Chernigov, this city is under direct military control of the German army. Most of the citizens here are Ukrainians, and about 30% of them are Russians. The Jews among them were all wiped out at the beginning of the war.
Organized street fighting has never broken out in this city. The Soviet army was defeated too quickly at the beginning of the war. The army did not withdraw into the city for defense, and naturally it did not mobilize the citizens. When the German army entered the city, the rebels basically fled in pieces.
City soldiers, and some security police.
In the initial security war, the German army eliminated the apparent resistance and thus killed a large number of innocent people. The arrival of the German army had far-reaching significance for the city. Some citizens here were willing to serve Germany to fight against Stalin and to
Create a Ukrainian state of their own.
Therefore, the German army recruited more than 20,000 young and strong labor forces in the city. Regardless of whether these people were volunteers or forced, they served as logistics personnel for the German army, transporting supplies for the German army on the front line. Even at some special moments, they
We were also asked by frontline German officers and soldiers to take up arms and fight the Russians!
The entire city's population dropped sharply due to the war. Before the war, Chernigov had as many as 200,000 residents. After one year of German rule, the population has dropped sharply to 150,000. Most of these residents are old, young, and women, and most of them are young.
There were not many men in their prime, and the entire city fell into depression.
A large number of civilian houses were vacant, and the German army naturally took advantage of them. Citizens were driven into unified residences, and the German army transformed the vacant civilian houses into military dormitories.
There are more than 5,000 troops stationed in this city, most of whom are police and puppet troops composed of Ukrainians. The regular German army usually only has one regiment stationed there.
With the entire 634th Division settled in, the city turned into a huge military camp, and the German division commander also moved the division headquarters to the former municipal office. All this directly stems from the battle launched by the Soviet army on May 5
, leading to the unusual movements of the German troops in this area.
Before that, this city was still under the pseudo-municipal administration under the control of the German army, and was nominally a city under the control of the Ukrainian pseudo-regime. Now, it is completely under military control!
Organized sabotage in this city has never stopped, so the gallows in the city square will hang several captured guerrilla members every now and then. Among the many hanged victims, a considerable number of them were purely
He is a scapegoat to make up the numbers!
The killings were more of a vent of anger by the German and puppet troops, which could only make the Soviet underground workers more determined to fight and induce more wavering people to turn into rebels!
The Germans called these guerrillas "rats", and they indeed behaved like rats, that is, they stayed up during the day and came out at night. When night fell, those hidden telegraph machines began to work, and the underground radio station in Chernihiv began to operate.
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The German army has known about the existence of these "rats" for a long time, but it is not easy to capture these people hiding in dark corners and distinguish them from the general population.
The large-scale military offensive of the Soviet 17th Partisan Brigade on May 5 forced the German army stationed in Chernihiv to strengthen their precautions. They had to guard against enemies outside the city, and they also had to clear the "sewers" in the city.
Destroy all the "rats".
This time, Henderson received a city defense order from his superiors, and at 23:00 that night, he issued an order to eliminate saboteurs in the city.
Just a few days ago, a dozen special trucks drove into the city.
At first glance, these are ordinary trucks covered with thin armor. There is a lot going on inside their closed compartments. There is a radio detection device inside. It has a simple mechanism and can only measure the radio within a radius of 1.5 kilometers and the strength of the signal.
These trucks are an important tool for searching for Soviet guerrilla telegraph operators. Through simple triangulation, only three radio detection trucks are needed to link up, and ultimately it is possible to determine which building the strongest signal comes from, and finally allow the military police to come
Just one big search.
Because these trucks have a similar appearance to ordinary German urban patrol vehicles, they will naturally not alert anyone when they join the German night patrols.
The work of these underground workers in the Soviet Union is by no means as powerful as the propaganda. The special work of these people determines that they will inevitably reveal some flaws. For example, they only know that the German army is shrinking its troops towards Chernigov, and they have no clue at all.
I learned that they actually deployed some radio detection vehicles.
Also at 23:00, Sarinchkin, who was deep in the swamp, sent a telegram to Chernihiv in the name of the guerrilla republic, announcing that on the morning of May 22, the Soviet army would launch rockets towards the city.
tactical bombs. The task of the resistance organization in Chernihiv is to stay dormant in the city, faithfully record the effects of the bombing, and report it back to the guerrilla republic in a timely manner.
The resistance organization in Chernigov received this mission intact, and they also held an emergency meeting in the basement of the stronghold.
Everyone is very confused about the mission order coming from the swamp.
"Are our troops just outside the city? Are they going to bombard the city with rocket launchers? Is this really possible?"
"Are they joking? Our rocket launchers can fly up to eight kilometers. Each one is very heavy. Is there a mistake in the translation of the code? Is it really a rocket launcher?"
After all, Salinchkin didn't say any details in the telegram. He himself knew very little about the details of the Feiyu rocket launcher, so he only issued a simple order. He didn't ask for much. He only needed these people to send back the rocket launcher tomorrow afternoon.
Regarding the report on the explosion in the city, it would be great if there were some detailed descriptions of the explosion!
Sarinchkin went to rest with confidence. He did not know that Chernigov was not peaceful tonight!
Every night, the underground resistance organization in Chernihiv will enter a period of daily excitement, especially in the hours from midnight to dawn, when their telegraph machines never stop.
In addition to receiving telegrams from the Guerrilla Republic, they were also responsible for exchanging intelligence with comrades in several nearby cities, and communicating with Bryansk, Shostka, and even Kiev further away.
Under the occupation of the Axis powers, there was a huge underground communication network in the vast occupied areas of the Soviet Union. This network was connected by a large number of Soviet espionage personnel. A large amount of intelligence was transmitted every day and sent to the country in Moscow.
Intelligence services conduct analysis.
These Soviet telegraph operators who were active underground risked their lives every time they transmitted information. From the moment they swore to fight for the Soviet Union, these soldiers put life and death aside. They were all mentally prepared to sacrifice, but they didn't know what they would do.
What form of sacrifice will it take?
The largest stronghold of the Chernihiv resistance is located in the basement of a house. On weekdays, the door leading to the basement is always locked and covered with some debris. The owners of this house are an elderly couple.
The couple never accepted food gifts from the guerrillas, but went to collect the pitiful rations - a few potatoes every day.
Because the old man's son died in the battle, they hated the invaders, but their old bodies could no longer fight, so they avenged their dead relatives by supporting the rebels.
They lived in such poverty and the houses they lived in were relatively dilapidated, yet they never aroused the suspicion of the German police.