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Volume 3 Far East Stories Chapter 771 (2) All in vain?

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    However, orders are orders. After a moment of hesitation, Dushkevich, who was carrying the rank of Bundeswehr colonel on his shoulders in the forward position headquarters, still shouted into the microphone, "Understood, Your Excellency, Division Commander, the 25th Infantry Brigade is here."  Attack!"

    The commander of the 25th Infantry Brigade of the 13th Volga Federal Infantry Division, Shshimbeskoevich Dushkevich, was also from the former Tsarist Russian army. Before the February Revolution of 1917, this guy was already a member of the Tsarist Russian Guards Infantry Regiment.  A colonel commander, based on his qualifications, could at least become a division commander in Kolchak's White Guards. You must know that Yegorov, the original commander of the Soviet 9th Army, was also a division commander before joining the Red Army.  He's just a Tsarist Russian major.  ",

    Of course, Alexander Ilyich Yegorov, who was born in Buzuluk Town, Orenburg, joined the Socialist Revolutionary Party as early as 1904, while Colonel Dushkevich, a Tsarist Russian colonel who was born in Voronezh, belonged to the Constitutional Democratic Party in his early days.  Therefore, although Dushkovic also swore to follow the Bolsheviks and fight for the Soviets to the end after the bloody incident of the Constituent Assembly in January this year, as a demobilized former Tsarist Russian colonel and commander of the Guards Infantry Regiment, he served under Yego  There was only one brigade commander of the Soviet Red Army among Rove's men.

    If it were not for the protection of Sergin and Yegorov, and if the division commander Voronezh had not risked his life to guarantee Comrade Dushkevich's loyalty to the Soviet Union, all the previous purges under the leadership of Comrade Joseph, the head of the North Caucasus and Tsaritsyn, would have been impossible.  Anti-China Dushkevich has long become a wandering ghost under the Cheka's gun.  ""look

    Of course, no one mentioned that issue anymore. Comrade Joseph was removed from his post and put under house arrest in a secret residence outside Moscow. Sergin had returned to Moscow to serve as deputy commander-in-chief of the Soviet armed forces in name only, and Yegorov  , Stepin, Voronezh and others have transformed into senior generals of the Volga Federal Defense Forces, and Comrade Dushkevich, the original brigade commander of the 26th Brigade of the 14th Infantry Division of the Soviet Red Army, is still commanding the main force under the division commander Voronezh.  Commander of the 25th Brigade.

    "Brigadierthe artillery preparations have been cancelled? What's going on? Didn't you say that after the air strike, there will be 20 minutes of artillery preparations? Are the two Japanese artillery regiments here to parade and not to participate in the war?" Si, Chief of Staff of the 25th Infantry Brigade  Nobish Petrovich Vasilenko asked as he looked at his livid-faced brigade commander in surprise.

    "An order is an order. If you ask me, who should I ask? The division commander said that without artillery preparations and without the cover of the Chinese armored forces, our brigade has to launch an attack. If that doesn't work, he will directly replace the Circassian infantry.  Brigade 26, what do you think I should answer? Can I say no?" Brigadier Dushkovic shouted, this guy was obviously in a bad mood.

    "Uh The Japanese won't just sit idly by like this, right? Brigadier, if you ask me, they might be scared of being beaten by the German heavy artillery in Kharkov Damn it, our division lost almost all its artillery yesterday.  Such heavy artillery casualties must have frightened the Japanese. The number of artillery in the Japanese division was already small, and now they are even more unwilling to open fire first and become a living target for others Co-authored by our 13th Infantry Division  Are they supposed to be a target for the Kharkov defenders?" Vasilenko, the brigade chief of staff, speculated with his eyes spinning.

    "No need to talk nonsense. The 26th Brigade's attack on the right wing yesterday did not have the support of artillery and armored troops. Biarov's 51st Infantry Regiment had already attacked 300 meters in front of the Ukrainian position. Together with our brigade, we left  We won't be able to fight with the support of artillery and armored troops. Our equipment is much better now than when we were in Tsaritsyn. The troops have also experienced the test of war, and their morale has recovered well. This battle must be fought well.  Come on! Follow my orders! Get ready to attack!¡±

    Brigadier Dushkovic rolled up his sleeves. His brigade headquarters was in a shelter reinforced with two layers of sleepers on the left side of the main position. It had a good line of sight. The two brigades were each responsible for the railway line yesterday.  The front lines more than five kilometers wide on the left and right are different. The Ukrainians defending one side on the opposite side quietly reduced their forces and reduced their positions to 35 kilometers wide on the left and right sides. The 13th Infantry Division's front line was also shortened to 3 kilometers on the left and right sides.

    If you look down from the co-pilot seat of the aerial coalition reconnaissance plane, the central six kilometers of the coalition front north of Kharkiv currently belongs to the 13th Federal Infantry Division, while the five kilometers on the left and right wings belong to two Kikuchi Brigades.  As for the positions of the infantry regiment and the Chinese armored battalion, as for the 2 kilometers of wetlands near the banks of the Yudi and Kharkiv rivers, the coalition only deployed a small number of security forces.

    The terrain in the north of Kharkov and the structure of the German-Ukrainian army's circular defense line are destined to attack from the northeast and northwest of the city will be affected by the riverside wetlands. In fact, although the rainy season has passed, in order to defend Kharkov  In this city, when the German-Ukrainian coalition deployed the circular defense line, they deliberately led the river water into the riverside depressions at both ends of the circular defense line to form a patch of silt and swamp, thus shortening the width of the northern defense line and reducing the difficulty of defending the city.Degree.

    In fact, Simon Petliura even suggested that since the river in the north of the city and the artificial wetlands and swamps can become natural dangers for the defense of Kharkov, why not simply dig up the Kharkov and Yudi rivers and let the flood flood the entire  Wouldn't it be possible once and for all to flood the northern suburbs of the city?

    As a result, Petliura's method was scorned by two German generals, von Neuhaus and von Fran?ois, one young and one old. Neuhaus's explanation at the time was that the flood had flooded the north of Kharkov.  It is not easy for the coalition forces to attack, nor is it easy for the German-Ukrainian forces to counterattack.

    More importantly, the defense line in the north of the city was originally the first choice position for the Allied Allied Forces' offensive on the Eastern Front. It was also the best position for the German-Ukrainian Allied Forces to attract the opponent's main forces to gather and challenge.  Is it easier to launch an attack from both wings than to defend only one main battlefield in the north of the city?  Or is it easier to defend the other three directions at the same time?  Not to mention that Ukrainian villages and towns in four townships and eight miles will be invaded and harmed by the coalition forces!

    Simon Petliura murmured in his heart, saying one thing after another, is he just afraid of losing the face of the German army, and wants to surrender before the battle?  Or is it that the Germans couldn't bear the hardship, and the water flooded the position, and all the previous civil engineering and a large amount of manpower and materials were in vain?

    In fact, the German army relied on railway lines and highway lines to quickly mobilize to avoid real situations and attack weak points. This was a tried and tested magic weapon in the European War in the past four years. Gradually, German generals like von Francois, including backbone generals like von Neuhaus,  , they habitually regard railways and roads as the best marching routes when commanding troops to march and fight.

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