Chapter 1080: Inducing Combat
The 6th Infantry Division of the Romanian Army underwent a year-round rearmament and reorganization in the winter of 1941. Their equipment has been improved and their staffing has been streamlined.
It was his reconnaissance company sent by the regimental commander Bovinescu, and as a result, this unit was engaged in a fierce battle with the enemy! The main body of his force consisted of two infantry battalions of nearly 800 men, each with such a high number of soldiers as the number of infantry platoons increased, and its strength was increased to 40. The remaining 200 or so are engineering units with full-time logistics.
His full strength was as high as 2,300 men, but he was only able to fight the enemy with more than 1,900 men due to the loss of casualties and the casualties of fierce battles along the way.
According to German standards, an infantry regiment must have more than ten medium-caliber field guns, but the Romanian army really does not have it, at least not the current Bovinescu. His regiment was a purely infantry regiment, and even the 75-mm guns were reserved for divisional artillery regiments.
All he had was a large number of 60-mm mortars, and he had forty such mortars! In addition to this, there are a very small number of 45-mm anti-tank guns capable of firing explosive shells.
It's just that the range of this small-caliber mortar is not long enough, and the sight shows that it can hit 1,500 meters away, and in fact it hits a target at a distance of 1 kilometer by luck.
At this moment, Bovinescu had already let himself out, and he said to his deputy commander: "It seems that this is still the enemy's containment force, and they will inevitably use the supplies in the city to replenish when they occupy Slavdish!" We can't wait any longer, if they have enough to eat and drink and run farther, it will take too much energy for us to encircle and suppress them! ”
Under its command, the entire infantry regiment was dispatched!
In the vast wilderness, the Romanian army formed a huge straggler, each soldier staggered, and Tokov, who was watching from afar, appeared almost suddenly, and such a force was completely unexpected by him.
He ordered loudly: "Brothers, let's shoot while moving south, lead them to the battalion headquarters!" ”
The whole company was immediately moved, and their shots were no longer aimed carefully, and they basically aimed at the enemy's charging camp and fired indiscriminately. You don't want bullets to hit people, you just need to attract them away!
Tokov's move can be regarded as relieving the troubled reconnaissance company of the Romanian army, which immediately stopped dormant and launched a pursuit of the retreating enemy.
No sooner had Tokov begun to retreat than there was a whistling sound in the sky - mortar shells had fallen.
The veterans understood what the whistling of shells that could be smashed on their heads was like, so Tokov and his fighters were not nervous at all. Dense shells exploded violently behind them, shrapnel and shock waves did not hurt them, and the huge dust and smoke kicked up became a kind of cover.
The mortar positions of the Romanian army were intensively used, and the shells were loaded into the barrels very efficiently, but the south wind always blew the shells flying into the sky out of position.
In desperation, the Romanian army also used 45mm anti-tank guns. This German-made anti-tank gun can also fire ordinary howitzers, and this kind of artillery is really suitable for the Luo army, which has always been weak in artillery support!
Bovinescu had only four of these anti-tank guns, and they had turned into heavy weapons.
A 45-mm grenade exploded very accurately in the retreating ranks of the Tokov company, killing one soldier and injuring two others.
For the wounded, some fighters stopped on the spot to try to treat them.
Tokov yelled: "The team can't stop! We don't have time to take our wounded brothers away! ”
It was a very helpless choice, and the wounded warriors vomited blood and wailed, and the other warriors had to abandon them.
As Tokov ordered his troops to move deeper into the forest, the artillery bombardment of the Romanian army gradually lost its effect. They ran faster than the Luo army, and the living quickly arrived at the battalion headquarters.
Tokov gasped and reported: "Battalion commander! The enemy has appeared! Very many enemies! They all attacked, and there were at least two thousand of them! ”
Barzen had been prepared for this situation, and the only thing that surprised him was that these Romanians rushed like crazy!
