Yang Mingzhi looked at the latest telegram with some surprise. He never expected that Loev would be taken down suddenly.
"Huh? Was it Balzen who moved quickly, or was the enemy too weak? Loev defeated him before half past six."
Yevlov said happily: "I think the enemy is weakened. The liberation of Loyev is an encouragement to our army to fight against encirclement and suppression. We should broadcast this good news immediately to make the military and civilians happy, and also for the sake of
Boost morale."
"Your suggestion is very good. Let's report the victory to Comrade Salinchkin immediately."
"I'll go notify you right away."
"Well. It's just that Loev's liberation is of little significance. We will soon face the enemy's army. I also have to send new troops to the frontline troops. Originally, I thought Loev would be liberated tomorrow.
, since Balzen has completed the task ahead of schedule, the task that was supposed to be handed over to him tomorrow will be notified now."
Intelligence from the guerrilla movement headquarters clearly showed that the main force of the German offensive was the Belarusian left-behind army, and its commander was a general named Wagner.
Yang Mingzhi knew nothing about this general. Since he was unknown in the history of that plane, it meant that he must have had no achievements. Think about it, if the Soviet army finished the protracted Battle of Rzhev, the German army would only
The defense of Belarus can be strengthened. At that time, the Guerrilla Republic will face a very difficult enemy.
Thinking about it this way, the siege planned by the German army apparently consisted of 30,000 people. I am afraid that the core of the attack was rather bad and was the work of foreign powers.
Loyev was now captured by Balzen in a surprise attack, and a section of the railway bridge connecting Ukraine and Belarus was blown off. The Dnieper River, which is more than 200 meters wide, is a natural chasm. It is troublesome for both the enemy and us to cross the river, especially for heavy equipment.
To cross the river, either build a pontoon bridge or build a huge raft for transportation.
So Yang Mingzhi issued the latest order to the frontline troops.
Balzen's task force completely blew up the Loev railway bridge and shot the captured prisoners of war without leaving any hidden dangers. The task force was disbanded. Balzen resumed his identity as the commander of the reconnaissance battalion and led his troops to retreat to the forests surrounding Loev to ambush them.
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The 1st Regiment of the 284th Division moved to the Homnich Military Station at night to reorganize the defense, and actively helped the reorganization of Vasilyev's Jewish plot. The 1st Regiment sent scouts to move north, approaching the positions built by the enemy, and paying close attention to them.
its movements.
The second regiment of the 284th Division, together with the reconnaissance battalion, is stationed in the Loyev area.
The 233rd Paratrooper Brigade continued to ambush in the Denipla swamp and sent scouts to move north to pay attention to the enemy's movements.
The 17th Guerrilla Brigade adheres to the current defense line, and the Reichev Battalion of the Paratrooper Brigade is temporarily included in the brigade, and scouts are sent eastward to pay attention to the enemy's movements.
The independent cavalry battalion moved to ambush around the ruins of the village of Dubronica, fifteen kilometers north of Homnich.
The Soviet army on the front line concentrated its troops in two areas in a macro area. One was the forest near the Homnich military station, and the other was the forest and swamp near Lojev. Therefore, in the open area, the Soviet army almost
There were no defensive forces deployed, only a large number of scouts cruising around, especially Womansky's cavalry battalion at the front of the formation, which was responsible for the forefront of mobile reconnaissance!
It is absolutely impossible for the German conquest army to leave the good plains and go to the complicated forests and swamps. Because the enemy's elite must carry heavy equipment, it is determined that they must go to the plains.
The reason why Yang Mingzhi placed his front-line troops in Homnich and Loev is because there is an eighteen-kilometer-wide corridor between the forests where these two cities are located.
There are many small lakes in the corridor area. Once it rains, the landscape there becomes very muddy. What's terrible is that it has not rained for more than ten days, and the temperature frequently reaches 25 degrees. The abnormal lack of rain makes the ground hard.
, if the enemy has armored vehicles and trucks, they can maneuver at high speed in such an area!
After passing the corridor area, you enter the core area of the swamp, and you have to walk a straight line of thirty kilometers all the way south to reach the blacksmith village.
Therefore, for the Guerrilla Republic and the 63rd Army, everything from receiving the news of the enemy's massive attack to taking countermeasures was completed on June 29.
The guerrilla republic began general mobilization, and all women were conscripted. After understanding the enemy's ultimate goal, even those who were resistant did not dare to risk their lives. Because the Ministry of Internal Affairs issued a mandatory order, all those who refused to be conscripted would be
Determined as a traitor, he will be shot directly.
Of course, the Ministry of Internal Affairs did not shoot anyone. All the conscripts knew that they were armed solely to protect their own lives! They were indeed fighting with their last resort.
As night gradually fell, the entire blacksmith village fell into unprecedented excitement. The loudspeakers of the village's radio station announced the victory of the frontline troops in instantly liberating Loyev, making many people who were worried about counter-encirclement and suppression suddenly forget their nervousness.
