Since the beginning of February 1911, Germany has launched a series of large-scale military operations on the Western Front against France, and Admiral Falkingham is obviously unwilling to give Britain and the United States more time.

Almost only two days apart, the Eastern Front, which had already completed the pre-war mobilization and preparation, Feng? Admiral Hindenburg finally wielded his already secretly armed iron fist on the left flank and smashed it into the Russian Polish line in front of him...... In order to achieve the stated results of the operation, he secretly communicated with the Chief of the Austro-Hungarian General Staff, Field Marshal Conrad, and this time Archduke Conrad, who had always liked to do it himself, finally accepted the advice of the Germans.

On the 21st, when the steel greatsword wielded by Admiral Falkingham was sinking into the quagmire of Flanders, France, Admiral Hindenburg's German Eastern Front Corps unleashed a series of combo punches......

In the early morning of the 21st, the German army on the eastern front of Hindenburg launched a feint attack on eight points on the flank on a long defensive line of 500 kilometers at the same time, and chose Ghris as the breakthrough point, although it was densely covered with as many as 250,000 defensive forces of the Russian Seventh Army, but the weak trenches and barbed wire fences were destined to be far behind the artillery fire of this era.

After four hours of intense artillery fire, Admiral Hindenburg personally visited the observation post less than 3 kilometers from the front line, and he was satisfied with the results he needed...... In the distance, almost all the bunkers, fortresses, barracks, and commanding heights of the Russian army that could be observed were trembling in horror under the roar of 1,200 artillery guns that they had carefully prepared.

And he chose to attack in the same direction as the earlier Austrian commander Conrad, which was obviously also carefully arranged. The defeat of the Austrians. is laying the effect of surprise for his fierce attack. And the arrogance of the Russian army after the victory over the Austrian army is obviously tasting the bitter fruit!

At 8:20 a.m., the eight divisions of the German-Austrian vanguard had entered a number of attack points on the Russian defensive line around the line of Ghris and Tallau, while the extended German artillery completely paralyzed the command system of the Russian Seventh Group, and the wired telephone system that the Russians still relied on almost collapsed.

The commander of the army, Grand Duke Rulsky, was still 70 kilometers away in the city of Fir, 70 kilometers away, at the time of the outbreak of the war, preparing to go to the defense meeting of General Ivanov. For the first six hours, the commander-in-chief of the front line could only stay on the muddy dirt road between Phil City and Tallau, and he was greeted by a constantly collapsing and swarming front-line rout.

By the end of the night of the 21st, when Admiral Hindenburg gave the order to stop the night assault, the fortifications that the Russian Seventh Army had built for nearly half a year in the direction of Gerris on the entire Eastern Front had been wiped out, and the Russian rout had to reorganize and rearm in the frozen land in the middle of the night. And pick up the damn, low-quality pickaxe again and dig through the frozen land.

At this time, Admiral Hindenburg was in full swing arranging the direction of the attack echelon to Japan. And the artillery positions were pushed forward overnight to ensure that the Russians would be even more surprised when the dawn came...... Colonel Chen Yan, an officer of the Chinese Advisory Corps stationed on the Eastern Front that day, did not have the opportunity to participate in the strategic planning of Hindenburg, but he was on the front line to record the devastating blow of the German attack group.

The Russian army's ability to defend itself has been completely outdated and the rapidly rising group artillery strikes, and the directional artillery diffraction and fire diffusion strikes used by the German army can quickly form a devastating blow to the densely defended areas and form a fatal tear on the Russian defense line, and the battle report he soon got made him immediately realize that the war on the Eastern Front will be a high-explosive bomb that shocked both sides of the European war.

In just one day's attack, the German-Austrian forces have broken through 7 of the 27 strategic points planned, which means that the defense line that the Russians can reorganize overnight will be a completely unclosed front, and Admiral Hindenburg is obviously not directly breaking through the Russian front, but to fight a real war of annihilation on the Eastern Front, and the German-Austrian forces rely on the heavy artillery firepower that the Austrian army has always played poorly.

Although the Austro-Crarian Army is not good in the European powers, the heavy artillery firepower of the Austro-Hungarian Empire is second only to the German army in the whole Europe......

When Grand Duke Ruersky rushed to the command post in Tarlau, he was surprised by the erosive front-line battle situation, and the 10 divisions on the front line had lost 40% in one day, of which the Igor Division and Semyonsky Division of the Seventh Army, which served as frontal resistance, were almost completely wiped out, and the frontal defense line was already like a void, which meant that he had to reorganize the defense line overnight, and the scope of the defense was stretched by thousands of meters because of the entry of the German attack point.

