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Chapter 646 Winning the Demon
Yanushkevich had been away from the front line for too long, studying military theories at the General Staff Academy every day, but he was unable to combine them with reality and they were ultimately all just talk.

Russia's history is still too short, and there is no experience like armchair warfare for future generations to learn from.

The military is different from other industries. No matter how bizarre some regulations are, since they have been established, they must be necessary for their existence.

Yanushkevich only wanted to calm the soldiers and ignored the importance of military regulations.

Nowadays, not only soldiers from Russia, but all soldiers from the warring countries will be sentenced to death if they dare to escape, even France, which is known as the most democratic country, is no exception.

After the Russian army abolishes the death penalty, deserters will definitely appear on a large scale. What should we do then?
Januszkiewicz does not seem to have thought about this question.

But this cannot be blamed on Yanuszkiewicz, because by then, Yanuszkiewicz might 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 Barr always kept his word. After the contract was signed, he sent ten tons of gold to George as quickly as possible. Considering the current gold content of the franc, the gold was worth about 2.5 million francs.

From this perspective, the French are still very rich.

George's way of thinking is becoming more and more Russian and more and more white. He has long thrown away the idea of ​​"taking favors from others and returning them".

White people don't have the rule of taking money to do things. The so-called "spirit of contract" is used by white people to restrain other countries, and it is another standard for themselves.

Louis Bardu's achievement was to successfully advance the time of the offensive in the Balkan theater from June to May.

May 5st is May, and so is May 1st.

George didn't arrive even a minute early.

On May 5, the 26th Army led by Brusinov, the 11th and 12th Armies led by Vasily and Andrei, and the 13th Army led by Yankov simultaneously launched artillery strikes on Zagreb, Budapest, and Ankara before ground attacks.

This time was one week earlier than the time George informed St. Petersburg.

“One week” is the key point, and there are more stories to come.

After four days of continuous shelling, George officially joined the ground forces on May 4.

Brusinov was the most practical. At 31 a.m. on the 8st, after the troops had breakfast, they dispatched ground troops to attack Zagreb.

Yangkov is also good. 3 pm is more in line with daylight saving time. After all, the officers and soldiers also need to take a nap.

Vasily was the worst, as he delayed giving the order until 11 o'clock in the evening.

It takes time for the order to be given and for the attacking force to set out.

Therefore, the time when the vanguard of the 12th Army set out was exactly 11:59 p.m.

In his routine reports to the French, George still took into account the feelings of the French and did not deliberately emphasize the evil deeds of Prince Suvorov.

Although Prince Suvorov set out last, he ended the battle first.

After more than half a year of siege, the nerves of the people of Budapest had already collapsed.

Mackensen and Charles IV, as well as senior officials of the Kingdom of Hungary, had fled Budapest by plane last winter. More than 200,000 people, including civilians, were surrounded by the German-Austrian coalition forces in Budapest.

The ammunition and food in the city had 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, a tragedy of cannibalism would have occurred in Budapest.

Most of the 13th Army that surrounded Budapest came from the Far East and Siberia, and they had rich experience in fighting against the cold winter.

In the cold and damp trenches, soldiers built igloos out of ice to protect themselves from the cold wind.

The soldiers of the Balkan Army were equipped with sheepskin coats and sleeping bags. They spread blankets on the ground, got into the sleeping bags, and then covered themselves with the sheepskin coats. They didn't have to worry about temperatures as low as minus 20 degrees Celsius.

After a winter of recuperation, the officers and soldiers of the 13th Army have become plump and healthy.

Budapest was hell.

第13集团军的前锋是贝加尔第4师，为加强第4师的攻坚能力，安德烈特意为第4师配备了40辆装甲战车。

Nearly a week of shelling completely destroyed the positions of the Budapest defenders, and the 15-meter-wide anti-armor trenches were almost filled.

The barbed wire had disappeared, leaving only the solitary wooden stake burning.

The attacking soldiers followed the armored vehicles, walking along the tracks left by the vehicles to avoid landmines.

The German-Austrian coalition's bunkers were the main targets of attack. After the artillery strikes, they were almost all destroyed by the precision bombing of bombers.

The tank passed by the ruins of a bunker. The bodies of several Austro-Hungarian soldiers were lying on the open space in front of the bunker. Two skinny Austrian soldiers were still carrying them. When they saw the armored vehicle coming, they neither ran away nor stopped, and were not affected in any way.

The moment he saw the Austro-Hungarian soldiers, Holinski subconsciously raised the gun in his hand.

The two Austrian soldiers were unarmed.

They were a little dazed looking at the black muzzle of the gun.

