Beiyang 1917

1918年7月21ri18：45萨马拉联军司令部

"Everyone, the casualties of the coalition forces in the Battle of Ufa were not large. The main reason was that the detour and pursuit made the troops very tired. In order to cope with the Allied forces on the French battlefield on the western front, we had to send troops to the Battle of Ukraine and the South without enough rest time. battle.

Therefore, as the strategic reserve force of the coalition forces, the expansion of the Central and Yang Front Army is imperative. Once the main force of Germany and Austria is really brought back by our actions in Ukraine, it is far from enough to block the opponent only with the existing strength of the coalition forces and the Volga Federation. Not enough! "Wang Geng's tone was quite dignified. Seeing this, more than a dozen Chinese and Russian senior generals in the conference room sat upright one after another, and the air in the conference room was silent.

"Chief of Staff, Hata Toshiroku was dragged by Utsunomiya to hold a combat meeting for the Southwest Front Army. Please tell him about the army expansion plan of the Central Yang Front Army!" Wang Geng sat back in his seat and lit a cigar. Yan, while waving to let Jiang Hongyu, the old scalper, continue to play the role of chief of staff.

"With regard to the reorganization and expansion of the Allied Forces, the reorganization of the Volga Federation's 8 armies and 4 cavalry corps can be regarded as the first stage. Of course, this has been arranged before. Since the 32 troops are veterans, so The reorganization work at this stage will be carried out simultaneously with the mobilization of the Southwest Front Army and the Southern Front Army, as well as the preparations for the assembly of the Ukrainian Campaign and the Southern Campaign.

The pressure of logistical support in the first stage mainly lies in the replenishment of weapons and ammunition and the stockpiling of food. Therefore, the central yang front army that will not participate in the Ukrainian campaign and the southern campaign for the time being, as well as the political fu and workers, peasants, businessmen and soldiers of the Volga Federation at all levels, have to tighten up It's been a hard time in the belt, and of course there is still basic food security, but the rations of meat, eggs, poultry, fish, chocolate and lemon candy for the central yang front army and federal government agency civil servants will be greatly reduced in the near future! "

Jiang Hongyu's words were obviously not just a joke. The Allied Forces' logistical support and food ration standards have always been the existence that the Allied Forces and the Russian Federation Army are proud of. It's dark, but when I think about it, on the land of the Volga Federation at this moment, the total strength of the main forces of the three front armies of the coalition has exceeded 50, and there are nearly 600 million ordinary people who need to guarantee the minimum food supply. How much food is enough?

Thinking about it this way, everything will be fine if you don’t go hungry. As for chocolate and lemon candy, you can only take a step and see. Of course, many people are so serious about the Ukrainian campaign. The strength of the main German and Austrian troops who came here is so serious, and it is quite disapproving, especially after experiencing the experience of nearly 50 people killed by both sides in the Ufa Battle.

More than one person is still hesitating. If the Ukrainian campaign goes smoothly as planned, how much German and Austrian troops will be able to contribute to the Eastern Front. If there are 40 divisions, there will only be 50 troops. At that time, it might not be impossible to fight!Why be so cautious and trembling?

Of course, no one dared to think that Wang Geng, the commander-in-chief of the Allied Forces on the Eastern Front, the young uncrowned king of Asia, the Chinese idol, and known as the King of China, would be a cowardly guy who was afraid to fight against the main forces of Germany and Austria. Those who dare to think so are afraid of this idea As soon as he is exposed, he will be strangled to death in the cradle by himself at any time!

Jiang Hongyu glanced at all the generals present. Obviously, everyone was calm about tightening their belts for a short period of time in order to ensure the supply of the Southwest Front Army and the South Front Army. This made Jiang Hongyu secretly nod in his heart, and Then said,

"The second phase of the coalition's military expansion mission will be mainly completed by the Zhongyang Front. That is to say, as the strategic reserve of the coalition, the Zhongyang Front is ready to respond to the military operations of other fronts in addition to defending the Volga Federation, and to monitor the north. Apart from the war between the Chak White Guards and the Soviet Red Army in the west, the most important task is to expand the army and prepare for war!"

