On April 24, 1915, Adrian dragged his physically and mentally exhausted body back from the base camp of the Eastern Front to his command post, and after the meeting, he did not have time to take a breath and began to rush back to the command post to watch the telegrams coming from all over the place, to make sure that all the supplies had reached the front line as much as possible.

The telegraph, consisting of only a few German words and a large number of Arabic numerals, was a subject he taught, and with the participation of the telegrapher, the format of the table was finally compiled into the book by Morse code and used on the Eastern Front. It saves a lot of useless nonsense, and although it looks boring and has no emotional color, it is also more intuitive and concise, and the efficiency is improved a lot. Even Ludendorff privately praised Adrian for his intelligence and prodigy.

But when it came to Adrian's job as logistics, he was dedicated to all the troops on the Eastern Front, from marching to fighting, down to eating, drinking, and Lazar, and he raised the daily transportation volume of 40 tons of materials in 1914 to an average of 650 tons of materials per day in 1915, which made everyone who knew the inside story smack. Kaiser Wilhelm II even mentioned Adrian's achievements in a private letter to Hindenburg, saying that the young man should be well commended.

is meticulous in doing things, even Hindenburg, who has the grace to promote himself, has a businesslike face, so Ludendorff can't afford to have a little dislike for Adrian, so when the two discussed the award of Adrian in private, Ludendorff also expressed his full support with an attitude of giving favors. With the support of Ludendorff, Hindenburg was even more daring in his reply to Kaiser Wilhelm II, directly proposing to award the Adrian Blue Mark Medal for his achievements at the end of the battle.

This kind of thing was originally the content of Kaiser Wilhelm II's private letter exchange with Hindenburg, but it was always hidden from people with good intentions, such as Falkingham, the chief of the General Staff of the General Staff who was already at odds with Hindenburg. In line with the principle that disgusting opponents is the greatest pleasure, Falkingham publicly claimed that the young logistics chief was a relationship with insufficient ability, and even pulled out the forces behind Dinah's girlfriend.

Through word of mouth, Adrian naturally also knew about Hindenburg and Ludendorff's joint recommendation to win the Blue Mark Medal. When he heard this, he just smiled indifferently and took it as a joke, but since Fakingham's public remarks came out, he knew that it would not be groundless. Originally, he himself felt that he was not qualified enough, far away from the front line, huddled in a relatively comfortable civilian house in the rear, and indeed could not be compared with those soldiers who fought the battlefield, but you are a chief of staff who is higher than I don't know how many ranks, as for hurting me because of personal grudges? Say that I climb high branches and pull relationships, is it a relation? Don't suppress me like this!

But Adrian couldn't take revenge on others, and the official level crushed people to death, not to mention that the two were not at the same level at all, not to mention how depressed he was. I had to vent my anger on work, try to complete the task beautifully, and slap my face with facts.

Just when the volume of material transportation on the Eastern Front was steadily and gradually rising, the time for the scheduled campaign had arrived.

On May 2, 1915, the Battle of Gorlice began.

From the north of Krakow, the Carpathians to Chernivtsi was the key part of the campaign, and on the most critical 35-kilometer-wide breakthrough section, there were 11 Austro-Hungarian armies, 1 cavalry division, 143,000 men, 957 light artillery, 662 heavy artillery, 1,211 mortars, and 1,134 machine guns. The Germans, who still felt that they were not strong enough, also incorporated some German divisions into the Austro-Hungarian Corps to strengthen their firepower and equip them with excellent senior officers. Armed to the teeth by an efficient logistics team before the offensive even began, Iron Rooster Adrian's reputation vanished for a while. On the opposite side, the Russian army stationed in Galicia, led by General Ivano, needed to defend a defensive line of more than 600 kilometers, from the Pilica River to the Romanian border (near the city of Chernivtsi), and due to the lack of intelligence, the German army's preparation for the offensive simply fell on deaf ears. It is believed that the main task of the Southwestern Front is still to complete the Carpathian campaign with part of the forces of the Russian 8th Army and the Russian 3rd Army. No effective practical measures were taken on how to counter the offensive that the German-Austrian forces were preparing to carry out.

