While Adrian was carefully managing the rear of the entire Eastern Front, in February 1916, the headquarters of Berlin launched the Verdun Offensive on the orders of Falkingham.

After being drained of the already stretched forces of the Eastern Front, Hindenburg bluntly said that this move was simply crazy, but this did not change the fact that a large number of troops still had to be withdrawn and transferred to the Western Front.

At this time, the commander of the Russian army in the New Northern Front, Alexei Nikolayevich Kuropatkin, took advantage of the situation to launch an offensive against Riga, and then continued to launch a larger-scale offensive operation, but the base camp of the Eastern Front continued to see through and repulse, and finally was depressed and transferred.

In just over a month, in the southwest, the new commander-in-chief of the Russian army was replaced by Brusilov, the former commander of the 8th Army, after which a large-scale offensive operation lasted for three months in the summer. The entire southwestern front was divided into seven sections and carried out a surprise attack, and although the German-Austrian army retained most of its positions, it still lost a large part of the territory recaptured in the battle of Gorlice, including the two important eastern communication cities of Gövre and Lemberg.

Just as the war was deteriorating, Adrian went straight to him with a document signed by Hindenburg.

"Marshal, I don't quite agree with such a distribution." Adrian pointed out very directly the proportion of supplies from the front, which surprised Hindenburg. For the first time, Adrian never cared about such things, and the clueless Hindenburg was eager to hear what the young man who liked to innovate and was very good at analyzing could give him.

"You say your opinion, but I don't promise it will be adopted." Hindenburg put down the pen in his hand and lay down in his chair with his hands crossed, signaling Adrian to start.

Adrian, who had thought about the conversation, told Hindenburg about Brusilov, and Hindenburg didn't think there was anything outstanding after listening to it, so he didn't interject. Then Adrian focused on the fact that the 8th Army made a continuous maneuver against the German-Austrian forces in the Battle of Gorlice and finally broke through, which made Hindenburg a little interested, thinking that Adrian still had this talent. But he didn't know that Adrian was just very jealous of Brusilov, so he paid special attention.

Although Brusilov is old, he is a person who dares to use new tactics and new strategic arrangements in actual combat, and he is the first person who dares to think and dare to do the means of strategically implementing multi-section breakthroughs. Although such a person is old, he must not be underestimated, otherwise the variables of things will be too great.

In fact, there is also a name for the breakthrough in many areas, which is the infiltration tactic, which was used in the hands of the German army in World War II, and once the French army was defeated, which shows the power of this method.

Then, Adrian picked up his pen and drew on a blank piece of paper a map of his own robbery and the current form of both sides. Hindenburg's eyes lit up when he saw a clearly misplaced but still neat sketch of the Eastern Theater of Operations slowly clear in front of his eyes and began to draw the offensive of both sides.

Because this offensive map is very similar to the offensive map in the war room, but there are many important details that are different. After seeing Adrian's finish, Hindenburg asked in a deep voice, "On what basis did you draw this sketch?" As far as I know, you haven't looked at the map in the war room. ”

Indeed, after the launch of the offensive by the Russian Southwestern Front, Adrian was so busy that he did not have time to dare to go to the war room to participate in the deployment, but carried out logistics according to the instructions of Hindenburg.

Adrian thought about it, but he was afraid and didn't expect that Hindenburg cared not about the offensive of the two sides on the map, but his source, after all, the two had different thinking. As a veteran of the battlefield, Hindenburg naturally understood the criticality of such an intelligence source, but Adrian ignored it, he had no experience, he was a blank slate, and he only relied on memorization.

Adrian didn't know how to answer for a while when he heard Hindenburg's question, and he stood in place, but unexpectedly, Hindenburg spoke first.

"Forget it, since you don't want to say it, I won't force you, I know that you have been in business before, and you have more or less some means." Hindenburg regarded this as Adrian's business ability, after all, a businessman reached Adrian's level, and if he didn't have some special means, he didn't believe it.

"You can't tell me the source of the information, I can't use your map." Hindenburg thought about it and told the truth.

