There was a violent crash of steel, and Terteney shouted into the hatch opening, "Get out of the car for me!" Fast! As he spoke, he closed the hatch that had been open: the hitchhiker didn't get out of the car just now, but now they had to get out of the car, otherwise shrapnel would blast them all into the sky!

"2 o'clock, 800 meters away!" Sergeant Irasovsky accurately adjusted the gun, and a high-explosive shell was already waiting in the chamber. Pen "Fun" Pavilion www.biquge.info

As soon as the right foot stepped on the trigger plate, the 105-mm tank gun roared, and the shell instantly hit the German anti-tank gun position! A violent explosion swept everything within a radius of 15 meters, and two 75-mm anti-tank guns immediately dupped fire!

Kilevnik stepped up the throttle and rushed straight to the forward position - just tear this hole open and the town of Latom is ahead! The tanks will not rush into the town, that is left to the infantry, they will go straight to Dzerzhinsky.

It was already dark, and Tertenay, who had rushed up a gentle slope, could see the town in the distance through the periscope on the conning tower. The town was fortified outside the town, and German tanks were apparently deployed next to the dilapidated buildings.

It's time to put into play the powerful firepower and thick armor protection of the Stalinist type - 20 ИС vehicles lined up in a cross formation at a distance of 1 km from the town and carried out a minute of accurate shelling!

The shelling of the Germans did nothing for themselves at all, and 105-mm shells flew into the sky as soon as they hit the target, whether it was a tank or a building!

The T34s, who were expanding the breakthrough behind them, had already followed, "All attack, the infantry on the right flank is coming up!" ”

- Colonel Terteney shouted into the throat intercom, the artillery that could threaten the tank's advance has been basically destroyed, and the infantry must cooperate with the infantry to eliminate those machine-gun fire points.

Several tanks were still exploding and burning - they had all been "named" just now, because there was no room for resistance: the German tankers could not launch them quickly!

Five minutes before the general assault was launched, tens of thousands of infantry began to enter the frozen surface of Lake Zaslavl, rapidly approaching the west along the flanks: in order to ensure the accuracy of the direction of the assault, Yefremov used the simplest method - all companies had two bonfires behind them, as long as the bonfires were in a line, indicating the correct direction.

The 3rd Militia Regiment was on the right flank of the Mixed Tank Regiment, and just after the first line of German defense, torn apart by artillery fire, it saw its own tanks shelling the perimeter of Latom.

The BT rapid tanks, which were placed at the rear of the mixed tank regiment, were now the point of fire for the infantry, working with the 76mm cannons to point out German machine-gun positions.

A battalion of "militiamen" followed the mixed regiment and "hitchhiked" straight to the southwest, leaving behind Lathom, who was still fighting fiercely.

Thirty kilometers ahead there is a mixed railway-road bridge, which is the gateway to Dzerzhinsky - it was blown up by the retreat, but the Germans have already repaired it. It was the choke point of the German army, it would be heavily guarded, and the only good news was that there was no need to worry about the Germans blowing up the bridge as well: the bridge was the only railway passage for the Germans in Minsk to the west.

30 kilometers, nothing can stop the advance of more than 50 tanks plus a battalion of assault sappers - the sky is already bright, the sky can be seen at any time in the air fierce battles between the planes of both sides, and the horizon is full of fire and smoke!

Two kilometers ahead is the bridge, where the Germans have built a position that is clearly visible. The whole battlefield would be chaotic, and the Germans had nothing to do with the Soviet tank clusters that would penetrate their own lines, and many commanders did not expect the Russians to be in this position - behind them was Minsk, which was heavily garrisoned!

Jump into the wolf's den, because they're here to tie their pockets!

There was a thick layer of ice on the Neman River, but this section of the riverbed was already in tatters - a group of Red Army dive bombers had just carried out a round of bombardment on both sides of the bridgehead.

Terteney did not wait long, and as soon as the bombing was over, he ordered the whole regiment to attack - nothing could stop "Stalin", and those **** German armor-piercing shells could not inflict substantial damage on themselves.

The artillery commander Ilasovsky fired only three high-explosive shells, and the bridge was already in his hands: just as the tank was close to 100 meters, the assault infantry, who had already disembarked from the side of the vehicle, rushed onto the bridge.

There were also German troops in the bridgehead on the west bank of the bridge, and the Red Army infantry was temporarily pinned down on the bridge deck and could not advance. One ИС rushed to the bridge deck as a shield, and with a burst of coaxial machine guns and artillery, the rushing infantry cleared the bridgehead on the east bank. A few reinforced concrete bunkers could trap infantry, but they looked like papier-mâché in front of tank guns.

Dzerzhinsky had German tank units deployed, and while the bridge was attacked by the Red Army, German armored forces began to approach the bridge, and a tank battle broke out on the west bank of the Neman River.

