The retreat road was also very long, and there were still more than 900 troops left under Yang Mingzhi's leadership. www.biquge.info The soldiers had been trying to persevere, and they knew that the way back was likely to be met with enemy reinforcements.

In this way, Yang Mingzhi directly ordered: "All of you keep your eyes open, load your bullets, and change from marching to combat posture in an instant." ”

As usual, Balzen's men opened the way in front and pulled a certain distance from the large forces.

Eventually, they encountered an anomaly, and Balzen encountered a German unit.

"Report! Report! The enemy is found ahead, and the strength is a battalion! The scout shouted directly into the walkie-talkie, which surprised Yang Mingzhi, who received the information.

The troops had just come out of a wood, and were walking in the open field, and in the woods in front of them found the enemy again?!

"The whole army is immediately ready for battle!"

Yang Mingzhi, like the others, was prostrate on the ground with guns in hand, and the elite troops of Yevgeny and Lavlenj immediately set up machine guns and organized a wake-up defense line.

At this time, Balzen reported again. His purpose was simple, to launch a surprise attack on the enemy.

"The enemy has more troops than you! Can you just kill them?! Yang Mingzhi questioned, but Balzen swore by it, because he felt that the German army seemed to be in very poor spirits, and it was simply a rabble.

In this way, Yang Mingzhi trusted his judgment and ordered an immediate attack.

In fact, this German army was Freud's army, and the German army attacking Homnitsch was forced to return to Lechica, not expecting an encounter on the way to the army.

Balzen ordered all the submachine gunners to be in the first row of the front, accompanied by some machine gunners, and powerful fire appeared in the forest. The Soviet soldiers, all wearing white cloaks, suddenly stood up from the snow, and the dense barrage instantly knocked the German battalion to collapse.

This surprised Balzen, "The enemy could not be so weak, why did they withdraw with a symbolic resistance just after the battle?" ”

Before he could figure it out, the Germans made an even more astonishing move - a rout.

The elite soldiers of the reconnaissance company tried to continue the pursuit, but were stopped by Balzen. "No one is allowed to act rashly, perhaps this is a trap set by the enemy to lure us into the encirclement. Misha, you lead a few people to take a look! ”

Yang Mingzhi's large army immediately set up temporary fortifications, and Balzen was also dormant in the woods, and several scouts touched it, and they hurried back to report the astonishing news to Balzen.

Therefore, Yang Mingzhi also immediately got the information from the front: "A large number of enemies have been found at the front, with at least two battalions. They're on the march! What to do? ”

This was Balzen's questioning, Yang Mingzhi thought about it, ordered to respond to all changes with no change, and ordered the scouts to continue the investigation.

Both he and Balzen were very worried that the enemy was setting a trap, which turned out to be overthinking. The enemy did not retreat at all, but really retreated, because this was the so-called "victorious" army.

Hoffman and Freud's troops, their losses were too great, more than a thousand were killed, and there were nearly a thousand wounded soldiers of all kinds, and the soldiers who could still fight were also exhausted. When he learned that the regular Soviet army was directly attacking Lechicha, he was going to fill the gap in the number of troops there, as if he was going to die, and the weather was cold, and the morale of the soldiers suddenly fell to the bottom.

The German soldiers were also human beings, just like the vast number of Soviet soldiers before, and the collapse of the will to fight led to a large-scale surrender. And this group of German troops at least did not tie their hands and captured, they ran very fast and directly turned into a rout.

Fear is spreading, which Hoffman and Freud simply can't control, and even shooting a few deserters won't help, because everyone is on the run.

The two gritted their teeth and simply ordered: "All, retreat to the northeast!" ”

Yang Mingzhi and Balzen simply lay dormant for two hours, and then did not fight again.

In the encounter, Balzen found more than 50 corpses of the enemy, and there were no casualties among his own troops.

The battle alarm was lifted, and the troops continued to retreat south, after which they were not hindered by the Germans.

