Yang Mingzhiya never thought that the German army would attack Homnich. Summit 23S.
Fastest update: This city has been devastated by war and has been completely reduced to flat ground. "Homnage" is simply a place name.
Once the German army attacks Lechica, Homnich, which is closest to it, will definitely be very sensitive.
The Soviet army was worried about the attack on the 27th. Until nightfall, the German army did not appear. There is no doubt that the German 100th Army had arrived at Mozyr. As for why they did not attack immediately, Yang Mingzhi believed that the enemy was there.
Prepare for an onslaught.
Can the Soviet army resist for forty-eight hours? Yang Mingzhi is very worried. The future of implementing this tactical goal is that the troops can withstand the first round of German onslaught.
To resist the first round of attacks, the defenders must pay a heavy price of casualties.
The elite troops of the 284th Division were arranged to defend the city. Some of them were veterans who had participated in the Battle of Minsk. Many of them were broken troops of various numbers who had joined last year, especially the broken troops of the 32nd Army. Times have changed, and many
People died, new soldiers joined, and the faces changed again and again, but the spirit of the army still remained, and this army has always been an elite force.
"Perhaps in this battle, the 284th Division will suffer its second major casualty since it became an army."
Yang Mingzhi had no more choices. Apart from Lavrenty and Roshakov, only the 233rd paratrooper brigade had strong combat effectiveness. Putting his close comrades in Lechica to fight with the enemy in the streets would certainly create his own "direct lineage"
"The entire army may be wiped out, but this is indeed the only way to deal with the powerful offensive of the German 100th Army.
Yang Mingzhi is not at all a crazy butcher who gets satisfaction from killing. Sometimes his attitude towards fighting shows the kindness of a woman.
This time, he must fight hard!
"You may all die in this battle. Don't resent me for putting you in danger. There is no other way. For tens of thousands of friendly troops and tens of thousands of refugees, you must fight."
Yang Mingzhi prayed silently, but he completely underestimated the combat awareness of the frontline troops.
Would a soldier with a genocidal hatred for the invaders be afraid of dying in battle? No! They would choose revenge. If they must die, they would stuff a few grenades, run out of hiding, catch an enemy and die with him.
Quite a few soldiers do have this awareness.
The Guerrilla Republic turned all the used cans into hand grenades. They were ugly in appearance, but their power was amazing, and the quantity produced was equally astonishing. In this battle alone, the Soviet army captured a large number of German-made M24 grenades. The Soviet army airdropped them
Among the supplies, there are some round cantaloupe mines.
In street fighting, grenades are a weapon that can be used both offensively and defensively. According to Yang Mingzhi's regulations, each soldier holds at least four grenades.
There was no fighting on the 27th. The Soviet troops, who were already ready for battle, breathed a sigh of relief and continued to strengthen the defense of their respective positions.
Defending the city with more than 4,000 men was very reluctant in any case. He was eager for the battle to develop into a "Grozny-style street battle." Before the war started, the Soviet army still needed to add a large number of reinforcements to Homnich.
At present, the garrison in Homnich consists of two female corps, three brigades (equivalent to regiments) of the Kovpak Corps, and more than 500 militiamen aged fifty years old under the command of the station leader Korkin. Even so,
More reinforcements are needed!
Half of the refugees arrived at Black Earth Village and Blacksmith Village on the 27th after continuous day and night operations. The troops were facing huge military pressure, and the resettlement of the refugees was limited to giving them a place to live and potatoes to eat. Want to fully
To utilize human resources, we must first restore their physical strength.
However, after the arrival of the first refugee group, Sarinchkin, Lyudbalev and others first began to look for the young people among them, even young women and boys. These people will be the future combat troops, regardless of
Whether they cooperate or not, since they have come to the Guerrilla Republic, they must accept the conscription order unconditionally!
Before noon on the 27th, they had forcibly recruited more than 6,000 people and more than 500 children between the ages of thirteen and eighteen, most of whom were girls. The reason is that even thirteen-year-old boys
He was also recruited as a guerrilla by the Red October Brigade, and what was left to the Guerrilla Republic was really a lot of girls.
"They can also be trained into qualified warriors, and maybe a second Natasha will appear." Salinchkin thought so, and he also clearly realized that the first thing to do was to deal with these children who were frightened by the war.
Once settled, they can be trained to be soldiers and incorporated into the youth camp.
As for the real youth camp, it will take some time for them to add new blood.
