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At this time, the situation on the battlefield was that the 120,000 German troops led by Blucher were in the vicinity of East and West Prussia, and the second line of 50,000 German troops was in Greater Poland. The other line, the German army and the French International Volunteer Army, were in southern Germany, threatening Austria. On the hostile side, the Prussian army took the initiative to retreat from East Prussia and made a detour to Lithuania into Belarus, forming a meeting with the Russian army in Minsk. The enemy forces on this road are close to 200,000 troops, which is the strongest force. The main Austrian army sent troops from Little Poland and gradually approached Warsaw, the capital of Poland, while the rebel army led by Kościuszko, at the request of the command of the Tang Alliance, did not take the initiative to engage the Austrians, but gradually retreated backwards, seeking to merge with the German army.

Lieutenant General Yue Zhenfu is also a veteran general on the battlefield, and he has been commanding the army since the North American Revolutionary War, and his plan is to prevent the Austrian army from joining forces with the Prussian army and the Russian army, annihilating them separately, and breaking them individually. The Russian-Prussian and Austrian countries obviously knew that this would be a devastating blow to them, so the Prussian and Russian armies hurried to Poland to meet the Austrian army. The Germans immediately moved south, trying to give the Austrians a head-on attack before the Russians and Prussians arrived.

For the German army, the disadvantage is that their strength at this stage is relatively limited, the two-tier strength of 170,000 plus 50,000 Polish People's Revolutionary Army, whose combat effectiveness is not very reliable, is a lot compared with the 100,000 army of Austria, but it is not enough to add the Russian army and the Prussian army. Although the Germans had an advantage in equipment, the old story of the German army's defeat was not far off, and the Germans needed to equip too many troops at this time, and almost every infantry division had a shortage of ammunition. Even the three most elite infantry divisions in Blucher's hands, the front-line soldiers only had two base rifle rounds, that is, 200 rounds, and basically fought for three or four days in a row, and the ammunition was about to run out. The situation was even more acute in the artillery units, although the Germans had artillery regiments in almost every division, armed with 36 excellent 105mm SPL-75 howitzers. However, these artillery pieces had artillery but no ammunition for a long time, and although the German army had learned from the Tang Army in all aspects, it still did not learn enough in many places, such as logistics, which could not take care of each unit in all aspects, and there were many loopholes.

In fact, this is also a normal phenomenon, most of the German army is newly formed, and many soldiers were only farmers and craftsmen a few months ago, and their education level is relatively low, so it is impossible to be as precise and accurate in the army as the almost illiterate Tang army.

Datang's aid equipment continued to be shipped to Germany, but Germany's transportation capacity was not particularly sufficient, and Germany had not yet built a direct train to Poland. There were also insufficient trucks of all kinds, and the supply of 200,000 troops was obviously an astronomical amount, and there were many problems for a while.

Even in order to solve the problem of insufficient ammunition for the German army, the Tang army's own ammunition that the Tang army had hoarded in Poland had to be supplied to the German army.

The Ministry of Defense of the Tang Dynasty has no other way but to mobilize the reserves of the Southeast Theater as much as possible and send them to Europe as soon as possible. And the Tang Army, which had just arrived in Europe, had to empty everything and devote itself to this war.

About 10,000 people from two brigades of the Special Corps of the Don Army were rushing to Poland, and Blucher did not expect much from the so-called European and Gurkha brigades. Because he knew that these two special brigades were mercenary units formed by "non-Tang people", using the same weapons as their German army, and did not have the armored units that Blucher was looking forward to.

Blucher sent two telegrams to the Netherlands in a row, hoping that the armored troops of the Second Regiment of the Datang Marine Corps could make a quick trip, but the Tang people could not help it, and the mechanized troops were more dependent on logistics than light infantry. In the absence of fuel, ammunition, maintenance, and supplies, the Tang Army would never dare to directly throw the 2nd Marine Regiment into Poland.

Blucher could only hope that the Third Division of the Tang Army, which was rushing in, would be able to contribute the combat effectiveness that people expected, and the German army must maintain the situation on the battlefield as well as possible, and the best case is to defeat Austria.

Warsaw, which has become a place where several countries are watching at the same time, where a great war is brewing, and the drunken and capitularian Polish aristocracy is in the center of the eye of the storm, calmly unaware.

In the German command, Chief of Staff Scharnhorst said: "The main Austrian forces have already left Krakow, the advance has reached Radom, and a considerable part of them are cavalry units. We have sent 60,000 men to build a defensive line near Bialystok to hold back the Russian and Prussian troops who are rushing in, while our main force and the Polish People's Revolutionary Army have to seize time to completely defeat the Austrian army in Warsaw. ”

Blucher nodded at the strategic design, which was the best choice they could make right now. The pressure on Bialystok's 60,000 German troops will be very heavy, they will face an enemy several times their size, and winter is already on, and the temperature will be the most formidable enemy for the soldiers after bullets and artillery fire. The battle would be brutal, and Blucher was ready for heavy losses. But as long as the German army completely blocked the footsteps of the Russian army and the Prussian army on the Eastern Front, then in less than a month, the 3rd Division of the Tang Army will join the battle as a new force, and if Blucher also solves the Austrians at that time, then it can counter/attack the Prussians and Russians together with the Don Army.

"Then we also need to speed up the march, and to give the Austrians on the march a hard time, and we will give two hundred percent of our energy from the very beginning to launch a fierce attack on the enemy. At this time, we cannot count on our allies, we cannot count on our weapons and firepower, and all revolutionary comrades must fight to the death against our enemies with a fearless fighting spirit! Blucher's tone was sonorous, and his face was grim.

The same was true of everyone in the command, who knew that the future of Germany was at stake, and that only by achieving victory could Germany rise in the future and that their internationalist revolutionary cause could succeed. (To be continued.) )