The reinforcements of the 722nd Division were on the way, and at this time, the setting sun was shining on the earth, and it did not seem a good time to march in the twilight hours. Pen "Fun" Pavilion www.biquge.info

In order to reach their destination quickly, the men marched quickly with their standard equipment. The commander of this force was a battalion commander named Safir, who had experience fighting the 284th Division, for no other reason.

The 1,700 men were very fast, and more importantly, the Estonians were not a rabble, because they were genuinely willing to cooperate with the Germans.

The friendly forces have officially sent their troops, and they have gone from the promise to the dispatch of their troops, without any delay.

Herzman, who was holding the table and staring at the map, said with relief: "Now this group of Soviets is difficult to fly, although it is difficult to annihilate one of their troops, we still have to succeed." ”

Although the chief of staff was a little skeptical, he still agreed: "As long as this Soviet unit is completely wiped out by us, the anti-German bandit forces in the whole of Belarus will be greatly defeated." ”

"I hope so, but it takes so much effort to destroy a thousand people, and they are afraid that they still have an army of ten thousand! We're going to lose a lot of people. ”

"Maybe, maybe not." The chief of staff guessed: "I really don't believe that they are all elite troops, it stands to reason that they must absorb a large number of local residents, and as far as I know, to train a peasant into a soldier, our army will take no less than twenty-four weeks, is it possible for them Soviets?" Maybe we are facing their elite troops, and the other combat effectiveness is probably not high. ”

This explains that Herzman is really anxious, so the whole person is more confident, he pressed the area with red dots on the map, and said excitedly: "As long as our artillery blows up this place, even if their soldiers are of high quality, they will not stop the shell bombardment!" Besides, our first force has exceeded 3,000, and we will surely succeed in tomorrow's offensive. ”

The chief of staff stepped forward and said, "For the sake of tomorrow's victory, we must also be on full vigilance tonight. He pointed to the area south of the target, "In some battlefields, the stubborn resistance of the Soviet army is very strong, and the enemy we are surrounding may be the same." But we can't rule out that they will break through. With all due respect, if they retreat to the south, we must stop them, for we may not be able to wait for the bombardment of tomorrow morning. ”

It also sounds reasonable, and Herzman is also afraid that the cooked duck will fly.

"What then? We need to keep them from escaping, so you mean to ask me to send troops back to their rear, but now we don't have many troops, and reinforcements are still on the way. ”

"Then transfer our regular army first, although the group of people in the Eastern Battalion is inferior in combat, they can still contain them head-on. At most, by six o'clock in the afternoon, the rapidly marching friendly forces will be in position, and only our German soldiers will need to be able to lay them around the city with iron barrels, not the current standoff. ”

Herzman felt justified and immediately ordered a change in tactics.

The German infantry battalions that were originally stationed on both flanks of the Soviet positions began to move, and the abnormal behavior of the German troops was immediately noticed by the Soviet troops.

Tokov took into account before the battle that the enemy would resort to encirclement tactics, and they really did it!

"No, the enemy is going to surround me to death! Once the encirclement is complete, it's bad! If the truth of my company is known to them, I will not even have a chance of winning! Now, Tokov looked at his watch, it was not half past six, it was still dawn, and the twilight sun shone through the cover of the trunks and leaves.

The order was held until eight o'clock, but the tide of the battle was changing.

He immediately ordered the telegraph operator: "Now send a telegram to Balzen, tell him that our army is surrounded by superior German forces, and request that the encirclement be broken out as soon as the encirclement is not completed." ”

It was a matter of life and death, and the telegraph operator did not dare to slack off, so that the large force of Balzen, which was retreating south, received such an alarm.

At this moment, Balzen considered that it was getting late, so he ordered the troops to stop and correct. They began their march at about one o'clock in the afternoon, keeping as fast as they could, but unfortunately the troops were too tired, and the quagmire in the swampy area was a great obstacle. Due to the constraints of a large number of wounded, the team only walked more than 10 kilometers in a few hours. Even so, Balzen ordered a break, because he knew that the soldier's limit was about to be reached.