On the 27th, all No. 150 combat-ready soldiers of the Youth Battalion, led by the battalion commander Kharkov, walked towards Homnich.
They are all still inexperienced children, but they can already march at full speed for thirty kilometers or even longer journeys, day and night.
Their fighting spirit was high. After the battle a few days ago, they believed that the newly arrived German 100th Army would also be defeated by their own troops. Their confidence enabled them to overcome many troubles. They wore a variety of shoes and often stepped into swamps.
There are mud puddles everywhere, so your feet are always wet.
What does this difficulty mean? Kharkiv received a death order, that is, it must reach Homnich before dark on the 28th.
Balzen's reconnaissance battalion, with only ninety people left, also participated in this reinforcement. Natasha did not participate. This girl was hit by the butt of a gun nearly a thousand times, and all Yang Mingzhi gave her was the order to cultivate herself.
The refugees left Homnage, and 2,000 armed personnel of various colors sent reinforcements there. But no one expected that Homnage would become the front line of the war!
In the early morning of the 28th, everything was very peaceful.
In the past few days, the Soviet army has been moving west and east to clear the German defense line. Especially the German defense line east of Lechica. The Soviet army finally found the safe passage preset by the German army in the German minefield. They used
Blasting and manual inspection methods were used to further clear the minefield and expand the scope of the passage. This is the passage for the future evacuation of the Red October and the Gypsy Brigade.
Now, the Soviet troops west of Lechica have withdrawn, leaving only a small number of scouts carrying radios to watch. The large army is entrenched around Lechica, with a total strength of 10,000 Soviet troops, in the forest and cliffs.
Under the cover of the ruins, they waited quietly in their respective fortifications.
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"I have a premonition that the war will break out after dawn." Lavrenti, who was staying in the trench outside the city, said meaningfully. After he finished speaking, he blew out a string of smoke rings, looking relaxed and calm.
Yevgeny smiled and shook his head: "The future is a fierce battle. We may die in this. Don't you think this place is like the Badijinskaya village where we were stationed a year ago?"
"In this way, it does have a similar feeling. We fought very well in that battle."
"Yes, are we ready this time?" Yevgeny shook his head.
"We must be ready!" Lavrenti said with a serious face, "We have no way to retreat, with the Dnieper River behind us. I haven't told the brothers that we can retreat as long as we guard for forty-eight hours, and I don't dare to tell them.
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"I understand. It's about morale. The soldiers will fight to the death in a last-ditch battle. Our army will encounter the enemy first outside the city. You deployed most of the troops outside the city. It must be based on this consideration, to kill the enemy first as much as possible."
"No!" Lavrenti didn't say much. He smiled and said, "When the fight starts, you will know the subtlety of this tactic."
"Well, no matter how sophisticated it is, we have to fight the war outside the city first. I just hope that the Germans will not put all their troops into battle at once."
Hearing this, Lavrenti felt uneasy, and he reluctantly responded: "I hope they don't swarm us."
Lavrenti and Yevgeny, along with their men, stayed at the position two kilometers outside the city until dawn, when they arrived at the hidden frontline command post one kilometer outside the city.
At dawn, a large number of soldiers only took a nap for three or four hours that night. The soldiers stayed in their respective trenches one by one, eating boiled potatoes and brown bread, and even drank hot soup. The soldiers finished the soup and put away their lunch boxes.
Get up, stuff the spoon into the gap in the leggings, return to their respective posts, turn on the safety of the firearm, and watch the west.
Two observers stood on the highest point of the broken wall of the collapsed office building. They held high-end telescopes with 15 times magnification and stared at the west, just as they worked all day on the 27th.
Many soldiers have a premonition that the German army will appear today. Today, many people will not be able to see the sunset.
When a recruit participates in the first battle, he will often wet his pants. After more experience, everything becomes relieved. There will be no fear, no shrinking, just like a war machine without thought, fighting until self-destruction.
But not all veterans have this attitude. Those militiamen who were detained to participate in the battle couldn't help but tremble at the thought of fighting German armored vehicles.
The Soviet army has learned that the German 100th Army has some assault guns and armored vehicles. Due to the current shortage of Soviet anti-tank weapons and the improved performance of German armored vehicles, it is almost inevitable for soldiers to face the German army attacking them.
Armored vehicles. The Soviet army used a large number of glass bottles found in the city to make thousands of incendiary tiles as auxiliary weapons.
The German army finally started its respective tasks at six o'clock in the morning on the 20th. A large-scale battle officially began!
