General Alexander Samsonov is a general who dares to fight hard battles, he is born in the aristocracy and cannot find the slightest shadow of fear of death, all the way up from the second lieutenant, but he still has not changed the habit of commanding on the battlefield, but the current situation leaves him little room for command.

Samsonov, who was watching from a tall house, saw the German figure approaching, and the Russian troops guarding outside the city opened fire. After a firefight, the Germans fell a dozen people, and a 50-man stormtrooper was lost a small half in the first firefight, and then the Germans in the distance began to use their weapons in their hands to help the charging teammates suppress the opposing Russians. Every time a German soldier falls on a bullet-ridden battlefield, two German troops will rush out from the rear and charge.

After this situation lasted for more than an hour, the Russian army finally abandoned the defensive line outside the city and turned to retreat inside the city, setting up defensive points on various roads again. Erwin Rommel was leading a 30-man assault team to fight the Russian army on a road more than ten meters wide, and with limited ammunition, they needed to be close enough to fire, otherwise the accuracy of the submachine gun was not enough for them to hit the Russian army. And the Russian army on the opposite side does not seem to have many bullets, and there are no weapons such as heavy machine guns in the firepower of the German army, so the German offensive speed is not slow.

After dropping a dozen German corpses, Rommel took control of the street, and the same thing was happening in the other streets.

There were more than 100 roads interspersed through the city, and the Germans were blocked by scattered Russian troops on every street, but the general meeting surrendered after a firefight, and there were really no bullets.

Without the expected massive resistance and firepower, the 2,000-strong German army captured the main street with less than 1,000 men

In the afternoon, the Germans encountered resistance in front of a square.

Samsonov did not flee because the general situation had gone, but led the remaining dozens of people to wait for a dead end on the east side of the square, and the reason why this dead end was chosen as the last place of resistance was to let his men understand that there was no way to retreat. These people have more ammunition in their hands, and although they still don't have a machine gun, they are real soldiers who know how to get the most out of their weapons.

The two armies soon began to exchange fire, and the Russians, who had a good position, initially gained the upper hand with plenty of ammunition, and the Germans, who numbered several hundred men, were beaten and dodged in all directions. This is very different from what they have encountered before, and the accuracy and intensity of firepower have obviously changed significantly. But the situation did not last long, the gunfire of the Russian army gradually thinned out, and some of the brave Germans began to stretch out their heads to look to see what was going on, but they found that there was no sound on the Russian side.

Loeb didn't dare to delay, seeing that the sky was getting darker and darker, if he couldn't take Brest before dark, once something happened, it would be a failure of the mission. Without any extra consideration, Loeb let the Germans launch a charge, and these Russian troops must be eliminated at any cost.

Suddenly, the Germans in all directions began to roar and charge at the Russian troops hiding in the dead corner, and at this time, the Russian troops suddenly stood up and jumped over the obstacles and charged the Germans. The Germans who rushed to the front saw the Russian army rushing out, picked up the submachine gun in their hands and fired at the Russian army, and a large number of Russian troops began to fall on the ground of the charge, but the close distance still allowed some Russian troops to rush into the German army.

Collide! Screaming! Blood flying and severed arms are what Somnov saw, and as a general, he did not hide behind, but fought with the Germans with a saber.

The contest between the limbs requires not only skill and strength, but also courage, this kind of thing is invisible and colorless, but the most critical, the German army is not lacking, and the Russian army is making a final fight with the momentum of breaking the cauldron and sinking the boat. However, the small number of Russian troops did not last long in the white-knuckle battle, and all the Russian troops, including General Alexander Samsonov, were killed.

With the end of the battle, the inventory work has also begun, and after some summing up, the capture of Brest caused the Germans to lose 95 men and 277 wounded, of which most of the wounded were incapacitated.

The next day, with the help of the local residents, the bodies were properly disposed of, and Rundstedt, who had taken over the affairs of the city, used the police station as a place of office, and the original policemen were disarmed and disbanded. The German army that took Brest did not have much rest, and the fortifications around the town began in full swing, and more German troops who dared to come along the road also joined the command of Rundstedt one after another, and with it there was a serious shortage of military supplies, which he desperately wanted.

Before General Samsonov died, he didn't know why the warlike Brusilov didn't send reinforcements for a long time, even if the relationship between the two was really bad, but the importance of this place is related to the life and death of the entire Russian frontline soldiers, how Brusilov didn't know, but at this time he was not only facing the risk of being cut off from the back road, but the entire eastern front of the Russian army began to mutinier because it could not supply enough food for several days, and the supply points destroyed by the German army that penetrated the defense line made the situation even worse. Surrender has become a norm, and many people have begun to point the finger at him, the first person in charge.

Since the German armored forces on the north and south broke through the defensive line, the German army on the entire Eastern Front seemed to have been activated to launch a charge over the Russian defense line, some of which were impregnable, and some of which were fragile, which all depended on the degree of food supply of the local Russian army. Those who are well fed are still fighting, and the Russian troops who are not well fed or even hungry are directly disarmed. A complete Russian defense line was devastated, and Brusilov felt overwhelmed in a few days, but he had to shrink the line in a hurry. But this situation did not last long, the German offensive stopped, but the Russian army was restless, a few days of high-intensity consumption, but there was nothing to eat, which made the Russian army no longer bearable, those who fled, ran to the German line to surrender, cannibalism to grab food, shooting the commander to rebel finally crushed Brusilov. He didn't want to send reinforcements to save Brest, but the situation was too sudden, and the reinforcements scattered in a hurry while they were still on the way, for a very straightforward reason, the towns along the road were patronized by the Germans, and the supply points were swept away, and those that could be taken away were taken away, and those that could not be taken away were destroyed on the spot. It would take several days to rush back to Brest from the defensive line, and the lightly armed reinforcements who did not have supplies along the line were eventually dispersed due to lack of supplies.

The German troops in Brest only encountered some Russian deserters, and these people could not afford to fight except for being prisoners and begging for a bite to eat.

On March 16, 1917, Brusilov announced his surrender after a visit from a German major. The Tsar, who was far away in China, heard that Brusilov's surrender and his first reaction was not anger, but fright, and he pulled the dignitaries and nobles on the left and right to ask what to do.

The number of Russian troops on the Eastern Front in Europe led by Brusilov totaled more than 2.2 million before the German army launched an offensive, until the day of surrender on March 16, the losses caused by escape, mutiny, and cannibalism were as high as more than 700,000, and the remaining more than one million people had no intention of fighting again. Brusilov was not in the slightest worried about the ambitions of the tsar, and his surrender was the last weight that crushed Russia, not the straw. The Russian army, which has suffered several heavy losses in a row, can no longer withstand such losses. Tsar Nicholas II was simply unable to recruit any more soldiers, and he had to worry about facing pressure from all levels. Russia's first few major losses had exhausted the country's already small number of elite soldiers, and the Cossacks, who were the Tsar's most relied on, were also mobilized into the battlefield by the Tsar, and this loss once again pushed the Cossacks against the Tsar, and Nicholas II had a premonition of what his fate would be.

The call for Nicholas II's throne began with the commoners, and finally the nobles also demanded that Nicholas II abdicate and make way for him.