After getting the news of the failure of the Russian army's attack on Kimon, Chentian and François looked at each other and smiled, Aglini seemed to have run out of talents, and actually tried to raid Kimon again, but unfortunately Kimon's defense is not what it used to be, and it will never become the German army's wheat city again.

In Bialystok, Aglini did not attack the German positions again after the artillery strike. At noon, the smell of cooking smoke and food wafted from both positions, and the German soldiers sat at the bottom of the trenches enjoying delicious bread, sausages and potato soup, and the Russian soldiers received no bad food, but their meals were interrupted by German planes.

Time passed in this calm and oppressive atmosphere, and for a long afternoon Agripleni was in his headquarters, in his large map, thinking bitterly that choosing to retreat would mean abandoning the flanking of the German army, but it would be difficult to break through if he continued to wait. In contrast, Chen Tian and his soldiers were not so troubled, the German soldiers took a comfortable nap in the trenches, and Chen Tian constantly received battle reports from Markenson and Olge. The troops in the west were in a state of overwhelm, and the logistics units were nervously and orderly supplying fuel and ammunition to Olg's armored forces, so that they could storm the Russian front with all their might. After losing a large number of artillery, the resistance of the Russian army became more and more weak.

The German pilots were the busiest people, taking off from the airfield again and again, flying over and over the battlefield to drop bombs, so that Agreni's soldiers could barely take a nap between bombings.

As night fell, Mackensen and Olge's troops had advanced 50 kilometers deep into the Russian army by taking advantage of the precious time of the whole day, and the two lines of defense temporarily constructed by the Russian army under the command of the commander General Letzsky were vulnerable in front of the German armored forces, and in desperation, Retzsky finally ordered the whole army to retreat to Warsaw, and the German army temporarily stopped the pursuit.

Hundreds of searchlights lit up on the German positions east of Bialystok, and the columns of light scanned 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 from time to time owls could be heard in the distance, and a few bold voles crept out to breathe. The late summer night was very cool, and the German soldiers sat in the trenches, gathered in groups to chat quietly, the atmosphere seemed very relaxed and harmonious, and the sentries kept a close eye on the movements of the opposite side.

"For Aglini, there was no hope of attacking Kimon, and the front line of Bialystok was so impregnable that there were only two ways before him, either to continue the confrontation with us here, but this would not help the Russian 9th Army and the situation in the east; Either bypass Bialystok, or return to Minsk, Belarus, and then go to Warsaw via the remaining Minsk-Warsaw railway line, after which they either move forward with the Russian 9th Army to defend against the Germans, or defend themselves in Warsaw. In the German headquarters, Chen Tian used a red pencil to mark the possible direction of the Russian army's movement on the map, explaining his speculation over and over again, while François and the other staff officers stared at the ground and pondered carefully.

"Then will he retreat with his troops to Minsk to organize a defense on the spot?" François asked, holding his chin.

Hoffman shook his head, "It's unlikely!" Our goal now is not in the Belarusian region, but in Russian Poland and Galicia, and the attack on Minsk is too deep into the Russian border for us, and the local population of Belarus will not sit idly by like the Poles! ”

"Indeed! Going deep into Belarus will not completely cut off the logistics supply of the Russian army, but it will be a huge test for our logistics support! On the contrary, Warsaw is only a little more than 100 miles away, and it is not far from the German mainland, because, whatever Aglini's intentions, we must march to Warsaw as soon as possible! Chen Tian looked around, and everyone had different expressions.

"The Russians have been running Warsaw for a long time, and they have built a large number of permanent fortifications, and it will take a little effort to capture it!" Hoffman took out a stack of documents, flipped through them quickly, and said: "Warsaw is the logistics base of the Russian Army Group Southwest, and the supplies of the Russian army on the Galician front are transported to the front line through here. At present, the Russian troops stationed here include 2 garrison divisions, 1 cavalry division, and there may be 3-5 infantry divisions that have consumed large infantry divisions in the battle with the Austro-Hungarian army and then rest here, plus more than 100,000 remnants of the Russian 9th Army retreating from the west of the Leif River, the Russians will organize about 200,000 troops to defend Warsaw. ”

"Warsaw is a low-lying city with the Vistula River running through the city from south to north. At present, Warsaw has about 800,000 inhabitants, most of whom are Poles, and a large proportion of Russians are also zhan, and the city covers an area of 150 square kilometers. The Russians have built medium-sized fortresses in all four corners of Poland, and their defenses are mainly concentrated in the direction of Austria in the southwest and Germany in the northwest, but this time we are attacking from the northeast, so we have to face not many Russian fortifications, and the Russian army can only resist our attack with field defense and street fighting! Hoffmann explained with relish, as if the Germans had already fallen under the Polish city.

"Anyway, let's fix the railroad around the Leif River Bridge first! Then we will take the next step according to the movements of Aglini's department! Maybe this undead guy will launch an attack at night! As Chen Tianzheng spoke, the communications officer ran in and reported the movement of the Russian army.

German forward positions.

"There is a situation!"

With the shouts of the sentries, the German soldiers poked their heads out of the trenches, and there was a shaking figure on the Russian position opposite, they seemed to be actively mobilizing, and the dull sound of artillery movement was faintly heard in the distance.

