Chapter 820: Break through

Sometimes victory and defeat are only one step away. The troops led by Prince Georg became the last straw to crush the Russian Fourth and Ninth Army Groups. Although the Austro-Hungarian army was very embarrassed, at the beginning of the war, under the leadership of aristocratic officers, the will to fight was still reasonable. Even in the history of Galicia where the Russians dominated the battle, even if the Russians’ own war reports, only 100,000 Austro-Hungarian prisoners of war were captured.

And now, when the Bavarian Army has begun operations and the Russians themselves are guilty, the two armies have surrounded hundreds of thousands of Austro-Hungarian troops, regardless of what the big men in the rear think, but the two Russian armies However, the commander has already begun to retreat in his heart.

  Prince Georg personally led the team into the encirclement. This nearly 10,000 new force really gave the Austro-Hungarian army in the encirclement a boost. This is not only because it makes up for the problem of combat effectiveness, but the identity of the prince also shows the determination of the Bavarian Legion! After all, Prince Leopold is the third member of the entire Wittelsbach family, and his son is not easy to risk! In the view of Russia, which is also a monarchy, if the Bavarian Legion does not have full confidence and determination, it will never let the royal family members enter the encirclement of the enemy.

  Although the Russians feel that only Prince Leopold’s troops can be reached in a short time, but referring to the speed of the Bavarian Legion in the past, who can guarantee that the Bavarian Legion will suddenly give himself a knife in a place that he did not expect? Especially the position of the Russian Fourth Army is really great! On the very side! Who will you hit if you don't hit?

  "The German plane is here again!" Seeing the K-4 bomber flying over his head, a Russian soldier said to his companion with lingering fear. For the Russian soldiers on the front line, they saw a more realistic threat, and the prince’s promise was fulfilled. When the sun rose from the horizon, the Russians’ heads had been hovering more or less in Bavaria and Bohemia. The air force of the regiment, the bomber group like a **** of death, began to clear the Russian artillery positions, troop assembly positions and transport troops one by one.

  As if looking from the air, the road leading to the war zone is full of destroyed vehicles and fallen horses. A K-4 bomber's repeated bombing and blasting can make a transport company with hundreds of carriages out of control! The 12.7MM incendiary bomb can easily ignite the wooden structure of the car body with just one shot, and there is no problem with one bullet piercing two horses side by side.

A large number of carriages cannot hide and evacuate on uncovered roads, and even violent explosions, pungent smoke and firelight can make these horses crazy, and the rider cannot withstand the attack of the hunter from the air to control these animals, horses The collision and trampling between them is even more than direct damage! The Russians did not even have enough manpower to clear the blocked roads. They could only temporarily push the destroyed vehicles and horses to both sides of the road. In this way, in order to clear a road, the Russians still paid a heavy price. The roads are distributed on both sides. The corpse of the soldier is a masterpiece of constant suppression by the Bavarian Air Force.

  The air force’s attack made it difficult to provide logistics for some of the Russian troops. The front line of defense became difficult to break through after the Germans joined. A small number of armored units and machine gun teams formed units, wandering between various support points, and even launched a short assault with the cooperation of infantry. When the Russian soldiers rushed up yelling "Ula", they suddenly came from the front or side. The armored vehicles and elite infantry that rush out can often output a large amount of firepower in a very short time, and then retreat into the fog of war before the Russians' weak artillery reacts.

  On the whole, the Russian army, whose artillery level was originally average, has been struck in logistics and transportation, and there has been a shortage of frontline materials. In this case, there is an advantage in the number of artillery, but the actual output is not very sufficient. The soldiers below can only use their lives to assault the opponent's machine-gun defenses. Don’t forget, there are thousands of machine guns with Prince Georg! Nearly a thousand MG08 machine guns may not be too powerful on the western front, but on the eastern front, especially when the Russians are exhausted, these nearly one thousand machine guns are dying!

Because the prince promised that his father would be there within 3 days, there is no upper limit on the ammunition used by these newly added machine guns. The flame tongue of thousands of machine guns tells the desperate Russians to the end, flesh and blood. It can't stop the rain of steel bullets...

Although the arrival of Georg’s troops did not open a gap in the Russian line of defense, it did not allow the Russians to advance or retreat. At this time, the troops on both sides were already intertwined. On the front, a large number of soldiers were entangled together and wanted to withdraw from the capital. It's not that easy.

As the frontline Austro-Hungarian Army gradually stabilized the situation, the elite troops of Prince Leopold’s five divisions were less than a day away from the encirclement~www.wuxiaspot.com~ and even the long-range artillery in the German army had already It can be set up to bombard the Russian positions outside the encirclement. Thirty-six K09 ultra-long-range heavy artillery began to roar, and the artillery shells weighing more than 50 kilograms roared and flew over a distance of nearly 20 kilometers before blooming flowers of death behind the Russian positions!

  At this time, it happened that General Zalitz, the commander of the Russian Fourth Army, was patrolling the battle line nearby, and the sound of heavy artillery from a distance made him feel extremely frightened! The ultra-long-range heavy artillery is a military-level organization even in the German army, and so many ultra-long-range artillery began to bombard the Russian positions, which made his prediction of the entire battlefield situation further problematic. He doesn't think that the strength of several divisions can have several powerful long-range firepower!

"Maybe the German army led by Prince Leopold is only about 4 divisions in size, but their artillery is definitely not something a unit of this level can have. The most likely thing is that the Austro-Hungarian Army also launched a counterattack. The Fourth Army and the First It is impossible for the Ninth Army to continue to surround the Offenberg Army under such circumstances!" Zalitz wrote in a telegram to the base camp.

   "No more than 20 kilometers? This TM is a day's trip!" General Zalitz said, touching his meticulously trimmed beard. "If you don't leave, I'm afraid it will be too late!" Prince Leopold's assault speed was still somewhat beyond the Russians' expectations. And the reason why the Russian army's blocking line has not been breached is that the fundamental reason is not that the German army has no strength, but that the prince needs to make the final preparations before attacking!

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