Under the pressure of the bayonets and sabers of the Russians, the Austrian infantry stranded on the battlefield finally collapsed.

The deadly flashes of swords in the back during the fight with the Russian infantry became a nightmare for the Austrian soldiers, and even if they tried to escape, the tall black shadows that were as fast as the wind always appeared in front of them like ghosts.

In the end, most of the Austrian infantry chose to surrender.

This was the largest number of Austro-Hungarian captured troops after the Battle of Galicia. Among the 130,000 Austrian soldiers in the two and a half armies that attacked the Russian position in the last sortie, in addition to the more than 30,000 who died under the Russian artillery fire and infantry and the very few who escaped from the battlefield, about 97,000 Austro-Hungarian soldiers raised their hands to the Russian army; Of the 41,000 Austro-Hungarian cavalry who participated in the battle, 24,000 fell under the swords of the Russian cavalry, and the remnants joined the Austrian retreat. There were originally more than 20,000 artillery on the Austrian artillery position, more than half of which were killed in the first attack of the Russian cavalry, and more than 600 cannons brought by the Austrian army all fell into the hands of the Russian army, of which more than 200 were completely returned to Zhao; Together with the 20,000 infantry lost in the first assault on the Russian positions and the Russian cavalry attack on the starting positions, Archduke Friedrich had already lost more than 180,000 men here.

However, the nightmare of the Austro-Hungarian army was much more than that.

The pale-faced Archduke Friedrich, surrounded by guards, joined more than 70,000 other Austro-Hungarian officers and soldiers on a retreat, or rather an escape.

Along the way, there were patches of soldiers in blue clothes and gray pants lying in many places, these are the troops left by the Austrian army along the way to be responsible for maintaining the logistics and transportation lines. The railroad tracks along the way had been blasted and dismantled, and the Austrians had no way to retreat to the border through the railway line, and the Austrian outposts, temporary strongholds, and some Russian villages and towns along the railways and highways had been looted, and almost no Austro-Hungarian soldiers survived. On the way to the retreat of the Austrian troops, some Russian villages along the way were still smoking, and most of them were filled with the corpses of Austrian officers and soldiers, and the Russian residents had long since disappeared.

Despair and loss had crawled all over Archduke Friedrich's face, and as he passed by a disarrayed Austrian outpost, he suddenly shouted:

"Quick! Send a message to General Dankel and General Offenberg and beware of an ambush by the Russians! ”

General Offenberg in the center quickly replied to the telegram that his 4th Army had not found a single Russian soldier, that they had advanced to a distance of 150 kilometers from the important town of Mogilev in eastern Belarus, and that in the current situation, General Offenberg had decided to abandon Mogilev and return along the road.

Dankel's 1st Army, on the right flank, seemed to have evaporated out of thin air, and there was no news of them.

After Stolbutsy hastily gathered the rout, Archduke Friedrich no longer had the confidence and intention to stop the Russian army on the spot, and he decided to evacuate this ghost place faster than when he came, and at the same time ordered General Offenberg's 4th Army to retreat as quickly as possible to Brest, which borders Poland on the southwestern border of Belarus, while his own troops would retreat there first and wait to meet them.

For various reasons, Archduke Friedrich never asked for help from the Germans, but Chentian did not intend to fall into the trap, and his Panzer Corps and the 3rd Army happened to be assembled in the area near Brest to the Polish border.

After leaving some of his soldiers to clean up the battlefield and contain prisoners of war, Ivanov personally led the main force to follow the Austrian rout. Half an hour after the Austro-Hungarian troops withdrew from Stolbuts, the vanguard of the Russian army recaptured the city, which was located along the Polish-Minsk railway line.

Nizametin's stocky stature did not stand out in the ranks of the Austro-Hungarian march, but his mental state contrasted sharply with the dejected crowd around him. Maybe no one would believe that this 5-foot-4" guy had taken out a fierce Russian cavalryman, but Nizametin knew he did.

Walking around Nizametin were not only the artillery that had escaped from the saber of the Russian cavalry, but also the infantry units that had retreated from the front line, and the surviving cavalry was far ahead of the infantry, and Nizametin felt that once the Russian cavalry caught up, they probably would not have the courage to fight again. Nizametin pulled out the Russian dagger, it looked short, but it was sharp, and it should have been used by the Russian cavalry to cut things. As for the coins, they don't seem to be anything special, and you might be lucky enough to block a bullet in your breast pocket.

