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Volume 3 Far East Story Chapter 690 (2) Taking the First Line of Defense

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    "No problem, let's just warm up. How long does it take for the 4th Cavalry Regiment to cross the river? Inform Colonel Yonezawa that his Cavalry Regiment will cross the river all the way to the southwest of Kharkov. Don't cross the river to the east easily. First,  Find out the enemy situation west of the Severodonetsk River. According to the latest reconnaissance by the coalition air force, neither the Germans nor the Ukrainians have heavy troops on the other side of the Severodonetsk River!"

    Taro Utsunomiya put down the telescope in his hand, turned around and comforted his chief of staff with a smile on his face, "Major General Hata, no matter what, it is a fact that we took down the trench position that the enemy had painstakingly built without losing any blood. As for  Don¡¯t we still have to wait for the battlefield statistics to show the results of the face-to-face battle? "The fastest update, all text typed by hand?"

    "Commander, look! There are Ukrainians firing on the position!" A combat staff officer who was also looking at the battlefield from the window of the shelter couldn't help shouting.

    Shunroku Hata and Taro Utsunomiya were stunned. They returned to the window of the shelter and raised their binoculars to look. Sure enough, the flames of heavy machine guns were sprayed from a semi-collapsed core position and the trenches on both sides of the opponent's front line 3 kilometers away.  The surrounding Japanese infantrymen wearing blue and black uniforms who were searching the battlefield defeated one, which was obviously a core machine gun position of the Ukrainians.

    However, the opponent's resistance did not last long. After the Japanese infantry equipped with mortars came to their senses, they quickly used precise shooting to smash the shells directly into the opponent's position and the trenches dozens of meters on both sides.  Under the cover of Ronning's heavy machine gun, a squadron of Japanese infantrymen surrounding the core position threw out the Chinese-made melon grenade in their hands, setting off a burst of smoke and explosions, and then swarmed up, shouting, and rushed into the trench and the semi-collapsed core fortifications.  .  Read the latest chapter

    "You bastard Kikuchi, didn't you say that there is no one on the battlefield? This can make him come back to death and mow down dozens of our brave warriors. He deserves to be killed!" Taro Utsunomiya couldn't help but be furious as he looked through the telescope. Next to him, Shunroku Hata  Then he looked through the telescope and said, "Hey! Don't kill them all. Take a few prisoners alive and interrogate them. Maybe you can figure out when the opponent's main force evacuated!"

    As a result, what they saw through the telescope made both Utsunomiya Taro and Hata Shunroku dumbfounded. The Japanese soldiers who rushed into the trenches were actually pressed to death by the opponent's heavy machine gun fire that refused to surrender. They came out of the core position and faced the opponent's huge core fortifications.  On the twists and turns of the road and gateway, it was obvious that the mortars and heavy machine guns were not strong enough. Soon after passing the correction of the Japanese artillery observation post, more than a dozen 150mm caliber heavy howitzer shells roared over from the rear.  The random beatings completely destroyed the opponent's core position. When the bombardment stopped, the Japanese infantry swarmed forward again, and this time they were finally not driven out by the opponent again.

    After a while, several Ukrainian soldiers who looked stunned by the shells but were still alive were dragged out of the position. This discordant storm came to an end!  In fact, this is the core position of the 1st Ukrainian Infantry Division. The original division headquarters is located in this huge core position buried in a low building.

    The 560 soldiers of the 1st Guard Battalion of the 1st Infantry Division of the Ukrainian 1st Group Army held the position under the leadership of the battalion commander. However, they lost almost 300 people in the large-scale coalition air strike. After the shelling of the coalition ground forces ended, they could  There were less than 100 Ukrainian soldiers who moved. It was these 100 Ukrainian infantrymen who hid in the semi-collapsed fortifications with the two remaining Maxim heavy machine guns in their hands. They opened fire from the rear and knocked down at least hundreds of Japanese soldiers. Shinnosuke Kikuchi  The rearguard troops of the 5th Infantry Brigade and the 18th Infantry Regiment were stunned. In total, almost a squadron lost its combat effectiveness.

    The 52-year-old Kikuchi Shinnosuke was quite satisfied with the successful victory over the Ukrainians' first line of defense. Although the enemy retreated without a fight, although the coalition air strikes and artillery bombardments fell into the air, the 5th Infantry Brigade was able to win the first battle.  Artillery is obviously more important than anything else. Moreover, according to statistics, the 5th Infantry Brigade has annihilated at least an elite division guard battalion of the Ukrainians. Most of the 560 Ukrainian soldiers were wiped out by air strikes and shelling. Although the rest were  The 18th Regiment of the 5th Infantry Brigade caused almost a squadron of casualties, with 78 people killed and 123 injured. However, not a single Ukrainian on the position ran away, except for 3 guys who were stunned by shells and were captured alive.  , the Ukrainian division guards were completely wiped out.

    Immediately afterwards, Shinnosuke Kikuchi received good news from the 6th Infantry Regiment from the western defense line at the brigade headquarters. The 6th Infantry Regiment surrounded the original 2nd Ukrainian Infantry Division position on the T-shaped position.  A battalion of Ukrainian troops, after shelling and shouting, the remaining 178 Ukrainians in this battalion chose to lay down their weapons and surrender. Of course, this was after their battalion commander was killed by a large-caliber weapon on a wheeled armored vehicle of the 1st Company of the 2nd Battalion of the Chinese Armored Regiment.  After the Browning M2 heavy machine gun was torn into pieces.

    This morning's battle came to an end at 8 o'clock. The Southwest Front Army's 5th Infantry Brigade of the 3rd Division of the Japanese 3rd Army made a comprehensive breakthrough.??Occupied the Ukrainian T-shaped trench defense line, and completely wiped out the remaining Ukrainian troops of about 2 battalions and 1,200 people, including 181 prisoners and the rest were eliminated. The casualties of the 5th Infantry Brigade were 220.  , 81 of whom were killed and 139 wounded.

    After crossing the river, the 4th Cavalry Regiment headed south along the left bank of the Severol Donetsk River without encountering any resistance. Most of the people in the local villages on the west side of the river also ran away and disappeared.

    Soon, the progress of each road was summarized one by one at the former enemy headquarters of the Southwest Front Army¡¯s Central Route Army in the Ukrainian Campaign.

    "Your Excellency, Commander, Kikuchi Brigade Commander commanded the 5th Infantry Brigade Brigade Headquarters and the 6th Infantry Regiment, accompanied by a Chinese armored battalion, to advance toward Kharkov along the right bank of the Severonetsk River, the infantry  The 18th Regiment, led by two battalions of armored units commanded by Chinese Colonel Lu, is advancing on the east side towards the Kharkov River and is expected to arrive at the designated area east of Kharkov in 2 hours.  The regiment encountered no resistance after crossing the river and is expected to reach the other side of the Severonetsk River west of Kharkov around noon.

    The 25th Infantry Brigade of the 13th Infantry Division of Voronezh Group Army, under the command of division commander Liukin Alexeevich Voronezh, has fully taken over the first trench defense line of the occupied Ukrainians and is currently cleaning the battlefield and repairing roads.  , the railway from the first line of defense to Kharkov was so seriously damaged that it is expected to take at least three days to repair.  "

    A combat staff officer with the rank of Major on his shoulder from the former enemy headquarters pointed to the updated combat map with a small flag on it and reported.

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