When two armies are at war, intelligence can sometimes be decisive and can be a victory or a crushing defeat. It depends on how the two commanders choose, and there is also the ability to distinguish between the true and the false. Adrian's map looked a little like the map of the war room, and Hindenburg instinctively believed in Adrian's loyalty, but he couldn't explain it in front of the other generals. A set of operational maps must be reported by reconnaissance troops, and there are other ways for front-line commanders to report the situation, including internal spying, etc., and only after summarizing it can it be used for deployment and distribution. A map like Adrian's handy, hand-spent misplaced map can't be used.

However, Hindenburg had to admit that Adrian's deployment map of the two sides was very realistic and in line with the current interests of the Russian army. Seeing that Hindenburg rejected him, Adrian was anxious and blurted out something that made Hindenburg stunned.

"I am not as good as you in terms of arranging troops, and if you want to talk about international forms, you may not be as good as me." Adrian was really anxious, and finally escaped from death, and he didn't want to explain it so unclearly. Although the historical Brusilov did not further expand the victory, no one can guarantee that history will not deviate.

Adrian, who slammed the door and left, held back the anger in his heart and returned to his command post.

Just after the two talked.

The situation on the Eastern Front began to change.

Brusilov was in a good mood today, because he was praised by the tsar. is even more because he was able to lead the Russian army to victory as soon as he took office, which is unique in the entire European Eastern Front. And he is also a little entangled now, because the battle went too smoothly, far beyond his expectations. The main line of the German army, which had expected greater resistance, did not launch a fierce counterattack as expected, but retreated as a pretense.

Brusilov, who was staring at the map, frowned, he was actually worried that if the supply of the rear army did not keep up smoothly, it would eventually lead to the collapse of the whole line, and then not only would the fruits of victory have to be ceded, but he might also be forced to retreat along the Minsk line. After a long time, Brusilov, who had made up his mind, drew a large circle with the tip of his pencil in Lviv. If Adrian was here, it would not be difficult to find that this was where Brusilov broke through.

"Where he falls, he gets up." Brusilov said.

On April 2, 1915, the Battle of Brusilov stretched more than 450 kilometers from the Baltic Sea to the Romanian border in the north, and the long confrontation line even surpassed the Western Front in pomp. Just when the German army was exhausted and Hindenburg scolded Fakeham for misleading the country, the new actions of the Russian army began again.

On 2 April, the southernmost 7th Army Group, reorganized by Brusilov, launched a full-scale offensive after several precision barrage strikes by artillery, leaving nothing to spare. This brand-new battlefield was not subjected to continuous artillery fire, the terrain was flat, and the Russian army rushed to the front of the Austro-Hungarian army very quickly. In just one moment, the Austro-Hungarian army collapsed and collapsed, and the Carpathian theater of operations, which had been recaptured with great difficulty, was handed over to people in only one day.

Although he routed the Austro-Hungarian army in front, Brusilov did not allow the Russian 7th Army Group to take advantage of the situation to move north to form an encirclement, but rested on the spot.

This innovative style of play once again gave Brusilov another victory, and this time the precision striking was a key factor in the victory. Unlike protracted artillery battles, precision barrage strikes do very little damage to the field that the attacker needs to tread. Coupled with the fact that the newly established defensive line was very flat, the morale of the Russian army was high after the last victory.

The commander of the Austro-Hungarian army, which was defeated, was afraid that the Russian army would take advantage of the situation to encircle in the north and retreat to the national border, while the 11th Army of the German-Austrian coalition army stationed in the northern Carpathians undertook the task of blocking this time.

The Austro-Hungarian army, which ignored the dissuasion of the German army, did not choose a long way to go back to the rear, but chose to retreat under the cover of the 11th Army, and the ability of the commander and the composition of the unit also led to the confusion of this retreat, the language barrier between different nationalities, and the quality of the commander's personnel was too low, and it was completely the mechanism of promotion during the war that led to a mismatch between strength and ability. The 220,000-strong Austro-Hungarian army dragged the front a full 45 kilometers long, which means that when the front is almost there, the rear is still in place.

Brusilov, who was good at seizing the opportunity, ordered the 7th Army Group and the 5th and 6th Army Groups, which had been resting for a long time, to launch a Carpathian annihilation operation from the north, east and south. The 11th Army's excessively long defensive line did not block the Russian army's superiority in strength thirty times that of its own, and most of the area was lost in less than an hour, and the entire side of the Austro-Hungarian retreating force was exposed to the Russian army. An inevitable catastrophic accident began.