Beiyang 1917

() After the long-range howitzer positions in the rear of the coalition forces opened fire again, Major General von Neuhaus knew that the opponent had discovered the main force of his reinforcements. Obviously, when the sun was setting and it was still dark, the German troops mobilized on the railway line It is wishful thinking for the military column to completely hide from the eyes of the coalition reconnaissance planes...

1918年7月31ri17：50哈尔科夫南郊火车站，德乌联军前敌指挥部

"General, the artillery bombardment of the Muto Brigade damaged the rails near the south bank of the Lopan River Bridge. It will take at least 20 minutes to repair it. Does Lieutenant Colonel von Rundstede's armored train need to risk staying in the south of the bridge and suppress it with cannons7 Allied artillery positions kilometers away?" The speaker was Colonel von Dicomayer, commander of the 139th German Infantry Regiment. . .

"Master... The Muto brigade seems to be retreating across the board. Can we just watch the other party run away? It's all because the reconnaissance plane of the coalition air force discovered the movement of the reinforcements in advance. Otherwise, wait for our artillery positions to arrive and deploy. A fat beating can destroy the Muto brigade!" Lieutenant Colonel von Dixor, Chief of Staff of the 139th Infantry Regiment, smacked his lips.

"Pull down the lieutenant colonel, do you think the opponent's current howitzer position is setting off fireworks for us by firing desperately regardless of the cost? The opponent is using a firepower network composed of artillery fire at any cost to hinder the deployment and deployment of our reinforcements. The 140th Infantry Regiment and Howitzer Battalion Can't you rush into the opponent's bombardment area and brave the artillery fire? Let me tell you, Muto Nobuyoshi is lucky this time! He was able to retreat unscathed!" Feng, the head of the regiment.Dicomayer clearly disagrees with his deputy. . .

"Pass my order, the engineers rush to repair the railway line, and must rush through it within 15 minutes. The armored train 2nd detachment crossed the river and entered the Nancheng District as soon as the railway line was repaired to prepare for combat. In addition, the 140th Infantry Regiment and the 140th Artillery Battalion did not I need to get off the train, and I’m going to take the train directly across the bridge to enter the city, let the 141st Infantry Regiment get off the train and deploy in Henan, and cover the deployment of the 141st Artillery Battalion!” The commander of the 47th Division of the German Reserve Infantry frowned, thinking to himself If you want to catch the tail of the Muto brigade, I am afraid you have to find a way at the east gate of Kharkov.

This is why he transferred the 140th Infantry Regiment and the 140th Artillery Battalion of von Blomberg across the river. Of course, the German major general did not intend to go directly to the main street in the center of the city and enter the old fortress. The main force of the coalition forces is in the north of the city. The artillery still occupies an overwhelming advantage. Von Neuhaus's plan is to arrange the artillery reinforcements on the southeast corner of the southern city, and from here to the north, it can cover both sides of the Kharkov River outside the east gate. , as far as the fork in the forest.

Both eastward and southward directions can directly cover the retreating direction of the Muto brigade. Of course, the opponent retreats first, and his own troops enter the southern city of Kharkov later. Whether he can catch the Muto brigade depends on the opponent's determination to withdraw. How big, and, although in the counterattack plan of the German-Ukrainian coalition forces, it is an important part of the German Air Force's return to the skies over Kharkov and the coalition forces to compete for air supremacy tomorrow. Well, the plan to withdraw the main force of the German army and artillery from the city overnight...

Although Kharkov is known as a place of great importance for military strategists, whether it is the supreme commander of the German army stationed in Ukraine, the new commander of the German 10th Army, General Wilhelm Greiner, or the heart attack on the battlefield, he had to be secretly escorted back to Yemen. Admiral Hermann von Francois of Katerinoslav City, including Major General von Neuhaus, commander of the 47th Division of the Reserve Infantry, who is actually in charge of the entire Kharkov battlefield at this moment, does not think Kharkov must defend, and Kiev is an important part of the empire that cannot be abandoned. The role of Kharkov is just a bridgehead and a good meat grinder battlefield. The round is not even as important as Ekaterinoslav and Donnie. The two cities of Tsk...

Of course, it is not as good as Odessa and Kiev... Kharkov, which is only 40 kilometers away from the border with the Volga Federation, is just a battlefield that can be abandoned. Of course, if you can use Kharkov's easy-to-defend and difficult-to-attack terrain Let's teach the coalition forces and the king of China who doesn't know the heights of the sky and the earth, why not do it from General Greiner to Major General Neuhaus!

至于当面之敌武藤旅团甚至那个ri本第3师团，并不德军指挥官的眼里，武藤信义不过指挥一个8000人左右的步兵旅团，大庭二郎这厮的第3师团能战之兵只有2个装备落后火力不足的步兵旅团而已，整个师团的炮兵火力加起来甚至还不如德军一个预备步兵师的36门105mm轻型野战榴弹炮和12门150mm重型野战榴弹炮。

Although the 3rd Division of Japan is known as the most capable Division A division of the Japanese Army, almost half of the 28500-person establishment is logistics and artillery units. Compared with the German infantry division with 12600 combat soldiers, it can only be regarded as Puffy and strong on the outside, the Tanaka Artillery Wing belongs to the Japanese Third Division. This artillery wing has nearly 100 gunners to serve each gun when it moves around. The horses used are almost equal to the number of gunners. Tanaka There are only 3 48mm mountain field artillery pieces in the 75rd Field Artillery Regiment of the King of Douli, but there are 3699 men and 3600 horses.

If calculated from the caliber and power of the shells, a German-made 105mm light howitzer is more powerful than two 2mm field guns at least. What's more, the German artillery is all towed by Daimler's 75-ton trucks and Japanese pack horse divisions The Regiment Artillery Regiment is not the same. This is no longer the European battlefield with few military vehicles in 1. This is the end of summer in 1914. The number of aircraft and military trucks on both sides of the war has greatly increased compared with four years ago and Increase……

Only the local people are hungry and tired, and the Japanese army has no real air force and mechanized vehicles to arm itself. Three-quarters of Japan's defense budget is invested in the Japanese navy instead of the army. The army is a stepmother's child in the Japanese military headquarters. It suffers from hardships and rushes ahead, but the military budget and appropriations are always lagging behind. If the Chinese-made m60m81 infantry mortars of these two calibers are also equipped with the Chinese-made Browning squad machine gun and Browning heavy machine gun, the Japanese army is still the same as the German army, which was the model of the past. It's just a second-rate army.