When it comes to marching in the forest, Speer knew that he was indeed inferior to these Soviets. 23US.
Fastest update When he returned to where he started, he found as expected that the camp had been destroyed.
"Damn it! They took away our food and destroyed our bedding! What will we do at night?!" What appeared in front of Speer was that a large number of cans were destroyed and the soldiers' luggage was completely blown to pieces.
.Apparently these Soviets just threw some grenades to destroy it in a hurry, and then fled for their lives.
The Eastern Battalion was running to the north. This group of people had indeed betrayed Germany. They were just a group of cowards and had no control over them. Speer learned the hard way, and the hounds in the army were still barking toward the southwest.
"Sure enough, these Soviets are fleeing in this direction. I must catch up with them and try to make up for the tactical mistakes!" Speer stamped his feet, knowing that his troops were limited, and the results he could achieve depended on the strength of the troops.
status quo.
But looking at his own soldiers, these gray-faced warriors were all panting and miserable.
Also, they had just launched an attack and continued to pursue. Did they keep running all day? Carrying weapons and ammunition to run a half marathon, I'm afraid everyone would be exhausted.
Even so, the pursuit cannot stop!
Speer ordered: "Everyone eat the dry food you have with you quickly, don't worry about our other items, and chase the enemy immediately!"
As soon as he finished speaking, the majority of the soldiers were unmoved. Their eyes were looking directly at the destroyed materials, and they were sighing while breathing heavily.
"Brothers! I asked you to pursue me. Why are you standing still? Do you want me to shoot a few people before you set off?"
After that, Speer raised his pistol and fired several shots. Unfortunately, the sound of gunfire was still covered up by the frequent sound of machine gunfire. Because right in the Soviet position, the remaining personnel there were still fighting fiercely with the German army.
A company commander rushed to Speer and lamented: "Battalion Commander! Look at the reality! We don't have much rations anymore, and we don't have much ammunition left. The enemy destroyed our supplies in a mess, and we
If you chase them like this, you will still be hungry, faint, tired and sick at night?!"
"You are shaking the morale of the army!" In a rage, Speer pointed his gun directly at the company commander's eyebrows. In a daze, he did not make a move after all.
The company commander was not afraid. His sad and angry eyes made Speer shaken. While trembling, he put away his pistol.
"It's really sad. It's not that I don't want to pursue them, it's that you all don't. I know that with our battalion chasing the Soviets, the further south we go, the more dangerous it becomes, and the whole army might be wiped out! But if we don't pursue them, we will
The division commander must be responsible for this unauthorized action! Unless we win, we can make up for the crime! We have already lost too many people in the past two days!"
The extremely disappointed Speer sat on the ground. He knew that the 707th Division had been destroyed again this time. He was afraid that this unit would be transferred to other areas to clear out the guerrillas there. The poor performance of the majority of officers and soldiers was basically
Say goodbye to frontal combat and can only serve as an executioner who kills unruly people. How can this be glorious?
Frustrated, he decided to stay here and ordered the telegraph operator to send a message to Safire: "Tell the brothers of the 7th Division that our army's logistics warehouse was destroyed, all the Eastern Battalion mutinied, all the defenders were killed, and the Soviet army has
Escaped to nowhere."
The beeping sound of Morse code reached Speer's ears. If he conveyed information like this, he might be criticized as a defeatist, or he might even be court-martialed.
"Forget it! It's worth dying for me to let all my brothers live. Too many of my people have died!"
With this mentality, Speer simply gave up and ordered: "Brothers in the battalion, rest immediately, we will not pursue you anymore! Collect all available weapons and ammunition, collect stalls and cans that can still be used,
Look at all the corpses and save them immediately if they are still alive."
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Speer actually asked the whole battalion to stop the pursuit, but Safire did not become furious when he learned about it.
The men of the 7th Division have been shrinking the encirclement, but the Soviet machine gunners are really powerful. The Germans are not willing to take the risk of huge casualties to attack, and when they learn that the place where the supplies are stored is burned by the Soviets, if all the German soldiers know this
I'm afraid morale will be severely damaged.
"It's over! It's all over now!" Safire could only lament as he listened to the telegraph operator's report.
I really don’t blame the 707th Division for not pursuing them. Safire understood his comrades. Those Soviets just had the legs of a rabbit. Once they got rid of the encirclement, they quickly escaped without a trace. The same goes for his own division.
I've suffered a lot from this.
Now there was a group of Soviet troops in front of Safire. This group of left-behind troops served as the rear of their large army. He became so angry that he ordered the troops to continue the attack, eating up all the firepower one by one.
In any case, there is no doubt about the German army's superiority in strength. Coupled with the rapid consumption of bullets and the depletion of energy of the defenders, the German army finally began to draw out its firepower one by one.
The Soviet defenders, who had run out of ammunition and food, had already passed. After the machine guns stopped firing, there was a violent explosion soon, and the soldiers fired glory rounds and died for their country.
More than twenty machine gun positions held Safire and Drach back for nearly two hours, so that thousands of German troops were unable to pursue Balzen's troops, and Speer's small force alone was of no avail.
The task of clearing the Soviet garrison was finally completed, for which the Germans also paid a heavy price in casualties.
Safire looked at his watch. It had been four hours since the Estonian battalion took the lead in attacking, and now the Soviets had fled and their defenders had been wiped out. It was almost twelve hours now!
"These Soviets are really hard to chew. No wonder they cost our division thousands of people in the last battle! These people are simply immortal monsters!!!" Safire has seen too much death. Lying in the forest
Among the corpses lying there, a large number were young German men.
They were young and had strong fighting skills. Unexpectedly, this useless battle resulted in hundreds of casualties.
Safir ordered: "The entire army will count the casualties, gather the bodies of our soldiers together, and gather all the wounded together. Don't be stingy with morphine (although it's not much)!"
But Safire completely lost patience with the wounded in the Eastern Battalion. The main reason for the failure of the battle was that this group of people fled upon hearing the news. Instead of stopping the Soviet army, they turned against the Germans and killed them. Therefore, he gave a simple order to the soldiers who collected the corpses.
Upon request, any wounded in Dongfang Battalion should be killed immediately.
On this battlefield, which was also shrouded in gunpowder smoke, the sound of German soldiers refilling their guns was everywhere.
Speer, who was originally drowsy, was disturbed by this. He stood up holding the tree and holding the telescope, he saw his friendly troops killing people!
"Idiot, what's the use of killing the wounded in the Eastern Battalion now? But your behavior of replenishing guns after the war can be regarded as causing pain to these dying people." Speer shook his head, he was more concerned about his own people.
The safety of the entire infantry battalion is now less than 300 intact. Some people have been killed, and there are a lot of wounded! Look at the high ground over there where black smoke is still rising. Presumably friendly forces are already rescuing the wounded.
Bar.
The battlefield gradually returned to calm, and Speer waited for Safire and others to arrive to discuss what to do next.
Just as he was taking a nap, the intensive gunshots came to mind again. When he opened his eyes, he found that his people were being slaughtered! The battle once broke out!
To make matters worse, the enemy was clearly the Soviets. For some reason, they did not come down from the southwest to kill, but rushed out from the forest in the north, which really caught them off guard. (To be continued...)