Chapter 426 is never empty-handed

The example of World War I mentioned by the fifth uncle, Mengzi was most interested in the battle between Russia and Germany in East Prussia. For this reason, he has studied this battle many times, and has written nearly 50,000 words of thoughts for the first time.

One of the reasons why Mengzi was so obsessed with this battle was that in this battle, the Germans won more with less, and concentrated their superior forces to break through the tactics, which made Mengzi stunned.

Maybe it's subconscious, maybe Mengzi is born to be a piece of war material, as the volunteers become stronger and stronger, Mengzi's heart is becoming more and more uneasy. He's going to do the best he can and be prepared for the worst.

This battle took place at the beginning of World War I, when the Russian Northwest Front launched an offensive campaign against the German 8th Army in East Prussia in mid-1914.

Around the beginning of August, the war on the Western Front was in full swing, and the Russian base camp decided to launch a simultaneous attack on East Prussia in Germany and Galicia in Austria-Hungary at the request of the Allies in order to reduce the pressure on the German army on the Western Front.

The 1st and 2nd armies of the North-Western Front, commanded by Zhilinsky, were tasked with annihilating the German 8th Army (14.5 infantry divisions, 1 cavalry division, about 1,000 artillery pieces, commanded by Prittwitz) west of Lake Masuria, occupying East Prussia, and creating the conditions for a subsequent attack on Silesia.

Its battle plan provided that the 1st Army (6.5 infantry divisions, 5.5 cavalry divisions, 492 artillery pieces, commanded by Nian Kempf) would carry out a roundabout assault on the German left flank from the north of the Masurian Lake area in order to attract the main German army; The 2nd Army (11.5 infantry divisions, 3 cavalry divisions, 720 artillery pieces, commanded by Samsonov) detoured to the rear of the Germans from the southwest of the Lake District, cutting off its retreat to the Vistula and annihilating it. In front of the Germans, they tried to rely on strong fortifications and use the railway transportation system to implement mobile defense and delay the Russian offensive.

On August 17, the Russian 1st Army was the first to enter East Prussia, and on the 19th it encountered the German 1st Army at Stalupenen and repelled it; On the 20th, the main force of the German 8th Army counterattacked on the line of Combinen (present-day Gushev)-Goudap, and the right flank was repulsed for a time, but the frontal attack of the German 17th Army was crushed in the center, forcing the Germans to retreat westward.

On the same day, after the Russian 2nd Army launched an offensive, the 1st Army stopped the offensive, lost its fighters, and then advanced in the direction of Königsberg (present-day Kaliningrad), resulting in the 2nd Army fighting alone and unable to join its division. The Germans intercepted the Russian army's telegrams in clear code and knew their plans and deployments well.

On the 24th~26th, Hindenburg and Chief of Staff E. Ludendorff decided to take advantage of the lack of coordination between the two armies of the Russian army to redeploy their troops, leaving a small number of troops to contain the Russian 1st Army and concentrate the main force to annihilate the Russian 2nd Army. Its specific plan is: to use the other two divisions of the 20th Army to contain the 13th, 15th, and 23rd armies of the Russian army in the middle of the front, and to carry out a flank attack with the main force, and the 1st Army to carry out the main assault on Uzdaug, and after attacking and destroying the 1st Army on the left flank of the Russian army, develop an offensive to the rear of the 3 armies in the center of the Russian army; The 17th Army and the 1st Reserve Army carried out an auxiliary assault on the 6th Army on the right flank of the Russian army, and after succeeding, they developed an offensive on the flank of the three armies in the Russian center.

On the 26th~27th, the German 17th and 1st Reserve Armies encountered the Russian 6th Army in the area south of Bischovsburg and repulsed it; The 1st Army was stubbornly resisted by the Russian army, so it ordered the Russian army to retreat in the name of the commander of the Russian 1st Army; The 20th Army lured the enemy into the depths, fought and retreated, and retreated to Tannenberg to fortify it. After two days of fierce fighting, the Germans repelled the two flanks of the Russian 2nd Army and formed an encirclement posture for the three armies in the middle lane.

On the 28th~29th, the Russian 13th, 15th and 23rd Divisions of the 2nd Army were surrounded and annihilated in the Komsin forest area east of Tannenberg, with 95,000 prisoners, 30,000 casualties, and 500 artillery pieces. After that, the German 8th Army quickly moved north, and after being reinforced by the Guards Reserve, the 11th Army and the 8th Cavalry Division from the Western Front, it attempted to launch a frontal attack with the 1st Reserve, 11th, 20th and 17th Armies, and with the 1st Army and the Guards Reserve Army to carry out a roundabout assault from both flanks to encircle and annihilate the Russian 1st Army.

The Russian base camp decided to form the 10th Army in the middle of the 1st and 2nd armies to defend the left flank of the 1st Army, and ordered the 1st Army to hold the area north of Lake Masuri in order to contain the German 8th Army and make it unable to support the Austrian army. On September 6, the Germans launched an attack, but the Russian army resisted, and the frontal attack was thwarted; On the 9th~10th, the 1st Army on the right flank fought tenaciously, broke through the defense line of the left flank of the Russian army, forced the Russian 2nd Army to retreat, and opened the road to Combinen. Fearing that the retreat route would be cut off, Kampf ordered his headquarters to retreat, and at the same time carried out a counter-assault from the front with the strength of 2 divisions to cover the retreat of the main force. By the 15th, all Russian troops had withdrawn to the east bank of the Neman River. The Germans feared that the Russian army was deceitful and did not quickly pursue them. The Russian 1st Army suffered 45,000 prisoners, about 100,000 casualties, and 150 artillery pieces.

