I'm playing whack-a-mole in Siberia

Chapter 610 Adventure
Andre has many tricks. He starts with a rocket launcher, which bombards the German positions.

The German artillery did not fight back, and the rocket launchers were reloaded and returned to their original positions to continue firing.

The Germans counterattacked, and Russian technicians calculated the positions of the German artillery positions, and the Russian artillery counterattacks followed.

Under normal circumstances, artillery losses are similar.

The Russian artillery could not finish the attack.

No one could withstand such a fight, so Conrad could no longer tolerate it and ordered his troops to retreat.

Mackensen was very angry. How could the Russian ground forces retreat when they hadn't even launched an attack?

Conrad's reason was to retreat to lure the Russian army into attacking and then engage in a decisive battle with the Russian army.

In a decisive battle with the Russian army in the plains, the German-Austrian coalition at least still has a chance of winning.

If we fight a positional war with the Russian army which has sufficient logistics, we will only be slowly worn out by the Russian army.

Conrad was wishful thinking. Vasily and Andrei would not take the initiative to attack until they arrived at the armored forces.

Brusinov did not wait. As soon as George's order arrived, Brusinov ordered his troops to launch an attack.

The Austrian Sixth Army was stationed in Seville, commanded by Army General Corvez.

The Sixth Army suffered heavy losses in the Battle of Mir, and although it was replenished after the war, it did not recover its strength.

Koves also has a newly formed Eighth Army under his command. This army has even weaker combat effectiveness and most of its soldiers are untrained farmers. They were sent to Montenegro and Albania by Koves and are currently stationed in these two places.

The 11th Army led by Brusinov, with a total strength of 20, was the largest army under George.

George ordered the Bulgarian First Army to cooperate with Brusinov in the battle, so that the number of troops that Brusinov could mobilize increased to 30.

The total strength of the Austrian Sixth Army was only 15.

If Corvez had 30 men under his command and Brusinov had only 15, then Corvez could still fight.

Now the situation is completely reversed. Koves knew that he was no match for the enemy, so he did not deploy his troops on the border between Serbia and Bulgaria. Instead, he relied on the mountainous areas in southern Serbia, hoping to fight a mountain sniper battle with Brusinov.

Brusinov was not in a hurry. After his troops entered Serbia, he sent troops to occupy key locations and build positions along the southern mountainous areas. At the same time, he sent the 1st Siberian Army directly to Belgrade.

Corvez was very upset. Brusinov did not attack the southern mountains as he intended, but instead deployed defenses along the mountains, trapping the Sixth Army in the southern mountains and making it unable to move.

It is the middle of winter now. The temperature in the mountains is lower than that in the plains. It is so cold that people can be frozen to death.

Koves had no choice but to order the troops deployed in the southern mountainous areas to withdraw to Montenegro and Albania.

The commander of the Austrian 11th Army, Kaintz, who was ordered to snipe the 9th Army in the mountains, was stunned. Was this order serious?

The mountain roads are rugged, and it is difficult to travel in spring and summer. In winter, it is extremely difficult to cross hundreds of kilometers of mountainous areas.

Not every army dares to climb the snow-capped mountains.

Keynes had no choice but to hold out in the southern mountains until February 1915, when he was forced to surrender due to the depletion of supplies.

This is something to forget.

The 1st Siberian Army advanced very quickly, and Corvez's tactical goal was completely frustrated. He was forced to fight a decisive battle with Brusinov in Belgrade.

In order to defend Belgrade, Corvez ordered the demolition of residential houses, used the resulting building materials to build fortifications, and requisitioned all the fuel stockpiled by Belgrade residents.

After the war broke out, with the relocation of the capital of the Kingdom of Serbia, a large number of Belgrade residents fled, leaving less than 5 people in the entire city.

Most of these people are the elderly, the weak, women and children, who have weak resistance. Being displaced in the cold winter is not a massacre, but it is worse than a massacre.

The 11th Army is equipped with two artillery divisions, each equipped with 150 96mm heavy artillery pieces.

Together with the 120mm artillery equipped by the infantry division, Brusinov can mobilize up to 600 heavy artillery pieces.

On December 12, the last day of 31, the Battle of Belgrade broke out.

On January 1, the first day of 1, the whole city of Berlin was on alert, ready for George's revenge.

George only sent out one bomber, and it carried leaflets instead of aerial bombs.

The content of the leaflets stated that the Russian army would carry out large-scale indiscriminate bombing of Berlin in the next year, reminding Berliners to make preparations early.

After completing the mission, the plane flew directly to the Baltic Sea. Then it ran out of fuel and the pilot parachuted near the island of Rügen and was rescued by a cruiser of the Russian Baltic Fleet.

There is no need to add "Russia" in the future, because the German Baltic Fleet no longer exists.

William II was very angry. Because the bombers were flying too high, the German fighter planes could not reach them and could only watch the bombers drop the leaflets and fly away.

