On June 7, almost a month after Vasalai was admitted to the hospital, the Eastern Front achieved unexpected results in a very short time.

A month earlier, in the south, Kuster's 400,000-strong army had crushed Tsaritsyn, and by the way, had scorched most of southern Russia.

Only a few days later, they moved their battle line to the southeast bank of the Don River, where they formed a defense along with the adjacent Volga River.

But they had no intention of defending at all, the Russians on the other side had long since lost their spirits, and after the fall of Tsaritsyn, they were already in ruins, and there was no organization to speak of.

No matter which side it is, there is not a single person willing to resist, and even a few random people come to smuggle in, and those Russians surrender. There is absolutely no need to carry out a conservative style of concentrating superior forces in the area.

So on the crisscrossed rivers, the Kuster Department launched an attack on all fronts. There is no main direction of attack in this battle, because everyone is the main attack, and it doesn't matter where you fight.

On a front of more than 1,000 kilometers, the Confederate forces in the south are attacking everywhere, and as long as the place is not planted with their flag, they will kill all the way.

The fiercest of these attacks was on the Western Front, where Kemal's army was unstoppable and drove straight into Ukraine.

The people you meet along the way are either marching west with their guns raised and their hands raised, or they are timidly walking eastward with their hands raised.

The Russian commanders also wanted to fight hard, to make pointless stubborn resistance.

Previously, Austria was responsible for the offensive in the Ukrainian zone, but it did not hit the mountains and heights for almost three months.

Although Russia still has a relatively large number of elite forces here, this is not a reason for Austria-Hungary not to make progress; Germany to the north encountered a lot of Russian troops, and their commander-in-chief was still Brusilov.

Even with such difficulties, the Germans were able to maintain a daily advance despite their inferiority, taking control of most of Livonia and gradually pressing towards Petersburg.

On the other hand, Austria-Hungary needs to face fewer and fewer Russian troops, but they just can't fight, even if they have advanced weapons and equipment, they can't break through the high ground.

Until Tsaritsyn was captured, there were only 70,000 Russian troops on the opposite side, and Austria-Hungary, which was nine times their size, still couldn't penetrate it, which made people wonder what was wrong with Austria-Hungary.

The Russian commander, believing that there was a contradiction within Austria-Hungary and that he would no longer attack, felt very secure and began to dispatch his troops:

He withdrew all his eastern forces to the west bank of the Dnieper, building a defensive line against the river and the heights on the west bank against the menacing Kuster in the east.

At the same time, in order to prevent a ferocious offensive that might come at any time from the west, he drew a small part of the Carpathian army and moved to the Volyn-Podol heights. They were put into critical positions as reserves, and in peacetime they built fortifications.

Putting on such a posture of being beaten, everyone knew that Russia was at the end of its rope, and most of the generals refused to accept the unified mobilization of the tsar, and defended themselves in their own places and never attacked.

The result of this is that if one side is in difficulty, all sides will watch the play. Even if the Russian army is not surrounded, the connection between them is no different from being surrounded, the connection between the various units is completely incompatible, and the communication equipment has almost become an ornament.

So it is likely that the Russian commander's intention to retreat back was only to save himself, and he confessed almost the entire road from Minsk to Moscow, but no one was going to punish him, and even the Germans might have rewarded him.

Although Germany has not yet reached Minsk, it is not far away, less than fifty kilometers.

They were still bothering about how to storm Moscow, and the Russian army itself abandoned it, and there were none, which was a real surprise, like a tiger with wings.

After Ludendorff transferred the stolen information to Kuster, the Germans on the entire Eastern Front quickly concentrated their main forces on the right flank (Lithuania-Warsaw).

The direction of their attack is already obvious: the central line is dominated by a breakthrough, and the flanks are protected by the wings. Straight into Minsk.

Hindenburg came up with such a plan:

Fight all the way to Kiev, and then take the left flank as the axis, and swing the division to the north to Smolensk.

At the same time, a Livonian army group would launch a sluggish offensive to ensure that the Russian forces were energized so that they could not escape. Finally, when the breakthrough of the right flank is successful, the army group will cooperate with the right flank to encircle Novgorod and flank the Russian capital St. Petersburg.

But there is one problem, adjusting such a large number of troops is bound to produce a lot of movement, and it is impossible for the enemy not to find out.

Hindenburg and his knowledge of the Russians decided that they could not react and did not care about the possibility of them fighting back.

As he expected, the chaotic Russia could not form forces at all, and Brusilov was unable to mobilize a large army for a decisive battle with the main force.

But it's not about that, it's that he doesn't know what the Germans are doing! The so-called latest information was also four days ago, and his commander-in-chief had already existed in name only after the Tsar had succumbed to the bourgeoisie.

The Germans are worthy of being the ancestors of the blitzkrieg, and after four hours of gathering troops, without any rest, they went straight to the attack.

They didn't meet a single Russian along the way, and most of the journey was on the march.

Three days later, Germany's plan to take control of Belarus almost succeeded, and as for why "almost", the main thing is that they hit a hard stubble -

It was an army group hiding in Belarus, the largest army in the existing Russian military system, and its commander should be very competent.

The Germans wanted to bypass and join up with friendly forces in Livonia, but then they were blocked by a Russian army, and the roads to Belarus and Novgorod were blocked.

Although the Germans from both sides only needed to advance 150 kilometers each to penetrate this line, the Russian defense was like a turtle shell, impregnable, bombarded with rocket artillery and heavy artillery for ten minutes, allowing the most elite troops to attack tentatively, and there was no longer any intention of capturing Novgorod.

Ludendorf believes that there is no need to be in a hurry, since it is impossible for Russia to launch a counterattack, then the initiative has always been theirs, and there is no need to worry about it, and after gradually digesting the occupied territory, they will attack Novgorod and break the last line of defense to St. Petersburg.

While they wait, if they attack together with their allies, they will be much stronger and the battle will be easier.

So they switched their spearhead and attacked southward, encircling Kyiv with the Austro-Hungarian army, and at the same time dividing their forces to attack north of the Dnieper River and opening up contact with Kuster.

Hindenburg reported the current situation and his plans to his superiors, and Kaiser Wilhelm was quite excited when he learned about it, and directly asked Kuster to strengthen the offensive against Ukraine.

Falkingham gave them an easy order: from May 12, Russia should be brought to its knees by military means within a month, or else an army group would be withdrawn for the Western Front.

The destruction of Russia in one month may have been inconceivable, but now it is entirely possible. No one believed that Russia would be able to hold off the German army's overwhelming attack, any more than anyone believed that East Asia could hold off the plaster empire's attack for three months.

Hindenburg crumpled Falkingham's telegram into a ball, mixed it with gunpowder, and had people load it into a cannon and fire it in the direction of Moscow.