With heavy tanks in the lead, the T34s were slightly behind, and in less than half an hour of artillery battle, the Germans began to retreat after leaving behind more than 30 tanks No. 3 and No. 4. Terteney lost three T34s, one Stalin was blown up, and one track could not be bombed.

The 33rd Army and the Airborne Forces were already attacking Mount Dzerzhinsky, and even if the city of Dzerzhinsky was not in their own hands, the first layer of pocket passes blocking the German army in Minsk had already been tied up -- the Neman River and the Dzerzhinsky Mountain, and if the Germans wanted to retreat on a large scale and did not break through this pass, they would have to make a detour of 70 or 80 kilometers.

Leaving 200 infantry and 15 T34s plus all the anti-tank guns to the bridge, the rest of the mixed regiment continued to advance towards Dzerzhinsky.

By 10 a.m., the infantry had finally cleared the defenders of Dzerzhinsky, and the ammunition of the mixed tank regiment had been depleted. The militia division and the airborne troops arrived at the location of the mixed tank regiment from the northern Dzerzhinsky Mountains, and a full 5,000 men were to form a circular line along the west bank of the Neman River. In the violent explosion, the railroad bridge collapsed, and the sappers cleanly made themselves infantry.

The mixed tank regiment brought only one base of spare ammunition, and now Dzerzhinsky was facing a German counterattack in two directions, and Terteny was going to advance towards Stolbutch!

The tankmen were busy replenishing ammunition and refueling, and the transport planes that appeared in the air dropped supplies and ammunition - the Germans were not stupid, and in addition to the capture of Latom, several breaches opened by the Red Army on the western side of Minsk would be closed.

Originally, the troops that had tied up the pockets had to make two openings, but there was more than one plan for the operation: now the command of the army group decided to tie only one pocket -- Stolbuch -- and abandon the city of Dzerzhinsky.

The troops on the hill did not retreat, they were able to threaten the main roads of the German army, and they were easy to defend and difficult to attack, and they could be supported for a long time by airdrops. Now with more than 5,000 infantry and 50 tanks in his hands, Telteney must take Stolbutch in one fell swoop.

Dzerzhinsky had only a handful of troops left: they would retreat up the hill as soon as the Germans arrived, and no madman would chase them to the death.

Bringing everything they could, the comrades even found a large number of German trucks and artillery and dragged them away.

Advancing along both flanks of the railway, all the German units that appeared along the way were mercilessly routed - at the request of the mixed tank regiment, the air force carried out a carpet bombardment of Stolbutch at one o'clock in the afternoon!

Support for Terteney is at all costs. As long as you can tie the bag, you will not hesitate to turn your city into ruins!

Just as Terteney saw the city ahead, the Germans were going through a test of blood and fire, the whole town was burning and smoking, the German positions around it were as if they had been turned over once, and the land that should have been snow-white was filthy.

It would have been like a mixed armored brigade storming the burning city with a thud, and under the cover of the infantry, the leading heavy tanks would pass through the city until it reached the Neman River. It's still the Neman, but it's much wider than in Dzerzhinsky! (The Neman River goes around in a large circle between Dzerzhinsky and Stolbuch, which can be clearly seen on the map.) ）

The Stolbutch bridge appeared in front of the tanks, and a few shots dumbed the German anti-aircraft guns in the bridgeheads on both sides. The first thing Telteney had to do was blow up the bridge, but the Air Force had already done what they had to do for them - a few infantry would probably still be able to get over the broken bridge, and the vehicles and equipment would not even be a good idea!

The assault infantry was still sweeping up the remaining German forces in the city, and the fighting was fiercest on the side of the railway station, and it took the Germans to drive the Germans into the wilderness with the support of three T34s. And the troops that were originally in Dzerzhinsky reported that they had withdrawn to the mountains, and a large number of German troops appeared near Dzerzhinsky.

It would take at least three days for the troops on both flanks to arrive at Stolbutch, and the mixed tank regiments, assault engineers, and paratroopers became a lone force that broke into the German army nearly 100 kilometers deep, and also pinched the most fatal railway throat of the Germans - both the Germans on the west side of the Neman River and the troops on the east side would do everything they could to pull out this nail that stuck their throats!

It's still a ring of defense, using everything that can be used, and even the corpses of the Germans don't have time to clean up. If it were any other case, there would have been whistling shells falling on their heads, but Terteney and the others had already run into the depths of the German army, and there were no German artillery to greet them.

With the exception of the infantry, who were lucky enough to be able to ride tanks and trucks, the rest of the infantry approaching Stolbucci had to walk for several hours, Dzerzhinsky was about forty kilometres from Stolbucci, and many troops would enter the encirclement that they had voluntarily jumped in before nightfall.

"Our troops have occupied Stolbuch, the railway bridge has been destroyed, and a ring defense line is being constructed." Terteny sent a telegram to the command of the army group.

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