On the Galician front, due to Kant's greedy advance, the 650,000 Austro-Hungarian troops of the three armies were already crushed under the counterattack of the superior Russian army.

At the beginning of the Silesian Campaign, the Austro-Hungarian 1st and 4th Armies and the Russian 4th Army fought fierce battles around the border town of Krasnik. Under the attack of the superior forces of the Austro-Hungarian army, the Russian 4th Army suffered heavy losses, and on August 27, the Austro-Hungarian army broke through the city of Krasnik. As a result of the breakthrough of the central front, the Russian army was forced to retreat, and the Austro-Hungarian army broke through 120 kilometers into Russian territory, threatening the Lublin, Cheum lines, and began shelling the Kiev-Warsaw railway, which was vital to Russia. The Austro-Hungarian 4th Army turned to the right and drove General Pravi's Russian 5th Army across the Bug River, forcing it to retreat into Russia proper. Then he turned around and confronted the Russian 3rd Army, preparing to cooperate with the Austro-Hungarian 1st Army in besieging Lublin.

The commander of the Russian Southwestern Front, Ivanov, despite the fact that Lublin was besieged by the Austro-Hungarian army, decided to use the fresh 8th Army and the 3rd Army, which did not suffer much losses, and took advantage of the fact that the 2nd Army of the Austro-Hungarian Army was not yet in place, to directly attack the rear center of the Austro-Hungarian Army and the Galician capital Limburg (Lviv).

On August 28, the Russian army began a full-scale counterattack, and at this time, the Austro-Hungarian 3rd Army had a total of 12 divisions, scattered on a nearly 200-kilometer-long front, which was very weak. The Russian army divided the Austro-Hungarian 3rd Army from the center, and the 3rd Army swept southeast, trying to press 8 Austrian divisions to Romania, while Brusilov commanded the Russian 8th Army to concentrate 15 divisions to attack Limburg, while the Austro-Hungarian defenders in Limburg had only 4 divisions.

The Austro-Hungarian line crumbled under the attack of superior Russian troops, and the Romanians of the 12th Army of the 3rd Army collapsed first, abandoning their weapons and fleeing like sheep to their homeland of national significance, Romania. Then the Italians of the Austro-Hungarian 3rd Army and the Ukrainians of the 11th Army also began to flee.

The commander of the Austro-Hungarian 3rd Army, General Boardman, ordered the elite 14th Army to hold on to Limburg, a decision that ultimately destroyed the elite Austrian force. The 200,000 Austro-Hungarian defenders were surrounded by Russian troops in Limburg, and while the Russian army was besieging Limburg, follow-up troops poured into the Galician region like a tidal wave.

The Austro-Hungarian General Staff Headquarters ordered the 2nd Army, which had just arrived in Galicia, to quickly counterattack and relieve the siege of Limburg.

This was again a very stupid decision, the Austro-Hungarian 2nd Army had just arrived, extremely tired, and the Russian 3rd Army had just been repaired, and the Austro-Hungarian 3rd Army had collapsed, and rushing to counterattack at this time was tantamount to using one 2nd Army to attack the Russian 3rd and 8th armies.

The commander of the Russian 8th Army, General Brushinov, was a well-known general, leaving 5 divisions to continue to surround Limburg, and then turning 10 divisions to the southwest to meet the Austro-Hungarian 2nd Army with the 3rd Army. The result was without any suspense, and under the flanking attack of the superior Russian army, the Austrian 2nd Army was routed, with nearly 40,000 casualties and capture.

As the rear route was cut off, the Austro-Hungarian 1st and 4th armies abandoned the encirclement of Lublin and began to retreat, with the Russian 4th and 5th armies following in pursuit, at which point the Austro-Hungarian army made a more beautiful maneuver, bypassing Krazvik and retreating northwest of Limburg into Galicia.

On 3 September, the defenders of Limburg, who had no hope of breaking through, surrendered.

