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Volume 3 Far East Story Chapter 285 Machine Gun Battle Mountain Cannon

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    ~Date:~October 12~

    "That's it That's it ¡Ü Commander You are really the reincarnation of Zhou Yu! Taro has learned a lesson!" Utsunomiya Taro immediately regarded the commander-in-chief of the coalition forces as a god. His fifty-seven-year-old son is quite old.  , now a young Chinese king like Shunroku Hata is really regarded as an idol.

    "Well, the commander of the Fourth Group Army in the south is not simple. Deputy Chief of Staff, you see, although the group army is nominally composed of six infantry divisions and one cavalry division, its actual strength is only a little over 50,000, right? Look, he is not  He is willing to engage in human aviation techniques. It seems that he wants to use firepower to suppress Petrovich's defense and look for opportunities to break through! Tian Jun, is that commander a former Tsarist general? "

    While looking at the southeastern defense line through the telescope, Wang Geng chatted with Taro Utsunomiya about the battle situation, and asked the staff officer and think tank behind him, former Japanese Army Colonel Shunroku Sahata, today's Director of the Operations Room of the Allied Forces Headquarters, and Chinese Army Major General Tian Jun.

    "Your Excellency, Commander, the commander of the Fourth Army Group opposite the Petrovich Line of Defense is Rzhevsky. He was a Tsarist Russian general. He served as a division commander under their invincible war god Alexei Brusilov. He is worthy of the title.  A brave and strategic general, he followed Brusilov to serve the Soviet Union after the October Revolution. In the Eastern Front, he was regarded as a general of Trotsky's faction! "

    Major General Tian Jun replied with familiarity, and then whispered, "Your Excellency, Commander-in-Chief, the reply from Hawkeye 3 has arrived. The main force of Vacetis's Fifth Army is still at the Jieqiushi Ferry, and there are currently only two people crossing the river.  Division, the action is progressing slowly. At this speed, it may not be possible to cross the river in another two days. The Volga River fleet is currently located between the two ferries of Seseran and Teichuzhen, and it seems to be heading north to Kazan.  direction!"

    "Well, call back and ask Hawkeye 3 to keep an eye on the movements of the Fifth Army, and pass the information to Mr. Kolchak in Kazan, telling him to be prepared. At least five divisions of mobile troops should be prepared to wait for me.  As soon as the signal is given, we will attack westward from Kazan! Of course, it¡¯s not that fast, I estimate it will take two to three days!¡± Wang Geng observed the enemy¡¯s movement and offensive in the southeast while looking at the troops behind him!  The director of the war room said.

    "Where have Chief of Staff Chiang and the Right Route Army reached? How are Deputy Chief of Staff Wu's heavy artillery prepared?" Wang Geng then asked.

    "The right army led by Chief of Staff Chiang Kai-shek has taken a train along the Siberian Railway to the city of Cherny on the Kamala River. The heavy artillery brigade under the personal command of Deputy Chief of Staff Wu has already taken a train on Xiong's Army on the banks of the Belaya River in Ufa City.  The two highlands of the lower jaw are ready for attack at any time!" the director of the war room responded quickly.

    The three heavy artillery regiments of China's Third Group Army in the coalition were temporarily combined into a heavy artillery brigade for use by Wang Geng. Each of the three heavy artillery regiments had 54 Japanese-style 150-caliber heavy howitzers. The deputy chief of staff of the coalition and the Third Army  The commander, Wu Peifu, who was the former commander of the artillery regiment of Cao Kun's 3rd Division, personally took charge of the artillery position and unified the command of the battle of three heavy artillery groups, a total of 162 150-caliber heavy howitzers.

    The 150-caliber heavy howitzer deployed by the heavy artillery regiment of the Chinese participating army divisions was originally a Japanese heavy artillery. Although it was not as good as the German large-caliber heavy howitzer in 1918, it was much more advanced than the many models and old large-caliber heavy howitzers of Britain and France.  .

    The standard 150-caliber heavy howitzer equipped by the Chinese participating armies is actually the Japanese Taisho 4-year-old 150mm field howitzer. The specific performance indicators are as follows:

    Taisho 4-year-old 150mm field howitzer

    Year of service: 1915

    Caliber: 149.1mm

    Barrel length: (14.7)

    Weight: 2800kg

    Types of ammunition used: grenades, arson bombs, chemical bombs

    Gun elevation angle: -5to+65.0 degrees

    Projectile weight: 36kg

    Projectile muzzle velocity: 389m/sec

    Maximum range: 8800m

    The heavy artillery group concealed by the coalition forces on the highlands beside the Belaya River can cover almost a 16-kilometer-wide front on the left and right. In fact, even without moving forward, the fire of 150 field howitzers can cover two fronts of the White Guards' first line of defense.  km location.

