Both Ludendorff and Hoffmann were so impressed by the ambitious battle plans of the de facto rulers of Austria-Hungary that they began to revise the battle plans of the German army. Hindenburg was quick to agree to the battle plan, and by their very nature, they were all the kind of people who were very ambitious and willing to take great risks for victory.

In the dispute between Hindenburg and Falkenhein, Hindenburg was victorious, and the Austrian retreat in Galicia put the Kaiser under great pressure, and he had to order the withdrawal of the 4th Army from the Western Front to strengthen the Eastern Front, and at the same time hand over all the domestic reserves and newly formed troops to Hindenburg.

Hindenburg deployed the 4th Army and the 20th Army, formed by the local garrisons of East Prussia, on the northern flank of East Prussia, and at the beginning of the campaign they were to launch an offensive north of Lake Mazur against Belarus. The 8th Army under the command of General Bello and the newly formed 10th Army under the command of General Eichhorn were to attack Brest on the southern flank of Lake Mazur. General Mackensen was to command the 9th Army and the newly formed 11th Army, led by the Royal Janissaries, to attack from Silesia to Galicia, and then move north with the Austro-Hungarian army.

The Austro-Hungarian side planned to send all the main forces of the Eastern Front, a total of six armies, together with the Mackensen group, to launch a full-scale attack on the four Russian armies in Galicia, and the entire Carpathian front was completely handed over to the Hungarian local defense forces and the 9th and 10th armies.

At present, the deployment of the Russian army is as follows: the 10th Army of the Northwestern Front is north of Lake Mazur; The 1st, 2nd and 12th armies, which are being reorganized, are on the outskirts of Warsaw; The 6th Army is south of Lake Mazur, and the 7th Army is being regrouped in Kiev. The 3rd, 8th, 9th, and 11th armies of the Southwestern Front were located on the side of Galicia near the German border, while the 4th and 5th armies attacked south on the Carpathian line, creating a huge gap of almost 150 kilometers between the two groups.

Lechelton placed the 2nd Army, commanded by General Ymmorley, on the far left, under the command of General Mackensen.

Helton and Hindenburg issued an order on 27 April that the entire summer campaign on the Eastern Front would begin simultaneously on 1 May.

In fact, the movement of the German-Austrian troops on the Silesian front had been discovered by the Russian army as early as April 25, but the commander of the Eastern Front of the Russian Southwestern Front, General Dimitriev, did not cause much alarm, nor did he ask for reinforcements from the Russian base camp. He believed that this was only a pre-offensive preparation of the Germans, and he believed that he could deal with one of Mackensen's armies, and that the Russians had not known about the formation of the German 10th and 11th armies until now.

The Russian troops who captured Galicia were enjoying their victory, food, livestock, women, these became their trophies, and a Russian correspondent quoted Tolstoy's original words in "War and Peace" to describe the Russian soldiers who were looting: "The Orthodox army has become a group of lawless bandits." ”

The Russian army in Galicia was scattered everywhere, and many officers could not even find out where his soldiers had gone. The Russians were collecting loot everywhere, and one Cossack soldier actually grabbed more than 120 sheep, and now he and a few friends have become real shepherds.

Even the top brass of the Russian army was full of relaxed optimism, the Austrians were already too frightened to fight back, it was the Germans to be noted, but they were not well armed, and the Germans' army was pinned down in the French trenches.

Great danger is coming, and they are in no know.

The German-Austrian forces were ready to attack, and their appetite was astonishing: to concentrate the main Russian forces in the natural salient of Russian Poland, and thus force Russia to withdraw from the war.

The 3rd Army, commanded by Colonel-General Boloyevich, became a sharp knife for a breakthrough. At the forefront of his elite 14th Corps, which included the 3rd Upper Austrian Infantry Division and the 27th Lower Austrian Infantry Division, which consisted mainly of Upper Austrian Germans, plus the 3rd Lancer Marksman Division of Galiciga.

The most elite units of the Austro-Hungarian army were the Upper Austrian and Lower Austrian Infantry Divisions, which were mainly Germans, followed by the Croatian Infantry Divisions, followed by the Hungarian Infantry Divisions, which were mainly Magyars, and the three Tyrolean Mountain Infantry Divisions. The infantry divisions, which consisted mainly of Czechs, Poles, Romanians, Slovaks and Ukrainians, were much less combat-effective.

In the winter of 1914, Helton carried out a large-scale reorganization of the Austro-Hungarian army, reorganizing the four-regiment infantry division into a three-regiment infantry division, and changing the corps level from two infantry divisions to three infantry divisions. After the reorganization, all armies in the empire would have one or two infantry divisions composed mainly of Germans, Croats, or Magyars. Relatively speaking, the army composed of two German, Croatian or Magyar divisions had strong combat effectiveness and became the main force of the Austrian army groups.

The advantage of this reorganization lies in the fact that since at least one division has relatively strong combat effectiveness, it is not easy for the entire army to collapse on a large area of defense during combat, and the resilience of the army has been comprehensively enhanced.

Rakovsky boarded a cart drawn by three horses, and the company began to prepare for the journey again.

This time, it's a departure and a walk back.

For three months, they began to retreat from Transnistria to Moravia, experiencing only a few minor battles. The whole of Galicia was lost, and the people there were plunged into a great catastrophe. From the mouths of the refugees who escaped, they learned about the atrocities of the Russians. The propaganda organized by the military was omnipresent, and now hatred had filled the hearts of these soldiers, who were eager to fight, to kill the brutal and ferocious Russians.

With a strong sense of revenge, they are now starting to go back and go to the front.

There were 13 wagons in total, one for each class, and the other for the cooking class and supplies.

The carriage drove on a bumpy kilometer, dusty.

Rakovsky and Bruno were crammed into the worst position at the back of the carriage, covered with dust on their bodies, heads and faces, including yellow mud in their nostrils.

"His grandmother's, what's so angry? Run fast and die fast! Several trucks full of soldiers with gun wagons towing behind them drove by, kicking up more dust, and Bruno spat on the dusty spit as he cursed, looking with envy and jealousy at the military vehicles that had overtaken them.

It was the cars of the 27th Infantry Division, which were the symbol of the elite units of the Empire, while in second- and third-rate units such as the 3rd Lancer Archery Division of Galicia, there were few cars, and the marches and transportation were mainly carried out by horse-drawn carriages.

The wagons continued to move up and down the dusty road, and now the sound of gunfire could be faintly heard, and they were getting closer and closer to the front line.

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