August 6, 1915 was the first for the defenders Osovets black day: Germans used poison gas. Gas attack they prepared carefully for more than 10 days patiently waiting the desired direction of the wind. 30 deployed carefully disguised gas batteries several thousand bottles. And on August 6 at 4 am on the Russian position drip dark - green mist mixture of chlorine and bromine, which reached them for 5-10 minutes. Gas wave 12-15 meters in height and width of 8 km ahead penetrated to a depth of 20 km. Masks from the defenders was not. All living outdoors in the bridgehead fortress was poisoned to death - recalled party defense. - All the greens in the fortress and in the immediate area on the path of the gas has been destroyed, the leaves on the trees turned yellow, curled up and fell off, blackened grass and lay down on the ground, flower petals flew around. German artillery massed reopened, following the barrage and the gas cloud to storm the Russian front lines moved 14 Landwehr battalions - but it is not less than seven thousand infantry. Promoted after the gas attack survivors remained scarcely more than a hundred defenders. Doomed Fortress seemed to have been in the hands of the enemy. But when the German chain approached the trenches of deep-green chlorine fog descended on them ... counter-attacking Russian infantry. The scene was horrific: the men walked into the bayonet of persons swathed in rags, shaken by a terrible cough, literally spitting out pieces of light on the bloody shirt. These were the remains of the 8th and the 13th Company 226 th Infantry Regiment Zemlyanskii. But they plunged the enemy in such horror that the German infantrymen, not accepting the fight, ran back, trampling each other and hung on barbed wire. And by him with clubs wrapped chlorine Russian batteries started hitting seemed already deceased artillery. Several dozen half-dead Russian soldiers routed the three German infantry regiment! Nothing like the world did not know the art of war. This battle will go down in history as Attack of the Dead. (фото 1 часть)
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