Hoffman and Freud had to retreat, as they had lost almost all their armored vehicles and all their heavy artillery was useless. Pen | fun | pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 ｉｎｆｏ

This Soviet army was extremely difficult to deal with, in addition to the extremely complete will to fight, the soldiers were attacked by a variety of new weapons, and the final fatal blow was actually three tanks.

If the fighting continues, the troops will suffer incalculable casualties. Because soldiers are also human beings, since they know that if they continue to fight, they will die in vain, and they will not fight hard.

The retreat had no choice but to evolve into a rout, with many people throwing away their armor and weapons on the ground, just to flee lightly.

So on the already crippled positions of the Soviet army, the soldiers at the end of the battle watched the enemy flee, and everyone shouted Ulla to celebrate their victory.

The tragedy of victory! Defeat miserably! Roshakov ordered the troops to prohibit the pursuit, and now immediately began to check for losses.

In fact, just by glancing, you can see that the losses of the Soviet army are also very serious. Roshakov held a pistol and simply put himself on the battlefield.

"There were corpses everywhere, there were rubbles everywhere. These warriors followed us all the way here, and eventually died here. Roshakov shook his head, the battlefield he saw was devastated.

The soldiers who were still alive were already expressionless, searching for their surviving comrades on the battlefield, kicking the corpses, pulling them away if they could move, receiving simple treatment, and then resigning themselves to fate.

If the enemy's wounded were found, it would be impossible to treat them. In this regard, the soldier simply made up for it, which can be regarded as mercy to the wounded soldiers of these enemies who are struggling in pain.

Roshakov, Kravsky, and Nineli sat on the smoky, blackened snow, waiting for the results to be counted.

Soon, the battle damage statistics of each unit were placed in front of the three men, and this temporary regiment lost more than 200 casualties and more than 300 wounded. The lightly wounded and the seriously wounded were counted together, but the commanders knew that if the seriously wounded survived, it was truly a miracle of life.

Ninelli let out a long sigh; "If we continue to fight like this, we will not have the strength to fight. We cannot retreat without an order. We are not afraid of war, but we are afraid of fighting without playing. Nor are warriors steel machines that can ignore the physical limits of man. One more battle, and the enemy is sure to take the city. ”

Kravsky made a contemptuous face and shook his head. "Comrade, you also think too highly of the Germans. You saw their backs just now, they were fleeing in confusion, and I don't think they could organize another attack in a short period of time. ”

"It makes sense that this time the losses of the Germans were also serious. We still have to wait for a while, and the results of the enemy's battle losses will be counted in a while. Roshakov said.

The other two were more optimistic than Ninelli. After all, he is a professional soldier, and he is very clear about the taboos of the army. "The enemy is on the run, we attacked them at night so that they couldn't sleep, and they were exhausted from the current fighting. The worst thing for them is that we have taken out all the heavy weapons. Roshakov speculated.

But there are exceptions, and he does not rule out another onslaught by the Germans. Like the daytime offensive, which, in the opinion of Roshakov and Kravsky, is too abnormal. Unless they received an order to storm at any cost.

Thinking exactly this, Roshakov ordered the living soldiers to continue to hold their positions, even if they were tired and wrapped in blankets to rest, but they must ensure that once the battle begins, they must immediately go into battle.

In order to ensure that the Soviets would not be passive when the enemy attacked again, several sniper teams were dispatched, carrying radios and holding captured spare batteries, to advance in the direction of the enemy's retreat.

The day will eventually pass, and before nightfall, the enemy's casualty count will finally end.

The soldier in charge of recording knocked on the door of a basement of the temporary regimental headquarters.

Only the guard slammed the door open, and said, "Now the chiefs are asleep, if it is not a particularly important matter, wait a while." ”

"Nope! This is the enemy's battle damage data, and the commander must know it. ”

His voice was louder, and Roshakov was woken up. He just asked the guards to keep an eye on his watch, and he really needed to sleep for two hours, and when he saw that the information he was waiting for was counted, he took the booklet.

