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Volume 3 Far East Story Chapter 709 (3) Fire at all costs

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    Izaki was furious when he heard this. He slapped his big mouth and kicked Major Abe. The commander of the regiment roared, "Do you still need to ask for instructions? Artillery.  The brigade went all out to suppress the Ukrainian artillery positions on the other side of the Kharkov River and opened fire with all its strength! I will enforce battlefield discipline for those who are timid in battle!¡±

    The commander of the regiment here, Captain Takeuchi Bin, didn't talk nonsense. He stepped forward and snatched the phone from Shohei Abe, who was a little stupid after being trained, and connected the phone to his artillery position. He shouted into the microphone, "The commander of the regiment ordered."  , the artillery brigade opened fire in an effort to suppress and destroy the Ukrainian artillery positions firing across the Kharkov River! Fire at all costs!

    It must be said that Japan's artillery troops are quite well trained. In less than a minute, eight 75mm Type 38 field guns of the artillery brigade, which quickly adjusted their firing directions, roared from the artillery position under the roadbed on the west side of the road 2 kilometers behind them.  It roared, and a string of artillery shells passed over the treetops and headed straight for the artillery position that emerged from nowhere in Ukraine on the other side of the Kharkiv River, which was 6 or 7 kilometers away. It launched a pre-emptive attack on the target without exposing its own position.  It is always the best choice for artillery battles.

    Although Saburo Sasaki's 3rd Infantry Battalion was in dire straits under the bombardment of 12 75mm Krupp field guns from the opponent's battalion, and suffered a lot of casualties, this objectively allowed the Ukrainian artillery battalion on the other side of the river to control its position.  Exposed to the muzzle of the artillery brigade of the 18th Japanese Infantry Regiment, in just 5 minutes of rapid and fierce artillery battle, the Ukrainian artillery battalion, which lost 4 guns at the beginning, was far inferior to the Japanese artillery.  "" look

    With the loss of 3 cannons, Abe Shohei's artillery battalion completely silenced the opponent's 12-gun artillery battalion through rapid and continuous firing of artillery shells.

    The news coming from the position of Sasaki's brigade was certainly not that optimistic. After losing half the squadron's strength in the first attack, they were caught off guard and were knocked off almost a squadron's strength by the first few rounds of artillery fire from across the river.  , although only one-third of them were killed, the 3rd Infantry Brigade had obviously suffered heavy losses at this moment. With only 3 infantry squadrons left and less than a few troops, it was simply impossible to capture the position held by more than 2,000 people.  A fantasy.

    However, good news came from the Matsushita Brigade. After Matsushita Setaro's 1st Infantry Brigade passed through the position of the 1st Ukrainian Infantry Division, it was obvious that the Ukrainian commander was a little concerned about one thing and the other, and was responsible for commanding the three steps of the 1st Ukrainian Infantry Division.  The corps member was Division Chief of Staff Kravshenko, who had to stay on the left bank of Kharkov because the pontoon bridge was blown up. Surprisingly, the Ukrainian communication phone corps also swam across the river and set up one in the air.  This enabled the 1st Ukrainian Infantry Division, which was isolated on both sides of the Kharkov River, to establish telephone contact.

    This is also the reason why the Ukrainian artillery battalion suddenly opened fire and severely damaged the Japanese 3rd Infantry Brigade commanded by Saburo Sasaki who was attacking in the middle. This is also the reason why the Ukrainian 1st Infantry Division failed to retreat across the river and had to hold its position to block the attack of Japanese reinforcements from the Allied Powers.

    Of course, what surprised Kravshenko, the chief of staff of the division who was responsible for directing the operations on the front line, was that the Japanese troops who came up like wolves and tigers with reinforcements, the firepower of infantry light weapons was not even as good as that of his own Ukrainian National Army. They were defeated by the Chinese armored forces of the coalition forces in the morning.  The regiment's wheeled armored combat vehicles, M2 large-caliber heavy machine guns, snipers and one-shot M1 Garand semi-automatic rifles ravaged and tortured the Ukrainian guerrilla-turned-National Army soldiers to the death.

    Suddenly, I found that the Chinese armored troops in front of me were running south along the road, and the Japanese troops who came in as reinforcements had individual firepower that was so different from the Chinese troops. The three infantry regiments of the 1st Ukrainian Infantry Division had faced each other.  The attack on the three companies of the Chinese armored forces did not include the firepower of the overbearing M2 large-caliber heavy machine guns on the 30 wheeled armored tanks of the Chinese Army.

    The firepower of up to 54 coalition snipers and 27 Browning squad machine guns, plus the coalition's 8 81mm battalion mortars and 24 60mm platoon mortars, greatly exceeded the firepower of the 1st Ukrainian Infantry  The division's machine gun and mortar firepower, especially the opponent's snipers' jungle sniper tactics of targeting their own heavy machine gun shooters, was simply shocking.

    Of course, this does not mean that the Japanese infantry brigade responsible for attacking the middle position of the 1st Ukrainian Infantry Division is useless. In addition to the Japanese infantry not being equipped with the M1 Garand semi-automatic rifles of the Chinese armored forces, each infantry squadron still has the firepower  It's pretty good. A squadron has three 75-man infantry squads. Each squad has two 7.62 Browning squad machine guns and two 60mm platoon mortars. In this way, the Sasaki Battalion actually has four squadron squad machine guns.  It has also reached 24, plus the firepower of 24 60mm platoon mortars.

    The deterrent effect it brings to the Ukrainian National Army is still not as good as that of the Chinese armored troops of three companies. Perhaps the firepower of the M2 large-caliber machine guns of the 30 wheeled armored combat vehicles is too overbearing, or the 54  Chinese sniperThe shooter is simply a terrifying existence that makes everyone bow their heads. Of course, the shooting skills of the mortar operators of the Chinese armored forces are obviously superior to the mortar operators of the Japanese infantry squad.

    Kravshenko must be thankful that he had timely concentrated the remaining two battalions of the 1st Regiment of the 1st Ukrainian Infantry Division on the central defense line. There are two paths dug out of the dense forest to guard the 1st Infantry Division.  Position, the 1000 meters in the middle is the most critical line of defense. Compared with the 2200 meters of defense on the right wing, behind it are dense forests, shrubs, ponds and swamps. If you want to penetrate, turning to the middle is obviously the best choice.

    The 3rd Infantry Regiment on the left wing was also withdrawn by Kravshenko at this time, and a second line of defense was built in the middle near the division headquarters. It was also used as a reserve force for the division. The Allied Air Force had previously  Although the two waves of air strikes successfully destroyed the pontoon bridge across the Kharkov River, due to the timely evacuation, the casualties caused to the personnel of the 1st Ukrainian Infantry Division were not large.

    The artillery regiment, division headquarters, engineer battalion, and baggage battalion had all successfully crossed the river at this time. However, what was intercepted and left on the left bank of the Kharkov River were more than 1,000 lightly and seriously wounded people from the field health center, and about the remaining three infantry regiments.  6 battalions of ground troops.

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