Due to the defeat on the Eastern Front, on September 17, just a dozen days after the end of the Battle of Selmia, His Royal Highness the Crown Prince announced that he would personally serve as the commander-in-chief of the Austrian forces on the Eastern Front, and began to leave for the Galician front, with the 6th Army and the 7th Army of the Imperial Army, which had just replenished four Croatian garrison divisions.

Admiral Covis went to Vititsa to ask Lehedon for advice on his next course of action, and he felt that something was wrong. Now he only has the 5th Army, which is composed of third-rate troops, to attack the Serbian and Montenegro coalition army, which still has more than 200,000 people, and he has no bottom in his heart.

"You don't have to do anything, General." Lechelton understood his concern, "Just don't let the Serbs cross the Danube." Due to your excellent defense, you will receive a medal after the Battle of the Eastern Front. ”

"But what should I do if Baron Hezendorf gives the order to call for an attack?" That's exactly what Covis fears.

"Shelling is also an offensive, General." Lechelton blinked, "I'm sure you have enough shells." ”

"Yes, yes, I see." Covis breathed a sigh of relief, as long as he wasn't allowed to attack, anything would be fine.

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The situation on the entire Eastern Front has been deteriorating.

Feng. When Lieutenant General Sterz met with the Grand Duke of Istria, His Royal Highness the Crown Prince and the newly appointed Commander-in-Chief of the Austro-Hungarian Army was standing beside a long line of military trains and threw a tantrum.

It's a small station in Moravia called Brodier, where soldiers are jumping out of their carriages, piling their rifles and backpacks on the railroad tracks, and then several people gather together and hunch their necks, chatting in the somewhat chilly autumn wind. The railroad was lined with soldiers, and the field cooks were busy making fires and cooking.

"Report to the general, cavalry lieutenant general von. Sterz reports to you! The new chief of the General Staff of the Austrian Army on the Eastern Front solemnly saluted the iron-faced crown prince, and then his face became casual, "Thank God, I finally caught up with you." "The crown prince's former chief of staff, Boloyevich, went to the 3rd Army, and Lyhydon asked the General Staff to transfer his friend who served in the 2nd Army to his side.

"Well, Volgan, if you still sit on it, I reckon you'll have to wait for me in Galicia for ten days." Lechelton glanced at Steft's convertible car, and continued to complain, "The old men in charge of logistics in the General Staff should be replaced." You see, the train was not as fast as the wagon, and the 2nd Tyrolean Mountain Infantry Division, marching in wagons and automobiles, had already arrived at Vilca, and I was now two days behind them. If you look at the trains, they weren't hooked up in the dining cars, and my soldiers had to stop every six hours to cook on both sides of the railroad. In order to gain a strategic military initiative, the empire built six railways through the Carpathians to Galicia, were they used to race with horse-drawn carriages? ”

"There's no need to be so excited, Your Highness, that's the reality." Sterz shrugged his shoulders and looked to both sides. The 7th Army, which His Royal Highness the Crown Prince has built, is really interesting, except for being on the playground, it almost never has the habit of lining up, and it looks more like a rabble.

I heard that General Kondra had met a unit of the 7th Army's Marine Division on the road a few days ago, and had asked the officers why they had not let the soldiers line up, but the Marine officer replied: "Report to the sir, His Royal Highness the Crown Prince forbids us to line up in a neat line during the march, but to maintain a fighting posture at all times." Angry, Condra complained at the front headquarters that the crown prince was "messing around" and taking the war as a child's play.

Sterz was very curious that the unit that Condra had dismissed as "nonsense" was extremely heroic on the battlefield of Cermia, and according to statistics, one of their regiments had less than 400 men left in the defensive battle and remained in position, a situation that would not have been conceived in any army.

Sterz followed the 7th Army to the Galician front amid the complaints and accusations of the crown prince all the way.

Now that Limburg had fallen, the 150,000 Austro-Hungarian defenders had become prisoners of the Russians.

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