After enjoying a fairly perfect sleep, Chen Tian sat up from the camp bed and stretched his waist vigorously, suddenly feeling very comfortable all over. There is still a while before the sun rises, he starts to wash without a hassle and then comes to the headquarters to share breakfast with his generals.
When Chentian walked into the restaurant, the deputy commander General Prittwitz, the armored commander Colonel Olger, the Chief of Staff Hoffman, and several other officers were already waiting there.
"Good morning everyone!" Chentian walked to his boss and sat down. Today's breakfast is still very rich, with boiled eggs, fried eggs, toast, milk, milk coffee, and black coffee. In front of Chen Tian, he placed his favorite boiled eggs and milk coffee, but in fact, his favorite is the Chinese breakfast noodles, porridge, fried dough sticks, and boiled eggs. After returning to Germany, he missed the days when he stayed in Qingdao from time to time, and he could enjoy delicious Chinese food every day. He often wanted the opportunity to take Xiao Salsa and Andres to try.
"Good morning, Your Royal Highness!" After Chentian started to eat, everyone started to move.
"Do you know, Russia..." General Prittwitz was just about to start telling his boring jokes, Chen Tian raised his right eyebrows and said something to make him bury his head in the meal: "Is there someone to send after breakfast?
Check the front line?" The other generals began to snicker again, and Pritwitz gobbled up the pile of food in front of him, apologized to everyone, and quickly left there.
"Okay, we can talk about the business! I heard that the fighting again is fierce, and the 1st Army casualties are not small!" After Pritwitz left, Chen Tian talked with everyone as usual.
"Yes, your lord! The Russians still launched crowd tactics, and their artillery fire was very fierce this time! It is said that an interesting incident happened in the morning. The Russians actually hit our reconnaissance plane with a plane. It almost took one of ours. The plane crashed, and finally, the plane crash-landed on our battlefield, and the pilot was unharmed. But the plane was quickly destroyed by Russian artillery!" Olger struck up a quick fried egg before putting it in his mouth. Said such a paragraph.
Chentian took over the topic while peeling the egg: "Interesting Russians, they always carry advanced weapons to do savage things! But I am more worried about the armored train that disappeared yesterday, and remember to send reconnaissance planes to continue eastward. Reconnaissance!"
"We sent 3 reconnaissance planes to search east half an hour ago, and there should be results soon!" The Chief of Staff Hoffman, who handles various intelligence and telegrams, spoke. These messy Things always get organized in his hands.
"Very good! After the Japanese joined the war, the Russians could not only transfer back to the Far East army but also liberate their large number of troops stationed close to Asia. The damn Japanese actually wanted to swallow Qingdao and Jiaozhou Bay. One day I will They will repay them twice!" Chen Tian seemed to grit his teeth every time he talked about the Japanese, but his subordinates were used to it. "By the way, Colonel Matthew reported that the two Russian divisions on the opposite bank have not moved yet. He asks you whether his 4th Army needs to take action against them!" Hoffman did not participate in Chentian's comments on the Japanese. In his mind, Asia has no notable opponents. Sooner or later, as long as the German navy eliminated the British navy, the Japanese would tremble under the cannons of the Empire. "Oh, tell him not to care about the two Russian divisions! I think he will be able to move in another hour. At that time, the main force of the Russian army has been closely attracted to the front, and the 4th Army outflanks their left-wing. And the Panzer Army outflanked their right flank and back, then this Russian army is almost over! At that time we will swipe the Russian army across Poland, and then we will march towards the hinterland of Russia together with the Austrian-Hungarian Allied Forces. I think Russia People will retreat from the war soon!" Chen Tian said enthusiastically, but he soon realized that he seemed to be pulling too far, and the other officers were still listening with gusto, which made him embarrassed.
"Well, let's concentrate on solving the enemy in front of us! The Russian offensive from the west is not as fierce as imagined. It seems that they can't break through the river bank defense line on their own. Colonel Hoffman, convey my order to Fr. Rançois, his 1st Army began to retreat slowly from the river bank position, attracting the Russian army to Bialystok! Olg, your armored division and mechanized infantry division are now set off, enter the predetermined position, and wait. After the battle of Yavesok, they quickly outflanked the right-wing of the Russians and blocked their back!"
