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Volume 3 Far East Story Chapter 545: Standing Alone

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    July 21, 1918 9:00 Allied Forces Headquarters Samara

    "Report to the Commander-in-Chief, Slavin and the others are here!" The person who came in to report was Japanese Army Major General Shunroku Hata, Director of the Operations Room of the Allied Forces Command. With his contribution in the Battle of Ufa, Shunroku Hata was promoted to another rank at rocket speed.  , at the same time, as a symbol of the close Sino-Japanese alliance, this guy also returned to his real name Hata Junroku instead of the Chinese Tian Jun.

    The commander-in-chief of the coalition forces initially hoped that Shunroku Hata would choose to become a Chinese national, so that he could be directly promoted from major general to lieutenant general in the Chinese Army without having to still care about Japanese nationality and military rank. However, the performance of Japanese generals and troops in the Battle of Ufa was unsatisfactory.

    Shunroku Hata felt that at this moment, the Chinese army had gathered elite generals, and although the military education of the generals of the Chinese participating army was low, these generals had experienced battlefield command in Outer Mongolia, Lake Baikal, and the Great March to Western Siberia.  His ability and military quality are quite high, and he is very quick to accept Wang Geng's military theory. Judging from his battlefield command performance, he is much better than the arrogant or cautious division commanders and brigade commanders who graduated from universities in Japan.  Just like the captains.

    Under such circumstances, after the Battle of Ufa, Colonel Hata Shunroku became very competitive and determined to officially restore the name Hata Shunroku and fight on the front line as a Japanese soldier. Together with Itagaki and Ishihara, in the next stage  In the battle to restore the lost glory and face of the Imperial Army.

    In Wang Geng's previous life, Shunroku Hata would not have the opportunity to be promoted to major general of the Japanese Army until 1926 and serve as the brigade commander of the 4th Field Artillery Brigade. However, in this time and space of 1918, Wang Geng's butterfly flapping its wings caused  All this has brought a large number of Chinese and Japanese generals to the forefront of the historical stage when they were younger.

    Shunroku Hata was the first top student in the saber division to graduate from the Japanese mainland. He was injured in the Russo-Japanese War. He mainly studied German military thought and was one of the young and middle-aged generals in the Japanese Army Staff Headquarters.  The mainstay, of course, is a bit reluctant to say young. Shunroku Hata, who was born in 1879, will celebrate his 39th birthday in one week.

    According to Wang Geng, Hata Shunroku's best position is as chief of staff at the General Staff Headquarters. Of course, at this time, the war room of the Allied Forces Command has actually become the General Staff Headquarters, which can be called the think tank of the Allied Forces Headquarters. However, because Wang Geng  Because of his strength, this top student in the Department of Strategy and Tactics of the Graduate School of the National Defense University in his previous life was an expert on Japanese and German military strategies, so Wang Geng, the commander-in-chief, stole the spotlight from many chiefs of staff and staff officers.

    Because of this, every idea and decision made by Wang Geng often leads and expands the vision and thinking of these combat staff officers from China and Japan. In fact, Wang Geng himself also realized that due to his existence, not only several chief and deputy staff officers  The space for long-term development is much smaller, and gradually everyone feels that the commander-in-chief may have a better idea.

    Because so many facts have proven that although the commander-in-chief of the coalition forces, the young King of China, only has a military degree from West Point Military Academy, his profound strategic and tactical knowledge and his wise and majestic decision-making when commanding on the battlefield made Wang Geng an idol in the military.  At the same time, it inhibited and affected the performance of his generals.

    Of course, this has a lot to do with the coalition command's emphasis on maintaining smooth communication and command on the battlefield. The air superiority of the coalition air force and the existence of the Hawkeye early warning aircraft make the entire battlefield relatively transparent and easy for the coalition field commanders.  Command, orders and decisions from the headquarters are often the best choice at the time.

    So unknowingly, the Battle of Ufa was like a skillful chess game played by the Allied Forces Headquarters. Although I cannot guarantee that I can see through every move of the Soviet Red Army, at least, every move I make is quite solid and stable!

    Shunroku Hata has been talking to Wang Geng Mushroom a lot these days, which means that he wants to decentralize the troops in the next stage of the battle and command a brigade or even a regiment. The glory of the Imperial Japanese Army cannot always be so dim.  As the situation continued to sink, Lieutenant Colonel Ishihara Wanji and Lieutenant Colonel Seishiro Sakagaki also had the same appeal.

    In the Battle of Ufa, Itagaki had the hardest time following Sun Liangcheng, while Shi Principle struggled with the swamps in the dark. Both of them had good records. The Japanese Cavalry Regiment was worse than the 1st Cossack Cavalry Division in terms of maneuverability.  The firepower is not as good as the Chinese 1st Armored Brigade, and the number of troops is less than half of the above two. The commanders of each detachment are all heroes like Sun Liangcheng and Xiong Shihui. Therefore, the two lieutenants who command the Japanese cavalry regiment are basically disgraced.  I was unable to achieve results that satisfied me.

    However, both Wang Geng and Utsunomiya Taro comforted the three of them, and finally rewarded them based on their merits. Ishihara smiled for blocking the breakout of the Slavin Division of the Fifth Army of the Soviet Red Army, and Itagaki captured Samar with a thousand-mile roundabout battle.  For their contribution to Ladu Togliatti, they both received a second-level Silver Medal of Victory and were each promoted to a first-level military rank.Now we have to call Colonel Itagaki and Colonel Ishihara.

