Kyiv

The building of the 2nd Army Command was brightly lit, and the officers of the General Staff were busy, sending orders to the frontline troops by telephone, telegram or correspondence.

In the conference room on the third floor, senior army officials are holding an emergency meeting to deploy the overall plan for the next phase of combat.

At around 11:00 in the evening

The senior officers who attended the meeting then dispersed and followed the stairs in groups of three or three to go out. The entrance of the headquarters building immediately became lively. Senior officers from various divisions and brigades got into the car and followed the truck full of guards to leave.

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

Inside the Office of the Army Commander on the Third Floor

Admiral Duan Qixiang had two guests left, 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 in a gentle tone, "Two brothers, drink some hot tea to cheer up. If we want to contribute to the overall situation on the Eastern Front battlefield, the focus is on the German Fifth and Ninth Army. I mean to eat one and hold the other. We must not let the main German army transfer westwards and enhance the strength of the German army on the front battlefield of the Western Front. Leave one more German advisor, and the Western Front battlefield will be easier."

Lieutenant General Wu Baoli took a few sips of hot tea, frowned without saying a word.

He was responsible for a mountainous task on his shoulders, and planned to lead the armored assault corps as arrows. Some of the main divisions of the 2nd Army of the Imperial Expedition carried out deep detours and interspersions. He cut 127 kilometers deep on the northwest front of the German army, cutting off the possibility of Lithuania in the north, Minsk in the direction of German troops, and Warsaw in the west to support the Ukrainian battlefield.

A large encirclement with a range of more than 20,000 square kilometers was formed, and the German 5th and 9th armies were installed and the troops were concentrated to encircle and annihilate them.

From beginning to end

In the Battle of Western Ukraine, the 2nd Expedition Army did not take the millions of Austro-Hungarian Army into consideration on the Western Front. 620,000 Belarusian troops were deployed to defend the Western Front, with the purpose of preventing the Austro-Hungarian Army from breaking through the defense line.

On the northwest and northern fronts dominated by the German army, almost all the main forces of the 2nd Army plus the elite 400,000 Belarusian troops, totaling about 800,000 people, planning to encircle and annihilate the main forces of 630,000 German troops.

To be honest, this is a bold plan.

Even if an encirclement is formed, it is still a thin skin and large filling, which is easily broken by a poke, which leads to a strong counterattack from the German and Austrian coalition forces.

If you don't do it well, you'll get all of yourself.

After a moment

Lieutenant General Wu Baoli said with a serious expression, "Commander-in-Chief, I have no doubt about the assault power of the armored corps. I have implemented the large-depth assault tactics perfectly on the North American battlefield. But we should see the difficulties. The German army is different from the US military with a sluggish combat power. Its combat will is quite tenacious. I doubt if I have such a good appetite to swallow the two German heavy army groups."

"This battle is only about defeating, not completely annihilated." General Duan Qixiang turned around and walked to the side of the large map hanging on the wall, pointed to Belarus and Lithuania in the north, and said with a click;

"I asked the assault corps to cut off the main road for the German army to flee north. Some swamp forests and remote areas are not to worry about, and that is all the details.

Secondly, the assault corps must cut off the main channels in the northwest and prevent German reinforcements from Warsaw.

By then, our army from north to south will launch together..."

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

My bottom line is to eat up the Ninth Army in the north and severely damage the 5th Army in the west.

Throughout the operational plan

The role of the air force led by Brother Mo Xuan is crucial. I ask you to destroy all German artillery positions that can be discovered, destroy any moving German tanks and armored vehicles, bomb the German heavy army assembly areas, break bridges, destroy logistics assembly points, and throw all the bombs that can be dropped."

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

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

“His Excellency Commander;

In two consecutive days of fierce battles, our air force shot down 322 German aircraft in succession and lost 69 of them, which undoubtedly occupied an air superiority.

But see

The rapid progress of the German aviation industry has produced more than 3,600 aircraft in the first half of 2018. Their technical level has been greatly improved compared with the early stage of the war. They have strong replenishment capabilities, and this is not all their eastern air power.

In comparison

Our Eastern Air Force currently has 462 fighter jets and 337 bombers. Recently, a batch of aircraft have just arrived in Crimea, with a total of about 80 aircraft, and it has not been time to install them.

With its fighter performance and pilot technology advantages, the Royal Air Force is confident of obtaining air supremacy over the battlefield in Western Ukraine, but this is not absolute, and it is also necessary to prevent raids from German reserve aviation forces.

Many German rear airports are set up in Warsaw, Lithuania, Minsk and other places. We should find these places and destroy them to prevent the Germans from transferring fighter jets from the Western Front battlefield.

Otherwise, we are fighting the entire Luftwaffe.”

Admiral Duan Qixiang agreed deeply and said with his hands on the German direction on the map;

"From tomorrow, the air forces of the Allies and the United Kingdom, France, Italy and other countries will launch joint air combat, continue to bomb the Derby border and the German-France border, and cross the border area and go deeper over Germany to find an opportunity to annihilate the enemy and support the battlefield on the Eastern Front.

