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Volume 3 Far East Story Chapter 735 (4) I actually have a new idea

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    At this time, the entire Kharkov night attack had ended for 20 minutes. Although many buildings and trees concentrated by artillery fire were still burning outside the city, the sound of gunfire had completely subsided.  Major General Sven von Neuhaus, deputy chief of staff of the headquarters and commander of the 47th German Reserve Infantry Division, personally directed the night attack of the 139th German Infantry Regiment under the cover of four artillery battalions. In the end, it did not achieve the expected combat objectives.  Although the casualties on both sides were similar, the German-Ukrainian forces that took the lead lost two more artillery battalions, which brought considerable difficulties to the next defense.

    Moreover, in the final stage, von Neuhaus gave up the practice of concentrating the Ukrainian 105mm light field howitzer battalion and the 5 German medium artillery battalion 15omm heavy field howitzers to confront the Japanese du1i field heavy artillery regiment, which aroused Simon.  Petliura and Neuhaus' own subordinates were incomprehensible and doubtful. Major Heit Westermann, commander of the divisional reconnaissance battalion of the 47th German Reserve Infantry Division, who suffered more than half of the casualties, was the first to jump out of trouble.  .

    "The major is right. I said to the division commander, the Japanese defense line is not as fragile as we thought. The Ukrainian 1st and 2nd Artillery Battalions" were destroyed by the heavy artillery of the Japanese army. We should retreat as soon as possible instead of continuing to fight.  , the opponent has 24 15mm heavy howitzers. Our regiment has no upper hand against the main force of the 5th Japanese Infantry Brigade. If our artillery cannot suppress the opponent's heavy artillery, this battle will not be able to continue.  "Hit me!" The one who spoke was Colonel Dennis von Diekermeier, the commander of the 139th Infantry Regiment. How could this guy not get angry when he saw his regiment suffering heavy casualties!

    "General, I can't understand why you didn't order the heavy artillery to open fire? Although there are only 5 15omm heavy field howitzers left, I believe that, together with the 12 cannons of the 1o5mm light howitzer battalion of the 3rd Ukrainian Infantry Division, we have not tried  The heavy artillery regiment of the Japanese Army cannot be defeated. If you had deployed this part of the artillery in Beicheng District from the beginning, tonight's battle would never be like this. Obviously we lost 2 more artillery battalions and 24 guns.  75mm field artillery, if we continue to fight like this, we won¡¯t have artillery to defend Kharkov tomorrow!¡±

    The Prime Minister of Ukraine's ruling cabinet, the Minister of Defense and the Commander-in-Chief of the National Army are obviously very dissatisfied with the destruction and loss of his two 75mm field artillery battalions, and this preemptive shelling is obviously the root cause of the loss of two artillery battalions""  And the most annoying thing is that the position of the 13th Federal Infantry Division in the north of Kharkov city is unshakable. It has been silent and unresponsive under the plowing artillery fire of its two artillery battalions. This is called Petliura  I felt that my two artillery battalions had exposed their positions in vain and were killed by the Japanese heavy artillery.

    "Everyone, please be careful and be restrained. Enough is enough. As soldiers, it is your bounden duty to obey orders. Your Excellency Petliura, our attack this time caused a huge blow to the coalition forces, and we were able to attack and withdraw.  When we got back, the Japanese were beaten so hard that they could hardly hold their position, while the Chinese armored forces on the right wing simply turned off and made no sound!

    I think the results of tonight's surprise attack are still satisfactory. Although the loss of the Ukrainian artillery battalion is sad, don't forget that we also killed the only remaining artillery battalion of the 6th Infantry Regiment of the Kikuchi Brigade, plus  In the Battle of Kharkov Forest, the artillery of the 5th Infantry Brigade, the main force of the Japanese 3rd Division, was completely wiped out. It had already suffered heavy losses. After losing the artillery, this brigade had no combat effectiveness!  Moreover, our artillery attack on the enemy's center at least annihilated most of the defenders in the opponent's outpost. "Beiyang 1917 Chapter 735 (Four unexpectedly had another idea"). I judge that the 13th Federal Infantry Division is in  The casualties on the front line will not be less than 2 battalions!¡±

    Von Neuhaus walked a few steps with his hands behind his back, turned around and looked at a group of generals of the German-Ukrainian army half to comfort and half to suppress.

    "But why not place all the artillery in Beicheng District before the war? Why move the artillery battalion's position forward to Beicheng District after the artillery battle started?" Simon Petliura was a little reluctant to use hindsight at this time.  No mercy.

    "Your Excellency, Prime Minister, the arrangement of the artillery is based on my suggestion. Since the Japanese 3rd Division has a du1i field heavy artillery regiment and a field artillery regiment, the strength of the enemy's artillery cannot be underestimated, and the enemy has air  The advantage of reconnaissance is that in order to avoid encountering preemptive bombardment by the enemy, we decided to deploy our artillery units lightly in the front and in the rear! It is quite dangerous to put eggs in one basket. If the enemy sends a large group of heavy bombers for an air attack before evening,  , we won¡¯t have time to evacuate our artillery units by then!¡±

    ¡°That night, Major Denis Oger, battalion commander of the medium artillery battalion of the 47th German Reserve Infantry Division Artillery Regiment of the "Beiyang 1917" who temporarily assumed the command role of the Kharkov artillery, stood up and explained.

    "Okay, there is no need to explain this. We have not lost this battle. At least we have found out the details of the enemy. Don't forget that our purpose is to hold off the enemy as much as possible in Kharkov, not to completely eliminate it.  They, after gaining air superiority orUntil the enemy can at least weaken the enemy's air superiority, we cannot concentrate our forces on a large scale, and this includes our artillery troops!  I estimate that the enemy will definitely send an air force to bomb the city of Kharkiv tomorrow, and the artillery in the city will have to retreat out of the city overnight while taking advantage of the darkness!  "

    Von Neuhaus stopped everyone's complaints and quarrels with a wave of his hand. He gritted his teeth and said, "This time we have to pull off a real empty city strategy!" The German major general was obviously thinking about tomorrow.  The idea of ????fighting came again.

    July 3ori22, 1918: The temporary former enemy headquarters of the Allied Allied Forces north of Kharkiv.

    "Baga! All rubbish, losers! What kind of war is this! Why are there no signs of the Germans leaving the city to attack at night? Why do the Germans come and leave as they come! The infantryman of the Kikuchi Brigade  The 6th Regiment suffered over a thousand casualties and the entire artillery brigade was wiped out! Even Major Isokawa was killed! And you, King Tanaka, your field artillery regiment didn¡¯t even fire a single shot, and even lost an artillery squadron to Ukrainian artillery fire.  Cannon! You are derelict in your duties!¡±

    Lieutenant General Ting Ting, the commander of the Japanese 3rd Division, who took a train and rushed to the front line to command the operation, roared and trained all the coalition generals in the temporary headquarters one by one. Of course, the Japanese generals were the first to be targeted.  From Kikuchi to Hashimoto and finally to Tanaka, the Major General's Brigade Commander and the two Colonel Artillery Regiment Captains were scolded so much that they really didn't dare to tell the difference apart from lowering their heads and shouting "Hai!"
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