After the encounter, Yang Mingzhi also checked those German troops, and after careful consideration, he came to a reliable conclusion. "They are supposed to be attacking the troops of Homnich, and as we feared, they are indeed going back to reinforce them. But we have quickly left Lechicha, and they are destined not to catch us. ”

"As a result, because our army's blocking battle was fought too well, and even a local counteroffensive was carried out, this group of people was exhausted. That's why they collapsed at the first touch. Balzen summed himself up, which was recognized by Yang Mingzhi.

"So we continued on our way and returned to the barracks a little earlier to rest."

Yang Mingzhi's men spent the night in the woods, and on the way to retreat, they bypassed Homnich, and even saw the city from a distance, but had no plans to enter it. On the outskirts of the city, some of the horses abandoned by the Germans were dead, and some were actually gnawing on the hay under the snow.

How can you let go of such a precious thing as a horse? Therefore, the troops took away more than 200 military horses in one go, and this unexpected gain made the troops immediately hang some baggage directly on the horses' backs.

Therefore, when reporting the situation to the barracks at night, Yang Mingzhi deliberately talked about what he saw and heard on the way to withdraw the troops.

"Congratulations, we've been in need of some big livestock." In addition to congratulating on the victory, Yevlov also said the big picture of the battle. "Dear Berekov, this operation we organized, no matter how large the scale is, it will be a battle."

Yang Mingzhi was taken aback. Battle? Large-scale battles can turn into battles, and besides, the main task this time is not to rescue prisoners of war. In order to complete the mission, they were forced to attack Homnich and divide the enemy with heavy forces, so that this army could create chaos in the enemy-occupied area.

As a result, Yevlov claimed that he could not say a word, because the significance of this battle was much greater than the rescue of prisoners of war, and macroscopically, in the southern regions of Belarus, this operation caused a chain reaction.

"Our guerrilla allies, because the main forces of the enemy's security forces have been sending reinforcements to Lechtsa one after another, and in some places the troops are empty, and the fighting behavior that they did not dare to do in the past broke out almost simultaneously this time. Many guerrilla brigades and detachments have achieved very good results. The intelligence department has already made statistics on these results, especially the brilliant results of our 284th Division, which has been informed by the commander of the front. ”

Yang Mingzhi was confident, and now Timoshenko not only knew the results of the rescue operation to rescue the prisoners of war, but also learned that a security division in the rear of the German army suffered heavy casualties. These feats, as far as the current point of view, are very rare in the entire ranks of the Soviet army.

More importantly, the political significance of this battle should be far greater than the military significance, which symbolizes the indomitable resistance of the people in the enemy-occupied areas, and the fact that the guerrillas can achieve great results in flexible and mobile warfare, and that the guerrillas are not a rabble at all.

The remnants of Hoffman and Freud spared a large circle before arriving in Lechicha, where their arrival was astonishing.

Of the three main regiments of the 715th Division, the third regimental commander Mansa looked at his colleagues with incredible eyes, their military appearance was simply a group of beggars, not many rags, and this group of comrades also carried a large number of wounded. Needless to say, they must have had a very brutal battle.

So, Mansa didn't talk much until the three of them got together.

Hoffman sighed slowly: "We encountered the elite units of the Soviet army, we fought, but we were defeated by them. If all the Soviet troops were like this, we would not have been able to win this war. ”

Mansa did not refute or affirm, he did not express his position. said: "You go and report to the commander about the specific matter, the situation of the 715th Division is almost as bad as the previous 707th Division." The enemy has attacked Lechicha, and now the troops of the 722nd and 805th Divisions are about to be stationed here, and our division has suffered heavy losses. We're sorry, but we're also likely to take a break. ”

At this point, Hoffman and Freud don't care. The regiment of the two was truly defeated, and the morale was gone. The two of them also confessed to any punishment, but these things were put aside for the time being, and everything was discussed when they had rested. (To be continued.) )