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Volume 3 Far East Story Chapter 777 (1) Fierce Battle

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    While giving the order, von Neuhaus reminded his guard captain that the German infantry mortars were improved from trench mortars in the early days, so they were ridiculously heavy. The Ukrainian mortarmen's cannons  The level of aiming and aiming is still quite rough, which also makes the Ukrainian gunners of this group of volunteer divisions have no ability to shoot outside the field of vision. The German gunners are much more skilled. They arrange the guns on the reverse slope like this and use high places to look out.  The Germans were very familiar with the tricks of using observation posts to observe the impact point of bombs and command the gunners on the reverse slope to adjust firing parameters.

    Kalitintsev and a group of Ukrainian staff on the side were stunned when they heard this. They wanted to place mortars at the west wall of the fortress wall. Why didn't we think of it? But how could we aim and fire when we couldn't see the enemy with our eyes closed?  ?  Could it be that the German gunners had clairvoyant eyes and could aim and fire across the city wall?  Oh, it requires the observation post on the city wall to command and adjust. Damn Why didn't you tell me about this style of play earlier? It's a pity that the more than 20 mortars placed in the city wall fortifications in our brigade were taken away by the opponent.  Clean and tidy¡­¡­

    "Generalcan your guard platoon really hit the enemy on the other side of the bridge with mortars across the city wall?" Karitintsev asked hesitantly after the German captain went out.

    "Of course it can hit. You Ukrainian gunners can hit it as long as you use some snacks and are lucky. The key is how to hit the enemy's anti-aircraft artillery at the bridgehead while avoiding the counterattack of the opponent's M81 mortar and 75mm field artillery group in the forest.  Attack Pray for Captain Sternberg's men His platoon will use two 7.6cm infantry mortars to challenge the enemy's nearly 50 guns!" Von Neuhaus replied angrily.  

    At this time, the two anti-aircraft guns of the coalition at the bridgehead had stopped firing. Since the firepower of the attackers completely suppressed the firepower of the defenders in Hexi, especially the Ukrainian troops withdrew from the two burning bridgehead fortifications, for a time  The morale of the 74th Japanese Infantry Squadron accompanying the armored vehicle attack at the bridge was high. The Japanese infantry roared with the 38 cap in their hands and began to overtake the armored vehicles and advance along the bridge. More people rushed forward and began to dismantle the roadblocks.  , so that Chinese armored fighting vehicles can pass smoothly

    The three Chinese FD17II wheeled armored combat vehicles at the bridgehead adjusted their positions at this time and formed a gear arrangement facing three directions, guarding the two M191837aa high-shelf/anti-tank guns behind them in a semicircle.  In the middle, due to the huge consumption of shells from the violent firing just now, the two coalition anti-aircraft guns temporarily stopped firing. Of course, also because at this moment, after the defenders in the bridgehead fortifications on the other side were driven out by fire, the Ukrainian defenders on the side  The human firepower suddenly became sparse.

    "Captain! Major Nakamura led the 75th Infantry Squadron to the battle in person!" A Japanese Army second lieutenant staff officer next to Mizuno Taisuke couldn't help shouting!

    "Pass my order. The 12 Browning heavy machine guns of the 19th Infantry Battalion's machine gun squadron are fully suppressing the enemy's fire points near the bridgehead. The M81 mortars begin to extend their fire. The artillery brigade is ordered to concentrate their artillery fire on the fortress gate! The health team goes up.  "Remove the wounded!" Mizuno Taisuke, captain of the 7th Japanese Infantry Regiment, showed a smile. The Ukrainians' firepower was obviously far inferior to his own. The opponent's mortars placed on the second-line fortress wall were brave.  Although it caused certain casualties to the 74th Infantry Squadron when intercepting and attacking our assault troops, the result was that almost all of them were silenced by the four M81 mortar groups Mizuno deployed in the forest.  !

    The Ukrainians' first line of defense in the east of Kharkov relies on the Kharkov River rushing from north to south. The rapid and wide river is a natural line of defense. Close to the west bank of the river is the  The river positions and fortifications are almost every 3050 meters away from a machine gun fortification made of reinforced concrete. Each of the three mines with gun openings on three sides can place at least 3 mg08 heavy machine guns.

    The Kharkiv River flows to the east of the city and meanders south. The narrowest point is where the Kharkiv Bridge is located. The river is more than 150 meters wide, while the approach bridges at both ends of the bridge are nearly 500 meters each.  The approach bridge leads all the way to near the east gate of the Kharkov Fortress wall.

    The distance from the first line of position on the west bank of the river all the way west to the east wall of the fortress is about 600 meters. The three-foot-high wall is the second line of defense for the Ukrainians, and the city gate in the middle is the only access channel.  , of course, it is now tightly surrounded by sandbags, forming a small ring of defense stacked outside the city gate. There is a large permanent fortification on both sides of the city gate. Although it is not as huge as the bridgehead fortification with three floors, but haha  The two machine gun forts near the east gate of Erkov are obviously larger than the machine gun fortifications on both sides of the river bank position. Each fortification has almost five machine gun gun ports at different heights.

    In fact, the section from the first fortification on the west bank of the river to the city wall is 500,600 meters wide. Ukrainian communication trenches and hidden soldier holes are scattered throughout it. Many hidden machine gun fortifications are just mounds from the outside, and  So far no shots have been fired.

      The three wheeled armored fighting vehicles that the coalition forces rushed to the bridge lacked sufficient ability to cross obstacles at this time, so they only formed a semi-open steel fortress. The 74th Infantry Squadron, which led the charge, suffered nearly 50 casualties.  After that, they had advanced to 7 or 80 meters in the middle section of the bridge. The 75th Infantry Squadron under the personal command of Major Nakamura had rushed to the position of the armored vehicle at the head of the bridge.

    Since the defenders only had two wing positions, the heavy machine guns on the far wall were still firing desperately, and the M2 large-caliber heavy machine guns on the three armored vehicles were not willing to be outdone and fought back. At this stage, the two sides were in the stage of heavy machine gun fire.  The bunkers on the defensive front line on both wings were either destroyed or on fire. Therefore, the machine gun fortifications on the rear city wall relied on the stone ceiling above their heads to be extremely strong. They were hiding in the narrow opening and were still firing to intercept the attack.  of coalition forces.

    However, the firepower of the Ukrainian heavy machine gun fortifications that were still firing was intermittent. Because of the blockade and confrontation of the coalition's heavy machine gun fire, machine gunners on both sides continued to suffer casualties and replacements, and the Ukrainian defenders hiding in the city wall fortifications were  As far as the army is concerned, the posture is very similar to that in Wang Geng's previous movie "Shangganling". The defenders constantly replaced the casualty machine gunners at the entrance of the cave.

    In the fierce battle that lasted for nearly an hour, the defenders on the eastern defense line of Kharkiv deployed two main infantry battalions of about 1,200 troops on the front line, and then one infantry battalion on each flank.  On the more than 4-kilometer-long eastern city wall position are three main infantry battalions of the 8th Regiment of the 4th Volunteer Brigade, and the rest of the troops are scattered in Dongcheng District as reserves.
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