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In mid-1915, Germany launched a large-scale offensive on the Eastern Front battlefield. The German offensive not only forced the Russian army back hundreds of thousands of meters in one breath, but also caused the Russian casualties to exceed 2 million in just five months, which is one of the most successful offensives in the entire war. Today we will introduce to you the German offensive in Gorritstano during World War I. Although Germany was determined to deal with Russia, the results of the actions between February and March 1915 were not satisfactory. The incompetence of the Austro-Hungarian army forced Germany to shoulder heavier burdens in the war. In mid-April, the suspicious chief of staff of the German General Staff von Farkinhan accepted the suggestion and dispatched troops from the Western Front to the east to launch a second general attack, while he and all members of the Supreme Command went to the Pulles area of East Prussia to supervise the battle. On April 26, the German army stationed in East Prussia first launched a feint attack on Kuran, the plain area along the Baltic Sea coast. The German Nimann small army advanced towards Liepaya, posing a military threat to Russian troops that lasted for several weeks. From May to June, the German army won many victories in Galicia, and its actions on the Eastern Front were encouraged by victory and continued to advance. Finally, they captured the Kaunas Fortress in Russia from August 17 to 18.
But as a follow-up to these actions, the success of the Vilnius offensive on September 26 paid a huge price. Germany's attack on Russian Polish and Austria occupied by Russia did not end within the expected time. Marx von Galvitz's 12th German Army was originally ordered to independently attack Warsaw in the northeast, but August von McKenson led the 11th Army from the Western Front and stationed between Gorritz and Tano, so the actual general attack was under the responsibility of this 120,000 troops. The offensive began on May 2. McKenson's army tore open a 48-kilometer-long defense line on the northern wing of the Russian Third Army, which was extremely damaged and was wiped out on May 10. At that time, the Russian Third Army had lost 200,000 people and had just been allowed to retreat. The Russian Supreme Command barely sent reinforcements to Galicia in the north under the increasingly fierce attack of Germany. Although the Russian army fought hard between May 19 and 25, the German army was unstoppable and regained Prichismere on June 4; on the 22nd, the Russian army began to withdraw from most parts of Galicia; two days later, Germany regained Lviv. When the South Road offensive ended at the end of the month, the German army, with outstanding achievements, exchanged 250,000 prisoners for 90,000 people. The Russian army on the North Road was not easy. They lost Warsaw, Brest and Litovsk and Grodno to Galvitz's 12th Army in early August, August 25 and September 2 respectively. The offensive launched by Germany lasted from May to September, during which the Russian army was forced to retreat 480 kilometers. This can at least prove that there is still a market for mobile warfare on the Eastern Front. The offensive also formed a new line of fire that was about to extend into 1917 between the south of the Pripiat Marsh and the Baltic Sea, with the southern line of fire not going to change much until June 1916. The Eastern Front battlefield in 1915 showed an unbalanced development trend:
Germany suffered the least losses, with only 250,000 casualties; while the Austro-Hungarian Empire and Russia lost 715,000 and 2.5 million respectively, including 1 million prisoners. Okay, let’s introduce to you today about the Gorritse-Tano offensive in Germany during World War I. Hello everyone, I am naughty, let's see
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