Yang Mingzhi led the third company to quickly cross the stone bridge, and together with the reconnaissance company, there were more than 200 people in total.
"Everyone pay attention, eliminate all Germans, don't give them any chance." Yang Mingzhi's order was like a death sentence to the German troops in the city.
The first and second companies also quickly passed the stone bridge, and the soldiers dispersed and began to attack the city.
The time was ripe, "Launch a signal flare and ask Kuznetsov's large forces to advance quickly." Yang Mingzhi looked at the sky, and a red signal flare slowly rose into the sky. Many German soldiers who were awakened saw the strange light spot in the sky.
The Germans had a regiment of troops stationed in Mozyr, Hans Frankenstein, commander of the Logistics Infantry Regiment. He was awakened by a series of gunshots and explosions.
This man has used the former government office building in Mozyri as his headquarters, and he has also used this place as his bedroom. He didn't even have time to get dressed, so he lay down next to the bed in just his underpants. In the direction of the bridge, flames were blazing into the sky,
There was a large group of people shouting and gunshots were fired frequently.
Suddenly, the glass next to him was shattered by a stray bullet, and the glass broke into pieces.
If the bullet had been more accurate, his life would have been lost. Frankenstein immediately lay down and more bullets were shot through the window.
This was no coincidence. Before the battle, Yang Mingzhi took a brief look at the map sketched by the reconnaissance company. There was a big difference between the official government buildings of the Soviet Union and the residential buildings, especially the "Soviet" sign.
Yang Mingzhi estimated that most enemy commanders still didn't like to be crowded with soldiers, so they must be in the building. In addition to comfort, it was also a symbolic necessity.
He led more than 200 people to storm the five-story building.
Before the war, Mozyr was not a big city. It would become an important oil pipeline transportation node in the future. At that time, small cities would develop rapidly. As for now, it is just an ordinary small town because it has strategic significance because it relies on the river.
That’s all.
Along the way of the attack, many German soldiers emerged from their houses to take a look at the situation, and soon encountered a swift and violent attack by the Soviet army.
Some soldiers separated from the majority and began to inspect houses from house to house.
Generally, soldiers would be prepared, and then another person would open the door and throw a grenade directly in, and then rush in and shoot randomly, regardless of whether there was anyone there. This killed and injured many Germans, and also caused great damage to citizens' houses.
As soon as the fighting started, the soldiers couldn't care less. Some people thought that there might be compatriots still living, so they attacked more flexibly instead of throwing grenades roughly.
Street fighting broke out, and the Soviet army gained an overwhelming advantage, but at the cost of the death of some soldiers.
This onslaught of troops did not encounter serious resistance. Yang Mingzhi ordered the troops to rush forward, and the submachine guns formed a powerful barrage, completely suppressing the enemy. The German troops who responded were either eliminated from the beginning, or were shot randomly after resisting for a while.
die.
A German machine gun squad was urgently guarding the door of the building. Frankenstein knew that he was in an extremely dangerous situation. He had just put on his white shirt, but his clothes were already blackened by gunpowder smoke.
He took a Luger pistol and ordered the soldiers to fire rapidly. Fortunately, Yang Mingzhi had learned some experience in urban warfare in that dimension. The troops all moved close to the guns. When the enemy machine gunner opened fire, only a few people in the vanguard fell.
The rest quickly fell down.
"Damn it, why are there machine gunners at this time!" Yang Mingzhi cursed as he watched the MG34 spitting out tongues of flame. This thing has a very fast rate of fire, and its 500-round bullet chain has enough ammunition to suppress the troops for a long time.
The troops encountered resistance and also encountered some troubles elsewhere. The Soviet troops attacking the material dispatching yard also encountered resistance from the sober German troops. First company commander Lavrenti forbade the troops from charging desperately to death.
Here, Yang Mingzhi lay helplessly on the ground. Several soldiers tried to blow up the machine gun position with grenades. One of them just pulled the fuse and wanted to throw it, but was hit by the enemy and the grenade fell. The explosion killed the wounded.
There were many Soviet soldiers, and the enemy's strafing continued unabated.
"Damn it! You should just bring an RPG at this time." Yang Mingzhi hammered the ground. It would have been better to have a rifle grenade at this time.
But luck finally stood on the side of the Soviet army. The machine gunner was so overwhelmed with adrenaline that he fired wildly for a while. The barrel of the machine gun turned red! In the end, the bullets could no longer be fired because of the deformation of the barrel.
"Barrel! I want a new barrel!" the soldier shouted. Frankenstein didn't understand this very well, and he didn't know how to change the barrel in his desperation.
Some soldiers and officers from the headquarters came to the door to block the Soviet troops, but their firepower had been greatly reduced.
