Chapter 1357 The Soviet and German armies on the left bank of the Dnieper
It was also July 4th, and the German army launched an operation on the left bank of the Dnieper River on an even larger scale!
The German 634th Division, led by division commander Hendryson, had three infantry regiments, an artillery regiment and a logistics regiment, a mighty army of 11,000 people, advancing along the road towards Loev.
Division Commander Hendrickson and Chief of Staff Schmidt are very confident about this operation!
This division was punished because they were ordered to betray their teammates and did not rescue the Romanian 6th Division. Of course, the biggest reason for the current result is that they created white terror in Chernihiv. They were originally combat troops and acted as a group of "
"Security" is indeed inappropriate.
Therefore, it is the first time that an entire infantry division has participated in the encirclement and suppression of guerrillas. The officers and soldiers have different opinions on how the next battle will be fought. Many people are complaining that they are not good at going around in circles with the guerrillas in the forest. This kind of trend of thought has gained popularity.
Leeson had the same problem, but he had no choice. Since his superiors had orders, he could only carry them out.
After all, today's action is to approach Loev. After arriving in the city, we immediately try to restore the bridge. The carriage of the 634th Division's logistics group carried a lot of construction materials, as well as some ten-meter-long steel bars. Repairing the railway only required
It is absolutely impossible to use these materials. There should be no problem in erecting the bridge on the piers.
The officers and soldiers of the 634th Division were walking on a road they were actually very familiar with.
Two months ago, a Soviet guerrilla force with extraordinary strength suddenly emerged from the Latiz Forest and launched a fierce attack on Gorodnia. The soldiers who defended the city at that time were the officers and soldiers of the 634th Division. After putting in a lot of effort,
After a heavy human cost, the German army completed its counterattack. What followed was a brutal liquidation operation. The 634th Division killed many people in the forest, including women and children.
Because of this incident, some German officers and soldiers fell into psychological condemnation. They were not willing to shoot women and children. The order dictated that they must act as executioners. This battle is still to clear out the guerrillas. Will the battle be like two months ago?
?probably not!
The guerrillas in the swamps had a group army designation, which shows that the Soviet Union believed that the guerrillas were regular troops. Besides, the Romanian Army's 6th Division was basically wiped out. Five or six thousand people were actually killed. To compete with this group of Soviet troops
Fighting must be very difficult.
The German soldiers were really thinking a lot. They had no way of estimating their future. They could only pray silently that the 20,000-strong invasion force would be victorious.
On July 4th, the 634th Division's plan was to march thirty kilometers. If they marched such a distance in the wilderness, the legs of each soldier would be broken! They walked on the road so that they could maintain a high speed.
The division's reconnaissance battalion separated from the main force and advanced forward first. After passing through the plain area, they entered the dangerous Latiz Forest. The scouts were alert to the song of birds. Gradually, they began to hear muffled sounds one after another in the distance.
That's the direction of Loev! There's a battle there!
The 634th Division obtained detailed battle reports on the fierce fighting between friendly forces and enemy defenders relatively late. They learned about Loyev's fight through scouts.
"Loev actually started fighting? The Frenchman moved so fast? Did the Waffen-SS really want to take the lead?"
After receiving the telegram from the front, Hendryson's self-esteem increased, because almost all of the SS59 regiment were Germans in France, not citizens of the Third Reich. Feeling humiliated, he immediately modified the order, which was to support friendly forces on the surface, but in fact
On the grounds of gaining military merit, he ordered the troops to accelerate their advance.
In this way, the reconnaissance battalion naturally became the vanguard of the 634th Division. They ran along the road in the forest and finally reached the Soviet defense line.
The Soviet army deployed a defensive line in the forest on the left bank of the Dnieper River east of Loyev City. This forest is the Latiz Forest, which extends westward to the Sozh River and the Dnieper River. There is only one road and one railway from the forest.
Passing through. Of course, the area where the road passes is not densely forested, and the depth of coverage by big trees is only an average of three kilometers.
