Fortunately, the two brigades of the Muto Brigade, Duomen and Kasumi, are also warriors. Although the fortifications on the front line are weak in their ability to rush to resist artillery attacks, the two brigades have only one squadron of jingling troops on the front line, and the main force of the brigade is hidden on the second line position 300,500 meters away. Since the first line position is still hastily completed, the second line is not a position, but a core fortress position group based on squads...even the horizontal traffic trenches have not been dug...

Of course, Muto Nobuyi knew that the biggest weapon of the German counterattack was not just the two main infantry regiments, but the three 105mm light howitzer battalions in the hands of the German major general. Therefore, the key point of the infantry in the ri army to build fortifications was to first repair the cover of the log top cover and the anti-aircraft artillery hole, and then repair the trenches and traffic trenches...

As for Li Shang's armored battalion, it was basically hidden near the battle positions opened by temporary logging in the dense forest, and the logs cut down were used to disguise and reinforce the roof...

But even so, the 12 105mm light howitzers in the 140th German Artillery Battalion still took advantage at the beginning. The front line of the Ri army was also in a sea of ​​fire. Although the two Ri army infantry squadrons guarding the position were desperately hiding in the anti-aircraft shed to avoid artillery attacks, there were still considerable casualties. The front line and the second line were temporarily isolated by the continuous German artillery attacks...

In the first three minutes of the German artillery attack, except for the Duli Field Heavy Artillery Regiment on the main position of the northern line, there were few coalition artillery counterattacks in the Kharkov forest area on the eastern line. This gave the German Major General Von Noyhaus in the southeast command. He believed that his unexpected counterattack artillery fire was likely to catch the coalition off guard. The coalition's artillery either suffered serious losses during the day and was not good for medicine, or the positions were arranged too far to reach his artillery position... Otherwise, it would be impossible to just be beaten and not fight back...

Under such circumstances, Vonneuyhaus ordered his artillery to extend a shè attack to the rear of the enemy's front-line positions, so as to try to knock out the opponent's logistics and artillery positions by blind rats. At the same time, he ordered the three main battalions of the 140th German Infantry Regiment, which were put into the ground counterattack on the front-line, to start a ground attack...

The most difficult task in the counterattack was not the two infantry battalions in the southeast, but the 1st battalion commanded by the commander of the 140th Infantry Regiment. During the day, several counterattacks organized by the Ukrainian volunteers' 2nd Division to recapture the bridge were all failed, which made the counterattack at the East Gate tonight, relying on the German army to fight bare-handedly... The Prime Minister of the Ukrainian Cabinet, Minister of Defense and Commander-in-Chief of the National Army Simon Petrella was not with the German Major General, just to personally supervise the counterattack at the East Gate at the 2nd Infantry Division on the wall of the East Gate. The legitimate daughter of the Second Infantry Division was reborn and the daisy concubine of the Xiatang!

Volunteer Vladislav Vmilovich Kalitsev, commander of the 2nd Division, barely combined the two infantry regiments of the 4th Brigade into one, and gathered a regiment of troops, preparing to break out of the city and serve as the second echelon after the German army seized the bridge... In other words, if the counterattack of the East Gate was smooth, there would be no need to defend the East City of Kharkov. The remaining troops of the 4th Brigade followed the infantry battalion of German Lieutenant Colonel Von Blomburger across the river. I heard that the three-way intersection on the other side of the river was the logistics base of the coalition forces... There were enough beef canned pipes... There were so many gun grenades and grenades...

The Nakamura brigade's team guarding the bridgehead was only less than 50 troops left. The heavy casualties were suffered by the fierce shelling of the German armored train. Therefore, when the sharp knife company of the infantry battalion commanded by Von Bollom rushed to the bridgehead, the bridgehead that ignited a raging fire had become a purgatory of fire. The German army basically rushed across the bridge without any interception... This made everyone on the bridge overjoyed, and the captain of Mizuno Taifu on the other side of the bridge was stunned...

"Baga...! What's going on?! Explosion! Explosion! Why not!" The captain of the regiment, Colonel Mizuno, grabbed the collar of the regiment Fu Maeda Rie, and roared wildly... Major Maeda Rie reported with a sad face, "Governor Captain, the detonated wire was interrupted by the German artillery bombardment... The northern artillery fire of the team guarding the bridgehead was blocked and retreated too slowly... It delayed the enemy's artillery fire and the detonated wire was blown off..."

"Bastard! Do I need to order this? The operator quickly went up and snatched the line... Why are you still standing there? If you lose the bridge, you will not be enough to apologize!" Colonel Mizuno was almost fainted.

"Five soldiers who went up to connect to the line have been killed... The captain of the corps... Hurry up and call Lu Sang to tactical guidance... It is impossible for the bridge to block the enemy by blasting. The attack was the Germans, and the machine guns and mortars were attacking very accurately... The machine gun firepower points on our frontiers were huge..." Fu Maeda Ri grabbed his corps captain's arm and shook it.

"Why don't our mortar fight back? Why don't we knock off the opponent's mortar first?!" Mizuno Yasuke roared in anger.

"His Excellency Colonel, our mortar position was suppressed by heavy artillery in the city. It was too late to hide at this moment... The team suffered a lot of losses... We must ask the command headquarters for tactical guidance of tactical weapons, otherwise the bridge will fall into the hands of the Germans!" Maeda Taki shouted loudly in the shelter reinforced by the logs!

At this time, amid the deafening artillery fire, a riot officer covered his microphone and reported, "The captain of the corps, Colonel Lu, the commander of the second echelon, called!"

Mizuno and Maeda changed when they heard this. The commander of the 6th Infantry Regiment reached out to pick up the microphone and even trembled uncontrollably. The voice of Lu Huanyan, commander-in-chief of the Second Echelon of the Alliance, came from the receiver, "Mizuno, why hasn't the Kharkov Bridge exploded yet?! I need you to give me a reason!"

"Lu Sang... the artillery fire in the German city was too fierce, and the detonated wire was broken... We sent people to connect the wires and were blown away by the opponent's artillery fire... Now the team guarding the bridgehead has been broken, and at least one battalion of the German army is constantly crossing the river along the bridge. Our troops are insufficient. The key is that the second-line position and the first-line position are blocked by the German artillery fire... I... I ask the command artillery tactical guidance!" Mizuno Taisuke replied to the microphone with a blood-red old face.

There was silence on the other side of the earpiece...(.)
Chapter completed!