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Orders for the Polish Campaign
Topic Started: May 25 2006, 03:45 PM (163 Views)
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The Imperial Army of Ingermanland (Imperatorskii Ingermanlandskii Armiya; 191,400 Men, 480 Guns; Prince Paskevich): Having taken Lomza with total ease, Field Marshal (Prince) Paskevich is to make Lomza his main base of supplies for his next move on Warsaw. Advancing on the city of Modlin along the northern bank of the Bug, circumventing the Polish river defences, effectively cutting off Warsaw and all those forces trapped between the Russian Armies in the so called "Warsaw Pocket".

The Imperial Army of Little-Russia (Imperatorskii Malorossiiskii Armiya; 402,200 Men, 984 Guns; General Zhabokritskii): With Prince Paskevich closing the net around the Polish Armies, Zhabokritskii is to continue his advance on the Polish capital from the Brest road; as the Polish defense intensifies the Russian troops are not to afford them quarter, such is the necessity that the Army closes on the Polish capital. As soon as Warsaw is in range, the Russian guns are to be unlimbered, and set upon the city - providing a steady barrage under which the Imperial Army is to advance.

The heights to the south and east of the city are to be taken, as they provide excellent positions for the siege train attached to the Army; with this in mind, the Polish defensive positions surely thrown up in the wake of the Russian advance are to be bombarded into submission. The attached Sapper brigades with the Imperial Army are to provide alternate crossing points north and south of the City, providing the Imperial Army three lines of advance with which to take full advantage of their numerial superiority.

The Imperial Army of Moscow (Imperatorskii Moskovskii Armiya; 390,000 Men, 704 Guns; General Graf F.V. Rüdiger): Caught between the Army of Ingermanland across the Bug river to the North, and Zhabokriskii immediately to his south-west, the so-called Polish Home Guard Army is effectively trapped - and apparantly retreating in disorder towards Warsaw, the point where all the Russian Armies are converging on. Rüdiger is to take the iniative, and is to "roll up" the retreating Polish Army as it makes it's way to the Polish Capital. The Imperial Army is to give battle at the first opportunity, and should be able to entirely decimate the Polish Home guard as their position is entirely untennable. With this force accounted for, Rüdiger is then to continue sweeping away resistance, and is to join the assault on Warsaw.

The Imperial Army of the Ukraine (Imperatorskii Ukrainskii Armiya; 134,600 Men, 348 Guns; General Vorontsov): With battles raging around the Polish capital, General Vorontsov is to continue his march through the Polish hinterland - advancing steadily northward to entirely cut off the Polish armies around Warsaw should they inconceivably break through Russian lines. As such his army is to advance on Lodz, taking Radom in the process. With Lodz taken then Vortontsov is to swing his army north-eastwards towards Warsaw, sealing it's fate, should it have not already fallen to the combined Russian armies advancing from the north and east respectively.
If the art of war were nothing but the art of avoiding risks, glory would become the prey of mediocre minds. I have made all the calculations, fate will do the rest. - Bonaparte
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The newly trained Belorussian Levy will be sent to Biala Podlaska, then head for Russian-occupied Siedlce, and onward to Warsaw. The Armies of Ingermanland and the Ukraine West of Warsaw will be given scout notice to concert their approach to Warsaw with the levy troops.
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