After receiving the news that the Russian army failed to attack Gimon, Chen Tian and François smiled at each other. Agrenie seemed to have finished his life and actually tried to use the same trick to attack Gimon again. Unfortunately, Gimon's defense is different from the past and will never become the German city of Maicheng again.

In Biavestok, Agreni did not attack the German positions after the artillery was hit. At noon, smoke and food were wafting on both positions. German soldiers sat at the bottom of the trenches and enjoyed delicious bread, sausages and potato soup. The Russian soldiers received were not bad food, but their meals were interrupted by German planes.

Time flies in this calm and depressing atmosphere. For a long afternoon, Agreni was in his command center, thinking painfully on his large map. Choosing to retreat means giving up the attack on the German army. However, it is difficult to make a breakthrough if you continue to wait. In contrast, Chen Tian and his soldiers were not so worried. The German soldiers slept comfortably in the trenches, while Chen Tian kept receiving reports from Markenson and Orger. The western troops were as powerful as the storm, and the logistics troops tensely and orderly supply oil and ammunition to Orger's armored troops, allowing them to attack the Russian front with all their might. After losing a large amount of artillery, the Russian resistance became increasingly weak.

The German pilots were the busiest people. They took off from the airport again and again and again, and flew to the battlefield again and again to drop bombs, which made Agreni's soldiers barely take a nap while the bombing was in trouble.

When night fell, Markensen and Orger's troops used this precious time to advance 50 kilometers into the Russian army. The two temporary lines of defense built by the Russian army under the command of commander General Lezsky seemed vulnerable to the German armored forces. In desperation, Lezsky finally ordered the entire army to retreat to Warsaw, and the German army temporarily stopped pursuing.

Hundreds of searchlights lit up on the German positions east of Biavestok, and the light columns looked back and forth at the front of the position, the center of the battlefield and the Russian positions. The whole world seemed to have fallen asleep, and the sound of owls whimpering from time to time came from afar, and a few bold voles quietly came out to breathe. The night in late summer was very cool, and the German soldiers sat in the trenches, gathered in groups of three or five to chat in a low voice. The atmosphere seemed very relaxed and harmonious, while the sentries were paying close attention to every move on the opposite side.

"For Agreni, there is no hope of attacking Kimon, and the defense line on the front of Biavestok is so indestructible. There are only two roads in front of him. Either continue to confront us here, but this will not help the battle situation between the Russian 9th Army and the east; either bypass Biavestok, and turn back to Minsk, Belarus first, and head to Warsaw through the remaining Minsk-Warsaw railway line, and then either go forward to resist the German attack with the Russian 9th Army, or defend on the spot in Warsaw." In the German command, Chen Tian used a red pencil to mark the possible direction of the Russian army's action on the map, explaining his speculations again, while François and other staff members stared at the ground carefully and thought hard.

"Will he retreat to Minsk with his troops to organize defense locally?" François asked, holding his chin.

Hoffman shook his head, "The possibility is not high! Our current target is not in the Belarus region, but the main force of Russian troops from Russian Poland and Galicia. Attacking Minsk is too deep for us to go into the Russian territory. The local residents of Belarus will not stand by like the Poles!"

"Indeed! Going deep into Belarus cannot completely cut off the logistics supply of the Russian army. It is a huge test for our logistics support! On the contrary, Warsaw is only more than 100 miles away from here and not far from Germany, because no matter what Agreni plans, we must march towards Warsaw as soon as possible!" Chen Tian looked around, and everyone looked different.

"The Russians have been operating Warsaw for a long time. They have built a large number of permanent fortifications. It may take some effort to capture it!" Hoffman took out a stack of documents and quickly read it. "Warsaw is the logistics base of the Russian Southwest Army Group. The supplies of the Russian army on the front of Galicia are transported to the front line through here. The Russian troops stationed here include 2 garrison divisions and 1 cavalry division. There may be 3-5 infantry divisions that consume a large amount of money in combat with the Austro-Hungarian coalition. In addition, the more than 100,000 remaining troops of the Russian 9th Army retreated from the west of the Rev River, the Russians will organize about 200,000 troops to defend Warsaw."

"Warsaw is a low-lying city, with the Vistula River running from south to north. Currently, there are about 800,000 residents in Warsaw, most of which are Poles, and the Russians have a considerable proportion. The city covers an area of ​​150 square kilometers, with streets crisscrossing and buildings in the city, which is very suitable for street fighting. The Russians built medium-sized fortifications in all corners of Poland, and their defenses are mainly concentrated in the southwest towards Austria and northwest towards Germany. This time we attacked from the northeast, so we have not faced many Russian fortifications. The Russian army can only resist our attack with field defense and street fighting!" Hoffman explained with relish, as if the German army had already approached the city of Poland.

