By the time the troops were regrouped, it was late at night. The bright sunshine of the past has long since fallen, replaced by a round of bright moonlight and endless silent nights.

Faced with this scene, Kuster felt a little emotional, so he gave a speech to the soldiers:

"Soldiers, you have no formal training, and you are dragged into battle with just a few random shots.

And you are using the most advanced weapons in the world, and I am glad for you and at the same time grossly unfair.

Your hearts are as bright as this moonlight, so that I can see clearly!

And the soldiers I need are like the night! It's dark, it's so quiet, and only they can bring me victory.

I once had the night so vast and endless, but now I can only have this little moon. It's really impressive. ”

At this time, a strong man in the crowd walked out and hit him with a smile:

"My general, I admit that these weapons are advanced, but there is a problem with what you say. You used to have only a little bit of a dark night, much smaller than the moon now! ”

He waited quietly for a long time, but Kuster still had his back to him, looking at the sky, ignoring him.

Finally, under the gaze of the people around him, he finally couldn't resist the pressure from embarrassment and retreated.

Custer's military coat fluttered in the wind, and his thoughts were like the wind, and he didn't know where to go.

Keeping his eyes on the sky, there was a sudden loud bang that attracted the attention of everyone present.

The night was torn out of cracks, and blue-purple flashes pierced the clouds and slashed into the earth, which was the symbol of thunder.

A storm is coming. However, Kuster had prepared well beforehand, and he produced a lot of rubber raincoats in advance, and after they put them on, he turned around one last time to look at the magnificent scenery in the distance.

The lightning bolts were like spears piercing the heavens, extremely sharp and swift. It's just a matter of moments, and you'll never see it again.

As if inspired, Kuster shouted to the soldiers in the audience:

"See that lightning? We are going to tear through the enemy's defenses with such viospeed and rapidity as it is, so that the Russians cannot lift their heads.

If they dare to catch us, they will be beaten and scattered!

We are the lightning! No one is faster than us, no one is more terrible than us! Lightning is our faith, and He can lead us to victory and our own glory! ”

Everyone was talking about the excitement on their faces, like hot oil about to burn, and Kuster added another fire to them:

"This is the calm before the storm, this is the prologue to the battle, and it is the clarion call for the Empire to fight back.

We will fight here for a few days and nights, and finally triumphantly. And the enemy will die here, and there will be no one to die.

Let's go! One kilometer ahead of the Dunajetz River, we are officially on the battlefield!

Long live the Emperor! Long live the Empire! We will bring back victory! ”

The battle had not yet begun, but the war machine was already roaring.

The soldiers formed an orderly formation, marching with full confidence and indomitable.

Kuster stood on the high platform and looked back at the sky again.

He decided, and after the end of this battle, he would make lightning the emblem of their army.

During the march, Kuster also set up the headquarters and discussed the battle plan with the officers.

They had a great advantage in this battle, and that was that the enemy did not know about their existence.

So he can deploy on any plot and concentrate local forces for a breakthrough at any time.

And as an attacker, he can freely choose the time and terrain of the battle, which is very beneficial to him.

However, he did not have enough support. After communicating with Joseph before, it became clear that many high-ranking officers were reluctant to participate in the combat operation. They will certainly keep a tight grip on their men to prevent them from suffering losses as a result of unwarranted involvement in the war.

Therefore, even if some reckless junior officers want to participate directly in the battle, they will not dare to take any action for fear of punishment from above.

Fortunately, Boroyevich agreed to send troops directly from the flanks of the Russians to assist Kuster in his attack.

They had to fight a good battle, a battle that would be so fast and ferocious that the Russians would keep retreating, so that their troops could regain their confidence and get more reinforcements.

As for where to hit? Kuster took a closer look at the map and finally decided to fix the battle line in the area of Rzeszow-Sanok.

(Sanok is within a few hundred meters of the west bank of the San River, and Rzeszow is 40 kilometers north of Sanok.) ）

There are about 90,000 Russian troops in this area, only 20,000 more than Kuster's elite army. They attacked from the north, plus Boroyevich from the south, forming a pincer offensive on both sides. With a ferocious attack, within a week the Russians will be stuck in the pincers.

At that time, the senior officers of Austria-Hungary would inevitably rush to attack the encircled Russian army after discovering the fighters, so that the front line was empty.

Therefore, after Kuster successfully surrounded the Russian army, he could only hand it over to others to eat, and he temporarily filled the battle line to prevent the Russians from saving the encircled Russian army.

It's a pity that he only has one army, and he can barely control the tide of the war. If he is the commander-in-chief of the battlefield, he will definitely make full use of the subtleties of blitzkrieg and large-depth operations.

That is, on the premise of being able to effectively destroy the enemy's living forces (blitzkrieg), it can also severely damage the enemy's command system and logistics system (large-depth operations).

However, it is not an advanced era now, and soldiers from all countries like to squat in wars, and they have no awareness of sports warfare at all.

But these powerful theories of war were very wasteful to use only tactically, so he had to fight one beautiful battle after another here to obtain his own army group, and even the entire Austro-Hungarian army.

Suddenly, a telegraph operator ran into the headquarters, held a blank piece of paper in his hand, handed it to Kuster, and said:

"General, this is the latest intelligence."

Kuster looked at the intelligence in his hand, felt deep doubts, threw it on the table, and said to the officers:

"How can it be so detailed? Is any of this true? Even if the information of the Russians is almost one-way transparent to us, it is not so detailed, it is almost impossible to say what size the toilet used by the tsar! ”

At this time, a wounded officer stood up and said with some embarrassment:

"I'm sure it's true, I was originally an officer defending Sarnock. As for why it is so detailed, it is because the Russian offensive is so fierce that we have not even reacted, and Russian flags have been planted in many places.

But it's also strange that those Russians didn't find our soldiers hiding there! This is an opportunity. ”

Listening to the officer's explanation, Kuster kept nodding his head. At the same time, he came up with an evil idea in his heart.