Of course, Hertzman did not believe that the five thousand armed forces stationed in the city, consisting of an infantry regiment and a police regiment of various people, a miscellaneous patchwork of five thousand people, could well stop the enemy's attack. Now, the only way to win is to
Our hopes are pinned on the strong support of friendly forces.
He didn't know whether the friendly forces could provide reinforcements in time. The telegram for help had been sent out, and the next step was to see how effective his defense was.
"Come on, Russians!" Herzmann braced himself and prepared, but his enemy, tens of thousands of Soviet troops, slowed down slightly.
Of course, the Soviet army still plans to attack the city of Lechica, but the Soviet army will not simply expect soldiers to use their flesh and blood to attack a city that must have done city defense work.
The first and second echelons of the Soviet army completely passed through the gap area. The price they paid to achieve this tactical goal was far less than the frontline commander Lavrenti had expected.
Now, Lavrenti can basically confirm that the casualties of the troops will definitely not exceed 800. And the most important armored truck was not damaged at all.
On the torn German positions, red flags symbolizing the Soviet army were flying. The flags stimulated the morale of the Soviet army, and also poked at the German troops who came from the two flanks to block the attack.
"Great, there is no time to waste, my headquarters also needs to move to the occupied German positions."
The Soviet frontline headquarters began to move. At the same time, Lavrenti also ordered all personnel in the third echelon to move forward at full speed, even non-combatants such as clerks.
Orderlies, field doctors, field nurses, empty carriages. All kinds of characters, following the soldiers, ran toward the torn German positions in a running posture.
Along the way, they encountered no decent resistance and stood on the battlefield that still smelled of smoke with almost no casualties.
Lavrenti holds a submachine gun and is dressed more like a soldier than a senior officer.
He jumped into a half-collapsed trench and asked several communications officers from the headquarters to jump down together. In this way, many other personnel from the frontline headquarters jumped down.
"Right here, all communicators, immediately adjust the bands of their respective equipment."
He especially issued an order to the most important correspondent: "Send a report to the rear headquarters immediately. The main force launched a fierce attack on the morning of the 18th. Within an hour, our army broke through the German defense line. The troops were fighting with the German defenders and captured
There are a large number of German prisoners of war and the gap in the defense line continues to expand. Send immediately."
After Lavrenti finished speaking, he stretched out his head, held up the telescope and looked around, and couldn't help but smile.
"Semyon, you contact the Parachute Brigade and order them not to rush north now. We need to slow down and digest the results. Alexey, you contact the 284th Division's 2nd Regiment and the 1st Regiment and order them to give me
Terminate the northward advance and defend in place."
Lavrenti was happy to see his close comrades Yevgeny and Roshakov leading the main force to bravely attack northward. However, enemies were approaching from both wings of the army. The Soviet army had indeed opened the gap, but he did not know how many troops the German army would dispatch.
Reinforcement. If the entire army is rashly sent northward regardless of the consequences, it is likely to be cut off by the German army.
After all, the main force continued to move north, and the German army could theoretically block the gap in the defense line, thus forming an encirclement situation against the Soviet army.
Having been around for so long, Laf Lianji also learned some strategies from Yang Mingzhi, which gave the German army the feeling that the Soviet army suddenly became conservative.
Hopkins, the commander of the German logistics regiment, organized some more troops to attack from the right wing of the Soviet army. When facing the Soviet army, which had an absolute advantage in strength and was very good at street fighting, the German army fought in the trenches.
Completely at a loss.
Tepunov obeyed Lavrenti's order. He led the main force of the brigade to retreat around the trenches and began to clear out the remaining enemies in the three trenches. The German reinforcements did not take any advantage. What was even more tragic was that the German soldiers
The main equipment of the bolt-action rifle is simply not suitable for fighting in a tight environment. The paratrooper brigade is an elite unit equipped with a large number of German submachine guns and SVT40 semi-automatic rifles.
Under the powerful barrage firepower and scattered fragmentation grenades, Hopkins's last efforts were finally turned into ashes, and he himself was hit by a small shrapnel in the arm. The severe pain made him wake up from the fever.
, although he received the order from the division commander to "block the gap at all costs", given the current situation, he could not complete it anyway.
"Brothers, we have no chance, we retreat!"
Hopkins had no choice but to retreat, and they ran eastward along the trench. During their escape, they naturally encountered reinforcements from another infantry regiment who were also ordered to block the gap.
The so-called reinforcements numbered only a thousand people, and five of the half-track armored vehicles that rushed over made this unit seem to have some combat effectiveness.
