The militiamen had spotted the advancing Germans the previous day, and they had not rushed to attack Homnich that day, for the sky was getting darker, and the cold night was coming, and they had to camp in the wilderness. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ｂｉｑUｇE。 ｉｎｆｏ

Holstauffen ordered his men to attack Homnage the next day when the sun rose.

He admonished his men, pointing to the ruined ruins, and said: "This is where the enemy is stationed, and even if the city is in ruins, Homnich is still a strategic priority, and we must take control and kill all the enemy defenders, without mercy!" ”

The vast number of soldiers were about to participate in the siege battle, and this was their first regular battle, and everyone was so excited that many people lost sleep with excitement that night.

The encampment of the German army undoubtedly gave the militia in Homnich precious time.

At Christmas, the militia and regular soldiers left behind in the ruins numbered about 200. It was a pity that they could not return to the barracks for Christmas, but they still managed to sort out a large number of scrap steel bars and found some furniture in the rubble. This Christmas, they rejoice in the ruins.

As soon as the holiday was over, the Germans came to the door, and the militia was very unwilling.

"We have been ordered to collect metal materials here to make weapons, and if the progress is disrupted by the enemy, it will affect the entire army." One militia broke through the important effects of the German offensive, and soon the majority of the militia understood the importance of Homnitsch as a sentry post.

Don't lose it here! At least not until all the rebar has been removed!

As a result, Alexander was immediately elected as the commander of more than a dozen regular Soviet soldiers who were originally in charge of the Khomnich outpost.

That night, in the ruins of Homnich, two hundred men laid down their hammers and took up arms. Everyone gathered in the square of the city and expressed exactly the same long-cherished wish - to defend the city.

The will of the people cannot be disobeyed, Alexander was elected as a commander by everyone, and now it is impossible to refuse, so he can only bite the bullet.

He stood on a high place and said: "Comrades, this group of enemies is menacing, their weapons and equipment are also very strong, and the troops are also larger, we hold on here, waiting for all of us, it is likely that we will die in honor!" ”

"Don't you fight if you have poor weapons and equipment? Could it be that if there are few troops, they will not resist? My motivation for joining the army was very simple, to fight. My family members were all killed by the Germans, and even if I die in battle, kill a few to avenge my family! A militiaman shouted at the top of his voice.

This man's call is only a microcosm of the vast number of militias. Most of these militia fighters are not from Heitu Village. They also fled into the swamp from other places and were later assigned to the village of Black Earth.

These men are physically strong enough to have a strong motivation to flee. After settling down, revenge became the reason for their survival, and the time to survive was enough, and then it was the struggle!

The morale of the vast number of warriors has been steadfast, and Alexander decided to become a hero. He will know that the militia forces as a whole are fighting, and in particular the troops are divided into squad-based groups that maneuver within the city.

In the tradition of the light infantry of the 284th division, even the militia carried quite a few grenades. Some of them were captured from Germany, some were owned by the Soviet Union, and most of them were produced by the blacksmith village, and because of the fragments made of picric acid and bullet shells, their power was the greatest.

Two hundred men were divided into twenty battle groups.

Alexander knew that his forces were too small, and the defensive battle of Khomnich against Roshakov before him could not be carried out in that mode of positional warfare. With a small number of troops, only more mobile tactics can be carried out.

Looking at the surrounding ruins, a plan quickly comes to mind.

That night, Alexander anxious about the squad leaders of all the squads and ordered: "The battle will theoretically begin tomorrow, and if we continue to fight in the trenches left over from the previous battle, it will be tantamount to hitting a stone with an egg." Our army is poorly equipped, so we must be excited and flexible, and rely on a large number of bunkers to fight, so that we can turn disadvantages into advantages. ”

Alexander's solution was to let the enemy in, and when the Germans had the courage to enter the city, they let their guard down, and the troops opened fire and threw grenades from the ruins.

This plan seems a little less heroic, because Lao Maozi's thinking is always tendonous. When encountering resistance, the iron rod sweeps, the resistance increases, and the iron rod is thickened, and Maozi's habit is still hard.

If it had been in the past, Alexander would have been a tendon. Because of the chief of staff of the 284th Division, his strategy and tactics were known for being flexible and changeable, especially the guerrilla warfare tactics popularized to all soldiers, that is, the Chinese 16-character mantra was translated.

"Comrade Berekov warned us that the enemy is attacking, we are retreating, the enemy is stationed, we are harassing, the enemy has relaxed his vigilance, and it is the moment for us to attack." Alexander paraphrased the words of the deputy division commander and chief of staff, and the majority of the militia regarded this as the Bible. Of course, this is indeed the essence of guerrilla tactics, but it is also really incompatible with the traditional strategy of the Soviet Union.

