Half a month has passed since the Germans launched the operation, and the 1st Panzer Brigade led by Erwin Rommel has arrived at the established location, but for various reasons, there are few actual armed transports left for his armored brigade, so the number of people who rushed to the established location is not enough for him to launch the most critical attack alone. But as more and more armored brigades arrived from other directions, these patchwork men were finally enough to launch a deadly assault on the most critical point of all: Brest.

Brest, a key city in the territory west of Tsarist Russia's rule in Europe, is an important city in terms of economy, transportation and supply, with railways running through the entire western part of Tsarist Russia. However, as the Russian army began to move forward in the summer offensive of 1916, a fortress that was originally strongly defended was now garrisoned by police officers and some wounded people passing through the area, as well as a small number of militia to assist in the defense of the city. Most of these people were not equipped with rifles that were in short supply at the front line, and even the machine guns at the head of the city were dismantled and sent to the front line, which lacked anything.

The defenders at the head of the city began to become uneasy as they watched the Germans growing outside the city, because they did not even have the weapons to defend themselves, they did not have enough rifles, not even a single machine gun that could be used, and there were only a few transfer cannons that did not have enough artillery to operate. The artillery scavenged by the commanders in the city from hospitals and other places was only enough to operate a few guns, and it did not play a big role in the upcoming defensive battle.

Outside the city, more than a dozen Germans had already arrived, and the rest were either because all the armed transports had lost all their speed or because they had not come because they had encountered resistance. Even the Germans who had now reached the outside of the city combined were only more than 2,000 people. If someone had told them that they were going to take the Russian city of Brest with 2,000 men, they would have thought that person was crazy.

Rundstedt, who was the highest-ranking German army outside Brest at this time, naturally became the supreme commander of these people, and after the battle began, he completed the breakthrough operation in strict accordance with the deployment, but the original plan to break through the line of defense should have reached 20,000 people, not only one-tenth of 2,000 people. The gap between before and after this is too great, and fortunately, the Russian army in Brest did not go out of the city to destroy this German army. It can be seen that the Russian troops in the city are either afraid and have a large army hidden in the shadows, or they do not have the strength to destroy them in numbers and armaments.

General Alexander Samsonov, who was supposed to be on the front line, was left in the rear to take on the task of defending the city and transshipment because he did not agree with Brusilov's concept, and there was no danger and no military merit, which was not a kind of suppression of him by Brusilov. After all, with such logistical capabilities as Adrian, there is really no one comparable to him in the Russian army, and no one is appreciated and promoted like Adrian, and he has a good influence and identity.

General Alexander Samsonov had known about the presence of German troops outside the city only two days earlier, for which he sent a telegram to his opponent at the front, Brusilov. As far as he could see, the Germans who suddenly appeared outside the city were between 500 and 600 men. As for how many people there were, his subordinates did not find out, and other things such as the number of artillery, the weapons and equipment, and the morale were not clear, and they could only see from a distance whether the Russian soldiers still relied on the relatively familiar terrain to obtain the information. Samsonov didn't think about going out of the city to exterminate these German soldiers who seemed to have only one battalion, but he didn't have many people at his disposal, except for the people to be left behind, what he could dispatch was dozens of Kazakh cavalry with only sabers, dozens of militiamen with insufficient rifles and bullets, not to mention the policemen who were short of even swords. Samsonov, who had no confidence in defense, did not even have the intention of going out of the city to destroy the German army, but prayed that Brusilov, the enemy, could send reinforcements quickly, but the telegram was like a stone in the sea and there was no response at all.

"Damn mud legs, don't you know the consequences of losing Brest?" The more he thought about it, the more angry Samsonov got angry, and vented his anger on the hard city wall.

The German army on the opposite side was also not optimistic at this time, and the original plan was to take Brest before March 5, but the current situation was too far from the original plan, and Rundstedt was not sure at all. But there are only 2 days left for him, and he sees that the sky is getting dark, that is to say, tomorrow is the last day, and if he can't take this city, he, the commander who seems to be beautiful, will have to be punished for his ineffective operation, not to mention that this operation is a vital part, if it is not completed, it is indispensable to eat a gun.

Unable to sleep, Rundstedt gathered all the other commanders together and began to plan boldly in the faint moonlight on a meadow in the woods.

The next day, just after dawn, more than 2,000 German troops stood close together, waiting for Rundstedt's lecture, knowing that a hard battle was coming. The armored brigade was established for a very short time, not even half a year, and they were all veterans drawn from various places and selected elites through layers of screening. The elite who dare to fight, dare to fight hard battles, and dare to fight to the last moment with a heart of death. At the same time as they were formed, the secrets about the operation were also propagated and kept in mind. Interspersed behind the enemy's defense line, destroying strategic supply points, taking Brest, the most critical supply city on the Russian army's eastern front, and withstanding the Russian army's counterattack is their ultimate task.

"Today is the day we are scheduled to take Brest, and we have less than 20 hours left." Rundstedt raised the MP16M submachine gun in his hand above his head and said: "Take it, keep it, we will get honor together, if we can't take it, we will die together!" ”

With Rundstedt's pre-war mobilization over, Wilhelm Loeb set out with a first charge of 50 men.