At about one o'clock in the morning of May 7, when the night was dark and windy, Vasalai and Selovin, who carried the hope of the whole army, led a reconnaissance battalion of 400 men deep into Tsaritsyn.

They came from the south, and they made no movement all the way, cautiously raising their guns.

Kuster asked them to find out the strength of the Russian defenses, as well as the points and secret passages throughout the town.

This was nothing to the battle-hardened Austrians, especially since their opponents were no longer the fierce Russian standing army of the past, so why should the conscripted Russians fight for their emperor?

Although the Russian army has no fighting spirit and is extremely dissatisfied with the current government. The bold Russians even launched their disobedience.

But the officers soon repressed and increased their workload, intent on draining them of all their labour capacity and making them completely submit to the imperialist tyranny.

This further irritated the already disgruntled Russians, who staged a riot and then waited for an opportunity to escape.

As a result, they were all machine-gunned by their compatriots. Those who were lucky could barely get out, but it was later discovered that most of the people who ran south were dead, and their bodies were covered with scratches and scars from cold weapons.

As for the so-called adherence to the principle of stealth, Vasala, who advocates attack, believes that an enemy should not be left alive.

When he saw that the Russians had escaped without any weapons, he was already extremely nervous, and immediately rushed forward with a large number of Austrians, shouting and screaming, and hacking them to death with sabers and bayonets.

Then he sent troops at various intersections, and when he saw a Russian soldier, he took a knife and killed him.

It is impossible for the Russian defenders not to hear such a big movement, and they are not deaf.

But they did not send any troops here, but instead compressed the defensive line themselves, and when they retreated, they blew up all the transportation facilities, and fell into the center of the earth with the houses above.

The two Kushi buddies didn't realize it, thinking that the Russians were completely unnoticed, and then continued to swagger and lead the army into the streets and alleys.

Some of the Austrian officers were a little uneasy, believing that the Russians had just not had time to react. However, after nearly half an hour, not a single Russian soldier was seen, which made them gradually relax.

Vasalai felt that their flanks were completely exposed, and they were at risk of being outflanked; Serowin felt that their formation was dense and that the crossfire situation would be serious once they exchanged fire.

So the two brothers reached a consensus and applied the advanced tactics that their father had given them: one person was in charge of a squad, covering each other and leaping forward alternately.

Prior to the operation, they were ordered not to enter residential buildings and not to use firearms in skirmishes. Unless the Russians themselves blew a hole in the building, or the Russians fired first, the order was invalid and there could be a casual exchange of fire.

It is worth mentioning that this order was addressed to the brothers alone, and was not told to anyone else. Kuster's aim was not to disturb the people, but also to train future generations to adapt to the situation, lest they learn to be stupid in Germany.

But Vasalai completely contradicted Kuster's original intention, and he was probably born to exploit the loopholes of the law and find all the loopholes in authority.

He thought, since I can't enter private facilities such as private houses, why should I go to the head office of public facilities? In other words, the state-owned enterprises of Tsarist Russia, which are the remnants of the decadent and domineering imperialist era, should be destroyed.

As for the conditions for firing, he felt that it was completely possible to rewrite all enemy encounters as "large-scale firefights", so that he could open fire freely.

Vasalai soon led his troops to occupy several railways south of the city, but all of them were blown up. The exploding rails splayed outwards from all sides with jagged wolf fangs, like banana peels peeled with a saw.

He swept the streets with his troops, and was welcomed by the merchants, but unfortunately the goods they had recently hoarded had been plundered by the Russians, and now there was nothing to entertain the Austrians.

However, Vasa did not bother to ransack them, but felt that there was something wrong with them not sleeping at two o'clock in the morning, and drove them away with a casual wave of his hand.

The Russian citizens, who had just been crying on the streets, quickly dispersed under the persuasion of physics, and after pinning their hopes of success on the Austrians, they fell asleep peacefully.

The dead city was only the sound of the Austrians' leather boots, but they had walked for nearly an hour and could not see anything more useful than the ruins.

It's not impossible for them to walk through the main road, but the threat may be a bit too much, the line of barbed wire and machine guns, and the Russians in ambush in the corner will pull the trigger in their hands and shoot the enemy at any time.

Vasala carefully assessed his strength and felt that he still didn't want to look for this stubble.

In desperation, he had to adopt the old Beijing way of committing crimes - digging tunnels.

Vasalai has set up a defensive line in the area under his control, blocking some unnecessary roads with hard barbed wire, and keeping the movement of citizens under strict control.

These were to ensure the safety of the follow-up troops, so that they could rely on the existing fortifications for rapid repairs and pave the way for the general offensive.

After making sure that everything was correct, he ordered Selovin to dig the tunnels, and he himself led his troops to continue trying to penetrate deep into Tsaritsyn.

With fifty soldiers, he thought that it would be enough to search a radius of four or five hundred meters, and if he encountered a Russian during the period, he would immediately run back.

But after two hours, he and his team never returned, not because they died, but because there were no Russian troops in the search area.

They also found Russian supplies in several closed buildings, perhaps because time had not been able to run out, or perhaps the Russians did not even have explosives, which were delivered to the Austrians intact.

However, the reconnaissance battalion was understaffed, and the fifty soldiers on duty were not enough to carry it back, so they had to give money to the local citizens to help with the transportation.

In addition, Vasalai prefers to make the best use of things, and only recruited about a hundred people, and the result is that it took two hours to move it.

What is curious is that these Russian laborers, who are obviously doing heavy work, have happy faces, which is really incomprehensible, and can only be classified as a group of psychopaths.

At four o'clock in the morning, before dawn, the tunnel was only a quarter of dug and impassable, but Vasa couldn't wait.

With the experience just now, coupled with Kuster's view of the Russians, Vasalai's evaluation of the Russians changed from reckless to cowardly, and he looked down on them from the bottom of his heart.

So a hundred soldiers were brought in and prepared for a more daring reconnaissance with them.

It is conservatively estimated that they may go up to two kilometers deeper, where they will gather more detailed intelligence.