"My brigade was suffering heavy casualties just now. Without rest, recovery and replenishment, he was unable to undertake such a arduous task!" Nishio Shouzuo was not vague and refused to let the brigade that had just suffered a severe injury attack again.

Now everyone's eyes were focused on the face of Major Koikiki Aki, the captain of the 12th Cavalry Brigade, who had always been the reserve team. Will the captain of the Palace Army, who had pursed his lips and looked entangled and firm, take this trick as bait and fight two German armored trains one-on-one?

Colonel Kogoro Yonezawa, the captain of the 4th Cavalry Regiment, looked at Koi Iso Kan Akira, and wanted to speak but stopped. He was a little confused, although he thought that the idea that Kiyomizu had was the only way to do it at the moment.

On July 31, 1918, 14:00, five kilometers southwest of Kharkov, a dense forest on the west side of the railway line, the first German armored train detachment

The German 10th Army stationed in Ukraine had only one infantry. The 27th Army was considered the main force. The remaining 29th Army and 31st Army were all composed of the second-line reserve corps. The German armored trains and train guns posed a huge threat to the Allied ground troops and artillery on the French battlefield where the Western Line Railway was crisscrossed. However, on the Ukrainian battlefield at the end of July 1918, the German armoured trains had a limited number of iron armored trains, and the artillery equipped on the trains were only 150mm heavy howitzers and 105mm light howitzers.

The 1st Detachment of the Duli Iron Armor of the German 10th Army has two iron Armor trains, each with 16 carriages, of which 4 are heavy machine gun compartments, each with 6 mg08 water-cooled heavy machine guns, and the artillery compartments have 8 carriages. The first and the last carriages are each equipped with a German Krupp 150mm heavy howitzer. The other 4 carriages are equipped with 2 105mm light howitzers, and the other 2 carriages are equipped with 3 20mm anti-aircraft guns each, and the other 4 carriages are infantry compartments, each carriage is equipped with a company of infantry.

The German armored train had a steam-powered locomotive at the beginning and end of each end, which gave the steel armored monster on the railway tracks super power and maneuverability, thick armor, and hot firepower. Although there were no caves and tunnels as hidden positions from Kharkov to the southwest to Dnepropetrovsk, the Germans used the forests on both sides of the railway to arrange several hidden armored trains for the bifurcated positions.

Speaking of which, the ability to escape the air reconnaissance and air strikes of the coalition air force is due to luck and excellent concealment engineering. As a killer weapon to protect the railway line and provide mobile fire support, the 1st Detachment of Duli Armor was a trump unit that was highly expected by General Von François and Major General Von Neuerhaus, the former enemy command of the German-Ukrainian coalition.

If it weren't for worrying that the air threat of the coalition air force was too great, Vonneuhaus even planned to pull the Duli Armor 1 Detachment directly into the city of Kharkov to intercept the attack of the coalition ground forces. In fact, this was also the confidence that the German major general dared to use the German 150mm heavy artillery companies hidden in the southern city area in the afternoon and the Ukrainian 75mm field artillery battalion. Although there were only two 150mm heavy howitzers on the armored train, the two cannons with armored turret protection have far greater survival than those of field artillery.

Moreover, there are 8 105mm light howitzers on each armored train, which is much more powerful than the Ukrainian 75mm field guns and the Japanese 75mm field guns... However, these two armored trains of the German Duli 1st Detachment were used to patrol and guard the nearly 200 kilometers of railway lines from Kharkov to Dnepropetrovsk. If the coalition air force really wants to destroy the railway with air strikes and bombers, the 50-kilogram-level aviation bombs mounted under the wings of the DH4 reconnaissance bomber can still blow the railway line...

It is surprising that it has been three days and three nights so far since the war between the Ukraine. The coalition air force did not seem to have used the interceptor railway line as the first choice and target for air force attacks on the ground. The coalition air force's attack targets are still concentrated on ground fortifications, fortresses, artillery positions and ground personnel. They did not pay a lot of money to destroy the spider-web-like railway line. Even the air raid on this field airport near the railway hub was a bit like a dragonfly...

"Report to Lieutenant Colonel, the command center calls us to congratulate us on the offensive and interlude of defeating the Japanese Cavalry Regiment, but we are required to be cautious and be impatient. We must ensure the smoothness of the railway line before sunset. We must not easily put the 4th Japanese Cavalry Regiment east of the railway line... If the coalition air force attacks, we can use the terrain and speed to lead the opponent to the south city area. The air defense firepower on the defensive position of the 139th Infantry Regiment will cooperate with us in the battle!"

A German second lieutenant's communications officer sent a telegram from the German-Ukrainian coalition command that he had just received. In a previous air-ground battle and the confrontation between the armored trains and the Japanese cavalry, the 2nd Detachment of the Duli armored train made a great contribution, shooting down and injured one enemy plane. Of course, the price paid was not small, and it lost 1 105mm light howitzer car, 1 heavy machine gun carriage and the 150mm heavy howitzer carriage at the rear...

"Fritz, what do you think about the command order?" Lieutenant Colonel Karl Rudolph Gerd von Lundstedt, the captain of the 2nd Team of the 1st Team of the German Duli Armored Train, turned his head and asked his deputy, Captain Fritz Erich von Manstein, the chief of staff of the 2nd Team of the 1st Team of the 1st Team of the 1st Team of the 1st Team of the 1st Team of the 1st Team of the 1st Team of the 1st Team of the 1st Team of the 1st Team of the 1st Team of the 1st Team of the 1st Team of the 1st Team of the 1st Team of the 1st Team of the 1st Team of the 1st Team of the 1st Team of the 1st Team of the 1st Team of the 1st Team of the 1st Team of the 1st Team of the 1st Team of the 1st Team of the

The 10th German Army stationed in Ukraine has a total of 2 Duli Armored Train Detachments, which are under the control of 4 Armored Train Detachments. Strictly speaking, the Armored Train Detachments belong to the brigade-level combat force, and each Armored Train is equivalent to an infantry regiment. However, Lieutenant Colonel Von Lundstedt, who is the captain of the squad, is still far from being promoted to Army Colonel. In fact, in Wang Geng's previous life, Major Von Lundstedt had to be given the rank of lieutenant colonel and entered the army of the Weimar Republic in two years before he ushered in his own military career.

Von Lundstedt was born in Ascheben, Ascheben, located in today's Saxony Anhalt. A Prussian aristocratic family, whose father was a major general. The Lundstedt family is a famous old aristocratic military family in Prussia. It is said that the family's military career has lasted for 850 years. The mother comes from a middle-class family, and they have four children in total, and Lundstedt is the eldest son.

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