In the great battle at the end of 1941, the German 715th Division suffered huge losses. www.biquge.info Although this division is poorly armed and equipped, it has a strength of 15,000 men. They are not front-line combat troops, you must know that by this time of the war, most of the German troops on the front line had already been shortaged, and the strength of a division had generally been sharply reduced to more than 10,000 people.

Because of the losses suffered by Scholz, his troops reached the standards of some infantry divisions at the front.

The loss of only a few thousand men seems to have weakened 40 percent of this huge force, which is still an armed group of 10,000 men.

It is a pity that the losses were mainly of the most combat-ready units.

Freud and Hoffman's infantry regiments, which together accounted for sixty percent of their total strength, were theoretically broken, but they still managed to maintain their formation, only to be corrected at the station. The punishment received by the two men was very light, and they were soon reinstated (after all, they needed to continue to command). Schultz had no choice but to transfer the transport battalion of the logistics unit and immediately integrate these transport troops into the missing troops.

The battalions lacked tactical training, and Freud and Hoffman acted as instructors, ordering veterans in the units to strengthen the training of their new units in order to quickly regain combat effectiveness.

Later, the 722nd Division sent a battalion to Homnich, which gave Schultz a big sortie.

It all stemmed from the arrogance of that division commander, Florid. "I want to see how you can take down a fortress that our two regiments can't take down." Schultz said viciously at the division headquarters, and his staff officers waited and watched, and predicted that Flored would come out of the woods.

As Schultz had predicted, even if an air force bombed the city, it would have turned to powder. The Soviets hiding in the forest still wiped out all the elite troops sent by Florid, and to make matters worse, the results of the air force were unclear.

Schultz is not the kind of person who will repay him, his comrades have already paid the price for their arrogance, so why should he provoke him again.

Seeing the joy of everyone in the General Staff, Schultz stomped his feet and said: "We have received this information, and a battalion of the 722nd Division has been wiped out. We should not gloat, now the facts are in front of us, those damned swamp partisans, they are very strong in combat and are not even inferior to the SS. ”

"Really? It is true that the combat effectiveness of our army is inferior to that of the front-line troops, but if the SS comes, our pressure will be very small. A staff officer said.

"Perhaps, as you all know now, there is an SS infantry regiment in the city of Lechicha, and it is all French. The arrival of these people at least relieved the defensive pressure of our division. Schultz stated.

"Cut! A group of Frenchmen, our men are defeated, I don't like them. It was Scholz's chief of staff, Swagger, who said this. He fought in World War I and fought in the terrible Battle of the Somme, and he was lucky to survive.

As for the perception of the French, if we look at it from the perspective of the First World War, they are very fierce and have a strong will to fight. But why did these French be completely defeated in a month in the new big war twenty years later, in the previous war, every kilometer of advance had to pay the price of tens of thousands of casualties, and as a result, in the new era, the tanks and fighters of the troops attacked at the same time, and the French army was defeated.

The victory made many German soldiers look down on the French, even if they were Germans living in France. So this group of people joined the SS, and the combat effectiveness could really be guaranteed? This is doubtful.

Swagger unceremoniously continued: "I must not have it good for the SS to join them. At least they have undergone systematic military training, not to mention the group of cattle and cannon fodder of the Soviet Union. These people joined the SS, not at all in the interests of the Germans, but for themselves. I guess the Führer used them to organize the occupation of Europe by the Soviets and prevent total Sovietization. And that's why we're now fighting in the USSR. ”

His explanation was quite recognized by the vast number of staff officers.

Schultz paused and said: "At least more than a hundred years ago, Napoleon commanded the French army, as well as the Austrian-Württemberg-Bavarian army, as well as the Poles, Czechs, etc., to jointly attack Imperial Russia. Now times have changed, Greater Germany has been united, and it is up to us to lead the French to defeat the Soviet Union and finish what Napoleon left to do. So that the French will support us psychologically. ”

This is obviously just Scholz's wishful thinking, aggression is aggression, and Swagger does not deny that Germany is actually plundering France's national wealth. He was disgusted with this, but because he was a soldier, he could only carry out the mission. Therefore, he did not stop these childish thoughts of the division commander, it is okay to deceive those Frenchmen, if he also believes it, it will be too stupid.

However, a regiment of French men of the SS came, and Lechitsa at least had more troops.

It was also the arrival of these people that some heavy weapons would also be deployed to several divisions along the road, but because of the sudden snowfall, such as the No. 3 assault gun, and some long-barreled No. 3 tanks, their arrival was delayed.

Due to the terrible snowfall, the training of German soldiers was also delayed, and all the planes of the air force group were pulled into the hangar.

Schultz was given the order to rest completely, and he did not dare to be too lazy, but ordered some soldiers to keep an eye on the various posts to prevent the Soviets from taking advantage of this opportunity to attack.

But very badly, the attack still happened!

This was not an attack from Yang Mingzhi's department, the defense center of the 715th Division was almost completely inclined to the south after the battle, so that his north became a soft belly.

Coupled with the shortage of troops, the combat effectiveness and morale are at the lowest point in the formation of the army.

Two Soviet partisan detachments operating near Slutsk, under the orders of their superiors, took advantage of the heavy losses of the 715th Division to attack them in order to further weaken it.

The total strength of these two forces was only more than 200 men, and their weapons and equipment were almost all rifles, and they were also short of food. When they joined forces with the partisans operating in Lechicha, their strength and logistics were strengthened a little.

In this operation, they attacked a German field hospital like bandits (the Germans often called the partisans bandits).

The day of the attack took place in the early morning of January 25, because they were worried that the defense of the German army attacking during the day would be too strong, they chose this snowy day, plus the cover of night, more than 200 people stormed the hospital!

You must know that most of the people living in this hospital are the wounded who continue to recuperate after the war. The hospital is now home to more than 100 people, more than 20 medical staff, and a platoon of guards.

This sudden attack, the Germans were unprepared. The Soviet partisans, full of rage, took the hospital at the cost of a dozen casualties.

The bloody slaughter took place in the night, and all the wounded were killed, including the medical staff.

The captured Greta and her sisters were undoubtedly lucky, as they were confronted by a highly disciplined force, which is actually very rare. At least in 1942, Soviet troops captured a small number of German prisoners, and after interrogation, almost all of them were executed.

So the partisans did not hesitate to insult these German female nurses, after which they were all killed. They also took everything they could use, taking the guns of the slain German guards, including their helmets.

The next day, when the patrolling Germans passed by the hospital, they saw a mess of the outdoors, and when they entered the house, they saw only blood and countless corpses. Intelligence was immediately communicated to the headquarters of the 715th Division, which took Scholz by surprise.

So angry that he directly broke the water glass, and the bevel scolded: "You Slavic pigs! I didn't dare to fight in a dignified battle on the battlefield, and I actually attacked my wounded! Swamp guerrillas! Is that all you have to do? ”

This happened, and almost everyone believed that this was the revenge of the Soviets in the south. And Swagger still felt a little strange, knowing that on this snowy day, those swamp people had to travel more than 80 kilometers, if they launched this attack, they should have acted early, even before the 722nd Division captured Homnitch.

Maybe that's how they arranged it, Swagge didn't say anything. Now everyone's anger has been ignited, and the responsibility for this "hospital massacre" can only be borne by the Soviets in the swamp. (To be continued.) )