It was already late at night, and Nizametin estimated that it was past midnight, and the Austrian officers and soldiers around him looked sleepy, but no one planned to take a break here, so that he could basically go directly to the Russian prisoner of war camp when he woke up, and the Russians were not very friendly to prisoners.

Nizametin looked around and saw a man who looked like an officer walking a short distance behind him with a dull expression.

"Sir, may I know what time it is?"

The officer, who looked to be in his early thirties, had a smoky and muddy face, and it took a while for him to slowly pull out a pocket watch, and his movements looked like an old man in his seventies and eighties.

"1:10! Today is October 5th! ”

A cool breeze blew, which made the Austro-Hungarian officers and soldiers on the road shiver, and their bodies began to tremble when the neighing of war horses and the sound of horses' hooves in the distant woods faintly reached their ears.

"Russian cavalry! The Russian cavalry is coming! ”

I don't know who shouted, and the Austrian army column on the road suddenly became chaotic. It would be unwise to expose the middle of the open road, and Nizametin and the others were about to run towards a small village on the other side of the road, but to their despair and horror, a large group of dark shadows appeared there silently like ghosts.

Austro-Hungarian soldiers, look at me, I look at you, who still has a rifle in their hand? Who dragged a heavy heavy machine gun to escape? The infantrymen, armed with weapons in their hands, lined up on the side of the road under the command of the officer, trying to block the Russians on both sides of the road.

The Russian cavalry silently began to advance, the sound of horses' hooves sounding so light and dense, that they began to trot to the shouts of the Austro-Hungarian soldiers, and began to sprint at the roar of bullets. There were rifles and bayonets of the Austrian infantry in front, but they turned a blind eye. The cavalry at the front, with their horses, slammed into the slightly weaker Austrian infantry lines, or jumped high and plunged into the Austrian crowd.

Nizametin craned his neck to look at the Austrian line on the road, which in the moonlight stretched out at each end of the curve, and it was clear that the Russians had chosen the middle of their line as the breakthrough point.

"Everybody, run, run ahead! Once we are intercepted by the Russians, we will not have a chance to get out of here! ”

Hearing this shout, the Austrian soldiers no longer cared about their tired bodies and numb legs, threw down everything that could be discarded and ran forward desperately, and the queue in front began to speed up, and the queue that was still somewhat orderly suddenly became completely chaotic, and everyone wanted to run to the front and escape from the swords of the Russian cavalry that flashed cold......

The Russian cavalry clamped heavily on the Austrian column like two arms of large pincers, splitting the Austrians on the road. After this, the cavalry began to kill the Austro-Hungarian infantry along the road. People's ears seemed to have become numb, and the screams of the soldiers who had been stabbed by the Russian cavalry at the moment before they died could no longer stir the waves in their hearts, and they only cared that their legs could escape with maximum power.

Watching the Russian cavalry behind them get closer and closer, the Austrian crowd became more and more chaotic and crowded, and the congestion of the road made the marching queue actually slower. Not only on the roads, but also in the fields on both sides were full of fleeing Austro-Hungarian soldiers.

After the Russian cavalry broke through the Austro-Hungarian infantry's blocking line, there was nothing left to stop them from running wild and killing.

Nizametin ran forward desperately, he knew very well that he would not be so lucky every time he was one-on-one with the Russian cavalry, maybe the Russians would not even leave him a one-on-one chance now, and the only way to escape was to flee. At some point, a group of cavalry rushed from behind at high speed, and poor Nizametin only felt that he had been hit hard from the right rear, and then fell unconscious.

When Nizametin woke up again, it was already dawn. He felt a pain in his arms and shoulders, but he managed to stand up, surrounded by corpses strewn as if he had been in the middle of a great war, but unfortunately not many Russians had died there.

In the distance, the scene spreads along the road to the southwest until it disappears on the side of the detour.

Everywhere was lifeless, as if the world had forgotten about it, and Nizametin was thinking about what to do below, when the crisp sound of horses' hooves on the gravel road suddenly came from behind, and he had to lie down among the dead bodies again. In a few moments, a small group of Russian cavalry quickly passed through the middle of the road, looking around with a serious expression, but to their disappointment, there did not appear to be any living creatures nearby.

