Chapter 404: The Fortifications Ahead

The motorized Germans moved extremely fast, and Niklaus ordered his men to move even faster, as if their enemies were soon fleeing. Pen? Interesting? Pavilion wWw. biquge。 info

He gave the drivers of each vehicle a death order: "Don't worry about road bumps being harmful to vehicles, this operation we will try to reach the goal in one day." “

The driver certainly obeyed the order, which also made the whole army suffer. People who sit in trucks, jeeps, etc., are barely comfortable because the vehicles have shock absorbing springs.

The soldiers on top of the tank were in bad trouble, they were glad they had ropes tied up. Even so, there were soldiers who were knocked down, and the troops would not stop, so they had to be picked up by jeeps.

Such a convoy ran wildly in the wooded wilderness, and its government speed was up to 25 km/h. For tank three and assault guns, this is the highest field speed, and they usually do not move at this high speed.

The consequences of the wild run were obvious, two No. 3 tanks had fallen off their tracks due to the falling off of the load wheels, and they leaned sharply and threw out nearly twenty soldiers on them!

Nicklaus was most worried about this, but it happened anyway. "The troops cannot be left behind because of you. Your two crews and a platoon of soldiers will stop for the time being and continue to move on while the tanks are repaired! With that, he led his troops on.

Nicklaus is so anxious, what about Yang Mingzhi on the other side?

After the Soviet army joined forces, Yang Mingzhi ordered the troops to form a fan-shaped formation. Four infantry battalions were on the perimeter, and the side facing the river was undefensive. The core command, the Gomel city council, the partisans, and Balzen's exhausted fighters were closely protected.

Doronin joined his detached soldiers, his artillery battalion in the middle of the formation, its recoilless guns all loaded, and the soldiers towed the wheeled gun mounts forward, ready to enter combat at any moment.

Yang Mingzhi is not as optimistic as most people, as far as the current situation is concerned, even if the enemy attacks, the troops can still fight.

However, many people are too confident, and the so-called speed of our march is extremely fast, especially in the forest, no one can beat it.

This is true, it is as if it is a flag for itself, who knows that in order to eat the "big fish" of the German army, the armored troops of 715 are dispatched!

Yang Mingzhi ordered a company to act as a scout, and among them was a little veteran of the reconnaissance company, whose keen eyesight and battlefield insight might be able to perceive the Germans in advance.

On the other hand, Nicklaus's rampage had a result, and the soldiers witnessed the tragedy of the bombing of Homnage, which was made by their own bombers.

Some of the recruits complained: "Why can't we increase air strikes and use aerial bombs to deal with the enemy, so that the troops can kill a lot less people, and we don't have to march so badly." “

The veterans rejected the idea: "Those Soviets are like squirrels, unless we cut down all the trees, they will have nowhere to hide." “

In order to deal with the forest guerrillas, the later American troops frantically poured Agent Orange in Vietnam, and they could not destroy all the forests, and the German army was even more impossible.

They arrived at their scheduled location as planned, and the time was still in the afternoon, and the sun was beginning to set.

Nicklaus had been looking at the map all the way, and when he had determined the location, he ordered his troops to stop, and the whole army immediately disembarked to build a defensive position.

In the plan, Nicklaus asked his troops to build a two-kilometer-long infantry line, while the tank forces were to be used intensively.

For no other reason, the former was like a fish drifting, firing as soon as the enemy appeared, and then the tank units went out in a big way.

Nicklaus had learned his previous lesson, he never wanted to let tanks into the forest again! The armored troops entered the rest and overhaul, and the infantry covered their numb buttocks and carried sapper shovels to dig pits.

There were machine-gun squads every hundred meters, and they built machine-gun forts quickly. Such strongholds were arranged in a row, and it took only a few hours to fully establish them.

This was the position of each squad, a total of twenty groups of two hundred people. In the rear, there was a reserve of nearly 800 men, only to wait for another change, to come to the Butan combination.

As night fell, the Germans were still digging the pits. Ordinary front-line soldiers had to dig high-quality foxholes and shovel out earth and rocks to reinforce machine-gun positions.

The men were smoking cigarettes and digging in the earth, and the soldiers in the rear were digging makeshift trenches, which were necessary fortifications and places for them to rest at night to shelter from the north wind.

The Germans didn't mind lighting bonfires for food and warmth, and Nicklaus never imagined that the enemy would march at night!

Yes! The German bonfires, and the stars brought by the smokers, were still conspicuous in the moonlight.

The Scouts have very sharp eyes, and they also carry binoculars. As soon as you look in the direction of the firelight, you can see the clue immediately.

"It's really terrible, the enemy was really hit by the deputy division commander, we not only have pursuers, but also intercept us. Joseph, you hurry back and tell the deputy division commander that the enemy position has been found ahead! The company commander ordered.

Yang Mingzhi's large army was a kilometer behind, and the whole army did not march in the forest, for speed and safety, it was more appropriate to use a small wilderness in the forest.

got the enemy's strength, Yang Mingzhi didn't show much surprise. He immediately ordered the scouts to continue observing, and the whole army stopped on the spot.

It was eight o'clock at night, and the moon in the sky was very bright. The hostile alert has many people worried, and they feel that they are in danger again.

After a while, the scouts came back one after another, and Yang Mingzhi also took the opportunity to hold an emergency meeting.

The battalion commanders gathered, and the scouts gave a complete report.

Yang Mingzhi asserted: "The enemy has built a position, and it is very obvious that we have been exposed. Now we have only two ways to go, either to the west and make a tactical turn to avoid them. Either we will attack and destroy the enemy in front of us. There is no other way, I am afraid that we have enemies behind us, and to the east is a wide river! “

Yang Mingzhi's subordinates are all militants, and even Qiao Shuya, the commander of the female battalion, is not willing to escape.

Evgeny said bitterly: "War! As men we have to fight, and running away is not our style. “

Hearing this, Joshua was not happy: "You men dare to fight, and we women can also be fully competent." “

Several battalion commanders were enthusiastic about fighting, and the soldiers below also wanted to fight.

This enthusiasm is morale, although Yang Mingzhi felt that it was very strange for the German army to suddenly appear and build a position, it was not impossible to fight a battle, the enemy was also some infantry, in terms of combat effectiveness, the 284th Division was very strong. Could it be that they can still kill the tank? What about killing them, RPGs, anti-tank guns, and recoilless guns are enough to kill them.

Therefore, Yang Mingzhi immediately notified the whole army to prepare for battle, and everyone should rest now and prepare for a night attack!

After that, the official operational meeting began, and the radio contacted the headquarters of the 284th Division, ordering Yevlov to mobilize troops to respond at any time. (To be continued.) )