In terms of the power of life and death of the troops, Wagner, the commander of the army group, has extremely high power. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ｂｉｑUｇE。 ｉｎｆｏ

He very much hoped that the various armies under his command could go to the front line to fight the Soviets, but because they had some inferior soldiers on hand, their poor combat effectiveness was inevitable, and even worse, many heavy weapons were withdrawn into the hands of the front-line friendly forces.

Some of the newly formed units, integrated into this group army, were even poorly equipped. A lot of captured Polish and French weapons were put into use, and the amount of general-purpose machine gun equipment was reduced, and instead of a large number of Czech goods, such as the famous ZB26 in China.

And because the main responsibility of these units is to defend the rear, it is no longer suitable to be widely equipped with the flexible MG34, the captured Soviet-made M1910 Maxim machine gun, the ZB57 Czech heavy machine gun to equip the troops, and even a large number of old MG13s.

Such weapons were difficult to carry on the Eastern Front, and the Soviets had begun to massively use the T3476 tanks, which were more comprehensive, instead of the T26 with thin skin and big stuffing. And No. 3 and No. 4, in order to deal with these troubles, had to use various means to enhance the thickness of their armor, such as welding tracks.

To make matters worse, the RPGs and rocket artillery used by the Soviets, as defensive weapons, their combat effectiveness greatly offset the blitzkrieg impact of the German army.

Both sides are using rocket-boosted grenade weapons, which are the latest to enter the war, and their attack power is really so strong that the advantage of tanks in war is greatly reduced. This may not have been a big problem for the Soviets, but for the Germans, the blitzkrieg may hasten its collapse.

The Eastern Front was already a little far from Belarus, and the commander of the army group, Wagner, still had to refocus on the military administration of his district, that is, the area south of Babruisk.

The 715th and 722nd Divisions were heavily damaged, and the former had little strength left. His division commander, Schultz, had also recently fallen ill, and he knew that this man must be in a hurry. "The 707th Division was attacked by the Soviet Army, the division headquarters was destroyed, and the division commander was killed! Now the 715th Division is almost on the verge of following in his footsteps! ”

The fact that the battle situation is like this cannot be said to be an unfavorable battle for the officers and men on the front line. If it is said that their combat effectiveness is inferior, there is also a regiment of the 722nd Division, which fought to the last soldier to cover the retreating troops. To his surprise, it stands to reason that a regiment holding the line can hold out for several days, but it is defeated in just one day and the whole army is annihilated.

"The enemy's combat effectiveness is very strong, and the 284th Guards Division is fundamentally different from the rabble!" The so-called rabble he was referring to was a series of units set up by the Soviet Union in response to guerrilla warfare, such as guerrilla groups and guerrilla brigades, whose mode of operation was still conventional warfare. The small ones were stragglers, and judging from the report, they attacked the Germans, but they also attacked their own nationals, which is very apt to describe as bandits.

Wagner did not want to punish the army stationed on the road, believing that the arrest of Dietrich and the two division commanders would only plunge the already panicked troops into further confusion and simply make the other two able-bodied 847th and 805th divisions lose the will to fight.

When the army loses morale, the war simply cannot be carried out.

Therefore, Wagner issued an order: the 715th Division immediately returned to the rear to rest, the 722nd Division remained stationed, and the 847th and 805th Divisions remained stationed. The gap in the defensive line was quickly filled by the 707th Division, which had completed the rest.

The order was approved by John Kubet, and the reason why he was able to make a decision so quickly was that the message sent to Berlin was quickly replied to.

Hitler was busy right now, and he was planning a great expedition with his generals. Little did the Führer know that in the small southern swamps of White Russia there was a man who knew his long-term plans well.

The Germans had to drive straight from the south and occupy the grain, oil, and industrial cores of the Soviet Union, which could also force the Soviet Union to defeat. To accomplish this, the Germans had to launch a ferocious offensive in the south, all the way east to Asia.

