"Has the telegram for Samara been sent out? Does the Commander-in-Chief have any latest instructions and replies?" Utsumiya Taro held his chin a little depressedly and said without looking back at the map.

"Commander, you have asked this a few times. Samara called back immediately. The Commander-in-Chief congratulated us on our victory in the first battle and told us to keep calm and not underestimate the enemy's advance. The reconnaissance aircraft of the coalition air force really searched the movements of the enemy's main force over East Ukraine. What can be confirmed at present is that although the enemy's main force has given up the first line of defense on the border, there are at least two divisions of troops guarding the circular defense line north of the suburbs of Kharkov. Any underestimation of the enemy is dangerous!" The fastest update, full text and hand-tick

Hata Shunji said helplessly, this guy finally persuaded Utsumiya Taro. If Hata Shunji had not stopped him carefully, he was determined to follow the footsteps of the 5th Infantry Brigade to step onto the Ukrainian position. The 57-year-old general in front of him might have become the lower soul of the more than 100 Ukrainian soldiers who had been hiding in the ruins and firing. If the former commander-in-chief Utsumiya Taro was broken on the first day of the war, Hata Shunji was very suspicious of Shinji Kikui Shinjisuke or even himself, whether he would have to cut off his stomach to apologize to the military headquarters and the king!

"Did Colonel Yonezawa's 4th Cavalry Regiment discover the movements of the main German forces? Didn't it mean that there was a division of the 29th Infantry Army of Hermann von Dietrich's infringement south of Kharkov? Where is the other party's current position? Did the air warning aircraft of the coalition air force send back a telegram?" Utsumiya Taro had a tiger's face and took down the first line of defense of the Ukrainians, which was of course a joy, but the main Ukrainian troops of the two divisions actually lowered their eyes and disappeared from their shells. This made Utsumiya still have a fire in his heart. See the latest chapter

"The opponent may have made an emergency mobilization overnight while we were unprepared. At present, except for the enemy division-level troops found on the circular defense line at the suburbs of Kharkov, there are no new gains in the rest of the positions. The German army's position at the southern suburbs of Kharkov is still the same. However, since we have air control, even when our reconnaissance planes fly by, the enemy on the ground will issue air strike alarms. If you look down from the air, the German positions are basically empty!"

"However, the entire eastern Ukraine is obviously in a state where ordinary people flee west and south with their homes. In addition to the relatively quiet near our position north of Kharkov, the roads south of Kharkov are crowded with evacuated Ukrainians. Most of them go west along the roads on both sides of the railway line, and a small number of them crowd south at various ferries on the left bank of the Dnipro River. Many people even ride homemade rafts across the river!"

Major General Hata Shunrok, chief of staff of the Southwest Front Army and chief of staff of the front-end enemy command of the Ukrainian Battle, frowned and reported the information collected from all aspects in the morning.

"If the battle is like this early this morning, Major General Hata, we can just follow behind the coalition air force to accept the Ukrainian positions and cities. The enemy can't withstand our air strikes at all. I think our field heavy artillery corps will be useless. If Kharkov was not the city we wanted to occupy, if it weren't for the air strikes we had, the city would have caught fire everywhere!" Utsumiya Taro's tone was a bit of a heroic useless place.

"The Commander, the problem is probably not that simple. If the ground forces on both sides twist together to fight on a large scale, the effect of the air strike will be greatly reduced. After all, the bombs do not recognize people, and they will throw them into their own heads by accident. Moreover, it takes time for the air force to take off to the formation to rush to the battlefield. It is already a limit to be able to be dispatched 2 to 3 times a day. In addition, once the weather is not visibility or rainy, the difficulty of the air force to dispatch will increase a lot.

What's more, judging from the news feedback from the Samara Alliance Command, Germany and Ukraine obviously want to use delaying tactics to fight for space for time. The other side may be waiting for reinforcements from the German new fighter wing. Although we won the first battle, we can only annihilate two opponents' battalions. The German and Ukraine coalition has at least 4 Ukrainian main infantry divisions and 2 German divisions in the direction of Kharkov, and there are only 2 volunteer divisions. We have not yet determined the position of these troops! We are afraid of fighting and have to fight!"

Shinji Hata's mood was obviously far less relaxed than Utsunomiya Taro.

9:00 on July 30, 1918, 20 kilometers northeast of Kharkiv

"Report the regiment commander and the reconnaissance company report that there were a large number of footprints and ruts on the road ahead, and the road was cut off by the big trees that fell down. A very deep trenches were dug. It is suspected that the enemy ahead may have ambushed. The Forward Reconnaissance Company asked for directions for the next action!" The Forward Battalion Battalion Commander Tao Dayong jumped out of the car and rushed to the Armored Regiment Commander Lu Huanyan to report.

Among the three armored battalions of the Armored Regiment of the 9th Division, the 2nd Armored Battalion, under the command of the regiment chief of staff, accompanied the operation of the 6th Infantry Regiment of the 5th Infantry Brigade of the Japanese Infantry Brigade, Lu Huanyan commanded the remaining two armored battalions to become the vanguard of the East Road Detachment. Behind him was the 18th Infantry Regiment of the 5th Infantry Brigade of the Japanese Infantry Brigade. The mission was to penetrate southeastward and detour to the east of Kharkov. On the map, it was only more than 20 kilometers away to reach the northeast corner of the suburbs of Kharkov. However, when you walked, you found that this was a riverside wetland and forest, and there was only a forest path that could be easily accessed.

Although Lu Huanyan's Chinese Armored Regiment was not equipped with Chinese FD18 Trail Blazers light tanks, it was equipped with 37mm anti-aircraft guns. The armored regiment was under the jurisdiction of three armored battalions, each battalion was under the jurisdiction of 4 armored companies of 10 FD17ii wheeled armored vehicles. Each armored company was under the jurisdiction of the company (1 vehicle) and 3 armored platoons of 3 combat vehicles. Each tank included two chief and co-pilots, two heavy machine gun chief and deputy shooters, and a 10-person vehicle-mounted infantry squad. The battalion and the 1st company united together with 1 armored command vehicle. The entire armored battalion was under the jurisdiction of 40 FD17ii wheeled combat vehicles, with a total of 560 people.

In addition to the 6th Infantry Regiment of the 2nd Armored Battalion under the command of the regiment chief of staff, the 6th Infantry Regiment of the 5th Infantry Brigade of Kikuchi Shinnosuke, the 1st Armored Battalion and 3rd Battalion commanded by the regiment commander Lu Huanyan, the anti-aircraft artillery company operated together in the Eastern Route Army. The anti-aircraft artillery company of the Armored Regiment was under the command of three 2-piece anti-aircraft artillery platoons. Each anti-aircraft artillery is a squad of 9 people, and the entire company is under the jurisdiction of 6 37mm anti-aircraft artillery.

Given that the newly developed and put into production of m191837aa single-bar anti-aircraft gun can completely replace anti-tank guns when it uses armor-piercing shells, considering that the number of German and Austrian armored forces is limited and the Luftwaffe is very strong. The anti-tank gun company/anti-tank gun company is equipped with m191837aa single-bar anti-aircraft guns, so the anti-tank company also assumes the role of anti-tanks. However, at this moment, I think the German troops stationed in Ukraine have not yet equipped tanks, let alone the Ukrainian troops.

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