Chapter 821: Continue to the North

So, at the last moment, before the prince launched a real attack, the Russians coaxed! Like a gecko with a broken tail, part of the troops were left behind as cannon fodder to block the Bavarian Army, and the remaining main forces of the Fourth and Ninth Armies began to withdraw. Pen Fun Pavilion www.biquge.info and just as they were leaving, the reinforced Offenberg Army launched an offensive battle that at least seemed to be very large. Although the results are very limited.

The two Russian armies began to retreat and regroup, but His Royal Highness had no intention of stopping, and three days later, when the main force of the Bavarian Army led by the Prince and Prince Leopold's troops converged, the Bavarian Army, with 12 divisions, began to continue the offensive to the north! The logistics that had been used to take charge of the two Austro-Hungarian armies were requisitioned by the prince, and the roaring Bavarian tanks were reactivated to attack the already exhausted Russian army group.

"Hold the grass, it's endless! It seems that you really need to watch the backstage when you beat someone! "This time, the Bavarian Corps, which was short of armored units and vehicles, naturally could not have fought a fairly high-level interspersed operation, but it was not a problem to say that it was okay to tear through the defensive line that the Russians hastily fortified. Simple artillery plus infantry assault, first-line flat push tactics are enough to deal with the Russians.

Nikolayevich, who was far away in Warsaw, didn't expect that the Bavarians were really serious this time, didn't they save Offenberg and forget it, they seemed to want to launch a counterattack? Didn't it say okay, Bavaria and Austria-Hungary had bad relations lately? Although the bloodline between the two families has now been fused quite deeply, when the Russians violently beat the Austro-Hungarian Empire, the Bavarian Legion was able to react in such a way that the Russians still exceeded the Russians' expectations.

However, this also helped the Russians solve a problem, and now, Brusinov no longer insists on letting the Russian army in the Ukrainian direction reach the foot of the Carpathian Mountains, nor does he insist on letting the two Russian armies kill the Offenberg Corps, they have now unified their position, that is, how to block the advance of the Bavarian Corps!

No way, although the Bavarian regiment is not in good shape, the Russians are also not in good shape. Not to mention the fact that the total length of this front is 750 kilometers! The five Russian armies were scattered, while the Bavarian concentrated forces also had more than one army, but these troops were staring at the wounded Fourth and Ninth Armies, and the attack surface was relatively narrow.

Although the simple front-line flat push tactics may not be too effective, they will not make mistakes at the same time, and the firepower and troop quality of the Russians are several grades worse than those of the German army, and they will definitely not be able to defeat them. Therefore, the prince did not have to worry too much about the situation on the battlefield, and in his opinion, dealing with Conrad, who had arrived from Vienna, was even more important than what was happening on the battlefield, because the prince and his negotiations determined the basic pattern of the Galician front for some time to come.

"I don't care what Fritz did, or what the Austro-Hungarian General Staff arranged, and I don't want to follow your opinion, and now, I say, listen. My opinion will not change much. When Conrad and his party arrived at the prince's command post, the prince said with a straight face.

The Bavarian Legion and the Austro-Hungarian Legion were not subordinate, in principle, the prince could guarantee the security of the Bohemian region, and nothing else needed to obey the orders of the Austro-Hungarian Legion, and just two days earlier, Moltke Jr. officially nominated the prince as commander-in-chief of the German Eastern Front in the name of the German General Staff. That is, if it is passed, now, at the level of military orders, the prince and Austria-Hungary are completely level!

"The theater of operations of the Bavarian Corps will not change as a result of this campaign, that is, the area we occupy now is not our theater of operations, so sooner or later it will have to be handed over to the Austro-Hungarian Corps. And there will be a time limit, you can take over or not, it's all up to you. ”

"But now the Austro-Hungarian corps simply did not have the strength to hold the front. If you give up, then what is the point of the bloody battle of the Bavarian legion and the consumption of a lot of resources, but not enough gains? Conrad said in surprise.

"The meaning is that we have given you a chance, and it depends on how you grasp it!" The prince did not change his opinion because of Conrad's rhetoric. "We all know that after a major battle, there will be a long period of recuperation between the two sides, and we have relieved the Offenberg Army and retained the strength of almost one army group, and the Austro-Hungarian Empire has a population of more than 40 million. During the period when the two sides were resting, it was not difficult to make up for the losses caused by the previous battles. ”

"Now, the elite of the Bavarian Corps, which has returned to the Eastern Front, is ready for a new offensive. The Russians will still be distracted. If you can't hold this breakthrough in this situation, I can't imagine it. ”

"The Bavarian Legion is going to launch a counterattack? So, Your Highness, where will you put the breakthrough? Is it Bohemia or Galicia? As soon as he heard this, Conrad immediately became interested.

"It's not decided yet, but neither of these places is my first choice. Because it's so far from Bavaria, I don't want a repeat of what happened in the last border battle. Our supply lines were not cut off by the Russians, but they were manipulated by our own people behind our back, which is something I absolutely cannot tolerate! The prince's words were filled with anger.

"I promise, it won't happen again." Conrad said with some shame.

"How do you guarantee it? Because of the position of Chief of the General Staff of Austria-Hungary? No, this guarantee is not reliable, and even the guarantee of His Majesty the Emperor is absolutely unreliable, and when the time comes, people will always come up with all sorts of excuses! And for the sake of this guarantee, resulting in tens of thousands of casualties, I will not be so stupid. The prince's words were already quite damning. This clearly tells Conrad that the matter of the border battle has not passed, and the Austro-Hungarian Empire will not give an explanation, this matter is not over!

"But isn't it enough that the matter has passed, and those responsible have been punished? What more would you like to do? Don't forget, we are allies! Conrad said with some annoyance.

"Of course it can't be passed, the losses caused by the Bavarian corps as a result have not been compensated, how can it be passed? If it were enough to apologize, there would be no war in the world! The meaning of allies is to help each other, and if the actions of one party cause damage to the other, shouldn't they be given substantial compensation? The prince asked rhetorically.

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