On the train to Kimon, Lieutenant Stephen found that his soldiers were not talking or laughing as they used to, they were either sitting in the corner of the carriage with their eyes closed, or wiping their weapons, and Manuel, the platoon commander who had just been in charge of receiving weapons, carefully taught the soldiers who had not used machine guns how to load, aim and shoot over and over again, although everyone looked calm on their faces, but in fact their hearts were heavy.

While the occasional sparse explosion of cannonballs could be heard in the distance, Stephen and the others could already see the smoke rising from the city of Kimon. The closer you get to Kimon, the denser the sound of rifles and machine guns becomes.

Stephen's carriage was originally used to load coal, but it had no roof and the walls of the carriage were less than a man high, and the soldiers put their rifles on the walls, and the whole carriage was filled with the sound of bullets clicking.

"Everybody watch your surroundings!" The shouts of the officers giving orders came from the front carriage, which Lieutenant Stephen repeated loudly, despite the fact that the soldiers in this carriage heard it. Everyone's spirits became more and more nervous, until a loud whistle and the figure of several Russian cavalry came from the woods, and the German soldiers finally broke out, they pulled the triggers in their hands one after another, rifles and machine guns were desperately shooting into the woods, and the bullet casings fell on the floor of the carriage and there was a series of crisp crashing sounds, but there was no one there.

"Stop shooting! Stop shooting! Amid the shouts of the officers, the soldiers finally stopped.

"Hell! That's just the reconnaissance cavalry of the Russians! Looking at the bullet casings on the ground, Stephen shook his head helplessly, these soldiers who had only participated in a few battles often seemed not calm enough.

After this, several more groups of Russian scouts appeared near the train, and when the train slowly stopped, they all disappeared without a trace.

Here, the soldiers could already see the roofs that Kimon had lost.

"Get off! Get off the bus in general! Stephen and his soldiers climbed out of the carriage with an order, but they were stunned by what they saw.

The flat ground in front of the train was littered with the corpses of German soldiers in gray uniforms, and some of the underground railways in front of it had been blown up several meters. The rails on either side of the gap curved outward, and in the middle was a large blackened crater. German artillery, machine guns, and ammunition boxes were scattered throughout. The German soldiers in the dead were in a variety of positions, lying on the ground, lying on the ground, and leaning on other things, but they basically had one or many deep knife wounds on their bodies. Some people's eyes are still wide open.

"There are still people alive there!" One of the soldiers shouted, and in the direction of his finger two bloodied soldiers were seen sitting dumbfounded beside a carriage without horses, and only their occasional blinking eyelids could discern the difference between them and the corpses around them.

Soldiers disembarking from the train slowly gathered around with guns in hand.

"Get out of the way!" A hoarse voice came from not far away, and the soldiers immediately moved out of the way, and the commander of the 305th regiment, Neubart, and other officers appeared in front of everyone.

When Neubart walked up to the two soldiers, several medics were bandaging them.

"What's going on here?"

The two soldiers looked up. His eyes were full of fear, and one of the older soldiers spoke in a tone of extreme dejection:

"We are soldiers of the 407th Regiment of the Walbeck Division, which has been stationed south of Kimon since this morning, and where we have set up defensive positions dominated by trenches. At about 3 p.m., the Russian cavalry surrounded Kimon, but they did not immediately attack. About half an hour later, the Russian infantry began to attack from the east of Kimon, and our division commander, Colonel Walbeck, commanded six regiments to fight the Russians in the east, but they were quickly routed. Then we received an order to break out to the south. Our regiment, as the vanguard, set out from the position and walked south along this railway, and when we reached here, countless Russian cavalry suddenly surrounded us from all sides. We were caught off guard, and now there are only two of us left in our group! ”

Everyone in the venue was stunned, and it took a long time for Neubatt to ask:

"What about your division commander?"

"He and the rest of his troops have withdrawn from the city of Kimon, and should still be in the position that our regiment had built before, and the Russian cavalry that attacked us then went there!"

The regiment commander motioned to the soldiers behind him to help them to the train, and then asked the signal corps to report the situation here to the headquarters, and then called the battalion and company commanders in the regiment.

"The current situation is that the Walbeck division will most likely not be able to break through on its own, and we must go and meet them!" Such a decision was made without receiving instructions from his superiors.

"But the cavalry of the Russians ........."

