The communication with the headquarters was connected, and Balzen shouted at the top of his lungs: "Report to the commander, the enemy has appeared five kilometers north of our defense line, please issue a combat order!"
Yang Mingzhi's heart tightened when he heard this, "How many enemies are there? Are they armed and unmanned?"
"There were probably more than one regiment, and the scouts also found tanks."
The Germans actually dispatched tanks? Where did their tanks come from? Yang Mingzhi didn't have time to think about it. Anyway, the anti-tank capabilities of the frontline troops were very strong. He calmly replied with one word: Action!
He hurried out of the communication room and shouted: "Comrades! The enemy's reinforcements have arrived and the battle has begun. Everyone takes action!"
Several senior officers, led by Yang Mingzhi, were sitting in front of the map table in the office. On the table, two black wooden blocks indicated the enemy's position. Looking at the entire situation, the enemy must fight a battle with Balzen's troops.
The battle may have already begun. In this case, this group of enemies will be entangled with Balzen's troops. As long as this situation is maintained, the encirclement can be completed within a day!
Yang Mingzhi immediately issued the order.
"Communication Corps"
"Arrived!" Several correspondents filed out.
"Send a message to the 1st Regiment of the 284th Division and the 2nd Regiment of the 284th Division, the Cavalry Battalion, and order them to immediately set off from Homnich, advance to the forest northwest of Loev City, and ambush on the spot."
"As you command!"
"Send a report to the 233rd Paratrooper Brigade, ordering them to advance to the northernmost point of the Denipra swamp, start crossing the river after nightfall, and set up defenses behind enemy lines."
"As you command!"
"Send a report to the 17th Guerrilla Brigade and order them to hold on to the current defense line. Send a report to the Homnich garrison and order them to pay attention to whether there are other enemy reinforcements!"
In addition to targeting the frontline troops, Yang Mingzhi also mobilized the entire armed force of the guerrilla republic. After all, the enemy dispatched tanks, which shows how much the enemy attaches importance to Loev.
Will the enemy go crazy and launch a large-scale attack, launching a third large-scale encirclement and suppression? This matter is still unknown. With an attitude of preferring to believe in its presence rather than its absence, the reserve forces quickly began to mobilize. In the end, there will be nearly an army of soldiers.
A reserve force of 10,000 people and a total combat force of 20,000 people can be deployed in this war.
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The Germans never expected that as soon as they were detected by the Soviet army, the Soviet army they faced began to take full action. The regiment leader Quetzal was actually in a good mood. He had nearly 5,000 men and more than a dozen tanks at hand.
As long as the army charges as a group, won't the siege of Loyev be solved?
He is so eager to achieve success that he is eager for quick success.
He ordered the police group to lead the way, with the tank troops among them, and the German troops at the rear. This formation clearly meant that the police group would be used as cannon fodder in the event of a battle. After all, the police group were all locals, and Quetzal did not want the Germans to be in the rear.
**People suffered further casualties.
However, his long-cherished wish was soon destroyed by a shocking attack.
The German troops formed a long and narrow marching formation, and their vanguard, the police regiment, was only five kilometers away from Balzen's position.
The plains along the river became more and more winding due to the course of the river. The straight-line distance was five kilometers, but it actually took ** kilometers to walk. Although Quetzal was eager for quick success, he did not forget to send scouts. Some of the scouts entered the forest.
, and most of them are still advancing on the plains.
These scouts basically walked in a swaggering manner, far apart from each other. They are all guys with very good eyesight. If they go to the enemy's defense line, they can be spotted outside the enemy's mortar shooting range!
However, these scouts did not enter the Denipra marshland to the east. Instead, their every move was discovered first by the scouts of the Soviet paratrooper brigade who were ambushed in the water and grass and covered with reeds.
The sentries of the Parachute Brigade quickly came ashore, and soon the situation of the German scouts was reported to Balzen.
At this moment, Balzen, who was deep in the front line, had received the combat permission from the headquarters. When he heard that the enemy's scouts were about to come over, he threw away the cigarette in his mouth. "Okay, now it's time to fight.
