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Volume 3 Far East Story Chapter 885 The chance to escape intact

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    "It is indeed the telegram just received discovered by the Allied Air Force reconnaissance plane The Germans are now taking the time to unload trucks and arrange artillery positions the Air Force reconnaissance plane reminds us to be careful!" The communications staff struggled to continue.  said.

    "Brigade commander If the reconnaissance of the aviation team is true, it is obvious that the enemy used the Lopan River Bridge as a bait to attract our main force. The reinforcements, especially the artillery, got off the bus on the south bank of the river in advance to prepare for the deployment of artillery positions The German army wanted to start from  Come over to the south of the Wuda River and eat us!" Takagi Yoshinari, the brigade chief of staff, looked at Major General Muto with a solemn expression.  

    "Brigade commander isn't the Yonezawa Cavalry Regiment detouring in Henan? Why didn't you notice that the Germans were making such a big move? Do you want to send someone to notify the Yonezawa Regiment and ask them to turn to the west to search the railway?  !" said the artillery battalion commander, Major Toshishiro Obata.

    "It's too late! The Yonezawa Regiment is all cavalry, and the opponent's two infantry regiments are also assisted by ready-made machine guns and artillery on the armored train. When the Yonezawa Regiment turns to the west, it's like an egg hitting a rock" Oka, who is also the artillery battalion captain.  Major Saburo Saburo retorted.

    "Commander of the brigade, it's too late I suggest that the entire army gather and turn north. Wu Keren's artillery position should now fire before the enemy and hit the artillery near the railway line, trying to catch the opponent off guard!"  It¡¯s Captain Masaharu Honma, the confidential director of the Muto Brigade!

    "Why are you panicking! Calm down, you are soldiers of the Japanese Empire, not hawkers in the market. The urban management is here or something, and you are so panicked. How can you behave like this? The world is born and the world is destroyed!" Muto Nobuyoshi shouted to suppress him.  After stopping his subordinates who were milling about around him, Chief of Staff Takagi stepped forward and whispered, "Commander of the brigade, would you like to request the enemy headquarters again to dispatch the coalition air force? If there is a bomber group at this time, not only  If a bomber squadron can catch up with the air strike, the main force of the two regiments sent up by the German reinforcements will not be able to benefit! "

    Hearing this, Muto Nobuyoshi said nothing. He turned around a few times with his hands behind his back, raised his head and ordered decisively,

    "Send a report to the former enemy headquarters and copy it to the second echelon of Lu Huanyan. The main German force is about two regiments of troops on the southern front of Kharkov for reinforcements. The opponent has at least 2 to 3 artillery battalions for fire support. Our department plans to decide to reduce its troop strength.  , organize a position on the edge of the forest near the north bank of the Uda River, and request tactical guidance from the Allied Air Force! Ask the former enemy headquarters to indicate the next course of action!"

    "Order the Lishang Armored 3rd Battalion and the Guzhuang Infantry Battalion to move in as cover for the entire army's rear troops, and order the Wu Keren artillery position to shell the area south of the Lopan River Bridge along the railway line to disrupt the German army's build-up and deployment. Don't be reluctant to use artillery.  , we need to use firepower density to make up for the lack of artillery, and the main force of the brigade will start to retreat from its current position! "

    A series of orders by Major General Nobuyoshi Muto, commander of the 23rd Infantry Brigade of Japan's 3rd Infantry Division, reflected the fact that the Muto Brigade had to retreat in front of the German reinforcements, otherwise the opponent would  This new force and the 105mm light howitzers of three artillery battalions cannot be stopped by the insufficient strength of the main force of the Muto brigade with field fortifications!

    ¡°At the same time as Muto gave the order, Lieutenant Suzuki Teiichi, the confidential staff officer of the brigade, rushed over with the telegram he had just received.

    "Reporting to the brigade commander, the former enemy headquarters gave the highest order. In view of the fact that the reconnaissance aircraft of the air force discovered the main German reinforcements on the southern route, the Mutoh brigade was ordered to shrink from the current position to the northern forest. The bottom line is to guard the three-way road outside the east gate of Kharkov.  At the entrance, cover the flanks of Lu Huanyan's second echelon and ensure the second echelon's mission of annihilating the three main Ukrainian divisions in the eastern part of the forest! Order the Yonezawa regiment to make a circuitous route southward and wait for opportunities to cut off the railway line, but must not conflict with the German armored trains! "

    It should be said that Lieutenant General Oba's order came quite timely, and it also coincided with Muto Nobuyoshi's previous order. Muto lost the opportunity to preemptively disrupt the enemy's reinforcements because his artillery position was too far away from where the German troops were gathering.  And the opportunity for deployment, at the same time, didn't this allow the Wu Keren Artillery Battalion, the only remaining brigade, to escape the German army's intensive artillery fire attack?

    A few minutes later, the main force of the retreating Muto brigade saw their own 105mm light howitzer position suddenly become noisy. Amidst the huge roar, a series of guns roared towards the southwest, starting from the Lopan River Bridge.  Covering the area along the railway line to the south, the rumble of gunfire from 7 or 8 kilometers away showed the power of the eight 105mm light howitzers captured by the coalition.

    Perhaps it was Major General Muto¡¯s order, or perhaps the coalition gunners who were about to retreat were unwilling to load the unloaded ammunition onto the train again. Therefore, the nearly ten minutes of rapid coalition firepower almost turned the area near the opposite railway line into a sea of ??flames.  In just ten minutes, these eight guns of the coalition fired almost 400 rounds

    Unfortunately, due to the range of fire, the allied artillery muzzle can only hit the railway line as far as 2.5 meters south of the Lopan River Bridge.For about 3 miles, this made the coalition's preemptive artillery bombardment louder than the rain. Apart from startling the German infantry who were getting off the truck, it could not cause real damage or threat. Of course, the German artillery unloading the truck could not do anything.  To rush into the opponent's shelling area to deploy artillery positions, you can only go south to bypass the opponent's attack point, and then quietly advance eastward

    The artillery on both sides is equipped with 105mm light howitzers, and the terrain is not much different. If you can hit me, I will definitely hit you. Therefore, although the coalition's artillery fire started from the railway line on the south bank of the Uda River, it fired a  The fan-shaped fire circle with an area of ??nearly 1 kilometer only delayed the deployment of the German artillery battalion As for the armored train detachment 2, they now have the courage to cross the Lopan River Bridge and enter the Nancheng District to fight. Unfortunately,  Unfortunately, the railway line near the southern retreat of the Lopan River Bridge bridgehead was damaged by allied artillery shelling, and the German troops would not be able to enter the city for a while.

    To be fair, the situation on the battlefield is ever-changing. When the German army lost air supremacy, it also lost the convenience of aerial reconnaissance. The German reconnaissance aircraft simply did not have the ability to return to the battlefield in Eastern Ukraine when the coalition fighter jets were raging. This caused the German-Ukrainian coalition forces to suffer in battlefield reconnaissance.  Not small, and the coalition forces have a unique advantage. Even if the bomber group of the coalition air force cannot dispatch so many times a day, the reconnaissance planes are obviously not included in this. In fact, the coalition reconnaissance planes discovered the German reinforcements already a step too late  Fortunately, he still helped the Muto Brigade get a chance to escape unscathed.  (.)
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