The German army chose to retreat, or it was the commander who took the lead in making the decision.
Holding a submachine gun in his own hand, Lawrence led his men on the front line and turned around to "attack" the material storage area in the rear.
At least in Warmansky's view, the German army sent additional troops to fight back. The actual situation was worse than Warmansky thought. This time the German army was deployed in full force. He only had 300 people fighting. How could he withstand as many as 100 troops?
A counterattack by two thousand people?!
"No! We can't hold it anymore! Comrades, get on your horses quickly, we'll retreat."
"But battalion commander, if we withdraw like this..." a soldier asked.
"Fool, our mission is not to fight the enemy to the last man, retreat now."
At this time, Warmansky had no time to think too much. His decision to retreat was actually following the commander's order. After all, the definition of cavalry is quite special.
If you are an ordinary infantry battalion, then it is normal for you to defend the captured enemy position and even fight to the last man.
As a result, the cavalry battalion did not intend to defend. They took the initiative to abandon their defense line and let the retreating German troops escape in a very "reasonable" way. As for what would happen next, Warmansky was a little worried.
He mounted his horse, whipped violently, and fled with his surviving subordinates.
Seeing this situation, Lawrence was overjoyed. He did not hesitate to think that it was his counterattack that forced the Soviet cavalry to flee.
However, after driving away the tiger, there are still tens of thousands of wolves behind them! The group of man-eating monsters have already broken through the position.
The German army has an absolute disadvantage in terms of military strength, as well as weapons and equipment. If it continues to resist, the entire army will eventually be annihilated. If the two thousand soldiers in the army can fight to the last man, it will be true to the spirit of the Teutonic warriors. But from the friendly forces
Judging from the collapse, Lawrence estimated that if his men found that the battle became a lonely battle, they would be more likely to surrender.
Therefore, instead of leading his troops to surrender, it is better to take advantage of the Soviet army in the north to be driven away and take the opportunity to escape for his life.
Up to this point in the battle, only a little over 2,000 German troops are still able to run. Hundreds of people were killed or injured in the battle, and the number of wounded soldiers was extremely large.
The wounded soldiers cannot be taken away! Not only the wounded soldiers cannot be taken away, but also a large amount of ammunition and supplies cannot be taken away!
Many horses died. How could a heavy carriage be moved by human power? Even if there were strong horses pulling the carriage to retreat, how fast could it be?
Lawrence saw some soldiers nervously trying to pull the carriage. He ran to stop them on the spot and even threw an ammunition box from one soldier's hand.
"Commander! How can we fight without these ammunition? If we don't take them away, won't we give the Russians an advantage?!"
"Idiot, you still want to pull the whole carriage and retreat? Now hurry up, I don't want these supplies. Now! Retreat!"
Lawrence really didn't want to lose these supplies. His time was limited, and there was no chance of destroying the supplies and then evacuating them.
While the Soviet army is still entangled with the unlucky soldiers who have not yet evacuated, it is best to lead the others and run away quickly.
Indeed, the Soviet army is now entangled with a group of wounded German soldiers who are unable to escape.
Due to poor information, the Soviet offensive forces did not know that the main force of the German army had abandoned their positions and fled north. The troops still attacked the woods. After arriving in the woods, the troops immediately began to assassinate the wounded German troops.
soldiers.
The Soviet soldiers ignored the helplessness and fear of these poor people, and recharged their guns with ferocious faces, or stabbed them to death with bayonets and spears. Some militants, or soldiers with bitter hatred, not only stabbed the wounded to death, but also stunned them.
The dead bodies were stabbed into meat paste. Many people were blinded by the blood, so that after the German position was broken, there were no surviving wounded.
They killed all the German soldiers they found, and were happy to find that they had captured a large amount of weapons and ammunition.
For example, Lavrenti's troops captured twenty 80mm caliber mortars. They were also the first to discover the German supply wagons and took the lead in controlling the supplies.
The vast majority of Soviet soldiers thought that by this point in the battle, they had completed a huge victory over the German army. Or because of poor information, many people actually believed that the German army had been completely annihilated, and not a single person had been completely annihilated alive.
