Chapter 43: The Defeat of the Romanians
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The Romanians were not at all intimidated by the Soviet troops, even though the elite tank units were almost completely wiped out, and only a few tankmen and maintenance units were left from the battlefield.
They were retreating and were confronted by the attacking Luo army.
The commander of the division asked the routs in a loud voice: "What about your commander?" Did he allow you to leave the line without permission? β
The rout had just encountered a very terrible thing, and the two tank men said in horror: "Our regimental commander has been killed, and the armored regiment no longer exists." β
The division commander shook his head, the question was a little tricky. But now that the large army was on the verge of Mozili, and the whole division was advancing, the battle could not be avoided at all.
On the offensive front, a Romanian infantry regiment was advancing. More than 2,000 men advanced with a small number of armored vehicles, and they were not stopped on the way to the attack.
Here is Kuznetsov's order: "The troops must not act rashly, put the enemy close and then open fire fiercely." β
At first, they were in small steps, and by the last few hundred meters, they began to hunch.
Yang Mingzhi knew that the front-line artillery position, which had just attracted firepower, would inevitably attract firepower again at this moment. Actually, this is not bad, attract the enemy to it before feeding a mortar, and anyway, don't bother to take away the extra shells.
Yang Mingzhi was lying on the mound of the trench, and the height line of his telescope was facing the enemy, and he simply calculated the distance between the enemy and the position.
"There are still five hundred meters left, and all the soldiers are ready to fight!"
Yang Mingzhi and the other officers received the order to open heavy fire when the enemy advanced to 300 meters, after all, at this distance, the weapons of the entire unit could be very effective.
The Soviets had M1908 Maxims, DP light machine guns, and a large number of captured German general-purpose machine guns.
The strength of the attacking Romanian army and the Soviet army was actually quite close, and the combat consciousness and equipment were far apart. The Soviet army was on the defensive and fighting on the ground, and the Soviet army was relatively superior.
Before the battle was in full swing, the division commander of the Luo army ordered his subordinates to immediately report information to friendly troops, especially those behind them. "The Soviets have occupied Moziri, and all nearby friendly forces are sending reinforcements here."
He knew that he could not mobilize the Germans at all with a mere Romanian division commander, and the message was sent anyway, and the rest of Moziri was recovered by the Soviets, and they knew what to do.
So the Imperial Divisions were almost the first to listen to their allies' radio reports. The Imperial Division solved the Soviet army that broke through, and they found that it was not the 284th Guards Division that was eliminated at all, just to their chagrin, they never expected that the city of Mozyri in the distance was recovered by the Soviets, and there was no need to guess much, it was the main direction of attack of the Soviet breakthrough force, because after this city it was soon to the swamp.
The Imperial Division took matters into its own hands and ordered the two motorized divisions attached to it to urgently move closer to Mozyri and reach there as quickly as possible. And send a telegram to the FΓΌhrer, "the murderers who broke the 14th Panzer Division have been exposed."
When the telegram was sent, a full-scale battle between the Soviets and the Romanians had broken out.
Even though the Romans were on high alert, they slowly advanced in the direction of the city. Suddenly, there was a loud gunfire, and the Romanian soldiers in the vanguard rushed to the end.
"It's now! Comrades! Shoot! Yang Mingzhi gave an order, and he ordered his men to give priority to striking at the enemy's armored vehicles.
The enemy's current heavy weapons are the advancing armored trucks, which are very threatening with machine guns. Fortunately, the guys were weakly armoured, and the scrambler of the machine gun tower was quickly eliminated, and even the driver was shot and killed.
The Soviets were frantically pouring firepower, and the Romanians were immediately stunned, and they were simply suppressed by the firepower and could not raise their heads under the heavy casualties.
To make matters worse, seeing that the battle had begun, the Romanians began a general offensive.
Yang Mingzhi's weapon was changed to Mosin Nagant, and he slowly shot at the Germans with a water bead in his hand, and it was up to luck whether he hit or not. For safety, he took off his glasses, wrapped them and handed them to his wife. "Xiao Tao, you have to lie in the trenches, I don't allow you to show your head."
Carambola naturally understands it, and her husband will do whatever she asks. She crouched and listened to the countless gunshots, and to her delight, she found that almost no one in her troops was injured.
In the past, the Soviets always had to pay a lot of money to block the attack, because the Wehrmacht tactics were very good, while the Romanians, their fighting mode mostly followed the First World War.
The attack of this motorized division was still dominated by infantry, and even though it was no longer possible to recklessly organize a dense formation charge, the offensive of the skirmishers was still exposed to the guns of the Soviet troops.
Yang Mingzhi thought that he had knocked out a few, and that would be enough. In positional warfare, an ordinary rifleman is far less useful than a machine gunner, and of course, machine gunners and artillerymen are too aggressive in terms of attracting hatred.
Sure enough, the prominent artillery position became the target of public criticism. The Romanians attacked there in large numbers, only to be hit by three general-purpose machine guns.
