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Volume 3 Far East Story Chapter 626 (Part 2) Follow your own path

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    Army General William Greiner looked very serious at this moment, as if these words were spoken from the bottom of his heart to the Ukrainian Prime Minister.  Just half a month ago, Field Marshal Hermann von Eichhorn, the commander-in-chief of the German occupation forces in Ukraine, was ordered to return to China to report on his duties. In fact, he was forced to retire in the name of dignity. The reason was actually  Corruption and reselling of grain to Soviet Russia, and personal enrichment of the tsarist jewelry sent by Dzerzhinsky.

    Of course, Eichhorn, who was in his 70s, had not been in Ukraine for a long time before, but because he desperately harvested Ukrainian grain and caused outrage in the local area, he escaped disaster when he returned to the country. In Wang Geng's previous life,  , Eichhorn died in an assassination organized by local nationalists on July 30, 1918.

    The commander-in-chief of the German occupation forces in Ukraine was Field Marshal Eichhorn's chief of staff, Army General Wilhelm Greiner. The former German Army's Eichhorn Army Group in Ukraine was automatically disbanded. In fact, it was renamed.  It was restored as the 10th Army, with jurisdiction over the 27th Army stationed in Kiev, the 29th Army stationed in Dnipropetrovsk, and the 31st Army stationed in Odessa.

    "Your Excellency, General, I think it won't work for you to just put our Ukrainian National Army troops on the front line. The Ukrainian National Army has not been rebuilt recently, and there is a shortage of weapons, ammunition, training, and even food supplies. Under such circumstances,  , I think the three German divisions of your 29th Army should be deployed to the border trench defense line north of Kharkov. Trench warfare is the strength of your German troops!"

    Simon Petliura is not a military layman. He is the founder of the Ukrainian National Army. He still has a lot of experience in fighting guerrilla warfare. As for trench defense, just the positions dug into spider webs look like Ukraine.  The leader of the National Army was dizzy, so he was unwilling to deceive the German troops into the front line.

    "Your Excellency Petliura, this is Ukraine, the mother of Ukraine that your government and national army keep defending with blood, but not the Rhine River. My group is stationed here to escort you and protect Ukraine from foreign enemies.  This is true, but the prerequisite is to be your backing, understand? Only when you are unable to resist the enemy's offensive can the German troops take up the front line, otherwise I will not be able to explain it to the country!"

    General Greiner is obviously straightforward and straightforward. In fact, in order to defend Ukraine, this general used his brain a lot after taking office. However, the Soviet Red Army lost 300,000 main troops in seven or eight days in the Battle of Ufa.  The news about the troops obviously frightened the new commander of the German occupation forces in Ukraine.

    Damn, the German army¡¯s previous presence on the Eastern Front was the Eighth Army, the main force of the German Army on the Eastern Front, which was personally commanded by Commander Hindenburg and Chief of Staff Erich Ludendorff in the Battle of Tannenberg in 1914.  In one and a half months, only 160,000 Tsarist Russian troops were eliminated, of which 92,000 were captured, 70,000 were killed, and the own casualties were 15,000.

    However, the Allied Powers commanded a ragtag group of Ufa White Guards and Volunteer Divisions, plus some of the main forces of the Allied Forces, and actually completely wiped out 300,000 of the main Soviet Red Army forces in eight days. Whether this was placed on the Eastern or Western Front of the European War,  On the online battlefield, they are absolutely dazzling, no matter how outstanding they are, they are even unimaginable!

    During the eight days of the Battle of Ufa, the Soviet Red Army and the Allied Allied Forces mobilized half a million people for the battle. The battlefield was located on the Ufa Plain, which is 460 kilometers wide from east to west and 330 kilometers deep from north to south. The result was actually a one-sided victory for the Soviet Union.  were completely wiped out. The Allied forces captured nearly 200,000 Soviet Red Army soldiers and killed nearly 100,000 people. This was surprisingly similar to Germany's battle at Tannenberg on the Eastern Front. Of course, the results were better than those in the Battle of Tannenberg.  The German army was almost doubled!

    Furthermore, throughout the Battle of Ufa, the Allied forces had a steady upper hand against the Soviet Red Army, leading the opponent by the nose and beating them up. Except for the number of people, the Soviet Red Army was far inferior to the Allied forces.

    "Your Excellency, General, you know that the Volga Federation, with the support of the Allied Powers, may launch an attack at any time, but you are unwilling to concentrate the entire army's strength. We are now blindly defending passively, and our strength is far from enough. Ukraine is so big.  , how to prevent it, if you ask me, we should gather all the main forces together, give those guys in the Volga Federation a lesson, beat them painfully, and force them to sit down and negotiate!  Rather than the current attitude of being eager to launch an aggressive war against Ukraine at any time!¡±

    Don't tell me, the leader of Ukraine is really a bit civil and military. He walked back and forth in the conference room excitedly, waving his arms as if making a speech, and wanted to persuade the German army general to follow his own path.  !

    July 28, 1918 10:20? Conference Room of the Ministry of Defense, Ukrainian Autonomous Government Building, Kharkiv, Ukraine

      "My Excellency, Prime Minister, although the newly born Ukraine is an important ally of the Allied Powers, I have repeatedly emphasized that after the fall of Tsarist Russia, the most terrifying enemy of the Allied Powers is the United States. This country is the world's largest industrial power. Now they  Troops are being added to the French battlefield every day. If Germany cannot seize the time to deliver a fatal blow to the Allies on the Western Front, the situation in the future will become more complicated. At this time, we can only maintain the status quo on the Eastern Front! "

    The Commander-in-Chief of the German Occupation Forces in Ukraine, Commander of the German 10th Army and Army General Wilhelm Greiner waved his hand, apparently unmoved by the pleading of the Ukrainian family.

    "Your Majesty General, the Volga Federation is sharpening its sword now and can attack at any time. Kharkov is only 30 kilometers away from the border. The opponent can advance along the railway line to the city of Kharkov in half a day. At this time, you  Letting the main force of my Ukrainian National Army defend the trench position on the border, I think this approach is too negative and meaningless!" Simon Petlyura, Prime Minister and Minister of Defense of Ukraine's ruling cabinet and Commander-in-Chief of the Ukrainian National Army, waved.  He held his arms and insisted.

    Greiner smiled slightly when he heard this and said nothing as he smoked a cigarette. Of course he knew that the Volga Federation across Ukraine would not stop, but Kharkov was not the first target of the German army. Ensuring that Kiev was not lost was the bottom line of the German army in Ukraine.  , as for Kharkov, this place is so close to the border, so-called easy to attack and difficult to defend, and it is very convenient for the other party to reinforce and supplement. If it were not to save some face for the Ukrainian government of Simon Petliura, the German Army  General Greiner's own opinion is that Kharkov should simply give up!
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