When Joseph's train came under attack from German military aircraft, the Russian 4th Guards Infantry Division's 2nd Regiment and 3rd Regiment were notified at the same time. The regimental commanders of both infantry regiments were greatly alarmed.
Their mission had been to escort Joseph's train, one ahead and one behind. But now, the train Joseph was riding had been attacked. If anything happened to Joseph, they would die horribly.
"Bastards, turn around immediately!" the Regimental Commander of the Russian 4th Guards Infantry Division's 2nd Regiment ordered.
The trucks carrying several thousand Russian soldiers turned around one after another. The rear became the front as they rushed toward the train where the incident had occurred.
The Regimental Commander of the Russian 4th Guards Infantry Division's 3rd Regiment gave the same order.
However, just as they began to turn around, they came under attack from German military aircraft.
Three squadrons of fighter planes, dive bombers, and ground-attack aircraft launched attacks on the two Russian infantry regiments.
Rat-a-tat-tat! Aircraft-mounted machine guns opened fire, tearing countless Russian soldiers to pieces.
Boom!
Bombs exploded amid the Russian formations. Trucks were blasted into the air, becoming heaps of blazing scrap metal. Many Russian soldiers were killed on the spot in the explosions.
Faced with the German Air Force's attack, these Russian soldiers could forget about rescuing Joseph—they could barely protect themselves.
The German Air Force fighter planes continued to run rampant, while the train had already been bombed into scrap metal. Corpses of Russian soldiers lay everywhere along both sides of the railway. Without question, the Russian military had suffered grievous losses under the German Air Force's strikes. As for whether Joseph had died in the air raid, the German military did not know.
After these German Air Force planes had exhausted their ammunition and dropped