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Volume 3 Far East Story Chapter 698 (3) Late Arrival

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    "No need! If the Ukrainians attack with one division, it will be useless if you go up to another company. Hold the position. Our air force will not be able to dispatch again for at least an hour! Who knows whether we can find such a dense forest?  The opponent's artillery position, if something goes wrong now, I won't forgive you!" Lu Huanyan waved his hand and rejected his deputy's suggestion.

    After giving a few more instructions, the Chinese armored regiment commander jumped into his FJ18 Hummer command vehicle, turned around and drove north along the road, followed by a Hummer from Higashikata Tanosuke and two fd17ii wheeled vehicles from the regiment's security platoon.  The armored warfare team went straight to the 18th Japanese Infantry Regiment behind a convoy of four vehicles."

    "Colonel Lu is here!" The guards standing guard in front of the big tent of the 18th Japanese Infantry Regiment Headquarters 50 meters to the west of the road raised their guns and saluted, and a second lieutenant on duty lost no time in singing a famous song.

    "Oh! Lu Sang, you made me wait. If you don't show up, I, the captain of the company, will have no choice but to visit your regiment in front of you in person!" A Japanese infantryman in the tent was holding a kettle with open arms and filling it with water.  The captain of the 18th Regiment of the 5th Brigade, Colonel Izaki Masako, hurriedly put down the kettle in his hand, wiped his mouth, stood up enthusiastically, stepped forward to greet Lu Huanyan, and took hold of Lu Huanyan¡¯s outstretched hand.

    Lu Huanyan nodded casually, took out his hand from the sweaty hand of Eizaki Zhenggang, and said concisely, "" Look at Beiyang 1917698

    "Your Excellency, Captain, you are a step too late. According to reconnaissance, the enemy in the south is the position of the 1st and 2nd Ukrainian Infantry Division. In the formation on the back of the left bank of Kharkov, one of our troops sent out for vanguard reconnaissance.  The company has already exchanged fire with the opponent's searching cavalry battalion, and the other company has not returned from its reconnaissance along the river bank. When can your infantry regiment go into battle? "

    "Come into battle? Colonel Lu, the telegram from the enemy's headquarters just asked my regiment to join your armored regiment as soon as possible. The next action instructions have not yet come! The imperial warriors marched for kilometers in one go.  If we don't rest for half an hour to an hour, how can we go into battle? Besides, the telegram from the enemy's headquarters said that the air force will not be able to support us in this direction for at least an hour. I don't think we need to worry, right?"

    Izaki Zhenggang asked Lu Huanyan to take a seat while laughing. A one-fifty-thousandth combat map was hung in the corner of the tent. In front of it was a circle of horses. There were also several combat maps spread out on a folding table in the middle.  The staff adjutant stood aside, and behind Masago Eizaki were several generals at the rank of lieutenant colonel and major, and of course, Captain Takeuchi Bin of the 18th Infantry Regiment.

    "There's no need to take a seat. The military situation is urgent. Your Excellency, Captain, one of my companies is currently entangled with the opponent's entire cavalry battalion by attacking with less force. The purpose is to buy us time. You still have some idea of ??the enemy's situation ahead.  I can answer whatever is unclear, but is your 18th Infantry Regiment ready to go into battle?"

    Lu Huanyan clasped his hands behind his back and did not sit down. This move made a group of Japanese lieutenants, colonels and majors who had just sat on the horse stand up hurriedly. They had just marched so hard. Although they had mounts to travel, many Japanese generals wore the same clothes.  He was drenched in sweat, but except for the captain Masako Izaki who was buttoning the zippers of his uniform that he had just unbuttoned for coolness, the rest of the lieutenants, majors, and majors were all in neat and tidy appearance.

    "Colonel Lu, according to the enemy situation reports passed back several times by your communications staff, to the south of us are the positions of the 1st and 2nd Ukrainian Infantry Divisions that have withdrawn from the first trench-style fortification defense line. If this is the case,  The opponent has more than 25,000 people, and they are equipped with very strong weapons and firepower. I heard that the Ukrainian infantry divisions are equipped with mortars and mg08 heavy machine guns at the company level. More importantly, each division of the opponent has one equipment.  With an artillery regiment of 36 75mm Krupp field guns and 12 Krupp 105mm medium howitzers, we have no advantage in strength or firepower, is that right?¡±

    The person who asked the question on behalf of the Japanese generals was Captain Takeuchi Bin of the 18th Infantry Regiment. This guy is a graduate of the Army Saber Corps, so he has actually become the main staff officer of the 18th Infantry Regiment.

    "Captain Takeuchi, you are right. This is the general situation. However, we are on the offensive side and will not give up our combat mission just because we do not have superior strength and firepower. My armored regiment came to Ukraine to fight the enemy.  Yes, it¡¯s not about who has more men or more guns. If the 18th Infantry Regiment does not intend to go into the attack, then my regiment can carry out the task of attacking the enemy alone, and the 18th Infantry Regiment will stay in place to guard.  The defense is ready!¡±

    Lu Huanyan's words were neither arrogant nor condescending. He obviously didn't want to waste more time talking in circles. He came here just to hear Masago Ezaki's plan. If the 18th Infantry Regiment was too tired from traveling and couldn't commit to the attack, he planned to lead his regiment to launch the attack first.  Moreover, I have thought about how to fight, that is, the main force of the regiment will rush south along the forest road., inserted all the way to the northeast corner of the outskirts of Kharkov, and first cut off the connection between the two enemy divisions and Kharkov!

    The 18th Japanese Female Infantry Regiment of Army Colonel Masago Izizaki is the same as all the infantry regiments in the Japanese Third Army and the First Army in the Allied Powers. It has 3 infantry brigades and 1 artillery brigade.

    A standard 1,100-man brigade includes: a 30-man brigade headquarters, a 110-man transport squadron (carts and mules), 4 infantry squadrons; a 174-man machine gun squadron (14-man squadron headquarters and 3  machine gun squad, 1 ammunition squad), each row has 4 Browning 7.62 air-cooled heavy machine guns, a total of 12; a 55-man artillery squad (1 10-man squad, 15-man ammunition squad  , two 15-man artillery squads are each equipped with 4 Chinese-made 81mm battalion mortars??

    In addition, the artillery brigade of the 18th Infantry Regiment, with a strength of 364, has two artillery squadrons of 170 men, each equipped with 4 75mm field guns.

    In addition, as the air defense force of the wing, the infantry wing within the Allied Southwest Front is equipped with an additional anti-aircraft gun/anti-tank gun squadron, with a 14-man squadron headquarters, and three squadrons each with two 12-man guns.  Each squadron is equipped with one Chinese-made m******aa anti-aircraft gun. The number of anti-aircraft guns in the entire squadron is 6.

    Other directly-affiliated units of the 18th Infantry Regiment include a 54-man regiment headquarters; a 121-person transport team (carts and mules and horses), which carries a day's supplies and possible supplies for the regiment headquarters and directly-affiliated squadrons.  Attached field kitchen; an 81-man ammunition platoon carrying a day's worth of ammunition??
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