(My GM later referred to this as the Battle of Olesno)
We waited till they were at point blank range, and then opened fire as a unit. Both T-80’s died immediately as did three of the six BMP’s. We shifted fire and took out both SPG before they knew what hit them as the other three BMP’s died. Within two minutes it became a game of hunting the survivors. We had an RPG round hit the tree right next to us but that was the only close call we had.
A few Russians tried to run but they didn’t get far. We managed to take five prisoners; all wounded, and counted three hundred and five KIA’s. That was one Russian armored group we didn’t have to worry about any more.
At last we felt we had really taken revenge for our friends who had died just a few days ago. We quickly policed the battlefield and grabbed ammunition and weapons. In the short battle we had taken a total of five dead and nine wounded (including one PC), with three of the dead being the civilians from Olesno who came with us.
We decided that we should take advantage and do the most damage we could while we were here. I figured we would use the Russian uniform and vehicle trick again to attack what was left of the garrison at Kluczbork, especially as our prisoners said they had picked up almost forty guys from the 5th there.
Our prisoners told us where there machine guns, RPG’s and POW’s were so we had a plan on how to hit them. I had the BMP we had brought up to Olesno and sent it with them for the attack and four of the PC’s went along for the attack. The ruse worked again but the Russians fought hard. Our guys lost the Russian jeep to a grenade and had three men KIA and four wounded including one PC seriously but we defeated them and got all forty of the POW’s out.
A few civilians joined against the Soviets but not many. When it was over, they gave arms and ammo to them, loaded up the POW’s and headed back to Olesno.
We sent another patrol north towards Prazka with two PC's and they got back as the guys did from Kluczbork saying the town was a heap of ruins with dead civilians and dead Russians, mostly wearing 9th Tank Division uniforms, along with a destroyed T-80 tank and a BMP. It looked like a detachment of the 21st Motorized tried to shoot their way thru town and didn’t make it. They also found three more 5th Division guys hiding out in one of the few remaining habitable buildings.
Obviously there was more than just the 129th Motorized Rifle Division to worry about.
We had won this battle but there were still a lot of Russians out there and we were all by ourselves. We left a detachment of ten men in Olesno to help train the townspeople and a radio we captured from the Russians and went back to our base camp.
(Our GM played the seperated parties because twice we tried to meet after the big battle and only some of us could show up - so those who showed up had their own adventures - thus the two different sorties after Olesno)
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