Several other officers were apprehensive about what had just happened, a regiment had been eaten by the Russians in this way, and they were now 1 regiment, and the 306th regiment was still on a train behind.

"I have sent a message to the 306th regiment, they will be here at the train, our task is to make a way from behind the Russian cavalry, and then meet the retreat of the Walbeck division! Now, let the soldiers unload the rapid-fire guns from the train, and the artillerymen stay behind to prepare for fire support, and when the Volbeck division withdraws, let them sit in the carriages with the cannons, and then we will blow up the artillery, understand? ”

A total of 20 77-mm rapid-fire guns were loaded in the five carriages at the back of the train, which could only hold a few hundred soldiers, but no one objected, and perhaps those who came back alive could not sit in those carriages.

"Alright, let's go in 5 minutes! The companies had to take care of each other, paying special attention to protecting the machine gunners! The regimental commander looked at his watch, and it was 4:05.

When Stephen ran back to the company, his soldiers were all silent, and it seemed that they already knew what was going on.

"Everybody line up! 1 platoon, 2 platoons, 3 platoons each in one column, machine gunners stand in the middle of the queue, once you find the Russian cavalry, don't panic, follow my orders, understand? ”

"Understood!" The soldiers lined up with heavy hearts, and they quickly joined the ranks of the next ones marching north.

It was just over three miles from where the train had stopped to Kimon, and it didn't take long for them to see a large number of Russian cavalry approaching the German positions in the south of the city of Kimon, and when the German machine guns rang out, they quickly retreated out of the range of bullets. At this time, the east, west and north sides of the Kimon city area have basically quieted down. Only the streets to the south still have fire and smoke from time to time.

Continuing for half a mile, Neubart brought the team to a stop in an open area with no trees within 500 meters. The communications corps ran back and forth to deliver orders.

"Artillery from behind shoots at the Russian cavalry for 5 minutes!"

"The others lined up and prepared to defend themselves against the cavalry!"

Stephen commanded his more than 100 soldiers to line up in two rows, with the front row lying on the ground. The second platoon of soldiers and machine gunners crouched and prepared to shoot, and the entire regiment was lined up in a horizontal formation more than 200 meters wide, with five heavy machine guns on each flank to strengthen the defense.

They had already been spotted by the Russian cavalry in the distance, and they stopped harassing the remnants of the Wolbeck Division and began to form an offensive formation less than 1 mile from the 305th Regiment. In the right rear of their platoon, a group of cavalry dragged a dozen small-caliber guns and several ammunition carts to a halt, the cavalry dismounted and turned their guns to the German infantry, while others pulled their heavy machine guns more than ten meters in front of the artillery, where more than twenty machine guns lined up.

Soon, German artillery opened fire. Shells whizzed over the heads of the infantrymen, smashing up huge balls of fire near the ranks of the Russian cavalry. The Russian horses began to leap wildly, and the Russian cavalry had to dodge the shells while calming their horses, and the soon-to-be-completed cavalry formation soon became a mess again. A handful of frightened horses actually galloped towards the German infantry with their masters, and the German machine guns quickly calmed them down.

At this time, the artillery of the Russian cavalry also began to fire. Although the shells did not fall directly in the middle of the infantry, and the power was less than that of the German artillery, many German infantry were still shot, and the machine gunners fell, and the soldiers next to them made up for it. Both sides were out of range of each other's machine guns. No one could deliberately dodge the shells, and both sides maintained their own queues in the baptism of fire from each other.

Stephen, like all German soldiers, had forgotten about nervousness, and a random piece of shrapnel could put an end to everything. But the Russian cavalry on the opposite side was subjected to the same test, the Russians were reluctant to rush to the other side from the front first, and the Germans were even more reluctant. Eventually, the Russian cavalry began to outflank the German infantry, and although the Russian cavalry in front was much reduced, the remnants of the Wolbeck division still made no move.

"The 1st and 2nd companies strengthened the left flank, the 7th and 8th companies strengthened the right flank, don't let the Russians get close!" The German infantry began to move in an orderly manner, and the horizontal line soon became a rectangle with one side missing.

Suddenly, there were fewer people around Stephen, and he immediately commanded his soldiers to fill the gap left by the companies that had been transferred to the flanks, and the neat and dense queue became sparse. When those Russian cavalry circled beyond the range of the machine guns on the two flanks of the German army, the Russian cavalry in front also suddenly charged, and nearly 10,000 indifferent-looking cavalry and the horses under their crotches formed huge black waves on three sides, ready to engulf the German army in the center of the flat ground.

