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On the other hand, the Germans suffered a politically catastrophic defeat at Lechicha, and their Nazi representatives were brutally killed by the partisans who had entered the city! And unlike previous assassination operations, this time it was a direct attack by a large army, and the guards were unable to parry it.

The incompetence of the German 715 Division was directly exposed during the war!

"They are like a bunch of fools, being played around by the guerrillas. On the one hand, it is said that Homnich has discovered the main force of the partisans, and on the other hand, it is said that its main force has been found in Lechicha. In the end, both sides failed! Could it be that all these guerrillas fell from the sky? John Kube was annoyed.

The defeat was the largest defeat on the long road from Mozyr to Gomel in months, and the Germans had already paid the price of thousands of casualties in a series of attacks around the road.

Both the 707th and 715th Divisions suffered heavy casualties, and in retaliation, both attempted to eliminate the Soviet threat by striking at the surrounding Soviet villages.

As a result, it was clear that the seeds of revenge were being sown, and John Kube discovered that the Wehrmacht troops stationed in Belarus were entering a strange circle. When they are attacked, they can't find the guerrillas, like ordinary people venting their anger, and then they are attacked on a larger scale.

Attacks also usually took place at night, when German soldiers standing guard and patrolling were most likely to be ambushed, after which their companions often found the bodies of their hanged companions in the woods......

The German 715th Division suffered heavy losses in this battle, and their casualties were not enough to cause the army to collapse, but the psychological defenses of the soldiers almost collapsed. Of its three regular infantry regiments, two have lost their combat capability.

Hoffman and Floyd's troops, whose soldiers suffered great psychological trauma. A large number of frostbitten wounded in battle and non-combat attrition gathered in the German army's Xianqian Hospital, and the number was almost the size of a regiment. The others were already exhausted, and it would have cost them their lives to throw them into the battle for Lechicha.

The Soviets simply came and went, and with exaggerated weapons, as if reproducing the blitzkrieg that the Germans were proud of, they instantly broke through the garrison headquarters.

The Germans were almost unable to resist the offensive, and on this basis, their superiors did not punish the 715th Division.

For no other reason, this army has already exhausted its energy, and if it continues to be punished, a total collapse will surely occur.

Hoffman and Floyd, who were already mentally prepared to be arrested by the Gestapo in the field, were ordered to return to the garrison later, but they were not punished at all.

Division Commander Schultz ordered the commanders of his three elite regiments to immediately hold a meeting to announce the new orders from his superiors.

Orders shouldn't be good! Hoffman was very worried, because as long as he conducted a thorough investigation, it was known that he had lied about the military situation, so that his regiment was dragged by the enemy, and only then could he not fully and timely reinforce Lechtsa.

At the headquarters of the 715th Division, Schultz read the order of his superiors.

The whole order, first blamed the incompetence of the 715th Division, but there was no further punishment. The most critical part is to order the 715th Division to continue to defend the road, and require more patrols in the forests around the road and the establishment of a large number of observation posts and strongholds. A thorough investigation of the guerrillas revealed that suspicious persons could be shot without interrogation.

The order was to encourage the soldiers to create a no-man's land, so that the threat on both sides of the road would not exist.

After the reading, Scholz himself had an opinion, and he looked helplessly at his regimental commanders.

"Gentlemen, our superiors accuse us of being a bunch of fools. It seems to me that they simply don't understand what happened to us, who is stupid? We only have one division, and we are in the light. Our enemies, but not at all around this road, are from the swamps! They have the ability to run long distances and are very combative, and we are just a group of poorly equipped security forces! There are also large areas to defend, and even if the villages on both sides of the road are completely cleared, the only thing that can be achieved is to kill a group of meaningless villagers. ”

Scholz and his men at least had a sense of honor, wanted unarmed ordinary people to open fire, and then claimed to have eliminated a number of partisans. That's what its predecessor, the 707th Division, did, and what did it turn out to be.

Hoffman breathed a sigh of relief, he was safe here! He himself was like this, but hundreds of his own soldiers had already died, and the pathetic corpses could not be pulled back, half of the combat soldiers had lost their ability to fight, and the rest were almost mentally broken. He had to admit: "The losses of my troops are huge, and it takes a long time to recuperate and regain their combat effectiveness, as well as a large replenishment of personnel." ”

The same was true of Freud's remarks.

Schultz shook his head helplessly and said, "You are the main force of our division, and the enemy attacked Lechicha, where the main logistics troops came as a garrison. It is normal for a division to have more than 10,000 troops, and only half of the actual combat strength is full. The current law and order warfare has made our entire army have to fight, but the combat capability of the logistics troops is very limited. For this reason, he had to order the troops to continue to carry out the orders of his superiors.

"Gentlemen, although it is said that it is not desirable to open fire on ordinary people, this is what military orders are. They demanded that we continue to purge the enemy of the enemy, and that there is only one best way to fight law and order -- to establish a no-man's land. We must carry out the order. ”

Even if everyone is against it, there is no way to order it. Including John Kubet, who had always opposed the Wehrmacht's knife by ordinary Soviets, he was questioned by the Führer.

Because the party representative was killed, this is what happened half a year after the start of the war. What was the point of the German occupation if such partisan assassinations occurred in every occupied Soviet city?

The order to create a no-man's land to secure the lines of communication effectively became Hitler's order, which Scholz had to obey.

In this way, the war has no honor, which makes Scholz even more disgusted.

In this way, after a little settlement, the German 715th Division launched a retaliatory operation.

Originally, under the iron heel of the German army, not all Soviets were killed, and some who were obviously helpless were spared. Now these people are simply being controlled by being defined as "accomplices of the partisans".

Some villages were only controlled by the Germans, and puppet armies were set up within them to prevent them from being controlled. Now, all these villagers have been gathered together and then brutally slaughtered. The Germans then carried out further clean-up and burned the village. In the spirit of German meticulousness, all the tools available to the villagers were destroyed, and important warm clothing was gathered and burned.

On both sides of the road from Lechtsa to Gomel, many village chiefs lit fires, and this section of the road was never within the range of the Soviet 284th Division. The only battles on this section of the road were the rescue of prisoners of war and the ambush of a convoy of wounded soldiers, with the result that the surrounding villagers became the target of German revenge.

However, the brutal massacres of the Germans did not only kill all the villagers, they also found partisans in some villages.

The Germans found villagers who had spontaneously resisted, classified as partisans, and were then shot and killed.

Firing squads often work in groups of 10 to carry out the executions of those caught. German soldiers also recorded this scene, capturing five partisans during a purge on December 27.

They were tied up to be shot, and before the execution, the five let out a strange laugh, as if mocking the German soldiers. The smiles were so disturbing until their death after the execution.

The fact that partisans were spotted during the operation gave Schultz, who had committed the massacre, some psychological relief, and he convinced himself that some of the people killed were partisans, but what about the people who were killed by mistake? There will always be civilian deaths in war, and this cannot be avoided.

The Germans were engaged in massacres, and of course this information would have been learned by the 284th Guards Division. This is not surprising, if they had not carried out massacres, they would not have been Nazi Germany.

These behaviors can only be dealt with with by an eye for an eye and a tooth for a tooth. But first, the Soviets had to prepare for a counterattack, and many problems with weapons had to be resolved, and it was up to Balzen, who had returned with a lot of broken copper and iron. (To be continued.) )