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Volume 3 Far East Story Chapter 799 (2) Leave if you can¡¯t win

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    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. ¥ì?˼?·?¿Í¥ì

    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 to the pocket formation in the south, then close the door and beat the dogs. For this purpose, the armored train was first feinted to the north, while the opposite  The 4th Japanese Cavalry Regiment decided on a similar strategy at this moment, which was to send a cavalry team to lure the enemy, diverting the German armored trains entrenched at the intersection of railway lines and highways to the south, thus allowing the cavalry to  The main force of the regiment can quickly cross the railway and move eastward in order to join the 23rd Mutoh Infantry Brigade on the circuitous east road

    After the 1st Motorized Company commanded by Captain Rommel repelled the leading soldiers of the Japanese cavalry unit, they originally planned to turn around and go south along the railway line to lure the main force of the 4th Yonezawa Cavalry Regiment southward. Unexpectedly, they faced him in person.  The dusty Japanese cavalry brigade raced ahead of their own troops and turned around and ran south, following the horse hoof prints of the enemy's vanguard and retreating. This turned the three companies' positions on the west side of the railway line behind Captain Rommel into decorations  ¡­

    The 27-year-old German captain did not dare to neglect. While commanding the 1st Motorized Company on the west side of the railway line, he also turned around and chased the Japanese cavalry southward.  Captain von Manstein, chief of staff of the detachment, directed three infantry companies to move southward along the highway, with the purpose of blocking the way of the Japanese cavalry across the railway line.

    Rommel judged that what appeared in front of his 1st Motorized Company was at least a cavalry brigade of the Japanese Army. In fact, behind the 45th Cavalry Squadron commanded by Yamashita Fengfumi at that time, there were really nearly three remaining cavalry squadrons from the Nishio Brigade.  It's only 2 kilometers apartThis is because the commander of the regiment, Yonezawa Kogoro, has an extra thought. He is deeply afraid that the Yamashita regiment with only one cavalry squadron will not be able to create a large enough posture to lure the enemy south, so he suffered a lot before the order.  The reconnaissance cavalry squadron of the heavily damaged regiment and the remaining units of the Nishio Brigade merged into one, and the strength of nearly three cavalry squadrons was followed by the cavalry squadron commanded by Yamashita Fengfumi for a while

    Of course, Captain Rommel did not think that his own motorized company could block the opponent's attack by more than one cavalry brigade. In fact, although he had repelled the top soldiers of the Japanese army just now, the main M60 mortar shells behind the opponent had already hit them, and the impact point was still there.  Quite accurate, heading directly towards the 7.6 light infantry mortar position and mg08 heavy machine gun position of the 1st Motorized Company. Fortunately, Rommel's 1st Company was also a well-trained unit, and the heavy machine gun and mortar positions were moved.  He escaped the opponent's first two waves of shells in time

    This is a matter of experience. In fact, the firing speed of mortars on both sides and the flight speed of artillery shells are almost the same. The firing position of the Chinese-made M60 mortar used by the coalition is about 1,200 meters away from the German temporary position.  It takes about eight or nine seconds to reach a target 1,200 meters away. Therefore, after the first wave of coalition artillery shells exploded near the German position, Rommel's men immediately began to adjust the position of the firing position, thus evading the opponent.  The second and third waves of bullets rained down.

    While Rommel was commanding the 1st Company to pursue southward, he was still sweating. His Motorized 1st Company was certainly traveling faster on the road than the Japanese cavalry, but on the gentle rolling hills  In the area, the speed of Rommel's Daimler trucks and motorcycles is almost the same as the speed of Japanese cavalry horses. This is because his vehicles are wheeled vehicles instead of tracked, otherwise the speed will be much slower.

    In Rommel's view, the target of Japan's Yonezawa United Army was obviously the railway bridge over the Krasnorad River, a tributary of the Lopan River more than ten kilometers away to the south Since the other party did not intend to entangle with him, maybe  They were afraid of the artillery support and coverage of the armored trains on the eastern railway line behind them. Speaking of which, the combat area encountered by both sides was less than 6 kilometers away from the eastern railway line, which was completely within the fire support range of the heavy artillery on the German armored trains.  Inside¡­¡­

    The German captain even regretted that he had not thought well and did not pull the wired telephone directly from the railway. Otherwise, if he had directly used the telephone to guide the heavy artillery on the armored train to bombard the main force of the Japanese cavalry, the battle might not have been moved to the vicinity of the southern railway bridge.  You can inflict heavy damage on the enemy first

    Since the west side of the railway is covered with acres of woods and rolling hills, it is expected that the artillery observers on the armored train can use telescopes to see the battlefield 6 kilometers away.Although it is unrealistic, what's more, the armored train 2 detachment commanded by Lieutenant Colonel von Rundstedt has already made a feint to move north to the direction of the Kharkov Lopan River Bridge. This is also to hide the reconnaissance of the Allied Air Force in the sky.  Of course, if the commander of the Yonezawa Wing of the Japanese Army maintains radio contact with the Allied Air Force reconnaissance aircraft in the sky, the German army's feint may not be able to achieve the desired effect.

    Of course, in these days of fighting, the biggest disadvantage for the German-Ukrainian forces in the Eastern Ukraine battlefield was the loss of air supremacy. The German 1st Fighter Wing in Ukraine retained less than one squadron of fighter jets in Odessa and Kiev each.  , there were no redundant fighter jets or reconnaissance aircraft that dared to appear in the Kharkiv-Ekaterinoslav-Donetsk triangle area. In the sky of eastern Ukraine, fighter jets of the coalition air force were flying all over the sky, showing off their power.

    Rommel's goal of commanding the motorized infantry to lure the enemy was to lead the Yonezawa Cavalry Regiment to the preset battlefield in the south, that is, the angle between the Krasnorad River and the railway line between Kharkiv Krasnorad  zone, the bait being a railway and road bridge over the Krasnorad River

    Lieutenant Colonel von Rundstedt believed that after the Yonezawa Cavalry Regiment was frustrated in attacking the railway line, the possibility of heading north to the German 139th Infantry Regiment's position in the southern part of Kharkov was quite small.  The probability is not high, and going south to cut off the railway bridge over the Krasnorad River is the most likely. The so-called avoidance of reality is nothing more than this. Of course, Captain Erwin Rommel also agreed with the view of his squad leader  ¡­
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