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Volume 3 Far East Stories Chapter 697 (4) A delicious meal on the plate

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    "Huh, the Ukrainian National Army is armed with German weapons and equipment by the Germans. What's so strange about having mortars? I'm not afraid to tell you that according to the headquarters' report, the number of German mortars and light machine guns in Ukraine is even greater.  That's a lot! The opponent's platoon has two Borgmann 1915 squad machine guns and a 76 infantry mortar! Do you think they are all native troops like the Soviet Red Army?  Kill the enemy on the battlefield? Stay alert, the tough battle is still ahead!"

    Tao Dayong, commander of the 1st Armored Battalion, was actually frowning while teaching the 1st Company soldiers around him. Because there were towering ancient trees everywhere that blocked the sky, this terrain was not only difficult for mortar positions to smoke, but also difficult to shoot.  It is also difficult for the target to ensure that the wall shell will land on the target's head instead of being blocked by a big tree and explode directly. If the position is chosen unluckily, the shells hoisted out may be directly bounced back from the branches of the big tree in front of the head.  Impossible. Perhaps this is also the reason why the opponent's mortars have not been launched into the battle?  "

    To be honest, even when Tao Dayong was commanding 2 platoons to repair their positions and fortifications just now, the shooting positions of the four 60-caliber platoon mortars also took a long time to select. First, the shooting range should be wide, and second, they should be concealed.  , and thirdly, we have to ensure that the shells fired will not hit the trees and explode overhead when they come out of the barrel. This is really a big challenge for the 1st Armored Company fighting in the forest wetlands and jungles.

    At this time, three mortar firing sounds were heard in the distance, and then three shells flew over. It seemed that the Ukrainian mortar squad was test-firing. As expected, three shells flew over.  Not long after it was fired, it hit a towering tree and exploded in the air, cutting off a large piece of the tree crown. The remaining two rounds flew without knowing where to go. It took a long time before they exploded meters away to the west. However,  Apparently it also failed to successfully hit the invisible target on the ground. Instead, it hit two unlucky big trees and shrapnel flew across and cut off many branches.

    "Did you see? This terrain is not a good place for mortars. Otherwise, we would have to spend so much time fighting the opponent. As soon as the regiment commander called the radio, a squadron of bombers came over and knocked the opponent's bombers off their backs! Listen!  My order is, don't fire yet, wait for the enemy to go further west, let them tire for a while, otherwise the enemy may retreat to the road and run away once the fight begins. The sniper can see clearly and hit the opponent 400 meters away.  Artillery position? No matter, wait for the 12 snipers to concentrate their firepower and kill the gunners on the opponent's mortar position!" Beiyang 1917697

    Since the commander of the 1st company, Fei Hongju, commanded the 1st platoon to fight very easily and beautifully, at this moment, the battalion commander Tao Dayong felt as confident as the soldiers in the 2nd platoon. In his heart, unless the other party called the division artillery regiment  Support, otherwise my company would really try to eat up the opponent's cavalry battalion piecemeal today. I have only fought two rounds now. I have a sharp knife platoon against the opponent's three companies in front and behind, but the opponent at least suffered casualties.  People, and the price on my side is only one death and four injuries. There is no way to kill people in a war. As long as the business is worth it, you must do it!

    More importantly, Tao Dayong believed that he had bought time by mentioning the main force of the regiment. Whether the regiment commander planned to command the two battalions of the armored regiment alone to launch an attack, or he waited for the 18th Japanese Infantry Regiment behind to come up and launch the attack together, this initiative  They are all under the control of the Allied Forces. If the cavalry battalion of the other party chases me head-on and knocks me into the position and position of the main force of the regiment, it is unclear who takes the initiative. It is not that the other party is 560  The cavalry battalion can escape the disaster. The key is that the location of the main force is likely to be exposed, allowing the opponent's Ukrainian 1st and 2nd Infantry Divisions to make quick judgments and reactions.

    After all, the troops sent by the Ukrainians to search the north were Cossack cavalry. Even if they were beaten and annihilated by the armored regiment, they were not afraid that even if they ran wildly along the road, even a few people who reported the news would leak the military plane.  The two Ukrainian divisions dared to go all out to counterattack north. What Tao Dayong was thinking about was the commander's instruction not to easily alert the enemy. What he was afraid of was not that the enemy would come, but that the enemy would start running away after hearing the news.  The enemy in the forest really chased the sheep and scattered them. For the armored mechanized troops, there was really no way to chase them off the road. Or the vehicle-mounted infantry got out of the car and fought into the dense forest to pursue them, but that was a waste of the armored regiment's FD17 rounds.  The powerful combat power and maneuverability of the armored fighting vehicle

    In fact, for Levchenko, the cavalry battalion commander in Ukraine, he had the same calculation, which was to try to delay the enemy and not expose the position of the main force of the division. This was also the reason why he had not requested support from the division.  On the one hand, if a battalion beats someone or a platoon can't bite it, he will have no face to see people. On the other hand, he is afraid that if the main force of the division moves, the opponent's reconnaissance platoon will of course be trampled into powder, but there are only one or two in the bushes who slip through the net.  Fish, the hidden assembly area of ??the 1st Infantry Division will be completely exposed. By then, it will be too late to regret that the wolf of the enemy's large force has been attracted.

    The combat effectiveness of the enemy reconnaissance platoon in front of you is astonishing. If the opponentIf a regiment has such strength, I am afraid that the entire 1st Ukrainian Infantry Division may not be able to gain the upper hand. If there are more enemies, and a regiment plus a Japanese infantry regiment or even a brigade have the same combat effectiveness, then things will be even worse.  Too bad, maybe the two main divisions will have to be forced to escape across the Kharkov River.

    In fact, Milevsky, the commander of the 1st Ukrainian Infantry Division, was close at hand but did not send reinforcements to support his division's reconnaissance battalion. On the one hand, he was confident in the combat effectiveness of Levchenko's battalion. On the other hand, Milevsky  Fsky was also lucky, because the other party's reconnaissance platoon had not yet figured out his own reality. If he thought that there was only one reconnaissance battalion in the forest, it would be easier. If he sent another battalion or even a regiment out, let alone  Whether it would make people laugh if they hit a platoon of the opponent, it would mean annihilating the opponent completely. As long as one of the opponent's platoons ran back to report the news, the plan of hiding the entire division and the 2nd Infantry Division would be completely ruined!

    In this way, the head coaches of both sides and the former enemy commanders made their own calculations and came up with the situation in front of them. The 1st Platoon of the 1st Armored Company led by Fei Hongjutao, commander of the 1st Company of the 1st Battalion of the Chinese Armored Regiment, defeated the Ukrainian cavalry No.  Taking advantage of the chaos, they took cover and ran to the west. Although Levchenko, the commander of the Ukrainian cavalry battalion, was beaten and bruised, he gritted his teeth and refused to complain to the division. He commanded two companies to enter the jungle head-on to pursue the opponent's platoon on foot.  Leading a cavalry company to mount their horses and go around the south to attack, thinking about encircling and annihilating the opponent in that hateful reconnaissance platoon!

    At this time, the Ukrainian 1st and 4th companies had occupied the position in front of the empty Chinese platoon, and the more than 200 Ukrainian dismounted cavalry carrying Mosin Nagant rifles had unknowingly become Chinese  A delicious meal for the two platoons commanded by Tao Dayong, commander of the 1st Armored Battalion!
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