They ate delicious raw ham in the front headquarters. The paper-thin slices of raw ham proved that the chef had excellent knife skills. The British observer team was not surprised. Looking at the armies all over the world, even the poor countries that could not afford good food and could not afford to put on airs had huge differences. Only the Liberation Army, recognized as the strongest army in the world, publicly declared that officers and soldiers were united. The officers and ordinary soldiers ate the same food. The only thing worth ridiculing was that the delicious ham in the Russian headquarters came from Hungary. That was all.
"Our army has spread out along the north bank of the Danube. 300,000 soldiers are not a match for the Hungarian bandits." The Russian chief of staff was full of confidence.
Most of the Russian troops on the south bank of the Danube were annihilated. The remaining troops escaped across the Danube and formed a group on the north bank. The British didn't look down on Russia because it was their turn to be flexible. The British had their own experience.
The French, on the other hand, held an inexplicable sense of superiority. The head of the military observer team made a lot of sarcastic remarks. The Russian commander was also an old fox. He turned a deaf ear to this nonsense. He said with the arrogant expression of a high-ranking person, "Everyone, we have contacted Serbia. They are about to attack Hungary. Romania has issued a national mobilization order. The Hungarian bandits invading Romania are about to fall into the sea of Romania's imperial army. Our army will stabilize here. The 300,000 soldiers on the north line will step up their attack. The Hungarian bandits have won some victories with sneak attacks. It won't be long before they cough up everything. Under siege from three sides, the Hungarian bandits will definitely be wiped out. "
The military observer team was made up of soldiers. Hungary was not a big country. Listening to the Russian commander's explanation, the British observer team could easily picture the situation in their minds. The Russians were in the north, the Serbs in the south, and the Romanians in the east. If they attacked from three directions at the same time, the Hungarians would not be able to take care of both sides. It was also a good move that the Russians on the north bank of the Danube did not move. With such a large group eyeing them, the Hungarian army would not dare to rashly withdraw from the Western Front.
While the Russian commander was describing the road map to Hungary's destruction, the Hungarian Red Army was also holding a meeting. Like the Liberation Army, all the senior commanders had a big pot of rice. The style and portion were the same as ordinary soldiers.
On the map, the Russian troops on the northern bank of the Danube were highlighted. At this moment, the chief of staff, who had already rushed to the frontline headquarters, stood up and said, "We're all from the Army, so our words won't be taken as mockery. The brave infantry marched through the night in order to engage the enemy as soon as possible. But by the time they reached the frontlines, how much physical strength would they have left to fight? No matter how bumpy the armored vehicles and motorized vehicles were. After putting on the retainer, everyone closed their eyes and rested. Therefore, our actual field troops are only 300,000 at most. "
There were armored corps commanders, motorized infantry corps commanders, and pure infantry corps commanders. Just as the Chief of Staff said, no one was offended by this statement. Seeing that the troops did not have any emotions, the Chief of Staff of the Red Army relaxed a lot. In fact, the Chief of Staff himself had emotions. Zhou Shuren and the consultants of the Min dynasty laid out facts and reasoned with them. It took them a lot of effort to make the chief of staff admit the fact that compared with Britain, France, Germany, and Russia, Hungary's strength was far inferior. If one's strength was insufficient, then one must be aware of the fact that one's strength was insufficient.
"Therefore, we can't engage in a long-term war. After beating up the Russians in the short term, we can seek neutrality." As the Chief of Staff spoke, he felt so wronged that he almost wanted to cry. Using his sorrowful mood, he warned his comrades, "A few hundred years ago, the Russian Empire was in Pingdu. The Winged Cavalry and the Axe Infantry roamed everywhere. After successfully inciting the fear and hostility of Austria, Poland, and Russia, where is the Russian Empire whose ancestors were really rich now? I think everyone knows. "
When the Hungarian comrades heard the talk about seeking peace through struggle, their faces immediately showed some displeasure. It wasn't easy for them to gain complete independence for Hungary, and it wasn't easy for them to endure and kill everyone and vent their anger that had been accumulated for many years. Everyone was really looking forward to enjoying this kind of happiness. However, when they heard about the Russian Empire's fate in Pingdu, this group of soldiers with at least a junior high school education didn't say anything.