    Of course, the overwhelming victory of the coalition forces in the Battle of Ufa set off a wave of young people joining the army in Japan, and the successive promotions of Shunroku Hata, Ishihara and Itagaki attracted the attention of generals in other divisions and staff headquarters in Japan.  They were so jealous that they wrote letters of determination to the General Staff Headquarters and the Minister of War, demanding that their troops be transferred to the west to open up territory for the country.

    Wang Geng was helpless with Hata Shunroku, and Utsunomiya Taro was also fanning the flames. He said that if the army was to be expanded, the frontline troops needed outstanding generals like Hata Shunroku to take charge of their own affairs. In the end, Wang Geng asked Hata Shunroku to lead Ishihara, Itagaki and the war room.  The Chinese and Japanese staff will first make a solid plan for the next phase of the coalition's campaign, and then let them lead the troops depending on the situation.

    Considering that several chiefs of staff of the coalition headquarters were somewhat unworthy of their names, Wang Geng discussed with everyone that after the Battle of Ufa, the generals of the coalition headquarters were re-arranged and appointed. Jiang Hongyu was still the chief of staff, while Wu Peifu and  Taro Utsunomiya was transferred to deputy commander-in-chief of the coalition forces.

    In fact, Wang Geng originally considered that Taro Utsunomiya was already 57 years old and had a big belly and a fat figure. Utsunomiya's best position should be to be his official chief of staff, and he could let Jiang Hongyu be his deputy commander and continue to do so if necessary.  Stand alone and command the troops in combat.

    However, there is an issue of reciprocity here. Wu Peifu is the group army commander of the Chinese main force of the coalition. If he is also the deputy commander of the coalition, as the commander of the third army of the Japanese main force of the coalition, Utsunomiya Taro should also be the deputy commander.  This is one of them.

    The second thing is that Utsunomiya Taro doesn't feel old at all. Although he is 57 years old, he is still very energetic. It is said that during the intermission of the war, the Japanese commander danced with women every night and watched the battle of Ufa.  None of the three Japanese division commanders were able to fight. Several Japanese cavalry regiments were constantly running and suffering, but they could not get many fighter planes. Their performance was incomparable to that of the Russian and Chinese troops.

    The telegrams sent by the Japanese Army General Staff Headquarters and the Minister of War to Utsunomiya Taro, in addition to congratulations and praise, most requested him to set an example and not sit at the Allied Forces Command all day long as the idle deputy chief of staff, but to go to the front line.  To command the battle alone, we must also let the Japanese division commanders and brigade commanders get the same opportunity!

    When this kind of pressure came, Utsunomiya naturally refused to replace Jiang Hongyu as the chief of staff in name only. Everyone could see that the young King of China might be the most dazzling general after Napoleon. This guy's aura  It is so strong that even the best young staff generals like Hata Shunroku and Ishihara Itagaki feel inferior to them, and there is almost no room and room for them to play.

    Taro Utsunomiya is arrogant and arrogant again because of his talent. He is well aware of Shunroku Hata's military talent and the planning and execution abilities of Itagaki and Ishihara. When it comes to his ability to formulate campaign plans for Wang Geng as a staff officer.  , I am by no means their opponent.

    Therefore, the draft for the reorganization of the Russian troops of the Volga Federation was initially finalized, and before the main expansion plans of the Chinese and Japanese armies of the coalition were finalized, Wu Peifu and Taro Utsunomiya finally bid farewell to the nominal positions of deputy chief of staff of the coalition forces, and instead took the official position.  deputy commander-in-chief of the coalition forces.

    Having said all that, looking back, Major General Shunroku Hata, the new director of the operations room of the coalition headquarters, reported at the door that the Soviet Red Army generals in the prisoner of war camp had arrived at the headquarters.

    Wang Geng nodded and signaled Shunroku Hata to invite the guests to the small conference room next door, where he would meet with these former first-level generals of the Soviet Red Army Group Army. He asked Jiang Hongyu, Wu Peifu and others in the big meeting to  Taro Utsunomiya first studied the first draft of the Ukrainian campaign plan produced by Shunroku Hata and others, and then entered the small conference room next to the large conference room.

    Not long after, a group of Soviet Red Army generals followed Hata Shunroku into the small conference room. Wang Geng stood up from the sofa and walked forward with a smile, shaking hands with these senior Russian Red Army generals who had become prisoners of war, but most of them were meeting for the first time.  , and next to him, Shunroku Hata introduced the other party's name and position in a low voice.

    "Everyone, this is Army General Wang Geng, the commander-in-chief of our coalition forces!"

    "Your Excellency, Commander-in-Chief, this is Slavin, the former commander of the Fifth Army of the Soviet Red Army"

    "This is Slavin's Army Group Political Commissar Blomberg, and this is his Chief of Staff Eh"

    ¡°This is the former commander of the Third Army of the Soviet Red Army, Rzhevsky, and this is his political commissar and chief of staff, Khvesin.¡±

    "This is Ma Xin, the former commander of the Second Army of the Soviet Red Army, and this is his political commissar and chief of staff Kharchenko"

    "This is Gay, political commissar and chief of staff of the First Army. Unfortunately, Tukhachevsky's whereabouts are still unknown!"

    ¡°This is Yegorov, the former commander of the Ninth Army of the Southern Front of the Soviet Red Army.Next to him are his political commissars, and the last one is his chief of staff, Stepin. Everything you said you wanted to see is here!  "

    Shunroku Hata's Russian was already very fluent. In order to facilitate the understanding of these Soviet Red Army generals, Wang Geng previously instructed him to introduce in Russian instead of Chinese or Japanese. This can also be regarded as the carefulness of the commander-in-chief of the coalition forces in taking care of these captured Soviet generals.  Otherwise, few of the old generals can understand Chinese and Japanese, and they will all play the piano to each other.
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