Chapter 1350 The armored advance team is in action
Balzen did not trust this group of traitors who attacked and re-established the Red Army, unless they dared to launch a Ula charge against the enemy. However, several grassroots political commissars expressed their attitude to Balzen: "The enemy we will face is the armed SS.
Their biggest job is to kill people. Those traitors have changed into civilian clothes, and they will be regarded as guerrillas by the enemy, so they will definitely be killed if caught by the enemy. Therefore, we don't need to worry about their loyalty, only their combat effectiveness.
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It sounded somewhat reasonable, but Balzen still couldn't believe it completely. He still believed in his decision, which was to organize this group of people to launch a charge and use actions to prove that he was loyal to the Soviet motherland and had not atone for his previous betrayal.
Therefore, after receiving the latest order from the headquarters, Balzen not only made some adjustments to the defense, but also personally gathered all the former puppet troops in the team.
After this group of puppet soldiers were captured, Balzen ordered them to take off the clothes issued by the German army. For a while, they thought they were going to be executed, until the Soviet army issued a lot of shabby clothes and dressed them up alive.
Common people.
Whether they wanted to or not, they knew that their fate was no longer in their own hands. Some of them participated in the final battle against Loyev. They fought into the city and even captured a small number of Belarusian compatriots who worked for the Germans.
Balzen faithfully completed the decision of the headquarters. The troops did not accept new prisoners of war. All enemy combatants in Loev City were shot. The executioners were former puppet soldiers who had just rejoined the Red Army.
Four hundred people gathered together in confusion, and Balzen stood in front of them and gave orders.
Teaching ideological and political lessons was a matter for grassroots political commissars, and Balzen was not good at it. He simply expressed his interests.
"You people have betrayed the great motherland. In the battle to liberate Loev, you fought to atone for your sins. But this is not enough! You have to go through many battles and real bloody battles before you can completely absolve yourself of your sins.
Next, we will face the attack of the Waffen SS, who intend to capture Loev. You must fight side by side with us. Only by defeating the new enemy, those who survive will become heroes."
Waffen SS? The former puppet army became very frightened when they heard this name.
The police regiment of the puppet army often participates in the clearance of guerrillas, because most of them are Belarusians. After entering Belarusian villages, they are often relatively polite to the villagers, so as long as the villagers do not do anything inappropriate, they will not make things difficult.
The Waffen SS is different. They have caused too many murders! Of course, their combat effectiveness is also stronger than that of the average German army.
To fight against such an enemy, the former puppet troops cannot help but worry. The Soviet army obviously used them as cannon fodder. The so-called people who survive will become heroes? Only a few people can become heroes, and most of them must be dead!
They had no bargaining power at all and could only obey the command of the officer who had a barbaric look on his face.
The officers and soldiers of Balzen's reconnaissance battalion are good at mobile warfare, and position defense is by no means their strong point. In this battle, Balzen still plans to conduct a rocket ambush first, and then whether to continue the attack or make a tactical retreat depends on the changes in the battle situation.
He ordered some soldiers to climb up the tall red pine trees and carry high-powered binoculars. Everything was like the blocking battle ten days ago. If they saw the German marching team early, they would hit them head and face with catfish rockets.
The number of rocket launchers under his command has been strengthened, and the reserve ammunition was also transported by carriage a few days ago. He can shoot forty rockets.
Five rocket launcher groups established a rocket launcher position on a gravel-filled city street leading to the north in Loyev. The order they received was to immediately dismantle the launcher and retreat after firing the prescribed ammunition.
The troops had no intention of holding Loev, and the city was not handed over generously. The Soviet army laid a large number of booby traps in the ruins of the city, and the enemy's unburied corpses were piled on the rubble, with grenades placed under them.
There must be a booby trap under every corpse. As long as someone moves the corpse, it is easy to pull the grenade cord.
Balzen was complacent about his methods, and he waited for the arrogant Waffen-SS to fall into his trap.
On the other hand, Blücher's armed SS army was moving towards Loev in a mighty manner.
Blücher was an officer who understood the principle of quickness and speed. He had an armored battalion under his command, which made him fully capable of carrying out an armored assault.
On July 4th, the German army took full action. Blücher's task was to capture Loev. To achieve this tactical goal as soon as possible, he assembled the tanks and half-tracks of the entire regiment before the operation.
The regiment has a total of 80 armored vehicles, as well as more than 30 three-wheeled motorcycles and half-track motorcycles.
He divided the troops into an armored advance team, that is, all the tank battalions, twenty of Shi Shiliang's half-track armored vehicles, and ten three-wheeled motorcycles with machine guns added to the team.
In many senses, the German half-track armored vehicle is completely an infantry fighting vehicle. It can carry ten people, has a machine gun as an offensive weapon, and the shooting holes on both sides of the body make it easier for the personnel inside to shoot. By the end of the war, in order to
To make up for the shortcomings of tanks, some of these armored vehicles even removed their roofs and installed artillery, turning them into self-propelled artillery.
In addition, Panzer IV and Panzer III tanks can also be turned into manned vehicles when necessary.
Blücher ordered a battalion of officers and soldiers to be concentrated on these armored vehicles. Therefore, each half-track armored vehicle was overloaded with two or three people, and each tank had at least ten people on it.
Number 4 even carried twenty people.
What he did was against the regulations. The coordinated infantry and tank operations that the Germans hoped for were not a group of infantrymen and tanks. Because the Soviets often did this, the German artillery often caused unexpected gains. The Germans did not want their own people to do the same.
Doing so will result in a lot of casualties.
However, Blücher's attitude towards the Soviet Union was contemptuous, and his subordinates were even more pretentious. In order to complete the task faster and make the first contribution to prove the superiority of the so-called Aryan army, they did not think further.
many.
All the tanks and armored vehicles were racing wildly. After leaving the road, all the vehicles could only drive on the soft grass.
The shock-absorbing systems of various vehicles were not superior, and all the soldiers hanging on the tanks were jolted. They were not worried about being knocked off, because they had already tied their armed belts with hemp ropes, and the other end was
Attached to the tank.
In order to reduce the irritability caused by the bumpy journey, the battalion commander took the lead in singing military songs.
Amidst the cheerful and powerful military songs, the officers and soldiers of the advance troops were in high spirits, as if they were searching for something in their bag to capture Loev. The battalion commander was even more prepared, that is, after arriving in Loev at noon, he sent a victory report to the regimental commander.