While the Panzer Corps and the main forces of the 1st and 4th armies were surrounding the Russian regiments and implementing compression tactics, the Walbeck Division stationed in Kimon was quietly staying in the positions around the town, hiding from the scorching summer heat.

Kimon is a small town in northern Poland that is flat and crossed by a railway line from Grajewo to Poland. From here, 30 miles to the north, is located in the Masurian Lake District, south of Grajewo. The German-East Prussian Corps had previously entered Russia through the Masurian Lake area, from which the logistical supplies of the corps were now transported with great difficulty by horse-drawn wagons and a small number of automobiles to Bialystok, where the Kimon garrison was responsible for guarding the transport routes. In the previous day, Matthew's 4th Army had built a defensive perimeter around Kimon, and after the other two main divisions went to encircle the Russians, Kimon was left with only 12,000 soldiers and 40 artillery pieces of the Wallbeck Division. At noon, due to the discovery of an unknown number of Russian troops moving in the direction of Kimon from the east, Colonel Walbeck had transferred more than half of the division's strength to the east of Kimon to defend it, and at the same time sent a large number of scouts to patrol the east.

At 3 p.m., the second group of bombers from East Prussia had finished bombing. As they flew over Kimon on their return flights, Walbeck's soldiers waved their hands excitedly, and countless hats were tossed into the sky. However, soon after, several planes without any logo appeared in the sky, and the black fuselage was like a mourning crow, and before these crows had left, a large number of Russian cavalry appeared to the east of Kimon.

"What? I can't believe it! Colonel Walbeck hastened to the position east of Kimon after receiving the scout's report, and a large force of cavalry on the opposite side came out of the woods silently, and many Russian cavalry were unfurling their rolled up flags, and in a short time the originally black cavalry group became unfurling.

"Hell! They actually put away all the flags when they passed through the woods, no wonder the reconnaissance planes did not find them! It dawned on Walbeck that these cavalrymen were all riding black horses and their clothes were gray and black, and it would be difficult for aerial reconnaissance planes to find them in the woods without bright flags.

Just as Walbeck was in a hurry to report to the corps headquarters, the Russian cavalry coming from the east moved rapidly outside the range of German artillery fire and soon surrounded the Kimon regiment.

Just when Chentian received Walbeck's report, the Russian army east of Bialystok suddenly began to attack, and more than 200 artillery pieces began to violently bombard the positions of the 3rd Army. The Russian infantry also began to move at this time.

In Bialystok's corps headquarters, Chentian and Hoffman were staring at the map. At present, the two infantry divisions in Bialystok are facing an attack by more than 30,000 Russian troops in the west, and if they want to return to Kimon, they can only be drawn from the troops surrounding the Russian army, but those three armies are ready to attack.

"Damn the Russians, they really pick the time!" Chen Tian scolded indignantly, now when his troops are the most tense, the Russian army surrounded in the west may launch a counterattack at any time, if Bialystok's infantry is sent to reinforce Kimon, the small number of infantry in the movement is likely to be slaughtered by a large number of Russian cavalry on the periphery of Kimon. What made Chen Tian most depressed was that so far he only knew that the Russian army in the east was coming from Moscow, and he didn't know anything about the other party's number, number and combat effectiveness.

"Your Royal Highness, Colonel Walbeck's report says that there are only cavalry on the periphery of Kimon, I think there should be no problem for them to hold their positions, and the cavalry charge in front of the machine guns is more like a suicidal attack!" Hoffman's analysis is not unreasonable, except that they are now not sure that there is no infantry and artillery behind the cavalry.

"Order the Walbeck division to defend Kimon. After the total annihilation of the Russian army in the west, we will immediately return to help! Chen Tian gritted his teeth and made this choice, and he then ordered the three armies in the west to deal with the besieged Russian army as soon as possible, and Hoffman also had a new proposal:

"Your Highness, we might as well send a group of troops to take the train from Bialystok to Kimon, which will also help Kimon's morale!"

"It's a pity that we don't have armored trains, but this method can be tried, just let 2 infantry regiments go over on 3 trains, and equip them with more machine guns!" Chen Tian's mood at this time was very nervous and excited, his army was either surrounded by the Russian army, or annihilated the Russian army in batches, that feeling was like playing a fierce game, the score was still 0-0 at 90 minutes, his team was attacking fiercely, or finally scored a goal to let the opponent fall into the bottomless abyss, or was counterattacked by the opponent.