The Russian Empire used to be located in the north of the Slovak Republic of Hungary, across the Northern Carpathian Mountains from Hungary. After the last partition of Poland in 1795, the Russian Empire became a historical term. Of course, the Kingdom of Poland still existed, but the Tsar of Russia was the King of Poland.
Thinking back to 1683, the Osman Empire destroyed Hungary and attacked the capital of Austria, Vienna. The Russian Empire's winged cavalry and axe infantry defeated the Osman Empire's army outside the walls of Vienna and saved the entire Christian world. However, 100 years later, the Russian Empire was mercilessly destroyed. The first partition of Poland took place in 1772, less than a hundred years after the Battle of Wijna.
"Comrades, those who love war will die, and those who forget war will be in danger. It's not good to die just to satisfy your cravings! "The chief of staff's voice was choked by the end of his speech. When he thought about how such a powerful force could only protect themselves, the chief of staff felt as if his heart was slowly being cut by a blunt saw. It was precisely because Hungary had become truly powerful that the chief of staff of the Hungarian Red Army realized that Hungary was really just a small country. The chief of staff's eyes turned red and tears flowed down.
It wasn't only the chief of staff who felt pain. The comrades of the Hungarian Red Army who had a more strategic vision also felt true pain. They thought about how the powerful countries in the past had acted unscrupulously, using the swords in their hands to destroy the old world and create a new world according to their will. Now, Hungary could only solve its problems through peace talks with the Great Powers. Especially to solve Hungary's security problems …
The equipment maintenance that was expected to take seven days to complete was completed in only four days. During these four days, the Hungarian Air Force carried out reconnaissance at full capacity. As a result, two reconnaissance planes were shot down in Russia's territory. When the British observer group heard the news, it was only the next day, but they found that the Russian command did not respond at all.
Even though they knew that the Russian Army was decadent, the British did not expect the Russian Army to be so slow. Like a turtle, they ordered the bridges over the Danube to be guarded, thinking that the Hungarians, whose main force was on the south bank of the Danube, would seize the bridges according to Russia's prediction.
Some in the British observer group felt that Russia's deployment was very stable, but Second Lieutenant Montgomery, who was the youngest and the lowest rank in the army, felt inexplicably uneasy. The Tsar's gray livestock was not an undeserved existence. During the Crimean War, the British and French allied forces finally won a pyrrhic victory. Not long ago, the Hungarians killed six divisions of the Russian army as if they were cutting melons and vegetables, and the Romanians wailed that Hungary had carried out a massacre on Romania! Even now, the Romanians claimed that Hungary did not seize any Romanian cities. Calling one's own defeat a 'massacre' by the other side would not get the slightest sympathy in Europe, and it would even cause people to despise them.
Under the Second Lieutenant's extremely firm request, the observer group sent a few people to the Danube to see the situation. Some Europeans called the Danube the Mother River, but this Mother had a rather nasty personality. The Danube was extremely winding, passing through many lakes and wetlands in Europe. Some sections of the river were fast-flowing, some sections were only dry, and some sections even existed as underground rivers.
The famous blue Danube was considered a famous scenery in Vienna, but in fact, there was not a single day in the year that the Danube was blue. After the Danube entered the Romanian territory, it became the Yellow Danube. It was currently summer, and there was more precipitation. What Second Lieutenant Montgomery and the others saw was a muddy yellow river. The thick river water was like a ferocious dragon that was tumbling about. The surface of the river was full of dangerous whirlpools. As far as the eye could see, there was no trace of a ship on the river.
"Montgomery, you're thinking too much," the captain who came with them said in a displeased tone. This kind of environment would be a huge obstacle to any idea of crossing the river. The Russians were very familiar with Romania, and the on-the-spot investigation proved that the Russians had made the right choice. The Hungarians' only choice was to fight for the bridge.
Montgomery did not back down from the reprimand. He walked to the river without saying a word. He squatted down to observe carefully, threw stones into the water to test it, and even took out his pistol to shoot at the water. The captain was amused by his childish behavior. He laughed and asked, "What are you trying to do?"
"I'm just sure that this river is probably impossible to swim across," Montgomery replied.
"I told you it's impossible!" the captain replied in a displeased tone.
"But the river doesn't feel as turbulent as I thought," Montgomery continued to elaborate on his analysis.
"Enough!" The captain said angrily. The Russians were not fools. They had gathered all the ships on the river. Since it was impossible for a single soldier to swim across, it was even more impossible for the Hungarians to gather so many ships to cross the river.
