Chapter 1106 If you can't win, you can only withdraw
Yang Mingzhi immediately made a decision, and he gave the order to the paratrooper brigade, which was still stable on the left flank, to reinforce the right flank.
However, from the walkie-talkie alone, he heard the noise of gunfire in the other side's environment.
"What's going on? Tapunov? You've been attacked there? ”
"Yes sir!" Tepunov's voice was a little hoarse: "They must have thought that there was a future for attacking from the north, so they attacked us." But rest assured, we can easily push it back. ”
"That's good! I believe you! Tepunov, you send at least one battalion to reinforce the right flank, which, according to reports, is attacked by two regiments! That's where the most critical battleground is! ”
Tepunov was taken aback, he had no right to speculate on whether this was true or not. With so many enemy attacks on the right flank, what reason did the elite paratroopers have to act sluggishly?
Rychev's battalion moved immediately, and in order to increase its combat effectiveness, Tepunov also transferred some additional machine gunners to the battalion and temporarily incorporated them into the battalion to form a firepower reinforcement battalion.
Yang Mingzhi's reinforcement order did not only concern the paratrooper brigade, Balzen's reconnaissance battalion also received the order. These scouts no longer had to act as positional infantry, they reinforced the right flank earlier than the paratrooper reinforcements.
The Soviet reinforcements quickly paid off, especially with Balzen's scouts, many of whom were also precision shooters. These shooters launched a sniper feast, replacing RPGs and recoilless guns, and quickly dealt a severe blow to the Luo soldiers who were hiding.
During this operation, Natasha and the sniper team were also specially assigned. After all, the anti-tank grabbing can ignore the barrier of the big tree, and it is easy to hit the people behind through the trunk of the tree, and it is this huge advantage that makes Yang Mingzhi have to send her to take on the sniper mission!
In fact, Natasha herself is also the leader of the fighting spirit in the hearts of the warriors, she is weak herself, once she holds a weapon, even the strongest marksman!
Although she urgently moved to the right flank with Igor, there was one emergency and another to brush up the record. But her existence really inspired the fighting spirit of the majority of soldiers!
The increasingly accurate bullets dealt a huge blow to the Romanian army, and Dmitriscu had to make a wise move - withdraw to a safe area and confront the enemy.
In fact, the so-called attack by two regiments of the Soviet Army was purely a false alarm. They mistakenly identified the Dmitriscu regiment and the divisional reconnaissance battalion as two infantry regiments.
During the battle, the reconnaissance battalion had strong firepower due to its equipment, and Dmitriscu also assigned some men to supplement them, and ordered them to attack from another angle, so that the Soviet troops misunderstood.
However, the strength of the Soviet army on the right flank was still at a disadvantage, and in terms of the firepower of the troops and the momentum of the soldiers, the Soviet army achieved the crushing of the Romanian army in all aspects. Even if the Luo army really dispatched two regiments to fight back the pigs, the outcome of this would have been completely bloody by that Verdun meat grinder in World War I!
After all, the Luo army had to weigh how they should prepare for the second round of offensive after reorganizing their troops.
The regimental commander, Dmitriscu, was already sweating, and he was even more worried about the casualties of his own troops.
"Damn it! We can't rush up at all, this situation can only allow the artillery to continue to bomb! ”
He immediately ordered the telegraph operator to send a telegram to the division headquarters, but the telegraph operator was surprised to find that the division headquarters had adopted radio silence? This doesn't make sense!
It was only then that Dmitriscu pondered his terrifying speculation; "The enemy did fire rockets, could it be that these shells were aimed at the division headquarters? Could it be that the division commander has already ......, "He didn't dare to think about it."
Standing in his situation, he violated the military order by retreating without receiving the retreat order, even if he escaped, he was a deserter! Do you want to go on the offensive? Many of the troops have already been killed, and look at the soldiers who have withdrawn, they are all terrified! Driving the horrified group of soldiers to continue the charge, this ......
Dmitryscu couldn't think of a good solution, so he had to give the order to drag it! You don't attack rashly, you confront the enemy here. Moreover, since telegraph communication was inexplicably interrupted, it was necessary to use traditional means.
The signal corps was organized, and they stuffed their regimental commanders' handwritten information on artillery support and the battle situation of the troops in their pockets, and rushed to the division headquarters.
