"Retreat! Quick, retreat into the woods and take cover!" The Russian officers shouted at the top of their lungs, their cries heart-rending.
Under the German air raids, the Russian artillery suffered extremely heavy losses. If this continued, they feared that all their artillery would be lost. Once all their artillery was gone, holding the defensive line would become even more difficult.
However, they had failed to notice the German Air Corps when it appeared. Only retreating now was undoubtedly too late.
The German Air Corps aircraft swooped down on the Russian artillery positions like starving wolves.
The Bombers bombed the Russian artillery positions with the bombs they carried, inflicting enormous damage on the Russians. The fighters were no less eager to join in. Although these fighters could only carry small bombs beneath their wings, their aircraft machine guns posed little threat to the artillery pieces themselves. But to the artillerymen, they were a fatal blow.
"Da-da-da!" A fighter swept over the retreating Russian artillerymen, raking them with dense machine-gun fire. More than a dozen Russian artillerymen fell into pools of blood, while bullets striking the Russian guns sent sparks spraying everywhere.
"Ah! Ah!"
Screams rose without end. Under the German fighters' strafing, countless Russian artillerymen were killed.
It could be said that the entire battlefield had now become a slaughter of Russian artillerymen by the German Air Corps. Large numbers of Russian guns were destroyed, and countless artillerymen were shot dead. After this battle, the Russian 4th Army Corps artillery deployed at Chełm had been reduced to less than one-tenth of its former strength. In the battles to come, they would likely be unable to play any meaningful role at all.
The German 8th Air Corps aircraft did not leave until they had dropped every bomb and fired every bullet,