Hoffmann and Freud had to retreat because they lost almost all their armored vehicles and all their heavy artillery was out of service.★
This Soviet army was extremely difficult to deal with. In addition to having an extremely complete will to fight, the soldiers were attacked by a variety of their new weapons. The final fatal blow was actually three tanks.
If the fighting continues, the troops will suffer immeasurable casualties. Because soldiers are also human beings, since they know that continuing to fight will mean death in vain, they will not fight hard anymore.
The retreat had no choice but to turn into a rout. Many people abandoned their helmets and armor and threw their weapons on the ground, just to escape lightly.
So on the Soviet army's already incomplete position, the soldiers after the battle watched the enemy escape, and everyone shouted "Ula" to celebrate their victory.
The victory was tragic! The defeat was tragic! Roshakov ordered the troops to stop pursuing and immediately began to inspect the losses.
In fact, just a glance revealed that the Soviet army's losses were also very serious. Rosakov held the pistol and simply stayed on the battlefield.
"There are corpses everywhere and ruins everywhere. These soldiers followed us all the way here and finally died here." Rosakov shook his head. The battlefield he saw was devastated.
The soldiers who were still alive all had expressionless faces. They searched for surviving comrades on the battlefield, kicked the corpses, and pulled them away if they were still able to move. They received simple treatment and then resigned themselves to their fate.
If the enemy's wounded soldiers are found, it is impossible to treat them. In this regard, the soldiers simply fire a shot, which can be regarded as mercy to these wounded enemy soldiers who are struggling in pain.
Roshakov, Kravsky and Ninelli sat on the blackened snow, waiting for the statistics of the results of the battle.
Soon, the battle damage statistics of each unit were placed in front of the three of them. This temporary regiment suffered more than 200 casualties in this battle and more than 300 wounded. The lightly wounded and seriously wounded were generally counted together, but the commanders
Everyone knows that if a seriously injured person can survive, it will really be a miracle of life.
Ninelli let out a long sigh; "If we continue to fight like this, we won't have the strength to fight. Without orders, we can't retreat. We are not afraid of fighting, but we are afraid of fighting without fun. Soldiers are not steel machines. We can
Ignoring human physiological limits. If we fight again, the enemy will definitely be able to capture this city."
Klavsky put on a contemptuous face and shook his head. "Comrade, you think too highly of the Germans. Just now you saw their backs. They were fleeing in panic. I don't think they can survive such guys."
Organize another attack within a short period of time."
"It makes sense. The German army's losses this time were also very serious. We still have to wait for a while, and the enemy's battle damage results will be calculated soon." Rosakov said.
Compared with Ninelli, the other two are more optimistic. After all, they are professional soldiers, and they know the taboos of the army all too well. "The enemies are running away, and we attack them at night so that they can't sleep. In addition, with the current battle,
They are exhausted. The worst thing for them is that we have killed all the heavy weapons." Roshakov speculated.
But there are always exceptions, and he does not rule out the possibility that the Germans will slap their foreheads again and launch another fierce attack. Just like the daytime attack, in the eyes of Roshakov and Klavsky, this is too abnormal. Unless they receive
It is an order to attack fiercely at any cost.
With this in mind, Roshakov ordered the surviving soldiers to continue to guard their positions. Even if they were tired, they could wrap themselves in blankets and take a rest, but they must ensure that once the war begins, they must immediately join the battle.
In order to ensure that the Soviet army would not be passive when the enemy attacked again, several sniper teams were dispatched. They carried radios and captured spare batteries and advanced in the direction of the enemy's retreat.
The day will eventually pass, and before night falls, the enemy's casualty statistics will finally end.
The soldier in charge of recording knocked on the door of a basement in the temporary regiment headquarters.
Only the guard suddenly opened the door and said, "The officers are all asleep now. If it's not something particularly important, we'll talk about it later."
"No! This is the enemy's battle damage data. The commander must know it."
