"The imperial army has fully advanced the territory west of Bessarabia. The Romanian lambs were powerless to resist the glorious Russian army, and the three main divisions of its 1st Army were surrounded by our troops near the city of Iasi, and the city of Bacwu was far south in sight. The Imperial 3rd Army, which had set out from South Bessarabia, was advancing westward, and once they broke through the important town of Galati, the Imperial forces could approach the Romanian capital of Bregast! ”

In the Russian Supreme War Council at the front, Alekseev, whose face was full of red light, reported to Tsar Nikolai on the current war situation in an impassioned and uplifting tone. Under his command, when the Russian troops encountered the German units in the Romanian army, they did not choose to fight to the death, but broke like the tide of the reef, roaring and swept past them, only grabbing the Romanians with weak combat effectiveness and chasing them fiercely. Although the German army was far stronger than the Russian army, it only had two under-equipped divisions in the Romanian army, and after losing the flank cover of the Romanian army, they could only choose to retreat slowly. In this way, the Russian army will be able to avoid the real and achieve the greatest results in the shortest possible time!

Although the 11th Army on the right flank encountered unexpectedly fierce resistance from Austria-Hungary in the attack on Bukovina, it took three days of bloody fighting to form an effective breakthrough on some sections of the river, and the number of dead and wounded had exceeded 10,000; But under the cover of the victorious glow of the armies on the left flank, the shadow cast by this setback in the Russian command has long been dispelled. What's more, for the Russian high command, the core goal of the campaign was to destroy the Romanian army, so that the more than 1.2 million tons of oil produced by the country every year, and the export grain that could feed 5 million people, would not be used by Germany. and thus to boost the morale of the Allied Powers, which had plummeted due to repeated defeats; As for whether you can pick up the grass and beat the rabbit to engage Austria-Hungary. It wasn't what they were meant to be.

For days. As the Russian army advanced in Romania, congratulatory messages flew like snowflakes to Nikolai's table. After a hundred years of "big waves and sands" in this system, almost all of the people who can occupy important positions in Russian officialdom at this moment are a group of experts who are good at drilling camps; Their wealth and glory all depend on the favor of the tsar, and their ability to slip on beards and horses has even been practiced from superb to the state of stepping on the snow without a trace. Now that the Russian army has won such a gratifying victory on the Romanian battlefield that Nikolai personally chose, how could they miss such a rare opportunity? In any case, it is not wrong to sing the praises of merit first!

Under the sycophants of these people, who either praised them bluntly or set off them metaphorically, Russia at this time was already a dreamy scene of prosperity and prosperity, and the world was full of weapons. Russia once again expanded its territory in the Balkans to save the Slavs and Orthodox Christians from the dire situation. Under their eating pot pulp and falling head knotted grass, the advance of the Russian army is even more unstoppable. If Romania were defeated, Russia would not only gain enormous political and economic benefits, but would also be able to extend its influence further into the Balkans, radiating directly from Bulgaria to the south to Istanbul, the "Tsargrad" they had coveted for a thousand years. And Nicholas II, who created this unprecedented feat of Peter the Great, will become the premier revival saint in Russian history, even if Napoleon, Caesar and other generations, how can they be compared with him, the Tsar of Destiny?

If Moltke Jr. had parachuted into the Russian General Headquarters at this moment to command the army, then he would have quickly discovered the hidden worries of the Russian army with his melancholy gaze like mercury. Due to the stubborn defense of Austria-Hungary in Bukovina. As a result, the Russian 9th Army, which was advancing in the center, lost the protection of the right flank; In the Battle of the Marne, the German 1st Army was attacked on the right flank by the Paris City Defense Army. The quick decisive battle of the German army was declared bankrupt!

In addition, although the various armies of the Russian army mainly attacking Romania were imposing, they did not capture any weapons or capture many prisoners; The other side either ran fast and disappeared, or with the participation of the German army, they shrank together in a well-fortified area, which became a nail that the Russian army had to spend great efforts to solve. And the retreat of the Romanian population was unusually swift and orderly. Everywhere the Russian army went, there was almost a scene of extinct livestock, empty buildings, and empty villages and towns, leaving only a very small number of Slavic civilians to welcome the Russian army. And even the wheat that was ripe in the fields was harvested by the Romanians, so that the Russian army's original plan to feed the war by war had to be aborted.

