In the face of the Polish and German dishes, the Russian army emphasized defense, a defense as solid as concrete marble, so that the enemy's army was covered in blood in front of its own copper wall.

And what about the poor party Russian army in the face of Austria-Hungary and the Germans? They emphasize offense in defense and defense in offense, combining the two and taking care of them at the same time.

The Germans were attacking the Belarusian corridor, the Austro-Hungarian Empire and the Polish White Army were cooperating with the German army, and the poor Russian army, while gaining a foothold in the defense, was also massing troops in the Carpathian Province [including the Polish Red Army] to counterattack Warsaw in the north, and to cross Czechoslovakia in the south to attack Hungary.

Your combat effectiveness in Great Germany is very awesome, and there are many people, at this time, it is not a good time for the Russian army to fight a counterattack, but the Polish White Army, which has suffered heavy losses, is a soft persimmon, right? The Austro-Hungarian army, which took advantage of the German army's entry into the war and counterattacked, was obviously in a hurry, and the armies were disjointed, which was also a good time for the poor Russian army to launch a counterattack.

Break off the Germans' arms first, and then have a good fight with the Germans.

Only the glorious German Wehrmacht of the Austro-Prussian War and the Franco-Prussian War has not yet experienced the great reputation of the First World War, although the German Army was hailed as the 'world's strongest army' early on, and after the rise of China's soldiers, it retreated to the 'first strongest army in Europe', but in fact Russia did not suffer much in the hands of Germany. The Russians are not afraid of the Germans. The Great German Army had not swept through Tsarist Russia like a dog in World War I. Therefore, although the poor Russian army thinks that it is indeed inferior to the Germans in terms of strength, the arrogant old Maozi only thinks that this gap is inferior to the national strength of the two sides, not the combat effectiveness of the army.

It can be said that after teaching Austria-Hungary a lesson, the poor Russian army is not at all weak and short of breath in the face of the German army, but many Russian generals plan to take advantage of the war with the Germans. Completely wash away the shame on the Russian nation.

The fall of Tsarist Russia is not that the Russians cannot fight, but that the Chinese are too powerful, and combat concepts and epoch-making weapons emerge one after another, in a word: non-war crimes also!

Therefore, although Germany is very strong in combat, it also fought very hard in the face of the Russians, whose morale, courage and even armament did not frighten them at all. Keep in mind that the Belarusian corridor is only 5,000 square kilometers. That is, the size of one-third of Shanghai, if it were not for the Germans still holding a part of the Belarusian land, they would directly form a small area of contact with poor party Russia, and if the contact area between the two sides was expanded, this would only be a width of less than 200 kilometers.

If the Germans want to continue to lengthen the contact between the two sides, they can only continue to go north to defeat the Russian army, which is always ready for battle. The Germans, of course, could not do this, and they had already entered into a de facto truce with Russia, and after turning the finger at poor Russia, Wilhelm II of Berlin was arrogant. I don't want to provoke St. Petersburg right away.

Therefore, the German attack front against poor Russia was only 200 kilometers. In the case that the Germans did not raise troops to attack the poor Russian army's Polish occupation zone, and under Berlin's strategic plan of always dreaming of cutting off the Belarusian corridor and then contracting Austria-Hungary to completely eat up hundreds of thousands of poor Russian troops on the southern front, the Germans fought very hard in the Belarusian corridor.

On the offensive side of 200 kilometers, poor Russia is too easy to defend. Behind the defensive line, they could raise a large number of reserve groups in the poor party Russia itself, and launch counter-assaults again and again against the German attack, which the Germans were very surprised to find. In the war with the poor party Russia, he did not have much of the upper hand. At least in the short term. They don't have much of the upper hand.

The poor Russian army is inferior to the Germans in small details, and the refinement of the battle plan and the execution ability of the army are also inferior to the Germans, but this is the same as 100 points and 95 points, and it is difficult for the German army to form an overwhelming advantage in the short term.

