Iron Cross Fire

News came from Germany that they had put Adolf on a train, but it would take a long time to transport him from the Rhineland to the Caucasus. In addition, the Balkans were not peaceful, and Serbian guerrillas often blew up the railroad tracks. It would take at least six or seven days to get here.

The quarrel in the Austro-Hungarian Parliament had just begun, and the outcome was still unknown. The only thing to do now was to drive the Russians out of the Caucasus.

Kuster did not send his spies out immediately, one of the reasons was that the security was not well guaranteed, and these spies might be gone once they went out; more importantly, it was because he was under great political pressure and was often suspicious, always thinking that someone would betray him.

So he did not plan to activate the intelligence department during this period, but directly conquered the Caucasus with extremely powerful force.

The Austrians advocated attack, but unlike the Germans, they would always make full preparations before the war, which often led to extremely painful failures due to their reckless attacks.

Like the Battle of Galicia, the four army commanders had no coordination at all. They retreated as soon as they said they would, and sold out their teammates on the flanks. Then Russia found a flaw and chased them all the way to the Carpathian Mountains.

However, Kuster was not in the same boat with that group of ordinary people. He knew how to fight. Moreover, the number of troops he had was far greater than that of Russia. This meant that Russia could not launch any offensive and could only rely on the mountains to hide in fortifications.

After a long period of operation, the surrounded Russian army was completely annihilated, Georgia fell into the hands of the Allies again, and the entire Transcaucasus was completely quiet.

Russia also seemed to be raising some offensive. The Caucasus originally had 300,000 people, but now there are only 120,000 people. The rest were either dead or transferred away.

The reason for withdrawing so many people was mainly because the Tsarist Russia saw that Kuster had not launched an offensive for a long time, so he thought that his troops had also been weakened.

If this conjecture is correct, then Russia should launch an offensive to put pressure on the Caucasus region and reduce the pressure on other fronts.

But what good ideas could a person like the Tsar, who could be deceived by the charlatans, come up with? He only wanted to support the battlefield in Eastern Europe as soon as possible, but ignored the strategic position of the Caucasus, so he transferred a large number of troops back to Europe. It can only be said that this behavior of robbing Peter to pay Paul is doomed to be short-lived.

In contrast, Kuster has been resting and recuperating in the past few days, and has recruited many local residents, totaling 400,000 people!

Of course, the most combat-effective ones are the regular army, with a total of 80,000 German and Austro-Hungarian expeditionary forces and 200,000 Turkish regular troops.

Germany also gave him a lot of support. At the instruction of the German Emperor, a large number of weapons and equipment were transported to the Caucasus.

As of today, April 26, at least 50 small-caliber howitzers (105mm), 50,000 new light weapons (semi-automatic rifles, submachine guns), 3,000 new machine guns, 20 towed rocket launchers, four rocket launcher vehicles and endless ammunition have been transported from the Balkans.

The fact that so many things were delivered was enough to prove how much the German Emperor valued Kuster. This also forced him to stop sitting still and start a shocking battle that was unprecedented and unparalleled.

At noon that day, the troops quickly assembled, and the main force and armored forces were all concentrated in Baku in the east.

The Russians on the mountain just thought they were practicing as usual and didn't pay much attention, but they didn't know how heavy the price of such negligence would be.

After learning that the Russians did not react, Kuster secretly concentrated the artillery in the east. There were many Russian garrisons here, and it must be very exciting to blow them up.

However, the transportation of heavy weapons is not simple. Rocket launchers can at least run over by themselves, and the structure of towed heavy weapons is extremely heavy. It took three trains to transport them over in the evening of the same day.

The officers hurriedly set up artillery positions, but due to the constraints of the times, the range of rocket launchers was not far enough, and finally only those artillery calculated the trajectory. Rocket launchers were fired directly on the battlefield, anyway, the Russians had no way to counter.

The army worked until the early morning of the next day, and reported to Kuster only after ensuring that everything was safe.

Kuster looked up at the still dark sky, with thin rays of light entwined around the edge of the dark clouds, seemingly ready to seep out at any time; the shore towards the Caspian Sea was full of mud and sand, so turbid that it was difficult to see clearly.

It looked like the weather was the same as usual, with no changes, but people would soon see little flames, and then long red air streams like blue dragons, followed by blazing flames.

It was Kuster's rocket launcher that fired. They took advantage of the Russians' unpreparedness and walked 500 meters in front of the enemy's position. After all the rockets were fired, they quickly ran back to the position to avoid being attacked; the artillery on the position heard a noise and quickly fired shells together.

A series of explosions resounded throughout the battlefield, and the sleeping Russians were awakened by the inhumane roar. When they ran out of the door, they saw a group of compatriots with flames on their bodies, running around frantically, trying to make their last struggle before death.

Before they could even react, they heard dense gunfire again, and the same terrifying whistling sound as before, but on an even larger scale.

Anyone who is not deaf can tell that the previous round was just a drop of water before the heavy rain, and the next one will be a real downpour.

As the Russians on the outposts were killed one by one, more and more towed rocket launchers were set up and fired.

Kuster ordered all infantry to stop temporarily and wait for two rounds of bombing before attacking.

During this period, artillery had been bombarding the Russian positions, making many soldiers think that the time had come, so they planned to rush forward, but were caught by the officers.

They obviously misunderstood. Kuster hoped that the rocket artillery would bombard continuously. The huge firepower would definitely make the Russians in the position lose their mobility. It might be better to rush forward at that time.

About two minutes later, all the rocket artillery had been loaded. Kuster ordered them to fire and walked out to enjoy the beautiful scenery.

The darkness was gradually dispelled by the light, and hundreds of slender black shadows jumped out of the ground, like outlining the dawn and embroidering red brocade.

Then the terrifying and long scream of the eagle came, wandering back and forth on the battlefield, filling everyone's mind.

The rocket exploded instantly after landing, and with the continuous artillery fire, the Russian position was full of flying shrapnel.

The Allied soldiers looked at this scene in shock. Everyone was still in fear and prayed in the pit.

The Russians didn't know what they were doing, but no one cared.

Then there were several more rounds of artillery bombardment, which made the Russians tremble with fear.

Dawn was gone, and instead there was a bloody red fog, and everyone's vision was obstructed by the haze.

The houses collapsed, rotten meat and broken tiles were intertwined, and the broken walls and ruins looked like hell.

A group of Germans carefully came out with guns, kicked open every door, and carefully searched every corner.

But soon they stopped, the road ahead was blocked by wreckage, which should be caused by the bombing.

They didn't carry any tools, and knew they couldn't pry it open, so they turned around and left, returning to the position to report to Kuster.

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