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Volume 3 Far East Story Chapter 801 (1) There are many capable people

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    The 35-year-old Lieutenant Ando was also a classmate of Kumagai and Hamamoto in the 29th semester of the mainland. Of course, Saburo Ando was the eldest son and heir of the old Kojiro Ando of the Kuroba clan, and his background was much more prominent than Kumagai and Hammoto, so Ando before  The 224th Infantry Squadron commanded by Lieutenant Saburo was left in reserve at Okamoto Renichiro's core position.

    At the same time that the Okamoto brigade lost its northwest corner position, the 223rd Infantry Squadron responsible for defending the southeast corner position was also driven out of its position by the Ukrainians who came up like a flood. Lieutenant Dohashi Ichigo was luckier than Kumagai and Hamamoto.  The squadron leader was a little better. His 223rd Infantry Squadron withdrew early. With the support of the 3rd Squadron of the 224th Infantry Squadron sent by Captain Okamoto at the core position, Dohashi Squadron still retained more than 100 troops.  , one-third of whom were wounded.  

    In this way, after receiving reinforcements from the 3rd squadron of Ando Squadron, Dohashi Ichishi established a temporary defense line 150 meters southeast of the core position, with more than 150 capable soldiers left.

    The Bear Valley Squadron in the southwest corner, which was originally the most critical, suffered more than half of its casualties. Captain Amakasu led two squadrons to reinforce the squadron twice in a row. In the end, the distance between the two swamps in the southwest corner was 200 meters long and 50 meters wide.  This dirt road, which was less than 30 meters narrow in places, became a battlefield for soldiers from both sides. In the end, the battalion's attached captain Jutaro Amakasu was only able to defeat less than one squad. Kumagai Squadron, which lost its squadron leader, lost almost all its troops.  It was destroyed, but the defense line was still controlled by this guy.

    At this time, the Okamoto Group Headquarters in the core position had no extra mobile troops. Ando in the northwest corner led more than 120 people, Dohashi in the southeast corner had more than 150 people left, and Captain Amakasu behind him only had 70.  There are not enough people, and the machine gun squadron on Okamoto's core position has long been strengthened to the positions in three directions and almost three-quarters have been lost, and more than 100 people of the baggage logistics team have also been organized and strengthened to the previous three  Squadron position.  

    After all calculations, Okamoto Renichiro Zhong Saman still had less than 100 troops left in the core position of the brigade and artillery squad. The total number of Japanese troops capable of fighting in the entire encirclement dropped sharply to less than 500, one-third of which were still light or heavy.  Of course, the casualties among the Ukrainians were not light. A total of 12 companies of the 4th Ukrainian Infantry Division, which launched attacks from three directions, also suffered nearly 500 casualties. More than 200 people died in battle, and nearly 300 people were injured on both sides.  The battle loss ratio was 1:2. The Japanese Army's Okamoto Brigade had the advantage, but the 4th Ukrainian Infantry Division could at least replace 12 more companies, and Okamoto's core position was already weak and almost destroyed.  Reserve team!

    Starting from Yarmolenko's 4th Ukrainian Infantry Division encircling Okamoto Renichiro's 56th Infantry Group, the bloody battle between the two sides reached this point. The Ukrainian 4th Division suffered more than 1,500 casualties in total, while the Okamoto Group started from  The strength of nearly 1,300 troops dropped sharply to less than 500

    The defensive side relies on the excellent style and tactical literacy of the Japanese troops. The marksmanship of the veterans of the Japanese Third Division is much more accurate than that of the Ukrainian National Army guerrillas. Unfortunately, the Type 38 rifle is not as powerful as the opponent.  The Mauser 98 rifle in hand, and the Ukrainian 7.6cm mortars are more powerful and more numerous. More importantly, the Ukrainians are determined to rely on their huge advantage in strength to eat up the Japanese Okamoto brigade in front of them, regardless of casualties.  ¡­

    If they are exhausted, the attacking Ukrainian 4th Infantry Division is not much stronger in physical strength and mental strength than the Japanese Okamoto Group in the encirclement. Both sides lack long-range artillery fire support. The Okamoto Group  There is no long-range artillery at all. The mortars of the M81 Battalion are the furthest artillery that the Japanese infantry brigade can hit. As for the 4th Infantry Division of the Ukrainian National Army, Yarmolenko's artillery regiment and the Muto Brigade in the morning  The regiment's artillery suffered heavy casualties after a fierce battle

    The entire artillery regiment lost almost half of its troops and artillery. The most terrible thing was that the national army, which had temporarily retreated to the Kharkov Forest the night before after the fierce battle, lacked sufficient ammunition reserves. After firing 2 basic artillery shells, the artillery  It would be like cooking without rice. If not for this, Yarmolenko's infantry division with German weapons and equipment would have already eaten up the infantry brigade of Lieutenant Colonel Ichiro Okamoto of the Japanese Army

    This is an attack and defense between machine guns, mortars, grenades, rifles and field fortifications. The Ukrainians are outnumbered, but the Japanese army is tenacious Of course, both the Japanese army and the Ukrainian National Army use the human sea tactic.  There is a fight. Speaking of which, when ammunition is low, the G18 melon grenade equipped by the Japanese infantry and the German wooden handle grenade equipped by the Ukrainians are evenly matched. In terms of killing power and radius, it is the Chinese-made G18 of the Japanese army.  The melon-style grenade is more powerful with multiple fragment charges, but the Ukrainians are obviously not bad at throwing away the German long-handled grenade, and the number of grenades they throw out is several times more than that of the Japanese army

    Since the burning time of the fuse of the German-made long-handled grenade is about 8 to 9 seconds, and the explosion delay of the G18 melon grenade equipped by the Japanese army is only more than 4 seconds, there are quite a few UPS.The German wooden handle grenades thrown by the Dutch were thrown back to the Ukrainians. After a total of 9 seconds, most of them exploded in the Ukrainian infantry attacking formation. Of course, this was 2030 meters between the two sides.  Wonders that only have a chance to appear.

    "Your Majesty Lieutenant Colonel! The Amakasu Brigade can no longer withstand it. We must shrink the defense line. Why not give up the two positions in the northwest corner and the southeast corner Otherwise, the retreat in the swamp will be completely cut off" A hoarse voice said.  The person yelling in Lieutenant Colonel Okamoto¡¯s ear was Lieutenant Mutaguchi Renya, the squadron leader of the machine gun squadron!

    It can be said that the 29th batch of the Japanese Army University School is really the one that produced a lot of talents. Most of the officers of the 56th Battalion of the 19th Infantry Regiment of the Mutoh Brigade under Lieutenant Colonel Okamoto Renichiro came from the 29th batch of the Japanese Army University. Mutaguchi Lian  Although this guy is only the 27th out of 56 graduates in the 29th batch of mainland universities, he is obviously not an easy person to be the squadron leader of a machine gun squadron.

    Of course, on the Ukrainian battlefield in the time and space of 1918, the 30-year-old machine gun squadron leader Lieutenant Mutaguchi Lianye is still far away from the title of "Ghost Mutaguchi". In the 29th issue of the mainland  Mutaguchi is the youngest among the students. He was born in 1888. He is 5 years younger than Saburo Ando, ??a classmate of the same period at the University of Japan. He is also 2 years younger than the three squadron leaders, Amakasu, Kumagai and Dohashi, so he is known as  At the age of 30, he became the commander of the machine gun squadron of the Okamoto Group, and his promotion was not too slow.
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