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Volume Three Far East Stories Chapter 911 The Results of the Counterattack

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    "Yes! My Lord General!" The commander of the 139th Infantry Regiment did not feel weak when he heard this. He stood upright, saluted with a military salute and then went out to execute the order. The entire German staff in the former enemy headquarters were dumbfounded.  The colonel with gray hair on his temples staggered out of the command post.

    "We can't wait any longer Send me my order. Detachment 1 and Detachment 2 of the Armored Train commanded by Lieutenant Colonel Karl Rudolf Gerd von Rundstedt will immediately launch an attack on the Kharkov East Gate Bridge.  The shelling of the position, rapid fire for 10 minutes, ordered the battalion of Lieutenant Colonel von Blomberg of the 140th Infantry to attack from the east gate after the shelling began, with the goal of retaking the Kharkov Bridge! The 139th Battalion of the Southeast Group Artillery was ordered to bombard Kharko!  Near the three-way intersection three kilometers outside Fudong Gate, cut off the opponent's logistics traffic Order the 140th Artillery Battalion to bombard the existing positions of the Muto Brigade, and execute it immediately! "

    Major General Sven von Neuhaus, the former enemy commander-in-chief of the German-Ukrainian Allied Forces and commander of the 47th German Reserve Infantry Division, issued an order to open fire

    Since all German positions were connected with wired telephones, the order from the command headquarters was quickly issued to the artillery positions. The German artillerymen who had already corrected the azimuth immediately took action. Soon, German artillery fire roared in Kharkov.  Roaring, a string of cannonballs soared into the air from three directions and flew in different directionsfalling into the target area in the distance, exploding into clouds of firethe bright and whistling light strips in the night sky looked like  It's truly spectacular

    The coalition forces were not to be outdone. Before the second round of German artillery fire could begin, the Japanese heavy artillery on the northern front roared first. Strings of artillery shells roared and smashed into Halko from the Japanese artillery position five kilometers north of the city.  The location of the central railway line in Fubei City is where the German armored train of the 1st and 2nd Armored Detachments launched the first round of artillery attacks. Unfortunately, Lieutenant Colonel von Rundstedt's Armored 2nd Division had already prepared for the first round of artillery strikes.  After the completion, the armored train drove south immediately, which caused almost all of the 24 150mm heavy howitzer shells of the Japanese Hashimoto Field Heavy Artillery Regiment to miss. They only blew up the rails and sleepers. South of the Central Station  The building on the side was once again submerged in the sea of ??fire

    Von Rundstedt's Armored Train 2 Detachment belongs to the 1st Armored Detachment of the German 10th Army. The 1st Armored Detachment of the German 10th Army has two armored trains, each with 16 carriages, 4 of which are heavy machine gun carriages.  It is equipped with 6 mg08 water-cooled heavy machine guns, and there are 8 artillery carriages. The first carriage and the last carriage are each equipped with a German Krupp 150mm heavy howitzer, and the remaining 4 carriages are equipped with each carriage.  Two 105mm light howitzers, and two carriages carrying three 20mm anti-aircraft guns each. The remaining four carriages are infantry carriages, each carriage carrying a company of infantry.

    The German armored train has a steam-powered locomotive at the beginning and end. This gives the steel-armored monster on the rails super power and mobility, thick armor, and scorching firepower. Von Rundstedt's armored train was originally  In the battle with the Japanese Yonezawa Cavalry Regiment, one 150mm heavy howitzer and two 105mm light howitzers were lost. However, after an afternoon of emergency repairs, the originally damaged cannon and carriages had been repaired, so the German armored train headed to Kharkov  The bombardment near the bridgehead on the right side of the Kharkov Bridge outside the east gate was quite intense.

    The shells fired by 2 150mm heavy howitzers and 8 105mm light howitzers turned the entire 300 meters on both sides of the right bank of the bridge into a sea of ??flames. The person controlling the bridgehead on the right side of the Kharkov Bridge was Nakamura of the Mizuno Taisuke Regiment of the Japanese Muto Brigade.  The entire remaining force of the brigade, Mizuno's wing headquarters and the Nakamura brigade is only three squadrons with about 700 people. However, since Lu Huanyan, the former enemy commander of the second echelon, has already made preparations to blast and abandon the bridge at any time, there is only one Japanese squadron at the bridgehead.  Stationed, the remaining troops of the Nakamura Brigade and three Chinese armored fighting vehicles that strengthened the Mizuno Regiment were hidden in positions on the edge of the forest 600 meters away from the river bank

    The position on the right bank of the Kharkov River can be regarded as the first major battlefield for the Muto brigade's roundabout operations on the east route. Therefore, the field position built by the Nakamura brigade on the edge of the forest has been relatively complete in the north, except for the first line along the approach bridge and  In addition to the field fortifications about 350 meters long on the left and right sides of the road, the second line of shelters and traffic trenches were also dug out, and the log roofs of the anti-blast holes were reinforced

    The civil engineering work of the Japanese army to repair fortifications was strengthened and valued after the Battle of Ufa, because the Chinese participating troops, who had better weapons and equipment than the Japanese army, must first strengthen fortifications and repair forts and positions whenever they arrived. In comparison, the equipment and firepower were inferior.  If the more than one-matched Japanese army continues to refuse to work hard to repair the fortifications, the casualties in a real war will be even more unbearable

    The first three rounds of artillery fire from Von Rundsted's armored train basically turned the entire right wing of the Kharkov Bridge into a sea of ??flames. Then the extended artillery fire began to slowly extend to the eastern forest area. At the same time, the German army  The subsequent shelling of the 12 105 light howitzers of the southeast cluster accurately hit the three-way intersection in the forest Although the execution?There are strict curfews and light controls, but the geographical location of this three-way intersection is so important and obvious. Even if Lu Huanyan's engineering troops strengthen their disguise, they still cannot hide this traffic artery

    Fortunately, Lu Huanyan's second-echelon logistics and baggage troops have been doing something since the afternoon, which is to open a forest trail running northwest and southeast about 800 meters northeast of the three-way intersection Use "\"  The "L" at the three-way intersection was cut into a right-angled triangle and the coalition's logistics storage area was moved nearly 1 kilometer to the northeast, located outside the hypotenuse of the right-angled triangle, and camouflage and isolation fire prevention measures were strengthened.  , which caused the sudden shelling of the 139th German Artillery Battalion to turn the three-way intersection into a sea of ??flames, but it failed to cause real damage to the coalition supplies, ammunition and vehicles

    The German artillery fire that spearheaded the German counterattack tonight achieved the greatest results, but it was the German artillery 140th Battalion's shelling of the field fortifications of the Muto Brigade. The Muto Brigade's position was built temporarily after retreating to the edge of the forest, so the fortifications were dug.  Neither rushed nor deep!
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