Italy was originally a member of the Three Kingdoms Alliance, but due to the unrecovered territorial problems between Italy and the Austro-Hungarian Empire, Italy eventually stood on the side of the Allies and declared war on Germany and the Austro-Hungarian Empire. Compared with the original history, Italy joined the war six months earlier, thanks to the efforts of Britain and France and the military victory of the Russian army against the Austro-Hungarian Empire.

Compared with Germany and Austria, Britain and France offered higher prices: after the war, Fum and Dalmatia, two Austro-Hungarian Empire territories. More importantly, the huge failure of the Austrian army in Galicia made the Italians feel that this was a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity. So, on November 10, 1914, Italy officially declared war on Germany and Austria, and 600,000 Italian troops began to march towards the border.

The Austrian army stationed in the Tyrol area of ​​the Austrian border had only four regiments, more than 4,000 people. Although it was a small number of people and was a local defense force, these soldiers who fought to defend their hometowns had the determination to fight to the end. As a result, in the initial border battle, this small army stood firm on the Austrian border and delayed the attack of the famous Italian Alpine infantry and the huge Italian main force that was disproportionate to itself, which won valuable time for the Austro-Hungarian forces and German reinforcements to transfer to the south.

On November 12, German and Austrian reinforcements arrived and soon launched a counterattack. In just a few days, the Italian army was forced to abandon the few cities they had just occupied, lost 300,000 people, and withdrew from the country.

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When Sukhomlinov mentioned that the Italian army was defeated by German and Austrian reinforcements, Anna shook her head helplessly. It seemed that the Italians were indeed useless, but the Italian army successfully delayed hundreds of thousands of troops of the Austro-Hungarian Empire, which was good news for the Russian army.

"How is the Northwest Front? Where did the Germans fight?" Anna asked suddenly.

Hearing Anna's question, Sukhomlinov blushed, "Your Highness... Our heroic soldiers resisted resolutely. Under the command of General Kampf for many years, the 1st Army relied on the line of defense to defend every inch of the position to the death. But... but the German artillery fire was too fierce..."

"How are the casualties?" Anna frowned.

"The casualties were very heavy, and the 1st Army was almost surrounded. General Kampf spent a lot of effort to break through successfully for many years, but... but the troops were almost wiped out, and only more than 10,000 people escaped."

"That is to say, we lost nearly 200,000 people, is that right?" Anna asked coldly.

"Yes, Your Highness."

"Alas..." Anna sighed. There were 200,000 people, but they were gone. Although the Russian army had a lot of soldiers, Anna still felt very distressed: these 200,000 people were veterans who had served for more than two years, and their combat effectiveness was more than one level stronger than the new recruits.

The Germans were too powerful to fight them head-on! Thinking of this, Anna ordered, "Mr. Sukhomlinov sent a report to the troops in the northwest, ordering them to gradually retreat, destroying all abandoned cities, and moving all civilians to the mainland, and not leaving them to the Germans!"

"This... "Sukhomlinov thought for a while and carefully suggested, "Your Highness, please allow me to say that our army has not completely failed. As long as we wait for the reserve army to arrive, a huge counterattack can regain the occupied territory...."

"No, no!" Anna shook her head repeatedly, and she stretched out her five fingers, "General, do you want to exchange the lives of five soldiers for the lives of one German soldier? You just said that the German artillery fire was very fierce, and we even lacked rifles. If it weren't for the assistance of British and French friends, the brave Russian soldiers could only go barefoot. General, what we need most now is time, so the best way at present is to accumulate strength, concentrate on attacking the Austrians, and try to avoid head-on battles with the Germans."

"But... I just gave up my territory..." Sukhomlinov was still very unwilling to accept it.

It's really dull! Anna continued to persuade, "Instead of being defeated by the German army and eventually leading to the army's retreat, it's better for us to retreat in an orderly manner. This is called retreating as advance, do you understand?"

"Yes, Your Highness..." Sukhomlinov seemed to have figured it out, "By the way, Your Highness, Przemehir's siege has lasted for two months, and the Austrians are still defending the death. Should we mobilize heavy troops to attack with all our might?"

"Have you heard of the siege but not fighting, General?" Anna began to instill great military theory in Sukhomlinov. "We surrounded the Fortress of Przemesir, but we did not have to attack, but just a tight siege. In this way, the Austrians will definitely send troops to rescue the siege. Our army can ambush the Austrian reinforcements and consume their strength."

"...? "Sukhomlinov was surprised. He didn't expect that His Highness, who was only 13 years old, had such a smart mind. In fact, the Russian generals fighting at the Fortress of Przemehir were more or less aware of this tactic of surrounding and attacking aid: since the superiors asked for surrounding but not fighting, they had to find something to do. Just as the Austrian army continued to organize reinforcements to rescue the siege, they had something to do.

Perhaps God really abandoned the Austro-Hungarian Empire. At the beginning of the war, the Austro-Hungarian artillery stored a large amount of ammunition, but only stored a small number of spare cannons. According to the theory proposed by unknown general, the cannons will not suffer much loss in future wars. What's worse is that although the largest arsenal in the Austro-Hungarian Empire, the Skoda Arsenal, still had a wealth of production capacity, did not store raw materials. As a result, after the war began, due to the blockade of the British Navy, the raw materials for the arsenal to produce cannons were quickly exhausted.

Next, the Austro-Hungarian artillery suffered huge losses in the war between Galicia and the Balkans, which almost dried up the Austro-Hungarian artillery artillery when it joined the war in Italy. As a result, the Austrian army frantically collected all the heavy firearms that could still be fired to equip its artillery units. The old artillery without a retractor were re-issued to the troops, and even a 65mm copper mountain cannon produced in 1861 was pulled to the front line.

In this way, the Austrian army fought on the ground. Although there were many people and guns and there was no shortage of guns, it was extremely lacking compared to the Russian army. In this era, without artillery support, attack would be painful torture. The Austrian army responsible for supporting the Fortress of Przemesir was forced to fight against the Russian army's bullets and artillery shells with flesh and blood. Every day, waves of Austrian soldiers fell under the Russian artillery fire.

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Anna's body recovered very quickly, thanks to the system transformation, which gave Anna a resilience beyond ordinary people. After a few days, the pressing was completely healed. Not only did the wounds behind him healed, but there was no scar, which surprised the doctor.

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