The telegram replied by the country has arrived, and the people from the communications office sent the telegram to Zhang Xiaozhun in the morning, Zhang Xiaozhun looked at the content of the telegram and breathed a sigh of relief, but he also felt very helpless for the domestic decision to transfer only 60 second-generation fighters, at first he did not understand why only 60 second-generation fighters were transferred since the country agreed to transfer fighters, and then he figured it out that the country did not want to attract the main military forces of the German army to the Eastern Front battlefield, and sent 60 fighters over, just to contain the Luftwaffe, Don't let the Luftwaffe bomb the Second Army so brazenly.

After understanding the intentions of the country, Zhang Xiaozhun sighed helplessly, he did not have complaints about the domestic high-level, as a soldier with a certain sense of political smell, he also understood that in the face of the overall overall strategy, the battle in a small area must make way for the overall situation, and now he can only obey the decision of the upper peak.

Zhang Xiaozhun soon became busy, and he immediately called Wu Peifu and Yang Jie to discuss the construction of the airport. With the performance of the second-generation fighter, the airport must be repaired close to the front line, the second-generation fighter is half stronger than the first-generation fighter in terms of performance, just taking the speed as an example, the speed of the first-generation fighter is 220 kilometers per hour, and the speed of the second-generation fighter has reached 320 kilometers per hour, and the speed of the third-generation fighter is much higher than that of the second-generation fighter, reaching a maximum of 440 kilometers per hour.

At this time, the maximum range of the German self-produced Fokker E.III. monoplane fighter was only 200 kilometers, and the British "Camel" and the American Curtiss JN-4 were not much stronger, so basically the combat radius of the fighters of Western countries in this era was limited to less than 100 kilometers. The performance of China's first-generation fighters is about twice as high as that of fighters in European countries, and the combat radius is within 200 kilometers. This is also the combat radius of the bomber, because the bomber does not need to attack the air for combat. You only need to drop the bomb to return, so the maximum combat radius is within 200 kilometers, while the combat radius of the fighter is much shorter, the fighter needs to fight in the air, so it can not fly too far when ensuring enough fuel for combat, so as not to fly back after the battle, the combat radius of the second-generation bomber of China is about 500 kilometers, and the combat radius of the second-generation fighter is between 200 kilometers and 300 kilometers, which mainly depends on the time of fighting in the air. The combat radius of third-generation fighters is between 300 km and 400 km. The combat radius of the bombers is about 1,000 kilometers, and it is precisely because of this range that the Chinese bomber group can carry out large-scale bombing of most of the cities in Japan. At this time, the German air force airfield near Kiev was moved forward to Zhytomyr.

After discussion, Zhang Xiaozhun and others decided to build the airport near the outskirts of Kiev's eastern city, and build two airports, each of which should have four runways, and each of them should have 30 fighters. The materials are also relatively cheap, and the key is that the speed is not high, so the danger is much lower than that of later high-speed fighters, and it is not as expensive and pampered as later fighters. As long as the airfield is built so that it does not slip when it rains, the soldiers will first sort out the runway surface. Then spread cement and gravel, smooth and dry it and you can use it.

In the past few days, the Germans have continued to attack the first line of defense west of Kiev. However, the offensive intensity was a little smaller, and the Germans were probably tired. It was necessary to rest and rest, so the offensive was weakened, and there was nothing to bargain for in Visneve, and the Japanese had nothing else, but they had a ruthless spirit, although they were inferior to the Germans in terms of weapons and equipment, and their combat effectiveness was greatly inferior, but the Japanese had the most significant military characteristics of the Orientals, that is, they did not retreat in a fight to the death.

On that day, Zhang Xiaozhun listened to the report of the Military Intelligence Department and learned that the German Navy had deployed a large number of mines and submarines on various routes in the Atlantic, and that many freighters bound for Britain had touched mines or been attacked by German submarines and were silent; in just two months, more than 200 freighters had touched mines in the Atlantic Ocean and were attacked by German submarines and torpedoes, with a total tonnage of more than 1.1 million tons. Although the Germans did not do this enough, it dealt a great blow to Britain, but it also made the United States quite dissatisfied, and the Americans approached the Germans for this reason, and the two sides began to quarrel and scold.

There is also news that the First Army launched a new round of attack on the Ottoman Empire after resting and recuperating, the Chinese Expeditionary Fleet attacked the Ottoman military port of Izmir the day before yesterday, and won a complete victory, an infantry division of the army landed in Izmir, and then the First Army Corps let the navy transport an infantry division to land in Izmir, so that the First Army of China attacked the Asia Minor Peninsula from the east and west, and the Ottoman Empire was in a panic from top to bottom, from the Sultan to the civilians, The Ottoman civilians were not harmed, and the Chinese army did not fire at the empty-handed civilians, which made the Ottoman civilians have a certain favor towards the Chinese army.

