Chapter 716: The Beast is Still Fighting

  Chapter 700 – The Beast in a Struggle

Since learning that he had been reduced to an outcast, Obodo’s entire being was bad. In his heart, he greeted Ivanov’s whole family over and over again, but on his face, he had to make a chesty appearance to appease the military.

The matter has come to this point, no matter how unwilling in his heart, Obodo can only harden his head and the enemy to play for their lives.

Surrender is impossible, his roots are all in Russia, his wife and children are still waiting for him to go back to the reunion in style.

He was not the only one who had no choice, but all the top brass of the Fourth Army were the same. Either block the enemy’s attack and delay until reinforcements arrive, or die on the battlefield and cover up their faults with blood.

Under the strong desire to survive, people are always able to explode their superpowers.

The fourth army top management now began to burst, in order to stabilize the military heart in the past days the high and mighty officers, one by one, all down the troops to ask for warmth, and from time to time also close to the front line to encourage the morale.

In order to save food, Obodo even ordered the abolition of the officers canteen, all officers and soldiers eat together. In the face of survival, etiquette and honor are no big deal.

Officers want to not understand can not, now the airdrop over the supplies are uniform standard, all soldiers high calorie food, there is no officer set meal.

Everyone knows that this private action offended Marshal Ivanov severely, no one dares to report up at this time to touch the bad luck.

Due to the limited capacity of the airships, they also had to transport weapons and ammunition. In order to save capacity, the food that was transported over, except for compressed cookies, the rest was meat.

This time the Russian army’s munitions standards to the British Army closer, beef jerky and cookies, and a small amount of canned fish, as if overnight meat suddenly worthless.

Wiping the blood from the corners of his mouth and tearing into the beef jerky with difficulty, Obodo swore he’d never eaten such crap food.

Unable to eat any more, Obodo opened the can of fish, and by looking at the writing on the label, he knew it was made in Austria again. If nothing else, it should be the cheapest freshwater fish.

This is a characteristic of Europe, affected by industrial development, rivers are heavily polluted, many people do not eat freshwater fish. With fewer eaters, it is naturally less valuable.

This cheap raw material became a favorite of capitalists. As long as it’s processed into canned goods, who knows where the fish came from?

“The water is contaminated, the fish is faulty.” As long as there is no immediate food poisoning, the latent harm is nothing at all.

Especially if it’s exported to the Russian army, the quality is even less guaranteed, and many unscrupulous traders are mixing in cheap potato flour, of which the fish is only a small part.

With all these shortcomings, it was still favored by the Tsarist government’s procurement department for one reason – it was cheap.

Not only canned fish, Russian procurement of beef jerky, compressed cookies, are the cheapest products.

Cheap is not good, since it is the cheapest goods, the quality of nature will not be guaranteed.

Forcing himself to endure the discomfort, Obodo ate the canned fish, as for the beef jerky it’s better to leave it to someone with better teeth, he is not blessed to consume it.

Even though the canned fish didn’t taste good, there was one thing worth praising. The fish processed into canned fish has been specially treated so that the spines and bones can be eaten directly.

Time waits for no one on the battlefield, and slowly removing fish spines is definitely out of fashion. Based on the principle that the customer is God, the capitalists naturally want to fulfill this reasonable request.

With a bit of chemical treatment, both bones and spines can be eaten. The after-effects don’t matter, as long as people don’t have any problems after eating it for a short period of time.

Just when he wanted to rest for a while, a young officer broke into the command headquarters and approached to report, “General, the enemy has launched another attack, the 41st division is requesting fire support.”

Looking at the battle map, Obodo frowned and asked, “Didn’t you already send them an artillery regiment, why do you need fire support again?”

The young officer explained, “The enemy’s firepower is too fierce, and our artillery is being fully suppressed, so ……”

Without waiting for him to finish, Obodo waved his hand to stop, “Alright, tell the 41st division to figure it out on their own, I don’t have the artillery to give them reinforcements right now.

The enemy’s firepower is too fierce, so let’s hide for a while. It’s an extraordinary time, don’t be idle at night, you can set aside some of your soldiers to dig artillery defense holes.

