Just as the high seas fleet attacked the North Sea and fought fiercely with the Royal Navy, which once ruled the sea power, the German Army also fought fiercely and fought fiercely with the double-headed eagle, known as the European military police, on the Polish plain.

On August 16, the 8th and 9th German Army, which completed ammunition and material supply, launched an astonishing clamp-shaped offensive with the assistance of the 1st Austro-Hungarian Army, aiming directly at the town of Mazovsch, an eastern Warsaw. At the same time, the three Austro-Hungarian Army deployed in the front of Western Ukraine also began to advance eastward under the urging of Commander-in-Chief Khcendolf, in order to restrain the Russian army in front of him and reduce the pressure on the cluster that was mainly attacked in Warsaw. After two and a half months of battle, Xing-Lu and the other two had completely figured out the bottom of the Russian team. For this army that was useless except for the number of people, Xing-Lu decided to take big steps forward and directly encircle Warsaw.

Faced with the German team that once again rushed like a craze, the Russian commander Nikolai had no other choice but to switch to full defense in eastern Poland, waiting for the rear energy sources to continuously support more gray animals. At present, although the Russian army has five armies in the Polish battlefield with a total of more than 1 million troops for the Grand Duke to dispatch, three of them are all miscellaneous forces that have just been pieced together. Not only are they equipped with very poor equipment, but they cannot even achieve a per capita rifle, and their personnel composition also includes a large number of farmers: these civilians who have just put down their hoes have not undergone any basic tactical training at all. Once they are truly on the battlefield, the effect they can play will undoubtedly be extremely limited!

On the first day of the battle, Grand Duke Nicholas, who was in Warsaw, felt the huge pressure from the north and south at the same time. Although the Russian army received a certain degree of renovation after the Battle of Rhodes, the army's spirit and experienced grassroots officers and soldiers were all lost with previous successive failures. The coordination between the infantry and cavalry and artillery was in chaos. As the previous elite legions were successively wiped out, the Russian team, which was weak in subsequently lacked artillery and machine gun firepower, and this

It undoubtedly worsened the heavy firepower support that the front-line infantry could get. Russian Army Minister Sukholimnov dug three feet to the ground and barely pieced together 1,300 artillery pieces for Grand Duke Nicholas, a million-strong army. Now he regrets his stupid behavior of despising military production before the war. Those Cossack cavalry that he once regarded as glory as being armed with sabers and flagpoles were no different from dying in front of the German machine guns and cannons!

The situation of the German army is completely opposite to that of the Russian army. Although they are still at a disadvantage in terms of number of people, the cooperation between infantry, cavalry and artillery is as skilled and sophisticated as a self-sounding bell, and there are many excellent and reliable officers and soldiers. In terms of the number of cannons, the German army relies on its country's industrial strength to surpass the European continent. It has far surpassed the Russian army, which has been defeated repeatedly. Xing-Lu has more than 2,500 artillery pieces, and the per capita number of artillery pieces is almost five times that of the Russian army; in the field of heavy artillery,

The German army that came to the Austro-Hungarian army to support was not on the same order of magnitude as the opponent. After three big victories in Tannenburg, Lake Mazuri and Rhodes, the German army was very motivated. Everyone except the commander-in-chief was full of energy and was determined to win the victory in front of them. Infected by this, the Austro-Hungarian 1st Army, which accompanied them, also showed unprecedented combat effectiveness. Even when facing a Russian regular army with the same number as theirs, they had to fight back and forth.

In addition, the German army can also obtain specific details of the Russian military deployment through the Russian army's wireless telegram using only simple password encryption, or even plain text. Some spies secretly sneaked into the Russian-occupied area under the order of Xinglu to cut telephone lines. The Russian army, whose wired communication was damaged, used wireless telegrams, which undoubtedly allowed Xinglu to gain more information about Russian military dispatch!

In this situation where the German army, which had an absolute advantage in combat power, was difficult to win without winning. On the morning of August 18, Grand Duke Nicholas adjusted its deployment and transferred the five divisions that were originally deployed on the left wing of the southern battlefield to the middle to resist the increasingly fierce attack of the German and Austrian coalition on the front; however, due to the poor transmission of the order, another group of troops responsible for filling the gap in the left wing did not receive the order until ten hours after the six divisions set off. This mistake was instantly captured by Hindenburg, which intercepted the Russian telegram. After a comprehensive comparison of information from multiple parties, Hindenburg, which was confirmed to be not a trap set by the other party, immediately ordered his cavalry to turn around in a row and attack this fleeting weakness on the Russian front.

