After such a toss by the Ukrainian puppet army, there were a large number of casualties in the entire city of Chernihiv.

Since two o'clock in the afternoon, the city-wide corpse cleanup has begun! Most of the deceased were women, middle-aged and elderly people, and some children.

The German soldiers dragged the bloodless corpses and threw them all onto the trucks. The fate of the corpses was to become mass graves, but this time there were too many dead, and the German soldiers had to dig a large number of large pits themselves.

In addition to the dead, the number of wounded was also quite large.

After this confusion, Hendryson was worried that the reputation of the German army here was in jeopardy, and that he himself did not want to be a butcher of peaceful inhabitants, and that he boasted that the executions for months were all partisans. However, this time, his honor was betrayed by his allies!

He had planned to have lunch with his men, but now he nibbled on a slice of bread and met in his office with the head of the Ukrainian police regiment, the author of the massacre of civilians.

This is a tall middle-aged man with a sanitary beard. Hendrysen had no good impression of this man surnamed Shevchenko, who took the initiative to stand up after the German occupation and signaled to serve Germany, and Hendrysen despised this kind of flattery. What's more, this guy quickly changed his style, he trimmed his beard, and only left a sanitary beard on his upper lip, which is clearly imitating the Führer! And his knowledge of German is also a huge advantage.

This man was quickly recognized by his superiors, but Hendryson looked down on him from the bottom of his heart.

This time, this Shevchenko completely angered him.

"You're an idiot! I order all the armies to take control of the situation and take decisive measures when comparing! And you? You're killing people in the street! You are wearing the uniform of a German soldier, and you have a beard, and since you are willing to serve Germany, then really go like the German army! Instead of going to be a bandit! ”

Shevchenko did not have the slightest fear, he explained in rough German: "We are not exterminating civilians, they are all partisans!" There are a lot of partisans in the city, they usually hide deeply, and when chaos happens, they are exposed. Is there a better chance to eliminate them than today? ”

"Nonsense! You're killing civilians! ”

"Civilians?" Shevchenko smiled disdainfully and continued: "You better face today's events!" The guerrillas who are going to be executed, we should kill them at night, not hang them openly! Now, it's good that those who are hiding take advantage of the chaos to snatch the people who haven't been hanged yet! What about your German GIs? They were frightened by the fleeing crowd and fled most of them at once. We were the only ones who shot at the partisans in the square!

Now, what else are you going to accuse me of? I must explain to you once again that I am loyal to Ukraine, and it is my duty to clean up the garbage of Ukraine! If you're absolutely wrong, report it to my superiors!

Good bye! ”

After that, this Shevchenko turned around and left without giving Hendrysen face, which made Hendrysen at a loss for a while.

He was stunned for a moment and lashed out in the office: "This damn Ukrainian! I'm going to sue him! This man's loyalty to Germany is debatable! Either he gets out of Chernihiv, or, I'll go! ”

When the division commander was angry, none of the many staff officers dared to persuade him. Only after the chief of staff's face was compared, he was mentally prepared to be scolded, and comforted: "Your Excellency, Division Commander! Why are you angry with a stupid Ukrainian! Sooner or later, that man will lose his life because of his arrogance towards Germany, and I think you should immediately take charge of the overall situation, and we still have a lot of mess to solve! ”

Hendryson looked at Schmidt angrily, but he didn't explode after all. He took a deep breath, restrained his emotions and said, "Okay! We also have to count the casualties, the granary losses. We also want to reassure the citizens and state to them that the army is shooting at the guerrillas, and that the civilian casualties are all accidental injuries! I think you know what I mean. ”

"Yes! I know! You'd better take a break and I'll take care of everything. ”

"Then it's all up to you!" Hendryson shook his head, left his men, and went to his bedroom in the division's headquarters, out of sight and out of mind.

In the German 634th Division, the current deputy division commander personally commanded the aftermath at the grassroots level, while the chief of staff made plans and waited for the constantly refreshing statistics to be reported.

By 5 p.m., the number of casualties reported to the German division headquarters had reached 909, and even worse, after preliminary investigation, only 20 percent of the dead were killed directly by suspected rocket bombardment. In the chaos, 52 soldiers were killed, the rest were civilians.

