"The commander is right, no matter what time it is, we can't underestimate the enemy. The return of the White Russian army this time shows that the forces of Tsarist Russia are not yet dead. Only by completely destroying them can we make Soviet Russia feel at ease and fight those robbers in Europe. ”

"The power of Tsarist Russia...... The latest news from Moscow said that the White Russian army in front of them is not the same as the Tsarist Russian forces that have stirred up the storm in Europe, and those European Tsarist Russia are bent on restoration or the formation of a bourgeois government, while the White Russia in the Far East is somewhat like Prussia before reunification, taking the line of various minor nobles working together to form the Duma, and is noncommittal about whether it will be restored or not. So recently there have been people in Moscow who have built yì, divided them, and then ...... Forget it, anyway, they are also our enemies at the moment, we suffered too many defeats a few days ago, this time your unit must be in good spirits no matter what, and play the prestige of your unit in the domestic war, and also the prestige of our Soviet soldiers!"

"Yes, Messenger! The herald that in this battle, we must show the prestige of our division in the domestic war, and we must also show the majesty of our Soviet soldiers!"

As he spoke, sporadic shells had begun to fall on the Soviet positions, and the commander of the infantry division was busy saying for the sake of Yegorov's safety: "Commander, the White Russian army has begun artillery reconnaissance, please return to the command post quickly!" ”

Yegorov knew that this was a send-off order, waved his hand, and said with a smile: "You go and get busy, be more careful yourself." After speaking, he added: "If you can't stop it, you will retreat to the second line of defense, and I will tell you to respond to it." ”

"Thank you, Commander."

Egorov retreated to the underground command post of the second line of defense. I was very puzzled, today's tactics of the White Russian Army surprised Yegorov very much, since the White Russian Army began its westward expedition, the cavalry has always been the main force of the White Russian Army, so after Yegorov obtained Stalin's 3,000 elite cavalry of Soviet Russia, he deliberately highlighted the Ural region, intending to resist the cavalry of the White Russian Army with cavalry against cavalry. However, this time, the White Russian army did change its previous temperament, and for the first time took the initiative to use tanks that were not easy to carry as the main attacking force, which made Yegorov a little strange. After returning to the command post, Yegorov kept looking at the map suspiciously, trying to find out from the map the true intentions of his opponent Rokossovsky.

However, Rokossovsky's attack route this time was obviously very single, and the scouts sent by the Soviet Russian army to the surrounding area did not find anything abnormal at all, making it impossible to find the rest of the attack routes of the White Russian army.

But the more this happened, the more panicked Yegorov became, like Rokossovsky, who was born in cavalry, Yegorov himself was an expert in cavalry warfare, otherwise Stalin would not have given him so many cavalry commands. So Yegorov knew his opponent too well, how could Rokossovsky, who was also a cavalry general, give up the use of cavalry in such an important battle?

Could it be that because of the use of tanks, new tactics were adopted? That's why you changed your character? But when I think about it, I can't make sense, the country is easy to change, the nature is difficult to change, no, there must be something wrong!

Yegorov secretly thought about what was wrong, and while looking at the map quietly, he continued to send reconnaissance cavalry around Ishim, in a vain attempt to find out where the cavalry of the White Russian army was, and in just half an hour, a cavalry team of 1,000 people was sent around.

Seeing that Yegorov was secretly anxious, the adjutant, who had been silent, suddenly took two steps forward and said to Yegorov: "Commander, two regiments of cavalry have already been sent, and if they are sent out again, it will be too late for them to come back to fight!" In fact, the White Russian army had seen this tactic when Denikin fought Moscow, but at that time, the White Russian army only had more than 20 combat vehicles, most of them were armored vehicles, and there were very few tanks, but this time it was two or three hundred, which was ten times more, and it was not easy to defend. After speaking, he glanced at it with concern in the direction of the first line of defense, "If the front line is tight, I will transfer a few more full veteran infantry companies to it." ”

"Well, get these infantry companies ready to go up, just wait and talk! This will be artillery reconnaissance! Knowing that he was not too anxious to show his feelings now, otherwise he would mess up his military morale, and Yegorov could only put the "bet" of this battle on the infantry division that had been put together temporarily. Of course, although it is said that it was temporarily put together by stragglers from all walks of life, this infantry division still gathered more than 1,400 Soviet and Russian officers and soldiers who had been on active duty for more than one year, as well as more than 2,700 veterans who had been re-recruited after retirement.

In Yegorov's heart, he can't be said to be full of confidence in this defense, but he is also 7 or 8 percent sure. But the commander of the infantry division on the front line has never put the White Russian Western Expeditionary Army in his eyes, even if it was the previous "retreat", it was the excuse that the White Russian Army had the advantage of a surprise attack and would get the current record to comfort his subordinates, and at the same time declared that to deal with the enemy in front of him, as long as he did the White Russian army against Denikin in the Civil War, he used a few elite infantry companies to tear a hole in their defensive line, and the White Russian army on the defensive line was afraid that the enemy would be attacked on its back, and most of them would collapse on their own, and then it would be the pursuit battle that the Soviet army was best at.