In this battle, the Russian army miscommanded, the enemy situation was unknown and seriously leaked, and the two group armies failed to cooperate in battle, and finally lost 270,000 people; The Germans concentrated their superior forces and broke through each of them, and won a major victory with fewer victories at the cost of 25,000 men.

Through thorough research on this battle, Mengzi once wrote two whole books of his thoughts.

In these two books, nearly 50,000 words of experience, Mengzi regarded it as a treasure and was reluctant to throw it away, and it is still on the mountain. Every time he returned to the mountain, he would take it out and look at it again at his leisure. Of course, each time he has something new to record.

"It seems that the little devil is going to move seriously this time, fortunately, the master has been prepared, but it has only been ten days, and the time is too tight. The top priority now is to first figure out the little devil's plan of action, and only when you have a plan can you prepare countermeasures.

It just so happens that this is the closest to Lotus Mountain, so let's go to Liu Shusheng first, and check his defense by the way, if the estimate is not bad, this time, Lotus Mountain is also an important target for the little devil. Thinking of this, Mengzi hurried up and took the two team members straight to Lotus.

Maybe I was really in a hurry, so I went out of the city at nine o'clock in the morning, and at noon, a few people just rested for an hour in a small village passing by, and people wanted to eat and horses to fill.

Mengzi knew in his heart that time was too tight now, and every hour was very important to the volunteers. Seeing that the three of them had almost rested, and after the horse had recovered his strength, he went directly to the road again.

According to this time, if there is no accident, before eight o'clock in the evening, you can run to Lotus Mountain.

As the saying goes, you can't eat hot tofu in a hurry, and that's true. At about four o'clock in the afternoon, suddenly, the team members who were running in front turned around and reported that there was a Japanese truck parked on the side of the road in front of them, and it was impossible to pass.

"Little devil's truck? How many? Mengzi tightened his reins and stood still.

"Deputy Commander, just one. It's blocking the avenue, if you don't detour, I'm afraid it won't pass. The team replied affirmatively.

"Just one? TMD, the master has been riding a horse for a day, and his ass is about to be broken in half, just take me over to have a look. ”

Takeko commanded, jumped off the horse, handed the horse to the team members behind him, and took the team members who came back to report, and the two of them walked forward.

When I came to the front, I saw that a hundred meters further on this main road, there was a bend, and the little devil's truck was parked not far after this bend.

It is also unlucky for the little devil, and the location where the truck is parked is not easy to be seen by the people behind. Mengzi took the team members, turned the corner, waved his hand, let the team members follow behind him, and the two of them went into the small hill on the side of the road.

Looking at the distance, there were still dozens of meters away from the car, and the fierce man waved his hand and stopped.

"Don't go ahead with me, just stay here and look at both sides of the road, and if there is a car or a person coming, just learn to call a cuckoo, understand?" Mengzi commanded his subordinates, and then with a cat's waist, a person touched forward again.

I followed the grove on the hillside by the road and touched it forward. The car happened to be parked on the side of the road, about ten meters away from the car, and he stopped, because he was walking forward, and it was easy to be spotted.

Mengzi leaned down and looked at the side of the road through the gap between the small trees, only to see that the front mechanical cover of the truck was open, a little devil squatted on the front bumper, his head was inserted in the mechanical cover, what was he repairing, and another Kwantung Army was holding a gun, standing in front of the front of the car, looking like he was on guard.

Mengzi was not at ease, he found a place with a better view, and carefully looked at the cab and the trunk of the truck covered with canvas, but found no other people.

"Yes, it's very much to my liking. However, according to the convention, one truck cannot have two little devils. The fierce man raised his head and looked at both ends of the mountain road.

Although he didn't see any other trucks, he still found traces of trucks that had just run past on the mountain road:

"If the master guessed correctly, it should be a team, this car is broken, and it may be being repaired. This is a good opportunity, the things of this car must be reserved for the little devil war, but I don't know if the car can be repaired. It doesn't matter so much, let's solve these two little devils first, if you can fix the car, you will drive away directly, if you can't repair it, you will burn it, and then you will leave. Mengzi thought to himself.

Now that he had guessed the reason why the truck was parked here, Mengzi slowly retreated. He called both of his teammates over,

"Now listen to my orders, you, stand guard outside the curve, if there is a car coming, do you see the hill above? Just roll down the two big rocks on top and stop the car, and it only takes a few minutes. Be sure to pay attention, if the car of the little devil and the traitor can't rush up, you must protect yourself first, then shoot, and run into the mountains after shooting.

It's not too far from Lotus Mountain, you can ride the horse, wait for the two of us in a safe place in the mountain, if you can't wait, you go directly to Lotus Mountain, and we'll look for you after we get out. Do you understand?

You, come with me, you don't need a gun if you can, there are two little devils in front, one is the driver, repairing the car, and the other is on guard in front of the car. You touch the inside of the car, I touch the outside of the car, don't shoot until it's critical. I'll do it to solve the little devil who is on guard, the little devil who is in charge of repairing the car, let's do it together. The little devil who repairs the car is lying on the front of the car, and you just need to smash the lid of the machine down. I've observed them all, just two Japanese, don't be afraid. After saying that, Mengzi took this team member and touched it.

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