On a windless night, the air is dreary and hot, and even those who are asleep cannot escape the sweat all over their bodies. The soft moonlight poured in from the window, driving away most of the darkness in the room, but it couldn't drive away the temperature, nor could it drive away the troubles in Chentian's heart.

Chen Tian asked himself over and over again: Who is it that dares to abandon the interests of the country? Dare to use the security of the German Eastern Front as a bargaining chip in the struggle?

The generals and staff officers in the corps thought that this situation should be due to human error, perhaps due to a delay in the delivery of the information, or the intelligence officer did not pay attention to the information, or was put in a pile of documents by a staff officer. However, Chen Tian knew very well that the chances of this kind of love were simply small and small.

Although the intelligence network of Chentian was established by Thomas, Chentian was also involved in the re-construction process, and Thomas also explained to him in detail the operation mode of the intelligence department of the German General Staff. If the intelligence officer discovers the information and transmits it to the General Staff, the old and spicy intelligence officer will transmit the information as soon as possible, and the department may be delayed at all; And as soon as the information was transmitted from the General Staff to East Prussia, Thomas conveyed it to himself, and then the delay appeared in this part of the General Staff.

Two names popped up in Chentian's mind: Moltke Jr. and Prince.

Moltke Jr., the chief of the General Staff, was the one with the best chance of suppressing this information a few days later, and Crown Prince was the most likely to do it in winter. However, Moltke and himself only disagreed on strategy, and he should have been able to push the whole army into the fire pit; Although the crown prince is on the Western Front at this time, he can completely affect the speed of this information transmission through his personal sphere of influence, and it seems that Prince is the most suspicious. However, this is only speculation, and he has no evidence at all now, and it is neither realistic nor conducive to the current overall situation to bring down a crown prince based on speculation. But it's easy to dodge with open guns, but it's hard to defend against hidden arrows, if this mastermind behind the scenes does something more at some critical moment......

Thinking of this, Chen Tian couldn't help but feel a chill. It's a pity that his own intelligence network has only been established for 10 years, and the Bat Legion has only trained its first members four years ago, and the main targets of their infiltration are the British and French governments in various departments of the country, and so far these infiltrators are still slowly struggling in some obscure departments and positions, and now they mainly rely on the intelligence of the German General Staff for Russian intelligence, although the entente between Chentian and Lenin requires the Russian Revolutionary Army to do its best to provide Russian intelligence. But Lenin and his party, who had always believed that the suspicion of treason in this entente, had so far provided little useful information, and Chen Tian could not do anything about it.

Long nights, tossing and turning. Chentian has insomnia!

He got up from the bed and slowly walked over to the table and poured a glass of boiled water. Outside the window, all the houses were shrouded in the silver moonlight, and the whole town was asleep again. Only the crisp footsteps of conscientious patrolmen in their leather boots on the gravel path, and the searchlights of sentry posts and prisoner of war camps swept back and forth......

It wasn't until dawn that Chen fell asleep.

I don't know how long later, Hoffman's voice came from outside the door, and Chen Tian opened his eyes. It's dawn. He patted his heavy head and called Hoffman in as he dressed.

"Your Royal Highness, good news! Colonel Matthew sent a telegram that supplies from Germany had arrived near Kimon! It's just that the railroad around Kimon hasn't been repaired yet due to the lack of sleepers and rails, but we can use horse-drawn carts to bring the supplies back! ”

Hoffman excitedly held up the telegram in his hand. After finishing speaking, he found that Chen Tian looked tired.

"Your Royal Highness, your face is not very good! Didn't sleep well yesterday? ”

"Oh! I had insomnia last night, but that's okay! Chen Tian washed his face with the cold water brought by the guard, and then he felt much more sober.

"Supplies have finally arrived! We'll be ready for the next step soon! Now plus the ones captured from the Russian army, how many wagons do we have in total? ”

"We have captured 3,000 war horses and more than 400 wagons from the Russians, as well as more than 300 wagons that are not completely damaged, and our 1st and 3rd armies have a total of 500 wagons, so we can send more than 1,000 wagons to transport supplies today!"

Hoffman's arithmetic is indeed very good. I don't know who is more powerful than the logistics officer-turned-Ludendorff, Chen Tian thought, but after a while he added:

"Colonel Hoffman, it is easiest for people to let their guard down before hope comes. Although the Russians did not leave any main cavalry troops near Zakimon, we still found that in the past few days we have seen another small group of Russian scouts appear near the woods, presumably until our supplies arrived! With 1,000 wagons lined up for miles, the Russians will not give up the opportunity to attack this well-fought one, and they can take advantage of our surprise attack on a large scale! ”

"Your Royal Highness, I know this, but until the gasoline is brought back, our armored vehicles and motorcycles will have to stay here obediently. It looks like we need to send some more infantry to protect these convoys of transports! Hoffman put away his excited expression.

