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Volume 3 Far East Story Chapter 781 (6) Being caught off guard

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    With Voronezh's statement, Hashimoto and Tanaka finally couldn't sit still under the dissatisfied gazes of the court. Hashimoto Koji first expressed his stance, "Your Majesty, Major General, how is it possible to rearrange the position to make way for it? My artillery regiment is ready, just waiting.  The division commander can fire at the command, but you must know that our regiment¡¯s 150mm Taisho 4th-year 15cm heavy artillery is the only trump card of our center route army. If the enemy exposes its position first, it is easy to lose the initiative"

    Hashimoto kicked the ball to the division commander's court. He thought to himself that it was you, the division commander, who had to take the blame. Otherwise, our artillery regiment would become cowardly, so what would happen? Speaking of Tanaka regiment equipment  The main ones are 75mm field artillery and mountain artillery. The first line should be Tanaka's 3rd Field Artillery Regiment. My 150mm heavy artillery is only worth using as a back-up to give the opponent a fatal blow.  §êw§ë

    Colonel Tanaka here was also rolling his eyes, thinking that the four artillery battalions of the Federal Infantry Division, the 14th and 15th Division, add up to a total of 72 75mm field guns. If we really want to move space for them to go into battle, they may be the first to win.  Just let the old fools snatch it away This is not possible. My artillery regiment set up a position and held the last shot. How can I let the federal artillery come from behind and pick the peaches This guy then thought about it, in the city of Kharkov  Wasn't the defender's artillery completely wiped out by the Allied Air Force in this morning's air raid?

    Otherwise, there is no reason why not a single artillery shell has been fired until now. Mizuno Taisuke of the Mutoh Brigade over in the East City led a brigade and occupied the Kharkov Bridge without even firing Could it be Ukraine  Are the people and the Germans talking about an empty city?  There are no cannons left in the city?

    Thinking that the Ukrainian and German artillery were playing an empty city strategy, a layer of sweat broke out on Tanaka's back. Damn, if this was really the case, it would be a big joke How could the artillery positions be released at this time?  To support the four artillery battalions of the Federation?  If the 13th Infantry Division of Voronezh really captured the northern city of Kharkov with the fire support of four 75mm field artillery battalions, where would the face of the Japanese Third Division be?  This is absolutely not okay!  Since we can't delay, we might as well open fire!

    Having made up his mind, King Tanaka Hat stood up and patted his chest and said, "Use me in the first battle, and you will win if you use me. Hasn't the Commander-in-Chief of the Allied Forces always wanted our troops below to have such courage and determination? Hashimoto is right, this  How can we give up the position to the artillery battalion of the Volga Federation? Of course, our 3rd Field Artillery Regiment will go into battle. Your Excellency, Division Commander, I think we are almost ready for the attack Let our artillery do the talking!"

    "Yo Xi! This is the spirit of our 3rd Division Artillery Regiment. Chief of Staff, call Major General Muto back and tell him that in half an hour, the main force on the northern front will launch the second attack on the defense line of Kharkov North City.  Ask him to attack the troops occupying the Kharkov Bridge in the east city at the same time, and strive to break through the opponent's defense line with a two-pronged approach!" Oba Jiro stood up and pounded the dining table, and ordered his chief of staff.

    July 31, 1918 12:30 German-Ukrainian Allied Forces Frontline Command on the North Defense Line of Kharkiv

    "Your Excellency Petliura The situation in Beicheng and Dongcheng is relatively stable now. The 3rd, 4th and 2nd Ukrainian Infantry Divisions worked together to repel the large-scale attack by the Japanese Mutoh Brigade. How can we use the troops in the city at this time?  Where are the artillery?" Major General von Neuhaus, the German major general who hurried back to the northern front headquarters, waved his arms and said dissatisfiedly. He had just been called back to the command in Beicheng District by the commander-in-chief of the Ukrainian National Army.  The Ministry came to clean up the situation.

    Here, Simon Petlyura, Prime Minister and Minister of Defense of Ukraine¡¯s ruling cabinet and Commander-in-Chief of the National Army, spread his hands with a grimace and said,

    "I said, General, the situation is too unfavorable for us. Yarmolenko's 4th Division Artillery Regiment ran out of ammunition to hold off the Japanese attack, and Koval's 3rd Division even had to use two regiments of troops to stop it.  The general will withstand the attack of a Japanese infantry brigade on the other side. The 2nd Division commanded by Mihalik in the center has few troops. If Yarmolenko's 4th Division hadn't stretched out his hand to pull him, the 2nd Division in the center would not have been able to do so.  Unable to stop the attack of a Japanese brigade that has strengthened the Chinese armored forces!¡±

    Obviously, although the three main Ukrainian divisions in the Kharkov Forest to the east blocked the attack of the Japanese Mutoh Brigade with great effort, the Japanese army put considerable pressure on the Ukrainian defenders. In other words, Yamo  After the first head-to-head battle with the Mutoh Brigade of the Third Division of the Japanese 3rd Army in the forest, Erlenko, Mihalik and Koval were a little frightened.

    Therefore, the usual situation in the Ukrainian national army of reporting good news but not bad news did not occur. The intensity of the fierce battle in the forest and the losses of our side were invisibly exaggerated by three Ukrainian division commanders and telegraphed to the city of Kharkiv.  At the German-Ukrainian Allied Forces Command, Commander Koval of the 3rd Division was the former enemy commander of the three infantry divisions in the forest. This guy had one idea in the telegram, asking for reinforcements in Kharkov and artillery in Kharkov city.  Counterattack and destroy the pontoon bridge built by the coalition forces on the Kharkov River, otherwise the battle will end after the Japanese transport the artillery shells to the frontline forestThere's no way to fight!

    It should be said that the commander of the 3rd Ukrainian Infantry Division, George Jovovich Koval, and his chief of staff¡¯s judgment and sense of smell are still quite accurate. The artillery regiment of Yarmolenko, the 4th Ukrainian Infantry Division in the south, was willing to go all out and do something big.  On the battlefield, who would have thought that the Japanese army known as a brigade actually had so many artillery pieces. In fact, the commander of the 4th Division, Yamolenko, was also troubled. He thought that the Japanese Mutoh brigade opposite had only two regiments.  The artillery brigade they belonged to, and these two artillery brigade opened fire unscrupulously when sieging the city in the west and covering the infantry attack in the east

    Yarmolenko fully thought that his three 75mm field artillery battalions had 36 cannons, and it was a preemptive strike to deal with the opponent's two artillery brigades with 16 cannons. He would win this artillery battle no matter what. Who could have predicted the final battery?  The 105mm light howitzer battalion failed to gain the upper hand even when it was used. The Muto Shingi brigade on the opposite side actually had two artillery battalions belonging to the brigade regiment, as well as two 75mm field artillery batteries and a 105mm light  The firepower of the howitzer battalion is like a mantis stalking the cicada and the oriole behind

    Yarmolenko even suspected that the Japanese had released their two artillery brigades as bait, waiting to catch themselves off guard with the remaining 12 75mm field guns and 105mm light howitzers.

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