Beiyang 1917

()"A call from the Artillery Brigade was received, a call from the Artillery Brigade was received...the artillery of the brigade asked us to indicate the target and area of ​​the bombardment...with the centerline of the two swamps as the reference coordinates! Captain, reinforcements are here! "

Two minutes later, the sound of rumbling artillery came from 2 kilometers away from the southwest, followed by the first wave of Japanese reinforcement artillery shells from the 6mm field artillery, whizzing over the treetops, and smashed into the Kumagai Squadron impartially. The positions already occupied by the Ukrainians were blown up, and the dense crowd of Ukrainian infantry was torn into bloody mist by flying shrapnel... . .

"Onboard! Onboard! Onboard!" Cheers of joy and tears erupted from the Japanese army's position, while the Ukrainian National Army, which was blown up by the long-range artillery fire of the Japanese army's surprise attack, was stunned... Many people walked back and forth on the position Running around, I don't know whether to rush or escape...

At the same time as the first wave of artillery shells from the reinforcement artillery of the Japanese army hit, a DH4 reconnaissance bomber of the coalition flew from the direction of Kharkov in the northwest and began to circle over the swamp. The machine fired, and soon the impact point of the long-range artillery fire of the Japanese army became more accurate, and it was divided into two parts. More artillery shells passed over the two positions of the Okamoto Brigade, and the Ukrainian infantry crowd in front of the Ando and Tuqiao positions were besieged one after another. explode in...

The dense crowd on the attacking side encountered such a rapid attack from long-range artillery fire, which was obviously beyond the expectations of the Ukrainian National Army. The casualties caused by the artillery shelling of the Japanese army reinforcements are still trivial. The key is that the regiment leaders from Yamorlenko to him I thought that the main force of the Muto Brigade was coming up for reinforcements... Soon the horrific withdrawal horn sounded from behind the Ukrainian position... The Ukrainians, who were used like chao water, retreated to the forest like a chao, leaving behind a lot of corpses and wounded... . .

At the last moment, it was the reinforcement artillery unit commanded by Lieutenant Imamura Jun, the artillery staff officer of the Muto Brigade, who rescued the Okabe Brigade with accurate and sharp artillery fire at a distance of 6 kilometers. There were a total of 11 75mm field artillery...

At the beginning, Naozaburo Okabe and Toshishiro Obata, the two artillery brigade leaders, were in a fierce dispute over who would bring the reinforcement artillery unit. Xinyi had a headache from the quarrel, but the decision he made with a wave of his hand was beyond everyone's expectations.

"Shut up, everyone. How decent is it? Is it plausible that the imperial warriors are all like you? Okabe, Xiaobata, you two artillery brigades, there is only one artillery squadron with 4 75mm field guns. I decided to hand over the artillery advance team. Lieutenant Jun Imamura, the Artillery Staff Officer of the Brigade, commanded... He is the chief of the 27th class of the mainland, a graduate with both military and political excellence... Okabe, why are you unconvinced? As for Xiaohata, you are the senior of the 23rd class, so why do you follow the younger generation? Nonsense..."

At that time, the decision of the brigade commander Nobuyoshi Muto shut up all the people present. Neither Okabe nor Obata benefited from it, and neither of them wanted to help the artillery staff of the captain Jun Imamura. The chief saber, Lieutenant Imamura Jun, inadvertently ushered in the first opportunity in his life to lead a field artillery unit in combat. He was in charge of commanding a temporarily merged Japanese artillery squadron and two Chinese artillery companies, a total of 27 1mm field artillery... …

Don't underestimate the 11 75mm field guns commanded by Lieutenant Imamura Jun. A series of 6.5 kg high-explosive grenades burst into a flower of blood with a diameter of more than ten meters every time the explosion in the unsheltered Ukrainian infantry crowd. Due to the firepower of a Ukrainian 75mm field artillery battalion, when the Ukrainians finally retreated into the forest, the number of dead and wounded left on the open ground was three times more than the rest of the Okamoto Brigade who survived...

"Baga! Who told you to burn the military flag?" When the desperate Captain Renichiro Okamoto sat on the ground, he found that the military flag of the 56th Infantry Battalion had been lit by the orderly and forgot to step on it... ...and suddenly roared out of anger!

1918年7月31ri16：20，哈尔科夫森林，乌克兰步兵第4师师部

"Teacher... the success fell short... Muto's brigade's reinforcements rushed over so quickly. Although the opponent was only a long-range firepower of a 75mm field artillery battalion, the main force of our three regiments was attacking at that time, and the crowd was extremely crowded. The 6.5kg high-explosive grenade is much more powerful than the 81kg shell of the Okamoto Brigade's m3.6 mortar... Fortunately, we retreated into the forest in time, otherwise the entire division would have to be placed on the open field..."

Denis Danvlovich Olynik, chief of staff of the 4th Division of the Ukrainian National Army Infantry, grinned and rubbed his hands, and said cautiously beside his ashen-faced division commander.

"How about the casualties of the regiments?" Andrei Andropovich Yarmolenko, the commander of the 4th Division, squeaked in fear, his eyes burning with raging anger, "It's really deceiving... …If we had so many shells, the battle wouldn’t be like this! What are the casualties of each regiment?!”

20 minutes ago, the Japanese Okamoto Brigade in the encirclement was about to be completely wiped out by their own people, but the opponent's long-range artillery fire came from the southwest, and the opponent's artillery was extremely accurate, almost a 75mm The firepower of the Field Artillery Battalion fell on its own offensive line, but the Japanese army who was only tens of meters away from the position was not accidentally injured or affected. They were all swamps, and when Sa Yazi exited the swamp area, the entire regiment had only one-third of its troops left, and there were hundreds of Ukrainian infantrymen who drowned in the swamp alone!

"The specific casualties are still being counted. The 11th and 12th infantry regiments responsible for attacking in the northwest and southeast directions had at least half of the casualties. Colonel Igor Igeyevich Bazin was killed... the whole regiment was basically scattered by the opponent's artillery fire... it's good to be able to gather a third of it! Commander, our 10th division is seriously injured Ah! I don’t know if the ground reinforcements from the Muto brigade are about to press up... I think we should gather our troops and turn southeast..."

The division chief of staff, Olynik, looked at his division commander with lingering fear. Before the European War, the pair were originally the principal and history teacher of the Kharkov National Middle School. The composition of the cadres and soldiers of the regiment is different. The 1th Ukrainian Infantry Division is almost composed of Kharkov volunteers and students. The predecessor of the team is the Kharkov National Self-Defense Army. …