The explosion of the high-explosive bomb kicks up a large amount of dust, while the cloudburst bomb produces a huge amount of thick gas, and the thick smoke of these clouds sends straight into the sky, and the three cloudburst bombs eventually merge into a large mushroom cloud. It floated in the air for a long time, refusing to dissipate.

For veterans, the loud sound of shells is earlier than familiar. But the sound of this rocket artillery was too violent, but fortunately, the witty soldier covered his ears early!

With a loud bang on the ground and smoke and dust rising, the soldiers of the German patrol station, three kilometers away, finally determined that it was an attack.

They knew nothing about the infiltration of Soviet troops into the railroad at night. After all, there have been very few attacks on this section of the railway for months, and it is certainly the swamps to the east, where the damned guerrillas and the friendly forces in the east are inseparable. They seem to have forgotten about the railway line at all, even if a crowd passed through it more than twenty days ago, and they only destroyed the barbed wire, and that was it.

The patrol station reported at this time, and it did not seem to attract the attention of the superiors. The patrol station had only one squad and one motorcycle, and they were very self-aware and knew that it would be extremely risky to fight the guerrillas head-on. So since the large crowd crossed the railway, the patrol has slowed down, and the frequent patrols have become a show, and they even close their doors at night when they are most likely to sneak attack!

Reality drove the German soldier to act as a shrunken turtle, but this time, when the loud noise scared him out of bed one by one, they went out of the room and saw a huge puff of smoke rising out of thin air in the flat ground, like a volcanic eruption! They knew something was wrong.

The patrol post is stationed in only one squad, but the area of responsibility is five kilometers long. With such a small number of areas responsible for the environmentally complex railway lines, the Germans had a reason to do so, since the defenders here were under less pressure to defend.

One of the German motorcycles raced along the dirt road towards the mushroom cloud, and the post reported urgently to its superiors.

The German army stationed west of the railway line, south of Moziri, was the 734th Division, whose commander was Paul Borisman.

Like many rear security divisions, his troops are also scattered, and there are a large number of puppet army units such as the Oriental Battalion and the Police Battalion under his command. Borisman was well aware of the Pripet swamp, where the 284th Division of the Soviet Army was stationed.

They acted like partisans, but they were so strong that they were able to fight even at the campaign level. Fortunately, the direction of their attack was to the north, and the 707th and 722nd Divisions fought again this month, but this time the Germans won (propaganda claimed to have thwarted the partisans' attack on the lines of communication)!

Borisman believed that the operation had inflicted heavy losses on the troops, so much so that it had been almost a month and all the lines of communication had been unharmed! At best, it was an extremely limited destruction by sporadic partisans.

But he did receive a report from a patrol station on the railroad line.

This telegram is very alarming:

"At nine o'clock this morning, bandits attacked the railway line and blew up the military column transporting tanks of our army. Our army went to the scene to investigate as soon as possible, but the three scouts died mysteriously and were suspected of suffocation! After it lost contact, we sent out another reconnaissance and found that the railway had been blown up, and the completely damaged tanks were scattered in the form of fragments in the forest. Three huge craters appeared at the center of the explosion, and the surrounding land was scorched!

We stopped the military train passing here, and now, ask our superiors to send someone to repair the railway! ”

For a long time, the immediate superiors of the patrol did not receive such an incredible telegram, and the original text was immediately transmitted to the division headquarters.

The headquarters of the 734th Division was suddenly in a commotion, and the chief of staff immediately realized a simple and terrible conjecture: "It seems that the 284th Division of the Russians, their attack is about to be aimed at us!" ”

Saying this, all the staff officers were shocked!

"What? Lietman, what do you say? They're going to beat us?! Borisman asked nervously.

"Isn't it? Judging by the reports alone, the damage caused by the attack of the Russians was extremely serious! They weren't attacking like some of the bandits, this time they were planning to cripple one of our vital railway lines!

