Chapter 1126: Chaos Continues to Ferment
There was a lot of fishing in the troubled waters of the city, and this naturally included members of the resistance group who stood incognito in the square, watching their comrades bravely take to justice. When the general public dispersed, these dozen or so people simply took advantage of the chaos and rushed to the gallows.
They easily cut the rope with a dagger, put down the strangled and dying comrades, and then supported the fleeing crowd.
Their action was only seen by a small number of German soldiers, and the limited firing did not stop their action in the robbery field, but only added to the confusion.
It was only at this moment that the members of the underground resistance group in Chernihiv finally realized that the somewhat obscure telegram referred to this.
"It seems that friendly forces have set up rocket launchers on the outskirts of the city, and our Katyusha is beginning to wield its might. Let's go, it looks like we're going to take shelter from the city for the time being. The leader of the rebel group greeted his subordinates like this, and everyone knew that this time it was really "justice from heaven", but it also affected too many unarmed residents.
Within a year of the outbreak of the war, the rebel groups in the occupied cities made contact with the higher organizations, the guerrilla commands. Their operations were also gradually formalized, and on the one hand, they were carrying out regular sabotage operations, such as assassinating valuable officers of the German army and the puppet army, and creating sabotage such as arson in some warehouses. The most they did was to provide intelligence support, such as the stationing of German troops in their cities, personnel changes and military movements of the German army.
The frequency of assassinations by these rebel groups in the cities was increasing, throughout the Soviet Union.
However, when they cause sabotage, they always try to avoid civilian casualties as close as possible, and they simply hope that the Germans, puppet armies, and traitors will all die. Even the rape is directed at individuals, and rarely with their family members and children.
Based on the three views of these people, they can only speculate that it was those comrades of the guerrilla republic who were firing rockets.
They guessed exactly right, but they couldn't guess that the rockets were fired from a distant place.
For the large number of people who fell to the ground in the square, this bloody and tragic scene really shocked the guerrilla fighters of these resistance groups. Most of the victims were civilians who had been killed by guerrilla rocket artillery.
In the chaos, these warriors didn't think much about it, and they really couldn't help the large number of wailing wounded. Only after everything is settled can they reassess the attack of friendly forces, not to mention that they must sort out the details of the attack and inform the partisan republics and Ponomarenko, who is far away in Moscow.
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The first round of bombardment was four Exocets, and when the fourth exploded, the remaining six also began their journey.
From Yang Mingzhi's point of view, he has no way of knowing the fact that the rocket has successfully bombed the target, everything can only be speculated, and he hopes that the rocket will be very lucky, such as hitting the enemy's ammunition depot with a single shot, and there will be an earthquake-like martyrdom.
These long-cherished wishes have a very low probability of success!
The second round of bombardment was ten minutes slow, and these ten minutes were enough for the riots to ferment. As the Germans and the puppet police struggled to maintain order, they became more and more impatient, and the shooting of fleeing citizens in the streets became more and more frequent.
Black smoke rose from the city, and an early fire broke out in one area, and the fire tended to spread. There are also constant gunshots and shouts in the city. It's like the whole city is going on in street fighting!
The rockets did not hurt Hendrysen in the slightest, and the German division commander was really uncomfortable, and after relieving himself, he hurried to the division headquarters, and in the face of the chaos in the city, he desperately called his subordinates and ordered them to put an end to this uncontrollable riot in the most severe way.
At least the telephone lines were not blown up, and the German units in the city received the death order from the division headquarters very well. It is true that they cannot control the riots inside the city, but their armored vehicles and motorcycles, as well as a large number of heavily armed soldiers, can easily block all roads in and out of the city. The order they received was very cruel and simple, that is, if any citizen wanted to leave the city, he would be killed!
They had just received the order and opened fire very decisively, and some of the citizens who ran towards the suburban farmland died at the guns of the Germans. A large number of deaths shocked the living citizens, and it was at this juncture that the citizens, the German army, and the pseudo-military police, they heard the kind of howling that could bring death.
Everyone looked up at the blue sky and saw that the thing with the white tail was hitting the city.
What is it? The Germans can only think of that weapon - Katyusha rocket artillery.
Now everyone knows that the Soviet rocket artillery is really amazing, it falls next to the tank, and the powerful shock wave can blow the German army's best tank No. 4 at this stage.
Instead of fleeing outside the city, a large number of citizens turned around and ran to the nearest building. Who knows how long these rockets will have to be bombarded, maybe hiding inside a reinforced concrete building.
This was true of the citizens, and so was the German army. However, the time given to them to hide is running out.
These six rockets smashed into the city at an interval of about five minutes, and the distance was so far that even if Yang Mingzhi estimated that the "Flying Fish" he led was far more accurate than that of his contemporaries. It flew too far, and sure enough, the six fell into a bit of a haphazard landing, and the only thing thankful for was that they all hit the city limits.
The explosion of the German ammunition depot that Yang Mingzhi was expecting was absolutely impossible, because the Germans had long been disgusted by the sabotage of the "rats" in the city, and if there were still ammunition depots in the city, they would have tried to detonate them a long time ago.
There is no more valuable target in the city than the granary.
There was a clever Exocet rocket that hit the city granary impartially, exploding at the edge of a large grain storage silo and setting the building on fire, quickly setting the granary next to it on fire.
The granary of the city of Chernihiv was built before the war, and when the Germans occupied the city, there was still a large amount of semolina. The source of the wheat was the wheat fields around the city, and a large part of the occupation army's rations came from these captured grains before the new wheat was harvested. After all, the German front was too long, and the garrisons everywhere had to be replenished on the spot!
When the new bombardment happened, Hendryson was still on the phone. With a burst of vibrations and a violent explosion, the phone was interrupted. It was a call to the garrison in the western part of the city, and he slammed through the window to see a cloud of black smoke rising from the west.
"Damn it! Damn the Russians! Repairing phone lines is a hassle now! "He stomped his feet and cursed the USSR in his head, and did not feel the slightest danger.
It was his guards who were nervous, and a kind of staff officer of the entire division headquarters was also transferred to the basement on the orders of Chief of Staff Schmidt.
Schmidt was even more worried and ran to the division commander: "Your Excellency! I think you should dodge it, the enemy's rockets are very powerful, but the accuracy is terrible. I was very worried. ”
"Forget it! I'm a very lucky man, their rocket launchers can't kill me, and they can't hurt this building! ”
Rather than being blown up on the spot for setting up the flag, Hendryson was killed by his soldiers - some German officers and soldiers were killed by shrapnel and secondary casualties from collapsed buildings.
Hendryson prides himself on being a Junker aristocrat, and he admires that spirit of fearlessness in the face of danger. At this moment, he felt like a real warrior, and those staff officers who hid in the basement to avoid the cannon were all cowards!
The bombardment came suddenly, and ended suddenly, and the riots in the city continued, but the bombardment was over.
Hendryson sat alone at his desk, and when this happened, the so-called celebration banquet at noon was cancelled directly. He knew he had to deal with the mess and report the attack to his superiors.
However, no sooner had he settled down than the phone on his desk suddenly rang.
He resolutely raised the phone, nervous and expectant: "Who called?" What about casualties? ”
"Yes......" The officer over there wanted to report his name, but the situation was urgent, so this person didn't care about any etiquette, and shouted heartbreakingly: "Division commander! Something went wrong! Our granary! It's on fire! ”