His voice became louder, and Roshakov was woken up. He just asked the guard to look at his watch. He really needed to sleep for two hours. When he saw that the information he was waiting for was finished, he grabbed the pamphlet.
On this side are listed various seizures, as well as the bodies of German soldiers gathered and stacked.
"Oh my God! Eight hundred and sixty-eight people! Are these dead enemies?" Rosakov exclaimed, and now everyone woke up.
Such a result was astonishing. In one battle, the equivalent of two German battalions were killed.
The soldier told the details by the way: "Actually, many of the German soldiers were wounded. They were just wounded, but their comrades could only abandon them and let their blood bleed dry, or freeze to death at low temperatures."
.As the officers saw, we did not find any wounded German soldiers. Even if there were any, they were shot by our people. But most of the German soldiers lying down were as cold as ice."
Roshakov nodded. "Great! Their strength is two regiments. After several days of fighting and cold, they should have lost half of them. If they continue to stand here and confront us, their strength and firepower will
The advantage is no longer there.”
"So what should we do? In fact, our food and ammunition are also consumed very much. Our army and they are competing in consumption. At present, the results are not visible. But you must also pay attention to whether our food can continue to be maintained.
About four days.”
"Hi! Four days? I guess in four days we will be at our home, eating oriental delicacies cooked by the deputy division commander himself." Rosakov slapped his thigh, "Now I have to contact the division headquarters and the deputy division commander to report this.
information."
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Regarding this battle, the Soviet Union and Germany reported completely different contents to their respective commanders.
The German army suffered huge losses and retreated to their original positions. The returning soldiers were in shock. They ate quickly to fill their stomachs and then waited for new orders from their commanders.
They took a short rest, and the two captains, Hoffman and Freud, immediately woke up.
"We must give Schulz a reasonable explanation. Let's say that we encountered a fierce attack by the Soviet army during the day and suffered heavy losses in our troops. However, we desperately stopped the Soviet offensive. The entire army counterattacked and attacked the city until it reached the gates of Homnich.
Our army lacked heavy weapons and found it difficult to attack the city. The Soviet army even dispatched ambush tank troops, so our army retreated to the defense line and continued to hold on."
Hearing what he said, Freud was shocked. "You are really a genius. If you report like this, our defeat will become a victory."
"Yes, the division commander will definitely believe it." But Hoffman will not be satisfied with this. "We still have to attack. After all, our mission is to capture the city. The division commander doesn't know the specific battle situation here, but he needs to
As a result, the best one is to capture Homnage."
Therefore, after reporting to the commander of the 715th Division Schultz, these two regiments really received his praise. Even if they did not capture Homnich, they at least prevented the attack of the enemy's heavy group. When the lies were told too many,
The lies also turned out to be true. Chief of Staff Swager also reported to their superiors, claiming that the Soviet regular army had invaded in large numbers. As a result, in actual combat, the lie seemed to have come true, and the Soviet army really dispatched large corps!
Schultz easily believed Hoffman's rhetoric and encouraged the two to continue fighting and to hold the line of defense at all costs.
on the other hand.
At the same time, Roshakov sent a telegram to Yang Mingzhi, who was still preparing for a night attack outside Lechica, and to Yevlov in the swamp. In addition to reporting on the current situation, the losses and results of the unit, the most important thing was to obtain
new command.
In this regard, Yevlov said that the reserve team can be dispatched at any time. He even emphasized that the reserve team can even directly dispatch re-armed rescued prisoners of war.
Yang Mingzhi had already made a new plan. He reported to the division headquarters and asked Yevlov to prepare reinforcements to prepare for any unexpected events. Then, he directly ordered Roshakov's troops to take all the captured and usable weapons with them.
Scrap metal, all wounded soldiers, retreat immediately at night!
Leaving Homnich, the retreat order that the soldiers were waiting for finally arrived!
Rosakov immediately complied. He ordered the soldiers to tidy up the house immediately, then go to bed, and the whole army went out at night.
