In fact, not only Germany, but all the countries involved in this war did not know what kind of war they were fighting, and they lacked a clear enough understanding of the form, mode and consumption of the war. Pen? Interesting? Pavilion wWw. ｂiquge。 The Info Army is a conservative group of old-fashioned nature, a breeding ground for empiricism. Seeking stability rather than innovation is a characteristic of many militaries. In this case, there will be a PLA Navy that adopts a small-step and fast-running mode in the development of ships, building the hull first and then adding weapons to do two-level things. There will also be cases where European generals will not accept the rear-loading gun and call it an "enema/intestine gun".

On the other hand, the Franco-Prussian War lasted six months, with an average of 56 rounds per rifle from the beginning to the end of the war. By World War I, these bullets were not enough for a week's consumption. Before the Battle of the Marne, the Germans believed that the Germans had enough ammunition to complete the Schlieffen Plan, and before the battle was over, the German ammunition reserves had been exhausted.

Now in this war, the Germans are anxious because of the lack of weapons and ammunition, and the supply is unfavorable, while their enemies, the Russians and Austrians, although they are not anxious, but they are in a state of ignorance and fearlessness, the intelligence systems of Datang and Germany have judged that Austria and Russia are seriously short of materials, especially the Russian side, in fact, the 130,000 troops they have made are seriously lacking in weapons and equipment, and their supply lines are also the longest, requiring horse-drawn carriages and rickshaws from hundreds of kilometers away, little by little, to deliver weapons and ammunition to Belarus and Poland. As for supplies such as grain, the Russian soldiers naturally solved it on the spot and plundered the locals on a large scale, which is also a relatively common situation of feeding the war with war.

Austria is doing a little better, but not much better. Especially Feng? Baron Bender's main Austrian army was trapped in Valka, and the situation was extremely urgent in the face of a general attack by the Germans.

On the day that Blucher ordered the German artillery to shell, Blucher ordered the infantry to launch a positional battle. Although the artillery organized by Blucher quickly knocked out the Austrian artillery positions, so that the Austrians could only hide in the trenches under the suppression of the German artillery, the German artillery also lacked shells, and the chief of staff and the chief of staff, Scharnhorst, judged that the Germans could fight at most three times for such an artillery bombardment.

At this time, Blucher could only call the infantry to attack.

A large number of German soldiers began to attack the Austrian trench positions under the cover of artillery fire and machine guns, and the Austrians had carried out great reflection and training after losing to the Germans many years ago, and the combat level had been significantly improved, especially the Austrians bought more new weapons from the British, which made the German troops who charged under the rain of bullets and bullets suffered very heavy casualties.

Every German soldier rushed to the trench, and at least four of his companions had fallen on the road, but the Germans were still unstoppable. The Austrian resistance was also very resolute, the two sides fought bravely in front of the trenches and in the trenches, until the middle of the night the battle gradually subsided, the Germans advanced only 2 kilometers on the entire front, but the casualties were also extremely significant, in just one day, the Germans suffered more than 5,000 casualties, this period of Austrians achieved a slight advantage in the battle loss ratio, although the number of casualties on the Austrian side was a little smaller, but it was also very heavy.

The two sides fought fiercely, fighting almost incessantly, and by the end of the night, both sides were thoroughly tired, and Blucher finally ordered to stop the advance.

Bender still had a certain talent for command, and he deployed as much of a trench defense system as deep as possible in Valka, and the Germans had to pay a huge price for each line they conquered. This was demonstrated in the battles that followed.

On the second and third days, although the Germans captured many trenches at one time, the trenches and tunnels extending in all directions allowed the Austrians to quickly support the captured places, and the Germans suffered heavy casualties in continuous fighting. Although the German artillery was always able to suppress the Austrians, the Austrians in the trenches were inseparable from the Germans.

Not only that, but Bender also knows that the best defense is attack. In the battles that followed, he repeatedly ordered the reserves to advance and fight counterattacks when the Germans were exhausted from the trenches and retreated, causing great trouble to the Germans. At the same time, he also dispatched cavalry troops to constantly harass the German army when the German army was attacking, charging and killing the German flank, weakening the German offensive force, and sometimes even crushing the German army.

Blücher became even more agitated on the fifth day of the battle, "Give Bender a little longer, and he will make the Austrian soldiers dig more and deeper into the trenches of these bastards, and cause us more trouble." Chief of Staff, how are we depleting ammunition? ”

Scharnhorst said: "The command's instructions to the soldiers to cherish the ammunition should have played a role, but our soldiers suffered huge damage in the past nearly a week, and more than 10,000 people were lost in this way." ”

Just when the German command was a little gloomy, Blucher got another piece of news. Bender commanded his troops to break through the rear.

Blucher was not surprised by this, although the German army was defeated in the frontal attack, but its strength was undoubted, and if the Austrians chose to break through head-on, the tragic situation of the German army in the previous day would be repeated to them. After the frontal breakthrough, to the north was a large depth rear of the Germans, without the support of friendly forces, although it had a certain role strategically, but it was not tactically feasible.

Scharnhorst said: "It's about the same, and the Austrians are almost out of ammunition. Bender must have left a break at this time, and planned to break out with all his might, Bender himself knew that although the situation seemed to be in his favor, it was impossible for the Austrian army to remain in a stalemate with us, we did not have the ability to stalemate, and the Austrians were not as good as us. Then, at this time, the best way is to break through our troops behind us in one fell swoop and throw off our large forces to the south. ”

Blucher stroked his beard and said: "However, in this way, they will be completely defeated strategically, and they will not be able to merge with the armies of Russia and Prussia, then the significance of Austria's war this time will be completely absent." ”

Scharnhorst said: "In the end, the three countries of Russia and Austria are still in harmony with each other, and the Austrians will not be so stupid if they take advantage of the fire for others." Even if this battle is won, if Austria's losses are extraordinarily large, then it will be a huge loss to their interests. Assuming that we really lose, the biggest beneficiary of this war is Russia, who will better get the benefits of Poland and play their prestige, followed by Prussia, which will keep the existence of the country. And for Austria, almost nothing. So Austria is the softest of the three countries. (To be continued.) )