"Yes!" Olger and others were so excited that they swept away the food in front of them, and their faces were full when they walked out of the restaurant. The joy is under their control together, and the medal seems to have slipped away without any reason.
The fighting on both sides of the Leif River is still going on fiercely, but François's wings have begun to retreat slowly as planned. The battle for the bridge is still going on. The remains of thousands of Russian soldiers have been added to the east of the bridge, but they have slowly gained a foothold at the bridge.
"It's time, order the armored vehicle team to attack!" François also moved his field command post to a place 3 miles east of the bridge at this time.
There was a roar of engine starting in the small village southeast of the bridge. In the morning shelling, although this was not a key target of the Russians, there were still more than a dozen artillery shells to the village, and there were 2 armored tanks. Wounded, the remaining 18 armored combat vehicles lined up in two rows and drove out of the village quickly, and went straight to the bridge.
On the east side of the bridge, the Russian soldiers set up dozens of machine guns in the crater or on the flat ground to shoot at the surrounding Germans. The soldiers of about two regiments are gradually encroaching on the ring positions of the Germans. Behind them, the Russian commander General Ruzsky The melancholy face finally showed a calmer expression. As long as he passes the bridge, his superior force can be deployed.
The Russian soldiers in the east of the bridge found a cloud of smoke and dust not far away, and in a short while, a dozen dark subway guys came to their eyes. Their silhouette resembles a car. But the whole body is covered by thick armor. The windshield of the cab is also replaced by two fast rectangular steel plates. There are still a few gaps between the steel plates for observation. A machine gun protrudes from the co-pilot's position and the roof of the car. There is also a small flat round bag with a gun barrel protruding from it, and there are some shooting holes in the middle and rear of the body. Bullets are constantly spraying out of this car. It is simply an active machine-gun fortress.
When the Russian army found that the door of the car was also painted with the same iron cross logo as on the wings of a German airplane, many people had been torn apart by the dense bullets on the car, and the rifles and machine guns in their hands could not attack them. It poses a threat, and even their specially-made tires cannot burst. The Russian army who was crossing the bridge stopped and then was pushed back by the retreating crowd in front of them. As a thick layer of Russian corpses had been piled on the bridge, the German armored combat vehicles did not continue to advance, but stopped at the bridgehead and kept shooting until all the Russians retreated to the other side of the bridge. It was too late to retreat to the bridge. More than a thousand Russian soldiers watched in horror as the armored vehicles began to shoot at them along the circular position. The German soldiers who were repelled by them also rushed up again. Under double pressure. The Russian soldiers on the east side of the bridge quickly chose to surrender.
Luzsky's complexion was now ashen, ignoring that there were some Russian soldiers there. Order all artillery fire to hit the bridge east. The raindrops of shells instantly destroyed 3 armored combat vehicles, and the remaining 15 covered the German infantry began to retreat slowly. After paying the price of four more armored combat vehicles being blown up, all the German soldiers guarding the bridge withdrew from the firepower of the Russian army. They were also the last soldiers of the First Army to retreat.
Seeing the German soldiers hurriedly retreating, General Ruzsky hesitated for a while before he ordered the whole army to cross the bridge and search forward quickly. After receiving the news that the German army had all retreated to Bialystok, the Russian army only left a small number of guards, and the rest began to pursue the German army in the light outfits. When their cannons all passed the bridge, the Russian forward troops had reached the outskirts of Bialystok.
Seeing a large group of Russian troops appearing in the west of the city, Chen Tian not only showed a smug smile. The reconnaissance plane reported that a large number of Russian artillery was far behind the main force of the Russian army, and he immediately signaled action to Matthew's 4th Army and the Olgd Armored Corps.
At this time, the hour hand had just pointed to eight o'clock, a full five hours before the start of the battle.
Just when Chentian was about to turn around and leave the hillside, a staff officer came over with two dirty soldiers.
"His Royal Highness, these two soldiers belong to the 17th Company of the 3rd Regiment, 1st Division of the 3rd Army. The 17th Company was the unit that took the armored train to conduct reconnaissance yesterday. Their identities have been verified!"
Nico and his squad leader were frightened. The ground saluted Chentian as a military salute.
"Oh? What happened to you yesterday? Where is your armored train?" Chen Tian looked at them in surprise, their military uniforms had become muddy, their red eyes and tired faces seemed to be on the way all night. the result of.
