Beiyang 1917

() Von Neuhaus reminded his guard captain while giving the order that the German infantry mortars were improved from trench mortars in the early days, so they were too heavy. Ukrainian mortars The cannons and aiming level are still quite rough, which also makes the Ukrainian gunners of this volunteer division have no ability to shoot outside the field of vision. The gunners of the German army are much more skilled. The German army is familiar with the tricks of watching the observation post to observe the bullet drop point and directing the gunner on the reverse slope to adjust the shooting parameters.

Kalitintsev and a group of Ukrainian staff officers on the side were stunned when they heard the words, thinking that they would place the mortars at the base of the western wall of the fortress. ?Could it be that German gunners can aim and shoot through the city wall with perspective eyes?Oh oh, the observation post on the city wall is needed to command and adjust. Damn...why didn't this kind of play be mentioned earlier, poorly our brigade has more than 20 mortars placed in the city wall fortifications, and they were taken away by the other party spotless... ..

"General... Can your guard platoon really hit the enemy on the other side of the bridge with a mortar through the city wall?" Karitintsev asked hesitantly after the German captain went out.

"Of course you can hit it. You Ukrainian gunners can hit it as long as you are lucky with snacks. The key is how to hit the enemy's anti-aircraft guns at the bridgehead and avoid the enemy's m81 mortars and 75mm field guns in the forest. Assault...Pray for Captain Sternberg's men...His platoon will use two 2cm infantry mortars to challenge the enemy's nearly 7.6 artillery pieces!" Von Neuhaus replied angrily. ..

At this time, the two anti-aircraft guns of the coalition forces at the bridgehead had stopped firing. Since the firepower of the offensive side completely suppressed the firepower of the defensive side in Hexi, especially the Ukrainian troops evacuated the two burning bridgehead fortifications. The morale of the 74th Squadron of the Japanese Infantry, which was attacked by the armored vehicles at the bridge head, was high. The Japanese infantry screamed and began to overtake the armored vehicles with the [-] cover in their hands, and advanced along the bridge. More people rushed forward and began to dismantle the roadblocks , so that Chinese armored combat vehicles can pass smoothly...

The three Chinese FD17II wheeled armored combat vehicles at the bridge head adjusted their positions at this time, arranged in a gear facing three directions, and guarded the two m2aa high-shelf anti-tank guns behind them in a semicircle , due to the huge consumption of shells just now, the two anti-aircraft guns of the coalition forces temporarily stopped firing. The firepower suddenly became scarce.

"Co-leader! Major Nakamura led the 75th Infantry Squadron to go into battle in person!" A second lieutenant staff officer of the Japanese Army beside Taisuke Mizuno couldn't help but shouted!

"Pass my order, the 19 Browning heavy machine guns of the machine gun squadron of the 12th Infantry Battalion fully suppressed the enemy's firepower near the bridgehead, and the m81 mortars began to shoot extended shots, and ordered the artillery brigade to concentrate their artillery fire on the gate of the fortress! The health team went up Remove the wounded!" Taisuke Mizuno, the captain of the 7th Japanese Infantry Regiment, showed a smile on his face. The Ukrainian firepower is obviously far inferior to his own. The mortars deployed by the opponent on the wall of the second-line fortress are brave or not. Although some casualties were caused to the 2th Infantry Squadron when intercepting and shooting our own assault troops, the result in exchange was that almost all of them were dumbed down by the 74 m4 mortar groups arranged by Mizuno in the forest. !

The Ukrainian first line of defense in the east of Kharkov relies on the Kharkov River rushing from north to south. The rapid and wide river is a natural line of defense, and the west bank close to the river is along the Every 3050 meters in the river positions and fortifications is almost a machine gun fortification made of reinforced concrete. There are sheaths on three sides of each and at least 3 mg08 heavy machine guns can be arranged.

The Kharkov River flows to the east of the city and winds south. The narrowest point is where the Kharkov Bridge is located. The approach bridge leads all the way to the east gate of the Kharkov fortress wall.

The distance from the first-line position on the west bank of the river to the east wall of the fortress is about 600 meters. The three-foot-high wall is the second line of defense for the Ukrainians, and the city gate in the middle is the only access. Of course, at this moment, it has been tightly surrounded by sandbags to form a small defense line stacked outside the city gate. There is a large permanent fortification on each side of the city gate. Although it is not as huge as the bridgehead fortification and has three floors, but haha The two machine gun forts near the east gate of Erkov are obviously larger than the machine gun fortifications on the two wings of the river bank position. Each fortification has almost five machine gun ports with machine guns at different heights.

In fact, from the first fortification on the west bank of the river to the city wall, which has a width of 500600 to [-] meters, Ukrainian traffic trenches and caves for Tibetan soldiers are scattered all over it. Many hidden machine gun fortifications are just mounds from the outside, and So far no shots have been fired.

The three wheeled armored vehicles that the coalition forces rushed to the bridge lacked sufficient obstacle-crossing capabilities at this time, so they just surrounded a semi-open steel fortress, and the 3th Infantry Squadron, which took the lead, suffered nearly 74 casualties. , has advanced to the middle section of the bridge 50, 7 meters, and the 80th Infantry Squadron under the personal command of Nakamura has rushed to the position of the armored vehicle at the bridgehead.

Since the defenders only had the heavy machine guns on the walls far away from the two wing positions still firing desperately, and the m3 large-caliber heavy machine guns on the three armored vehicles were not to be outdone, they fought back. The bunkers of the defensive side on the two wings and the front line were either collapsed or caught fire, so the machine gun fortifications on the back wall were extremely strong against the stone ceiling above their heads, hiding in the narrow openings and still shooting to intercept the attack coalition forces.

However, the firepower of the Ukrainian heavy machine gun fortifications that are still firing is also intermittent. Because of the blockade and confrontation of the heavy machine gun firepower of the coalition forces, the machine gunners on both sides continue to suffer casualties and replacements. As far as the army is concerned, it is a bit like the posture in Wang Geng's previous life movie "Shangganling". The defenders constantly replace the casualties at the entrance of the cave.

During the fierce battle for nearly an hour, the defenders defending the eastern defense line of Kharkov City invested about 2 troops from the two main infantry battalions on the front line, and then one infantry battalion on each flank. On the eastern city wall, which is more than 1200 kilometers long, there are three main infantry battalions of the 4th Volunteer Brigade and the 4th Regiment, and the rest of the troops are scattered in the Dongcheng District as a reserve team.