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Volume 3 Far East Story Chapter 709 (5) No Return

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    Izaki Masako was always worried that if the other party's remaining two artillery battalions and the 12 105mm medium howitzer battalions opened fire across the bank, he would really be in trouble.

    As a result, Fu Zhuuchi Bin of the regiment held his neck and shouted, "When we meet on a narrow road, the brave will win. Now the enemy is at the end of its crossbow. The combat effectiveness of even one company of Chinese troops is amazing. I believe it is because of their existence that the Ukrainian artillery was able to fire just now."  There is only one 75mm field artillery battalion instead of an entire artillery regiment. How can we give up halfway now? If we withdraw, we will completely lose the battle. How will we explain it to the Commander of the Kikuchi Brigade in the future?

    Muto Nobuyoshi's 23rd Infantry Brigade is heading here. Did the Sasaki Brigade pay such a high price that we actually gave up the fruits of victory to the 23rd Infantry Brigade?  This is absolutely unacceptable!  Your Excellency, Wing Commander, if you want to evacuate, you can take one squadron to withdraw. I will take the remaining two squadrons of the Aoki Battalion to reinforce them. We must defeat the Ukrainians face to face. Otherwise, Matsushita Setaro's three squadrons, which are hanging behind the enemy's flank, will not be able to return.  Come on, how can this be done?  "

    Eizaki Masaru was just discouraged by Takeuchi Bin's words, so he agreed to attach Takeuchi Bin to the alliance and lead the 3rd and 4th squadrons of the Aoki Battalion to reinforce the Sasaki Battalion, leaving Aoki to lead the 1st Infantry Squadron to defend.  Wing Headquarters and Artillery Battalion "" see

    If Matsushita Yukitaro had not led three squadrons to fight behind the second position of the 3rd Ukrainian Infantry Regiment, Takeuchi Bin's offensive troops with 6 and a half squadrons of Japanese troops concentrated on the frontal position would still be at a disadvantage in terms of strength, with 4 on the opposite side.  There are more than 2,200 Ukrainian infantrymen in the battalion, while the Japanese army as the attacker only has more than 1,400 people. Of course, the number of machine guns and mortars, the Japanese army commanded by Takeuchi Bin now outnumbers the Ukrainian national army on the defensive side.

    But even so, the terrain was strong and the Ukrainian positions defended by established positions were not that easy to break through. Takeuchi Bin only occupied the opponent's right-wing position less than 200 meters wide after casualties of one and a half squadrons.  , the furious Ukrainian National Army apparently took all the anger it suffered from the Chinese armored forces onto the attacking troops of the 18th Japanese Infantry Regiment.

    The two sides even fought for a company-sized position with bayonets. During the Russo-Japanese War, the Japanese Army was beaten to pieces by the bayonets of the old Tsarist Russia. Of course, most of the Ukrainian National Army came from poorly trained guerrillas, but the people  Once the enemy was defeated, even the Ukrainian Ermaozi would fight to the bitter end and not be afraid of death. Coupled with the superiority in military strength, after the two sides got together, the Japanese army's mortar advantage could not be further utilized.

    Of course, the Japanese troops under the command of Takeuchi Bin, who had been worried about the heavy artillery fire from the opponent's artillery regiment on the other side of the river, refused to retreat. They did not dare to relax or distance themselves. Otherwise, if a 105mm caliber howitzer hit them at this time, the infantry would be destroyed.  The main force of the 18th Regiment will no longer exist, and no one dares to give up easily after this battle.

    In fact, Kravshenko, who was supervising the operation, was also anxiously calling the division commander Milevsky for artillery support. However, the artillery support not only did not come, but the remaining five guns of the Japanese artillery brigade moved to their positions and began to show off again.  The Japanese artillery bombarded Kravshenko's position, and the Japanese artillery was quite confident and bold. The explosion point of the artillery shell was even only 50 meters away from the position occupied by the Japanese army, and they dared to fire!

    July 30, 1918, 12:30, Kharkiv Riverside Forest Battlefield, fifteen kilometers northeast of Kharkiv

    During the fierce battle between the 18th Regiment of the 5th Infantry Brigade of the 3rd Japanese Infantry Division and the main force of the 1st Infantry Division of the Ukrainian National Army, which was fighting its last battle, the Chinese armored regiment led by Xue Juru, who had already swam and lurked on the right bank of the Kharkov River,  However, the company faced a dilemma. After the four artillery battalions of the 1st Ukrainian Infantry Division Artillery Regiment crossed the Kharkov River with the help of pontoons, they were stranded on the river beach for a long time due to the obstruction of the towering river banks.  The opposing division's cavalry company and baggage battalion actually quickly crossed the river along the pontoon bridge.

    Including the original artillery regiment and engineer battalion of the Ukrainian National Army, the 1st Ukrainian Infantry Division gathered on the beach on the right bank of the Kharkov River has more than 5,000 troops. Although less than one-third of the combat troops are,  Not all of the engineering battalions and artillery regiments were bare-handed. Basically, at least one-third of the troops were carrying Mosin-Nagant rifles. No matter how powerful Xue Juru was, he would not dare to use more than 100 brothers easily.  To provoke a team of thousands of people.

    Xue Juru could only lead his troops to continue to lurk in the bushes 500 meters away to observe the movements of the Ukrainian 1st Infantry Division that had crossed the river. At the same time, he used the radio to ask for instructions from the regiment headquarters on the other side of the river, asking the coalition air force to return to the battlefield for the first time.  If the enemy's pontoon bridge was destroyed in an air strike in one fell swoop, the three main infantry regiments of the 1st Infantry Division, not to mention the Ukrainian logistics troops, would probably have fled across the river.

    The coalition air force has not arrived, and here Xue Juru can only watch Milevsky commanding the engineer battalion to rush to buildOn the way to the shore, people pushed and pulled the four artillery battalions onto the river bank one by one. They tried several times to start a fight, but felt that they were outnumbered and couldn't fight. The life and death of the more than 100 of them was not a big deal, because once the fight started,  , it is very likely that the enemy has been completely alerted, and the opponent's three infantry regiments may have swarmed over and withdrawn. It would be terrible if the main force of the regiment or the 18th Infantry Regiment that came up as reinforcements could not catch the enemy.

    Xue Juru simply divided the three platoons of the 2nd Company of the 1st Armored Battalion into three, and took the platoon as a unit to follow the Ukrainian artillery troops that were evacuated in three directions after reaching the river bank at a distance, and warned his subordinates,  Before the coalition air strike destroys the opponent's pontoon bridge, try to avoid opening fire and exposing the target.

    This was also a last resort. The artillery unit of the 1st Ukrainian Infantry Division sped up its operations a lot after the division commander Milevsky crossed the river. In order to avoid being discovered and air-attacked by the coalition air force that was about to return, Milevsky  Ji moved three 75mm field artillery battalions and one 105mm howitzer battalion in three directions toward the dense forest on the east bank of the Kharkov River. Because the artillery units of the Ukrainian National Army and the artillery units of the German infantry divisions all used  German-made military trucks were used as artillery carts to tow artillery pieces.

    At this time, due to the limitations of the carrying capacity of roads and pontoons, Milevsky's four artillery battalions temporarily relied on people to push horses and horses across the river. The trucks that originally towed the cannons were forced to stay in Kharko.  Love the left bank!

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