The shadow of the moon is faint, the stars are sparse, and the clouds in the black-blue sky dome are tumbling and fluttering with the wind, covering the brilliance of the stars and the moon from time to time...... In the German front-line command post in Brasov, Ludendorff and Hoffmann were carefully calculating and deducing the current situation of the battle in front of the map and the sand table respectively; And even Hindenburg rarely walked out of his bedroom, and appeared in front of the two of them in a straight uniform.

In the early hours of November in Eastern Europe, there was already a bit of bitter cold in the middle of winter; Rao is fireplace has been burned in the command post, but the nature of its predecessor as a small hotel leaking on all sides still does not make people feel much warmth. For the old and lethargic Hindenburg, it was unthinkable to stay up late in the cold wee hours of the morning, but this time the situation was very different: the entire Russian army group was already encircled, and he was about to win the largest siege and annihilation campaign in human history!

"Report, the 8th Reserve Army of the 1st Army sent a telegram that they had once again repelled a massive night attack by the Russian 11th Army; During the battle, more than 5,000 Russian troops were killed and more than 2,000 prisoners were captured. An adjutant quickly pushed the door open and walked into the command post, took out a telegram from the clip and handed it to Ludendorff and said loudly.

Ludendorff nodded slightly, and looked at the adjutant at a glance after retreating: the Russian army's breakthrough operation was once again declared a failure, and there was nothing to be gained except to throw enough corpses. For him, this was expected for a long time: if he had been informed of the Russian army's offensive area in advance, he would not have been able to stop these gray cattle who lacked weapons and had poor combat skills. The Germans simply disbanded themselves as soon as possible!

In fact. This was also during the Polish campaign. The core reason why Hindenburg still surrounded and ate the 3 elite regiments of the Russian army despite being inferior in numbers. The Germans, who had been prepared in advance, either concentrated their forces to carry them head-on, or launched a counteroffensive from the rear of the flanks to delay time; The Russian army that rescued and relieved the siege threw a heavy fist, either directly hit the iron plate and was beaten to the head and bleeding, or it didn't take a few steps before the smoke erupted, and was forced to use a large amount of military power to protect the flanks, rear transport lines, and logistics bases. After several battles, the Russian army was beaten to the point of no confidence and acted timidly, which made the German army have a broad stage in depth. The Russian 11th Army, which is currently outside the encirclement, claims to be the elite of the army. But their real combat effectiveness is not as good as that of the Russian army in the early stage of the war. Even the first batch of Russian troops could not tear through the German defenses, let alone the current Russian army.

"The Russian 11th Army's liberation operation has lasted for four days, and it is still blocked by our army outside the defensive line, and those troops who are struggling west of the Prut River have not seen their compatriots appear, so they must have lost their fighting spirit, right?" Ludendorff handed the telegram to Hoffmann, who stretched out his head, and tried to speak in a calm tone, but Hindenburg, next to him, still clearly felt the irrepressible excitement in his partner's words. As the organizers and implementers of such a grand siege campaign, their names will forever be remembered in the history of world wars. If a soldier can do this kind of process, what is there to regret in this life?

Hoffman reads the report in detail. Fu's face also showed a look of joy: "In the past few days, the main force of our army has been carrying out non-stop artillery bombardment and charging against the Russian ** team in the encirclement, and they lack ammunition supply when the rear road is cut off, and their resistance firepower has also weakened significantly. It is expected that it will not be long before they will collapse and disintegrate in despair, just like the original Samisonov Army. The efforts of the Russian 11th Army were destined to yield nothing. The only regret is that we did not pocket this Russian army group, they were only routed by our army, leaving the Russians with the last combatable force in Ukraine. ”

"It's all the result of that group of incompetent Romanian idiots urging us to advance our march. If we had waited another two days, the main force of the Russian 11th Army would have crossed the Prut River by defending the right flank of the other three armies, and a single battle would have broken the Russian army pillars in the entire southwest! Hearing Hoffmann's words, Ludendorff opened his mouth with some indignation, expressing great disdain and anger at the cowardice of the Romanian military. He took a deep breath of the cool air of the early morning night and said, "Now it's time for our army to fully close the net." We have to let the Romanians take a good look at how these Russian ** teams, which beat them and fled in the wind, were completely crushed like reptiles under the tracks of German chariots! ”

