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Volume 3 Far East Story Chapter 917 (5) Here comes the one who adds insult to injury

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    "The general is the commander of the Front Army and the Commander of Japan's Third Army. As long as the Front Army Headquarters makes the decision to adjust the campaign, the 7th Division and the 12th Division will not dare to disobey the order, right?! Your Excellency, Commander, the night is long and the dream is many, and it will be cut off when it is cut off.  I think it is the best way to continue to expand the results in Kharkov! To this end, we must concentrate our forces. We might as well transfer all the Western Route Army to the east, and under the personal command of the general, we can carry out a large-scale operation in the direction of Kharkov.  Come on!" It was Oba Jiro who finally couldn't hold himself back.

    Oba Jiro obviously knew that if the entire West Route Army was transferred eastward, even if Fujii and Ishihara were subdued by the authority of General Utsunomiya, they would never accept the command of himself, the former enemy commander of the Central Route Army and the commander of the Third Division.  If so, only Utsunomiya Taro himself or Chief of Staff Shunroku Hata are qualified to command and dispatch the coalition forces in the direction of Kharkov In this case, why not let yourself take the initiative?  If your Excellency, Commander, is slack for a moment.  ¬°pressureþ¶û¿Pingpingjiu, the dark brother Fuyoun Huan Yuiji, who has just won a big victory, is not without a trace of possibility, right?

    Oba Jiro's move can be said to kill two birds with one stone. The commander of the front army and Utsunomiya Taro's eyes lit up when they heard this. They pondered for a moment, turned around and asked Hata Junroku, "Chief of Staff, what do you think of Oba-kun's suggestion? The center army does not  Strengthening the military strength will obviously not be able to successfully expand the results. Instead of dividing the troops into three routes and insufficient troops in all aspects, if the German army is not fooled and we cannot find fighter planes for reinforcements in Kharkov we can simply cancel the establishment of the West Route Army.  If we directly cooperate with the Central Route Army and move eastward along the train two days is enough!"

    However, Shunroku Hata frowned and shook his head slightly and said, "Your Excellency, Commander, the logistics, ammunition and material transportation support are all arranged according to the three-pronged attack plan. It was not easy to hoard and reserve the supplies that the West Route Army needs."  Supplies, ammunition and food were transported to Rylisk and Suja, and tens of thousands of soldiers were eaten by horses. In less than a week, they were completely overturned and were being transported back. The material support in the middle road will exceed our current logistics preparation capabilities  At that time, there were more troops in Kharkov, but the stored grain and ammunition supplies were not enough. The troops couldn¡¯t go into battle hungry, right?¡±

    Chief of Staff Shunroku Hata said this, and the conference room fell into silence again. Kharkov had just been occupied in the north, and a large number of wounded had to be evacuated. The local people who had not escaped needed to be given relief rations, and the troops were supplemented with supplies, ammunition, and food.  To move forward, the entire battlefield needs to be cleaned and reorganized. At this time, the transportation capacity of the railway line north of Kharkiv is like a taut string. At this time, if the main force of more than 60,000 people of the Western Route Army is transferred eastward there will be no three  It can't be reached in five days How can this be regarded as the speed of soldiers?  This is a waste of opportunity!

    "Soldiers are expensive and quick, so in the first stage, the mobile troops of the West Route Army can be transferred eastward. The two teams of the Chinese 2nd Armored Regiment and the Japanese 7th Infantry Regiment only have more than 7,000 people in total. They are not suitable for Kharkov.  The logistics pressure in this direction is not great, so we will first transfer them as the vanguard to fight to the south of the Uda River" Lieutenant General Otani rolled up his sleeves and went into battle shirtless to fight against Shunroku Hata!