Yang Mingzhi was relieved to see the scene over there, and his own mortars were also pouring fire into that area. The Romanians passed by the tank wreckage, and soon they also turned into wreckage.
But the good times were short-lived, the Romanian artillery was erected, and their heavy artillery finally took out the position in the salient.
Yang Mingzhi was shocked and hit the ground. "These guys are still too hate-grabbing."
"Brother! What the hell is going on! Star fruit looked at her husband and asked loudly.
Yang Mingzhi rolled into the trench and looked at his wife, "The person is dead." That position was destroyed, and the Romans had already begun to use artillery. β
The artillery of the Romans was located three kilometers from the front line and could be seen even through telescopes.
Seeing that the time was fully ripe, Kuznetsov "ordered the troops in ambush to open fire at once." β
In an instant, more than a dozen squads that had been in ambush for a long time, they carried a large number of automated weapons, especially machine guns, and ammunition was very abundant. The attacking Romanians were caught by surprise by the dense fire from the left and right flanks, and they were overwhelmed by the formation of crossfire in three directions, and the morale of the whole force suffered a great defeat.
The Romanian infantry, mainly armed with bolt-action rifles, had very poor firepower and posed little threat to the Soviet machine gunners hiding in the grass, on the contrary, the Romanian advance had been successfully stopped. Mortars and 88 guns were harvesting heads, artillery fire was hitting the second half of the Romanian army, and their retreat was being bombed.
Kuznetsov felt that the morale of the enemy was almost broken. "Order a cluster of armored vehicles, all sorted."
This is a lore tactic that is not reserved for reservations, twenty half-track armored vehicles from the left flank to kill out, targeting the enemy's artillery positions. The Luo army suffered huge casualties, and it was even powerless to resist these guys who were running wildly. Many soldiers felt that these armored vehicles were their allies.
The Romanian soldiers had the great illusion that the vehicles with the iron cross were coming to support the Germans, and many of them did not shoot at the convoy. On the contrary, the target of the Soviet troops hiding in the car was the artillery position of the Romanian army.
Compared with the soldiers' doubts, the division commander of the Luo army saw it.
"These are the Soviets! Don't be fooled by them! Shoot fast! At this time, Luo Jun began to counterattack, but it was too late.
The machine gun tower erupted with fire, and the artillery of the Luo army suffered a fierce close blow, and countless artillery members were killed. This group of old hairy people has already killed the red eye, and there are a lot of shells piled up on the ground, and they are still firing.
Then the door of the car opened, and eight people came down from each armored car, each armed with submachine guns, and the artillery positions of the Romanian army were directly occupied.
The division commander of the Luo army ordered the troops to retreat, at least to recapture the lost artillery positions. Who knew that the Soviet army was already using the artillery that had just been captured, quickly adjusting the direction and angle of fire, and the Luo army, which was thinking of returning to help, fired flat. At the same time, Soviet artillery was bombarding their retreat, and this Romanian army was already equivalent to being surrounded.
It's not a fight, it's more like a massacre.
"Die! Enemy! When you follow Hitler's invasion of us, you must be prepared to be killed! One soldier shouted.
Yang Mingzhi heard in his ears, although he had no grievances against this group of Romanians, since they were invaders, there was only one solution - extermination.
The Romanians suffered huge human losses, and Kuznetsov saw that the time had come to counterattack, and if one more straw was put on it, the camel would completely collapse!
"Order the troops, all bayonets, and launch a general attack on the enemy!"
Yang Mingzhi received the same order, and he glanced at his wife. "Xiao Tao, I dare not disobey the military order. We're going on the offensive. β
Star fruit had a resolute look in her eyes, "It's okay." I'm not afraid, husband, I'll follow you. β
"Okay." Yang Mingzhi looked at his subordinates. "All of them! On the bayonet, the submachine gun was replaced with a new ammunition strand. For victory! Ulla! β
The Romanians were shocked by the fact that the Soviets had paid a terrible price and had obviously not destroyed many enemies, on the contrary, the Soviets attacked overwhelmingly, and they had at least 10,000 men.
The Soviet army was full of corpses of Luo soldiers on the way forward, Yang Mingzhi took his wife's hand, the two did not run fast, and they just happened to see the tragedy of the battlefield.
The Romanian army had collapsed, their retreat to the south was blocked by a group of armored vehicles, and the machine-gun fire was very ferocious. Their own artillery fire was also occupied by the Soviets and was firing at their own people.
The troops of the Romanian army, which did not intervene in the fighting, had already broken out on a large scale, and they were mainly responsible for the logistics of the entire division, which numbered nearly 3,000 people. The troops in the encirclement suffered heavy losses, and the mayor led the remnants to break through to the west. They had the advantage in numbers, but they finally broke through, and then ran wildly all the way.
The Soviets were ordered to stop the pursuit.
Yang Mingzhi heard the soldiers around him cheering happily, and some of them were even shouting loudly. "Go back and tell your buddies that the great Soviet Red Army is invincible. Flee back to their homeland with fear! β
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