Iron Cross Fire

Perhaps due to the bombardment, the position with raging fire was blasted to a crisp, the debris blocked every corner, and the terrifying hoarse sound lingered on the land. If you look closely, you can still see a group of dusty people pressed under the building.

Only 20 minutes of bombing made this place shocking. While feeling sad, you have to admire the advancement of modern weapons.

But there is a problem at present, that is, the ruins after the bombing make it difficult for the army to move, and it is impossible to deploy troops on a large scale and organize an attack.

And it takes a long time to clean up these ruins, it is better to let the infantry go up and kill the Russians directly.

Kuster can only reduce the fire as much as possible, and then let a small group of engineers try to rub out obstacles and clear a road in front for tanks to drive.

The large army controls the situation in the back, uses tractors to clear obstacles, and at the same time makes good logistics supplies, ready for the next battle at any time.

It must be said that the vitality of these buildings is much stronger than that of the Russians. The 80,000-man army only managed to clear a road at noon, and it was extremely narrow. Tractors could not enter at all, let alone tanks.

But there is also good news. All the Russians in the entire position were dead, and the command center was crushed by the eaves. The radio inside was silent. It can be seen that the Russians did not send any information. It seems that nothing has alarmed the Russian top leaders. They don’t know what happened here yet.

It’s still in time now, but without the mobility of armor, the infantry have to rely on their own strong combat power to fight alone.

But that doesn’t matter. No one believes that this group of elite Germans can’t even beat those reckless men.

Moreover, without the cover of the mountains, it is easy to break through the Russian defense line, and there is no need to worry about the problems later.

While the infantry attacked, Kuster also sent a telegram to all member states of the Allied Powers, telling them that Russia’s Caucasus defense line had been reduced to dust and was now advancing deep into the enemy.

Everyone was excited about this, but the happiest person was Kaiser Wilhelm. He thought that Kuster should attack Tsaritsyn directly and seize the control of the Volga River so that he could cross the river and attack the Russian hinterland at any time.

German Chief of Staff Falkenhayn did not comment on this, and even suggested to the Kaiser that Kuster should directly take Petersburg and capture the Tsar's family alive to end the war directly.

The Kaiser was still the Kaiser, but the situation on the battlefield had changed drastically. With the breakthrough of the Caucasus and the complete lack of response from the top leaders, the Caucasus was destined to fall soon.

Russia's offensive in Eastern Europe would inevitably be slowed down, and it would have to send most of its troops back to the Caucasus. Its allies would also have to do their best to support it, thus turning it into a disadvantage on the Western Front. The pressure came to the Allies again.

This was undoubtedly a huge opportunity. Conrad, the Austro-Hungarian Chief of Staff, wanted to take this opportunity to reverse the decline in Ukraine.

Unfortunately, he was only a little greater than his men. It was too bold to rely solely on the Austro-Hungarian army to capture the European granary.

Unlike Conrad, who only talked about war on paper, Germany's Falkenhayn was very professional. He did not increase the offensive on the Eastern Front, but instead concentrated the main force on the Western Front.

This was done to pretend, to scare the British and French coalition forces so that they would not dare to move to support Russia, and there was no intention of attacking.

But this trick really worked. Hundreds of thousands of troops were stuck and dared not move.

This was not because Britain and France were using their traditional skills, but because they really did not dare to retreat. The Germans were less than 7 kilometers away from Paris. If they gave in a little more, they would directly stab in.

They would rather lose the Russian reckless man than Paris, the world's cultural center, and they were scared by Germany's advanced weapons before. Now they dare not launch an attack to reduce the pressure on their allies as much as possible, and they can only shrink in the trenches and be bombarded.

Russia is like an orphan in Europe. At this moment, no European country will stand up to help him.

Although Japan also participated in the war, no one would expect a country that owed a lot of debts to help, especially since they had just fought a war with Russia and accumulated a lot of grievances.

The Tsar was very frustrated when he learned that there was no help. The existing army was completely insufficient to resist the attack of the Allies. They seemed to be finished.

In the end, the Tsar decided to fight to the death and recruit soldiers on a large scale across the country. Regardless of whether there were guns or not, everyone had the obligation to go to the battlefield and die for His Majesty the Tsar.

Russia's ability to recruit soldiers was extremely terrifying. Under the oppression of governments at all levels, 120,000 people appeared out of thin air the day after the Caucasus was broken through. What's more shocking is that this number has been doubling.

However, these people are nothing. They don't even have suitable military uniforms. They are ragged and can be considered soldiers with just a stick. They are worse than those peasant soldiers in reserve.

Moreover, these people were recruited from various places, which means that they have not yet reached the front line.

Russia's transportation capacity was extremely poor, and the number of soldiers that could be sent was completely random. It would take at least ten days or half a month to gather them to the front. Some of the soldiers from Siberia were even more miserable, as they might not reach the front until the end of the war.

Russia sent so many people with no fighting power to the battlefield, which might bring some improvement to the war situation, but compared with the harm to the internal political arena, it was still not worth mentioning.

The Tsarist government was recruiting people everywhere, and anyone in good physical condition was sent to the battlefield, regardless of whether you were a man or a woman, as long as you were not disabled, you would be mobilized to the front.

Such a large-scale conscription was soon despised by the people, and a large number of people living in Russia fled in all directions, away from the corrupt Tsarist government.

This caused many factories in the country to stop working, nationalized enterprises gradually turned to privatization, capital monopoly was slowly established, the gap between the rich and the poor widened rapidly, and domestic prices were out of control.

Even a blind person could see that the Tsarist government could not last long, and even the whole of Russia could not last long.

The major parties took this as an opportunity to recruit people from all over the place, causing turmoil in the Russian political arena.

The bourgeoisie also believed that the time had come and prepared to unite with some experienced generals to rebel.

As for the progress of the Russian Communist Party, which Kuster was most concerned about, they have not issued any news so far. Except for the newspapers still promoting Marxism, any intelligence personnel working in Russia could not feedback their actions.

It seems that the Russian Communist Party has become honest recently, but the current turmoil in Russia will not allow them to endure.

The Tsarist central government has long been unable to do what it wants and can no longer muster any strength. A vibrant political party must lead them through this difficult time.

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