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Volume 3 Far East Story Chapter 899 The Biggest Threat

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    July 31, 1918 19:00, eastern forest of Kharkov, temporary camp of the coalition forces

    The 56th Infantry Battalion commanded by Lieutenant Colonel Renichiro Okamoto and the 57th Infantry Battalion commanded by Takekawa Miji are both the main infantry brigade of the 23rd Infantry Brigade of the Japanese 3rd Division of the Allied Forces on the Eastern Front, with a strength of approximately 1,100 people.  , the group includes: 30-man group headquarters, a 110-man transport squadron (carts and mules), 4 infantry squadrons; a 174-man machine gun squadron (14-man squadron and 3 machine gun squads, 1 ammunition  Squad), each row has 4 Browning 7.62 air-cooled heavy machine guns, a total of 12; a 55-man artillery squad (a 10-man squad, a 15-man ammunition squad, two 15-man cannons  Each squad is equipped with 4 Chinese-made 81mm battalion mortars

    These two infantry brigades are both veterans of the Japanese army and have very strong combat effectiveness. However, the Okamoto brigade was obviously the infantry brigade that suffered the most losses and suffered the heaviest casualties during the day of the Central Route Army's Mutoh Brigade. As a surprise soldier on the southern route, Lieutenant Colonel Okamoto's  The team was trapped in a desperate situation between two large swamps and was surrounded by the superior Ukrainian 4th Infantry Division. If it had not been for receiving a telegram from the Okamoto Brigade requesting emergency tactical guidance, the brigade commander Major General Muto Nobuyoshi decisively organized and took charge of 11 75mm guns.  If the field artillery rescue team goes north to rescue the siege, Okamoto, a top student in Japan's 21st-term saber group, will have to burn the military flag and smash it into pieces with more than 1,100 officers and soldiers of his brigade

    Takekawa Miji led his own brigade to reinforce from the north, but it was just a chat about personnel matters. The 3rd Ukrainian Infantry Division in front of them withdrew very quickly, obviously unwilling to fight, but even so, in the end, it relied on long-range artillery to relieve the Okamoto brigade.  After the siege, when the two Japanese brigade met in the forest swamp area, the Okamoto brigade only had more than 400 people left, and the Jianchuan brigade only had more than 800 people left. The two brigade only had half of their strength, and half of the light and serious casualties were left.  About one-third of the total

    liXue Juru, commander of the reconnaissance company of the 1st Armored Regiment, commanded the reconnaissance company of the regiment to go out along the eastward road in the forest and join forces with the Jianchuan and Okamoto brigade. They were all surprised that the Jianchuan and Okamoto troops were neither human nor ghosts.  Normally, in this era, a team with more than 10% casualties will be shaken, more than 20% casualties will be unable to continue the attack, more than 30% casualties will likely collapse

    Jianchuan and Okamoto are classmates in the 21st batch of Japanese mainland university, and they are both ranked in the top six of the saber group. Because Okamoto was older when he entered school, he was promoted the fastest after graduation. Now he is already in the army.  Lieutenant Colonel, and Takekawa Miji is still a major. However, at this moment, the two captains are not daring to neglect Xue Juru, the captain of the armored reconnaissance company. The commander in front of them passed by Kharkov yesterday.  After the First World War in the forest area on the upper reaches of the river, he has become the famous God of War in the entire Central Army

    Commanded a Chinese armored company of vehicle-mounted infantry to swim across the Kharkov River, and with the air support of the coalition air force, defeated the artillery regiment of the 1st Ukrainian Infantry Division, and even captured a complete Krupp 105mm light field  The artillery of the howitzer battalion captured more than 800 people. It can be said that the reason why the Japanese Army's Masagosaki Regiment won a tragic victory in the confrontation with the main force of the Ukrainian 1st Infantry Division was that, in addition to the coalition's air superiority, the biggest  The assistant was Xue Juru who crossed the river and diverted the Ukrainians to the artillery position on the other side

    The regiment reconnaissance company commanded by Xue Juru has 10 fd17ii wheeled armored fighting vehicles, three fj18 humvee combat reconnaissance and command vehicles, and has strengthened two Dodge one-and-a-half-ton baggage transport vehicles.  An M191837aa single-barreled anti-aircraft gun of the artillery company is installed on a special chassis that can rotate 360 ??degrees, and is towed by a Dodge one-and-a-half-ton truck

    The remnants of the two infantry brigades of the Japanese Army, Jianchuan and Okamoto, which suffered heavy casualties and consumed huge amounts of ammunition, and the reconnaissance company of the Chinese Armored Regiment joined forces with tears of excitement and cheers. After the previous two days of fighting, the armored forces of the Chinese participating armies have become invincible.  A symbol of invincibility, not to mention that Xue Sang's name has become a legend for the entire Central Army

    While setting up security, Xue Juru also provided materials and ammunition for the Jianchuan and Okamoto brigades. However, there were no bullets for Type 38 rifles in the logistics equipment of the Chinese participating army, so they could only use some machine guns and mortars.  Give the G18 melon grenade to the opponent, and at the same time free up the three Dodge trucks of the armored company to arrange the evacuation of the seriously wounded Japanese soldiers. As for the lightly wounded, they will stay in the temporary field rescue center to rest

    "Xue Sang the Ukrainian 4th Division must have withdrawn to the south and most of the 3rd Division ran to the east You only sent one armored platoon and two Chinese Humvee reconnaissance vehicles to advance eastward. Isn't it too risky?  "If we run into the brigade of the 3rd Ukrainian Division, I'm afraid I'll suffer a loss" Major Takekawa Miji just ate a heated can of meat brought by Xue Juru's orderly, and burped while saying  Reminding the coalition forces of this legendary armored reconnaissance company captain

    Next door, the captain of the 56th Infantry Brigade, Lieutenant Colonel Okamoto Renichiro, looked defeated. He was holding a canned meat in his hand but couldn't eat it. There were less than 400 people left in his brigade. The squadron leaderSeveral people were killed, and now I feel a little unable to hold my head up in front of Major Jianchuan, who still has 800 troops. Although he escaped from a desperate situation and escaped the crisis of annihilation, if he has to go back to battle tonight without reinforcements,  , I am afraid that the remaining firepower of the Okamoto Brigade will be finished It doesn't matter if the morale is low or worried, anyway, Lieutenant Colonel Okamoto is in a very low mood

    "The Ukrainians are already frightened. The opponent cannot keep setting up traps and roadblocks to hinder our progress. When the armored first platoon advanced along the road, the headlights were bright. Although we were singing about the empty city strategy, the Ukrainians didn't know.  , the enemy must have thought that the armored platoon was just the vanguard, followed by the brigade, and we might have driven away the 3rd Ukrainian Infantry Division in the dark all the way!" Xue Juru had already received the second detachment from the East Road!  The telegram from the headquartersI am actually feeling upset right now

    The reason is very simple. Tao Dayong, commander of the 1st Armored Battalion, and his 1st Armored Battalion will become the main force of the East Road detachment. As a reconnaissance company commander, he obviously has few opportunities to command the armored troops on his own. Tao Dayong and his 1st Battalion will inevitably  To play the leading role, perhaps this is because after Tao Dayong led an armored company to encircle and annihilate the divisional cavalry reconnaissance battalion of the 1st Ukrainian Infantry Division yesterday, he once again came from behind and became the biggest threat to Xue Juru's meritorious service in front of the formation
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