"That's right! I thought about it for a moment, and in order to avoid a long line that would be difficult to juggle from beginning to end, we could divide the 1,000 wagons into 10 teams, each of which was guarded by 2 infantry regiments. In addition, Vaughn selected some soldiers who could ride horses from the legion, and formed some reconnaissance squads with Russian horses, patrolling and scouting near the convoys and woods, and at the same time sending reconnaissance planes to cooperate with them to monitor the movements of the Russians! ”

In Chentian's corps, the reconnaissance role of cavalry has been largely replaced by reconnaissance aircraft, and the only cavalry division has been left in East Prussia. But after this period of fighting, Chen Tian found that the cavalry was still due to their advantages, such as in bad weather conditions, when it was thought that when conducting reconnaissance in dense forests, the role of cavalry could not be replaced by reconnaissance aircraft.

"It's a good idea, but Your Highness, we don't have much airline gas, and I hope we can get those supplies back smoothly this time!"

Soon, a huge convoy of horses was organized, and the machine gunners climbed into the empty wagon with light and heavy machine guns, while the rest of the infantry escorted the wagon in the direction of Kimon.

1,500 German soldiers on horseback formed dozens of patrols from captured Russian horses, and they were responsible for guarding the convoys.

Shortly after the carriage departed. The reconnaissance plane sent back a report that a large number of Russian cavalry had left Volvisk in the middle of the woods for hours.

After receiving this news, everyone couldn't help but get nervous, and the soldiers looked at the surrounding woods vigilantly, for fear that there were a large number of Russian cavalry hidden inside. However, the whole morning was very calm. Until the carriages arrived in Kimon, nothing happened.

The carriage crosses Kimon to the train unloading point. It was guarded by numerous German infantrymen, and under the watchful eye of numerous machine guns, food, fuel and ammunition were loaded onto the wagon. The soldiers of the motorcade took no advantage of the hot weather and set off for Bialystok.

The midday sun was scorching hot and scorching. The woods are much cooler. In a wooded area between Kimon and Bialystok, a small group of 30 German cavalrymen was enjoying lunch, led by Lieutenant Stephen, who had fought bravely in the rescue of the Walbeck Division. Stephen was born into an aristocratic family, and riding a horse was a very, very common thing for him. However, the Russian war horses were very uncooperative, and from time to time they galloped and jumped to throw out the living people on the horse's back. Stephen was fine, barely taming his mount, and a few other German soldiers who were not good at riding fell to the brim, and the crowd laughed and cried, along with the long infantry rifles on their backs and the heavy and unfamiliar Russian swords at their waists. Now they don't even dare to compliment themselves in terms of combat effectiveness. Fortunately, the task given to them by their superiors was only to be on guard, and once they spotted the Russian cavalry, in addition to issuing a warning, what they could do was to hide behind their infantry machine guns.

"Oh? No water! A soldier with a face full of biscuit crumbs held the jug downward, and it took a while for a small drop of water to drop.

"I don't have it anymore!" Next to him, a soldier chewing a cookie shook the kettle in his hand, and the kettle was empty.

"Lieutenant, let's two go find water!" The two soldiers offered to fetch water, and Stephen asked the other soldiers to give them the kettle as well.

"Then get rid of you two. Remember to be careful, the neighborhood is likely to be occupied by Russians! ”

The others drank the water from their own jugs and handed them to them, and the two soldiers slowly departed north, with their jugs full of water.

Outside the woods, the first returning wagon pair passed by. The infantrymen were wiping sweat from their foreheads, and their clothes were almost wet, and Stephen considered himself much luckier by comparison.

Half an hour later, four convoys of horses had passed outside the woods, but the two soldiers looking for water had not returned. Stephen began to vaguely feel that something was not right, and he asked the soldiers to search in the direction where the two soldiers had left.

The woods are getting denser and denser, and the dense foliage almost isolates the sunlight from the outside world, and also isolates the hot summer day, and the soldiers enjoy the coolness as they advance.

"Lieutenant, listen! There seems to be something to the east! A soldier suddenly broke the silence and said, and everyone stopped their horses.

There was silence in the woods, and the east seemed to be indeed the neighing of war horses.

Soon after the group turned east and walked, a small pond appeared between the two woods. From a distance, Stephen and his soldiers saw two corpses in gray uniforms lying on the edge of the pond, and there were many water bottles scattered around them, apparently the same two soldiers who had gone out to find water.

"Stop!" Stephen waved his hand to stop in the woods on this side, and the heavy breathing of the horses seemed to come from the woods on the other side of the pond, where the Russians were likely hiding. The two soldiers who fell by the pond were still holding their swords, and Stephen guessed that the Russians had attacked them from a very close range, so they didn't even have time to escape, so they had to draw their swords in a hurry.

"Everybody stay here, don't dismount anyone, take out your rifle and prepare to shoot, as soon as you spot the Russians, shoot immediately, and immediately run back!" After giving the order, Stephen rode his horse to the pond alone.

Approaching the pond, Stephen found that the two soldiers were scarred with knives in the face, which confirmed his suspicions. Are the Russians still in that woods now? If so, why don't they come out? Maybe they are waiting for themselves to dismount!

Even though the pond was out of the woods, Stephen still felt a chill behind him. He slowly stepped one foot over the horse's back, tiptoe lightly on the ground, and then the other foot was lowered from the stirrup.