    Of course, this is only the heavy artillery of the Chinese Third Army. The 150 heavy howitzers of the **Field Heavy Artillery Regiment under the three divisions of the Japanese Third Army have also been integrated into a **field artillery brigade for use. Of course, the Japanese army  A ** field heavy artillery regiment has only 24 150-caliber heavy artillery.  The total of the three field artillery regiments only has 72 heavy artillery pieces. This becomes the fourth heavy artillery group on the Belaya River in Ufa, and is uniformly under the command and dispatch of Wu Peifu, deputy chief of staff of the coalition.

    ??It can be said that Rzhevsky, the commander of the Fourth Army of the Southern Group of the Soviet Eastern Front, is really a blessed general with both wisdom and courage. This guy watched the wind and wind return to the fortress from TukhachevskyIt looked like a battle, but the defenders on the opposite side had at least 4 divisions of troops. He would not be stupid enough to use the whole army to suppress the manned aviation technique as Tukhachevsky said.

    The Fourth Army's losses in the last battle to defend Tsaritsyn, which assisted the Southern Front, have not yet been replenished. Each infantry division has more than 8,000 men. This guy is not willing to go without artillery preparations and fire support.  He rashly launched an offensive.

    After Lezhevsky returned to his position, he ordered the division-affiliated horse-drawn heavy machine gun battalions of the five divisions that had rushed to the front line to form two Maxim heavy machine gun firepower groups. The fourth group army's artillery only had 10  There is an artillery company, but the division's heavy machine gun battalion is fully staffed. One heavy machine gun battalion has four heavy machine gun companies, and one heavy machine gun company has six horse-drawn wheeled Maxim water-cooled heavy machine guns. In less than  On a one kilometer wide front, the number of Maxims gathered together to cover the infantry attack reached 120, which was considered a pretty good firepower density.

    In the telescope, this guy had already seen the barbed wire fence and the deer village two hundred meters in front of the White Guards' position, so he delayed launching the offensive and waited until the first two artillery batteries arrived, and then waited for the artillery positions to be deployed and started.  After preparing firepower, the Fourth Army began a tentative attack. Such a delay made the Fourth Army in the southeast launch its attack 20 minutes later than the First Army in the northwest.

    On the front-line position of the White Guard's Southeast Cluster opposite Lezhevsky, the density of Maxim machine guns was one every 100 meters, while the heavy machine guns of Lezhevsky on the attacking side were so densely packed that they were almost every 10 meters apart.

    Sergei Mikhailovich, who was in charge of the command on the high ground, had already seen everything clearly through the telescope. At this time, it was obviously not an option to strengthen the machine guns in the front-line position. Sergey had a change of mind.  The order given was really simple enough. He directly ordered all the White Guard infantry divisions defending on the first line to evacuate to the second line, and let go of the first line to allow the opponent to attack. Otherwise, his own machine gun firepower would be concentrated on the first line.  Being outnumbered, he couldn't hold his head up and was beaten!

    Of course, Chief of Staff Sergei is not a good man to get along with. This guy concentrated the firepower of six artillery batteries, preparing to knock out the heavy machine gun battalion that the opponent is slowly advancing. Don't you want to compete with me on machine guns?  , I use cannons against your machine guns.

    According to the artillery parameters and distance measured before the battle began, the opponent's 76mm mountain artillery can only hit the barbed wire fence of the first line position with artillery shells fired from the artillery position in the grove on the opposite side. If you want to get close and shoot at the White Guards  On the defensive line, we have to leave the woods and move forward.  Due to the different heights of the terrain, the range of the White Guard's 76-caliber mountain gun is 300 meters longer than that of the opponent's mountain gun of the same model. How can we not take advantage of this advantage?

    Here, the 120 Maxim machine guns of the Fourth Army of the Soviet Eastern Front's Southern Cluster had just advanced and had not yet opened fire. Through the telescope, Rzhevsky saw the originally black heads and machine gun fire points on the White Guards' position opposite.  He disappeared in the blink of an eye, obviously hiding in the trench, maybe he retreated in fear?

    120 horse-drawn heavy machine guns galloped forward to seize the firing position. The two artillery batteries behind each with six mountain guns began fire preparations. The Soviet Red Army was equipped with the old 1904-style 76 mountain guns with the maximum range.  It's 5500 meters.

    1904 style 76mm mountain gun

    Year of production and service: 1904

    Diameter:76.2mm

    Barrel length: 1.014m (13.3 times the caliber

    Up and down shooting angle: -5 degrees ~ +35 degrees

    Horizontal shooting angle: 2.5 degrees

    Projectile weight: 6.5kg

    ? Ammunition muzzle velocity: 290m/sec

    Weight: 327kg

    Maximum range: 5500m

    After a test firing by the artillery battery in the grove, they found that they could not reach the trenches of the White Guards' first line of defensive positions. Because they were firing from above, the impact point was still nearly a hundred meters away from the opponent's barbed wire fence, so they had to put away the artillery and turn the carriage around to prepare.  Follow the five heavy machine gun battalions that have rushed forward and rearrange the artillery positions.
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