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Volume Three Far East Stories Chapter 714 (1) The Knowledge of Whitewashing Military Merits

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    July 30, 1918 13:40 The Japanese Infantry 18th Regiment Wing Headquarters in the forest on the left bank of the Kharkiv River fifteen kilometers northeast of Kharkiv

    "Yaga! Sasaki, I want to duel with you. You can choose between a pistol or a samurai sword!" Matsushita Yukitaro was furious when he saw that Sasaki Saburo was hanging on his shoulders and dared to draw a sword against him, a senior from mainland China.  He took out the pistol from his waist and pointed it at Major Sasaki.

    In Wang Geng's previous life, the "Tortoise Box" Southern Type 14 pistol (1925) that was well known to the world had not yet been born. Before the appearance of the Southern Type 14 in the Tortoise Box, there were still three models of Nanbu style pistols, namely the Nanbu Kajiro in Tokyo.  The artillery factory designed: Southern Type (Meiji 36, 1903), Small Southern, Four-Year Southern (Continental Southern).  The first three Southern styles all have grip safety, the small and continental models also have a wooden box butt socket, and only the Southern style is engraved on the gun.  ",

    Although the appearance of the Southern-style pistol is similar to the German Ruger P08, the production process, accuracy and reliability are far inferior. In fact, the two guns themselves are not related by blood, but from the Russo-Japanese War to  Before the European War, Japan and Germany had very close military exchanges. Most of the saber group graduates who graduated from Japanese mainland universities started as military attach¨¦s in Germany and members of the embassy. Many Japanese military attach¨¦s in Germany had used southern-style holsters.  Quietly replaced his useless Southern style pistol with a Ruger P08.  "" look

    "Stop it all! Do you want to show people the joke of the 18th Infantry Company? The two captains actually got into a fight? Do you want me to force you to commit hara-kiri to thank the military and the emperor?" Captain Masago Izaki was furious and livid.  He roared angrily with a face, and the sound was heard far away from the tent, and then the cockfighting behavior between Sasaki and Matsushita Setaro was suppressed.

    Here, Major Jiro Aoki, the captain of the Aoki Brigade, stood up and acted as a peacemaker. The 1st Fujita Squadron of the 2nd Infantry Battalion followed the Chinese to fight in a roundabout way, and later came under the command of Matsushita Setaro. After fighting with the 3rd Ukrainian Infantry Regiment  There were heavy casualties during the battle, and the other two squadrons, led by Captain Takeuchi Bin of the North Wing, led the strengthened Sasaki Battalion to the front and entered the battle, also suffering more than half of the casualties.

    But this guy himself led the 4th Squadron of the 2nd Infantry Battalion to defend the wing headquarters and Colonel Masago Izaki. Therefore, the victory of this battle cannot be attributed to his Aoki Battalion, and the defeat was not his personal command.  So his position is a little more detached than Sasaki, Matsushita and Takeuchi Bin at this time.

    "Your Excellency, Captain, everyone, I think the casualties of our regiment are a bit high, but we have defeated the 1st Infantry Division, the main force of the Ukrainian National Army, and the opponent's full force was at least 13,000 troops, and the artillery firepower was far away.  Above our unit, under these circumstances, while reviewing the combat casualties, the fact that we fought independently and won a great victory cannot be denied!" Aoki Jiro rolled his eyes and said something quite meaningful!  level.

    "Destroyed the 1st Ukrainian Infantry Division? Major Aoki, the enemy artillery on the other side of the Kharkov River was handled by the coalition air force and a company of the Chinese armored regiment. On the other side of the Kharkov River, the enemy's artillery of the 1st Infantry Division was defeated.  The remnants of the infantry regiment jumped out of the encirclement under our noses and disappeared! Can this be said to be the defeat of the Ukrainian main infantry division?" Commander Yuzaki asked with a gloomy face.

    "I think Mr. Aoki is right. All the positions of the 1st Ukrainian Infantry Division on the left bank of the Kharkiv River, including artillery positions, division headquarters, logistics and warehouses, were occupied by us. We annihilated the opponent's main force of at least 1,800 people.  , we also captured nearly 1,000 Ukrainian lightly and seriously wounded soldiers, and we also seized a large amount of military supplies and ammunition. Although we did not capture the opponent's division commander, chief of staff, and regimental commanders, the victory is unquestionable. "The regiment came back to its senses!  Fu Takeuchi Bin said with a blushing face.

    "To put it this way, I think we did achieve a brilliant victory after a hard-fought battle. If the coalition aviation force had not failed to destroy the opponent's artillery position on the other side of the Kharkov River at the first time, we would never have suffered such huge casualties.  , But even so, the imperial warriors still fought hard, and it was the Ukrainians who escaped, not us. Although the cost of this battle was a bit high, it must be regarded as a victory no matter what!" Lieutenant Colonel Matsushita Yutaro waved his arms to the commander and commander.  His colleagues cheered him up, but of course, he didn't even take a look at Sasaki's unlucky guy hanging on his arms.

    "How to report to the brigade headquarters, division headquarters and front enemy headquarters now? Captain Takeuchi, why didn't you discover the retreat of the Ukrainians at the first time? Why didn't you continue to follow and pursue them? Now the enemy has crossed the Hal  Is the Cove River still going south? How do you answer these questions?" Commander Izaki Masagi said angrily. He had just vented his anger. Now he has calmed down. The casualties have been incurred and victory is undoubted.  It¡¯s time to consider how to unify the reporting and follow-up measures.

    Seeing that his team leader finally calmed down after going crazy and walking away for a long time, the team leader agreed.All the captains breathed a sigh of relief. Takeuchi Bin stepped forward and whispered,

    "Your Excellency, Wing Commander, the Ukrainians are very cunning. They actually organized nearly a thousand wounded people to counterattack, but the main force quietly withdrew eastward. Later, when we eliminated the enemy's blocking force and chased it to the river, because the coalition air force had several  After an air raid, the river beach was full of blood and corpses of Ukrainian logistics troops were strewn across the field. It was difficult to judge and identify the traces. We lost the trace of each other for a while. However, according to my analysis, the Ukrainian infantrymen who fought with us on the Kharkov River side were dead.  The main force of the 1st Division has less than 2,500 men left at most, and it is likely that it has retreated southward along the river! "

    Takeuchi Bin's words made Sasaki and Matsushita Setaro nod frequently, saying that they were pursuing them to the river. In fact, they had already lost sight of the opponent's main force after dispatching nearly a thousand wounded troops who had been left behind to block the attack. However, Takeuchi Bin  The judgment on the strength of the main force in Ukraine is really accurate.

    The organization of the infantry division of the Ukrainian National Army is basically the same as that of the German infantry division. Each infantry regiment has 4 infantry battalions, and each infantry battalion has 3 infantry companies. The Ukrainian infantry company has 126 combatants, plus the company headquarters.  The squad has about 140 people. Such a battalion has about 560 infantrymen, plus the battalion platoon has about 600 people, plus the motorized platoon and the heavy machine gun company (which governs three 2-gun heavy machine gun platoons), a  The strength of a battalion is about 700, and the number of combat soldiers of an infantry regiment is more than 2,100.
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