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Volume 3 Far East Story Chapter 886 Just a Second-rate Army

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    After the long-range howitzer position in the rear of the coalition resumed fire, Major General von Neuhaus knew that the opponent had discovered the main force of his reinforcements. Obviously, as the sun was setting and it was still early to get dark, the German troops mobilized on the railway line  It is a wishful thinking to completely hide the military columns from the eyes of the coalition reconnaissance planes

    July 31, 1918 17:50 Kharkov Southern Suburban Railway Station, former enemy headquarters of the German-Ukrainian Allied Forces

    "General, the Muto brigade's artillery shelling damaged the rails near the south bank of the Lopan River Bridge. Emergency repairs will take at least 20 minutes. Does Lieutenant Colonel von Rundstedt's armored train need to take the risk of staying south of the bridge and use artillery to suppress it? 7  The coalition artillery position kilometers away?" The speaker was Colonel von Diekermeyer, the commander of the 139th German Infantry Regiment.  

    "Commander the Muto brigade seems to be retreating across the board. Can't we just watch each other run away? It's all because the reconnaissance plane of the Allied Air Force discovered the movement of reinforcements in advance. Otherwise, when our artillery positions arrive and deploy, we will have a meal  The Muto brigade can be wiped out with a beating!" Lieutenant Colonel von Diksol, chief of staff of the 139th Infantry Regiment, smacked his lips.

    "Get down, Lieutenant Colonel. Do you think the opponent's current howitzer position is firing fireworks at us regardless of the cost? The opponent is using artillery fire at any cost to hinder the deployment and deployment of our reinforcements. The 140th Infantry Regiment and the grenade  The artillery battalion can't rush into the opponent's attack area and set up a position under artillery fire, can I tell you that this guy Nobuyoshi Muto is really lucky that I and the system are friends!"  Leader Feng.  Dirkmeier clearly disagreed with his deputy.  

    "Pass my order, engineers rush to repair the railway line, and must rush through it within 15 minutes. The 2nd Armored Train Team will cross the river and enter Nancheng District as soon as possible after the railway line is repaired to prepare for combat. In addition, the 140th Infantry Regiment and the 140th Artillery Battalion will not  We need to get off the train and prepare to take the train directly across the bridge into the city. Let the 141st Infantry Regiment at the rear get off the train and deploy in Henan to cover the deployment of the 141st Artillery Battalion!" The commander of the 47th German Reserve Infantry Division frowned and thought to himself.  If you want to catch the tail of Muto Brigade, I'm afraid you have to find a way at the east gate of Kharkov.

    This is also the reason why he moved von Blomberg's 140th Infantry Regiment and 140th Artillery Battalion across the river. Of course, the German Major General did not intend to enter the old fortress directly through the street in the center of the city. The main force of the coalition forces was in the north of the city.  The artillery still occupies an overwhelming advantage. Von Neuhaus's plan is to place the reinforced artillery in the southeast corner of the south city. From here to the north, it can cover both sides of the Kharkov River outside the east gate with firepower.  , the furthest reach is the three-way intersection in the forest.

    Both the east and south directions can directly cover the direction of the Muto Brigade's retreat. Of course, the other party will retreat first, and your own troops will be stationed in the southern part of Kharkov later. Whether you can capture the Muto Brigade depends on the opponent's determination to withdraw.  How big is it? Moreover, although in the counterattack plan of the German-Ukrainian coalition, the return of the German Air Force to the skies over Kharkov tomorrow to compete with the coalition forces for air supremacy is an important part. If Captain Goering's fighter wing fails to make it, the German Major General will do  Well, the plan is to withdraw the main German army and artillery from the city overnight

    Although Kharkiv is known as a battleground for military strategists, General Wilhelm Greiner, the supreme commander of the German army in Ukraine and commander of the German 10th Army, suffered from a heart attack on the battlefield and had to be secretly escorted back to Ye  General Hermann von Fran?ois of Katerinaslav City, including Major General von Neuhaus, commander of the 47th Reserve Infantry Division, who was actually responsible for commanding the entire Kharkov battlefield at this moment, did not think that  Kharkiv must be defended. Kiev is an important part of the empire that cannot be given up. Kharkiv's role is just a bridgehead and a good meat grinder battlefield. The wheel is not even as important as Yekaterinoslav and Donne.  The two cities of Tsk

    Of course, it is not as good as Odessa and Kiev Kharkiv, which is only 40 kilometers away from the border with the Volga Federation, is just a battlefield that can be abandoned. Of course, if we can take advantage of Kharkiv's easy-to-defend and difficult-to-attack terrain, we can attack it hard.  Why don't everyone from General Greiner to Major General Neuhaus try to teach the coalition forces and the Chinese king who doesn't know how high the sky is?

    As for the enemy Muto Brigade and even the Japanese 3rd Division, in the eyes of the German commanders, Muto Nobuyoshi only commanded an infantry brigade of about 8,000 people. The 3rd Division under Jiro Oba could fight it.  The army only has two infantry brigades with backward equipment and insufficient firepower. The combined artillery firepower of the entire division is not even as good as the 36 105mm light field howitzers and 12 150mm heavy field howitzers of a German reserve infantry division.

    Although Japan's 3rd Division is known as the Japanese Army's most capable Class A division, almost half of its 28,500-man establishment is logistics and artillery units, which can only be regarded as small compared with the 12,600-man German Infantry Division.  The Tanaka Artillery Regiment of Japan's 3rd Division is a plump but powerful product. This artillery regiment has nearly 100 gunners to serve each cannon as it moves, and the number of horses used is almost the same as the number of gunners. Tanaka  The total number of members of the 3rd Regiment of the Dou Li King's Field ArtilleryThere are 48 75mm mountain field guns, but there are 3699 people and 3600 horses.

    If calculated from the caliber and power of the gun, a German-made 105mm light howitzer is at least more powerful than two 75mm field guns. What's more, the German artillery is all dragged by Daimler military 1-ton semi-trucks and made by Japanese pack horses.  The division artillery wing is different. This is no longer the European battlefield in 1914 where the number of military vehicles was scarce. This is the late summer of 1918. The number of aircraft and military trucks on both sides of the war has greatly increased compared to four years ago.  and increase

    The Japanese Army, which only has local people living with their belts hungry and tired, has no real aviation fleet and mechanized vehicles to arm itself. Three-quarters of the Japanese defense budget is invested in the Japanese Navy instead of the Army. The Empire  The Army is like a stepchild in Japan's military headquarters. It is at the forefront when it comes to suffering hardships, but military budgets and appropriations are always lagging behind.  If the Chinese-made M60M81 infantry mortars are of two calibers, and are also equipped with Chinese-made Browning squad machine guns and Browning heavy machine guns, the Japanese Army will still be the model in front of the German Army in the past.  Just a second-rate army.  (.)
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