We headed into Lask and as we approached we could hear the artillery firing but not at us. We picked up traffic in the clear from B Troop of the 116th Cavalry, saying they were taking fire from artillery in Lask. We answered back and told them to hang on and we went into Lask, hitting the Poles there who were facing the wrong way.
We knocked out the two artillery crews and got into a firefight with the Poles there when suddenly the townspeople started to join in on our side. The Poles horses stampeded during the firefight and ran thru the town as well. And to add to the confusion a bunch of LAV-75’s joined the fun too.
It took a while but in the end the Poles didn’t stand a chance and between us, the guys in the LAV-75’s and the townspeople they got wiped out. We lost the M113 to an RPG and about seven more NPC’s in the fight.
We started to search the HQ and found a dead Major General and papers detailing that the Soviets had supply points and the HQ for the Polish 6th Border Guard Brigade in Lodz, the main HQ for the 4th Guards Army in Piotrkow along with another supply dump, and a supply dump in Wielun.
The Cav came all the way into town and its commander told us she was heading for a town called Dobrodzien but the major ordered her to accompany us and that we would all head there after we were done hitting the Soviets. She didn’t want to go but she did. So we headed out of Lask for Lodz to hit the supply and HQ troops there.
We had a plan now- hit Lodz, then Piotrkow and then get the heck out of dodge to the south afterward, hitting Weilun if we could and leave the Russians with no fuel. We figured if we got out alive we would have done what we could do to help anyone else escape. One of the guns we took out was still operable so we hitched it up and grabbed six rounds for it.
We were picking up 5th Div radio traffic still but nothing above battalion and all bad, including Russians shooting up our aid stations and killing the wounded. So we decided we would give them back some of their own medicine when we got to Lodz on the aid station they had there.
We headed for the southern edge of Lodz, where the map showed the supply dump was for the 20th Tank Division was along with a big first aid station nearby.
We sent the Cav in against the supply troops and continued on to the aid station and found it loaded with wounded Soviet troops, mostly unarmed. We went to work and gave the Soviets back their own medicine for shooting up our aid stations. It wasn’t pretty but neither was what they were doing. Our guys grabbed a bunch of medical supplies and two more trucks that were driveable and made sure there weren’t any survivors.
We grabbed some locals and asked them point blank where the Polish HQ was or they could join the guys we had just killed. They told us it was in the middle of town and we headed right for it.
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