Several German observers who had survived the death ran to the German headquarters with sad faces.

"Battalion commander! Oh no! All the observers were almost killed by the Russians! ”

"What?!" The deputy battalion commander who had already acted as the battalion commander was completely incredulous, "Impossible, I know that the Russians are hiding in the woods, but the distance between the building you are and the woods is more than a thousand meters!" Are you not hiding enough? Bombarded by them? ”

However, observers unanimously stated that they had been hit with some kind of precision weapon.

One of them said anxiously: "Battalion commander, you better go and see those corpses in person." I don't know what kind of weapon killed our comrades, but if they are hit, they will definitely die! ”

Anti-materiel sniper rifles, this thing is really a concept on this plane. It was first proposed by Yang Mingzhi, and an anti-tank gun was modified, and it was handed over to Natasha to fight in the field. In addition to the command of the partisan republics, there is not even such a concept in other corners of the world.

Battalion Commander Collist walked out of the headquarters and marched down the rubble-strewn streets. He is actually only fifty percent confident in fighting in the streets, but at least it is better than fighting out of the city.

He soon saw several corpses that had been pulled back by the soldiers, and each one was shocking! There was even a corpse, which was simply the lower half of a person. According to the eyewitnesses, the deceased was observing on the roof of the house when he was suddenly cut off by an inexplicable force, and the lower half of his body fell directly from the roof.

Many of the German soldiers who witnessed it vomited, but the more daring puppet soldiers dragged the corpses into the streets.

The battalion commander Collist was not a recruit, and judging from the death of the deceased, he must have been killed with some kind of powerful shooting weapon, and he couldn't figure out what kind of weapon it was.

Only one thing he can be sure of is that the Russians in ambush are very strong in combat, and the possibility of breaking through has been lost since the bridge was bombed!

He must find reinforcements to save him.

He had already urgently written a draft of the telegram for help, because of the discovery of the incredible loss of an observer, the content of the telegram draft was going to be wonderful again.

"You can surround the city, but you can't block our radio signals! Wait, as soon as reinforcements arrive, your encirclement will be torn apart! ”

Collist did not believe that the 722nd Division, to which he belonged, could cleanly disperse or even defeat the besieging enemy, at least open a life passage so that the defenders in the city could escape.

Besides, it's not just the defenders, it's also some civilians! Those were the families of the Belarusian battalion in the service of the Germans, and once they were captured by the Russians, they would also be killed. For this reason, Collist, of course, wanted all who were alive to escape.

……

The message was successfully sent, and the command of the German 722nd Division received it intact.

Before June 22, the Germans had no idea that a group of Soviet troops had left the swamp and headed for Loyev. The city was defended by the 722nd Division, which was at the forefront of its defenses – a salient.

Its division commander, Florid, led his troops, have been stationed here for seven months since the end of last year.

During these seven months, its officers and soldiers cleared some villages, relocated some villagers, and eliminated some guerrilla stragglers, but when facing the Soviet troops in the Pripet swamps, they encountered many suffocations! They lost thousands of German men, but they did not achieve much success, but the enemy's activities became more and more rampant.

Florid knew very well that sooner or later that Loyev would be attacked by the Russians. To be honest, he was reluctant to deploy troops there, but his superiors gave a death order to garrison troops in Loyev.

Because of a railway and railway bridge there, as the logistical pressure of the German army increased, the feeder railway would have to be activated.

Florid's troops were not replenished in the January battle, and he had to put his logistics troops on the front line. In the ensuing battles, the strength of the troops was weakened by battle losses, but the replenishment of troops was minimal.

Florid's understanding of this is that not only second-line troops like him, but even first-line infantry divisions, the troop establishment is condensed into sixty percent of the original, and the kind of infantry division with a huge establishment of 15,000 people no longer exists.

Only a handful of Waffen-SS divisions can reach more than 20,000 men, and the Wehrmacht division strength of more than 10,000 is full!

Thus, the troops under Florid's command had an additional group of so-called Eastern battalions.

These oriental volunteers were initially organized as battalions, and their main work was logistics and the liquidation of guerrillas, and later they were organized into regiments.

