Since the Battle of Limburg, the Austro-Hungarian Army as a whole has entered a period of recuperation, and only sent the 2nd Army to harass the flank of the Russian army at the critical moment when the Germans launched the Battle of Lodz. Lechelton made it clear that the Austro-Hungarian side would never take any more major military action alone until the Germans had not concentrated enough forces on the Eastern Front.

Lechelton did not understand why the Germans had launched the Battle of Ypres, which was almost useless for the entire Western front, and the result of the attack on the fortified British Ypres was to fill in the four newly formed German armies and then get nothing.

If these 250,000 people were to be used on the Eastern Front, Li Haidon felt that it would even be possible to drive the Russian army out of Poland and make the entire Eastern Front occupy an absolutely advantageous position.

Kondra came to Lecheldon and reported to him that Falkenhayn had promised him that within two weeks five or six corps would be transferred to the Eastern Front, "Can we now transfer the main forces to the intended place where the campaign will be launched?" The Chief of the General Staff asked.

"Impossible, in the absence of definite information confirming that the Germans have concentrated more than four army groups in East Prussia and Silesia, all our main army groups will remain on the second front to continue their rest, leaving only a small number of mobile forces on the front." Li Hayden categorically rejected the advice of the chief of the General Staff, and Kant's problem was that he believed too much in the promises of the Germans, and lightly let the Austro-Hungarian army rush to the front and fight the Russians.

He suffered a big loss in the first phase of the operation because he believed too much in the Germans that he would contain part of the Russian army when formulating the campaign plan, but he did not.

This was a waste of the limited forces of the Austro-Hungarian Empire.

The problem is that he did not think at all that Austria-Hungary alone could not independently defeat Russia and was only engaged in a vain war of attrition. According to Lehton's estimates, even if Germany and Austria join forces, they will need at least 3 million troops to truly defeat the Russians.

What is the use of the fact that Erkenhain really transferred 200,000 people from 6 military districts to the Eastern Front?

In 1914, it seemed that Germany and Austria were about to spend their time in endless bickering, and for Serbia and Greece, Lehedon had no intention of making a move. Even if it were to occupy it, it would be nothing more than a futile attempt to trap hundreds of thousands of troops in the Balkans, but it would weaken the mobility of the whole force.

The great trouble on land is Russia.

During the brief lull of winter, the port of Bora, one of the main military ports of the Austro-Hungarian Empire, was even more busy, with ships constantly coming and going in and out of the shipping lanes. However, compared to the battleships with a displacement of more than 20,000 tons stationed in the anchorage, these ships seem to be only "small things".

The ships were the 2nd destroyer detachment of the Imperial Navy under the command of Rear Admiral Pachner, after the blockade of the Strait of Otranto by the British and French fleets. This small flotilla of 8 destroyers, 3 minelayers and 12 torpedo boats was particularly active, and with the high speed of the new destroyers of more than 30 knots, it was constantly moving in and out of the Mediterranean waters, laying mines, attacking ports and attacking merchant ships.

However, since the beginning of the war, the Austro-Hungarian navy has achieved the record of sinking and damaging more than a dozen British and French ships in the Mediterranean Sea through guò mine-laying tactics, and has not suffered any losses of its own.

In addition to the submarine forces, the appearance of this light fleet is also enough to attract enough attention.

Li Haidon did not have much understanding of destroyers, he only knew that in the future, destroyers had become the main force of the navies of various countries. However, because of anti-ship missiles, naval guns have been almost reduced to ornaments, and now it is still the era of giant ship artillery.

However, because they were built as escort ships to accompany the capital ships, the destroyers of the Austro-Hungarian Navy were generally built relatively large, with a displacement of about 1,200 tons, and had a range of 2,500 nautical miles to 3,000 nautical miles, which was enough for it to run a round trip in the Mediterranean.

Due to financial constraints, the number of destroyers built by the Austro-Hungarian Navy was not large, and from 1906 to 1914 a total of 31 destroyers were built, that is, each capital ship could have about 3 destroyers to escort it. Due to the blockade of the Strait of Otranto, the large warships of the Imperial Navy could not enter and exit freely, and the destroyer fleet became the main force of the Imperial Navy to harass the sea routes between Britain and France.

The most outstanding achievement of the destroyer fleet was the sinking of an old French dreadnought during a night torpedo attack at Cape Matapan in Greece.

This achievement made the Imperial Navy realize that such a light ship with a displacement of just over a thousand tons was enough to pose a mortal threat to large warships, of course, referring to a surprise attack with torpedoes. Due to the development of torpedo technology, the current range of torpedoes has reached more than 3,000 yards, and even in engagement, it can play a certain threatening role.

The development of naval technology and weapons naturally has its own laws, which cannot be changed by one person. LeHaydon's role was really just to make the Imperial Navy do a better job in some areas.

No one could have made weapons that were ahead of his time, so he now had to endure the torment of his highly anticipated tank running at speeds below 20 kilometers per hour and having to replace parts every 70 kilometers. Slightly better is the car, but almost all car tires are still using solid tires, and although the pneumatic tire was invented as early as 1905, it was still immature, and it wore out at a maddening rate before the radial tire was invented.

What a radial tire is, Li Haidon does not know, he only knows that there are several layers of canvas inside, and the specific problems can only be solved by the engineers themselves.

The Allies' sources of rubber were cut off, and although there were still some reserves, they could not last long.

Thankfully, the Germans invented a method of synthetic rubber from coal tar, so that Lee Hayden did not have to worry about his convoy going back to the old days of using steel rings.

War will always promote the rapid development of science and technology, and almost every time mankind experiences a war, it will always be accompanied by a leap in science and technology.

Is it true that the progress of civilization is always inseparable from war?

The Turks formally joined the Central Powers on 31 October 1914, and the British withheld two battleships that the Turks had bought for £4 million, including the famous "one-week turret battleship" and the Agincourt, and were not prepared to refund the cost of building them, which angered the Turks.

The Turkish entry into the war, although it expanded the theater of operations, had little effect, and the British occupied Basra and the lower Euphrates with only one Indian division. In the Caucasus, the incompetent Ottoman War Minister Enver Pasha personally commanded the 3rd Army, which consisted of about 150,000 men, and began to attack the Russian army.

The opposing Russian army was only about 100,000 men, but the result of the battle was a complete victory for the Russian army, with most of the Turkish 3rd Army wiped out and more than 90,000 casualties.

The Turks could not even contain the Russian army, and the only advantage of their participation in the war was that the Russians' sea transport channel to the Black Sea was cut off. However, the loss of 350,000 troops in Galicia at the beginning of the war also had a great impact on Austria-Hungary, and until now, Lehedon has not been able to fully compensate for this loss.

The Russians, on the other hand, were replenished with great rapidity, and they seemed to have exhausted their manpower, and by the end of December 1914 they had made up for the great losses they had suffered, and the total strength of the Southwestern Front reached 1,470,000 men, and Grand Duke Nicholas seemed to be unable to hold it back.

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