Balzen established a temporary defense line on his side and did not encounter the enemy again.
The German army and the puppet army completely lost contact, because after the German army escaped from the forest, they began to rush north with all their might.
Rosakov ordered the pursuit of the German army, and his first regiment took the lead in rushing out of the forest. In order to gain greater credit in this battle, and selfishly, he did not notify his neighbor's second regiment to participate in the encirclement.
"Attention all officers and soldiers, if the enemy surrenders, do not kill prisoners. If you capture alive prisoners of war, the commander will receive a major reward!"
Roshakov hoped that all the officers and soldiers would understand his call, but the offensive formation of the troops was already a bit chaotic. Everyone was scrambling to be the first, hoping to gain victory, and ran wildly in the gradually dissipating fog.
It must be said that the German soldiers were facing a huge life threat. They were not frightened by the artillery fire and merciless bullets. They were all bursting with adrenaline, showing greater subjective initiative than before.
Under the command of their regiment leader Quetzal, the retreating Germans believed that they would be able to escape the dangerous situation as long as they ran northward.
They had actually bypassed the rear camp, where a large amount of food, ammunition, and some defenders were originally stored. They could no longer care about the safety of the remaining troops and logistics supplies.
In fact, everyone is eager to go to the camp and get as much supplies as possible, preferably some bread cubes. Because after their retreat, they may have to hold on for many more days. Now that they have no military rations, they will only be hungry for two days.
, even if the Soviet troops pursued them, they would all starve to faint or even starve to death.
The Germans had given up, and besides, their camp was not only swept away by Soviet rocket launchers, but was also fully occupied by the incoming Soviet troops.
The Soviet soldiers with rifles in their arms finally came to a river beach area with a large number of debris.
Roshakov said to himself in shock: "Here! Is this a German military camp?"
He saw a large number of human and animal corpses on the river beach. He walked over and took a closer look. The skin of the corpse's back was exposed. The top was obviously torn and the pants were seriously damaged. His intuition told him that the deceased must have been shot by heavy artillery.
The shock wave tore off the clothes, including the deceased's internal organs. After careful inspection, the deceased was bleeding from all his orifices, his eyes were wide open, and he looked like he was dying in pain.
Soon, several soldiers hurriedly found their regiment leader.
"Report to the leader, we found some living Germans!"
"Is there anyone alive?" Rosakov quickly stood up, "Quick! Take me to see him!"
There are only a few German soldiers alive here, and their spirits have been strongly stimulated. Some of them opened their eyes like crazy and smiled inexplicably, while others curled up and shivered. Soldiers who knew German asked them
The question received no valuable response at all.
Roshakov only glanced at them and concluded: "These people may be frightened to the point of schizophrenia. Control them first and we will continue to pursue them."
At this time, a battalion commander expressed his concerns: "Commander, we still don't know how many Germans have fled. I'm worried that our army will suffer unnecessary casualties. We really need to report our pursuit to friendly forces."
"Okay! If I don't inform the second regiment and Lavrenti misses the best opportunity, he will definitely report me in front of the commander afterwards."
However, Roshakov was overly concerned and shouted at the top of his lungs into the walkie-talkie, letting Balzen know that the First Regiment was going to counterattack immediately. Balzen then quickly contacted the Second Regiment and also contacted the parachute brigade ambushing in the north.
It was explained to him that the troops had begun a general offensive.
His focus was on Lavrenti's troops. After receiving the news, he ordered his three battalions to immediately break away from the current defense line and begin to advance steadily.
They finally discovered the tail end of the fleeing German army, and a gun battle broke out immediately.
"Oops, my tail was attacked. These Russians are really tough!"
Quetzal, who was also running wildly, had the energy and ability to organize cover troops to resist.
He was well aware of the situation of his own troops. A group of soldiers were beaten to the point of losing their armor by the Russians. They did not throw away the weapons in their hands. They were loyal to their duties as soldiers. For this reason, he could only call on the troops to escape quickly.
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The Soviet soldiers were not obsessed with chasing. After contacting the enemy, the machine gunners fell down one after another and began to unleash firepower on the fleeing enemy's rear end.
The Soviet RPG launched a longer-range projectile. The range of the warhead was equivalent to the maximum range of a small-caliber mortar, but the accuracy was quite poor. Thanks to the special charge, a large number of metal pieces killed one person.
Criticize the Germans, but not fatally.
The raid by Lavrenti's regiment caused Quetzal to lose at least 200 more combatants, so he continued to escape with the 1,500 men he had stored there.
When will the road to escape end?
Some German soldiers who were running very fast suddenly discovered a bunch of sudden grass clumps in the grass ahead.
Little did they know, those were the paratrooper brigade soldiers who were ambushing them. Many paratroopers' helmets were equipped with matching rope nets. Nowadays, soldiers use reeds and foxtail grass that are readily available to dress themselves into a furry ball.
The enemy had appeared, and the paratroopers who had been waiting for a long time immediately began to block the attack.
The grass ball actually spurted out tongues of fire. A large number of German soldiers Shi Bin who saw the tongues of fire quickly lost their lives.
Brigadier Tepunov watched all this quietly. He did not miss the battle. He did not expect that the battle turned into a one-sided massacre. The Germans who appeared did not show a decent attack at all, almost heading north.
He fired his gun randomly and didn't care what he hit.
"Can't let them go, mortars, bombard them!"
In order to prepare for this battle, the paratrooper brigade carried the entire brigade's large-caliber mortars.
Twelve 82mm mortars, coupled with recoilless rifles, the use of RPG, and a large amount of precision firepower.
Quetzal was not mentally prepared for the Soviet ambush in this direction.
"Ah! My soldiers were killed by them like this!" Quetzal stopped. He held his head and was at a loss for a moment.
His disgraced guard came to him and asked in panic: "Captain, what should we do? Do we still want to continue the attack? I can't get out at all!"
"I know! I know! We..."
Suddenly, a stray bullet hit the guard directly in the head. Quetzal looked pale as he looked at the loyal guard, who died so simply, crudely and suddenly.
He realized the great danger and lay down on the spot.
He gritted his teeth and looked ahead again. The land had been blown up by a large number of artillery shells, and some lying soldiers were blown up to the sky and then fell heavily. In front of him, there were war dead everywhere again.
The whole person has fallen into despair.
"Brothers! Let's retreat quickly!"
Retreat? Where can we retreat? For the time being, Quetzal can only lead his people to flee south.
After only seven minutes of fighting between the two sides, the Germans knew that there was no way to escape to the north.
The anxious German officers and soldiers could only succumb to their survival instincts. They avoided gunfire and shelling and began to turn back and retreat to the south.
Tepunov held up a telescope and looked at everything calmly, and the German figure gradually became smaller.
He immediately called in the communications troops: "Now give the order to the cavalry battalion, so they can launch a full-scale attack!"