Vol 4 Chapter 88: , Turning point

Upon receiving the domestic order, General Brusilov was dumbfounded. He really wanted to greet the whole family of this wonderful flower commander, but he thought that the supreme commander in Russia is now the "Great Tsar"-Nikolai Your Majesty II, he shut up decisively.
After the outbreak of the World War, the monarch who personally served as the supreme commander was far more than Nicholas II alone. Ferdinand was the first to take the lead. Later, Nicholas II felt that it would help improve his control over the army and followed suit. .
However, Ferdinand’s appointment as the supreme commander was well received. When Nicholas II was appointed as the supreme commander, the military resisted. For example, the Secretary of the Army was one of the opponents.
No way, the inherited throne and the prestige of the founding monarch are completely incomparable. What's more troublesome is that Nicholas II's military literacy is not very good, but he prefers to point fingers, which makes many military generals very very Dissatisfaction.
History has proven that the consequences of indiscriminate intervention are very serious. Let alone the defeat of the frontline army. The most terrible thing is that when the revolution broke out, Nicholas II had already lost the support of the army and finally came to an end!
Brusilov is different from other Russian officers. He is still a little bit politically savvy, knowing that there are some things he cannot say, but he has already greeted the family of Nicholas II in his heart.
Just after a great battle, the Southwest Front Army is still licking its wounds, training new recruits to regain their vitality.
Not to mention that the current Russian army's logistical supplies are insufficient, and even the Russian army in its heyday does not have the strength to handle the current German-Austrian coalition forces!
We must take the initiative to attack. Admiral Brusilov thinks that he can hold the current line of defense. This is already the most optimistic estimate. The current Southwest Front Army’s weapons and ammunition are only sufficient for half a month of high-intensity operations. ?
As for the other two fronts, it was even worse. Brusilov even doubted whether their soldiers could fill their stomachs!
With the order, Brusilov hovered around in the headquarters, he couldn't make up his mind whether to execute this obviously wrong military order!
"General, what's the matter with you? Looks upset?" a young officer asked suspiciously.
"Howell, you said that the country has issued a very unreasonable order, should I implement it?" Brusilov said with a wry smile
Howell said without hesitation: "General, you can apply to the country. Since you know it is wrong, why do you want to implement it?"
Brusilov shook his head with a wry smile, "It is right for soldiers to obey orders", especially now!
If he could still apply to the country before, now the Supreme Commander in the country is already in a mess. The tsar and politicians have all joined in. Many times the orders issued are based on political considerations.
Since it is a political battle, there is no disagreement about right or wrong. Anyway, it must be enforced, and defense can easily cause unnecessary trouble.
Brusilov patiently explained: "Some things in Howell are not as simple as you think. A military mistake does not mean that it is politically wrong!"
I don't know when he started, Brusilov was no longer a simple soldier, and he was considering more and more questions.
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After the strategic center of gravity shifted eastward, there was another dispute within the German army regarding specific offensive points. Hindenburg and Ludendorff proposed to attack Lithuania in order to open the way to the Russian capital Petrograd (St. Petersburg) and implement the beheading plan.
The Chief of Staff Fakingham disagrees. He believes that this plan is not suitable for reality. Although the Russian capital Petrograd is attractive, but the distance is too far, the logistics supplies are easily cut off by the Russians and then caught in the urn.
The Russian army has a long front and poor logistics. If the battlefield is placed in southern Poland and Galicia and the Russians are induced to come to a decisive battle, it will not only solve the unfavorable situation of the Allies on the eastern front, but also severely damage the main force of the Russian army in one fell swoop.
Since the battle on the Eastern Front has not yet erupted, Hindenburg and Ludendorff naturally did not have a record of shots, and they did not have a halo added. They suggested that they should be put on the shelf!
Falkingham’s battle plan also received the support of Marshal Franz Konrad von Herzendorf, chief of the general staff of the Austro-Hungarian Empire, and the Austro-Hungarian Empire provided active cooperation.
Now Farkingham has personally commanded the battlefield. He and Herzendorf have gathered nearly 26 divisions on the Golice-Tanov front line. Their face-to-face enemy Russia's 3rd and 9th Army has 30 divisions.
The total strength of the German army capable of participating in the war on the entire eastern front has reached more than two million. With the addition of more than 1.9 million troops from the Austro-Hungarian Empire, the total strength of the German-Austrian coalition has approached four million.
Although the Russian army has an advantage in strength, the German army's dominant item is artillery. The German-Austrian Allied Forces erected 7,800 cannons behind the front, of which 850 were large-caliber heavy artillery, including the 420mm "Big Belsa" siege artillery that was used in the Belgian siege, and prepared for these cannons Of 15 million shells.
The engineering unit has already opened up special roads and bridges for the artillery to advance, and all these preparations are strictly confidential, making it difficult for the enemy to notice that a crisis is approaching.
Obviously, the Russians are going to be in bad luck this time. The crisis is approaching without knowing it, and the stupid tsarist government issued an active offensive order, which undoubtedly ruined the last way for the Russian army to survive.
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On May 6, without knowing the commander of the Russian army, under domestic orders, he was forced to launch a "human sea of ​​assaults" on the German-Austrian positions.
Due to the lack of artillery support, Russian soldiers were violently fired by German-Austrian coalition machine guns and rapid-fire cannons. They were knocked down like crops to be harvested.
