The long-awaited counterattack is about to begin.

Infantry General Boloyevich was involved in the development of the plan for the counterattack by Heldon, and he served as an adjutant at the side of His Royal Highness the Crown Prince for ten years, until 1905, when he became commander of the 7th Infantry Brigade of Galicia in Limburg, where he was promoted to brigadier general. He rose through the ranks and, with the support of the Grand Duke of Istria, was promoted to commander of the Croatian-Slovenian garrison in 1911, promoted to lieutenant general, and in 1913 to general of infantry.

Crown Prince Heldon favored him most because of his military thinking, the guerrilla tactics learned from the Abysian and Boer wars: emphasizing maneuverability, finding opportunities in mobile warfare, concentrating superior forces, and destroying the enemy.

In the frustrating Galician campaign, the Austro-Hungarian 6th Army under his command used this tactic and achieved remarkable results, although it did not help the overall situation, but such feats were enough to promote him to the commander-in-chief of the 3rd Army. Boloyevich was ordered to fulfill the task assigned to him by the General Staff with great efficiency: to reorganize the already disbanded 3rd Army, which was now able to return to the battlefield with a new look.

On October 29, Boloyevich received the order he expected: the 3rd Army, as the vanguard of the entire counter-attack operational plan, began to move on October 30!

The battle plan drawn up by the crown prince was very much in line with his appetite: two armies were used to delay the offensive of the four Russian armies, and four armies were concentrated to deal with the Russian 3rd Army encircling the fortress of Przemyr.

The Russian army, which was supposed to be on the Galician front, had a slight advantage, they had 7 army groups, while the Austro-Hungarian side had only 6. But the Battle of Warsaw-Ivangorod, launched by the Germans, forced the Russians to transfer two armies to strengthen the defense in the Warsaw direction, which left an opportunity for the Austro-Hungarian army.

The problem for the Russians was that the main forces of their Southwestern Front were concentrated on the Carpathian line, which was not easy to deploy, but they were stubbornly held back at the passes by the Hungarian local defense forces, which were far fewer than them, and their progress was slow. The Hungarian Local Defense Force, which is mainly composed of middle-aged reservists over the age of 35, after hearing the atrocities of the Russian army recounted by refugees fleeing from Galicia, because they had to defend their homeland from looting, burst out with amazing combat effectiveness, withstanding the attack of nearly 600,000 Russian troops with only 190,000 people.

At present, on the front of about 350 kilometers between the Vistula and the Dniester River, the Russian army has only two army groups, and the commander-in-chief of the Russian Southwestern Front, Ivanov, also sensed the danger and asked to stop the military operation on the Carpathian front, but was rejected by the base camp.

With the eyes of the Russian General Staff now on East Prussia, and the German assault on Warsaw had been repulsed, they did not expect the Austro-Hungarian army, which had suffered heavy losses in the Battle of Galicia, to recover quickly.

Bolojevich's personality meant that he could not rigidly follow the battle plan in its entirety, and Lechelton would allow the front-line commander to make temporary changes to the battle plan when formulating the battle plan. The original battle plan was that the 3rd Army led by him was just a show, threatening the flank of the Russian army chasing the Mackensen cluster, and then turning to the San Valley to intercept the retreat of the Russian 3rd Army.

But when he led his troops to Stravets, he was confronted by the Russian 12th Army in a rout.

On the way back, Mackensen made an ambush circle in Kamena for the Russian army that had been chasing after him, and the Russian 12th Army, which had been biting the main force of Mackensen's German army from Warsaw, fell into the trap at once, and was beaten by Mackensen in the counterattack. Boloyevich was willing to let go of such a good opportunity to beat the water dogs, and commanded the Austro-Hungarian 3rd Army to launch a fierce attack on the flank of the Russian 12th Army.

The Russian army, which was struggling to support, was attacked from the flank by the Austrian 3rd Army, and suddenly could not support it, and fled all the way to the northeast, with heavy losses. After rendezvous with the Austrian army, Mackensen, after hearing about the Austrian army's intentions, actually joined forces with Bolojevich and moved to the San River valley together.

On November 2, the Austro-Hungarian 6th Army first launched an attack on the right flank of the Russian 3rd Army on the periphery of the Przemyr fortress. The Russian 3rd Army, which had already suffered heavy losses under the Przemir Fortress, was even more problematic in its configuration, and the whole army was deployed in a spherical shape around the fortress, and the defensive forces on the flanks were very weak.

On 3 November, the Austro-Hungarian 6th Army broke through the defensive positions of the Russian 8th Army one day after the offensive began. The Russian 8th Army suffered heavy losses in the attack on the fortress of Przemyr, so it was transferred to the flank to repair, but it did not expect to encounter the Austro-Hungarian fresh force, and the main position was broken through in just one day. At the same time, the Austro-Hungarian 2nd and 7th armies also launched a full-scale attack on the Russian army from the east and south respectively, and under the siege of the Austro-Hungarian Third Route Army, plus the Austrian army defending the fortress also began to take the initiative, the Russian 3rd Army only held out for half a day before the whole line collapsed.

General Dimitriev ordered the Russian army to retreat on all fronts. However, this general who participated in the Russo-Japanese War deserves to get the true biography of the "Imperial Army", and the Russian army under his command is not afraid of death, and it is really broken out. The remnants of the Russian 3rd Army fled along the valley of the San River to Warsaw. It's a pity that Bolojevic and Makenson are waiting for him in front of him.

Boloyevich and Mackensen commanded nearly 300,000 Austro-German troops to launch a fierce attack on the fleeing Russian 3rd Army, while the Austro-Hungarian 6th Army pursued closely behind, and after a day and a night of fierce fighting, the Austrian 3rd and 6th Armies and the German Mackensen cluster combined to annihilate the Russian 3rd Army in the San River Valley.

In the battle of Przemyr, the Austro-German coalition forces completely annihilated 260,000 people of the Russian 3rd Army, the Russian army suffered 80,000 casualties, 170,000 were captured, and only a few thousand escaped from the encirclement.

It was a great victory that was enough to excite the Germans, who had just suffered defeat at the Battle of the Marne, and also to calm the unrest in Austria-Hungary a little.

The battle continued, and the Austrian 2nd and 7th armies, after relieving Przemyr, began to penetrate to the right and surrounded 250,000 men of the Russian 8th Army in Limburg.

The course of the campaign had exceeded Heldon's initial expectations.

After receiving reinforcements from Mackensen's 9th Army, Austria-Hungary concentrated 7 armies with a total of 1.35 million people on the Galician front, while the Russian army suffered heavy losses in the Battle of Przemyr, and the Southwestern Front currently has less than 900,000 people, and the Austro-Hungarian side has an advantage for the first time in terms of strength.

Lechelton ordered his troops to dig trenches before they froze over, and he did not want to make a frontal assault on the fortified fortress, but prepared for a long siege.

In the Battle of Przemyr, Lehydon tried to put planes and armored vehicles into the battle, but it did not attract special attention - the Russian army collapsed so quickly that most of Lehydon's planes did not even have time to take off in a hurry.

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