"Machine gun fire! Others prepare grenades! Stephen became unusually calm at this time, there were at least 5,000 Russian cavalry in front of them, and the width of their charge was much wider than the width of the horizontal column on his side, and the heavy machine-gun fire caused a huge depression in the middle of the frontal charging cavalry phalanx, but the cavalry at both ends was getting closer and closer, and after a not-so-uniform salvo, the infantry threw grenades.

In the light of a large explosion, the Russian cavalry in front of them suddenly fell a lot. The shrapnel swirled and pierced into the bodies of the horses and knights, and blood immediately poured out of the breach, and it was impossible to distinguish whether it was horse blood or human blood on the ground.

The Russian cavalry was closer, their flanks were closed, and thousands of cavalry surrounded the more than 1,000 German infantry regiments.

300 meters!

200 meters!

100 meters!

Finally, the first war horse leaped over the heads of the German infantrymen, and the German soldiers saw not only the bloody hooves of the horses, but also the blades of the cold light.

From time to time, Russian cavalry rushed through the barrage, but the German soldiers tried hard to maintain their formation, their numb hands kept repeating the action of loading and shooting, the sub-machine gunners loaded the cartridge belts with the fastest speed on the machine guns, a large number of Russian cavalry were stubbornly blocked 100 meters away, and finally, the corpses of cavalry and war horses on the ground became the biggest obstacle to the cavalry's impact speed, and many cavalry tripped over the corpses of their own men and horses and fell to the ground, and then never had a chance to get up.

The Russian cavalry that jumped into the German array did not become heroes, the moment their horses landed, there were always a dozen bayonets stabbed obliquely, a dozen horses that fell behind the German infantry were all stuck with a few broken bayonets, and the Russian cavalry who fell to the ground did not have time to wave their swords to resist and went with their mounts.

Stephen continued to pull his Luger pistol, and the other party's body often had to be visited by several or even a dozen other bullets while engulfing his bullets.

No one knows when the Russians stopped the assault, in any case the Russians retreated. As far as the eye can see, from more than 1,000 meters to tens of meters, the corpses of horses and people are spread out into a circle with an inner ring less than 100 meters in diameter.

The soldiers of the 305th Regiment were moving fast, and as long as there was still a German soldier alive, they would be considered successful! Gradually, they could already see the soldiers of the Walbeck Division waving at them on the position, and everyone's footsteps were getting faster and faster. When they finally arrived there, they did not know whether to be relieved or saddened, and in a few trenches lay or sit hundreds of soldiers of the Walbeck Division, but most of them were wounded, and a small number of soldiers kept withdrawing from the city.

"Where's Colonel Wallbeck?" Neubart shouted, and the other soldiers followed him in search of Walbeck. Guided by the wounded soldiers, they found Colonel Wallbeck in a corner.

"Colonel, how many people are there in your division? Are there any troops in the city? Neubart walked up to him and saluted, saw that he was unresponsive, and repeated it aloud.

"No more! The rest is pretty much here! "In the face of such a major blow, Walbeck has become glazed-eyed.

"Alright, let's retreat quickly!" Neubart picked up Walbeck and left, and the other soldiers of the 305th Regiment also helped the wounded soldiers in the trenches and began to retreat in the direction of the train.

In the distance, the remnants of the Russian cavalry looked coldly at the embarrassed German soldiers, whose commander was about to give the order for pursuit, when an officer on a white steed stopped him.

"His Royal Highness?" The commander looked at the young Grand Duke, who was only in his early 30s, with some amazement, and it was not only his distinguished status that he had climbed to the position of commander-in-chief of the Guards, as evidenced by the first victory of the Russian army against the Germans since the beginning of the war. You must know that the German army they faced had annihilated two armies less than two weeks earlier.

"Let them go! They are brave, they are worthy of respect, and more importantly, sooner or later they will become my captives! The young officer gave a chilling look.

The Walbeck division was saved! The 305th Regiment, with only more than 700 people left, returned to the train with the remnants of the Wallbeck Division, which numbered less than 1,000 people, and everyone's minds went blank. In a burst of explosions, the train slowly headed south, leaving a quiet Kiemon and the tens of thousands of German soldiers buried there.