Chapter 646: Winning the Demon
Yanushkevich has been away from the front line for too long. He studies military theory at the General Staff College every day. He cannot combine it with reality. After all, it is just talk on paper.
Russia’s history is still too short, and there is no experience like talking on paper for future generations to learn from.
The military is different from other industries. No matter how bizarre some regulations are, since they have been formed, they must be necessary for their existence.
Yanushkevich only wanted to appease the soldiers' emotions and ignored the importance of military regulations.
Nowadays, not only Russia, but soldiers from all countries participating in the war will be sentenced to death if they dare to escape. Even France, which is known as the most democratic, is no exception.
After the Russian army abolishes the death penalty, deserters will definitely appear on a large scale. What will happen then?
Yanushkevich did not seem to have thought about this problem.
But this cannot be blamed on Yanushkevich, because by then, Yanushkevich may not be responsible for the problem of deserters.
In any case, it is impossible to abolish the death penalty in the Balkan War Zone.
Louis Baldo kept his word. After signing the contract, he sent ten tons of gold to George as quickly as possible. Based on the current gold content of the franc, it was approximately worth 250 million francs.
If you look at it this way, the French are still very rich.
George's current way of thinking is becoming more and more Russian - more and more white. The idea of "taking advantage of others with short hands" has long been forgotten by George.
White people do not have the rule of using money to do things. The so-called "contract spirit" is used by white people to restrain other countries, and it is another standard for themselves.
The result of Louis Baldu was to successfully advance the time of the attack in the Balkan theater from June to May.
May 1st is May, and so is May 31st.
George was not even a minute ahead of schedule.
On May 26, the 11th Army led by Brusinov, the 12th and 13th Army led by Vasily and Andrei, and the 14th Army led by Yankov simultaneously attacked Sasha Greb, Budapest, and Ankara conduct artillery strikes in advance of the ground attack.
This time is one week earlier than the time George reported to St. Petersburg.
"One week" is the key point, and there are stories next.
After four days of continuous bombardment, George officially committed ground troops on May 31.
Brushinov was the most practical. At 8 a.m. on the 31st, after the troops had breakfast, they dispatched ground troops to attack Zagreb.
Yankov is not bad either. 3pm is more in line with daylight saving time. After all, the officers and soldiers also have to take a nap.
Vasili was the most egregious and delayed issuing the order until 11 o'clock in the evening.
It takes preparation time from the time the order is issued to the departure of the attacking troops.
So the time for the vanguard of the 12th Group Army to set off happened to be 11:59 pm.
In his routine briefings to the French, George still took care of the feelings of the French and did not deliberately emphasize Duke Suvorov's evil deeds.
Although Duke Suvorov was the last to start, he was the first to end the battle.
During the siege that lasted for more than half a year, the nerves of the people of Budapest had already collapsed.
Markenson and Charles IV, as well as senior officials of the Kingdom of Hungary, had fled Budapest by plane last winter. They were surrounded by more than 200,000 German-Austrian forces and civilians in Budapest.
The ammunition and food in the city have long been exhausted. In order to keep out the cold, doors, windows and wooden furniture were burned for warmth, and even the rats were eaten. If the Russian army did not launch an attack, the tragedy of cannibalism would occur in Budapest.
Most of the 13th Army that surrounded Budapest came from the Far East and Siberia. They have rich experience in fighting the cold winter.
In the cold and damp trenches, soldiers used ice blocks to build igloos to resist the cold wind.
The soldiers in the Balkan Military Region were given sheepskin jackets and sleeping bags. They spread the blankets on the ground, got into the sleeping bags, and covered themselves with the sheepskin jackets. There was no need to worry if the temperature dropped to minus 20 degrees Celsius.
After a winter of training, the officers and soldiers of the 13th Army were all fat and healthy.
Budapest is like hell.
The forward of the 13th Group Army is the 4th Baikal Division. In order to strengthen the 4th Division's attack capability, Andre specially equipped the 4th Division with 40 armored fighting vehicles.
Nearly a week's worth of shelling completely destroyed the Budapest defenders' positions, and the 15-meter-wide anti-armor trenches were almost filled in.
The barbed wire fence has disappeared, leaving only the lone burning wooden pile.
The attacking soldiers followed the armored fighting vehicle and followed the armored fighting vehicle's ruts to avoid hitting mines.
The bunkers of the German-Austrian Allied Forces were the focus of the attack. After the artillery strike and precision bombing by bombers, almost all of them were destroyed.
The tank passed by the ruins of a bunker. The bodies of several Austro-Hungarian soldiers were placed in the open space in front of the bunker. Two skinny Austrian soldiers were still carrying them when they saw the armored tank. He came over, neither escaping nor stopping his movements, nor was he affected in any way.
The moment he saw the Austro-Hungarian soldiers, Holinsky subconsciously picked up the gun in his hand.
The two Austrian soldiers were unarmed.
They looked at the black muzzle in a daze.