On this side are listed all kinds of captures, as well as German corpses that have been stacked together.

"Oh my God! Eight hundred and sixty-eight people! These are dead enemies? Roshakov exclaimed, and now everyone woke up.

The result was staggering, and the German army was the equivalent of two battalions in a single battle.

The soldier said the details by the way: "Actually, many of the German soldiers were wounded. They were only wounded, but their comrades had to abandon them, let their blood run dry, or freeze to death in the hypothermia. As the commanders can see, we did not find a single German wounded, and even if there were, they were re-shot by our men. But the vast majority of the German troops who were lying down were already frozen as ice. ”

Roshakov nodded. "Yay! Their strength was two regiments, and after a few days of fighting and the cold, they should have lost half of them, and if they continued to hold on here and confront us, their superiority in strength and firepower would no longer exist. ”

"So what do we do? In fact, our food and ammunition are also very depleted, and our army and them are competing for consumption, and we can't see the results so far. But you also have to pay attention to the fact that we have food for about another four days. ”

"Hey! Four days? It is estimated that four days later, we will already be at our home, eating the oriental food made by the deputy division commander. Roshakov slapped his thigh, "Now I have to contact the division headquarters and the deputy division commander to report the good news." ”

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For this battle, the Soviet and German sides reported completely differently to their respective commanders.

The Germans suffered huge losses, they retreated to their original positions, and the returning soldiers were so frightened that they first hurried to eat to fill their stomachs, and then waited for new orders from their commanders.

They rested for a while, and the two regimental commanders, Hoffman and Freud, immediately came to their senses.

"We must give Scholz a reasonable explanation, that is, we encountered a fierce attack by the Soviet army during the day, and the troops suffered heavy losses, but desperately stopped the Soviet offensive, and the whole army counterattacked and attacked the city, until the city of Homnich was under the city, and our army lacked heavy weapons to attack the city. The Soviet army sent out an ambush tank unit, and our army retreated to the defensive line to continue to hold on. ”

Freud was taken aback by what he said. "You're such a genius, if you report like that, wouldn't our defeat be a victory?"

"That's right, the division commander will definitely believe it." But Hoffman won't just stop there: "We still have to attack, after all, our mission is to take the city. The division commander did not know the exact situation of the battle here, but he needed a result, and the best thing was to capture Homnich. ”

Therefore, after reporting to Scholz, the commander of the 715th Division, the two regiments really received their appreciation for not taking Homnych, but at least preventing the offensive of the enemy's heavy group. When there are many lies and falsehoods come true, Chief of Staff Swagge also reported to their superiors, claiming that the regular Soviet army entered the army in a big way, but on the surface of the actual battle, the lie seemed to be a prophecy, and the Soviet army really dispatched a large corps!

Schultz easily believed Hoffman's rhetoric, and encouraged the two to continue fighting, and they must hold the line at all costs.

On the other hand.

At the same time, Roshakov sent a telegram to Yang Mingzhi, who was still preparing a night attack on the outskirts of Lechica, and Yevlov, who was in the swamps, and in addition to reporting the current situation, the losses and results of his troops, the most important thing was to get new orders.

In this regard, Yevlov said that he could send a reserve at any time, and he emphasized that this reserve could even send rearmed and liberated prisoners of war directly.

And Yang Mingzhi already had a new plan, he sent a report to the division headquarters, asking Yevlov to prepare reinforcements and be prepared for emergencies at any time. Then, he directly ordered Roshakov's subordinates to take all the captured, all the scrap copper and rotten iron that could be used, all the wounded soldiers, and retreat immediately at night!

Leaving Homnich, the order to retreat, which the warriors had been waiting for, finally arrived!

Roshakov immediately complied, he ordered the fighters to immediately put their internal affairs in order, after which they went to bed and the whole army set out at night.

