On Cai's khaki uniform, three shining gold stars indicate his military rank - colonel staff officer, but such a military rank is obviously not enough for him to calmly stand by the side of German Foreign Minister Schleier, his other identity is a military special adviser from Far East China, and brought Kaiser Wilhelm II a new style of tactics that he dreamed of.

He had arrived in Hamburg four days earlier, and had secret talks with several senior officers of the German General Staff, and before leaving Beijing, he was specially summoned by Qin Kai to discuss the Schlieffen plan.

Today, the six large bulk carriers slowly sailing into the port of Bremerhaven sent 300 CK01 export tanks in the mode of transportation of first-generation containers, of course, 250 of which are tank parts, only 50 tanks have been installed, in fact, no weapon systems are installed, 60mm turrets and 11mm heavy machine guns need to be final assembly in the factory in Bremen.

This is naturally a compromise approach taken into account the agreement of a series of military export agreements signed by China and Britain earlier, after all, the tank is a war aircraft that has never appeared, and the tank without the mission weapon system is not installed, how different is it from an armored tractor, the CK01 model is to put it bluntly, the difference is really not too outrageous, after all, the driving environment is really similar.

Of course, the CK01 tank already has the ability to cross trenches of more than 1.2 meters. This is something that a tractor cannot do anyway. This export tank is equipped with a 25-horsepower gasoline engine and an extended hard track. In addition to the fact that the speed is not ideal, but the overall stability is actually a very good combat platform.

If equipped with a sufficiently shrewd commander, theoretically it only takes one day for this steel army to reach Paris from the border between Poland and France, of course, this is only a theoretical number, and Cai Yi's trip is naturally not simply to do tactical training for the Germans. The most important mission is to test the feasibility of steel chariots in land warfare and make the necessary preparations for the Chinese army one day.

Today's Bremen military port is heavily guarded, and the Germans' natural rigor and stubborn secrecy measures have reassured Cai Ye, who was still a little worried, and he looked around, and the train responsible for transportation in the military port directly entered the port, and once the goods were unloaded, they would be loaded onto the train and then tightly wrapped...... Actually, containers on merchant ships coming from within the country. It also made this transportation extremely confidential.

Although the Germans already learned a lot about the performance of the CK01 tank from the drawings brought by Cai Ye, but. When the first unarmed tank easily drove out of the special cargo ramp with billowing black smoke, several senior German officers standing behind Cai Ye still let out a surprised exclamation, the slightly ugly CK01 tank, to put it bluntly, is more like a walking artillery warhead shape, but a super large artillery warhead.

But in the eyes of any soldier who is familiar with the weapon system, this kind of chariot that can move and rivet steel plates all over its body, even if it is the artillery unit of the god of the army, encounters this kind of mobile fire system, I am afraid that after a simple attempt to attack without success, it will immediately collapse and flee...... After all, in the face of such a weapon of mass destruction, the artillery is almost a shirtless soldier, with no defenselessness at all, and no one can continue to fight in this situation in the face of an opponent of the same level, but armed to the teeth.

Of course, the superiority of equipment obviously does not completely determine the outcome of the battle, but if new combat effectiveness can be quickly formed, the officers of the German staff can almost immediately think of several plans to strengthen the Schlieffen plan, and now, the opportunity is very direct in front of them, no wonder it will immediately cause a sensation.

Under the leadership of more than 20 Chinese engineers who arrived with the ship, the first CK01 tank with a 60mm and 40 times diameter turret was assembled in four days.

On November 1st, Kaiser Wilhelm II suddenly appeared in Bremen, and watched the live exercise composed of 4 tanks in the training camp just established by the First Panzer Corps with great interest.

On the same day, Cai Ye also obtained the generous approval of Kaiser Wilhelm II and entered the German General Staff to participate in the planning of specific armored corps tactics.

"Four months...... It will take at least four months, and your country has already obtained authorization for the construction of the CK01 tank, but it will take about four months to form an independent production line and maintenance capacity, even with the industrial base of Germany...... Moreover, according to our judgment, if this prototype of the weapon is leaked, the industrial capacity of Britain and France is obviously enough to complete the imitation design in a few months, and then I am afraid it will be a war of attrition! Cai Ye resolutely denied the illusion that His Majesty the Emperor hoped to participate in the war within two months.

Later, Cai sent an urgent telegram from Bremen to Beijing, and the German side informed the latest news of the fierce fighting between Austria-Hungary and the Russian Empire on the Eastern Front, and the development of the war made Germany uneasy......

After the defeat of the Austro-Hungarian Third Army on the Eastern Front, the Austrian commander-in-chief, Grand Duke Condra, did not realize that the Russian military force had exceeded his expectations, and under the guidance of the Austrian-Hungarian army's consistent operational thinking of attacking, attacking, and attacking again, he launched an attack from the left flank that the Russians did not expect.