It should be clear that in the poor party the Russian army is in combat command, at the strategic and tactical level. The first requirement is that the command center of the group army should consider a series of factors when selecting the main defense, attack, and counterattack directions, such as the enemy's campaign attempt, the nature and programming of the enemy's group defense, the terrain conditions, and the condition and capability of its own army. In choosing the main combat directions of the front and group armies, it is always necessary to select the places where the main assaults will be carried out in the weak points of the enemy's defenses, so as to ensure the most effective use of the various arms. The first is on the terrain of tank crews. In addition, the front army sometimes proceeded from the situation of the battle at that time (e.g., the change of deployment was complex and difficult, and the terrain was favorable to us. Have a base that is convenient for attacking, etc.), and choose the most defended area of the enemy to carry out a surprise attack. Sometimes, in order to achieve suddenness, it is also possible to choose to carry out the main assault in a difficult terrain area, but it is necessary to be prepared for engineering support.

In the direction of the main offensive [counterattack], a large number of troops and heavy weapons should be concentrated to ensure the smooth and successful rate of the breakthrough and development of the offensive. Generally, on the breakthrough section that occupies only 5-10% of the total width of the front army, 50-80% of the infantry and 70% of the artillery are concentrated. 80-100% of tank and aviation units.

This series of 'rigid' requirements is not a 'one-shot deal', but a necessary factor for winning the war.

-- It is necessary to do our utmost to penetrate the enemy's strategic defense line in one fell swoop.

Lao Maozi has an offensive madness in his bones, and he doesn't forget to fight back when the battle situation is difficult.

The current Germans have tasted this kind of suffering, and the poor Russian army is very resilient, counterattacking and counter-charging again and again, which always makes the German offensive plan unable to be completed smoothly.

And every slight change on the battlefield can lead to a myriad of choices, which will always make the Germans anxious. For example, the Battle of Mozili initiated by the Germans, in which the German army really felt what it meant to be 'unexpected'.

They had swept the positions on the north bank of the Piati River with considerable ease, knocking on the gates of the city of Moziri, but the Germans were tempered in urban combat.

Did the Germans have experience in urban street fighting with modern weapons?

Don't tell me, they do. Whether it was the North American War or the Russian Civil War, the Germans had a part of the volunteer intervention, and German immigrants were an important part of the American population. After the North American War, millions of German immigrants returned to their homeland.

Because German immigrants have a relatively high level of knowledge. That is to say, there are cultured and skilled, the living standard and level of Germans in the United States are generally higher, and they have a certain amount of asset capital, and such middle and upper classes are naturally the most afraid of war.

Naturally, a small number of them participated in the North American War, and the return of these people and the German volunteers allowed the Germans to accumulate a little experience in urban street fighting. But the Germans never imagined that the street fighting in Moziri would be so brutal and bloody.

Street by street. Sewer after sewer, traffic throughout Moziri is as dense as a spider's web. This gave too many opportunities to the poor Russian army guarding here, and the defenders who were familiar with the geography made it difficult for the Germans to move an inch in the city of Moziri, and the German troops entering the battlefield had to not only be vigilant at all times from the flanks ahead, but also always be on guard against bullets from behind. The entire city of Mozili has become a big flesh and blood millstone, relying on Haikou to swallow the lives of the armies on both sides.

When the German casualties exceeded 50,000, the Germans had to stop their attack.

The combination of the 'offensive mentality' of the poor Russian army and the underground waterways like cobwebs in Mozyr caused many, many troubles to the Germans and made the Germans bleed too much. And more importantly. The Germans found Gomel, the largest city in the Belarusian corridor, where there was information that a large number of poor party troops were converging.

The Germans' plans for an offensive had failed, they had not taken Mozili in the allotted time, and they were still entangled with the poor Russian defenders in the city. Then these troops from poor party Russia only need to cross the Dnieper River to form a formidable threat directly to the German flank and rear of the German army involved in the battle of Mozyr.

The information sent by Gomel clearly stated the level of armament of the poor Russian army, which was not a third-rate army in Moscow, but a first-class fighting group of the poor Russian army. They have a large number of tanks, artillery and cars. Rows of equipment stretch for an unknown number of kilometers along railways and highways. They had amassed at least 100,000 troops in Gomel. This small force would not have played much role on a single battlefield, but in the current Belarusian corridor, whether it was thrown into Lechtsa or crossed the Dnieper River to attack the German flank, it could give the Germans a headache.

The Germans failed to produce the results of their 'blitzkrieg' in World War II, in the special environment of the Belarusian corridor. They got bogged down in the face of stubborn resistance from the Russians. This kind of pure war of attrition in the eyes of Emperor Lao Liu in Beijing is like an upgraded version of the Western Front of World War I.

