In ordinary years, June in Belarus is rainy. After the rain started on June 2, the rain gradually became heavier. No one knows how long the rain will last. Older Belarusians estimate that it will rain within a week.
I can’t see the sun!
The rain disrupted too much of the work of the Guerrilla Republic, and also caused considerable trouble to the German troops stationed in this area.
After carrying out a good bombing campaign at the end of May, the German military leaders spoke highly of Koch's aviation group. They did not blame the air group for the loss of five fighter planes. After all, they were able to shoot down fighter planes. These were by no means outstanding pilots of the Third Reich.
Not heroic, but the Russians are really awesome!
In Berlin, Hitler and Goebbels always advocated that the Germans were the best in the world and that the Slavs were as stupid as fat pigs.
A large number of passionate young Germans went to the Eastern Front battlefield for the so-called establishment of a new Germany. From the beginning, they looked down upon the Soviet soldiers and civilians, until they were severely slapped in the face by reality!
At this airport in the north of the city of Gomel, all flight plans were suspended due to bad weather. For the pilots, they also got a real opportunity to take a vacation. As long as the rain continues to fall, they can continue to drink beer in the bar
, lived a comfortable and peaceful life. While drinking and having fun, he sighed about the bombing campaign and the sacrifice of several comrades.
The rains swept nearly half of Belarus and almost all of Ukraine.
The waiting German 734th Division, 707th Division and 722nd Division continue to strengthen their defense lines along the road and railway lines from Mozyr to Gomel. Since it is inappropriate to take the initiative to attack, then dig trenches. As long as the Russians in the swamps do not
They were very responsible for attacking communication lines across the border. These three German infantry divisions had to take a defensive position. By June, their trenches were longer and more criss-crossed. A large number of barbed wire fences were intertwined and built every 100 meters.
There are machine gun bunkers, and they even built some gun towers out of reinforced concrete! Many mines were also laid in front of their positions!
Especially the 707th Division and the 722nd Division, based on their long-term experience in fighting the Soviet army in the swamps, they believe that this measure is currently the most cost-effective.
They no longer expect to establish no man's land and then block the swamps, as long as the Russians do not take the initiative to attack. The German air raid in May was portrayed as a great victory over the guerrillas, and the German propaganda machine even claimed that
, the heroic Third Reich Air Force annihilated two thousand bandits.
Regardless of whether this is an exaggeration or not, German soldiers on the front lines believe that most of this is true.
Furthermore, it’s raining! The rain has made their life around the trenches miserable. They believe the same is true for the Russians. There are benefits to suffering now. The Russians will never attack in such extremely muddy conditions!
Indeed, the 63rd Group Army had no offensive intentions at all during the rain period.
Lieutenant General Commander Yang Mingzhi spent most of his time on developing so-called early warning radars. Major General Deputy Commander Yevlov, together with a group of ordinary staff officers, conducted detailed discussions on the preliminary plan to attack Loev, and finally
The research results will be in written form and handed over to the commander himself for review.
The entire guerrilla republic worked hard to overcome all troubles in the continuous rain, and actively produced and accumulated strength in this bad weather.
On the other hand, this rain naturally fell on Kharkiv.
On June 4, the Southwest Front Army Headquarters, which had withdrawn to Luhansk, finally determined the fact that Bobkin's troops, the 6th and 57th Army, trapped in the encirclement, had run out of ammunition and food.
A large number of people surrendered to the German army.
At this point in the war, there were only two besieged armies. Facts have proved that Timoshenko was very wise to ask Stalin to approve a strategic retreat when he discovered that something was not going well more than ten days ago. Stalin finally approved it.
He met Timoshenko's request and was recognized as wise by all senior officials in the Soviet Union.
Their leader successfully avoided the disaster of the siege of Kiev in 1941 this time. The Southwest Front Army and the Southern Front Army still retained a large number of main troops!
The two armies put up a desperate resistance, but the support from the three transport planes was of little help. Faced with a lack of ammunition and food shortages, 90,000 soldiers chose to surrender and entered a cruel prisoner of war camp.
For Paulus, this defensive counterattack was quite good. In his opinion, part of the mission objectives of Operation Friedkus had been completed.
It was only when the precise information reached his Sixth Army headquarters that he realized that the operation was not completed so satisfactorily.
The encirclement was completed and all the Soviet troops within it were annihilated. When a preliminary count of the prisoners of war was conducted, the number was less than 100,000! In this battle, the Soviet army did indeed have many casualties, and the total number would not exceed 10 at most.
Thousands of people.
How many people were there in the enemy's main Soviet force in the Barvinkovo salient? The Soviet army claimed it was one million people, but Paulus and his staff believed it was 600,000. Even if the German army's results were overestimated,
At most, 200,000 Soviet troops were annihilated. This means that the main force of the Soviet army has retreated.
Paulus's suspicion soon became reality.
The main force of the German army continued to counterattack, and many leading troops had already crossed the Oskol River, and then encountered a tenacious resistance from the Soviet army. The focus of the German army's offensive was Severodonesk, and they had many reasons to occupy it, such as the airport here.
Can be used by the German army.
The Germans tried to open a gap from the front, but their attacks failed. They then hoped to bypass the forests and swamps and let the assault force, mainly elite tanks and armored vehicles, find a breakthrough from the southwest of the city.
The German army also encountered a vigorous counterattack by the Soviet army in this direction. Their tank troops also encountered a group of strange warriors.
A large group of armed men in plain clothes ran toward the tank with grenades held high.
"I saw these Russians, as if they had been inspired by something, running towards us crazily. Some of them were holding rifles, and some were carrying grenades. Our machine guns were killing them like mowing grass, but these Russians
He was not afraid of death at all. He immediately lay down when he heard the sound of gunfire and continued running after our shooting stopped."
"They fired rocket-propelled grenades at us. God forbid, the tank I was on had a metal mesh welded to it, otherwise my crew would have been completely destroyed."
"The Endeavor on the left was blown up by the Russians. The Eagle on the right was interrupted by an anti-tank gun. A Russian ran over. We shot the man with a machine gun, but soon, the Eagle was violently
It was shattered into pieces by the explosion.”
These are the later descriptions of this battle by the German armored forces.
Nearly a hundred German tanks that carried out the first round of attacks were brutally attacked. The temporarily armed citizens of Severodonesk launched the Ula Charge. Due to the lack of anti-tank weapons, they could only use a large number of grenade bundles.
Together, or rush to make some explosives. When the enemy tanks enter the trenches, jump out of the trenches and charge.
Many of them are citizens. Most of them seriously lack military training. Some of them only have enthusiasm and cluster grenades in their hands.
They ran towards the German tanks one after another, and achieved considerable results after paying a huge price in death.
This suicidal scene was so horrifying! The first round of the German attack failed, and subsequent attacks failed to capture the Soviet position.
As for the five-hundred-kilometer-long front, the Soviet army basically gained a firm foothold from its initial collapse.
With the rain that began on June 2, the ground became muddy. Even if the German tanks and infantry reunited, they soon launched a poor attack in the heavy rain on June 3, but were still repulsed by the Soviet army.
In Severodonesk and its surrounding areas, the Soviet army has indeed deployed elite troops, coupled with continued mobilization of citizens, and even allowed women to fight on the front lines for emergencies. The Soviet army here, under the deputy commander of the Southwest Front, Kostenko, has an impregnable defense line
.
This timely and continuous rain also further hindered the German offensive!