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Volume 3 Far East Stories Chapter 921 Yekaterinoslav

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    According to the decision of the front army headquarters, the 24 150mm Taisho four-year heavy howitzers of the 7th Regiment of the **Field Heavy Artillery of the 7th Division were formed with the 3rd Regiment of the **Field Heavy Artillery of the 3rd Division.  The 48-piece **Field Heavy Artillery Brigade is used as the strategic firepower reserve of the Kharkov Cluster, while the 1st and 2nd Chinese Armored **Regiments form the 1st **Armored Armored Brigade, with Chinese Colonel Lu Huanyan serving as the  He became the acting brigade commander of the 1st Armored Brigade and the commander of the 1st Regiment!

    The second artillery battalion of the 8th Federal Infantry Division, plus the two artillery battalions of the 15th Federal Infantry Division, formed the 1st Artillery Regiment of the **, joining Lu Huanyan's combat sequence of the 1st ** Armored Brigade!  Wu Keren, the polished artillery battalion commander, was once again promoted to major and acting artillery regiment commander!

    In the central route army, the 5th Kikuchi Infantry Brigade strengthened the 3rd Tanaka Field Artillery Regiment to form the 5th Mixed Infantry Brigade. Major General Shinnosuke Kikuchi still served as the brigade commander. At the same time, the 3rd Field Artillery Regiment was changed.  48 Dodge trucks towed 75mm mountain field guns. The streamlined personnel of the artillery regiment were added to the Kikuchi Infantry Brigade. Together with the additional troops from the infantry regiment, the Kikuchi Brigade restored its strength

    Muto Nobuyoshi's 23rd Infantry Brigade directly accepted two field artillery battalions from the 14th Federal Infantry Division, which was shining brightly in the Kharkov Forest, plus an artillery battalion from the 7th Federal Infantry Division, forming a mixed infantry regiment.  Nobuyoshi Muto continues to serve as the brigade commander of the 23rd Brigade.

    After such reorganization, the Kharkiv cluster has jurisdiction over 4 Japanese mixed infantry brigades, a Chinese ** armored brigade, a Japanese ** field heavy artillery brigade, plus the 14th, 15th, and 7th Federal Infantry Divisions  and the 9th Division, the 13th Federal Infantry Division of Major General Liukin Alexeevich Voronezh withdrew to Voronezh for rest and replenishment, but Voronezh was promoted to deputy commander and chief of staff of the group army, replacing Lieutenant General Stepin in command of Kharko  The 14th and 15th Federal Infantry Divisions in the husband's direction, Lieutenant General Stepin returned to Voronezh to take charge of the base camp.

    As for the personnel composition of the Kharkov cluster headquarters, the commander of the Japanese 7th Division Yukitsuchi Fujii served as the first deputy commander of the cluster, and the commander of the 3rd Division, Jiro Oba, who made great achievements in Kharkov  He served as the first deputy chief of staff of the cluster. The cluster commander was personally served by the commander of the front army, General Utsunomiya, and the chief of staff of the cluster was Major General Hata Shunroku. Ishihara Kanji was unexpectedly appointed as the chief of staff of the ** Armored First Brigade.  Served as Lu Huanyan's deputy.

    It must be said that the coalition forces got a chance to breathe after occupying Kharkov. The reason is simple. The Luftwaffe was not ready yet, and the 47th Reserve Infantry Division suffered heavy losses in Kharkov, which gave the German army in Ukraine  The 10th Army sounded the alarm. As the German Air Force has not yet regained air supremacy, the German Army will encounter huge difficulties in the ground battle in Eastern Ukraine

    You know, the 1st Group Army of the Ukrainian National Army was not so much defeated by the coalition ground forces as it was frightened by the air superiority of the coalition aviation force. At least the artillery of the 1st Infantry Division and the 2nd Infantry Division hardly played a role.  They were disarmed as soon as possible and the frustration of the German counterattack at night also deepened the Germans' doubts. That is, they were convinced that the combat effectiveness and firepower of the Chinese armored forces were superior to their own, while the Japanese troops lacked firepower but had the will to fight.  But it is quite strong. If the night operations had not weakened the support of the Allied Air Force to the greatest extent, it would have been almost impossible for the 47th German Reserve Infantry Division to retreat from the Kharkov Forest

    Von Neuhaus and his command evacuated from Kharkov to Yekaterinoslav in one train. If the Battle of Kharkov was a pot of raw rice, then von Neuhaus asked about his heart.  As expected, he only had so few materials in hand, and he could attack, defend, and withdraw. The 47th Reserve Infantry Division performed admirably as the main division of the 29th Infantry Corps. The only thing that made von Neuhaus regretful was that  , it was not the German army that finally evacuated the city of Kharkov, but the second-class Kharkov Volunteer Division under Simon Petliura.

    It is precisely because the volunteers were soldiers born and raised near Kharkov that when they retreated, they neither set fire to the Kharkov fortress that had stood for more than 200 years, nor even blew it up.  Lopan River Bridge and Kharkiv Southern Suburban Railway Station The reason is very good and simple. This is their home. The Ukrainians will regain this fortress sooner or later. It takes several years to build a bridge, and it only takes a few seconds to blow up a bridge.  This prodigal move is absolutely unacceptable!

    What¡¯s more, once the bridge is blown up, what will happen to the people and people evacuated from Kharkov?  Jump into the Lopan and Uda rivers and drown?  !  This is absolutely not possible. Whether you call it a woman's kindness or your indecision, in short, the Germans' sabotage actions during their retreat failed to be implemented, and even the plan to clear the country south of the Uda River came to nothing.  , so von Neuhaus and the remainder of his 47th Reserve Infantry Division simply withdrew to Yekaterinoslav in one go!

    Those who were left to defend Krasnorad were the Ukrainians who were retreating along the railway line without taking up the train wagons.?? troops, the remnants of the 4th, 3rd and 2nd Ukrainian Divisions, the 1st and 2nd Kharkov Volunteer Divisions, as well as the workers' pickets and civilians who followed the troops withdrew from Kharkov  Behind, there is a huge crowd of refugees

    Coalition fighter jets and bombers appeared over the crowd early the next morning, but they did not drop bombs, strafing or bombing. There were so many civilians that it was impossible to tell which ones were Ukrainian National Army soldiers who had dropped their weapons and which ones were fleeing.  Common people, the fields on the ground are filled with huge crowds of people running southward in panic, and above their heads are the coalition flying squadrons that fly by from time to time

    The 2nd Fighter-Bomber Wing of the Allied Forces is waiting for the German Air Force, which is expected to make a comeback. For the Ukrainian people on the ground and the national army that has basically lost its combat effectiveness, it is not worth wasting energy to play a cat and mouse game

    As the third largest city in Ukraine at that time, the importance of Yekaterinoslav with a population of more than 500,000 is self-evident

    General Hermann von Fran?ois, former enemy commander in the Ukraine campaign and commander of the 29th German Reserve Infantry Corps, suffered a recurrence of high blood pressure and heart disease and was sent to the 10th Army Hospital in Kiev for treatment and recuperation.  Major General von Neuhaus, who commanded the Erkov battlefield, became his designated acting commander, because Lieutenant General Joseph von Dietrich, chief of staff of the 29th German Infantry Corps, was currently commanding the 31st Infantry Corps.  Two divisions are stationed in Donetsk, while controlling the four infantry divisions of the 2nd Army of the Ukrainian National Army in Donetsk, focusing on defending against possible attacks by the coalition's Eastern Route Army
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