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Volume 3 Far East Story Chapter 647 (Part 2) Special attack

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    Wang Geng today specially warned and beat the generals of the coalition leadership, Jiang Hongyu, Jiang Fangzhen, and Tanaka Yiichi, just as he warned the generals of the Southwest Front Army and the Southern Front Army when they decided to fight the Ukrainian Campaign and the Southern Campaign. At the same time, he also warned the generals of the Southwest Front Army and the Southern Front Army.  I reminded myself again and again that the previous victory of the coalition forces in the Battle of Ufa was due to the factors of weakness and the enemy's surprise and unprepared attack. Of course, it was also related to the fact that the Soviet Union was afraid of wolves in the front and fear of tigers in the back, and it was related to Moscow's remote control and blind command.

    However, even Moscow and the newly established Volga Front of the Soviet Red Army were in the process of constant self-reflection and growth. In Wang Geng's own eyes, the Allied Eastern Front Allied Forces, which still lacked large-scale combat experience, were nothing more than  They are just a group of battlefield warriors armed with advanced weapons and strict military discipline.

    I haven't had a chance to experience the encirclement and annihilation war in which the large armies of Tsarist Russia and Germany and Austria on the eastern front advanced in a combined attack, let alone the meat grinder hell of trench warfare on the western front. Thousands of heavy artillery roared and fired. I was prepared to experience these all day long.  The soldiers of the reorganized division of the Chinese participating army and the Japanese division could not even imagine what it was like.

    In total, the Japanese Army has a little more experience in this area. After all, commanders at all levels in the Japanese divisions basically participated in the 1905 Japanese War, and many of them had studied abroad or been stationed before the European War.  Some of the German military attach¨¦s who went to the Western Front to watch the war after the start of the European War witnessed and experienced with their own eyes the scene of millions of troops on both sides of the Western Front fighting together for more than half a year.

    At this time, the combat experience of the Chinese troops in the Allied Forces on the Eastern Front is limited to the combat experience of Wu Peifu's 3rd Army when it marched into Outer Mongolia and Lake Baikal. At that time, the troops under Wu Peifu's personal command were only the 3rd Division of the participating armies, and Sun Liangcheng, Zhang Weixi and Xiong Shihui  It's nothing more than commanding his own mixed brigade.

    The Battle of Ufa was a rare opportunity for military training. Sun Liangcheng, Li Mingzhong and Xiong Shihui all withstood the test and gained valuable experience. The troops under their command were also upgraded from a mixed brigade and an integrated division to a China-Japan-Russia multinational coalition, and new domestic reinforcements  The real experience of the three division commanders Song Zheyuan, Tong Linge and Shi Yousan in leading troops was to command a mixed brigade of participating troops, and their combat experience was nothing more than bandit suppression and exercises.

    Of course, when these people were still commanders of regiments and battalions in Feng Yuxiang's 16th Mixed Brigade, they also fought some battles with local warlords with the 16th Mixed Brigade, but most of them saw the excitement and casualties and the scale was small.  It was just a pitiful battle, not even a battle.

    The Battle of Ufa was not a big test for the newly born Allied Forces on the Eastern Front, but the gains were considerable. The troops were tempered and gained confidence. They cooperated in air and ground operations, and coordinated infantry and artillery operations, especially the large-scale defensive battle under the city of Ufa.  It was quite beautiful, and the defensive operations of a battalion commanded by Li Fugui, who had already become the commander of the 3rd mixed cavalry brigade in the town of Sterli Tamak, were also quite beautiful. Of course, there was an element of luck.

    In addition, the Buzuluk defense and encirclement battle that caused Yegorov and his Soviet 9th Army a bloody encounter were also fought in a orderly and impressive manner. This is a turbulent era. As long as there is an opportunity, there will be something.  Countless general stars flashed. Nezhkov, who commanded the Buzuluk blockade operation, now commanded a cavalry corps, and classmate Li Fugui already commanded a cavalry regiment, not to mention those who had been driven away from the Lake Baikal area by Sun Liangcheng's armored forces.  The fallen Petrovich and Bashkar, one became the commander of the group army and the other became the commander of the 2nd Cavalry Corps.

    This is an era of gathering talents, and it will also be an era of gathering stars. While Wang Geng was filled with emotion, he did not forget that the Allied Powers had not yet suffered too many setbacks and failures. This force relied on defeating the Soviet Red Army.  The main thing is firepower and intelligence. If it faces the main German and Austrian force with the same firepower and intelligence as its own, if the number of heavy artillery on the ground and the number of air force aircraft in the sky even exceeds that of the Allied Powers on the Eastern Front, what will this force do?  What kind of results?

    Wang Geng himself has no answer at the moment, but one thing is that in Wang Geng's previous life, the German Army was the only force in the warring countries that was equipped with mortars on a large scale, and the German Air Force was well-deserved to be the air supremacy at that time. Britain and France  No matter how hard the air force works, even most of the time the British and French air forces have the upper hand in the number of combat aircraft, but the combat efficiency is far less than the smaller German air force. Of course, Germany is also developing the number of air forces very quickly!  Even after the armistice in 1919 in Wang Geng's previous life, Germany, as a defeated country, handed over 16,000 aircraft of various types and 27,000 aero engines to the Allied Powers.

    In fact, in Wang Geng's previous life, after the second half of 1918, as the United States began to substantially join the battlefield, the warring parties launched a crazy plan to expand the air force and aircraft. The Americans planned to produce 22,000 aircraft to arm themselves.  Air Force, the number of aircraft produced in the British and French plans also exceeds 20,000. In contrast, the number and production capacity of the German Air Force still lags behind that of the Allies. However, the performance of the Fokker series aircraft has always been better.?Occupy the forefront of outstanding fighters.

    At this time and space, although the number of combat aircraft from the warring countries was not exaggerated to the extent planned, the combined number of British and French combat aircraft on the Western Front was nearly 10,000, and the number of the German and Austrian air forces was at least 10,000.  More than 6,000 aircraft. Of course, the production capacity of new aircraft is a problem for all countries. Among these aircraft, only less than a quarter of the new aircraft were successfully developed in the second half of 1917 and the first half of 1918. More aircraft  Models are 1916, 1917 or even earlier models.

    In the mind of the commander-in-chief of the coalition forces, the future collision with the main German and Austrian forces in the first battle is crucial. This is not the strength of the three armies of William Gretel's 10th Army District stationed in Ukraine, let alone  Among them, the 29th and 31st armies are still composed of six reserve infantry divisions. Wang Geng expected that the main German and Austrian forces would be at least 30 divisions. In his opinion, if Ludendorff grasped the opportunity well,  , if he could make an accurate judgment on the situation on the Eastern Front, Ludendorff might even mobilize 50 to 80 divisions to attack the Eastern Front and defeat the Eastern Front Allied Forces in one breath!

    Before the Brest-Litovsk Peace Treaty was signed between Soviet Russia and Germany, the main German and Austrian forces on the Eastern Front almost never had less than 100 divisions. Of course, the Tsarist Russian troops, known as the rattling steam presses, even  Six million troops were used.  Compared with the original 6 million-strong Tsarist Russian army, it became the norm at that time that the German and Austrian troops on the Eastern Front were always at a disadvantage.
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