The Guerrilla Republic attaches great importance to organization, and Salinchkin has always sent people to supervise this aspect. When orders are passed down, most of the orders can be carried out by the troops conscientiously.
Although you couldn't personally participate in the war against Germany, didn't everyone come to the war zone?
Tens of thousands of Soviet soldiers have been deployed in Lechica and surrounding areas, and only 3,000 people are guarding the city. Compared with the 8,000 refugees currently there, this number of defenders seems too few at first glance.
The refugees were eager to see the huge number of soldiers from the motherland. Just in time, the arrival of four thousand troops was like a shot in the arm for each refugee, and the last worry in the group disappeared. They were completely subordinate to Su
According to the arrangements of the army, their current task is to rest.
The refugees who arrived in the morning had to rest until at least one o'clock in the afternoon before setting off. By then, the two newly arrived militia groups would be on the road again with a large amount of supplies.
At ten o'clock in the morning, the fourth refugee group organized by the Red October Brigade arrived!
There were two thousand of them, just like the previous team. They also carried a large amount of supplies, and most of them also carried linen sacks.
They carried mostly agricultural tools, clothes and some furniture. Their food rations were also very small. However, this group of people had eaten breakfast, and they were in good spirits when they arrived in Lechica.
The guerrilla squad leader led the team arrived at Lavrenti's headquarters as usual, but the squad leader actually brought an astonishing report.
"We captured some German soldiers who escaped from Rechica. They claimed that their division commander had fled to Svetlogorsk. We captured more than 50 people and executed them immediately after obtaining valuable information."
"What? The prisoner was killed directly. Maybe you can further interrogate and get valuable information." Lavrenti still liked their report. It can be confirmed that the commander of the 707th Division abandoned the city and fled. There was no killing or prisoner.
Human beings were a pity for the Soviet army. However, a dignified division commander abandoned the city and fled. In terms of propaganda, it was worthy of special praise from the Soviet army.
"That's true. We also captured some traitors of the great motherland who escaped from Rechica. They seemed to be civilians, but they were actually working for the German army. They were also executed."
"Are these people really executed?"
"Yes, sir!"
Although this was a cruel war, kindness to traitors was cruelty to patriots. However, after the fall of Lechica, the Soviet army captured a large number of "traitors of the great motherland", most of whom were forced to work for the German army.
, they just want to survive, and their superiors have given several plans for how to deal with them. The priority plan is to make them work to atone for their sins.
Considering that the "Red October" brigade was different from the guerrilla republic, Lavrenti hesitated to speak.
Lavrenti quickly devoted his mind to the actual work. He completed the handover with the guerrilla team leader and provided some food and ammunition as usual. Because after all, they were very cruel and did not give those people the slightest chance of atonement. Lavrenti
Instead of Moji, urge them to return to the north immediately to continue fighting fascism.
The squad leader went out and sat in his simple temporary command post, smoking a cigarette and thinking deeply.
The war was too cruel. Ordinary people in the war served the guerrillas and were killed by the German army. They served the German army and were liquidated by the guerrillas. It is really difficult to have a gray area in between. Fortunately, the fascist policy forced everyone to
Some Belarusian civilians fled into the vast forests to take refuge. Coupled with the torture and killings of the German army, the population controlled by the German army was decreasing day by day. Those who fled voluntarily used their feet to prove their loyalty to the Soviet Union, and they were naturally accepted by the guerrillas.
Lavrenti didn't rest long. Not long after the team leader left, another signal soldier ran into the command post.
"Sir! By the river! Someone is coming!"
"What? By the river? Don't be out of breath and speak calmly!"
"Yes. It should...it should be the refugees from the Gypsy brigade. They have arrived at the other side of the broken railway bridge and are crossing the river!"
"What's coming is finally here!" Rafe stubbed out his half-smoked cigarette and stuffed it back into the cigarette case. "Come on, follow me to the river!"
At 11 o'clock in the morning, the gunboat successfully arrived at Lechica. All the crew members were surprised to see a large number of people gathered on the left bank of the Dnieper River, or because they saw the gunboat, they were waving their arms happily and shouting loudly.
Roar.
"Wait a moment, and we will transport you here soon." The captain continued to order to dock on the right bank and meet the waiting soldiers.
The gunboat quickly unloaded all the deflated kayaks, thirty in total. The soldiers held pumps and inflated them as quickly as possible.
