The Soviet company guarding the high ground was simply unable to complete its mission of blocking the German army. 23US.
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"It's over! It's over! There are too many enemies for me to handle!"
Yevgeny already knew very well that the soldiers guarding the high ground were dying one by one.
The enemy's total strength was completely unexpected, as if they had thousands of people attacking one place!
Doesn't he know that if the high ground is lost, the Soviet army that continues to defend here will be at a strategic disadvantage. The enemy can set up a few mortars to bombard them wantonly, or rely on their powerful manpower to push back the Soviet army's rear.
Surrounded by roads.
Yevgeny thought so pessimistically that the German army did indeed do this.
Safire yelled excitedly as he ran, because his men had rushed to the high ground.
He shouted at Speer, who was also running: "When we all reach the forest, your people will shoot at the enemy from high ground, and I will lead my people to continue deeper and eventually cut off the enemy's retreat."
Speer felt that this was very reliable. There might be hundreds of Soviets. The Eastern Battalion might not be able to inflict many casualties on the Soviets, at least it consumed a lot of their ammunition. Even a sharpshooter would be just a mortal without bullets. In this way, the German army
The superiority in military strength was fully demonstrated.
Therefore, the ongoing strategic encirclement situation of the German army has become obvious. The Soviet garrison on the high ground was completely wiped out. Although the German army also suffered some casualties, the final result was that the Soviet army lost control of the commanding heights. Speer
The people immediately ordered the dozen-caliber mortar groups to set up positions on the high ground, and the target was the forest near the high ground.
Among the current Soviet troops, only Yevgeny's troops are working hard to engage the German troops and block Speer and Drach so that their troops cannot continue to advance.
He also noticed the movements of the German army and saw a group of guys with glowing helmets moving rapidly towards the south.
"No! These bastards are going to surround us!?" Yevgeny slapped his thigh, quickly pulled the slightly injured telegraph operator to his side, and yelled at him: "Inform the headquarters immediately, the enemy is outflanking us!
We are in danger of being surrounded!"
On the other hand, Balzen personally held an MP8 and used German-made weapons and ammunition to shoot at the group of traitors who continued their frontal attack.
He was beating like crazy and his eyes were all red!
The bullets were all gone, the smoking magazine was pulled out, Balzen replaced it with another, and was about to shoot without restraint.
At this time, the telegraph operator Misha hurriedly threw himself on the ground, holding up the headset and walkie-talkie: "Sir! Information from our right-wing troops!"
"It's Yevgeny!" Balzen threw the gun away fiercely, sat cross-legged on the ground, and held the headset tightly in his right hand.
"What? You lost the high ground?! The enemy is outflanking us? Our butts are about to be beaten by them again?" Balzen, who was already nervous, almost fainted.
Yevgeny had fully reported the situation, and could not hear Balzen's echo in his ears. He asked again: "What should we do? Should we continue to hold on, or retreat?!"
Balzen was holding the headset and walkie-talkie tremblingly. He looked around. The very tired soldier still forced himself to be excited and shot at the enemy tenaciously in the hail of bullets.
Moreover, continuous gunshots were heard from the flanks of the troops. It was obvious that the German army was making a strategic encirclement.
The officers and soldiers of the 84th Division believed that they were invincible in fighting in the forest, but now Balzen was really shaken. Looking back at the battle two days ago, it was already the third day. It was precisely because of his active attack that
It can be said that I won a great victory at the beginning, but as the battle continued, I was beaten like a son.
Looking around, it seems that there are enemies everywhere. With more than 500 men, I still have to take care of dozens of seriously injured people. No, no! The available troops have fallen to only 400. The Germans killed one person in the high ground after the loss.
More than a hundred people!
Yevgeny knew that Balzen must be listening, so he asked several times in succession.
Finally, after hesitating for a long time, Balcen Ziah finally replied with his last well-thought-out order: "The whole army continues to fight, we have been surrounded."
After that, he threw down the headset. Bullets were flying around him, and the sound of gunfire was endless. Balzen stood up slowly, holding on to the big tree, and his whole body fell into numbness.
"It's all over, everything is over! This force can only be destroyed by the enemy! I will eventually die in this place..."
After pondering for a while, the depressed Balzen burst out like a neurotic. He first roared, and then shouted to the soldiers around him: "Comrades! The enemy is outflanking our back. We only have four people now."
With a force of a hundred men, if we retreat to the left wing, we will still be overtaken by the enemy. Instead of dying in vain, it is better to use up all the bullets with the enemy, and then we bayonet and fight with the enemy!"
Balzen originally hoped that his words could exaggerate an extremely tragic atmosphere, so that the soldiers would unite as one and fight the enemy to the end. In this way, even if many people died, the price paid by the German army would be greater. With himself
His sacrifice caused heavy casualties to the German army and reduced military pressure. Wasn't it that Novgomel was protected considerably?
He was ready to die generously, but unfortunately, how could the soldiers buy it?!
After the soldiers heard the commander's decision, it was not a good idea to continue retreating to Homnich. Reinforcements were already on the way, carrying bread, butter and comfortable quilts and would arrive in a few hours.
Balzen did not hear the boiling "Ula" sound. He raised his submachine gun and shouted in a different tone: "Comrades! The only thing we can do now is to fight the enemy desperately, as long as we hold on here and wait until our reinforcements arrive.
, we will be safe in the end! However, we may not be able to wait until reinforcements arrive. Therefore, whether we can survive depends on everyone. We must kill the enemy as much as possible, and it is best to repel them..."
On this damn battlefield, Balzen relying on a big tree to make such a pass was simply a disaster for the majority of soldiers.
Balzen's decision to defend was also communicated via radio to Lavrenti, who was defending on the left wing.
The commander's spirit of fighting to the end was very consistent with the infantry regulations. Since the outbreak of the war, the three million Soviet troops had been able to use up their ammunition and pick up sticks, and the war would not have been defeated so quickly and miserably.
But it is totally inappropriate to hold on to the end now!
Lavrenti shouted into the walkie-talkie without hesitation: "Are you an idiot? We can obviously break through and retreat from the left wing that I am responsible for. What will the enemy do to us when we enter the forest?"
Balzen showed no sign of weakness: "Idiot! Thousands of enemies have entered the forest, and they are outflanking us! We still have dozens of wounded, and we are being attacked from three directions. We can really escape.
?We only have four hundred troops left to fight!"
Lavrenti was shocked. He himself could not care about the battle on the right wing. He could only focus on the violent attack of a large group of desperate Soviet traitors in front of him.
Looking at the scene in front of him, Balzen's decision may be very reasonable. Can the current troops really retreat? The tactics adopted by the German army today really made him feel familiar. Although Mao Zi and Germany did not encircle the three towers, they had similar meanings.
vocabulary, but the tactics of this kind of encirclement war are real. To Lavrenti, it seems like a miniature "Battle of Defense of Kiev" is being staged.
It is not safe to retreat from your own direction. Maybe the enemy has already set up an ambush, waiting for you to collide!
If the situation is so critical, we might as well continue fighting!
Lavrenti finally figured it out and shouted into the intercom: "Barzen, I know what you want to do! Then do it! Even if I die, I have to die like a real man!" (To be continued)