Xue Juru commanded the captured Ukrainian gunners and flirted with 5 75mm Krupp field cannons that could be used from the three destroyed field artillery battalions in the north. At this moment, Lu Huanyan obviously directly planned to expand his regiment artillery company into the 1st artillery battalion of 12 artillery guns, and 12 105mm Krupp howitzers were organized into the 2nd regiment artillery battalion. Our Chinese Lucai must be considered the master who has benefited the most from the most recent day of combat today.

July 30, 1918 at 14:20 5 kilometers northwest of Kharkov

"Report to the commander of the brigade, the command center called from the front enemy command. The command center asked our department to block the right bank of the North Donets River and build field fortifications in time to defend the position. It is estimated that 20 minutes later, a FR18 fighter bomber brigade of the coalition air force will launch an air strike on the north ring defense line of Kharkov city, and then the 13th Federal Infantry Division in the middle will launch an attack!" Colonel Kasumi Ogawa, the chief of staff of the 5th Infantry Brigade, was holding a telegram just sent by the confidential staff.

"Soga...how did you let the Federal Infantry Division launch a main attack? These gangs of twelfth" chapters How could the former Soviet Red Army prisoners who had not long since walked out of the prisoner-of-war camp take on this important task? I, the Kikuchi Brigade, take over the mission of Kharkov! What was the idea of ​​the commander of the Grand Court Division?" The commander of the 5th Infantry Brigade of the Japanese Third Division, Shinnosuke Kikuchi, was a 52-year-old man. At this moment, he looked no different from a young man who was soaked in anger.

Previously, Masato Kaichi, under the command of the Kikuchi Brigade, commanded the 18th Infantry Regiment of the Ukrainian Infantry Division, the feat of defeating the 1st Ukrainian Infantry Division in a roundabout way, not only made Major General Shinnosuke Kikuchi, who was the commander of the 5th Infantry Brigade, overjoyed, but also made the brigade commander and the soldiers of the 6th Infantry Regiment he personally commanded were full of envy and jealousy.

Because the Japanese Third Division itself is organized in Nagoya and is also called Nagoya Division, among the two infantry corps under the 5th Infantry Brigade of the Third Division, the 6th Infantry Regiment, which was born in Nagoya, has always regarded itself as the main force of the 5th Infantry Brigade. At this time, the 18th Infantry Regiment of the 2nd Line Army, Kanazawa, has won the first prize. From the brigade commander Shinnosuke Kikuchi to the Colonel's 6th Infantry Regiment, Sugimoto, who is too sour and tastes a little.

At this moment, Kharkov City is less than five kilometers southeast. Through the wide North Donets River, you can even see the 4th Japanese cavalry revolver led by Colonel Kogoro Yonezawa on the other side of the road. This made Major General Kikuchi, the commander of the 5th Infantry Brigade, was a little anxious.

The Ukrainians sang an empty city plan on the first line of defense, and the main infantry divisions of the two Ukrainian national army retreated into the forest were simply vulnerable. They were actually dealt with by the two battalions of the Chinese Armored Regiment and the 18th Infantry Regiment. This made the commander of the Kikuchi Brigade burn up a rising flame in his heart, and he was preparing to lead the 6th Infantry Regiment himself to rest and conquer Kharkov in one fell swoop!

"Brigate Commander, I think the front command must be worried that we are short of troops. When conquering the first line of defense, our 6th Infantry Regiment was the vanguard of the entire army. Later, he advanced along the right bank of the North Donets River. He was dragged down by swamps and puddles along the way. The retreating troops were exhausted. It was obviously unrealistic to ask us to launch an attack from the northwest direction. Therefore, the command center would ask the 13th Federal Infantry Division, which was advancing along the railway in the middle, to take the lead in launching the attack. Maybe, it was just a test of "Beiyang 1917 Chapter 717 (I) Who will sing the protagonist?" "Fang Shoujun's reality is just the reality?"

As the chief of staff of the 5th Infantry Brigade, 46-year-old Colonel Kasumi Ogawa, of course, knew that the brigade commander around him had long regarded the glory of the first attack into Kharkov as the possession of the 5th Infantry Brigade, and Sugimoto, the commander of the 6th Infantry Corps, was too impressed at this moment. Seeing that his colleague Masato Kazusaki, who had never been in his eyes, led the 18th Infantry Corps of Kanazawa, who was born in Tuboko, to start the war, the Japanese army, which made the Japanese troops on the left cry and eager to take the Ukrainian capital Kharkov as the next sure goal.

"Temporary attack? That's not OK. Do you know what the Ukrainians and the Germans were fighting? Didn't the pre-war reconnaissance say that the two main infantry divisions of the opponent held the first trench-style defense line? As a result, it took a heavy blow and shot down, and tens of thousands of troops caught the two battalions of the others!

Moreover, the command center blew the Ukrainian infantry division into a scattered ceiling, and the German equipment and artillery regiments were equipped with powerful firepower. As a result, the two main divisions could not withstand the thunder attack of the Kanazawa boys of the 18th Infantry Regiment. "Beiyang 1917" I see, there might be only Ukrainian militia volunteers left in Kharkiv. The enemy situation notice in front of the command center said that the main force of the German Reserve Infantry Division stationed in the southern suburbs of Kharkov was unknown? It must have been retreated!"

Shinnosuke Kikuchi was walking around the brigade command center with his hands behind his back, and was anxious and unable to calm down. Although he wanted to grab the first team to attack Kharkov, the troops had been rushing at least 50 kilometers along the way since the morning, and had spent a lot of energy and physical strength in the swamp area on the North Donets River. The so-called powerless crossbow should not be worn through Luya. If you keep resting, you will not be able to engage in the siege battle anyway, unless Kharkov is really an empty city, but it looks absolutely different. The cavalry reconnaissance squadron directly under the brigade headquarters had tentatively approached the opponent's position, but was beaten back by a random gun.

Fortunately, the enemy guarding Kharkov did not fire the artillery. Of course, the reason was that the coalition air force, which was always on duty and hovering on the battlefield, was always eyeing it. Once the Ukrainian artillery positions were easily exposed, they would inevitably be subject to fierce air strikes by the coalition air force that controlled air superiority. On the other hand, Kikuchi Shin-suke was shocked to the German-Ukrainian coalition forces guarding Kharkov, who were very anxious to fire the artillery. Obviously, the enemy may not be as vulnerable as they expected and imagined, so this made His Excellency Kikuchi angry.

This is a bit like a group of naughty boys trying to grab hot potatoes. If they were quick to start, they would be afraid of burning themselves and slow to start, and they would be robbed of the first place by others, especially the Federal Infantry Division in the middle. The Russian Russian Red Army was treated preferentially in the coalition prisoner-of-war camp half a month ago. After swearing allegiance to the Volga Federation, they turned into a federal defense force with a strict military appearance. How could the protagonist of the Ukrainian Battle let the federal troops sing?
Chapter completed!