It had been well over a month since the outbreak of war before Bruno received his reinforcements at Belgrade. Allowing him time to properly organize and prepare for the next step and subduing the Balkans.
In the meantime, the French were sustaining heavy casualties in every field of war they fought in. Whether it was their attempts to break through Elsass-Lothringen or any of the other areas along the border they shared with Germany.
The Germans had prepared a series of fortifications so grand that there was a railway built beneath them, ferrying troops from one section of the border to another, allowing for reinforcements and supplies to rapidly arrive where they were needed at any given moment to repel the French assaults.
These trains were armored, and armed to such a capacity that they did not need to fear French reprisal when they ventured beyond the more fortified sections of the border which concealed them from enemy fire.