Hindenburg's eyes, who had not spoken for a long time, flashed in his eyes, and he nodded slowly: "Erich has a lot of plans. At present, the temperature in Eastern Europe is close to freezing, but our officers and men are almost still wearing the uniforms of the autumn campaign; If we fight in this environment for a long time, the situation will only be in favor of the Russians, who have long been familiar with the cold, and not in our favor. It is necessary for our army to finish the Romanian campaign as much as possible, and then prepare heavy winter clothes for the confrontation in the snow and ice. At any point in the slightest reason for the defeat of Emperor Napoleon in Russia, we must not be negligent in the slightest. ”

Under the planning of the three of them, one after another military orders were immediately sent from the radio station of the headquarters to the commanders of the armies on the front. As for the command's general attack order, all the German units, which had long been sharp, gladly accepted the order, and the Austro-Hungarian 1st Army, which had been fighting side by side with them for a long time, did not disobey it. The daunting heavy artillery cluster of the main German and Austrian army suddenly roared with earth-shattering thunder in the night sky. An hour before the sun rose, the bombardment of the artillery units ceased to allow scouts to have a chance to reconnoiter and send sappers to clear barbed wire and obstacles. When the brilliant morning glow reflected the eastern sky, the intensive preparatory artillery bombardment sounded again, and under the observation and shooting of airplanes and hot air balloons, the improvised fortifications of the Russian army were shattered and blown up one after another, and could no longer play any role in covering and blocking.

"Our artillery barely fired back. A handful of artillery batteries attempted to set up their 76-mm field guns, but they could not fire a few shells before they were completely overwhelmed by a dense and devastating artillery fire. One of the surviving Russian colonels, who recalled the scene after the war, "completely collapsed the morale of the army." The soldiers had run out of food and ammunition for days of fighting; The news of the German encirclement spread like a plague through the army, and everyone was terrified, and the nightmare of the imminent repetition of the Tannenberg disaster hung over the hearts of all the soldiers. And when those giant airships and armored tanks reappeared on the battlefield, the will of our soldiers to resist was completely lost; As long as these guys are involved in the attack, the German infantry who follow up will not encounter any resistance, and it is normal for them to capture hundreds of our troops in a platoon......"

Under the attack of the German army, the Russian troops in the encirclement began to disintegrate like towers made of fine sand. To the west and south, a large number of Russian troops were surging in terror and despair through the forests, fields, and towns, hoping to avoid the terrible German front; In the north, the Russian army tried again and again desperately to make a last-ditch effort to escape, but whether it was a straggler or a group, whether it was a daytime assault or a night raid, they encountered the merciless artillery fire of the German 8th Army and were driven back to their original positions. The Prut River was filled with earth-gray corpses, and the blood made the whole river no longer clear; Often, groups of soldiers, following the priest's aloft cross, tried to break through the German lines, but none of them could cross the moat.

"The enemy forces put up almost no decent resistance. We had expected that this would be a difficult battle, but we did not expect that the weakness of the Russians would reach such a point; Everywhere there were long columns of Russian soldiers slowly walking towards our troops without any cover of troops, and one of them was carrying a white suit high with a rifle, indicating that they considered it futile to continue to resist and were willing to surrender. Every legion we take part in the offensive is like no one. Can you imagine that we are facing a whole 3 Russian armies with a total strength of more than 7o men? In the evening, a large number of Russian troops were gathered in various open areas, which alarmed our chief of staff, and later realized that these Russians were prisoners of war. Because the pitiful escort team of our army was completely submerged in the earthy gray crowd, and was directly ignored by the pilots. Hoffman wrote in his diary that day.

On 5 November, the Russian 7th Army, which was in the forefront of the German army, was the first to collapse. After ten days of fighting, the divisions under the command of General Sakharov were able to assemble less than 1ooo men each. During the fighting, 160,000 prisoners of war, 24o cannons and 3oo machine guns fell into the hands of the victors, while the trenches were filled with dead and wounded soldiers. In a situation where its strength has been greatly weakened compared to before the war, the Russian army can no longer compete with the German army at all. Romania's lost land was regained. The brightly dressed native soldiers looked in awe at the Prussian army that was marching across their land, and they were extremely grateful for the choice made by the government of Bregast, and rejoiced that this invincible force was a friend and not an enemy.

A few days later, the other two Russian armies also collapsed. In this land, where they had placed their ambitions and once thought would always be theirs, they let go of their rifles from their arms to the conquerors. The situation on the Eastern Front was also completely opened up with the end of this battle. (To be continued......)

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