Beiyang 1917

1918年7月11ri12：00乌法

"Reporting to the commander-in-chief, the air force that attacked in the morning has returned one after another. We lost one SE5 fighter jet, and another SE5 and two DH4 were injured by heavy machine guns from the opponent's air-to-air shooting. According to the Eagle Eye 3 report, After aerial reconnaissance and assessment, the air force's air strikes achieved relatively satisfactory results. It is estimated that the Soviet Russian Yegorov Ninth Army lost at least 50% of its strength and weapons, and the loss of food and ammunition was even greater! Nearly [-]% !"

"A se5 was shot down? Did the pilot parachute? Killed or captured?" Wang Geng turned around and asked.

"It was shot down while swooping down at low altitude. The pilot didn't have time to parachute, and the machine gun position exploded when he hit the ground with the plane!" Tian Jun, the director of the war room, said in a low tone.

"The pilots who died should be awarded honorary titles, and the pensions for their families should be enough to arrange their lives! This is our first pilot who died in the line of duty west of the Ural Mountains!" Wang Geng sighed in his heart, war is always a battle. A successful business, as a soldier, must have the consciousness and spirit of sacrifice to die for the country.

"Your Excellency, Commander-in-Chief, don't be too sad. Where there is war, there will be casualties. Airplanes, cannons, machine guns, and bullets don't have eyes. The two sons of His Highness Nogi both fell in the offensive and defensive battle of Lushun, but compared to our air raid The huge battle results, these losses are minimal!" General Utsunomiya Taro, deputy chief of staff of the coalition forces and commander of the Japanese Third Army, comforted his commander.

"Tell the returning pilots to eat and rest as soon as possible. All the ground crews seize the time to refuel and reload the participating aircraft. The injured aircraft will be replaced with spare aircraft. One and a half hours later, the air team will attack again!" Wang Geng quickly returned to normal. , issued such an order!

"Will the air team continue to attack? Your Excellency, Commander-in-Chief, will the pilots be too tired?" Utsunomiya Taro asked hesitantly, blinking his eyes.

"The Ninth Army has suffered heavy losses. I judge that the opponent is likely to disperse and retreat in order to avoid the concentrated attack of our air strikes. Therefore, we must seize the time to launch another air strike before dark!" Wang Geng explained, thinking to himself, now is The best time to fight a dog in the water, the next time the opponent's air defense experience and firepower counterattack will definitely increase violently, and it will not be easy to catch such a good opportunity.

"The other party must not have imagined that we can make a comeback in such a short time. I think this is a good way! Of course, the pilots are a little tired, but they can fly there in an hour, bomb for half an hour, and come back in an hour. They can go back to the base for dinner. I see the problem. It’s not that big! These guys waited for so long for two days before they got the chance to fire, and they’re enjoying themselves!” Wu Peifu, deputy chief of staff of the coalition forces and commander of the Third Army of the Chinese Army, agreed.

"Will the attack fleet continue to fly over the head of the Rzhevsky cluster in Chernigovka?" asked Tian Jun, the operational director in charge of recording and conveying orders.

Wang Geng pondered for a while, and asked, "Have the generals captured by the three divisions of the Northern Route Army of the Soviet Russian Fifth Army southeast of Chistopol been flown back to Ufa?"

"The plane sent to pick up the prisoners just landed at Ufa Airport half an hour ago, and the prisoners have arrived now. The leader is the Chief of Staff of the Fifth Army, Eh, and there are two division commanders and a division political commissar. Does the commander-in-chief want to see them? ?” Tian Jun said with a smile.

"See them? Not for the time being, Deputy Chief of Staff Wu, you go to appease them, and then send someone to send the Chief of Staff of the Fifth Army, Ech, to Rzhevski, and tell them to put down their weapons and surrender. The lives and property of the Red Army soldiers with weapons will be safe, and they will not be forcibly repatriated back to the Bolshevik camp." Wang Geng casually ordered.

"Your Excellency, Commander-in-Chief, do we really have to accept so many wounded soldiers from the Red Army? That's not a small burden!" Utsunomiya Taro hurriedly reminded Wu Peifu when he saw Wu Peifu nodded and wanted to leave.

"Do your best, Tukhachevsky will not bear these burdens for us anymore, we can't just let Rzhevsky's 3 people starve to death in the encirclement or be wiped out by injuries ? There are more than 500 female medical soldiers there, and they may all be able to serve the officers and soldiers of the coalition forces in the future! Your Excellency Utsunomiya, are you interested in choosing some blond and blue-eyed nurses for use?"

Wang Geng laughed himself when he said that, Utsunomiya Taro was startled when he heard the words, he hurriedly shook his hand and said, "This...No need, no need...You have repeatedly emphasized the military discipline of the coalition army...I can't help it. Don’t have the guts to step on landmines!”