The soldier with gray hair, who looked to be at least 60 years old, staggered to the side of the road, knelt down on the side of the road, facing Budapest, put his hands behind his head, and muttered something, probably praying.

Another soldier had a green face and dry yellow hair. He was so scared that he was shaking all over, tears kept flowing down his face, but he didn't dare to cry out loud. He kept begging in Russian: "Please, don't kill me——"

Just like many Russians know a few words of Hungarian or Austrian, many Hungarians also speak a few words in Russian, such as "lay down your weapons" and "get down on your knees and don't move".

Holinski felt like the trigger was frozen and he couldn't pull it at all.

Two Japanese soldiers came over, pushed the young soldier to the side of the older soldier, forced him to kneel, and then made a "please" gesture to Holinsky. Holinsky waved his hand and ran after the armored vehicle.

Ten seconds later, two gunshots were heard behind me.

Holinski didn't look back.

At noon on June 6, Russian troops occupied Budapest.

On the same day, the Battle of Jutland broke out between the British Royal Navy and the German High Seas Fleet.

The High Seas Fleet, which Germany had invested heavily in, had been hiding in Germany's naval bases since the outbreak of the war and had not dared to leave the port, which had caused great disappointment to the German people.

In 1916, the Royal Navy's blockade of the German coastline became increasingly tight. In the past, American or Danish merchant ships could still reach Germany, but after 1916, fewer and fewer merchant ships arrived in Germany.

In order to break the Royal Navy's blockade, Tirpitz developed a plan to set up an encirclement in the North Sea, attempting to lure the British battlecruisers into the encirclement and annihilate them.

To ensure the effectiveness of the attack, the High Seas Fleet went all out, with a total of 16 dreadnoughts, 6 old battleships, 5 battlecruisers, 16 light cruisers, and 61 destroyers.

What Tirpitz didn't expect was that the British had already cracked the German code before this and thus learned of Tirpitz's plan.

The British Royal Navy took advantage of the situation and sent out 150 warships to break into the encirclement of the High Seas Fleet.

The Battle of Jutland was one of the largest naval battles in history. I will not go into details about its process. Both sides made some mistakes that should not have happened, but they also made wise moves.

The Germans were still quite strong. Even in the navy, which was the British army's forte, the Germans performed extremely well.

In the Battle of Jutland, the Germans sank three battlecruisers, three cruisers, and eight destroyers of the Royal Navy at the expense of one battleship, one battlecruiser, four light cruisers, and five destroyers.

The German casualties in the naval battle were only 3000.

The British suffered more than 7000 casualties, with 177 captured.

After the battle, the High Seas Fleet never made a similar plan again until the end of the war.

Also in June, the Battle of Verdun reached its climax.

On May 5, French General Charles Mangin, nicknamed "The Butcher", led the French Army's most elite 22th Division to attack the German-occupied Fort Douvaumont.

The offensive ended in a disastrous defeat, with 5500 men of the French Fifth Division killed, including 130 officers.

Although George's attack was effective, it was too far away from France to have a sufficient distraction effect on the German army.

Then in June, the Battle of the Somme broke out.

As the main force of the French army was tied down in Verdun, the Battle of the Somme was dominated by the British Army.

Before the battle began, the British bombarded German positions for a week.

On the first day of the battle, the British army launched an attack on the German positions in dense formations, and the casualties on the first day reached 6.

Although George knew the result, he was still stunned when he saw the battle report.

The war had been going on for nearly two years, and the British Army had not made any progress and was still fighting in the way of the 19th century. Were the British generals living in the past?

This is really not the case.

"The British have always been like this. They use their weapons advantage to bully natives around the world, but once the British army competes with countries with the same level of equipment, the British army will be exposed—"

Demeter's summary of the British army is very accurate.

The British were really bad at fighting wars.

In the Second Boer War, 45 British troops fought against the Boers, whose total population was only 44. In the end, they were defeated and the war ended with the cession of territory and payment of indemnities.

The British army still has the nerve to say that they won. I guess it’s because of their thick skin that they won.

Oh, the Battle of Jutland just ended, and the British also claimed that they won.

Win the devil!

"Have you forgotten the Ninth Russo-Turkish War?"

George never underestimates any opponent.

In the ninth Russo-Turkish War, the Russian Empire fought alone against Britain, France, and the Ottoman Empire, and was defeated with honor.

"I remember, so I said that the British can only hide behind others and never charge forward. This is the tradition of the British Empire—"

Demeter was full of malice.

George was very satisfied with the German army's performance.

When the German army attacked Russia last year, how did the British and French allied forces watch the fun?
Sit-in war, right?

Oh no, the sit-in war was World War II.

George did not sit back and watch the fun. After taking Zagreb, Brusinov swept across Croatia like a gust of wind sweeping away 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)