Without waiting for the captain to continue shouting, Montgomery suddenly straightened his body and looked across the river. The captain wanted to continue to criticize the Second Lieutenant's tricks, but he had good eyesight. He vaguely felt that there was something wrong on the other side of the river.
"Retreat!" Montgomery suddenly shouted. After shouting, he dragged the captain and began to run. The captain was stunned at first, but then he suddenly realized what was wrong. The bushes on the other side of the river were moving! In a normal world, bushes would never move on their own.
Sure enough, after running for a minute, the observer group heard the sound of cannons behind them. Everyone turned their heads and saw the place where they were just standing had been hit by the cannons. If it wasn't for Montgomery's quick reaction, the observer group, who did not have the ability to resist cannonballs, would have suffered casualties.
"Keep running!" Montgomery shouted calmly and led by example. He leaped and ran quickly on the muddy ground like a rabbit.
"Ah!" The captain cried out in pain. He accidentally stepped into a pit hidden by the grass and sprained his ankle.
Montgomery immediately stopped, turned around, and ran back. On the way back, he also pulled a First Lieutenant. The two of them came back to support the captain and continued to retreat. The captain did not care about the severity of his foot injury. At this moment, escaping from the Hungarians' bombardment was the most important thing.
After running for about two kilometers, the group finally stopped behind a small slope. Montgomery and the others hid behind the slope, not forgetting to poke their heads out to check on the enemy. The captain had a good impression of Montgomery at this moment, so he was very appreciative of Montgomery's action. Then, he heard Montgomery shout in a low voice, "Quick, everyone come over and look. Immediately! "
The captain did not have time to let someone treat the injury on his foot. He held his leg and crawled to the edge of the slope. The others followed. Everyone was silent at first, but after a minute or so, someone gasped in surprise. The captain pressed his hand on his chest and murmured, "Oh God! Oh God! "
From the slope, it could be seen that some of the iron men were driven to the river by their own power. Some soldiers put something on the outside of the iron men, and then the iron men slowly drove into the river. The things that were put on the iron men spread out like a skirt and floated on the water with the iron men. They drove to the other side of the river.
While Montgomery and his men were fleeing, some of the iron men had already driven into the water. Now, they had crossed the wide yellow Danube and appeared on the other side of the river. There were ropes behind the iron men, and the soldiers on the other side of the river tied something on the ropes. Through their binoculars, those things looked like steel ropes.
The Hungarians did not just use the iron men to cross the river. Some of the trucks drove to the river and raised something from the trucks, as if they were driving piles.
"They are going to build a pontoon bridge!" Montgomery said in a cold voice. The captain suddenly understood. However, the news did not surprise the captain. The captain's attention was attracted by the turrets on the iron men. Those were not boats, but the "machine gun carriages" that had been spreading like wildfire in the Russian army. The captain could not believe his eyes that the Hungarians' chariots could swim across the river like a boat.
"That's Tank!" Montgomery continued.
"What? Water tanks? "The captain was confused at first, but then he felt that it made sense. The water tanks were hollow. Hollow sealed water tanks could, of course, cross the river like a boat.
"Before we came here, the military gave us a lot of information. One of them said that China had been selling a lot of strange steel plates to Hungary for a few months. It was said that they were used to weld water tanks. So, the intelligence department came up with a water tank project, hoping to find out what happened. These things must be water tanks. These are tanks! " Montgomery's voice sounded very calm, but to the emotional crowd, this calmness gave everyone a magical feeling.
"What do we do now?" The first lieutenant who was supporting the captain with Montgomery asked in a trembling voice. More and more tanks were crossing the Yellow Danube.
"Let's retreat," Montgomery replied.
Before anyone could reply, they heard the faint sound of hooves and shouts coming from afar. The British observer group, who were preparing to retreat, tacitly stopped. After a while, a group of patrolling Russian cavalry arrived. They were stunned when they saw the "machine gun carriages" that had crossed the river. After a while, with a shout, the Russian cavalry pulled out their sabers and charged at the enemy.
After a while, several tanks came up to meet the Russian cavalry. A few seconds later, the guns on the tanks rang out, and the captain of the observation group saw the Russian cavalry being knocked off their horses like rice being cut down. An unlucky guy was shot in the neck by a 20mm machine gun. His head flew high into the sky. The headless body held the reins tightly and continued to charge forward.
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