The scouts who were monitoring the Germans were also recalled, and Roshakov directly ordered the whole group: "Leave nothing for the Germans, take everything that can be taken." We left the Germans with a ruin, which will no longer be used as a salient in the future, strategically suppressing us! ”

Of course, most of the soldiers felt grass grow in their hearts as soon as they heard about it, and they were obviously very tired!

As for the German army, they were completely unaware that the Soviet troops were ready to withdraw. You must know that taking the initiative to abandon a city is very rare in the case of the dogs and teeth of the Soviet and German sides. To abandon the occupied city is to fight, to flee, so that in a small city, both sides can fight a sea of corpses, of course, the Soviet army in most cases suffered far more casualties than the German army.

And the 284th Division is not a fool to fight in a dumb battle, the fighters know that the strategic significance of the city is almost gone, then there is no need for garrisons here.

The whole army set off at midnight, everyone pulled the sleigh and drove a lot of captured horses, and the tank was like a locomotive, pulling a dozen sleds in one go, all of which were wounded. And the soldiers who died on the battlefield were in the cold, and Homnitsch, who had only broken arms and ruins, was in the cold

By the time the day fell again, the Soviets had already left the city.

A company of German reconnaissance teams ventured out, they reconnoitred for a long time and continued to advance, because there was no resistance, and they themselves felt incredible, so they entered the city in such a grand manner?

The company commander gritted his teeth and simply carried out an assault! They formed a battle formation, ready to fight in the streets, and only after knowing that they had broken through, they found that there was no one here, what about the Soviet army? All is unknown.

Filled with doubts, the company reported to their regimental commander that Homnich had become an empty city and that all Soviet troops had withdrawn.

"That's great!" Hoffman was overjoyed to hear the news, and he urgently ordered the whole army to advance towards Homnich at once.

Now, one way or another, the city is occupied by itself. The fact is that the Germans recaptured Homnitsch, and although they suffered heavy casualties, they finally completed the mission.

As the Germans advanced into the city, all they saw were ruins and a large number of dead bodies, which were still neatly arranged and seemed to be easy to count, all of them were as dead as ashes and covered with a layer of frost. It was as if it was supposed to be in Antarctica and not here, and the bleak scene was shocking.

"These damned Russians, they ran away. It's a clean escape! Freud stomped his feet angrily, because his men had found no loot, and even the wreckage of the armored vehicle had been visibly demolished. In the end, it was their own people who were left to the Germans.

These dead bodies, who a few days ago were young people who were full of ambition, joined the army for the establishment of Greater Germany, fought for survival space on the Eastern Front, and finally died here in Belarus. The brutality of the war was a wake-up call to the others, who had done a good job, and despite suffering a combined loss of up to half their forces, they had finally completed the task of capturing Homnich, even if the final victory came almost from the enemy's handouts.

"Now send a report to the divisional headquarters, our troops have paid huge casualties, occupied Homnich, and expelled the Soviet troops." Hoffman so ordered the telegraph operator.

As a result, they received the most unacceptable orders.

It turned out that Yang Mingzhi succeeded in the sneak attack on Lechica, beheaded the core of the city's occupation army, and calmly retreated.

Schultz immediately ordered Hoffman and Freud, "You must retreat at once and abandon Homnitsch!" ”

With huge casualties, more than 1,000 soldiers were buried here, wasn't it just to capture Homnich, and then they were withdrawn? Hoffman could not accept it, "We have already suffered too many losses, the combat losses of our troops are as high as 60%, and it is of little significance to return to Lechica to help, it is better to continue to hold on to Homnich." ”

The two sides simply communicated in plain language, which was replaced by Scholz's roar. "Shut up! Execute my orders! The enemy's vanguard has already attacked Lechicha, and no matter how many of you are left, even a single soldier will have to be returned. Otherwise, we are all guilty! ”

At this time, it is useless to disobey orders and talk nonsense about reasons.

Enraged, Hoffman tugged at his hat and threw it on the ground. "Hell, retreat!" (To be continued.) )