His idea is actually the idea of Yegorov, the top level of the Soviet army, because the Soviet army fought with the White Russian army, and it has always been like this, the white Russian army in the civil war, once it was attacked by the enemy, either broke up, or surrendered en masse after being surrounded, so the Soviet army's strategy for the White Russian army has always been to absorb and reorganize, otherwise in just a few years, how could the Soviet army develop to a million army.

"There is an enemy!" In sight, there was a sudden movement on the position of the White Russian army, and it seemed that it was preparing to attack.

After reporting that the White Russian army took the initiative to attack, Yegorov immediately led a group of generals and colonels to the trenches to watch the battle.

From a distance, it can be seen that the White Russian army is moving very carefully, the army is open with tanks and armored vehicles, and the infantry is faintly visible behind them, although the advance speed is slow, but it does not show any flaws.

Yegorov couldn't help but look at Rokossovsky, the commander of the White Russian Army, and secretly said that although this kid had taken such a big advantage before, and in one fell swoop, he broke through the two lines of defense formed by 70,000 or 80,000 Soviet troops, but he was still so cautious.

At the moment, seeing the "crawling" forward of the White Russian army "groping and groping", all the units of the Soviet army deployed in the first line of defense were quietly waiting for the advance soldiers and horses of the White Russian army to charge. However, after waiting for a long time, I still didn't see any stragglers of the White Russian army coming out to kill, and when they were confused, "Boom, boom! "A column of smoke suddenly rose from the Soviet position, and the artillery of the White Russian army was like crazy, and at all costs, it radiated nearly 20 minutes of artillery bombardment to the Soviet position in one breath, almost completely flattening the original temporary trenches of the Soviet army.

When the first line of defense was flattened, the White Russian army did not stop its crazy moves, but instead extended its artillery fire, shelling all the way to the second and third lines of defense.

"Bah, bah, bah" spit out the soil in their mouths, and one by one the Soviet troops climbed up from the trenches covered with floating soil like Tuxingsun, but they saw that outside their trenches, less than 400 meters, the White Russian army was still hiding behind the chariot formation at a snail-like speed, without temptation, without a striker, and directly pressed up on the Soviet position with a large army.

"What's going on? What kind of play does the White Russian Army have? This kind of "playing with life" is unheard of by the Soviet army. There are no sharp soldiers, there is no way, which is equivalent to "ignoring the enemy army in front", and the White Russian army crashed into it like a stunned young man, and this crazy way of playing shocked the generals of the Soviet army.

But on the battlefield, there was no time to be stunned, seeing the Soviet troops crawling out of the soil one by one, the large formation of the White Russian army did not stop, and directly pressed up, and the first few White Russian tanks had begun to fire artillery at the Soviet position! Of course, with tanks of this era, they are still shooting on the move, and how much that hit rate is, that depends on luck.

Seeing that the soldiers around him were all shelled, they were stunned, but the infantry division commander on the front line patted the soil on his hat and shouted to a cadre: "What are you doing in a daze?!" Didn't you see that the artillery of the White Russian Army was a flock of rookies? Bomb us for twenty minutes, what's the use? No matter how they fight, let's remember one thing and don't let them pass! Pass the order down, and count the number of people in each department! Ignore the tanks in front of you and bite their infantry! ”

With the leader, the Soviets finally began to recover from the stun of the shelling, and the low-ranking officers began to urge the soldiers to prepare for battle.

Outside Ishim, the terrain was flat, which was conducive to cavalry charges, and Yegorov knew it, and Rokossovsky knew it, but Rokossovsky finally decided to compete with the Soviets with the tactics of mainly infantry and armored vehicles.

Even if the cavalry can win more or less, the infantry still has little chance of winning in the case of one to one, or even three to one, but the team deployed by the Soviet army on the front line this time is really the same as expected, only seven or eight thousand people, although the number accounts for more than half of the Soviet infantry, but compared with the number of 30,000 white Russian infantry, it is still a little thin. So Rokossovsky is full of confidence in breaking through the Soviet defense line, of course, his confidence is not just based on the advantage of numbers, Zhao Yun gave him enough killer weapons before he set out on the expedition, before the westward expedition, Zhao Yun was worried that the firepower of the Soviet army from Europe would be one or two grades higher than that of the Soviet army in the Far East, so he put the latest 23,000 new "water beads" and 12,000 revolvers in place, in addition, Zhao Yun even drew out the submachine guns equipped with various armies in China, Fully equipped with 4,800 I18s of the Western Expeditionary Army for them to bring to the Urals, so in terms of firepower, the White Russian army can be said to be far superior to the Soviet Russian army.