The Battle of Bischoff's Burg

The Ost group, which is the name given to two corps that were made into one group under the command of Meckensen, struck out at Bischoff's burg. The battle played out so strangely it could be from some kind of surrealist war film. While getting hammered with machine guns and artillery, the older German reservists who had probably done training back with with the Prussian military stuck to their training. So they effectively calmly walked up to the Russian machine gun and artillery positions and destroyed them. Just stroll through a graveyard effectively. Then German officers drew their swords, sounded a full charge using bugles and then charged on horseback. They retreated so quickly that General Samsonov had