Chapter 1038: The Romanian Army Appears Again
Miroshniko counted his troops, he made a plan, and the attack was on May 5.
For the sake of the suddenness of the attack, they also chose to attack at night. After all, Miroshniko was born as a battalion commander, he did not go to a military school for a day, his cultural level was not high, and he did not have the great advantage of Yang Mingzhi's foresight and natural IQ, and he also lacked fierce generals under his command. Even so, they are confident.
The 17th Guerrilla Brigade heroically started their offensive to liberate Gorodnia!
Let's talk about this Gorodnia, this place is of great significance to Comrade Podovich, who lost his beloved fighter! The city is surrounded by forests to the west, plains to the east, and a military airfield to the east. The war broke out suddenly, fifty I-153 fighters rose into the air, and Podovich was the only surviving pilot.
Just before Miroshniko's attack, the city's spy group was captured by the Germans.
The Germans, who had long established the presence of Soviet spies and radio stations in the city, applied to their superiors for signal listening vehicles. This kind of car can only determine the direction of the electromagnetic signal, so they used three cars to find the Soviet army's spy personnel with the three-point positioning method.
The three spies did not withstand the torture of the Germans and brought the Soviet attack to the truth. At this time, it was already May 4th.
The Germans were greatly shocked and were only a few hours away from the attack of the Soviets? Will they have 10,000 people?
The captured spy put off a smoke bomb and blew the strength of the guerrilla brigade to 10,000 people, which frightened the defenders and shocked the headquarters of the 634th Division!
Because it is not impossible for the Soviets to dispatch 10,000 people, just across the river in the swamps, where there are tens of thousands of enemies, and the combat effectiveness is very amazing. Could it be that these enemies are coming across the Dnieper, why don't they have any information at all?
In short, the Germans were certain that the Soviets were going to attack in the early morning of May 5. With the current defenders of Corodnia, it was difficult to defend the entire city. They received orders from the division headquarters to retreat into the interior of the city, relying on the streets and buildings, to fight these enemies. Only a small number of troops were sent to the outskirts of the city, acting as bait.
The commander of the German 634th Division, Wilhelm Hendlisen, could not have sent all his forces to reinforce Gorodnia, at most he sent a regiment stationed in Snoviyanka, northeast of Chernihiv, and urgently sent the existing ten field guns to the front. Reinforcements are walking along the road, and there are still thirty kilometers!
Just when he was feeling uncomfortable, a character and his army immediately came to mind. The man was not Hitler, but a Romanian.
Yes, Romanians!
There was a Romanian division, resting in a small city southeast of Chernihiv.
Among the many Nazi client states, Romania was the most active. The country was already controlled by the military Antonescu, and the kings were turned into puppets. Rhodes signed an agreement to return the region of Bessarabia, which had been seized by the Soviet Union, to Romania, and when the Soviet Union was settled, right-bank Ukraine was annexed to Romanian territory. Therefore, the Romanian army, up to 27 divisions, immediately went to the Soviet battlefield.
The Romanians are not very effective in combat, and their number of soldiers is the strongest among the client states, and their strength should not be underestimated!
The Romanian army has been fighting on the front line from Crimea to the Donbas basin for a long time, and there are losses when there is a war, and the Romanians on the front line have achieved certain achievements that can be boasted, and a large number of personnel losses have also forced many troops to rest.
It was impossible for the Romanian army to retreat too far, and they went all the way north, resting in several cities on both sides of the Dnieper. The 6th Infantry Division under the command of the 3rd Army of the Romanian Army encountered the Soviets in Donetsk and successfully repelled several Soviet attacks. This infantry division was almost the elite of the Romanian army, and their victory greatly exhilarated the Romanian army, and also shocked the arrogant German army, and the so-called allies finally had a time to be relied on. Antonescu also boasted to Hitler with this combat strength, but he reported good news but not bad news, and the Romanian army suffered heavy casualties in this battle.
The 6th Division of the Romanian Army went from Odessa to Crimea and then to Donbass, and after a long battle they were attrition for various reasons, and there were few recruits! Even some Ukrainian civilians who carried supplies for them wore steel helmets and became temporary soldiers.
When the 6th Infantry Division entered Ukraine, its strength reached 17,000 troops, and of course there were a large number of logistics troops in it, of which the combat strength was still close to 10,000! The troops are fighting less and less, so that the logistics troops also act as front-line soldiers. The dead were buried on the spot, and a large number of the wounded were sent to the rear. Like Chernihiv, it's a great place to recuperate.
The garrison in Chernihiv and the surrounding area really had only one 634th division, and it was a helpless German force to guard a large area with such a small number of troops. Forced by two offensive operations of the Soviet army in three months, the German Army Group B was under tremendous pressure.
The mass movement of German troops to the vicinity of Kharkov, where almost every forty kilometers there was a division, which was considered a high density.
The commander of the 634th Division, Hendlison, was quite confident in his troops, he also had a police regiment, and there were many wounded German soldiers in the city hospital. Especially further east, the more densely the Germans deployed, and if Chernihiv were attacked by heavy Soviet forces, reinforcements would soon be able to rush in.
Only, how could the Soviets have a massive army attack?
In the past, Hendlison did not believe that the Soviet partisans could gather heavy troops, and the captured Soviet spy made him wary of harsh words before he died. Hendryson had always wanted a strategic decisive battle with the "nimble mosquitoes", and the situation now is that the Soviet Army's 284th Guards Division is likely to be involved in the operation. That unit defeated a number of German units and had to be worried!
The 6th Division of the Romanian Army, the division commander Grisescu, his division still has more than 9,000 combat soldiers, and more than 2,000 logistics troops! Compared with the strength of troops when he entered the Soviet Union, his troops were reduced for various reasons, more than 5,000 people! These losses did not come from the death of 2,333 men, and the rest of the losses were either wounded and pulled away, or transferred to the German army as a logistics soldier.
Now Grisescu and his brothers are smoking cigars and singing songs, drinking some local vodka and meeting local Ukrainian women in the small town of Kuli. The Romanians have no reason to kill Ukrainians on a large scale, nor do they have any will to eradicate the Jews. The soldiers all know that the war is over, and a large part of the Ukrainian territory is Romanian, and these Ukrainians may also become Romanians.
The soldiers are enjoying their vacations, and the blood of the officers is still boiling. After all, in a battle of the Luo army in the Soviet Union, the third division was actually beaten "seriously injured" by the Soviet army, but fortunately, the Soviet army was kind-hearted and let the 8,000 disarmed and naked guys live. However, it was a more serious insult than killing them, and Luo Jun was greatly stimulated!
The officers were eager to continue their exploits, and after many days of rest, the division commander Grisescu felt that "the wounds were healed" and that it was time to beat the Russians again!
It was really dozing off and someone was sending pillows, and the commander of the German 634th Division personally had an urgent phone call with this Grisescu, claiming that 10,000 Russian bandits were going to attack a city.
To Hendrysen's surprise, the Romanians agreed so happily that they began the conscription overnight and marched to Snoviyanka, northeast of Chernihiv, that night.
Suddenly, the Romanians received approval from their Third Army to assist the Germans in clearing the partisans. Grisescu, who was officially authorized, suddenly had a plan in his heart, since they were going to attack Colombia, the Romanian army passed through Snoviyanka and continued to advance to the northwest, with a beautiful left hook, and the Germans came to a flanking attack, killing the 10,000 partisans in one go!