The winter was very cold, and the heat brought by the South Black Sea wind was quickly blown away by the north wind from the North Pole, and Homnage was still in the snow, but there were more bricks and rubble, and there was a dark battlefield outside the city. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ｂｉｑUｇE。 ｉｎｆｏ

Some sporadic flames are still burning, and they are the wreckage of German armored vehicles.

Inside the city, after the Germans fired a few last shells, they retreated temporarily.

Roshakov and Kravsky return to the basement and have the guards sweep the dust off the table and the map resurface.

"The enemy didn't take advantage of it this time, maybe they will have a larger attack." Roshakov frowned, his eyes fixed on Khomnich's location on the map.

"I'm afraid you're thinking too much about this, in this battle, we defeated almost two regiments of German troops, this is their combat unit, not a logistics staff, and the results we have achieved are actually greater. You can think of our results as the defeat of half a German division. ”

"Half a division? Funny remarks. Roshakov sighed: "Half a division, that little firepower? There was no threat to the enemy's artillery preparations, and the enemy attack did not have a single tank. You and I have seen what the German army should look like, and the German army in front of us, in terms of firepower and morale, can hardly remind me of those creepy armies. ”

"Maybe it's because these guys are security forces, and they are sent to the occupied areas because they have poor combat effectiveness, they can't fight, but they are very good at killing ordinary people." Kravsky said disdainfully.

"Yes, so I can conclude that the enemy will not attack for the whole day after this withdrawal. As for our results, we still reported truthfully, defeating two German infantry regiments with average combat effectiveness. ”

"Okay. First of all, we had to count all the results of the battle, and then send a report to the division headquarters and deputy division commander. ”

The two discussed countermeasures, and the troops must take advantage of the war to recuperate. Each company has to count its own casualties, as well as the ammunition consumed, and these data must be reported.

At the same time, Ninelli was ordered to lead his militia battalion out of the city, not to pursue the enemy, but to collect usable weapons and ammunition on the battlefield, and even to pull out the backpacks of the German soldiers, and take away blankets, water bottles, and even their field rations. The cylinder and the gas mask inside were also to be taken away in case the Germans used chemical weapons.

Roshakov gave a special order: "We should not take prisoners, but also beware of the wounded and trapped German soldiers." The wounded soldiers of the enemy were immediately stabbed, and the wounded of our own were brought back to the city. ”

This time, there are only a few doctors with the army, and they are actually soldiers who know some medical skills, and the work of rescuing the wounded is ongoing. The wails of the wounded did not affect the other soldiers, for the war had numbed the minds of these veterans.

A few hours later, all the results were counted.

The first battalion suffered 76 casualties, the second battalion suffered 88 casualties, and the militia battalion suffered 95 casualties, of which more than 200 corpses were killed on the spot.

This is undoubtedly a heavy report, and Roshakov looks at Kraftsky with regret. "Comrade, a total of 259 casualties, we lost one-ninth of our combat effectiveness, and our losses in this battle were not small."

"But it's more than the total annihilation of our previous unit. It is very rare for us to achieve such results in the new unit today. "Kravsky brings out the experience of positional warfare, because this is the norm in military operations.

It's just that since he entered the swamp with his soldiers and was trained by his own Belikov, the new skills he has mastered are not strangely introduced. The new troops, the way of fighting is very special, and some weapons with novel designs and good combat effects are used, which is a solid foundation for victory.

The casualties of the Germans were even worse than the casualties of their own men.

Ninelli led his men to collect a large number of useful things, and they removed the armed belts from the corpses of the German soldiers, and did not think to count them in the city, but there were more than 500 armed belts. Each one also carries an ammunition box, full of precious ammunition.

By the afternoon, while Ninelly was still busy, he brought back fifteen general-purpose machine guns, two of which were later found to be unusable, as well as more than fifty spare barrels and a large amount of ammunition. And the rifles, which did not turn into burning sticks, he took back more than 400 units, and more than 20 MP38 submachine guns. They even got five small-caliber mortars, and there was not much ammunition left.

Picking up good things from the dead directly compensated for the ammunition consumption of the soldiers, for no other reason, the troops have always been equipped with a lot of German weapons.

"This result is not bad, and we will report it to the division headquarters truthfully." Roshakov writes the words to be sent on a note to the radioman, and the words will be turned into code.

And Roshakov and Yang Mingzhi were waiting for the change of the tide of the war, while the Homnich defensive battle, Yang Mingzhi led his troops to the outskirts of the city of Gomel, he found several German inspection battles, in order to make a big deal as much as possible, after eliminating the soldiers, set fire, and then prepared for a new operation.

Yevlov was in the base, and he and Yerentina had to wait. The Soviet prisoners who had been rescued were immediately armed, and instead escorted a group of German prisoners of war and advanced in the direction of Catfish Village. Yesterday night, I received information from Yang Mingzhi that a group of captured German medical personnel had some medicines, and some soldiers escorted them straight to Catfish Village.

