Four regiments went south to fight, but the war turned into a battle of no small scale. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 infoIn this operation, the German 715th Division lost the most troops, and 4,000 of its most elite soldiers were either killed or missing. The situation of the 722nd Division next door was just as bad, one of the two regiments was disabled, and the other was completely wiped out.

After the end of the battle, the 722nd Division took the lead in sending troops into the previous battlefield reconnaissance. What they saw was a devastated battlefield and piles of corpses of soldiers. Shockingly, these are the corpses of German soldiers, and the stench of corpses is spreading as the temperature rises, and some scavengers are already eating the corpses.

This handful of scouts hurriedly took pictures of the scene and quickly withdrew to the division headquarters.

The commanders of the two divisions, Schultz and Florid, suffered a heavy blow, especially Schultz, whose troops had lost their average strength from such a behemoth as 15,000 men in several battles. Looking at the unwounded capable soldiers available at the moment, there are only 6,000 people.

What can I do? An infantry division has become an infantry brigade.

At the end of the battle, the original battle plan was to attack in one go, eating up the Tchaikov partisan brigade and the fleeing Soviet Gomel city party committee personnel, which turned out to be a trap against the German army.

In the past few days, Scholz's situation has been very bad, he is full of grief and indignation, and he has no time to worry about the punishment of his superiors, a huge infantry division is almost playing to death in his hands, and he has the urge to kill himself by drinking bullets.

Anxiety and wind chills hit at the same time, and he fell ill. The overall situation of the 715th Division was temporarily represented by Chief of Staff Sverin, who had nothing to do with this short man, and the army group already knew all this. Rather than worrying about court-martials, think about why the Soviets were so powerful. He really couldn't figure it out, could it be that these guys hiding in the forest were all gods of war?!

The Germans were stationed on the Moziri-Gomel road as a corps with four divisions. Commander Dietrich had to face the reality that the two main divisions under his command had suffered heavy losses, and it was not just a question of the sharp decline in combat effectiveness, but whether they could still hold their positions.

Above him was the headquarters of the army group in Belarus and the supreme head of the Nazi Party in Belarus, John Kubet, all of whom hoped to wipe out the partisans in the south of Belarus, and this combat operation was also authorized by them.

The war turned out to be a crushing defeat, with up to 3,000 killed and missing. Intelligence from Kyiv also showed that fishermen and patrol boats had recovered a lot of bloated human corpses on the river, which were identified as Germans!

Looking back at the entire February battle, it seems that the Germans were being led by the nose by this group of partisans.

In retaliation for the previous large-scale military operations of the Soviets against the 707th and 715th Divisions, the Air Force retaliated and launched air strikes against the enemy.

The enemy retaliated decisively, and the intelligence reality was that they attacked the airfield with only a small number of troops, and Air Force Captain Koch lost all his planes, and even managed to find reinforcements in the snow and ice with a little remnant of his troops, and only saved his life.

At the same time, the Gomel Municipal Committee of the Soviet Union was finally exposed, and a large partisan force was revealed. Originally, the battle plan was to eliminate these people in order to boost the morale of the bandits in the rear, but the scale of the war became more and more intense!

Dietrich did not want to believe such a result at all, the Germans lost 7,000 men in the war! The reports of the 715th and 722nd Divisions were not concealed, and he was aware of the changes in the battle situation. Due to the partisan activity everywhere and the harassment of the rest of the troops, the Front had no time to take care of the situation in the south of White Russia. Besides, who would have believed that four regiments plus a reinforced mechanized battalion could suffer a catastrophic defeat in just a few days?!

"Even if I go to the wall of the court-martial, I will admit it!" Dietrich confessed that he was just curious to know who he was fighting against. No, the name of the 284th Infantry Division of the Soviet Union was written in the intelligence collected by the 715th Division.

In line with the rigor of the Germans and the glory of the Junker aristocracy, Dietrich truthfully wrote a war report and handed it over to the army, and the document soon reached Johan Kubet, who lived in Minsk.

The Nazi Party's top representative in Belarus had the most crucial task of administering the occupied territories. A safe and stable rear is the best guarantee to support front-line operations. John Kube has also been under a lot of pressure lately, he is already in the Mediterranean, and his hair loss has been getting worse recently.

When he saw this terrible battle report, he was instantly furious, and he couldn't help but shout out the unhappiness in his heart: "The rice bucket of the SS only knows how to kill people in the streets, so that the people in the occupied areas are always against me!" One day, all the people who took refuge in us will also turn against the water, pick up the weapons and uniforms we have been given, and shoot us in the back! And these rice buckets of the Wehrmacht, with high-quality weapons bought by the Reichsmark, but their combat effectiveness is so inferior that even the Poles are insufficient! You have sent out 11,000 men, but 7,000 have been killed! Are those guerrillas the gods of war?! ”

The roar echoed in the office, and none of his subordinates dared to answer. You must know that in the current situation, no matter where the battlefield is, 7,000 people killed in a few days is a huge loss! The combat force of the entire German army, consisting purely of Germans, was at most four million, and on the Eastern Front there were three million such troops.

Behind the 7,000 dead and missing is probably tens of thousands of casualties, and such a defeat was actually caused by a group of guerrillas!

It was only after his subordinates had read the report that he was reminded that the enemy was probably not an ordinary guerrilla.

John Kubey's eyes widened again, and he finally saw the name clearly.

"The 284th Infantry Division? This is a formed unit, did the Soviets leave such a unit in the rear, just to target us? Come! Give me a thorough investigation of this force! ”

It doesn't matter if you don't check, just a simple investigation of the previous campaign materials carried out by the German army, and it is easy to find the name of the 284th Division. According to deciphered Soviet intelligence, it seems that this unit had been added to the title of Guards a few months ago, and after careful inspection, it was learned that this unit had not retreated to the rear at all. In other words, since this unit received the title of Guards, it was not wiped out by the Germans, nor was it sent to the interior of the Soviet Union, let alone appeared on the list of enemy blocking troops during the attack on Moscow.

Everything seems to have been strung together, and for half a year the Mozir-Gomel highway has been filled with blood, and this road, which was supposed to be used as a supply depot for the front, has become a nightmare!

After all, the 284th Guards Division had unbelievably defeated an armored division in the initial battle, and the Romanian division on the way back. Although it is not clear how much combat strength this unit still has after the serious reduction of troops, at least he is simply the trump card in the Soviet army when he is fully armed.

After thinking about it, John Kube could only say to his subordinates: "Now I can only write to the Führer truthfully, the Soviet 284th Division that he hated has appeared!" The Imperial Division did not destroy them, or some escaped to the Pripet Marsh. They have regained their strength there, and their combat effectiveness has surpassed one or even two security divisions! ”

He was a representative of the Nazi Party, the supreme head of the Belarusian occupation, and no one dared to object to how his letters were written.

The question was also raised about what to do with a defeated commander.

John Kube thought about it, and just told his subordinates flatly: "Let the Gestapo and the military tribunal in the field deal with it." Let Wagner, the commander of the army group, decide for himself whether he will be dismissed from office on the spot or continue to stay in office under those rice bucket trees, or he will not do it. (To be continued.) )