After the explosion of the high-explosive bomb, a large amount of dust will be kicked up, while the cloud bomb will produce a huge amount of thick gas. The thick smoke will go straight into the sky. The three cloud bombs will eventually merge into a huge mushroom cloud. It will float in the air for a long time.
It still refuses to dissipate.
For veterans, the loud noise of artillery shells has long been familiar to them. However, the sound made by the rocket launcher was too violent. Fortunately, the clever soldiers covered their ears early!
With a loud bang on the ground and rising smoke, soldiers at a German patrol station three kilometers away finally determined that it was an attack.
They knew nothing about the Soviet army's infiltration into the railway at night. After all, there had been very few attacks on this section of railway in the past few months. Although it was the swamps in the east, those damn guerrillas and the east
The friendly forces fought fiercely. They seemed to have completely forgotten about this railway line. Even though a crowd of people passed this railway more than 20 days ago, they only destroyed the barbed wire fence, and that was all the damage.
When the patrol station reported this, it seemed that it did not attract the attention of the superiors. The patrol station only had one squad and one motorcycle. They were very self-aware and knew that fighting the guerrillas head-on would be extremely risky.
After the crowd crossed the railway, the patrol team's actions slowed down, and the frequent patrols became just a show. At night, when sneak attacks are most likely to occur, they even stayed behind closed doors!
Reality drove this German soldier to cower, but this time, when the loud noise scared him, he fell off the bed one by one. They all went out of the room and saw a huge plume of smoke rising from the ground.
, it was like a volcano erupting! They knew something big was going on.
There is only one squad stationed at this patrol post, but the area it is responsible for is five kilometers long. With such a small area responsible for a railway line with a complex environment, the Germans have reasons for such an arrangement. After all, the defenders here are under less defensive pressure.
A German motorcycle ran wildly along the dirt road toward the mushroom cloud, and the outpost urgently reported to its superiors.
The German army stationed west of the railway line and south of Mozyr was the 734th Division, whose commander was Paul Borismann.
Like many rear security divisions, his troops were also dispersedly arranged, and there were a large number of Eastern Battalion, Police Battalion and other puppet troops under his command. Borisman knew very well that in the Pripet Swamp, the Soviet 284th
The division is stationed here.
Their behavior is very similar to that of guerrillas, but their combat effectiveness is strong. Even if they carry out battle-level operations, they are not inferior to the German army. Fortunately, their attack direction is north. The 707th Division and the 722nd Division fought with them again this month.
Fortunately, the German army achieved victory this time (the propaganda claimed that it defeated the guerrillas' attack on the transportation line)!
Borisman believed that that battle had dealt such heavy losses to this unit that almost a month later, all the lines of communication were actually safe! At most, there was only extremely limited damage by sporadic guerrillas.
But he actually received a report from a patrol station on the railway line.
This telegram is quite shocking:
"At nine o'clock this morning, bandits attacked the railway line and blew up the train transporting tanks of our army. Our army immediately went to the scene to investigate, but three scouts died mysteriously, suspected of suffocation! After they lost contact, we again
They sent people to investigate and found that the railway had been blown up and the completely damaged tanks were scattered into the forest in the form of fragments. Three huge craters appeared in the center of the explosion, and the surrounding land had been scorched!
We stopped the military column passing here, and now we ask our superiors to send someone to repair the railway!"
For a long time, the patrol's immediate superior had not received such an incredible telegram, and the original text was immediately passed to the division headquarters.
The headquarters of the 734th Division suddenly fell into a commotion, and the chief of staff immediately realized a simple and terrifying guess: "It seems that the Russian 284th Division is aiming their attack at us!"
When he said this, all the staff were cheered up!
"What? Litman, what did you say? They are going to hit us?!" Borisman asked nervously.
"Isn't it? Judging from the report alone, the damage caused by the Russian attack is extremely serious! They are not at all a targetless attack like some gangsters. This time they intend to paralyze one of our important railway lines.
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My division commander, if this railway line is paralyzed, our army's supplies will have to go around a huge line, and the transportation of each tank will increase the transportation cost by at least twelve hours!"