The Expeditionary Army Marshal planned to carry out large-scale bombings of important industrial centers, military bases and heavy-armed areas in Germany, launching a large-scale aerial battle.

If the Germans don’t want to be bombed, they have to use the accumulated air force to consume it, and they don’t have much energy to support the Eastern Front battlefield.

I request that from tomorrow, the bomber group will attack the entire line, and carry out large-scale high-intensity bombing on the artillery groups belonging to the Fifth and Ninth Army of Germany and the areas where heavy troops gather, so as to weaken the pressure on the front battlefield.

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

General Duan Qixiang looked at Lieutenant General Wu Baoli with a stern expression. Lieutenant General Wu Baoli immediately put his legs together and replied in a solemn voice; "Please give instructions from the commander and commander."

"Lead our army's armored assault cluster, and with an unstoppable rapid offensive, break through the German flanks in one fell swoop, and then break in." General Duan Qixiang punched me hard on the German rear front and said, "Occupy the German rear material hub here, cut off traffic and all contacts, and gathered to annihilate it."

"As for orders, Commander-in-Chief." Lieutenant General Wu Baoli and Major General Wu Moxuan put their legs together, greeted a standard military salute, and replied loudly.

When it comes to being bold, the 2nd Army can be said to be invincible. If this is to be taken into account by the British and French, I would never dare to attack the two German Army if I was scared.

Proof of

Since the outbreak of the World War, France has experienced a tragedy in which the entire army was severely damaged and almost wiped out. The British had a dark scene of more than 60,000 casualties in one day. It was tortured by the Germans, leaving a deep psychological shadow.

In contrast, the Ocean Empire army did not have this ideological burden. In the late stage of the Somme Battle, the 1st Expedition Army launched a killing weapon of "air-ground integrated warfare" and carried out a devastating blow to the German Second Army, which severely damaged it in one battle.

The Royal Army belonging to the Ocean Empire severely damaged a German army with its army force, and set the first step, won the victory with a brilliant record, and was hailed as the noble honor of the "France Liberator".

Compared with the 1st Army, the 2nd Army of the Expedition was nothing, and was equipped with an extremely powerful armored Dragoon Division. The division was equipped with more than 420 medium and heavy tanks of various medium and heavy tanks, twice that of 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 battles are explained by iron-like facts;

The combat effectiveness of an imperial division can be as strong as two German divisions. With the cooperation of the air force and artillery, the defense can withstand 3 to 4 German divisions, which is so powerful.

This is not the overall advantage reflected in the Imperial soldiers' combat effectiveness than the Germans, but the advantages of equipment, firepower, combat philosophy and squad and platoon tactical cooperation.

A squad of soldiers sitting in the armored truck was equipped with a heavy machine gun, which could completely compete with a platoon of German soldiers without being at a disadvantage.

There are grenades when the distance is close, and there are heavy machine guns and mortars when the distance is far away. You can chase and fight in armored trucks, or you can throw away the armored trucks and get out of the vehicle for combat. It is very flexible.

There is no way, the Ocean Empire is a rich man, with guns, cannons and ammunition being one generation ahead of the pack.

German soldiers are generally equipped with 98k rifles, while Ocean Empire soldiers are equipped with zero-type semi-automatic rifles, which can be single shot, three-point shots, or continuous strafing. The battlefield performance is much stronger than 98k.

In the company-level army of the Ocean Empire, there is a fire platoon equipped with four 60 mortars and four heavy machine guns, which implements firepower support when the entire company attacks.

Each type of zero semi-automatic rifle is equipped with four grenades and 100 rounds of ammunition when fighting. Each infantry squad also has a Type 03 light machine gun.

The German company only has heavy machine guns and no mortars. The soldiers are equipped with 98k single-action rifles, and the firepower difference between the company and the platoon level is not a small part.

The local tyrants' combat is completely unreasonable. The unrelenting advanced aircraft made the German Air Force run away in a hurry. As long as they go to heaven, it will be a life-threatening mission. The average lifespan of German pilots does not exceed 4 flight missions. Most of them are shot down on new phones and have no room for growth at all.

What followed was the indiscriminate bombing of the planes, which destroyed the German army's magic weapon, Lai Zheng, to pieces and was unable to launch a counterattack.

Then, relying on air force bombing and ground artillery to vent their firepower frantically, the German army was fragile.

This is a dead knot. Without everyone realizing the importance of air superiority, the Royal Air Force of the Ocean Empire firmly controlled the sky, which established an unshakable advantage.

In addition, the local tyrants were rich in wars and had a large amount of aviation bombs and artillery shells prepared. No matter how powerful the German soldiers were and how skilled they were in battle, they were destroyed by the ashes of the shells, and they would have to be defeated when facing the Royal Army of the Ocean Empire.
Chapter completed!