Chuikov wants to bite people today, because the fighting in the city of Minsk has once again entered the white heat, but compared with a few months ago, it has become the Germans who are resisting to the death!

At the same time as launching the final encirclement and annihilation of the German troops in the encirclement, starting at 6 o'clock today, the Red Army in Minsk also launched a full-scale attack on the German positions in the city, encroaching step by step! This will make Chuikov not only have at his disposal the 62nd Army, which has been continuously reorganized and replaced, but also the 64th Army, which has nearly 70,000 men left, which will be enough for him to carry out round after round of strong attacks in Minsk -- this is not only a matter of the number of officers and men, but also the heavy firepower of the fortified positions has been greatly strengthened!

At 12 noon, the 269th Regiment of the 10th Division of the NKVD entered the central business district of the city, and in front of the eyes of the regimental political commissar Kuznetsov (political commissar of the 10th Division), a large area of the originally beautiful city of Minsk no longer exists, leaving only the ruins covered by the smoke and fire and covered with snow!

But such ruins now became an obstacle to their own further westward advance - at least one regiment of Germans was deployed in this large area of ruins, and they were fighting like wild beasts! Just half an hour ago, in order to capture a two-story building on the north side, just a small bunker, the troops lost 79 people!

Looking at the ruins in front of him that will burst into flames at any time, Kuznetsov's eyes are on fire! Forcing an upward attack by infantry would be the same as what happened to the Germans in front of the Pavlov building!

The field telephone line was pulled all the way to his side, "Give me the division command!" ”

"Division commander, I'm Kuznetsov. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ｂｉｑUｇE。 info I'm blocking a few turtle shells! What the? Not tanks, I have bazookas! It's a large ruin, and it's very sturdy! At least a regiment of Germans is ahead of me! It's going to be hard to get by, it's going to be a heavy artillery! ”

The political commissar was yelling at the same time, he couldn't do it if he didn't shout, otherwise he wouldn't be able to hear it! The division commander, Colonel Saraev, was also yelling, because the heavy mortar positions of two companies were less than 100 meters from his headquarters, and each round of shelling made the teacups on the table clange!

"I want heavy artillery, close to the shelling! Heavy artillery, the bigger the caliber, the better! Those anti-tank guns are useless! ”

Before launching an attack on the German army on the west side of the city, Chuikov directly reinforced the entire 10 regiments of anti-tank destroyers, including the 397th, 398th, 416th, 498th, 648th, 651st, 738th, 1186th, 1251st, and 1253rd anti-tank guns, which were mostly equipped with new 76.2 mm anti-tank guns, with only a few 45 mm caliber anti-tank guns. This time, the anti-tank artillery directly followed the infantry assault as direct support fire, and used direct fire to finish off those German bunkers!

Chuikov now has a lot of money, otherwise he would not have been able to use so many anti-tank artillery units as direct fire to support the firepower of the attack - there are still four huge heavy artillery clusters in the east of the city, which can provide artillery support according to the needs of the front line at any time!

However, this is not enough for Kuznetsov, those curved heavy artillery shelling looks spectacular and powerful, but because of structural reasons, the effect of curving a piece of reinforced concrete buildings in front of him is not as effective as the high-explosive shells fired by anti-tank guns! He wants heavy direct fire!

"Wait another 15 minutes, and a heavy artillery battalion of the 1103rd Cannon Regiment will arrive soon!"

Colonel Saraev was in charge of the most difficult offensive task this time, and the combat effectiveness of the troops directly under the Ministry of Internal Affairs was not boasted, but was entrusted with a heavy task by Chuikov! Equipped with enough vitality for his vitality, the battalion was armed with 8 210-mm BR-17 cannons - one battalion of 210-mm cannons was supplied to an infantry division as a battering ram, and today the 10th NKVD Division is the only one!

When the 210-mm BR-17 cannon was rumbled up by the Comintern tractor and quickly deployed, the gun mount was stationed directly on the position formed by the ruins - the sappers took advantage of the 15 minutes before they arrived.

The concrete destruction shells fired by the BR-17 cannon have an extremely high muzzle velocity, and they are fired directly at a distance of 1 km, and they can collapse half a building with one shot! Those anti-tank guns were simply not comparable to the 210 mm cannons. Two rounds were fired from each cannon, and before the four gunners who carried the shells were sweating, the soldiers of the Ministry of Internal Affairs who were waiting in front had already rushed to the front of the ruins, and the brutal street fighting broke out again!

Every ruined wall, every trench, every guarded ruin must be fiercely contested!

There were no roads in front of them suitable for the "Comintern" tractors, and eight cannons remained here, sending observers to follow and continue to provide artillery support for the troops of the Ministry of Internal Affairs attacking westward!

On January 9, after a hard storm, the German troops entrenched in the city of Dzerzhinsk were cleared, for which the attacking troops of the Red Army Reserve Front paid nearly 10,000 casualties! This is a casualty of attacking the fortified with the direct support of a large number of artillery and aviation!

