Beiyang 1917

() At 1918:8 on August 16, 9, Samara, Allied Eastern Front Coalition Command, Combat Conference Room

"Chief of Staff Chiang, the food in the newly accepted area will wait for the Germans to transport it from Western Ukraine and Romania. The Soviet Red Army still has 30 troops. More than 500 million people followed them into Belarus. The German 11th Army has already withdrawn. In Minsk, the Soviet Red Army will overthrow the local puppet regime without any effort. As for whether Poland can take it down, it depends on their own performance. It is estimated that it is to grab food, and the Soviet Red Army will not be polite to Poland and Lithuania..."

What the King of Huaxia said made the generals of the coalition forces in the conference room burst into laughter. Jiang Hongyu scratched his head and said, "Your Excellency, Commander-in-Chief, what if the Germans just talk but don't practice? At this moment, the US, Britain and France The focus is all on the western front. From my point of view, the US government said that the Pacific route has insufficient transport capacity and cannot continue to maintain transportation. It is not necessarily just threatening us, but it must give priority to ensuring the supply of the western front. The speed at which the US military has landed on the French battlefield has reached An astonishing 1 people per day, it is normal that the supplies for people to eat and eat horses are not available in time!"..

"It's not a big problem. Fortunately, this year in China is a bumper harvest of autumn grain, and the grain harvest in Southeast Asia is also bumper. What we are short of now is not grain, but insufficient railway transport capacity. This problem cannot be solved in the short term. Fortunately, in order to protect the With the progress of the Ukrainian campaign, the rush to transport ammunition and military supplies can be adjusted, giving priority to transporting food. As for the Germans, in order to prevent us from tearing up the agreement and fighting on the Eastern Front, the possibility of the other party delaying the delivery of food is extremely small, not to mention, we They are not in vain, the oil from the Maykop oil field is exchanged for their food, and Ludendorff will not suffer..."

Wang Geng lit a match and lit his own cigar. Jiang Fangzhen and Denikin commanded the 1st Cavalry Army and 3 Chinese Mixed Brigades to march into Moscow and Petrograd. Chuck, Hastings, Tanaka Yoshiichi, Utsunomiya Taro who just came back from the front, and General Wu Peifu.

It was the first time that the commanders of the three front armies of the Allied Forces on the Eastern Front had met. Utsunomiya Taro looked a little haggard, and Wu Peifu looked thinner than before. The battle to cross the Caucasus Mountains to take the Baku oil fields has been delayed and never started. , in addition to the urgent need to replenish food and ammunition, an infantry division of the British Army's Middle East Army entered southern Armenia first. The Lawrence National Revival Movement in China is in a state of desperation, and it is imminent to withdraw from the camp of the Allies...

"Your Excellency, Commander-in-Chief, I hope that the Allied Logistics Headquarters will give priority to supplementing the Southwest Front Army. We will be unable to take an inch without food and oil in Eastern Ukraine. The large coal field in Donbass is now a swamp full of holes. Donetsk Cluster Fee It took a lot of effort to occupy this piece of land, but the food is also eaten at a high rate, and the local people are more than before the war. They all know that the coalition forces will provide food for disaster relief when they come. Not only did the common people stop fleeing, but they began to return, and the direction of Kharkov is not short of food, but the troops have lost their vitality, and if there is no supplement, it will be difficult to continue fighting!"

Utsunomiya Taro's mood was a little depressed. Although the headquarters did not withdraw the Kharkov Group to rest under his insistence, it is an indisputable fact that the Kharkov Group, which has lost nearly 4% of its troops, needs to be replenished urgently. The replenishment is in place, and the combat effectiveness is greatly weakened... The casualties are all veterans of hundreds of battles, and the replenishments are all reserve reinforcements and second-line troops...

"General Utsunomiya, it is true that the Southwest Front Army's combat mission in Ukraine has been completed, and its performance is very heroic and outstanding. Because Ludendorff sued for peace, we both signed a secret agreement of understanding. Therefore, in the next stage, the Eastern Front and the German National People's Congress The probability of a shot will be very small. Within three days, the German 10th Army will all withdraw from Ukraine. I have promised Western Ukraine to leave the temporary government of Simon Petliura. The two sides are bounded by the Dnieper River. The Eastern Ukrainian Autonomous Republic will soon be established , the capital is located in Kiev, of course, Kiev straddles both sides of the Dnieper River, but I believe that the national army in West Ukraine will not have the guts to pluck the beard of the Volga Joint Office!"

Utsunomiya was both surprised and disappointed by Wang Geng’s answer. Although he knew that the Germans and the Volga Federation would agree to a truce and peace, Utsunomiya originally thought that the Germans would withdraw after another war. Who would have thought that the strongman Ludendorff would cut off his wrist and kill him immediately? Even Kiev has given up... the guy asked hesitantly,

"With the Dnieper River as the boundary? Will Yekaterinoslav also give up? Hey! My troops want to fight another battle to avenge the previous battle! The Germans are too rude! Then What else can our Southwest Front Army do in Ukraine? Serve as a police patrol for the Volga Federation guarding the border?" The general's disappointment was beyond words.

"Well, accepting the right bank of the Dnipro River is the task of the Southwest Front Army in the next stage, but this stage is dominated by the federal troops in your Front Army formation. The headquarters of the Southwest Front Army is located in Kiev. The task is still arduous. The Germans actually There may be a comeback at any time, and it is necessary to maintain local law and order and relieve the people, restore the grassroots political power and administrative system, strengthen vigilance and maintain vigilance, and wait until the autumn offensive launched by the Germans on the western front is over, and then see if it can usher in Dawn of peace!"

Wang Geng's words made Utsunomiya feel a little comforted. He was most afraid that the coalition command would withdraw the Southwest Front Army and replace it with the new army group reorganized by the Central Yang Front Army. sorry...

"Commander-in-Chief, the British troops have entered Armenia from Turkey. If we want to capture the Baku oil field, we have to do it as soon as possible. When the British occupy there, things will be difficult. For this reason, I hope that the logistics headquarters will give priority to supplementing my southern army , we have fought the farthest, consumed the most food, ammunition is not a big problem, but the frontline airport and troops of the aviation team feel a little weak..."

Wu Peifu was actually a little frustrated. The southern army’s advance in the North Caucasus could be described as an anti-aircraft artillery attack. The local separatist armed forces were not strong, but the terrain in the mountainous area was too complicated, and the guerrilla attacks never stopped. It feels like jumping fleas, which makes Wu Peifu hope to win the Baku oil field as soon as possible, so that he can bypass the Caucasus Mountains from Baku, enter the South Caucasus, and command the south to sweep Georgia, Azerbaijan and Armenia. If possible, this Marshal Wu even wants to The Ottoman Turkey is also stewed in one pot!

"Admiral Wu, the Southern Army needs to change its combat methods and form a mountainous special operations detachment. If a small force attacks Baku, the logistical pressure will be much less than that of a large force. We are now on the southern front not just for food. The problem is to make a posture that is not enough stamina to continue. This is in line with the reason why we cannot continue to maintain the offensive posture on the Eastern Front due to desperation. Otherwise, your southern army will be destroyed in the south. If there is a big fight, the United States, Britain and France can't stand them gnawing bones, and we eat meat and drink soup and complain to the sky!"

Wang Geng's answer made Wu Peifu suddenly enlightened. Obviously, it is a stupid thing to get twice the result with half the effort in the Caucasus region. The enemy's small groups are mostly harassing in the mountainous areas. The local planning is solved, so the dependence on logistics is greatly reduced!