Many people are reminded of the time half a year ago when the Guerrilla Republic was still called Novgomel. Didn’t it also achieve a fundamental victory in the face of the encirclement and suppression by two divisions? This time, the enemy had more troops, but not its own troops.
? Forty-five thousand people go to fight 30,000 people. The troops also have very advanced rocket launchers and even radars that have made great achievements in combat. What else is there to fear?
Kavitsky, the head of the blacksmith village, organized the militia battalions without any extra effort. This speed was all due to the collective farm system established by the Soviet Union. The production groups instantly became individual militia battalions.
Infantry squad, villagers transformed into soldiers.
The Blacksmith Village had the largest number of residents. After Kavitsky ended the meeting, he immediately notified the leaders of each large group to hold a meeting. The large group had many subgroups. This was the organizational structure model of the three collective farms. He immediately appointed these leaders
The team leader is the militia battalion commander, and he organizes his villagers into a militia battalion according to the recruitment standards.
As a result, Tiejian Village quickly established as many as twenty new militia battalions, including fifteen female battalions and five male battalions composed of middle-aged and elderly men, with a total number of more than nine thousand people!
In addition, selected Lenin Young Pioneers were also ordered to report to the Blacksmith Village. Soon the youth battalion in Kharkiv will expand rapidly and reach the size of a regular infantry battalion. Of course, its combat effectiveness will be severely reduced.
It was only at 8:30 in the evening, when the sun had just dipped below the horizon, that Kavitsky was delighted to find that he had completed the recruitment mission. Then came the weapons distribution mission.
But before the new unit gets the weapons, he has to go to the group army headquarters to report the matter in person, because only with the authorization of the commander, the person in charge of the weapons depot can issue weapons.
Kavitsky hurried to the headquarters with a smile, but did not expect that the commander was holding a meeting again.
He knew that it would be difficult to rush in before the meeting was over, so he stood at the door and listened. In a moment, he heard something shocking.
"What? Is the enemy not 30,000, but 20,000?" Kavitsky was very surprised. He clearly heard the commander talking about the enemy's strength. In Russian, there is a huge difference in the pronunciation of "two" and "three". Kavitsky could
It was certain that the commander and deputy commander he heard were discussing the fact that the German army only had 20,000 men.
Yang Mingzhi has just received a new telegram from the guerrilla movement headquarters, which contains more information about the enemy, such as the numbers of the troops the enemy will dispatch, the approximate march route, strategic intentions, and especially the number of troops.
We identified the enemy, namely the 805th Division, part of the 734th Division, the entire 634th Division and the two pseudo-corps. It was estimated that the German army's strength should be around 20,000, with a maximum of no more than 25,000.
Not only that, the Guerrilla Republic will not be alone in this battle.
After all, the largest anti-German armed force in Belarus was heavily attacked by the German army. Ponomarenko immediately began to strategize. A guerrilla brigade named Red October began to move south from Mogilev. The initial plan was
They may have a bigger battle plan to attack the surrounding areas of Rogachev, Belarus, Zhlobin and other cities.
Yang Mingzhi didn’t know much about the Red October guerrillas. Since Ponomarenko believed that they could harass three cities, it must mean that the strength of the guerrilla brigade was pretty good. The reason why they harassed these three cities in the northwest of Gomel was precisely
Because that is where the German 805th Division is stationed. Since the 805th Division is one of the protagonists of this encirclement and suppression campaign, sending guerrillas to carry out large-scale harassment is equivalent to reducing the pressure on the guerrilla republic.
The good news doesn't stop there. There is a police regiment composed of Belarusians under the command of the German 734th Division. The officers and soldiers of this regiment are already plotting to defect. Some detailed information about the German attack was betrayed to the Soviet army by this regiment.
After negotiating with Soviet spies, Chang Geng got the idea that "as long as there is an uprising, the crime of treason will be eliminated." Ponomarenko even promised to appoint this unit as a guerrilla brigade!
As a result, the military pressure faced by the Guerrilla Republic plummeted, and Yevlov even slapped the table happily: "Haha! In this way, our military strength is not a disadvantage, but an advantage!"
"Don't be too optimistic!" Yang Mingzhi said with a smile, "We must despise the enemy on the strategic mountain and pay attention to the enemy tactically. In this battle, we must find a way to eat all the enemy's 20,000 people!"
Seeing that the generals were very happy, Kavitsky deliberately coughed twice.
Yang Mingzhi suddenly turned his head, "Haha! It's Comrade Kavitsky. Are you in a hurry?"
"Yes! A good thing!" With that said, Kavitsky walked in and directly stated in front of everyone that he had been ordered to reorganize the militia battalion and had completed it in a surprise attack.
That's an astonishing number!
Yang Mingzhi stood up suddenly: "It's actually twenty-one battalions! There are so many?!"
"Yes, because there are twenty-one groups of villagers in Blacksmith Village, they naturally form twenty-one battalions! Now there is only a small trouble before us."
"Oh? What's the trouble?"
"It's a weapon. Please approve the weapons depot and issue weapons to the new troops now."