But the messenger sent by the paratrooper brigade running from the east immediately started shouting loudly after running into the woods.
"Don't slack off, everyone, the fascists are running north! The paratroopers are already chasing them, so you should follow them!"
Similar words kept shouting, especially when some soldiers saw their own paratroopers really running northward in the wilderness, and their desire for combat immediately drove their bodies to continue their journey northward.
When there was a commotion in the camp, and many people began to spontaneously carry rifles with bloodstained stabs in their arms and continue to attack the north, Lavrenti realized that he really should not stop and monitor his capture.
He blamed himself: "I'm so stupid, I'm looking at what we can capture now." Lavrenti stamped his feet, wiped the sweat from his forehead, opened his right arm and called to his subordinates: "Comrades, some of the enemies have escaped, follow me towards
North pursuit!”
Originally, in the combat mission assigned by the commander, the last item was written very clearly: after breaking the formation, if the enemy flees northward, all troops should pursue it northward. If there is confidence that the German "Great Wall" defense line can be broken through at a small cost, do it immediately today.
Break through.
Lavrenti knew that the commander intended to expand the victory, but it was unrealistic to break through the enemy's long-established defense line. Since the commander ordered the pursuit, he pursued it.
The main force of the Soviet army lingered in the enemy formation for a while, which undoubtedly gave the Germans critical time to escape. Although only Tepunov's troops were aiming to pursue the fleeing Germans from the beginning, due to the direction problem and the fleeing German soldiers,
The powerful movement ability burst out, so that there was a distance of more than one thousand meters between the Soviet and German armies.
Even though the Soviet soldiers were pursuing them, the German soldiers did not dare to slack off at all. Even if they were so tired that they vomited blood, they had to continue fleeing.
As a result, some exhausted German soldiers fell into coma due to lack of oxygen in their brains. After they fell to the ground, they were shot to death by the paratrooper brigade soldiers who caught up.
Seeing this, who among the fleeing German soldiers thought that if they stopped this time, the Soviet army would spare them? Bah! They didn't want prisoners at all! If they stopped and were killed by them, it would be better to continue running, and maybe there would be a way to survive.
When people face great challenges, those with a strong will can often burst out with strong vitality.
Lawrence's survival instinct drove his body to run wildly. He didn't care what punishment he would receive after running back to the defense line. As long as he could return alive, he would be a great happiness. He himself was almost exhausted, and the MP40 he was holding tightly was a huge burden.
I just want to throw it away.
In a daze, he suddenly understood why the defeated troops of the 805th Division and the 634th Division had thrown away their firearms.
"Haha, how ironic, a few hours ago I was scolding them, and now I have to throw away my weapon!"
What firearms are the life of a soldier? After some ideological struggle, Lawrence threw the submachine gun in the grass. He suddenly lost four kilograms of burden! Since there was no gun, the magazine belt hanging on his waist contained three submachine gun cartridges.
What's the use of the box?
In the end, Lawrence only kept a Ruger pistol, a purely self-defense weapon. It was unrealistic to expect this to fight the Soviet army. Lawrence was mentally prepared. If he really collapsed due to lack of physical strength, he would use his last strength.
Although he had lost a lot of military honors by drinking bullets, he committed suicide after all, and the last bit of honor was not lost.
But he never imagined that he had run nearly twenty kilometers all the way north, and his subordinates were also an incredible group of "Olympic athletes." He once suspected that he would die from exhaustion like a marathon, but unfortunately, his marathon pass
It was a bad piece of information about the defeat of the troops.
After seeing his own defense line, Lawrence saw happiness and hope.
When the defenders saw a large number of people approaching the defense line, they became completely vigilant. This was originally the defense line of the Lawrence Regiment, and a logistics force and police regiment that took over from the department noticed that the visitors were actually wearing steel helmets that were unique to the German army.
A little closer, the gray German military uniform coming was already very clear.
Although I don’t know why such a force is here, they are friendly forces!
The oolong incident did not happen. Lawrence, dragging his almost collapsed body, finally returned to his starting point after nearly thirty-six hours.