In this way, the third round of the German offensive was almost completely repelled by the dozens of machine guns captured by the Soviet army. Just ten minutes after the official engagement, the Germans chose to retreat.

Balzen had already determined that the enemy was retreating, the battle plan was temporarily changed, and the next time would be the time for the two main regiments of the 284th Guards Division.

He immediately informed the troops in ambush in the forest, and received the decision that it was indeed Lavrenti and Roshakov who refused to jump out of their positions and charge.

"Why? Are you going to wait? ”

Lavrenj refused: "It's not the right time! This damn fog makes it impossible for us to even determine the location of the enemy. Besides, they may also enter the forest. ”

Balzen thought about it, this is also true, when he is blocking the enemy, the majority of soldiers can only see the enemy's vague shadow at most. Presumably, the enemy was also confused when attacking, so his troops were miraculously not killed by enemy bullets, and only eight soldiers were unlucky to be wounded.

Lavrenti and Roshakov did not fear that the enemy would flee at all, as long as they held their positions, the enemy would continue to be bombarded by strafing as long as they entered the forest. Soviet fighters in the forest were on standby to ensure that the enemy would not tear holes in their positions.

For both the Germans and the Soviets, today's dense fog created a huge obstacle to the battle, and finally made it impossible for the Soviets to pursue the victory.

Could it be that the general offensive of the Soviet army had to wait until the dense fog cleared?

Balzen can't wait any longer!

He finally explained his attitude to Lavrenti and Roshakov: "We have agreed that the time for the general attack will be 8 o'clock in the morning, and we cannot delay the attack because the dense fog has not dissipated in time. Whether you guys support it or not, I'm going to give the order for the catfish rocket launcher at eight o'clock sharp. ”

This man is so stubborn! Obviously, the troops should adjust their operational planning!

In this way, the Soviets will fire a total of twenty catfish rockets four to five kilometers in front of the position, and the troops are already doing the final debugging work. After the four small launchers were assembled, different launch angles were set.

It was approaching eight o'clock in the morning, and the fog, which was much thicker today than the days before, showed signs of dissipating.

Balzen was standing in the artillery position, and the four firing positions were ready.

The time came as scheduled, and Balzen's right arm fell, announcing the start of the launch.

Four white dragons rose from the ground, their yellow tail flames and a violent roar, and their bodies quickly disappeared into the mist.

"Keep launching! Hurry up! ”

The soldiers did not dare to slack off, and soon new rockets were placed on warm launchers. The trigger system was fixed, the soldier pulled the rope bolt, and the second round of firing was quickly completed.

In three minutes, the Soviets fired the planned 20 rockets.

These twenty catfish rockets, ignoring the interference of the fog, smashed towards the preset position in a parabola with a low elevation angle, and as for whether they could hit the retreating enemy exactly, the Soviets did not know.

At least the rocket has made a certain amount of planning before launching, through the previous reconnaissance report of the paratrooper brigade, the launch direction has been corrected, and then the only firing angle is set for different launchers, and finally the rocket will cover a relatively large area of the riverside plain, relying on the killing of the shock wave, it will be able to kill the exposed enemy within the range!

The rockets flew with a loud whistling sound, and they flew over the heads of the retreating Germans.

This was the first volley of Soviet troops, and the target of four rocket launchers fell very coincidentally into the range of the rear camp of the German army.

The Germans had built temporary fortifications on the plain of the river five kilometers from the Soviet positions, and most of the soldiers participated in the attack, with only more than 100 remaining soldiers and more than 50 wounded who were still alive.

There was also a large amount of baggage, such as reserve ammunition and a pile of baked black bread, a large number of carriages and sturdy military horses.

In fact, only one rocket hit the camp solidly, and that was enough!

The violent explosion brought a powerful shock wave, and the living creatures with a radius of fifty meters were mowed by the shock wave like a knife. A large number of soldiers and horses left behind died on the spot, and some were eviscerated and blown to the ground by the storm.

Two more fell on the swampy mud and one into a grove, and the shock wave also attacked the German camp.

Under the bombardment of four bullets, nearly 100 defenders of the German camp were killed and wounded on the spot, and some of them survived, but they were also shocked unconscious.

Getzal was shocked: "Damn it, my camp! That's the camp direction! ”

He simply did not have any more time to panic, and the second round of Soviet bombardment followed.

The position of the new rocket artillery attack gradually shifted to the south, and in the face of the increasingly approaching explosions, the vast number of German soldiers finally felt a strong panic.

In addition, the explosion caused a violent heat storm, which began to quickly clear the fog around the explosion, so that the German soldiers could see the smoke and mushroom clouds that were rising!

Some German officers and soldiers who were able to run were suddenly hit by rockets, and the shock wave swept through the crowd like a mowing grass, dozens of people died, and nearly a hundred were blown down by the storm.

The rocket artillery attack came and went quickly, and in terms of pure lethal results, this attack was too different from what Balzen had hoped.

Only more than 200 Germans and puppet troops were killed or wounded in this bombardment, and the remaining 3,000 people were still able to flee for their lives, that is, almost everyone's spirit was close to collapse.

No one knows whether the Soviets will be able to continue to carry out such an attack, but everyone knows that if they all break through to the forest, they will be able to rely on the forest vegetation to the maximum extent to offset the shock wave damage of the shelling.

Realizing this, Quetzal commanded his men as best he could.

"Everyone, let's go to the forest and hide from the shelling of the Russians!"

His order was immediately answered, and more and more people began to turn west. However, it was true that Quetzal and the soldiers believed that it was safe, and that thousands of Soviet troops had already been stationed here with machine guns and recoilless guns.

The Germans could no longer care about anything, and they made a lot of noise when they fled for their lives.

After the large force entered the forest, Quetzal continued to order: "The whole army continues to advance, we will cross this forest and enter the absolute security zone to reorganize." ”

The vast number of German and puppet soldiers were already tired, and now the desire to escape took over their minds, and their legs, which had been filled with lead, became flexible again. They burst out with the most powerful motivation in their lives, and many of them just ran wildly, and even began to cough up blood. As long as you can survive, it is worth paying more.

As a result, some soldiers simply abandoned their excess loads, and many carried only a gun and dozens of rounds of ammunition, and they became pure light infantry.

The retreat of the Germans turned into a rout, and Quetzal had no vanguard scouts in his desperation, and he knew almost nothing about the forest.