"In the past few months, we have successively recruited 10 local recruits from all nationalities in Chelyabinsk, Western Siberia. Among them, 6 people, including six infantry divisions, have been organized into Semyon Novov and Pavlov's first and second armies, the remaining 4 people are still in training, and they will also enter the Volga Federal Territory in early August, and the three reorganization divisions reinforced by China, as well as Japan. Together, the three divisions of the Allied Forces will join the battle sequence of the Central Yang Front Army!"

"Considering that in the Battle of Ufa, each combat detachment was organized separately at the division level and below, and the divisions above the division were mixed with Chinese, Japanese, and Russian nationals to fight, and achieved good results and records. Therefore, we consider the expansion of the Central Yang Front Army of the Allied Forces , will try to adopt a mixed grouping method!" Jiang Hongyu drew a schematic diagram of the organizational structure on the whiteboard of the small meeting.

"The Central and Yang Front Army of the coalition will form a mixed group army. Each infantry group governs a Chinese mixed infantry brigade, a Japanese brigade, and a Russian infantry division. Each group army has about 4 to [-] combat troops. Of course, the language is always It is a problem, but to fight on this land, we believe that this kind of mixed formation operation is a better way to integrate all kinds of troops into one formation, at least in the battle of Ufa, it achieved good results." Jiang Hong Encounter Road.

"The chief of staff is right. As the armies of the Allied Powers, the yellow-skinned Chinese and Japanese armies have always been suspected of being invaders by the local people because of the relationship between the region and the skin color ethnicity. They are not as good as the Chinese army, so they will inadvertently feel inferior, and of course, this will easily encourage the arrogance and arrogance of the generals and troops of the Chinese army!"

Wang Geng flicked the soot, and continued to explain as if casually, "Whether within the Sino-Japanese Alliance or within the Allied Forces, we have always upheld the principle that all ethnic groups are equal regardless of nationality. Equipment and combat experience are definitely uneven, but personality and status are completely equal, to win the respect of others, one must show excellent military discipline and record, everything else is nonsense!"

A few Russian generals obviously heard the ups and downs in their hearts, and there was a trace of admiration and gratitude in their eyes, while the Chinese generals remained silent. From the sick man of East Asia to standing on the top of the nation in the world, this contrast is quite large for the Chinese generals, so it is worth mentioning. There is a process of adaptation, and it is only right and proper to say that the Chinese generals and troops looked down on the rough old Maozi troops before the Ufa Battle.

However, the Russian troops in the coalition forces, especially the cavalry troops, have achieved brilliant results, and the Soviet Russian Red Army's momentum of shouting "Ula, going to the sea of ​​unprecedented tactics" when charging, has gradually won the respect of the Chinese generals and troops, so at this moment Hearing that the commander-in-chief of the coalition forces often talked about equality, no one dared to stand up and oppose it in a mischievous manner!

It's just that Li Mingzhong was thinking in his heart that the Russian Cossack cavalry troops in the coalition army had a good record, but their military discipline was also terrible. If there had been no battle, the souls who died under the guns of the coalition military police would probably be worse than those who died on the battlefield. It was much more, and the military discipline of the Soviet Red Army was not much better than that of the White Guards.

Nima, even a company commander may have a personal female medical soldier to serve him, doing laundry, cooking and brushing boots during the day, and warming the bed at night!Co-authoring our Chinese army who participated in the war is miserable, I was stunned by the military song of the three major disciplines and nine points of attention, so I dare not break the discipline indiscriminately!

"The command of the mixed formation is not a big problem. The defect is in logistics support. The caliber of the rifle bullets is not uniform. The rifles used by the squadron are American field rifles with a bullet caliber of 7.62. The Japanese army and the Siberian Russian troops use both Ri-type 6.5-type rifle with a bullet caliber of [-].