Not a single intact building can be found in Dzerzhinsk, and the whole town is in ruins! The outlying positions of the town were like they had been completely plowed by a cannonball, and the city was littered with destroyed German equipment and crippled corpses!

The remnants of the 7th, 23rd, 258th Infantry Divisions and the 221st Guards Division of the 7th Army of the 9th Army, plus the 1st Division of the 24th Motorized Army of the 2nd Panzer Group, faced the overwhelming artillery fire and the tide swept over the Red Army, and fought for 52 hours under the command of the commander of the 24th Motorized Army, General Geel von Schwevenburg, until the headquarters in Schwebenburg was blown into dust in the air by heavy bombs dropped by the Peters-8 bombers.

The last fighters of the 221st Guards Division, with no hope of breaking through, constructed a circular defensive line with a diameter of less than 150 meters southeast of the city.

Faced with the German troops in front of them, who had fought until the last moment, the Red Army issued an ultimatum to surrender and gave them a rare guarantee of humanitarian treatment, but was rejected by a German battalion commander very gentlemanly.

It was not until 3 p.m., in the midst of a dense explosion of more than 200 rockets, that the battle for Dzerzhinsk finally ended!

With Dzerzhinsk captured by the Red Army, less than 60 hours after Operation Christmas began, the Germans were no longer visible in the encirclement, except for the German troops who had retreated to Minsk.

This would have surprised the Soviet high command by the sheer number of German troops in the encirclement, because in just over two days in the early stage, the number of captured German troops had exceeded 100,000, and many more could have been killed, which would not be counted at all! Now there is no hope for the Germans to break through, and the German troops in Minsk have been separated from the Germans in the west!

On the 15th, Adolf Strauss reported to Hitler: "The troops are no longer able to support it, there is no point in continuing to resist, please allow us to surrender." ”

He received the reply: "Surrender is impossible, and the 9th and 4th armies should fulfill their heroic duty in Minsk until the last man!" ”

Von Bock, who urged Hitler to approve the surrender of the remnants of the encircled 9th and 4th armies, said: "It is time to put an end to this heroic battle, my Führer!" I think they have made their last efforts to contain the Russian army, and there is no point in continuing to resist. ”

But the reply he received was that he was not allowed to surrender, "first, even if the German troops in the encirclement were divided into several smaller units, they could resist for a considerable time; Second, the Russians will not keep the promises they made after the surrender of the 4th and 9th armies. ”

History is like a movie for Lin Jun, and the plot is so similar: on January 20, Hitler awarded Adolf Strauss the Scepter of the German Field Marshal and had fighter jets drop it to the western city of Minsk to encourage him to continue resisting. The first rank general was given the Marshal's Scepter, which he did not have in history, which was not a good thing for him.

According to Hitler: "In the history of Germany, no marshal has ever been taken prisoner alive." ”

Hitler hoped that Strauss would fight to the end or commit suicide: on January 21, Strauss sent his last telegram to the headquarters: "The 9th and 4th armies, faithful to their oath and aware of their extremely important mission, have stuck to their posts for the sake of the Führer and the Fatherland, and have fought to the last soldier, every shot!"

On the same day, the 64th Motorized Infantry Brigade of the 38th Soviet Army hit Strauss's headquarters in the Minsk department store: "The radio station of the 9th Army is about to be turned off!" The Russian army has taken it! Long live the defeat of the Bolsheviks, God bless Germany!" On January 21, 1942, the messenger of the besieged 9th Army Headquarters decided to send the last telegram to Berlin in plain code that touched the Germans, and at the end of the message was written "CL" in international code, indicating that "this station will stop sending reports".

The 38th Motorized Infantry Brigade called for the surrender of the 9th Army Headquarters outside the basement of the mall, and the 9th Group accepted the request. The commander of the 6th Army, Army Engineer General Helmut Furster, asked Strauss: "Field Marshal, may I ask you, is there anything else to say?" Strauss had nothing to say: instead of giving himself a shot in the bare head with Ruger from his waist, he silently put on his military hat and surrendered.

Field Marshal Strauss, commander of the German 9th Army, Army Engineer General Helmut Furster, commander of the 6th Army, Count Theodor von Sponeck (Lieutenant General), commander of the 42nd Army, and other 34 generals, more than 3,000 officers below the rank of colonel and 170,000 German soldiers who were extremely hungry and tired were captured, and the number of German troops who died, froze to death, and died of disease after the encirclement far exceeded this number!

How many people were really lost on both sides in the battle of Minsk? It may take a long time for this to be counted!

The unprecedented and tragic Battle of Minsk came to an end. (To be continued, if you want to know what will happen next, please log in to the www.qidian.com, more chapters, support the author, support genuine reading!) (To be continued.) )