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Volume 3 Far East Stories Chapter 793 (1) Want to lure the enemy?

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    At the end of July 1918, the 27-year-old Captain Rommel was the actual commander of the battalion-level infantry unit. His four companies were also elite troops he had formed. As the former commander of the mountain battalion, Rommel was now  Although he was commanding the infantry carried by the armored train unit, he still regarded his infantry as an elite unit that surpassed ordinary infantry.

    Captain Rommel, a talented and courageous captain, finally got the job of luring the enemy as the infantry commander. This guy decided to send one company to the west of the railway to lure the enemy, while the other three companies were deployed to the east of the railway. Klass  The railway bridge over the Norad River is less than 10 kilometers to the south. The three infantry companies he left on the east side of the railway will form one side of a pocket, while the armored train of his Armored Division 2 feints north. When the Japanese  After the cavalry was lured by his troops into the narrow strip of land between the Krasnorad River and the railway line in the south, the squad leader, Lieutenant Colonel von Rundstedt, would command the armored train to fight back.

    The person responsible for coordinating and commanding the operations of the three infantry companies on the east side of the railway was Captain von Manstein, chief of staff of the detachment. The brave but too young Lieutenant G¨¹nter Blumentritt stayed on to continue to serve as the detachment commander on the armored train.  After dispatching all four infantry companies, the armored train itself only carried one infantry guard platoon. The burden on the lieutenant's shoulders was not necessarily lighter than that of Captain Rommel and Captain Manstein.

    The 2nd Detachment of the 1st Iron Armored Detachment, as an iron armored detachment, has left the railway lines and trains, but is just ordinary infantry. Although Captain Rommel believes that his infantry is more elite than the infantry of the 139th Regiment of the 47th Reserve Infantry Division, this is not a mountainous area.  , and the one he commanded was not a mountain camp. This guy could only get 4 motorcycles and 2 1.5-ton Daimler military trucks

    This is not enough to carry the 1st company of armored infantry under his command. A German infantry company has 3 platoons, of which the first platoon has 2 infantry squads, 2 light machine gun squads, and a grenade/mortar squad, totaling 45 people.  , the 2nd platoon did not have a mortar squad, with 36 people. The 3rd platoon had the same organization as the 1st platoon, with 45 people. In this way, the combat personnel of a German infantry company in 1918 were also 126, plus the company headquarters squad.  There are about 140 people.

    Two two-wheeled Mercedes-Benz military motorcycles can carry two people, two three-wheeled Mercedes-Benz motorcycles can carry six people, and two one-and-a-half-ton Daimler military trucks can only carry 45 people in the first row, so the second and third rows  They had no choice but to ride on a mule cart that was temporarily salvaged from the village east of the railway. The mule cart was only in the shape of a three-horse carriage in rural Ukraine. However, there were not enough horses to pull the cart, so they had to use large walking mules instead.

    The 1st Company commanded by Rommel was tasked with luring the enemy, so this nondescript motorized infantry company cobbled together by these guys swaggered along a dirt road across the railway line and rushed west to kill them. Four motorcycles,  The smoke and dust kicked up by 2 large trucks and 10 troikas looked quite spectacular from a distance.

    Rommel personally commanded the entire march while sitting on a Mercedes-Benz three-wheeled motorcycle. Naturally, his pathfinders were the two two-wheeled motorcycles and the one following behind with a Borgman light machine gun.  The three-wheeled motorcycle and the mg08 heavy machine gun were mounted on the roofs of the two one-and-a-half-ton military trucks behind them. After all, it was too cramped for a water-cooled heavy machine gun like the mg08 to be used on a three-wheeled motorcycle.

    The tactic determined by the 2nd detachment of the 1st German Armored Detachment was to use a small force to lure the enemy and lead the Japanese cavalry regiment into the pocket formation in the south, and then close the door and beat the dogs. To this end, the armored train was feinted to the north, while the Japanese on the opposite side  The tactics set by the 4th Cavalry Regiment at this moment have the same purpose, which is to send a cavalry team to lure the enemy and divert the German armored trains entrenched at the intersection of railway lines and highways to the south, thus causing the Cavalry Regiment to  The main force can quickly cross the railway and move eastward in order to join the 23rd Mutoh Infantry Brigade on the circuitous east road

    Turn the clock back ten minutes agoThe Japanese Cavalry 4th Regiment Headquarters

    "Captain, gentlemen, what I mean is that we cannot fight head-on with the opponent's armored train. The 50-kilogram aerial bombs dropped by the coalition air force's dh4 bombers were not able to paralyze the opponent's armored train. My 75mm field cannon  Not to mention I think we must divert the tiger away from the mountain and send a force southward along the railway line to divert the enemy's armored trains away. Then the engineers will approach the railway line, bury explosives and blast them.  , try to open up more holes so that the other side¡¯s armored trains can¡¯t get through"

    Major Yoshige Shimizu, captain of the artillery battalion of the 4th Cavalry Regiment, said while still feeling distressed about the heavy losses his battalion had suffered just now. In his opinion, the Nishio battalion was unfavorable in making decisions at the last moment. Of course, this was different from the fact that the two armored trains of the German army never  It also has something to do with the attack from two directions like a closed door. The other side's armored train is like a steel monster covered with hedgehogs. Not only does it have a large number of 75mm cannons

    ¡­The Germans were actually equipped with 105mm light grenades and 150mm heavy howitzers on the train. Although the number of heavy artillery was not large, their power was quite terrifying Moreover, the anti-aircraft firepower was also quite sharp Although the Allied Air ForceA locomotive and two carriages were destroyed, and a 150mm train gun and two 105mm guns were killed. However, they actually paid the price of shooting down a fighter jet and damaging a bomber.

    "Leading the German armored train away? It's a good ideabutwho will take on this dangerous taskthis is a near-death race with cavalry and a train!" Yamashita Fengwen said from the side. This guy thought that Qingshui was out of the way.  It's not a bad idea, but the troops acting as bait are extremely risky. Yamashita is not prepared to let the Iida brigade, which has been with him all morning, take on such a dangerous task

    "My entire army is exhausted I have covered almost 90 kilometers all morning. We also fought a battle with the Ukrainians in the northwest, and even after we captured Porodukhiv, we can't even breathe!"  Iida Sadagu was the first to remove his own brigade from this dangerous mission. Let others take the limelight. The 10th Cavalry Battalion will not do this hard work.

    "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, refusing 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.

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