Chen Tian remembers a Chinese idiom called "Smelling the chicken and dancing".

The roosters in East Prussia had just begun to crow, and Mr. Leninkamp from Russia had already gotten up. With two thick dark circles, he drank the glass of milk in front of him and did not eat bread, so he let his troops start to advance. He had just thought that he would probably be severely punished by the Tsar in the Berlin Palace. After all, he and the German Emperor were relatives. So he changed the oath he made in the morning to swear everywhere at the Prince's house in Cornisburg, and then let the soldiers who did not sleep well all night advance quickly, and strive to achieve their great goals as soon as possible.

"Did you sleep well last night? Do you feel nervous?" Chen Tian asked the very young soldier next to him while chewing the bread.

"Report to Your Highness the Prince, I was not nervous last night, I just got up and went to the toilet more than a dozen times!" The soldier straightened his waist, but he didn't know whether to salute the prince with his right hand holding milk or his left hand holding bread.

"It's okay! Relax a little. In the trenches, I am like you, all German soldiers!" The night before, Chen Tian came to the defense line at the entrance of Insterburg's gorge. At night, he slept in the trenches with the soldiers. Fortunately, the weather was beautiful, and there was no heavy rain that made the prince who planned to establish a leading role in the image of a prince.

"Your Highness, the reconnaissance plane sent a report, and the Russians began to march here. Three infantry troops and four cavalry divisions were already deployed in the middle, and another cavalry division was on the left wing. It seemed that they were planning to force their breakthrough into the gorge!" A staff officer hurried over and handed a report to Chen Tian.

Chen Tian picked it up and glanced, turned around and walked towards the front line command center.

At this time, General Leninkamp, ​​the commander of the Russian First Army, also received a report. His Cossack cavalry had reconnaissed the Germans deployed defense lines at the entrance of Insterburg, but the number of defenders was unknown. All the scouts who approached the opponent's defense lines at night last night were killed.

"It must be these damn Germans who made me not sleep well yesterday!" Leninkamp cursed while yawning, while asking his soldiers to speed up their advance again. In his opinion, if the Germans had strong troops, they would not have shrunk in the trenches and waited for him to pass by, so he was ready to make the first contribution on the Eastern Front.

"Adminton, go and contact the 2nd Army, ask Samsonov when he can arrive, and tell him that my army will move forward smoothly and will soon defeat the German troops in East Prussia. I will wait for him on the Davist River!"

His adjutant was about to leave, and he added: "By the way, notify General Jilinsky, the commander of the Northwest Army Group, that our army is about to contact the enemy's small-scale troops!"

"Although our army is of the same force as the invading enemy, only by attracting the enemy to the front of the defense line can we have the opportunity to set up a huge encirclement!" Chen Tian explained to the puzzled staff, "The result I want is not to repel this Russian army. I want to wipe out them all, and not to leave any one!"

At 10 o'clock in the morning, the Russian heavy artillery began to bombard the German defensive positions at the entrance of Insterburg, and the Cossack cavalry division on their left wing began to enter the Mazuri Lake District.

The Russian cannon shells were supplied at 244 rounds a day. Without being resisted by the opponent's artillery fire, they poured shells into the German positions with a maximum firing rate of 440 rounds. They forgot that this place was 60 kilometers away from the border, and the poor logistics did not transport enough supplies. Finally, the Russian cannons fell silent.

Although his artillery had no shells, Leninkamp was very satisfied with the shelling for several hours. At this time, the German positions were silent, as if all the soldiers there had been killed under Russian shells.

"The cavalry began to charge! The infantry followed closely behind the cavalry! We must take the entrance of this gorge in one breath!" With the order of Leninkamp, ​​more than 100,000 Russian troops launched a charge in an open area 50 kilometers wide in front of the entrance of Insterburg. Tens of thousands of Cossack cavalry rushed towards the German positions with swords. Behind them were countless infantry holding bayonets. Looking from the entrance of the gorge, a black tide was coming.

At this time, the commander of the Armored Army, Org, was taking 100 armored vehicles, 150 trucks, 120 77mm caliber rapid-fire guns, 30 large-caliber howitzers and 20,000 soldiers from the Cornetherbord Fortress area east of the mouth of Insterbord, and they quickly circled to the right rear of the Russian army.

In the Mazuri Lake District, the Russian Cossack Cavalry Division encountered the German motorcycle unit that had been waiting here for a long time. The 5,000 tricycles had a firebird light machine gun or a Maxim heavy machine gun. So when tens of thousands of fierce Cossack cavalry rushed towards the 15,000 German troops and 5,000 machine guns with sabers, a very violent sound of fried beans broke out in the woods, and the leaves fell one after another. None of the Cossacks came out alive from the other side of the lake district to the left rear of the Russian army.

