On September 18, the Germans formed an encirclement of the important city Kiev. In order to break through the southwest army headquarters, two Mongolian cavalry divisions in kalmyk acted as pioneers and attacked the German 16 armored division. Soldiers armed with sabres fought to the death with German tanks, and made a gap with their flesh and blood, so that senior generals such as Baglamiyan, who later became marshal of the Soviet Union, escaped from danger. In the final stage of the battle of Kiev, the besieged Mongolian cavalry charged German tanks, artillery and machine guns intensively with sabres. Soviet troops lost about 700,000 people in this battle, while Mongolian children in kalmyk lost more than 1 1,000 people, and nearly 10,000 people were captured.
Faced with the shortage of troops caused by the defeat of Kiev, the Supreme National Defense Council of the Soviet Union (GKO) ordered more than 70 emergency reserve divisions to be converted into regular troops to prepare for the defense of Moscow, including the newly formed Mongolian troops. By the end of 194 1, zhukov, commander of the Soviet Army on the Western Front, had two kalmyk strengthening regiments with a total of more than 10,000 people. Mongolian cavalry colonels Dana Dozzi and Albeiger were seconded as the heads of the Soviet kalmyk cavalry regiment.
From 194 1 to 65438+February, the Soviet army began to launch a small-scale counterattack in the suburbs of Moscow. According to the flexible characteristics of Mongolian cavalry, zhukov determined the operational policy, that is, bypassing the fiercest positions of German artillery and tanks and inserting people into the German rear from the side, so that the German infantry was attacked from the back, and the Soviet main force stormed from the front. 1942 65438+1On October 7th, Danadoji led Mongolian warriors, bypassed the preset positions of the German army, and copied the rear road of the German army stationed in Kalinin from the flank. The Germans were attacked from behind and hid everywhere. Many people are trampled on the ground by horses like mud. By the end of the battle in Moscow on April 20, Danadozzi and Alberger had charged more than ten times, and all the casualties were exhausted.
The defeat of fascist Germany in the suburbs of Moscow was the first defeat suffered by the Germans in World War II, and the situation of the Soviet-German war began to reverse.