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Volume 3 Far East Story Chapter 734 (1) The arrangement of light at the front and heavy at the back

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    read_content_up;The 15-kilogram shells of the Ukrainians' 12 105mm light howitzers roared like lightning. In just 3 minutes, they completely destroyed the 6th Artillery Battalion commanded by Major Ryota Isokawa who had no time to move and counterattack.

    Major Isokawa also became the first general of the Allied Eastern Front to be killed in action at the rank of major and battalion captain of the Japanese Allied Forces on the Eastern Front. The 6th Artillery Battalion, with a full strength of 364 people, ceased to exist, with eight 75mm Type 38 field guns.  Total destruction, the entire brigade suffered more than 80% casualties.

    The howitzer battalion of the artillery regiment of the 3rd Ukrainian Infantry Division has three 4-gun 105mm light howitzer batteries. The German-made 105mm Krupp light howitzer has excellent range and more powerful firepower than the 75mm field gun.

    The maximum range of this gun equipped by the medium-sized artillery battalion of the Ukrainian Division Artillery Regiment was only 8,400 meters in 1918. The improved range of this gun has reached 9,700 meters and 11,000 meters. Of course, the Ukrainian artillery battalion is still equipped with  It was just the earliest basic model. In fact, the 105mm light field cannon howitzer of 1917 had a longer range. However, the current production capacity was only enough to partially equip the main force of the German army on the Western Front, and the German Army on the Eastern Front had not yet equipped it.  , not to mention puppet forces like the Ukrainian National Army.

    As the saying goes, sacrifice often comes at a price. Two 75mm field artillery battalions of the Ukrainian National Army ambushed in Kharkiv also opened fire intensively to bombard the position of the 13th Volga Federal Infantry Division three kilometers north of the city. 24  The 75mm Krupp field gun poured a single high-explosive grenade weighing 65 kilograms toward the Voronezh Infantry Division's position in the north of the city. The entire Federal Infantry Division's position was turned into a sea of ??flames.

    If this were during the day, the 13th Federal Infantry Division in Voronezh defending the starting position would have suffered heavy casualties. But this was night, although the flight trajectories of artillery shells flying in the sky continued to brighten the night sky, and the dense explosion of artillery shells on the position  There were also flames and flashes, but the casualties of the 13th Volga Federal Infantry Division were not as high as German Major Generals von Neuhaus expected.

    Major General Liukin Alexeevich Voronezh, commander of the 13th Federal Infantry Division, was not foolhardy. During the day, his two artillery battalions were destroyed by a surprise attack from two 150mm heavy field howitzers ambushed by the enemy.  This gave the former Soviet Red Army division commander and current Volga Federation major general a full understanding of the strength of the enemy forces in Kharkov. How could he settle down and camp overnight within the range of the enemy's artillery?

    In fact, the Japanese 5th Infantry Brigade deployed a Taguchi squadron on the outpost position to serve as a guard, but the main force of the 6th Infantry Regiment of the 5th Infantry Brigade was not lying in the main position trench 1 kilometer behind.  As Li Zhengodadan prepares to fight, the large group of troops is arranged in the living trench 500 meters away from the rear of the main position. Through the spider web-like traffic trench, they can enter the main position defense at any time. Of course, like the outpost position, it is far away from Kharkov.  There are also alert troops and sentinel patrols on the main position of the 5-kilometer circular defense line.

    The same is true for the 13th Infantry Division in Voronezh. It is 3 kilometers north of the Kharkov Ring Defense Line, which is the starting position of the 13th Federal Infantry Division during the afternoon attack. It is used as an outpost position after dark, with Voronezh only on both wings.  Each company only put a company of troops on guard. Although it had only been half a month since joining the Volga Federation, the "Beiyang 1917 Chapter 734 configuration of one light in the front and one heavy in the rear" started from the prisoner-of-war camp. These former Soviet Russia  The soldiers of the Red Army were trained to be experts at building fortifications and digging trenches.

    This is the tradition of the Allied Forces. If you want to bleed less in wartime, you must sweat more in peacetime. Digging bunkers and trenches are the basic skills of every unit of the Allied Forces on the Eastern Front. These are also the three major disciplines and nine points of attention of the Chinese participating troops.  The same most impressive traces, and the Volga Federal Infantry Division is actually mostly the descendants of poor Russian farmers. Although some bad habits have been developed in the Tsarist Russian troops and Soviet Russian troops, in terms of being hardworking and not squeamish,  In the European War, even powerful forces like the German army did not dare to underestimate the Russian troops.

    Division Commander Liukin Alexeevich Voronezh only arranged two infantry companies to guard the outpost position 3 kilometers away from the ground position, and his second position, also the main position, was 2 kilometers behind. In fact, this  The right side of the position is on the same front as Kikuchi's 5th Infantry Brigade position, and the left side is on the same front as the Chinese Lu Huanyan's main armored regiment position.

    The camp of the 13th Federal Infantry Division was arranged further back than the Japanese 5th Infantry Brigade on the right. The 26th Infantry Brigade of the "Beiyang 1917" Infantry took over from the 25th Infantry Brigade, which had suffered heavy casualties in combat in the afternoon.  The front line was arranged within a range of 8,001,000 meters from the main position, while the 25th Infantry Brigade simply withdrew behind the Japanese Duli Field Artillery Regiment and camped for the night along both sides of the railway line, at least 100 meters away from the main position.  25,003,000 meters away.

    In other words, if the northern city of Kharkiv is used as the boundary, the main camp of the coalition forces is basically 8 kilometers away. This is also the location of the German 150mm heavy artillery in the afternoon.Due to its power, in fact, 3 or 4 kilometers north of the Ukrainian defense line in the north of Kharkiv is the coalition's outpost position, 5 kilometers away is the main position, and 8 kilometers away is the main camp.

    For example, the main position of Kikuchi's 5th Infantry Brigade is far more than 5 kilometers away from the diagonal line north of Kharkov. The reason why the Japanese 6th Infantry Regiment did not retreat too far is because their position is far from Kharkov.  Kharkov City is at an oblique angle, and most of the troops are actually close to or more than 8 kilometers away from the center line north of Kharkov City.

    Lu Huanyan's armored force in the northeast corner of Kharkov City was no exception. This "entertainment show" guy simply regarded the main position 5 kilometers away from the opponent's defense line as an outpost position, leaving a company of troops to garrison, and all the rest of the main force was withdrawn.  In the woods 3 kilometers away from the rear, the armored regiment's camp was directly connected to the 7th Infantry Regiment of Muto Nobuyoshi's 23rd Infantry Brigade behind.

    In ancient China, this was the so-called battle. If the odds were against you, you would retreat ten or thirty miles to re-establish your position, thereby leaving enough room for warning and movement between you and the enemy, and sleep under the enemy's cannon.  The prerequisite for setting up camp is that your defensive offensive is strong enough, so that the shelter can block the enemy's heavy artillery bombardment. Obviously, the fortifications and trenches repaired by the coalition troops gathered in the north of Kharkov are far from being permanently prepared to this level.

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