All the soldiers were hiding in the woods. They all wore white battle cloaks and stood guard, waiting for the order to attack at any time.★
Those "groommen" are very familiar with the nature of horses, and a large number of horses are dormant like soldiers. They will stay dormant until the end of the operation. The current situation in the city is still unclear. The battle will take place outside the city, or the entire army will directly enter the city, or
Unknown number.
But when Balzen saw the current Homnich from a distance in the telescope, a simple conclusion came to his mind - the friendly forces had been completely wiped out.
In order to confirm this speculation, the reconnaissance force must move forward.
The reconnaissance operation was led by Balzen himself. Before the operation, a small meeting was held.
"Comrades, you are all veterans who follow me. Each of you has eyes like an eagle. This operation will determine our next plan. You must keep your eyes open and look for any active targets to determine whether they are enemies or not.
Friends, we must determine the true situation in Homnich."
The soldiers were silent. After saying that, Yevlov looked at Natasha again. "My dear, sir, I order you to obey my orders in all matters."
"yes!"
"Very good, you are the best sniper in the entire division. So I can think that your eyes are also the sharpest among us. Today you are acting with us as a scout. You must pay attention to the ruins of the city. Now
Notify me immediately of any abnormalities!"
"Yes! Sir!" The girl saluted with a standard military salute.
Here, only Balzen carries a submachine gun, and everyone else, except Natasha, is armed with Mosin-Nagant sniper models.
Natasha's own weapon, this magically modified version of sVT4o, is immediately equipped with all the concepts, making it very unique.
"What a good gun. The firepower and accuracy are definitely better than ours. I envy you!" said a soldier next to the girl.
This is of course a good gun, and it also proves the commander's love for her. Natasha feels happy in her heart. Her talent is the guarantee of her performance, and the same goes for good weapons.
Balzen heard this whispering and coughed seriously.
After everyone had advanced a certain distance, Balzen immediately knelt down and raised his right fist. "Everyone should be more vigilant now, spread out, and move forward with their backs hunched. Everything depends on my gestures and actions."
I saw that everyone who had been lining up just now was immediately transformed into a line of skirmishers, which made Natasha a little helpless.
"Sir! What should I do? And I can't understand your gestures."
"You might as well just follow me!" Balzen said.
This guy also learned some miscellaneous things from Yang Mingzhi.
In that dimension, Yang Mingzhi watched many police and gangster movies and war movies, and he also served as a soldier. In later generations, the military and complex gesture systems sometimes even evolved into a kind of "military sign language". Yang Mingzhi taught Balzen part of
, he immediately trained his people in the same way, so that everyone knew some simple command gestures.
In this way, Natasha followed Balzen and didn't have to worry about anything more.
"Your eyesight is better than mine. We are all heading towards Homnich now, and soon we will be crawling on the ground. Then you have to observe hard!" Balzen said.
There was also a sense of trustworthiness about this old man. Natasha wished that the man next to her was the deputy division commander, but it was a pity that he was a compatriot with a stubble on his face.
After a dozen or so people marched 700 to 800 meters, Balzen made a gesture, and then they all lay down. Natasha immediately opened the bipod of the sniper rifle. Her body also rested and lay down, with the muzzle of the gun pointing directly at the ruins.
There seems to be a strong tendency to pull the trigger at any time.
"You look really pretty! You are also very professional. No wonder you are our best sniper." Balzen said with a smile.
"I appreciate the praise from the commander. Snipers are attracted by two people. This time I did go out alone. So if you don't mind it, sir, please act as my observer."
Balzen smiled. This little girl was very polite. She was loved by her superiors. It seemed that she had been trained well in the past six months.
"Okay, as an officer, I will be your observer." After saying that, Balzen raised his telescope and stared at the ruins not far away.
At this point, all the clues of Homnich's actions can be seen. If he could use one word to act, it would be "tragic".
"It is worthy of being a city that has experienced war. During the last battle between Roshakov and the Germans, the city became like this after the enemy bombardment? Or is it that the militiamen have demolished the city until there are no two-story buildings?!"
Natasha listened to Balzen's soliloquy. She only believed what she saw with her own eyes, so the guesses of the officers around her were just pure guesses.
Unlike Balzen's vigilance, the German troops in Homnich were not entirely focused on keeping an eye on their surroundings.
In this battle, one hundred people from Holstaufen's battalion were killed. They hurriedly withdrew from the city, leaving all their bodies behind. Afterwards, the bodies of the dead soldiers were also blown to pieces by the Stuka's dive bombing.
This had a great impact on the morale of the soldiers. There were no corpses and no dog tags. The ending of those 100 people was really tragic.
The first time they participated in a siege, the battalion suffered such losses. When they re-entered the city, they found no corpses of their comrades, not even the corpses of the enemy. What was found was a pile of huge craters, and
An indescribable charred object.