At the front of the entrance of Insterburg, Lenincamp rubbed his eyes over and over again. He could hardly believe everything he saw. He would rather have hallucinations that he had not had good sleep. However, all this was true. In just one hour, more than 30,000 Cossack cavalry and 45,000 Russian infantry fell in front of the entrance. They were not falling asleep because of sleepiness. The countless shells flying from behind the entrance of the entrance, and the countless flames that burst out instantly on the positions made them lie there one by one, enjoying the vicious sunshine of summer noon.

Yes! This is the massacre! The Germans massacre of the Russians, the 250,000 soldiers massacres of 200,000 soldiers, and 800 cannons and 7,000 machine guns massacres of countless sabers and rifles.

If there is God, God will cry for it!

Chen Tian looked at this hellish scene silently. This was the effect of spending huge sums of money to equip the East Prussian Army with a large number of machine guns, and the result he wanted. No unit in the world had a machine gun ratio that exceeded that of the German 8th Army, that is, Chen Tian's East Prussian Army. A large number of Maxim heavy machine guns and "Firebird" light machine guns have been issued to each company and platoon or even squad. The amazing ammunition consumption has caused half of the cars of the logistics troops to transport machine gun bullets.

But Chen Tian couldn't be happy at this time!

But this is war, no one has the power to leniently do it!

"General, the other party demands negotiation!" When Russian commander General Leningkamp was in a state of chaos, his adjutant told him that someone was walking over with a white flag on the opposite position.

"This... tell the soldiers to stand by and pay close attention to every move on the opposite position to prevent the opponent from launching an attack at this time!" Leninkamp stood up and carefully sorted out his military uniform. He had not lost yet!

"Idiot! You have lost!" Chen Tian stood at the forefront of the position, and watched his special envoy pass through countless Russian corpses with a white flag. Then he walked to the Russian position. The Russian soldiers surrounded him, but were drunk by their officers. The special envoy went to persuade the surrender, but Chen Tian knew that the Russians would not surrender now. He just hoped to delay for another half an hour so that his flank troops could complete the encirclement, and it would be better to anger the Russian commander and let him launch another attack.

Leninkamp tried his best to maintain the noble manner and drove away the German envoy politely.

When the envoy walked back, he glanced at the Russian cannon, and there were only empty shell boxes and a large pile of shell shells next to it.

After the German envoy left, Leninkamp stood blankly in his temporary command center. The staff members around him stopped their work and waited for him to issue orders to attack or retreat.

"Occurrence, or retreat?" Lenincamp himself didn't know what to do.

"General, why haven't you attacked yet? We must avenge our dead brothers! We will cut the Germans alive!" Two Cossack cavalry officers rushed into the command center, waving the sword in their hands like crazy, scaring the staff members to hide aside.

"General, attack! Otherwise, what face do we have to go back to see our great duke, our tsar, and our people?"

Lenin Camp nodded in a daze.

The 20,000 Cossack cavalry and their mounts rushed towards the German positions like they were stimulants, but after a few minutes, they all fell off their horses, while the subsequent Russian infantry began to retreat.

"Retreat! Retreat!" Leninkamp then woke up. The Germans had already made full preparations, and even this was a trap they set.

"It's too late!"

When several signal flares rose from behind the Russian army, Leninkamp sat on the ground, letting the staff members pull him up and refused to get up no matter how hard they pulled him.

Just after Org's armored troops and motorcycle troops completed the siege of the Russian army, the remaining 100 armored vehicles of the armored army began to charge in full swing with more than 100,000 German troops. German soldiers crossed countless Russian corpses, shouted at the Russian army that was retreating in full swing.

The armored vehicles quickly rushed into the Russian army and divided them. Several machine guns on the vehicles opened fire violently at the crowd. The retreat of the Russian soldiers finally turned into scattered flights.

On the back of the Russian army, armored vehicles, trucks, motorcycles and German soldiers from the armored army formed a huge semicircle, 6,956 machine guns, 150 cannons and 35,000 soldiers formed a huge Aegis, tearing all the Russian soldiers who tried to escape the encirclement to pieces under the dense fire net.

There was a firepower net for seeking life in front and countless pursuers behind. The Russian soldiers had lost their fighting spirit and surrendered with their guns.

Just as Lenincamp tried to commit suicide by lifting his gun, a German soldier kicked his pistol away and pressed him to the ground. On this clear summer afternoon, a fool could see that this guy in a gorgeous general uniform was a big fish, a big fish.

The battle ended at 4 pm, and the German soldiers could still catch up with supper. A large group of Russian prisoners were gathered into a huge open space, just like when they attacked. However, at this time, these people had lost the courageous spirit of moving forward in the morning, and sat there dejectedly and silently. It was only a few days before they left their homes, but they had to start their long life as prisoners of war. It was so sad.

In this service, except for the troops responsible for logistics transportation, the 210,000 troops of the 1st Army of the Northwest Army Group of Russia were wiped out, of which 108,000 were killed, and the remaining 102,000 were all captured. The German army used nearly 70 trains to transport these prisoners to the rear. More than 400 Russian cannons were seized except those damaged in the battle. As for the captured horses, they were driven into temporary livestock in groups.
Chapter completed!