The distance of 40 kilometers is not far or near, which is about the same as the distance from Beijing to Langfang, or perhaps less.

For an army, 40 kilometers at a normal marching speed, that is, about four or five hours, and if you include the artillery that is dragging its feet, it can be reached in six hours.

If Crown Prince Karl's Second Legion could be ordered to move his troops immediately in the early morning, the whole army would certainly be able to reach the battlefield in the morning, and if the most elite cavalry regiment broke away from the troops and charged, I am afraid that it would arrive at the battlefield at about nine o'clock.

Unfortunately, many of the problems in the war are not simple mathematical problems, and the short forty kilometers are only a small section on the map, but in front of human beings, it is a huge obstacle that can obscure the vision.

The Second Army Corps did not have clairvoyance and ears, they could not see the explosion and fire forty kilometers away, nor could they hear the gunfire like a torrential rain, and perhaps now they were still slowly packing up their camp according to the original plan, preparing to move closer to the main force little by little.

"There is no time to waste, I am sure that all the cavalry and sappers sent by the command now have been killed by the enemy, and now Prince Karl has no idea that the great battle has begun...... It is even possible that the Austrians have set up an ambush on the road they must pass, waiting for us to send them to the door......"

There was a loud bang, and there was a commotion among all the Chinese and Prussian officers present, and then Jonas spoke on behalf of several high-ranking Prussian officers.

"Sir, what now? Is it too late to inform the command? I ask the commander to give an order, immediately ask for reinforcements, we must open this lifeline......

The Prussians were talking nonsense, and Jonas anxiously translated for Xiao Letian, but in exchange for Xiao Letian shaking his head vigorously.

"No, no, no, there is no time, and we have fewer troops on the battlefield than the Austrians, do you think there will be many reserves allocated to us? That's impossible......"

Speaking of this, Xiao Letian's finger suddenly pointed to a point on the map, "Here, this is this nameless stone bridge, there is a gentle slope on the west side of the bridge, this should be the commanding height of the surrounding terrain, the area is enough for our two battalions to expand the ......"

"Luo Huo... You led the cavalry company to quickly rush to the west, and delivered the military order to Prince Karl as quickly as possible, Xiao Hexin, Sima Yun... All the remaining infantry corps immediately marched in a hurry, rushed to the stone bridge heights as quickly as possible, and immediately set up defenses......"

"Yes, my lord—" None of the Asian officers immediately stood up and saluted, but at that moment all the Prussian officers hesitated.

A group of officers gathered around Jonas and muttered in a low voice for a long time, and then Jonas frowned and said, "Honorable Prime Minister, we Prussian soldiers have different opinions, and I hope you can refer to ......"

Jonas sighed, as if he had made a big determination, "I'm sorry Prime Minister, we refused to accept such an order, the order given to us by the General Headquarters was only to pass on the news to repair the line, and we did not have the right to block it......"

At this time, Jonas cleared his throat, sorted out the opinions of the Prussian officers, and began to reason with Xiao Letian.

"Prime Minister, I hope you can understand our considerations, modern warfare has long been a rigorous science, this is not the era of the Middle Ages when you can win a big battle with a single blood, maybe you think that with a bloody courage to inspire the momentum of the soldiers, you can win more with less, and turn the tide of the war?"

"Unfortunately, this traditional way of thinking is no longer in place. War has entered the age of steel roaring, and no matter how much courage you have in your chest, you can't stop a high-speed spinning bullet, or even a shell filled with high explosives......"

"Do you know how many artillery pieces there are in Austria now? at least eight hundred. Do you know how powerful a salvo of artillery is, and even an angel can't resist the slaughter of the ......."

Jonas was a little excited, and his speed of speech slowly accelerated: "Prime Minister, please look at this war rationally, the General Staff has already formulated all the battle plans, and countless senior staff officers have even calculated the food supply to every hour, and now in the Kingdom of Prussia, all railway transportation has been converted to military use, and all roads are horse-drawn carriages for transporting supplies......"

"The whole kingdom is running at high speed like a sophisticated machine tool, and every part has already got the task they need to do. In this war, every soldier can get his own clear task before the battle, every officer can better know the strategic intentions of his army, and even the logistics soldiers who transfer supplies can know where they are going to send canned meat today, and to whom they are handing it over......"

"Countless train drivers know where their arms are going to be delivered, countless factory owners know how many muskets they need to produce when they work overtime, and those bankers in Berlin, Hamburg, and Hanover have been calculating the interest on overseas war loans all night long, using up their wisdom to save every gold coin for the empire......"

Jonas took a few deep breaths and calmed down, "Dear Prime Minister, what did the Kingdom of Prussia rely on to get to where it is today, from a weak state to a decisive battle with the powerful Austria, and to make the old power France dare not take it lightly?"