Therefore, the intelligence of the defeat of Belarus in the south disappeared into the massive front-line intelligence, and the Führer was overwhelmed, and he really couldn't afford to do stupid things for the second-line troops. However, the troops were indeed defeated, and the loss of 7,000 people was not an unacceptable loss on the front, but such losses were actually accomplished by the guerrillas.

The Führer's refusal to believe that this result came from the 284th Guards Division, because his beloved SS Imperial Division had already announced that it had eliminated this Soviet ace half a year ago!

He gave John Kube the order: "You are the representative of my life in Belarus, you are my incarnation in Belarus." The order given to you is to create a stable rear, and you have full authority on how to accomplish this task. ”

With such an order, John Kube was relieved to do it boldly.

The Wehrmacht was also at the mercy of the Nazi Party, and the almost bald John Kube was the top boss. The movement of troops began immediately, but considering the combat effectiveness of the Soviet troops in the swamps, he also had to sweat for the commander of the army group, Wagner.

The lack of troops was a big problem, and it took a lot of time to bring in new recruits from Germany. There is probably only one solution to this problem, that is, to send the "Vostok Battalion" to Wagner, and then send it to the front line of the highway to garrison.

Most of these people were Soviet prisoners of war who had defected, and many of them were not Russian or White Russian citizens. After the Baltic states were forcibly occupied by the Soviet Union, it was impossible for the locals to accept Soviet rule instantly, but many local people were forced to join the Soviet army. When the Germans occupied the area, the POWs were given two choices: die, or join the puppet army. They decisively agreed to the latter, and a large number of Eastern battalions were thus created.

There were also a number of White Russians in these Eastern battalions, to be exact, White Russian nationalists and Poles, and as the war grew larger, these units, which were more used as logistics troops, were also sent to the front to fill the gap in German personnel losses.

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Schulz, who was still suffering from a severe cold, finally received an order from his superiors, and Swagge walked to his hospital bed with a smile on his face and said, "Friend, the superiors did not punish us. The situation in this battle is very complicated, and the military court will not trouble us, but our 715th Division will be disarmed. ”

This was completely unexpected by Scholz, who coughed for a while, and said with a wry smile: "I thought we were all going to be shot, maybe it was because of my service to the Third Reich for so long that I was forgiven for my sins." Maybe I'll be retired early after the reshuffle. ”

"Who knows! Anyway, we are going to withdraw to Babruisk to rest. ”

It was a relatively large city, Schultz thought about it, and he had been in the forest for months. "Well, we're leaving, and who's going to take over our vacancy?"

"It's the 707th Division, the unit we took over before! This division has regained its strength. After a pause, Swagger continued, "In addition, ten Eastern battalions will also be deployed here. ”

"Camp Orient?! The rabble!? Schultz of the Eastern Battalion was not at all optimistic about it, such troops were initially recruited privately by front-line troops, and later this illegal behavior was recognized by the Führer, and it became a system of "mercenary recruitment" that tended to be perfected.

Such troops are very poor in combat, after all, they have no faith at all. "Our soldiers of the Third Reich fought for the construction of Greater Germany, what about these Eastern battalions? They betrayed the Russians, betrayed Stalin, and now how can we guarantee that they will not betray us. ”

"That's what the superiors meant! Don't worry, we've been fighting hard here for a long time, and the soldiers are tired, so we should retreat to the rear to rest. ”

Scholz breathed a long sigh of relief, looked at his old buddy, and sighed in his heart: "Swagger, we all participated in World War I twenty years ago, and our Germany was defeated. Now that this is our war of revenge, the war has reached this point, and I am worried that we will lose again! When we began to rearm the prisoners of war to serve us, I am afraid that the strength of the German army was not as strong as before. ”

"Shut up! These failed statements were heard by the Gestapo, and even if the Front did not want to depose us, they would have thrown us into the Dachau concentration camp! ”

Schultz looked haggard and shook his head with a wry smile, "Who knows the future." One step at a time. (To be continued.) )