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    Beiyang 1917648_Read the full text of Beiyang 1917 for free_Chapter 648 (Part 2) The clear-cut advice comes from (.)

    Although Ludendorff could not understand why the Chinese king was in such a hurry to attack Ukraine and the south immediately after the Battle of Ufa, but from the perspective of troop deployment and logistical material support, the possibility of the other side's bluff was mostly bluffing.  The possibility of a big fight on the Eastern Front was not high, so he still pinned his hopes on the two regimes of Ukraine and Soviet Russia to stall the westward advance of the entire Allied coalition.  ¡¾High quality update.¡¿

    "Erich, I know your judgments are often correct, but the young King of China must not be underestimated. I am worried that William Greiner's 10th Army may not be able to stabilize the situation in Ukraine. Ukraine is a granary.  The fertile land on both sides of the Nieper River has always been a high-yield agricultural area, and the coal in the Donets Coalfield is also an important resource for us. I suggest that you carefully consider the situation in Ukraine! "

    Hindenburg's words were more of a warning than a reminder. Hindenburg had always been extremely wary of Ulyanov and his Bolshevik movement. Although Ludendorff sent people to take Ulyanov to  He and his comrades were sent back to Russia to carry out revolution and brought down the giant Tsarist Russia. However, the Bolshevik movement could not be stopped so easily. As the war progressed, workers' strikes also broke out one after another in major cities in Germany.  This has caused quite a headache for the German government and military!

    "Paul, I know for sure. According to the information compiled by the Intelligence Bureau of the General Staff Headquarters, we now have a sufficient understanding of the strength of the Allied Forces on the Eastern Front, that is, the troops assembled by the King of China. The Chinese have a total of 100 troops west of the Ural Mountains.  They invested three of their integrated divisions, designated the 3rd Army. Of course, the strength of their integrated divisions is similar to that of an American division, and their strength is basically twice that of ours and the British and French infantry divisions!"

    "If you calculate it this way, the Chinese troops in the Eastern Front Allied Forces of the Allied Powers are about 100,000. Adding the three divisions of the Japanese 3rd Army, the total strength of China and Japan as the main force of the Eastern Front Allied Forces is only about 180,000.  Calculated, that is, the strength of 12 German divisions is equivalent to our group army with four armies. When we fought the Battle of Tannenberg, wasn't the 8th Army the strength of four armies with 180,000 people?  !¡±

    "Erich, do you mean that the three armies of William's 10th Army and the three Ukrainian armies of Simon Petliura are enough to deal with the Eastern Front Allied Forces of the Allied Powers that you mentioned are mainly composed of the Chinese and Japanese coalition forces?  Don¡¯t forget, the newly established puppet regime of the Volga Federation under the single-handed support of the King of China has also formed many group armies. According to the latest intelligence, the Volga Federation has as many as eight group armies. Of course, their combat effectiveness cannot be compared with ours.  But in terms of military strength, our strength in Ukraine does not have the upper hand!¡±

    Hindenburg frowned. For Ludendorff, a rebellious and talented deputy and the de facto supreme commander of the German High Command, the cooperation between the two in the past two years should be quite close. Of course, with  It turned out that Mars Hoffman, the staff officer of the German 8th Army, once said in a sarcastic tone to a person who visited the battlefield: "This is where the marshal slept before the battle, and this is where the marshal slept after the battle. To be honest,  This is also where the marshal slept during the battle."

    In other words, governing by doing nothing is Hindenburg's self-proclaimed way of employing people. However, to young generals in the German army like Hoffman, Hindenburg is just a coward and an old man. Even Ludendorff may not have the publicity to the outside world.  So wise and invincible.

    "My dear Marshal, the fate of Germany will be decided on the Western Front. What gains Germany can achieve in 1918 depends on the autumn offensive we are preparing to launch on the Western Front in August. Any distraction will distract us.  , if the United States, Britain and France were not frightened by us, how could they have eagerly forced the Sino-Japanese Alliance to form a coalition to send troops to the Eastern Front? For this reason, they even acquiesced to the forces of the Sino-Japanese Alliance to extend their hands across the Ural Pass.  "

    Munitions Director Erich Ludendorff was obviously a little dissatisfied with Hindenburg's indecisiveness. The 71-year-old Marshal had long lost the all-powerful spirit and charm of the past. In addition to his thick and neat beard, Hindenburg was still as powerful as ever.  Lord Bao obviously seemed tired and lacked confidence.

    "Erich, I have an idea. Can we take advantage of the opportunity that the King of China's troops on the eastern front have just finished the Battle of Ufa and the newly established Volga Federation has not yet gained a stable foothold? We can mobilize the main forces of the three armies.  To drive the Allied Eastern Front forces out of the Ufa Plain in one breath?

    I estimate that as long as the Imperial Army exerts their brave and courageous spirit, it will be no problem for us to defeat the Chinese. Although that army is armed with American equipment, it lacks experience in large-scale combat. I heard that almost all of their commanders are  He is a young man in his 30s. In our case, he can at most be a battalion commander.It¡¯s up!  "

    Hindenburg stroked his beard and looked at his deputy seriously, and the suggestions he made were really sound.

    July 28, 1918 10:10 Berlin, Germany¡¯s Third Supreme Army Command Operations Conference Room

    "Paul, what you are talking about, I remember we discussed it in July. At that time, we defeated the summer offensive launched by the Allied Powers on the Western Front. Both sides needed to recuperate for a period of time. At that time, we mentioned whether we needed to send troops to station.  The Ukrainian Army Group went to Tsaritsyn in one go. Since we helped the Ukrainians take back Kharkov, there is no reason why we can¡¯t help Krasnov¡¯s Don White Guards capture Tsaritsyn!¡±

    Erich Ludendorff is still annoyed by the controversy a month ago. In fact, after Germany and Soviet Russia signed the Brest-Litovsk Treaty, the 10th Army of the German occupation of Ukraine helped the re-armed Simon  .Petliura's Ukrainian National Army recaptured Kharkov, previously occupied by the Soviet Bolsheviks.

    Ludendorff also mentioned at the beginning that when the German 10th Army fought all the way to capture Tsaritsyn, it supported a pro-German White Guard regime of Krasnov, thus competing against the Kazan White Guard regime supported by the Allied Powers.

    As a result, Hindenburg was disturbed by the American divisions that appeared on the French battlefield. He always felt that the Allies were likely to continue their offensive on the Western Front, so instead of reducing the troops on the Western Front, they needed to be strengthened.

    This forced Ludendorff to keep the other two armies that had been transferred from the Eichhorn Group in Ukraine to the Western Front, instead of letting them return to the Eastern Front. The only remaining one was stationed there.  In Ukraine's 10th Army, only one 27th Army is a regular infantry army, and the remaining 29th and 31st Army are second-line units composed of reserve infantry divisions.

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