to the aid of Ishim was now in front of Yegorov.

None of the people around Yegorov interjected to ask questions at this time, but out of trust, Yegorov was allowed to think quietly there for a minute, "The whole army assaulted, and after breaking them up, continued to rush to the aid of Ishim." After deep thought, Yegorov gave the order to attack. The arrogance of Soviet Russia and Yegorov's previous achievements made the Soviet Russian cavalry present naturally ignore the cavalry of the other party's level, and it was not a problem to annihilate them all. But all the way out of Tyumen, all I saw and heard, was defeat, which had affected the morale of the entire team. So Yegorov was ready to take them out of anger and cheer up the morale of the army.

Of course, this is also based on equipment considerations, Yegorov came out of Tyumen this time, fighting the idea of taking over the command of the battlefield, if the city of Ishim is lost, he will never use cavalry to attack the city, so he did not bring a single heavy weapon, but brought twenty light but less powerful 37 infantry guns with the army, for use when necessary. Therefore, this time there was no need for artillery preparation before the usual battle, and Yegorov chose to charge directly.

Yegorov is not ignorant of military affairs, he volunteered to enlist in the army in 1901, graduated from the Kazan Infantry Civilian School in 1905, participated in the First World War, served as a company commander, battalion commander, regiment commander during that period, and was promoted to colonel in 1917. In 1918 he joined the Soviet Army.

During the Civil War, in August 1918, he led his troops to fight against the Krasnov Cossack White Bandits in the Barashov and Kamyshin sections, and in October he formed the 9th Army of the Southern Front on the basis of the original troops, and in December he became the commander of the 10th Army, which participated in the defense of Tsaritsyn and made a major contribution to the defeat of the Cossack White Bandits. In May 1919, Denikin's large army forced his way across the Saar River, and he commanded the 6th Cavalry Division to launch an assault on the enemy, destroying nearly three infantry regiments. In early October 1919, when Denikin's offensive posed a real threat to Moscow, he was appointed commander of the Southern Front, which had become the main front of the Soviet Republic. In order to eliminate the threat, he chose the campaign maneuver tactic of flanking and attacking the center to achieve the encirclement of the enemy's main force. In this operation, he paid special attention to the use of large cavalry forces. It was also he who developed and implemented the plan for the Kiev campaign in 1920. In his opinion, in the case of the enemy's numerical superiority, attention should be paid to suddenness, the concentration of forces and weapons in the main direction of the assault, decisive maneuvers, and the most rational use of the 1st Cavalry Army.

Therefore, in terms of the use of cavalry, Yegorov had incomparable authority in Soviet Russia. At this time, Yegorov gave the order to charge, but this charge was not a rush over, but also a battle formation. After receiving the order to attack, the Russian army calmly made preparations before the battle, and two teams of 500 people were scattered to the two wings, and from the high altitude, the formation of the Russian cavalry became an awl. As soon as they took their positions, they saw that the sky in the distance had turned into a yellow patch of dust raised by the horses' hooves, although the White Russian cavalry was only one person and two horses, or even one person and three horses, but a war horse wearing an eye patch came overwhelmingly, and the momentum was extremely shocking. In the distance, there are still black dots running in the sky, and it seems that the number of war horses owned by this group of cavalry is at least more than 20,000.

"At their pace, in three or four minutes, they will be in contact with us." Yegorov adjusted his military uniform slightly, and said to the officer beside him: "Tell the people in front of us, we will stay here for three or four minutes, and then continue to the east." These enemy horses, if they can be brought over at will, they can be collected at will, although they are worse than our horses, but they can still be used as auxiliary horses. ”

This team was brought out by Egorov from Moscow, and naturally he was the first to look at it, and the people around him, hearing Yegorov say this, just nodded, did not speak much, and quietly waited for the arrival of the other party.

After about a minute, the forward of the White Russian cavalry that came like a tide was only two or three thousand meters away from Yegorov's Soviet Russian cavalry formation, and the White Russian cavalry galloping in front had already sensed the unusual nature of Yegorov's group of cavalry.

Originally, this group of cavalry was in a scattered formation, and the entire marching team probably covered a range of at least seven or eight miles, but after feeling that Yegorov's side was unusual, the White Russian cavalry galloping at the forefront all set aside the auxiliary horses used in the march along the way, and transferred themselves to the war horses that had always retained their bodies on the back of the galloping horses. The speed of the road continued to surge towards Yegorov's side, and the entire White Russian cavalry formation in front of it contracted, and from a distance, it seemed as if a black cloud formed a sharp cone shape at the front end, rushing towards the awl on Yegorov's side.

"Charge!" Seeing that the White Russian army had entered a state and the momentum was out of control, the Soviet Russian cavalry also began to slowly trot and lift their horses to speed.

But almost as soon as the cone-shaped cone, at the front of these White Russian cavalry, met the Russian awl for less than a hundred meters. "Boom!" Rows of bullets had already scattered the hundreds of White Russian cavalry at the front.

Originally, with the ability of the Soviet Russian cavalry, if you fight against other cavalry, you must also be within a range of 100 meters to be able to accurately lock on and improve the accuracy of shooting. But now there are too many of these White Russian cavalry on the opposite side, just like the bottom of a girls' dormitory building after school, densely packed with people's heads, and throwing a brick will hit people if they throw it. Now as long as the Soviet Russian cavalry aims at the direction slightly, as long as it is not hit, it can hit the target if it misses at will, and it can hit the target in the crowd of these White Russian cavalry, which is the authentic "strafing". And even if the White Russian cavalry in front is lucky enough to dodge, many White Russian cavalry in the rear have no time to dodge, although the range of the cavalry gun is close, but it is more than 100 meters, so basically every row of light flames burst out from the Yegorov array, and at least more than ten White Russian cavalry on the other side fell off their horses, and the wounded were countless.

After the Soviet Russian army killed and injured a large number of knights in the first two rows of the opposing side, the cavalry of both sides finally closed the distance, and the White Russian army, which had been beaten, also had a chance to fight back.

"Ping Pong!" The gunfire continued, but after the first few rows of white Russian troops fell, the follow-up cavalry did not keep up, but a group of about 100 ownerless war horses rushed towards the Soviet Russian army one by one.

This sudden situation made the Soviet Russian cavalry stunned for a while, and while controlling their horses to avoid these rampaging horses, they continued to shoot at the White Russian cavalry behind the horses.

"It's the Free Knights!" As soon as the battle began, someone on Yegorov's side shouted out the number of the opposing White Russian army. For the five knightly orders under the command of the White Russian Army, Yegorov of course knew that except for the Husky Knights, who could only be stationed in Ulan-Ude due to seasonal reasons, the other four teams were temporarily pulled under the banner of the Western Expeditionary Army.

Rather than the Freikorn Order, which ranked fourth among the White Russian Knights and was known as the Order of the Church, Yegorov preferred to encounter a smaller crippled Order of Knights formed by Cossacks in exile in Siberia. Because compared to the Free Knights, at least the tactics of the Crippled Knights are a little more "humane".