Of course, at the many points where the German-Austrian forces entered, Grand Duke Rulsky also had another option, that is, to concentrate his forces to counterattack and hit the bulges of the German-Austrian forces on the defensive line...... But such a large-scale corps operation, to organize a battle, it is absolutely impossible to appear on the table overnight, not to mention, the poor Russian army messaging mechanism, so that the information gathered from General Ivanov that day is impossible to transmit to Rulsky.

The Russian Grand Duke didn't even realize that his attack was the most hesitous blow of all the attacks, and the choice he made that day, which seemed to be decent after the war, undoubtedly fell into the pit of the Hindenburg strategy!

When the first rays of sunlight shone on Gerris on the 22nd, it undoubtedly became the last ray of light in the lives of the soldiers of the Russian Seventh Army, who were now crouching in the shallow trenches with their rifles clenched...... The Germans then gave them another lesson in artillery coverage, and the Germans, relying on the fortifications lost by the Russians yesterday, waited quietly for their own artillery fire to cease as they crossed overhead, making a loud noise.

In the distance, on the weak defensive line of the Russian army, a huge black cloud dozens of meters high continued to rise, which was the shocking effect of the Austrian orbital 200mm heavy artillery launched from 10 kilometers away...... Admiral Hindenburg apparently chose the same intensity as yesterday in terms of the intensity of artillery coverage that day, but doubled the coverage.

The weak Russian fortifications were completely wiped out in the four-hour artillery bombardment, and the German-Austrian assault quickly turned into a pursuit that surprised even Admiral Hindenburg...... When the only armored brigade of the Eastern Front armed with Leopard A armored vehicles appeared on the battlefield, the three Russian army divisions that had just been deployed at the breakthrough yesterday collapsed surprisingly quickly.

The fierce artillery fire tore the Russian army's fortifications, but also the Russian army's will to fight, even if it is a fighting nation, in the face of the power of steel and iron, there is no ability to resist, not to mention, the steel machine that has never appeared on the battlefield on the Eastern Front was originally a killer weapon used by Hindenburg, this Leopard A armored car, not equipped with artillery, firepower is 4 MG heavy machine guns, obviously does not have the ability to break through on the French battlefield on the Western Front, but for the fragmented defense system of the Russians, there is no doubt that it is a mortal threat.

The defense of the Russian Seventh Army on the front line of Ghris and Tarlau was cut off in less than 72 hours against the German-Austrian forces, which meant that the Hindenburg Army would face a large number of Russian stragglers in a desperate situation, rather than an organized military group, which surprised and surprised the Chinese adviser on the front, Colonel Chen Yan, who was going to send it back to China that day.

But when he was about to go to the telegraph department of the group army, an unexpected heavy rainstorm suddenly hit without warning, the cold weather on the eastern front was far from over, and Hindenburg chose to launch a surprise attack before the climate warmed, obviously making full use of the Russian army's laxity at this juncture, and the results also showed that this choice was extremely correct, but this is not also the fulfillment of an old Chinese saying, there are unforeseen circumstances!

On the 27th, the continuous heavy rain eased slightly, and the German-Austrian troops received an order from Admiral Hindenburg that we would celebrate the victory of the Allied Army on the Eastern Front at Phil and present the most honorable gift to the German Empire - the security of East Prussia!

The muddy road slowed down the assault, but it didn't matter anymore, because the battle on the entire attack line had turned into a one-sided pursuit, damn the road, but the two sides had to fight with the mud all day, and a large number of Russian troops scattered and fled, which lasted until March 10, and within half a month, the coalition forces on the eastern front under the command of General Hindenburg had completely destroyed the Russian defensive plan.

More than 150,000 Russian troops have been captured, and many more Russians are discarding their equipment and trying to run ahead of the German-Austrian forces on muddy roads......

So, although the continuous rains greatly affected the advance of the German-Austrian army, Admiral Hindenburg sent a telegram to Kaiser Wilhelm II on March 15, "I think that now is the best opportunity to seek Polish independence!" ”

On the same day, Wilhelm II, who was sullen because General Falkingham was mired in the quagmire of the French battlefield, was obviously pleased with the victory on the Eastern Front, and he immediately issued a commendation order for the Hindenburg Army Group, and telegraphed to General Hindenburg that he would urge the General Staff to increase support for the Eastern Front, to strive to expand the victory over Russia, and to lay the foundation for victory in the all-out war!

That same night, another news came, which once again excited Germany! (To be continued.) )