Chapter 1040: Miroshniko's Plea for Help
It was a regrettable order, and Miroshniko ordered the troops to retreat.
The communication between his troops is far less efficient than that of Yang Mingzhi, and the main reason for this is that there is no radio station in the battalion-level troops! Almost all of the communication between them depends on the two wood-piercing legs of the heralds!
Many of the wounded from the fighting were transferred to civilian homes. These civilians, who are also Ukrainians, are so frightened that they have to help. For whoever disobeys will be killed according to the verdict of a traitor.
Miroshniko's order to retreat was too hasty, and he didn't care so much, and only returned the same way with the warriors who could continue the battle. The soldiers tried their best to give notice, but there were still many people who were not informed or hesitated to run.
After all, he ran early enough, and before the reinforcements of the 634th Division and the Romanians arrived, a large number of Soviet troops fled into the forest! There were 5,400 troops at the time of departure, but 5,000 returned!
Because many people, the citizens of Corodnia, were forcibly taken away by the guerrilla brigades, and those who did not want to go were shot as traitors!
The actual losses of the guerrilla brigade were almost two thousand people, and anything that did not return was a permanent loss!
Miroshniko led his troops back to the camp to recuperate, and German retaliation followed.
The Germans were very sure that the partisans attacking Gorodnia were strong, but fortunately, the powerful Germans were able to defeat them with a small number of troops! The rest of the problems were easy to handle, and the 634th Division, which had been harassed by the "flexible mosquitoes" for a long time, realized that this was the best opportunity to completely annihilate the enemy.
The Germans dispatched four regiments, plus the entire Sixth Infantry Division of the Romanian army, with an actual strength of 20,000 men, such a large force launched a sweep of the Latiz Forest.
Miroshniko's guerrilla brigade can be said to have lost 40% of its combat effectiveness in the first battle, although he urgently armed the elderly and women, these people are a drop in the bucket for the increase in combat effectiveness. Besides, the citizens of Gorodnia who were taken to the forest, they did not want to be partisans!
In the midst of this crisis, Miroshniko made a crazy wrong decision! Those who are not strong-willed are suspected of collaborating with the enemy, especially those who are new to the gang.
At one time, a thousand people were convicted, the branches of the big tree became simple gallows, and in just one day, more than a thousand people were hanged!
From Miroshniko's side, he does not consider himself wrong. His brutal methods also stabilized the morale of the army. Everyone clearly knows that being caught by the Germans is death, and if you are cowardly, you will be hanged by your own people! The only way to survive is to rely on the forest and fight guerrillas with the Germans!
However, after all, the Derog coalition army was as high as 20,000 people, and the German army thought that it had been humiliated!
The so-called partisan republics of the swamps cut off the railway lines around Mozyri, killing and wounding a large number of German troops! The railway has just been repaired, and the left bank of the Dnieper has been subjected to another massive attack!
To take revenge on the guerrilla republics, the Germans had to prepare well to annihilate the 17th guerrilla brigade of the Soviet Union, almost 20,000 men! After all, thousands of them could not defeat a German infantry regiment, and their inferior combat effectiveness was fully demonstrated.
At this point, the guerrilla brigades began guerrilla warfare again on 7 May, and they faced an enemy force that they could not afford at all.
Their settlement was discovered by the Germans, and during the transfer of troops, women and children who were running slowly were discovered by the pursuers. The attitude of the Germans towards the partisans was extremely cruel, shooting them wherever they were found. The Romanian army was even more involved in this process, and an infantry regiment was able to meet the group of refugees who had been separated from the guerrilla brigade.
Therefore, the 6th Division of the Romanian Army immediately reported that they had shot more than a thousand partisans, and this result encouraged the commander of the army group, Dumitrescu.
Miroshniko had been fighting guerrilla warfare in the forest, and he had already lost too many of his men, especially the people he needed to protect.
By May 15, he had been fighting guerrilla warfare for a whole week. The population under the control of the 17th Guerrilla Brigade originally exceeded 10,000, but at present, he still has more than 3,000 people left.
The situation of these more than 3,000 people is also very bad, many of them are in tatters, especially after the heavy rain that has just lasted for two days, many of them are still sick, and there is not much food.
The damned Germans also showed no signs of retreating at all, and if they continued, there was only a dead end.
Miroshniko had his own self-esteem, he was also a "huge" enemy behind enemy lines with a population of more than 10,000, and he had a loud name, which was greatly appreciated by the command of the partisan movement! Forced by the current cruel form, he was no longer proud, and reluctantly explained to Ponomarenko the reality that guerrilla travel would wipe out the whole army.
This shocked Ponomarenko, who received information that the guerrilla brigade, despite its failure to capture the city, had retained a large number of troops and had not been seriously weakened. After a few days, their brigade commander finally told the truth and let out a mournful cry: "Please help us." ”
As a result, the command of the guerrilla movement urgently convened a meeting.
After the study of the meeting, the 17th partisan brigade immediately broke through to the western part of Chernihiv and went to the forest city called Slavzich. Secondly, the partisan republics of the Pripet swamps on the right bank of the Dnieper immediately sent reinforcements with superior forces.
The order was sent to the blacksmith village on May 16, and it was quickly deciphered by the telegraph operators.
Miroshniko received a death order from his superiors, and his subordinates, either sad, resentful, or helpless, must begin to move all who are alive!
On 16 May, the 6th Romanian Division had moved to the south of the Latiz Forest. After they achieved a large number of results in the early stage of encirclement and suppression, they did not add new results. The width of the Dnieper River is a moat with a width of several hundred meters, and the enemy can still swim over it like an otter? The Luo army believed that as long as they held the current defensive line, they could ensure that the enemy would not break through from the south.
For several days, they did not find a large force of the partisans, and they began to dig trenches in their place.
The rain that made Yang Mingzhi uncomfortable was also uncomfortable for Romanians.
Besides, the weapons and equipment of the Romanian army are also very average, the 6th Division is considered the elite of the Romanian army, there are only five howitzers with a caliber of 150 mm, and most of the artillery is not only not a small number, but also a caliber of 75 mm. The situation was even worse with their small arms, which were mainly Czech-made and far weaker than the average German infantry division.
The heavy rain lowered the morale of the Luo army, and when the sun came out, they hurriedly turned over their clothes and cleared the mud from the trenches.
In the early hours of May 16, Miroshniko's partisan brigade broke through. The remaining 3,000 people, when faced with an existential threat, burst out with a strong desire to survive. The Luo army saw the charge of the Soviets. Three thousand people at the same time Ula successfully broke through the direction of the Luo army!
After all, the Luo army put out the traditional long snake formation, and the Soviet army attacked it directly and stabbed it, and the Soviet army had no intention of fighting, so these 3,000 people began to run wildly all the way, relying on small forests, and gradually advanced towards Slavdish.
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Of course, the details of the latest telegram received by Yang Mingzhi could never have explained what happened to the 17th Guerrilla Brigade.
According to intelligence, Miroshniko's troops suffered heavy losses, and they were still facing the pursuit of the Germans and Romanians, with the Romanians pursuing the most ferocious, but the Germans were weakened.
Ponomarenko speculated that Miroshniko would arrive in Slavzich on May 18 or 19, where he would have to fight the local defenders. It will be very difficult to count on this heavily battered army to take that small city.
Therefore, he officially gave the partisan republic a concrete battle order, that is, on May 19, Slavzich must be taken. 2k reading web