Beiyang 1917

() "This... Lusan, as long as the ammunition and food are replenished in time, and your armored regiment transfers another company to help us out, our Mizuno Regiment will firmly guard the Kharkov Bridge and never let a Ukrainian go. Or the German devils rushed out to cause trouble for your second echelon..." Major Maeda threw down the hollowed-out beef can, and said while smearing grease on his chest, the pair of small eyes behind the gold-rimmed glasses recovered a bit The spirit of His Excellency the Marquis of Japan.

"It's useless if there are too many people. The Germans came up with three battalions of 3mm howitzers. When the time comes, the firepower will cover the shells and it will not be so easy to deal with them... Follow me... Maeda-kun, I suggest you go back and tell Mizuno-kun, wait." Blow up the bridge after dark! The Kharkov River flows fast and the river is deep. Once the bridge is blown up, there will be no possibility for the German army defending the city or the Ukrainians to cross over and attack us. Otherwise, if the bridge is kept, it will still be a meat grinder sooner or later, how many seeds must you and Mizuno leave for the Nakamura brigade?" ..

Lu Huanyan's words stunned Maeda Shaozuo, but the two Chinese major battalion commanders looked at each other, thinking that our regiment commander was still ruthless, and both Lieutenant General Daba and Major General Muto were reluctant to blow up the bridge. Once this master is alone, he dares to give Mizuno such a moth idea. It's really a good plan to draw fire from the bottom of the pot!

"Colonel...are you kidding me? In order to occupy and keep the bridge, our Nakamura brigade killed nearly 150 people, and more than 300 people were injured. Even Nakamura-kun, my best friend and comrade-in-arms were also injured. The captain, Mizuno, has been fighting on the front line all day, and the mission given to us by the brigade and the former enemy headquarters is to defend the bridge and block the enemy... You let us blow up the bridge? Don’t we turn around from the The east gate is under siege?! Then what else can we do if we detour back to the east?" ..

The 33-year-old Marquis Maeda was really impatient at the moment. He looked at the burly tower-like head of the Chinese Armored Regiment and the former enemy commander of the second echelon in front of him with a face full of disbelief. By myself, I still really want to blow up the bridge outside the east gate of Kharkov...

"A broken bridge, what's so great, can it be repaired after it blows up... Maeda Houye, according to the commander-in-chief of our coalition forces, the demolition and repair of things can both stimulate economic growth... Today we blow up the bridge, It is to find some work for the Ukrainian captives in exchange for rations to survive tomorrow... We are doing justice for the heavens!" Although Tao Dayong, the commander of the 1st Armored Battalion, felt that the bridge bombing was a pity and a sign of weakness, he said first. Stand up and support the suggestion of your head.

"Captain... Although the bombing of the bridge is a good thing to do, but... Lieutenant General Oba and Nobuyoshi Muto have not said before that they will blow up the bridge. Isn't the main task of the Taisuke Mizuno team to defend the bridge? After the bridge is blown up, we will But it is really impossible to attack from the east of the city... If the Ukrainians are not willing to blow up the bridge, we fiddled with it without permission...Will it be a little bit too big?" The chief of staff of the regiment, Ren Daoist, thought and thought, and finally Still kindly reminded his team leader.

"You guys... your vision is too small... The Ukrainians and Germans are not willing to blow up the bridge because they want to leave a channel for counterattack and reinforcements... But have you forgotten that the enemy is not willing to blow up the bridge?" What we did happened to be what we were supposed to do. If you ask me, the bombers of the coalition air force should have blown up the bridge. The Lopan River Bridge was also blown up by it, I see how the German major general sent troops up for reinforcements and counterattacks, just building a pontoon bridge to cross the river is enough for them to drink a pot!"

Lu Huanyan looked disapproving. He really planned to blow up the Kharkov Bridge... In this way, even if the Ukrainians in the city were reinforced by the two main regiments of the German army, they could not easily fight out from the east gate and cross the river east. Add chaos to the back of my ass, otherwise this guy is really worried. The task of the second echelon is to use 2 people to eat the main force of the Ukrainians with more than 2400026000 to [-] people in the forest. , my own troops are limited and unfamiliar with the roads and have to fight at night, but I really can't save troops to help Mizuno and Maeda guard the bridge and block the gate.

The words of the armored regiment leader made the headquarters fall into silence. Everyone was chewing and reminiscing about what Lu Huanyan said just now. How could the vision and thinking of Chinese generals and Japanese generals be so different? In terms of subjective initiative, there is no lack of courage and perseverance. What is lacking is often a single muscle to go to the end. In Lu Huanyan's view, Erlang Oba's central route army does not have the upper hand over the German-Ukrainian coalition forces defending the city in terms of firepower or military strength.

The coalition forces relied more on air superiority. There were dense rivers and forests around Kharkov. The terrain was not a good place for Lu Huanyan's armored forces to use. In fact, the risk of a main division is greater than that of the Muto brigade, because the main force of the German army has appeared at the bridge outside the southern city of Kharkov without anyone noticing. If Lu Huanyan was replaced by his German commander, of course he would consider Fighting out from the east gate to cut off the Muto Brigade's back route.

"The law of war says: Avoiding the actual attack and attacking the enemy will save the enemy. The Kharkov Bridge has become a time bomb for us after the main force of the German army went north for reinforcements. I think this hidden danger must be eliminated. Major Maeda, according to Lieutenant General Ohba According to the order of the former enemy headquarters, although I am the former enemy commander of the second echelon, I can control the three infantry brigades left by the Muto brigade on the northern front. My reconnaissance company has now joined the Jianchuan and Okamoto brigades in the east. The mission of Mizuno-kun and the Nakamura brigade is still to withstand the enemy at the east gate, but I ask you to be prepared, once the German army launches a counterattack from the east gate, the bridge must be destroyed as soon as possible! Is there a problem?"

Lu Huanyan stared at Maeda Hou with sharp, confident eyes, full of arrogance, and Maeda Shaozuo's heart beat faster, obviously feeling the coercion emanating from the Chinese colonel who is 5 years younger than himself but old-fashioned and not even the head of the division. , the guy's lips were dry, and he said hesitantly, "Colonel...Although you have the right to restrain us from fighting, there is no order from the brigade headquarters or the former enemy headquarters. Just blow up the bridge that has been guarded for a day, let alone the soldiers below If you can’t agree, even Nakamura-kun and Captain Mizuno will not agree!”