With most of the Russian troops already in disarray, Samsonov reluctantly sent two infantry divisions to block the Germans, while he and more than 100,000 Russian soldiers retreated towards the border.

On the road they came from, there were no people in the dozens of posts, and the German soldiers disguised as sentries hid on the hillsides and woods on both sides of the road, constantly firing at the Russian soldiers.

Fighters, attack planes and bombers constantly flew over the road, strafing, dropping bombs, climbing, circling, strafing again, dropping bombs along the road, inflicting massive casualties on the crowded Russians.

"I knew there was something wrong with those sentinels!" Corporal Kapetanovich lay in the canal by the side of the road, with a belly full of fire and nowhere to vent. In the morning he felt something was wrong when he borrowed fire from the sentry, and then he reported it to their company commander, but instead of being alert, the fellow scolded him and said that he was fine. However, his company commander was torn apart by a bomb during the first air raid, which can be regarded as retribution.

By this time, the Russian army was already in disarray, the soldiers could no longer find their officers, and the officers could not find their own soldiers, and no one organized troops to attack the German firing points on the side of the road.

"You guys come up with me and kill the Germans in the woods over there! We can't let them slaughter our brothers like this anymore! Kapetanovic gathered a dozen soldiers in the company.

"Kapetanovic, let's not be reckless, the officers are running and dying, everyone should run for their lives!" Some of the soldiers didn't seem to approve of it, and some of them were so empty-handed that they didn't even know where to throw their weapons.

"Alright! If you want to flee for your life, flee quickly, and the warriors who are willing to stay will go with me to pull out the German's firepower! ”

In the end, only seven others remained. Kapetanovic asked them to take more weapons and ammunition from the dead Russian soldiers on the road, and began to climb up the hillside on the other side, and the German bullets flew over their heads.

"Get down!" As soon as Kapetanovic shouted, two soldiers were shot and rolled down.

"Damn! Those timid artillerymen actually left all the artillery to the Germans! ”

If there were infantry artillery at this time, these Russian soldiers would not have had to risk climbing to the top of the hill, but even if their artillery retreated with heavy artillery, they would be blocked by the chaotic flow of people if they were not caught up by the Germans.

Kapetanovich and the remaining five soldiers slowly climbed up like poor snails, and after ten minutes they finally came to the other side of the mountain, where they lay in the grass and looked at the German firepower point dozens of meters away from them, where there was nothing more than a Maxim, 3 light machine guns and a dozen German soldiers, but they killed and wounded at least hundreds of Russian soldiers in just one hour, as evidenced by the bullet casings all over the ground.

Under the cover of bushes and grass, they crept their way there.

"Listen to my command and rush over together!" Kapetanovic clutched the rifle with the bayonet, their rifle could not have fired at the opponent's machine gun, and the damned officer didn't actually send the grenade into their hands.

"Rush!" Six Russian soldiers rushed over from a distance of more than a dozen meters from the German fire, and their actions were more like moths to the fire than to attack.

Bang Bang Bang ......

Two German officers opened fire on the brave Russians with their Luger 08s, and Kapetanovich and the others soon collapsed in pools of blood, their eyes wide as they watched as the blue sky slowly turned red......

Only about 40 of the hundreds of firing points on both sides of the road were attacked by the Russians, and 24 of them were captured by the Russians, but the Russians paid ten times more casualties than the Germans in order to capture those firing points.

In the middle of the road, a general of the Cossack cavalry, surrounded by numerous guards, tried his best to maintain his composure, and they rode slowly through the crowd on a tall horse, like an island in the river, in stark contrast to the crowd and chaos around them. Suddenly, the general was shaken and fell off his horse. His guards dismounted and gathered around, only to see a bullet hole in their general's head.

Not far from the bushes on the hillside, Michael. Second Lieutenant Rudra expertly pulls the pistol on the hitch and feeds the next bullet into the chamber. This ace sniper, who had shown his skills on the Turkish battlefield, led more than 300 snipers from the sniper unit of the East Prussian Regiment to ambush on both sides of the road, specializing in hunting down Russian officers. The cavalry general was his 29th prey of the day, and the grass-green covert on his body made him almost blend in with his surroundings, so there was no need to move his position at all, and no Russian soldiers planned to rush up to search for a killer like him.

With officers being sniped in large numbers, the retreat of the Russian army is becoming more and more like a flight. By dusk, the few remaining Russian rearguard units had retreated to the 40-kilometer road, and they hurried east over the bodies of countless comrades.

