Chapter 26
By the time the troops had finished reorganizing, it was already late at night. The bright sunshine had long gone down, replaced by a bright moonlight and an endless silent night.
Facing this scene, Kuster felt a little emotional, so he gave a speech to the soldiers:
"Soldiers, you have not received formal training, you just fired a few shots and were dragged to the battlefield.
You are using the most advanced weapons in the world. I am glad for you and it is extremely unfair.
Your hearts are as bright as the moonlight, which makes me see clearly!
And the soldiers I need are like the night! It is extremely dark and quiet, and only they can bring me victory.
I once had the vast and endless night, but now I can only have this small moon. It is really sighing."
At this time, a fat man in the crowd walked out and laughed at him:
"My general, I admit that these weapons are advanced, but there is something wrong with what you said. The night you once had should be just a little bit, far less than the moon now!"
He waited quietly for a long time, but Kuster still turned his back to him, looking at the sky, and didn't pay any attention to him.
Finally, under the gaze of the people around him, he finally couldn't stand the pressure from embarrassment and retreated.
Kuster's military coat fluttered in the wind, and his thoughts were like the wind, scattered to who knows where.
He stared at the sky, and suddenly there was a loud noise, attracting the attention of everyone present.
The night was torn into cracks, and blue-purple flashes cut through the clouds and mist, and then struck the earth, which was the symbol of thunder.
The storm was coming. But Kuster was well prepared in advance. He produced a lot of rubber raincoats in advance, and let them put them on and turn around to look at the magnificent scenery in the distance for the last time.
The lightning was like a spear piercing the sky, extremely sharp and extremely fast. It was just a matter of a moment, and it would never be seen again.
As if inspired, Kuster shouted to the soldiers below the stage:
"See that lightning? We must be like it, tearing through the enemy's defense violently and swiftly, and beat the Russians so hard that they can't raise their heads.
If they dare to catch us, they will be beaten to death and flee in all directions!
We are this lightning! No one is faster than us, no one is more terrible than us! Lightning is our belief, it can lead us to victory and gain our own honor!"
Everyone was excited by what he said, like hot oil that was about to burn, and Kuster added fuel to the fire:
"This is the calm before the storm, this is the prelude to the battle, and it is also the horn of the Empire's counterattack.
We will fight bloody battles here for days and nights, and finally triumph. And the enemy will be buried here, with no one to see them off.
Go! After crossing the Dunayets River one kilometer ahead, we will officially enter the battlefield!
Long live the emperor! Long live the empire! We will definitely bring back victory!"
Although the battle has not yet started, the war machine has already roared.
The soldiers formed an orderly line, marching forward with full confidence.
Kuster stood on the high platform, turned back and looked around the sky.
He decided that after this battle, he would use lightning as the symbol of their army.
During the soldiers' march, Kuster also built the command center and discussed the battle plan with the officers inside.
They have a great advantage in this battle, that is, the enemy does not know their existence.
So he can deploy in any area and concentrate local forces at any time to break through.
And as the attacker, he can freely choose the time and terrain of the battle, which is very beneficial to him.
However, he does not have enough support. After communicating with Joseph before, he learned that many senior officers were unwilling to participate in this combat operation. They will definitely strictly control their men to prevent them from suffering losses due to unwarranted involvement in the war.
Therefore, even if some reckless grassroots officers want to directly participate in the battle, they will not dare to take any action for fear of punishment from the upper level.
Fortunately, Borojevich agreed to send troops directly from the Russian flank to assist Kuster in the attack.
They had to fight a good battle, a battle that was fast and fierce, so that the Russians would keep retreating, so that their troops would regain confidence and get more support.
As for where to fight? Kuster took a close look at the map and finally decided to set the battle line in the area of Rzeszow-Sanok.
(Sanok is within a few hundred meters on the west bank of the San River, and Rzeszow is 40 kilometers north of Sanok.)
There were about 90,000 Russian troops in this area, only 20,000 more than Kuster's elite troops. They attacked from the north, and Borojevic attacked from the south, forming a pincer attack on both sides. As long as they used extremely fierce attacks, the Russians would be stuck in the pincers within a week.
At that time, when the senior officers of Austria-Hungary found the opportunity, they would rush to attack the surrounded Russian army, leaving the front line empty.
So after Kuster successfully surrounded the Russian army, he could only let others eat it, and he temporarily filled the front line to prevent the Russians from rescuing the surrounded Russian army.
Unfortunately, he only had one army and could barely control the situation. If he was the commander-in-chief of the battlefield, he would definitely make good use of the subtleties of blitzkrieg and deep operations.
That is, on the premise of being able to effectively destroy the enemy's active forces (blitzkrieg), he could also severely damage the enemy's command system and logistics system (deep operations).
But this is not an advanced era. Soldiers from all countries like to squat in pits when fighting, and have no awareness of mobile warfare at all.
But these powerful war theories are very wasteful when used only in tactics, so he must fight one beautiful battle after another here to obtain his own group army, or even the entire Austro-Hungarian Army.
Suddenly, a telegraph operator ran into the headquarters, holding a piece of white paper and handed it to Kuster and said:
"General, this is the latest information."
Kuster looked at the information in his hand and felt deeply doubtful. He threw it on the table and said to the officers:
"Why are you so detailed? Are these all true? Even if the Russians' information is almost one-way transparent to us, it's not like this. It's so detailed that we can barely tell the size of the toilet used by the Tsar!"
At this time, an injured officer stood up and said with some embarrassment:
"I can guarantee that this is true. I was originally an officer who defended Sanok. As for why it is so detailed, it is because the Russian offensive was too fierce. Before we could even react, the Russians intervened in many places. People's flag.
But it's also strange that the Russians didn't notice the soldiers we were hiding there! What an opportunity. "
Listening to the officer's explanation, Kuster kept nodding. At the same time, he came up with an evil idea in his heart.
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