The 722nd Division was actually responsible for a large area, with the core of their defense being Gomel and the north reaching Soich. In Soych, two police regiments of Belarusians maintain law and order in the northern part of the district. And the 722nd Division, carrying out the orders of the army group, together with friendly forces, built a long field defense system south of the Mozyr-Gomel road.

The elite soldiers could never move, because Loyev was guarded by a group of logisticians and Belarusians.

They are simply outcasts of the army group. However, the division commander Flored could not care about the life or death of the soldiers of the Eastern Battalion, but he could not ignore the lives of the German soldiers.

When the soldier broke into his bedroom in a very disrespectful manner and announced that Loyev had been seriously attacked, Flored sat down on the bed rather calmly.

He sighed silently: "Finally, the fight started!" ”

However, he was greatly shocked by the change in the situation of the war, could it be that the so-called Soviet 63rd Army was a group of monsters?!

In just three hours, Loyev's defenders sent an astonishing telegram, and the most striking thing was that their total casualties had reached four hundred!

What that meant, Florid's could not have been clearer. The wounded needed to be cared for, so that out of a thousand soldiers, only three reinforced companies could be used in battle.

And what about the Russians, the battalion commander deliberately poured water in the telegram in order to strengthen the urgency of the situation. The actual battalion commander did not know exactly how many enemies there were, and he judged only from their firepower, that is, about two regiments.

Two whole regiments?! What exactly is the enemy going to do, to occupy Loyev?

At the same time, many staff officers in the division headquarters, especially the chief of staff, were waiting for the division commander's decision.

Seeing the division commander's hesitation, the chief of staff asked weakly: "Division commander, should we organize reinforcements immediately?" You see, our people are already asking for help on the telegram, and if they don't send reinforcements, they will be wiped out by the enemy! ”

"Rescue? It's not easy! As he spoke, Florid's chief of staff gave him a blank look: "Cole, you only started this position last month, and you haven't fought with that group of Russians before this, so you must not know the cunning of the enemy." ”

"They're cunning?"

"What do you think? Just last month, the Romanian division was largely crushed, with just over 4,000 men fleeing back. I know that the Romanians are very bad at fighting, and how can we not be vigilant when they have such losses in a few days of fighting. Besides, those Russians also killed thousands of soldiers of our division!

This is not the so-called tactic of heaping human lives as the Russians are accustomed to, and the Russian commander in the swamp must be an expert, who always uses stratagem and makes us very embarrassed. Just like this operation, if the Russians really sent two regiments......"

"Wait? Division commander, do you really believe that they have two regiments of strength ?! ”

"Why not believe it? Cole, you better face up to the Russians! You are my chief of staff, but you know nothing about our enemies, so how can I rest assured. Let me tell you clearly, the Russians in that swamp have at least 10,000 troops, probably more than us, and their combat effectiveness is incredibly high.

They could have taken Loyev in one fell swoop, and they could have killed all our defenders, but they didn't. What do you think this means? ”

"Perhaps, the Russians are running out of ammunition, or maybe they are bluffing. There is also a possibility that they are luring us, and they are trying to fight a decisive battle with our army. ”

Florid nodded: "I think so too. There must be a huge conspiracy in this! We have been building a defensive line since April, and now we have added some concrete pillboxes to the defensive line, and we have not received any order to attack on our own. Just as the French built the Maginot Line, we are building a similar line to contain the northward advance of the Russians in the swamps.

From the position of the Russians, maybe our tactics played a role, they could not bear the fact that they were compressed by our army, so they hoped for a decisive battle with the main forces of our army, and that Loyev became a decoy! ”

"Ahh That's wonderful! Seconds! Chief of Staff Cole was very surprised, he never expected that his division commander would have such a strategy, and he couldn't see it at all on weekdays.

Floride smiled bitterly: "Alas, these tactics were also taught to me by thousands of German men at the cost of their lives. The enemy must have a huge conspiracy, and if our army rushes to save it, something will inevitably happen. But we watched Loyev be occupied, and the Gestapo in the field was likely to arrest me. So we're still going to the rescue. ”

"This ...... We're going to go to the rescue after all! ”

"So I'm conflicted! Cole, let's gather everyone together first and discuss what to do urgently! ”