Beiyang 1917

() At the same time, the 4 platoons of the 2th Armored Company serving as the battalion reserve, and 7 armored combat vehicles advanced southward along the west side of the forest road and deployed to form a line with the firepower of armored vehicles and heavy machine guns as the core. The distance between each tank is about 50 meters. After the 7 tanks are deployed on the west side of the road, a 400-meter-wide defense line is formed. Two platoons of vehicle-mounted infantry get off behind the armored tanks. Rushing to build field bunkers and positions, the distance between the infantry positions of the coalition forces is about 2 meters.

由于装甲第1连掉头往西南防线去阻击乌克兰增援部队的时候，装甲1连的狙击手们有效的压制了乌克兰步兵第1师3团阵地上的民族军的防线，同时装甲第1连第3排的3辆轮式装甲战车也始终没有放松对那1200米阵地的火力监视和封锁，所以当装甲一连的2个排7辆战车在联军西南方向的大路东侧组织起一道同样近400米宽的临时防线时，乌克兰步兵第1师3团的官兵们压根就没有跃出战壕反击的意图，只是趴在战壕和掩蔽部里目送联军作出的战场调整。,

When the mortars of the 81mm Battalion of the coalition army roared, the Ukrainian soldiers of the 1rd Regiment of the 3st Infantry Division, including Colonel Yevhen Yevjevic Khacheridi and Chief of Staff Rebica The lieutenant colonel was very grateful that the coalition forces on the attacking side still had a hand at all. The ghost knows how much terrifying strength the opponent's armored battalion has yet to show. Hacheridi, head of the 2rd regiment, felt better.

The 3rd regiment failed to hold its position. The mg08 heavy machine gun and 7.6cm infantry mortar group almost lost all casualties, and the casualties were close to a battalion. However, the 2nd and 1st infantry regiments of the neighbors also failed to hold their positions. The strength of an armored company of the opponent broke through the first line of defense, and stirred up a pot of gruel from north to south.Especially the 1st Infantry Regiment, which had suffered heavy losses in the morning battle, the 1st Infantry Regiment of Maxim Makeevich Kalnichenko fell twice in a row in just half a day. The offensive of an armored company on the other side was low, and the combined casualties had exceeded a battalion, not to mention that more than 20 prisoners were captured in the first battle in the morning.

For the three regiment leaders of the 1st Ukrainian Infantry Division, the important thing is not that they are helpless under the sharp attack of the opponent's armored forces. The remaining troops of the Corps are still fighting to the death. Of course, what makes them cry without tears is that the call for artillery support from Taishan was returned in exchange for the last artillery battalion of the Artillery Corps also entering the stage of shifting positions. In other words In less than half an hour, the artillery unit of the 1st Infantry Division failed to bring more to the soldiers of the Ukrainian National Army who were fighting bloody battles on the front line, except that the artillery unit of the 3st Infantry Division destroyed the [-]rd Battalion of its main regiment by accidental shelling. comfort.

Of course, the three heads of the 1st Division of the Ukrainian Infantry can proudly pat their chests and say that although I suffered heavy casualties, we held our position and repelled the invading enemy. Command is the reason why we can't block the enemy's attack when defending, and the reason why we can't break through the enemy's armored vehicle machine gun fire blockade when attacking. Of course, what is even more tragic is that facing the coalition armored forces equipped with a large number of m1 Garand semi-automatic sniper rifles Suppressed by snipers, the Ukrainian National Army has no countermeasures.

Especially after the mg08 heavy machine guns and 7.6cm mortars were all dead in a stalemate with the opponent's firepower, to put it bluntly, if the infantry of Li Shang's three companies continue to advance in depth, these heavy machine guns and mortars will With the support of artillery fire, a G17 melon grenade can be thrown at least 40 meters away from the armored regiment's vehicle-mounted infantry.

The engineering battalion has set up a pontoon bridge leading to the right bank of the Kharkov River on the river behind its own artillery position. Most of the artillery regiment, including the artillery regiment, has been transferred to the opposite bank of the river. This news is only known to the battalion commander of the 1st Ukrainian Infantry Division. Otherwise, if ordinary Ukrainian national army soldiers know that they are not fighting with their backs and have a retreat, the team may not be able to continue to hold on and resist the opponent's offensive on the first line of defense and enter a tug-of-war state.

To say that Milevsky, the commander of the 1st Division of the Ukrainian Infantry, did not think of letting the 3 12mm Krupp field guns of the 75rd Artillery Battalion, which had not been transferred in the end, provide fire support to the three infantry regiments on the front line, but the coalition forces The news that the air force's brutal and sturdy air strikes destroyed a 2mm field artillery battalion and a 75mm howitzer battalion in the 105nd Infantry Division came. Whether it was the division commander Milevsky or his chief of staff Kravshenko, the first The choice made at the time was to collect the 3 cannons of the 12rd Artillery Battalion as soon as possible before the pontoon bridge behind our position was blown up, and push the pontoon bridge to the opposite bank of the Kharkov River as soon as possible!

Sometimes people's emotions are such self-deception and fluke psychology. In fact, if the artillery of the 1st Ukrainian Infantry Division moves covertly to the west, as long as they do not take the initiative to fire, then before the entire division's position is broken by the enemy, the artillery will not be able to attack. It will not be exposed to the low eyelids of the bombers of the opposing air force. Of course, if the bomber brigade of the coalition air force closes their eyes and drops bombs and air strikes in the forest where the ground cannot be seen clearly, it will be unlucky to be hit by the target.

But the enemy is at a critical moment, especially after the loss of air supremacy, the power of the air strikes of the coalition air force is like a big rock on the hearts of generals at all levels in Ukraine. Such a precious opportunity without air strikes behind the artillery positions of the 2nd Infantry Division, especially the cannons of the 1st Battalion, 2nd Battalion and the Medium Artillery Battalion of the Artillery Regiment have been successfully pushed over the pontoon bridge manually. On the right bank of the Kharkov River, the 1st Artillery Battalion, with the help of the sidewalk built by the engineer battalion, pushed the cannon to the high river bank, and it was almost time to enter the forest on the right bank to hide and rearrange the artillery position .

Under such circumstances, neither the division commander Milevsky nor the chief of staff Kravshenko considered allowing the 3rd Artillery Battalion, which was still stranded on the artillery position on the left bank, to continue to fire to support the battle of the three infantry regiments. The 3rd Battalion gathered the artillery and turned to the marching state, and also pushed it across the river with manpower!