In the thick fog, the Soviet army seized the time to prepare for the attack.
Rechev had some experience in attacking cities. At his request, Fyodorov split up his guerrilla brigade.
Some grassroots political commissars were placed in the 1st Guerrilla Brigade, and key personnel from other militia units were incorporated into it to serve as some grassroots officers. The organizational structure of this unit is completely different from that of the puppet army, and its combat effectiveness seems to have improved.
They have been resting and recuperating since the formal uprising, their military strength has been restored, and the mental outlook of all soldiers is acceptable.
Currently, this is not so much a guerrilla brigade as it is another independent regiment of the 6th Army. The force configuration of this unit is exactly the same as that of the infantry regiment, and it is also divided into four infantry battalions.
The transport team had a large number of horses and supplies to look after, as well as a small number of non-combat casualties who had sprained their feet during the march. They were not allowed to participate in the battle.
There were also Romanians who were not allowed to participate in the war. This time, Brimayo and his people continued to sit on the sidelines, and he was particularly happy to do so.
Reichev would not trust this group of Romanians, not because they were allies composed of former prisoners of war, but simply because their poor combat effectiveness made him dismissive.
Who is the attacking force and who is the defending force? The Soviet army made a clear arrangement after some coordination.
In this battle, the Soviet army does not intend to engage in complicated tactics. There is only one way to fight - to surround three towers.
This is an excellent tactic taught by Commander Yang Mingzhi to his subordinates. In the eyes of the Soviet soldiers, it is completely an improved version of a pincer offensive.
Its viciousness lies in fully creating the possibility of survival in a desperate situation, forcing the enemy to flee, and taking advantage of the chaos in their position, surprise troops appear and launch the final annihilation. In this battle, the transport team has no intention of letting any enemy go.
Fyodorov had to admire his immediate superior. Based on his knowledge, how could any Soviet or German general fight like this?!
It's just that this commander doesn't understand the "Thirty-Six Strategies" yet.
Everything goes according to plan.
The guerrilla brigade dispatched three battalions to attack first in a pincer offensive. When the fog was about to clear, they formed a skirmish line and pressed against the German army.
These three battalions have their own attack directions:
The first battalion attacked frontally, that is, moved closer to the west. The second battalion detoured back to the south and began to attack the north. The third battalion detoured back to the north and focused on attacking the German bridgehead to prevent the Germans from crossing the Slovechna River to escape.
The soldiers fixed their bayonets on their rifles and nervously approached the town.
The Soviet army's actions were extremely flamboyant. They formed a large formation and suppressed the German army's psychological defense line.
"My God! They are really strong. Can this be considered a guerrilla? They are simply regular troops!" The garrison commander gritted his teeth. Seeing this, and the semi-automatic rifle captured yesterday, he believed that he
He became a demon in the swamp and was targeted by the 84th Division of the Soviet Army.
The commander gave an order to all machine gunners: when the enemy reaches the limit of its effective range, they should start shooting immediately, regardless of the accuracy.
"Perhaps if I show strong firepower, they will collapse?"
The commander kept comforting himself, imagining that the battle would be like yesterday, with the firepower network constructed by machine guns fully demonstrating the superiority of firepower to repel the enemy.
If the German army had a large number of machine guns, mortars, and inexhaustible ammunition, they might be able to hold on successfully again. Unfortunately, they are only a team of more than 300 people. How much ammunition can such a garrison get?
The average amount of ammunition for the riflemen at the most basic level is less than two bases per person. The ammunition for the machine gun squad is relatively abundant, with five bases.
After yesterday's battle, they consumed a lot of ammunition, and ten machine guns were damaged in the battle. So far, the defenders only have ten MG4s, fifteen ZB6s, and five old MG1s.
On the other hand, the Soviet army not only had more machine guns than the Germans, they also had ten recoilless rifles!
It is impossible for Yang Mingzhi and Yevlov not to have doubts about the 1st Guerrilla Brigade. This unit has become a subordinate, and they must also have some necessary equipment for the 6th Army.
Therefore, they are equipped with fist weapons such as RPGs and recoilless rifles, but they have much less equipment than the direct troops.
Even so, they still have certain ability to attack difficult situations.
When the three infantry battalions began a frontal attack, the artillery behind them began to set up positions.
Ten recoilless gun groups were gathered together, and they followed the first battalion in the frontal attack. These people were gunners trained by the artillery expert Doronin, and their skills were quite poor due to serious lack of experience.
