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(performer Radiotapok. Russian-language cover of the song Attack of the Dead Men by the Swedish group Sabaton) "Attack of the Dead Men" is a common journalistic name for the counterattack of the 13th company of the 226th Zemlyansky Regiment. July 24 (August 6), 1915, while repelling a German gas attack. An episode in the defense of the Osowiec fortress on the Eastern Front during World War I. Having waited for the right wind direction, on August 6, 1915, at 4 a.m., simultaneously with the opening of artillery fire, German units used poison gas - a mixture of chlorine and bromine - against the defenders of the fortress. A gas wave 12-15 meters high and 8 km wide penetrated to a depth of 20 km. Personal protective equipment, which was just beginning to be developed in Russia at that time, was ineffective, and according to some sources, was completely absent during the defense of the fortress. Believing that the garrison defending the fortress positions was dead, the German units went on the offensive. Fourteen Landwehr battalions went on the attack - no less than seven thousand infantrymen. When the German infantry approached the advanced fortifications of the fortress, the remaining defenders of the first line - the remnants of the 13th company of the 226th Zemlyansky infantry regiment, a little more than 60 men - rose to meet them in a counterattack. The Russians were shaking from a wild cough caused by chemical burns to their lungs, the soldiers' faces were wrapped in bloody rags. (The skin may have had a greenish tint, and the cornea was darker than usual, as happens with severe chlorine poisoning.) The unexpected attack and the sight of the attackers terrified the German units and put them to flight.