Although Lieutenant General Stelz knew that His Royal Highness had been conceiving a large combat plan, and the two had discussed some details of the combat, when Lee Haydn came up with his entire plan, his chief of staff was still shocked by his ambitious plan.

It is the General Staff’s business to formulate combat plans according to principles, but Lee Haydn has been breaking the rules. He doesn’t like the stereotyped combat plans in the General Staff, but he is always ingenious.

Lee Haydn's goal was to siege the Russian 3rd Army that surrounded the Fortress of Prèmeer, not to defeat it, but to wipe out it out completely.

"It is better to cut one finger than to hurt his ten fingers."

Stelz thought about it and then understood the meaning of this sentence from the East. It was difficult for him to understand some of the Crown Prince's ideas. From the discussion between the two, the Crown Prince's way of fighting was - run, run if he couldn't win, run on a large scale, and then look for opportunities to annihilate the enemy.

This is inconsistent with the military theory of the Western decisive battle, but it is a bit like the thinking habits of cowardly Easterners.

Stelz didn't dare to say this.

Lee Haydn's plan was to go north to pick up the Germans, but he was just pretending that the life and death of the reckless Markens group had nothing to do with him. Moreover, when the Austro-Hungarian army was defeated in Galicia in the previous stage, the Germans were indifferent and did not see them pulling a hand in the crisis.

After advancing north, the 3rd Army quickly turned to the Sand River Valley and cut off the retreat of the Russian 3rd Army. At the same time, the Austrian army concentrated the 2, 6 and 7th armies to launch a full-scale attack on the Russian army besieging the Fortress Prèmeer. With the cooperation of the fortress defenders inside, the 750,000 Austro-Hungarian army had an absolute advantage over the Russian army.

In addition, the 1st Army of O'Neur will defend the Russian reinforcements in the direction of the Carpathian Mountains, while the 4th Army will restrain the 8th Army of Limburg.

"A big plan," said Stelz, "but how can the 1st Army defend the attack of the three armies in the direction of the Russian Carpathians?"

"We didn't let them defend, we just need to delay the enemy's reinforcements. We need 3 to 5 days." Lee Haydn said, picking up the pencil and drawing three diagonal lines on the map. "The 1st Army only needs to build these three lines of defense in advance, and then retreat one by one. Defense is always much easier than offense, right?"

Stelz nodded, the loss of offense is much greater than that of defense, which is true. "But how can we be sure that we can defeat Przemir's Russian army in three days?"

"This has been carefully calculated by the staff, and we have some new secret weapons." Lee Haydn paused for a moment, and he kept it a secret, "You will see it then."

"Well, well, in principle, I agree with this plan, but I need to study it carefully."

"Then it should be as soon as possible, Baron Hetsendorf is coming in a hurry." Lee Hayden smiled.

"My God, you absolutely did it on purpose," yelled Stelz, "to prevent me from having enough time to discuss with the General Staff."

"You can think so, but I'm just worried that their shouts will scare the Russians away."

Admiral Condra arrived at the Austrian Front Command in Krava in the afternoon. This time, the crown prince's performance was very satisfied. After a brief talk with him, the crown prince immediately called General Bolojevic on the front and ordered him to immediately lead the 3rd Army to rescue the Germans. What satisfied him the most was that the crown prince finally agreed to launch a full-scale attack that he had long been looking forward to in two days.

He was very excited and worked tirelessly to inspect the troops scattered within 80 kilometers, but Lee Haydn stayed in Kwara and carefully studied the combat plan with the personnel from the front-line staff.

The Battle of Warsaw-Ivangorod launched by the German army seems to inevitably be defeated. The German and Austrian army lacks cooperation and collusion. In the emergency of the Battle of Galicia, the German army did not provide any help to the Austro-Hungarian army. Now they are in danger, but Moltke repeatedly asked the Austro-Hungarian army to provide full reinforcements.

"Franz, your problem is that you trust the Germans too much. This is the fundamental reason for the failure of the Battle of Galicia." Lee Haydn received from Condra's hand. Moltke asked the Austrian army to attack Ivangorod with all their might, and then said to his chief of staff, "The plan for the entire Battle of Galicia requires one or two armies to cooperate, but what about the Germans? They only dispatched one army and a total of four divisions of troops. This is not enough to stuff the Russians' teeth."

"But if we don't act, the Germans on the front line in Warsaw may be annihilated by the Russians," said Condra. "We may lose this war."

"Why don't the Germans think about it for us? If we suffer a major loss, we will also lose this war. Now their telegrams come one after another, but where are they at the critical moment of the Battle of Galicia? This caused us to lose a total of 350,000 people!" Lee Hayden became angry and said in a stern tone. "If the Germans are fearless towards us, I would rather withdraw from this damn war now!"

"But how do the Germans explain?" Condra pointed to the telegraph paper that was thrown on the table by Lee Haydn.

"With this in the formulation of the battle plan, the 3rd Army under Bolojevic will carry out some tactical restraining operations on the flanks of the Markensen cluster," said Lee Haydn. "The entire battle will be launched the day after tomorrow, and we will not expect the support of the Germans."

According to the combat plan, the entire battle will officially start on November 3. But the troops began to set off the night before. Lee Haydn gathered enough vehicles, cars and trucks for the three armies participating in the attack. Of course, the most were large trucks pulled by two mules and horses. Stelz finally knew what the new thing Lee Haydn would invest. More than a hundred trucks surrounded by armor and were equipped with heavy machine guns and small-caliber artillery.

The "tank" mentioned by His Royal Highness the Crown Prince was not transported to the front line, and the complex mountains in Galicia do not seem to be suitable for the use of that thing.

"Tomorrow is the first performance of the Air Force." Lee Haydn said, pointing to more than 130 biplanes parked in a large flat ground.
Chapter completed!