Chapter 1360 Fight even if the casualties are heavy
Artillery is worthy of being the god of war!
The German 105mm artillery shells and 75mm artillery shells were wildly bombarding the forest. The Germans did not know the exact location of the Soviet army. They only knew that they must have guarded the road and set up tight positions. This was also the case. The Soviet army was responsible for the defense on both sides of the kilometer.
, mainly Camp Reichev.
The German division commander Hendryson ordered each gun to fire a shell as quickly as possible.
What kind of concept is this? The German army will pour 700 rounds of artillery shells at the limit of what the gun barrel can withstand in a short period of time! The German army will focus on bombing an area with a diameter of one kilometer centered on a highway. Reichev's troops are mainly concentrated here
, and some units of the 17th Guerrilla Brigade.
Even if there were big trees blocking it, the shock waves and shock waves still killed a large number of Soviet soldiers.
When the German artillery fire just started, the paratroopers who knew how to avoid the artillery hid in the foxholes holding their heads and prayed that they were lucky. The soldiers of the guerrilla brigade quickly collapsed. They gave up their positions one after another, either heading south or
Head north and do your best to get out of the bombardment area.
As a result, the exposed figure was more likely to be killed. The shock wave was like a knife, cutting off big trees, killing a large number of exposed people. Even if they were lucky enough not to be killed by the shock wave, many people were pierced by shrapnel.
You must know that when a German 105mm howitzer explodes, the shrapnel can penetrate the human body even if it travels one kilometer!
The German artillery fire almost reached the level of a saturation attack. After a round of artillery fire, the more than 500 officers and soldiers of the Reichev Camp almost collapsed!
Even if you are lying in a foxhole, a violent explosion can still knock someone over. In addition, a strong earthquake and violent explosion can kill a person directly.
The German artillery bombardment lasted for ten minutes, and Camp Reichev suffered a catastrophic blow. Of the more than 500 people in the battalion, more than 300 people were directly killed in the bombardment. Many people were simply blown to pieces.
The dense forest also collapsed on a large scale after the shelling.
Even if the paratroopers poured their heart and soul into the Soviet army, their essence as flesh and blood has never changed.
Reichev himself was lucky enough to survive the bombardment. He emerged from the soil like a groundhog. After a violent cough, he saw a hellish scene.
Hundreds of red pine and birch trees collapsed during the bombardment, and the defense lines built by the Soviet army were also in a mess.
He shouted angrily: "Hey! Is there anyone alive? Everyone stand up?"
Only a dozen or so people responded and crawled out from behind the fallen tree trunks immediately. As time went by, more people crawled out of the soil. The staggering Reichev took stock of the group of "dirt".
"Pork", and got a bad result - preliminary statistics show that there are only 233 soldiers who can continue to fight.
Reichev has a strong psychological endurance. As a paratrooper, he has already had the psychological quality to face various disaster scenarios.
He ordered the surviving subordinates: "Brothers, the enemy's artillery fire is very fierce! They must think that we are dead, and soon their infantry will come up, and then it is our time to counterattack."
The soldiers were speechless, even the anger was suppressed in their hearts. Everyone looked resolute, and they would still fight even if they suffered heavy losses, even if they all died for the country.
On the other hand, the German division commander Hendryson watched all this closely with a telescope. The artillery bombarded the forest, causing huge waves of smoke and dust to rise in the distance, and was quickly blown away by the north wind.
"Chief of Staff, if there are Soviet troops there, this shelling should destroy them all!"
Chief of Staff Schmidt nodded: "That should be the case, but I'm still a little worried?"
"Worried? Worried that the enemy is not dead yet?"
"No!" Schmidt shook his head: "We encountered the Soviet army yesterday to confirm that there was a Soviet defense there. They saw our true appearance in the vast sea, and they were afraid that they escaped overnight. We launched a vigorous bombardment, maybe they were bombed.
A lot of trees were destroyed. Besides, the violent explosion wouldn’t scare those French guys?”
"It's not a bad thing if we scare them. We have also demonstrated our strong combat power! The bombardment has ended. No matter whether there are enemies anywhere, we have at least blown up a large number of trees, and the originally narrow road has become wider. The next step is to
It's the infantry attacking."
The third regiment received the order to attack, and regiment leader Schlosser led the entire regiment, leaving the German camp and heading towards the forest ahead where smoke was still rising.
This infantry regiment handed over all field artillery to the artillery regiment, and they did not lack offensive weapons. The regiment put into combat two No. 3 assault guns and as many as twenty half-track armored vehicles. The speed of the armored vehicles
It is the same as the infantry, and the infantry turns into a skirmish line and advances at a constant speed.
The German offensive front once reached 1,500 meters wide, but as the road became narrower, they had to shrink.
"The German infantry finally started to take action!" The ragged Reichev put down his telescope and personally picked up an SVT40 to prepare for battle.
The paratrooper battalion suffered a devastating blow, and more than fifty people from the 17th Guerrilla Brigade were killed in the shelling. Now is not the time to grieve for serious losses. After the shelling ended, Miroshniko quickly mobilized troops and reinforced
Paratrooper battalion with damaged soldiers. At the same time, two independent regiments also shifted the defense line to the north in a timely manner.
Because of the active actions of the guerrilla brigade, 500 soldiers were rushed in to assist Reichev in his defense. As a result, the Soviet army's strength quickly recovered in the area that had been bombed by the Germans! And because the Germans dispatched armored vehicles, Miroshniko also
Ordered to call out the two attached rocket launcher teams. He was assigned ten catfish rocket launchers, which was completely enough for this battle.
The German army has reached the edge of the forest, and beyond that is a large pine forest.
The regiment commander ordered the troops to pause, and then ordered an infantry battalion to investigate.
A battalion of German officers and soldiers, assisted by five half-track armored vehicles and a Santuzi, began to cautiously enter the forest. They walked on the forest road and saw large areas of collapsed pine trees around them, emitting thick smoke and dust, and guns.
The mouth kept shaking.
When the German soldiers saw all this, they had reason to believe that even the Russians would be blown to ashes by their own powerful artillery fire. Therefore, most of the soldiers relaxed their vigilance and increased their speed, eager to pass through this final forest area quickly.
, arrived at the banks of the Dnieper River and crossed the river to station in Loyev to complete the mission.
Some German soldiers walked faster and faster, and even started running in small steps. The actions of a few soldiers drove more soldiers to join forces. Their actions were simply to hurry to the river. In the eyes of the ambushing Soviet troops, they were simply charging.
ah!
The calm Reichev shouted: "Fire." He fired first, and all the Soviet troops in ambush launched a counterattack!