A quarter of an hour later, German Lieutenant Stephen and his company were boarding a train from the Yawesttok railway station, where his 305th and 306th regiments were ordered to Kimon, where it was said that the Russian army had surrounded them, and their mission was to break through the encirclement and reinforce the Wolbeck division there.

Just as his soldiers were about to finish boarding, the quartermaster suddenly stopped him.

"Mr. Lieutenant, take your soldiers to the warehouse over there for 1 heavy machine gun, 2 light machine guns and 10 boxes of machine gun ammunition!"

"What? We don't lack equipment! Stephen spread his hands, but the quartermaster told him he wasn't mistaken.

"This is an order from above, each company should bring more machine guns and ammunition, the perimeter of Kimon is full of Russian cavalry, you have to stay there for a while, if you don't have enough firepower, you and your men will wait for the Russian sabre........." the quartermaster made a head-to-head slashing gesture.

"Okay, okay! Hell yes! Manuel, take your soldier and this gentleman to get their weapons! Stephen didn't care, for at the Insterburg Gap and at Compinan, countless Russian cavalrymen had died under their guns. In the East Prussian regiment, an ordinary company had 2-3 times more machine-gun fire than other German troops, and the soldiers were not worried about how many enemies would rush up on the opposite side. It's about how many bullets will be supplied to the rear.

After a while, the soldiers brought up the additional supplies of weapons, and with a whistle, the train departed. More than 2,500 German soldiers did not know what was going to happen to them, perhaps slaughtered, or slaughtered.

In Kimon, all the telephone lines to the outside world were cut by the Russians, and now Walbeck could only communicate with the regimental command by radio, and to make matters worse, less than an hour after the Russian cavalry appeared. A large number of infantry and artillery poured out of the woods.

"It's incredible! The Russians were able to pass through the woods! Unbeknownst to Walbeck, there were two tree-lined paths in the seemingly dense woods, and the Russian infantry had prepared many small wooden blocks when they were assembled, and they used them to pave the way as they advanced, so that the heavy artillery would not sink into the soft earth. From Moscow to the assembly to the advance to the battlefield. The Russian commander Agreni and his staff calculated everything clearly, while Chentian and the East Prussian regiment were unaware of the existence of this terrible enemy.

Kimon's German soldiers did not have time to marvel at the creativity of these Russians. Smoke had already begun to rise from the enemy's artillery positions, and 50 heavy guns and more than 300 field guns roared like thunder, and the German army's sporadic artillery counterattacks were instantly suppressed. The soil around Kimon was soft, and the Russian artillery fire lasted for half an hour, and the positions of the Walbeck division were already unrecognizable. When the artillery gradually thinned out and the smoke of gunpowder had not yet dispersed, a neat phalanx of Russian infantry appeared in the field of vision of the German army. Compared to the Russian troops that the Germans had encountered before, these Russian infantry appeared to be highly moraled, resolute, and neatly formed, the golden buttons on their dark green uniforms glittering in the sun, and the bayonets emitted a cold light like snow. The infantry phalanx slowly advanced. They were followed by heavy machine guns and small-caliber infantry artillery soldiers, followed by horse-drawn ammunition carts. Such a rigorous and orderly attack queue was something that many German soldiers had never seen, and Colonel Walbeck complained about the artillery in his hand, and the already pitiful rapid-fire guns lost most of the Russians' dense artillery, and the artillery bunkers looked helpless in the face of the opponent's heavy shells.

"The number of those troops...... Russian Guard!" When Walbeck saw the brightly colored flags, he couldn't help but marvel. As far as he knew, the Guards were the most elite troops in Russia, and their responsibility was to defend the capital and the royal family, but he didn't expect to appear here in large numbers, and those phalanxes had at least 50,000 infantry.

"Signal man, send a report to the corps headquarters quickly, it is the Russian Guards who surround us, their infantry has begun to charge, we may not be able to resist!" Walbeck's voice was quickly drowned out by the shouts of the Russian charge, and it was not yet within range of the machine guns. The Russian infantry artillery had stopped firing suppressively at the German positions, and then the infantry began to trot, and when they came within range of the machine guns, they began to charge. Despite running as fast as they could, their queue was already in a neat state. This made it possible for their machine guns to fire at German positions from between the queues.

In the face of an enemy nearly ten times their size, the more than 6,000 German soldiers in the trenches were not timid, and they calmly used machine guns, rifles and grenades to make small gaps in the opponent's square formation, but those gaps were quickly filled by the Russian soldiers behind, and the Russian infantry guns and machine guns also caused heavy casualties to the German soldiers shooting in the trenches.

