The Battle of Klimovich, which began on May 7, 1943, later became known in history as the Battle of PF No. 13. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info because the battle was fought around the 13th collective farm, located on the territory of the city of Klimovich.

And this battle is regarded as the beginning of the battle of the joint army and a decisive battle!

If the Wehrmacht's 11th Panzer Army had defeated the Soviet tank 5th Army in the Battle of GRG 13, the 11th Panzer Army would have joined forces with the 24th Panzer Corps, which had moved south from Oreyosha in the north, and then join the Gomel Front, where the Germans would have been able to concentrate the 3rd, 11th, 14th, and 24th Panzer Corps.

The number of Panzer Divisions under these 4 German Panzer Corps will reach 6, the number of Panzergrenadier Divisions will reach 7, and the theoretical number of tanks/assault guns will reach more than 5,000!

The strength of the Soviet 1st and 2nd Tank Armies on paper was only about 2,100 tanks/assault guns, not even half of the opponent's, and the result of a head-on collision would definitely be shattered.

If Admiral Lukin's tank 5th Army could hold off the German 11th Panzer Army and the German 24th Panzer Army, which would later join the battle, in the battle of CGNQ No. 13, and at the same time the troops of the Southwestern Front of the Southern Front could also drag the German 14th Panzer Army, which entered the area around Chernogov (it was also difficult to accomplish this task, since the main forces of the 14th were not deep, but gathered near the city of Chernihiv, only about 100 km from the Gomel battlefield), then the Soviet tank 1st, The only enemy that the 2nd Army had to deal with was the German 3rd Panzer Corps (with 2 Panzer Divisions and 2 Panzergrenadier Divisions).

And if the Soviet 1st and 2nd Tank Armies can defeat or annihilate the German 3rd Panzer Army on the Gomel battlefield, then the situation on the Soviet-German battlefield will be reversed, and the cause of GCISM may be realized!

So on the evening of May 9, when Comrade Lukin learned that a huge German "Panzer Army" was moving closer to him, he knew that he and the 5th Tank Army were now shouldering the success or failure of the cause of GCISM.

"Comrades, the survival of the Soviet Fatherland and the happiness of all mankind now depends on our glorious 5th Tank Army!"

At 7 p.m., Admiral Lukin said to the commander-in-chief of the army group headquarters and several commanders of the 5th Mechanized Corps from within his former enemy headquarters: "We are now facing an enemy far more powerful than us, with a large number of tanks and artillery, and the soldiers are armed to the teeth, and they are menacing, ready to destroy the Soviet Fatherland.

If we can't hold them back at Klimovich and attract more enemies with the hard work of the 5th tank army, then the battle of the joint will fail! This would mean unimaginable catastrophic consequences!

If we lose the Battle of the Junction, the next battle will take place in the capital of the Great Motherland, and Leningrad will probably fall. Our motherland will face a test of life and death.

So our tank 5th Army must fight to the end in Klimovich, at all costs! ”

The 5th tank army was to be in Klimovich...... In fact, the battle was fought in the vicinity of Kikomović No. 13, and the capture of the grounds and living quarters of this large collective farm, as well as a large forest nearby, was crucial.

Because there were not only woods where tanks and tank destroyers could be ambushed, but also fortified yard buildings, warehouses, schools, clinics and residential areas, a small town with a few thousand inhabitants - the collectivization of agriculture in the USSR was not only looting but not building!

In fact, collectivization brought about the large-scale and mechanized operation of agriculture, which was not much different from what the large agricultural companies in the United States did. The reason for the failure was not "scale" and "mechanization", but the particularly serious bureaucracy caused by the "integration of politics and economics" (the collective farms were not just business entities, but also a level of government).

However, the bureaucrats of Kibpet No. 13 in Klimovich, Belarus, were quite motivated, at least to invest a lot of manpower and material resources in the face of the project (it was actually a model collective farm), and built a very imposing and solid building for the Soviet Union in the 40s.

On the night of May 9, 1943, the three-storey building with a basement and an area of about 3,000 to 4,000 square meters (which also housed the headquarters of the cooperative, the main station of agricultural machinery, the savings bank and the headquarters of the militia) became the last stronghold of more than 100 ethnic Ukrainian German troops.

Pavlyuchenko and her assistant Tymoshenko were evacuated here on the afternoon of May 9.

