Beiyang 1917

() In fact, at the moment when Captain Amakasu Shigetaro and Okamoto Commander led the 56th Infantry Battalion to resist desperately in the Ukrainian encirclement, Captain Amakasu’s nephew, Lieutenant Amakasu Masahiko Gendarmerie, was in Voronje, the headquarters of the Southwest Front Army of the Allied Forces. Ri commands a gendarmerie squadron to maintain local order and security. The 27-year-old Amakasu Masahiko certainly didn't know that Amakasu Shigetaro, his uncle who was only 5 years older than himself, was already facing life and death in the Kharkov Forest.

"Your Excellency, the Ukrainians launched a fierce attack on the position of the 222nd Infantry Squadron. Captain Hamamoto asked for tactical guidance from the brigade!" Fierce gunshots and mortar shell explosions erupted at the front of the northwest corner of the Okamoto Brigade. A brigade staff officer reported hoarsely while clutching his microphone! ..

"Baga!" Captain Okamoto Lieutenant and his deputy, Captain Amakasu, rushed to the side of the field fortifications and grabbed the binoculars to look at the situation in the northwest corner. There was gunfire and gunshots, and about a battalion of Ukrainian infantrymen An attack was launched in the forest. The firepower of the German-made mg08 heavy machine gun was quite fierce, covering the front of the Hamamoto Squadron's position with sparks and smoke, and the German-made 7.6cm light infantry mortar weighed 4.5mm. The kilogram shells also landed on the position in clusters and exploded into a piece... The gunshots fired back by the Hamamoto Squadron were much weaker than before...

"What is the artillery team in a daze for? Hurry up and use the m81 mortar to suppress the opponent's machine gun and mortar fire!" Okamoto turned around and shouted furiously at the brigade artillery staff officer behind him. Reluctantly reminded, "Okamoto-kun, there are not many mortar shells left in the artillery team. You personally ordered you not to use the m81 mortars of the artillery team without your order." ..

The Okamoto Brigade is an infantry brigade. The ammunition for mortars and heavy machine guns is carried by the gunners and machine gun crews. The infantry detachment also carries spare shells and machine gun bullets for their comrades. Otherwise, the ammunition of the artillery squadron and the machine gun squadron might have been exhausted in the fierce battle before...

ri军一个步兵平均要替迫击炮组携带2枚1.5公斤的m60迫击炮的炮弹，或者1枚3.6公斤的m81迫击炮的炮弹，同时还要携带120发散装的7.62mm机枪子弹，因为协约国东线联军中的中国和ri本部队都统一换装使用中国产的勃朗宁m1917bra班用机枪和m1918a1气冷式重机枪，子弹则是统一口径的7.62步机枪弹。

The defensive position of the Okamoto Brigade is in the shape of an inverted triangle. In the northwest corner is the 222nd Infantry Squadron under the command of Lieutenant Hamamoto. At this moment, there are probably more than 150 troops. The width of the position is about 300 meters. The distance between the core positions of machine guns and artillery is about 450 meters. In the northeast corner is the 223rd Infantry Squadron under the command of Lieutenant Dohashi. There are about 160 people left. teams and medical teams.

冈本的核心阵地上有30人的大队部，一个110人的运输中队（大车和骡马），一个174人的机枪中队（14人的中队部和3个机枪小队，1个弹药小队），每排4挺勃朗宁7.62气冷式重机枪，总数12挺；一个55人的炮小队（1个10人的小队部，1个15人的弹药班，两个15人的炮班各装备4门中国产81mm营属迫击炮，以及步兵第224中队。

At this time, the 221st Infantry Squadron in the southwest corner had only more than 130 people left, including the strength of an infantry support unit of more than 20 people brought by Captain Amakasu.

It can be clearly seen from the binoculars that the forest less than 200 meters away from the northwest corner rushed out like a tide, and nearly a battalion of Ukrainian infantry shouted Ulla and rushed towards the position of the Hamamoto Squadron. The remaining troops of Hamamoto Squadron are 4 times larger. The key point is that the firepower of the Ukrainian mg08 heavy machine guns on the edge of the forest and the 7.6cm light infantry mortars in the rear obviously suppressed the squadron machine guns and M60 platoon subordinates of Hamamoto Squadron. The counterattack of the artillery...

The Hamamoto Squadron was in danger. Okamoto strengthened the 4 Browning heavy machine guns equipped for a machine gun squad in the Hamamoto Squadron's position. Two of them were overturned by the mortar shells fired by the Ukrainians from the forest. The two of them are obviously powerless against the suppression of at least 2 mg6 heavy machine guns of the opponent, and in the confrontation with the opponent's mortars and heavy machine guns, the remaining 08 m6 mortars of the Hamamoto Squadron originally The firepower is also intermittent, and the gunners continue to suffer casualties...

"What is Hamamoto doing? The artillery team listens to my orders. The 2 Bozishes must suppress the opponent's 7.6cm mortars!" At this time, Okamoto Lieutenant, who cares about whether the shells are enough, if more than 600 Ukrainian infantry rushed to Hamamoto's position, which made a big fuss...

In fact, Okamoto is also a bit messed up. The outer positions of the three corners of his inverted triangle defense line are to protect the central yang and the core position, and the killer weapon on the core position is the 8 m81 battalion equipped by the gun team of the Okamoto brigade It is a mortar, with a maximum range of 2 kilometers and a grenade weighing 3.6 kilograms. 7.6 km range.

It can be said that the purpose of Okamoto's inverted triangle defense line propped up by three infantry squadrons is to block the opponent's mortar positions at the periphery of his own core position. An infantry division adds up to more than 8 opponents of 81cm light infantry mortars.

当然，由于进攻方的乌克兰步兵第4师是三个步兵团从三个方向轮流发起的进攻，因此同一时刻冈本大队是在用8门m81迫击炮+一个方向上中队所辖的6门m60迫击炮对抗对方一个步兵团大约12门7.6cm迫击炮的火力……

Almost one-third of the shells from both sides hit the tops and branches of the towering trees, but overall, the Okamoto Brigade, which was on the defensive side near the two large swamps, was at a disadvantage. The radius is only less than 2 square kilometers in an open area. Of course, there is no shortage of water because of the swamp, but there is no shelter from the forest that Ukrainians use to cover their bodies...