Fortunately, the town was a big target, and no one asked them to focus on attacking a certain target. It was enough to ensure that the artillery shells penetrated the town at the maximum range.
When everything is ready, the gunner waves a red flag to indicate that everything is ready.
Fyodorov, who still stayed in the camp to watch the battle, nodded: "It's time!"
He ordered an attack, and the first ones to attack were rocket launchers!
This was Reichev's idea. The so-called artillery fire preparation is necessary. It is best to use artillery bombardment to scare the enemy. At the same time, the violent explosion of the artillery shells also gives a huge morale boost to the attacking troops.
The rocket artillery team are all professionals. They are veterans of the 84th Division. To be specific, three months ago, they participated in the long-range bombing of Chernigov with the "Exocetus".
A white dragon rose from the ground, and white smoke suddenly rose from the flat ground. This scene shocked the nervous German troops who were waiting in tight formations.
"Is it a geyser? What is that white smoke?"
Before the defenders could figure it out, the two rockets hit the town in a relatively low and flat parabola with an initial velocity of 200 meters.
The newly launched rockets from the arsenal are all mass-produced models of Catfish rockets. The propellant has been slightly adjusted to make the muzzle velocity faster. The warhead charge is still Amato, which is deliberately stuffed in order to better kill the enemy's vitality.
A package of crushed and compacted shell fragments.
The first bomb exploded mercilessly. Although the German troops were staying in the bunker, the violent explosion easily destroyed the three German machine gun forts, causing a total of more than 30 casualties.
The rocket launcher team paid no attention to the explosion and mushroom cloud ahead. They continued to load the second round, which soon caused another fierce explosion.
Fyodorov's soldiers knew about the Soviet Katyusha rocket launcher. They half-knelt in the grass with their guns and chanted the name "Katyusha". No one pointed out that this thing was actually called "Catfish."
"Change", not to mention that the Guerrilla Republic named its rocket launchers after "fish".
Three consecutive rocket launchers hit directly, killing only about fifty defenders and soldiers! The defenders were human beings. Except for the sudden attack of the first bomb, when the last two exploded, the defenders huddled behind their respective bunkers.
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The vast majority of the defenders withstood the shock, and the fragments survived tenaciously.
Just as they got a breather, they encountered new shelling.
The 70mm shells fired by recoilless rifles are loaded with Amato explosives, and their power is similar to that of 80mm mortar shells. Because they focus on the maximum range, the shells eventually hit the ground at almost a right angle and exploded. The tactical effect is very similar to that of mortar shells.
The vertical attack left the Germans with no place to hide. Soldiers cowered and wailed, and some gave up their positions and hid in civilian houses...
The rocket launchers inflicted heavy psychological damage on the defenders, and the subsequent recoilless rifle bombardment destroyed their morale.
The preparation of artillery fire was short and urgent. After the preset shells were fired, the officers and soldiers of the three battalions stood up one after another. Under the leadership of the grassroots political commissar, they shouted "Ula".
After the bombing, the fire resistance that the German army could stop became quite weak. The Soviet army paid a small price and broke into the town from the east and south respectively, and street fighting broke out.
Fyodorov's troops seriously lacked experience in street fighting, and they had to learn warfare during the war. Fortunately, this group of people was equipped with a lot of grenades made of cans, and the soldiers knew that these were weapons for street fighting.
In any case, the Soviet army had an unparalleled strength advantage. In the street fighting, the German army had to retreat steadily.
To make matters worse, the Ukrainian pseudo-policemen who were guarding the city with the German army, seeing that the situation was over, threw down their guns and knelt down to beg for mercy.
If this group of pseudo-policemen were facing direct descendants of Yang Mingzhi, they would definitely be shot immediately. Fortunately, they were facing the 1st Guerrilla Brigade!
I was once a puppet soldier, and this group of people were also puppet soldiers. Not all puppet soldiers were happy to work for the German army, or were threatened, or just had a living, that was definitely the case!
"Hey! Ukrainians! Throw away all your weapons and kneel down, so you don't have to die!"
The surrendered pseudo-policemen obeyed the orders of the guerrillas. Seeing this scene, some desperate German soldiers simply raised their hands and surrendered.
Since the Germans have also surrendered, it is more valuable to keep them alive than to shoot them dead.
The Soviet troops made good progress in both directions and captured more than fifty people.
But in the north of the town, the Soviet army encountered resistance. The attack on the bridgehead caused heavy losses to the 3rd Battalion responsible for the attack. Four machine guns suppressed the attacking force. At the same time, the German commander, who had shrunk in tactics, ordered his remaining troops to attack the bridgehead.
