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Volume 3 Far East Story Chapter 721 (3) Air-Land War

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    "Is the artillery regiment ready?!" Voronezh shouted without looking back while nervously looking at the situation on his left wing with a telescope.

    "It will take another 5 minutes for the artillery position to be deployed. The commander of the artillery regiment asked for instructions. Once the position is deployed, should we suppress the enemy's artillery position and fire, or should we only bombard the opponent's circular defense line in the north of the city?" A combat staff officer shook the phone of the artillery regiment.  reported.

    "Pig brain! Of course, fire at the artillery positions in Kharkiv. Didn't you see that the key to attack and defense lies in the artillery? I waited for a long time and finally led the Ukrainian artillery out! Now it's our turn  Deal with each other!" Kharkiv cursed angrily.

    "But Division Commander, the former enemy headquarters had an order. Unless it was absolutely necessary, the air force was not allowed to carry out air strikes on important buildings and areas in the city, and the artillery was not allowed to bombard buildings in Kharkov. At this time, the enemy's artillery shells are all coming from  It flew out of Kharkov City!" the combat staff explained aggrievedly.

    "Yes, division commander, we have been looking for the enemy's artillery positions. I guess the enemy has been waiting for our artillery to fire first. Everyone wants to play a preemptive trick. At this time, the enemy fired first, but it depends on the situation.  The opponent's artillery positions are all hidden in the city, and they are quite scattered. If we bombard the city, we will probably beat Kharkiv, the capital of Ukraine, to pieces. What should we do?" said Besklo, chief of staff of the division.  Fu Ni also scratched his head and said with a troubled expression.

    "What should I do? Wherever the enemy's artillery is, our artillery shells will hit there. I don't care about Kharkov's bottles and cans. If I break them, I can just rebuild new ones. Not to mention the blood of my Voronezian soldiers.  You must not stay in Kharkov in vain. Send my order. If the artillery position cannot be fired within 5 minutes, the artillery regiment commander will be dismissed! The artillery battalion commander will be demoted! "

    Voronezh roared fiercely, and finally the guy rushed over, grabbed the phone, and added into the receiver, "Artillery Regiment Commander Kastonev, your cannon has not hit Kharkov in five minutes."  If the enemy's artillery is on your side, you're waiting to be court-martialed! Remember, the opponent has less than 10 cannons firing right now. Don't let me expose all your assets at once. You are only allowed to mobilize 2 during the counterattack!  The artillery company¡¯s artillery, I suspect the Germans are up to something. They just captured three groups of German scouts. It¡¯s not just the Ukrainians who are defending Kharkov, do you understand?¡±

    The answer came from the receiver, Ole Orelovich Kastonev, the commander of the division's artillery regiment, "Don't worry, your Excellency, division commander, my cannon will be fired in 4 minutes, but by then Kharkov will be blown up."  It's a mess, and the former enemy headquarters is blaming it, so you can't use me as a scapegoat for the Japanese to take care of!"

    "Stop talking nonsense. Remember, killing the enemy's artillery is the primary task of your artillery regiment. The Kharkov garrison will definitely not only have less than ten cannons. You must keep reserves and back-ups, do you understand?"  ?! Of course I, the division commander, will be able to bear the fall, but if you let the other party's artillery take advantage of you, I will never let you go!" Voronezh put down the phone without waiting for the other party to reply.

    July 30, 1918 16:12 Kharkov North Battlefield

    After the German-Ukrainian forces on the defensive side deployed two 4-gun artillery batteries under the Volunteer Infantry Division into the battle, the situation on the northern battlefield in Kharkiv changed. The Ukrainian volunteers defending the two flanks were  The two infantry regiments of the 1st Brigade of the 1st Division gave out warm cheers. In fact, the pronunciation of "Ula" in Ukrainian is not much different from the "Ula" in Russian. On the left-wing position, the volunteers  The 1st Regiment of the 1st Brigade of the 1st Division eagerly expected that the shells of their artillery would hit the federal infantry battalion lying 4 or 500 meters in front of the position and firing at them.

    As long as the two sides held a stalemate in front of the position, many Ukrainian soldiers discovered that the infantrymen of the federal infantry battalion opposite were less prone to shoot, and more of them were digging individual bunkers on the spot with bayonets and shovels in their hands. In just ten dozen  In a matter of minutes, most of the federal offensive troops, who originally only used the bumps on the ground and bushes to covertly shoot at each other, had dug out a simple one-man sleeping bunker, and the dug-out plans were piled in front to form an earthen wall.  The front line that was originally crowded with people now seemed to be vaguely visible when looking over it.

    To the disappointment of the soldiers of the 1st Ukrainian Volunteer Infantry Regiment, the target of their own artillery fire was not the coalition infantry battalion in front of their position. The artillery shells that roared out of the city one after another all went towards the front of the right-wing defense line.  Although the defense line in the north of Kharkov is in the shape of a shield with a raised center, the Ukrainian defenders in the flank positions cannot observe the other side.The battle is happening on the side, but listening to the noise, the coalition's attack on the right wing is far stronger than the attack on the left. If you listen carefully, you can even vaguely hear the sound of the coalition's M2 large-caliber heavy machine gun firing.

    As the saying goes, it was too late and too soon. Eight cannons from two Ukrainian artillery batteries in Kharkiv fired rapidly for more than 4 minutes at the coalition column that was charging towards the front of the right-wing position, and finally managed to smash out nearly a hundred rounds of artillery shells.  The call for instructions was made to the headquarters, and a Ukrainian combat staff covered the phone and reported,

    "Report to the general and commander-in-chief, the artillery company asks for instructions whether to continue shooting at the enemy attacking the right-wing position? Or move the position and then fire at the enemy in front of the left-wing position? Or move the position and concentrate on intercepting and firing at the enemy on the right?"

    Sven von Neuhaus, who was originally resolute and resolute, deputy chief of staff of the former enemy headquarters of the German-Ukrainian forces and commander of the 47th German reserve infantry division, frowned deeply when he heard this and said nothing for a while, while observing the right wing with a telescope.  After hearing this, Commander-in-Chief of the Ukrainian National Army Simon Petliura put down the telescope in his hand, turned around and shouted anxiously to the German Major General,

    "You can't change the target. The shelling in the past few minutes has not stopped the enemy's offensive at all. These guys who were prisoners of the Soviet Red Army are rushing forward without any care, as if they have been given blood. The two of us  The firepower of the artillery company is still too dispersed. What does it matter if the shells fired are scattered within a two-kilometer range? So far, not even a wheeled armored vehicle of the coalition has been destroyed. The M2 large-caliber heavy machine gun on the opponent's armored vehicle has killed us.  The firepower of the mg08 machine guns on the position has been completely suppressed. It will be dangerous to attack the position like this!"

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