Stelz kept wondering whether the reason why His Royal Highness kept losing his temper along the way was because the Bukovina and Drohobiz oil fields fell into the hands of the Russians.

According to his knowledge, His Royal Highness has considerable shares in that oil field.

He really guessed that Lee Hayden was indeed very angry at the loss of the Austro-Hungarian army in the Drohobiz oil field. It was not because of money, but because of this oil field with an annual output of 500,000 tons played a very important role in the future war situation. Now the Russians use the oil produced by his oil field to keep warm, while his soldiers could only collect dry firewood everywhere for cooking and insulation.

To recover this oil field, he must first solve the problem of Prémir Fortress being besieged by the Russian army.

The Przemir Fortress guards the Sand River Valley and is a must-pass place for Russia in Poland to enter Galicia. Its strategic position is extremely important and it is another center of the defensive system established by the Austro-Hungarian Empire in Galicia.

Since 1882, due to concerns about Russia's attack, the Austro-Hungarian Empire used modern fortification technology to build a modern fortification group based on the original Pugermil Castle. The Pugermil Fortress is called Liege in the East and was the first defensive barrier for the Austro-Hungarian Empire to resist Russia.

Austro-Hungarian army retreated across the board after the defeat in Limburg, and 130,000 Austrian troops were besieged at the Fortress of Prèmere.

The Russians didn't know whether they had their brains or that they absorbed the essence of the Japanese "wild boar assault" tactics during the Russo-Japanese War, but they actually used the sea of ​​people toward a modern fortification group poured from concrete.

In late September, the Russian army completed the siege of Prèmeer Fortress. Austria-Hungary, the first, second and fourth front-line troops that had previously participated in the Eastern Front were all withdrawn to Hungary for replenishment and reorganization. The third army was almost completely lost on the Eastern Front due to its collapse and was being reorganized by Boloevich.

The Sixth and Seventh Army, led by Li Haidn, were trapped in the south of the Carpathian Mountains by the empire's backward railway transportation management system and could not reach the battlefield in time.

On the Russian side, the 3rd Army besieged the Prémir Fortress reached 300,000.

General Dimitriev, the commander of the Russian army, decided to launch a strong attack on the Prémir Fortress according to the attack method learned from the "Imperial Army" in the Far East.

From September 24 to 27, for three consecutive days, the Russians launched repeated human charges at the Prèmere Fortress for three fearlessly.

The Russian army's crowd tactics were smashed again and again in front of this modern and solid fortress.

In three days, the Russian Third Army suffered more than 40,000 casualties, and the losses were so great that even the Russian generals who had always ignored the lives of soldiers could no longer bear it.

On the evening of September 27, the Russian army finally stopped its suicide attack.

The next day, the Balkan army led by Li Haidn finally struggled to arrive at the Galician front, and Bolojevic, who was ordered to rebuild the 3rd Army, also completed the task efficiently. Now Li Haidn has an army of nearly 550,000.

But he kept his troops still.

"Enemy... The 3rd Army Przemir, the 8th Army Limburg, the 4th, 5th, 9th Army Carpathian, possible... The Polish direction, the 7th Army, the total force is 1.3-1.47 million.

Defense...Prémil...Time, 3rd, 6th, 7th Army, 550,000 troops, possible...1, 2nd, 4th Army, 560,000 troops, 130,000 defenders, 130,000.

Carpathian defense line...Hungarian local defense forces...Persist...Time...

Logistics...Winter...Heating issues...Personnel adjustment...Officers...Language...Supplementary soldiers' training...

East Prussia...Warsaw...Markenson's 9th Army...Time...Speed ​​speed...

Water cabinet...armored cars...number...aircraft reconnaissance..."

Stelz looked at the few jumping and inconsistent words on the table. He didn't know what the front-line commander thought and had no action. The entire army stayed on the front lines of Bohemia and Moravia to Galicia, and did nothing except sending a few novel planes to circle the sky every day.

Oh, I can't say that, the troops have been making adjustments, and soldiers who speak the same language are reassigned to the same unit as much as possible - this is a very taboo thing in the Imperial Army and is very dangerous. In addition, it is retraining. In the supplementary battalion, some newly recruited recruits have only hit the target once, and they have no idea of ​​basic tactical cooperation.

The troops are reorganizing and training, keeping the ratio of non-commissioned officers, veterans and new recruits as much as possible to maintain the ratio of 2:1 to 2:1. Although the combat effectiveness of some troops will decrease, it has significantly improved the overall combat capability.

The crown prince seemed to be conceiving a big plan... The problem is, the Germans are really anxious this time.

For more than a month, the Grand Duke ignored the orders of the German General Staff and the Imperial General Staff and remained silent. Sometimes he acted as a deed, sending an infantry regiment to advance about ten kilometers, carrying out some harassing attacks on the enemy's positions, and then sending a telegram to the General Staff, such as: Today, two divisions were sent to launch an attack on the direction of Jorkiev, without any breakthrough, the troops retreated back to their original starting point... and so on.

Anyway, there is no good news or bad news, and the General Staff seems to be used to it.

Lee Haydn was not too worried about the defense of Prèmere Fortress. The fortress generally had no big problems in its persistence in the first half of the year, unless there was no hope of relief.

Whenever Condra calls to urge him to launch an attack as soon as possible, he is always blocked by Li Haidn's words: the current troops are very insufficient, unless the 1st, 2nd, and 4th Army will be strengthened to the front line as soon as possible. Now, the General Staff of Vienna has finally supplemented the 1st, 2nd, and 4th Army, which suffered heavy losses in the Galician battle in the previous stage, were in Hungary, and sent to the Galician front line in a hurry.

In the direction of Poland, on October 31, the German 9th Army's Markensen army attacked the outskirts of Warsaw. Due to supply difficulties, it was at the end of its strength and could only start retreating towards Silesia.

The Russian Northwest Front quickly assembled three armies and began to launch a counterattack on the Markensen Group, which was alone and deeply involved. Markensen withstood the attacks of the two Russian armies and retreated while fighting. But on the southern front, the Russian 7th Army was quickly forwarding, intending to intercept the German army's retreat.

General Hindenburg, who was on the eastern front of Germany, could only ask for support from the Austro-Hungarian army, and demanded that the Austro-3rd Army go north immediately, drag the Russian 7th Army and win time for Markensen's retreat. The German General Staff, who had advanced to Luxembourg, sent nine telegrams to the Austro-Hungarian General Staff in Vienna within one day, threatening to lure the Austro-Hungarian army to agree to immediately send the 3rd Army north to fill the gap on the southern line of the German Ninth Army.

"General, General Condra will arrive at Krava today." Stelz handed the telegram to Lee Haydn.
Chapter completed!