Lavrenti arrived in time, but when he arrived at the river, he had already seen some soldiers rowing rafts made for assault and drifting to the other side of the river. Among them, a gunboat was charging towards the other side at full power. Above the river
, the soldiers were inflating several kayaks...
"What a lively scene!" He sighed, then raised his telescope and looked at the growing crowd 200 meters away.
"Signal Corps!"
"arrive!"
"Run and send my message to the 17th Guerrilla Brigade, ordering them to hurry up and cook the potatoes. Then ask them to evacuate the crowd and free up the northwest area to accommodate the new arrivals."
"As you command!"
A river-crossing operation involving kayaks, rafts and the only gunboat has begun!
The raft made in the surprise attack could only carry seven or eight people, the kayak could barely hold eight people, and the gunboat became the largest ferry. Fifty people were crammed into it on the first ferry. The whole river crossing operation was still slow, Raf
Lian Ji regretted that his people blew up the railway bridge to pieces. If the bridge was still there, the refugees from the "Gypsy" brigade could have quickly evacuated to Lechica, and could even have left the city today.
Unfortunately, they can't leave until tomorrow.
So far, the entire refugee transfer operation is under the reasonable control of the Guerrilla Republic Command.
The action must be as fast as possible, and the area around Lechica is too quiet, as if the German army no longer cares about the area within a radius of thirty kilometers.
Perhaps, the German army was preparing manpower and material resources for a large-scale siege. Or maybe, because of the regular war in southern Belarus, the German army suffered at least 30,000 casualties, and they no longer had the ability to recapture Lechica in a short time.
Lavrenti did not dare to be too optimistic. He only hoped that all the refugees would arrive and leave as soon as possible!
Of all land vehicles, trucks and half-tracks are undoubtedly the most efficient. After all, they are motor vehicles.
The truck transporting a large amount of seized materials and scrap metal has completed its first delivery. They arrived at Lechica at noon on the 23rd. The truck drivers did not rest at all. They had a surprise meal and watched the soldiers throw a large amount of materials onto the
After the empty truck, he quickly sat back in the cab and continued running towards Homnage.
As for the half-track motorcycle, it serves as the energy source for the mules and horses, pulling a flatbed truck loaded with supplies and following the vehicle.
The Soviet army's various vehicles have a clear division of labor. Carriages transport children, wounded and goods, while trucks only transport arms and scrap metal. Of course, human life is very important, considering that the troops are facing huge pressure from Lechica city defense, the defenders need
Using a large number of recoilless cannon shells and RPG missiles, pulling up all kinds of captured metals, and making the arsenal work overtime to make weapons is the right way to save more lives.
It was already July 23rd, and Yang Mingzhi had a hunch that before August, the Soviet army, whether it was the 63rd Army or the two guerrilla brigade fighting in the north, would have a battle with the Germans in Lechicha.
It's over. Yang Mingzhi has analyzed the most reasonable result - the troops withdraw from Lechica and the city is occupied by the German army.
Even if what he says makes sense, people like Yevlov, Salinchkin, and a large number of staff officers will be displeased.
"These old fools cannot retreat voluntarily. They can never retreat voluntarily. But it is impossible to hold on to Lechicha until 1944. The only way to resist failure is to withdraw from Lechica. But the troops withdrew.
There will be another counter-encirclement and suppression campaign!" Yang Mingzhi estimated that the way the German army could conquer Lechica was to mobilize heavy troops from the rear, or even draw elites from the Rzhev front line to solve the problem.
Anyway, under the current situation, the troops who are good at mobile combat have been trapped by Lechicha. In urban street fighting, of course, the troops with more troops, strong firepower and excellent logistics will win. If you think about it, if the German army is willing, they can assemble a large number of regular troops.
Siege!
When the telegrams came one by one, the headquarters was filled with joy at the initial success of the refugee transfer plan. Seeing them laughing and joking, Yang Mingzhi was embarrassed to pour cold water on them.
He engaged in joking with everyone and shared their thoughts on the glorious prospects of the guerrilla republic after the refugees arrived. What was on his mind more was the idea of future battles.
However, the current war situation is putting great pressure on the Soviet troops on the northern and southern fronts. The Soviet troops are resisting tenaciously and naturally attract a large number of elite German troops.
Yang Mingzhi thought that the German army would mobilize elite troops from the front line to attack Lechica, but it was impossible for the German army to do this.
The direction of the war has shifted somewhat, but the macroscopic development will not change. Most battles are inevitable due to the development of the war situation, but time will change.