The woods were still silent. Stephen slowly bent down and picked up a kettle, full! The other one. Empty! The next one, full! It appears that the Russians were attacking in the middle of their fetching of water, and Stephen carried the full water bottles one by one to his body, and grasped the reins tightly with one hand.

Just halfway through the kettle, the dull sound of horses' hooves came from the woods, and without a whistle or shout, a group of Russian cavalry quietly rushed out. Their sabers glittered blindingly in the sun.

Bang Bang Bang!

The first few Russian cavalry fell off their horses with the sound of gunfire, and Stephen deftly turned on his horse and turned away as fast as he could.

The woods shook suddenly, and whistles sounded. A large number of Russian cavalry rushed out of the shadow of the woods, and the German soldiers who were turning around on their horses were so shocked that the more skilled ones did not even have time to carry their rifles to their bodies, and hurriedly hung their guns around their necks, allowing them to swing in front of them. With both hands on the reins, he ran wildly behind him.

The Russian cavalry group was fully mobilized, and countless men followed the small German cavalry with sabers wielding. The German soldiers clung to their horses, fearing that they would be thrown off by their mounts or rotten by oncoming branches, and when they reached the edge of the woods, there were two screams from behind them.

Finally, the German cavalry rushed out of the woods. The blazing sun had turned into angelic light in their eyes. Outside the woods, the 5th wagon, the German soldiers had stopped the line after hearing the gunshots, all the wagons were lined up in two columns on both sides of the railway line, blocked by several horizontal wagons at the end and end, forming a long rectangle, the machine gunners on the car had pointed their guns at the woods, the car, the side of the car, and the car were full of soldiers armed with rifles, and grenades were also placed in a convenient place.

Stephen after they rushed out of the woods. Bypassing the convoy, he ran wildly until he stopped hundreds of meters away.

The moment the Russians burst out of the woods, they noticed a myriad of bullets coming at them, and the cavalry at the front fell off their horses without even thinking about the chance to retreat or dodge. The Russians in the back did not stop there. They rushed past the corpses of their companions towards the German wagon. The German infantrymen fired only one bullet and threw the grenades out one after another.

The first Russian soldiers who rushed out of the woods were completely released by the shrapnel of bullets and grenades, but before the smoke cleared, more Russian cavalry appeared in front of the German soldiers. The railway was so close to the woods, but it was the best way on either side of the road, and some of the remaining trails were either muddy or in the middle of the woods.

Some of the horses in the convoy had already gone berserk due to machine gun, rifle fire, and grenade explosions, but the German soldiers could no longer bother to appease them, and the machine gunners continued to pour a barrage of bullets at the Russian cavalry, while the riflemen made more use of the grenades that had just arrived. At first, the Russian cavalry was scarred even if they were able to get close to the convoy, but as the heavy machine guns began to change their belts, the Russian cavalry that rushed to the side of the convoy became more and more diverse. Unable to cross the wagon laden with supplies, they jumped on the wagon and slaughtered the machine gunners on it with their sabers, while the numerous riflemen struggled to stab the Russians who jumped into the carriage with bayonets until the heavy machine guns rang out again, and the stalemate changed slightly.

However, at this moment, a worse situation finally appeared, several war horses were frightened and frantically pulled the carriage away, and a gap appeared in the corner of the neat rectangle. Although the infantry bravely rushed forward and tried to plug the gap with their stabs, the Russian cavalry used the gap as a breakthrough, and cavalry continued to rush into the carriage formation.

"No, they can't support it! We have to help them close the gap! Stephen, who was watching from afar, was so anxious that he took the lead in drawing his saber and charging towards the convoy.

The remaining 25 German warriors did not say a word and rushed forward with Stephen.

Stephen and his squad rushed into the battle formation, blocking the gap with the flesh and blood of himself and his horses, and they wielded their sabers unskillfully, below any Russian cavalry who tried to rush into the formation.

Under the heavy fire of the machine guns, the losses of the Russians who did not succeed in breaking through increased rapidly, and dozens of them fell in a pool of blood every second, compared to the fact that Stephen's team had to take a few stabs every second.

The Russians retreated, and the few hundred cavalry fled back into the woods, leaving behind a large number of corpses between the German convoys and the woods.

Before he could celebrate the victory, Stephen staggered and fell off his horse.

On the same day, a convoy at the end of the line was also attacked, and they were much luckier, as the wagon formation remained intact until the end, and the Russians also left a large number of corpses and fled in panic.

After this battle, the heroic deeds of Stephen's team spread throughout the legion, and Tatsuten personally went to the field hospital to meet them.

"Lieutenant Stephen, your courage is fully worthy of this Iron Cross of the 1st class, and the country and the people are proud of you! I am sorry to hear that your right leg was injured in the eye of the battle bell and will be disabled for life! Would you like to continue serving in the Air Force, though? Legs won't affect you to become a good fighter pilot! ”

'Thank you, Your Royal Highness! I am willing, I am willing to continue to fight for our country, especially to participate in your fighter unit! ”