Sterz has been wondering if the reason for His Royal Highness's incessant tantrums along the way is because the Bukovina and Drohobiz oil fields fell into Russian hands.

As far as he knew, His Royal Highness the Crown Prince had a sizable stake in that oil field.

He really guessed that Lehedon was indeed very angry that the Austro-Hungarian army had lost the Drohobiz oil field, not because of money, but because this oil field with an annual output of 500,000 tons would play a very important role in the future war situation. Now the Russians are heating themselves with oil from his oil fields, while his soldiers are left to gather dry wood for cooking and keeping warm.

In order to regain this oil field, he will first have to solve the problem of the fortress of Przemyr being besieged by Russian troops.

The fortress of Přemyr, which defended the San River valley, was a strategic point of great importance for Russia in Poland to advance into Galicia, and was another pivot of the Austro-Hungarian defense system established in Galicia.

From 1882 onwards, fearing a Russian attack, the Austro-Hungarian Empire spent a lot of money on the construction of a modern fortification complex on the basis of the original Przemyr Castle using modern fortification technology. The Přemyr Fortress, known as the Liege of the East, was the first defensive barrier of the Austro-Hungarian Empire against Russia.

After the defeat at Limburg, the Austro-Hungarian army retreated on all fronts, and 130,000 Austrian troops were besieged at the fortress of Přemyr.

The Russians did not know whether their brains were flooded or whether they had absorbed the essence of the Japanese "boar assault" tactics in the Russo-Japanese War, and even used crowd tactics towards a modern fortification group made of concrete.

In late September, the Russian army completed the encirclement of the Přemyr fortress, while on the Austro-Hungarian side, the first-line troops of the first-line troops that had previously participated in the operation on the Eastern Front, all withdrew to Hungary for replenishment and reorganization, and the Third Army, due to the complete collapse and almost complete losses on the Eastern Front, was being reorganized by Boloyevich.

The Sixth and Seventh Armies under the command of Le Haydon, as the main force of reinforcements, were trapped south of the Carpathians by the backward railway transportation management system of the Empire, and could not reach the battlefield in time.

On the Russian side, the total strength of the 3rd Army, which besieged the Přemyr fortress, reached 300,000 men.

The commander of the Russian army, General Dimitriev, decided to launch a storming of the Przemir fortress in accordance with the offensive methods learned from the "imperial army" in the Far East.

From September 24th to 27th, for three consecutive days, the Russians fearlessly launched one sea of people after another against the fortress of Przemyr.

The crowd tactics of the Russian army have been smashed again and again in front of this modern and fortified fortress.

In the space of three days, the casualties of the Russian Third Army were as high as more than 40,000 people, and the losses were so great that even the Russian generals, who had always disregarded the lives of their soldiers, felt that they could no longer bear it.

On the evening of September 27, the Russian army finally stopped its suicidal offensive.

The next day, the Balkan Corps led by Helton finally managed to reach the Galician front, and Bolojevich, who was ordered to rebuild the 3rd Army, also completed the task efficiently. Now Lee Hayton has an army of nearly 550,000 at his disposal.

But he didn't move.

"Enemy...... The 3rd Army Przemyr, the 8th Army Limburg, the 4th, 5th, 9th Armies on the Carpathian front, it is possible to ...... Polish direction, 7th Army, total strength 1.30-1.47 million.

Defend...... Przemil ...... Time, the 3rd, 6th, and 7th armies, with 550,000 troops, are likely to ...... The 1st, 2nd, and 4th armies, with 560,000 troops, and the Přemir garrison, 130,000.

Carpathian Line...... Hungarian Local Defense Forces...... Hold...... Time......

Logistics...... Winter...... Heating problems...... Personnel adjustment...... Officer...... Language...... Training ...... for Supplementary Soldiers

East Prussia ...... Warsaw...... Mackensen's 9th Army...... Occasion...... The speed at which the cut is ......

Water Tank ...... Armored car ...... Quantity...... Aircraft reconnaissance ......"

Sterz looked at the few jumping, unsentenced words on the table, and didn't know what the front-line commander-in-chief thought, and he didn't make any moves. The whole army stayed on the line from Bohemia and Moravia to Galicia, and did nothing but send a few fancy planes every day to circle the sky.

Oh, and it can't be said that the troops are constantly being adjusted, and soldiers who speak the same language are reassigned to the same unit as much as possible - this is a very taboo thing in the Imperial Army, and there is a great danger. In addition, there is retraining, in the supplementary battalion, some of the newly recruited recruits have only hit the target once, and they do not know the basic tactical coordination at all.

The troops are being reorganized and trained to maintain the ratio of non-commissioned officers, veterans to recruits to a 2:1 level as much as possible.

The crown prince seems to be envisioning a big plan...... The problem is, the Germans are really in a hurry this time.

For more than a month, the Grand Duke ignored the orders of the German General Staff and the Imperial General Staff, and remained unmoved. At other times, an infantry regiment was sent to advance about a dozen kilometers to carry out some harassing attacks on the enemy's positions, and then a telegram was sent to the General Staff, for example: today two divisions were sent to attack in the direction of Zorkeyev, but no breakthrough was made, and the troops returned to their original starting point...... Wait a minute.

Anyway, there is no good news, there is no bad news, the General Staff seems to have gotten used to it.

Lehydon was not too worried about the defense of the fortress of Przemil, which generally held out for the first half of the year without much problem, unless there was no hope of breaking the siege.

Whenever Condra called urging him to launch an attack, he was always blocked by Lehedun's words: the current forces were very insufficient, unless the 1st, 2nd, and 4th armies were strengthened to the front line. By now, the General Staff in Vienna had finally replenished in Hungary the 1st, 2nd, and 4th armies, which had suffered heavy losses in the previous stage of the Galician operation, and sent them to the Galician front in a hurry.

In the Polish direction, on 31 October, the Mackensen division of the German 9th Army attacked the outskirts of Warsaw, but due to supply difficulties, it had become a strong crossbow and could only begin to retreat in the direction of Silesia.

The Russian Northwestern Front quickly assembled three army groups and began to launch a counteroffensive against the lone Mackensen group, which withstood the attack of the two Russian armies, fighting and retreating. But on the southern front, the Russian 7th Army was rapidly advancing in an attempt to intercept the German retreat.

General Hindenburg, who was in charge of the Eastern Front in Germany, could only ask for support from the Austro-Hungarian Army, demanding that the Austrian 3rd Army immediately move north, hold back the footsteps of the Russian 7th Army, and buy time for Mackensen's retreat. The German General Staff, which had already advanced to Luxembourg, sent nine telegrams to the Austro-Hungarian General Staff in Vienna in one day, threatening and inducing the Austrians to agree to immediately send the 3rd Army north to fill the gap on the southern front of the German 9th Army.

"General, General Condela will arrive in Clava today." Sterz handed the telegram to Lee Haydon.

"Hehe, he finally refuses to stay in Vienna?" "Well, well," said Lehedon, "we must give the Chief of the General Staff a little face, so that he can see how our soldiers fight in the rugged and cold mountains of the Carpathians." ”

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