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Volume 3 Far East Story Chapter 682 (1) Overpowering

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    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 do so easily.  Going south to participate in the battle to defend Kharkov, this made it impossible for the German troops on the front line in Kharkov to concentrate on gaining the upper hand over the invaders.

    Of course, William Greiner, former Chief of Staff of Eichhorn, was a gentle commander-in-chief. He temporarily allocated two infantry divisions of the 31st Infantry Corps stationed in Odessa to von Francois.  Command, however, the focus of the mission of these two German reserve infantry divisions is to help the two Ukrainian National Army infantry divisions defend the Donetsk front line.  , all text typed by hand

    Nominally, the 10th Army and the Ukrainian army are under the command of the German-Ukrainian Allied Forces General Headquarters in Kiev, but in fact, the new commander-in-chief of the German army in Ukraine granted the former enemy command to the former enemy commander in the Kharkov battle.  Hermann von Francois, the master 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.  .

    That night, Infantry General Hermann von Francois, who hosted a military meeting at his former enemy headquarters, was in a very bad mood. He did not expect that the famous German 1st Fighter Wing would actually join forces one night.  In such a short time in the morning, everything disappeared and suffered such heavy losses. If Hermann Wilhelm Goering's fighter wing had not stationed a fighter squadron in Odessa, it would not have participated in last night and this morning.  In terms of air combat, then the 1st Fighter Wing created by the Red Baron Manfred Albrecht von Richthofen no longer exists.  Read the latest chapter

    The German Air Force had never suffered such a disastrous defeat in the entire four years of the European War, and its opponent was just the little-known Chinese Air Force. I heard that many of the opponent's pilots had only received three months of crash training. Many Chinese  The pilot even participated in a large-scale air battle for the first time and actually won?  Actually almost annihilated the 1st Fighter Wing under the command of the arrogant wing captain Hermann Wilhelm G?ring?

    In the air battle this morning with the Allied Allied Forces on the Eastern Front, the Luftwaffe suffered more losses than the combined losses of the entire Luftwaffe on the Western Front in the past month. Although G?ring said that the losses of the Chinese and the 1st Fighter  The alliances were very different, but could this be used as an excuse and reason for Hermann Wilhelm Goering to shirk his defeat?

    Didn¡¯t G?ring always claim that his ace pilot could at least fight against three other aircraft?  Why did you, G?ring, collapse suddenly after just two flying wings came up?  Of course von Francois knew that in terms of performance, Germany's Fokker series of fighter jets did not have much advantage over the opponent's fast British SE5 biplane fighter, but only one-third of the opponent's opponent was SE5, and the remaining one-third  But a light bomber like the dh4!  How come the 1st Fighter Wing, which is full of famous ace pilots, and all Fokker fighters, loses so miserably?

    Of course, Hermann Wilhelm G?ring's explanation is that the Fokker fighter squadron of the 1st Fighter Wing actually has the upper hand against the opponent's DH4 fighter-bombers, and it will definitely not be inferior against the opponent's SE5 fighter squadron. If you suffer a loss, you will suffer a loss.  The Chinese have their own research and development and production of the latest single-engine, two-seat, single-wing, metal-cased fighter-bomber, the China FR18. This aircraft is large but fast, and its climbing performance is even better than the German Fokker series of fighter jets. If it were not for the FR18  If the hovering and turning performance were slightly weaker than that of the Fokker series, Hermann Wilhelm Goering would have no chance of escaping.

    After the air battle ended in the morning, when the dark-faced Hermann Wilhelm G?ring insisted on taking the 8 Fokkers returning to Kharkiv Airport and evacuated to Kiev, Infantry General von Francois almost ran out of breath.  He jumped up and cursed. Although the 1st Fighter Wing was assigned to the German Army Headquarters in Ukraine for temporary dispatch and use, it was the German 1st Air Force Headquarters that could directly command Goering. Facts have proved that Goering gave up continuing to take off to meet the enemy.  It is a wise choice to defeat the enemy and quickly retreat to Kiev.

    After noon, the overwhelming coalition air force's large-scale air strikes plowed back and forth the airport, anti-aircraft artillery positions, and artillery positions in the Kharkov, Dnipropetrov, Donetsk, and Luhansk areas. The German ground was high  The artillery unit did not expect that the coalition aviation force would launch air strikes on the ground so quickly after such a tragic air battle in the morning. The eight 20mm anti-aircraft artillery battalions deployed at five field airports in four cities were completely helpless in the face of the opponent's horizontal bombing at an altitude of 3,000 meters.  .

    In the era of 1918, the aircraft shot down by anti-aircraft artillery were basically slow-flying bombers with poor maneuverability, and most of them were shot down at medium and low altitudes. Even so, the average number of shells consumed by anti-aircraft artillery to shoot down an enemy aircraft wasMore than 5,000 rounds were fired. Throughout the afternoon of July 29, all the German anti-aircraft artillery battalions that dared to shoot in the air suffered heavy losses. If von Francois had not ordered all the remaining anti-aircraft artillery battalions to abandon anti-aircraft shooting and hide themselves, they would have been defeated by the coalition forces.  The 360 ??large formation air strikes will destroy not 5 but more ground anti-aircraft artillery battalions.

    Of course, the misfiring of the German anti-aircraft artillery battalion caused the coalition air force's air attack targets to shift from the airport to the artillery positions of the German and Ukrainian forces, focusing on the first fortification line north of Kharkiv and the second ring defense line.  Heavy artillery position in the room!  The three anti-aircraft artillery battalions that defended the artillery positions and about 30% of the artillery that had not been moved in time were destroyed by the aerial bombs rained down by the coalition forces.

    The 1st and 2nd Infantry Divisions of the Ukrainian 1st Group Army guarding the first line of defense became the third target of the coalition air strikes. Of course, because the trench-type defensive positions built with the help of the German army were relatively strong, the trenches were supported by logs and built  , bulletproof shelters are everywhere in the traffic trenches.

    The coalition forces used light fighter-bombers such as the DH4 and the Chinese FR18 for bombing. Except for the 150-pound aerial bombs dropped by a few FR18s, which caused considerable damage and blows to the Ukrainian army's fortifications, more coalition forces dropped 75-pound aerial bombs.  Although the 150mm heavy howitzer shells were more powerful than the 150mm heavy howitzer shells, they were unable to completely destroy the fortifications built with the help of the Germans.

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