Kiev

The headquarters building of the 2nd Army was brightly lit, and the officers of the staff were busy, conveying orders to the front-line troops by telephone, telegram or signal corps.

In the large conference room on the third floor, senior officers of the group army were holding an emergency meeting to make arrangements for the overall plan for the next stage of operations.

At about 11 o'clock in the evening

The senior officers attending the meeting then dispersed and walked down the stairs in twos and threes, and the entrance of the headquarters building immediately became lively, and the senior officers of the divisions and brigades got into their cars and left with the trucks full of guards.

The square of the headquarters building, which was originally full of cars, soon dispersed and became empty again.

In the office of the commander of the army group on the third floor

General Duan Qixiang still had two guests who did not leave, one was Lieutenant General Wu Baoli, deputy commander of the group army, and the other was Major General Xu Moxuan, deputy commander of the Royal Air Force and commander-in-chief of the Eastern Front.

The orderlies served strong tea, and General Duan Qixiang greeted him gently; "Two virtuous brothers, drink some hot tea to refresh yourself. If we want to contribute to the overall situation on the Eastern Front, we must focus on the German Fifth and Ninth Armies, which I mean by eating one and dragging one by one, and we must not allow the main German army to move westward and strengthen the strength of the German army on the frontal battlefield on the Western Front. Leave one more German division, and the battlefield on the Western Front will be one easier point. ”

Lieutenant General Wu Baoli took a few sips of hot tea, his brows furrowed and he didn't make a sound.

With a heavy responsibility on his shoulders, he plans to lead the armored assault corps as the arrow, and part of the main divisions of the 2nd Army of the Imperial Expeditionary Army will carry out deep and roundabout interspersed with 127 kilometers deep on the northwestern front of the German army, cutting off the possibility of supporting the Ukrainian battlefield in northern Lithuania and Minsk directions, and the German army in the western Warsaw direction.

A large encirclement covering an area of more than 20,000 square kilometers was formed, and the German 5th and 9th armies were incorporated into it and concentrated their forces to carry out encirclement and annihilation.

From start to finish

In the Western Ukraine Campaign, the 2nd Expeditionary Army did not take the Austro-Hungarian army of the Western Front into account, and deployed 620,000 White Russian troops on the Western Front to defend it, with the aim of preventing the Austro-Hungarian army from breaking through the defensive line.

On the northwestern and northern fronts, which were dominated by the German army, almost all the main forces of the 2nd Army plus the elite 400,000 White Russian troops, totaling more than 800,000 people, planned to encircle and annihilate the main force of 630,000 German troops.

Truth be told, it's a bold plan.

Even if an encirclement is formed, it is still a thin skin and a big filling, which can easily be broken by a single stab, thus incurring a strong counterattack by the German-Austrian forces.

If you don't do it well, you put yourself on it all.

A moment later

Lieutenant General Wu Baoli said with a solemn expression; "Your Excellency Commander-in-Chief, I have no doubt about the assault force of the armored corps, and the implementation of the tactics of large-depth assault has been perfectly practiced on the North American battlefield. But we should be aware of the difficulty, the German army is different from the American army, which is sluggish in combat effectiveness, its will to fight is quite tenacious, and I doubt that there is such a good appetite to swallow the two heavy German groups. ”

"This battle is only for breaking, not for total annihilation." Admiral Duan Qixiang turned around and walked to the large map hanging on the wall, pointed to Belarus and Lithuania due north, and nodded;

"I asked the assault corps to cut off the main roads for the Germans to flee north, and to leave some swampy forests and remote areas alone, which were all trivial.

Secondly, the assault corps was to cut off the main passage in the north-western direction and prevent German reinforcements in the Warsaw direction.

At that time, our northern and southern armies will launch a ......"

Admiral Duan Qixiang pressed his two hands hard to the middle and continued; "Combined with the power of modern air-ground integrated warfare, crush and eat these two German heavy army groups.

My bottom line is to eat the Ninth Army in the north and inflict heavy damage on the 5th Army, which is a little further to the west.

In the entire battle plan

The role of the air force led by Brother Mo Xuan is crucial, and I ask you to destroy all German artillery positions that can be found, destroy any moving German tanks and armored vehicles, bomb the areas where the German troops are heavily assembled, blow up bridges, destroy logistics assembly points, and drop all the bombs that can be dropped. ”

Major General Wu Moxuan was originally the commander of the Army Air Force, and after the establishment of the Royal Air Force alone, he became a senior general of the independent service and a key force in the implementation of air-ground integrated warfare.

He put down the teacup in his hand, walked to the map, and pointed to the clearly divided northern and western fronts;

"Your Excellency, Commander;

In two consecutive days of fierce fighting, our air force shot down 322 German planes in succession and lost 69 of them, undoubtedly occupying air superiority.

But to see

The rapid progress of the German aviation industry, which produced more than 3,600 aircraft in the first half of 18 years, was a great improvement in technology compared to the early days of the war, and they had a strong replenishment capability, and this was not all of their air power on the Eastern Front.

Comparatively

China's Eastern Front Air Force has 462 fighters and 337 bombers, and a batch of planes has just arrived in Crimea, totaling about 80 planes, which have not yet had time to be installed.

With the superiority of fighter performance and pilot technology, the Royal Air Force is confident of gaining air supremacy over the battlefield in western Ukraine, but this is not absolute, and it is necessary to prevent a surprise attack by German reserve aviation forces.

