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195 Behind the Enemy (middle)

Petrovsky had been observing the German movements. When the enemy on the Northern Line had no response, his waist was cold, thinking that he wanted to play over.☆→, and even had doubts about whether Beloborodov was really performing the mission as he asked, and almost broke the radio and silently went to Beloborodov to ask clearly.

Fortunately, after some trouble, the German army on the northern line finally started to move. At that moment, Petrovsky really let out a long sigh. He ordered with a quick decision: "Tell the commando to cross the Bug River immediately to build a solid bridgehead, and to prepare the engineering battalion, and to build a pontoon bridge as quickly as possible!"

After saying this, Petrovsky re-entered his head between the maps, because his task was still very arduous, and his troops did not just cross the Bug River and could run away with great strides. In fact, there were still a considerable number of German troops distributed on the border between Eastern Ukraine and East Prussia. After these Northern Army Groups that had previously assisted the German Central Army Group to attack East Poland, one of them followed the Central Army Group toward Belarus Lithuania, while the other moved closer to East Prussia.

To enter East Prussia safely, these German troops must pay attention to it. For Petrovsky, judging from the captives and the intercepted telegrams, there were not many German troops on the East Prussia-East Polish border, and their main task was to protect the safety of the logistics lines of the Central Army Group. As long as he moves fast enough, he should be able to cross their blockade and enter East Prussia.

Of course, Petrovsky also knew that if he wanted to cross the German defense line, the amount of troops he had at his hands was not enough. He also needed the cooperation of Beloborodov's armored cluster. In other words, after the "jailbreak" operation entered the second stage, the role of the armored cluster became increasingly important. Whether they could get rid of the enemy's entanglement as soon as possible and head north quickly!

Loborodov also understood this principle, so after teaching the first German reinforcements a lesson, he ordered his troops to make immediate preparations for transfer and immediately dispersed the reconnaissance troops. He paid close attention to the trends of the enemy's subsequent reinforcements.

A day later, when the German garrison troops in the north (one regiment, plus two regiments of the Imperial Army of the Western Polish Army) appeared north of Sedelce, Beloborodov knew that action was necessary.

"We first eliminate the enemy in the west, and then the main force hides on the spot," Beloborodov explained on the map, "and then send a small group of troops to make a feint along the railway towards Mordy, making a look like they fleeing towards Belarus. After leading the main force of the enemy to the east, our main force once again captured Sederce."

Beloborodov said confidently: "At that time, the main force of the enemy must come back, and the feinted troops immediately turn north. Go to occupy Vengruf through Sukhojerbre to ensure the integrity of the bridge! Our main force will quickly occupy Sedercé to attract the enemy's main force back. Destroy the railway line and bridge between Sedercé and Sukhojerbre to ensure that the enemy's main force cannot go north again. After completing this task, our main force will move westward and lead the enemy's troops to circle around the east of Warsaw. You can consider fighting one or two small-scale annihilation wars to attract more enemies to the west of the Levitz River east of Warsaw, and then go west to Vengruf across the Levitz River, then destroy Vengruf's bridge and throw the enemy's pursuers on the west bank of the Levitz River!"

Speaking of this, Beloborodov smiled and said, "At that time, we can go north and meet with Comrade Petrovsky, and then easily cross the Bug River to East Prussia!"

Beloborodov's combat plan was not complicated. To put it bluntly, it was to fully mobilize the enemy's main force to move south, and then through a series of mobile combat, he brought the enemy's main force to the west bank of the Levitz River, while he destroyed the bridge as much as possible until he completed crossing the river and threw away the enemy.

Of course, this plan is simple, but it is still difficult to implement it. After all, the enemy is not a fool. Whether or not he will follow Beloborodov's baton obediently is a big problem. Moreover, even if the enemy is successfully mobilized to the west bank of the river, this circling space is not particularly ideal to be honest. How to intersperse and wander among the enemy's cracks will test Beloborodov's command art and luck. If there is any mistake, it will probably be doomed.

However, Beloborodov was very confident. His previous battle with Sukhozebrey and Shederce allowed him to see through the essence of the German left-behind troops, and the gap was obvious compared to the German troops on the front line. As for the Imperial Army of the Western Polish, these guys were just a joke. They would collapse if they were scared for a few times.

In Beloborodov's view, in the entire area east of Warsaw, the reliable force that the Germans could use to encircle him was no more than four regiments of mobile forces (the rest of the Germans were defending the cities and transportation bases), and these four regiments were not fully organized. If they were not considering going north and crossing the defense line of the Northern Army Group, they must preserve their vitality as much as possible. Otherwise, he and Petrovsky believed that they could step directly over the Germans. Although their troops were not superior, their armored forces were much stronger than the left-behind Germans and they really could win.

So, although Beloborodov only had one reinforcement battalion's troops, he concentrated almost all of Petrovsky's armored forces, captured Sukhozebre and Shedderce along the way, and captured ten German tanks, which meant that he had the greater his power. So he was completely confident of dealing with the enemy. To put it bluntly, the enemy's troops were only 10 regiments, and most of them were Polish wielding troops, so what's there to be afraid of? Even if he was unfortunately surrounded, Beloborodov had the confidence to break out with the troops at hand. Of course, for the sake of future battles, it would be better to preserve his strength.

