Nearly two months had passed since that battle, and the German 715th Division had suffered huge losses in this battle, and after they lost their ability to take the initiative to attack, they stepped up to establish defensive positions on the original defensive line to guard against the harassment of the damned guerrillas. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 ｉｎｆｏ

However, the partisans from the south did not come to the rescue, and the Soviet stragglers from the north, especially on the Slutsk side, attacked one after another.

The trouble with policing is that you can't tell which guys are good citizens and which guys are guerrillas.

"Within ten kilometers on both sides of the road, all the villages have been razed to the ground. The rest of the villages, we must firmly control, those Slavs still have value to use, let them produce for us. At least one squad of standing troops is stationed in each village, and patrols have been established in some villages. "Schultz did exactly what his superiors ordered.

Since a few days ago, when the partisans attacked the field hospital in a snowstorm, Scholz thought for a moment that this was the work of the guerrillas from the south, but later found out that the enemy was coming from the north.

The pressure on the defense is getting bigger and bigger, and the battle with heavy losses is his nightmare, and Scholz is very worried about this group of guys from the direction of Slutsk, who are also extremely combative. He prayed that once the wind and snow passed, the promise of reinforcements from his superiors would be fulfilled.

On 2 February, there was a rumbling sound in the sky, and several ******** landed on the north side of the road, near the front-line airfield in Lechitsa.

The news immediately reached the division headquarters of the 715th Division.

"It's great that after the reconnaissance plane arrived, we have a few more eyes to observe the enemy to the south, so that if they plan to attack us again, maybe we will know sooner."

But the chief of staff undoubtedly poured cold water on the division commander.

"My friend, these light reconnaissance aircraft are completely unguarded, and when you observe at high altitudes, the resolution of our cameras is too poor. You know, the south side is all marshland, and the vegetation is very dense there. We know the enemy is there, but it will take some effort to find them for good. But......" Swag paused, "the enemy has fighters, this is very clear. Since the Soviets had planes, then there must have been airfields, and there must have been their strongholds around them. The vegetation is very lush, and the terrain is not conducive to their settlement. The enemy is scattered, but their vital facilities must be very obvious! Find and destroy their airfield, and you can greatly weaken their strength! This requires the precise positioning of the reconnaissance aircraft. ”

It dawned on Schultz that it was quite difficult to find residential areas under the woods in densely forested areas.

A few months earlier, the Soviets had airdropped partisans in the swamps, and there was also information on the take-off and landing of aircraft. Moreover, the captured reconnaissance planes originally attached to the 715th Division were also shot down, and only enemy fighters were capable of doing such things.

Schultz breathed a long sigh of relief: "Now we, the garrison divisions responsible for security in the rear, are not so weak. Our division now has only more than 10,000 troops, and can only firmly control the nearly 100-kilometer highway defense line. If our air force group can help us blow up the enemy to the bottom, it will be the greatest support for us. ”

Swagger smiled, how much progress can the Air Force make? Field Marshal Goering claimed that as long as the air force was sent, Britain could be bombed to its knees. The Battle of Britain was still going on, but with what had been achieved so far, Britain had no inclination at all.

Worse still, the air raids shifted from focusing on areas such as large factories and granaries that were supposed to be related to a country's industrial capacity, to a misguided bombing of cities, forcing Britain to retaliate by bombing Berlin. Now, the bombing of cities has become a strategic priority, and the result is that Britain's military manufacturing industry, which is on the verge of collapse, has picked up, and Spitfire fighters have been rolled off the production line one after another. The losses of the German air force are getting bigger and bigger!

In these cases, a discerning person can see from the number of aircraft losses reported by the German army, even if the German army consumed all the aircraft, the British still did not give in. The situation was even worse on the seas, where German warships suffered heavy losses in World War I, and the navy after that had to play submarine tactics in response to the huge Royal Navy. But will the glory days of submarines last forever?

But Britain was too far away, and Swagger only paid attention to what was happening in front of him.

What were the results of more than 40 combat planes of an air force group that consumed 46 250-kilogram aerial bombs in two air raids? It's just a small city of Homnitch that has gone through several brutal battles and has been reduced to the surface of the moon.

How many enemies did this city, which is said to have been liberated by the Soviet army, killed? The waste of eleven tons of bombs to achieve that little result is simply not worth the loss! If every battle is so wasteful, it will be a disaster for the already fragile logistics.

"Rather than the Air Force, let's think about our new equipment. This time, the higher authorities have provided new weapons for our defense forces. tanks and assault guns, they will significantly increase our firepower! What's more, we'll be equipping ourselves with some high-tech weapons as well! Swagger said.

In that war, Freud and Hoffman, who were responsible for the attack on Homnitsch, were later investigated and punished for their heavy losses. Two months later, however, they were reinstated, because according to the results of the investigation, the army believed that the failure of their attack on Homnich was due to poor equipment.

Attack a city garrisoned by elite Soviet troops that had been hidden for months, and it became a fortress. How can you capture it without a large number of heavy artillery and tanks, and even air support? With only infantry and a small number of armored vehicles, terrible losses due to a strong assault due to intelligence errors were quite justified.

To this end, among the assistance given to Scholz, fifty assault guns No. 3 and twenty tanks, as well as twenty half-track armored vehicles and fifty VW82 military jeeps.

On the road, a new distribution center was formed, and the soldiers called it "Eisenfistone", which means the town of Iron Fort, where Schultz's division headquarters and a large number of troops were stationed in this forest area only five kilometers north of Iron Fort. It's almost a small town, with a lot of woods cut down and a lot of warehouses built up by trees. Food, fuel, weapons and ammunition are stored here. There are even a couple of field hospitals that have just been built.

In order to avoid a recurrence of tragedies such as Luvanka and Kuta, in addition to the large number of defensive positions around the Iron Fort, the arrival of armored vehicles and tanks was mainly to strengthen the defenses, rather than to take an offensive posture against the swamps.

Now that the wind and snow have stopped, this batch of weapons and equipment, as well as a new tank battalion and other new troops, have set off from Mozili, and they will go to the Iron Fort and report to the 715th Division.

This mighty army arrived at its destination at four o'clock in the afternoon of February 2. Their arrival caused quite a stir, and the logistics soldiers of the 715th Division, who were still responsible for carrying goods, were admitted to such a tank unit!

Many of them did not know the destination of these tanks and assault guns, and thought that they had gone to the eastern front after resting and refueling here.

The soldiers went to inquire about their origins, but were told that they would be new comrades-in-arms.

William Nicklaus, the commander of the tank battalion, ordered his tank unit to turn around and run directly to the headquarters of the 715th Division.

The ground shook, the roar startled everyone in the division headquarters, and soon, the tanks drove in front of Schultz and the others. Nicklaus, the battalion commander, dressed in a military uniform and smiling, reported to his new superiors.

Surprised that this formidable force would greatly strengthen itself, Schultz was excited, and after saluting each other, he grabbed Nicklaus's hands.

"My division commander, we joined the 715th Infantry Division, and then this tank battalion was at your disposal. In addition, the reinforcements have been reported to you before. Now those assault guns and armored vehicles, and even newly trained recruits, are waiting in Eisenfistone. Nicklaus said.

"You're done, now I'm going to change my clothes. After that, I personally went to inspect my new troops! With that, Scholz immediately returned to the division headquarters, where he had to change into his overcoat, put on his hat, tidy up his uniform, and receive the new troops in a good image. (To be continued.) )