203 Continue the pursuit
Matveev was also so angry with this answer that he almost vomited blood, flickering, definitely flickering, and using such outrageous reasons to fool himself, if it weren't for the fact that now the two families are joining forces, and he had to take care of his own face, otherwise Matveev would have run out as soon as possible and "educate" the guy in charge of intelligence in his army with a horsewhip, "Find!" Send the cavalry out to look for it, I don't believe it, the four-legged one can't outrun the two-legged one. Don't even think about resting until you find it! After a pause, he said to Faydinov, "That Far Eastern Republic Army seems to have a cavalry regiment of two or three thousand people near Chita, I will build a joint power generation together, let them also help find it, after all, this is not all about our two divisions!" ”
"Good!" Faydinov is the commander of the 1st Ural Infantry Division, the main force of the 1st Revolutionary Labor Army of Soviet Russia and the 1st Revolutionary Labor Army, and his understanding of the situation in the Far East is naturally not as good as that of Matveev of the 24th Division of the Simbirsk Iron Army, which is subordinate to the 5th Army of the Eastern Siberian Military District, but I don't know, it doesn't mean that it is wood, as the commander of the main division, he naturally still has his own combat style. I heard that there are still ten planes in the warehouses of the Far Eastern Republic! ”
"Those wooden shelves have long been set on fire by the White Russian army in a sneak attack last year, and the remaining few good ones have also been pulled to the front line, and now the one in the warehouse is a decoration, and even the gasoline for the plane to take off has been requisitioned to the front line." Matviev complained.
Listening to the resentful tone, Faydinov could only turn the topic back to the topic, "What about the cavalry?" They only have such a small number of cavalry? Can't you send some more four-legged ones to help? ”
"Not to mention their cavalry, the Far Eastern Army has a total of only 9,800 cavalry, and after the war with the Japanese, because it is the closest cavalry, almost all of them were transferred, but then the Japanese engaged in a "special operation", and the military region transferred them back as a "fire brigade", otherwise, we can't even borrow this cavalry! Matveev was even more angry when he spoke of the cavalry of the Far Eastern Army.........
The meeting lasted four hours, and after the meeting, none of the officers returned to their camps, but they all began to run around as if they had been beaten with red eyes, and the entire Soviet Russian military camp began to run at high speed.
On the 19th, the Russian convoy, having lost its objective, was advancing eastward, while casting a large net of cavalry in all directions.
"Ah, it's the Russian cavalry, it's ......"
On the flat wilderness, smoke and dust were everywhere, and more than 3,000 White Russian infantry who were busy prying the railway tracks and cooking on the fire were all staring at the iron horsemen swept by the blue sea on the ground in front of them, holding high snow-white Cossack sabers, and the dazzling white flowers.
Although there are only more than 1,000 opponents, looking at the momentum of the mountains and seas, many of the White Russian troops who were farmers before are gasping and trembling, and they are ready to flee before the battle.
"Raise your gun, fire! Fire! Wielding a small pistol, the officer leading the team had already kicked a stunned soldier to the bottom, and then directed the other White Russian soldiers to raise their guns and shoot.
The white Russian army in the sparse formation, only some people, shot bullets, but the power of the Soviet Russian cavalry charging into the formation instantly exerted the power of fear to the extreme, think about these people can't even stand on their feet, and a few people dare to aim and shoot slowly. The bold ones threw the guns and turned around and ran away after shooting the bullets in the chamber, and the timid ones had already sat down on the ground, unable to drag them out of their hands even if they were beaten or scolded. "What is suzhì?" The officer who led the team could only be speechless, after all, not everyone could form a formation on the plain to face the cavalry onslaught.
Ignoring the hopeless team, the officer sighed, took his horse, and turned around to take the first step.
"Found them?" Matveev asked.
"Yes!" Sure enough, there are still many people with great strength, and it only took one day and one night to make a discovery.
Matveev hurried to the map and asked, "Where are they now?" Did our cavalry bite them? ”
The officer who came to report "this ......." was stuck.
Faydinov, who was on the side, saw that the situation was not right, and immediately stepped forward to ask, "What's wrong?" Tell me the truth!"
"Yes! Report to the division commander, what we ate by the railway was not the main force of the White Russian baron's army, but a white Russian army that had defected to the Japanese army, and they crossed the border of China to get oil and water. However, they know the whereabouts of the 100,000 White Russians, the target of the White Russian Barons' Army is Tengda, and after arriving in Tengda, they will turn north, and there will be the five knights of the Barons' Army in Tengda. ”
"The Five Knights?" Faydinov looked at the "land snake" Matveev suspiciously.
