Chapter 225 - 225: The Sudden strike on Warsaw

As the date turned to 1 August 1914, while darkness still lay heavy over eastern Europe, the Black Legion was already on the move.

They marched like ghosts beneath the moon.

For days beforehand, the Russians along the southern bank of the Vistula had lived under relentless harassment. German aircraft circled above them day and night like sleepless predators. A single lamp, a single kitchen fire, even a careless flare of tobacco in the dark could bring the whine of falling bombs or the sudden ripping burst of strafing fire from above. The lesson had spread quickly through the towns and villages along the rail lines. Lights were extinguished. Fires were forbidden. Night in Russian Poland had become black, silent, and afraid.

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