It was dark, and the lights of the Austro-Hungarian Romanian Front's three-story headquarters building in Galaz City were on. Several patrol soldiers were patrolling the streets near the headquarters. As the battle began, ordinary people were prohibited from passing here. However, some officers and Romanian girls were walking hand in hand on the street.

It has been a month since the Russians launched an attack on the Eastern Front, but here there are only a little more people coming in and out of the weekdays, and there is not much tension during the war. At night, the entire headquarters calms down. The weather gradually gets warmer, and many rooms in the headquarters building have open windows, and you can see the figures in the room shaking.

The commander-in-chief of the Romanian Front was Grand Duke Eugen. This imperial field marshal had a prominent background. His grandfather was Grand Duke Carl who had worked with the Russians to defeat Napoleon. But he was very self-aware and knew that his military talents were limited. He never caused trouble for his chief of staff and the actual commander of the Romanian defense line, General Bolojevic.

It is obvious that Baron Hetsendorf, the Chief of Staff of the Army, has lost control of the army. Due to the successive victory on the battlefield, His Royal Highness the Crown Prince is like a god of war in the minds of the people of the empire, with an unparalleled noble prestige.

As a confidant of the crown prince and had achieved remarkable results on the battlefield, it is generally believed that the sixty-year-old General Bolojevic will soon replace Baron Hetsendorf and become the chief of staff of the Imperial Army.

However, now Grand Duke Eugen is questioning the battle plan formulated by Le Haydn.

The Austro-Hungarian Empire now has the 3rd, 4, 6, 11th Army and the 1st Army of Romania, with a total force of nearly 1 million. On the Galician front, the Galician Front commanded by General Pom Elmoli had a total of 760,000 troops. On the entire Eastern Front, Austro-Hungarian Army had nearly 1.8 million troops, but it was retreating under the attack of the Southwest Front composed of 1.4 million Russian troops commanded by Brusilov.

Now the Russians will soon recover all the lost lands in Ukraine and will capture most of Galicia again.

"We do not have an advantage in military strength compared to the Russians. The Russians were able to mobilize reinforcements from the northern line quickly. The result of fighting with the Russians can only form a war of attrition with huge casualties. The Russians can forbidden to withstand the huge consumption of millions of casualties, but the empire cannot. Russia's population is three times that of ours, and it is still far from enough. To completely defeat the Russians, we need strong support from Germany." Boloevich explained to Eugen's Grand Duke Lee Haydn's strategic intention, which was to force Germany to mobilize enough troops from the Western Front to the Eastern Front.

For this reason, Austro-Hungary did not hesitate to give up a large area of ​​land, and even placed the German army in a dangerous place without regard.

However, General Borusilov, the commander-in-chief of the Russian army's southern line, showed his talent as a famous general. After launching several tentative attacks on the defense line built by Austro-Hungary, he found that he was unable to break through the enemy's strong defense positions, so he voluntarily gave up the attack on the Austro-Hungary defense line. Only two armies were left confronting the Austro-Hungary army across the river, and led the main forces of the three armies to turn to the northeast, and attacked the German army from Lviv, with weak defenses.

Makenson found that the situation was unfavorable and quickly commanded the 11th Army to abandon Lutsk and Warren and defend Lublin with all his strength. However, due to his weak force, Makenson was afraid that he would be surrounded by Borusilov's group and could only fight and retreat. After Lublin held on for three days, he retreated to Warsaw.

Borusilov once again showed outstanding military talent, using only one army to confront Markensen, and led two armies to 450,000 people directly into Podraska, cutting off the retreat of the 8th German Army on the Brest line. The most elite 8th Army on the Eastern Front of the German Army, commanded by General Bello, was entangled in Kobrin by more than one million Russian troops in the middle line commanded by General Everett, and the rear route was cut off. He could only retreat into the Brest Fortress and was surrounded there by the Russian army.

This time, the German General Staff was completely panicked. This was the first time since the war started that the German heavy army group was surrounded by the enemy. As a result, they asked the Austro-Hungarian army to launch an attack on the Brest line, while withdrawing the offensive troops from the Western Front and starting to reinforce the Eastern Front.

Falkenhein's Verdun plan went completely bankrupt, and now there are always people responsible for the failure of the Eastern Front, and the 8th German Army is still surrounded.

Lee Haydn strongly demanded that the German Emperor remove Falkenhein from his post. In late June 1916, William II summoned Hindenburg and Rudendolf in Berlin. At the end of June, Falkenson was removed from his post as Chief of Staff, and Hindenburg and Rudendolf took over the command of the German army.

The Marmara Sea is sunny in June, and the luxurious and declining Istanbul is not too hot. On the building of the Ottoman Navy Command with a strong Italian architectural style, the Ottoman Crescent Flag hung listlessly on the roof of the main entrance.

The Russians tore off one piece of land after another from the Ottoman Empire through repeated Russian-Turkish wars: lowlands along the Dnieper River, Bisarabia, the Crim Peninsula, the Caucasus and other places. Europe now has no hope of getting it again. The Austrians annexed almost the entire Balkans and North Africa's homelands, and now they are preparing to march into Bisarabia, which are the legacy of the Ottomans.

But now the Austrians are allies, leaving the Turks helpless.

Now the Austro-Hungarian fleet is galloping across the Mediterranean Sea, and they extend their claws to the Black Sea. In Constanta, Romania, the Austro-Hungarian Black Sea Fleet was established, and at the same time, an inland fleet called the Danube Fleet was established.

In the spacious and luxurious combat room of the Ottoman Admiralty, the Ottoman Empire's Navy Minister Jemar Pasha presided over the combat meeting, and in his name he was the commander-in-chief of this huge Ottoman-German-Australia-Hungarian Combined Fleet, but the actual command was in the hands of the Germans and Austrians.

Jemal was quite self-aware and gave Admiral Sorochin enough power to command the Turkish navy.

The combat plan was proposed by the Austro-Hungarian Crown Prince. The purpose is to counterattack from the sea when the Russian army launches an attack on the front lines of western Ukraine and Belarus in order to cut off the Russian army's retreat.

For the German-Austrian joint fleet, which already has eight battleships, blocking the Sevastopol and Kerch Straits is not a big problem, but covering landing forces to land on the front line of Odessa is the key.

The Austro-Hungarian fleet led by Lieutenant General Pachner entered Constanta, and the counterattack was about to begin soon. Bolojevic is now ambitious and wants to replicate the brilliant achievements made by Marshal Kutuzov in the Danube during the Napoleonic Wars.
Chapter completed!