The defending troops were defeated, and the siege troops were defeated again. The troops responsible for protecting the highway suffered two disastrous ambushes. What's worse, the enemy troops had penetrated into the periphery of the important city.
The combination of successive bad news directly caused the chief of staff of the 715th Division to faint.
Swager was sent to the military hospital attached to his headquarters. When he woke up, he immediately remembered what happened before. "I have to return to the division headquarters quickly! Nurse, bring me my military uniform!" It turned out that this person had already been killed.
He changed into a patient's clothes, because this man is considered the most powerful brain of the 715th Division. If he is ill, then Schultz doesn't think other staff officers have any new ideas. It is better for the chief of staff to recover well.
After all, Swager stubbornly returned to the division headquarters and faced a group of staff officers talking all over the place. They all said the same thing.
"Shut up, animals! I can't die, let's formulate a response plan immediately."
When everyone saw it, the chief of staff was actually still wearing a patient's clothes, wrapped in a coat, and just standing in the division headquarters.
"Ah! Swager, you're here like this?!" Schultz was stunned.
"That's right! We must cheer up now. I have already thought of some countermeasures in the hospital."
Schultz has been in a state of distress, and what he has encountered so far is a little better than the previous 7o7 Division. Now that the important chief of staff is safe and sound, his worries are relieved.
The strategy that Swager came up with was not only to ask for help from neighboring troops, but also to strengthen his own defense. He called the staff to the table and pointed with the baton in his hand.
"Gentlemen, the situation we are in now is very bad. On the one hand we are facing great military pressure and have been forced to fight on two fronts. On the other hand, we have suffered so many failures that it will become a laughing stock. This is
Our predicament is that to ensure our honor, we must drive away these enemies!"
"Is this group of guerrillas really that difficult to deal with?" a staff officer asked.
"Guerrillas?" Swager was now disgusted with this term. "Are you sure they are just a group of guerrillas? Or do you think the guerrillas are all composed of ordinary Soviet people?! Give up your stupid ideas! This group of enemies
It was so strong that our two regiments were unable to capture Homnich, but they launched a devastating attack almost instantly, and the city was captured."
"Yes, I heard what the battalion commander Gustav said. His remarks are incredible. It seems that we are the ones attacking and the Soviets are the ones defending."
"In fact, the Soviet army launched a blitzkrieg, and our army fled. When we chose to attack, our tactics were like the Soviets, because we were not acting as German soldiers at all. We couldn't defeat a small city!"
Swager's face was full of anger. In addition to being cruel to the Soviets, he was also resentful of his own side.
"What can we do about this? My chief of staff, compared to the failure of the attack on Homnich, we failed to do a good job in accepting prisoners of war and allowed them to escape. This is the biggest crime!" the division commander said worriedly.
"So! We must preserve our honor. Otherwise all of you, myself, and most of the officers will be dismissed!"
This is what no one wants. The staff members don't want to look like private soldiers. Everyone's eyes are on Swager.
Therefore, this man no longer wanted to be evasive. He pointed at Lechica and said: "Since Soviet guerrillas have appeared outside this city, I can report that there are a hundred guerrillas here. It can also be said that there are too many guerrillas."
One thousand, we can even say that these are regular Soviet troops hidden in the forest, with a strength of more than 5,000, or even 10,000."
"Is this?! Do we want to deliberately exaggerate the enemy's strength?" Schultz looked at his buddy in confusion.
"That's right, although our 715th Division has a total strength of 15,000 people, its real combat strength is equivalent to four regiments, and the rest are logistics troops. And the logistics troops have basically become a transport team working for friendly forces.
, our actual forces that can be put into combat are only three main regiments and one artillery regiment."
"Three infantry regiments and one artillery regiment, and the rest are small units such as anti-tank battalions and reconnaissance battalions." Schulz said.
"Now two infantry regiments and an artillery battalion are outside the city of Homnich. They cannot retreat. Their mission is to stay there and confront the enemy. Of the remaining troops, one regiment moves closer to our division headquarters, and the other goes straight to
Gomel. After that, we will let other troops, such as reconnaissance battalions, form small teams to strengthen the defense on both sides of the road. These are what we can do now. It is very difficult for just one infantry division to complete the above tasks."
Schulz pinched his chin and thought back to what his predecessor had done. In the Soviet villages that existed on both sides of the surrounding highway, the locals were almost killed and most of the villages were burned down. Those that were not burned down became military barracks.
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All the villagers' cattle and sheep were taken away, and only a few people were able to escape.