It seems that it is impossible to continue to travel near the road!

After the Russian cavalry left, Nizametin began to walk southwest, holding his wounded hand. He didn't know if any of his troops would survive, but he had to go there to get out of here, otherwise he would have had little trouble getting food from the Russian inhabitants even if the Russian cavalry didn't find out.

Nizametin still has a long way to go, it took them three days to cross the border to get here, and now he is fleeing under the noses of the Russians, and it will probably take even longer. Nizametin found a hidden bush and took off his striking military uniform, which, though a shirt alone seemed a little thin in the weather, was at least not so easily spotted by the Russians. The road ahead had already been blocked by the Russians, and he had to walk along the woods and fields. If he was lucky, he could also use the cover of night to find something to satisfy his hunger in the village, and so he walked all the way to the area controlled by the Austrians.

By the time Nizametin was fortunate enough to have the opportunity to escape, most of the Austro-Hungarian officers and soldiers on the way had already died or succumbed to the Russians' horses, and only Archduke Friedrich, under the protection of the cavalry, was able to escape, and he finally arrived in Brest with only the remnants of more than 3,000 cavalry.

On the banks of the Lipiyati River in southern Belarus, the commander of the Russian army, Agliny stands on a small hill, and hundreds of thousands of Austro-Hungarian prisoners are marching silently under the watchful eye of Russian soldiers. Also on the night of October 4, Aglini and nearly 300,000 Russian troops raided and surrounded the camp of the main force of the Austro-Hungarian 4th Army. The Austrian army was caught off guard and collapsed under the attack of the Russian infantry cavalry, and 70,000 Austro-Hungarian officers and soldiers, including General Dankel, were killed, and then Aglini led his troops along the river bank to pursue the Austro-Hungarian army's rout, and finally less than 10,000 of the 240,000 soldiers of the 4th Army escaped.

General Offenberg and the 4th Army in the center arrived in Brest almost together with the news of the ambush on the right flank, for which Archduke Friedrich felt deep shame and remorse, but what made him even more worried and uneasy was that before he could give the order to retreat to Poland, a large force of Russian cavalry had already arrived in the city and cut off their rear route, and Ivanov's army, which surrounded and annihilated the Austrian left flank, and Aglini's army, which ambushed the Austrian army's right flank, also arrived at the outskirts of Brest soon after. After the two Russian armies met, the strength reached 600,000, while the Austro-Hungarian army in the city was only more than 200,000, in the face of the superior cavalry of the Russian army, the Austro-Hungarian army of the Grand Duke Friedrich was simply unable to go out of the city and fight in the field, and it was also difficult to withdraw to Poland in front of the Russian cavalry, and it was even possible to be severely damaged by the Russian cavalry like the retreating troops on the left and right flanks before.

While the Austrian officers and soldiers in Brest were restless, the roar of engines and the sound of machinery turning from the west made them feel as if they were seeing a savior. After thorough preparations, the main force of the German East Prussian Army finally crossed the border in an orderly manner, and they came to meet the Austro-Crarian Allied army, whose strength and confidence had been severely damaged, and by the way, the Russians deepened their impression of German tanks and machine guns.

In the end, more than 200,000 Austro-Hungarian remnants, accompanied by the German army, were watched by the arrogant and indifferent Russian cavalry to withdraw from Belarus, and the battle between Germany and Austria and Russia on the Eastern Front came to an end. The Austro-Hungarian army suffered one of the worst losses since the beginning of the war, and although the nearly 300,000 captured officers and soldiers returned to the Austrian battle sequence by exchanging prisoners of war shortly after, Austria-Hungary had decided to shift the focus of the war back to Seville, and the German Eastern Front Army Corps had driven its main forces to the Western Front, and the Allied forces did not cross the border for a long time after that; Aglini took advantage of this victory as an official entry into the struggle for power in Russia with the revolutionaries, and his main forces left the Belarusian region shortly after.

Therefore, for a long time, there was no fighting on the German-Russian border with Austria and Russia, only a few boring soldiers occasionally scolded each other across the border line.