218 Ambush on all sides 8
In this cavalry chase, Faitinov had forgotten how many times he had changed horses, and the Don hippopotamus he had brought from Europe had already frothed at the mouth and collapsed to the ground the next morning, but he still solved it with his own hands, saving it from pain. After that came the Kazakh horses of their own guards, the Ilima of the enemy cavalry, and now the worst, but the furthest Mongol horses.
To be honest, Faitinov, who was used to riding European high-headed horses before, really didn't look down on this kind of Mongolian horse that wanted speed but no speed, and had no body shape, but Mongolian horses were good at long-distance running, and they really didn't blow. I don't know how long it's been running, but the horse is still at this speed, slow and not in a hurry.
"Hey!" With a long sigh, Faydinov patted the horse on the neck and fed the horse some water. Looking at the team of less than 200 people around him, Faydinov's heart no longer hurts, this time he can run out, even if he does not go to the military court, he will have to be killed by those high-level Moscow officials, if he can die here with honor, it is not a bad thing.
"Blindly preserving strength, I didn't expect to end up like this!" Faitinov muttered in his heart, didn't think much about it for the moment, and looked behind him with a firm look.
"Here we go again!" Spit out a sentence softly, Faitinov tidied up his military uniform and resolutely stepped on the war horse.
The Soviet Russian cavalry around him were also silently doing the same action without words. In the past three days of pursuit, there have been no less than 80 fights, large and small, and everyone has already become numb from fighting.
Seeing that everyone was ready, Faydinov put his hand in his arms and touched the French grenade hanging from his underwear. If a high-ranking officer like himself is killed by the Japanese army, he will also be "photographed" after death, such as posing in some "special" pose or something. Although I don't know if the White Russian army will have such a "special hobby", if it falls into the hands of the former cavalry commander Rokossovsky, it is estimated that he will treat himself like a martyr. But in case it fell into the hands of the chief Cossack of that sworn enemy, Poyarkov...... Thinking of this, Faitinov didn't have to "shudder", Faitinov didn't want to be treated like this.
"This grenade should be your own "glory bullet"! Faydinov thought helplessly. Looking at the place where he might be about to die, it was still covered with snow, and the shallow grass beside the river beach was sandwiched with some ice crystals.
"It's the Mongols!" When they got closer, the other party came quickly, and the sharp-eyed cavalry immediately recognized it from the opponent's clothing as the Mongolian cavalry.
"It's hard to deal with!" Although the opponent was a relatively weak Mongolian cavalry, Faydinov still felt that it was difficult to deal with it. If he died at the hands of these white people, Faydinov didn't feel anything, but thinking that he was going to die at the hands of these yellow people, the white "nobility" in Faitinov's heart began to attack.
"Kill them all!" Faydinov saw that the other side was also a small force, numbering about three hundred. In the chase for several days, it was these Mongol cavalry that Faitinov hated the most.
Their combat strength is not strong, but wherever the Soviet Russian cavalry brigade passes, whether it is a meandering river, an undulating mountain, or a desert plain, they will be ambushed by these small groups of Mongolian cavalry from time to time.
These Mongols, relying on their familiarity with the terrain and being elusive, often dared to attack a team of thousands of people with three or five people, and they were very bold. They attacked from the flank or rear, suddenly appeared, after a blow, regardless of the result of the battle, and quickly retreated, never in love with the war, which gave Faydinov a headache, several times tried to "fish" but did not catch, and later tried to pursue, more people sent were ambushed, and less sent was there to go and no return, and in the end Faitinov could only bury his head in the road and ignore it. However, this behavior led the Mongols to become more and more arrogant, and sometimes even put stumbling ropes and traps on the road, these "irregular" tactics severely delayed the march of the Russian cavalry.
This "irregular" tactic continued until the afternoon of the following day, when the Knights of Justice of the White Russians and the crippled Knights of the Cossacks were able to take turns resting before attacking the exhausted Russian cavalry.
The afternoon and evening of the next day were the days when the Russian cavalry suffered the greatest losses, during which about 3,000 men were killed or captured due to the lack of horsepower and other reasons.
Think about that time, "Report to Comrade Commander-in-Chief!" Our army was ambushed by the White Russian army in front, and the banner of its army was composed of kulaks near Lake Baikal, numbering about two thousand! At present, the 1st Regiment of the 1st Cavalry Brigade of the Far Eastern Army has gone to intercept it! ”
"Report to Comrade Commander-in-Chief! Our army was ambushed by the White Russian army in front, and the banner of the army was the main force of the White Russian barons in the Ardan region, with about 3,000 people and 1,000 cavalry! At the moment, two regiments of the 3rd Cavalry Brigade of the Far Eastern Army have gone to intercept! ”
"......" recalled that one after another the communication soldiers disappeared in front of him, Faitinov just turned his head to look at the soldiers and horses behind him, took a deep breath, and said helplessly, "Keep going!" "Regardless of the life or death of the Soviet Russian cavalry who went to intercept the White Russian army, Faydinov at that time was bent on breaking through.