"Get on the bayonet!" The commands shouted by the German officers in the trenches with all their strength looked so helpless in the shouts of countless Russian soldiers, and the German soldiers inserted bayonets one after another, and rushed out of the trenches with a loud roar. The gray waves and the dark green waves soon merged, and the two originally orderly human waves were twisting and tumbling together.

There was no suspense about the victory, the Russians had never been afraid of death, and these Guards soldiers were even more disregarding their own lives, and with Walbeck's order, the few German soldiers began to retreat towards the city of Kimon. The ground where the Russian soldiers rushed was gray and dark green, many rifles were stuck on the ground and corpses straight or diagonally, and the fallen soldiers were in different postures, some of them were pinching each other before they died......

Less than 1,000 of the more than 6,000 German soldiers retreated into the city, and almost all the artillery and machine guns were lost, but the Russian infantry did not stop there, and they followed the retreating German soldiers into the city from the east. Walbeck didn't even have time to order the German soldiers on the other three sides of Kimon to retreat back into the city, and fierce street fighting began.

Report after report came in, order after order was issued, then the old order was canceled, and the new order was issued, and the staff officers in the corps headquarters were busy. Kimon's situation deteriorated by the minute, and Tatsuten had to revise his deployment again and again.

Finally, the news of Kimon's loss came, and there was a sudden silence in the headquarters.

Chen Tian sat on the chair in despair, it turned out that he was not Zhuge Liang, even Mr. Zhuge had a time when he had exhausted his calculations. The resounding victory in the Battle of East Prussia made every general of the legion a little fluttering, thinking that he was invincible in the world, and that even a million Russian troops would fall under their machine guns. Thinking about encircling, surrounding, encircling the enemy again and again, encircling and annihilating, encircling and annihilating the opponent again and again, and now, I am caught in the encirclement of others.

On the map, within an area of 25 miles from east to west and 40 miles from north to south, there were two encirclements in Horan, the East Prussian Army surrounded Ruzsky's 120,000 Russian troops between the Leif River and Bialystok, but the Leif River bridge, Kimon and the east of Bialystok were blocked by the Russian army, and to the south was the upper cliff of the Leif River, which was insurmountable by both sides. Chen Tian suddenly remembered the watermelon chess he played a long time ago, when your chess pieces surrounded others, they also faced the danger of being surrounded by others, and one move can often determine the outcome of the whole game.

Chen Tian forced himself to calm down, and then began to make new deployments:

"All previous orders were cancelled, and Olg was ordered to send a mechanized infantry division and half an armored division back to Bialystok, and the remaining troops were still encircling and annihilating the Russian army in the west as planned!"

"Order the 305th and 306th regiments to Kimon to continue their advance and meet the retreat of the remnants of Walbeck!"

"Order the 1st Division of the 3rd Army to send 4 infantry regiments to the north of Bialystok to strengthen the defensive position!"

After a while, the report that the Russian army east of Bialystok had stopped shelling and the infantry had returned to their positions was sent to Chentian.

"Feint!" After reading it, Chen Tian threw the paper on the ground, the Russian army in the east was not attacking at all, but attracting their own attention, after they brought 20,000 reinforcements by train, these Russians actually turned to a comprehensive defense, the purpose was obvious - to block the way out of the east of the East Prussian army. Although to the east was the Belarusian region, the East Prussian corps would not break through there, but it could cut off the rear route of Kimon's Russian army from there. It seems that the commander of the Russian army in the east is different from the average Russian general, and he is a guy who is good at using strategy.

"Russian Guards?" During the offensive operation of the Russian army east of Bialystok, Chentian finally learned of the origin of the other party, and Walbeck's report also confirmed this. The words "Russian Guard" seemed to have an unusual meaning in Chentian's mind, and he began to try to remember where he had heard it, and after squeezing his head, he finally remembered the voice that had broken his heart on the night in Vienna 13 years ago: "Let me introduce you to you, this is the Russian prince Agreny, and he is also the general of the Russian Guards. ”

"Could it be him?" Chen Tian suddenly had a hunch that that commander was probably the Russian prince Agreni, who pinched his hand very painfully, used Linda to block bullets, and was despicable and shameless. Chen Tian had vowed to play him on the battlefield, but he didn't expect that now he would become the target of the other party's tricks.

"I'm not convinced! I'm going to appeal! Chen Tian shouted in his heart.