Many German rear airfields were located in Warsaw, Lithuania, Minsk, etc., and we should find these places and destroy them to prevent the Germans from diverting fighters from the Western Front.

Otherwise, we are fighting the entire Luftwaffe. ”

Admiral Duan Qixiang thought so, and said with his hand in the direction of Germany on the map;

"Starting tomorrow, the air forces of the Allied countries, Britain, France, Italy, and other countries will launch joint air battles, continuously bombing the German-Birge border and the German-French border, and will cross the border area and go deep into the airspace over Germany, seeking opportunities to destroy the enemy, and responding to the battlefield on the Eastern Front.

The Field Marshal of the Expeditionary Force planned to carry out a large-scale bombardment of 1,000 planes in Germany's important industrial centers, military bases, and areas where heavy troops were concentrated, and to start a large-scale air campaign.

If the Germans don't want to be bombed, they have to use the accumulated air force to fight for consumption, and they don't have much energy to support the Eastern Front.

I demand that from tomorrow onwards, bomber groups should be launched on all fronts to carry out large-scale and high-intensity bombardment of artillery groups and heavy troop concentration areas under the German Fifth and Ninth Armies, so as to weaken the pressure on the frontal battlefield.

Wait for the enemy's attack momentum to weaken......"

Admiral Duan Qixiang looked at Lieutenant General Wu Baoli with a stern expression, and Lieutenant General Wu Baoli immediately put his legs together and replied in a solemn voice; "Commandant, please."

"Lead our armored assault group, with an unstoppable and swift offensive, break through the German flank in one fell swoop, give me a big hole and then break through." Admiral Duan Qixiang punched heavily at the position of the rear front of the German army and said; "Give me the material hub of the rear of the German army that occupies here, cut off transportation and all connections, gather and annihilate it."

"Yes, Your Excellency, Commander." Lieutenant General Wu Baoli and Major General Wu Moxuan put their legs together, saluted a standard military salute, and replied in a loud voice.

In terms of boldness, the 2nd Army can be said to be unsurpassed, and this should be put on the British and French, who were scared to death and did not dare to fight the idea of two German armies.

It turns out

Since the outbreak of the World War, France has experienced the tragedy of the entire army being severely damaged and almost completely annihilated. Britain once had a dark scene of more than 60,000 casualties a day, and the Germans tortured them unwantedly, leaving a deep psychological shadow.

On the other hand, the army of the Ocean Empire did not have such an ideological burden, and the 1st Expeditionary Army sacrificed the weapon of "air-ground integrated warfare" in the later stages of the Battle of the Somme, and carried out a devastating blow to the German Second Army, which inflicted heavy losses in the First World War.

The Royal Army, which belonged to the Ocean Empire, was the first to inflict heavy losses on a German army group with a single army group, winning the victory with brilliant achievements, and was hailed as the "liberator of France".

Compared with the 1st Army, the 2nd Expeditionary Army lacked nothing and was equipped with an extremely powerful armored dragoon division, which was equipped with more than 420 medium and heavy tanks of various types, twice as many as the American armored division and three times that of the British armored division, and its combat effectiveness was comparable to that of a German army.

More than a year of fighting, illustrated by ironclad facts;

The combat effectiveness of an imperial division can be equal to two German divisions, and with the cooperation of the air force and artillery, the defensive state can withstand 3~4 German divisions, which is so strong.

This is not the fact that the combat effectiveness of the Imperial soldiers was higher than that of the Germans, but the advantages of equipment, firepower, operational concepts and tactical coordination of squads and platoons, which are combined to reflect the overall advantages.

A squad of soldiers sitting in an armored truck, armed with a heavy machine gun, could quite compete with a platoon of German soldiers, and did not fall behind.

There are grenades when you are close, heavy machine guns and mortars are far away, and you can chase and fight in armored trucks, or you can discard armored trucks and get off the vehicle to fight, and the flexibility is very strong.

There is no way, the Ocean Empire is a local tyrant, and the guns and ammunition are completely ahead of the generation.

German soldiers are generally armed with 98K rifles, while soldiers of the Ocean Empire are equipped with Zero semi-automatic rifles, which can shoot single, three bursts, or continuous strafes, and the battlefield performance is much stronger than that of 98K.

There is no reason to talk about the battle of the local tyrants, and the advanced planes of the Luftwaffe are scurrying around, as long as they go to the sky, it is a mission of nine deaths, and the average life span of German pilots does not exceed four flight missions, and most of them are shot down on new mobile phones, and there is no room for growth at all.

What followed was the indiscriminate bombing of the planes, which shattered the artillery of the German army, which relied on to win the victory, and was unable to launch a counterattack.

Then relying on the bombing of the air force and the frenzied catharsis of ground artillery, the German army had no temper.

This is a dead knot, without everyone realizing the importance of air superiority, the Royal Air Force of the Ocean Empire firmly controls the sky and establishes an unshakable superiority.

In addition, the local tyrants have a lot of money to fight the war, and the amount of aerial bombs and artillery shells they have prepared is large, and they are full, no matter how strong the German soldiers are, no matter how skilled their combat skills are, they will have to be defeated by the Royal Army of the Ocean Empire.

When the assault is blowing, the iron armor is rolling, and the shells are bombarding, how can this battle be fought?

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