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Volume Three Far East Stories Chapter 776 (5) Bullets rain like hailstones

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    Relying on the natural danger of the fierce Kharkov River, it is quite easy for the Ukrainians to hold the eastern defense line of the city. Although Mizuno's firepower now has the upper hand, the other side has also learned its lesson, and is on the first line of defense on the river bank.  Almost no Ukrainian soldiers could be seen showing up, and even the nearly 20 reinforced concrete machine gun fortifications on both flanks rarely fired. It seemed that the opponent had learned from the experience.  www.dyzww.com[First_Chinese_ÎÄ_Íø]

    "Your Excellency, Captain, Major General Muto asked us to use a fierce and effective offensive in the east of the city to put pressure on the Ukrainians defending the city, and strive to mobilize the troops deployed in the Kharkov forest for Western reinforcements, but I think Major Nakamura's  The attack is a bit painless, and it is impossible to make the enemy nervous under such circumstances!" Captain Shi Qingshang, the commander of the 1st Company of the Chinese Armored 2nd Battalion, who had been standing next to him, finally couldn't help but speak out.

    Nakamura was overjoyed when he heard this. He took a step forward and held Shi Qingshang's hand, shaking it and saying, "Shi Sang, as expected, heroes think alike. Do you also think that armored combat vehicles can be dispatched to fight for the bridge? That's great! My infantry is here.  Under the cover of your armored company, we will definitely be able to capture the opponent's bridge position!"

    "Captain Shi, your armored company is assigned to my 7th Regiment. As the commander, I have the final decision. Do you understand?" Regiment Commander Mizuno's face looked a little ugly, and he obviously felt that the Chinese Captain was a bit presumptuous.  He didn't mean to take himself, the Captain of the Major Alliance, seriously.

    "Of course I understand, but I think the Ukrainians have already paid the price for being fooled twice. If they continue to let Major Nakamura's infantry rush to the bridge like this, the other side will be able to defend the bridge with just the machine guns in the bridgehead, and Major Nakamura's  It's not an option to sacrifice your troops for nothing, right?" Shi Qingshang said unhurriedly.

    Mizuno frowned when he heard this, and was a little unsure. Could it be that the Chinese captain was so arrogant that he was crying and planning to use his own armored troops to replace Nakamura's infantry to attack the bridge?  It should be said that Mizuno still has a lot of calculations and ideas. The Chinese armored force is his trump card for conquering the Dongcheng defense line. If the armored vehicles are consumed in the tug-of-war and the losses are too great, Li Shang and Lu Huanyan will be a little unhappy.  It was easy to talk, and secondly, it completely destroyed his chance of capturing the east gate of Kharkov with only one infantry brigade in hand.

    "Captain, I see that the Ukrainians have been suppressed by our artillery and dare not raise their heads. If we take this opportunity to let Captain Shi's armored troops go into battle, they will definitely have a chance to rush to the bridge! I will throw two squadrons in one go and follow the armored vehicles to rush up.  !" Major Nakamura asked with anticipation.

    Mizuno saw that Nakamura was eager to fight, and the captain of the Chinese armored company was also eager to give it a try. He finally nodded and said, "In this case, we can't give up halfway. The Ukrainian bridgehead has several machine gun openings on the side near the bridge deck. I'll give it to you."  You two m19183h¨¨/anti-tank gun squad must block the opponent's heavy machine gun firepower this time. If you can knock out the opponent's bridgehead, this battle will be easy! "

    Both Nakamura and Shi Qingshang were overjoyed. Of course, Shi Qingshang was not a reckless leader. For their first attack, they only planned to send a platoon of three wheeled chariots to advance along the approach bridge in a formation, because the entire  The bridge deck is only 15 meters wide, and it is obviously difficult to move more tanks. Nakamura replaced the 73rd Infantry Squadron, which suffered nearly one-third of the casualties, with the 19th Infantry Brigade. Shi Qingshang  Keeping an eye on it, the three vehicles in his first row only sent out the driver and co-driver and the co-driver and machine gunner. The rest carried infantrymen from the 74th Japanese Infantry Squadron.  In fact, the M2 Browning large-caliber machine guns installed on the rotating turrets of these three coalition tanks have a considerable advantage against the mg08 heavy machine guns in the machine gun fortifications of the opponent's bridgehead. Moreover, the two wheeled armored tanks behind them are directly behind them.  Each dragged an m19183h cannon and prepared to approach the Ukrainian machine gun fortifications at the blind spot at the bridge head to attack.

    At the same time, the 75th and 76th Infantry Squadrons of the 19th Infantry Group also rushed out of the forest from both wings to conduct a feint attack, pretending to attack the river bank and establish a crossing position to distract and attract the attention of the defenders on the other side.  force!

    In order to create better conditions for this attack, Mizuno Taisuke did not hesitate to waste ammunition and ordered 4 M81 mortar platoons and 2 75mm field artillery brigades to conduct fire preparations for a full 5 minutes. The intensive artillery fire destroyed the opponent's bridgehead.  The battle with the two flanks was a sea of ??fire. Of course, the Ukrainian bridgeheads built with boulders were extremely strong. At this time, except for the collapsed part of the top layer, which was once again on fire, the second layer below  and the ground floor remains immobile.

    However, these five minutes of intensive shelling plowed through almost all the remaining machine gun fortifications and bunkers on both sides of the bridgehead position on the other side. Many of the fortifications were already in a semi-destroyed state. The situation created by the attackers was obviously very powerful in seizing the bridgehead.  In the Charge, the three armored vehicles in the middle guide the two middleTeams of Japanese infantry launched a ferocious attack towards the Kharkov Bridge. At the same time, the coalition's heavy machine gun positions on the high banks on the edge of the river forest also roared, pouring bullets at any suspicious targets on the Ukrainian positions on the other side.  .

    July 31, 1918 11:30 Headquarters of the 2nd Division of Ukrainian Volunteers on the eastern defense line of Kharkiv

    "It's broken! It's broken! General Neuhaus, the Japanese have launched a general offensive. Even Chinese armored vehicles have been dispatched. I think the enemy has at least 1,000 troops! What can we do? In addition to our front-line machine gun fortifications,  Except for the two bridgeheads, almost all of them have been bombarded by the opponent. If that doesn't work, let's quickly call for artillery support, right?"

    Kalitintsev, the commander of the 2nd Volunteer Division, was obviously really panicked. The other party actually dispatched the Chinese armored troops that had not been used. The blazing large-caliber heavy machine guns sprayed bullets and hit the bridgehead on the west side of the bridge.  Sparks flew around the mouth, and pieces of stone were even chipped away to form pits and depressions

    Thanks to the cover of three Chinese wheeled armored fighting vehicles, these three wheeled armored fighting vehicles attracted almost all the machine gun firepower of the Ukrainian defenders in the bridgehead. The bullet rain ejected from nearly 20 machine gun nozzles covered a distance of more than 300 meters.  The Chinese armored vehicles attacking on the outer approach bridge sent sparks flying like hailstones!

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