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Chapter 647 (Part 2) Special beating

Wang Geng specifically warned and beat Jiang Hongyu, Jiang Fangzhen and Tanaka Yoichiro, the generals of the coalition leadership, just like when he decided to warn the Southwest Front and the Southern Front, and at the same time once again reminded himself that the victory of the coalition forces in the Ukraine Battle was due to the factors that showed weakness and the enemy was unprepared for it. Of course, it also has something to do with the Soviet Union's fear of wolves and tigers in front of Moscow's remote control and blind command.

However, even Moscow and the newly established Volga Front of the Soviet Red Army were constantly reflecting and reviewing and growing up, and the Allied Eastern Front coalition, which had extremely lacked combat experience in the large corps, were just a group of battlefields armed with advanced weapons and strict military discipline.

Like the previous siege and annihilation battle between Tsarist Russia and Germany and Austria, the eastern corps were divided into two attacks, and there was no chance to appreciate the meat grinder hell of the trench war in the western trench war. Thousands of heavy artillery roared artillery fire and prepared for a whole day to experience it. These Chinese reorganized divisions and Japanese division soldiers were afraid that they could not even imagine what they were like.

Including the Japanese Army, there is a little more experience in this regard. After all, commanders at all levels in the Japanese division basically participated in the Japanese War in 1905. Many people also studied abroad or sent military officers stationed in Germany before the European War. Some people went to the Western Front to watch the battle group witnessed and experienced the scene of millions of troops on both sides of the Western Front fighting for half a year.

At this moment, the combat experience of the Chinese troops in the Eastern Front of the Allied Forces was limited to the combat experience of Wu Peifu's 3rd Army's early advance of the Outer Mongolia and Baikal District. At that time, Wu Peifu's personal command was only one of the 3rd divisions of the participating army, while Sun Liangcheng, Zhang Weixi and Xiong Shihui were only commanding their own mixed brigades.

The Ufa Battle was a very rare opportunity to train troops. Sun Liangcheng, Li Mingzhong and Xiong Shihui all stood the test and gained valuable experience. The troops under command were also promoted from a mixed brigade and a reorganized division to a Sino-Japanese and Russian coalition. The three newly added division commanders from the country entered Song Zheyuan, Tong Lingge and Shi Yousan's real experience in leading troops was just commanding a mixed brigade in the war army, and their combat experience was just a bandit suppression and exercise.

Of course, when these people were still in Feng Yuxiang's 16th Mixed Brigade, they also fought some battles with the local warlords, but most of them were just watching the lively casualties and pitiful battles of small scale, and they were not even considered a battle.

The Battle of Ufa did not test much for the rebirth of the Allied Eastern Front coalition, but the gains were not small. The troops were trained and gained confidence. The air-ground cooperation and infantry and artillery combat, especially the large-scale defense battle under the city of Ufa was quite beautiful. Li Fugui, who had become the commander of the cavalry of the 3rd Cavalry Brigade, commanded a battalion in the town of Sterlitamark, and of course it was lucky.

In addition, Buzuluk, who had bloody heads and bloodstormed with Yegorov and his 9th Soviet Army, also had a scheming defense and siege battle. This was a great era of turmoil. As long as there was a chance, countless generals and stars would flash. Nezhkov, who was commanding Buzuluk to block the battle, has now commanded a cavalry army, and Li Fugui has commanded a cavalry regiment, not to mention Petrovic and Bashkar, who had been driven from the Baikal Lake District by Sun Liangcheng's armored troops, one became the commander of the army and the other became the commander of the 2nd Cavalry Army.

This is an era of gathering talents and an era of star-studded stars. While Wang Geng was full of emotion, he did not forget that the Allied Alliance had not suffered too many setbacks and failures. This force relied on firepower and intelligence to defeat the Soviet Red Army. If he faced the main force of Germany and Austria with the same firepower and intelligence as himself, if he faced the number of heavy artillery on the ground and the number of air force aircraft in the sky, it would even exceed the main force of Germany and Austria of the Allied Alliance's Eastern Front, what achievements would this force have?

Wang Geng had no answer at this moment, but one thing is that in Wang Geng's previous life, the German team was the only unit equipped with mortars on a large scale in the warring countries. Moreover, the Luftwaffe was well deserved to be the air overlord at that time. No matter how hard the British and French air forces worked, the British and French air forces even had the upper hand in the number of combat aircraft, but the combat efficiency was far less than that of the smaller number of Luftwaffe. Of course, Germany developed the number of air forces very quickly! Even after the armistice in 1919 in Wang Geng's previous life, Germany, as a defeated country, handed over 16,000 aircraft of various types and 27,000 aircraft engines to the Allies.

In fact, in Wang Geng's previous life, after the second half of 1918, as the United States began to join the battlefield substantially, the warring parties launched a crazy plan to expand the air force and aircraft. The Americans planned to produce 22,000 aircraft to arm their own air force, and the number of aircraft produced in the UK and France also exceeded 20,000. In contrast, the number and capacity of Germany's air force still lag behind the Allies, but the performance of the Folk series of aircraft has always ranks at the forefront of excellent fighter jets.

At this time, although the number of combat aircraft in the warring countries was not exaggerated to the level planned, the combined combat aircraft of Britain and France on the Western Front was nearly 10,000, and the number of German and Austrian air forces was at least 6,000. Of course, the production capacity of new aircraft is a problem for all countries. Among these aircraft, the number of new aircraft that was truly successfully developed in the second half of 1917 and the first half of 1918 was only less than a quarter of the new aircraft, and the more models were 1916, 1917 and even earlier.

In the mind of the commander-in-chief of the coalition forces, the collision with the first battle with the German and Austrian main forces in the future is crucial. This is not the force of the three armies of William Grett, the 10th Army stationed in Ukraine. Moreover, the 29th and 31st Army are composed of six reserve infantry divisions. Wang Geng's expected main force in Germany and Austria is at least 30 divisions. In his opinion, if Ludendorf grasps the opportunity well and makes an accurate judgment on the situation on the Eastern Front, Ludendorf may even mobilize 50 to 80 divisions to pounce on the Eastern Front and defeat the Eastern Front coalition forces in one breath!

Before the Soviet Union and Germany signed the Brest Treaty, Germany and Austria's main force almost never had less than 100 divisions on the Eastern Front. Of course, the Tsarist Russian troops, known as the rattled steam press, even used 6 million troops from the beginning. Compared with the 6 million Tsarist Russian troops at the beginning, Germany and Austria's troops on the Eastern Front were always at a disadvantage, which was normal at that time.
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