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Volume 3 Far East Story Chapter 636 (Part 2) One head and two big ones

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    July 28, 1918 10:30 Belgorod Allied Army Southwest Front Ukrainian Campaign Eastern Route Army Former Enemy Headquarters

    "Your Excellency, General, we just received the operational plan from the East Route Army and the West Route Army. They unanimously revised the original plan and requested approval from the Front Army Headquarters!" Major General Shunroku Hata, chief of staff of the Southwest Front Army and East Route Army, frowned.  Wrinkling, he walked into Taro Utsunomiya's office holding the new battle plan reported by the East Route Army and the West Route Army.

    "Nani? What are Fujii and Shibagoro doing? Our Central Route Army will start at dawn the day after tomorrow, and these two guys actually want to modify the battle plan? What a joke!" Commander of the Allied Southwest Front, Commander-in-Chief of the Japanese Third Army, and Ukrainian Campaign  The commander-in-chief, General Utsunomiya, was so angry that he almost jumped up.

    Here, Shunroku Hata was in a complicated mood. While seizing the time to look at the combat plan reported by the other party in his hand, he came to the combat map on the side of Utsunomiya Taro's office and quickly marked it. Utsunomiya Taro was holding his hands with a shy belly.  The cigar smoker in the room also got up and came to the map, urging Shunroku Hata to quickly explain what trouble Fujii and Shibagoro had done.

    For Shunroku Hata, the original plan and plan for the Ukrainian campaign was hatched by him, Kanji Ishihara, Seishiro Sakagaki, and a group of combat staff when he was the director of the operations room of the Allied Forces Command.  The army and the West Route Army made large-scale revisions on their own, and their emotions were quite complicated, which can be said to be mixed emotions.

    On the one hand, the enemy's strength in Ukraine has increased significantly in the past ten days. The intelligence originally collected showed that there are only no more than five German divisions stationed in Ukraine, two of which are still in the vast area south of the Dnieper River, and Ukraine  The National Army's troops are only one group army and four divisions, which are the main force.

    Moreover, the German Air Force only had one flying group stationed in Ukraine. However, in just ten days, the Germans seemed to have sensed the approaching danger and replenished the original strength of the German 10th Army in Ukraine to 3 in one breath.  The infantry corps has nine divisions. Although two of the corps are composed of reserve infantry divisions, their combat effectiveness cannot be underestimated. Moreover, the Ukrainian government's army expansion work is also progressing rapidly.

    The Ukrainian National Army, which was disbanded earlier, quickly expanded from one group army to three group armies and 12 infantry divisions. In addition, there were volunteer divisions of varying numbers as supplementary reserves. In this way, the German-Ukrainian coalition forces in Ukraine  The troop strength has expanded to 21 divisions with about 270,000 people. Although the latest reconnaissance results are realistic, among these 21 divisions, there is also a German division and two Ukrainian divisions stationed in the vast area south of the Dnieper River.

    But even if the opponent's last 19 divisions on the north bank of the Dnieper River are calculated based on the German infantry division's full combat personnel of 12,600, and the Ukrainian National Army completely copied the German army's organization method when it was rebuilt, and they were equipped with German weapons.  These 19 divisions have a strength of 240,000 troops, which has exceeded the total strength of 180,000 troops of the Southwest Front Army of the coalition responsible for executing the Ukrainian campaign!

    What's more, the strength of the German Air Force stationed in Ukraine has increased from one flying group to the entire 4th Flying Wing. The strength of the 124 fighters of the three groups should not be underestimated. Although they are all second-tier pilots, the German Air Force has experienced the West after all.  In terms of air combat skills and combat experience, the training of line air strangulation will never be worse than that of the coalition air force, which spends more time on ground attack missions in the past year.

    "Major General Hata, why are you so stunned? Tell me quickly, what did Fujii and Shibagoro do? Our Central Army will attack across the board at dawn the day after tomorrow, and they can actually adjust their combat plans on a large scale. Is it such a childish thing to fight?  "The Army General is obviously really anxious!

    Shunroku Hata came back to his senses, and his men marked the adjusted battle plan of the Eastern Route Army on the map. Then he turned around and pointed at Kamensk Shakhtinsky with a red and blue pencil.  The former enemy headquarters and assembly tunnel originally planned by the Route Army,

    "Your Excellency, Commander, the revised plan reported by the former enemy headquarters of the Eastern Route Army is as follows. Lieutenant General Shibagoro and Colonel Itagaki plan to divide their troops into two groups, and follow the original plan along the way from the current assembly point of Kamiansk Shakhtinsky  Attack to the northwest toward Luhansk. Of course, the first thing to capture after crossing the border is Sorokino (a settlement established in 1912 and renamed Krasnorton in 1938), and then attack toward the northwest toward Luhansk.  Take this state capital, the northern center of the Donets coalfield!¡±

    "Strange, isn't this the same as the previous plan? How are their troops deployed? Where will the other group attack from?" Utsunomiya Taro narrowed his eyes and asked, since the East Route Army did not completely overturn the original battle plan, the new  The plan was still to attack from Kamiansk Shakhtinsky, which made the commander of the front army feel a little relieved.

    "The main force of the Eastern Route Army still attacked from Kamensk Shakhtinsky. Major General Morioka's 12th Infantry Brigade took the lead, followed by Lieutenant General Yegorov's 16th Infantry Division, and Major General Isomura's infantry  ?The 24th Brigade serves as a reserve force and follows the enemy headquarters in front of the East Route Army and follows behind!  "

    "The troops of the East Route Army were divided into two groups. The mobile force on the southern front was composed of the 12th Cavalry Regiment of the 12th Division and the divisional armored regiment of the Chinese 20th Division. Lieutenant General Yegorov's Tsarli  The 17th Infantry Division of the Tianjin Army followed closely behind! The southern line mobile troops took a train south to the coal mining town of Novashakhtinsk, about 80 kilometers south of Kamensk-Shakhtinsky, and used it as a staging area for the attack.  Point of departure!"

    Shunroku Hata used red and blue pencils to draw the advancing routes of the two units of the Eastern Route Army, and said, "His Excellency Shibagoro's main force marched from Kamensk Shakhtinsky Sorokino Molodova Disk Luhansk  , after capturing Luhansk, turn southwest, capture Alchevsk and then go straight to the railway and road hub of Debalchev. The latest reconnaissance information so far, a reserve infantry division of the 31st German Infantry Army stationed in Ukraine and  Two infantry divisions of the Ukrainian National Army are stationed near Lugansk!¡±

    Taro Utsunomiya raised his eyebrows, "The main force of the 12th Division is here. Although the German division has strong combat effectiveness, it is still a reserve infantry division. I think it depends on the hard work of the 12th Infantry Brigade led by Major General Morioka.  , coupled with the follow-up of the 16th Federal Infantry Division and Major General Isomura¡¯s 24th Infantry Brigade, the enemy should not be able to stop the Eastern Route Army¡¯s offensive!¡±
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