The appearance of tanks and planes will not allow the Germans and the poor Russian army to quickly achieve their strategic goals, and this wave of weapons upgrades brought by China will only make the armies on both sides bleed faster. But it doesn't seem to help much for the 'Combat Breakthrough'.

Of course. The front of the poor Russian army was laid out along the Dnieper River and its tributary, the Berezina River, focusing on the defense of several important cities along the river, and as for the wide area between cities, there were only simple minefields and scattered troop arrangements. However, the Germans did not pull out those key defensive cities, and they did not dare to break deeper through the 'air raids'.

Not to mention that not far behind this 'river' is Gomel, and from the point of view of war alone, it is also highly undesirable for the Germans to break through.

It's like a local fortified city is still there, and if you can't beat it in the short term, divide part of your army to continue attacking or besieging the city, and then the other part of your army will continue to attack over the fortified city.

If the Germans dared to do this, how many dishes should the poor Russian army on the other side have in their eyes?

But the fact is, is the combat effectiveness of the poor Russian army really a vegetable? The Germans themselves know it.

Berlin invested more than 500,000 troops in the battle, 70% of which had already entered the war. The remaining 120,000 people, in addition to the scattered stationing of Germans in Poland along the way, were more in the hands of Prince Leopold [Kingdom of Bavaria] as reserves.

The white-haired old prince, who was 70 years old this year, was recalled to active duty in April 1915 as commander of the 5th Army on the Eastern Front of the Wehrmacht, and after leading the army into Poland, he was reappointed commander of the newly formed "Leopold" cluster, which commanded more than 500,000 German troops.

Otto, who is now the commander of the Mozyri group. Feng. Lieutenant General Bello's infantry was a very important general to Prince Leopold, but Otto. Feng. Bello's command in Mozyri did not reach the German battle plan.

The Germans paid heavy casualties but failed to defeat Mozili, and the reserves in the hands of Prince Leopold were also pinned down in Mozyri in disguise because of the convergence of Russian troops in Gomel.

But Otto. Feng. Bello's military talent is unanimously recognized by the German high-brass, and he has not been able to fight the battle of Moziri, so the battle of Moziri will be really in trouble.

In the whole earth, only a person like Emperor Liu who has a bug in his hand can continue to accumulate small victories in an entanglement battle like Mojili, and then quickly form a strategic victory, and finally successfully defeat the defenders. Otto. Feng. Bello may be great, but he's not buggy.

The stagnation of the German ground war was also related to the fact that they were never able to form a strong air supremacy in the air. Although the 'air force' of the poor party Russia was unable to gain the upper hand, it crackled and dropped 1,200 planes of various types in only half a month, and suffered serious losses, so it could only be in the defensive stage. But were the losses of the Germans smaller?

3:1, 4:1, or even 5:1, Chinese planes lost one or two hundred, and German Fokker planes lost six, seven, or eight hundred.

The Germans did establish a certain advantage in the air by relying on their outnumbered numbers, but this advantage was far from the point of crushing the opposite side and dominating the air alone. This largely limited the use of German bomber groups, and also made it impossible for the Germans to build train guns at great expense to reach the battlefield. That's why the Germans won't be able to break through for a long time in a city like Moziri.

Otherwise, the German army, which occupies air supremacy, only needs to bomb the bomber group towards the Mozyli area indiscriminately, block all kinds of supplies from the poor Russian army in the rear to the Mozili city, and then transfer the train artillery to the front line to see what strong defensive line cannot collapse?

Therefore, the Germans are now working harder to exchange planes with the poor Russian 'air force'. The Chinese side seized every minute to transfer all kinds of fighters to Europe, but it did not show any results in a short period of time.

Therefore, Moscow is very satisfied with the war in the Belarusian corridor, their 'thighs' are not wrong, and the poor party chose China with air superiority as the boss, so that its own army can be on par with the Germans on the battlefield, which is really a shot in the arm for the poor party Russia, which has not had a war for more than ten years, and the Russian nation that was easily beaten by the Chinese defense forces in the war!

The Russians' combat effectiveness and national confidence in their own country are rapidly recovering and cohesion! (To be continued.) )