Beiyang 1917

() "Konstantin Konstantinovich, yes, it's me, Milevsky, commander of the 1st Infantry Division, listen to me, this battle can no longer be fought, the 1st Division must retreat, or We have agreed that the wounded will stay and die, so that they will suffer less, and we will feel at ease. We can't kill our own wounded like we did in guerrilla warfare before? We are not afraid of falling into the hands of the enemy now, and the Allied forces give preferential treatment to prisoners. Evacuating with the wounded will really kill them!"

Kravshenko, the chief of staff of the division, questioned through the phone receiver, "I said division commander! Why didn't the cannon go off? The little devils in front of me have about the same strength and firepower as us. As long as our cannon goes off, division commander, I promise to kill you!" The opponent is driven out of the position! The opponent can't hold back anymore! The fighting power of the little devils is far inferior to that of the Chinese armored forces, and the firepower of the [-] big guns in their hands is not enough!"..

"Chief of Staff Kravshenko, the artillery unit can no longer give you any support. As the division commander, I order you to withdraw from the battle as soon as possible. Before the coalition air force goes back, you go north along the Kharkov River. Retreat! Go north! No south, Mihalik's 2nd Infantry Division is on the south side. Not to mention that the coalition armored forces have already chased them along the forest road, even the coalition air force in the sky will definitely follow along Chase the Kharkov River all the way south to Kharkov! Be careful to keep it secret!" The breakout direction chosen by Milevsky for the 1st Infantry Division was unexpected but reasonable.

"What happened to the artillery unit? Didn't you just hear the rumble of the artillery on the other side of the river? Didn't they keep firing? Why didn't the shells fly over? Karitintsev was dozing off? Why didn't the 105mm howitzer battalion keep firing? Did Rakitsky bring Is it possible to break out of the encirclement, commander, Kharkov is in the south, are you sure we are breaking out to the north? Can you tell the difference?" Kravchenko, chief of staff of the 1st Infantry Division, came through the receiver A litany of questions. ..

"Nonsense! Of course I know the difference between the south and the north. The 105mm howitzer battalion is finished. Karitintsev and his artillery 3rd battalion are also finished. We have to break out to the north. Only by going north can we escape the enemy's eyes and ears. Leave the seriously wounded to stop the enemy, order the lightly wounded to break out to the south, and you lead the main force of the remaining three infantry regiments to break out to the north, first go east to the riverside woodland, and then go north! Don't dawdle so much nonsense , A second of delay is a waste of life!"

Milevsky hung up the phone without saying a word, and ordered the combat staff next to him, "Remove the stitches quickly, all the troops are lightly armed, pass my order, and the lightly wounded will organize and take guns, attack westward, and arrive in Kazakhstan." Go to the Erkov River to join the main force of the division led by the chief of staff, and the seriously wounded stay put! The rest of the troops gather and wait for my order!"

It must be said that Milevsky, the commander of the 1st Ukrainian Infantry Division, is really a bit of a ghost. He is not good at attacking, but he is good at organizing positional warfare and retreating. This series of orders is to throw away the wounded and the burden. To the allied forces of the Allied Powers, and try to confuse the opponent's sight as much as possible, but this guy himself plans to take 2 combat battalions and a cavalry company, and turn to the east to retreat!

In fact, not only the lightly or severely wounded on the right bank of the Kharkov River were regarded as abandoned sons to confuse the enemy's sight, but even the rest of the three infantry regiments commanded by Kravshenko, the division chief of staff on the other side of the Kharkov River, also deliberately Accidentally treated as an abandoned son, he asked Kravshenko to lead the remaining troops to retreat northward. Of course, he wanted to catch the Allied forces by surprise. At the same time, he also used the bait and cake of the remaining three infantry regiments of the 3st Infantry Division to attract the Allied forces. Air Force Sight Intent.

Of course, if the chief of staff of the division, Kravshenko, can lead the main force of the division to cross the river and jump out of the enemy's encirclement, Milevsky would of course be more happy to see it succeed, but the Ukrainian major general and division commander does not hold back on how likely this is. I hope that for this guy, it would be quite righteous not to coax and lie to Kravshenko to lead three infantry regiments to fight the Japanese army to the end.

Soon, as more than 300 lightly wounded members of the 1st Ukrainian Infantry Division armed their guns and rushed towards the Kharkov River in the west, the division commander Milevsky led two combat battalions to clear the way with cavalry companies, and a group of people quietly They moved towards the north without a sound. Even though there was only one 2mm Krupp field gun firing on the position of the 2nd Artillery Battalion occupied by the North Allied Forces at this moment, this fellow did not move in the past to recover the lost ground. To stay away from any enemy and lead the team out of the encirclement was Artem Wlodimirovich Milevsky's only thought at the moment.

In this way, the chaotic battle in the forest on the right bank of the Kharkov River ended with Milevsky, the commander of the 1st Ukrainian Infantry Division, leading the rest of about 1000 people to retreat eastward and jump out of the battlefield. After refueling and bombing came over the Kharkov River for the third time, Xue Juru and the soldiers of the 1nd Company, 1st Battalion, 2st Battalion, Du Li Armored Regiment under his command captured a 1mm field gun and 75 12mm howitzers. And captured nearly 105 Ukrainian soldiers, half of them were lightly or seriously wounded left by North Milevsky.

The artillery regiment that the 1st Ukrainian Infantry Division was proud of no longer existed, and the three 3mm Krupp field artillery battalions were all destroyed, and only one of the six guns captured by Xue Juru was left intact in the artillery battle Anyway, there are 75 Ukrainian gunners from the artillery captain Belanov to the next. The 6nd Armored Company of Fu Erzhu commanded by Xue Juru suffered more than 1 casualties, wiped out more than 12 enemies, and captured more than 2 people. The Ukrainian artillery, engineers, and logistics forces eliminated by the air strikes combined exceeded 20 people. The remaining nearly 800 people fled into the forest on the right bank of the Kharkov River, and most of them headed south toward Kharkov.

Of course, Xue Juru and Fu Erzhu's soldiers of the 2nd company were also very tired after fighting for half a day, especially Xue Juru, the commander of the ranger, probably ran back and forth for more than seventy or eighty miles in a day. , although I got my wish and seized 12 105mm Krupp howitzers, but this guy will not think that only one company of infantry can beat the opponent's strength of an artillery regiment when he is killed next time. In addition to the support of the indomitable will and courage, the air strikes and deterrence of the Allied Air Forces are the reason why the enemy lost their fighting spirit and did not dare to fight back desperately.