Beiyang 1917

1918年7月28ri9:15别尔哥罗德联军西南方面军、中路军前敌指挥部

"Chief of staff, if the enemy confronts our main force on the eastern front and the northern front launches a counterattack, once the 13th Infantry Division retreats to the border, won't the flanks of the main force on the eastern front of my third division be exposed to the enemy's eyes? Is it wrong? What should the other party do if they encircle and detour my troops?" Erlang Niba, head of the Third Division, couldn't help asking.

Oba Jiro's question is also a question shared by many generals present, but Hata Shunroku smiled and said,

"Your Excellency, division commander, once the two sides form a stalemate on the eastern front, and the main force of Ukraine launches a counterattack on the northern front, then the 13th Infantry Division of the Voronezri Group Army will withdraw to the first trench defense line near the border. If the opponent’s counterattack and attack on the northern front continue, we will abandon the confrontation on the eastern front. The 5th Infantry Brigade and the 23rd Brigade will retain some troops to delay and confuse the enemy on the eastern front.

"Give the opponent a heavy blow in the waist and eyes, making him breathless in pain! I used to do this when I was a child fighting with others in the county!" Lu Huanyan, the head of the Chinese Armored Regiment who had been silent all this time, said abruptly.

Several Russian generals had just pledged their allegiance to the Volga Federation for a few days, and they could not understand a few words of Chinese. It was only after the translation by the adjutant behind them that they understood. Apparently, federal generals still like bloody colleagues who fought and caused trouble when they were young. \\.. \\

"Colonel Lu is right. At that time, the 5th Infantry Brigade and the 23rd Infantry Brigade will use Colonel Lu's Chinese Armored Regiment as their fists and move their troops to the west. When the opponent does not react, they will attack from the flanks in one breath. Eat up the opponent's counterattack troops, I estimate that if the German division had not participated in the northern counterattack, the Ukrainian troops in Kharkov would have basically been wiped out in this battle!"

Hata Toshiroku said that at this moment, he felt that everything was on the normal track, and then he added, "If the Ukrainian main force in Kharkov can be successfully eliminated, then the Central Route Army will transfer to Volo The 14th and 15th Infantry Divisions of Nieri reinforced the front line, and we started to really besiege the city and fight for reinforcements. Of course, the premise is that the Germans have not retreated, otherwise, if they run away, no matter how reluctant we are, I am afraid that we will have to take Harko This empty city has been taken down!"

"The chief of staff is right. If the main force of the German army decides to abandon Kharkov, then the entire Ukrainian autonomous government will follow. At this time, it is meaningless for us to encircle an empty city. Then take Kharkov down once and for all, and then Pursue the enemy, according to the prediction, once the opponent abandons the capital of Kharkov, there are two retreat directions, one is to go south to Dnepropetrovsk, if you can’t hold it, you will cross the river and retreat to the south bank of the river , the other direction is to retreat westward to Kiev, after all, Kiev is the soul and center of Ukraine!"

Utsunomiya Taro seems to have seen the dawn of victory at this moment, and then waved to himself, eat the main force of the Ukrainian government, and then defeat the Germans and take Kharkov. If this goal is achieved, the entire Ukrainian campaign For Utsunomiya Taro and the Southwest Front Army of the coalition with the three Type A divisions of the Japanese Third Army as the main body, it is already a quite acceptable result. . .

There were constant whispers in the conference room. Obviously, the blueprint drawn by Utsunomiya Taro and Hata Shunroku looked wonderful and a bit confusing. Here, Lieutenant General Stepin, commander of the Voronezri Army, couldn't help but say,

"Your Excellency, Commander, if this is the case, it is of course good, but in this way, the rest of the show will only be sung by the West Route Army and the East Route Army? Then our Central Route Army, in Chinese words, shouldn't we get up early Catch an evening show? The German soldiers who were defeated and retreated have become the spoils of war for the West Route Army and the East Route Army. What kind of skill is it that we just wiped out a few Ukrainian puppet troops?"

"Well, Lieutenant General, that's not the case. If the enemy retreats across the board and abandons Kharkov, then the Ukrainian campaign will enter a stage where the three armies attack at the same time. In order to create more conditions for the Western Route Army to detour and outflank Kiev, Our Central Route Army cannot scare away the enemies in Kharkov for at least three days after launching the battle, so it is very important to grasp this speed. If the enemy retreats early if the attack is fierce, then the Western Route Army in Kiev cannot make a detour. Another fortified battle will be formed in Kiev, which does not conform to the plan of the coalition command!"

"In case the fight is not ideal, and the Central Army is taken advantage of by the enemy's counterattack or encircled, although it will not ultimately affect the overall situation of the Ukrainian campaign, I believe that everyone here, like me, will absolutely not tolerate such a result. Ukraine Whether the battle is fought well or not, everything depends on whether the central army under the personal command of Utsunomiya will fight well! Gentlemen! Please work hard together!"

With these words, Hata Toshiro ended the mobilization of the Central Route Army before the Ukrainian campaign was launched. Of course, General Utsunomiya immediately stood up and led all the Japanese generals in the conference room to raise their arms and shout, "まんざい, まんざい, Manzai"

The federal generals followed suit, shouting "Ulla~~~" under the leadership of Stepin

Only Colonel Lu Huanyan, the head of the Chinese Armored Regiment, looked at all this coldly and said nothing, wondering when he could get a few newly arrived Chinese fd-18 pioneer light vehicles from the logistics of the coalition headquarters in the name of trial. The tanks come to Belgorod. The more obstacles you attack the opponent's trench positions, the tracked tanks are the big killers, which are much more effective than the Chinese fd-17ii wheeled armored combat vehicles!

1918年7月28ri10:15?乌克兰哈尔科夫乌克兰自治zheng fu大楼国防-部会议室

"General Greiner, I don't understand why you and your troops can still hold their breath when the Volga Federation has sharpened its knives and may start a war at any time, and the German government can still hold its breath. This Volga Federation that fell from the sky is rapidly expanding and growing, and in just half a month, the opponent's sphere of influence has expanded to the entire North Caucasus, of course, this is due to the incompetence of the Soviet Union, and Denikin is another idiot who cast the wrong baby!"

It was Simon Petliura, the commander-in-chief of the Ukrainian People's Republic of Defense Forces-Ukrainian National Army, who was also the head of the ruling cabinet of the Ukrainian People's Republic.

Speaking of Ukraine, for thousands of years, it has always been the ideal of Ukrainian national elites to get rid of the chauvinist regime of Great Russia or the rule of Great Poland-Lithuania Kingdom and establish their own Ukrainian sovereign state.