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Volume 3 Far East Story Chapter 790 (3) The Three Armored Musketeers

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    "My brigade just suffered heavy casualties. Without rest, recovery and replenishment, it is unable to undertake such an arduous task!" Nishio Hiszo was also unambiguous and refused to attack again for his newly-suffering brigade.

    At this moment, the eyes of everyone present were focused on the face of Major Kuniaki Oiso, captain of the 12th Cavalry Brigade, who had been serving as a reserve force. This captain of the imperial army, who pursed his lips and looked troubled and resolute without saying a word, would accept this  Are you going to be used as bait to challenge two German armored trains?

    Colonel Yonezawa Kogoro, captain of the 4th Cavalry Regiment, looked at Koiso Kuniaki and hesitated to speak. He was a little undecided, although he believed that Shimizu's idea was the only feasible method at present.

    July 31, 1918 14:00 Five kilometers southwest of Kharkov, in a dense forest on the west side of the railway line, the first detachment of the German armored train

    The German 10th Army in Ukraine has only one infantry 27th Army, which is considered the main force. The other reserve infantry corps, the 29th Army and the 31st Army, are composed of second-line reserve corps. The German armored trains and train guns crisscross the western railway line.  The French battlefield posed a huge threat to the Allied ground troops and artillery. However, on the Ukrainian battlefield at the end of July 1918, the German army had a limited number of armored trains, and the artillery equipped on the trains was only a 150mm heavy howitzer and a 105mm light  Howitzer.

    The 1st Armored Detachment of the German 10th Army Group has two armored trains, each with 16 carriages, 4 of which are heavy machine gun carriages. Each carriage is equipped with 6 mg08 water-cooled heavy machine guns, and there are 8 artillery carriages.  The first carriage and the last carriage are each equipped with a German-made Krupp 150mm heavy howitzer. The remaining four carriages are each equipped with two 105mm light howitzers, and the other two carriages are equipped with three 20mm howitzers each.  anti-aircraft guns, and the remaining four carriages are infantry carriages, each carriage carrying a company of infantry.

    There is a steam-powered locomotive at the beginning and end of the German armored train. This gives the steel armored monster on the rails super power and mobility, thick armor, and scorching firepower. Although it runs from Kharkov to the southwest until  Dnipropetrovsk did not have caves and tunnels as hidden positions, but the Germans used the forests on both sides of the railway to arrange several branching hidden positions to hide armored trains.

    Speaking of which, being able to escape the aerial reconnaissance and air attacks of the Allied Air Force was due to both luck and excellent concealment engineering. As a trump card for protecting railway lines and providing mobile fire support, the 1st Duli Armored Detachment was recruited by the German-Ukrainian Army  The former enemy headquarters of the Allied Forces, General von Francois and Major General von Neuhaus, had high hopes for their ace unit.

    If it weren't for the concern that the Allied Air Force's air threat was too great, von Neuhaus even planned to pull the 1st Duli Armored Detachment directly into Kharkov to intercept the Allied Ground Forces' attack. In fact, this was what the German Major General dared to do in  In the afternoon, we used the confidence of two German 150mm heavy artillery batteries and a Ukrainian 75mm field artillery battalion hidden in Nancheng District. Although there were only two 150mm heavy howitzers at one end and one at the end of the armored train, the survivability of these two guns protected by armored turrets was far greater.  More than field artillery.

    What's more, each armored train also has eight 105mm light howitzers, which are much more powerful than the Ukrainian 75mm field guns and the Japanese 75mm field guns However, these two armored trains of the German Duli Armored Detachment 1  It is actually used to patrol and protect the nearly 200 kilometers of railway lines from Kharkiv to Dnipropetrovsk. In fact, it is still insufficient. If the coalition air force really wants to use air strikes and bombers to destroy the railway, the dh4 reconnaissance bomber will be mounted under the wings.  If a 50kg aerial bomb hits a section of road continuously, it can still blow up the railway line

    What is surprising is that it has been three days and three nights since the start of the Ukrainian campaign. The coalition air force does not seem to regard cutting off railway lines as the first choice and target of the air force's ground attack. The coalition air force's attack targets are still concentrated on  We did not spend a lot of money to destroy ground fortifications, forts, artillery positions and ground personnel. We did not spend a lot of money to destroy the spider web-like railway lines with air strikes. We even conducted air strikes on the Krasnov field airport located near the railway hub.  It¡¯s also a bit like a dragonfly making a splash¡­

    "Reporting to Lieutenant Colonel, there is a call from the headquarters, congratulating us on defeating the attack and penetration of the Japanese Cavalry Regiment, but asking us to guard against arrogance and impetuosity. We must ensure the smooth flow of the railway line before sunset, and we must not easily let go of the 4th Japanese Cavalry Regiment.  Go to the east of the railway line If the coalition air force attacks, we can use the terrain and speed to lead the enemy towards Nancheng. The anti-aircraft firepower on the defensive position of the 139th Infantry Regiment will cooperate with us! "

    A German second lieutenant communications staff officer sent a telegram from the former enemy headquarters of the German-Ukrainian forces. In the previous air-ground battle and the battle between the armored train and the Japanese cavalry, the 2nd detachment of the 1st detachment of the duli armored train made a great contribution.  , shooting down and damaging one enemy aircraft each. Of course, the price paid was not small. One 105mm light howitzer carriage, one heavy machine gun carriage and the 150mm heavy grenade at the tail were lost.Gun carriage

    "Fritz, what do you think of the command from the headquarters?" Lieutenant Colonel Karl Rudolf Gerd von Rundstedt, captain of the 2nd detachment of the 1st detachment of the German duli armored train, turned to ask  His deputy, Captain Fritz Erich von Manstein, chief of staff of the 1st and 2nd armored train detachments.

    The German 10th Army in Ukraine has a total of 2 duli armored train detachments, which govern 4 armored train combat units. Strictly speaking, the armored train detachment is a brigade-level combat force, and each armored train is equivalent to a  In the infantry regiment, Lieutenant Colonel von Rundstedt, as the squad leader, is still far away from being promoted to Army Colonel at this moment. In fact, in Wang Geng's previous life, Major von Rundstedt would be promoted to the rank of lieutenant colonel and enter Wei Dynasty in 2 years.  It was only in the army of the Republic of Maldives that he ushered in his own prosperous military career.

    Von Rundstedt was born in Ascheben, in today's Saxony-Anhalt state.  He came from a Prussian aristocratic family, and his father was a major general officer.  The Rundstedt family is a famous old aristocratic military family in Prussia. It is said that the family's military career has lasted for 850 years. The mother comes from a middle-class family. They have four children in total, and Rundstedt is the eldest son.

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