The Soviet Sixth Mechanized Army was ordered to defeat the German 14th Armored Division, which had suffered heavy losses. The current situation was very delicate.
On the advancing front of the German Army Group Center, the two armored forces advanced the fastest. Hott had already occupied Vilnius, and Guderian was advancing towards the stage target of Babruisk.
The German army temporarily revised its attack target and took Minsk as the main attack direction. For this reason, Kuhn and von Funk's armored divisions changed their routes. They will be the main force to capture Minsk.
The sudden change of the German army shocked Pavlov, and he also discovered that he had made a terrible mistake. After the German army opened the gap in the defense line, it did not engage in a decisive battle with most of the Soviet army, but went straight to Minsk. Two groups
Armored divisions and a large number of motorized divisions bypassed the Soviet army and had only one goal - Minsk.
However, the war situation unexpectedly took an astonishing reversal. On the outskirts of Minsk, Kuhn's army encountered an unprecedented setback. The German tank unit, which the German army was proud of, was completely ineffective, and the 14th Armored Division was almost completely defeated in just a few hours.
Degenerated into a motorist.
Now Pavlov saw a great opportunity. If he was decisive enough, he could at least annihilate an elite German army.
The Soviet follow-up troops led by the Sixth Mechanized Corps advanced towards the west, and the 284th Infantry Division entered a full-scale counterattack under Pugachev's order.
In order to prevent being annihilated, German fighter jets set off. They were also attacked by Soviet fighter jets, and a three-dimensional air and space annihilation battle began.
Yang Mingzhi and his special anti-tank battalion followed the tank troops forward. He placed his wife and the injured soldiers in the team at the original position. Faced with his wife's worries, he did not say more. "Stay here and do something."
A nurse is rescuing the wounded and waiting for my return."
He didn't know what would happen if he went there. Facing his wife, who had been married for several months, he gave her the last kiss and then participated in the counterattack with a steel gun.
Don't think too much when the war is going on. Yang Mingzhi ordered his troops to advance according to the previously planned formation.
The special anti-tank battalion is always unique. The three-three infantry advancement method makes the entire battalion's offensive surface a huge inverted triangle. This formation ensures exactly the same firepower from all angles, which is not like the Soviet army's inverted triangle.
Trapezoidal formation.
That is to say, they have the coordination of armored tanks, otherwise the shortcomings of weak flank firepower will be immediately exposed.
Pavlov ordered his last fighter jets to clear the interference of German aircraft, and at the same time, the army aviation fighters in the inland areas took off one after another. At the German army's assembly area, the Soviet Air Force was the first to drop revenge bombs.
For Kuhn's Fourteenth Army, the situation was really a mess. Yesterday, he led the troops to advance vigorously, but was beaten back by mysterious weapons. Now the Soviet army seems to be counterattacking.
"Order the troops to retreat backwards. We must move closer to friendly troops."
As soon as the order was issued, the German army was already in chaos during the bombing.
The Soviet self-propelled artillery joined the artillery battle, and the Germans had no advantage at all.
A sense of pride filled his heart, and Yang Mingzhi was very excited. At this moment, the Soviet army was like a torrent of steel. Even though there were many vulnerable Special 26s in this army, many infantry were now riding on tanks. Once there was a firefight with the enemy, everyone would be
Jump down and instantly evolve into a combination of foot and tank.
The current battlefield is like a sandwich biscuit. The Soviet Sixth Mechanized Army has two wings separated to surround the German army. The Seventh Armored Division is behind Kuhn. Behind them is the main force of the Soviet Western Front, and behind them is a huge amount of German troops.
of infantry divisions and servile corps units.
"Comrades, the key to today's battle is to avoid the German army completing the round of reinforcements! We must rush to the front line!" Yang Mingzhi saw the battle situation more clearly than Pugachev.
A tank regiment was stopped by him, and soldiers of the special anti-tank battalion stood on the tank. They were responsible for the retreat of the German troops blocked from the north. Yang Mingzhi even asked the regiment commander to speed up the pace of the attack. "Our 284th Division has obtained
The order is to cooperate with you to annihilate the enemy. Now only the enemy's reinforcements can catch up in advance to save them!"