This kind of killing of ordinary people is the revenge of the predecessor's huge profits in the face of the surging guerrilla combat movement. This is indeed the case. Because of Schneider's revenge, the foundation of the guerrilla life in this area has been ruined. Without the villagers, there will be no one to help them.
Send food and salt.
But he was still killed by the guerrillas, the "Swamp Guerrilla Brigade" who had always come from far away and must be very good at running long distances.
Thinking of this, Schulz shuddered, because his division headquarters was also in an occupied village, and all the villagers had been killed long ago, and they were all lying in a mass grave. So once the enemy touches his position, it is very likely that
I came straight here, but my own defense force only had one guard battalion. Its task was not only to protect the division headquarters, but also to protect the hospitals accompanying the army and even the army's ammunition depot.
Seeing that the teacher had been thinking for a while, Swager pushed him and asked: "How is it? Do you understand what I mean?"
"Understood, my friend. We will use the enemy's maximum strength as you just mentioned. It is suspected that tens of thousands of enemies are attacking Gomel, and we will report it as such."
"Alas! That's right!" Swag continued: "I don't know how many enemy troops attacked Gomel, but they were able to rescue three thousand prisoners of war, ambush our convoy, and attack and defend Homnich.
, the fact that they couldn't defeat 5,000 men only proves that they have more troops. Let's say that a Soviet division hidden in the forest probably appeared suddenly in response to Stalin's call. Their purpose was to wait for the opportunity to suddenly end the ambush. In this way
, our defeat has become inevitable."
Schultz nodded, "That's it! I'll report to the Army Commander immediately! And the person in charge of Belarus, Kube, will report!"
While the headquarters of the 715th Division was planning countermeasures, a thousand men led by Yang Mingzhi began a large-scale sabotage operation.
An attacked road checkpoint where Soviet troops attacked.
This is the node of a branch road, located in the forest, and a small road leads directly to Lechica. There are only ten people at the checkpoint, and now there are only ten German corpses.
The battle was very short, and in addition to this, the Soviet army had already attacked two checkpoints, and no German soldiers survived.
Before the attack, Yang Mingzhi called the best precision shooter in the army to his side. "Each of you has a target, and after aiming, you must fire at the same time, so that we can accurately eliminate all enemies in an instant."
It is said that Yang Mingzhi was able to think of this tactic after watching a later TV series. The US military attacked a German patrol. There were seven enemies. The US military squads immediately received orders and fired a volley, and the enemy was wiped out in an instant.
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Therefore, the Soviet army also had to do the same, and Yang Tao and Natasha became Yang Mingzhi's top shooters.
German soldiers stood outside smoking cigarettes with rifles on their backs, and some stayed in wooden houses with stoves to keep warm. The attack happened suddenly, almost with a burst of gunfire, and all the German soldiers outside fell to the ground. Blood was sprinkled on the snow, and they were spread out.
A few of them groaned and then stopped moving.
The Soviet commandos swarmed forward, giving no time for the people in the room to react. The soldier threw a grenade, shouted "Granada", and an explosion occurred. The enemy was simply blown out and died.
This tactic succeeded twice at once, and the Soviet troops left just as quickly as they came. Yang Mingzhi ordered: "The battle is over. Take away all the enemy's weapons and ammunition that can be used, and set fire to the checkpoint."
But he thought again, since it was destruction, it would not work without leaving some clues. The enemy had to know who did it immediately! Because, Yang Mingzhi ordered the soldiers to sprinkle the enemy's blood on the snow and write
The word "swamp" dropped huge.
This was very bloody, because the Soviet soldiers directly cut open the enemy's corpse with a dagger, as if they were dealing with an animal, but it was even more brutal and excessive.
The soldiers who hated the Germans became extremely ferocious. If they indulged in these behaviors, ordinary soldiers would turn into monsters with only animality and no humanity. If Yang Mingzhi was not careful, they would insult the corpse. "These old men will
Mao Zi, otherwise people in Western Europe will say that you are the new **** and barbarians."
Yang Mingzhi kicked away several soldiers who urinated on the German corpses and ordered: "Assholes, they are already dead. Give the dead some dignity."
"But! They actually..." A soldier was obviously very aggrieved and resentful, and he tried hard to pull up his pants.
"Enough! You are Soviet Red Army soldiers, not barbarians! The enemy is already dead, so don't do boring things anymore. If you have this time, you should save the time to kill the Germans instead of continuing to vent on the enemy's corpse!
Now let’s move on! Keep on destroying the enemy!”
As soon as Yang Mingzhi waved, the troops began to move westward, with the goal of Lieqicha. (To be continued.) 8