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Volume 3 Far East Story Chapter 689 (4) The performance begins

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    In short, as an agricultural country, Ukraine is a high-yield grain area, the dairy cows and granaries of Europe. As a potential industrial country rich in strategic resources such as coal mines, iron ores, and manganese mines, Ukraine has great development potential, not to mention Ukraine¡¯s important geographical location in the south.  Looking down at the Sea of ??Azov and the Black Sea, Romania and the Austro-Hungarian Empire are to the southwest, Poland is to the west, Belarus is to the northwest, Soviet Russia is to the northeast, and the Volga Federation is to the east. It can be said that whether it is the German-Austrian Allies or the Allied Forces on the Eastern Front,  Even Soviet Moscow, which is still fighting a bloody battle with Kolchak, will not easily give up its control and influence over Ukraine.  Fastest update, all text typed by hand

    "My Excellency, the Federal Prime Minister, the importance of Ukraine to all parties is of course self-evident. Let me simply say it clearly. Of course we know that the road to democratic rejuvenation is long and even full of risks. However, the pursuit of democracy is the responsibility of everyone.  The cry deep in the hearts of Ukrainians, especially at this moment when the military and economic strength of the German and Austrian Allies is unprecedentedly strong, and the Soviet Union has too much to take care of itself, even if we want to switch to the arms of your Volga Federation and join the Allied camp, we will need your full support and support.  It¡¯s going to take all the effort to cooperate, right?¡±

    Ukraine¡¯s plenipotentiary diplomatic representative in Samara, Nikolay Nikolayevich Zhukovsky, almost hugged Pepelyaev¡¯s legs and begged for mercy.

    Watch the latest chapter above Kharkov at 4:00 on July 30, 1918

    Just a few hours ago at midnight, the call back from Nikolay Zhukovsky, the plenipotentiary diplomatic representative of the Ukrainian government in Samara, did not go to the anxiously waiting prime minister of Ukraine¡¯s ruling cabinet.  Simon Petliura brought the expected good news. Although the Prime Minister of the Volga Federal Government Pepelyaev met with Zhukovsky who urgently asked for an audience at night, the two sides also sat down and went through several exchanges of words.  There were rounds of negotiations, but the mere offer of ceding the Crimean Peninsula to the Volga Federation obviously did not fool the Volga Federation.

    Simon Petliura must be thankful that although the delaying strategy did not seem to have the desired effect, the plan B made by the former enemy headquarters of the German-Ukrainian forces saved the two divisions of his Ukrainian 1st Army. The enemy observation post reported at 4 a.m.  After that point, at least 160 large coalition aircraft entered the sky over the Ukrainian border 35 kilometers north of Kharkov.

    Infantry General Hermann von Francois, commander of the German 29th Infantry Corps and former enemy commander-in-chief, and Chief of Staff Lieutenant General Joseph von Dietrich commanded in the underground shelter of the train station south of Kharkov  Simon Petliura, the Prime Minister and Minister of Defense of Ukraine and Commander-in-Chief of the National Army, who was also in military uniform, couldn't help but take a breath of cold air.

    The panicked voices of the commanders of the reconnaissance battalion and the guard battalion of the two Ukrainian infantry divisions who were holding the front-line positions on the phone made people feel the huge trembling and fear in the hearts of the officers and soldiers of the two Ukrainian battalions. Petlyura  After yelling at the phone, I figured out that the Allied Air Force not only dispatched SE5, DH4 and FR18 fighters as it did during the day yesterday, but also dispatched at least one flying group's bi-wing, twin-engine heavy bomber Handley Page O/400.

    Different from the opponent's three-wave air raid of a total of 360 sorties during the day the day before, the field airports on the outskirts of four cities including Kharkiv, Dnepropetrovsk, Donetsk, and Luhansk were the key targets of the opponent's air raid at the beginning yesterday.  In addition, with the newly built German field airport not far from the Krasnod train station, the last wave of bombing was concentrated on the Kharkov ring defense line and the first trench and fortification line north of Kharkov.  , and the Ukrainian Central Artillery Group position behind the defense line.

    As for the air strike at 4 a.m. on July 30, the opponent deployed 160 fighter planes at once, including 40 Handly Petty O/400 heavy bombers that appeared over Ukraine for the first time. The focus and priority of the air strike were  The central artillery group position, the first trench fortification position and the circular defense line in the north of Kharkov.

    Since the sky north of Kharkov was still before dawn at this time, more coalition air strikes flew into designated airspace to carry out group bombing of ground target areas. The only three German anti-aircraft artillery battalions left to defend Kharkov were destroyed.  The order was not to be fired into the air, which allowed the city of Kharkiv to escape disaster again. The large-scale air raid by the coalition air force seemed to be surprisingly effective and highly accurate, but in fact it was due to the fact that the German-Ukrainian coalition carried out the attack overnight.  b planned a retreat plan, and punched the empty space.

    If the air raid named "Scavenger" before this ground offensive brought anything, it was that the 40,000-strong Central Route Army of the Allied Southwest Front that had gathered in the attack area on the Ukrainian Volga Federation border north of Kharkov  Many officers and soldiers were full of confidence. The densely packed coalition fighter planes overhead seemed like a talisman, making every warrior of Japan's third division excited and excited. The first trench-style position in Ukraine across the border watched as it was blown into pieces.  There was a sea of ????fire but there was no way to fight back.

    In fact, the coalition forces¡¯ ¡°Scavenger¡± operation at dawn that day, the SE5 fighter jets of the 1st brigade did not carry the four 25-pound bombs under the wings, but were dispatched entirely as escort fighters. The purpose was to prevent the appearance of German flying squadrons that would reinforce the Ukrainian battlefield. The German No. 1 fighter jet stationed in Odessa  If the 29th Fighter Squadron of the wing is transferred over, it can actually participate in the interception over Kharkov. The problem is that the captain of the 1st Fighter Wing, Herman Wilhelm Go, learned a lesson from the experience.  Lin strictly ordered all remaining German fighter planes in Ukraine not to cross the Dnieper River without permission to fight. Unified actions cannot be taken until all reinforcements of the new flying wing are in place.

    The key target of the Handlipet O/400 heavy bomber group dispatched by the Allied Air Force was the first trench defense position on the border 35 kilometers north of Kharkiv. The Germans helped the Ukrainian 1st Group Army use a  The trench-type position that was repaired over many months is ten kilometers wide from east to west and 2,500 meters deep. The position turned along the Severol Donetsk River on the west side is ten kilometers wide from north to south and 3,000 meters deep.

    If the bombs dropped by a heavy bomber formation of 40 fighter planes are evenly distributed on a 20-kilometer-long front line, on average, one heavy bomber will be bombed every 500 meters. In fact, there are always key differences in bombing. The coalition forces  The air force's air strikes were concentrated on the ten-kilometer defense line running east-west in the north. 40 Handley Petty O/400 heavy bombers dropped a total of 320 bombs weighing 250 pounds each on this ten-kilometer-long defense line.  heavy aerial bombs.

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