Entering July, the Battle of Rzhevsechovka, which had been fought for half a year, entered the German offensive period again.
The German Ninth Army deployed on the northern front launched the "Operation Seydlitz". The German army dispatched six infantry divisions, four armored divisions and one motorized infantry division in an attempt to annihilate the Vyazma salient east of Smolensk.
, Soviet 39th Army.
They launched an attack at the beginning of the month, but the war continued into the third week, and the German offensive momentum had been curbed. The Soviet 39th Army suffered heavy losses, and the remaining units successfully retreated.
The Soviet army lost the Vyazma salient on the battlefield. It seemed that the Soviet army suffered a defeat. Next, the Soviet army had to launch a massive counterattack!
This is the normal state of affairs on the long Rzhev-Sychovka battlefield - a tug-of-war.
The main battle in July actually took place in Smolensk, and the battlefield was 460 kilometers away from the Pripet Marsh. However, the reason why this battle was named after the Rzhev-Sychovka Battle was because
It was the southernmost point of the battle, at Sychevka in the east of Bryansk.
Bryansk was occupied by the German army, and elite German troops gathered around it. The entire Smolensk and Bryansk regions contained the main force of the German Army Group North. They were a powerful army, but they were unable to break through the Soviet defense line.
Since the German attack on Moscow completely failed in 1941, it has been impossible for them to attack Moscow. The German High Command also determined that the direction of the German attack in 1942 would be the rich southern Russia and the Caucasus. As for the strategic goals on the northern line, it can
Stabilizing the current situation is the best.
However, no matter what the German army wanted, the Soviet army had only one strategy - attack!
The supreme military commander of the Kalinin Front and Bryansk Front is none other than Marshal Zhukov.
He is a pure soldier, and his combat art is to "concentrate superior forces to fight a war of annihilation." Many commanders like to evenly distribute outstanding troops to ordinary troops, so that all troops can increase their combat effectiveness. Zhukov is not like that.
It is more inclined to gather the elite together and give full play to the subjective initiative of the elite troops.
It was already July 23rd. The defeat of the Soviet 39th Army was inevitable due to the loss of the salient. Zhukov was already preparing for a massive counterattack with the intention of retaking the salient.
After all, this front is too close to the capital, which also means that Moscow, the largest railway hub in the Soviet Union, can more easily receive a steady stream of reinforcements, newly formed troops and military equipment from the Urals and Siberia, and transport them efficiently
Go to the front line.
Looking back at the German army, it was at this juncture that a large-scale battle originating from southeastern Belarus and launched by the Soviet guerrillas really severely damaged the German army's logistics supply lines.
At present, because the German army has accumulated a large amount of supplies, it will take some time for the negative consequences of Lechica to be occupied by the Soviet army. However, anyone with a discerning eye can see that the Soviet occupation of Lechica means that it is important to transport supplies to Bryansk.
Railway lines were completely disrupted.
The guerrillas often blew up railways, and the Germans could repair them in a few hours, so that at least half of the military trains could still reach Bryansk safely.
The occupation of Lechica now means the interruption of the entire railway line, which is much more terrifying than bombing the railway. The transportation of Bryansk materials can only be transported from Smolensk. There are only two main railway lines in the east-west direction of Belarus.
and other small railway branches. Lechica had been occupied by the Soviet army for almost a week, and it was really impossible for the German army to mobilize elites from the front line to regain the city.
William Kube even regarded the actions of the guerrillas as a means of revenge by the Soviet army.
The elites on the front line went into attack and had to deal with Soviet counterattacks at any time. Besides, Wilhelm Kube was the supreme Nazi commander in Belarus. He could not control the army. What he could directly control was the small number of security police under his command and the coordination of the Belarusian garrison.
The German army seemed to have a huge force. From Kube's position, he knew that the German army's human resources in Belarus were already very poor. He gave the group army commander Wagner an order to recover Lechica. He also knew that based on the current strength of the group army,
If you can firmly control the current control area, you have done a good job.
He can actually mobilize troops from northern Belarus to go south to participate in the war. However, who can guarantee that the local guerrillas will not act wildly when the troops are stationed south? If something similar to Lechica happens again, doesn't it mean that the German army's northern supply line is on the verge of collapse?
collapsed?
After much deliberation, Kube could think of only one way - to mobilize troops from within the country and request the dispatch of newly formed troops to recapture Lechicha and restore communication lines!