Iron Cross Fire

When Kuster was sleeping, the armies of both sides had already started fighting.

However, he was not woken up because the French army was indeed weak and it took a long time to attack a town with almost no garrison.

If someone insisted that it was cautious, it would be fine, but if they were really cautious, they should not have come here at all. This was just a supporting attack to share the pressure.

Obviously, the attacking French army did not realize the danger on both sides and had been racking their brains to deal with the Germans in the city.

At the most critical and decisive moment of the street fighting, it was only after they withdrew in large numbers that the French army was able to capture the town. It seems that such an army cannot be called an army at all.

In fact, most of their problems appeared at the command level. The soldiers were still very brave and not much worse than the enemy.

Now that the town has finally been captured by them, they will soon continue their plan and expand their victory.

But what they don’t know is that their enemy, who is waiting for the opportunity, has also reached the time to attack.

"Marshal! Everything goes well." A guard woke up Kuster.

"Then let's get started..."

At the command, the troops on both sides of the town launched an attack, launching a pincer attack from the northeast and northwest, intending to encircle and annihilate the French troops nearby.

Coster also got up from the chair where he had just fallen asleep, tidied his clothes, and walked out of the military headquarters in this area and went to the general headquarters near the Orleans area.

Although it was not stated explicitly, the command of the army has been handed over. The battle in the city of Velorso will be commanded by the army commander under Custer's subordinates.

As for Custer himself, he went to the general headquarters not to deal with any command affairs, but to talk to the Austrians and talk to his old friends for many years.

Not talking directly at the military headquarters may confuse many people-this is not because he values ​​etiquette or how cautious he is, but mainly because only his general headquarters has equipment to talk to the Austrian side.

What he discussed was not national affairs or the prospects of war, and talking to Franz was not about brotherhood. He just wanted to arrange his escape route in advance.

He had a premonition in his heart that the war was still far from over.

After defeating Russia, he came to Western Europe with full confidence, ready to collapse France in the same way as he did Russia. The insignificant strategic depth meant that it would lose everything if it lost once.

However, the fact is that they did collapse the French industry, and the entire northern industrial zone was captured.

But they overlooked an objective factor. Although France had almost no industrial capacity, it still had many allies! Britain was not invaded, and it continued to send support here. There were also a lot of arms from the United States, so it was not short of guns.

If Paris or the Loire River region were occupied at the beginning, there would be a great possibility of quickly ending the war and signing a peace treaty, as long as Kaiser Wilhelm did not get sick.

But now it has been two months, Paris has not been taken down, and there are only a few bridgeheads on the banks of the Loire River that symbolize their status.

The pincer attack of two army groups can be blocked by one army group, and the war is indeed getting more and more unfavorable.

"My old friend! When will the old emperor die!" Kuster said with some sigh.

His words were no longer treasonous. The question was whether he should be hanged on the street lamp in front of the palace or have his head pierced.

But Franz, who was originally a royalist, didn't care and just thought it was a joke. But even if it wasn't a joke, it didn't matter. He was also looking forward to the abdication of such an emperor who had ruled for a long time and replaced by a little emperor who was easy to control.

"I don't know. You can ask him in person. He might tell you the answer." Franz's tone was humorous as usual, but this was just Kuster's stereotype. Except for him, Franz was always a strict and meticulous military minister in the eyes of outsiders.

"It seems that you are doing well, but I really want to know whether such a good opportunity can come and when it will come?" Kuster became more and more anxious. The sentences he usually used to satirize others became the only normal words here.

"Who said he must die?"

"Then let him abdicate? You are so bold!" Kuster deliberately raised his tone and said a little sarcastically.

"You're really funny. Forget it. I have a suggestion, come back directly from the sea."

"What?! Can your navy rival Italy? Or has Italy surrendered!" Kuster exclaimed, but more of a sarcasm, no one knows the situation of the war better than him.

"Of course not." Franz said confidently:

"Our navy is a joke, even the minister is Hungarian, a group of drought rats living in the grassland!" He said quite cooperatively:

"But even if there are no ships, don't you have planes? We have already produced those planes you studied two months ago, the test flight was very successful, and they have been incorporated into the troops. As long as you are willing, a plane will appear tomorrow to pick you up."

"That's great, thank you, my friend. You will always be my best friend!"

After hanging up the phone, Kuster immediately ran to the map and began to draw his own escape route.

During this period, he also kept an eye on his surroundings to avoid being discovered that he was plotting, otherwise he would be plotted by others.

Finally, he decided on a very good route, which was to pick a suitable starting point from some small towns that had just been conquered in the south of Paris, fly over Swiss airspace after boarding the plane, bypass the Germans' vision and enter Italian airspace, and finally return to Austria.

In general, the biggest enemy on this flight is the Germans, and they must not be discovered, even if their plane can fly stably at an altitude of thousands of miles.

He was able to come up with such a bizarre method, mainly because the Germans did not let him go back, so he had been trying to find an excuse at the beginning.

But if you really want to wait for this excuse, you have to wait for a long time. The old emperor died in November of the next year, and it is only September now, and there is still a year and two months before his death.

Unless Kuster has a shadow clone and runs over to poison him personally, no matter how seriously ill he is, he will die after the New Year.

Obviously he does not have that ability, so the fastest and most useful way now is to fly back directly.

No matter whether the Germans are happy or not, he has returned anyway. Can't they run all the way to Austria to catch him back?

With this trend in mind, Kuster set the date of his escape to October 4, which was twelve days later.

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