The tank began to accelerate and run wildly. Although the Special 26 was a group of thin-skinned guys with big stuff, they could run up to seventy yards as soon as they stepped on the accelerator.
Yang Mingzhi stood behind the tank turret, holding tightly to the welded railings of the turret and monitoring with a telescope.
The enemy was unable to build fortifications at all during its retreat, and the failure of the tank unit gave these infantrymen a huge psychological blow. Coupled with Kuhn's retreat order, this group of people just hoped to join forces with friendly forces as soon as possible.
Therefore, this tank regiment was eager to win, and they were the first to appear on the enemy's retreat path.
"Now, all soldiers should get out of the car!" Yang Mingzhi ordered.
The German army quickly established a temporary defense system, relying on the remaining tanks, self-propelled artillery and half-track armored vehicles to continue to resist.
However, such resistance seemed to be of little significance. Yang Mingzhi led the third company to suddenly emerge, and all armored units were his targets.
Right in front, the enemy's tank machine guns were spitting fire, and many soldiers were shot and fell. Yang Mingzhi urgently ordered the soldiers to crawl forward, and saw that these enemies were brutally attacked by Soviet tanks in the next second.
"Come on! Special 34, use your 76-gun cannon to blow these Nazis into pieces!" Yang Mingzhi shouted, and the morale of the soldiers behind him was greatly boosted.
The Germans jumped over the wall in a panic. Their self-propelled artillery had already shown a horizontal firing angle. They selectively targeted the T-34s. Yang Mingzhi was still cheering just now, but soon some of the leading T-34s were destroyed.
For this reason, the infantry in the vanguard were exposed. In Yang Mingzhi's opinion, these old comrades were not afraid of death at all, and had an orc style in their bones. The Soviet army suffered a lot of losses when the human wave charged. The soldiers had bayonets on their rifles, and some even held them in arms.
Running with a light machine gun.
"Comrades, charge with me! Towards the enemy division headquarters! Advance!"
Yang Mingzhi got up, everyone shouted "Ula" in unison, and attacked the enemy's division headquarters, but Yang Mingzhi didn't know the specific location.
At this moment, Kuhn was being protected by multiple half-track armored vehicles, and all important personnel of the division were at the core of such a defense. Therefore, Yang Mingzhi noticed this detail, and his keen sense of war told him that he must be a high-ranking official to be protected like this.
He pointed in that direction: "Comrades, attack! We must destroy those vehicles!"
The five hundred men suddenly changed the direction of attack, causing many comrades to follow suit, and some light tanks assisted in the attack.
Kun panicked. His troops could not stop the enemy's crazy attack. The enemy was replicating their own tactics before, and a combined infantry and tank force was heading towards the division headquarters. They were overwhelming, and Yang Mingzhi allowed his own people to use the remaining
There are not many RPGs, and enemies in the way are killed one after another.
Now Kuhn truly understood what he had encountered. The enemy was ambushing in the grass, and suddenly the rocket leapt out, dragging its long tail and destroying his own target.
The distance was getting closer and closer. Nearly 10,000 German troops were retreating, and more than 40,000 Soviet troops were attacking. The advantage in strength was undoubtedly obvious. At this moment, Kuhn only had a few troops left. They encountered a Soviet tank.
Groups and mysterious weapons strike.
Three armored vehicles were completely destroyed, and the Germans quickly formed a machine gun fire network to try to protect the core division commander.
The German army moved very quickly, and a large number of attacking Soviet troops fell down. Yang Mingzhi was horrified to see that his soldiers were also killed one after another, and immediately ordered him to lie down.
Bullets were flying above his head. This was the enemy's MG34 machine gun, which fired very fast. Anyone who was hit was almost killed on the spot.
The first company commander staggered over and asked, "Battalion Commander, what should we do now?"
"Lay in ambush and let the sniper try!"
Yang Mingzhi deliberately placed snipers in his own team, and now they have indeed had a certain effect. However, the Soviet army's charge has not stopped. These old men are not willing to die, and many people are simply wasting their lives in vain.
