Everyone went to war, and the streets were filled with cheering crowds.

In the series of high-spirited music such as "March of Prinz Eugen", "Watch the Rhine", "Marseillaise" and "God Save the King", people celebrate the arrival of war, and walk to the conscription office and the front line with hope for the future.

On 7 July, Rudolph received an order that the 41st Regiment of the 15th Division of the 10th Army was incorporated into General Dankel's 1st Army, which was deployed on the right flank and planned to attack Lublin along the north.

Rudolph had already given the mobilization order to the whole regiment before receiving the order. Before leaving, Rudolph read the latest newspaper. General Potiorek was out of danger, but the war was started because of him. It is worth mentioning that the operations on the Serbian side, after losing his best command, will be in the hands of Konrad. Rudolph was glad that history had proven that the most suitable terrain for Potiorek was his desk, and that Conrad had the right battle plan to take Belgrade from the western border, and not to throw a large number of soldiers into the eastern mountains.

By the time war was declared on Russia on July 9, Rudolph had already arrived at the border.

The order of the military headquarters was to let the 41st Regiment as an advance team to reconnoiter the enemy, but Rudolph directly chose to lead the troops to attack. According to the reports of the scouts, forty kilometers from the border, only one battalion, which was not ready for defense, was stationed.

After sending the telegram, Rudolph did not wait for artillery support and attacked the enemy directly in the evening.

Rudolph specially instructed his battalion commanders to use the assault team to choose a surprise attack, and not to fire when there was no charge.

The first battle went unusually well, with two battalions raiding the enemy camp in the darkness of night. Rudolph personally led the remaining troops to outflank them from the rear and lay an ambush.

The real battle lasted only half an hour. Rudolph heard shouts of killing first in the rear, and then mortar fires. Later, a fire was seen in the camp of the Russians. Large numbers of Russians fled to the rear, disheveled, many without weapons. After seeing the ambush, they all chose to surrender, and soon, a large number of gray-green figures with bayonets followed.

Only twenty-six people were killed or wounded in the battle, and almost most of them died in the melee. The Russians lost just over 70 men, and the remaining 500 men, along with their commanders, became prisoners of Rudolph.

Rudolph called the Russian battalion commander and asked the interpreter to ask him about his unit and where the Russians were stationed.

According to the battalion commander, they belonged to the 39th Regiment of the 62nd Division, and the regimental headquarters had been stationed in the western part of Yanuf, and as for the division headquarters, it is possible that they had been transferred back to Krašnik.

Rudolph believed his intelligence that the Austro-Hungarian army was attacking, and the Russians were supposed to shrink their forces to the rear.

Rudolph reported the results of the battle to the division headquarters and issued a new order to the whole regiment: "The Russians are retreating, their speed is still so slow, now there is no need to worry about being surrounded, all we have to do is to speed up and attack with all our might." ”

"Now it's a combat deployment, the second battalion will go ahead first, expand your reconnaissance area as much as possible, and find the enemy. Four battalions, leaving a company, guarded the prisoners. ”

After hastily cleaning up the battlefield, the 41st Regiment advanced non-stop.

On the third day, the 2nd Battalion sent back the news that a unit had been found along the railway, probably the strength of a regiment, the number could not be determined, and the enemy was retreating, carrying a large number of artillery and baggage, probably by train.

Rudolph immediately sent a telegram instructing the 2nd Battalion to rush to the rear of the railway station at once, cut off the railway, and build a defensive position to block the enemy.

Rudolph had a good taste of the style of sports warfare. In order to outflank this retreating Russian army. Every day there is a rapid march, every day there are soldiers who are left behind.

After three days of arduous marching, Rudolph's main forces finally exchanged fire with the Russian rearguard. By this time, the 2nd Battalion had been in ambush behind the railway station for a full day, and the Russian train had not yet arrived, so Rudolph easily annihilated a company that was serving as the rearguard, and learned that they were the 65th Regiment, which had withdrawn from the west, and was ready to retreat by train.

The 2nd Battalion also sent good news, they intercepted a departing train, captured and captured more than 200 heavy troops and their supplies.

Rudolph ordered them to reinforce the defensive line and be ready to intercept the Russian train at any time. Rudolph reported to the division headquarters that they had surrounded the 65 regiment of the Russians.

The division headquarters replied that the nearest 53 regiment was expected to arrive in six days. Rudolph roughly estimated that they should be able to make it to the final battle.

The Russians had no intention of fighting at this time, they just wanted to withdraw to the rear as ordered. However, they still deployed two battalions for defense, and also unloaded the packaged artillery and entered combat condition.

Rudolph, who had just been galloping on the Great Plains, stopped in an instant, and after two tentative attacks to no avail, Rudolph could only stop the loss in time and wait for the Russians to throw themselves into the net.

Unfortunately, the good times were short-lived, and after the 2nd Battalion intercepted a train from the north, the Russians knew that the railway had been cut off. During these two days, the Russians saw that Rudolph did not move, and also sent soldiers to attack.

Rudolph sold a flaw and deliberately let the Russians into the position and then annihilate them. For the sake of this seemingly imminent breach, the Russians launched five attacks, and finally threw down 400 corpses in front of the position, thus giving up the useless attempt.

During this period, Rudolph also almost got away with it. In one battle, because of a problem with the connection, the Russians attacked the main position. What was supposed to be a pleasant machine-gun fire immediately turned into a tragic bayonet battle. Rudolph was panicked at the time, fearing that the Russians would crush him with great pressure. Unfortunately, the Russians reacted a beat slowly, and the chief of staff was in a hurry and sent the commandos to reinforce them, and these elites, who had not yet fought well, showed their might in the trenches, shooting indiscriminately in the trenches with machine guns and pistols, and the Russians were beaten on the spot without temper.

The scene was even somewhat comical, with the Russians holding bayonets flat and heroically rushing at the unarmed men. I saw the commando draw his pistol in a dashing manner, "bang" two shots, and the Russians fell. These soldiers were hot-blooded young men, still holding bayonets, and continued to show their bravery. Soon, the Russians could not accept this asymmetrical slaughter, some fled to the rear and were quickly shot, and some simply surrendered on the spot, and Rudolph saw these captives with helplessness and indignation in his eyes. But whatever the mood, they should have been impressed by Marshal Suvorov "The bayonet is a good man, the bullet is a coward." The wise sayings of wisdom give rise to doubts.