The number of wounded was even more staggering, with 72 soldiers wounded and 1,502 civilians wounded!

At this point, in order for the Germans to stabilize their prestige among the citizens, blind toughness could only force all citizens to become partisans. Therefore, the Chief of Staff took matters into his own hands and ordered the use of military drugs against civilians. The military hospital, which was originally only for wounded soldiers, is now full of wounded citizens.

These casualty statistics mainly come from military hospitals, because of the chaos, real guerrillas can easily pretend to be wounded and easily blend in, and smoothly spy on some information.

Inside the city, the partisans seemed to disappear without a trace, exchanging information with each other by radio while the Germans were unaware.

At half past two in the afternoon, the rebels finally sent the first telegram to the partisan republics, the content of which was very simple: "City, explosions, ten times. ”

There are only a few words in total, and at the end there is a special phrase code, which proves that the telegram came from Chernihiv.

The telegraph operator in the blacksmith village knew too well what these phrases meant, and the head of the communications squad, Alekseev, personally ran to the large office and reported to the commanders who were waiting for news: "Report to the commander! Chernihiv emergency electricity! Commander, he succeeded, and our rocket artillery hit that city! ”

"He really succeeded!" Yevlov jumped up excitedly.

Fuming, who was seated, was also very happy, and he hurriedly asked, "What else is on the telegram?" The bombardment was successful, how many results did we achieve? What about casualties? ”

"That's right! Alekseev, you give me the telegram! ”

Yevlov snatched the telegram expectantly, and he was amazed that there were only a few simple words on the paper.

"That's it? What details did they not send? ”

"Nope! Not really! ”

"Then go ahead and listen? There must still be a lot of telegrams waiting to be sent from Chernihiv! ”

Yevlov's speculation was very correct, and he and Fomin and the others continued to stay, but everyone was sitting on pins and needles, full of anticipation and anxiety about future telegrams.

Until Alekseev sent a new telegram, the whole command exploded!

"It's incredible, more than a thousand casualties! Our rocket artillery is still a conventional warhead! How is this possible? Yevlov, who was holding the telegram, trembled in shock, "Could it be that the rocket artillery has blown up the enemy's ammunition depot?" It must be so! Only a martyrdom can kill so many people! ”

Compared to his shock, Fomin's mentality was more complicated, and he said to Yevlov with harshness: "This is the necessary sacrifice you say!" Our rocket launchers are too fierce! Ten can do such a kill? It's incredible, we still slaughtered Soviet citizens! ”

Yevlov gave him a blank look =: "Dear Comrade Fomin, we have no reason to quarrel about these things anymore!" I think Comrade Salinchkin also knew about these telegrams, and he would have come to discuss them with us. Besides, we can continue to harvest new telegrams! ”

The new telegrams were almost all before the revision, and the number of casualties was updated. Soon, the command also fully understood the source of the casualties, which was quite unexpected.

Yevlov sighed: "What a coincidence! They gathered citizens to kill our partisans in public, and our rocket artillery quickly caused chaos throughout the city, and the Germans blocked the junction and killed people everywhere in order to control the situation. Chernihiv, it may already be hell on earth! ”

In this case, Fuming no longer used rockets to hurt innocent people, but bared his teeth and cursed: "These damn Germans, they have one more incriminating evidence!" ”

Yevlov nodded with satisfaction: "This is the aggressor, they can do anything hurtful." In addition to the casualties, we also know that the enemy's grain warehouse was blown up, which should be regarded as the most significant result. Now that we know what is happening in Chernihiv, it is time to report to our commander that the Exocet rocket launcher has been a success. ”

"Then send a telegram!" It suddenly occurred to Faumin that most of the front-line troops should have been withdrawn to the Missy Ferry. He asked: "Where is Comrade Berekov probably, now?" It should not be in Slavzich anymore. ”

"Who knows?" Yevlov shook his head, "The speed of our attacking troops can be described as the fastest in the whole Soviet Union, and it is not good, Berekov has already crossed the river." It's annoying that guy doesn't send us a telegram for hours! ”