不过好在混编部队的机枪将统一使用中**队的制式步枪，也就是7.62mm口径的1917bra勃朗宁班用机枪、7.62mm口径m1918a3气冷式勃朗宁重机枪，还有12.7mm口径勃朗宁大口径高平两用重机枪，60mm口径排属迫击炮和81mm口径营属迫击炮也统一使用中国制式，而且炮兵都是使用75mm口径三八式野炮和75mm口径四一式山炮，以及150mm口径重榴弹炮。”

"That is to say, except for rifle bullets, other machine gun bullets have the same caliber as mortar shells and mountain artillery shells. Therefore, the difficulties in logistics and ammunition support can be overcome. The remaining problems are language and living habits. Even in the Chinese army or the Japanese army, soldiers come from all corners of the country, and many of them speak dialects from different places, so the language problem is not as difficult as imagined!" Jiang Hongyu said with a smile.

"It's true. Some of my soldiers learn Japanese and Russian pronunciation, which is easier than learning Mandarin, and many Chinese characters and pronunciations in Japanese and Chinese are similar. As for Russian, learn daily conversations and military regulations. The related words and the like, as long as you work hard, you can make do with gestures in three and a half months!" Zhang Weixi said aside.

"Hey, speaking of it, my soldiers didn't take the opportunity to shout "Ula~" during the Battle of Ufa. It was the Soviet Red Army who shouted!" Xiong Shihui said, slapping his thigh.

"Don't think that it is so easy to transport three reorganized divisions and three divisions from thousands of miles in the country. Nearly 20 people plus equipment, almost all the locomotives of the stations along the Trans-Siberian Railway were used. Nearly 200 troops The trains are transporting day and night, and the nearly 7500-kilometer railway to Ufa alone takes four days and five nights on the road from Manzhouli." Wang Geng was obviously dissatisfied with the lack of concentration of these generals.

Xiong Shihui and Zhang Weixi touched their heads, obediently stopped gnawing, and continued to focus on listening to the chief of staff of the coalition army talk about the expansion plan of the Zhongyang Front Army.

"The Central Yang Front Army of the Allied Army will adopt a mixed formation method for the infantry group army. Now wait for the arrival of three domestic divisions and nine mixed brigades, plus three divisions and six brigades of the Japanese Army, plus the first Siberia The Second Army, the Allied Forces Command intends to use the 20rd, 18th and No.[-] divisions and the three newly arrived reorganized divisions for a mixed formation, so that there will be [-] Chinese infantry mixed brigades, and half of each mixed brigade has experienced Siberia Half of the veterans of the Great March and the Battle of Ufa are new domestic reinforcements!"

"The three newly arrived divisions of the Japanese Army should have been mixed with the original three divisions of the Third Army, reaching the level of half recruits and half veterans, but because the Ukrainian campaign cannot wait, the newly arrived Japan's three divisions and six brigades will no longer be mixed, but directly mixed with Chinese mixed brigades and Siberian infantry divisions to form an infantry group army!" Jiang Hongyu continued to draw the formation diagram on the whiteboard.

"Chief of Staff, the Japanese army only has six brigades. After the three-nation troops are mixed, they can only form six group armies. What about the remaining troops?" Sun Liangcheng raised his hand immediately and asked with a quick mind.

"You're right. In the first stage, the central and yang front of the coalition will mix six new infantry armies. Each infantry army will govern a Chinese mixed infantry brigade, a Japanese mixed infantry brigade, and a Siberian infantry division. A du li field heavy artillery regiment, a du li armored regiment, a du li anti-aircraft artillery regiment, and an engineer and logistics regiment, with a total strength of about 4.7 troops!" Jiang Hongyu replied.

"Of the remaining 12 Chinese mixed infantry brigades, 8 mixed infantry brigades and 4 Siberian Russian infantry divisions will be mixed into four mechanized infantry armies, each of which will govern a mixed armored brigade, a mixed infantry brigade and A Russian infantry division, a group army heavy artillery regiment, a du li antiaircraft artillery regiment, a du li armored regiment and an engineer and logistics regiment, with a total strength of about 4 people!"

