Beiyang 1917

() Lu Huanyan's remarks are obviously the result of careful consideration. At least in the eyes of Biflov and his chief of staff, including the officers of the armored regiment headquarters, he has become Zhuge Liang without a goose feather fan in his hand. Obviously, many of these subordinates did not think so long-term... Although the chief of staff of the regiment, Ren Daoist, has always been concerned about the huge threat of the three 105mm light howitzer battalions of the German army. heart.

"Regimental Commander, the German artillery battalion has good shooting skills and quick transfer of positions. The threat and damage cannot be underestimated...Although we only have 75mm field artillery, if we retreat without a fight, we can't expect the infantry on the front line to use it Going to confront each other with mortars, neither the range nor the power will be enough!" Liu Yifei, the commander of the 2nd Armored Battalion, boldly reminded the confident Lu Huanyan. . .

"Don't do to others what you don't want to do to others, Battalion Commander Liu, we know that our artillery is not as powerful or even as powerful as the enemy's, and there is also a big gap in the artillery skills of the two sides. Of course we can't fight the opponent head-on in this situation... In fact, von Neuhaus on the other side has used the limited artillery of the German-Ukrainian Allied Forces in Kharkov in the past two days. How to arrange and use this new force?"

Lu Huanyan's words focused everyone's attention on the combat map hanging in a corner of the tent. The big guys stared at the Kharkov city defense and the nearby one-fifty-thousandth map for a long time, and finally it was Colonel Biflov on one side. Speak the half-baked Chinese first,

"Colonel, gentlemen, I think that the artillery of the German-Ukrainian coalition army must either enter the city and deploy it in the middle of the city near the east gate, or... it will be in the south of the city near the southeast... because the northern line is our main position, the bridge The 24 150mm heavy-duty field howitzers of the du li field heavy artillery regiment of Colonel Ben are so powerful, I believe that the German commander will not be willing to use his 36 105mm light howitzers to challenge our long-range main artillery on the northern line..." . .

Before Colonel Biflov finished speaking, Liu Yifei, the commander of the 2nd Battalion here, nodded his head in agreement with Colonel Maozi. The guy stepped forward and pointed to the position of the coalition forces on the northern line, "Colonel Biflov said yes , In addition to the 24 heavy artillery pieces of Hashimoto Koji on the northern line, there are also 48 75mm mountain field artillery pieces of the Tanaka Field Artillery Regiment, and two 15mm field artillery battalions from the 2th Division of the Federal Infantry. Howitzers, but the 75 guns in the area must be killing themselves if they compete with our main artillery on the northern front..."

"The colonel and Yi Fei are right. I think the opponent's artillery position is likely to be placed in the central city of the fortress near the south gate. This is beyond the range of our northern heavy artillery, but the opponent's artillery can even cover as far north as possible. The first circular defense line outside the northern city that we occupied, if we shoot eastward, I'm afraid we can reach our current position..." Ren Dao, the chief of staff of the regiment, stepped forward, grabbed the ruler and gestured, Taking the three-way intersection where everyone is now as the center, draw an arc with a radius of 8 kilometers in the southwest direction...

The semicircle in the southwest direction drawn by Ren Dao with red and blue pencils on the map covers the entire eastern city of Kharkov, and even exceeds the southeast corner of the old fortress. It connects the left bank of Kharkov to the south wall. An area was also circled in... Then Ren Dao threw the pencil and said mockingly,

"Damn... Captain, everyone, I didn't expect the opponent to have so many rich places to set up artillery positions... This battle is not easy!"

The head of the regiment, Lu Huanyan, didn't hold back his breath. He grabbed a ruler and red and blue pencils, and drew a semicircle to the north and east with the southeast corner of the old city fortress as the center, with a radius of 8 kilometers. 2 kilometers away, and 3 kilometers outside the east city, all the three-way intersections are circled in, and the current position of the Muto Brigade in the southeast direction is firmly locked in it...

Now everyone was silent... The atmosphere in the tent became solemn... Finally, Biflov spoke again in blunt Chinese, "Colonel Lu, I don't think it's a big deal. At dawn, the coalition air force Kharkov is so big, no matter where it is arranged, it will be overturned to the ground by an air strike at that time, and it will be a side dish..." This guy also knows that the bombers of the coalition air force will be dispatched at night The possibility of xing is very small...

On the fourth day of the battle, it seems that it is not the machine guns of the ground troops that determine the outcome of the battle, but the fighters of the air force in the sky. The air attack on the Kharkov ground target is to prepare for a large-scale counterattack that may occur at any time by the Luftwaffe... This has caused the coalition air force to reserve the power invested in today's air attack on the ground...

Preserving vitality, grasping the vitality and getting ready to repel the Luftwaffe's counterattack is the first and most important task. Otherwise, you will have a good fight today. Patronizing the German machine guns and artillery bullying the ground, tomorrow you will lose your spirit and continue to have a large fleet Batches of air battles dispatched in turn will miss a major event...

"Colonel...not so optimistic. The urgent task of the coalition air force is to take time to rest and prepare for the large-scale counterattack of the Luftwaffe tomorrow and the day after tomorrow...I guess the increase and counterattack launched by the German ground forces this evening means that they know From tomorrow onwards, maybe the air supremacy will return to their hands, not to mention, even if the two air forces are evenly matched, it will still be much stronger than the one-sided bombing a few days ago..." Ren Dao, chief of staff of the regiment, tried to comfort people's hearts. The head of the 51st Regiment of the Federal Infantry poured cold water on it.

"It's no big deal. We won the battle without the help of the air team. The Germans have not had air superiority for three days. How can we fight? We have air superiority to win the battle, and we have to win the air superiority. The German commander will not use 3 The 105mm light howitzer battalion will challenge our main artillery on the northern front, and we, of course, cannot use the 75mm field artillery battalion in our hands to challenge the opponent's 105mm light howitzer..."

With a wave of Lu Huanyan's hand, he obviously wanted to reverse the tense atmosphere in the tent. He pinched his waist with his hands, smiled and said loudly, "It's a disadvantage for the 75mm field artillery to beat the opponent's 105mm howitzer, but the opponent is equipped with a machine gun. The infantry who suffer from the mortars are the ones who suffer... I decided to build a core artillery position, and the specific location... is here!"

Your Excellency, the former enemy commander-in-chief of the second echelon detour on the East Road of the Allied Forces, moved his finger to a position on the map that everyone ignored...