The gunfire at the front suddenly became dense, and the Austro-Hungarian army launched a counteroffensive.

They wanted to drag me here, which only strengthened his determination to retreat, and it had to be fast!

He hung up Stuym, "Hey, man, I need to retreat back." ”

"I know." The voice on the other end of the phone seemed calm.

"I need to stop the Austrian army from crossing the Sava River." "God knows, I just hope to be able to withdraw safely, damn French!" ”

"It's hard to do, I've got the news that the enemy has crossed the Sava from two places and is very strong!" "I'm going to start retreating before dawn, and I hope you'll leave me a way out." ”

The two Serbian generals have worked together for many years, but they have also been able to cooperate sincerely and cooperate closely. Although there are some minor contradictions in peacetime, they will never be rash when it comes to heavy military issues. This was the key to their victory in the Battle of Valevo, unlike the Russians.

At the same time, the Austro-Hungarian 1st and 2nd Marine Divisions had already crossed the Sava River in the vicinity of Ossayek, and the two attacking forces were separated by 10 kilometers, leaving the defending Serbian forces at a loss for the other.

Armed swimming is a compulsory training subject for the Marine Corps, and the width of the Sava River is naturally not a problem in the eyes of the Marines who can swim 20 kilometers in the sea. In addition to the artillery unit, including the commander Clemens. Brigadier General Bezel swam through the autumn river with four infantry regiments.

The Serbian defense on this line consisted of only about one regiment, and two Marine divisions attacked immediately after crossing the river, and after about an hour of fighting, the Serbs finally broke up. Clemens left one regiment to defend the crossing, leading three more regiments to continue the offensive in depth.

By daybreak, the engineering units of the Austrian 7th Army had already set up five pontoon bridges, and the main forces of the 7th Army were constantly leading from the bridges to the Guò Sava River, with the Dalmatian Army to the south, the Tyrolean Army to the north, and the heavy artillery units belonging to the divisions of the Army Group in the middle.

LeHayden set his headquarters by the river, of course, he would not venture to cross the river, and the victory or defeat of a battle was not enough for him to risk his life. He just wanted to be closer to the front in order to keep abreast of the situation and changes at the front.

The Serbian army had withdrawn from the city of Sermia, and it was swift enough that Brigadier General Clemens commanded three Marine regiments to desperately block the Serb retreat.

"Order the troops to speed up the crossing of the river and immediately throw themselves into the front line, leaving the heavy artillery units alone!" Lechelton gave the order, and the troops that had crossed the river were being sorted out on the other side, and he needed them to fight as best they could.

The increasingly intense gunfire from the northeast made him feel that it would be a fierce battle.

"Damn, where did they get so many machine guns?!"

Stepanovich put down the binoculars in his hand and clenched his right fist hard.

Just now he threw a whole division of troops into the assault on the right flank, where the enemy's defenses were weakest, but still failed.

In front of the positions of the 3rd Regiment of the Austro-Hungarian Marine Corps, the corpses of Serbian soldiers lay down. At this moment, this green land, which had been covered with lush trees and crops the day before, had become a mess. The early morning sun shone on the crater-riddled land, and the smoke was scorched everywhere, and the stumps and weeds that had been blown off were burning and smoking.

The fighting power of this Austro-Hungarian army can definitely be called tenacious, very tenacious. It was obvious that many of the shattered bodies that had been blown away could be seen on their positions, and they were still able to hold on under the bombardment of 50 cannons. Stepanovich had been convinced that he would be able to open a retreat before the Austro-Hungarian army had completely crossed the Sava River, after all, it would take time for the enemy's army to cross the river, and now his determination had wavered somewhat.

"A passage must be opened, at any cost!" Stepanovich gave the order, and now he could no longer care about Stewarm, who had already begun to retreat.

"Hiss......" accompanied by a sharp whistling, the Serb offensive began again.

"Boom! Boom ......"

Shells exploded in less than 5 kilometers of positions defended by the 3rd Marine Regiment of the Austrians, and the whole earth shook, and large clumps of earth were thrown into the air, and then poured down like rain. The soldiers crouched themselves in a trench more than a man deep, enduring the violent shaking and fear of the violent explosion.

The shelling lasted for almost twenty minutes, and this time Stepanovich fought desperately, ordering the artillery unit to use up all the remaining shells, and he could no longer take these things with him anyway.

"The enemy is coming, get back to the firing position!" The sound of the artillery gradually stopped and became sparse, and the officers whistled and ran back and forth in the trenches.

The Serbs poured up like a tidal wave, and Stepanovich, regardless of casualties, ordered his troops to press on all fronts and rush south to the Austro-Hungarian positions. The 3rd Marine Regiment and the 2nd Dalmatian Division, which had come to reinforce it, were submerged, leaving only some hilltop positions in hand.

The Serbian army did not rush to clear the Austrians who were still in the stronghold, and they poured out of the gaps in the defensive line. By the time subsequent Austro-Hungarian reinforcements sealed the gap, 50,000 Serbs had already rushed through the line. The best Tyrolean 1st Mountain Infantry Division took on the pursuit, with more than 15,000 men chasing the 50,000 Serbian army that had fled.

Sturm's Serbian Third Army and part of the Second Army, 120,000 men, were encircled by the Austro-Hungarian army, and no amount of struggle could be found.

Five days later, on 6 September, Sturm surrendered, and at the Battle of Serbya, less than 40,000 of the 200,000 Serbian troops escaped across the Danube.

A resounding victory, enough to slightly brace the low morale of the defeat at the Battle of Limburg just now. Condra got excited and ordered the Serbian front to begin a full-scale offensive.

Lehten did not even bother with him, and after a great victory, instead ordered the troops to retreat and recuperate, replenish and train, and only ordered the daily artillery bombardment of Belgrade and the Serbian defensive positions along the Danube.

"Why don't we continue?" Somewhat strangely to Mayer, after a great victory, Lehydon instead retreated his command to Vitica. "We can take Belgrade, and even the whole of Serbia, in one go."

"So what? Sver. "Then they will retreat to Greece and continue to resist, shall we continue to march into Greece?" Then our precious forces would be trapped throughout the Balkans, and we would have to deal with the Serbian resistance on the defensive ground. The focus of this war is not in the Balkans, but in the northeast. ”

"So it's possible that we will be transferred to the Eastern Front?" Mayer said.

"It's not a possibility, it's a certainty." "It has been established that the Croatian local forces will be formed as the 13th Army to join the 3rd Army, which will be reorganized and scattered, and you will be the commander of the 1st Marine Corps, which will be formed by the Marine Corps, and Bolojevich will be the commander of the 3rd Army," Lehydon said. I will also lead the 6th and 7th Armies to reinforce the Eastern Front, which are being negotiated with General Kondla. The Przemyr fortress is already surrounded by the Russians, and we need to go to the rescue. ”

Now, the Chief of the Army Staff, Admiral Kondla, though a little annoyed that the Crown Prince had grossly interfered with his battle plans and command of the front, was not yet at odds with Heldon.

The Crown Prince of Istria had now become a national hero, and even his enemies could not deny his successes - the only two victories of the Imperial army so far had been under his command. He was in the prime of life, and Condra didn't want to fight his edge at this time.

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