Chapter 44: Calmly withdraw from Moziri

The Romanian army retreated from the west of the encirclement. Due north were the enemy forces of a major counteroffensive, and due south were the fallen artillery positions. To the east is the swamps, and the only direction of breakthrough can only be to the west. The Soviets did not continue the pursuit, and Kuznetsov knew that he had no more time to deal with the group.

Yang Mingzhi ordered the team to retract, and the special anti-tank battalion stopped the pursuit earlier than the friendly forces.

His subordinates killed and wounded a lot of the enemy, many of them were shot in the back, and many of them laid down their arms and surrendered.

He didn't understand Romanian at all, and Yang Mingzhi held Bobosha in his hand and watched his subordinates gather the captives one by one.

"Report to the battalion commander, I caught more than fifty in a row. What are we going to do? ”

Yang Mingzhi looked at the first company commander Lavlianji, "What did we do to deal with prisoners before?" ”

"It's a shot. Sir. ”

This is the answer given to Yang Mingzhi by the Soviets, this group of old Maozi seems to have not cherished life since they were born. It is common to massacre this group of people on the battlefield, but shooting unarmed prisoners is something that Yang Mingzhi himself can't do. In the past, he turned a blind eye and falsely acquiesced to his subordinates doing this, but this time he decided to change.

Ravlianj had decided to order his men to destroy the invaders, and Yang Mingzhi held down the muzzle of his gun fiercely. "Let's save it, we've seen too many deaths."

Yang Mingzhi was very prestigious in the camp, and these captives were not immediately executed in the end, and of course their situation would not be any better.

The Romanians, having paid a very heavy price, finally broke through the encirclement, and they rushed all the way to the west. They have abandoned a lot of heavy weapons, they have lost their armor along the way, and their morale has completely collapsed.

The Soviet artillery continued to create an atmosphere of terror, and the 88 guns bombarded with impunity. After all, these heavy weapons will not be used again after this battle, and they will all be blown up after the troops are withdrawn.

The Soviets began to quickly clean up the battlefield, and the cost of this battle was very small, with only a hundred killed in battle, and as a result, the Romanians suffered huge losses. The tank units were completely annihilated, and the infantry was badly damaged.

In the end, only about 6,000 people escaped from the battlefield, they were frightened, and the rout fled like crazy, and even their commander, even if he shot a few deserters, could not control his subordinates. They even almost turned against the water, and with a sense of defeat, they only wanted to quickly make peace with friendly forces, and immediately sent a report that the troops had encountered stubborn resistance from the Soviet troops in the city of Mozili and suffered heavy losses.

It was a great victory, and Yang Mingzhi ordered his subordinates to take the prisoners back first and follow Kuznetsov's decision. Now he has also joined the ranks of cleaning up the battlefield, "ordering soldiers, looking for weapons and household items that can be used." ”

Soldiers always felt that their Chinese commanders liked to pick up rubbish on the battlefield, and many did not like to rummage through enemy corpses. But an order is an order, and Yang Mingzhi asked the soldiers to focus more on ammunition.

He and his wife sat cross-legged on the grass, and he lit a cigarette.

The whole battlefield was in shambles, and there was no joy or sorrow after the war. More people survived Mu Ran, and then carried out the orders of the chief.

Yang Mingzhi's wait paid off richly, and the soldiers packed the collected ammunition into burlap bags and returned with a few machine guns.

Three machine guns were placed in front of Yang Mingzhi, and his wife was even more excited than his excitement, and in a hurry, she simply said in Chinese: "Isn't this made in the Czech Republic?" The magazine of twenty rounds is amazing. ”

Yang Mingzhi smiled, stood up and held a machine gun. I had only seen the phantom of this weapon in movies before, but now I can really hold it in my arms.

In addition to the three ones, the four soldiers came together with a heavier one.

This is clearly a heavy machine gun, but in fact this is the ZB57 heavy machine gun widely used by the Romanians. This machine gun uses the same 7.92mm rifle cartridge as the ZB26, which is completely common with the Mauser rifle cartridge.

The ammunition used by the Germans and Romanians was almost the same standard, and the ammunition collected by the soldiers was 7.92 x 57 mm. Now is an extraordinary period, and when the consumption of Soviet-made bullets is serious, we have to use the captured ammunition to solve the urgent need.

The soldiers returned with a full load, and in addition to ammunition, many also found supplies such as daggers, shovels, and water bottles. The booty went to the soldiers, so many people even found cigarettes and hurried to swallow the smoke after the battle.

Yang Mingzhi and Yevlov were called to the headquarters, and the faces of the officers were filled with the joy of victory.

Kuznetsov watched everyone cough twice, and everyone immediately stood upright.

"In this battle, we have already routed the enemy, and our strategic significance has been successfully achieved. The next step is to retreat calmly, we will be forced to leave Mozili and give the city back to the Germans. ”

In fact, many officers still had the determination to defend every inch of land, and after this victory, some officers even thought that after the liberation of Moziri, they should not abandon it again, and the troops could stay and continue to resist. Kuznetsov immediately interrupted this thought, after all, the rapid victory of this victory was largely due to the ignorance of the enemy and the perfect deployment of his own troops.

He looked at Berekov, "In this battle, the armored vehicle raid tactics of our Chinese friends completely collapsed the Romanians, and we lost our troops by occupying their artillery positions. ”

Yang Mingzhi nodded modestly, and he attributed the victory to the leadership of the commander.

