The two scouts quickly returned to Balzen's search formation and immediately reported the enemy's pursuit.
Therefore, facing the well-prepared Soviet army, the dozen Ukrainians directly ran into them. After a random shooting, several corpses were left behind. Only four people relied on the cover of dense and thick tree trunks to escape the bullets.
Balzen gritted his teeth with great regret: "Damn! Let the enemy run away!"
His second-in-command asked: "Batalion Commander, what do we do?"
"What else can we do? Implement the commander's secondary orders. Now that we have been exposed, it means that the battle is inevitable!" With that, Balzen waved his hand and ordered: "Brothers, the battle is inevitable. The enemy has occupied the Slavic Quarter.
There are only six hundred puppet soldiers, the glory belongs to our death squads! Liberate Slavtich! Ula!"
Ula roared, and the entire battalion of officers and soldiers turned into tigers and rushed towards the target.
The Ukrainians were also completely awakened. Even though the battalion commander Moise was surprised, it was too late. He ordered the bugler to actively sound the alarm, and the entire Slavtich took action.
According to Moise's city defense plan, the current city defense construction has only been completed by 60%. What's worse, the enemies that suddenly appeared did not come from the northeast, they came from the northwest! The guard force there is relatively weak!
The sound of the reconnaissance battalion's hurrah resounded through the forest, and the charge chant was also a murderous threat.
Soldiers from the Ukrainian battalions jumped into foxholes one after another, and some even climbed onto the roof. Moise also urgently ordered all machine gunners to assemble on the northwest side of the city.
Since there were a large number of lumberyards near Slavdzic's table, there was no time to clean up the piles of felled trees, and these things actually became obstacles for the reconnaissance battalion's attack.
Balzen didn't care about this. His soldiers quickly arrived at the edge of the forest. About two hundred meters in front of them was the city!
The soldiers maintained their charging momentum and continued to attack chanting slogans after breaking out of the tree trunk bunker.
After all, the Ukrainians were well prepared. The marksmanship of these puppet soldiers was much poorer, but as long as those bullets were accurate, killing people was still a matter of one shot.
Suddenly the enemy opened fire, and several warriors who charged too hard fell down immediately!
Seeing that the casualties would become more serious if the attack continued, Balzen shouted angrily: "Bring them all back! Bring all the attacking troops back!"
This roar was very effective, and the scouts retreated one after another while shooting, not forgetting to pull back the moaning unfortunate guy.
This situation was unexpected by Balzen. The plan was to conduct systematic reconnaissance first, and then carry out a heavy attack with a large force. The casualties could probably be controlled in single digits. This is not a good thing, because a good reconnaissance turned into an encounter.
, the enemy is not only prepared, but he himself has no brains to attack?
Seeing ten soldiers lying dead on the ground, Balzen was very depressed.
He ordered: "Comrades, we will rely on these big tree bunkers to shoot at the enemy! Hold them back hard! Just keep dragging them until the main force from above arrives! The time for you precision shooters to make a contribution has arrived!"
Doesn’t the reconnaissance battalion also have heavy weapons like RPG? Why doesn’t Balzen use it?
The commander of the reconnaissance battalion, who boasted that he was no longer reckless, used the ruler of the telescope to compare it with reference objects everywhere and determined that he was more than 200 meters away from the city. A bombardment from this distance would have no problem for the rocket-propelled grenade launched.
Yes, but the accuracy will be greatly reduced. This kind of weapon cannot be squandered. Besides, if it is to bombard the city, it is better to let the Catfish rocket launcher fire a few rounds!
Therefore, the situation on the battlefield became delicate. From the perspective of the Ukrainian battalion, the attacking Russians suddenly became timid! Especially in Moise's view, his move of "building obstacles with big trees" was really serious.
hindered the enemy's attack.
He also decisively determined that the enemy appearing now was the Soviet 17th Guerrilla Brigade entering the forest.
The distress telegram from Slavdzic was quickly sent to the headquarters of his police regiment in Chernigov. The regiment leader was very shocked but not surprised by the situation. The information was also quickly sent to the German 634th Division and Romania.
Military report.
The German occupying forces did not pay much attention to the attack on Slavdzic. After all, the so-called city was really dispensable. Its so-called strategic value was just to provide some pine trees. But it would be wrong for the Germans to sit back and watch!
Balzen was in the forest and Moise was in the city. The two sides were shooting at each other from a distance of more than 200 meters. As time went by, the gunfire became more and more dull. The reconnaissance battalion has never been the kind of weak brigade that wastes bullets, and the Ukrainians,
The daring blind shooting led to a sharp decline in the amount of ammunition they carried, and they did not dare to shoot randomly.
The gun battle turned into a stalemate, which relieved Moise's frightened heart a lot. He was still waiting for new orders from his superiors. Soon his regimental commander sent a telegram: "You must hold on to the city. Soon, a person at the nearest checkpoint
The platoon of German troops will support you in armored vehicles!"
Moise was greatly surprised. He stamped his feet and cheered in the battalion headquarters on the second floor of a building: "Great! No matter how good their marksmanship is, those Russians can't defeat the armored vehicles! As long as the Germans intervene, we have nothing to fear.
!" Morale improved as a result.
In fact, it was too early for him to be happy.
On the other hand, Balzen ordered his men to aim and hit again, which indeed caused many enemies to hide in bunkers and not even dare to expose their helmets (full-power bullets with the correct angle can easily penetrate the thin helmet steel plate). He also ordered
Telegraph operator Mira communicated to the headquarters.
Because there was already a war, Mira simply stopped sending the code and instead shouted directly into the walkie-talkie in plain language.
Only in critical moments would the telegraph operator choose to communicate in plain language. Diana tightened her grip on the huge earphones on her ears and was nervous. Soon, the messenger invited Yang Mingzhi over.
"Diana, how is the reconnaissance camp? Is there really a fight?"
"Yes! Comrade Commander! Listen carefully!" As she said that, she unhooked the earphones and threw them over.
Yang Mingzhi was angry. After putting on the earphones, he heard the frequent gunshots and immediately made an inference. "Owl! Owl! I am Feiyu! I am Feiyu!"
"Owl received! Just a moment!" Mira immediately took off her earphones and threw them to Balzen beside her.
Soon, Yang Mingzhi heard the hoarse voice, which was Barzen's fault. His complaint immediately broke out: "Owl! What are you doing! I ordered you to investigate, how can you take the initiative to attack?"
"I'm sorry! The owl is completely exposed, the battle has begun, and we can't turn back!"
"If that's the case, take down the city!"
"No! We don't have enough troops! The enemy dug a large number of foxholes and trenches outside the city. They built and laid out a large number of bunkers in the city. In front of us is a plain of more than 200 meters! We need heavy weapons!
We need heavy weapons!"
As soon as Balzen finished shouting his request, he heard a string of curse words from the commander on the other side of the radio wave!
Yang Mingzhi frowned. He was most afraid of this situation, and he knew very well that Balzen had a high chance of turning the investigation into a raid! Anyway, who said that the bravery of this fierce general could easily turn into recklessness? There is no point in getting angry! Anyway,
According to the plan, capturing Slavdzic on the 19th was a fatal order! If captured on the 18th, this would be considered as completing Ponomarenko's fatal order in advance, which is also a good thing.
Yang Mingzhi didn't talk nonsense and yelled directly into the walkie-talkie, not even using a code name. "Barzen, you continue to delay! Give me another four hours at most! I will be there when the sun starts to set. Then you can report your work to me in person."