The German 370th Division is responsible for the main attack mission of Lechica. Since the division was incorporated into the artillery regiments of the other two divisions, it has more than 100 field guns of various calibers. There are three artillery regiments in the army.
There are also three infantry regiments and two logistics regiments. Together with other troops, the total strength of the army is close to 20,000!
Such a behemoth needs to carry a large number of heavy weapons, so their advancement speed will be slower.
Relatively speaking, the German army gave 30% of the half-track armored vehicles originally belonging to the 370 Division to the 371 Division. The task of the 371 Division was to seize the Homnich area first and fight all the way to the river to establish a line of defense to block the enemy.
Therefore, the 371st Division must run faster than the 370th Division!
"If the troops had captured Rechicha earlier, we would not have wasted more time in Belarus." William Genus, commander of the 370th Division, hoped so.
There are more than fifty assault guns and armored vehicles under his command, and most of them currently serve as artillery tractors. After all, on soft soil, a heavy 150mm howitzer requires a powerful towing tool. There are also
More than two thousand war horses, in addition to pulling artillery, also pulled logistical supplies.
Genus also knew very little about the current situation of Lechica, so he took the lead in ordering the division's reconnaissance battalion to launch a probing attack on Lechica, the so-called fire reconnaissance.
There are nearly 600 people in the reconnaissance battalion, and they advance eastward with the cooperation of ten half-track armored vehicles.
Their actions were quite fast. The German army set out at six o'clock, and the reconnaissance battalion advanced 20 kilometers eastward in just two hours.
However, their actions were also seen with the naked eye by Soviet scouts who were ambushing along the highway (that is, the dirt road).
The alarm was spread to the city of Lechitsa, and also to the distant guerrilla republics. All areas where Soviet troops were stationed learned the news of the dispatch of German troops at the first time.
The advancing German scouts were completely unaware of this.
The battalion commander, leaning half of his body on the armored vehicle, was full of expectations for the future battle. Aren't the Russians stationed at Lechicha? Aren't there guerrilla activities everywhere in this area? Could it be that when they saw my troops, they were frightened and ran away
Already?
The battalion commander is eager to fight, and his men are also eager to fight. After living a stable life in France and Poland for a long time, the soldiers feel that they have been deteriorating, and they are increasingly violating their oath to "build a great Germany."
They continued to advance at a rapid march, and the thin morning fog gradually dispersed. Finally, the German army could finally see the shaking shadow of the city in the distance through the telescope.
"Gentlemen! Lechica is ahead. Be prepared for battle and follow me."
After that, the battalion commander got back into the armored vehicle. In the vehicle, he took off his military cap and put on a helmet. He personally inspected an MP38, calmly put his armed belt on his back, and stuck a bright dagger in his military boots.
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These German soldiers were well-trained. After receiving the order, the troops quickly formed a skirmish line, relied on armored vehicles for attack, and began to advance slowly at a speed of four kilometers per hour.
At the same time, the Soviet army also noticed such a group of uninvited guests.
Lavrenti, who kept calm, saw that there was only a small group of enemies coming, and he decisively concluded that this was the enemy's reconnaissance force.
"Correspondent, order the battalions on the front line to use recoilless guns and RPGs to attack armored vehicles first when the enemy is within 100 meters. Try to destroy all armored vehicles in one attack."
At least in the face of the thin steel handles of the German half-track armored vehicles, the Soviet army had great confidence. Their RPG warheads were relatively abundant. One of the reasons for the abundance was that there were more than 500 rear-production rounds in the airdrop supplies.
The warhead is powerful. The soldier looked at the too small caliber and felt a little disappointed.
At 9:10 in the morning, the German reconnaissance battalion had arrived at the first line of defense of the Soviet army. They beat the skirmisher line up to a kilometer wide and advanced with increasing caution.
"Gentlemen, be careful, the Russians may attack at any time!"
The distant city of Lechica is really quiet. The troops are about to enter the city. Perhaps the enemy has already deployed a bunch of firepower points in the city. But any defenders will definitely set up defenses outside the city.
As soon as he finished speaking, the troops walked a few hundred meters further. Even though the soldiers were very careful, attacks from the ground level happened almost simultaneously.
The German army had entered a distance of one hundred meters, and the ten armored vehicles instantly became the target of public criticism. The recoilless rifle team and the RPG shooter, who had already been holding back their energy, aimed at their respective targets and pulled the trigger...