The commander is a pig. He lets his men feed the enemy's eyesight. The infantry can run faster than the tanks. This is not seeking death!
The lower-level political commissars of the Soviet army often lead the way and are often the first to die. Yang Mingzhi has already told his battalion political commissar Korchagin to shut up. "You are responsible for Stalin, and I have to be responsible for my soldiers." In terms of military affairs, he did not give the political commissar anything.
Face, directly expressed rejection of idiots commanding the army.
Therefore, the special anti-tank regiment served as fire cover and allowed the soldiers of the Sixth Mechanized Army to fight hard.
Now Yang Mingzhi saw those German armored vehicles running away. Are they trying to leave the battlefield, or are they rushing towards him?
Kuhn would never have imagined that there were a lot of weeds in the relatively open area in front of him, and there was an army ambushing below. If he calmed down, the neighboring troops would accuse him of cowardice. Only a brave charge is a hero.
But I have to lie down in the grass in Demacia!
Yang Mingzhi knew the benefits of lying in the grass. Now that the Germans were coming, he was the first to get up and carry the RPG.
"Now! Fire!"
More than a dozen bazooka shooters suddenly appeared, and the bazooka launched a huge white eye, and the enemy's armored vehicle was completely blown up.
Yang Mingzhi wiped his sweat. The enemy armored vehicle was on fire, and some people covered in flames got out of the vehicle. He raised the launcher in his hand and waved: "Comrades, for victory! Wadakou! Ula!"
Ulla! Slavs! The special anti-tank battalion was equipped with quite a few submachine guns, and its powerful firepower prevented the German survivors from moving rashly.
Kuhn was sitting in the carriage. He had been seriously injured in the huge explosion. Now he staggered out. Before he could recover, he saw a bearded man appearing in front of him, followed by the remains of a gun butt.
.After that, Kuhn’s life ended.
There were still German troops retreating around, but there was no way to retreat, and the Soviet army completed the encirclement.
Yang Mingzhi would never have imagined that it was his special anti-tank battalion that killed the commander of the German 14th Armored Corps, Friedrich Kuhn. He should have been defeated by the Soviet army in 1943, but he did not expect to encounter a strange person in this plane.
This unit was completely annihilated by the Soviet army one week after the Soviet-German war broke out.
Yang Mingzhi didn't know yet that this man was the commander of the armored division, but Pugachev, who knew what he was doing, recognized him. He couldn't express his excitement in words, so he simply punched Yang Mingzhi. "Well done, you little comrade,
You killed all the enemy commanders! You should be received by Stalin!"
Putting honor aside for the moment, now that Yang Mingzhi knows that this enemy has been annihilated, the rest are not complacent.
"Comrade Division Commander, we must retreat now. There are still German troops in front of us. We must assemble towards Minsk and return to our original positions to continue our defense."
Pugachev nodded, and soon he also received the formal order.
The victory was within General Pavlov's expectation. No matter what methods his own people used, a German armored division collapsed. The news was told to Moscow, and even Stalin did not quite believe it.
"How are you sure that your troops have completely annihilated the German 14th Armored Division? As far as I know, your troops are being routed across the board."
Pavlov replied to the leader that everything is under control. Now the 7th Armored Division is left. In front of them are the Soviet troops that have just won a great victory, and behind them are hundreds of thousands of main Soviet troops who hope to withdraw to Minsk.
The 284th Infantry Division did not establish new positions and retreated first. The Sixth Mechanized Corps was ordered to stay behind to block the Germans.
The troops captured some prisoners, but the Soviet army did not give them more opportunities. Yang Mingzhi witnessed the killing of prisoners, which was a taboo for military strategists, but it was reasonable at this moment.
More than 3,000 Germans who surrendered were executed, just as they would execute Soviet prisoners of war.
The Soviet army's rhetoric was very rational and terrifying: "To hell with the Geneva Convention. If we don't execute these captured Germans, it is unreasonable to let them go and let them continue to beat us. We will also escort them back."
There is no time to feed them. So they must die.”
