Chapter 232 The delicate situation in southern Belarus
The road to retreat is also very long. There are still more than 900 troops led by Yang Mingzhi. To say they are not tired is to be brave. The soldiers have been working hard to persevere. They also know that the road back is likely to be crossed by enemy reinforcements.
Encounter.
In this way, Yang Mingzhi directly ordered: "All of you open your eyes wide, load your bullets, and change from marching to combat posture in an instant."
As usual, Balzen's men opened the way ahead and kept a certain distance from the main force.
They eventually encountered an unusual situation, and Balzen encountered a German force.
"Report! Report! There is an enemy in front, one battalion strong!" the scout shouted directly into the walkie-talkie, which surprised Yang Mingzhi who received the intelligence.
The troops had just emerged from a forest and were walking on the open ground when another enemy appeared in the woods ahead?!
"The whole army is ready for battle immediately!"
Yang Mingzhi, like others, lay on the ground with a firearm in hand. Yevgeny and Lavrenti's elite troops immediately set up machine guns and organized a wake-up defense line.
At this time, Balzen made another report. His purpose was simple, that is, to launch a surprise attack on the enemy.
"The enemy has more troops than you! Can you destroy them directly?!" Yang Mingzhi questioned, but Balzen was convinced because he felt that this group of German soldiers looked very low-spirited and they were just a bunch of mobs.
In this way, Yang Mingzhi believed in his judgment and ordered an immediate attack.
In fact, this German army was Freud's army. The German army that attacked Homnich was forced to return to support Lechica, and they did not want to encounter an encounter during the advance.
Balzen ordered all submachine gunners to be in the front row of the front line. Along with some machine gunners, powerful firepower appeared in the forest. The Soviet soldiers all wore white cloaks and suddenly stood up from the snow. The dense barrage instantly destroyed this unit.
The German battalion was beaten until it collapsed.
This made Balzen very surprised, "The enemy can't be so weak. Why did they withdraw after just a battle?"
Before he could think clearly, this group of German soldiers made an even more shocking move - they fled.
The elite soldiers of the reconnaissance company wanted to continue the pursuit, but were stopped by Balzen. "No one should act rashly. Maybe this is a trap set by the enemy to lure us into the encirclement. Misha, lead a few people to have a look!"
Yang Mingzhi's large army immediately set up temporary defenses. Balzen was also dormant in the woods. Several scouts touched it. They hurried back and reported the shocking news to Balzen.
Therefore, Yang Mingzhi also immediately received the intelligence from the front: "There are a large number of enemies in the front, with at least two battalions of troops. They are marching! What should I do?"
This was Balzen's question. Yang Mingzhi thought about it and ordered the scouts to continue the investigation.
Both he and Balzen were very worried that the enemy was setting a trap, but it turned out that they were overthinking it. The enemy was not pretending to retreat at all, but actually retreating, because this was the so-called "victorious" army.
The troops of Hoffman and Floyd suffered too many losses. More than a thousand people were killed, and there were nearly a thousand wounded soldiers of various kinds. The soldiers who could continue to fight were also exhausted. When they learned that Su
The regular army was directly attacking Lechica, and they were going to fill the vacancy there, as if they were going to die. Coupled with the cold weather, the morale of the soldiers suddenly fell to the bottom.
German soldiers are also human beings. Just like the vast majority of Soviet soldiers before, the will to fight collapsed and there was a large-scale surrender. But this group of German soldiers at least did not surrender. They ran very fast and it directly turned into a rout.
Fear was spreading, which Hoffman and Freud simply could not control. Even shooting a few deserters would not help, because everyone was running away.
The two gritted their teeth and simply ordered: "Everyone, retreat to the northeast!"
Yang Mingzhi and Balzen simply stayed dormant for two hours, and there was no more fighting after that.
During the encounter, Balzen discovered more than fifty corpses of the enemy, but no one among his troops was injured or killed.