Unlike the almost pure sabre spear of the Russian Cossack cavalry, the German cavalry unit is equipped with a large number of hot weapons. Historically, among the German cavalry brigades with 1,746 people, there were a total of 3 cavalry and artillery companies and 3 machine gun companies. The heavy fire support that the unit number can get is even better than that of infantry. In this plane, the German cavalry brigade not only added 2 mortar companies, but also introduced a large number of Mauser 98k rifles to replace sabres, and its ability to adapt to modern warfare has been greatly improved. Two months ago, the German Army had transferred nearly 50 cavalry brigades from the infantry brigades of the Western Front to the Eastern Front (the German infantry brigades are equipped with two cavalry brigades), which is definitely a terrifying force in the vast Eastern Front battlefield!

In the early morning of August 19, tens of thousands of German cavalry, with the cooperation of two infantry divisions, launched a fierce attack on the Russian army in front of the night. Although the night caused considerable trouble to the German army's advance, with the huge opportunity to attack it, the German army completely tore the Russian defense line, which was at an absolute disadvantage in just two hours. The cavalry troops then roared in and began to capture various key locations on the Russian front.

The Grand Duke Nicholas, who received the defeat, quickly ordered the reserve team to attack to regain the breakthrough, but the execution level of the troops was far from as powerful as he imagined. The remnants of the Russian army fled from the front line and the troops sent by the Grand Duke to reinforce were head-on on the road. The Russian army in the dark had to spend a lot of effort to carry out difficult dredging and advance work in a pot of mixed baggage, horses, and mules and horses of the army and combat soldiers. In this difficult marching, the miserable situation of the Russian defeated soldiers

The miserable situation also caused the Russian army responsible for going to reinforcements to lose their morale, and pessimism and war-weariness spread even more. Many of the farmers who were forced to join the army secretly left the slightest in the chaos and darkness, while more soldiers made up their minds and pretended to be defeated and retreated immediately. Many of them had no rifles, and they only had two rows of five bullets in their pockets; instead of becoming cannon fodder and dying meaninglessly, it would be better to escape to save their lives!

Because they were hit by the defeated soldiers the night before, these troops were delayed by at least three hours; and when the German reconnaissance planes took off to observe the Russian troops that were still marching, they immediately directed heavy artillery fire to carry out violent bombardment like sky fire. The red light exploded, and the air waves flew everywhere. The Russian infantry and cavalry were blown up by the German thunder heavy artillery fire, and the war horses were running wildly, and the soldiers ran in fear, and the whole scene was chaotic with the bombardment of ammunition trucks. When the roar of the cannon stopped, before the Russian soldiers had time to take a breath, they found that a large number of German troops were already running towards them under the cover of mortars and machine guns; if their own firepower resisted, they were harvested by the fierce attacks of the other side as storm.

One day later, on the evening of the 20th, the reserve commando sent by the Grand Duke was defeated. A large number of German infantry and cavalry rushed into the gap that was smashed and rushed towards the rear of the Russian army. At this time, the Russian army still had more than twice the advantage of military strength. If they resisted to the death, they might not be able to retreat steadily in a calm manner. However, the Russian army had long become a frightened bird in succession of failures. After learning that they were about to be surrounded by the other side, the atmosphere of trembling and panic had already enveloped the entire Russian team.

Early in the morning of the 22nd, the German army launched an offensive under large-scale artillery preparations. The roar of machine guns and the roar of explosions continued until night fell. More than half of the Russian 18th Army, composed of reserves and peasants, could not resist and retreated backwards, which immediately triggered an avalanche-like chain reaction. Russian soldiers had already supported the fierce and fierce attack of the German army, and suffered heavy casualties in their respective units. Now seeing that there were already someone in friendly forces running away, the last trace of belief that persisted in their hearts completely collapsed.

In order not to reproduce the fate of being surrounded and annihilated by the German army two times, the Russian troops on the front of the battlefield began to retreat on a large scale. Similar to the fact that they jumped 50 miles a day during the Battle of Lake Mazuri, the Russian army had an amazing organizational efficiency when they were threatened by life. The escape journey of hundreds of thousands of people on several not-wide roads not only did not show any congestion and chaos, but instead maintained an extremely fast speed. The German cavalry chased the horses, and only barely grabbed the tails of these troops and seized a batch of artillery and ammunition that was large in number but different from the German army's standards and could not be effectively used.

However, even so, the German army also achieved a decisive victory in the southern wing. Mazovsch fell on August 23, and more than 80,000 Russian officers and soldiers walked into the German prisoner-of-war camp in dejectedly. Affected by this, the Russian army's defense line on the northern wing was also shaky, and the Russian army whose rear was cut off had no will or conditions to fight. (To be continued...)

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