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Volume 3 Far East Story Chapter 706 (1) Artillery finally crosses the river

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    At the same time, two platoons of the 4th Armored Company as the battalion reserve team and seven armored fighting vehicles advanced southward along the west side of the forest road and deployed to form a line of defense with the heavy machine gun firepower points of the armored vehicles as the core.  , the distance between each tank is about 50 meters. After the seven tanks were deployed on the west side of the road, they formed a 400-meter-wide defense line. Two platoons of vehicle-mounted infantry got off their vehicles and built up behind the armored tanks.  In field bunkers and positions, the distance between almost allied infantry positions is about 10 meters.

    As the 1st Armored Company turned around to the southwest defense line to block the Ukrainian reinforcements, the snipers of the 1st Armored Company effectively suppressed the national army's defense line on the position of the 3rd Regiment of the 1st Infantry Division of Ukraine. At the same time, the 3rd Armored Company of the 1st Company  The three platoons of wheeled armored combat vehicles never relaxed their fire surveillance and blockade of the 1200-meter position, so when two platoons and seven combat vehicles of the first armored company organized a line of nearly 400 meters on the east side of the road to the southwest of the coalition forces,  When the temporary defense line was 1 meter wide, the officers and soldiers of the 3rd Regiment of the 1st Ukrainian Infantry Division had no intention of jumping out of the trenches to counterattack. They just lay in the trenches and shelters and watched the battlefield adjustments made by the coalition forces.  ",

    When the coalition's 81mm battalion mortars roared, Ukrainian soldiers from the 3rd Regiment of the 1st Infantry Division, including the regiment commander Colonel Yevhun Yevjevich Khacheridi and the regiment chief of staff Lieutenant Colonel Lebika  They were all deeply thankful that it turned out that the attacking coalition still had a hand in hand. Who knows how much terrifying strength the enemy's armored battalion had yet to show. The news from the 2nd Infantry Regiment and the 1st Infantry Regiment somewhat surprised the 3rd Infantry Regiment.  The leader of the group, Khacheridi, felt a little better.  ""look

    The 3rd Regiment failed to hold its position. The mgo8 heavy machine gun and 76cm infantry mortar team suffered almost all casualties, and the casualties were close to one battalion. However, the neighboring 2nd Infantry Regiment and the 1st Regiment also failed to hold their position and were also beaten by the opponent.  An armored company broke through the first line of defense and turned it into a pot of gruel from north to south.  Especially the 1st Infantry Regiment, which had suffered heavy losses in the morning battle. Maksim Makeevich Kalinichenko's 1st Infantry Regiment fell to the opponent twice in a row in just half a day.  The armored company's offensive was low, and the total casualties exceeded a battalion, not to mention that more than 200 prisoners were taken in the first battle in the morning.

    For the three regiment commanders of the 1st Ukrainian Infantry Division, the important thing is not that their own side was unable to resist the sharp attack of the opponent's armored forces. The key point is that although part of the position was broken through and occupied by the enemy, the three infantry regiments  The remaining troops still fought to the death. Of course, what made them cry was that the call for artillery support from Taishan turned out to be that the last artillery battalion of the artillery regiment had also entered the stage of shifting positions. In other words, in  In less than half an hour, the artillery unit of the 1st Infantry Division, apart from annihilating the 3rd Battalion of its main regiment due to accidental artillery fire, failed to bring any more comfort to the soldiers of the Ukrainian National Army who were fighting bloody battles on the front line.  .  Beiyang 1917706

    Of course, the three regiment commanders of the 1st Ukrainian Infantry Division can now proudly pat their chests and say that although I suffered heavy casualties, we held our position and repelled the invading enemy. The inaction and blindness of the division's artillery  Command is the reason why we cannot block the enemy's attack when we are defending, and cannot break through the opponent's armored vehicle machine gun fire blockade when we attack. Of course, what is even more tragic is that in the face of a large number of coalition armored forces equipped with M1 Garand semi-automatic sniper rifles  Sniper suppression left the Ukrainian national army with no means of countermeasures.

    Especially after the mgo8 heavy machine gun and 76cm mortar suffered all casualties in the stalemate with the opponent's firepower, to put it bluntly, if the infantry of Li Shang's three companies continued to advance in depth, these heavy machine guns and mortars would lose all their power.  With the support of artillery fire, a G17 melon grenade can be thrown at least 40 meters away by the armored regiment's vehicle-mounted infantry. It is estimated that it will be difficult to be blocked by the already bewildered Ukrainian National Army troops.

    The engineer battalion set up a pontoon bridge on the river behind its own artillery position to the right bank of the Kharkov River. Most of the artillery regiment, including the artillery regiment, has moved to the other side of the river. This news is only known to the battalion commander of the 1st Ukrainian Infantry Division.  , otherwise, if ordinary Ukrainian National Army soldiers know that they are not fighting a last-ditch battle and have a way out, the team may not be able to continue to hold on and resist the opponent's offensive on the first line of defense and enter a tug-of-war state.

    It is not that Milevsky, the commander of the 1st Ukrainian Infantry Division, has not thought about using the 12 75mm Krupp field guns of the 3rd Artillery Battalion, which has not yet been transferred, to provide fire support to the three infantry regiments on the front line, but the coalition forces  News came that the aviation force's brutal and fierce air strikes destroyed a 75mm field artillery battalion and a 1o5mm howitzer battalion of the 2nd Infantry Division. Whether it was the division commander Milevsky or his chief of staff Kravshenko, the  The choice made at that moment was to gather the 12 cannons of the 3rd Artillery Battalion as soon as possible before the pontoon bridge behind our position was blown up, and push them across the pontoon bridge to the other side of the Kharkov River!

    People¡¯s emotions are sometimes self-deceiving and taking chances. In fact, if the artillery of the 1st Ukrainian Infantry Division moves covertly to the west, as long as it does not take the initiative to fire??, then before the entire division's position is broken through by the enemy, the artillery will not be exposed to the enemy's air force bombers. Of course, if the bomber group of the coalition air force closes its eyes and surrenders into the forest where the ground cannot be seen clearly,  In an air strike, it would be unlucky to hit the target, but it would be unlucky.

    However, at this critical moment, a powerful enemy is present, especially after losing air supremacy. The power of the coalition air force's air strikes is like a big stone on the hearts of Ukrainian generals at all levels.  There was such a precious opportunity behind the artillery position of the 2nd Infantry Division that there was no air attack, especially the artillery of the 1st and 2nd Battalions of the Artillery Regiment and the Medium Artillery Battalion had been successfully pushed through the pontoon manually.  On the right bank of the Kharkov River, the 1st Artillery Battalion pushed the artillery onto the high bank with the help of the access road set up by the engineer battalion. It was immediately possible to enter the forest area on the right bank to conceal and rearrange the artillery positions.  .

    Under such circumstances, neither Division Commander Milevsky nor Chief of Staff Kravshenko considered allowing the 3rd Artillery Battalion, which was still stranded on the artillery position on the left bank, to continue firing to support the battle of the three infantry regiments.  Order the 3rd Artillery Battalion to collect the artillery and put it into marching mode, and push it across the river with manpower as well!

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