My division commander, if this railway line is paralyzed, the supplies of our army will have to go around a huge line, and the transportation of each tank will increase the transportation cost by at least twelve hours! ”

As he spoke, the chief of staff summoned the division commander to the large map spread out, and pointed at the accident node with his baton.

"This is the report from Patrol Station No. 30, look at this railway line arrangement, this is the closest railway line from Minsk to Kiev, and now it is broken! We must repair it quickly, and we must be prepared for the ferocious onslaught of the enemy! ”

"My God! These damn Russians actually chose this time to attack?! Division Commander Borisman clenched his head.

"Not only the Russian partisans in the swamps, but now they are intensifying their deployment on the west side of the Dnieper, and it is clear that the Russians are preparing a large-scale offensive! Because, our army is doing its best to deliver ordnance to the front line! But this crucial railway line was blown up! ”

Borisman quickly understood the chief of staff's assumption that the sabotage of the railway line was more under the command of the Soviet authorities, as if the sabotage of the railway line had been carried out by the enemy.

Now, when a train full of tanks is blown up, dozens of tanks are lost at once, and to destroy so many tanks on the battlefield will cost the Russians huge casualties, while a handful of partisans have achieved such results at the cost of explosives.

Borisman can't help but be angry, but what else can be done?

It was only ten o'clock in the morning that he immediately convened a military meeting, informed of a serious attack in the morning, and gave the key order:

"Now the regiments are urgently assembled and ready for battle! All police battalions and Oriental volunteer battalions immediately went to the villages in charge to strictly guard them! Once you find out that there is a collaborator, hang you on the spot! Order the garrison closest to the place of the incident to immediately inspect the nearby villages and execute some of them as a deterrent!

Engineer troops, immediately move out the rails prepared in the warehouse, and fix the rails within one day! ”

The Germans had a lot of experience in repairing damaged railways. The German officers and soldiers who were dealing with the harassment and sabotage of the partisans in various places had to face the dilemma of the railway sleepers being pried open and the railroad tracks being blown up. Therefore, the method they adopted was to assemble the rails and sleepers in advance, remove all the debris on the broken line, relay the roadbed, and then lay the prefabricated railway.

In this way, the Germans were able to complete the road rehabilitation work in the shortest possible time.

The Germans were very strict in this regard, and even the 734th Division, which had never encountered a bombed railway, now had their prefabricated railways finally put to use. It's just that all the officers and men of this division hope that their prefabricated railways will never come in handy.

The order was absolute, and because Borisman was still a veteran Nazi, his methods of revenge were tougher than those of his colleagues.

At this moment, the chief of staff had to question: "Our priority now is to repair the roads at a uniform speed and inform the railway dispatch of the whole of Belarus about the situation here, and not to retaliate!" We execute some villagers as a mere outrage, and it doesn't mean anything to get rid of the bandits hiding in the forest. ”

"Nope! We must destroy the will of the people of the occupied territories to resist! Destroy those who dare to oppose us! "The village is the breeding ground for the guerrillas, and if we exterminate all these villagers, the guerrillas will not be fed, and they will naturally perish themselves." ”

"Forget it! If this rhetoric worked, those guerrillas in the swamp would have died already in winter! Borisman, we have to face the reality that if the capital punishment of the peaceful inhabitants here is carried out as often as usual, it will only inspire their will to resist! ”

"Then they will resist! Just in time to wipe it out completely! ”

Seeing his angry bullfighting appearance, the chief of staff shut up.

As the chief of staff of the 734th Division, Littmann was not a fanatical Nazi like Borisman, he boasted some Junker aristocratic spirit, advocating that the troops should be as kind to the locals as possible in the occupied area! Unfortunately, the authorities have lost patience with the increasing guerrilla attacks, and massacres of locals have continued one after another.

For every German soldier killed, five locals were hanged, and when a German soldier was wounded, one was shot. When it came to carrying out orders, Lietman had no doubts about the resoluteness of his own people.

This time it is not known how many German soldiers died in the attack of the enemy, and five times as many villagers as this will be killed!