"Except for the observation post, the rest of the personnel retreated to the rear bunker!" The officers ran back and forth to convey orders, the pointed helmets moved rapidly, converging into a flowing stream in the communication trenches, and in just a few minutes, the German forward positions were almost empty.

Chen Tian looked at the table clock in the corner of the command room, and when the time pointed to 12 o'clock, hundreds of Russian artillery pieces roared in an instant, as if they were using their last strength to vent their long-standing depression and dissatisfaction. Under the clear night sky, Russian artillery shells and flames scattered on German positions. At first, the intense, blinding light lasted for several seconds, and the explosions were continuous, and soon the sky darkened again, and it was not until the next wave of shells fell that the position boiled again.

Aglini came to the front line in person this time, and groups of Russian soldiers climbed out of the trenches and lined up in formation under his gaze, the dark green military uniforms only had an ignorant shadow in the dark night, and the black waves rushed towards the German positions with overwhelming momentum after the thousands of positions were completed. At this time, the Russian artillery fire began to extend to the depth of the German defense, and the German soldiers who stayed in the rear bunkers clearly felt that the tremor on the ground was getting stronger and stronger, and the huge sound waves hit everyone's eardrums, and the soldiers grew up and covered their ears with their hands.

Seeing the brilliant fireworks from the explosion of shells at night, Aglini couldn't be happier. His opponents had absolute air supremacy, which made it impossible for his troops to use planes and balloons for reconnaissance and calibration, and the accuracy of artillery fire was greatly affected, and in the whole day of bombing, he lost 30 percent of his artillery and more than half of his ammunition, and the trains carrying ammunition from the rear also suffered great losses in the German air raids. After the shelling lasted more than an hour, he was almost out of shells, but fortunately his soldiers had already rushed close to the first line of German barbed wire under the cover of darkness.

Although the cannon has not subsided, the German officers still stood at the exit of the bunker and shouted loudly, a top top steel helmet poured out of the bunker and ran towards the forward position again, the shells exploded around the communication trench from time to time, the soldiers tried to keep their heads down and move forward, compared to the Russian soldiers with cloth hats, the German army's iconic pointed steel helmet gave the soldiers good protection, of course, a new helmet is being produced in the factory in Germany, which can provide better protection for the soldiers' heads, It is said that these steel helmets will first equip the first German troops to attack the British mainland.

Accompanying the German soldiers were the black iron bumps, the white iron crosses on their bodies flickering in the light of the explosion, but they still gave the infantry great confidence and support.

The pillboxes on the German positions were the first to erupt tongues of fire, and then the infantry trenches became active, and the bullets had a more obvious trajectory at night than during the day, which also brought greater psychological pressure to the soldiers on both sides.

The fierce fighting continued until dawn, and the Russians invested almost all their forces, including ordinary infantry and cavalry, and even broke into the German forward positions and engaged in brutal white-knuckle battles, but the Germans finally kept the Russians out with strong defensive lines, tenacious willpower, and mobile defense of tanks.

As the sky grew brighter, German planes rushed to the battlefield, only to find that the Russians were retreating.

Soon, the news of the retreat of the Russian army made the German officers and soldiers who had not slept all night cheer, and the excited expressions drove away the shallow exhaustion on their faces.

The retreating Russians were harassed by German planes, and after rendezvous with Palyukav's troops, Aglieni eventually retreated to Belarus with 200,000 exhausted soldiers. In the battle of one day and one night, he lost many well-trained Guards soldiers and a large number of equipment, and the ordinary Russian troops who participated in the night battle showed their weak combat effectiveness.

Agliny led his troops by rail all the way to Minsk, the center of Belarus, where more than 100,000 new recruits were added to his troops, ostensibly with a great increase in the strength of the troops under his command, but these recruits were not only untrained, but half of the soldiers did not even have rifles, and the orders given to them by their superiors were to seize weapons from the German-Austrian army to replenish themselves.

On Chentian's side, except for the 1st Army, which left François to defend Bialystok and Kimon, the rest of Chentian's troops began to advance towards Warsaw. However, due to the destruction of the railway by the retreating Russian troops along the way, it was not until September 28 that the Panzer Corps and the 2nd and 3rd Infantry Corps of the East Prussian Corps came to the outside of Warsaw.

When Chentian's troops attacked the Russian 9th Army, the Austro-Hungarian forces also launched a fierce attack on the Russian Southwestern Army Group. After the Russian Southwest Army Group, which originally had the advantage, successively transferred nearly 500,000 troops to deal with the German East Prussian Corps, its strength was greatly reduced, and the entire army group had less than 1 million troops left, and a large number of artillery pieces were lost on the Leif River line; In contrast, the Austro-Hungarian army, which urgently requisitioned reinforcements from all over the country and the Serbian battlefield, has increased to more than 1.2 million, and the morale of the troops has also risen sharply after half a month of rest, plus the addition of two German reserve armies, the Austro-Hungarian army has achieved a certain advantage in the fierce battle with the Russian army, and the Russian army is retreating step by step, and its main combat area has retreated to the area of Lodz, which is only 100 miles west of Warsaw.