Help setting up network on Hyper-v VMs so that they can communicate with each other

I need to configure 3 vms so that they can communicate with each other on the same network for my apprenticeship project.

the network address is 192.168.1.0/24

All machines are using the same virtual switch in Hyper V

When i configured the tcp/ip settings i set the ip for one machine to 192.168.1.2 and the other to 192.168.1.3

The subnet mask on both machines is set to 255.255.0.0

When i try to ping the ip of one vm on another vm the request just times out

Is anyone able to help i have no idea what im doing and i cant find much on google for networking Hyper v virtual machines