In villages along the road, more than a dozen tanks, armored vehicles and motorcycles drove out of haystacks and warehouses, and they used machine guns and artillery to torture the Russian soldiers who crowded the roads. The power of bullets and shells had been exerted to the extreme at this time, and the bullets of a Maxim heavy machine gun could almost penetrate the bodies of 2-3 Russians after being discharged, and the shells that fell into the crowd did not seem to see the fire of the explosion, only a huge fountain of blood burst out with a muffled sound, and countless stumps flew in all directions.

The spirit of the Russians has almost collapsed, and there is only one thought in everyone's brains - to run forward desperately, to run across the border to live. More and more Russians are lying on the 40-kilometre road, and the canals beside the road are already filled with Russian blood.

As night fell, the fierce gunfire did not stop at all, and the dazed Samsonov was carried by the guards, and the Russian soldiers beside them became fewer and fewer, and the road became more and more difficult to walk. Thankfully, they were finally at the end of the road, and the border was in front of them.

When the figure of the retreating Russian soldier appeared in the distance under the firelight that constantly streaked through the night, Lieutenant Deniklas threw away the cigarette butt in his hand and got into the tank. The long night of waiting had already made his toes itch. The gunner stuffed the shell into the chamber, and he kept his eyes firmly on the sight of the 37mm gun.

"! Nothing to see! Deniclas got out of the tank again, "Hey, corporal, fire a flare 1 kilometer ahead!" ”

With the sound of a match-lit sound, the entire highway became bright, but it was not the light of the Holy Lord that shone on the Russian officers and soldiers, but the eyes of the devil.

Bang! The whole tank shook, and in the dark night a shell made a beautiful arc and rushed into the middle of the Russians who were hobbling towards this direction.

Samsonov was thrown out with a bang, and his pupils dilated......

Then other tanks and rapid-fire guns opened fire on the Russian crowd, and clouds of smoke rose from the road.

"Tank troops, forward!" Deniklas shouted loudly, and the 15 tanks rumbled into action, puffing out of their tails.

The Russian soldiers who ran at the front were frightened to see a group of iron bumps slowly driving towards them, and they continued to spew out strings of projectiles on them, dragging white tails from the air, it seemed that every bullet was coming towards them, they didn't know whether they should retreat or continue to run in that direction at this time, but the crowd behind them made them have no choice, so they had to approach those monsters step by step.

The tank met the retreating crowd......

Gurgle!

Deniclas in the tank could already hear the terrifying sound of the tank breaking bones and bursting skulls, and the heart-rending wails of the Russian soldiers who had been wounded.

"Oh my God! We're in hell right now! Deniklas couldn't help but shout, but the noise inside the tank drowned out his voice. He and the loader operated a machine gun and fired frantically at the surrounding crowd, and the Russian soldiers fell straight down.

Machine guns, rifles, bayonets, fists, leather shoes and even teeth, the Russian soldiers tried everything they could, but they were helpless against these iron guys. They had no choice but to use grenades in such a crowded area, damaging the tracks of two tanks and injuring many of their own people, but the Russians could not think about it anymore.

The damaged tank stopped in the middle of the road and continued to shoot at the crowd, and soon after the other tanks also stopped, and after the machine gun bullets on the tanks were exhausted, the bloody road was finally opened by the Russians, who rushed towards the border desperately......

The bloody night is finally over.

Dawn brings new hope, but some people can't wait for the sun to rise. 123,000 Russian soldiers fell on the road to hope, 46,000 were captured, only a few thousand were able to cross the border to return to their homeland, and more than 40,000 remained forever in front of the woods in Compienan.

From August 17, when the main force of the Russian 1st Army entered Germany with great pride, to the early morning of August 21, when the last Russian infantry fled back to Russia in a panic, it was only five days, and the numbers of the 1st and 2nd armies were forever removed from the battle sequence of the Tsarist Russian army.

When the bad news came back to Russia, the cup in the Tsar's hand fell to the ground and shattered.

Half the world laughs and half the world weeps!

The German army on the Western Front defeated 720,000 Belgian divisions and 120,000 men in 5 days with 34 divisions and 700,000 men in Belgium, and occupied Brussels on August 8, but the Belgian people did not give up their resistance.

Gigi. Prince Wilhelm also spent five days in East Prussia with 14 divisions and 250,000 people, completely annihilating 440,000 Russian armies, and won a brilliant victory of killing 270,000 enemies and capturing 150,000.

Kaiser Wilhelm II was ecstatic and praised Chentian as "Hannibal of Germany"!

The bells of Berlin are ringing, successive victories have plunged the German people into a frenzy, and the streets and alleys are full of carnivals.