Great Warlord: The Second Ancestor of the Empire

Although this battle did not last long, it only lasted for more than a month at most. But there were heavy casualties on both sides.

According to the original history, the Battle of Galicia was one of the few victorious battles fought by the Rakshasa Empire on the Western Front, and it was also a victory in which our own losses were less than those of the enemy.

But in the current time and space, due to Goremekin's conscription order, although the Rakshasa Empire still won this battle, the casualties on both sides were directly reversed.

In the original history, the Austro-Hungarian Empire invested 48 infantry divisions in the Galician Campaign, with a total number of 81 infantry and 11 cavalry divisions.

In the end, there were 44 casualties, of which more than 10 were captured. The Rakshasa Empire lost about 23 people, and only 4 people were captured.

However, because the Rakshasa Empire has a large number of new soldiers in the army this time, they are still the kind of recruits who have no combat experience. This resulted in the Rakshasa Empire losing more than 50 people in this Galician battle, among which were captured. There are 15 people.

The Austro-Hungarian Empire only lost 25 people and 7 were captured.

This means that the loss ratio between the two sides was that the Austro-Hungarian Empire was only about half of the Rakshasa Empire.

This means that although the Austro-Hungarian Empire lost almost 280 to 300 kilometers of territory, they did not lose much strength and were able to counterattack at any time.

On the Rakshasa Empire's side, it was just the opposite.

Although they advanced 300 kilometers and brought the war to the areas occupied by the Austro-Hungarian Empire, their strength was greatly reduced and all kinds of materials were in short supply.

Once the Austro-Hungarian Empire launched a counterattack against them, the Rakshasa Empire would not be able to hold on at all.

Therefore, General Ivanov once again asked Goremekin for support.

But this time, Goremekin directly rejected General Ivanov's request on the grounds that now that the Austro-Hungarian Empire in the southwest had been defeated, Ivanov's task should now be to continue the attack.

Moreover, with the troops currently in Ivanov's hands, Goremekin feels that he can push to the Balkans and join the Serbian army there.

As for reinforcements, Goremekin told Ivanov that the empire not only has the Southwest Front Army, but also needs support in the Far East and the frontal battlefields on the east and west fronts.

The empire now wants to consider launching a new campaign in East Prussia. Therefore, in the short term, there will be no more support for the Southwest Front.

Hearing this reply, Ivanov was shocked.

Now he does still have nearly [-] troops in his hands, but what do these [-] troops look like? Doesn’t Goremekin know?

The victory in the Battle of Galicia this time was entirely due to the 20 divisions in his hands.

But now, almost all the veterans of those 20 divisions have been killed or injured, and what is left are a group of recruits with no actual combat experience.

Use this kind of force structure to continue the attack? Isn't this a joke on the lives of people like myself?

But the problem is that Goremekin has now used the harshest tone, asking him to continue the attack, and also expressed very vaguely that if he does not carry out the order or the attack fails, then he will be tried by the imperial military court.

Forced to do nothing, Ivanov could only continue to let the Southwest Front advance.

At this time, the remaining troops of the Austro-Hungarian Empire had retreated to the Galpathian Mountains, preparing to block the Rakshasa Empire's Southwest Front here.

Ivanov deployed the Third Army as the vanguard and began to attack the Garpathian Mountain defense line.

What was unexpected was that at this time, the Austro-Hungarian Empire felt that it might not be able to stop the Rakshasa Empire's attack, so it asked the Hans Empire for help.

William II received a request for help from the Austro-Hungarian Empire. He knew that the Rakshasa Empire must not be allowed to break through to the Balkans, so he ordered the 11th Army of the Hans Empire on the eastern front (with August von Mackensen as commander ), begins the Battle of Gorlice.

This battle was mainly a large-scale attack on the right wing of the Southwest Front of the Rakshasa Empire. The plan was to break through the Gorlice area between the upper reaches of the Vistula River and the foothills of the Beskid Mountains, and then encircle and annihilate the Rakshasa Empire's vanguard of the [-]rd Army. Three armies.

This attack was mainly led by the Hans Empire, with the Austro-Hungarian Empire assisting.

In the 35-kilometer breakthrough section, ten infantry divisions and one cavalry division were invested, totaling 12.6 people, 457 light artillery pieces, and 159 heavy artillery pieces. This kind of firepower ratio completely crushed the opponent's Rakshasa Empire's Third Army.

At this time, Ivanov had no idea that the Hans Empire had joined the war, nor that his next opponent had changed from the Austro-Hungarian Empire to the Hans Empire.

At this time, his Southwest Front Army was still scattered along a 600-kilometer front and had not had time to gather together, so its forces were very scattered.

Starting from July 7st, the Hans Empire and the Austro-Hungarian Empire began to prepare cannon fodder, and in the early morning of the 1nd, they broke through the Rakshasa Empire's defense line in one fell swoop. And began to expand the breakthrough.

After receiving the information from the Third Group asking for help, Ivanov knew that the Hans Empire was among them, so he asked St. Petersburg for help while starting to send reinforcements to the Third Group Army.

But the problem is that his Southwest Front now has two fatal problems.

The first is that most of the existing Southwest Front Army are new recruits, and their organization level is very low. It is very difficult to gather them quickly.

The second is that his Southwest Front Army is seriously lacking in logistical supplies, and all kinds of weapons are not fully prepared. Many soldiers still share one gun with three people.

To rescue the Third Army with such strength is to risk death.

But in this situation, it is impossible not to save him. If the third army is defeated, it will affect the two armies around him, and it may lead to a complete rout by then.

Therefore, at Ivanov's strong request, the Fourth Army of the Rakshasa Empire began to move towards the Third Army, but the speed of this march was not much faster than a tortoise.

By the time the Fourth Army arrived on the battlefield, the Third Army had been defeated.

Seeing that the Third Army had been defeated, the commander of the Fourth Army immediately ordered a retreat.

This time the Fourth Army retreated much faster. Almost catching up with the retreat of the elite troops.

But this degree of organization is impossible to compare with the elite troops.

The Hans Empire and the Austro-Hungarian Empire were unwilling to give up this opportunity. They chased the Fourth Army and drove the Fourth Army directly back to the mainland of the Rakshasa Empire.

As soon as other directions saw this situation, they also began to retreat, fearing that they would be bitten by the Hans Empire if they ran too slowly.

At this point, the Rakshasa Empire's all-out attack in the southwest ended in failure.

Although the Battle of Gorlice ended with the victory of the Hans Empire and the Austro-Hungarian Empire, due to the small number of troops invested by the Hans Empire, there was no way to adopt a roundabout way of outflanking, resulting in the overwhelming majority of the Rakshasa Empire's Southwest Front. Some soldiers retreated to their original defense lines, preserving most of their strength.

Therefore, facing such a southwest front army, the Hans Empire did not choose to continue the attack.

For this battle, later historians and military scientists called this battle the "Battle of Gorlice" or the "Battle of Gorlice Breakthrough."