Time entered the middle of November 1918, according to the history of another time and space, the First World War should have come to an end at this time, but in this time and space, Germany still has considerable strength, not only the loss of military strength is not as much as in another time and space, but also the large amount of wealth and strategic resources plundered in various parts of Europe in the early stage have replenished a lot of blood for Germany, which has not hurt Germany's vitality.

On November 15, after receiving the order, Cai Guodong convened a military meeting of the main commanders of the various corps, and quickly determined the next battle plan, and after the military meeting, he issued the order to attack.

The first to get the attack order was Wang Shizhen's Balkan Legion, and now the Balkan Legion still has 1.2 million people, and it lost 300,000 in the offensive some time ago, this casualty figure almost collapsed the Balkan Legion, but after Wang Shizhen ruthlessly killed several senior generals of various countries, the troops were also restrained.

In fact, the Balkan Army is not without combat effectiveness, this Balkan Army is the main force of the armies of the Balkan Peninsula, most of the soldiers in the army have received formal military training before the war, after the outbreak of the war, because the German and Austrian troops fought too fast, under various factors, they were defeated quickly, after Southeast Europe was occupied by the German and Austrian troops, everyone either became a puppet army or fled back to their hometowns to hide, after the Chinese army came, the new governments of the Balkan countries reorganized them, The previous defeat at the hands of the German-Austrian army had made these soldiers fearful, and this army had not been expected to rely on them to fight the German-Austrian army when it was formed, so it was extremely loose in terms of military discipline.

After Wang Shizhen took over as commander of the Balkan Corps, he soon discovered that this large army was not without combat effectiveness. Their combat effectiveness has dragged down their loose military discipline, and they want to let this army play its due combat effectiveness. First of all, it is necessary to strictly enforce military discipline.

In order to strictly enforce military discipline, Wang Shizhen issued an order. Adopt the wartime joint sitting method: if there is no retreat order during the battle, and the soldiers retreat without authorization, kill the squad leader! If the squad leader retreats without authorization, kill the whole class! The platoon commander did not have the order of the company commander, and ordered those who retreated without authorization, and killed the entire platoon. And so on!

After the wartime joint sitting law was issued, there were still many people who didn't care at first, and many soldiers and junior officers retreated without permission when the offensive was unfavorable in the first battle, but after this situation appeared. Immediately suppressed by the Chinese Army Inspectorate, the retreating Balkan Legionnaires were frantically strafed by the Chinese Army's Inspectorate, and some grassroots officers who led the retreat without authorization were arrested, and were soon executed in public, and large-scale propaganda was carried out before the execution, which immediately shocked the Balkan Legionnaires who were loose in military discipline.

Under such strict military discipline, and with the machine guns of the Chinese Army Inspectorate behind him, no one dared to order a retreat without authorization, and no soldier dared to turn around and run. Even if this happened, it was quickly suppressed by the Overseers in the rear.

After the rectification of military discipline, Wang Shizhen immediately ordered an offensive on all fronts, and the Balkan Corps advanced in a northwesterly direction from the line from Slooney to Porega. In two days, it advanced 3 to 6 kilometers to the northwest, which is not fast, but it is not slow either. Advancing this distance also cost the Balkan legions a lot. 38,000 troops were lost, and 22,000 were lost on the Austrian side.

Another large-scale attack on the southeastern direction caused great panic in Austria-Hungary. In the present situation of the Austro-Hungarian Empire, the Eastern Front was pinned down by 600,000 men by the Fifth and Sixth Army Corps of the Chinese Army. The central part was pinned down by the Ninth Army of 300,000 people, the strength of the southern front was only 300,000, it was too difficult to resist the 1.2 million army of the Balkan Army, and at this time Austria-Hungary had lost the Kingdom of Hungary (including part of Slovakia), and there were only 300,000 garrisons in Austria and the Czech Republic.

In the absence of a way, Austria on the one hand to the German army for help, on the other hand to tear down the east wall to make up the west wall, Austria secretly ordered from the northern front to transfer 300,000 people to the south, although the Austrian side did a very secretive job, but the opposite side of the Austrian army suddenly reduced by half, this situation can not be hidden from the intelligence personnel of the Chinese military intelligence department in any case, the fifth and sixth army of the Chinese army soon perceived the emptiness of the Austrian army, the fifth army commander Zhou Chuandong and the sixth army commander Huang Yingjie immediately conducted urgent consultations, At the same time, he sent a telegram to Cai Guodong asking for war.

Zhou Chuandong and Huang Yingjie planned: the Sixth Army advanced from Preshov and went straight to Zhilina in the westernmost part of Slovakia, while the Fifth Army advanced westward from the line of Ozde and Watts, attacking Zvolen and Nitra in the north and south.