With that said, the chief of staff summoned the division commander to the spread out map and pointed at the node of the incident with his baton.
"This is a report from Patrol Station No. 30. Look at this railway line arrangement. This is the closest railway line from Minsk to Kiev, and now it is interrupted! We must repair it quickly, and we must be prepared to deal with the enemy
A fierce attack!"
"My God! These damn Russians actually chose this time to attack?!" Division Commander Borisman clutched his head.
"More than just Russian guerrillas in the swamps, they are now intensifying their deployment west of the Dnieper River. It is obvious that the Russians are preparing for a large-scale attack! Because our army is doing its best to deliver ordnance supplies to the front line! But this
The key railway line was actually blown up!"
Borisman quickly understood the chief of staff's speculation that the destruction of the railway line was the enemy's purpose, and it seemed more like it was under the command of the Soviet authorities.
Now, when a train full of tanks is blown up, dozens of tanks are lost at a time. To destroy so many tanks on the battlefield, the Russians will pay huge casualties, and a small group of guerrillas have achieved this at the expense of explosives.
General results.
Borismann couldn't help but be angry, but what else could he do?
At only ten o'clock in the morning, he immediately held a military meeting, reported that a serious attack had occurred in the morning, and issued key orders:
"Now, all regiments gather urgently and prepare for battle! All police battalions and Eastern Volunteer Battalions immediately go to the responsible villages to keep strict watch! Once any collaborators are found, they will be hanged on the spot! Order those closest to the scene of the incident
The garrison immediately inspected nearby villages and executed some people as a deterrent!
Engineer troops, immediately move the rails prepared from the warehouse and repair the rails within one day!"
The German army has rich experience in repairing damaged railways. The German officers and soldiers who responded to the harassment and destruction by guerrillas in various places had to face the dilemma of railway sleepers being pried open and railway tracks being blown up. Therefore, the method they adopted was to repair the railway tracks and
The sleepers are assembled together, all debris is cleaned on the damaged line, the roadbed is re-paved, and the prefabricated railway is laid on it.
In this way, the German army can complete the road repair work in the shortest possible time.
The German army is very rigorous in this regard. Even the 734th Division, which has never encountered a railway being bombed, has finally put their prefabricated railways to use. However, all the officers and soldiers of this division hope that their prefabricated railways will never be used.
Come in handy.
The order was absolute, and because Borismann was still a senior Nazi, his retaliatory methods were tougher than those of his colleagues.
At this moment, the chief of staff had to question: "Our top priority now is to repair the road at a uniform speed and inform the railway dispatch of the entire Belarus of the situation here, rather than retaliate! We executed some villagers just to vent our anger, which has hidden dangers for our elimination."
Bandits in the forest mean nothing."
"No! We must destroy the people's will to resist in the occupied areas! We must eliminate those who dare to oppose us!" Borisman's face became more ferocious. "The village is the breeding ground for guerrillas. If we kill all these villagers
If they are eliminated, the guerrillas will not be able to get supplies and will naturally destroy themselves."
"Forget it! If this rhetoric were effective, those guerrillas in the swamp would have died long ago in the winter! Borisman, we have to face reality. If capital punishment is frequently used against the peaceful residents here as usual, it will only
Inspire their will to resist!"
"Then they will resist! Just in time to completely eliminate them!"
Seeing his angry look, the chief of staff shut up.
As the chief of staff of the 734th Division, Litman was not a fanatical Nazi like Borisman. He claimed to have some Junker aristocratic spirit and advocated that the troops treat the locals as kindly as possible in the occupied areas! Unfortunately, the authorities faced the intensifying guerrillas
The troops had completely lost their patience with the harassment, and massacres of local people occurred one after another.
Whenever a German soldier died, five locals were hanged, and when a German soldier was injured, a local was shot. When it came to executing orders, Littmann had no doubts about his own people's resoluteness.
It is unknown how many German soldiers died in the enemy attack this time, and five times as many villagers will be killed!