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Volume 3 Far East Story Chapter 686 (1) Delay Strategy

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    "Report to the Commander-in-Chief that the mission of the 1st Infantry Division is to leave the division guard battalion to continue to hold the original position. The main force of the division, together with the returned artillery regiment, set out overnight to leave the first trench fortification position and secretly move 20 kilometers to the east.  Hidden standby in the forest area beside the Kharkiv River, the radio remains silent. Unless there is an emergency, communication will only be turned on during routine reporting times! "

    The commander of the 1st Ukrainian Infantry Division, Artem Vladimirovich Milevsky, gave a watertight answer. Obviously, as the commander of the main division of the Ukrainian National Army, this guy is not just a useless person who yells all day long.  Fool.  Fastest update, all text typed by hand

    "Report to the Commander-in-Chief, the 2nd Infantry Division left the division reconnaissance battalion to hold the position. It must hold on for one day. Even if it is sacrificed, it must attract the air attack firepower of the enemy's air force and attract the firepower of the opponent's artillery. The reconnaissance battalion will be hit by an extra bomb.  Or artillery shells, our other main forces will face one less threat in the short term. The main force of the 2nd Infantry Division and the artillery regiment will move eastward along with the 1st Infantry Division and wait for the next order from the former enemy headquarters. Report completed! "

    The commander of the 2nd Infantry Division, who then repeated the order, obviously knew the mission he shouldered very well, and his rhetoric was even more heroic than Milevsky's!  These words made several senior German generals look at him a little.  Read the latest chapter

    Then the commanders of the 3rd Infantry Division, the 4th Infantry Division and the two Kharkov Volunteer Divisions repeated the orders they received in turn, and this difficult emergency military meeting came to an end.

    As soon as the meeting ended, a room full of senior generals from both sides who had been sulking in the basement for a long time got up and left, preparing to rush to their respective units and positions overnight to implement Plan B.

    Here, the former enemy commander-in-chief of the German-Ukrainian forces, Hermann von Francois, stopped him and stood up to return to his official residence to prepare for another meeting on evacuation and retreat of government agencies. Prime Minister Simon Petlyura of Ukraine,

    "Your Excellency, Prime Minister, please stay!"

    July 29, 1918 19:30 Kharkiv South Railway Station former enemy headquarters of the German-Ukrainian Allied Forces |

    "What else is there? Your Excellency, General, I am rushing back to the city government building. An emergency meeting of the ruling cabinet is waiting for me to convene. It is very likely that Kharkov will not be able to hold it. If I had known, the evacuation work would have been stronger.  The time is better. Your plan B is to make up for it now. How much trouble will it cause to my government? Is there anything we can¡¯t talk about tomorrow? "

    The Prime Minister of Ukraine is anxious to rush back to the meeting. The entire ruling cabinet is eagerly waiting for him to bring back the latest news. If Kharkov really cannot hold on, then these dignitaries and bourgeois politicians will quickly retreat with their families.  Leaving the powder keg of Kharkov is the first choice. Of course, it must be organized, but when a disaster is imminent, why should we care about everyone if we can't take care of the small family?  Even Petliura himself had to send his family back to Kiev first before talking about anything else.

    So at this moment, Simon Petliura is very reluctant to continue to toss in the airtight and sweaty underground air-raid shelter of Hermann von Francois, but what von Francois said next  But a cold sweat broke out on his back,

    "Your Excellency, Prime Minister, please be patient. Even if the Allied forces launch an attack, they may not be able to reach the city of Kharkov before tomorrow evening. You know that we have installed pre-installed equipment along the railway from Kharkov to the first line of defense.  **, the engineer battalion can blast at any time during retreat.

    It is about 36 kilometers from Belgorod in the Volga Federation to the border. From our first trench defense line on the border to the northern ring defense line in Kharkov, it is almost 36 kilometers. Even if the opponent launches an attack early tomorrow morning, they will be fully armed.  If you walk 40 kilometers, it will probably take more than 8 hours!  What's more, we still have troops left behind to hold on to the first line of defense!  "

    Joseph von Dietrich, the chief of staff of the former enemy headquarters of the German-Ukrainian coalition forces, smiled and comforted the Ukrainian ruling cabinet prime minister who was a little anxious and absent-minded.

    Simon Petliura calmed down after hearing what German Lieutenant General von Dietrich said. He turned around and walked helplessly back to his seat, sat down, took out his cigar, and suppressed his anxiety.  Mood, he said to the two German generals who were looking at him,

    "Okay, what else is there? My Chief of Staff, your Excellency the former enemy commander-in-chief, I am here to listen!"

    Here, Von Dietrich smiled and struck a match to light a cigarette for the Ukrainian leader. He motioned to other staff officers and guards in the war room to go out first. The leader, Hermann Von Francois,  Then he narrowed his eyes and looked at the Ukrainian Prime Minister, thinking about how to tell Simon Petliura about Plan C that his immediate boss, William Greiner, gave him when he called back from Kiev before evening.

    ¡°Your Excellency Petliura, according to the information received from Berlin, the diplomatic representative of the Ukrainian government, Nikolay Nikolayevich ZhukovsKyi is still staying in Samara, the capital of the Volga Federation, and is flirting with the federal government of Vasily Nikolaevich Pepelyayev?  Is this a thing?  "Fon Francois asked as if casually.

    "Uh~~~" Simon Petliura felt nervous. This matter is not big or small. Since the Ukrainian People's Republic and the Volga Federation have not established formal diplomatic relations, neither party has  Each other recognizes each other's political status, so just sending a diplomatic representative to contact the other party is not a big deal. However, the current Ukrainian ruling cabinet's control of Ukraine completely relies on the support and assistance of the German and Austrian Allies behind it.  Ukraine is constantly shipping out grain and minerals, and importing German weapons and ammunition.

    In the spring of 1918, the number of German and Austrian troops occupying and stationed in Ukraine peaked at 500,000. Later, when Ludendorff launched the spring offensive against the Allies on the Western Front, the main German and Austrian troops stationed in Ukraine were gradually transferred to  On the eastern front, an Allied force launched a summer offensive on the western front. The main German and Austrian forces on the eastern front were further deployed to support the western front. This reduced the size of the German army in Ukraine from an Eichhorn Army Group to now only  A mere German 10th Army had about 100,000 troops.

    Therefore, in theory, all policies and activities in the diplomatic field of the ruling cabinet mainly composed of Simon Petliura's Ukrainian National Union must be approved by Berlin before they can be carried out. For example, sending diplomatic representative Zhukovsky  They went to Samara to contact the Volga Federation and tried to formally recognize each other and establish diplomatic relations. This was tacitly approved by Berlin. Hindenburg and Ludendorff's purpose was to maintain the stability of the Eastern Front as much as possible.

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