Thanks to Babajanyan's troops, they successfully advanced to the Gulf of Gdansk before dark, successfully cutting off the connection between Gdynia and the defenders of Tsopot and Danzig.

Knowing that the Soviets had separated the defenders of Götenhafen from the rest of the region, Schauken immediately realized that his original judgment had made a fatal mistake, and he hurriedly issued an order to the commander of the 251st Grenadier Division, telling him to immediately withdraw all his troops to the city of Gotenhafen and prepare to rely on the buildings in the city to fight a street battle with the Soviets.

The German troops, having received the order, left their line of defense overnight and retreated along the road towards Götenhafen. Halfway through, the vanguard of the German army found that the road ahead was crowded with fleeing refugees, and after understanding, some of these refugees were locals, some of them had fled from East Prussia, because they heard that the Russians were coming, so they took their few belongings and marched towards Gotenhafen, trying to board a ship in the harbor there and flee to a safer place.

In order to prevent the troops from being caught up by the Soviets by the refugees on the road, the German commander ordered the refugees to be informed to walk on the right side of the road, and the left side of the road was reserved for the troops to pass.

The refugees, who were trudging along the muddy road in the direction of Gotenhafen, suddenly saw countless troops passing by them, and guessed that the Russians might be coming, and they couldn't help but become even more flustered. In order to speed up the escape, some refugees stood on the side of the road with gold watches or jewelry in their hands, hoping that the armored vehicles or trucks passing in front of them would give them a ride.

In normal times, if you see refugees on the side of the road who are willing to pay a big price for a ride, the driver of the armored car or truck will definitely step on the brakes and let these refugees get into the car and make a lot of money. At this moment, however, all German officers and men were given the order to immediately withdraw to Gotenhafen as quickly as possible, lest they be overtaken by the Russians. Since they are fleeing for their lives, the attraction of gold watches and jewelry in the hands of refugees tends to zero indefinitely. Although there are still some drivers who are a little tempted to see the young and beautiful female refugees on the side of the road and the valuable jewelry they are holding, these things are more important than their own lives, so no one stopped to let the refugees ride.

At dawn, the retreating German troops were still five or six kilometers away from Gotenhafen, and the driver of an armored car driving in the front suddenly noticed a convoy transporting supplies in large carts on a road not far away. Seeing this, the driver immediately shouted: "Russians, there are Russians on the road next to us!" ”

There was a German captain sitting in the car, and after hearing the driver's shout, he looked outside, and sure enough, he saw a convoy of large cars on the road a hundred meters away. The captain said unhappily to the driver: "Don't make a fuss, that's our own convoy." ”

The frightened driver, with a quick glance in that direction, cautiously asked: "Mr. Captain, is that our own convoy?" ”

"Is that still wrong?" The captain replied: "The Russians' convoys have long been mechanized, so they will not use carts to transport military supplies." After a pause, he asked, "How long do we have before we get to Gortenhaven?" ”

"Mr. Captain," replied the driver hurriedly, "if we maintain our current speed, we will be able to enter the city in another half an hour at most." ”

The captain glanced out the window at the muddy road, frowned, and said, "Can you hurry up a little longer?" These damn Russians may come out of nowhere, and they should enter the city early, so that they will feel at ease. ”

As soon as the captain finished speaking, he faintly heard the roar of the tank's engine. Hearing this voice, he couldn't help but chuckle in his heart, and secretly thought: "It can't be a Russian tank, right?" After listening for a few more moments, he heard the sound of the engine coming from the east, which was the defense area of the friendly forces, and he guessed: "It may be that the tank troops ordered to go to the west to stop the Russians, and with them to stop the Russians, we can smoothly withdraw to the city." ”

He had just thought of this when he heard shouts from the other side of the road. Before he could figure out what was going on, he saw that the drivers of the cart and the soldiers escorting the cart jumped out of the cart and ran towards the sides of the road without looking back. The tanks coming from the east, however, did not slow down and rushed straight into the convoy, recklessly crushing the carts and the supplies on them. Seeing this, he immediately understood in his heart: these tanks coming from the east turned out to be not his own people, but Russians.

The captain raised his hand and slapped the driver twice on the shoulder, shouting, "It's the Russians, speed up, or we'll be all done as soon as their tanks fire." The driver slammed on the accelerator like crazy, trying to speed up the armored car, but he couldn't do it, because the road was too muddy, and the half-track armored car got stuck in the mud and couldn't move forward.

The 45th Guards Tank Brigade under Babajanyan, which advanced to the Gulf of Gdansk yesterday, did not catch a battle because the German forces on the defensives collapsed too quickly. Therefore, before dawn today, the brigade commander led his troops to advance from east to west without asking for instructions, trying to join forces with the two mechanized corps in the west and destroy the German troops on the outskirts of the city.

In the process of marching, the tanks that were driving the road in front of them spotted the oncoming German convoy and reported it to the brigade commander in time. After hearing this, the brigade commander immediately issued a brief order: "Advance, crush them!" ”

In this way, more than 50 tanks of the brigade rushed forward along the road in a long snake formation, crushing the carts, horses, and supplies that stood in the way. After clearing the German convoy, the tanks stopped on the road, and they had already found that on the road next to them, there was an enemy retreating towards Gdynia, so all the turrets were turned, and the black holes were aimed at the German troops blocking the road, and as soon as the brigade commander gave the order, they immediately opened fire and completely destroyed them.

When the brigade commander learned that there was a German unit on the road next to him, he hurriedly opened the hatch, leaned out half of his body, raised his binoculars and looked at the road over there, and sure enough, he saw countless German armored vehicles and trucks blocked on that road and could not move. Seeing this, he hurriedly gave an order through the throat microphone: "Brothers, there is a German convoy on the road next to it, and it seems that they are preparing to withdraw to the city. I now order you to immediately open fire and destroy them with artillery fire. ”