Chapter 1528: Defeat
Chapter 1528 Rout
General von Seeckt didn't know if he could save the 70,000 German troops by doing this, but he knew that doing so had the greatest chance of surviving, whether it was to wait for the Bavarian Army's assistance or to hold on with the supplies he had collected. They can delay for the longest time, and they absolutely cannot run anyway. Once they decide to run, if they are overtaken by Russian cavalry, then all infantry are equal in front of sabers, machine gun carriages and rapid-fire guns... …
Thus, the most miraculous scene in World War I occurred. On the front of hundreds of kilometers, the Hungarian Legion was about to collapse, and in the middle of the front, the German Legion, which was not large in scale, did not retreat but advanced, and began to quickly approach the Bock Division. Some "inhuman" coerced some Hungarian troops and marched with their supplies! After merging with friendly forces, the German army, with a total number of nearly 60,000, began to build a circular position and fortify themselves. Concentrate the troops in a relatively small area like a fist. And this action did not attract Borusinov's attention at first.
The so-called breakthrough at one point shocked the whole line. When the Russian army broke the defense line of the Hungarian Legion in many places, it finally kicked off the prelude to the big collapse. Even in those areas that were not attacked by the Russian army, the Hungarians were in panic all day long. The spread of rumors is so deadly and exaggerated that after three times of "changing hands", the situation where some fronts were breached turned into a "full line collapse".
Those Hungarians who were not firm in their will and had become a little numb during the war that lasted for more than a year began to leave their positions, even aimlessly moving backwards without knowing where to retreat. evacuate. They delusional to escape the fate of being hunted down, but in reality? After leaving the supply lines and military depots, the vast Ukrainian plains can tear this panic-like army to pieces!
The whole situation was even better than Borusinov had imagined, and the Hungarians were simply vulnerable. And just after the entire front was shaken, Borusinov decisively played the next card! Nearly 100,000 cavalry from 12 cavalry divisions began to attack in depth. They dismembered the Hungarian army like sharp razors, and shot at the vital points of the Hungarians like deadly arrows!
At this time, the Russian 7th Cavalry Division was pursuing along a river. The Hungarians were not stupid. They knew very well that after a large number of troops were separated from the inherent supply system, only along the river could the basic drinking water supply of the troops be guaranteed. But you know, the Russians also know, so this cavalry unit didn't need to send too many scouts, and it directly bit the two divisions of the Hungarian 4th Army and a military headquarters with about 30,000 people!
So, at the corner of a river, 7,000 Russian cavalry attacked 30,000 Hungarian soldiers. They followed like a pack of wolves, and after successfully killing the defenseless guard, the cavalry was divided into several At the same time, the army launched an attack on this force.
The Russians did not bring many weapons, only a dozen towed artillery and dozens of machine gun carriages. The combined firepower was not even stronger than that of an ordinary German regiment.
However, in this situation where the army was defeated like a mountain, more than 30,000 Hungarians were like lambs waiting to be slaughtered, watching the Russians rushing up with sabers brandishing their faces in horror, and then chopped off their heads one by one.
Intensive artillery fire and machine gun fire fell on the crowd. The damage caused by these weapons was very limited, and the lethality of the cavalry's saber was also very limited. The Russians did not start their attack smoothly. It is not to say how strong the Hungarian resistance was. It was because there were too many people, which directly affected the cavalry's charge. The whole battlefield is like a blunt knife cutting through meat. After all, Russian knives are a bit blunt, and although the opposite side is a pig, the meat is too thick...
However, the Russians did not give up. They tried their best to attack, consuming their own strength in each attack, and when the Russians' fighting power was close to the limit, the Hungarians finally collapsed! A large number of people desperately poured into the river behind them, trying to escape, but the resulting avalanche effect caused the situation to collapse directly, and more people died under the stampede of their compatriots rather than under the Russians. Under the attack, the dark red blood melted into the river, forming a red ribbon, and even directly dyed a section of the river red. In the end, only more than 6,000 people escaped from this army, and the remaining 20,000 Hungarians were all killed or captured. This is just a microcosm of the entire early stage of the Borusinov campaign. The cloud of death hangs over the entire southern front. The collapse of the Hungarian Legion even caused some shocks on the entire Eastern Front!
In the following week, the Russian Army advanced a distance of about 80 to 150 kilometers on the entire southern front! The entire front line was dented by a large part, and the Russian cavalry had penetrated the Ukrainian territory of the later generations as far as possible, and arrived in the later Moldova area... . According to the Russians, if they work harder, they will be able to see the border of the Austro-Hungarian Empire when the war started! The Hungarian retreat exposed the flanks of the Austrian army to the Russians, and news of the defeat on the battlefield eventually spread back to Budapest, Vienna and Berlin!
In the eyes of William II and others, the Eastern Front, which has been in good shape since the start of the war, seems to have reversed. The Russian army, which was thought to have been beaten by Ruprecht's Bavarian and Bohemian Army, was about to collapse. It actually came back to life like a hydra, and took a bite on the Hungarians. The hundreds of thousands of Hungarian legions lost as soon as they said they were defeated, which is unacceptable to the Kaiser!
What's more embarrassing to the Kaiser is that he just sent three divisions with a total of 70,000 German troops to support Hungary, but within a few days, he was directly defeated. Where does this make the Kaiser face?
Therefore, the Kaiser temporarily ignored the war on the Western Front. (Of course, there is no major action on the Western Front. The two sides have just ended a large-scale battle and are in a state of rest.) He summoned the entire General Staff, And some front-line generals are preparing to discuss the war in Ukraine, and even consider whether to send more German troops into Ukraine to help Archduke Karl and Hungary consolidate the front!
"Where is Ruprecht? What is he doing? As the person in charge of the entire Eastern Front and the Balkan theater, there is such a big problem in the Ukrainian theater. Doesn't he have anything to say?" The Kaiser said to outsiders for the first time In front of him, he expressed his dissatisfaction with the crown prince in such a fierce way!
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