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Chapter 5 Knights

On a windless night, the air is dull and hot, and even those who are sleeping cannot escape the sweat all over their bodies. The soft moonlight spills in from the window, driving away most of the darkness in the room, but it cannot drive away the temperature or the worries in Chentian's heart.

Chen Tian asked himself over and over again: Who is he who dares to abandon national interests and ignores them? He who dares to use the security of Germany's Eastern Front as a bargaining chip for the struggle?

The generals and staff in the legion believed that this situation should be a non-human mistake, perhaps it was a delay in the delivery process of the intelligence officer, or the intelligence officer did not pay attention to this piece of information, or was placed in a pile of documents by a certain staff officer. However, Chen Tian knew very well that the chance of Luang's love was small and small.

Although Chentian's intelligence network was established by Thomas, Chentian was also involved in the construction process. Thomas also explained to him in detail the operation mode of the intelligence department of the German General Staff. When the intelligence officer found out that the intelligence was transmitted to the General Staff, the experienced intelligence officer would transmit the information as soon as possible, and the fundamental department might delay it. After the intelligence was transmitted from the General Staff to East Prussia, Thomas immediately conveyed it to himself, and the delay occurred in the General Staff.

Two names popped up in Chen Tian’s mind: Little Moltke and Prince.

Chief of General Staff Moltke was the one who had the most chance to suppress this information for a few days, and Prince Prince was the one who had the most to do this in winter. However, Moltke and himself were only strategically different, and he should be in charge of pushing the entire legion into the fire pit. Although the prince was on the Western Front at this time, he could completely influence the speed of the intelligence transmission through his personal power zone. It seems that Prince was the most suspicious. However, this is just a speculation. He had no evidence at all. It was not realistic to defeat a prince based on the speculation zone, nor was it beneficial to the current overall situation. However, it was easy to avoid open guns and hidden arrows. If this mastermind behind the scenes did some tricks at any critical moment...

Thinking of this, Chen Tian couldn't help feeling heartbroken. Unfortunately, his own intelligence network was only 10 years ago, and the first group of members was only 4 years ago. Their main target was the various departments and British and French governments of their infiltration. So far, these infiltrators are still struggling slowly in unknown departments and positions. Now, the intelligence of Russia is mainly based on the intelligence of the German General Staff. Although Chen Tian and Lenin asked the Russian Revolutionary Army to do their best to provide Russian intelligence, Lenin and his party, who had always believed that the suspicion of stolen the country in this agreement, have hardly provided any useful information so far, and Chen Tian had no way to do so.

The long night, tossing and turning. Chen Tian lost insomnia!

He climbed up from the bed and slowly walked to the table to pour a cup of boiled water. Outside the window, all the houses were shrouded in the silver moonlight, and the whole town was sleeping sounds. Only a team of dedicated patrol soldiers took the crisp footsteps on the road with leather boots and stones, and the guard posts and searchlights of the prisoners camp swept back and forth...

It was not until dawn that Chen Tian fell asleep.

I don't know how long it took, Hoffman's voice came from outside the door, and Chen Tian opened his eyes. It was already dawn. He patted his heavy head and asked Hoffman to come in while putting on his clothes.

"Your Highness, good news! Colonel Matthew sent a telegram, and the supplies from Germany had been transported to the vicinity of Kimon! It was just that due to the lack of sleepers and rails, the railways in Kimon area had not been repaired yet, but we can use a carriage to transport the supplies back!"

Hoffman excitedly raised the telegram in his hand. After saying that, he realized that Chen Tian looked tired.

"Your Highness, your face is not very good! Didn't you sleep well yesterday?"

"Oh! I had insomnia last night, but it didn't matter!" Chen Tian washed his face with the cold water brought by the guard, and then he felt much more awake.

"The supply has finally arrived! We can take the next move soon! Now, with the seized from the Russian army, how many carriages are there in our hands?"

"We seized 3,000 war horses and more than 400 carriages from the Russians, and more than 300 carriages that were not completely damaged. There are 500 cars in the 1st and 3rd Army, so we can send more than 1,000 carriages to transport supplies today!"

Hoffman's arithmetic is indeed very good. I don't know who is better than Ludendolf, who was born as a logistics officer. Chen Tian thought so, but after a while he added:

"Col. Hoffman, I hope that it is the easiest for people to relax their vigilance before coming. Although the Russians did not leave any main cavalry troops near Kimon, we still found that in the past few days, there were still small teams of Russian scouts appearing in the woods. I believe Agreni had until our supply arrived! 1,000 carriages were lined up for several miles. The Russians would not give up this opportunity to attack well. They could take advantage of the fact that we came to a large-scale raid without regard for the beginning and end!"

"Your Highness, I know this, but before we shipped the gasoline back, our armored vehicles and motorcycles could only stay here obediently. It seems that we need to send more infantry to protect these transport carriage convoys!" Hoffman also put away his excited expression.

