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Volume 3 Far East Story Chapter 909 Battlefield Situation

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    "Reportan elite infantry regiment of the 3rd Brigade of the 2nd Division of Ukrainian Volunteers has assembled behind the main position of the 140th Regiment"

    "Report The main forces of the 4th and 2nd Ukrainian Infantry Divisions have assembled and entered a position ten kilometers southeast of Kharkov, less than 5 kilometers away from the current position of the Japanese Mutoh Brigade. However, the 4th Division was attacked by the coalition's shelling and  The losses in the air attack were serious. If we participate in tonight's counterattack, we can only gather the strength of one main regiment at most. The artillery regiment of the 4th Division cannot participate in the battle tonight because the ammunition has been exhausted and has not been replenished. The 2nd Infantry Division can only use one troop.  Infantry Regiment3rd Infantry Division lost radio contact"

    "Report I have just received a telegram from the headquarters of the 1st Ukrainian Army. General Koval's 3rd Infantry Division was attacked by the main force of the coalition armored forces in the eastern part of the Kharkov Forest. It is now retreating south. Division Commander Koval  Request the headquarters to order the 4th Division and the 2nd Division to send troops to meet his flankI repeat, the main force of the coalition armored forces is likely to go towards the town of Katina and the Northern Donets River Bridge!¡±

    In the evening of the same day, Muto of the coalition forces sent Chinese armored troops to strengthen the strength of a Japanese brigade and conducted a tentative attack on the Lopan River Bridge, the southern gateway to Kharkiv. Two members of the 139th German Reserve Infantry Regiment guarding the bridge  The battalion repelled the coalition's attack. Since the long-range artillery fire from both sides had not participated in the battle, this tentative attack was basically the M2 large-caliber heavy machine gun of the coalition's armored vehicles, the Browning 7.62mm light and heavy machine gun of the vehicle-mounted infantry, and the M60 platoon mortar.  The artillery and mortars of the M81 Battalion faced off against the MG08 heavy machine gun in the German machine gun fortress.  Borgmann m1915 light machine gun and 7.6cm light infantry mortar in trench mortar position.

    The fighting between the two sides was mainly concentrated in the distance of 1000 meters to 500 meters. The M1 Garand mounted rifles, 38-type rifles and Mauser 98 rifles in the hands of the infantry basically came in handy, as well as melon grenades and long-handled grenades.  It was also useless. Although the German mg08 heavy machine gun had nothing to do with the Chinese fd17ii wheeled tank of the coalition, it caused the Japanese Sasaki squadron accompanying the attack to suffer a lot. The Japanese squadron suffered nearly one-third casualties when it withdrew from the battlefield.  First, more than 30 people were killed. The price the Germans paid was the loss of more than a dozen machine gun groups and nearly 20 7.6cm mortar groups, with nearly 150 casualties. However, Li Shang's armored forces did not invest in vehicle-borne infantry attacks.  Therefore, only 2 armored vehicles were lost, and the casualties were less than 10

    Both the offensive and defensive sides got what they needed in this trial. The equipment and firepower of the Japanese infantry were slightly insufficient compared to the German army, while the power of the Chinese armored forces was obviously far superior to that of the German and Japanese troops. The German mortar tactics were quite flexible, and  The accuracy is extremely high. The disadvantage is that the 7.6cm light infantry mortar was originally an improved trench mortar. Although the mortar grenade weighing 4.5kg is more powerful than the coalition's M60 and M81 mortars, its range is only  1,000 meters, which means that the German mortar can only hit coalition targets within 1,000 meters. In the confrontation between the mortars of both sides, the German army was completely defeated by its own short range