Matveev immediately answered his questions, "The five knights, simply put, are the five cavalry regiments formed by the three most powerful barons in the Far East, namely the Crippled Knights, the Knights of Justice, the Knights of the Dark Clouds, and the Free Knights, oh! And the last of the knights who are not knights, the Vicious Dog Knights, also called the Husky Knights! ”
Faydinov was confused, "What kind of strange names are these, the knights are glorious examples, and there are people who name their knights after cripples and vicious dogs?" How powerful are they? It's all a rabble? ”
"A rabble? Their combat power should not be underestimated! The reason why they are not called cavalry regiments, but knights, is because each group is distinctive, not according to the number of people. The crippled knights are actually the knights formed by the Cossack cavalry exiled in Siberia, the combat power is first-class, they all crawled out of the dead people's team, all of them are wounded, more than a third of the people in the entire knight order have different disabilities, missing fingers, ears or something, all are trivial, and even missing arms and legs, because they are all composed of Cossacks from exile, the number is small, it seems that there are only more than 900 people. The Knights of Justice, which ranks second in combat power, is a team formed by the Soviet Russian cavalry after the mutiny, and its tactics and tactics are the same as our cavalry regiment, which can be described as a strong enemy, but fortunately, their number is not large, only more than 1,500 people. The Knights of the Dark Cloud is a team formed by the local Mongols and Kazakhs, with the largest number of people, the total number has always been about 6,000 people, roaring and whistling, and winning the tactical essence of the Mongolian cavalry. The fourth-ranked Free Knights is the Church Knights established locally by the Church implemented by the Tsarist Russian Empire, and it is also the most miscellaneous knight order under its jurisdiction, with a number of about 4,500 people, and the combat power of the knights is uneven, but they are all a group of religious fanatics, all of them are tied to grenades, and one bad thing is to die with our warriors, so this combat power is really not good. The last is not a knight's knights, the husky knights' combat power is also not a good evaluation, said to be a knights, in fact, it is a polar sled dog pulling a sled to form a knights, our people here also call them dog cavalry, the smallest number, only more than two hundred, but there are a lot of machine guns on the sled, the firepower is very strong, and it has snowed a few times recently, their combat power is even more rubbing up! ”
"......" After listening to the introduction, Faitinov glanced at Matveyev helplessly, Faitinov knew that he had met a group of freaks this time, the five knights, or the five monster groups, where did they collect strange people! Your Highness! If they don't leave Tengda, they and Matveev will have to gnaw on this hard bone. And from the current situation, the probability of this is as high as 90%.
On the 24th, which had been delayed for five days, Faitinov and Matveyev, who knew the military situation at the front, led the army under their command, and slowly moved to Tengda every day, but Tengda's 20,000 White Russian army was standing still, and even occasionally sent some scouts to come over to see the situation and tease, as if they were flattering and shouting "Come on!" Come on! ”。
The "vicious" provocation of the White Russian army provoked the "blood" of the Soviet Russian army. Together with the cavalry, together with the cavalry sent by the Far Eastern Army, the number of cavalry reached more than 5,000 cavalry, and it was easy to defeat the horse team of the harassing White Russian army. But when they met the dog cavalry, the two of them got tired of it, the dog cavalry moved in the snow far faster than the regular cavalry, and often used a machine gun to finish a chain of bullets, and then disappeared without a trace, so that the artillery observers of the Soviet Russian army did not have time to find the target, let alone set it up.
In just five days, the harassment of the dog cavalry alone cost the two of them 694 men, of course, including the dead and seriously wounded, not including the minor wounded. But no matter how much they grinded, in front of the urging telegram from the military region, the two still showed the attitude that the Soviet Russians should have, and they were not afraid of any difficulties and resolutely completed the task.
On the 27th, desperately wounded, they entered the Tengda territory.
In the past three days, there was good news and a bad news, the good news was that the other two armies were also in place, and the Soviet Russian army reached 30,000 in number, which was more than the 20,000 rear army of White Russia. The bad news is that the other two teams are the 26th and 30th Divisions of the Siberian Infantry, and the 51st and 62nd Divisions of the Siberian Infantry. But don't forget that they still have one point, that is, they are fighting with the Japanese army, and the consumption is too great, so they are rotated and repaired. The number of veterans in the army is not much, most of them are newly replenished recruits, and it may be no problem to protect the road, but against the main force of the elite White Russian cavalry, the result is not favorable. But even if Faitinov and Matveyev reported the matter to the military district, the military district would be powerless, and if the elite main forces from all over the country could be dispatched, then the previous order would have turned into a resolute on-the-spot expulsion of the White Russian army.
The 26th, 30th, 51st, and 62nd Divisions of the Siberian Infantry, all of which had been crippled by the Japanese army, were all remnants of the Japanese army, and although they could be replenished in the vast and sparsely populated Far East, after excluding the Chinese, how many people could be replenished, so the total of the four divisions was only more than 13,000 people.