Chapter 1119: The Romanian Army in the Village of Silemanca

Grisescu and his few survivors embarked on a difficult run, abandoning a large number of baggage and fleeing for ten kilometers.

For the average army, a retreat of ten kilometers is not a difficult task. However, for this army, which had just lost the battle, retreating ten kilometers to the east could be regarded as a difficult "expedition".

The force had traveled this distance before dark, and after nightfall, they continued eastward, eventually finding a presence on the map, the village of Silemanca.

Like many Ukrainian villages, the village was held by the Germans. With more than a thousand inhabitants, it is considered a large village as far as Ukraine is concerned. The village was controlled by German troops, and the Germans were more comfortable with the villagers.

For no other reason, the villagers generally did not have a favorable opinion of Stalin. A few years ago, the village was also affected by the famine, and since then, the majority of ethnic Ukrainians in the village have believed that Stalin's evil deeds are the result of so many deaths. Therefore, they saw the arrival of German troops as a savior.

The German occupation forces also need to use the human resources here, and these Ukrainians are willing to serve Germany and fight against Stalin in response to Germany's call. As a result, some of the men in the village volunteered to join the so-called Oriental Battalion.

Because the villagers here actively joined the puppet army organization, they also received preferential treatment from the German army, and the Soviet partisans were naturally unable to develop here.

It's just that all the villagers who joined the puppet army are dead, and they are stationed in Slavzich with the Eastern Battalion, which has been reduced to ruins, and the defenders have been wiped out.

When an infantry regiment of the Romanian 6th Division was ordered to regain Slavdzich, the villagers decisively provided a large amount of food and regarded the Romanian army as avengers.

The Germans who controlled the village also received orders to help these friendly forces as much as possible, and also transferred some military postures from the warehouse.

However, there is a reason why the German officers and soldiers have always looked down on the Luo army - the combat effectiveness of the Luo army is really poor.

"After all, they are a division, so many people went to attack the fleeing Soviet partisan brigade, and how could they fail again?" The German platoon commander in the village still had some confidence in these Romanians, after all, their forces were very large.

And the Luo army proved to these Ukrainian villagers and the German garrison with a complete fiasco.

Grisescu took his remnants and began to recuperate in this village, and the German garrison was considered to have done its best to the friendly troops. They ordered that Ukrainian families must take in these Romanians!

These Ukrainians, the reason why they had a good impression of these Romanians before was because they were going to attack the "Stalinists" who killed the men who were soldiers in the village. Now this group of people, they have taken so much food, but they have ended up in a big defeat, and they are all embarrassed like beggars.

In this way, the Ukrainians did not have a good face towards the Romanians, and the deliberate neglect of the villagers also made the Romanian army furious.

The local German army had no reason to be rude with these subservient Ukrainians, and the Luo army was like a powder keg, they could not defeat the enemy, so they vented their accumulated anger to the villagers.

Luo Jun has a gun, and when someone opens fire on the villagers who are snubbing him, the whole village quickly falls into the middle of chickens and dogs!

Riots suddenly break out, and the village turns into a living hell!

In the confusion, the Romanian soldiers really heard the gunshots and thought that the Russians were coming. A large number of villagers fled outdoors, and Luo Jun frantically fired at these suspected targets, and for a while no one thought that they had hit the wrong person.

It was as if the Soviets had really attacked, and even the Luo army had begun to protrude into clusters of well-repaired villages and continued to flee eastward.

The riot finally stopped, after all, there were more than 4,000 Luo soldiers who escaped from the village, and not all of them were soldiers.

The cost of the riots was also severe, with more than 1,000 villagers killed and wounded in the chaos caused by the Romanian army, and some Ukrainian women were insulted in the chaos.

"These Romanians, it's a bunch of crazy people!" This is what the platoon commander of the German garrison evaluated, and it was also the evaluation of all Ukrainians.

Grisescu had not yet had the time to inform the army group of the defeat of the army, because on the way to escape, several telegraph operators abandoned the heavy telegraph machine, and the only soldier carrying the telegraph was actually out of battery.

Grisescu just wanted to get a good night's sleep and report back to his superiors after daylight, knowing that he needed to organize some language so that his fiasco would not be so embarrassing.

However, the riots broke his wishful thinking, especially the German garrison in the village of Silemanka, who reported it first!

In this way, the German 634th Division, which is currently stationed in Chernihiv, has really received this extremely disgusting information.

"These Romanians, what exactly are they here for? These people, they can't fight, they go to destroy the defenseless villagers, but they are handy! These people shouldn't go to war, they go to be the executioners of the criminals! The German division commander Hendrysen learned of this "bad news" overnight, and he could only scold the incompetence of the Luo army, and then felt a trace of concern about the pressure of Chernihiv's city defense.

Fighting around the city of Chernihiv began on May 5, and from then to the present day the fighting has not stopped. For more than ten days, Chernihiv has been panicking, and Hendryson is also feeling great pressure. His main force has shrunk into the city, and the three main regiments form a triangle, plus the police regiment that urgently expands the army, and even several friendly troops that urgently deploy to Chernihiv, the city defense seems to be doing okay.

It was the fiasco of the 6th Division of the Romanian Army that was too shocking, because the German garrison in the village of Silemanka was originally from the 634th Division. They would not deceive their division commanders, so they called and reported without any scruples.

"The Luo army encountered a strong resistance from the Russians and suffered heavy losses, their remaining strength was less than 5,000 men, most of the baggage no longer existed, and the heavy weapons no longer existed."

The German division commander Hendlissen had never even met Grisescu, so there was no reason to endorse him. He did not hesitate to report the news of the defeat of the Luo army to the group army to which he belonged, and as for when the group army informed the Luo army of the Third Group Army, it was not his business.

Hendryson reported the incident to his army group at 23 o'clock on the evening of May 21, and only half a time later, he received a call back: "Your unit must hold Chernihiv, the whole city must closely search for Russian spies, and those who are suspected will be shot directly, and it will be done tonight!" Strictly strengthen the city's defenses against a possible sneak attack by the Soviet 284th Infantry Division in the swamps, and if the Soviet army has any activity, it is forbidden to go out of the city to fight! ”

At this juncture, the Germans on the Chernihiv side had to go on the defensive.

The reason Hendryson also understood, not far to the southeast, the German army fought head-on and as a reserve as a total of more than 30 divisions! Facing the Soviets head-on, Paulus's Sixth Army, and the Kleist cluster also began to look for a breakthrough in the "underbelly" of the Soviet offensive front.

The battle forced the superior German forces into the war, and also forced almost all the Romanian troops on the front line to cooperate with the German army in the Crimea and the southeast of Donbass, to launch a military offensive to withstand the Soviet offensive in these directions.

When the war came to this point, German officers with a little common sense felt more and more that their own troops were really insufficient. Russia is too big, and if the German army wants to ensure that there are sufficient troops on the front line, it has to transfer the rear to strengthen the defense in some key cities, and hand over more of the other areas to the puppet army and the army of the client state, which is really a helpless move at present.

Hendryson was no longer sleepy, he had to carry out the orders of the commander of the army group.

That is, to strengthen the city's defenses and launch a large-scale search for the "rats" that are active at night in the city of Chernihiv! He didn't care about disturbing the people anymore, and even if he couldn't catch the real members of the underground resistance, it was still completely feasible to arrest some suspicious elements. Tomorrow, these guerrillas will be hanged in public in the city square, and they will make an example!