In this battle around Loyev, the commander Yang Mingzhi still overestimated the enemy. He could calculate that the enemy would definitely attack, but he had no idea that the enemy's reinforcements had chosen to start grinding and chirping at six o'clock in the morning of June 24.

The Soviets had the advantage of time, because on this day they placed an elite of 4,000 men in Khomnych and a siege army of 2,000 on the outskirts of Loyev. After the reorganization, most of the paratrooper brigade will be stationed in the Deni Praze area for ambush, and its original position will be in charge of the 17th guerrilla brigade after rest.

At present, the Soviet army has mobilized a huge number of 9,000 combat troops, which is not only a huge number, but also well-equipped, and the morale of the soldiers is high.

At this moment, who would doubt that the great Soviet Red Army was not invincible?

However, Yang Mingzhi never expected that the enemy who came to reinforce Loyev was a mixed force with not weak combat effectiveness.

The German army in the north and those puppet armies, even Yang Mingzhi, who was quite cautious about commanding operations, thought that it was a rabble.

It's just that if this rabble is equipped with some heavy weapons, it is unlikely that the Soviet army will unilaterally crush the pure strength.

The German commander Getzal, who was very arrogant to the Soviet army, boasted that he really had the strength to despise the Soviet army!

This former commander of logistics is now transformed into an army equivalent to a brigade.

Its core force is the infantry regiment reorganized from the logistics corps, with a strength of 2,300 troops. The second is the police regiment composed of Belarusians, which is not very combat-ready, with four battalions of 2,000 troops.

He also has a very "strong" tank unit in combat effectiveness. It was a makeshift tank battalion, consisting of one Four, three Threes, and ten T26s.

Until then, these armoured vehicles had either been repaired in Gomel or used as tractors. The so-called tank crews were also recruited temporarily, and those who could drive trucks in the logistics corps have now become tank drivers. Because in terms of operation, the difference between driving a truck and driving a tank of this era is not too big.

So, the German commander Gertzal, he very much wanted to replicate the blitzkrieg that the Germans were proud of. He has more than a dozen tanks and nearly 5,000 troops, and his troops can also apply for air support. Could it be that Loyev, who was besieged by the enemy, could not have been successfully reinforced with such a brave rush himself?

He is so fantastic, but the reality is simply a slap in the face.

Maybe there was no war for two months, and the vast majority of German drama officers and soldiers have eaten fat. In the occupied areas, German officers and soldiers took the Reichsmark with amazing purchasing power, wantonly stuffed grain barbecue and alcohol into their stomachs in the occupied areas, and they mailed back a large amount of bacon, and they themselves did not eat less.

If such peaceful days can be longed, who will want to go to war. Therefore, when the order to march was delivered, many officers and soldiers were resistant, that is, combat maniacs like the regimental commander Getzal would yearn for this dangerous battle.

Tank crews are all improvised matching, and their tacit understanding needs to be run-in. The tanks moved quickly, let alone tired, which was undoubtedly a disaster for the infantry.

Quetzal naturally did not get tired while sitting on the German jeep, and his soldiers were out of breath. From its place of departure to the stage goal, the distance of the Dnieper bridge south of the city of Lechtsa is only twenty-five kilometers.

The German officers and men arrived, and everyone was exhausted. They joined forces with the police regiment waiting for the area, and there was no friendship between the two forces.

Some of the Belarusians who formed the police corps were persecuted by Stalin, and most of them were forced by the Germans, or they solved the problem of food and became puppet soldiers.

In the German-occupied territories, the Soviet-era foundations of most of the villages were completely crumbling, and the common people were struggling to survive, among which the Belarusian nationalists took the opportunity to cooperate with Germany, and the so-called "reckoning with Stalin's crimes" and "establishing a state of their own for Belarusians" and so on spread wildly, for which many civilians were deceived for survival.

One was reluctant to kill the partisans to the south, who were also Belarusians, and some were looking forward to the Germans. No matter what their attitude was, in the next combat operations, their attitude was surprisingly consistent - never be caught by the Soviet troops of the enemy's 63rd Army, and run away as soon as they could.

The puppet army is exactly such a mentality, when everyone knows that the battle they are facing is more auspicious and less, they should not be stupid to work for the German army, or it is important to save their own lives. Because, isn't their existence just to serve as cannon fodder for the German army?

The puppet army is too self-aware, but the commander Quetzal still looks like he is not afraid of heaven and earth.

This is a somewhat spiritually fanatical, and even more deserving of an Waffen-SS officer, as Padelov, the head of the puppet army police who met him for the first time, thinks.

The police regiment was ordered to be completely under the command of the German troops, to be exact, the command of this German colonel, Gertzal.

The Germans set up camp at the Donajich Ferry, where the soldiers set up their own field tops and the senior officers lived in cabins.

This ferry town is important because of the road bridge that crosses the river, and it was the defense area of the 707th Division, where a battalion of officers and soldiers was stationed. Knowing that the brothers of the friendly 722nd Division were going south to fight the Russians, they were worried about the fate of the friendly troops, and they had to admire the feat of the friendly troops welding detonators and sawing light bulbs in their hearts.

In short, the 707th Division was truly fearful, and they would be relieved if friendly forces could beat the Russians hard. Of course, everyone is still worried about the future of friendly forces.

After all, the friendly troops were going to the front, and the commander of the defending battalion opened the food storehouse, and supplied not only a large amount of bread, but also smoked ham.

Today's dinner was very hearty, even for the officers and soldiers of the police regiment.

Maybe it's the Last Supper! Most of the guys who will go to the front line are self-aware, and they all have small calculations in their hearts. Whether or not Loyev can be recovered by fighting in the south, the officers and soldiers at the grassroots level of the German army do not have so much confidence.

However, what else can be done besides being ordered to fight?

Most of the soldiers ate bread and slices of ham, almost everyone ate canned beef from Germany, and many had the privilege of drinking a large glass of dark beer.

They ate and drank enough to go to bed quickly, and nestled in their tents one by one, snoring one after another to tell the tiredness of the day, but also to recharge for the new day's march.

On the morning of June 25, the morning sun heralded a new sunny day. Perhaps it was the continuous rain at the beginning of the month that rained down the whole of June, and the long period of sunny weather not only caused the area to gradually dry out, but also the temperature rose rapidly.

When the German soldiers marched during the day, almost all of them braided their arms and sleeves, and some even removed a few sleeves of their uniforms without regard for etiquette. The maximum temperature during the day is close to 25 degrees, which is very rare at this time of year in Belarus.

The morning trumpet woke up the soldiers, and they got up lazily, and the first thing they did was to put their house in order. The tent was dismantled and the sticks used to support the tent were simply discarded. They skillfully folded the tent and blanket together into a roll and wrapped it around their backpacks.

Compared with Yang Mingzhi's Soviet army, the weight of the German soldiers was much smaller. In this battle, each German soldier did not carry more ammunition, except for the small number of MG34 machine gunners, who had 3,000 rounds of ammunition, and the average soldier still had 60 rounds in the magazine.

The Germans and puppet armies were relatively lightly armed, and after a simple breakfast, they lined up and continued along the banks of the Dnieper, accompanied by a dozen tanks and more than twenty baggage wagons, and began to move south to the battlefield......