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Volume 3 Far East Story Chapter 787 (4) Dominator of the battlefield

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    Here, Oba discussed with his chief of staff, Colonel Hisashikari Taka, the commander of the Kikuchi Brigade of the 5th Infantry Brigade, and the two artillery regiment captains in Japanese, and finally the division commander and former enemy commander-in-chief, Oba Jiro, finally made a decision.  , "Your Excellency, Major General, in order to ensure that this attack will not be in vain and waste troops, I have now decided to let Hashimoto's duli field heavy artillery regiment open fire to open a channel for your offensive troops, relying solely on 37mm anti-aircraft guns and 75mm  The mountain artillery is obviously not powerful enough to destroy the opponent's fortifications, and the refueling tactic consumes too much and is not worth it! "

    After hearing this, Voronieri's expression softened a lot. He didn't say anything but just nodded and walked back to the observation window to look at the situation on the front line with a telescope. Here, Lieutenant General Da Ting waved his hand and said, "Give it to the aviation team."  Call back, they don¡¯t need to intervene in the northern front positions, but the enemy¡¯s artillery positions in Kharkov City are left to them. Once the opponent opens fire, they must knock out the opponent¡¯s heavy artillery in the shortest possible time, focusing on the southern city area"  . .

    "Colonel Hashimoto, your duli field heavy artillery regiment can open fire. Let the Ukrainians and Germans conceal the power of the imperial heavy artillery. I believe that today's victory must belong to the glorious us!" Lieutenant General Oba's tone was full of  Gained confidence

    "Your Excellency, Division Commander, in this case, I think we can transfer an armored company from each wing to support the center. If the Voronezi Division captures the opponent's first position, my armored troops can advance with armored vehicles along both sides of the railway line.  "It will be a huge help to our infantry in street fighting!" Lu Huanyan, the commander of the Chinese Armored Regiment, obviously did not intend to sit idly by. The 13th Federal Infantry Division is equipped with Mosin Nagant rifles in case it breaks through the northern city of Kharkov!  If there is a need for street fighting in the future, the firepower of the Russian rifle is not very strong, but his armored troops can show off their skills .

    "Yo Xi! That's good. Colonel Lu, then send two armored companies as the second echelon, ready to join the frontal battlefield attack!" Lieutenant General Da Ting was obviously quite satisfied with the Chinese colonel's statement, and at the same time he looked around him slightly dissatisfied.  Shinnosuke Kikuchi glanced at him. How could Major General Kikuchi not understand the thoughts of his division commander? At this time, he stood up and said, "Since we are ready to capture Beicheng, each of my brigade can send a squadron to accompany the Chinese armor."  company's actions"

    Obviously, although the 13th Federal Infantry Division took the lead in breaking the city, the Chinese Armored Forces and the Japanese 3rd Division were unwilling to just sit back and lag behind. After rushing into the city, there might be a lot of captures behind them.  ?  Kikuchi Shinnosuke was obviously very upset about yesterday when the Eizaki Shogo regiment stupidly watched a Chinese armored company capture 12 cannons from a medium howitzer battalion. Kharkov is the capital of the Ukrainians.  How much loot you can grab from behind the city depends on whether your hands and feet are fast enough and your brain is agile enough!

    Not long afterward, the 24 Taisho 15-centimeter heavy artillery of the 3rd Regiment of the Japanese Field Heavy Artillery behind the coalition position finally let out a roar of earth-shattering power, firing a 150mm gun amidst the violent roar.  High-explosive grenades roared towards the trench defense line in the north of the Ukrainian city, blowing up the Ukrainian position into a sea of ??fire. The first salvo of the duli field heavy artillery regiment completely destroyed the two flanks of the railway line.  The bunker was destroyed and a trench several tens of meters long was blown down

    The Hashimoto Wing obviously concentrated its firepower in the middle to try to open a gap. However, the bunker built with the help of the Germans was still quite strong. It basically took four or five consecutive hits of 150mm caliber high-explosive grenades to destroy or explode it.  When a bunker is collapsed, if only a single or 2 or 3 shells hit it, the roof cannot be destroyed at once

    The bombardment of the coalition's heavy artillery obviously brought great courage and confidence to the attacking infantry on the forward position. At the same time, the casualties on the defensive side increased sharply and their morale dropped. Although they were still trying to hold on, the fortifications in the middle were destroyed by the repeated bombardment of the coalition's heavy artillery.  One was destroyed at a fixed point, and the battle situation was developing towards an extremely powerful situation for the attackers. Seeing that Voronieri's troops had rushed from 600 meters to 300 meters, if they were any closer, there would be shrapnel flying in the sky after the explosion of the coalition heavy artillery shells.  It may accidentally injure one's own troops. This is why in the European War, the two sides needed to prepare artillery fire before the main battle, and the ground troops waited until the artillery fire stopped before launching the attack.

    Hashimoto Koji¡¯s duli field heavy artillery regiment is the mainstay and trump card of the artillery of Japan¡¯s 3rd Division. The regiment is equipped with 24 Taisho 15cm heavy howitzers.

    The Taisho 4th-year 15cm heavy artillery with a single projectile weighing 45 kilograms will basically cause death or injury within 50 meters after a shell hits the ground in an open area and explodes. Within 100 meters, if you do not lie down in time to take cover, you may also be seriously injured. If it falls on the line,  When an artillery shell explodes in the middle of an army column, the power of a shell explosion is enough to wipe out half a company or cover half a football field This is the power of heavy artillery on the battlefield!

    The absolute killing radius of the 150mm heavy howitzer shell after it hits the ground and explodes is 15m. Within this range, even if there is no shrapnel hit, the infantry will die from the shock wave, and the fragmentation killing radius is 50m.?Within this range, there is at least one shrapnel distributed on an area the size of a human body, ensuring killing. Within 100 meters, a standing person is likely to be knocked down by the shrapnel. The real safety radius is 200m.

    In fact, no matter how strong the top cover of the German fortifications is, even if a 150mm high-explosive grenade directly hits the fort, it will not destroy the fort, but the defenders in the fortification will probably be stunned and knocked down by the shock wave caused by the explosion.  Some of them that are very close to the explosion point may be directly shocked to death Theoretically, when the enemy's heavy artillery bombards them, the defender should hide in the anti-gun holes dug deep in the bottom line and the bomb shelter, lie on the ground and hug them tightly.  The brain is right

    July 31, 1918 13:40 German-Ukrainian Allied Forces Frontline Command North of Kharkiv

    "Pass my orderthe 2nd Brigade of Volunteers abandons the first line position and moves to the second line of the fortress wallwithdraw all to the bomb shelters and garrison holes!" Germany, which actually assumed the command of the battlefield,  The major general ordered a retreat as soon as the Japanese army's heavy artillery opened fire Of course, this order was the same. The 2nd Volunteer Brigade on the front line could not hold out for more than 3 minutes under the bombardment of the Japanese army's heavy artillery.  The traffic trenches rushed back like water, and it is not an exaggeration to describe them as abandoning their armor.

    Cannon is the real master of the battlefield!
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