The scouts monitoring the German army were also recalled, and Roshakov directly ordered everyone: "Leave nothing to the Germans, take everything you can. We left the Germans a ruin, and there will be no more here in the future."
As the salient, strategically suppress us!"
Of course, when most of the soldiers heard this, their hearts grew cold and they were obviously very tired!
As for the German army, they had no idea that the Soviet army was preparing to withdraw. You should know that voluntarily abandoning a city was very rare when the Soviet Union and Germany were at war. To abandon an occupied city was to fight cowardly or to escape, so that even in a small city, both sides could not
They could fight through a mountain of corpses and a sea of blood. Of course, the Soviet army suffered far more casualties than the German army in most cases.
The 284th Division is not a fool to fight. The soldiers know that the strategic significance of this city is almost gone, so there is no need to garrison here.
The whole army set out at midnight, pulling sleds and driving many captured war horses. The tanks were like locomotives, pulling more than a dozen sleds at one go. All of them were wounded. And the soldiers who died on the battlefield were
And Homnic, who had only broken arms and debris, was left in the cold
When daylight fell again, the Soviet troops had left the city.
A company of German reconnaissance teams ventured out. They conducted reconnaissance for a while and continued to move forward. Since there was no resistance, they themselves felt unbelievable. They just entered the city so openly?
The company commander gritted his teeth and launched an assault! They formed a battle formation and prepared for street fighting. Only after they advanced did they realize that there was no one here. Where was the Soviet army? Everything was unknown.
Full of doubts, the company reported to their regimental commander that Homnich had become an empty city and all Soviet troops had withdrawn.
"That's great!" Hoffmann was overjoyed when he heard the news. He ordered the entire army to advance towards Homnich immediately.
Now no matter what, this city has been occupied by itself. The facts are here, this is equivalent to the German army re-captured Homnage. Although the casualties were heavy, the mission was finally completed.
The German troops continued to advance into the city. All they saw were ruins and a large number of dead bodies. The German corpses were still arranged neatly and seemed to be easy to count. Each one's face was ashen and covered with a layer of frost. All this seemed to be happening as it should.
In Antarctica but not here, the desolate scene is shocking.
"These damn Russians, they escaped. They escaped so cleanly!" Floyd stamped his feet angrily, because his people found no loot, and even the wreckage of the armored vehicle was obviously dismantled.
In the end, what was left to the Germans were their own people.
These dead bodies were still smug young people a few days ago. They joined the army in order to establish a Greater Germany, fought for living space on the Eastern Front battlefield, and eventually died here in Belarus. The cruelty of the war alerted others, and in fact they had done a good job.
, despite suffering comprehensive losses of up to half of their troops, they finally completed the mission of capturing Homnage, even though the final victory almost came from charity from the enemy.
"Report to the division headquarters now. Our army suffered huge casualties, occupied Homnich and drove the Soviet army out." Hoffmann ordered the telegraph operator.
As a result, they received the most unacceptable orders.
It turned out that Yang Mingzhi succeeded in a sneak attack on Lechicha, beheaded the core of the city's occupying forces, and even retreated calmly.
Schulz immediately ordered Hoffman and Freud, "You must retreat immediately and abandon Homnich!"
At the cost of huge casualties, more than a thousand soldiers were laid to rest here. Wasn't it just to capture Homnich, and then they withdrew like this? Hoffman couldn't accept it, "We have already suffered too much losses, with combat losses of up to 60% of the troops.
Returning to support Lechica has very little significance, so it is better to continue to hold on to Homnich."
The two sides simply communicated in plain language, and Schultz roared. "Shut up! Follow my orders! The enemy's vanguard has attacked Lechica. No matter how many of you are left, even one soldier must
Return support. Otherwise, we are all guilty!"
At this time, it will no longer help to disobey orders and make nonsense excuses.
The angry Hoffman grabbed his hat and threw it to the ground. "Hell, retreat!" (To be continued.) 8