Once Nitra was captured, the Chinese army was not far from the Austrian capital of Vienna, and the Sixth Army could continue westward and then detour south to complete the siege of Viana.

Zhou Chuandong and Huang Yingjie's plan was quickly approved by Cai Guodong, and after the order was issued, the offensive began, at this time there were only 300,000 Austrian troops opposite the Fifth Army and the First Army, while the Fifth Army and the Sixth Army were a full 600,000 elite Wehrmacht, with 1,200 tanks, 16,000 large and small caliber artillery, 600 warplanes, 6,400 trucks, 9,000 motorcycles, and 30,000 mules and horses. Although the transportation in Europe at this time was far less good than it was twenty years later, most of Europe was a large plain, suitable for mechanized large corps, especially tanks, trucks, and other means of transportation, as long as the weather was good, the army with these means of transportation was very fast.

On November 19, the Sixth Army took the lead in attacking, and 160 Chinese fighters took turns to carry out a large-scale bombardment of the Austrian positions that were tens of kilometers long.

At 10 o'clock in the morning, the artillery fire behind the Chinese offensive position was ready to begin, and the overwhelming shells bombarded the Austrian army again, and the Austrian army, which had suffered heavy losses by the bombardment of the aircraft group several hours before, was ravaged by the artillery fire, and the degree of loss increased, and after half an hour, the artillery barrage slowly advanced, and the Chinese soldiers with rifles crossed the trenches under the cover of the barrage to attack the Austrian position.

Obviously, the Chinese army, which had air superiority and artillery superiority, had the upper hand at the beginning, and after several hours of bombardment and half an hour of shelling, the Austrian position was already full of devastation and corpses, and the powerful artillery superiority and air superiority were definitely not something that could be made up by the difference in numbers, not to mention that the Austrian army was still at an absolute disadvantage in terms of strength.

Under the first wave of attacks of the Chinese army, the Austrian army collapsed, and the Austrian army, which had fought many battles with the Chinese army, already had a deep understanding of the Chinese army, and if they wanted to withstand the first wave of attacks of the Chinese army, they would have to pay a very heavy price.

The offensive strength of the Chinese army is definitely not comparable to the armies of European countries, at this time the armies of most countries in the world rarely shoot while charging when attacking, because the shooting at high speed is not accurate at all, but the Chinese army broke this common sense, the Chinese soldiers shot while charging, and the accuracy was quite high, and the hit rate of this kind of shooting made the Austrian army chill.

After two days of attack, the Chinese army advanced ten kilometers, although the Austrian army tried its best to resist, but could not stop the Chinese army from advancing, after paying extremely heavy losses, the Austrian army had to retreat to the west, and the Chinese army immediately pursued in a big way.

The road to Zhilina is not very easy to walk, the traffic is not very smooth, and there are many mountains and mountains on both sides of the way, more than 200,000 Austrian troops are crowded on the road that is not spacious, so that the marching speed is extremely slow, and the Chinese army has a large number of trucks and motorcycles, under the pursuit of this mechanized troops, the retreating Austrian army was quickly caught up, the Austrian army was suddenly in chaos, more than 200,000 Austrian troops were scattered in just a few hours, and the Chinese army only released a few shots and began to capture prisoners, Hordes of Austrian troops discarded their weapons and equipment at the guns of the Chinese army and raised their hands.

The Sixth Army Corps left part of its forces to capture prisoners, and the other part of its forces continued to move rapidly westward, and broke through to Brno in the Jack region at great speed, leaving one part to advance northward, and the remaining part from Brno along the southwest in a rapid direction, and the northwest of Austria-Hungary approached Germany, which itself did not have many troops, and when the Sixth Army entered it was overwhelmed.

At this time, the Fifth Army had broken through Nitra, and the forces of the two divisions were marching towards Bratislava, the city was not far from Vienna, it was the eastern gateway to Vienna, if it was occupied by the Chinese army, the Chinese army could cross the Danube River and approach Vienna, and the Austrian capital would be under the Chinese army.

In order to keep Austria, Chief of Staff Ludendorff ordered 200,000 troops from Germany to go south to prepare to help the Austrian army fight the Chinese army, but he did not expect to be stopped by the Sixth Army of the Chinese Army just after entering the Czech region.

From Germany to Vienna, the fastest way is to enter Prague from the northwest, and then from Prague to Brno, the German train had to stop, the Chinese army cut off the railway from Brno to the south, and the troops used a large number of fortifications built in advance to block the German army in the northwest direction of Brno. (To be continued......)