In the own battle, five guerrillas died and two were injured. According to battlefield customs, the Soviet army buried the dead on the spot and marked the burial location on the regional map, while the injured were taken to the camp as their own wounded.
Start treatment.
Such an unexpected situation occurred when the battle was approaching. Reichev had reason to be sure that the enemy must know that something big had happened in the east of the city. He looked at the still burning locomotive and saw thick smoke rising upwards. This did not attract a group of people to check the situation.
The enemy is weird.
Therefore, Reichev wanted to continue interrogating one of these guerrillas who bombed the train, but he had no more energy at the moment.
Since the enemy's situation was unclear, he ordered the First Company to continue to ambush at the scene of the incident, and ordered the Fourth Company to carry away as many sacks filled with flour as possible. The value of flour is more important than ammunition. In future siege battles, if this vehicle can still be used
With the flour to eat removed, the siege troops did not need to put too much pressure on logistics.
He issued an order to the first company commander Shikaf: "I believe that the enemy will definitely send people to check. I will assign you another platoon, and you can use the four platoons at hand to ambush on both sides of the train. You set up your positions first, and soon we will
Some heavy weapons will be mobilized. We are going to make a beautiful ambush!"
Who would miss the opportunity to fight, let alone a one-sided ambush.
In this regard, team leader Ivaniko also expressed his position in public: "Sir, just let me participate in the ambush. We know the terrain in this area very well!"
"Of course you know it very well! I think you also know that city of Loev very well."
"Yes, even the explosives we used to blow up the train were sent into the city to steal them. I think you must be planning to liberate that city. I know the true and false strength of the enemies in the city, and you must be very satisfied with my intelligence."
Reichev was cheered up: "Okay, we have to go back to the camp first. You and your people must come with us!"
Reichev jogged all the way back to the military camp, and he immediately learned that Balzen had been calling during the time he disappeared.
He hurriedly turned off the earphones and said breathlessly: "I am Reichev of the paratrooper battalion, and I have come back."
"Thank God, you bastard is finally back!" Because the call was made for too long, the parachute battalion's correspondents were saying that there was a firefight near the railway. Balzen, who didn't know the specific situation, was really worried. "Okay, now you tell me, what happened.
What? Have you already had a fierce exchange of fire with the Germans?"
"No! We met a local guerrilla group, and they blew up a train! As for the exchange of fire, it was because of a misunderstanding!"
"Is this really true? I thought you had already taken action in advance! However, since the train has been blown up, our army is still exposed! What should we do?"
"You are the leader, you make the decisions."
"I..." Balzen looked at his watch, "It's not yet six o'clock, I think we can move ahead of time! Is there no problem on your side? If there is no problem, your department will prepare now, and the action time will be advanced one hour."
Upon hearing this, Rechev objected on the spot: "No! Let's stick to the original time."
"Why?"
"The morning fog will soon dissipate, and the defenders in the city must have seen the thick black smoke from the train wreckage! I have placed an ambush at the site of the incident, and I think the enemy will definitely send someone to check. We should seize the opportunity to fight
Ambush!"
Balzen nodded: "Okay, it's up to you. However, as soon as it reaches seven o'clock sharp, the large forces will start taking action."
Rychev did not report the fact that he had brought the guerrillas back, let alone the "Little Ivansky guerrillas". It can be said that the battle is imminent, so the lengthy report is better.
Although he didn't know how soon the enemy would come to investigate, Rechev immediately made combat arrangements.
The second company guarded the camp, the third company assaulted to the western edge of the forest, and the fourth company unloaded their flour sacks and picked up a total of ten recoilless rifles to reinforce the first company near the railway.
Balzen also sent a telegram to the distant blacksmith village in response to the current intelligence.
There was actually a mysterious friendly force that disrupted the situation when the battle was approaching, and the battle plan was even interfered with. This was something Yang Mingzhi never expected. However, the situation had already happened, and Yang Mingzhi knew that he was not on the front line, so how could he make the most appropriate decision?
.So his order is also very simple: "Comrade, frontline commanders, adjust the combat deployment on your own, and try your best to achieve the first phase of the combat objectives!"
Balzen knew that this was the commander letting go. He had absolute military power and the burden on his shoulders was extremely heavy. Now, the officers and soldiers of the four battalions on the front line were all awake and ready for battle. They already knew that there was a firefight in the parachute battalion.
Fallacies inevitably occur during the transmission of information. When it reaches the grassroots soldiers, it almost always becomes "paratroopers blew up the train" and "paratroopers annihilated the enemy patrol" and so on.
Everyone is itching to kill the enemy without being there. Fortunately, there is only more than an hour left before the attack.
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On the other hand, the explosion of the train was so loud that the entire defenders in Loyev City were awakened.
Among these defenders were officers and soldiers of the 722nd Division, as well as a battalion of Belarusians from the Eastern Battalion, that is, the puppet army.
The squad leader took advantage of Rychev's opportunity to strengthen the ambush deployment and couldn't wait to introduce the details of Loev's defenders.
It turns out that the strategic status of Loyev has been greatly improved today. This city is the only city south of Gomel with railway tracks. It is also the city closest to the Dnieper River in Belarus north of the swamp area. Because of this
For this reason, the German 722nd Division used this place as a defensive stronghold.
Before the war, it was a miniature city with a population of less than 5,000 people. Soon after the war broke out, the original residents of the city either fled inland or died.
After the city was occupied by the Germans, they were not heavily garrisoned at first. It was not until the Soviet troops gradually fought in the swamps that the Germans began to strengthen the defense here.
Since the disappearance of the Homnich salient, it has been replaced by the Loev salient.
Now that Loev has taken on part of the railway's transportation capacity, its strategic value has become even greater!
After the heavy rain in early June, the 722nd Division sent additional troops to station here. The newly arrived troops mainly relied on their baggage troops. Because the combat situation changed from field combat to regional defense, the baggage troops were basically the same as combat infantry.
The real German army stationed in Loev reached the size of three infantry companies, with a total strength of more than 400 people. A group of soldiers from the Eastern Battalion were also stationed here, and they were mainly recruited from western Belarus.
Whatever the purpose, there are 550 Belarusians currently serving the German army.
It's just that in terms of armament, the equipment of these puppet troops is too bad. They wear Czech military uniforms and hold Mosin Nagants in their hands. This battalion is not equipped with helmets, but a black boat-shaped cap. They also do not wear German
They are not like high-top leather boots, but a kind of low-top rubber-soled shoes.
The German army and the puppet army can be completely distinguished just by their military uniforms.
Not only are these puppet troops stationed here, some of them even brought their families with them.
"There are some women and children in the city. They are the families of the puppet soldiers, and there are also women brought by the German army. This is the conclusive information we learned through penetration investigation!"
Reichev was shocked. He was now holding a pile of grass on his head, and he was also pinching the soil under him in shock...