Even so, the forest is still like a wall, so that the German army must pass through the last three kilometers of forest area to reinforce Loev!
The German scouts had good qualities. At 4:30 in the afternoon, the scouts noticed something unusual in the front, and immediately sent a few sharp soldiers to conduct in-depth investigation. Suddenly, gunfire rang out, one scout was knocked down, and others were dragged and injured.
The soldiers retreated.
What they encountered was their old rival, the defense line of the Soviet 17th Guerrilla Brigade.
The sound of gunfire invigorated the Soviet troops along the entire defense line. They were ordered not to support Loyev's war, but stayed in the forest to block the attack of the German 634th Division. This job was something Miroshniko liked very much, and this was it.
Damn the 634th Division, only more than a thousand of his 9,000 troops were beaten! Now that the remnant soldiers have received new training and replenished a large amount of new equipment, their combat effectiveness has improved by leaps and bounds!
Furthermore, they are not fighting as an army!
Two independent regiments, the Medvedev Regiment and the Tchaikov Regiment, crossed the river from Misi Ferry, bringing the garrison to a huge lineup of 7,000 people. In addition, the elite paratrooper brigade was also hidden in Deniplaze
land, and sent a battalion to assist the forest defense line.
What else does Miroshnik have to fear?
Now that the German army has appeared, he decisively called on his subordinates who had a bloody feud with the 634th Division: "Comrades, now is our chance to take revenge. You hold on to the defense line and strive to prevent all attacking enemies from coming back. We will stick to the show until
The commander issued new orders."
Yes, Yang Mingzhi never intended for this force to defend here. Their main role was to hold back the 634th Division and try their best to prevent them from intervening in the battle on the right bank of the Dnieper River. For this reason, the Soviet army also divided its forces.
, unlike the German army, the Soviet army placed superior forces on the right bank of the river, while diversionary forces were placed on the left bank.
The German army is a little different. The SS59 regiment has a high self-esteem, which makes the troops on the right bank of the German army seem to have strong combat effectiveness. Once the factors of the SS troops are eliminated, it becomes an infantry regiment with two real members as a legion. Such a true appearance of combat effectiveness is still
What a misfortune. The strongest unit of the German army is undoubtedly the 634th Division. After all, it has a complete division-level organic unit.
It is a pity that the German army's command was incompetent. From the beginning of the operation, it was destined to be unable to coordinate the frontline units well. The 634th Division was still a unit borrowed from friendly forces in Ukraine. The so-called operational commander Wagner did not believe that the 634th Division would completely obey
own schedule.
In any case, the 634th Division has understood that the last forest area, which is only three kilometers deep, is like a Great Wall, and the Soviet army is ambushed here.
They also knew the good news that Loev was captured by the SS59 regiment commander. Hendryson could only lament that they were still a step too late.
The Soviet army has been exposed, so there is no rush to launch an attack! He ordered his troops to set up a huge military camp in the small plain area south of the Latiz Forest. The military camp with 10,000 people was five kilometers deep!
He knew that these Soviet troops had many records of night battles, and night defense was very important. The German defenses made adjustments, such as half-track armored vehicles and five No. 3 assault guns, which were placed at the front of the line.
Fifty FK16 field guns and twenty FH18 large-caliber grenades. The 634th Division is different from the friendly forces stationed in Belarus. The German army is preparing for a new large-scale attack. The 634th Division was originally sent to the southern front as a reserve force. Because of the encirclement and suppression of guerrillas
As a result, their missions have been increased. Although there has not been a major increase in troops, its combat effectiveness has been truly strengthened. However, it is still not as good as the front-line elites. The maximum caliber of the division's artillery is 105 mm, and there are only two
Ten .75mm guns are more, so there are fifty.
Hendryson was already very satisfied with this. He was a second-line force after all. Besides, to fight against the guerrillas roaming in the forest, clumsy long-range artillery was not as cost-effective as the maneuverability and flexibility of mortars and RPGs.