    The follow-up to this exploratory attack was that the reconnaissance aircraft of the Allied Air Force discovered the movement of the two main German regiments heading north along the railway line for reinforcements, and promptly informed the Muto brigade on the ground. No matter how proud and arrogant Muto Nobuyoshi was, he was outnumbered.  Even under such circumstances, he had to lower his head and order to turn in. Although the former enemy headquarters of the coalition forces gave timely guidance and only asked him to guard the three-way intersection outside the east gate of Kharkov, the strong Muto Nobuyoshi was only willing to retreat to Kharkov.  The edge of the Cove Forest stopped, relying on the forest to organize defense lines and positions, and the artillery unit with 11 75mm field guns that had been used to relieve the Okamoto Brigade in the north was transferred back

    In this way, at night, about 7 kilometers southeast of Kharkov, the assembly and defense position of the coalition Muto brigade was formed. In other words, relying on the edge of Muto Xinyi Forest and the Uda River, a formation facing Kharkiv was established.  In the semicircular defensive position of the Erkov Lopan River Bridge, 8 German-made 105mm light howitzers from the Wu Keren ** Artillery Battalion and 11 75mm field guns returned to form a new artillery group. The width of Muto Nobuyoshi's position was close to  Five kilometers, stretching from the north bank of the Uda River to the Kharkiv forest path His artillery position is spread out on the east side of the path 2 kilometers behind the position. From here, it can directly bombard the east gate of Kharkov and Uda.  Three kilometers across the river, and the southeast corner of Kharkiv New Town

    Muto Nobuyoshi asked Li Shang to send an armored company as the mobile fire support point of the first-line position, and let the main force of the three armored companies be hidden on both wings of the position. The Japanese brigade commander did not put the Ukrainians on the east side of the forest at all.  In his eyes, what's more, the mission of Lu Huanyan's second echelon is to annihilate the remnants of the three Ukrainian infantry divisions. What he has to worry about is withstanding the German counterattack and waiting for an opportunity to counterattack. The Domen Battalion and Kashii Battalion are each responsible for a little more than 2 kilometers.  The Guzhuang Brigade holds the defensive position as a reserve force The center of the defensive circle is an artillery cluster composed of 8 105mm light howitzers and 11 75mm field guns

    The brigade's logistics and baggage regiment was in a steady stream from the base camp at the Sancha intersection to the south, rushing to transport and hoard ammunition.and supplies, but because the bottleneck of the entire logistics transportation line of the coalition on the right bank of the Kharkov River is the two pontoon bridges across the Kharkov River, the main force of the Mutoh brigade, which consumes huge amounts of ammunition, cannot replenish ammunition as fast as  In an ideal situation this is because Lu Huanyan of the second echelon gave priority to giving up more than half of the roads and hoarded ammunition.

    After nightfall, the situation of the entire Kharkiv battlefield is roughly as follows:

    On the northern front, the Kikuchi Brigade Headquarters of the 5th Infantry Brigade of the Japanese 3rd Infantry Division of the Allied Center Army and its 6th Sugimoto Infantry Regiment, and the 13th Federal Infantry Division commanded by Liukin Alexeevich Voronezh were both  Switched to defense on the spot, behind were the 3rd Field Artillery Regiment of the powerful Japanese 3rd Division Colonel Hashimoto Koji, the 3rd Field Artillery Regiment commanded by Colonel Tanaka Dougao, and the 15th Federal Infantry  The division's two 75mm field artillery battalions, of course, sit in front of the enemy's headquarters in the center of the Army, Lieutenant General Jiro Tashiba, commander of the Japanese Third Division.

    Due to the loss of the ring defense line of Kharkov's North City, those who held on to the anti-slope fortifications in the inner city of the north city wall and the central station position after nightfall were the remaining units of the 2nd Brigade of the 1st Division of the Kharkov Volunteers of Ukraine, and two units of the 1st Brigade of the 1st Division.  The remainder of the regiment defended the west wall position of Kharkov Old City and the southwest position of Kharkov New City, while the 4th Brigade of the 2nd Volunteer Division defended the east wall position of Kharkov Old City.  , the 3rd Brigade of the 2nd Division defends the position southeast of Kharkov New City.
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