Germany did not expect the Ottoman Empire to help anything, but it also did not want the Ottoman Empire to pull back, and even more did not want the Ottoman Empire to be beaten and surrendered, if the Ottoman Empire surrendered, Germany would have one less ally and one more enemy, the power of the Central Powers would be weakened, and the power of the Entente would be strengthenedThe Austro-Hungarian 3rd Army was transferred to the Thrace region to enter Asia Minor through the Turkish Strait to help the Ottoman Empire resist the attack of the 1st Chinese Army, but the movement of an army group could not be completed in a short period of time, and it is not known whether it was still too late.

After hearing the news, Zhang Xiaozhun heard a report from the military intelligence department that the three cavalry divisions of the German 11th Army were missing, and there was also intelligence that the soldiers of the outposts deployed by Tsarist Russia near several small cities south of Kiev had disappeared inexplicably.

These news made Zhang Xiaozhun vigilant, he immediately walked to the map and pondered, the three cavalry divisions of the German army have lost their traces, if it is someone else who commands the troops, Zhang Xiaozhun will not be so nervous, precisely because the German army is commanding the troops this time is Marshal Mackensen, this old man has always been famous for mobile warfare.

After looking at the map, Zhang Xiaozhun immediately asked, "Where are the outposts of the missing soldiers on the outskirts of which towns?" ”

"In the cities of Berkichev and Bezeirkovy, of which there are three outposts in Berkichev and four in Bezelkovy!"

Zhang Xiaozhun immediately said: "Go and find out immediately what the specific locations of these missing soldiers' posts are, and how many posts are there in the other two around here, and where are they located, try to find out, and report it immediately after figuring it out!" ”

"Yes, Captain!"

It just so happened that Wu Peifu and Yang Jie walked in, and after the people from the Military Intelligence Department left, Wu Peifu asked, "Commander, what's the situation?" ”

"Oh, it's Lao Wu and Xiao Yang!" Zhang Xiaozhun said hello and explained the situation, and Wu Peifu and Yang Jie also became nervous after hearing it.

Wu Peifu frowned and said: "It is said that this old Markenson commander is the best at mobile combat, could it be that he wants to send those three cavalry divisions to attack the weak points of our army?" ”

Zhang Xiaozhun nodded and said, "With this old man's style, it's hard to guarantee that he won't do this!" ”

At this time, Yang Jie said: "If the German 11th Army is only aimed at our army, then the weakest point of our army's current defense is the Dnieper and the eastern city of Kiev on the east bank, and our two airfields are under construction, the Vietnamese corps has not yet completely built fortifications, and the eastern city has a large number of Kiev residents, extremely chaotic, if Mackensen's three cavalry divisions attack the east city within a week, then we will be in big trouble!" ”

At two o'clock in the afternoon, the people from the military intelligence department came to Zhang Xiaozhun's office again to report the investigation, and the specific location of the Tsarist outpost had been found, and after marking it on the map, Zhang Xiaozhun, Wu Peifu, Yang Jie and others found that the specific location of these outposts could be connected into a line, and the direction that the line finally pointed to was in Kanifu!

"Now it is almost certain that the three missing German cavalry divisions are secretly advancing in the direction of Kanifu, with the purpose of capturing Kanifu, and then use Kanifu's bridge to cross the river, and then wave their division north to attack my eastern city of Kiev!" Yang Jie said and tapped on Kanifu's location on the map.

When Zhang Xiaozhun heard this, he thought about it and turned his head and asked the people from the Military Intelligence Department: "How many men and horses are there in these three German cavalry divisions?" ”

"About eighteen thousand riders!"

Zhang Xiaozhun and the others were suddenly a little shocked when they heard this, "Eighteen thousand riders? How can there be so many? ”

At this time, a cavalry division in Europe had a maximum of three or four thousand people, and four thousand cavalry were already in the sky, but the three German cavalry divisions actually had 18,000 cavalry, which showed that each cavalry division had an average of 6,000 cavalry, which was almost twice the average European cavalry division.

At this time, Wu Peifu said with a stern expression: "Don't worry about this problem for the time being, the Poltava I'm worried about is not far from the opposite bank of Kanivo, if the three German cavalry divisions do not wave their divisions to the north after crossing the river, but move their divisions to Poltava in the southwest direction and launch a fierce attack, then the Cambodian Corps, the Lao Corps and the Burmese Corps that we have just transported to Poltava, a total of 300,000 people, will be wiped out, because although they have weapons, but Poltava has no ammunition, and the weapons without ammunition are not burning sticks?" How to resist the charge of nearly 20,000 cavalry? ”

Zhang Xiaozhun and Yang Jie immediately felt like they had fallen into an ice cellar when they heard this, Zhang Xiaozhun immediately went to the map and measured it with a ruler, and he said: "We must send a force to the town of Berezan on the opposite bank of Kanifu before the three German cavalry divisions capture Kanivo, intercept them in the town of Berezin, and if time permits, set up an ambush here to kill them, so that they will not return!" (To be continued......)