The battle alert was lifted and the troops continued to retreat southward without encountering any further obstruction from the German army.
After the encounter, Yang Mingzhi also checked the German troops, and after careful consideration, he came to a reliable conclusion. "They should be the troops attacking Homnich. As we worried before, they did go back for reinforcements."
But we have already left Lechica quickly, and they are destined not to catch us."
"In the end, because our army fought so well in the blocking battle and even carried out a partial counterattack, these people were exhausted. That's why they collapsed at the first touch." Balzen summarized himself, which was recognized by Yang Mingzhi.
"So we continue on our way and return to the military camp to rest early."
Yang Mingzhi's troops spent the night in the woods. On the way back, they bypassed Homnich and even saw the city from a distance, but had no plan to enter. On the outskirts of the city, there were some war horses abandoned by the German army.
Some were already dead, and some were actually eating hay under the snow under mysterious circumstances.
How could we let something as precious as horses go? So the troops took away more than 200 military horses in one go. This unexpected gain made the troops immediately hang some baggage directly on the horses' backs.
Therefore, when reporting the situation to the military camp at night, Yang Mingzhi deliberately talked about what he saw and heard during the withdrawal.
"Congratulations, we have been in need of some large livestock." In addition to congratulating on the victory, Yevlov also talked about the macro situation of this battle. "Dear Berekov, this battle we organized is of no greater scale.
If it gets bigger, it will be a battle."
Yang Mingzhi was shocked. A battle? A large-scale battle can turn into a battle. Besides, the main task this time is not to rescue prisoners of war. In order to complete the task, they were forced to attack Homnich and make the enemy disperse their heavy troops. This troop
Only then can you create chaos in enemy-occupied areas like a fish in water.
As a result, Yevlov claimed that it was hard to explain, because the significance of this battle was far greater than rescuing prisoners of war. On a macro level, this operation caused a chain reaction in southern Belarus.
"Our guerrilla teammates, because the main force of the enemy's security forces have sent reinforcements to Lechicha, their forces are empty in some places. Fighting behaviors that they did not dare to do in the past broke out almost at the same time this time. Many guerrilla groups and squads have achieved success
The results have been very good. The intelligence department has made statistics on these results, especially the brilliant results of our 284th Division, which has been informed by the commander of the front army."
Yang Mingzhi was ambitious. Now Timoshenko not only knew the results of the operation to rescue prisoners of war, but also learned that a rear security division of the German army had suffered heavy casualties. Judging from the current situation, these achievements are unparalleled in the entire Soviet army.
It is also very rare in the team.
More importantly, the political significance of this battle should be far greater than the military significance. This symbolizes the unyielding resistance of the people in enemy-occupied areas, and the guerrillas' flexible and mobile operations can also achieve great results. The guerrillas are not a mob at all.
The remnants of Hoffmann and Freud made a wide circle before arriving at Lechica, and their arrival was a shock.
Mansa, the third commander of the three main regiments of the 715th Division, looked at his comrades in disbelief. Their military appearance was like a group of beggars, with few rags and rags. These comrades also carried a large number of wounded. No need.
To say the least, they must have encountered a very brutal battle.
Therefore, Mansa was very sensible and didn't say much until the three of them got together.
Hoffman sighed slowly: "We encountered the elite troops of the Soviet army. We fought hard, but were defeated by them. If all Soviet armies were like this, we would not be able to win this war at all."
Mansa did not refute or confirm. He did not express his position. He said: "You can report the specific matter to the commander. The current situation of the 715th Division is almost as bad as that of the previous 7o7th Division. The enemy attacked Lechica, and now the 722nd Division
The division and the 805th Division will be stationed here, and our division will also suffer heavy losses. I'm sorry, but we may also need to rest and recuperate."
At this point, Hoffman and Freud no longer care. Their regiment was truly defeated, and their morale no longer existed. The two of them accepted any punishment, but they put these things aside for the time being.
Finally, we will talk about everything after we have rested. (To be continued.) 8