Chapter 451: The Battle for Warsaw (7)
The tank battalion, which crossed the Sibug River, quickly rushed to the Vyshkuw bridgehead under the command of Geihad and occupied favorable terrain. The Soviets did not expect the Germans to attack from behind, at first they thought that their tank troops were rushing to reinforce them, but they did not take any precautions, and when Geihard rushed in front of them, the 88-mm shells had already been discharged, and the troops guarding the bridge and the command organization of the theater were suddenly in chaos, rushing to flee for their lives.
In just 20 minutes, the tank battalion destroyed the local command structure of the Soviet army and crossed the bridge to launch an artillery attack on the Soviet troops stationed on the north bank of the river.
Most of the Soviet tanks had turned their backs to Geihard's tank battalion, shining the weakest side in front of the eyes of the Germans, and they suffered heavy losses at once. The Soviet tanks, which woke up from a big dream, immediately turned around and counterattacked, but they showed the weakest side in front of the eyes of the 74th and 73rd divisions, and none of them were spared.
The Soviet infantry, apparently weaker in the confrontation with the German infantry, and the loss of tank gun reinforcements, soon began to be forced to retreat to the flanks.
At this time, the tank battalion led by Geihard evaded the tracking and attack of the Soviet Type 72 anti-tank guns under the cover of a large number of ridges, and pursued the Soviet troops fleeing from both flanks. Under the blow of armored vehicles, the Soviet troops suffered numerous casualties, and corpses were strewn all over the field along the way. At the same time, the German 11th Army and the 10th Army launched a frontal attack at the same time.
In the face of a powerful offensive, the Soviets desperately resisted, but soon it was difficult to support, most of the positions voluntarily surrendered, and the rest were completely wiped out under the blows of German tanks and infantry.
However, the Germans did not rest on this point, and General Rommel immediately ordered all units to continue their advance to the west. In just three hours, the units of the 11th Army, the 10th Army quickly crossed the Vyshkuv Bridge and sped along Route 58.
In the evening, the Germans were already approaching the Soviet Trojanny line and spread along the country road to the two flanks of Dongerluvka and Tevušchi, and then excavated fortifications and built the defensive line. At the same time, the command post of the 11th Army and the 10th Army also advanced westward at the same time, setting up an advance command center at the township office, thirty kilometers northeast of Trojanny.
Tukhachevsky was shocked, he was still complacent, but he did not expect that in just a few hours, the German army would disperse his ace troops and quickly march to the city. In desperation, Tukhachevsky immediately convened an emergency consultation meeting and ordered the troops in the city to quickly reinforce the Trojanny front, and informed the Tevushchi field hospital to quickly relocate as a whole.
At the same time, on the instructions of Tukhachevsky, commander-in-chief of the Soviet army in Warsaw, Nikonovich, commander-in-chief of the Northwestern Front of the Soviet Army, immediately awarded the commander of the 1st Cavalry Army, General Budyonny, the Order of Patriotism of the 1st degree, and encouraged him to continue his efforts to kill the enemy.
At 15 o'clock in the afternoon of the same day, the North-Western Front again conferred the rank of colonel on a group of young officers such as Sivari, Stepan, Valentin and Sergei, who was wounded and hospitalized, and at the same time ordered all units to be vigilant and attack at any time.
The cavalry units of the 1st Cavalry Corps were divided into three routes, one of which was to patrol the Lazimin's line without interruption, one to wait for an opportunity to attack the headquarters of the German commanders-in-chief Wilhelm Loeb and Rommel, and the other to focus on protecting the Soviet headquarters in Warsaw.
The Germans advanced the front nearly 100 kilometers in one day, facing the Soviet defensive positions in the northeastern part of Trojanny. When the troops entered an unfamiliar geographical environment, Rommel immediately summoned Majewski, the commander of the 1st Koshityusk Division of the Polish Independence Army, and asked his troops to be stationed in various German attack positions as companies to help Germany familiarize themselves with the terrain in order to find the weak points of the Soviet army in the battle.
After receiving the order, Mayevsky did not hesitate at all, and selected elite soldiers and strong generals overnight to be stationed in various units of the German army to assist the German army in better accomplishing the attack mission.
The division headquarters of the commander of the 1st Division of the 11th Army, Pau Fisher, was very close to the general headquarters of William Loeb, which was deliberately arranged by General Rommel and General William Loeb in order to have more contact with Geihard. However, Rommel and William Loeb had different opinions on the issue of Geihard's promotion.
Emotionally speaking, Rommel did not oppose Geihard's promotion in the firing line, but he believed that Geihard was too young and impetuous, and that being promoted too quickly was not conducive to his growth.
William Loeb had a completely different idea, even if Geihard did not participate in the Vishkuw attack, he would have to find a wise and brave right-hand man for Pau Fischer's 1st Division, and Geihard was the most suitable candidate.
In the end, Rommel could not convince William Loeb. That night, the German Warsaw Eastern Front Command officially conferred the rank of Colonel Geihard Rommel, and Geihard was promoted from the former deputy chief of staff of the division headquarters to the chief of staff of the 1st Division of the 11th Army, and was responsible for daily military training and the formulation and arrangement of combat plans.
The 1st Kosityusk Division of the Polish Independence Army still had nearly 2,000 men and played a very key role in the German army. Because he knows the place well, he is often sent out on special missions.
Gayhard had a good relationship with Commander Maevsky, and after entering Trojanny, the two quickly conducted a secret reconnaissance of the area, and sent a small force to intersperse the advance, and at 12 o'clock that night they attacked an important material reserve base of the Soviet army and another secret oil depot in the town of Dombrovka, making the supply of the Soviet defenders of Trojanny a great problem.
Tukhachevsky was furious that the logistics department was attacked one after another overnight, and he immediately sent Sivari, Stepan, and Valentin to lead light cavalry to attack the major German military camps in Trojanny overnight.
On the evening of the third day, Pau Fisher, commander of the 1st Division of the 11th Army, and Geihard, chief of staff, had finished their meeting from the general headquarters at about 11 o'clock that night. At this moment, the lieutenant of the guard company, Victor Weber, suddenly noticed a team of horses speeding down a small river in the moonlight, and hurriedly reported the situation to the chief of staff, Geihard.
"Quick! The first squad of cover division commanders returned to the camp, and the second platoon of the guard company followed me! Without even thinking about it, Gaehard quickly led the second platoon to occupy the favorable terrain and meet the battle on the spot, and ordered Victor Webb to lead the first and third platoons to swim across a ten-meter-wide river before taking the second platoon across the river.
The Soviet cavalry was getting closer and closer, and as soon as they entered the firing range, Victor Weber stood up sharply with a submachine gun, and at the sound of an order, dozens of submachine guns opened fire on the Soviet cavalry at once.
Suddenly attacked, the Soviet army was caught off guard, and was originally preparing to attack the German barracks, but unexpectedly fell into an ambush. The colonel who led the team, Stepan, hurriedly turned his horse's head and shouted to retreat. For a while, people shouted and screamed, and there was a mess.
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