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Volume 3 Far East Story Chapter 690 (1) Let the tiger return to the mountain and catch the empty space

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    Although the German engineers spent a month helping the Ukrainians to build this defense line, it was somewhat resistant to the bombardment of the 125-pound and 150-pound aerial bombs dropped by the coalition air force DH4 and FR18 the day before. However, the 250-pound heavy aerial bombs  Under the air strike, the surface of the first line of defense was almost flattened to the ground.  The frontal defense line is bombarded with 32 250-pound aerial bombs per kilometer. An ordinary 150mm-caliber field howitzer explodes in an open field and can kill more than half of an infantry company. It roars down from an altitude of 500 meters.  The explosion power of a 250-pound aerial bomb is many times greater than the explosion power of a 150mm-caliber grenade projectile.  Fastest update, all text typed by hand

    At 4:30 on July 30, 1918, it was the darkest moment before dawn, but the raging flames generated by the enemy's air raids were burning everywhere within 35 kilometers north of Kharkov, and the sky was lit up. The Ukrainian No. 1  The 1st and 2nd infantry divisions of the group army hurriedly evacuated. The ammunition that they had not had time to transfer was almost detonated and burned. Although the artillery on the central artillery group position had been relocated, the large base of ammunition previously stored was also the same.  Many were too late to move and were completely destroyed and detonated by coalition air strikes.

    At 4:45 on July 30, 1918, the Allied artillery on the Allied artillery position near the Volga Federation border roared again. The 24th Field Heavy Artillery Regiment of the Japanese Third Division, the main force of the Army in the Southwest Front,  Two 150mm heavy howitzers and 54 75mm-caliber mountain artillery guns from a division's field artillery wing, in addition to four field mountain artillery squadrons attached to two infantry brigade wings, also opened fire across the board. For ten  The average artillery density of the attacker in the kilometer-wide Ukrainian position was close to 1 gun/100 meters.  Read the latest chapter

    Of course, the artillery preparations launched by the Japanese Third Division later proved to be just a futile warm-up. In addition to being turned into a sea of ????fire, the Ukrainian position opposite had no counterattack at all, and almost half of the base was wasted.  After the ammunition was fired, Army General Taro Utsunomiya, commander of the Allied Southwest Front and commander-in-chief of the Ukrainian campaign, gloomily ordered to stop the shelling!

    On the smoke-filled battlefield at 5:00 on July 30, 1918, the vanguard of the Central Route Army of the Allied Southwest Front, the 5th Infantry Brigade of the Japanese 3rd Division, under the command of the 52-year-old Major General Shinnosuke Kikuchi, the brigade commander, was on the 10-kilometer-long line.  crossed the border and launched a full-line offensive on the ground in the Ukrainian campaign.

    At the same time, the Japanese 4th Cavalry Regiment, under the command of commander Kogoro Yonezawa, crossed the Sever Donetsk River from the starting position to the west, and followed the left bank of the river southward to attack in a roundabout way.

    The division-affiliated armored regiment of China's reorganized 9th division, under the command of Colonel Lu Huanyan, serves as the leading force of the 5th infantry brigade, guiding the infantry forward on both wings of the 10-kilometer front. Since the armored regiment is equipped with the fd17ii  The wheeled armored fighting vehicles were quite helpless against the criss-crossing trench fortification area. Therefore, the 120 wheeled armored fighting vehicles of the armored regiment had to become active fire points to provide fire support during the march, while the infantry jumped over the armored vehicles to attack forward.  .

    In fact, on the opposite position, except for the fires caused by air strikes and artillery bombardments in many areas, almost no Ukrainian soldiers could be seen on the position. Large sections of trenches and shelters were destroyed by air strikes, while the artillery in the rear  On the battlefield, the dawn here was also quiet and deserted.

    Two brigades of the Japanese 3rd Division's Engineer Regiment set up pontoons on the Severodonetsk River to allow the Japanese 4th Cavalry Regiment to cross the river. The remaining brigades worked with the Engineer Company of the Armored Regiment to repair the landfills and organize them after being attacked by air raids.  and the trenched and fortified areas ravaged beyond recognition by shelling, with emphasis on clearing and road building on both sides of the railway line to fill in the damaged roads.

    July 30, 1918 6:00 Ukrainian border bridgehead former enemy headquarters of the Allied Southwest Front

    "Reporting to your Excellency, Commander, Brigade Commander Kikuchi Shinnosuke called. The 6th Infantry Regiment, the vanguard of the 5th Infantry Brigade, has occupied the Ukrainian first line of defense. No trace of the opponent's large forces has been found. The enemy seems to have disappeared from the position overnight.  , The 18th Infantry Regiment is currently entering the fortification area to search. The Chinese Armored Regiment and the 18th Infantry Regiment commanded by the brigade headquarters have advanced towards the enemy's central artillery position! "A combat staff officer put down the phone in his hand to report.

    Here, Utsunomiya Taro is still using his telescope to look at the Ukrainian first line of defense five kilometers away. He can see that the main force of the 5th Infantry Brigade has successively rushed into the enemy's position, and the wheeled armored vehicles of the Chinese Armored Regiment have also  They had crossed the opponent's trench along the access road repaired by engineers on both sides of the railway, and began to advance in depth. The clouds of smoke formed by the blue exhaust emitted by the armored vehicle's engine were clearly visible. Accompanying the armored vehicle were soldiers wearing black and gray military uniforms.  Japanese infantry, as well as Chinese vehicle-mounted infantry wearing blue and gray military uniforms, the attacking troops all over the mountains and plains were squirming forward. It looked like the Ukrainians on the opposite side had already fled without fighting.

    Major General Hata Toshiroku turned around and grabbed the phone from the hands of the combat staff.?? shouted into the phone,

    "Kikuchi-kun, have no enemies been found on the first line of defense? How is this possible? Ask your troops to spread out to the two wings, leaving the battlefield to be cleaned by the 13th Division of the Federal Infantry who are following up. You must emphasize speed, and the opponent's T-shaped  You quickly go around the western line of defense. I am worried that the other side may only have a small force to contain us on the position. I will move the Chinese armored regiment to the east to make a roundabout way, and search southward along the west bank of the Kharkov River. I can't do it all night!  All two infantry divisions just disappeared!"

    The voice of Shinnosuke Kikuchi, commander of the 5th Infantry Brigade, came over the phone. Hata Shunroku accepted the call angrily, and shouted at the stunned combat staff beside him, "What are you still doing?  Call the Allied Frontline Air Force Headquarters and ask them to conduct low-altitude close-in reconnaissance from above Kharkov. We should be able to find the movements of the opponent's main force at dawn! "

    A group of combat staff nodded and stood at attention and called Hay, and then got into a mess and went to make phone calls. Only then did Shunroku Hata turn back to Taro Utsunomiya, who was looking at the direction of the frontline battlefield with a telescope with a livid face, and his voice  A slightly bitter way,

    "Your Excellency, Commander, I'm afraid that we just missed the target. The air raid by the Allied Air Force yesterday must have scared that Simon Petliura out of his wits. The other party may have given up their frontline positions overnight, causing us to waste our lives in vain.  The aerial bombs dropped by the large fleet of air raids, and the ammunition prepared by the artillery fire of the third division were wasted! "

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