A battalion commander led a platoon of officers and soldiers to run wildly along the trench. They finally collided with Hopkins, who was leading the remaining troops to escape, and almost had an own goal.
"Hey! Which army are you from? Who asked you to withdraw?"
Hopkins looked at the speaker's epaulettes and immediately said pessimistically: "I am the head of the logistics regiment. We have no chance and must retreat."
"You!" The battalion commander was really shocked. After being stunned for a few seconds, he realized the current situation. He raised his submachine gun in public and pointed it at the regiment commander in front of him: "Our mission is to repel the Soviet army, how can you
What about fleeing from battle? You are a deserter. If you dare to continue running away, I would rather kill you!"
"How dare you!" Hopkins glared fiercely, and the soldiers behind him raised their guns. The scene of fighting between the same roommates was really about to break out.
However, the German reinforcements were eager to reinforce, and the battalion commander gritted his teeth: "Gentlemen, let these cowards evacuate! Let us go to the ground and continue to charge, let them escape from the trench, and then be sentenced to death by the military court!" the battalion commander spat.
Phlegm, climbed out of the trench.
"Haha, you are going to die! As for whether I will be sentenced to death? Only God knows." Hopkins felt that these so-called reinforcements were not worth it. In short, the division commander had absolutely no idea how terrifying the situation on the front line was. Even if reinforcements came
If you recruit two thousand or three thousand people, you are asking for death. Besides, if there are really three thousand reinforcements...
The logistics regiment has lost half of its men, many of whom were captured alive by the Soviet army. The remaining troops either ran north or east, and the regiment headquarters fled east.
Hopkins yelled: "Brothers, don't worry about that group of people. If they are willing to be heroes, let them come. We retreat to preserve our strength. I will bear all the consequences!"
Generally speaking, the German reinforcements were relatively rapid, but the troops were too few and the weapons and equipment were not good enough.
Now that the Soviet army had occupied a section of the German defense line, it immediately relied on its three trench systems to defend while slowly expanding the gap.
The two regiments of the 284th Division, with a total of more than 3,000 men, blocked the reinforcements on the left wing. The Paratrooper Brigade alone took the lead in blocking the reinforcements on the right wing.
A thousand German soldiers came for reinforcements. Under the strong firepower of the Soviet army, they were immediately suppressed and unable to move. The German army immediately used five armored vehicles to try to break through. They never expected that the armored vehicles with high hopes would be destroyed in just two minutes.
The whole army was wiped out.
The launch tube of the paratrooper brigade's RPG shooter was still smoking. The shooter quickly took the missile handed by the deputy shooter and loaded it quickly. Ordinary explosive shells were completely sufficient for thinly armored half-track armored vehicles, and those vehicles started to move forward one after another.
After being shot, it immediately turned into fragments on the ground, and the ignited fuel turned the wreckage into flames all over the ground. The scene was horrific!
Undoubtedly, Chekov's convoy, which had just made a contribution, continued to advance north, and suddenly realized that there were no friendly forces following behind. Chekov stopped and observed, and he saw friendly forces in the distance, some of which were guarding the German troops they had just captured.
At the frontline arsenal, farther away, a group of people running towards the gap suddenly appeared - they were German troops!
The BT tank returned to its violent nature. The driver drove at a high speed of 60 yards on the rugged battlefield and rushed towards the suppressed German army.
"Haha! Our tanks, they are coming back!"
"Semyon, pay attention to the Germans. They will stand up and run away. Seize the opportunity to shoot them."
"Andre, if you raise the firing angle of the launcher, our missiles can be used like mortars."
Because of the sudden arrival of tanks, the officers and soldiers of the paratrooper brigade immediately changed their strategies and became more proactive.
"Chekhov, you are so good at catching up. I think the motherland owes you a Gold Star!" Tepunov, who was holding a telescope, watched with interest. He once felt that it was impossible for the troops to quickly defeat the new reinforcements.
, the sudden attack of tanks disrupted the deployment of the German army and also provided fighters for the parachute brigade.
The paratrooper brigade ran out of mortar shells. It was very funny. They actually found two German-made 80mm mortars in the trenches, as well as ten boxes of fifty rounds of supporting shells wrapped in oil paper. After preparing them
, the paratrooper brigade began the artillery bombardment.
In this way, with the tanks desperately creating chaos, being bombarded by mortars and thrown RPG missiles, and being swept by a large number of bullets, the two German battalions counterattacking on the right wing suffered more than 300 casualties and had to choose to retreat.