After enjoying a fairly perfect night's sleep, Chen Tian sat up from the marching bed and stretched hard, suddenly feeling extremely comfortable. There was still some time before the sun rose, and he began to wash up in a hurry, and then went to the headquarters to share breakfast with his generals.

When Chen Tian walked into the dining room, Deputy Commander General Prittwitz, Armored Commander Colonel Olg, Chief of Staff Hoffmann, and several other officers were already waiting there.

"Good morning everyone!" Chen Tian walked to his boss position and sat down, today's breakfast is still very rich, boiled eggs, fried eggs, toast, milk, milk coffee, black coffee are all available. Chen Tian has his favorite boiled eggs and milk coffee in front of him, but in fact, his favorite is the Chinese breakfast - noodles, porridge, fried dough sticks and boiled eggs. After returning to Germany, he often reminisced about the days when he stayed in Qingdao, where he could enjoy delicious Chinese food every day, and he often wished that he would have the opportunity to take Sasha and Andres to try it in the future.

"Good morning, Your Royal Highness!" After Chentian began to eat, everyone also started.

"You know what, Russian ......" General Prittwitz was just about to start telling his boring jokes, when Chen Tian's right eyebrow was raised, and he said something that made him obediently bury his head in eating: "After breakfast, will you send someone to inspect the front line?" ”

The other generals began to snicker again, and Prittwitz quickly left the place after devouring the pile of food in front of him, apologizing to the crowd.

"Alright, let's get down to business! I heard that the battle was fierce again, and the casualties of the 1st Army were not small! After Prittwitz left, Chen Tian ate and chatted with everyone as usual.

"Yes, Your Highness! The Russians are still crowding tactics, and this time their artillery fire is very fierce! It is said that an interesting thing happened in the morning when the Russians actually rammed our reconnaissance plane with their planes. They almost knocked one of our planes down, and finally the plane crash-landed on our battlefield, and the pilot was unharmed. But the plane was quickly blown up by the Russian artillery! Olg picked up the omelette and said this before putting it in his mouth.

Chen Tian took over the topic while peeling the eggs: "Interesting Russians, they always do barbaric things with advanced weapons!" However, I am more worried about the armored train that disappeared yesterday, and remember to send a reconnaissance plane to continue reconnaissance to the east! ”

"Half an hour ago, we already sent 3 reconnaissance planes to search east, and there should be results soon!" Hoffmann, the chief of staff who was in charge of handling all kinds of intelligence and telegrams, spoke, and these messy things were always in order in his hands.

"Excellent! After the Japanese entered the war, the Russians could not only transfer back the troops in the Far East, but also liberate a large number of their garrisons close to Asia, and the damned Japanese actually wanted to swallow Qingdao and Jiaozhou Bay. Someday I'll make them pay back double! Tatsuten seems to grit his teeth every time he talks about the Japanese, but his subordinates are used to it.

"By the way, Colonel Matthew has reported that the 2 Russian divisions on the other side of the bank have not moved, and he asks you if his 4th Army needs to take action against them!" Hoffmann did not participate in Tatsuten's comments about the Japanese, and in his mind there were no worthy opponents in Asia, and as long as the German Navy eliminated the British Navy, the Japanese would sooner or later lie under the Imperial artillery and tremble.

"Oh, tell him not to care about those two Russian divisions! I think he will be able to move in another 1 hour, at that time the main force of the Russian army has been tightly attracted to the front, and the 4th Army will outflank them from their left flank, and the Panzer Army will outflank their right flank and rear road, then this Russian army will be almost finished! When the time comes, we will sweep the Russian army through Poland, and then we will march into the Russian hinterland with the Austro-Hungarian allies, and I think the Russians will soon withdraw from the war! Chen Tian said with great interest, but he soon realized that he seemed to be going too far, and several other officers actually listened with relish, which made him embarrassed.

"Alright, let's concentrate on the enemy in front of us! The Russians to the west were not attacking as fiercely as they had hoped, and it seemed that they could no longer break through the riverbank defenses on their own. Colonel Hoffmann, conveying my order to François, his 1st Corps began to slowly retreat from its riverbank positions, attracting the Russian army to Bialystok! Olg, your Panzer and Mechanized Infantry Divisions are now on their way, move into their intended positions, and quickly outflank the Russians' right flank and block their back when the battle of Bialystok begins! ”

"Yes!" Olg and the others were so excited that they swept away the food in front of them, and their faces were full of joy as they walked out of the restaurant, all under their control, and the medal seemed to slip away for no reason.

