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Volume 3 Far East Story Chapter 799 (1) A man of skill is bold

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    Each cavalry squad of the 4th Japanese Cavalry Regiment is equipped with two coalition platoon-affiliated 60mm mortars and three Browning squad machine guns, and each cavalry squadron is equipped with an air-cooled Browning heavy machine gun.  , each brigade also has an 8-gun 81mm caliber mortar squad.

    Yamashita Fengwen's regiment could have commanded the cavalry reconnaissance squadron directly under the regiment headquarters to go out to lure the enemy. Unfortunately, the regiment's reconnaissance cavalry squadron, as the vanguard of the regiment, and the Nishio Brigade encountered two German armored train detachments on the railway line.  The flanking attack suffered heavy casualties, so Yamashita Tomofumi's final choice was to allocate a fully-manned cavalry squadron from Koiso Kuniaki's 12th Cavalry Battalion to follow him on the mission of luring the enemy

    The total strength of the 45th Cavalry Squadron is 229, which is slightly less than the infantry squadron of the Japanese Army. However, the number of squad machine guns in the entire squadron has increased by 3. In fact, both the rifle team and the machine gun team have basically additional soldiers.  He carried two spare mortar shells for his comrades in the mortar team. Since they were cavalry, most of the burden was still borne by their mounts. However, by this time of 1918, traditional cavalry combat had given way to mounted infantry.  In the way of combat, there are fewer and fewer opportunities to charge with a saber. The cavalry of various countries more often use methods such as mounting and dismounting to maneuver and fight, which reflects the value of cavalry.

    During the enemy-baiting encounter northwest of the northern crossroads, the vanguard soldiers commanded by Lieutenant Ushijima Mitsuru were almost beaten by the German Captain Rommel's vanguard platoon. Fortunately, they withdrew in time. After leaving behind several corpses, Lieutenant Ushijima Mitsuru's  The vanguard detachment took the lead in retreating to Nansayazi And the main force of the 45th Cavalry Squadron commanded by Yamashita Fengwen also galloped in a fan shape and turned the queue to the right. Behind it was the dusty and majestic brigade that looked like the rumbling of hoofs  ¡­

    After all, it is a Japanese cavalry with one man and two horses. The movement of nearly 600 horses when running is much greater than that of an ordinary 229-man cavalry squadron, not to mention that the cavalry detachment that fell behind had its tails dragged up and cut off.  The branches are raising artificial dust

    Captain Erwin Rommel, the infantry battalion commander of the 2nd Detachment of the 1st Armored Detachment of the German Army, had a boyhood dream of being an engineer or airship technician. The 27-year-old army captain was born in Heidensea, the capital of the German state of W¨¹rttemberg in 1891.  An intellectual family in the city of Mu.  The captain's father and grandfather were both teachers, and his mother came from an official family.

    In his childhood, Rommel was a conscious, friendly and disciplined student. In his youth, he was frail, introverted, somewhat bookish, fond of mathematics and mechanics, and had no special interest in military affairs.  His ambition had been to be an engineer or airship technician.  It is the father who knows his son best.  Rommel's father encouraged Rommel, who was reluctant to join the army, to join the army and personally recommended it to the military.  Rommel joined the Army at the age of 18. He first served as an officer cadet, and soon entered the Royal Officer Cadet School for nine months of military training.

    Rommel adhered to the principle of abstinence throughout his life and did not drink or smoke.  When he was in military school, he met a girl named Lucy.  The two married in 1916.  After 12 years of marriage, they had their only son, Manfried.  Rommel, like many military strategists, had a passion for military affairs and a love for war that far exceeded his fascination with family life.

    When the First World War broke out four years ago, Rommel was an infantry platoon leader and fought with the troops in France, Rome and Italy.  He is strong-willed, brave, hard-working, and good at using strategies.  When he participated in the battle for the first time, he led 3 soldiers to defeat the attack of about 20 French troops.

    In 1917, he served as captain and company commander. During a battle in the Carpathian Mountains, Rommel led his troops to move continuously for 50 hours along a little-known mountain road and captured more than 5,000 enemy soldiers and 30 artillery pieces.  Although this war did not give him more opportunities to participate in the battle, Rommel was wounded twice and won military medals four times. His high enthusiasm for the war and outstanding combat qualities have been revealed.

    German Army Captain Erwin Johannes J¨¹rgen Rommel, as the infantry commander of the 2nd Detachment of the 1st Iron Armored Detachment, commanded four vehicle-mounted infantry companies of the 2nd Detachment of the 1st Iron Armored Detachment. This was the same as his previous service in the West.  The maximum number of troops he commanded when fighting the French on the front line was almost the same as when fighting the Italians on the Romanian battlefield. The difference was that he had mostly commanded a company as a second lieutenant platoon leader, or as a lieutenant company commander.  A battalion.

    At the end of July 1918, the 27-year-old Captain Rommel was the actual commander of the battalion-level infantry unit. The four companies under him were also elite troops he had formed. As the commander of the former mountain camp, Rommel  Although he now commands the infantry carried by the armored train unit, he still regards his infantry as an elite unit that surpasses 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  Railway bridge over the Norad River in the southLess than 10 kilometers away, the three infantry companies he left on the east side of the railway would form one side of the pocket, while the armored train of his 2nd Armored Division feinted northward, when the Japanese cavalry was lured in by his troops.  After reaching the narrow strip between the Krasnorad River and the railway line in the south, the squad leader Lieutenant Colonel von Rundstedt will command the armored train to make a comeback.

    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 his role on the armored train.  The squad leader's personal guard. After dispatching all four infantry companies, the armored train itself only carried one squad of infantry guards. The burden on the lieutenant's shoulders may not be lighter than that of Captain Rommel and Captain Manstein.  .

    The 2nd Detachment of the 1st Iron Armored Detachment, as an iron armored detachment, left the railway lines and trains, but was just ordinary infantry. Although Captain Rommel believed that his infantry was more elite than the infantry of the 139th Regiment of the 47th Reserve Infantry Division, this is not the case here.  In the mountains, he was not commanding 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. Two 2-wheeled Mercedes-Benz military motorcycles can carry 2 people, 2 3-wheeled Mercedes-Benz motorcycles can carry 6 people, and 2 one-and-a-half-ton Daimler military trucks can only carry the first  There were 45 people in the platoon, so the 2nd and 3rd rows could only ride on the mule carts temporarily collected from the villages east of the railway. The style of the mule carts was just the shape of the three carriages in the Ukrainian countryside, but they were not available.  The horses pulling the carts could only be replaced by large mules.
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