At this moment, Balzen immediately made a decision and gave all the company commanders under his command an order: "The enemy is coming, we will form an arc defense line at the edge of the forest and block the enemy first!" ”
The attacking Luo army did not know the enemy's reality and reality, in short, the enemy's resistance firepower was very small, and the Luo army had the absolute upper hand in firepower. To tell the truth, the majority of soldiers were not willing to go toe-to-toe with the Soviets, because in the battle in Odessa and the Crimea, they all saw the Soviet army's strong will to fight. Even in this encirclement and suppression of the large guerrillas, the Soviets were still stubborn in several battles.
However, for the lone Soviets, it was very simple to kill them.
It was this attitude that the Romanian soldiers participated in this offensive, believing that the victory in this encounter belonged to Romania!
This good attitude was soon completely defeated by reality.
When these attacking soldiers came into the effective range of the submachine guns, a large number of casualties began to appear. The reconnaissance battalion turned the Romanians who rushed the hardest into dead bodies with its extreme firepower, and the accurate shooters among them also named the Romanian soldiers who were attacking from the rear with their chests held out.
In the five minutes of the fiercest battle, in just these five minutes, the Luo army no longer dared to charge with their lives, only the gunfight and artillery bombardment continued.
Those mortar shells always hit the treetops and exploded first, and they couldn't hurt the Soviet soldiers on the ground at all. Balzen knew that he had only 500 men, and he had to fight against 2,000 men unless he fought them all. No matter how high the combat effectiveness of the reconnaissance battalion is, everyone is human! Even with the title of death squad, no one wants to die in battle!
He hastened to contact Slavdzich's command, and he just shouted into the walkie-talkie that he met the enemy, and he held up his headphones.
Yang Mingzhi took the headphones from Diana's hand, and understood everything in that moment. He desperately shouted: "Owl! I'm a catfish! Received an answer! ”
Until the earphones began to beep, Balzen quickly put them to his ear and roared hoarsely: "Catfish! Catfish! Owl attacked! It's Romanian! They have 2,000 troops and are attacking us frantically! It's going crazy on us. ”
Hearing this, Yang Mingzhi was shocked, he quickly looked at his watch, it was only two o'clock in the afternoon!
He immediately gave the order: "Owl! You lead it to the highway and then retreat sharply! Give me the shortest time to withdraw it! ”
"Owl act now!"
Balzen quickly understood the commander's intentions, although the situation of the battle changed suddenly, and the reconnaissance operation unexpectedly became a big war, but on the whole it was still developed according to the intentions of the commander Berekov.
Balzen immediately ordered: "The whole battalion retreats immediately, the 123rd Company goes first, and the 4th Company is behind!" We headed for an unknown outpost two kilometers away, and when we arrived, we immediately followed the road and headed straight for the city! ”
As far as the runaway is concerned, there are only a handful of troops in this world that can match the Balzen reconnaissance battalion. Especially those soldiers of the Luo army, they came to a rare infantry and artillery coordination in this operation, and it is precisely because the sixth division belongs to the elite of the Luo army that they can carry out such a high-level operation with limited artillery fire.
The regimental commander Bovinescu himself thought so, he was proud of the bravery of his fighters.
However, the comparison of his glory with the German army is still too bad - the Luo army simply treats World War II as a World War I!
Seeing that the enemy, who had just returned firepower, began to retreat again, Bovinescu excitedly thought: "It seems that our artillery fire has been extremely fast with the confidence of this group of fools, and they are advancing towards the south!" Order the artillery, follow the infantry forward! ”
The battlefield has become very large, and although the weapons and equipment of the Luo army are not good, at least each battalion has radio contact. His order reached the battalion commander at the front, so that the offensive formation was still under control.
It's just that the Luo army's advance speed is too slow, they have never undergone high-intensity physical training, they have already run for three kilometers, many people are out of breath and can no longer run, and many people simply break their feet!
As for Balzen, he and his fighters basically train for five kilometers of cross-country training every day, and one of them for a 15-kilometer cross-country a week. This kind of training, which was once considered excessively inhumane by the soldiers, became Balzen's magic weapon in this kind of fighting.
It took him a short time to lead the whole battalion to a huge distance from the enemy, but the gun continued to be released, continuing to attract the attention of the enemy, and after the whole camp was spotted at the detected enemy outpost, the whole battalion immediately turned around and headed towards Slavtish......