The battle on both sides of the Leif River was raging, but François's flanks had begun to retreat slowly as planned. The battle for the bridge continues, and the remains of thousands of Russian soldiers have been added to the east side of the bridge, but they are slowly gaining a foothold at the bridgehead.

"It's time to order the armored car squad to attack!" François also moved his field command post to three miles east of the bridge.

There was a roar of engines starting from the small village southeast of the bridge, and in the morning shelling, although it was not a key target for the Russians, there were still more than a dozen shells in the village, 2 armored fighting vehicles were unfortunately damaged, and the remaining 18 armored fighting vehicles lined up in two columns, quickly drove out of the village and headed straight for the bridge.

On the east side of the bridge, Russian soldiers set up dozens of machine guns in the crater or on the flat ground to shoot at the surrounding German troops, and about two regiments of soldiers were gradually encroaching on the German annular position. As long as the bridge is crossed, his superior forces can be deployed.

The Russian soldiers on the east side of the bridge noticed a puff of smoke and dust not far away, and after a while, more than a dozen dark subway guys came to their eyes. Their silhouette resembles a car. But the whole body was wrapped in thick armor, the windshield of the cab was replaced by two fast rectangular steel plates, and there were still a few gaps in the middle of the steel plates, a machine gun sticking out of the co-pilot's seat, and a flat round bag on the roof, which also had a barrel sticking out, and there were some shooting holes in the middle and rear of the body, and bullets were constantly spraying out of the car, which was simply an active machine gun fortress.

When the Russians discovered that the doors of the car were painted with the same iron cross on the wing of the German plane, many of them had been torn apart by the dense bullets on the car, and the rifles and machine guns in their hands could not pose a threat to them at all, and even their special tires could not burst. The Russian troops, who were crossing the bridge, stopped, and then were squeezed back by the retreating crowd in front. Since the bridge was already covered with a thick layer of Russian corpses, the German armored combat vehicles did not continue to advance, but stopped at the head of the bridge and kept strafing until all the Russians had retreated to the other side of the bridge. More than a thousand Russian soldiers, who had not had time to retreat to the bridge, watched in horror as the armored vehicles began to shoot at them along the circular position, and the German soldiers who had been repulsed by them also rushed up again. Under double pressure. On the east side of the bridge, the Russian soldiers quickly chose to surrender.

Ruzsky's face was already blue at this time, and he ignored the fact that there were still some Russian soldiers there. Ordered all artillery fire to hit the east of the bridge. The rain of shells destroyed 3 armored combat vehicles in an instant, and the remaining 15 covered the German infantry and began to slowly retreat. After paying the price of four more armored combat vehicles being blown up, all the German soldiers defending the bridge withdrew from the range of Russian fire, and they were also the last soldiers of the 1st Army to retreat.

Seeing the German soldiers retreating in a hurry, General Ruzsky hesitated for a while, and then ordered the whole army to cross the bridge and quickly search and advance. After receiving the news that the Germans had all retreated to Bialystok, the Russians left only a small number of rearguard troops, and the rest began to pursue the Germans lightly. By the time all their artillery had passed the bridge, the Russian forward units had reached the perimeter of Bialystok.

Seeing the large number of Russian troops appearing in the west of the city, Chen Tian not only showed a smug smile. The reconnaissance plane reported that a large number of Russian artillery pieces were far behind the main Russian forces, and he immediately signaled the movement of Matthew's 4th Army and the Olgerd Panzer Corps.

At this time, the hour hand was just pointing to eight o'clock, a full five hours before the battle began.

Just as Chentian was about to turn around and leave the small hill, a staff officer came over with two dirty soldiers.

"Your Royal Highness, these two soldiers belong to the 17th Company of the 3rd Regiment of the 1st Division of the 3rd Army, and the 17th Company is the unit that conducted reconnaissance on the armored train yesterday, and their identities have been verified!"

Niko and his squad leader gave a military salute to Tatsu Tian in fear.

"Oh? What happened to you yesterday? And what about your armored trains? Chen Tian looked at them in amazement, their military uniforms had become muddy, their red eyes and their faces were full of exhaustion, which seemed to be the result of a long night's journey.