Commander of the 17th SS Cavalry Reconnaissance Battalion Helmut. Major Zintz said to her at that time: "Lyudmila, you don't have to stay here, because you are a woman...... You can disguise yourself as a civilian and leave, and you only need to walk a few kilometers south to find our large army. ”

There are almost no women in the Wehrmacht's front-line units, which is not in line with Juncker's tradition, and only a small number of female soldiers (still Wehrmacht assistants) exist in ethnic Ukrainian units. So there is still the possibility of Pavlyuchenko disguised as an ordinary Soviet peasant woman and fled.

But the Ukrainian female fighter from Kyiv rejected Major Zintz's proposal.

"No, Comrade Major (also called Comrade in the Nazi Party), I am a soldier!" Pavlyuchenko said, "I want to fight for honor and the freedom of Ukraine." ”

Born and raised in right-bank Ukraine, she was never a Soviet, and naturally saw the Red Army that "liberated" right-bank Ukraine as an aggressor and had to fight them to the end.

However, at this time, she and most of the Ukrainian fighters who fought for the German Empire were already aware of Germany's intentions against the black land of Ukraine, which was actually the same as the Soviet Union. The only difference is that the Germans will divide the land of right-bank Ukraine equally among the Ukrainian peasants - only the "right bank" will be taken out and distributed, excluding western and left-bank Ukraine.

The land ownership relationship in Western Ukraine (part of the former Austrian Ukraine) will not change, and the fertile land of Left-Bank Ukraine (referring to the east bank of the Dnieper) will be used to house German immigrants (no need to check the N-generation, as long as they are white, believe in God, and speak German), and at the same time become the territory of the German Empire. That is, the Ukrainian nation, which suffered heavy losses in this war, will only get half of Ukraine, and will have to serve the German emperor as their monarch......

Of course, for Ukrainian intellectuals like Pavlyuchenko, German rule had the added benefit of being free to live in any European Community megacity, while enjoying the benefits of European and Imperial citizens.

It is certainly not worth sacrificing their lives for the welfare of these Germans, but the Ukrainian fighters, who were regarded as "traitors" by the Soviet Union, now have no choice but to fight to the death with the Soviet Red Army, and have become cheap cannon fodder for the Germans - it is a great tragedy that they once belonged to the same people, but now they have become enemies on the battlefield.

Pavlyuchenko and her assistant Tymoshenko entered the basement of the building on the evening of May 9. This is actually a semi-basement, with the top of the basement above the ground and 10 small windows above the ground.

The basement has been remodeled, and the concrete floor has been excavated with explosives and shovels to create several bomb craters. All the windows have been converted into firing points, 3 machine gun groups, 3 anti-tank groups (each equipped with a Doll 88mm recoilless gun) and 3 sniper groups have been put in place, Pavlyuchenko and Tymoshenko are the 4th sniper groups deployed in this basement.

The 10 combat groups were commanded by a sergeant named Poroshenko - the number of officers in the German Army has always been low, and usually only the company commander and 1 platoon commander are officers, and the rest of the platoon commanders are non-commissioned officers. The officer configuration of the 14th Ukrainian Cavalry Division of the SS was the same, so there were few officers in the 14th SS Cavalry Reconnaissance Battalion. Several officers had been killed in the previous battle, so it was now a sergeant's turn to take command of the platoon battle group, which was huddled in the basement.

Sergeant Honors Pavlyuchenko was one of the two sergeants in this battle group, and therefore Poroshenko's replacement, and once Poroshenko was killed, she became the commander of the battle group. And now Sergeant Emeritus Pavlyuchenko did not know that this basement and this fortified field building would become her place of fame.

While the remnants of the 17th SS Cavalry Reconnaissance Battalion retreated to the 13th Collective Farm Yard Building, the 5th Tank Destroyer Brigade and the 108th Mechanized Infantry Brigade of the 5th Mechanized Corps of the Soviet Red Army were also deployed in the 13th Collective Farm.

Although the field building has not yet been taken, this collective farm living quarter, which can accommodate several thousand inhabitants, is still a very defensible area. For the convenience of living, working and building, the living quarters of Collective Farm No. 13 are located next to the road, and there is also a river tens of meters wide and a large forest nearby, which are all favorable terrain on which to rely. And the living quarters of the farmstead and the large forest in the vicinity, surrounded by endless fields of farmland, scattered small woods and warehouses belonging to collective farms, were indeed the ideal battlefield for tank Armageddon! (To be continued.) )