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Volume Three Far East Stories Chapter 771 (3) Armed to the Teeth

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    If a flood floods the north of the city and destroys the railways and highways, it will not be as easy to clean up as removing the rails. These two German generals are accustomed to attacking rather than defending. When the flood comes, it will become Kharkov's defense line, but  It has also become the defense line for the Allied forces to besiege Kharkov, so I do not agree with Simon Petliura's opportunistic approach.  §êw§ë//Free e-book download//

    The 25th Infantry Brigade will be responsible for the entire center attack today. Dushkevich's style of play is completely different from yesterday. With the help of the communication trenches between the forward position and the main position, the main force of his 50th Infantry Regiment has quietly moved to the front.  On the position, the forward position of the 13th Federal Infantry Division is between 2,500 meters and 2,300 meters away from the ring defense line of the Kharkov defenders. The coalition forces dug out nearly 10 attack positions along the longitudinal direction of the position to the south.  Short communication trenches and troop garrison holes.

    The wired telephones at various positions of the 13th Union Infantry Division have already been connected. Following the order from brigade commander Dushkevich, on a front almost six kilometers wide, 25 of the 13th Union Infantry Division, responsible for the first wave of today's attack,  The two infantry battalions of the 50th Brigade Infantry Regiment, as a company, jumped forward along nearly 10 traffic trenches and launched a charge!

    In this time and space in 1918, whether it was the mg08 water-cooled heavy machine gun equipped by the German-Ukrainian coalition or the Browning m1918a1 air-cooled heavy machine gun equipped by the 13th Federal Infantry Division, the maximum range exceeded 2,500 meters. However, the infantry  The actual combat effectiveness of a weapon cannot be determined solely by the sight range.

    The German-Ukrainian forces defending Kharkov were fully equipped with the mg08 heavy machine gun. This heavy machine gun was also a weapon used by the German army to frighten the Allied forces in the European War. In Wang Geng¡¯s previous life, during the Battle of the Somme in July 1918, there were 1,000 casualties.  The number of British troops under the German MG08 heavy machine guns was as high as 57,000. Because the memory of the MG08 massacre of Allied soldiers was still fresh, the post-war Treaty of Versailles limited the number of German machine guns.  It was stipulated that Germany could retain 1926 792 mg08 and 1134 mg08/15, and the rest would be handed over to the victorious Allies. This provision was later increased to 2336 861 mg08 and 1475 mg08/15 to cope with the domestic security chaos in Germany, but Germany  People collected more for scrap, so they can still be seen during World War II.

    The Ukrainian National Army and the Kharkiv Volunteer Infantry Division, which were first-hand trained by the Germans, are fully equipped with the mg08 heavy machine gun. The history of this heavy machine gun can be traced back to 1892. At that time, a company called Ludwigloewe and Mark  Qin signed a 7-year production contract to produce Maxim machine guns.

    After the contract expired in 1899, the German Arms and Ammunition Company Deutsheunionsfabrikd continued to produce this machine gun for the German army and named it mg9999, referring to 1899. The main difference between it and other Maxim machine guns of the same period was the different gun frames.  Two years later, the brass cooling water sleeve of mg99 was replaced with a more economical steel one and was called mg01. Based on mg01, mg08 was finally born and finalized in 1908.

    The mg08 was used as a trench warfare heavy machine gun in the European War. At the beginning of the war, each main infantry regiment of the German army was equipped with a machine gun company equipped with 6 mg08s. Each company had 4 officers, 10 non-commissioned officers and 83 soldiers. In 1915, the German army  A second machine gun company was added to each regiment, and by 1916 a third was added and a machine gun company was assigned to each battalion. In the spring of 1917, the number of machine guns per company increased to 9, and further increases were soon followed.  To 12 points.

    By 1918, each 12 mg08 German machine gun company had 4 officers, 7 non-commissioned officers, and 113 soldiers. At the same time, the tactics of using machine guns also changed, from each machine gun providing frontal firepower individually to multiple  The machine guns cooperate with each other to form a fire barrier.

    In 1918, the normal organization of a German infantry division was an infantry division with three infantry regiments, a motorized anti-aircraft artillery company, an artillery regiment, a reconnaissance battalion, a communications battalion, a supply column and a supplementary barracks.  An infantry regiment has 3 battalions, and each battalion has 4 infantry companies, a motorized platoon and a heavy machine gun company.

    If the defense line on the northern outskirts of Kharkov is currently being defended by a German infantry regiment, even just a regiment of Major General von Neuhaus's 47th Reserve Infantry Division, the attacking side's 50th Infantry Regiment of the 25th Brigade of the 13th Federal Infantry Division will  The number of machine guns and mortars will be at a disadvantage. Fortunately, the Ukrainian Kharkiv Volunteer Division is still guarding the position at this moment.

    The firepower of the Volunteer Division is weaker than that of the Ukrainian National Army. On average, each infantry company has only 2 German-made MG08 heavy machine guns and 1 76cm infantry mortar. The main weapon of an infantry company of 126 people is handguns.  The Rimosin Nagant rifle is different from the German-made Mauser 98 rifles equipped by the Ukrainian National Army. As a second-line force, when the volunteer division was pushed to the front line to serve as defensive cannon fodder, it was still Russian-made.  Mosin Nagant Rifle.

    However, it is obvious that the former enemy commander Sven von Neuhaus, who directed Kharkov's defensive operations, was not a light-hearted man. He had previously dispersed the remaining artillery in Kharkov to the southern part of Kharkov. This was almost  As a result, the few artillery pieces he had left in the city escaped the fierce air attack by the coalition forces this morning and were defending the city of Kharkiv.In terms of the arrangement of the circular defense line, this guy also shrank the frontal position from 9 kilometers on the left and right to 35 kilometers on the left and right.

    As for the two wings of the vacated position, the water brought by the dug river embankment was submerged into a vast area. Using this move alone, this guy shortened the width of his position by more than half. Of course, if the coalition forces must  Taking the risk of wading into the water to attack, he didn't mind using the mg08 heavy machine gun to name the Japanese in the quagmire one by one.

    By July 31, 1918, the two regiments of the 1st Brigade of the 1st Ukrainian Volunteer Infantry Division that were in charge of defending the position the previous day had been replaced. Those guarding the position were the 2nd Brigade of the 1st Volunteer Infantry Division.  The two main regiments and the shrinking of the position width fully strengthened the defensive density of the Ukrainian volunteers.

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