Bruno stood at the edge of the battlefield. He was smoking a cigarette while Heinrich gazed through the binoculars at the decimated Russian Forces. It had been nearly ten days since the battle of Mukden began, and as in the previous timeline in which Bruno lived during his past life, the scale of the battle was unprecedented in world history.
In less than a fortnight of fighting, the amount of munitions and ordnance that had been exchanged between the two armies was already greater than that of the 191 day Franco Prussian War, which took place in 1870-1871.
And yet, after ten days of conflict, the battle was over. Casualties were no doubt heavy on the Japanese side. Suffering 25,000 or so WIA, KIA, or MIA. Which was still considerably less than Japan sustained in the past timeline.
