Rubuta ci gaba don wannan sakin layi - Lokacin da aka fara kafa rundunonin bindigogi na Latvia a shekarar 1915 an nada shi ya zama kwamandan rundunar sojojin Daugavpils ta 1. Shi da mutanensa sun halarci yaƙe-yaƙe kusa da Kogin Misa, da kusa da Ķekava. A watan Maris na 1916 Briedis ya ji rauni sosai a cikin jaw, amma ya warke kuma ya shiga cikin yakin Kirsimeti
a matsayin kwamandan bataliya. A lokacin yakin Kirsimeti ya yi yaƙi a Tīreļpurvs, inda aka raunata shi a karo na biyu.