Baglamiyan was one of the few senior Soviet officers who escaped from the German encirclement and almost became cannon fodder.

194 1 year, Germany launched a lightning attack on the Soviet union, and the Soviet-German war broke out. German soldiers invaded the Soviet Union in three ways, in which the southern army fought against Kiev. Due to the sudden German attack, the Soviet Union was overconfident and was soon surrounded. In the battle of Kiev, the Soviet army suffered 6.5438+0.9 million casualties and captured 650,000 people. Only a few Soviet troops broke through Kiev, including Ivan Khristoforovich Bagramyan, which we are going to talk about.

After the battle of Kiev broke out, although the Soviet Union was caught off guard, it did not want to give up Kiev, so it kept sending more troops to Kiev in the hope of winning the war. Baglamiyan entered the battlefield in Kiev with reinforcements.

The Soviet Union's plan to send more troops did not lead the war to victory, but surrounded more Soviet troops. In desperation, the Soviet army can only choose to break through. At first, Baglamiyan was ordered to command a company to break the headquarters column. However, the large army was intercepted by the Germans, and the headquarters gave him the task of being a striker and ordered him to open the road to Xiancha.

Facing the tight blockade of the German army, opening the way as a striker is basically to die and win the hope of breaking through for the follow-up troops with their lives. Even though everyone knows this, the war is cruel and someone needs to do it, so no soldier will escape, and Bagram is no exception. Baglamiyan, who received the order, immediately led his troops to break through Xiancha.

Baglamiyan is lucky. In the process of leading his troops to break through, it is very important that other troops continue to join, so that his troops can maintain considerable combat effectiveness. In addition, when the Soviet army passed through some villages, it also received great help from local villagers, thus avoiding the German raids. These factors provided a guarantee for Bagram's successful breakthrough.

However, in the process of breaking through, Baglamiyan encountered another problem, that is, they lost contact with the command post. According to the plan, Baglamiyan led the vanguard troops to open the gap in the blockade, and then the command column should follow immediately, otherwise the encirclement would be formed after the German army reacted. But Bagram Young didn't get any information about commanding the column in the rear.

In order to get in touch with the command column, Bagram Yang sent scouts to the rear. As a result, the scouts reported that the command column did not follow Bagram's troops, but went in another direction. No way, by this time, Baglamiyan could no longer lead the troops back to find the headquarters column, so he had to continue to break through. It was not until the breakthrough near the town of Saranchina Nadolina that Baglamiyan's troops met the defenders of Gagagi city, which was considered safe.

Baglamiyan has always wanted to inquire about the command column. Later, he met his deputy minister, Lieutenant Colonel Glepov, and learned that the headquarters only wanted to rely on Baglamiyan to lead troops to feint in the first direction, distract the Germans, and then command the column to break through in the other direction.

Unexpectedly, Baglamiyan led the troops to break through successfully, but the command column was almost wiped out. Commander Kirponos, Chief of Staff Tupikov, Political Commissar Bryn Mishenko and hundreds of senior officers were either dead or captured.