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Volume 3 Far East Story Chapter 627 (Part 2) Cutting the knot with a sharp knife

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    "You're kidding, Your Excellency Prime Minister, my headquarters is located in the Kharkiv South Railway Station building. If I retreat one day earlier than your government, you can go directly to Berlin to sue me. Besides, our Commander-in-Chief Gray  General Nazi is not like this. It doesn¡¯t matter if you can¡¯t believe me. If you can¡¯t even believe the words of the commander-in-chief of the German forces in Ukraine, then we can only break up and go back to our homes to find our own mothers. "Von Francois!  His face sank and he threatened the Ukrainian Prime Minister.

    Simon Petliura, the Prime Minister of Ukraine's ruling cabinet, turned around after hearing this, stepped forward, grabbed the hands of the German Commander-in-Chief in Ukraine, Greiner, and shook his hand, saying, "Your Excellency, Commander-in-Chief, can your General Headquarters also start from this?"  Kiev moves here to Kharkov, and then brings the three divisions of the 27th Army of the 10th Army here, so that Kharkov can be impregnable, and my government and I can rest assured! "

    Greiner smiled and took out the painful hand, shook his head slightly and said,

    "Your Excellency Prime Minister, you know how important Kiev is to Ukraine. Kharkiv is just a slightly larger border city, but Kiev is the heart and spiritual symbol of Ukraine. If you can listen to my advice, remove the Ukrainian government from Kharkiv.  Kharkov moved back to Kiev, we don¡¯t need to defend Kharkov at all, we just put the enemy under the city of Kiev, cut off their retreat, and annihilate them in one fell swoop!¡±

    "Uh, move back to Kiev? No, how can this be done? I finally persuaded the cabinet to move the government to Kharkov. The enemy hasn't been killed yet, so why should we flee back to Kiev? The cabinet will  What do the Ukrainian people think of my government? How can I convince the soldiers of the Ukrainian National Army? This is absolutely impossible!" Petliura shook his head like a rattle.

    William Greiner and Hermann von Francois looked at each other and smiled bitterly. Here von Francois couldn't help shouting, "Since you don't want to move the capital, Your Excellency Prime Minister, then be prepared."  Focus on defending Kharkov. If your 60,000 national troops cannot stop the attack of 40,000 Allied forces, then I think there is no need for your government to move the capital back! It would be embarrassing to move back! But you must defend Kharkov!  Husband, you have to temporarily hand over the command of the Ukrainian National Army to the German Army Command!"

    "Okay, but General, I think it is more appropriate for us to establish a joint command of the German-Ukrainian forces. Of course, you can take the lead to command the entire Kharkov campaign!" the Ukrainian Prime Minister stamped his feet.

    "As soon as it was decided, a joint command was established. As the commander-in-chief of the German forces in Ukraine, I appointed Infantry General Hermann von Francois, commander of the 29th Infantry Corps, to be commander-in-chief of the Kharkov campaign.  Commander! I hope you two can unite and win this battle!" William Greiner said quickly.

    July 28, 1918, 9:30, the former enemy headquarters of the German-Ukrainian forces in the southern suburbs of Kharkov

    The establishment of the German infantry division in 1918 was an infantry division with three infantry regiments, a motorized anti-aircraft artillery company, an artillery regiment, a reconnaissance battalion, a communications battalion, a supply column and a supplementary barracks.  The Corps has 3 battalions, each battalion has 4 infantry companies, a motorized platoon and a heavy machine gun company.

    An infantry company has 3 platoons. The first platoon has 2 infantry squads, 2 light machine gun squads, and a grenade mortar squad, with a total of 45 people. The 2nd platoon has no mortar squad, with 36 people.  The organization of Platoon 3 is the same as that of Platoon 1, also with 45 people.

    Such a German infantry company in 1918 also had 126 combatants, including about 140 people in the company headquarters squad, about 560 infantrymen in a battalion, about 600 people in the battalion platoon, and motorized vehicles.  Platoons and heavy machine gun companies (which govern three 2-gun heavy machine gun platoons), the strength of a battalion is more than 700, the number of combat soldiers of an infantry regiment is more than 2,100, and the total strength of combat soldiers of an infantry division is about 12,600.  about.

    Among the 27th, 29th and 31st armies of the German 10th Army in Ukraine, the 29th Infantry Army commanded by Hermann von Francois is actually an army composed of three reserve infantry divisions.  Perhaps it was because this guy had offended his two superiors, Erich Ludendorff and Hermann von Eichhorn. He originally commanded the famous First Army of the Eighth Army, and also acted as an agent for the group army.  The commander, von Francois, was reduced to commanding a reserve infantry division in Ukraine to look after the homes and homes of the Ukrainians.

    Since General Wilhelm Greiner's German Army Headquarters in Ukraine insisted on using Kiev as the German base camp, General von Kusmany's 27th Army, as the main force of the 10th Army, was always stationed in Kiev and was unwilling to move south easily.  Participating in the battle to defend Kharkov meant that the German troops on the front line in Kharkov could not concentrate to gain the upper hand against future invaders.

    Of course, William Greiner was a mild-tempered commander-in-chief. He temporarily assigned two infantry divisions of the 31st Infantry Corps stationed in Odessa to the command of von Francois. Of course, he focused on helping the two Ukrainians.  The National Army's infantry divisions defend the Donetsk front line together.

      Nominally, the 10th Army and the Ukrainian army are under the command of the German-Ukrainian Allied Forces Headquarters in Kiev, but in fact, the new commander-in-chief of the German Army in Ukraine gave command to the former enemy in the Battle of Kharkov  Commander-in-chief Hermann von Francois, who became famous in the Battle of Tannenberg 4 years ago.

    Wilhelm Greiner, the commander-in-chief of the German forces in Ukraine, is self-aware. He is what the Chinese say is a staff talent like Xiao He and Zhang Liang. To lead the troops in a war, von Fran?ois like Han Xin must go into battle.  .

    After seeing off General Wilhelm Greiner, the de facto emperor of Ukraine and commander-in-chief of the German 10th Army in Ukraine, at the train station with Simon Petliura, who returned to Kiev, von Francois became the new  The official took office and held the first operational meeting of the former enemy headquarters of the German-Ukrainian coalition forces in Kharkiv.

    The Prime Minister of Ukraine's ruling cabinet, Simon Petliura, only commanded the national army to fight guerrillas. Although he may not be willing to do so, he still wants the Ukrainian head of state to command the large corps to fight, especially against someone who just won the Battle of Ufa.  With the Allied Powers in full swing, he would never dare to take on this hot potato.

    Although it was his sacred duty as a leader of a country to defend Ukraine, he really didn't dare to go to Liangshan without twos and threes, so the command was handed over to the Germans, especially to the once famous von Francois.  For Simon Petliura, he was convinced. Although he was furious about which army should go to the front line, once the matter was settled, Simon Petliura was not a messy master.

    Because the Commander-in-Chief of the German Army in Uzbekistan, Wilhelm Greiner, came to Kharkiv to inspect the front line, the division commanders and chiefs of staff of the five German infantry divisions in Kharkiv, Dnipropetrovsk and Donetsk all rushed to the scene yesterday.  Arrive in Kharkiv.
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