On 31 March, Kooster was overjoyed to learn that his son had succeeded in capturing the high ground, and made some small means to get Enver to present him with a medal.

At the same time, he ordered 3 divisions to take the high ground as a base and try to advance a few kilometers to the north.

It's not that he wants to threaten the rear of the Russian army, but that Turkey is under too much pressure in Gallipoli and is constantly pumping troops from the Caucasus.

According to the principle of proximity, the western front of the Caucasus was relatively close to the Turkish capital, so they mainly sent Turkish troops from the western Caucasus to return to the reinforcements.

The Turkish intelligence services were also unreliable as usual, and they didn't even tell the soldiers where they were going, let alone Kuster's troop transfer.

This made all the defensive lines that Kuster had made on the Western Front go to naught, but fortunately, the Russians thought it was an empty city plan and did not dare to act rashly, so they casually advanced 20 kilometers a day.

What is even more outrageous is that even after Georgia completely fell to Russia, no one told Kuster.

By the time Kuster learned from the three deserters, it was already April 2, and he was furious:

Ah, I was removed from office for failure, I was exiled for victory, and it was okay to put it in Austria-Hungary, how could I go to Turkey and draw my soldiers without doing anything, isn't this bullying honest people!

Although Kuster was annoyed by the actions of Austria-Hungary and Turkey, the current threat from the Russians prevented him from distracting him.

They succeeded in reaching the Eastern Black Sea Mountains and approaching Asia Minor; But halfway through, he did not dare to go, turned his gun and stormed the central Turkish army in the Lesser Caucasus Mountains.

After a series of friendly exchanges, the Turkish army, which had the upper hand in artillery, managed to block the attack, even at the cost of losing its combat capability.

The Turkish army in the Caucasus was embattled on all sides, and it was too late to support, and it was too difficult to relieve the pressure.

Therefore, they can only make moves in advantageous situations to attract the attention of the Russian army.

However, many Allied troops were held back by the rugged terrain, and it was a problem to climb out of the mountains, let alone launch an orderly attack.

There are many convenient trails in the Caucasus, most of which are known to the local mountain people, but their IQ is only one of the best, and it is a joke for them to tell the exact location.

The quality of the Turkish army is not high, the IQ is only a little stronger than those mountain people who have been prenatal education, and the language is even more like a knife, and it is very difficult to communicate.

It's not that they didn't think about putting the mountain people in the ranks, after all, the Russians have done this too.

But the brains of these mountain people are really indescribable, and the people with a little intelligence have already gone to the Russian center, and those who remain are a group of mentally retarded people, and they are being lifted up by sending them to death. In addition, they were very disgusted with war, so when they saw the Turks handing them guns, they turned their faces on the spot.

Suffering from a shortage of troops and a slow march, Kuster could not hold on.

He wanted to find support, but all the members of the Allied Powers were deeply involved in the war and dismissed his pleas for help.

After running into a wall everywhere, he reluctantly made the last call to the boss of the Central Powers, Wilhelm II.

Unsurprisingly, Wilhelm II agreed to Kuster's request.

Surprisingly, he actually sent troops to Asia Minor, and there were quite a few, a full 6 divisions! They were completely under the command of Kuster.

Once these elite Germans come to the Caucasus, they will surely bring the Russians back to life!

But they were cut off halfway, and in the end only 4 divisions went to the Caucasus. Couster was furious, wanting to know which monkey jumper dared to rob him.

When he learned that it was the Germans who had made the decision, he had to swallow it. After all, the Kaiser said that he was going to send them to "Asia Minor", not to the "Caucasus".

Using two divisions to buy a lesson is still more cost-effective for a big man like Kuster, at least so that he will no longer suffer dumb losses in politics.

On April 7, before German reinforcement arrived, great changes were taking place in the Caucasus mountains.

The Turkish army managed to cross the Greater Caucasus Mountains, and with the help of the Baku army, occupied a gentle area to the east.

The Russian army was shocked and hurriedly sent troops back to block the offensive, and at the same time let the west launch an offensive to relieve the pressure on the eastern front.

When the battle order was first issued, the entire battlefield was still very normal, but the battle line was a little bigger.

And when the Russian army in the west advanced for a distance, it found that several Turkish battalions were stationed on the East Black Sea Mountain.

Boy! Is it reasonable for my superiors to ask me to be careful? No, you can't!

As a result, the Russian army, which suddenly came to its senses, advanced by leaps and bounds and penetrated deep into Turkey.

According to normal people's thinking, they should have gone to encircle the Turkish army in the Caucasus.

But their commander was clearly not an ordinary man, he thought that it would be too difficult to climb over the mountains, and time would not allow anyone to climb the mountains, except for the Turks, after all, they really climbed the Caucasus.

This commander took a very outrageous path, he sent his troops along the mountains, straight to Trabzon, and then to Istanbul to support the British in Galicia.

This behavior looks bold, but in fact it is bolder than bold – really bold.

However, it has to be said that it is still quite advanced compared with the current tactics of digging trenches and waiting for death, but it is too advanced, directly skipping the stage of fighting a war and jumping to the stage of cutting off food and supplies.

The Russian Caucasian Front does not have any jurisdiction over this, not only because of the command to pull the crotch, but Russia really needs to open Istanbul, plus this army has only one division, and it doesn't hurt to lose it, so it simply doesn't matter.

But the next situation cannot let the Russian high-level sit idly by, because of the positive role played by this division, the entire western Russian army realized the arrival of fighters, attacked the Turkish army on the opposite side, and occupied most of the small Caucasus Mountain.

The Turks were also very cooperative, they collapsed very quickly, and they were about to run away as soon as they opened fire, and Tbilisi was lost ten hours after the engagement.

Although Kuster didn't divide Tbilisi into the defensive range, in the plan, it would be lost until May, and you just threw it away, who is perfunctory?

However, the situation of the war could not be changed by the psychology of individuals, and all 50,000 troops in the west collapsed. Kuster couldn't hold it if he wanted to, he really didn't have any troops to support, and the 170,000 troops in the east were all delayed by the enemy and couldn't move at all. And with the increase in the number of Russian troops, the offensive and defensive sides in the east have been exchanged, and it would be good for the Turkish army to be able to maintain the front, how could there be troops to return to defense.

The Russian troops in the west dispersed their attacks for a few kilometers and then stopped, you think they are normal, but in fact you just want to see what the Turkish army is doing.

And after seeing that the Turkish army did not send even a single soldier here, he did not hesitate to force the march, intending to sneak attack the Turkish rear.

But none of their marches were normal, and some went to the southern shores of Asia Minor, trying to cut off the Arab connections;

Some went straight to the Middle East in an attempt to save the locals from the reactionary rule of the Ottomans.

In short, they are all traveling to strategically important areas, and they are all taking very big risks. It can only be said that they are worthy of being the predecessors of those who engaged in large-depth operations.

He just smiled contemptuously at what Kuster thought of the situation:

In World War I, only military-level units could barely play a strategic role, and this kind of small army should be honest and tactical. What kind of big depth is not what this level should do, they should surround us. Moreover, in Asia Minor, where the terrain is complex, every step forward requires huge losses, and there is no need to send troops to block it, and only a few people are left alive when the Russians are in place.

In fact, just as Kuster thought, after three days of madness, the Russians found themselves desperately trapped in the mountains, unable to find the north at all. The farthest march was only fifty kilometers, which was not at all enough to threaten Turkey.

But they were still trying, and it was not until April 11 that the Germans came.