Although the commander of the Russian army, General Ivanov, won the first battle on the eastern front of the left flank and would show that he would advance to the line of the Davizi deficit river, Ivanov's judgment of the strength of the Austro-Hungarian army was also obviously wrong, and the Russians also believed that the Fourth Army had sent back the news. The headquarters of the Austro-Hungarian Third Army encountered on the Eastern Front. It was supposed to be the vanguard of the Austro-Hungarian army.

So. The Russian Fourth and Fifth Armies did not rush to cross the river to fight, knowing that if they were suppressed by the other side on the riverbank, it would undoubtedly be a great tragedy, and the subsequent attack on the Russian right flank by the left flank under the command of Grand Duke Kondla made the Russians have another miscalculation, and General Ivanov's staff even wanted him to report that the Russian army was gathered in the front. It seems that the overwhelming superiority in numbers has not been achieved to achieve the expected overwhelm, after all, the opponent has appeared to attack on both flanks, which in any way does not seem like a sign of the inferiority of troops.

On the 29th, the Austro-Hungarian left flank forward even crossed the high ground on the left side of the Biszzadi Mountain, and exchanged fire with the 13th Army stationed in Uschki, north of the mountain, both sides did not know the strength of the other, so although the exchange of fire was fierce, there was no fierce attack and defense, and in the afternoon of the same day, the Ottoman Offenberg Fourth Army, which had advanced all the way on the left flank, finally collided head-on with the Russian Rusky Third Army outside Sanok.

The Austrians launched an extremely fierce attack. The 150,000-strong army under the command of the Fourth Army fiercely attacked the Russian positions on the outskirts of the city, and fiercely contested the high ground around the positions. Since both sides had just advanced to the end of the engagement, the heavy firepower had not kept up, which also caused the commander of the Austro-Hungarian Fourth Army, General Offenberg, to miscalculate.

The enemy's artillery fire is not at all like the strength of a large-scale corps, although the heavy firepower of the Austrian Fourth Army is still 20 kilometers behind the mountain road, but it is completely based on the concept of war of active attack, and the war broke out in such a fierce collision!

In contrast to the active pursuit of the Austro-Hungarian Fourth Army, in fact, the Rusky Third Army of the Russian Empire, which was nearly twice as strong as the Austrian army, was quite conservative, and did not consider the plan of active offensive at all, except for constantly sending reserves to the battle line...... As a result, a battle of Sarnok that made both armies cry and laugh afterwards began.

After two days of offensive, the original offensive of the Austrian army encountered the result of hitting walls everywhere, and the offensive launched on multiple sides did not improve, and instead of breaking through the opponent's defensive line, the armies suffered heavy losses, which directly led the units of the Fourth Army into a state of panic, and by the afternoon of the 31st, when the reinforcements sent by General Ivanov appeared on the battlefield, the Austrian Fourth Army began to fall into a state of complete collapse.

When the Russians launched two tentative attacks, the decline of the Austrian army was rapidly magnified, and by nightfall, General Offenberg found that the corps was on the verge of collapse, and he made the most correct decision in the whole campaign, and the seven divisions involved in the attack abandoned their positions in confusion, and fled south of the border line that night, all the way to Lemberg, 35 miles away, to regroup.

A large number of retreating Austrian troops poured into Lemberg all night long, and the spectacle was so spectacular that Grand Duke Konrad, who arrived in Lemberg the next morning, was also shocked, and at breakfast on the Lemberg front, the supreme commander of the Austrian front had clearly realized that the Fourth Army had also suffered a merciless blow following the defeat of the 3rd Army, and the only fortunate thing was that the Russians apparently did not understand the situation, and only sent a small force to follow the attack, and then were blocked by the local troops on the outskirts of Lemberg.

By this time, Archduke Conrad had realized that this battle on the Eastern Front was a huge mistake at all, and a little later, the intelligence sent from the warring troops made him immediately understand the situation he was facing, the combined military strength of the Russian columns in the front area far exceeded the original imagination of the Austrian high command, and the Russians took the approach of advancing in unison, not giving the Austrian army any chance to hit the bulge at all!

On November 1, Austria-Hungary informed the German side of the situation of the war, hoping that Germany would declare war on Russia as much as possible and strike at the Russian corps in the direction of Poland from the flank, thereby relieving the pressure on Austria-Hungary on at least three Russian armies on the Eastern Front...... But this was clearly not in line with the present German plan, and the German General Staff issued a stern warning to Austria-Hungary on the same day that the Lemberg Line must never be lost!

When the news reached Beijing, Zhou Ruidong's cabinet was discussing the control of wartime materials, although the situation in the Balkans was critical, but the Ministry of Military Affairs had in fact predicted that Austria-Hungary against the Russian Empire alone would actually have no chance of winning, however, the defeat of the Austro-Hungarian Empire obviously greatly exceeded expectations, so a day later, Xu Shoushan, the chief of the Ministry of Military Affairs, proposed to the cabinet the plan for the northern front planned by the General Staff Department!

It's time to give the Russians a headache! (To be continued......)