Beiyang 1917

() "Reporting to the division commander, the reconnaissance battalion sent 3 teams to make a detour and reconnaissance, but they never came back. The area a few kilometers north of Kharkov city had been cleaned up when the ring was laid down before, and the people in several villages The common people have all run away, and it’s a bit difficult to get to the enemy’s position in broad daylight, and we haven’t prepared new military uniforms for the Volga Federation, only the uniforms of the Ukrainian National Army and the Soviet Russian Red Army!”

"Idiot, can't you put on plain clothes and pretend to be a commoner? No, you should put on the uniform of the Ukrainian National Army and pretend to be a deserter. Whether Tobias Werner is a battalion commander or not is confusing. The three groups are How did you get there?" . .

Major General von Neuhaus was obviously a little angry. From the binoculars, it can be seen that the enemy attacking on the left wing is only two infantry battalions, but the enemy on the right wing has assembled at least three infantry battalions. The leader seems to be a Chinese The armored company, although the opponent has not yet attacked 2 kilometers away, it is obviously the right wing, not the left wing, that poses the greatest threat to the Kharkov defense line!

"Reporting to the division commander, the three reconnaissance teams sent by Battalion Commander Werner, one group changed into the clothes of local Ukrainian civilians pretending to be fleeing refugees, and the other group changed into the uniforms of the Ukrainian National Army and acted as deserters from the National Army. The third group changed into the uniforms of the Soviet Red Army and pretended to be Soviet prisoners of war who escaped!" The German captain Svant Hein stood upright and answered his teacher's question loudly while reporting loudly, thinking in his heart Reconnaissance Battalion Commander Werner's subordinates were sweating. The scouts' fire-line reconnaissance is not a trick that ordinary people can play. . .

"I said, Your Excellency, the enemy on the left wing is about to charge within 500 meters. If there is no artillery support, the enemy will charge to our position. If the left wing collapses, how can the right wing position be defended alone? What are you worrying about at this moment? The whereabouts and whereabouts of the three reconnaissance teams? I simply don't know the priorities!" Simon Petliura grabbed von Neuhaus's arm and yelled.

"Your Excellency Petliura, we don't have much artillery. At this moment, there is at least one SE5 fighter squadron of the coalition air force hovering over Kharkov and monitoring our every move. Of course we have to fire, but once we fire, The artillery is about to hit the enemy's seven inches, and the opponent's mortar positions are not in my eyes!

The enemy's left-wing attack looked fierce, but no matter how much he sang this scene, he invested 2 infantry battalions. The follow-up troops have not been mobilized. We are not in a hurry to beat them with artillery. As for the opponent's mortar attack Cannon, I see that they are fighting so lively, and soon the cannonballs carried by the gunners will be exhausted, and then they will be a fire stick that can't fire!It will take at least 20 minutes for the opponent's logistics to bring the shells up.

Your Excellency Petliura, I suggest that you issue an order to ask the 1st Brigade and 1st Regiment of the 1st Volunteer Division on the left to hold on for another 15 minutes. The artillery support in Kharkov will arrive soon. The enemy is also at the end of their strength at the moment. Abandon the positions on the two wings, and concentrate the entire regiment to defend the central defense line on the left wing!Order the 1rd Regiment of the 1nd Brigade of the 2st Division of Volunteers to transfer 3 battalions as a reserve team, and wait for the command of the headquarters to enter the left-wing battlefield! "

Sven von Neuhaus commanded calmly at the moment, revealing a bit of domineering and elegant demeanor as the commander of the 47th German Reserve Infantry Division. He and the 1nd Brigade quickly issued an order, while holding up the binoculars to look at the situation on the left wing. Strange to say, the two infantry battalions of the Volga Federation rushed to within 2 meters and lay on the ground again. The two sides launched a fierce confrontation. , and the shelling on the mortar positions of the coalition forces behind was indeed much sparser than before. It seems that the consumption of ammunition is indeed beyond imagination.

In fact, the offensive of the coalition forces within 500 meters was blocked. On the one hand, after hitting a distance of more than 700 meters in one breath, the troops were out of breath and continued to take a rest. On the other hand, the distance between the two sides had entered the distance of the rifle Effectively, nearly 2000 volunteer soldiers on the Ukrainian position took up the volleys of Mosin Nagant rifles and fired. The intensity and power of firepower should not be underestimated.

Moreover, the 12 7.6cm light infantry mortars on the volunteer division's position also entered the best range at this time. Due to the range of the range, these mortars were hidden behind the trench bunkers and did not fire. When it comes to the moment when Ukrainian mortars show their skills, although the German 7.6cm mortar is heavy and has a maximum range of only 1000 meters, but the caliber is 7.6cm, and the grenade weighs 4.5 kg, compared to 60mm The coalition company mortars with a caliber of 1.8 kg heavy grenades are much more powerful, even more lethal than the coalition mortars with a caliber of 81mm.

Moreover, the Ukrainian Volunteer Division, as a party defending by means of trenches and fortifications, has a reserve of mortar ammunition base that is much more than the ammunition carried by the coalition mortar teams that rely on manpower during the attack, so the Ukrainians who have been holding back After the 7.6cm mortars and platoon guns fired in unison, the offensive momentum of the two infantry battalions of the coalition forces was immediately suppressed, and the casualties of the offensive troops of the 2th Volga Federal Infantry Division also increased suddenly. Obviously much better than before.

At this time, the ammunition carried by the 1800mm mortar positions 81 meters away and the 1200mm mortar positions 60 meters away by the coalition forces have been exhausted one after another. And the road was destroyed by the engineering troops of the German-Ukrainian coalition forces. In fact, the Dodge trucks carrying the ammunition of the logistics troops of the 13th Federal Infantry Division and the artillery regiment were behind the main force, that is, the two sides fought until 16:10. Well, Voronjeri's artillery and logistics have only just arrived at the front line, and it will take at least fifteen to twenty-ten minutes before they start their positions and launch an attack.

"Your Excellency, what you said is indeed true. The enemy's offensive on the left flank was frustrated, and our mortars began to show off. It seems that the opponent's mortar position is really out of ammunition, but the strange thing is that the opponent, the Volga Federation infantry, Doesn’t the division have artillery units? The Chinese and Japanese units in the Allied Forces have a lot of artillery, so why hasn’t the Federal Infantry Division opened fire until now?”