Chapter 133, the Great Detour
Just as Dante Kristof was preparing for a decisive battle, he had been in the lower reaches of the South Morava River, and the stalemate was forced!
The southwestern defense line of Serbia was broken through by the Central Route Army!
Originally, most of the main forces of Bulgaria were concentrated in the middle route army, and seeing the glorious achievements of the left and right route armies, the middle route officers who could not break through for a long time were already anxious!
You must know that the defenders of Serbia's southwestern front are only 80,000 "rabble", and the middle route army that has gathered Bulgaria's elite has been unable to break through for a long time, I don't know how many people are watching jokes!
There is no way Serbian coach Ivan Ric, who is very clear-headed, knows the gap in combat effectiveness between the two sides, and has no intention of coming out for a decisive battle at all!
The lewd stream was taken to the extreme, making full use of all the terrain that could be used, and there were simple fortifications everywhere, and it was not expected to be able to block the attack of the Bulgarian army, it was simply to delay time!
From a purely tactical point of view, it's terrible! Scattering the army across several improvised lines of defense is a complete send-off! Often after a burst of artillery fire, plus a charge, a line of defense is broken!
However, the price paid is worth it, a line of defense can be delayed for a few hours, and at most a day, anyway, the strategic goal has been achieved!
However, since the two regiments of the Guards completed the intersperse, Ivan Rich's attempt was dashed! In order to keep the back road, after being forced to transfer a division of troops from the front line, it became the last straw that overwhelmed the defenders, and disaster struck!
More critically, due to a strategic miscalculation, Ivan Richy believed that the Central Army was going to the Niš area to join the Left Army, setting up a new defensive line on the road to Niš, and ignoring the defense on the north bank of the South Morava River!
Of course, even if he is clear, it is useless, the force is limited, and it is impossible to deploy on both sides! The Serbian South-Western Front had already been routed, and Ivan Ric retreated again, stopping only in the area of Leskovac!
The Central Army crossed the river and entered the northern bank, quickly captured Pristina, and continued its march to Kraljevo!
The great roundabout strategy formulated by the General Staff is in full swing, and a large encirclement against the main forces of Serbia is closing its pockets!
Now there are only two paths before the Serbs:
Either simply abandon the vast area south of the Morava River, including Niš, and prepare to fight a battle to defend the capital!
Either concentrate your forces, immediately annihilate Dante-Kristof's troops, invade Bulgaria, take Sofia directly, and have a "siege of Wei to save Zhao"!
Ivan Ritchie has already understood that Serbia has no power to return to this war! The army on the north bank has long been exhausted, and it cannot cause the slightest obstacle to the enemy!
But he can't do anything now, he can only pretend to be confused, he doesn't want the name of a traitor, and the proposal to give up the country is absolutely impossible!
The war has been fought until now, and people are always in charge, and as the commander-in-chief of the Southwestern Front, if you don't hold the line, you are one of the best unlucky guys!
But Ivan Ritchie is not afraid now, his own descendants have been brought out, plus some miscellaneous troops, there are still nearly 20,000 people! As long as he has soldiers in his hands, he believes that King Alexander the Great can't do anything with him!
The law does not blame the public, anyway, until now, no army has won a battle, everyone is about the same, at least his task is completed! Thanks to his efforts, the army of South-Western Bulgaria was dragged and did not go to Niš to join, so don't care about the details!
There are many people who can understand it, but everyone is smart and can't say it! Even if they knew that the most correct way now was to withdraw the defenders of the Niš region to the northern shore, no one dared to propose it!
This means that nearly one-third of the country's land area is directly lost to Bulgaria, and I am afraid that the hat of a traitor will not be taken off for a lifetime!
Everyone collectively pretended to be confused, which made Subolovvich miserable, as the coach of the Niš region, now he can't advance or retreat!
He knows the situation on the north shore very well, not to mention tens of thousands of Bulgarian main forces, even if there is only one regiment, it can go on a rampage!
This is also the sorrow of no small country, no strategic buffer, maybe a week, or maybe ten days and half a month, you can start the battle to defend Belgrade.
Subolovvich hesitated, the order given to him at home was to wait for an opportunity, and the fate of Serbia was in his hands in such a ridiculous way!
Everyone doesn't want to take responsibility, and it is clear that they want to throw the black pot of taking the initiative to give up the country on him! Anyway, it's all come to this point, whether it's death or death, just fight big!
Subolovvich made a decision that ruined the future of Serbia: "Order the troops, start attacking me now with all your might, regardless of all losses, and must annihilate the enemy by tomorrow!" Wrap up the former, military law is engaged! ”
That's right, he decided to gamble, and if he won this battle, he was a hero of Serbia! No matter how miserable you lose the battle, it is better to die than to be killed by your own people under the hat of a traitor!
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Charge, charge, charge! The Serbian army began a frantic offensive, breaking through the defensive line several times, and was recaptured by the defenders, and the front was in danger!
Dante Kristof, who inspected the front line, looked at the battlefield with a telescope, and the flesh and blood were flying, corpses were everywhere, and blood was flowing like a river, which is a true portrayal of the battlefield now!!
The Maxim machine gun is still so sharp, with 600 rounds per minute, like a fiery snake flying! One Serbian soldier fell, and another Serbia made up for it, advancing forward one after another!
The temperature of the machine gun was already very high, and one of the machine gunners quickly tore a piece of cloth from his clothes, wrapped it around his hands and wet it with water, and continued to fire!
Suddenly the machine gun jammed, and the Serbs had a chance to rush over in the rain of bullets! After paying dozens or hundreds of casualties, they finally rushed to the position, engaged in hand-to-hand combat, and began a brutal hand-to-hand fight!
Seeing this, Dante Kristof couldn't bear to look at it directly, he could watch the enemy's flesh and blood fly, but he couldn't watch his own soldiers die indifferently!
"Let the reserves go! The Serbs have gone mad! ”
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The brutal battle continued, and in just one day, the price paid by both sides exceeded the sum of the previous ones!
Night has finally fallen, but it doesn't matter to the "numb" sides who have already fought! The casualties are already just a number, and everyone has no time to pay attention to them, and the only thought is to kill, kill, kill!