As we all know, the Soviet army did not have a supervising team, and it was once a rule that grassroots political commissars took the lead in the charge.
Balzen's tactical intention was to give the German army a decisive blow in the first battle, attract them like a magnet, and gradually lure the German army into the Soviet army's planned encirclement.
However, the development of the war situation was really beyond Balzen's expectation. Could it be that the current armed SS has become nothing more than appearances?
Under the cover of machine guns and recoilless rifles, only about a hundred people withdrew.
They returned to the Soviet camp, and the Soviet soldiers who once despised them called them brave.
But the price of becoming a warrior is also huge. Of the 400 people who charged, only 120 people withdrew, and the battle has continued ever since.
The commander of the armored battalion and the best Panzer IV tank were no longer worth repairing. Less than a hundred German soldiers survived. There were still five armored vehicles intact and three tanks. These eight armored vehicles
It became a bunker for soldiers, and the German army did not launch a counterattack, firstly because they were leaderless, and secondly because the Soviet army's firepower was incredibly strong.
All the armored commanders made a very unified decision, which was to advance towards Loev and use the ruins of the city to shield the enemy's artillery fire.
The artillery fire on Loev's side was rumbling, and Blücher's large force in the rear was unable to contact the captain of the armored squadron, and an ominous premonition came to mind.
He finally decided to move the troops forward at full speed, and all the soldiers entered a state of rapid march. The remaining tanks and armored vehicles began to run wildly carrying the soldiers.
Balzen, who was paying close attention to the battle situation, suddenly saw German reinforcements emerging from the east side of a group of woods and running wildly on the riverside plain.
A rocket launcher team leader suggested: "Battalion Commander, just keep fighting. We still have ten bombs, and we will definitely win again."
"No! Our tactical mission has been completed. Now you should disassemble the launch tube immediately. We are leaving."
"This...do you have some..."
"Are you saying you're afraid of the enemy? You're overthinking." Balzen glanced at the corner of his mouth, "We are just decoy troops, and our duties have been done. If we continue to fight, it will be against military orders. If the battle situation changes drastically, I may have to
I apologize for committing suicide!"
All five rocket launcher teams were unwilling to be hospitalized, but they quickly packed up the launch tubes.
Balzen also ordered all the recoilless rifle groups that were still shelling to fire immediately, pack up the ammunition that had not yet been fired, and retreat immediately.
The 120 surviving former puppet soldiers were officially accepted, and each company took 30 people, so the strength of each company was strengthened to a certain extent. The newly joined soldiers were very conflicted in their hearts and had no choice. They finally
Knowing how he was defeated a week ago, and that what he encountered was the Soviet Red Army with such exaggerated fighting power, then the defeat was natural.
Therefore, the strength of the reconnaissance battalion has returned to more than 500 men, which means that the overall combat effectiveness has been greatly weakened. First, there is a large consumption of ammunition, and second, the overall quality of the newly added troops, especially their physical fitness, is quite poor.
After the reconnaissance battalion put out the fire, it fled southward in the forest, leaving only a few machine gunners to continue to declare their presence through gunfire.
After Blücher's large force arrived, he witnessed the tragic scene of the task force. To the north of the ruined city walls, there were a large number of dead bodies lying strewn about, and a pile of burning black indescribable objects. They must be tanks and armored vehicles.
of the wreckage.
Burning with anger, he was immediately attracted by the Soviet machine gunners who were deliberately exposed. He waved his hand: "Everyone, attack the enemy's machine gun positions!"
All of a sudden, twenty Panzer III tanks rushed towards the Soviet machine gun position. The mighty army ran wildly and opened fire at the same time.
A machine gun position was suddenly reserved for the tank troops, and the remaining men immediately decided to retreat. A few scouts in the dark paid close attention to this move of the German army, and the information reached Balzen, and he was secretly grateful.
"It seems that my emergency evacuation was really right. The enemy still has more than fifty tanks and armored vehicles? Once the rocket launchers are used up, I really don't have any particularly good anti-tank weapons."
At present, Balzen had no choice but to use the forest as a camouflage. He no longer offered the slightest resistance to the German occupation of Loev. The reconnaissance battalion retreated two kilometers in one breath and established fortifications in the woods.
At this point, the Soviet Army's July 4th battle was all over.
Balzen sent a victory report to the headquarters fifty kilometers away. Yang Mingzhi was quite shocked when he received the battle report. Not only him, but everyone who received the telegram was shocked.
Because according to the report of the reconnaissance battalion, there were definitely more than ten tanks and armored vehicles destroyed, and it was estimated that the number of armored vehicles damaged by the Germans that were unusable and completely reduced to wreckage was around thirty.
Yevlov was most satisfied with this information. He held up the telegram sheet in the headquarters and shouted happily: "I think we still overestimate the enemy. The armed SS, they only bully unarmed people, and they encountered us today.
, the reconnaissance battalion single-handedly destroyed half of their armored vehicles, which is equivalent to destroying half of their combat power."
Fuming pointed out rather calmly that the enemy should not be underestimated, and of course he was very happy.
The headquarters was filled with the joy of victory. Yesterday everyone was nervous about the German army's Operation RUHE. Today's battle, didn't they just apply for the draft? Are you too nervous?
Yang Mingzhi was also very happy. Balzen had mastered forty powerful catfish rocket launchers. As long as they were used properly, it was possible to destroy the entire tank battalion. After all, the German tank battalion only had fifty tanks at most!
But the German army still has a lot of infantry, and the infantry of the Waffen-SS is definitely not the same concept as the infantry of the 707th Division.
Yang Mingzhi gave a few harsh words in the headquarters and urged everyone not to be overconfident, because the battle for other troops on the front line had not yet started.
The headquarters therefore quickly reported the incident to all units and collective farms, firstly because it was necessary to report it, and secondly to boost morale.
So far, Yang Mingzhi is glad that the battle has gone according to his plan. The German army is indeed being led by the nose.
Loev was occupied by the Germans, and the next step was the military operation on July 5th.
On the other hand, the German tanks stopped at the edge of the forest, but the infantry behind them went a few hundred meters deep into the forest, and then retreated due to concerns about an ambush.
After all, the first goal of Blücher's troops was to recapture Loev. Although they paid a high price, the troops still achieved victory.
The officers and soldiers of the SS59 regiment began to clean the battlefield. They collected the corpses of their own people. Outside the city, they collected ninety bodies at once! There were also some stumps whose owners were unknown.
There were actually as many as 330 corpses in civilian clothes found. Judging from the battle loss ratio of both sides, the performance of the German army was not very bad.
At four o'clock in the afternoon, Loev's German occupation bureau sent a telegram to their army headquarters. Blücher deliberately included water in the report. The result of the battle was the annihilation of 1,000 Soviet troops and 500 casualties on his own side. The tanks
There is some loss.
He deliberately exaggerated the results of the war and deliberately concealed his own losses. Wagner, the commander of the German Army Group, believed it to be true! He did have reason to believe that it was true, because the person who sent the telegram was no one else but the Waffen SS, who were the elite of the elite.