In the East, an Eagle takes command.
Whilst the Western Front is desperatly in need of new supplies to deal with the French offensive in the east things have been small but progress is being made.
Stationed in Wilna von Bülow gave orders to the III Armee Korps to attack and secure his right flank from a Russian unit in Oshmanye. Moving North they engaged a lost Russian Division who go seperated from the rest with the retreat earlier this year when the forces of Bülow pushed the Russian across the rivier Vilia when his army took Wilna. When the attack began in Oshmanye it seemed that the commander identified as Artamonov got help from the Russian forces across the Vilia but von Bülow predicted this to happen unleashed his attack on their flank inflicting heavy casualties among the Russians.
Battle of Oshmanye
Further down von Kluck started his offensive to cut the Russian supply lines by taking Bielostok and Brest-Litovsk which both are the large railway hubs that bring supplies to their forces in and around the cities of Warsaw and Lodz.
The initial attack showed that the Russian had been reinforcing the area around Bielostok to prevent this communication line to be cut of from their forces in the west. von Kluck pressed on the attack and managed to push them out and before the Russian commander Scherbachev could regroup kept up the pressure harrashing his forces whilst moving steadily to his second objective the railway hub of Brest-Litovsk.
Battle of Bielostok
Battle of Zombrow to secure von Kluck's flank
The Russians seems to be in total chaos as Lodz fell in the hands of the German reserve units which where told to advance when intelligence showed the Russians where pulled out towards the East and Warsaw became under siege by the 3. Armee under von Hausen. It even got better in July as news arrived that the Czar himself has taken command of the Russian Army, this will have serious consequences not in their favour as his cousin the Kaiser himself was overjoyed with this news and couldn't help but laugh out loudly when he was underway to meet the general staff reported his chauffeur.
