Moreover, during this period, the three German divisions have cancelled their vacations, and the troops have carried out emergency mobilizations and exercises along the railway many times in regiments. We judged that the other party obviously made a tactical rehearsal and prepared to respond as soon as the war broke out!" Qian Tianfu said with a little solemn expression.

"Commander-in-Chief, since the enemy's strength has been strengthened, if the opponent uses three German divisions and four Ukrainian divisions to enter the Kharkiv battlefield, and there are two volunteer divisions, I am worried, will the strength of the Southwest Front Army of the Supreme Lord Utsunomiya be insufficient?

We only have more than 40,000 people on the Belgorod front line. Although the Third Division of Your Excellency Dating is a first-class A Division in the Japanese Army, the troops do not have an advantage after all! If the three German divisions come up, it is a bit unsure what the battle will be like!" Jiang Hongyu expressed his concerns from the side.

"Chief Jiang is right. In my opinion, the Commander-in-Chief, let my Samara Army strengthen to the direction of Voronezh, and transfer the remaining two federal infantry divisions of the Voronezh army to the Belgorod line to strengthen the attack, so that the Utsunomiya's central army will not suffer any losses!" Vasily Nikolayevich Pepelyav was a little ready to move.

Wang Geng pondered for a moment when he heard this, and finally shook his head and said, "If our goal is to take Kharkov and do a thunder strike, then perhaps the strength of the central army is a bit insufficient. Now our goal is to annihilate the enemy's living forces, surround Kharkov, and attract all the enemies in Ukraine to reinforce Kharkov. In this case, there is no need for such a powerful front-line force. What's more, the Japanese troops of Your Excellency Utsunomiya naturally have their own pride and honor. Unless he takes the initiative to ask for tactical guidance, let him let go of command and attack!"

Pepeliayev was obviously quite disappointed when he heard this. Jiang Hongyu frowned slightly, and he seemed to have a little lack of confidence in Utsumiya Taro and the Japanese Third Division. Qiandao smiled at the sight of this,

"Hisser Pepe, Chief of Staff, although the 3rd Division of the Great Oriental Erlang does not have the advantage in its strength, don't forget that there is also an armored regiment of our Li Mingzhong's army to be assigned to the Central Army. In my opinion, one of our armored regiments should be able to deal with a infantry division of Ludendorf!"

"Staff Secretary Qian, the Germans are no better than the Soviet Red Army. Besides, the Germans were mobilized along the railway line by three infantry divisions. If we swarmed up, no matter how powerful our armored regiment was, the heroes would not be able to withstand many wolves. I think it would be better to increase the troops of Belgorod. We are not short of troops now. If we can use the newly arrived tanks, it would be easier!" Pepelyaev obviously dared not underestimate the strength of the German army.

"His Excellency Pepe, don't forget that we have air cover from the coalition air force. There are not many Germans flying squadrons in Ukraine. At that time, our bomber group can teach the German infantry division a lesson from the air!" Qian Tianfu argued.

"When it comes to this, the briefing said that the front-line airport and the flight squadron have been transferred to the ground? Have the distribution of anti-aircraft guns on the other side found out?" Wang Geng extinguished the cigar in his hand and asked his combat room director.

July 28, 1918 8:30 Samara Alliance Command

"According to the report of the Air Force Command, we have achieved results in the past ten days of air reconnaissance in Ukraine. However, since the two sides did not officially start war, the German aircraft stationed in Ukraine and the air defense firepower on the ground did not fire at the reconnaissance aircraft that infiltrated the border area. Every time we approached, they would take off and intercept them as soon as they found them, and then both sides played cat and mouse games in the air. To be honest, the skills of the Luftwaffe pilots were really good!"

Qian Tianfu obviously did not dare to underestimate the Luftwaffe. Although like the German infantry division in Ukraine, the Luftwaffe stationed in Ukraine is just a second-line unit. The director of the war room said while constantly drawing circles with red and blue pencils on the map, and then explained,

"According to our reconnaissance and intelligence, the Luftwaffe currently stationed in Ukraine is affiliated with the Luftwaffe 1 Fighter Wing, which has 7 fighter squadrons. Each squadron is 4 4 aircraft formations, a total of 16 combat aircraft, plus 4 aircraft in the wing headquarters. In this way, one flight wing on the other side has 116 aircraft!"

"The Germans actually have so many combat aircraft stationed in Ukraine? Didn't the last time that the other party had only a few flight squadrons in Ukraine?" Pepelyaev jumped up in shock, and Jiang Hongyu was silent on the side.

Seeing this, Qian Tianfu explained, "Previously, the 1st Fighter Wing of the Luftwaffe only stationed four fighter squadrons in Ukraine. However, recently, due to the tight news on our side, the Germans should have noticed it, so all three fighter squadrons stationed in Romania were transferred into Ukraine!"

"If this is the case, Commander-in-Chief, will our air force on the front line be insufficient? If the Germans really had 7 fighter squadrons, there would be 116 combat aircraft in total. Will our air force on the front line airport be insufficient?" Jiang Hongyu pondered on the side.

Wang Geng didn't care when he heard this, and waved his hand, "I'll have to see the real chapter with the Luftwaffe sooner or later. The number of aircraft alone is obviously not enough. Besides, we lack experience in combating large airplanes. Our air team is well-educated in ground bombing, but we have never gained much opportunity to train in air combat. This time I saw that the young men in the air team were sweating and learned from their opponents to improve! As for the opponent's 4th regiment, we can eliminate opponents from the ground, so we can do nothing to wait for them to take off before firing!"

As he said that, Wang Geng signaled Qiandafu to briefly describe the latest deployment of the coalition aviation team. He said that this was originally the job of Major General Huang Jingbo, the commander of the coalition aviation team. However, since the coalition front-line aviation team headquarters had already moved out to Charizin to command the battle before the transfer, and at the same time, taking into account the southern battle initiated by Wu Peifu's southern front army in the south and the Utsumiya Taro Southwest Front Army here is about to start the Ukrainian battle, so it is not as time can be taken when I came to Samara to report the work in person.

"At present, our coalition frontline aviation team has been organized into three wings, the 1st Fighter Bomber Wing of the Air Force is stationed in Voronev, and it is under the jurisdiction of Voronezh, Kursk, Belgorod and Relisk. The 1st Fighter Battalion is under the jurisdiction of 1 SE5 fighter battalion, 1 DH4 reconnaissance bomber battalion and 1 Chinese FR-18 Excellent Fighter Bomber Battalion.

Each brigade also has 3 flight squadrons, 36 fighters, and 4 fighters in the brigade, one brigade, 40 fighters, and the entire corps has 124 fighters, respectively stationed at the above four airports. Since the SE5 and DH4 flight squadrons are slightly short, they are stationed at the offensive assembly site, and the Chinese FR-18 Excellent Fighter Bombers are stationed in Kursk and Voronezh respectively!”

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Chapter completed!