This night, Yang Mingzhi can hurry up and sleep well, he doesn't have to be too nervous about the future, because it is meaningless to worry about it. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ｂｉｑUｇE。 info The soldiers are also accustomed to life in the battlefield, and they have to fight sooner or later when they fight, and if they can lie down, they don't stand, and if they can sleep, they fall asleep.

At night, Yang Mingzhi ordered the radio staff to remain vigilant, and the radio station was turned on and waited for new signals at any time.

Tomorrow, the battle of Homnich may begin, and they will definitely be able to hold on to the city, Yang Mingzhi firmly believes.

At the same time, the German troops attacking Homnich were also forced to put themselves in order as night fell.

In this battle, the German 715th Division concluded that the main force of the guerrillas had been discovered, and the division commander Schultz planned this largest military operation for his division. The order he received was, of course, to sweep up all the guerrillas on both sides of the road, and to do so he would rather slaughter and burn all the surrounding Soviet villages. Because this operation was strongly supported by their superiors, the officers and men of the 715th Division could not also need a victory to sweep away the winter anger.

This attacking German force was the size of a brigade, they had two infantry regiments and an artillery battalion, and the strength was as high as 5,000 men. However, in such cold weather, it was in the wilderness towards Homnitsch, and the speed of the march was not fast.

The baggage situation of these 5,000 men was much better than that of the Soviet army, and in this battle, the German army had more than 1,000 military horses to carry supplies and pull artillery.

The two German commanders, Hoffmann and Freud, were ordered to capture Homnitsch and annihilate the Soviet partisans, and they were bound to win the battle, but the cold weather meant that their ambitions had to be put aside.

"It's terrible, it's such a damn weather, and I shudder at the thought of how many days we'll have to endure for days." Hoffman grumbled.

"You're right, but we're lucky. The Soviets built Moscow like a beecomb, with bunkers everywhere and their soldiers everywhere. What's worse, our soldiers can't wear winter clothes like you and me in the second-line troops, they freeze to death and suffer a lot of frostbite. And the Soviets, as if they were all a herd of brown bears, were not afraid of freezing even with bare shoulders. ”

Hoffman shook his head and smiled. "Brown bear? It's a polar bear. Your words are apt, these grey animals are indeed madmen. The Führer said that if we enter the Soviet Union, these Soviets who were enslaved by Stalin will support us and become natural mercenaries to directly help us overthrow Stalin's rule. But these stupid guys are rebelling against us, which is not what the Führer said. ”

Speaking of which, Freud couldn't help but sigh. "Perhaps, the Führer and generals underestimated the will of the Soviets to fight. We were fighting for Greater Germany, and as a result we were faced with Soviet peasants who took up all kinds of arms to resist. Now you and I have to examine our own attitudes, are we going to lead them out of Stalin's tyranny, or are we going to kill all the Slavs and let the Germans settle in this land? The Führer and Dr. Goebel were very ambivalent on this issue. ”

"What you said makes sense, don't say more about this, it will be bad for you and me if the Gestapo in the battlefield learns about it." Hoffman stretched out his hands to bake the fire, and said; "We are soldiers, obey the orders of our superiors, let's not think too much. We do whatever they ask us to, even if they are devils, we can't help it, after all, we are soldiers. ”

"Yes! Soldiers, those Soviet soldiers were also soldiers, so this group of people even died with a bag of explosives and our tanks, I think this is also because of their duty to obey orders. ”

Hoffman looked at him sideways, and there was something in this man's words, as if such a suicide attack was an attack of an individual soldier in the most brutal revenge for the German army, a life-for-life attack!

These two were Wehrmacht, and both were ordinary people before joining the army. It's just that war shows the cruelest side of people, even if you know that killing is cruel, you still have to do it.

"You and I will go and rest in a while, tomorrow we will approach Homnitsch, first set up the heavy artillery, and then the armored vehicles and infantry will charge, and the Soviets will be defeated and surrender." Hoffman sighed.

"May it be so, and then we will all shoot our captives, and may God forgive us our sins, Amen." As Freud spoke, he couldn't help but draw a cross on his chest.

