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Volume 3 Far East Story Chapter 624 (Part 2) Everyone wants to be the vanguard!

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    "But there are still eight German divisions. Who knows whether they will continue to reinforce and strengthen the troops north of the Dnieper River!" Kikuchi Shinnosuke muttered with a tigerish face on the side.

    "Baga! How incompetent are you? Do you still have the fighting spirit of an imperial warrior?! It's so embarrassing!" Utsunomiya Taro, who had been listening to Hata Junroku's battle with the generals of the third division with a sullen expression, couldn't bear it anymore.  He slapped the table and roared!

    "The task of the Ukraine campaign was shamefully requested by me, Taro Utsunomiya, from the Commander-in-Chief of the Allied Forces! Now the Southern Front under General Wu is making good progress in the North Caucasus, and will soon be able to connect the Grozny Oilfield in Ingushetia, Chechnya.  We have also taken it down, but we are still arguing and arguing. Is this the time for bargaining? The mission of the central route army is to hurt the enemies in Kharkov, but not to drive them away! "

    The army general glared at Jiro Oba, Shinnosuke Kikuchi, and Nobuyoshi Muto, the three members of the Japanese Third Division, with a livid face, and reprimanded him emotionally, "Your Excellency, the Commander-in-Chief has repeatedly emphasized that the foundation of the Volga Federation is unstable.  The territory has expanded several times at once, the population has exceeded 9 million, and the two autonomous republics and seven states are in dire need. It is absolutely impossible to swallow Ukraine in one go! "

    "I completely agree with the commander-in-chief of the coalition forces. Although Ukraine is big and good, we do not have the strength to swallow it up in one go. The coalition launched the Ukrainian campaign to eliminate the enemy and destroy the main German and Austrian forces.  Try to pull back as much as possible from the western front. If you pull too much, we can't resist. If you pull too little, it won't help. Therefore, the Ukraine campaign is like walking a tightrope, or like making tea in a tea ceremony. The heat is very important!"

    "Why don't we strengthen the Central Army? Why do Lieutenant General Stepin's two infantry divisions still stay in Voronezh without strengthening reinforcements to Belgorod? Just to show that the enemy is weak, the Central Army attacks Kharkov.  The first is to inflict pain on the enemy so that he will be reinforced from the rear. The second is not to defeat the enemy. Once he is defeated, he will retreat, and once he retreats along the railway, he will definitely go to Kiev! "

    "It's only 60 kilometers from Kharkov to Belgorod, and 430 kilometers from Kharkov to Kiev. If our central route army captures Kharkov, then the next battlefield will be in Kiev, and then we will  The mileage required for logistics support is increased by nearly 500 kilometers, while the Germans and Ukrainians can concentrate their efforts to retreat to defend Kiev. This strategy is not worth the expense of our people and money!"

    "So this is the battle plan of the Coalition Forces Command. The battle plan of our Southwest Front Command must also obey the campaign plan of the Coalition Forces Command and realize the strategic intentions of the Coalition Forces Command! Everything else must be put aside first. It must be put aside!  Of course the Germans are not simple, but they are nothing special. You will know when they start fighting, they will be as dead as if they were shot and shot!" Utsunomiya Taro shouted with his eyes wide open.  road!

    "Hai!" All the Japanese generals nodded and roared. Obviously, when it came to this, two points were confirmed. First, the center army had to shoulder the heavy burden of not attracting reinforcements from Ukraine and Germany.  Come here, even if this task is not completed, as for Kharkov, when the enemy's reinforcements are eliminated, Kharkov can easily get it!

    Second, the Ukrainian campaign does not target one city or one place. The Japanese generals of the Southwest Front took the opportunity to give up their ambitions of who will be the first to enter the city and who will be the first to capture the city, and honestly fight a limited-control campaign.  , at least in the first stage.

    "Major General Hata, please continue to talk about the deployment and plan of the campaign! Everyone listen carefully. If anyone continues to act out of impulse, I will directly remove him from his post!" Utsunomiya Taro said with a solemn face.

    "Gentlemen, although the enemy's trench positions are strong, they are far inferior to the German positions and fortifications on the Western Front. Our heavy artillery will give the opponent a hard lesson, and we also have two flying wings of the Allied Air Force.  Team air support!" Shunroku Hata waved his fist in front of the combat map to encourage everyone.

    Having been scolded by Taro Utsunomiya just now in his capacity as commander-in-chief, Jiro Oba, Shinnosuke Kikuchi and Nobuyoshi Muto all felt a little wilted. For a moment, they stood up and sat there without speaking. Seeing that the combat conference room was going to be silent, the commander of the Voronezh Army here  Steping hurriedly came out to smooth things over and said,

    "Yes! How can our Volga Federal Defense Forces be compared to those rabble in Ukraine? What's more, the fortifications of Tsar Nicholas II's Port Arthur fortress were much stronger than the trench fortifications north of Kharkov, no?  Was it also breached? And what, the previous Vladivostok Fortress was also breached, so you have to have confidence!

    Speaking of which, I led two divisions but they were beaten to the ground by an armored regiment of the coalition forces. Although our front-line troops of the Central Route Army were 40,000, they were all elite troops. They came to the city and surrounded Halko?I think it can work!  "Stepin has no awareness that he is also a former Tsarist Russian general. The offensive and defensive battle of Port Arthur in the Russo-Japanese War lasted for a full year. Although Tsarist Russia suffered a disastrous defeat, the Japanese army also suffered heavy casualties. Besides, this haha  Can the trench defense line north of Erkov be held for a year?

    "Your Excellency, Lieutenant General, what you are saying is completely nonsense. How can Kharkiv in Ukraine compare with the Port Arthur Fortress? Let us not say that we will fight in Kharkiv for a year. If we cannot break through the opponent's defense within three days, we will have to fight in the middle.  Even if the army is a big disgrace to the entire coalition!" Muto Nobuyoshi did not appreciate Stepin, the defeated general in the Battle of Ufa. He turned around, stood up, bowed his head, and said,

    "Major General Hata, since that's the case, my 23rd Infantry Brigade, as the main offensive force of the Central Route Army, cannot take down the defense lines of the two Ukrainian infantry divisions on the right bank of the North Donets River within three days. I, Nobuyoshi Muto, commit hara-kiri!" Nobuyoshi Muto!  He had a determined look on his face, as if the disagreement with Shunroku Hata had never happened before.

    "Muto-kun, as a senior, I have to step forward and stand in front of you. Of course, my 5th Infantry Brigade took the lead in the middle route army. When the 3rd Division went into battle, it was not our 5th Brigade that took the lead. Your 23rd Infantry Brigade took the lead.  After the brigade was cut off, why do you want to change this tradition in the Ukraine campaign?" 52-year-old Shinnosuke Kikuchi stood up to take the vanguard position not to be outdone.

    "Muto-kun, Kikuchi-kun, please be patient for a moment. Please listen to Major General Hata finish explaining the battle plan before you start arguing!" The commander of the third division, Obajiro, frowned and stepped forward to stop the two brigades.  The fight between the elders.
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