"That's right! I thought about it. In order to avoid a long team that is difficult to take into account both the beginning and the end, we can divide these 1,000 carriages into 10 teams, each team is guarded by 2 infantry regiments. In addition, Vaughn selected some soldiers who could ride horses from the legion, and formed some reconnaissance teams with Russian war horses to patrol and reconnaissance near the transport team and the woods. At the same time, we sent reconnaissance planes to cooperate with them to monitor the movements of the Russians!"

In Chentian's legion, the cavalry's reconnaissance function had been mostly replaced by reconnaissance aircraft, and the only cavalry division was left in East Prussia. However, after this period of battle, Chentian discovered that the cavalry was still based on their advantages. For example, when the cavalry was reconnaissance aircraft in severe weather conditions, the cavalry's role was irreplaceable.

"This is indeed a good idea, but His Highness, our aviation gasoline is not much, I hope we can transport those supplies back smoothly this time!"

Soon, a huge convoy of horses and carriages were organized, and the machine gunmen climbed up the carriage with light and heavy machine guns, while the rest of the infantry guarded the carriage and drove towards Kimon.

1,500 German soldiers who could ride horses formed dozens of patrol teams with captured Russian war horses, who were responsible for the vigilance of the transport convoy.

Shortly after the carriage set off, the reconnaissance plane sent back a report, and a large number of Russian cavalry left Wolvesk and were in the vast woods after they were young.

After receiving this news, everyone couldn't help but feel nervous. The soldiers looked at the surrounding woods alertly, fearing that there were a large number of Russian cavalry hidden inside. However, the fight was very calm throughout the morning. Until the carriages arrived at Kimon, nothing happened.

The carriage crossed Kimon to the train unloading site. It was guarded by numerous German infantrymen. Under the gaze of countless machine guns, food, fuel and ammunition were brought into the carriage. The soldiers of the carriage convoy did not care about the hot weather and set off to return to Biavistock.

The sun was hot and vicious at noon. The woods were much cooler. In a forest between Kimon and Biavistock, a small team of German cavalry composed of 30 cavalry was enjoying lunch. The leader was Lieutenant Stephen, who fought bravely while rescuing the Wolbeck Division. Stephen was born in a noble family, and riding horses was very, very common for him. However, the Russian war horses were very uncooperative and jumped from time to time to throw the stranger on the horse's back.

Stephen was pretty good, barely tamed his mount, and several other German soldiers with poor riding skills fell to their butts, and everyone was amused and laughed at this. In addition, they had long infantry rifles on their backs and heavy and unfamiliar with Russian swords. Now they have combat power, even they themselves dare not praise themselves. Fortunately, their superiors gave them the task to be responsible for the alert. Once they found the Russian cavalry, they could do except sending warnings, which was to hide behind their infantry machine guns.

"Oh? There's no water!" A soldier with biscuit crumbs on his face made him hold the mouth of the kettle down, and it took him a while to drip a small drop of water.

"I have nothing!" A soldier chewing a biscuit next to him shook his hand and the kettle was empty.

"Lieutenant, let us both go find water!" The two soldiers took the initiative to ask to fetch water, while Stephen asked the other soldiers to hand over the kettle to them.

"Then get rid of you two. Remember to be careful, it is likely that the Russians are nearby!"

The others drank the water in their kettle and handed it over to them. The two soldiers slowly left north with their kettles hanging all over their bodies.

Outside the woods, the first pair of carriages that returned happened to pass by. The infantry kept wiping sweat from their foreheads, and their clothes were almost wet. In contrast, Stephen felt much luckier.

Half an hour later, four convoys of horses and cars had passed outside the woods, but the two soldiers who were looking for water still did not come back. Stephen began to feel something was wrong, and he asked the soldiers to search in the direction where the two soldiers left.

The woods became denser, and the dense branches and leaves almost isolated the outside sunshine and the scorching summer. The soldiers were moving forward while enjoying the coolness.

"Lieutenant, listen! There seems to be something in the east!" A soldier suddenly broke the silence and said, and everyone stopped their war horses.

There was silence in the woods, and it seemed that the sound of war horses hissing in the east was indeed hissing.

Not long after everyone turned east, a small pond suddenly appeared between the two woods. Stephen and his soldiers saw two bodies in gray uniforms lying beside the pond, and there were many kettles scattered around them. It was obvious that the two soldiers who went out to find water.

"Stop!" Stephen waved his hand and signaled that he stopped in the woods here. The heavy breathing of war horses seemed to come from the woods on the other side of the pond. The Russians were probably hiding there. The two soldiers lying beside the pond were still holding swords. Stephen speculated that the Russians attacked them from a very close place, so they didn't even have time to escape, so they had to draw their swords to fight in a hurry.

"Everyone is here, don't dismount, take out the rifle and prepare to shoot. Once you find out, the Russians will fire immediately and then run back immediately!" After Stephen gave the order, he rode his horse toward the pond alone.

After approaching the pond, Stephenfa found that the two soldiers were covered with knife marks on the front, which also proved his speculation. Are the Russians still in that woods now? If so, why don’t they come out? Maybe they are waiting to dismount themselves!

Although the pond was out of the protection of the woods, Stephen still felt a chill behind him. One foot slowly crossed the horse's back, gently hit the ground, and then the other foot was also placed from the stirrups.