When the enemy rushes up, fight them with bayonets. Now that we’re besieged, we’re definitely no match for the enemy in terms of firepower, but we’re able to be less afraid of death than they are.”

The plains were this bad, wanting to seize favorable terrain, were not able to do so. If a hundred and eighty meter high small earth packs were counted as mountains, now the Fourth Army was also surrounded by mountains.

Obodo could be sure that the enemy was not willing to fight them to the death, otherwise the attack would not be so small.

Piecemeal attacks, constantly wearing down their military morale, strategic supplies, and finally forcing them to surrender was the normal operation.

If one were to pay 100,000 or 80,000 casualties in order to annihilate the Fourth Army, the Prussian Army would have lost even if they had won.

……

At the command headquarters of the Prussian army, Mao Qi dragged his head with one hand and fell into deep thought.

The plan did not change fast, originally wanted to use the fourth army as a bait to attract the main force of the Russian army to come over to implement the plan of encirclement, I did not expect that the Russians did not fall for it at all.

In this way, the Russians’ Fourth Army became a problem, holding back a large number of troops of the Prussian army, making them unable to advance or retreat.

If they had attacked the Fourth Army from the beginning, without giving them a chance to set up camp, the problem would have been solved by now.

There are no ifs on the battlefield, misjudged the importance of the Fourth Army to the Russians, underestimated Ivanov’s determination, this bitter fruit can only be swallowed by Mauch himself.

The Battle of East Prussia had already been fought, the Battle of the Southern Front was about to break out, and the Battle of Warsaw had actually begun.

The Russian army attacked from both sides of the northeast. As the Russian Fourth Army held back a large number of Prussian troops, the Warsaw battlefield could only be held fast.

The dripping sound of the telephone rang, waking up Mao Qi in contemplation, and casually picked up the microphone and put it to his mouth and roared loudly, “I’m Mao Qi, what’s the matter?”

A hoarse voice came through, “Marshal, 7th Division Commander Winslet reports to you. The enemy to the north has suddenly increased the intensity of their attack, our defenses are in jeopardy, requesting support.”

It was inherently unrealistic for a division to hold off an army, let alone an oversized army of the Russians’ kind, it was even more impossible.

A crisis in the defense line was inevitable, and the 7th Division had already performed well by being able to hold off the enemy for three days before asking for help.

Mauch frowned, “Major General Winslet, tomorrow the 11th Division will come over to take over your defense, is there a problem holding out for another day?”

There was a moment of silence on the other side of the phone, and after half a dozen moments of effort the hoarse voice rang out again, “No problem, Field Marshal!”

There was a heaviness in the tone, as if the decision had been made after a difficult mental struggle.

After hanging up the phone, Mouche instructed an officer not far away: “Immediately send a telegram to General Hansgrohe, let him make sure to eat the Russian Fourth Army within a week.

Tell him that the fish in the north has already taken the bait, don’t delay for a caged bird any longer, the fish will run away if you delay any longer.”

A trapped animal is not a human being.

Knowing full well that this was the time of the fiercest enemy resistance, Mauch had no choice but to give this order. Leaving the Russian Fourth Army dragging around somewhere any longer, the Warsaw battlefield was going to be a problem.

Don’t look at the Pope Federation in Warsaw to establish a perfect defense line, but even the strongest defense line also need people to guard.

What’s more, Mauch wasn’t trying to hold Warsaw, but wanted to hit the Russians hard on the Warsaw battlefield, which made the demand for troops even greater.

In order to encircle the Fourth Army, the Prussian army invested nearly 600,000 troops, originally to surround the point of reinforcements, now the enemy reinforcements do not come, and then drag on there is no value.

Despite knowing that the front line would suffer heavy losses if this order was given, these sacrifices were necessary for the greater good on the battlefield.

The dire situation told him that the Warsaw Campaign had to be fought quickly, and the Berlin government needed a big victory to pull the allies aboard, even if it was a big victory with heavy casualties.

“Yes, Field Marshal!” The young officer replied

(End of chapter)