June 26, 1941, Bialystok ledge. The collapse of the Western Front begins. Panic grows, and soon there will be no "parts" and "compounds" in the Bialystok ledge, but only a half-million mass of confused, distraught people who, in a panic, scatter where their eyes look, in fact, civilians, only recently dressed in military uniform. In such a situation, brigade commander Yuri Cherkasov entered the case.