The squad leader took out the inspector's precious piece of paper and handed it to Chen Tian, with a few intermittent words written on it: Russian heavy artillery, brightly-dressed cavalry, an unknown number of infantry, Russian assembly point, huge scale, an unknown number of Russian troops, Russia Military reconnaissance aircraft.
A few seconds later, a drop of sweat flowed over Chen Tian's face.
"This... these are all you found in the west?"
"Yes, Your Royal Highness! Our companions have all been sacrificed, but thank God, we have finally completed the task!" The monitor's tone became weaker and weaker. He passed out before finishing talking.
"Medical soldier!" Chen Tian called the medical soldier. After a brief diagnosis, he treated them and told them that the squad leader was only weak and fainted.
"Young man, can you still hold it?" Chen Tian looked at Nico on the side, and the young man's expression was slightly better than that of their monitor.
"Report to Your Royal Highness, I can hold it!" Nico gritted his teeth and stood straight.
"Very good! Then follow me to the command room and mark me on the map what you found yesterday!"
Ten minutes later, there was silence in the command room, and Chen Tian and the other staff members realized the seriousness of the situation. At this moment, the plane reconnaissance eastward also made a late report: the wreckage of an armored train was found 75 miles east of Bialystok, and the wreckage was cleared out of the railroad tracks. The Russian army has repaired that section of the railroad. More than a dozen trains full of Russian soldiers and artillery headed towards Bialystok; a large number of Russian troops were found heading towards Mongolia where Matthew's 4th Corps was located 50 miles east of Bialystok. The base movement, the opponent advancing in the woods, the specific number is unknown; four Russian reconnaissance planes were encountered, one of them was shot down, and the others fled.
"His Royal Highness, what shall we do now? The 4th Army has outflanked the left-wing of the Russian Army in the west from Mengchi, and the Panzer Army has also begun to outflank the right wing of the Russian Army. The 1st and 3rd Army are all concentrated in Bialystok. , And suddenly a large number of Russian troops appeared in our north..." Hoffman immediately marked the latest development on the map.
"Seeing that we are about to encircle and annihilate the Russian forces in the west. This is what happened at this time. Find out as soon as possible where the Russian forces in the east come from, and how long will it take them to arrive in Bialystok? "The great opportunity slipped away from his hands in vain, and Chen Tian was really unwilling.
"Russian troops coming along the railway arrived east of us in 3 hours. According to normal conditions, they still need at least 1 hour to deploy, and more than a dozen trains can only carry 30,000 to 40,000 troops at a time, but Xiang Mengji The situation of the Russian army in motion is very difficult to estimate!" Hoffman analyzed the same as Chentian thought. There was a time difference, and a small number of troops dragged the Russian army in the east, and the main force encircled and annihilated the Russian army in the west. Go back and deal with the Russian army to the east.
"Okay, let's do it like this! Order Matthew's 4th Army to leave a division to guard Monkey, and to appoint 1 division from the 3rd Army stationed in Bialystok to supplement Matthew outflanked the left-wing of the Russian army. The remaining two divisions of the 3rd Army were responsible for defending the Russian army east of Bialystok, and the François 1st Army was responsible for dealing with the Russian army to the west! In addition, reconnaissance aircraft Closely monitor the Russian army that is moving towards Mengji!" Chen Tian suddenly felt strategizing at this time. Perhaps, he might let his opponent be wiped out in the midst of talking and laughing.
Soon, under the command of General Luzkiss, the Russian army launched the first wave of the offensive on the outlying positions west of Bialystok. After a small amount of rapid-fire artillery bombardment, the Russian infantry began aloud. charge. Seeing the black and overwhelming Russian assault queue, General Francois leaked a scornful smile. Even though there were unknown Russian troops behind him, he, like other commanders of the East Prussian Army, had complete confidence to eat the Russians once again.
The machine guns on the German positions roared. Soldiers with rifles didn't need to aim at all. Simply lower the muzzle to hit the densely packed Russian soldiers. The Russians could not even rush to the trench 100 meters away. The first attack was a mess. The Russian commander General Luzkis had to temporarily stop the attack. While waiting for the arrival of his own artillery, he communicated with the Russian army east of Bialystok via radio. Soon, he was restored by the commander of the Russian army in the east: to attract the main force of the German army and wait for me to complete the deployment. Signed: Grand Duke Aglioni, commander of the Janissaries.