    Shunroku Hata disapproved in his heart, but Oba had just won a victory with the center army led by Oba. As the chief of staff of the front army, Shunroku Hata did not want to blindly fight with him. Besides, seeing what General Utsunomiya meant, Muto and Oba were quite moved.  Erlang's suggestion, in that case, let's wait and see

    Shunroku Hata, who is known as a schemer and a wise man in the Japanese Army Staff Headquarters, actually does not object to Muto and Oba's suggestions from the bottom of his heart. However, as the chief of staff of the front army and the Ukrainian campaign, he must comprehensively consider the situation on the entire battlefield and the local situation.  The relationship and balance between the various forces on the side, and now that General Utsunomiya has an ambiguous attitude and is unwilling to easily veto Major General Muto's suggestions, it would be better to let the third division try its luck with Fujii and Ishihara of the West Route Army

    The military meeting of the Central Route Army came to an end. The various departments of the Central Route Army in Kharkov seized the time to consolidate the occupied areas, replenish and rest, and prepare for air defense operations. The consultation telegram to discuss the eastward movement of the South Detachment of the West Route Army was in the name of Ukraine.  In the name of the campaign headquarters, it was sent to the West Route Army, and at the same time, a copy was sent to the Samara Allied Forces Headquarters!

    At 9:00 on August 1, 1918, in the territory of Kursk of the Volga Federation, the former enemy headquarters of the Western Route Army in Rylisk

    "It's just playing the piano! What do the front headquarters and the battle headquarters mean? Is the campaign plan a child's play? What Oba won in Kharkov was just a miserable victory. Kikuchi and Muto's brigade suffered more than 8,000 casualties. This  It's obvious that they were crippled by the Germans How many troops does the opponent's reserve infantry division have? No wonder they want to target our Western Route Army. Your Excellency, Division Commander, this kind of unreasonable request for the Western Route Army must be made.  Definitely push it back!¡±

    The one who was banging the table and roaring in the conference room was Colonel Ishihara Kanji, Chief of Staff of the Western Route Army of the Allied Southwest Front. Ishihara, who had always had a good temper, was really furious at this moment. Although the telegram was sent in the name of the Front Army Headquarters and the Campaign Headquarters  , but this guy can see behind it at a glanceIt must have been Erlang Oba, the former enemy commander of the Central Army, who was behind this!

    "Chief of Staff the telegram was sent in the name of the Front Army Headquarters. Although it was in a consultation tone, it seems that General Utsunomiya was moved by Lieutenant General Oba. As for the Central Army, it is not only a problem of insufficient strength, Oba  Jiro's 3rd Division has almost lost its combat effectiveness. The two main brigades of Kikuchi and Muto have suffered so many casualties. It will take a long time before they can go into battle again. If they don't come to our side, how can we expect the Volga Federation to do so?  Are the troops going to hold up the situation?"

    Lieutenant General Fujii Yukitsuki, the commander of the Japanese 7th Division, had a clear sense of gloating in his tone. The Central Route Army's occupation of Kharkov certainly wrote a strong mark on the credit book of Oba Jiro and the 3rd Division.  Pen, but the price paid is staggering. According to Lieutenant General Fujii, there is only one German reserve infantry division, the 47th Division, as the main force in the entire direction of Kharkov. The other Ukrainian puppet troops call it volunteers or some kind of national army.  They are all just soy sauce characters, and the 40,000 troops on the front line of the coalition's central route army are all ace main force

    "Your Excellency, Division Commander, Chief of Staff, the battle report said that 35,000 enemy troops were annihilated, but how many German troops were there? 5,000 or 4,000? The casualties of the Japanese 3rd Division in Datong were much greater than the casualties of the German infantry division. I heard that  Not counting all the artillery units belonging to the two brigades, even the ** artillery battalion of the 1st Chinese Armored Regiment was sacrificed Moreover, the original plan of the Central Route Army was to besiege Kharkov and provide reinforcements. Now the plan has been realized  Is that so? This is a record achieved when the Allied Air Force has air supremacy If you ask me, Da Ting's center army was completely defeated!"
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