Therefore, during the war mobilization that night, Alexander almost transformed Homnitsch into Grozny fifty years later, and once the German army entered the ruins of the city, it was bound to encounter three-dimensional blows crisscrossing from all sides.

Twenty battle groups moved at once, and Alexander, with the sentry squad as the center, controlled the whole army. In order to be able to fight, he deliberately announced to the swamp at almost dawn that war was imminent.

And in fact they are ready for war.

As the day gradually came, Yang Mingzhi's side immediately began to mobilize for war, and on the outskirts of Homnitsch, the German army also began to move intensively.

The battalion commander Holstaufen, with his infantry battalion, temporarily abandoned all the debris, and the vast number of soldiers marched with only weapons and ammunition. They accelerated through the snow, hoping to take the city with a single charge.

Of course, as is customary, the Germans also had to carry out a preparation for artillery fire. They carried four Type 67 mortars on this trip, which were inferior to the 120-millimeter big guys of the Soviet army, and the intensive use was still effective.

The shelling soon began, and the bombs rained down on the ruins of Khomnage like hailstones, and the bricks and rubble flew everywhere, but Alexander ordered his men to burrow into the crevices of the ruins, like rats, and into the basement himself.

There was a whistling sound in the sky, and everyone disappeared in a puff of smoke. Regardless of the continuous bombardment of mortar shells, the Soviet troops, even the militia, were lucky to be unscathed, not even injured.

But Holstauffen and his vast warriors were encouraged, "These stupid Slavic barbarians should have been killed in large numbers this time!" He muttered to himself and ordered the whole army to assault, and the soldiers were also encouraged by the cloud of explosion dust that rose one after another not far away.

The violence of the war was so spectacular that the German soldiers shouted and advanced in a skirmish. And fortunately, they met no resistance.

This was unusual, and the enemy relied on the fortifications to counterattack, which had been feared by the Germans, did not happen at all. Did the Soviets already run away? Holstauffen didn't expect that, and he and his own people entered the city that had long been blown into ruins and covered with a layer of ice and snow.

As soon as you enter the outskirts of the city, you will see a large number of bombed-out buildings, which is completely surprising, and the city was also very beautiful before the war.

This is a dwelling, with a large amount of furniture behind the collapsed walls, and Hallstaufen is seeing these scenes for the first time. It was a completely different from the sweep of a Soviet village, because it was a city in ruins, and this operation was also the first time that his troops were involved in the battle for a city (even if it was a small city).

The dust from the mortar bombardment had gradually fallen to the ground, and some of the snow had been dyed black, but as the explosions passed, the city was really too quiet.

The only noise, the sound of German soldiers talking, was so unnatural that it was even a little creepy.

A squad of German soldiers suddenly ran up to Holstauffen and said, "Report to the sir!" Artillery was found ahead, but it was very strange that these guns were models of our army! It's incredible, why are they in the city! ”

"And such a thing?" Hallstaufen followed the soldiers and saw the familiar artillery. Yes, this is indeed the equipment of the German army, "This should be the artillery brought by the 715th Division during the previous attack, and they were actually moved to the city by the Soviets." But why don't they beat us with it? Seeing these runs, Holstauffen also had to gasp, well, the air was already very cold. These big guys with a caliber of one hundred and twenty millimeters, with one shot, people with a radius of fifteen meters will definitely be torn apart by the shock wave, and even if they are thirty meters away, people can still be blown up by the shock wave and cause internal injuries.

"Maybe this group of Soviets will not use our artillery at all." Holstauffen teased bitterly.

In fact, it is very simple, these cannons were originally intended to be transported to the blacksmith village for disassembly, the barrels were used to make short-barreled cannons, and the other parts were refurnace. If the enemy does not attack, they will be carried away by Balzen, who has come again.

But German howitzers were in the wrong place, and the city was so quiet that all the signs showed that it was weird.

Hallstauffen ordered: "Rubas, Friedrich, send your men to check these cannons." ”

Two squads of Germans were ordered to check, but they did not know how this artillery could not be fired ?!

When the soldiers inspected, they accidentally touched the fuse of the grenade, and when some attentive people saw the white smoke rising, a terrifying thought came to their minds.

Suddenly, explosions exploded in all directions, and Barrus and Friedrich's squad were instantly killed and half wounded.

And this turned out to be the signal for Alexander's ambush to begin, and suddenly, the German troops entering the city were hit by fire from all sides. A large number of grenades were thrown from the ruins, followed by a dense burst of gunfire! (To be continued.) )