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Volume 3 Far East Story Chapter 735 (3) Angry at Master Chong

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    In fact, von Neuhaus still had five German-made 15mm heavy field howitzers ambushed in Kharkov and did not fire. If they cooperated with the Ukrainians' 12 1o5mm light field howitzers, they might not have moved forward.  A chance to compete with the 24 four-year-old 15cm heavy howitzers of the Japanese Army's Du1i Field Heavy Artillery Regiment. However, obviously if the commander of the Japanese Army's heavy artillery is a fool, then the opponent will bombard him with all his strength.  As for the reconnaissance battalion and the 1st Infantry Battalion, such huge casualties and losses were not the price von Neuhaus was willing to pay. Therefore, the German Major General chose to give up and continue the artillery battle!

    What's more, the field artillery regiment of the Japanese 3rd Division has always been silent. It neither knows where the opponent's position is nor what the opponent's intentions are. Therefore, von Neushaus weighed it again and again and finally retreated.  Take one step and decide to end this melee tonight.  Visit to download txt novel

    Facts have proved that von Neuhaus's judgment is quite accurate. The Ukrainian 1o5mm light field howitzer battalion in the middle city of Kharkiv fell silent. Here, the commander of the Japanese du1i field heavy artillery regiment, Koji Hashimoto, instinctively  Feeling alert, His Excellency the Colonel ordered the heavy artillery positions to stop firing as quickly as possible, and moved forward as quickly as possible to the reserve positions on the left and right wings 500 meters in front.

    Here, Kikuchi Shinnosuke was overjoyed to see the Ukrainian howitzers stop firing, and he hurriedly asked Rendao's armored battalion to prepare a two-wing attack to outflank the German flanks, trying to bring in the German troops surrounding the outpost position in one go.  Eat it, then the three brigades of the 6th Infantry Regiment will attack directly from the front, reversing the decline in one fell swoop. When has the Kikuchi Infantry Brigade, the ace and main force, been surrounded and beaten so embarrassedly?  This situation must be recovered no matter what.

    Unexpectedly, not long after the Ukrainian 105mm howitzers stopped firing, the heavy artillery of the Japanese Hashimoto Koji Regiment in the middle also stopped firing. When Kikuchi shook the phone of the Du1i Field Heavy Artillery Regiment with a pale face, he heard that  Chijutsu Artillery was moving its position to continue providing tactical support, which made Kikuchi Shinnosuke almost yell in anger.

    However, whether it is the 3rd Field Artillery Regiment of Koji Hashimoto or the 3rd Field Artillery Regiment commanded by King Tanaka, they are directly under the command of the Japanese 3rd Division. Although Kikuchi"  Although he is a major general brigade commander, he really has no control over Hashimoto and Tanaka, the two artillery commanders and regimental commanders.

    The military quality of the German army is still quite good. Although the division reconnaissance battalion that besieged the outpost position of the Japanese Army Taguchi Squadron suffered heavy casualties, it still retreated without any chaos. The lightly and seriously wounded were still evacuated on the line of fire. The Taguchi Taishi Squadron's core position  Nearly 200 corpses of dead German soldiers were left around. The 1st Battalion of the 139th German Infantry Regiment suffered nearly a hundred casualties, while the division reconnaissance battalion was left with half of them. But that was it, the Japanese heavy artillery stopped the firing.  Taking advantage of the opportunity, the remaining two battalions of German troops retreated to their positions.

    The Taguchi Squadron of the Japanese Army strengthened a machine gun squad and became the biggest victim in this German night attack. There were less than 20 Japanese soldiers left on the entire position, and almost all of them were injured. However, Captain Taguchi Squadron  Captain Kamezo and Kojima still persisted in surviving. When a wheeled armored vehicle from a Chinese armored company braved sporadic Ukrainian 75mm field artillery fire for reinforcements, Taguchi and Kojima survived.  The guys actually hugged each other and burst into tears. The Chinese vehicle-mounted infantry and less than 20 Japanese soldiers all looked around and sighed. "Beiyang 1917 Chapter 735 (Sanchong Division is on fire").

    In this battle, the three main battalions and the division reconnaissance battalion of the 139th German Infantry Regiment, which attacked the city at night, suffered 800 casualties in total, including 286 killed, 182 seriously injured, and 332 lightly injured. The defending Japanese 5th Infantry Brigade  The Taguchi Infantry Squadron of the 16th Infantry Battalion of the 6th Infantry Regiment at the regiment's outpost strengthened the strength of a machine gun squad. Under the attack of German artillery fire and ground troops, the casualty rate was as high as 9o%, and the 244 people under the Taguchi Squadron were left.  12 people were killed, while the 40-man machine gun team reinforced by the 1st Infantry Team had only 1 heavy machine gun and 8 soldiers left. As many as 264 Japanese soldiers were killed in the outpost position.

    Not to mention, the 1st Infantry Corps on the main position suffered casualties from 2 squads just to reinforce the outpost position, 53 of whom were killed and 97 wounded. The 1st Infantry Corps on the right and all reinforcements later arrived  The 1st Infantry Corps defending the main position suffered relatively light casualties under German artillery fire. The 1st Infantry Corps commanded by Major Tai Fukushima suffered casualties of more than 250, while the 1st Infantry Corps commanded by Major Hasegawa Toru suffered casualties.  Most of the more than 150 people were injured by shelling from Ukrainian 1o5mm light howitzers.

    If the "Beiyang 1917" calculated carefully, the 800 casualties of the German 139th Infantry Regiment that went out to attack the city at night were almost as much as the 800 casualties of the Japanese 5th Infantry Brigade and 6th Infantry Regiment on the defensive side.  It was a tie, but there was a big difference in the artillery casualties between the two sides. Although the Isokawa Artillery Battalion of the 6th Infantry Regiment of the 5th Kikuchi Infantry Brigade was completely wiped out, with more than 340 casualties, Hashimoto Koji's du1i field heavy artillery  However, the heavy artillery of the regiment annihilated the 1st and 2nd Battalions of the Ukrainian Artillery.The Dutch artillery suffered over a thousand casualties, and all 24 75mm Krupp field guns were wiped out.

    What made von Neuhaus feel aggrieved was that because he had stubbornly wanted to capture the Japanese Army's outposts, the division reconnaissance battalion and the 1st Infantry Battalion were stranded on the Japanese Army's outposts, causing them to be captured by the Japanese.  The army's 15mm heavy artillery fire coverage caused heavy casualties. Otherwise, his battle damage rate would be only two-thirds of the Japanese army's casualties.

    In fact, after the Ukrainian 105mm light howitzer battalion moved its position, it did not easily continue to fire at the exposed position, because at that time the Japanese army's heavy artillery position also fell silent. Then, as if the artillery forces of both sides had reached a tacit understanding, the Japanese army's  After the heavy artillery troops moved their positions for an "entertainment show", they did not fire blindly. This artillery battle on a moonlit night ended with a new chapter when the 75mm field artillery of the 3rd Battalion of the Ukrainian Artillery finally stopped firing.  pause.

    "Your Excellency, General, I can't understand why my reconnaissance battalion and the 1st Infantry Battalion must be together to capture the Japanese outposts in the final stage. If we, along with the 2nd and 3rd Infantry Battalions, feign an attack and retreat as soon as possible.  Otherwise, the enemy's heavy artillery will never cause us such heavy casualties!" Major Heit Westerman, commander of the division's reconnaissance battalion, with blood-oozing gauze wrapped around his head, was the first to face the enemy in the former headquarters.  His own teacher became angry.
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