"No matter what, first repair the railway around the Lev River Bridge! Then we will take the next action based on the movements of Agreni's troops! Maybe this unwilling guy will launch an attack at night!" Chen Tianzheng said, and the communication officer ran in to report the situation where the Russian army was moving.

On the frontier positions of the German army.

"There is a situation!"

As the sentry shouted, the German soldiers poked their heads out of the trench. There were shaking figures on the Russian position opposite. They seemed to be actively mobilizing, and the dull sound of cannons moving vaguely came from a distance.

"Except for the observation post, all the rest retreated into the rear bunker!" The officers ran back and forth to convey the orders, and the pointed helmets moved quickly and gathered in the traffic trenches into a flowing stream. In just a few minutes, the German frontier positions were almost empty.

Chen Tian looked at the clock in a corner of the command room. When the time pointed to 12 o'clock, hundreds of Russian cannons roared in an instant, as if they had used their last bit of strength to vent their long-standing depression and dissatisfaction. Under the clear night sky, Russian artillery shells and flames fell in a mess on the German positions. At the beginning, the strong and dazzling light lasted for several seconds, and the explosion sounded connected. Soon, the sky faded again, and it was not until the next wave of shells fell that the position boiled again.

Agreni came to the front line this time. Under his gaze, a group of Russian soldiers climbed out of the trenches and arranged in formation. The dark green uniforms had only a ignorant shadow in the dark night. After the positions were gathered, the black giant waves rushed towards the German positions with a scattered momentum. At this time, the Russian artillery fire began to extend to the depth of the German defense. The German soldiers stayed in the bunker behind clearly felt the tremor on the ground became stronger and stronger. The huge sound waves hit everyone's eardrums, and the soldiers grew their mouths and covered their ears with their hands.

Agreni was not happy to see the brilliant fireworks produced by the explosion of shells under the night. His opponent had absolute air supremacy, which made his troops unable to use aircraft and balloons for reconnaissance and calibration. The accuracy of artillery fire was greatly affected. During the whole day of bombing, he lost 30% of the cannons and more than half of the ammunition. The trains transporting ammunition from the rear also suffered great losses in the German air raid. After the artillery lasted for more than an hour, his shells were almost exhausted. Fortunately, his soldiers had already approached the German first barbed wire under the cover of darkness.

Although the sound of artillery has not subsided, the German officers still stood at the exit of the bunker and shouted loudly. A sharp-topped steel helmet surged out of the bunker and ran back towards the front positions. The shells exploded around the traffic trenches from time to time. The soldiers tried their best to lower their heads. Compared with the Russian soldiers wearing cloth caps, the German army's iconic sharp-topped steel helmets gave the soldiers good protection. Of course, a new type of helmet is being produced in the local German factories, which can provide better protection for the soldiers' heads. It is said that these helmets will be equipped with the first batch of German troops to attack the British mainland.

Advancing with the German soldiers were those dark iron lumps. The white iron crosses on their bodies seemed to be light and dark under the explosion of fire, but they still gave the infantry great confidence and support.

The bunkers on the German positions first spewed out flames, and then the infantry trenches became active. The bullets had a more obvious trajectory under the night than during the day, which also brought greater psychological pressure to the soldiers on both sides.

The fierce battle continued until dawn before gradually calming down. The Russian army invested almost all forces, including ordinary infantry and cavalry. They even broke into the frontier positions of the German army and had cruel hand-to-hand combat. However, the German army finally kept the Russian army out with its strong defense line, tenacious willpower and mobile defense of tanks.

When the sky was getting dark, German planes could not wait to fly to the battlefield, but they found that the Russian army was retreating.

Soon, the news of the Russian retreat made the German officers and soldiers who had not been sleepy all night cheer, and their excited expressions drove away the faint fatigue on their faces.

The retreating Russian troops were constantly harassed by German aircraft. After joining Palyukav's troops, Agreni finally retreated to Belarus with 200,000 exhausted soldiers. During the day and night of battle, he lost many well-trained Guard soldiers and a large number of equipment, and the ordinary Russian troops participating in the night battle showed weak combat power.

Agreni led his troops to Minsk, the center of Belarus, through the railway, where more than 100,000 newly recruited soldiers were replenished into his troops. On the surface, the strength of the troops he commanded increased greatly. However, not only did these new soldiers lack training, but half of them did not even have rifles. The order given to them was to seize weapons from the German and Austrian troops to supplement themselves.

On Chen Tian, ​​except for leaving François's 1st Army to defend Biavestok and Kimon, Chen Tian personally led the rest of the troops to advance towards Warsaw. However, because the retreating Russian troops destroyed the railway along the way, it was not until September 28 that the 2nd and 3rd infantry troops of the East Prussian Army came outside Warsaw. Chen Tian ordered the troops to rest on the spot and prepare to launch an attack, while actively contacting the Austro-Hungarian Allied forces.
Chapter completed!