Berard gave an order, and the army began to retreat rapidly towards Austria, almost giving up the whole of Venice, there was no way, now the military pressure in the north is too great, and the Prussian division has already started a war towards Austria!

Stein and the remnants of his troops finally escaped, but it is impossible to contain the opponent again, and 2,000 troops are not enough to stuff people's teeth!

The war on the Southern Front was over, and the war on the Western Front was also due to Benedek's strategic mistakes, which suffered a heavy blow from the Prussian army, and both Prussia and Austria set their sights on the main battlefield of the war - the Northern Front!

In order to be able to seek a decisive battle with the main Austrian force, Moltke ordered to mobilize more than 200,000 troops of three army corps and began to advance rapidly towards the hinterland of Austria, and sent two partial divisions to the left and right, advancing rapidly, preparing to directly encircle the main force of the Austrian coalition army and annihilate it in one fell swoop!

Benedek had now been removed from his post as commander-in-chief, and Albelecht had taken over all the power of the Austrian coalition. Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 info

The general headquarters, Albelecht faced the current tense situation, and did not have enough confidence in his heart to crush the opponent's attack, judging from the information from the front, the heavy machine gun battalion formed by Prussia was too powerful, compared to the artillery power of the Austrian coalition army, and it is said that Prussia now has more than fifty heavy machine gun battalions! Fifty heavy machine-gun battalions, such a formidable combat force is enough to terrify any force on the European continent! Why did Benedek fail so quickly? Isn't it because of the underestimation of the firepower of the Prussian heavy machine guns?

Even if Berard was on the southern front, he was strongly blocked by the Prussian heavy machine gun battalion!

"General Albelecht, now how are we going to deal with the next big war?"

General Schubert, assistant to the chief of staff, asked.

Albelecht said in a deep voice: "Schubert, it is now clear that the Prussians are superior to us, even if we occupy the geographical advantage, we still cannot gain the upper hand, if we want to defeat the opponent, it is only possible to form a local war advantage and break them all!" ”

Schubert smiled bitterly: "Individual breaks? General Albelecht, this advantage is difficult to form, after all, this is in Austria and not in the vast territory of the Russian Empire! Our territory is relatively narrow, and even if we can form such a strategic advantage, it will be difficult to maintain it for a long time......"

Alberecchit nodded and replied, "You're right, then we need to break each one, and at the same time we have to fight quickly!" Take advantage of the gap between the temporary dispersion of Pru's soldiers, launch a surprise attack on it, seize the opportunity, and annihilate one of them first! ”

"Is there a goal?"

"Yes!"

Albelecht said in a deep voice: "Our target is the Elbe Army, this army is the weakest of the three Prussian army corps, and now it is advancing rapidly south along the Elbe, their aim is to meet the Prussian First Army in Dresden as soon as possible, and then form two huge fists with the Second Army to launch a pincer offensive against us!" All we have to do is to send superior forces before the Elbe Corps joins forces with the First Corps, and launch a full-scale offensive towards the Elbe before the First Corps reaches Dresden, and we must completely annihilate the Elbe Corps, or inflict heavy losses! ”

Schubert nodded, and replied: "This plan is feasible, I have made a similar suggestion to Benedek, asking him to take advantage of the fact that the Prussian army is advancing in the mountains and communication is inconvenient, to launch the first attack on Prussia, but unfortunately they did not adopt it, I think, it should not be too late now!" ”

Albelecht said coldly: "In that case, then order Albright to lead the forces of the three corps under his command, as well as the forces of Albert's two corps, all to advance at full speed in the direction of Dresden!" When the Elbe arrives in Dresden, the Elbe Army will be surrounded from the left and right sides, and for ten days, it will not be wiped out, at least the Elbe Army will be severely damaged! ”

In Elbelecht's opinion, there is absolutely no problem in dispatching the strength of five armies to deal with the Elbe Army, according to intelligence, the Elbe Army is only about 50,000 troops, and its own five armies have reached about 100,000 people! A two-to-one force, on Austrian territory, is absolutely foolproof!

At the command of the General Command, all five Austrian corps were dispatched and began to advance rapidly in the direction of Dresden!

At this time, the Prussian Elbe Army and the First Army were advancing rapidly towards Dresden, but the First Army was much slower than the Elbe Army because it had to cross the steep mountainous area.

Now that the main forces of the entire Prussian corps had entered Austria, the main forces in the front and the General Staff in the rear could no longer communicate unimpeded as before, and from the Prussian border to Austria, they could only rely on cavalry for communication.

Berlin, General Staff.

Moltke and his staff officers constantly studied the situation at the front, and passed orders to the troops on the front line one by one.

"General Moltke, I have to say that the battle plan you have formulated is perfect, if the battle can really move forward according to your plan, your army can even completely defeat the Austrian coalition army without much effort!"

Shi Dakai on the side smiled faintly.

Moltke frowned and asked, "Mr. Count, what do you mean that the war will not be carried out according to the strategic plan formulated by our General Staff?" ”

The other generals also looked at Shi Dakai, and were a little dissatisfied with Shi Dakai's words, could it be that our great General Moltke is not as clear as your deployment?

Shi Da smiled and replied: "General Moltke, it's very simple, your previous battle plan was formulated for the previous Benedek's operational characteristics, but now Benedek's position as commander-in-chief has been revoked, Albelecht heard that he is a famous Austrian general, very powerful, if you still want to maintain the original combat strategy, it is inevitable that you will seek fish from wood and sword from a boat!" ”

Moltke was shocked, he was indeed very satisfied with his strategic plan, and thought that Benedek would definitely be defeated, but what no one expected was that Benedek would be removed so quickly, and the next war would not be Benedek, but Alberecht! The opponent has changed, and he is still deploying according to the original plan, which is very dangerous! ”

(To be continued.) )