The squad leader took out the detective's precious piece of paper and handed it to Chentian, on which were written a few words intermittently: Russian heavy artillery, brightly dressed cavalry, an unknown number of infantry, a Russian army assembly point, huge scale, an unknown number of Russian troops, and a Russian reconnaissance aircraft.

A few seconds later, a drop of sweat flowed across Chentian's face.

"This ...... What did you find in the west? ”

"Yes, Your Highness! Our companions have all died, but thank God we have finally completed our mission! The squad leader's tone became weaker and weaker, and he fainted before he could finish speaking.

"Medic!" Chentian called the medical soldiers, and after a brief diagnosis, the medical treatment told them that the squad leader was just too weak and fainted.

"Will you be able to hold on, young man?" Chen Tian looked at Niko on the side, and the young man's face was slightly better than that of their squad leader.

"Report to His Royal Highness the Prince, hold on!" Niko gritted his teeth and stood there straight, puffing out his chest.

"Excellent! Then you come with me to the command room and mark me on the map what you found yesterday! ”

Ten minutes later, there was silence in the command room, and Chen Tian and the other staff officers realized the seriousness of the situation. At this time, the planes that reconnoitred to the east also made a late report: the wreckage of an armored train was found 75 miles east of Bialystok, the wreckage was cleared out of the tracks, the Russian army had repaired that section of the railway, and then a dozen trains full of Russian soldiers and artillery were coming in the direction of Bialystok; Fifty miles east of Bialystok, a large number of Russian troops were spotted moving toward Munchi, where Matthew's 4th Army was located, with an unknown number advancing through the woods; Encountered 4 Russian reconnaissance planes, shot down 1 of them, and the rest fled.

"Your Royal Highness, what shall we do now? The 4th Army has already outflanked the left flank of the Russian army in the west from Munki, the Panzer Army has also begun to outflank the right flank of the Russian army, the 1st and 3rd armies are all concentrated in Bialystok, and a large number of Russian ...... suddenly appeared in our north" Hoffman immediately marked the latest development on the map.

"Seeing that we are about to encircle and annihilate the Russian army in the west, this situation is actually happening at this time, find out as soon as possible where the Russian army in the east is from, and how long will it take for them to arrive in Bialystok?" The great opportunity slipped out of his hands in vain, and Chen Tian was really unwilling.

"The Russian troops coming along the railway arrived to the east of us in 3 hours, and according to normal circumstances, they still need at least 1 hour to deploy, and more than a dozen trains can only transport 3~40,000 troops at a time, but the situation of the Russian army moving towards Monji is very difficult to estimate!" Hoffman's analysis is the same as what Chen Tian thought, to fight a time difference, with a small number of troops dragging the Russian army in the east, and the main force will first encircle and annihilate the Russian army in the west, and then turn back to deal with the Russian army in the east.

"Alright, let's do it! Order Matthew's 4th Army to leave one division to guard Munchi, transfer 1 division from the 3rd Army stationed in Bialystok to supplement Matthew's troops outflanking the Russian left flank, the remaining two divisions of the 3rd Army are responsible for defending the Russian army east of Bialystok, and François's 1st Army is responsible for dealing with the Russian army to the west! In addition, the reconnaissance aircraft closely monitored the Russian army unit moving towards Munki! Chen Tian suddenly had a feeling of strategizing at this time, perhaps, he might be able to make his opponent disappear between talking and laughing.

Soon, the Russian army in the west, under the command of General Ruzkis, launched the first wave of attacks on the outlying positions west of Bialystok, and after a small number of rapid-fire artillery bombardment, the Russian infantry began to charge with a roar. General François smiled contemptuously as he looked at the blackened Russian charge, and despite the presence of unknown Russian troops behind him, he, like the other commanders of the East Prussian Corps, had complete confidence that he would once again eat the Russians bite by bite.

The machine guns on the German positions roared, and the soldiers with rifles did not need to aim at all, and simply lowered the muzzle of the guns to hit the dense Russian soldiers, and the Russians could not even rush to a distance of 100 meters from the trenches. The first attack was so desperate that the Russian commander, General Ruzkis, had to temporarily stop the offensive and wait for the arrival of his own artillery, while communicating with the Russian troops east of Bialystok by radio. Soon, he was restored by the commander of the Russian army in the east:

Attract the main forces of the German army and wait for me to complete the deployment. Signature: Commander of the Praetorian Guard, Grand Duke Aglini.