"There must be no bullets left." Yang Mingzhi was so excited that he stood up and said, "Comrades, attack!"
The soldiers immediately got up, and Yang Mingzhi charged with them. He also saw that Yelenkina was as brave as the male soldiers.
Frankenstein was very lucky. He hid in the door and was not shot to death. The Soviet soldiers shot all the German soldiers at the door. Frankenstein naturally did not escape. He was knocked unconscious with the butt of a rifle. The soldier
When he was about to replenish his gun, Yang Mingzhi arrived in time and held down the soldier's gun. "Calm down, this guy is probably an officer. Leave him alive."
The soldier nodded, immediately unarmed the man, and tied his hands and feet with the hemp rope he brought with him. Other soldiers began to go upstairs and clear out all the German troops.
Yang Mingzhi estimated that the captured German guy was wearing a white shirt and shoulder straps. This look was very different from ordinary soldiers.
Frankenstein gradually woke up and saw a bunch of guns pointed at him, headed by a guy with an oriental appearance.
"DichDeurschen?" Yang Mingzhi asked.
"Ja?"
Yang Mingzhi knew very few German words, and then this guy said a bunch of words that he couldn't understand at all. There was no one in the team who understood German. Anyway, this guy had raised his hands, so let's accept his surrender for the time being.
Yang Mingzhi looked around. This should be a headquarters. Soon the soldiers coming down from upstairs sent down a flag.
"This is the Nazi flag." Yelentina said as she walked in.
Yang Mingzhi turned to look at the girl. Her originally beautiful face was covered with black coal. She saw the captured guy and asked Yang Mingzhi: "Did you catch the commander?"
"I don't know. I don't understand German. I have no idea what this person is talking about."
Jelentina chuckled, squatted down and looked at the captured guy, and then asked some questions in German.
Yang Mingzhi was shocked, this girl was hiding something secret. Yelentina also boasted a little conceitedly, saying that people in the NKVD should also learn some foreign languages in case of emergency.
She came to the conclusion and said excitedly: "Comrades, we have captured Hans Frankenstein, the leader of the enemy's German 404th Regiment."
Joy showed on the faces of the soldiers. The joy did not last long, and several soldiers staggered over.
"Battal Commander, the First Company Commander is facing a fierce attack and we need support!"
When Yang Mingzhi heard that, the first company was attacking the dispatching field, and there were a lot of supplies there! He looked around and ordered: "Jelentina, you lead the reconnaissance company to stay here. Look at the enemy commander, I will take the three
Even the people who came to support me."
After that, the troops changed the direction of attack and took away the MG34 that had cooled down.
The first company encountered stubborn resistance, and after losing more than thirty people, the troops were pinned to the ground by the enemy's machine guns. The crossfire of the Germans was very terrifying, compared to the brilliant results achieved by the second company when they broke into the German barracks and unscrupulously fired at the sleeping German troops.
, it’s simply frustrating to be here all the time.
Fortunately, Yang Mingzhi arrived. He ordered the soldiers to lie down collectively, and then took out as many grenades as possible.
When the first company commander saw that the battalion commander was trying to play his old tricks again, he immediately got on his knees and stopped him.
"Why stop me?"
"No! There are weapons and ammunition in the dispatch yard. We can easily cause large-scale explosions! You don't want the ammunition anymore?!"
Yang Mingzhi immediately woke up, and while hesitating, Kuznetsov's large troops came overwhelmingly. Thousands of people quickly broke through the bridge, and hundreds of people advanced to the dispatch field.
These old guys are so crazy. They don't care about the enemy's firepower. Yang Mingzhi is very sad. It's not easy for these guys to get to this point, but they are still so fearless in charging?
However, the Germans were indeed intimidated by the momentum. After paying a lot of costs, the Germans at the dispatch field were surrounded, and the encirclement and annihilation battle ended quickly.
After the large forces entered Mozyr, they began to search all the houses. Some German soldiers surrendered and were escorted out by the soldiers to await processing.
In this battle, the kamikaze caught the German army by surprise at lightning speed, and at the cost of losing more than 90 people, they gained a huge opportunity for the large army to cross the river.
The battle loss ratio is also very shocking. For example, in the massacre of the Second Company in the German camp, hundreds of German soldiers were wiped out by submachine guns and grenades before they even had time to pick up weapons.
There were even large-scale prisoners taken during the battle, but some Belarusians in the team saw the Nazi massacre and did not hesitate to retaliate in kind. Many prisoners fell to their knees and were still shot.
The battle was basically over in just two hours. The sun had risen, dawn shone on Mozyr, and the city was liberated.
It became the second city liberated by the Soviet army after Velikiy Luki.