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Volume 3 Far East Story Chapter 628 (Part 2) Understand your mood

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    "Your Excellency, Division Commander, of course I can understand your mood, but Your Excellency Petliura has repeatedly emphasized that Kharkov cannot be abandoned as the capital, so the former enemy headquarters of the German-Ukrainian Allied Forces can only focus on this theme to formulate operational plans.  Considering that the enemy on the eastern front is at least 100 kilometers away from Luhansk, while the enemy on the northern front is only 60 kilometers away from Halsk, we consider that we should be able to buy enough time on the eastern front for the main force of the German-Ukrainian coalition to defeat the enemy on the northern front.  , return south to relieve the siege of the eastern front!"

    Chief of Staff Feng Dietrich explained patiently, but his face became a little ugly.

    Simon Petliura, the head of Ukraine here, stood up and waved his hand and said, "There is no need to argue about this issue. Kharkiv's priority is of course higher than Luhansk. Fortunately, from the border to Luhansk and then to Donne  Tsk, at least 200 kilometers. If the Second Army continues to resist the opponent's attacks, it can delay the opponent for at least a week. The prerequisite is to cut off the railway and prevent the opponent from using it! "

    "However, Your Excellency Commander-in-Chief, if the railway is destroyed, the production and transportation order in the Donbas coalfield will be completely disrupted. I don't know how much effort and cost it will take to repair it. How can the mother of Ukraine withstand such a torment?"  , Donetsk to Luhansk are densely populated areas, are the Ukrainian people reduced to slaves of the Volga Federation? " Matilchuk is a senior guy among the national army division commanders, and he is scratching his head at this moment.  argued.

    What this guy said caused a resonance among the generals of the 2nd Ukrainian Army, and there was a lot of noise in the conference room. Obviously, the Ukrainian National Army with guerrilla origins is still a long way from the regular National Defense Forces.  To leave, these generals, who are at the level of sub-divisional commanders, although they wear military uniforms and have military ranks, they still have the temperament of an old guerrilla captain.

    When the former enemy commander-in-chief Hermann von Fran?ois saw that such a noisy combat meeting like a vegetable market was inappropriate, he slapped the table with a stern face and shouted,

    "They are simply a bunch of mobs. You are the Ukrainian Defense Forces, not guerrillas. You are serious soldiers, not ordinary people wearing military uniforms. It is the bounden duty of soldiers to obey orders. If any of you has the ability, you think you can command and fight this battle well.  , the Chief of Staff and I asked you to come on your own, I will take the German division back to Kiev, and leave you to struggle here. You can fight as you like, okay? If anyone doesn't step up and take on this burden, just leave it to me.  Mouth!"

    The 62-year-old German battlefield veteran roared like this. The generals of the Ukrainian National Army who were decades younger than him shut up obediently. The conference room finally became quiet. Simon Petliura was also angry here.  He stood up and said calmly, "The former German-Ukrainian enemy headquarters is responsible for controlling and commanding all the troops in Kharkiv, Dnipropetrovsk and Donetsk. Which national army general is unconvinced? I will use the national defense  In the name of the minister and commander-in-chief of the national army, he announced his immediate dismissal!¡±

    The combat meeting at the former enemy headquarters of the German-Ukrainian forces was finally able to proceed normally according to the pace planned by von Francois. The chief of staff, Lieutenant General von Dietrich, pointed the baton back to Kharkov.  The first line of trench trenches in the north,

    "The specific layout of the northern battle line. The 1st and 2nd Infantry Divisions of the Ukrainian National Army are responsible for guarding the border trench defense line. The width from east to west is ten kilometers and the depth is 2.5 kilometers. The length of the flank defense line along the right bank of the North Donets River is  Ten kilometers, the depth is also 2.5 kilometers. The two artillery regiments of the 1st and 2nd Infantry Division will organize artillery positions at a lower position at the junction of the positions. In addition, the two artillery regiments of the 3rd and 4th Infantry Division will be strengthened.  group."

    "In this case, although our infantry only uses two divisions on the Kharkov front, the artillery consists of 4 regiments, with a total of 144 75mm howitzers and 48 105mm howitzers. These 192 artillery pieces are the first in defense.  The sea-fixing needle of the line position.

    According to the intelligence we collected before, the number of artillery of the Japanese Third Division is far inferior to ours. At most, one of their divisions only has one field heavy artillery wing with 24 150-caliber heavy howitzers. In addition, there is only one artillery unit.  The wing has only 36 75mm caliber field guns and 18 75mm mountain guns!  "Chief of Staff Von Dietrich's explanation gradually calmed down a group of impatient Ukrainian generals. Based on this analysis, this battle might really be fought.

    July 28, 1918, 9:40, former enemy headquarters of the German-Ukrainian forces in the southern suburbs of Kharkiv

    "Your Excellency, Chief of Staff, I heard that the Allied Forces not only have Japanese troops, but also infantry divisions of the Volga Federation and Chinese troops. You only counted the number of standing artillery in one division of Japan. Do you think the infantry divisions of the Volga Federation and the Chinese troops are  No artillery?"

    The person speaking at this moment was the Prime Minister of Ukraine's ruling cabinet, Simon Petliura. This guy always felt that he was not at peace with his heart. Just now, Von Dietrich calculated that the defending side not only had more troops than the other side, but also had more troops than the other side.  Could it be that the firepower is even greater than that of the opponent?  This allowsPetliura felt a little unconvinced.

    "Well, of course they have artillery, but the predecessor of the Volga Federal Infantry Division was Kolchak's Ufa White Guards. According to their organization, an infantry division has at most 1 to 2 companies of 76mm caliber mountain field guns, which is 6  With 12 gates, there is nothing to worry about. As for the Chinese Army, the information we have received so far is that the opponent's Southwest Front Army is mainly composed of the Japanese Third Army. Although the Chinese Army has also sent a certain number of armored troops to participate,  In terms of the number of artillery, it can basically be ignored.¡±

    Of course, Von Dietrich cannot brag about how powerful the Chinese armored forces are in front of these Ukrainian national army generals who have never seen the market. In fact, in the Battle of Ufa, an armored brigade of the Chinese armored forces defeated three infantrymen of the Soviet Red Army.  I have heard of the battle cases of the division, but from the intelligence collected, the Chinese armored vehicles are only equipped with machine guns, and the armor is only 8mm thick. By then, I am afraid that they will not even be able to block the shells of their own 20mm anti-aircraft guns. The Soviet Union  Just because the Red Army couldn't deal with the Chinese armored forces didn't mean that the German army couldn't win.

    Although the German army in 1918 had not begun to equip a large number of tanks and armored vehicles like Britain and France, the 37mm anti-tank gun had already appeared in the establishment of the infantry division. Although as a reserve infantry division, whether it was a 20mm anti-aircraft gun or a 37mm anti-aircraft gun,  There are not many tanks and guns, but at a critical moment, it is not a problem to color the opponent's armored vehicles.
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