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Volume 3 Far East Story Chapter 923 If you can¡¯t hold on, you have to feed the fish

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    Von Neuhaus rolled his eyes at the guy and ignored him. Instead, he turned to his deputy and said, "Chief of Staff, please explain our next phase of play and listen to everyone's opinions!"

    Von Hagermann nodded when he heard this, stood up and went to the battle map hanging on the wall, picked up the baton and started talking,

    "Everyone, the main position of the 48th Infantry Division of General von Siegfiss is currently in the northwest, about 3 kilometers away from the city of Yekaterinoslav. Two infantry regiments are placed in front of it. The width of the arc-shaped position is about ten kilometers.  On the left and right, the main position of General von Woodford's 49th Infantry Division is in the southeast, about 5 kilometers away from the city. On the front are the same two infantry regiments. The defense width is 12 kilometers. In the middle, it is northeast of Yekaterinoslav.  The transportation thoroughfare, where railways and roads converge, is currently the defense line of the 141st Infantry Regiment of the 47th Infantry Division, and is also the reserve area"

    As he spoke, von Hagermann pointed the baton all the way to the northeast to the position of Krasnora, and nodded, "Simon Petliura is still staying at this position, gathering and regrouping his scattered forces.  Troops, but it¡¯s roughly 90 kilometers from Kharkov to here. If the Ukrainian troops want to gather them, it will definitely take one or two days Even if he succeeds in gathering them, most of the soldiers will lose their weapons.  Eightthe only organically formed troops are the 4th Infantry Division and the 2nd Infantry Division, whose combined strength does not exceed 3 regiments"

    "I forgot to mention that the troops retreating from Kharkov were basically wiped out in artillery. The 47th Infantry Division only had six 105mm light howitzers from the 141st Artillery Battalion. The Ukrainians, let alone the artillery, were only afraid of the fur in their hands.  There is no longer enough rifles for each man In this case, it is not a wise move to counterattack rashly or compete with the coalition forces for Krasnora General von Neuhaus plans to use Ukrainian troops to delay the opponent's attack along the way.  Attack, let the opponent attack all the way to Yekaterinoslav!"

    Colonel von Hagermann stopped and asked, "Do you have any questions?"

    Colonel Thomas von Lincoln, von Siegfiss's chief of staff, raised his hand and said hesitantly, "Ekaterinoslav is not Kharkov. It lacks natural walls and defense lines. How can we use field fortifications to resist the heavy artillery of the coalition?"  And bombing? That will inevitably cause huge casualties!¡±

    "So we must seize the time to repair the fortifications. If we can't hold them, we will have to ask the coalition forces to drive them into the Dnieper River to feed the fish!" Colonel von Hagermann replied seriously!

    August 1, 1918, 12:30, Kiev, Ukraine, headquarters of the German 10th Army in Ukraine

    "Everyone! The situation is very serious Please introduce the latest battlefield situation to the Chief of Staff. Of course, don't waste time when Kharkov has fallen!" The person who presided over the military meeting was General William Greiner.  The commander of the German 10th Army was perhaps the youngest German army general on the entire Eastern Front. As chief of staff, he replaced von Eichhorn who was honorably dismissed before the Battle of Ufa and became the commander of the army

    Behind William Greiner is Erich von Ludendorff, who was also a staff officer. This is also the young director of equipment of the German Army. In fact, the 53-year-old Ludendorff and the 52-year-old Greiner are both members of the German General Staff.  Rarely trained outstanding generals, the Eastern Front battlefield also became the birthplace of the military careers of these two staff generals

    General Wilhelm Greiner's deputy is the young Army Chief of Staff Major General Emil Herr, but this guy is also 48 years old this year. Among the star-studded group of German aristocratic generals with "von" in front of their names, the Army Commander  Wilhelm Greiner and Chief of Staff Emil Hull both belonged to the wealthy children of the emerging bourgeoisie of Prussia at the end of the 19th century, but they had not yet entered the ranks of the aristocracy

    "Your Excellency, Commander, everyone, the situation in Eastern Ukraine is indeed serious In the past week, no, from July 28 to the present, in just 5 days and 4 nights, the Allied Eastern Front Allied Forces' offensive from the air and the ground occupied the area.  With a clear advantage, the defeat of the German 1st Fighter Wing led by Wing Commander G?ring over Kharkov sown the seeds of Kharkov's fall. Of course, the Ukrainian troops were also more vulnerable to coalition air attacks.  It¡¯s beyond our imagination" Chief of Staff Major General Emile Herr walked to the combat map hanging on the wall with a baton in his hand and began to explain the battlefield situation.

    "Excuse me Your Excellency, Wing Commander, how long will it take for the 1st Fighter Wing to regain its combat effectiveness? Hasn't the 4th Fighter Wing temporarily seconded aircraft and pilots from 5 fighter squadrons to supplement the 1st Fighter Wing? Why?  You still insist that we can¡¯t launch large-scale deployments? How long will we let the hillbilly Chinese monkeys wreak havoc in Eastern Ukraine?¡±

    The person who interrupted the chief of staff was Lieutenant General Eike von Kusmani, commander of the 27th German Infantry Corps. This 57-year-old commander is still a young general in the German army, and the 27th German Infantry Corps under his command  The Army is the only main infantry unit in the German 10th Army.Army, rather than the reserve infantry army composed of reserve infantry divisions like the 29th Infantry Army and the 31st Infantry Army, so the lieutenant general was quite dissatisfied with the defeat of the 47th Reserve Infantry Division in Kharkov!

    "The honor of the German Army has been destroyed in Kharkov and Ukraine. Captain Goering, the reputation of the German Air Force has been lost in the sky above Kharkov. If you didn't regroup, where would you fall?"  Just be determined to get up from where you are, and simply give up earlier!" Von Kusmani pointed the finger at the commander of the German 1st Fighter Wing, Captain Hermann Wilhelm Goering

    The lowest rank of the other army generals of the 10th Group present was also a colonel. Only the fighter commander Goering in the corner, who had been silent, had the rank of captain. In this era, the Luftwaffe had not yet become the only military service. Both the army and the navy had the rank of captain.  It had its own aviation force. G?ring's rank was Army Captain, but he had the aircraft logo of the aviation force embroidered on his shoulder Most of the squadron commanders of the fighter squadron were still just lieutenants at this time, while G?ring and his two former wing commanders were all  It's the captain

    If the Kharkov air battle is won, G?ring may be promoted to major before the end of the year, but at the moment, he is thinking about how to seize the last chance to restore his honor, and everyone expected G?ring to be furious.  Different from gathering the replenished fighter wing to fight back to Eastern Ukraine, in the past two days, in addition to stepping up the transition and replenishing supplies and personnel, and strengthening take-off and landing and patrolling, Goering never relented and led the fighter wing to regain air supremacy in Eastern Ukraine.  ¡­
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