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Volume 3 Far East Story Chapter 771 (5) Fierce Battle

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    Although most of the federal infantry divisions are still equipped with the teacher's Russian-made Maxim water-cooled heavy machine guns, the main divisions of each federal group army have been equipped with the Chinese-produced m1918a1 air-cooled type for trench defense operations.  If there is not much difference between water-cooled heavy machine guns such as mg08 and Russian Maxim, Browning m1917, and Browning m1918a1 air-cooled heavy machine guns, then for the offensive side, the Browning m1918a1 air-cooled machine gun weighs only 14kg  The portability and ease of use of the heavy machine gun have been greatly improved.  //High-speed update//

    Compared with the mg08 water-cooled heavy machine gun used by the German-Ukrainian coalition, the latest m1918a1 air-cooled heavy machine gun equipped by the 13th Volga Federal Infantry Division has the advantage of being light in weight and easy to carry and transfer. The disadvantage is that it is limited in the amount of ammunition. Browning  The m1918a1's muzzle velocity, effective range and maximum range are all slightly inferior, but for a heavy machine gun aimed with a mechanical illumination, shooting beyond 1,000 meters is a rough shot. The winner is really decided by the heavy machine gun at 1,500 meters away.  Combat is almost non-existent.

    In fact, even if the best machine gunner can aim and shoot with only the mechanical rear sight and crosshair without using an optical sight, it is very difficult to hit a target 800 meters away. More often, he needs to rely on  Continuous rain of bullets and other targets will hit your aiming and shooting line to have a chance to cause damage.  If you only use machine guns for burst precision shooting, it would be quite amazing if you can actually hit a target of 600,800 meters.

    Levandovsky does not think that his Browning heavy machine gun is inferior to the water-cooled mg08 or the Russian Maxim wheel machine gun. Carrying the weight of one mg08 can carry at least 2 to 3 Browning heavy machine guns.  , conversely, does a 4-man machine gun team have a larger target or a 2-man machine gun team is more efficient?  The carrying weight saved by the air-cooled heavy machine gun is a huge advantage just by carrying more ammunition. As for the range, what is the difference in the size of the crosshair between 1500 meters and 2500 meters?  Targets more than 400 meters away are about the same size as match heads in the eyes of shooters.

    The 50th Federal Infantry Regiment deployed the 1st and 2nd main infantry battalions in the first wave of attacks. The Browning heavy machine guns of the 3rd Infantry Battalion were deployed on the forward position for fire support, with a maximum range of 3,500 meters.  The mg08 and the Browning heavy machine gun with a maximum range of 3154 meters fight at a distance of 2300 meters. The suppression effect is almost the same. It just depends on who is more willing to use ammunition like splashing water.

    After the regiment commander Lewandowski gave the order, eight lines of federal infantry assault skirmishers jumped out on a six-kilometer-wide front. In fact, the 1st and 2nd Battalions were like two separate battalions with a kilometer apart.  Huge arrows on the left and right surged towards the opponent's position like a tide. Behind the two big arrows were vaguely discernible four small arrows in units of infantry companies, and each small arrow had three smaller arrows.  It consists of arrows, which are obviously platoon units. The smallest arrows are of course the 14-man infantry squad.

    The skirmisher line of two battalions of federal infantrymen was arduous to keep between 4 and 5 meters in front, back, left, and right of the people. The arrows of each company were composed of nine small arrows of the squad size. In fact, each company  The infantry squad is also composed of three smaller combat groups in a finished shape. If the pilot on the federal reconnaissance plane looks down from the air, he will see a spectacular picture of rising tide.

    The machine gunners of the Ukrainian Volunteer Division guarding the defense line on the northern outskirts of Kharkov took the lead in pulling the trigger of the German-made MG08 heavy machine gun at a distance of 1,800 meters. Strings of flames roared against the ground and rushed towards them. During the charge,  The formations of the two battalions of federal infantry were even more spread out. Of course, some unlucky ones fell on the first machine gun bullet that hit the door and were shot into the air. Their blood and flesh were flying everywhere.

    Levandovsky, the regimental commander on the coalition position, ordered the 12 heavy machine guns of the 3rd Infantry Battalion to open fire to suppress the Ukrainian machine gun fire point in the center 2,300 meters away. At this time, the charging 1st Infantry Battalion, and 2nd Infantry Battalion  The battalion's formation was intercepted by the Ukrainians' intensive machine gun fire and was forced to lie down to avoid the hot bullets. To the attacker's surprise, the defender's machine gun fire was significantly more intense than yesterday, almost every 100 meters.  There was a heavy machine gun fire point spraying angry bullets to block fire, and the skirmishers of the two battalions of the federal infantry were gradually suppressed by the machine gun fire that became more and more threatening as the distance between the two sides shortened.

    Although the defender has a high density of machine guns and powerful firepower, the attacker has the initiative to choose the direction and location of the attack. In fact, the bottom edge of the offensive skirmisher line of each coalition battalion is 300 meters wide, and the two infantry battalions combined  With a force of about 1,200 people, the attack area is only 600 meters. Of course, there is 100 meters between the two infantry battalions. The width of the bottom of the entire federal infantry triangle formation is p; in other words, the coalition invested two  The target of the infantry battalion's attack was a position about 700 meters wide in the middle position of the Kharkov defenders. It was also the key bombing target in the previous coalition air raids. It was just on both sides of the railway line entering the city from north to south. It was also the  In the key defensive area of ??the defender, the density of mg08 heavy machine gun fire points here has reached about 10. The distance between each fire point is less than 70 meters. You must know that the entire width is about 7 kilometers.On the front line of defense, the 2nd Brigade of the 1st Division of Ukrainian Volunteers invested a total of 74 MG08 heavy machine guns in capital defense, with an average of one MG08 heavy machine gun at a distance of 100 meters. The remaining 4 were all strengthened to the middle.

    Originally, the 12 m1918a1 Browning heavy machine guns of the 3rd Battalion of the 50th Federal Infantry Regiment were not at a disadvantage against the 10 mg08 heavy machine guns of the opponent at a distance of 2,300 meters, but the cunning von Neuhaus  He did not pay attention to the suppression of his own position by the heavy machine guns of the coalition forces in the distant positions, but ordered the machine gun fire points on the front line positions to focus on intercepting the two attacking infantry battalions. Since the defenders were protected by relatively solid trench-type fortifications,  Therefore, it is very difficult for the heavy machine gun firepower on the coalition positions to suppress the firepower of the main opponent's machine gun fortifications at such a long distance.

    You must know that most of the firepower points of the Kharkov garrison that survived the coalition air strikes were in the ever-prepared machine gun fortifications. However, during the air strikes, the machine guns and machine gunners withdrew from the front-line positions and hid in the anti-gun holes.  After the air raid ended, they quickly returned to their positions to pack up and deploy machine gun firepower.

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