Although the leaflets did not cause any loss of property or life in Berlin, they dealt a huge psychological blow to the people of Berlin.

It would take some time for Amur's strategic bombers to reach Warsaw, and the Germans did not know the operational range of the Russian bombers.

For the Germans, if bombers could carry leaflets, they could certainly carry bombs.

As to why the bombers did not carry bombs, Berliners attributed George's kindness to Grand Duchess Yuriev.

Unlike Berlin, which was on high alert, Constantinople was decorated with lights and colors to celebrate the New Year.

For many people, the second half of last year was like a nightmare.

For the people of Constantinople, life was full of hope.

As a distribution center for supplies in the Balkan war zone, every citizen in Constantinople enjoyed the benefits of abundant supplies.

The world war had only been going on for half a year, and prices in all the participating countries had already risen to varying degrees. Constantinople was not only not affected by the war, but prices in the market actually fell to a certain extent due to the abundance of supplies.

On the first day of the new year, Philip, who was engaged in re-export trade in Constantinople, purchased a batch of expired food through the war zone logistics office.

Expired does not mean spoiled, but it means it has exceeded its best tasting period. Spoiled food is definitely not edible.

The Balkan war zone had very strict requirements on food. Once the food was beyond its best-tasting period, it would no longer be sent to the front line but would be processed on the spot.

These processed foods include various canned foods, dehydrated vegetables, poultry eggs, ham, etc.

Philip purchased a batch of canned fish and planned to sell them to the Ottoman Empire.

After the loss of the Sea of ​​Marmara, seafood prices in the Ottoman Empire skyrocketed and it was very popular.

The key point is that the Ottoman Empire did not have any regulations on food safety, and there was no such thing as expiration date.

This isn't really a black joke.

The fact is that currently only Russia in the world, or even more specifically, only the Amur region of the Russian Empire, has detailed regulations on food safety.

Take France, a country that prides itself on its developed economy, as an example.

Most of the land in France is used to grow cash crops, and most of the food needed locally relies on imports from the colonies or from abroad.

The Russian Empire was an important source of grain imports for France.

The French do not produce their own products. They import as much as they need, so there is naturally no such thing as expiration.

The Amur people have a small population and a lot of land. In remote areas, each person has 100 mu of land. As long as they work hard, they will not starve to death, so they introduced such a "weird" policy.

Philip was not an unscrupulous businessman. After purchasing the canned food, he ate one himself first to confirm that there was no problem with the can before sending it to the Ottoman Empire.

After arriving at the port, Philip discovered that he could no longer find a ship to the Ottoman Empire.

There were ships, but they had either been requisitioned by the theater headquarters or were already fully stocked, and it would take at least a week before they could be sent to the Ottoman Empire.

"Is the merchant shipping so tense recently?"

Philip began to get anxious and hoped that no new problems would arise in a week.

"The Ottoman Empire is mobilizing, probably preparing to join the war."

Philip's old friend Ali owns three cargo ships and runs a shipping company.

"This is a good opportunity. If you want to harvest in the fall, you have to sow in the spring."

Philip was in a good mood, and with the Ottoman Empire joining the war, there would be more demand.

"Who told you that the Ottomans would definitely join the Entente?"

Ali was curious. If he wanted to do business now, he had to have some political acumen.

"Are the Ottomans going to join the Allies?"

Philip was stunned, thinking that the Sultan's head might have been caught in the door.

"Will joining the Entente make Grand Duke Yuriev return Constantinople to the Ottomans?"

Ali was a former Ottoman who has now become a Bulgarian citizen.

This is the real smart person.

Under normal circumstances, if you want to do business in Constantinople, you should obtain Russian citizenship.

But what good is there in becoming a Russian citizen? The Russian Empire was as bad as the Ottoman Empire.

After Polis became king, Bulgaria prospered. Now it has an alliance with Romania and with the protection of Grand Duke Yuriev, Bulgaria is the chosen country.

Philip was devastated; if the Ottoman Empire joined the Central Powers, his business would be over.

"Man, consider sending these cans to India, people there are starving to death."

Ali is still willing to help old friends.

"How is that possible? The Indians can't even finish all their own food. The bean cakes that the British use to feed their horses all come from India."

Philip was not completely ignorant of India.

"You are right. The Governor-General of India would rather send food to England to feed livestock than to feed the Indians."

Ali sneered, this is why Britain's economy is so developed.

The British often boast in newspapers that Britain's wealth was created by the hard work of the British with their own hands.

This is absolute nonsense. The lower-class British people do have to work hard to make a living, but the wealth they create is plundered by the rich.

More wealth came from the harvest of colonies. The jewelry and gold exchanged for glass balls from African and South American chiefs were the first pot of gold for capital accumulation.

India is the biggest victim of the British colonial system.

"Help me find a ship to India!"

Philip felt that the risk was worth taking.

(End of this chapter)