Wang Geng smiled secretly, turned to Wu Peifu and said, "Tell that Lezhevsky not to have any illusions, he should be responsible for the lives of the more than 3 Red Army soldiers in the encirclement, instead of only considering their lives." That doctrine still has a personal future, and the collapse of the Southern Group is imminent. If he goes back to the Red Army and removes the banner used by the scapegoat and the first responsible person to sacrifice to the Bolsheviks, there will be no second way out! "

Wu Peifu nodded when he heard the words, Wang Geng waved his hand, and the deputy chief of staff of the coalition army left the war room with Hata Toshiroku.

Here, Utsunomiya Taro was a little distracted by more than 500 blond-haired and blue-eyed Russian female medical soldiers who were about to appear. Looking at Wang Geng's grinning smile, this guy gritted his teeth consciously, thinking, are women still afraid?But everything must be avoided from the sight of the king of China, otherwise, maybe the military police of the coalition army who are only responsible for him would dare to arrest him, a general of the Japanese army, and serve him in military law!

"Report! Sun Liangcheng's Department of the Southern Ranger has called. They have occupied Samara and Togliatti, wiped out a brigade left behind by Yegorov's Ninth Army of the Soviet Red Army's Southern Front Army, and captured more than 4000 people. The enemy in the nearby canal area, Sun Liangcheng asked if he wanted to use the captured boats to cross the river and attack Ri Guryovsk on the other side?"

Hearing this, Wang Geng walked over and carefully looked at the one-fifty-thousandth combat map in the Samara area. He thought for a while, the Samara reservoir dam has not yet been built, and the Volga River is detoured in Togliatti. Take a big bend and go back and continue to flow southward all the way to the south, and Togliatti is the largest ferry from Syzran on the other side of the Volga River.

"Call back and ask Sun Liangcheng's department not to cross the Volga River, just hold the two key points of Togliatti and Samara on the right bank, and send another armored regiment to go north along the right bank of the Volga River, and take down the ferry opposite Simbirsk. There is no need to cross the river, just cut off the cross-strait traffic and ferry boats!"

"Your Excellency, Commander-in-Chief, since our air force has exerted tremendous power, why do we still have to make such a long detour? We will use air strikes to completely defeat the more than 20 Soviet Red Army on the right bank of the Volga River. That's it!" Utsunomiya Taro asked puzzledly.

Wang Geng smiled, and took out a cigar. Utsunomiya Taro unconsciously took out a box of matches and lit a fire for the young commander-in-chief of the coalition forces. Wang Geng leaned forward and lit the cigarette, taking a deep breath. After taking a sip, with an intoxicated look on his face, he explained to the commander-in-chief of Japan,

"No matter how powerful the air force is, the planes can't go to the ground to fight bayonets and capture prisoners. Although the Soviet Red Army we are facing now has almost no air power, and the air defense weapons on the ground are far from enough, such a good day is good for us. It is hard to come by, sooner or later the Soviet Red Army will grow up and know how to conceal and fight back!

Moreover, in the future, our enemy on the Eastern Front will probably not be the Soviet Red Army, but the German and Austrian Army and Air Force. What should we do with the army?In the future, if the German-Austrian Air Force goes into combat on the Eastern Front, what will we do when we are at a disadvantage in the air?Shouldn't there be wars? "

Wang Geng hoped that he could be as light as possible, but often in the actual operation process, he became as light as possible. No matter what, before the decisive battle with the main forces of Germany and Austria on the Eastern Front, the coalition forces must seize every opportunity to temper the team. This is Wang Geng's original intention.

"Your Excellency Utsunomiya, don't think that we will launch a second wave of air strikes today. I dare say that the Ninth Army will definitely learn from experience and lessons after being hit in the morning. They may even be digging deep into the bunker at this moment. Both air raids and air-raid shelters are possible! In the future, after the other side has prepared and countermeasures, it will be more and more difficult to achieve results in the air strikes of the coalition air force, and the losses of the air force will also increase. In war, the warring parties have always been Make use of strengths and circumvent weaknesses and learn wars from wars! It is not advisable to expect the other party to make low-level mistakes all the time."

Behind the cigar smoke rising from the room, the commander-in-chief of the coalition forces spoke in a somewhat lonely and helpless tone.

"Sogar... Now that's the case...Your Excellency, Commander-in-Chief, you also said that Yegorov's Ninth Army is likely to learn a lot from a fall. Maybe the air defense trenches have been dug and they can hide in at any time. Maybe they If we reorganize the heavy machine guns and set them up on high ground and roofs in advance, and then intercept our planes from bombing and mopping up, then do we still need to go to the second air strike when they are waiting for the enemy?"