The commander of the 6th Guards Cavalry Division, Major General Blicori, received the order from the commander of the corps, Oslikovsky, and immediately replied: "Comrade commander, please rest assured that our 6th Cavalry Division will reach Aerenstein before dawn to destroy the enemy in that area. ”

As soon as he put down the phone, Blicory began to give orders to the three regimental commanders in front of him: "Colonel Yegor, your 25th Guards Cavalry Regiment, as the vanguard of the whole division, rushed to Allenstein overnight, seized the German defense line and built a strong defense there. ”

"Yes!" Colonel Yegor hurriedly agreed: "Please rest assured, division commander, our regiment has made all preparations for battle and can enter the battle at any time." ”

Then, Blicori gave orders to the two commanders of the 23rd and 28th Cavalry Regiments respectively, asking them to follow behind the 25th Cavalry Regiment as the second echelon. If the avant-garde regiment did not meet with strong resistance from the enemy, their task was to take over the defense of the area occupied by the avant-garde regiment; If the enemy is putting up stubborn resistance, the 23rd Cavalry Regiment will be put into battle to support, and the 28th Cavalry Regiment will serve as the general reserve of the whole division.

After Blikory gave the order, the chief of staff of the corps tactfully proposed to him: "Comrade commander, you also know that it is winter, the roads are covered with snow, and the artillery battalions and heavy machine-gun battalions directly under the division, due to the insufficient number of horses, may not be able to keep up with the pace of action of the three cavalry regiments. If the whole division advances lightly, although mobility can be guaranteed, once it encounters the stubborn resistance of the German army, we will not be able to eat them at all if we do not have heavy weapons. ”

"Gather the horses of the artillery battalion and the heavy machine-gun battalion and give them to one of the companies." In response to the concerns of the chief of staff of the army, Major General Blikory made a decision after a little thought: "The Germans have lost their fighting spirit under our blows, and even if we have only one company of artillery and heavy machine guns, there should be no problem in eating the enemy in the Allenstein area." ”

Colonel Yegor's 25th Guards Cavalry Regiment, as the vanguard of the division, advanced towards the Aerenstein area after only fifteen minutes. On the way, the commander of the first battalion asked with some concern: "Comrade regiment commander, I heard that the German army has a strong defense in the Alenstein area, and it is a little too risky for us to attack with one regiment?" ”

Hearing the battalion commander say this, Yegor glared at him and said angrily: "From the beginning of the battle to the present, other units have continued to build up meritorious deeds, but only our cavalry seems to have been forgotten by their superiors. I finally had the opportunity to fight today, so I naturally had to perform well. Not to mention letting us attack the enemy with a regiment, even if there is only one battalion, in this case, we cannot retreat. Do you understand? ”

"Understood, Comrade Regiment Commander." The battalion commander who touched his nose replied with some embarrassment.

After a night of travel, the 25th Cavalry Regiment came to a place only two kilometers from Arunstein. Yegor thought that his troops had been on the road for almost a night, and they were already sleepy, so in order not to affect the rest of the battle, he announced that his troops would rest in place. In addition, he sent a cavalry squad to carry out reconnaissance missions.

After less than twenty minutes, the cavalry sent out hurried back. The scout who led the team reported to Yegor: "Comrade regiment commander, two kilometers away, there is a railway station of the German army, the tracks are full of trains. ”

Hearing that the station was full of trains, Yegor's eyes couldn't help but light up, and he hurriedly asked: "What kind of strength does the German army have?" ”

"We took a prisoner, and after interrogation, we learned that the German troops guarding the station had only one company of more than 200 people." The scout replied: "In addition to this, there are porters who are used by local residents, and the total number does not exceed three hundred. ”

"The battalion commanders are coming to me." After learning about the situation of the station through the scouts, the idea of capturing the station immediately popped into his mind, so he ordered the signal corps to call several battalion commanders under him and assign them tasks.

After the battalion commanders had arrived, Yegor informed several people of the information obtained by the scouts. When they learned that there were several military trains at the railway station and that the defenders were only 200 men, several battalion commanders asked for battle, and they all asked for their battalions to attack the main attack.

Seeing that several battalion commanders were arguing with each other, Yegor waved his big hand and announced: "Don't argue anymore, everyone in the regiment will participate in the attack this time, try to crush the German troops at the railway station in one shot, and then quickly seize the military train stopped on the tracks." ”

"Comrade regiment commander," the commander of the first battalion cautiously said after hearing Yegor's arrangement, "if the whole regiment attacks from the front, once the enemy cannot support it and scatters and flees, we will not be able to stop them at all." ”

"Don't worry, the roads around are covered with snow, and it will not be so easy for the Germans to escape." After Yegor said this, he announced in a loud voice: "Let the warriors get on their horses and prepare to charge." ”

With Yegor's order, 1,300 cavalry warriors lined up in a column of 100 people in thirteen columns. Seeing that the troops were finished, Yegor, who was on the far right of the procession, drew his saber from his waist, pointed diagonally forward, and shouted loudly: "Brothers, destroy every enemy you see." Advance~! ”

As soon as his words fell, the entire procession erupted in a shout of "Ula", and then the cavalry, which had finished the formation, began to move forward slowly. Soon, the horses changed from slow walking to trotting on the snow, and when they reached the range of eight hundred meters, the cavalry began to sprint at full speed.

On the brightly lit platform of the railway station, the defenders and porters were carrying munitions from the military columns, when suddenly they heard the rumbling of horses' hooves outside the station, and they stopped what they were doing and looked in the direction from which they were heard, trying to find out what they were hearing.

A soldier heard a louder and louder sound, the sound of horses' hooves from thousands of horses, and in the distance, a swarthy shadow approaching the train station, was a cavalryman who was charging rapidly, and he hurriedly shouted at the top of his voice: "Enemy attack, enemy attack!" ”

With the shouting, the defenders and porters in the railway station suddenly became a mess, they never dreamed that the Soviet cavalry would suddenly appear near the railway station, everyone was scurrying back and forth on the platform like headless flies, who would not have thought to enter the defensive position and use machine gun fire to give the Soviet army a head-on attack.

Seeing the cavalry getting closer and closer, a German machine gunner finally came to his senses, he rushed to the sandbag fortifications that were only half pulled, set up his machine gun, and began to fire fiercely in the direction of the cavalry. The cavalry that was charging was suddenly struck, and several cavalry warriors who rushed to the front fell from their horses, and before they could react, they were swept into the hooves of the horses that followed them.

The German machine gunner quickly ran out of a chain of bullets, and without the cooperation of the secondary shooter, he had to replace the chain himself. But as soon as he lowered his head, one of the cavalrymen rushed at him, and he slashed down with a slash, instantly cutting the heavy in two.

The cavalry who rushed into the railway station rushed into the crowd crowded on the platform, and used their sabers to kill one flesh alley after another, killing the German soldiers and howling wolves. In order to avoid the sabers of the Soviet cavalry, many German soldiers jumped off the platform and hid at the bottom of the column.

The battle at the train station lasted less than five minutes before it was over. More than 120 German soldiers became the ghosts of the cavalry, and many of the remaining prisoners were wounded. The 25th Cavalry Regiment captured the railway station outside Aerenstein at a small cost of 11 casualties and 15 wounded.

Seeing that the troops had occupied the railway station, Yegor did not care to count the results of the battle, so he ordered the signal corps: "Immediately send a telegram to the division headquarters saying that we have successfully occupied the railway station outside the city." ”