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Volume 3 Far East Story Chapter 775 (4) Where is the glory of the 23rd Brigade?

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    In the eyes of the Japanese generals, the general selection and promotion system of the Chinese participating armies is based on the Great Leap Forward and nonsense. The Baoding Army Officer School is just equivalent to the Japanese Army Non-commissioned Officer School. If the graduates are normal, they will be awarded the rank of second lieutenant. It is quite enough for excellent talents.  Granted the title of lieutenant or something like that, and many of the brigade commanders of the Chinese Participating Army, who have just graduated from Baoding Military Academy a few years ago, can actually become major general brigade commanders and colonel commanders. Alternatives like Bai Chongxi are actually already division commanders  ¡­

    Of course, these words can only be complained and disdained by Japanese generals in private. For example, Li Mingzhong, Zhang Weixi and Xiong Shihuizhong, the commanders of the three main reorganized divisions of the 3rd Army of the Chinese Participating Army, were only 31 years old at this time. Lieutenant General Li Mingzhong had never been in the military.  Regular military schools are just cadres trained by Feng Yuxiang's battalion school, and the same is true for 29-year-old Zhang Weixi, who was promoted from the platoon leader, company commander, and battalion commander of Feng Yuxiang's department.

    Not to mention that Xiong Shihui, who is less than 26 years old at the moment, has only graduated from the second phase of Baoding in less than 3 years, and he has become a lieutenant general of the reorganized division!  Therefore, the Chinese Participating Army believes that the King of China promotes talents in an eclectic way. However, from the perspective of Japan and the Allied Powers, the Chinese are still nepotistic and have a family. Basically, as long as the King of China sees it pleasing, he can recruit people into the Chinese Participating Army and mix with them.  You can achieve great success and be promoted quickly within a year and a half.

    Criticisms come and go, no one dares to say anything. Who is the uncrowned king of Asia at the moment, the commander-in-chief of the Allied Eastern Front, and the commander-in-chief of the Volga Federal Armed Forces? General Wang Geng himself? He is not the only one who graduated from an American non-commissioned officer school like West Point.  Less than a degree?

    Looking back at Li Shang, this guy inherits Lai Wenguang's bloodline of commanding the Nian Army cavalry. This is one of the reasons why he joined the armored forces. Although the Chinese armored forces are only equipped with wheeled armored combat vehicles, they emphasize  Firepower and mobility have always been the most critical characteristics of armored forces in combat.

    The Chinese fd17ii wheeled armored fighting vehicle is a big killer against enemy machine guns and light mortars, not big guys like 75mm mountain guns and 150mm heavy howitzers, so Li Shang does not intend to waste his elite on such a 150  On the battlefield of the bridge, which is 15 meters long and 15 meters wide, the bridge is covered with barbed wire and Luzhai barricades.

    "Fist gloves? Oh, a trap! Li Sang, I don't understand what you're saying Do you think the Ukrainians dug a trap on the bridge to trap our armored vehicles?" Mizuno asked with his eyes widened.  .

    Li Shang's Mandarin has a Guangxi accent, and Mizuno his Chinese level is just fine for Northern Chinese, but it's a bit difficult for Southern accents. However, he still heard the pronunciation of the word "trap" and couldn't help but ask.  .

    Muto Nobuyoshi's face became solemn. If the Chinese armored forces did not participate in the attack, he would never intend to invest only Mizuno's infantry in the battle for the bridge. Of course, the key lies in whether his own artillery can suppress the opponent's firepower.  , the German heavy artillery in Kharkov is obviously a key factor that no one can ignore.

    "Your Excellency Colonel, your imagination is too rich Do you think this strong bridge built of reinforced concrete is a vegetable patch? Just dig a hole and use it as a trap" Wu Keren of Duli Artillery Battalion said seriously, speaking in Mandarin.  It was spoken so eloquently that almost all the Japanese generals present understood it.

    Several Japanese brigade captains are obviously quite envious of the two Chinese majors, Li Shang and Wu Keren. The Japanese army brigade captains have both the rank of major and a few with the rank of lieutenant colonel. In terms of the strength of the commanded troops, a Japanese brigade is almost equal to that of China.  A reinforced battalion is a little more, but in front of the company commander and brigade commander, the group of Japanese lieutenant colonels and majors who were not named did not dare to express their opinions without authorization. They were just like kowtow-headed insects, "So"  SodisHai!" Send some modal words to the respective captains to help out.

    "Major Li, what do you mean is that the Ukrainians and Germans deliberately left the bridge waiting for us to attack?" Takagi, the brigade chief of staff, vaguely understood the meaning of Li Shang's words. He was shocked and asked quickly.

    "It's almost like this. If the other party wants to defend Kharkov, they can just blow up the bridge. The Kharkov river flows fast and deep, and the narrowest point here has to be 150 meters of river surface. I i  It was impossible for us to build a pontoon bridge to cross under enemy fire, and it was also very difficult to use boats and rafts. The opponent's bridgehead position and coastal position looked strong, but the most troublesome thing was the Kharkov city wall 500 meters away to the west.  , the north city and the middle city of this city are the old city, a solid fortress with a history of more than 200 years. If you cannot suppress the firepower points on the opponent's city wall, even if you cross the river, it will be a living target for the enemy! "

    Li Shang stated his point of view in one breath, that is, rushing to fight for the bridge and crossing the river is completely blind. The Germans' trump card is not the bridgehead and flank positions, but the second condescending line of firepower points dotted on the fortress wall.  fortifications, and the threat from German heavy artillery in the city was ever-present.

    ?"I think what Major Li said makes sense. When we crossed the river from upstream, it was impossible for the enemy in Kharkiv not to be able to see it. It's just that our pontoon bridge was built outside the range of the opponent's artillery, so the opponent had nothing to do. Ukraine  If Er Maozi wants to defend the East City to ensure everything is safe, it would be easier to blow up the bridge and defend it due to the steepness of the Kharkov River. At least there are city walls guarding the Hexi section for several kilometers!" Colonel Arai blinked and was the first to agree with Li Shang!  the opinion of.

    Here, Mizuno glanced at Arai with dissatisfaction, patted his thigh and said, "So what if there is a city wall? This is not the Warring States period where cold weapons were fought. We can use cannons to blast away the city walls, or we can focus on bombarding the city gates, man.  If you are an Imperial samurai, you should not be afraid of the wolf in front of you and the tiger in the back. I, Mizuno's 7th Regiment, will never let it go without a fight!"

    ????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????With a stiff neck and a straight chest, he asked the brigade leader Muto to fight again,

    "Your Excellency, Brigade Commander, my 7th Infantry Regiment can launch an attack with the support of artillery. Even if we swim, we have to swim across this damn river! The Ukrainian troops on the opposite side are just second-rate volunteer troops, Kikuchi Brigade  The main forces of the German and Ukrainian National Army were attacked yesterday. If we dare not attack even one Ukrainian volunteer brigade position, where is the honor of the Imperial Japanese Army? "

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