These signal corps did not encounter a Soviet attack on the way, they ran lightly, but they still quickly broke through the forest, and also witnessed the billowing black smoke of the wilderness.
This is the so-called artillery regimental position, the barrels of those guns are still towering, what about the artillery people? The artillery is now unattended, and positions are largely lost. The soldiers hadn't disappeared either, just further east, where there was a large crowd.
The signal corps knew that the task was arduous, and they had no time to take care of the position full of debris, and ran towards the crowd, and in the process of running, they were actually shot!
Obviously, the comrades-in-arms regard themselves as enemies! The signal corps shouted loudly in Romanian, and it was the uniform that eventually proved their identity.
They burst into the crowd, ignoring these comrades who were half-kneeling with guns, and one of them even shouted: "Where is the division headquarters? We want to see the teacher? ”
It took several shouts before someone pointed out the location of the temporary division headquarters. When these signal soldiers saw their division commanders, these grassroots soldiers deeply felt that this battle could not be won.
At this moment, Grisescu's mood was quite depressed, the rocket artillery killed and injured most of the staff officers, the deputy division commander was killed on the spot, and the chief of staff was seriously wounded! The rockets even fell into the temporary field hospital, and the bandaged wounded were lying flat, they had just escaped from the hands of death, and they were finally blown up and killed, this is fate!
His uniform was full of gaps and he had contusions on his arms. Now he is simply a loner, it is lucky and unfortunate, the staff officers are either dead or injured, and the remaining few who are slightly injured, they can't make any reliable decisions. The burden of everything was on his shoulders, and this was the heaviest loss of his troops since he led his troops into Ukraine. There is even a possibility that the troops will be killed or wounded! In fact, the casualties currently suffered by the troops are enough to withdraw and continue to rest!
On the one hand, Grisescu was worried about his own casualties, and on the other hand, he was really worried about how to report to the commander of the army group.
The general also had great hopes for the 6th Infantry Division, counting on this unit, which had made great achievements in the Crimea, to move south here and cooperate with the German army to carry out a strategic counterattack against the large-scale attacking Soviet army! This is based on the premise that the troops are abundant, and the current command system is about to be paralyzed, and the troops suffer huge casualties. Grisescu even thought that if he reported the truth, he was afraid that he would be sentenced to be shot by a military court!
The signal corps suddenly arrived, and Grisescu was somewhat hopeful, he needed some good news!
I only heard the signal corpsmen say: "Division commander, our regiment was ordered to support, but it was stubbornly resisted by the Russians!" Our army suffered huge casualties! This is the epistle of our regiment commander Dmitriscu! ”
This is bad intelligence! Grisescu took the letter with trembling hands, and after glancing at the contents, he knew that there was no chance of winning this battle.
What's the point of being angry now, if you can't beat it, you can't beat it!
Of course, the content of this note is very amazing, it actually claims that there are about two regiments of the Soviet army on the defensive! It was written by the regimental commander Dmitryscu, who Grisescu was sure of at this time.
Thinking of the encounter of this combat unit, it is clear that the enemy has been prepared for a long time!
The Luo army did have a hasty and unprepared plot in the battle, but its division commander had already determined that even if the two armies fought against each other in the wilderness, the Soviet army had a double advantage in strength and weapons! Can this battle continue?
He thought for a while and asked the herald: "Tell me, how many combat forces your unit still has, and give me an estimate!" ”
"With the addition of the reconnaissance battalion, our total strength may already be less than two thousand! And the enemy is at least three thousand or more! We ......"
"That's it! Say no more! The battle can no longer continue! Grisescu shook his head helplessly, he was finally faced with a choice. Retreat, I have to go to the military court, continue to fight, I am afraid that the Soviet army will kill like crazy, and the soldiers will flee one after another defeat, and the entire infantry division will be too humiliating because of the battle, and the number can be revoked!
He finally made a choice, and ordered the herald: "The radio battery is dead, and the spare battery is gone!" I order you to return to your front at once and inform Dmitriscu to retreat to the east at once! ”
The order to retreat was to be issued to all three regiments, and the radio was temporarily useless, so they had to rely on the heralds to run wildly on the battlefield.
A large number of heralds rushed towards the forest, where there was still a sporadic exchange of fire, and a large number of artillery men ran back to the artillery positions they had just abandoned.