The remaining 4 infantry mixed brigades, together with the remaining two mixed brigades of the First Armored Division, plus the Ural and Volga cavalry corps, will form two armored armies, and each armored army will govern a mixed tank brigade , a mixed armored brigade, a mixed mechanized infantry brigade, a heavy artillery brigade, an antiaircraft artillery brigade and a cavalry corps"

"Tank brigade?!" Several Chinese generals exclaimed, while Pepelyaev and other Russian generals were confused. How could the coalition forces be equipped with tanks?Where did the tank come from?What's it like?

"Yes, the research and development progress of the tanks developed by China is one month ahead of schedule. The first batch of domestically produced tanks rolled off the production line at the end of July, but the large-scale production will take place in mid-to-late August. The equipment needs of the two tank brigades can be met by the end of August! It's not convenient to talk about the specific details now!" Jiang Hongyu showed a smug look on his face, although the fd-7 is a light tank with a total weight of only six tons, it will be one of the trump cards and secret weapons in the hands of the coalition forces .

Here, Semenov and Pavlov have just been promoted from Russian infantry division commanders to army commanders for a few days. The six Russian infantry divisions of the two army groups were included in the establishment of the mixed infantry army.

What is gratifying is that it was obviously organized into the core main force of the coalition army. What makes people uncomfortable is that it is impossible for the commander of this mixed army to let a Russian general like himself be the commander so soon?Command a Chinese mixed infantry brigade and a Japanese mixed infantry brigade, and there are so many heavy artillery and anti-aircraft artillery?Both Semyonov and Pavlov didn't dare to think about it, and their expressions were a little embarrassed and weird for a moment.

"Semyonov and Pavlov, you are the Russian generals I have trained by myself. You must hurry up and learn to improve. The Ufa campaign will be of great help to the improvement of the Russian troops and generals in Siberia. I believe that in the next You will definitely be useful in the battle, and as long as the conditions are right in the future, it will be no problem to be the commander of the mixed army or even the commander of the front army, so don't belittle yourself and lose your enterprising spirit!"

The commander-in-chief of the coalition army saw some clues from the expressions on the faces of the two, and comforted the two with a smile, while turning to Chapayev and Sergey, the two cavalry commanders, said,

"Although the cavalry is an advanced branch, it will gradually fall behind in the face of armored vehicles and tanks. Lieutenant General Chapayev and Lieutenant General Sergey, I believe that excellent cavalry generals like you will definitely grow into tank soldiers and tanks in the future." Armored General.

I still say the same thing, the coalition army treats generals of all nationalities and nationalities equally, as long as they have the ability to fight well, they will definitely be the commanders of the group army and front army in the future!You must maintain that vigor and enterprising spirit. Of course, you must continue to learn and improve. After all, mechanical weapons such as tanks and armored vehicles are still very different from war horses! "

Wang Geng's gentle comfort obviously moved the four Russian generals, and the four generals all had red eyes and nodded fiercely.

Here Pepelyayev and Barayanov looked at each other, their faces were a bit bitter. Their Ufa Army and Samara Army were obviously regarded as the army of the Volga Federation and were not included in the Central Yang Front Army In the reorganization and expansion plan, this made the two feel a little bit lost, and their mood was quite complicated.

Unexpectedly, Wang Geng turned his face and said to Pepelyaev and Barayanov with a smile,

"You two must be complaining that I, the commander-in-chief of the Allied Forces, treats one more than another? In fact, it is not the case. The Allied Forces have their historical mission, and they will eventually dissipate after the mission is completed. As for the Volga Federation, I hope that no matter what it is called in the future, it will be forever. Standing on this land to protect and defend his people from being violated!"

"Your Excellency Pepe, the task of reorganizing and expanding your two armies is also very difficult. I hope that the Volga Federation will start recruiting recruits as soon as possible. At least in the first stage, no less than six divisions will be recruited on the land of the Volga Federation. At that time, we will reorganize the armored and tank divisions of the Volga Federation!"

What Wang Geng said made Pepelyaev and Barayanov feel better immediately!