Adrian carefully made a horizontal comparison between the existing data and the data in the history books, no matter from which aspect, the German army was more than double the original in terms of military superiority, and the German-Austrian coalition successfully shattered the Russian army's dream of continuing to expand the fruits of victory in the Carpathian Campaign, and to a certain extent, won the battle. Even though he knew the trend of the war, or even the result, he never thought of intervening in this battle, first of all, he didn't know how to plan, and he couldn't answer a reason for rashly making a suggestion, wouldn't it be a big joke to come? It is better to do a good job in your own professional field, and the province will be disgraced to Germany. However, the military training in the past few months has indeed benefited Adrian a lot, which is completely different from the logistics concept of later generations, and the difficulty is not only legendary, it is simply hell. And although space logistics is dangerous, it is not complicated, which is as dangerous as this period, and there are all kinds of natural and man-made obstacles.

Due to the lack of intelligence and countermeasures, and the main battle policy is still to expand the Carpathian campaign, the deployment of the Russian army in the breached area is only a part of the Russian 3rd Army, which has more than 18 infantry divisions and 6 cavalry divisions. In the breakthrough stage, there were only 5 infantry divisions, 60,000 combined attacks, 141 light artillery and 4 heavy artillery, 100 machine guns, and even a lot of armament was in a state of strike, and the lack of maintenance and maintenance was only less than half of the use.

The German-Austrian forces finally launched an offensive on May 2 with an overwhelming superiority in numbers, armaments, and intelligence.

The first task of the German-Austrian forces is to break through the positions of the Russian Southwestern Front in the Gorlice and Gromnik sections, encircle the Russian 3rd Army under the command of General Radko Dmitriev west of Sanok, and launch an offensive on Peremyshli and Lviv.

On May 3, a number of senior officials waiting at the base camp of the Eastern Front, including Adrian, were anxiously waiting for the good news from the front. Finally, at noon, the German 4th Army, which was at the far left, took the lead in achieving a phased victory, and Adrian still said in his heart after hearing the news: "Sure enough, it still deviates from the original historical trajectory." ”

Just like a magpie calling the door, shortly after the German 4th Army's victory, a succession of good news was reported, and the 11th, 3rd, and 2nd armies kept up with the footsteps of the 4th Army in one fell swoop by relying on their absolute firepower superiority and the low morale of the Russian army that suffered successive blows. Most of the 3rd, 8th, and 11th armies of the Russian Southwestern Front failed to retreat in time, and more than 30,000 people were captured and some weapons and equipment were captured. Then the two sides entered the long-distance travel phase. The German-Austrian forces were constantly catching up in the rear, while the Russian troops accelerated the pace of retreat.

Before coming to the base camp of the Eastern Front, Adrian deliberately looked through the records about this period of history, which were not detailed, but he also knew some general information, at least the incident of the two armies capturing more than 30,000 Russian troops in just one day of contact was not at all. But he didn't want to care about it, the wood was already in the boat, and thinking too much would only increase his troubles, and blame himself for feeding too hard.

Every day, Adrian took the trouble to sit quietly in the war room and wait for the first-hand news, because he was too interested. After deviating from the original track, what changes will the commander-in-chief of the Russian Southwestern Front, who has suffered such great losses in history, make a move, or will he deploy along the Vistula to Transnistria as in history, or will he continue to retreat?

Throughout May, the Eastern Front base camp was full of success, and Kaiser Wilhelm II suddenly felt that the smog over Berlin was so beautiful and pure that it was no longer annoying.

Since the Battle of Gorlice, the Russian Southwestern Front has successively lost Tarnov, Sanok, Sambor, Strey, Galich, Stanislav and other Austro-Hungarian border cities, and the battle for Przemyśl has also entered the final stage. On June 7, the remnants of the Russian Southwestern Front, the 8th Army, broke through the encirclement of the Austrian army and joined the 3rd Army and successfully retreated to Lublin, while the 11th Army barely filled the big gap left by the two armies with one person's body, and the defensive line was 130 kilometers wide, which became the weakest link in the defensive force. Compared with the stalemate on the Western Front, the advance rate on the Eastern Front was an average of 10 kilometers per day. Hindenburg, who saw the fighters, immediately called Falkingham, hoping to put forces on the eastern front, drive the Russian army back to the east of Minsk, and ensure that the Russian army would not have the ability to attack within two years. Sure enough, the telegram was thrown aside by Falkingham, and the relationship between the two fell to rock bottom again.

Adrian was complacent about the results he had achieved, and after seeing the battle situation in the original trajectory, he certainly drew the difference between before and after. Originally, the initial offensive was not effective, and the first battle was won in the case of their own milk, and the advance speed of only 2~5 kilometers a day was now 10 kilometers a day, which is still because the battle line is getting longer and longer, and the speed has slowed down when the troops are tight.