But Faydinov's 6,000 cavalry was only about 3,000 the next morning, and after a night's losses, Faitinov was now left with only a few 200 men, and the rest were either scattered, wiped out or captured.
But with fewer people, there are also benefits to fewer people. Due to the smaller target, Faitinov disappeared from the Mongols' radar that night, and it was not so easy to find a small team in the vast wilderness of Siberia. So the Mongols could only disperse and look for Faydinov. Of course, there is also a goal to look for, for example, rivers and other places that are easy to replenish water. After a long run, the man did not drink water, and the horse always had to drink, otherwise they would simply run out of the wilderness.
"The other party has slowed down!" The guards around him shouted, and it was clear that the Mongol cavalry had also spotted Faitinov and them, "Whoosh! "A flare was fired into the air.
As for the usual tactics of the Mongols, the die-minded Faitinov was no longer affected in the slightest.
It may be that seeing Faitinov, they did not flee in a hurry as they had done a few days ago, and the Mongol cavalry on the opposite side did not continue their marching column at this moment, but put on an attack formation.
"Comrades, the most difficult moment has come, for the sake of Moscow, forward!" Faitinov did not make an impassioned positional speech, and for these soldiers, who crawled out of the pile of dead, it was all false. With only one command, Faitinov launched this charge, which is called the "backwater". From this tactic, it can be seen that the Soviet Russian army at this time still had strong self-confidence in the face of the Mongols. This, of course, also reveals the character of Faitinov himself. The divisional cadres who have been fighting in the European theater are not comparable to the divisional cadres after the Great Purge of Soviet Russia, if possible, he will of course choose to avoid the war to preserve his strength, but once he is in a desperate situation, Faydinov also shows that he is a decisive master.
Although these Russian cavalry appeared to be hungry and impulsive in battle, they had no formation to speak of. They attacked in a loose formation, which was also a new cavalry formation developed after the First World War in Europe in order to prevent the cavalry from being strafed by machine guns like a target. But their opponents were in a looser formation. The tactical formation of the Mongols was very flexible, and the dense horse teams immediately dispersed into three, three, five, or five squads, which covered each other, and the enemy was divided and united, and they were interspersed and annihilated like flowers and butterflies in the encirclement of the Soviet Russians, and the Mongols were skilled in riding and shooting, sometimes even without pulling the reins, holding guns in both hands, and shooting at the Soviet Russian cavalry.
These Mongol cavalrymen were highly skilled, performing all sorts of unbelievable maneuvers on their horses, and on bumpy horses, they were all very good at their marks. After all, in terms of riding and archery ability, the Mongols have dominated the world since the time of their ancestors, and how many of the Soviet cavalry of the Russian army have been riding horses and sheep since they were young and began to train, which is like these steppe cavalry? Their riding and archery culture has developed to the bone.
Therefore, the Mongols did not fall behind in the confrontation with the Soviet Russian cavalry, and in the hand-to-hand combat with the Soviet Russian cavalry, the chain mail that the Mongols have been inheriting helped a lot. The Russians had very weak armor, only thick armor, and the difference in armor made them pay the price of additional casualties.
As for the weapons of hand-to-hand combat, the Soviet Russian cavalry are all Russian-style swords, but in addition to sabers and spears, the Mongolian cavalry also has some flying axes, iron bones and other weapons in their hands, and there is even a Mongolian man wielding a meteor hammer, although the appearance is ugly, but the effect is very significant, and those who are hit by the meteor hammer immediately withdraw from the battlefield.
Faydinov watched his cavalry keep falling from their horses, while very few of the opponent's men and horses fell from their horses. But the war is still stalemate, and it is not one-sided.
But what made him very annoyed was that the Mongolian cavalry only invested 200 people to join the battlefield, and the remaining more than 100 Mongols, divided into two roads, galloped towards the battlefield in groups, passing past their own cavalry, each time either the sound of gunfire, or the horse rope or something to greet their own cavalry, only let them go around the battlefield twice, and the Soviet and Russian cavalry in the battlefield was a large wave.
The remaining smart Russian cavalry also began to slowly form a circle and form a formation to protect themselves. And the Soviet Russian cavalry, which was outside this camp, was soon cleaned up by the Mongol cavalry.