Many Russian soldiers without tools were scratched with blood when they climbed the barbed wire fence with their bare hands, and were subsequently killed by machine guns from the German-Austrian coalition forces. The battle turned into a unilateral "slaughter."
"What? The Russians actually took the initiative to attack?" Falkingham said in disbelief.
The sudden surprise shocked the Germans. Is there such a good thing? Before launching an attack, the Russians took the initiative to come and die!
"Good, good, good!" Fa Jinhan said three good words
"Order the troops to try their best to induce the Russians to take the initiative to attack, and kill their vital forces!"
"God bless Germany!" Falkingham thought
Of course, how can such a good thing continue?
Brusilov was the first to discover something was wrong, of course he was opposed to actively attacking enemy positions.
"Something's wrong!" Brusilov said to himself
He wandered in the command post for a while, suddenly remembered something, and said in shock: "The German reinforcements are here! Order the frontline troops to stop the attack and return to the camp to strengthen the fortifications. The enemy may be counterattack!"
It's a pity that he can only order the Southwest Front Army, and the other two army still continue to give away their heads stupidly. Moreover, this time is too late, it is already the second day of the attack.
Time passed quickly, and three days passed. The Russian commander was frightened by the brutal casualties and had to stop the "suicide operation."
In just three days of offensive, the Russian army has paid more than 200,000 casualties. Even if it is spread over a defense line of more than 1,000 kilometers, this figure is still shocking!
When the Russians stopped their offensive, the German-Austrian forces began to perform, using facts to compose a glorious chapter of "God of War"!
At the same time, the most tragic air battle on the Eastern Front also kicked off. Due to Ferdinand’s butterfly effect, countries have increased the research and development of aircraft, and various exotic models have emerged one after another.
On May 8, the Russian bombers were blocked by the Luftwaffe as soon as they showed up, and they fought with the escorting Russian Air Force fighters.
Due to the German advantage in numbers, in just one hour of fighting, the Russian Air Force dropped 8 bombers and 5 fighters, while the Germans only paid the price of two fighters.
Subsequently, the Russian Air Force organized a retaliatory action. More than two hundred fighters came and fought with the Luftwaffe. The two sides were evenly matched.
This result made the German commander Fakingham very dissatisfied. It was enough to compete with the British and French Air Forces on the Western Front. Now that even the Russians can't handle it on the Eastern Front, it is somewhat unacceptable.
There is no doubt that the main models used by the Allied Powers are still the Falcon 1st generation fighters and bombers provided by Ferdinand. It is not that there are no better aircraft than them, mainly because of cost!
There is also stability. Every new model has to be tested for a long time, but now is the war time, there is not so much time to test.
Most of them are tested directly on the battlefield, which is very risky for pilots. It’s all about being shot down by the enemy. Wouldn’t it be wronged if the plane fell down?
In this context, even if there are new models with comparable performance, Air Force pilots can always pick out a lot of faults. Anyway, why not use it if it is safe? Why take the risk?
As for the German aircraft, fake Falcons are indispensable. After all, if you talk about the originator of the cottage, people are the predecessors, and Bulgaria is just a latecomer.
Coupled with their strong industry, it was directly deduced, but their respective structures were different. Overall, everyone was half a cat.
When everyone's aircraft has similar performance, it is not so easy to gain an overwhelming advantage on the battlefield.
The result is a war of attrition, which is the last thing the Germans want to face. After all, they really can't fight for resources and lives!
"To send a report to the country and ask them to supervise the R&D department to come up with more advanced aircraft as soon as possible. Even the Russians can't win the aircraft. Is this fair?" Fakingham said angrily
"General, obviously we won?" the adjutant reminded
Fakingham said angrily: "Shut up! The battle loss between the two sides is 1:1.4, which is also a win? Even if the Russians have more planes, UU read www.uukanshu.com but don’t forget our following. There is also fire cover!"
In fact, the Luftwaffe played very well. The performance gap between the two aircrafts was not big. The Russians dispatched a total of 228 fighters, while the Germans dispatched only 186 fighters. The battle damage of both parties: the Germans dropped 32 aircrafts. , The Russians fell 45 planes.
No matter how you look at the Luftwaffe, it has taken advantage of it. Of course, this can only fool laymen!
Can the results of the previously shot down aircraft be calculated?
Can the two planes that were defeated by air defense fire be counted as the air force's record?
Even if it is an airplane of the same performance, can the quality made by the Germans be the same as the quality made by the Russians?
This is no black Russian. Teddy Bear's high-tech products in this era are all unreliable endorsements. Of course, this cannot be blamed on the engineers, as long as there is a group of corrupt bureaucrats in any country, this will happen.
So from the point of view of the parameters, everyone's aircraft performance is similar. In fact, the quality of the aircraft used by the Russian Air Force is already very poor. After deducting this gap, the performance of the two sides can only be regarded as equal.
Of course, Farkingham didn't know that after the Russian air force returned to the airport, many aircraft needed to be overhauled and could not be put into battle in a short time.
But this is not important. It just happened when the Germans deliberately showed weaknesses when defending and induced the Russians to attack.
Now that the German and Austrian coalition forces have taken the initiative to attack, it will be boring to hide and tuck them. Which industry in Germany and Austria is not the existence of the overwhelming Russians, why can't it get hundreds of fighter jets?
If the experts did not tamper with the data, Ferdinand still remembered Parallel Space. During the First World War, the belligerent countries produced more than 200,000 aircraft. Wouldn't it be possible to get a few hundred fighter jets?
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