As a result, at this time he received a request for Tokov to retreat.

"What? The enemy is encircling? Are you asking for a retreat? How many enemies are there? How are you doing now? ”

Tokov truthfully reported that although the willpower of a soldier will become a powerful fighting force, there are no bullets in the chamber of the gun, and all courage is nothing more than the courage of a horseman. Tokov didn't want to go all to the West, and he didn't want to be too blunt.

The so-called whole company encountered an enemy attack of about the size of a regiment, and barely blocked the enemy under the premise of a large consumption of ammunition, the soldiers were very tired, and there were not many bullets, and the whole company could still hold the enemy for the time being, but the collapse was imminent.

It is based on this situation that it is considered that it is getting dark. Balzen thought about it, and the order of the division headquarters was to withdraw the troops, and to bring back as many people as possible.

It was a very combat-ready infantry company, and here Evgeny knew what was going on with his men. For the sake of his comrades-in-arms, and even for the future interests of the army, Tokov must try to get out of danger as much as possible.

But abandoning the position now, the Germans may pursue, and this is a great danger.

Balzen couldn't do so much anymore, and ordered: "I have broken your request for retreat, and now immediately start a breakthrough, and immediately move closer to my position, my position is ......"

Having received such an order, Tokov did not hesitate to give the order to break out.

The majority of the soldiers actually watched what their company commander would do, because everyone knew that the enemy was trying to surround it, and it was too close to the German army, and it was probably the end of the whole world by tomorrow at the latest.

Tokov gave the order to reorganize the armament, and after making sure that everything was ready, he gave the order, and the whole company of soldiers jumped out of the trenches.

No one shouted Ulla, and the whole company was running wildly, including some guys carrying wounded comrades on their backs, as well as stretchers on their backs.

The submachine gunner is in front of the way, and it can really be said that people block and kill Buddhas.

The Germans, who were unprepared for the Soviet breakthrough, did not stop the attack immediately, perhaps because the soldiers could not immediately stop it with strong firepower, or because they were frightened in the battle just now.

At least some of the fire hit individual Soviet soldiers, which did not affect the evacuation of others. They're running wildly south, and the guys who have been knocked down and wounded are still trying to hold back as much as they can.

"Not good, the enemy is running away! Don't they want their own positions anymore? Speer was holding up a telescope, completely unaware of what the Soviets were doing.

On the other end of the radio, Drach stressed that the enemy had many more troops than these people, "Maybe part of the enemy is fleeing, maybe he is interrupting the encirclement we are doing." ”

In any case, the Soviets were running to the south, and Speer immediately ordered his men to begin pursuit.

There was an infantry platoon that ran the fastest, but unfortunately after chasing for a while they did not catch up with the enemy, and in the shootout these people could not take advantage of it, and gradually lost the battle and stopped.

Once again, the tide of battle changed dramatically, and Herzman had to question Speer several times.

"Divisional commander, at least a hundred Soviets have run south, and we are in the encirclement, and we are completely unprepared to block it immediately. They at least some remained in position. ”

"So what is the position of the Soviets now?" Herzman asked loudly.

"No gunshots, so quiet! Those guys must be hiding! ”

"Didn't you just have a sporadic exchange of fire with them? Why is it so quiet now? ”

Speer didn't think much about it, but still affirmed the division commander's speculation.

This statement had been listened to by Rostad, the chief of staff on the side, and suddenly, a terrible thought came to his mind.

He tentatively asked the division commander: "I have a very bad premonition now, I'm afraid that there are only 100 people fighting against us, and now they see that we are shrinking the encirclement, so they simply run away." I'm afraid their main force has long since gone! ”

"It can't be so!" Herzman woke up in an enlightened state, he rubbed himself violently, and asked, "Chief of Staff, do you believe what you say?" ”

"Maybe it's my nonsense, but didn't Speer say it? The position is very quiet, so let's just let the group of timid Oriental volunteers attack tentatively, and the number of people is not large, a dozen people are enough. Take advantage of the fact that there is still light in the sky to find out. ”

"Okay, that's it!" Herzman hesitated to approve the decision.