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Volume 3 Far East Story Chapter 801 (3) Survival from desperate situation

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    "Received a call from the artillery brigade, received a call from the artillery brigade The brigade artillery asked us to indicate the bombardment target and area using the center line of the two swamps as the reference coordinates! Captain, reinforcements are coming!"

    Two minutes later, rumbles of artillery were heard from 6 kilometers away in the southwest, and then the first wave of Japanese artillery reinforcements' 75mm field gun shells whizzed over the treetops and hit the Xionggu Squadron impartially.  The position that had been occupied by the Ukrainians was blown into pieces, and the dense crowd of Ukrainian infantrymen was torn into pieces of blood mist by flying shrapnel

    "Onboard! Onboard! Onboard!" Cheers of tears of joy rang out from the Japanese army's position, while the Ukrainian National Army, which was knocked upside down by the long-range artillery fire raided by the Japanese army, was stunned Many people were walking back and forth on the position.  Running around not knowing whether to rush or run away

    Just as the first wave of artillery shells from the Japanese army's artillery reinforcements hit, a coalition DH4 reconnaissance bomber flew from the northwest direction of Kharkov and began to circle over the swamp. Obviously, this was a temporarily transferred artillery unit to observe corrections.  shot, and soon the impact point of the Japanese long-range artillery fire was more accurate, and it was divided into two. More artillery shells passed over the two positions of the Okamoto brigade, and one after another the crowds of Ukrainian infantry in front of the siege of Ando and Dobashi positions  Exploded

    The dense crowd of attackers encountered such a sudden attack by long-range artillery fire, which was obviously beyond the expectations of the Ukrainian National Army. The casualties caused by the artillery bombardment of the Japanese reinforcements were still trivial. The key is that from Yarmolenko to the regimental commanders below him,  I thought that the main force of the Muto brigade had come up with reinforcements Soon a shrill withdrawal horn sounded from behind the Ukrainian position The Ukrainians, who were using it like water, retreated into the forest like a ch¨¢o, leaving corpses and corpses all along the way.  The wounded¡­¡­

    At the last moment, it was the reinforcement artillery unit commanded by Captain Jun Imamura, the artillery staff officer of the Mutoh Brigade, that used accurate and sharp artillery fire to rescue the Okabe brigade from a distance of 6 kilometers, with a total of 11 75mm field guns

    The two artillery battalion captains, Naosaburo Okabe and Toshishiro Obata, had a fierce dispute over who would lead the reinforcement artillery unit. They both clamored to lead a temporary artillery advance unit to relieve the Okamoto Battalion, while the brigade commander Muto  Xinyi had a headache from the noise, but the decision he made with a wave of his hand was unexpected.

    "Shut up, everyone. How can you behave like this? How can you, the Imperial samurai, be so talkative? Okabe and Obata, you two artillery brigades only have an artillery squadron of 4 75mm field guns left. I decided to hand over the artillery advance detachment to  The brigade artillery staff is commanded by Captain Jun Imamura He is the chief of the 27th batch of the mainland, a graduate with both military and political excellence Okabe, what are you dissatisfied with? As for Obata, you are a senior in the 23rd batch, why are you following the juniors?  Nonsense"

    The decision of the brigade commander Muto Nobuyoshi at that time shut up everyone present. No one, Okabe or Obata, benefited, and no one wanted to take the place of Lieutenant Jun Imamura, the artillery staff officer. As a result, Continental Issue 27  Chief Saber Captain Jun Imamura inadvertently ushered in the opportunity to lead a field artillery unit for the first time in his life. He was responsible for commanding a temporarily merged Japanese artillery squadron and two Chinese artillery batteries, with a total of 11 75mm field guns  ¡­

    Don¡¯t underestimate the 11 75mm field guns commanded by Captain Imamura Jun. A series of 6.5-kilogram high-explosive grenades exploded in the unobstructed crowd of Ukrainian infantry. Every time they exploded, a flower of blood with a diameter of more than ten meters bloomed. This is quite a lot.  Due to the firepower of a Ukrainian 75mm field artillery battalion, when the Ukrainians finally withdrew into the forest, the number of dead and wounded left in the open ground was three times more than the remaining members of the surviving Okamoto brigade

    "Baga! Who asked you to burn the military flag?" When the captain Renichiro Okamoto collapsed on the ground, he found that the flag of his 56th Infantry Brigade had been lit by an orderly and then he forgot to stamp it out  and suddenly he was so angry that he roared!

    July 31, 1918 16:20, Kharkiv Forest, 4th Ukrainian Infantry Division Headquarters

    "Commander the success fell short the reinforcements from the Muto brigade arrived so quickly. Although the opponent was only the long-range firepower of a 75mm field artillery battalion, the main force of our three regiments was in the general attack at that time. The crowd was overcrowded, and the Japanese were so  The 6.5-kilogram high-explosive grenade is much more powerful than the 3.6-kilogram shell of the Okamoto Group's M81 mortar Fortunately, we retreated into the forest in time, otherwise the entire division would have to be put on that open ground"

    Denis Danvlovich Olynik, chief of staff of the 4th Infantry Division of the Ukrainian National Army, grinned and rubbed his hands, and said cautiously next to his ashen-faced division commander.

    "What are the casualties of each regiment?" Andrei Andropovich Yarmolenko, the commander of the 4th Division, was biting his back with blazing anger, "It's simply too much to bully  If we only had so many artillery shells, the battle would not be like this! What are the casualties of each regiment?"

    The Japanese Okamoto brigade in the encirclement 20 minutes ago was about to be overwhelmed by its own people.They were completely wiped out, but the opponent's long-range artillery fire came from the southwest, and the opponent's artillery was actually extremely accurate. The firepower of almost a 75mm field artillery battalion fell on the attacking formation, and there was only one enemy on the position.  The Japanese army who was resisting ten meters away was not accidentally injured or affected. The 10th Infantry Regiment blocking the opponent's retreat in the southwest suffered casualties. Because there were swamps on both sides, by the time Sayazi exited the swamp area, only three points of the entire regiment were left.  With a strength of one, there were no less than a few hundred Ukrainian infantrymen who drowned in the swamp alone!

    "The specific casualties are still being counted. The 11th and 12th Infantry Regiments responsible for the attack in the northwest and southeast directions suffered at least nearly half of their casualties. The 10th Infantry Regiment that retreated in the swamps in the southwest suffered the most casualties. The commander of the 10th Regiment  Colonel Igor Igeevich Bazin was killed The whole regiment was basically dispersed by the enemy's artillery fire It would be good if we can recover one-third of it! Division Commander, our 4th Division is seriously injured!  Ah! I wonder if the ground reinforcements from the Muto Brigade are about to come up I think we should gather our troops and turn to the southeast"

    Division chief of staff Olynyk looked at his division commander with lingering fear and said, before the European War, this pair was originally the principal and history teacher of Kharkiv National Middle School, and the other three divisions of the 1st Army of the Ukrainian National Army were mainly composed of guerrillas  The composition of the team's cadres and soldiers is different. The 4th Ukrainian Infantry Division is almost composed of Kharkiv volunteers and students. The team's predecessor was the Kharkiv National Self-Defense Force. Most of them, from the division commander to the regiment and battalion commanders below, are intellectuals  ¡­
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