Eventually, the two sides waited for information from the Homnich side, and the city held the first wave of the enemy's attack. This kind of information was inspiring, and Yang Mingzhi was full of joy, and he could rest assured that he could boldly sabotage Gomel, first of all, and then take a village occupied by the German army.

On the other hand, compared to a series of victories of the Soviet army, the telephone of the German 715th Division headquarters rang non-stop after the arrival of daylight.

First, a very bad piece of information came: all Soviet prisoners of war had fled, roads had turned into battlefields, large wreckage of armored vehicles and trucks had been found, a large number of wounded Germans had been found in the forest, and most of the paramedics were missing.

"Hell! It's been attacked! The intelligence from last night was missing, but I didn't expect it to be an attack! It's terrible! In Homnich, you Soviets wiped out one of my battalions and wreaked havoc on this road, right under your nose. What are our scouts and patrols doing! ”

Schultz roared at the staff officers, he was so emotional that his beard was blowing into the sky.

"Commander, calm down!" The chief of staff of the division reassured, "Perhaps all this is an operation planned by the enemy, or even in the direction of Moscow." ”

"Oh? Swagger, do you have a high idea? ”

"Yes!"

The diminutive staff officer stood by the map on the table with his baton.

"As we know now, the partisans have captured Homnich, and we have sent our elite infantry regiments to attack. According to those who fled back, they still had tanks, which is not credible, and it must have been Gustav who was defeated and deliberately said that the enemy was strong. But they did lose, but I don't think the guerrillas could defend themselves against the siege with the participation of our two regiments and heavy artillery.

As for Lechtsa, the city where one of our logistics regiments is stationed, the road to Gomel has been smooth because there has been no partisan activity for a long time. And the guerrillas saw this opportunity and made an attack, and I think what the guerrillas are doing now is the main thing compared to Homnich. ”

"That is?" Schultz slowly raised his head, and the other staff officers also had their eyes shining.

Like a prophet, Swagger circled around the division headquarters with his hands behind his back and said, "Gentlemen, there are also division commanders. I think that all this is really a tactic of the Soviets, and their purpose is actually to rescue the prisoners of war, and they choose to do it when they know that our forces are weak. And before that, they suddenly attacked Homnitsch, from a long-term harassment to a direct occupation, exposing their forces, just to attract the attention of our large forces. So we're fooled! ”

Suddenly, the crowd was in an uproar. Swagger also lowered his head: "This matter, I didn't see the enemy's conspiracy clearly, I have to admit that if the enemy is really so tactical, we call them Slavic pigs, which is indeed a manifestation of arrogance." The Soviet servicemen were not weak, or rather, they also had commanders who were very proficient in combat. ”

As he spoke, Swagger took out the latest information he had received: "This is the latest information in the morning, two checkpoints have been attacked and burned. The enemy, with the blood of our fighters, wrote the word swamp in Russian on the walls, which cannot but be reminiscent of the so-called swamp partisan brigades for rescuing Soviet prisoners of war, attacking convoys of wounded troops, and attacking checkpoints? Not only do they exist, but they are also very capable of fighting. ”

Speaking of this, the division commander Schultz was immediately surprised. He was also standing by the map, from the so-called swamp to Lechtsa, which was a very long distance, and now it was heavy snowfall, and they were really that guerrilla force that gave a headache?

Schultz looked at Swagger with suspicion. "Could it be that the bunch of guys with wings on their legs took Homnich again, and ran outside the city of Lechtsa a hundred kilometers away?"

"I don't know, we have limited information." "Perhaps we should also strengthen our defenses and move our divisions and their troops closer to the division headquarters in case of contingencies." ”

"Unexpected? What's wrong? Death. ”

In Scholz's view, it was really unpleasant that his dear chief of staff had already said a lot of things that would make others want to destroy his prestige.

In the face of Schulz's question, Swagger did not simply answer yes or no, he said meaningfully: "Think about how Schneider, the former commander of the 707th Division, died. ”

"You can't say that!" Schultz was furious when he heard this, but the herald broke into the division headquarters with new information, and Schultz's liver fire immediately fell, staring at such a panting soldier.

"Report to the Divisional Commander! An urgent telegram came from the 825th and 766th regiments, attacking the battle of Homnich, we ......"

"How's it going!?"

"We ...... We were forced to retreat. ”

As soon as you hear about retreat, you can't say that you are defeated. Schultz immediately became anxious, snatched the telegram, looked at the amazing report on it, and suddenly exposed his muscles.

"Hell! Hoffman and Freud, you guys are a disgrace to the Third Reich! ”

His swearing was even more severe, and when Swagger learned of the loss, he subconsciously didn't want to accept it at all. He weakly asked, "What happened to us?" ”

Without saying a word, Scholz handed over the telegram, and Swagger saw that the loss of non-combat attrition and combat attrition was as high as 1,300 troops! Almost instantly, Swagger straightened up, and immediately fell to the ground.

When the staff officers saw it, the chief of staff was actually faint and hurriedly surrounded him.

Schultz also hurriedly put his anger aside, and while holding the old man Swagger, he shouted: "Doctor! (To be continued.) )