There was still no movement in the woods. Stephen slowly bent down and picked up a kettle, full! The other one, empty! The next one, full! It seemed that when the Russians attacked them while they were drawing water, Stephen put the kettles one by one on their backs and grabbed the reins with one hand.

Just as the kettle was halfway, the dull sound of horse hooves came from the woods, without whistling or shouting, a group of Russian cavalry rushed out quietly. Their sabers flashed with dazzling light in the sun.

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The Russian cavalry in front fell down with the sound of gunfire, while Stephen skillfully rolled over the horse and rode his horse as fast as possible.

The woods suddenly trembled and a whistle sounded. A large number of Russian cavalry rushed out of the shadow of the woods. The German soldiers who were riding their horses were shocked. The few riding skilled people didn't even have time to carry the rifle on their backs, so they hurriedly took the rifle to their necks and let the rifle swing in front of them. They pulled the reins with their hands and ran wildly towards the back.

The Russian cavalry group had been fully launched, and countless people were waving their sabers and following the small German cavalry. The German soldiers were tightly attached to the horse's back, fearing that they would be thrown off by their mounts or rotten by the oncoming branches. When the people were about to reach the edge of the woods, two screams came from behind them.

Finally, the German cavalry rushed out of the woods. The hot sunlight had turned into the angel light in their eyes. The fifth convoy of horses and horses and soldiers stopped the team after hearing the gunshots. All the carriages were lined up in two rows on both sides of the railway line, blocking the head and tail by several horizontal carriages, forming a long rectangle. The machine gunners on the car had pointed the muzzle at the woods. On the carriage, beside the carriage, and under the carriage were full of soldiers holding rifles, and grenades were also placed in a convenient place.

After Stephen and the others rushed out of the woods, they walked around the convoy and rushed hundreds of meters away and stopped.

The Russians rushed out of the woods and found countless bullets running towards them. The cavalry in the front even had no idea of ​​retreating or avoiding them and fell off their horses. The Russians behind did not stop there. They rushed over their companions' bodies toward the German carriage convoy. The German infantry fired only one bullet and threw the grenades out.

The first group of Russian soldiers who rushed out of the woods were completely put on the shrapnel of bullets and grenades. However, the smoke of gunpowders had not yet dissipated, and more Russian cavalry appeared in front of the German soldiers. The railway was too close to the woods, but the railway was lined with the best roads. The remaining paths were either muddy or were basically in the middle of the woods.

Affected by machine guns, rifle shooting and grenade explosions, some horses in the carriage convoy had begun to become manic. However, the German soldiers no longer cared for comforting them. The machine gunners kept pouring a series of bullets to the Russian cavalry, and the rifle soldiers made more and more use of the grenades they had just been transported. At the beginning, even if the Russian cavalry could approach the carriage, they were scarred. However, as heavy machine guns began to change the ammunition belt, the Russian cavalry rushed to the next to the carriage. They could not ride over the carriages loaded with supplies, but they jumped to the carriages and slaughtered the machine gun soldiers on it with sabers. Many rifle soldiers tried hard to stab the Russians who jumped onto the carriages with bayonets until the heavy machine guns rang again. This stalemate condition changed slightly.

However, at this moment, even worse situations finally occurred. Several war horses were frightened and frantically pulled the carriage away from the team. A gap suddenly appeared in the neat rectangle corner. Although the infantry rushed up bravely and tried to use stabs to block the gap, the Russian cavalry used this gap as a breakthrough, and cavalry continued to rush into the carriage formation.

"No, they can't support it anymore! We must help them block the gap!" Stephen, who was watching the game from a distance, was extremely anxious to see this situation, so he took the lead in pulling out his saber and rushing towards the convoy.

The remaining 25 German warriors rushed up without saying a word.

Stephen rushed into the battle formation with his squad, blocking the gap with his flesh and blood of himself and the horses. They were not skillfully waving the saber in their hands, lower than any Russian cavalry who wanted to rush into the chariot formation.

Under the fierce firepower of the machine gun, the Russians who failed to successfully break through and suffered extremely rapid losses, and dozens of them fell into a pool of blood every second. In contrast, Stephen's team had to be hit by dozens of times every second. It was very worthwhile.

The Russians retreated, and the only hundreds of cavalry fled back to the woods in a panic, leaving a large number of corpses between the German transport team and the woods.

Before he could celebrate the victory, Stephen fell down staggeringly.

On the same day, a transport team at the end was also attacked. They were much lucky. The carriage formation remained intact until the end, and the Russians also left behind a large number of bodies and left in panic.

After this battle, the heroic deeds of Stephen's team spread throughout the legion, and Chen Tian personally went to the battlefield hospital to meet them.

"Lt. Stephen, your courage is worthy of this first-class Iron Cross. The country and the people are proud of you! I regret that your right leg was injured in the eyes of the battle clock and will leave a lifelong disability! However, are you willing to continue serving in the Air Force? Your legs will not affect your becoming an excellent fighter pilot!"
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