"Relying on our rigor, relying on the precision and order of all the people of the whole country like screws and gears, yes, there is only one secret of our success, and that is order, and what we need in Prussia is order ......"

"Prime Minister, do you know how much change it will cause to the whole battle if you act without a military order, and this variable will be magnified geometrically, you will change the state of our front, you will affect the movement of other armies, and you will even disrupt the logistics and supply schedule...... No, no, no, this uncontrollable change is just terrible, it's definitely a disaster......"

Xiao Lotian and his brothers were already stunned, and they seemed to have only now understood how strict the Prussian nation really was, and was this still a human being?

Yes, why is old Moltke so unkind to himself? You must know that we have won the French cavalry battalion and saved orphans in Hamburg, even if you old Moltke does not admit this kindness, you will not take revenge, right?

There are also these Prussian army officers, although they complain a little on the training ground, but the execution of orders is absolutely uncompromised, let them be ground rats for as long as they can, they can hold on, at that time never thought that they would disobey orders.

The fanatical worship of order in this nation is unimaginable to Xiao Lotian and his subordinates, and it may be that more than 100 years of national military service have made this nation perverted, and they cannot tolerate the slightest act of disrupting order in their eyes.

In their minds, military orders, laws, and the morality of the people taught by God are the cornerstones of order and must not be broken. It's like the 7th Division of the Prussian Army, which is now in a bitter battle, is still fighting to the death after being flanked by two corps.

Why is this happening? Why don't they have the slightest idea of retreating in their hearts? It's not because they're war madmen in the sky, but in fact what they think in their hearts is very simple: if the military order tells us to do this, we will do it, there is no room for bargaining, and some can only stubbornly carry it out.

Only by putting themselves on the spot a cold, emotionless steel part will people forget how terrible death is, and only then will the Prussians be able to keep the order they want.

Xiao Lotian sighed, stretched out his hand and rubbed his temples, scolding in his heart. This group of elm pimples is simply unreasonable, this nation is too perverted, and there is definitely a fight with the Japanese, no wonder these two nations fought the most fiercely in World War II, and they rushed to this tendon in their brains, and it was really a copper pea that did not enter the oil and salt.

But they can't be blamed, the Prussian General Staff spent ten years just to formulate the battle plan for this Austro-Prussian war. In the past ten years, countless people have poured their hearts and souls into it, and even if there is no time for himself as a time-traveler to disrupt the situation, Prussia can still win the seven-week battle.

It is his own appearance that has created countless variables for the good grand strategy of others, so old Moltke would rather put these two battalions next to his headquarters, and would rather stay wasteful than let Xiao Lotian fight, knowing that the Prussians have hated unexpected variables to the extreme.

Now these officers of the Hamburg new barracks have also expressed strong dissatisfaction with their actions, and they have put it bluntly, like old Moltke, what they are pursuing is only order.

What the military order looks like, how it should be implemented, this has nothing to do with greed for life and fear of death, they just want to tell Xiao Lotian that it is not right to break the rules at will, if all military commanders fight like this, then what else do they need for the general headquarters?

Xiao Letian secretly smiled bitterly in his heart, if it was an ordinary Chinese, it would probably be good when encountering this kind of pressure, right? But it's a pity that you didn't meet a person today, oh...... Phew, of course I'm alone, but I'm a person who crosses, and isn't the existence of the traverser here to break the rules?

You want order? Hehe, go in a dream, as long as I am Xiao Lotian, order should be decided by me.

Just as Xiao Lotian organized his language and wanted to speak, the angry Luo Huo couldn't help it for the first time, and he yelled, "Coward... Coward...... Are you recruits afraid of death? The adults didn't let you go with one as ten, and you didn't even dare to guard a high ground, a bunch of wretched..."

Although these Prussian officers couldn't understand what Luo Huo was saying, they knew that it was not a good thing just by looking at their expressions, and this group of Nordic big noses was not easy to mess with, so their faces were a little unkind at that time.

Jonas even snorted angrily, "General Luo Huo, please pay attention to your words... This is Europe, not your Qing country, and there are no backward medieval infantry here to command you, and here the soldiers are not the private property of the officers, and they are not the ...... that you can insult casually."

"Whether we Prussians are cowards or not is never proved by the moment, what we seek is only the victory of the whole nation, and we will not have a single distraction...... To put it mildly, why did you Chinese make it the way you are now, that is, you have too many distracting thoughts, everyone has their own ideas, and if you lose order, what can you do but internal friction......"

I'll go... Xiao Lotian didn't expect that Jonas also had a set of hurting people, and this set of rhetoric really hit the key point of the Chinese, and what people said was really not wrong.

"Enough... Shut up...... I, Xiao Letian, am the supreme governor here... Aren't you ashamed that there are nearly 200,000 people strangled behind us, and people are dying every minute and every second, while we are still engaged in a war of words?"

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