!Commander!"
"Yes!" Five people stood beside him.
"Notify your troops immediately and prepare for battle. If you find enemy scouts, fire immediately."
The messengers turned around and were about to leave, but Balzen stopped them again: "Don't worry, let me worry about all the rocket launcher teams. Using the river as the positive direction, let me fire rockets forward, with a range of five kilometers."
Each team fires one! Fire as soon as you are ready!"
The war was finally about to begin, and the soldiers who were sitting idle in the trenches became very enthusiastic one by one.
The soldiers who were smoking stubbed out their half-smoked cigarettes and stuffed them into their pockets. The soldiers who were counting bullets stopped playing. They took out grenades from their waists and placed them on the mound in front of them because they learned that the enemy had dispatched tanks.
, the RPG operators of each infantry squad inserted the warheads into the launchers, and the reserve warheads were placed within easy reach.
Speaking of the German scouts, the further they moved forward, the softer their footsteps became. Soon, a shocking scene finally appeared in front of them.
Because even people with short-sightedness can see a lot of thick smoke rising from the river in the distance.
Of course, the source of the smoke was not the Dnieper River, but the city of Loyev on the riverside. The scouts knew that they were about to reach their target. Listening carefully, there were roars in their ears.
It's the Russians! They're still shelling Loev!
The German scouts are only two kilometers away from Balzen's defense line and only three kilometers away from the city of Loev. If it were not blocked by the woods, the German sentries would have discovered Loev long ago. Now they don't even know that they are about to
Touch the Soviet defense line.
Suddenly, these sentries saw something rising from the ground in the distance. It had a strong whistling sound, a black spot with golden flames, and a huge tail of white mist.
"This is a rocket launcher!" An astonishing thought immediately struck their minds.
Some German scouts carried radios. In order to report news immediately, the radios were always turned on.
A scout yelled into the walkie-talkie at the top of his lungs: "Russians! The Russians are firing rocket launchers at us!"
Quetzal, who was three kilometers away, had just gotten the phone call from the correspondent. He asked: "What exactly did you find? It is said that there are also rocket launchers? What nonsense?"
"No! Commander! Russian rocket launchers, ah! They fired them again!"
The scout was waiting for the leader's words when he heard a noise, and then the communication was interrupted.
Because Quetzal no longer needed to ask the scouts any more, he once did not believe that the Russians actually used rocket launchers to greet him. Just over twenty seconds later, the Russian rocket launchers really came over.
Balzen did not know the exact location of the German army, so he ordered his troops to fire at the approximate location. After all, these rocket launchers were very powerful. The strong shock waves could sweep across a large area, and the strong winds they raised could shake a larger area.
The Soviet army fired a total of six Catfish rockets, but none of them actually landed in the German marching formation. But this does not mean that they did not have any casualties. The Soviet army used the Dnieper River as a reference and benefited from the Catfish rockets.
The bombs were so accurate that five bombs landed on the wide river, causing violent splashes of water and killing a large number of fish.
There was only one bomb, which exploded on the right side of the German column. The powerful shock wave and air wave knocked down more than fifty people, including Quetzal himself, and his military cap was blown away.
This was the reason why the communication was suddenly interrupted. The correspondent of the radio he was carrying fell to the ground and the battery of the radio was thrown out.
Quetzal, who had been in a good mood just now, had his heart beating wildly. He stood up covered in mud and quickly found his hat. Seeing panicked soldiers everywhere, he knew he had to sit still.
We were bombarded by enemy rockets. Are there any casualties on our side? Fortunately, no one was injured. This also gave Quetzal a misconception. Could it be that the Russian rockets were bluffing?
He immediately ordered that the troops immediately shift into combat formation. He especially issued a combat order to the police regiment: "Your troops will immediately make a full-scale breakthrough. If you find the enemy, you will fight immediately. Try to advance to the city of Loev in one go and help the defenders fight out."