TheCodeBreakers
At 7:30 p.m., with this
picture of the Russian dispositions before him, he telephoned his order
for the next day to his subordinates. It called for an all-out attack,
concentrating on the meeting line of the two armies in the hope of driving
them apart and breaking through.
He achieved a massive success. The Russian forces were
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split; they pulled back hastily to the south. Mackensen shoved the
dagger in up to the hilt. At the same time, Ludendorff pinned the front
Russian armies in combat and sent a corps to turn the Russian left
flank. He hoped to effect another Tannenberg—a double envelopment. In
sharp fighting around Lodz, the German forces drove their enemy back,
abetted by a constant stream of cryptanalyzed intelligence. On November
15, for example, the German command learned that four corps were to
reinforce Russian troops at the Ner and Bzura rivers and that another
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