The company commanders at the front kept calling for help, and their battalion commanders called the regimental headquarters again.

The regimental headquarters, while contacting the artillery regiment and the division headquarters, arranged for the front line to gradually retreat.

Russian troops poured up like a tide and occupied the positions abandoned by the Austrians. Vincent bent over and retreated with the officer in frustration. He did not understand why they voluntarily abandoned their positions, where their companies had already paid a quarter of the casualties. Vincent lamented the lives and blood of his comrades, but he should be glad that he had escaped. Throughout the battlefield, several companies had been wiped out. The Russians rushed into the trenches, which with just a few submachine guns simply could not resist.

The bullet hit the crowd like a few waves in the ocean. The Russians swarmed in, and the officers and men in the trenches could only throw away their weapons and be captured. Heroism, while not exclusive, is rare enough. The soldiers simply thought they were fighting, and the officers only knew that they needed to stop the Russians. The situation of the war is still unclear, and only a few people in the know know of the desperate situation they are in, and Rudolph carries at least half of the despair for the army.

The withdrawn troops moved into a new line of defense. Vincent received the ammunition and returned to his post.

The Russians stopped, they repaired on the captured positions. Taking advantage of the morale that rises after the victory, they will attack again after accumulating strength.

Vincent stared wearily ahead, the Russians did not know when they would return. He couldn't help but think of the battle that had raged a few days ago, and gradually, he remembered the retreat in Galicia. At that time, their losses were not serious, they were just encircled by the Russian army, so they retreated all the way, gave up the attack, gave up the victory, and even gave up the homeland.

The rear suddenly remembered the sound of artillery fire, and Vincent instinctively went to dodge, but suddenly realized that it was their artillery.

The sparse shells flew to the opposite side, far less spectacular than they had come from the opposite side. The artillery was indeed somewhat stingy, they made only 75 mountain guns and 100 howitzers.

Arcs cut across the sky, then slowly fall. The ballistics of these shells are curved and far less sharp than those of cannons. They are more like intimidating the enemy, telling them not to act rashly.

The shells hit several trenches with precision, and the shrapnel that flew after the explosion often knocked out a single person. Because of the lack of protection from steel helmets, most of the soldiers whose heads were stuck in shrapnel were dying, and even if they survived, they were only slowly losing their lives after a few days of severe pain.

The tragic situation in the artillery fire could not bear to look at directly, and the Russians seemed to have suffered a strong blow. But the impact of these hundreds of shells was limited, and the shells accurately hit the target, opening several gaps in the Russian front. The Russians immediately evacuated their ranks, still preparing to attack, now just waiting for artillery to return.

Two reconnaissance planes flew through the sky, both biplanes. The Fokker monoplane, which was invincible at the beginning of the war, was more suitable for air combat, and when carrying out reconnaissance and observation tasks, its shortcomings of short range and poor flight performance were soon exposed.

It was an era of rapid changes in aviation technology, and the battered Allied air forces were quick to develop new aircraft, and although they had not yet closed the gap, they were at least able to fight back.

The air battles on the Western Front were extremely tragic, and the lives of British and French pilots were only six weeks. The fighting on the Eastern Front was quite harmonious, air supremacy was firmly in their own hands, and there were not many Russian aircraft, and few people paid attention to it. However, the Russians were always revolutionary in aviation.

They built the Muromets bomber, a four-engine aircraft that was the world's first specially designed bomber. The bombers are now deployed in Warsaw, and this month they will make their debut.

Hindenburg planned an offensive on the Eastern Front, and the Russians retreated hundreds of kilometers all the way to avoid encirclement, and yesterday, the Germans drove the Russians out of East Prussia.

The Battle of Tannenberg left a psychological shadow on the Russians, who readily abandoned their land and retreated to the Vistula River in the face of the German offensive. Warsaw, once the command, is now about to become the front.

On the Southern Front, the Russians were not at all afraid of the Austro-Hungarian army. Although they had already lost a game and all three armies entered the encirclement, they were still unwilling to give up and still planned to face the Austrians in Lemberg. As the situation improved, the 1st and 4th armies also attacked as scheduled, and they encountered only a small part of the Russian 4th and 5th armies and the 9th army. The Russians not only sent the newly formed Twelfth Army to Warsaw, but also mobilized the Ninth Army to the north. It can be seen from the degree of attention that although the strategic center of gravity of the Russian army is on the southern front, they have not considered defense at all.

A unit came to the front, they were a battalion that had been hiding in the rear, and they were accompanied by twelve tanks. Along the way to the battle and trek, only half of the assault guns were in working order, a few were damaged in battle, and the rest were parked in Lemberg, waiting for repairs.

Taking advantage of the evacuation of the Russian army under artillery fire, this counterattack force moved. The soldiers temporarily stationed on the Russian defense line were simply unable to resist, and the few machine guns they hastily arranged were destroyed by tank guns or machine guns as soon as they fired. The 47 gun on the assault gun was limited in power and could not be turned. However, its fast rate of fire, coupled with the two machine guns on board, can provide good fire support for infantry. In attack, its greatest role is to replace cavalry, and when an indestructible steel monster comes to the trench, the first instinct of an inexperienced soldier is to flee.

Relying on invincible tanks to open the way, the Russian army was driven back to the forward position where they set out. The Austrians did not continue the pursuit, and the evacuated soldiers returned to the trenches, and the attacking troops and tanks hurriedly withdrew.

The artillery fire on the opposite side rang out again, and the tanks exposed in the open field were not afraid of the aftermath of the explosion, and as for a direct hit, it was a small probability event.

Under the guidance of the reconnaissance aircraft, twelve 105 field guns opened fire, and the shells hit the artillery positions of the Russian army. The results achieved were not large, but the goal of interfering with the enemy army was achieved. Seeing the shells exploding nearby, the Russian artillery could only shift their positions, and the attacking troops sent out safely withdrew to the rear.

Such fighting stopped on the fourth day, and the Russian army was not afraid of casualties in vain, but more likely because there were not enough shells. Artillery is needed for the offensive, this has been the consensus for hundreds of years. No matter how incompetent the Russian commander is, he will not let the soldiers die directly. This point is still worth learning from those Austro-Hungarian officers who have been replaced.