Chapter 483: The Great Reversal (Medium)
Although the revolution in the two places was mainly in the nature of national liberation, it objectively dealt a heavy blow to Austria-Hungary and helped Soviet Russia share a lot of pressure, so the mentor not only personally wrote a telegram to congratulate the two countries, but also sent some arms to the Romanian Soviet Republic after the White Army was roughly wiped out with the help of the Russian Red Army, but at that time there were more than these two small countries that became independent from Austria-Hungary......
Due to the destruction of the Austrian Army, the old emperor of the Austro-Hungarian Empire could still trust, and there was also a strong fighting force of only a limited garrison stationed in the mountains adjacent to Italy, but their strength was limited, and it was almost impossible to quickly quell the rebellion in the rear. Pen | fun | pavilion www. biquge。 info
The weakness of the Austro-Hungarian government in the face of the incompetence of the rebels in the two places encouraged other dissidents in the empire, and later the Czechs also broke out in an uprising, and the concentration of most of the military industry of the Austro-Hungarian Empire was too heavy, and eventually led to the complete collapse of this congenitally deficient empire, of course, that is a story for another story......
For the time being, the most direct impact of the civil strife in Austria-Hungary is to pit the main force of the coalition forces in the center, not long after the breakthrough of the Brusilov offensive, the more than 900,000 coalition troops in the center turned south and pounced on the back of the southern cluster of Soviet Russia. Seeing that the main force of the coalition army in the middle was about to deal a fatal blow to the more than one million people in the southern cluster of Soviet Russia, at this time, civil strife broke out in Austria-Hungary, and it could no longer contain Brusilov's main force, so that it could confidently and boldly adjust its deployment and turn its focus to guard against an attack from the north.
As a result, after making some progress in the center of the coalition army, it soon fell into a difficult situation, and even if some of the forces in Brusilov's hands were divided to liberate Romania, the remaining available troops were still more than 800,000 (although Brusilov's offensive was extremely successful, but his own losses were also large, which is also an important reason why the "sea of people" route is only suitable for large populations). It was not much less than the Central Coalition Army, and it had only recently achieved a brilliant victory, and its morale was extremely high, and even if it only had time to build rudimentary field fortifications, it was not something that 300,000 Anglo-French troops and more than 600,000 Poles could easily defeat.
And just when the Central Coalition Army was entangled with the Southern Cluster of the Soviet Russian Red Army, the Red Army's number one ace cavalry front, which had been holding back, was dispatched, and Budyonny once again exerted the strong mobility advantage of the whole cavalry unit, advancing more than 500 kilometers in more than a week, and interspersed with their north before realizing that something was wrong and wanted to escape from the Red Army's southern cluster entanglement, cutting off their connection with Warsaw, At this moment, the 8.9 million people of the Central Coalition Army fell into the disadvantageous situation of being attacked on both sides, and the whole battle situation was about to be completely reversed!
In this critical situation, the 300,000 British and French troops once again carried forward the imperialist tradition of "friends who die do not die in the poor", leaving nearly 600,000 Polish troops to run away on their own. But John Bull and Gallic Chicken forgot one thing, no matter how fast they were, they could not outrun the Budyonny cavalry front that the whole army could ride on horseback, and the mentor specially reminded Budyonny that the main goal was to annihilate the British and French troops, especially the British army, and the Poles could be put behind first, as a result, the British and French troops abandoned their comrades not only failed to successfully get rid of the enemy's pursuit, but were quickly annihilated by the Budyonny cavalry front that was caught up because of the lack of cannon fodder.
In this battle, the British and French armies killed or lost more than 70,000 people, wounded 170,000 (almost all of them became prisoners), and more than 30,000 people surrendered without a fight, and only more than 20,000 escaped, while Budyonny's troops only paid the price of more than 20,000 casualties, more than 4,000 missing and more than 80,000 wounded, which fully proved that the combat effectiveness of the Red Army's number one trump card unit was not inferior to the elite of the first-class powers, or even better.
The British and French armies were almost completely annihilated, not to mention the Polish army, which was basically workers and peasants half a year ago? Although there were still nearly 600,000 troops, but in the face of a larger number of Red Army, the Polish army had no chance of winning, but fortunately Pilsudski was indeed a wise and decisive leader, and after learning by telegram that the British and French troops had abandoned their troops, he immediately ordered the Polish army to retreat northward quickly, ignoring the fact that doing so would offend the two great British and French powers.
Pilsudski's decision saved the 600,000 Polish troops from the end of the army, and with the exception of a part of the Russian Red Army, which was entangled in the southern cluster of the Soviet Red Army and did not escape, most of them were safely evacuated, although the total number of dead, missing and captured was still more than 100,000, but it was not a serious injury. Although both Britain and France expressed strong dissatisfaction with the unauthorized withdrawal of Polish troops after the war, as Pilsudski predicted, as long as Poland still had enough troops, it still had the capital to make the British look good, and the aid of Britain and France would never be interrupted.
In fact, at least the elder Chamberlain still admired Pilsudski's decision, and was not particularly angry, because most of the British and French troops lost were French troops, and the British only had 50,000 or 60,000 troops, and the Poles ran like this, not only the 300,000 British and French troops who fought side by side with them, but also the 400,000 German troops who had begun to retreat on the northern front......
After knowing that there was a problem on the southern front, the German General Staff began to worry about the safety of the 400,000 native troops, and soon decided to ask them to abandon the attack on Petrograd and withdraw to East Prussia. After discovering that the enemy was beginning to retreat, the Petrograd Front stuck to these damned Germans like bubble gum, and held out even after heavy losses in the heat of battle (but the strength of the Petrograd Front was increasing instead of decreasing, in contrast to the fact that the Germans were fighting less and less). Finally, Budyonny, who was like the captain of the firefight, arrived.
No matter how powerful the German army was, in the terrible situation of only about 300,000 people left and full of wounded soldiers, it was surrounded by a large number of Soviet Russian Red Regiments with a total strength of 1.5 million at its peak, and the outcome can be imagined......