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As one goes eastwards on that road from Niedenberg to Passenheim, in the triangle Niedenberg-Passenheim-Ortelsberg, the country gets worse and worse, and is a perfect labyrinth of marsh, wood, and swamp. The development of the action in such a ground was as follows: The Russian commander, Samsonoff, with his army running from Allenstein southwards, was facing towards the west.
Within that quadrilateral is extremely bad country lakes, marshes, and swamps and the only good roads within it are those marked in single lines upon my sketch the road from Allenstein through Hohenstein to Niedenberg, and the road from Niedenberg to Passenheim.
From Eylau, through Osterode, the main international line runs through Allenstein, and so on eastward, while a branch from this goes through Passenheim to the junction at Ortelsberg. Here, then, you have a quadrilateral of railways about fifty miles in length.
On the 28th and 29th the pressure continued, and increased here upon the north; the Russian right was pushed back upon Passenheim, for which there was a most furious fight; and by the evening of the 29th Samsonoff's whole body was bent right round into the curve of the line 3, and vigorous blows were being dealt against it along the arrow c, which bent it farther and farther in.
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