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Volume 3 Far East Story Chapter 768 (1) There are many things worth summarizing

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    "I personally led the brigade headquarters, the Duli Artillery Battalion of the 1st Chinese Armored Regiment and the 3rd Armored Company to cross the river as the third echelon. Colonel Arai Tatsuya led the 19th Infantry Regiment to follow closely as the fourth echelon. The 4th Armored Company and  The brigade's logistics troops worked together as the fifth echelon to cross the river and attack southward! "Do you understand?" Muto Nobuyoshi shouted in a low voice.  .  First, //Access to download txt novel//

    "Hai!" A group of Japanese generals such as the captain and group captain of the 23rd Infantry Brigade all stood up and nodded to receive the order. However, the Chinese Major Li Shang in the crowd just grinned and did not speak. Muto  Obviously, he uses his armored battalion as a reconnaissance spearhead rather than as an assault iron fist. However, the newly raised duli artillery battalion in the regiment does need protection, so Li Shang weighed it and reluctantly did not jump out to object to the 3rd armored battalion.  The company and the 4th company were arranged at the brigade and regiment headquarters and the arrangements for the baggage troops.

    The regiment leader Lu Huanyan also specifically told Li Shang before he came this time that the 3rd Armored Battalion was assigned to the Muto Brigade to fight. This was very different from the situation when he led 2 armored battalions to fight with the 18th Infantry Regiment of Emirates Masato.  As a young elite among Japanese generals, Muto is a master of several skills whether he is leading troops or commanding on the battlefield. Li Shang's 3rd Armored Battalion must assume its supporting role, not only to complete the combat missions assigned by Muto, but also to complete the combat missions assigned by Muto.  He can't always try to steal the limelight from Muto and the 23rd Infantry Brigade, so Li Shang has to grasp every measure

    Speaking of Major Li Shang, the commander of the 3rd Armored Battalion, he is considered to be the most capable commander of the three main armored battalions under Lu Huanyan, capable of fighting tough battles and being skillful. He naturally understood Lu Huanyan's concern.  The key point in the long story is that you should not just rely on the strong combat effectiveness of the armored forces to suppress the opportunities for Muto and the 23rd Infantry Brigade to perform. In this way, even if the fight is good, the coordination and unity of the two armies will be compromised.  In the gap, Muto Nobuyoshi is a leader that even Kikuchi and Hata Shunroku don't look down on, and he is definitely not comparable to the captain of the captain Masago Eizaki.

    Muto Nobuyoshi¡¯s 23rd Infantry Brigade crossed the Kharkov River in a mighty manner None of this escaped the sight of the German-Ukrainian coalition lookout post in Kharkov

    July 31, 1918 7:15 German-Ukrainian Allied Forces Headquarters on the North Defense Line of Kharkiv

    "Your Excellency General The Japanese have crossed the river and advanced eastward We just watch the other side outflank and return to the east of Kharkov? The enemy's cavalry regiment on the other side of the river on the western front also began to break up camp and head south. Look at the situation.  We need to take a detour back to the south of Kharkov. Although the Lopan River is vast, it is not difficult to cross the river if the other party builds a pontoon bridge or even swims across it. Look at the neatness of the Japanese engineers building a bridge on the Kharkov River in the northeast  ¡­Are we being too passive now?¡±

    Simon Petlyura, Prime Minister of Ukraine's ruling cabinet, Minister of Defense and Commander-in-Chief of the National Army, has been working almost non-stop these days. He was only confused for three hours in the middle of the night yesterday. The combat meeting of the former enemy headquarters of the German-Ukrainian coalition was held.  They dispersed at 2 o'clock in the morning, and the decision was still not to bring back the main force of the 47th German Reserve Infantry Division, but to use only the 1st and 2nd Kharkov Volunteer Divisions to defend the city.

    The former enemy headquarters of the German-Ukrainian forces that carried out the Kharkov Campaign is still located at the South Railway Station south of Kharkov. It was originally the headquarters of the 29th German Reserve Infantry Corps. The command post is located in the shelter in the basement of the train station.  Of course, the main force of the 47th German Reserve Infantry Division, which was stationed in Kharkiv after escaping the heavy bombing of the Allied Air Force, had evacuated along the railway line and hid near Krasnov, 90 kilometers southwest.  Guarding the core position of the South Station was only the 139th German Reserve Infantry Regiment.

    After carrying out the night attack mission last night, Major General von Neuhaus withdrew his 139th Infantry Regiment from the front-line position and retreated to the southern suburbs position for rest and recuperation. Of course, the night attack of the main German infantry regiment was from a propaganda point of view  It was a complete victory. In just 45 minutes, the fierce attack and defense were able to advance and retreat freely. During the attack, the position of a Japanese infantry regiment was suppressed to death and unable to move. During the retreat, all the lightly and seriously injured were withdrawn.

    The only fly in the ointment was that they were never able to capture the Japanese outposts, and the enemy's heavy artillery inflicted heavy casualties on the Germans. Nearly 300 Imperial warriors died in front of the Japanese positions, and nearly 500 were injured.  The loss of more than 800 casualties during the battle was still a heavy blow to the 139th German Reserve Infantry Regiment.

    Last night's battle was worth summarizing for both sides. In this battle, the three main battalions and the division reconnaissance battalion of the 139th German Infantry Regiment, which went out to attack the city at night, suffered more than 800 casualties in total, including 286.  Killed in action, 182 people were seriously injured, and 332 people were slightly injured. The Taguchi Infantry Squadron of the 16th Infantry Battalion of the 6th Infantry Regiment, which defended the outpost position of the Japanese 5th Infantry Brigade, strengthened the strength of a machine gun team and was under German artillery fire and ground forces.  Under the attack, the casualty rate was as high as 90%. Taguchi Squadron's 244 men were reduced to 12, while the 40-man machine gun team strengthened by the Infantry Team only had 1 heavy machine gun and 8 men left.Soldiers, as many as 264 Japanese soldiers were killed on the outpost.

    Not counting this, the Japanese infantry regiment of the 6th Infantry Regiment suffered casualties from 2 squads on the main position just to reinforce the outpost positions. Among them, 53 people were killed and 97 were wounded. The infantry regiment on the right wing and later all  The infantry team that was reinforced to defend the main position suffered relatively light casualties under German artillery fire. The infantry team commanded by Major Arata Fukushima suffered more than 250 casualties, while the infantry team commanded by Major Hasegawa Toru suffered more than 150 casualties.  , most of them were injured by shelling from Ukrainian 105mm light howitzers.

    If calculated carefully, the casualties of the German 139th Infantry Regiment that went out to attack the city at night were more than 800, and the casualties of the defending Japanese 5th Infantry Brigade and 6th Infantry Regiment of more than 800 were almost even.  There was a big difference in artillery casualties. Although the Isokawa Artillery Battalion of the 6th Infantry Regiment of the 5th Kikuchi Infantry Brigade was completely destroyed, with more than 340 casualties, the heavy artillery of Hashimoto Koji's Duli Field Heavy Artillery Regiment was  The 1st and 2nd Battalions of the Ukrainian Artillery were annihilated. The Ukrainian artillery suffered more than a thousand casualties, and 24 75mm Krupp field guns were also wiped out.

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