Quite close.
Anyone with a discerning eye can see that as long as the German army can hold on to the bridgehead, the Soviet army will not win if they occupy the town.
Fyodorov saw this situation and immediately ordered the first battalion of the frontal attack to move north. He also ordered the recoilless rifle group on standby to move the gun positions and bombard immediately.
The number of artillery shells carried by the Soviet army was relatively abundant, so it could tolerate the profligacy of the new artillery team with poor technology in actual combat.
The bridgehead that was difficult to capture began to encounter artillery bombardment, but the artillery shells either hit the river sideways or hit too close and almost injured friendly troops.
No matter how bad their artillery skills are, if they bomb towards a general position and the artillery constantly corrects the elevation angle, one of the shells must hit the target.
Finally, a round hit the target, and three of the four machine gun positions were lost at once. The firepower of the ZB6 in the only position was too weak.
The 3rd Battalion quickly captured it, and with the reinforcements from the 1st Battalion, the Soviet army built a new line of defense in the north of the town. Coupled with the extended artillery bombardment, the German troops who planned to break out to the north had to turn to the west.
In panic, the German commander realized that he could only retreat westward.
He had a flash of inspiration: "Oh! As long as we run westward to Lierchuch, we will be safe!"
He immediately called on his men: "Gentlemen, let this damn town go to hell! There is no way we can be attacked on August 8th. We retreat westward to Lilchurch! Let's go!"
As the German army fled westward, the Soviet army's plan to encircle Sanque was mostly completed. Soviet soldiers quickly occupied the main part of the town, but no one launched a pursuit.
This is also part of the operation. The officers and soldiers of the guerrilla brigade have completed their mission so far, and one more step is just unnecessary.
They stood on the broad streets of the town, shooting at the enemies fleeing to the west, just like hunting, the soldiers vented the destructive desire deep in the human soul.
The Soviet shooting accelerated the escape of the German army. Only more than 200 people escaped from the town in the melee. They fled too hastily. There were still dozens of wounded soldiers in the city after yesterday's battle, and the newly injured soldiers were also left behind.
the enemy.
It is difficult to protect oneself, and it is really helpless to abandon injured comrades.
The German troops were getting farther and farther away, and some people fell to the ground and were injured or killed along the way. It seemed that more than a hundred people had successfully escaped the Soviet attack range.
"Ah! Ah! Finally we are almost safe!" The German commander did not resent the loss of the town at all. He was glad that he was able to escape with half of his brothers in the face of the enemy's crazy firepower. Isn't this an achievement? The wait is over.
In a safe area, and then inform the division headquarters of the situation exactly, will the division commander still hold himself accountable? Absolutely not!
The German commander had his own little calculation in mind. He had already thought of all kinds of reasonable excuses and still shirked his responsibility.
However, the end of him and his men finally came.
Like a tortoise, Reichev remained motionless for a long time. Because when the fog gradually dispersed, his tactical detour began.
The paratroopers are indeed the elite of the Soviet army. Their physical fitness is still excellent and they can take on roundabout tasks quite easily.
They ran to the grassland more than two kilometers west of the town. The soldiers lay on the ground. At first glance, it looked like a big ball of grass!
Everything went according to plan! After seeing the German troops fleeing in a hurry, at the right time, Reichev issued a stop order.
For a time, the hail of bullets from DPM and SVT40 stunned the German army. The only Deshka heavy machine gun, its 1.7mm "giant" bullet, was like executing a prisoner, smashing the bewildered enemy into a pulp.
The scene was extremely bloody.
"Follow me! Ula!" Reichev was excited. He raised his submachine gun and led the charge.
The final attack happened very suddenly and ended very quickly.
Because the German commander ran the fastest, he was the first to be beaten beyond recognition by the heavy machine gun. Facing an astonishing number of enemies, the leaderless German army realized that everything was lost.
One hundred and sixty people who escaped from the town suffered ninety-five casualties in the final blocking battle, and fifty-five German soldiers raised their hands and surrendered. Their minds went blank, and their hearts beat wildly as if they were going to burst. Many of them were shocked.
Trembling all over and on the verge of mental collapse...
Looking at this group of terrified enemies, Reichev shook his head helplessly: "You are all young people! After hearing Hitler's plan, you came to our country to kill, kill and plunder. From now on, you can go to the mines and dig sulfur for us."