The battle of Piasetchno was, like the battle of the Vistula, and the battle of Warsaw itself, divided into a number of minor battles, one of which took place at the vil~ of Lazy and another at Cura-Kalvaria. The fight at Piasetchno began at 7 a.m. on September 27 (old style) The Germans opened as usual a ferocious artillery fire with their famous big mortars. As the Russian batteries did not reply, the German batteries moved a mile nearer, whereupon they were attacked by regiment of Russian fusiliers under a Capta' wounded in the iers failed to take the battery, but they came so close that the Germans withdrew their guns, The Russian artillery began lay on them as they did so.
At 4 o'clock the Germans ceased firing, but at 11 o'clock they began firing again, and continued doing #0 for half an hour. At three o'clock in the morning both sides began a terrific cannonade, and the Russians aimed s0 well that they forced the German batteries to change position no less than seven times. At 2 o'clock next afternoon, the Russians began a general advance. The Germans tried to check it by concentrating a hot artillery fire on the advancing troops. The Russian front was involved in dense clouds of black smoke proceeding from the bursting shells of the enemy; but, despite this serious inconveni lence which prevented the Russian soldiers from seeing each other, the advance went on. It was 800 paces: to the enemy's battery; and, when half of this distance had been traversed, the Germans began to use shrapnel-shells with grapeshot. When the Russians had advanced still further, the Germans, being evidently unwilling to face a bayonet charge, fled. A great many dead and wounded were found in their trenches and along their line of retreat.
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