On the other side of the war, the Soviet troops guarding Khomnich had just finished hastily building a defensive line.

The time given to Roshakov was short, and he had to command more than two thousand men with his men and do his best to build Khomnich into a fortress.

They had not many engineering materials at hand, just a large amount of bricks and rubble, as well as the furniture of the residents that had been blown up, and even the corpses of German soldiers that had been frozen to ice. The war needs it, and everything that can act as "bricks and tiles" is used.

Roshakov's and Kravsky's units, before they received special training in guerrilla warfare, were professional in positional warfare.

Therefore, Roshakov, on the contrary, was more confident in defending the city. Immediately after the capture of the city, the construction of defensive positions began. Standing on a high place, he ordered the fighters: "Comrades, we will defend the city, and this is our position. This time, we were ordered to stay here, to attract the main forces of the Germans, and we had to build trenches and build machine-gun bunkers on the periphery of the city, as in Ukraine. Everything is done according to our long-standing methods of warfare. ”

In Roshakov's opinion, his own people are still more adapted to positional warfare, because everyone is trained in this way.

How to fight positional warfare, according to the soldiers' memories of a few months ago, the Germans were nothing more than the air force carrying out precision attacks, and then the German tanks, self-propelled guns, armored vehicles and a large number of infantry fought together. To attack Soviet positions, it was necessary to first engage long-range firepower, such as heavy artillery bombardment, before the actual advance of the German army.

Roshakov and Kravsky knew this too well, and both gave orders to their subordinates. Even if the snow and soil are frozen hard, mines still have to be laid, and positions still have to be dug.

Of course, defensive positions should also be built inside the city, especially after the two received more accurate information, and the establishment of multiple defensive circles has been a necessary task.

So, before the expected date of the start of the war. Directly north of the city, Soviet troops laid a number of mines.

These mines were made by the Blacksmith Village, and the infantry suddenly exploded when they stepped on the stumbling block, and then exploded a second time, sending a large number of fragments made of discarded bullet casings flying sideways. This is Yang Mingzhi's bad taste, the design concept of anti-infantry mines is quite easy to replicate, and this battle will be a testing ground for this new type of landmines.

Of course, Roshakov did not pin his hopes of victory on such weapons. The heavy weapons at his disposal, three tanks, a large number of machine guns, rockets that could shoot at enemy armored targets, and even anti-tank guns, were the key to a great victory.

The fighters were busy all day, the main forces of the two battalions were distributed in a fan pattern in the northern part of the city, and the militia battalion served as a tactical reserve.

The artillery company was simply split, and large-caliber mortars were mounted on sleds for maneuverable combat. The anti-tank gun was pulled to the front line, wrapped in a white cloth, and camouflaged.

On the last day of fighting, Roshakov thought that the fortifications had been done well.

All the firing points were concealed enough, and even the tanks were piled up with some snow to camouflage.

From a distance, this Homnich looks like a dead city, frozen in ice and snow, full of ruins and thick snowdrifts. And beneath this exterior, more than 2,000 soldiers lay dormant, waiting for the German attack.

All parties are waiting for the arrival of a new day, the German army is resting, the Soviet army is also resting, Yang Mingzhi is sleeping soundly, and the captured German medical personnel are also worthy of sleeping with their eyes closed, even including the commander of the German 715th Division and others, who also think that this battle will be won and sit back and relax.

At night, Yang Mingzhi again ordered the radioman to send a report that the new attack was located around the city of Lechicha, which could theoretically be some of the enemy's headquarters.

It's too risky for a thousand people to attack there. Yevlov advised against this, but Yang Mingzhi knew it.

But the changes in the battlefield, the Germans did not know at all. The 715th Division did not receive the prisoners of war that were supposed to be accepted, and even a convoy transporting wounded soldiers did not arrive in the early morning. These anomalies did not attract the attention of the division commander Scholz, and all his thoughts had drifted to Homnich in the distance, waiting for the good news of the great victory of the troops. (To be continued.) )