The officers were well aware of the correct tactics of the Chinese guy, and of course the commander was very reasonable, and Moziri was about to become the target of public criticism. The lines of communication were cut off, and the Germans would inevitably come to check, and after this great battle, the Romanian army would inevitably report staggering battle losses, and perhaps at this moment the meeting was taking place, the enemy was already rushing towards Moziri.

Retreat was inevitable, the troops simply cleaned up the battlefield, and in the face of the wilderness full of Luo soldiers' corpses, the Soviet army really didn't have time to collect the corpses one by one.

Similarly, after the battle, more than 1,000 prisoners of war were escorted back to the city, and the Soviets immediately split into two factions in the face of these people.

One faction says that these guys are not Germans, and that all simple and crude executions should not be. The other faction believes that this group of people is no different from the Germans, they are all aggressors, and naturally they cannot be treated differently.

Yang Mingzhi estimated that these guys must be more than lucky, the Romanians were against the Soviet Union, and their subservience to the Axis was also to obtain the Romanian liebensraum.

Forget it, no matter how much, it's going to be retreated soon anyway.

In the battlefield battle, the 284th Guards Division miraculously lost five people, and the dead were all new soldiers. Yang Mingzhi was very shocked by this battle loss ratio, but looking back, it seems that the Romanians did not get any advantage in normal battles. If so, it was also the fact that the besieged salient artillery positions were destroyed by the siege.

The temporary headquarters of the 284th Division was in an inconspicuous civilian house, and when the battle was over, the soldiers immediately began to replenish ammunition, as well as eat. Kuznetsov's order was very sudden, and he was not to stay here for long, and all of them slept in the afternoon after the battle, and waited until eight o'clock in the evening when the whole army withdrew from the city.

Compared with soldiers, Yang Mingzhi still has a bed to sleep on, especially with his wife. In the battle just now, this girl rushed very fiercely, and her physical strength must have far exceeded that of the sophomore girl in the original plane. Hey, all this is not forced out by the war.

The two didn't say much, and quickly fell asleep from exhaustion.

On the other hand, after discussion, Kuznetsov did not sentence the captured Romanians to death. They have already laid down their weapons, their helmets have been thrown away, their belts have been thrown away, and some have even been forced to throw away their tunics and go barefoot with only underpants. They were forced by Soviet soldiers to get out of Moziri, and after that they went wherever they liked.

Some officers were not satisfied with the matter of the captives, believing that Kuznetsov was suspected of appeasement and adultery. But the commander is not a man who only kills: "There are still some differences between Romanians and Nazis. Many of their soldiers were forced to cooperate with the Germans, and it was already a great humiliation for us to let them go, and to strip them of their underwear. Now let them roll back with shame and off their fellows by the way. ”

At six o'clock in the afternoon, scouts in the forest on the other side of the river, who were horrified, reported that a large number of German troops were moving towards Moziri.

Kuznetsov, who was preparing to pack, immediately became alert, and his worst fears had happened.

The Romanians called for friendly troops to attack Moziri, and the fastest was naturally the Imperial Division, whose vanguard ran wildly along the road along the Pripet River, and could reach it soon with a foot on the accelerator. During this period, they encountered the resistance of the scattered Soviet stragglers scattered in the dense forest, and after wasting a little time, they still advanced towards the goal.

Those guys had a large number of tanks, and Kuznetsov urgently ordered the resting troops to immediately prepare and retreat in advance.

The soldier pushed open the door, "Report to the battalion commander, the latest order, we are going to evacuate now!" ”

Yang Mingzhi sat up violently, and also startled the person next to him.

The star fruit hair was scattered and sleepy-eyed, and Yang Mingzhi didn't give the girl a moment to make a fuss, and violently shook her awake. "Little Peach! We have to retreat now! ”

The two quickly got dressed and went out, only to see that their subordinates were ready.

A rapid vanguard of the German army was rushing towards Mojiri, and Yang Mingzhi estimated that it must be the people of the Imperial Division.

Yevlov hurriedly ran over and held Yang Mingzhi's shoulder: "You woke up in time." The Germans are coming, and we will withdraw immediately. ”

"We're just going to go? What about baggage? And the bridge thing. ”

"I don't need heavy weapons, and the supplies that can be taken away are thrown on the last truck. The bridge was blown up in a moment. ”

The evacuation of the Soviet troops was orderly, and Yang Mingzhi asked his wife to sit in the carriage, and she was kind of pressing a bunch of bullets. The warriors retreated calmly, and the "sentinels" scattered on the outskirts of the city also withdrew towards the swamp. Suddenly, the ground shook and a violent explosion occurred.

As Moziri faded away, a large mushroom cloud rose there. Yang Mingzhi and many soldiers looked at it together, and couldn't help but say to themselves: "The bridge has been blown up, and now the Germans are going to pounce." ”

This was indeed the case, and the Imperial division was annoyed by the fact that the bridge was blown up and the tank units could not cross the river at all, except for a long detour. However, the target of this Soviet force was clearly the swamps, where the mud was a great disaster for tanks and armored vehicles.

As for the allies, the Romanians, the great defeat was the heaviest loss suffered by this army since the beginning of the war. One of the so-called motorists lost half. The results of the Moziri Blockade could not be measured by the number of enemies annihilated, and the battle inflicted great psychological trauma on the Romanian army, and they were forced to stay in place. In this way, Kuznetsov will have less worries about retreating, and soon they will connect with the troops who have withdrawn first.

The army knew it was safe to enter the swamps, which were still under the de facto control of the Soviet Union.