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In early 1915, Germany defeated Russia in the Second Battle of Lake Mazuli, but at the same time, the Austro-Hungarian Empire messed up a battle in the Carpasau Mountains and lost a large number of troops. Today we will introduce to you the military operations against Russia in the winter of 1915. In order to kick Russia out of the battlefield within 1915, Germany concentrated a large number of troops on the Eastern Front and planned to launch two offensives in the northern and southern Eastern Fronts. On January 31, the Eighth and Tenth German Army Groups, with a total of 100,000 people, jointly launched the first offensive in East Prussia. The German Ninth Army pretended to invade Warsaw and launched the first battle of Polimov, which used poison gas.
On February 7, the most important battle in East Prussia broke out: General Otto von Bro's German Eighth Army attacked the Russian 10th Army, which was fighting independently in a blizzard that covered the sky and the sun. The Second Battle of Lake Mazuri began. Bro's attack retreated the Russian army 96 kilometers within a week. On the 9th, Hermann von Ecoen, who had attacked the Russian right wing, led the 10th Army to join the battle. The defeated 10th Russian Army began to retreat to Kaunas. During this period, three Russian corps were surrounded by Germans, but because one of them fought desperately with the besieged army and took down the other two corpses eventually broke through. Although he achieved small achievements, the German army felt that there was no advantage to take over the Russian 12th Army and had to retreat to East Prussia due to the strong resistance of Prikhv. In this battle, the Russian army lost a total of 200,000 soldiers, of which 90,000 became prisoners of the German army. Three Allied forces stationed along the Carbaye Mountains launched a second offensive. The main force was Alexander von Linsingen's Southern Austria-Hungarian coalition. Their mission was to cross the Carpathian Mountains and attack Lviv in the northwest to lift the siege of the Russian army outside Prichismeer. Svetoza Polo Avik von Bernard's Third Austria Army and Karl von Pfranze-Baodin's Tenth Austria Army were respectively on the left and right wings of the Southern Austria-Hungarian coalition. Their mission was to provide firepower support to the main forces in the offensive. The first victory was the troops led by Pfranze-Baodin. On February 17, after they successfully occupied Denovitz, they also captured 60,000 soldiers of the Russian Eighth Army under the seat of Alexei Bruslov. However, the advancement of this force was blocked by a strong counterattack. The Southern Alliance was trapped in the mountains by heavy snow, and found nothing. Pritchismere Fortress finally fell after being surrounded for 194 days, and all the defenders surrendered to Russia. In the following weeks, Russia continued to launch local counterattacks, but due to insufficient military supplies and the arrival of George von der Maviz, the Russian army finally had to give up the operation on April 10.
For the Austro-Hungarian Empire, this battle in the Carpasau Mountains was a huge disaster. Due to the bad weather, they lost 800,000 soldiers in this battle. At this time, the morale of the Austrian army was extremely low, and even signs of division were gradually revealed due to the racial differences within the team. The helpless Chief of Staff of Austria and Field Marshal Conrad von Hozdorf had to ask Germany for help again. Okay, let’s all for today’s introduction to the military operations against Russia in the winter of 1915. Hello everyone, I’m naughty, see you next time.