Holstaufen ordered: "All of you should immediately step up the construction of city defenses, dig foxholes, and beware of possible enemy counterattacks at any time."
The soldiers obeyed the order, dug holes on the edge of the city ruins, and numbly established machine gun positions. Similarly, inside the city ruins, military camps were established, and signal towers were also erected. Holstaufen reported to his division headquarters, claiming that in the Air Force
With help, the troops completed the occupation of Homnich, the enemy was completely blown to powder, and all two-story buildings in the city disappeared.
And he got a new order. "According to what happened to the 715th Division, the Soviets will definitely come back. I changed the plan. You will be used as bait to attract the enemy. We must cooperate with the Air Force to kill them all." Division Commander Floride ordered.
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Holstaufen was very dissatisfied with this order, but there was nothing he could do. He did not tell the soldiers that his own situation was actually very dangerous. Because once he told them, he would become a bait, and his morale would inevitably plummet again.
Perhaps because of the cold, the Germans' work of digging foxholes became more and more difficult. Because the ground was frozen, their engineering shovels were struggling to dig the ground, and some people moved drill bits and rubble from the ruins to strengthen the position.
The north wind blew frequently, the light snow gradually stopped, and the visibility became better and better.
Natasha stared intently at the sniper rifle scope, the focus of which had been adjusted to the maximum. The quiet waiting, coupled with the severe cold, was really drowsy.
Finally, the wait came to fruition. A strange figure appeared in the girl's sniper scope.
"Hey! Hey! Sir, cheer up." The girl patted Balzen several times.
"Yes. They are German helmets. They look so much like Germans."
Natasha has good eyesight and the magnification of the sniper scope is also high. Balzen became alert. He followed the direction Natasha pointed at first and did see some shaking figures, but he was not sure whether they were enemies or friends. While observing
After some time, he made his own judgment.
"Now everything is clear, that is the damn German. Everything is certain, our militia was completely wiped out and the city was occupied by the Germans!" Balzen sighed and lowered his head.
"Sir, what should we do now? To be honest, at such a long distance, if I advance another three hundred meters, I can carry out precise sniping."
Balzen shook his head, "Natasha, you can indeed kill a few Nazis. That's the purpose of coming here. But that will scare them. Look at their laziness. The city defense is also coping. Obviously.
They still don’t understand that we are already approaching them, waiting for an opportunity to take away the dog tags hanging from their necks.”
"So we still have to retreat and then wait for an opportunity to launch a full-scale attack?"
"That's right." Balzen smiled, "Natasha, you are very smart. You have already thought of it. We should follow the glorious tradition of the 284th Division and use night sneak attacks to kill them in one go! Besides, we also have to
Go back and report to the division headquarters."
Under Balzen's order, all the snipers retreated together. Their snow camouflage made it impossible to see anything unusual in the southern suburbs of the city from a long distance, and the Germans did not find anything unusual.
Balzen returned to the woods and immediately ordered: "The whole army should be mentally prepared. Let's all rest now, seize the time to eat, then set up tents and go to sleep immediately. We will attack Homnich at midnight."
This is preparation for a night battle. The soldiers should seize the time to prepare.
During the first night attack, Anatoly and his men were surprised because they had never seen such a method of warfare. Of course, Balzen also thought of it and simply stood in front of the soldiers and continued to order: "You must do it as soon as possible."
New tactics, this is the secret of our 284th Division’s constant victory. We attack when the enemy is most sleepy, so we must recharge our batteries in advance.”
The order has been conveyed, but it is still unknown how these people will perform in the night battle.
Balzen had more important things to do. He ordered the radio operator to report to the division headquarters immediately and truthfully report everything about Homnich.
The bad information was quickly transmitted to the division headquarters. Now, Yang Mingzhi finally understood the situation there.
"The German army has completed the annihilation of our militia. The city has been captured, and we paid the price of 200 people!" Yang Mingzhi asked Yevlov's opinion, "How about it, do we want to take revenge on these damn enemies?"
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"Revenge! Revenge is necessary." Yevlov said confidently without even thinking about it.
Yelentina also means the same thing. She pays more attention to the morale of the troops. "Our army has suffered a lot, and the Germans must pay the price."
Originally, Yang Mingzhi wanted to explain to them a series of risks after the attack, but now that he thinks about it, it seems better to forget it. If this is a German conspiracy, then let their attack be more violent. Yang Mingzhi really knows history,
It is inevitable for the enemy to sweep the Pripet Swamp. If the sweep were to take place now, it would only be one year earlier than their actions in history.
Since the danger cannot be avoided, then deal with it calmly. Yang Mingzhi is now very confident. After several battles, the German security divisions are really a bunch of chickens and dogs. That is, the German 722nd Division in front of him. Since their combat effectiveness
If you are strong, you can't let them go.
After the three people agreed, they immediately reported to Balzen and fully agreed to his night attack plan. (To be continued.) 8