The gray-haired soldier who looked to be 60 years old stumbled to the roadside, knelt down on the roadside, facing Budapest, put his head in his hands behind his head, and muttered something, mostly praying.
Another soldier had a green face and yellow hair. He was so frightened that he was shaking all over. Tears kept flowing down, but he did not dare to cry out. He kept pleading in Russian: "Please , don’t kill me——"
Just like many Russians can speak a few words in Hungarian or Austrian, many Hungarians can also speak a few words in Russian, such as "put down your weapons" and "kneel down and don't move" and so on.
Holinski felt as if the trigger was frozen and could not be pulled at all.
Two Japanese soldiers came over, pushed the young soldier next to the older soldier, forced him to kneel down, and then made a "please" gesture to Holinski. Holinsky waved his hand and ran after the armored fighting vehicle.
More than ten seconds later, two gunshots were heard from behind.
Holinsky did not look back.
At noon on June 3, the Russian army occupied Budapest.
On this day, the Battle of Jutland broke out between the British Royal Navy and the German High Seas Fleet.
Germany's high seas fleet, which was built with a lot of money, has been hiding in German naval bases since the outbreak of the war and has not dared to leave the port. This has greatly disappointed Germany.
In 1916, the Royal Navy's blockade of the German coastline became increasingly tight. In the past, American merchant ships or Danish merchant ships could reach Germany. After entering 1916, fewer and fewer merchant ships arrived in Germany.
In order to break the Royal Navy's blockade, Tirpitz formulated a plan to deploy an encirclement in the North Sea, trying to lure the British battlecruisers into the encirclement and annihilate them.
In order to ensure the effectiveness of the attack, the High Seas Fleet was mobilized, dispatching a total of 16 dreadnoughts, 6 old battleships, 5 battlecruisers, 16 light cruisers, and 61 destroyers.
What Tirpitz didn't expect was that Britain had already deciphered the German code before and learned of Tirpitz's plan.
The British Royal Navy took advantage of the situation and sent 150 warships to actively break into the encirclement of the High Seas Fleet.
The Battle of Jutland was one of the largest naval battles in history. The process will not be described in detail. Both sides made some mistakes that should not have been made, but they also made wise moves.
The strength of the Germans is still good. Even in the navy, which the British army is best at, the German army performed extremely well.
In the Battle of Jutland, the Germans sank 3 battlecruisers and 3 cruisers of the Royal Navy at the cost of 1 battleship, 1 battlecruiser, 4 light cruisers, and 5 destroyers. , and 8 destroyers.
The German casualties in the naval battle were only 3,000.
The British suffered more than 7,000 casualties, and 177 people were captured.
After the naval battle, the High Seas Fleet never made similar plans again until the end of the war.
Also in June, the Battle of Verdun also reached its climax.
On May 22, French General Charles Mangin, nicknamed "The Butcher", led the French army's most elite 5th Division to launch an attack on the Duvamont Fortress occupied by the Germans.
The attack ended in a disastrous defeat. 5,500 people of the French Fifth Division were killed, including 130 officers.
Although George's attack was effective, it was too far away from France to have a sufficient containment effect on the German army.
So in June, the Battle of the Somme broke out.
Since the main force of the French army was contained at Verdun, the Battle of the Somme was dominated by the British army.
Before the launch of the battle, the British army conducted artillery bombardment on the German positions for a week.
On the first day of the battle, the British army launched an attack on the German positions in a dense formation, with 60,000 casualties on the first day.
Although George knew the result, he was still stunned when he saw the battle report.
The war has been going on for two years, and the British army still has not made any progress. They are fighting in the 19th century way. Are all the British generals living in the past?
This is really not the case.
"The British have always been like this. They use their superior weapons to bully the indigenous people all over the world. Once the British army competes with countries with the same level of equipment, the British army will be exposed——"
< br>Demeter summed up the British army very accurately.
The British are really bad at fighting.
The Second Boer War, in which 450,000 British troops fought against the Boers with a total population of only 440,000, ended in disgrace and ended with land ceding and compensation.
Only the British army has the nerve to say that I have won, probably because of their thick skin.
Oh, the British also said they won the Battle of Jutland that just ended.
Win the devil!
"Have you forgotten the Ninth Russo-Turkish War?"
George never underestimated any opponent.
In the Ninth Russo-Turkish War, the Russian Empire fought against Britain, France, and the Ottoman Empire alone. Although it was defeated, it was glorious.
"I remember, so I said, the British can only hide behind others and never charge forward. This is the tradition of the British Empire——"
Demeter is full of malice Full.
George was very satisfied with the performance of the German army.
Last year the German army attacked Russia, how did the British and French allied forces watch the excitement?
A sit-in war, right?
Oh no, the sit-in war was World War II.
George did not sit back and watch the excitement. After taking Zagreb, Brusinov swept through Croatia with the wind sweeping away the fallen leaves, and has now invaded Slovenia.
George felt that now Britain, France, and St. Petersburg would have nothing to say.
(End of this chapter)