The fascist army was unprecedentedly cruel. Such glimpses on the battlefield were just part of the entire tragic Soviet-German war. Both the German and Soviet armies were fighting like crazy. Both sides were killing each other's prisoners of war, and even the peaceful residents were treated like nothing.
Yang Mingzhi shook his head and ordered his men to go back in the troop transport truck of the Sixth Mechanized Army.
Everyone returned to their positions, and Yang Mingzhi went straight to the division's field hospital. His wife had been waiting for a long time, and the two met to report that they were safe.
The girl became even more excited. He ignored her husband's smoke and soot on his face and hugged him tightly. "As promised, you were not hurt at all!"
Yang Mingzhi stroked his wife's little head, and the girl was already crying.
"Okay, I'm back. We still have some losses this time. But your husband and I, our battalion killed the enemy's commander, and I have already reserved a medal."
"I don't care about medals. I just hope you are well. We still have to go back to China!"
Yang Mingzhi smiled, saying that a large-scale retreat was about to begin. He realized this better than anyone else. Even though they had now won their first victory since the war began, the German army's iron hooves had not stopped.
Soon, Moscow figured out the situation. It was indeed the 284th Infantry Division that had completed an outstanding defensive mission and directly killed the enemy commander. A huge achievement, Stalin ordered: "The 284th Infantry Division will increase the title of Guards from now on.
Division Commander Pugachev and Battalion Commander Berekov were awarded the title of Hero of the Soviet Union and the Order of Gold Star."
The commendation order was quickly issued, and the infantry division became the Guards Infantry Division. This huge honor came to every soldier. But Pugachev did not have too much joy. He knew that his unit had made great contributions and would definitely become a
The target of public criticism.
But it is undeniable that Berekov's prediction that the German army would occupy Tyumen on June 28 was no longer possible. The history of this day was completely rewritten. There were only a few defeated troops left in the 14th Armored Division. The great victory inspired
All Soviet servicemen.
At the same time, Hitler learned that the front line was actually like this, and what were the 284th Guards Division and the Sixth Mechanized Army. He urgently ordered the Huth troops who went south to attack Minsk to besiege the Soviet army, resolutely occupy Minsk, and ordered the ancient
Derrian must send his main force to besiege Minsk.
Just like history, Guderian only wanted to be the first unit to invade Moscow. His Panzer Army, led by his armored division, did not strictly comply with Hitler's orders.
Therefore, the actual battle situation is different from what is seen on General Pavlov's map. There are not many German troops in the south, and it is easy to open a huge gap there.
But at this moment, he was eager to win and save face. He hoped to use his remaining troops to repeat the miracle again and annihilate the 7th Armored Division, which had fallen into relative isolation.
The result is predictable. Yang Mingzhi told Pugachev clearly: "Rommel is a war genius, and he always likes to use small things to make big gains. Pavlov is still making mistakes. His previous order was to retreat, and the front line has already
Defeated, the large army he had pinned his hopes on has become a mob. We have only one way to retreat."
Pugachev did not adopt this opinion.
"We cannot retreat. You are Chinese, so maybe it is easier for you to adapt. We Soviets will defend this city. Once Minsk is captured, the road to Moscow will be open."
Yang Mingzhi did not argue with him. He was the division commander and was responsible for the orders. In fact, Yang Mingzhi knew that he was already very bold and always told the truth in front of the division commander. The truth at this moment was completely fearful of the enemy.
Lao Maozi is stubborn and has no idea how a man can bend and stretch. There are no more weapons to organize the enemy's offensive. Heavy artillery shells consume a lot of money, and so do bullets. There are not many RPGs left that can defeat the enemy.
But the joy of victory made the soldier overly optimistic, and he heard these remarks from his own men, as if the Germans were easy to defeat.
Yang Mingzhi issued a new order: "Before the new battle begins, you collect all the food you can get, preferably wheat grains, the more the better. There are also a lot of bullets, and spare clothes and shoes. We must do
Very well prepared.”
The soldiers were ordered to prepare.
In future retreats, food will be a luxury. Yang Mingzhi also prepared more for his wife, including a glory bomb for the most critical moment.