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Volume 3 Far East Story Chapter 627 (Part 1) I really don¡¯t dare to underestimate my opponent.

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    "Your Excellency Petliura, if it weren't for you and your government's repeated requests, we wouldn't even have to defend the trench position, just let the enemy in, and then we would encircle and annihilate the opponent in three directions. It was you who clamored to defend the capital of Ukraine.  , to defend Kharkov, we just helped you repair the trench defenses on the border north of Kharkov. If your national army does not want to defend, then just open the door and give up. Anyway, it is not a waste of German manpower and material resources.  !¡±

    A German general who was sitting and smoking in the conference room without speaking could not help but speak out. Simon Petliura blushed when he heard this, turned around and shouted with a blushing face, "General von Fran?ois,  Where did your courage and confidence go during the Battle of Tannenberg? The two armies of Tsarist Russia with 450,000 men could not make your First Army blink.

    Although you are leading a reserve division such as the 29th Army at this moment, the combat effectiveness will definitely not be worse than that of the Volga Federation, a ragtag group composed of the former Soviet Red Army and White Guards!  Majestic German infantry general, as the commander of the 29th Army, why do you not dare to lead your troops to the front line to fight, but instead hide on the second line of defense south of Kharkov and watch us suffer?  "

    The Prime Minister of Ukraine's ruling cabinet was obviously even more angry at Francois's performance. As far as he knew, the plan to push the main force of the Ukrainian National Army to the front line of border trench defense operations was formulated by Von Fran?ois.  plan of.

    Infantry General Hermann Carl Bruno von Francois, commander of the 29th Army of the German 10th Army in Ukraine, was born in 1856. He was older than his new boss, Army General Wilhelm Greiner.  He is about 11 years older. Now, except for his mighty beard which is still dark and shiny, his forehead has gone bald and he has gray hair, but his eyes are bright and bright.

    Francois's famous battle was the Battle of Tannenberg on the Eastern Front at the beginning of the European War. That battle established the status of Germany's main general in the entire European War. The German Eighth Army faced two Russian armies.  Within half a month, the Russian 2nd Army was completely annihilated. It was also the main group army with the best weapons, equipment and training among the entire Tsarist Russian army.

    In the Battle of Tannenberg, in addition to Hindenburg becoming famous as the commander of the German Eighth Army, Ludendorff, the Chief of Staff of the Eighth Army, also made a great contribution. But speaking of the person who made the greatest contribution in the entire battle, he should belong to  The First Army commanded by General von Francois, this man commanded the First Army and captured 90,000 Russian troops and eliminated another 70,000, completely erasing the Russian 2nd Army from its organization.

    As Hindenburg was promoted to Berlin as Chief of General Staff, and Ludendorff was also promoted to First Director of Munitions (Deputy Chief of General Staff), von Francois acted as the deputy commander of the Eighth Army for a while, but  This guy's rebelliousness and arrogance made the relationship between him and Ludendorff very tense.

    Fran?ois's disobedience of orders and great results during the Battle of Tannenberg was not officially dealt with, but it caused suspicion between him and Ludendorff.  After Hindenburg and Ludendorff were promoted to positions in the German High Command, Ludendorff in particular served as the First Munitions Director and was responsible for the main practical work.

    Since Ludendorff clearly regarded Francois as a somewhat dangerous figure, Francois was never given supreme command at the army level.  These obstacles to his career are evident in a comparison.

    General August von Mackensen had similar abilities to Francois, and was at the same level as Francois at the Battle of Tannenberg, commanding the 17th Reserve Army to fight side by side.  But compared to Francois's standstill at the military level, Colonel Mackensen was very active in the subsequent war, becoming the supreme commander of a theater and promoted to field marshal.

    Later, in the second battle of Lake Mussoorie, Francois only won a dismal victory, and was even sometimes considered to have suffered a defeat.  After this, Francois handed over the acting command of the Eighth Army and returned to command operations at the corps level.

    Fran?ois received the prestigious Order of the Blue Max on May 14, 1915.  In the description of this honor, his outstanding leadership and outstanding military planning were emphasized, as well as his successful command of the 41st Reserve Division during the breakthrough at the Battle of Cholistanov in Galicia and in May 1915  After defeating the Russian army on the 2nd, Francois received a personal letter from Kaiser Wilhelm II congratulating him on his award.

    After Germany and Austria and the Soviet Union signed the Brest-Litovsk Peace Treaty, and the Soviet Union actually acquiesced to the secession of Belarus and Ukraine, von Francois, an outstanding general of the German Army, still only served as the first officer of the occupying force in Ukraine.  He is the commander of the 29th Army of the 10th Army. The 29th Army has jurisdiction over a reserve infantry division composed of three reserve corps. Among the 10th Army, the level of equipment and training is inferior to that of the 27th Army stationed in Kiev.

    Because of von Francois¡¯s personality?, which made his relationship with Field Marshal Hermann von Eichhorn, the former supreme commander of the German occupation forces in Ukraine, also very tense. Fortunately, Chief of Staff William Greiner was a man of discernment and good use of talents.  Chief of Staff, after taking over Eichhorn's position, William Greiner, the new boss, had a very harmonious relationship with his subordinates who were nearly one year older than him.

    If Francois had his original intention, he suggested that his commander should give up defending Kharkov for the Ukrainians and let Simon Petliura lead his Ukrainian government to move the capital back to Kiev, so haha  Erkov is just a border city, and you can take off this burden at any time.

    Back then, a reserve regiment of Francois's 29th Army was able to drive away the Soviet Union's 5th Ukrainian Army from Kharkov. According to von Francois's judgment, the three German weapons divisions of the Ukrainian National Army  It can withstand at least 5 infantry divisions of the Soviet Red Army.  And his 47th Reserve Infantry Division, stationed in the southern suburbs of Kharkov, can deal with at least three Soviet infantry divisions.  If this were the case, depending on von Francois's temper, he might indeed launch a preemptive cross-border attack on the Volga Federation troops assembled in Belgorod.

    According to reconnaissance and collected intelligence, the main force among the more than 40,000 Allied forces assembled in Belgorod were yellow-skinned Japanese monkey soldiers. Before the start of the European War, military exchanges between Germany and Japan were relatively frequent.  In the Russo-Japanese War in 1905, the Japanese monkey soldiers defeated the arrogant old Tsarist Russia, so von Francois really did not dare to underestimate the Japanese army in the coalition.
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