By all indications, the Romanians must have heard some of the wind and grass long before the Russian attack, otherwise it would never have been possible to retreat in such a targeted manner. However, the Russian high command was optimistic that this was a sign of the imminent defeat of the Romanians, because they did not dare to fight head-on in front of the Russian troops, and could only choose to flee after learning that the Russian army was about to attack. However, there is still a question that cannot be explained: if the Romanians fled in panic, why did they still shrink and hold on to important towns such as Iasi? Even if this kind of isolated guard can hold out for a while, in the absence of follow-up support, it will be 100% wiped out by the attacking side!

The Austro-Hungarian resistance in Bukovina was also unusually strong, and according to the battlefield report sent back by Karekin's department, they were confronted by the most combat-ready Austro-Hungarian regiment: the opposing side had a large number of heavy artillery of more than 100 mm, and its tsunami-like artillery coverage was even more exaggerated than the German firepower. If it weren't for the fact that there was still a large gap in the combat effectiveness of the infantry, so that the Russian army could test the depth at a touch, Karekin even thought that the Germans were coming. The previous Bukovina was not the main battlefield between Russia and Austria, and the intensity of the fighting between the two armies was not very strong; Now that Austria-Hungary has sent their core forces here, what is the calculation?

The commander of the Russian 8th Army, Brusilov, was keenly aware of these two unusual developments, and sent a telegram to the General Headquarters expressing his concerns, stating that the Allies would definitely have a backhand in Romania, but the cavalry general's telegram did not receive enough attention. The previous realistic offensive launched by François in northern Poland and East Prussia successfully caused the Russian army to focus the attention of the defense of the German army on this brave general Li Guangshi, who directly caused the defeat of the Russian army in the Battle of Tannenberg.

Since François's troops were all present here, it was certain that the main German forces would march north along the three Baltic states to St. Petersburg. And as long as the Germans are not there, then the Russian army will have nothing to fear. What if the Austro-Hungarian army came? In the war before June, the outnumbered Russian army still beat the Austrian army to the point that it could not take care of itself; And now that the Russian army has fully completed its mobilization, it has occupied an overwhelming advantage over the strength of the Austrian army, and there is no longer anything to fear. Those Austro-Hungarian regular armies with not weak combat effectiveness account for only a small part of all their armies, and most of them are bastard zombies who can only bully the Italian army!

In fact, in a certain way, the Russian High Command did not pay much attention to this telegram as it did not want to pay attention to the anomalies mentioned by Brusilov. This Russian attack on Romania was the first major strategic decision made by the supreme Tsar as commander-in-chief, and every senior Russian general and member of the high command deeply understood the meaning of this. Therefore, the best outcome of this battle was that Romania was quickly defeated, and then in a national jubilation, the wisdom and greatness of His Majesty Tsar, the loyalty and courage of the soldiers who participated in the battle, and the golden Ou Yonggu of the powerful empire were displayed in the jubilation of the whole country; Everyone is happy, everyone takes what they need, and those who should be promoted should be promoted, and those who should be rich will be rich!

And any signal that contradicts this naturally becomes an alternative heresy that is the enemy of all people. No one, including Alekseev, who actually commanded the army, had the courage to do such a thankless task that went against the will of the interests of all in the Russian system. If he had given a prudent order to prevent danger, even if he had proved to be correct in the end, he would have been disliked and even resented by his colleagues, and above all from the Tsar, and it would have been time to go home in a few years. And if it turns out that it was he Alekseev himself who was nervous and made what should have been a brilliant victory slip through the hands of the Russian army, then he should no longer be mixed in with the Russian army!

Because of this, even if a person with a shrewd mind smells the abnormal aura in it, he can only choose to remain silent in order to protect his life. Everyone would rather bury their heads in the sand and be ostriches than look around like eagles and take advantage of them in time. What's more, from the current point of view, the actions of the Russian army can be called a smooth journey, and the Romanian army has been defeated and retreated one after another; Even if it's a little abnormal, it's not a big problem at all. Where is it 100% smooth on the battlefield? Choosing to brake and stop when victory is in sight is definitely not something that everyone can do!

On October 24-25, the Russian army continued to advance. "The goal given to us by our superiors tomorrow is to speed up as much as possible so that we can catch those cunning Romanian rats before they escape." An officer of the Russian 7th Army wrote in his diary on the evening of the 25th. At this time, the three Russian armies advanced like a tide, almost all of them crossed the Prut River more than 60 kilometers, and the morale of the Russian officers and men was high, and everyone was like a taut zither string, determined to get promotions, medals, and rich rewards for this battle. No one realized that a catastrophe like the collapse of the sky was imminent. (To be continued......)

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