After another half a day, when the encirclement and suppression troops from the north arrived at Shederce, they found that the Soviet army had disappeared, and all they left was a burning city. Yes, most of the Shederce was burning, and the railway station was burned. A large amount of supplies, weapons and ammunition either turned into ashes or set off fireworks at will.

"The enemy ran away in the direction of Mold!"

When the German commander learned about this information, he ordered to pursue it immediately without thinking. The only one who stayed in Shederce was a group of Western Polish foot cloths. The Germans would soon regret this decision. Because when he had just chased the river, he found that the railway bridge leading to Moldi had been blown up. Before he could order the engineers to build the bridge, a group of Western Polish foot cloths who escaped in panting and in a hurry reported to him:

"Lieutenant Colonel Kopke, Shederce has appeared in a large number of red bandits. We are outnumbered and can only be forced to retreat!"

Lieutenant Colonel Kopke was stunned and asked incredibly: "How many Russians are there?"

"Many, many!" West Poland replied with a heavy breath, "There is at least one regiment. There are also a large number of tanks, and we are no match for it at all!"

Lieutenant Colonel Kopke looked at the broken railway bridge and fell into deep thought. It was obvious that he fell into a trap. The enemy probably used a small group of troops to attract his attention. After he left, he shot a back shot, which was simply a slap in the face. He was actually fooled by a group of rude Slavic pigs.

"Change and return to Shederce immediately, hurry!"

The road was suddenly full of chaos, and the German soldiers turned around in a hurry. Then, as Lieutenant Colonel Kopke ordered, he ran towards Shederce at full speed.

A few hours later, when Schederce was in the distance, Lieutenant Colonel Kopke was in a hurry and he was worried that the Russians would run away again, and he really became a joke. However, the lieutenant colonel was worried too early because he could not arrive in Schederce for the time being. The front car in his convoy was pressed on the mines. After a loud bang, the truck and more than a dozen soldiers on the car were buried in flames.

"Damn it!"

Kopke slammed onto the car door hard, and the situation was obvious. The enemy expected that he would return, so he buried a mine in advance so that he could not pursue the full speed.

"Call the engineers! Demining mines!"

When he said this, Kopke almost gritted his teeth, but he was still behind even more gritted his teeth. Soon after more than two hours of work by the engineer, he was told: "There are only three mines on the road..."

This almost made Kopke vomit blood. Why? He was just using landmines to scare him, and he was too lazy to lay too much. It took him a long time to breathe and ordered hatefully: "Keep going!"

When the Germans "recovered" Shederce again, it was already 8 o'clock in the evening. The German soldiers who had been traveling around for a day were tired and hungry. After entering the city, they almost sat on the ground and were reluctant to get up.

But the Lieutenant Colonel Kopke could not order the troops to rest, but asked urgently: "Which direction did the Russian escape?"

"Go west, go along the road towards Cotton!"

But Kopke didn't believe it very much, because he was getting closer and closer to Warsaw. Warsaw was not Shederce. There were a large number of garrison troops stationed there, and the Russians' small guerrillas were just delivering vegetables when they went there. Are the Russians crazy?

Lieutenant Colonel Kopke believed that this was still the Russians' strategy of attacking the world, which was to reuse the same trick to lead his main force to the west, and then he followed suit and conspired to return to his troops in Shederce.

Learning from the lessons learned from the last time, Kopke did not hurriedly order the pursuit, but ordered the reconnaissance troops to immediately go out of the city to search for the surrounding areas of Sedelce and dig out the hidden Russian guerrillas!

"What if the enemy really attacks Cotton?"

Kopk answered confidently: "There is no possibility. Major Strauss's troops gathered in Minsk (a small city east of Warsaw, not Minsk in Belarus) and will soon sweep east along the road. If the Russians really go in that direction, they will fall into the trap!"

Kopke was full of confidence, but he never expected that at the moment he said this, Beloborodov's troops were sweeping away the German garrison troops of Cotton.

About three hours later, Kopke was scolded by his superiors and asked him to gather his troops immediately to head towards Cotton, and to catch the Red Army guerrillas who were committing evil.

The poor lieutenant colonel had to wake up the troops half-wake up. After some trouble, he finally set off at 4 a.m. After three hours of "hard trek", the Germans who were so tired that they yawned were finally able to enter Cotton for breakfast.

However, the waiter for the Germans did not have breakfast, but the messy Cotton. The poor local garrison was torn apart by Beloborodov in minutes. What's even more tragic is that the local railway station was completely destroyed. Anyway, the mess in front of Kopke.

"Damn it! In which direction did the Russians run?"

What made the Lieutenant Colonel even more angry was that the local German soldiers who escaped by chance could not explain the movements of the Red Army. Some said that the Red Army was heading towards Kawushen, some said that the Red Army had fled south, and some even swear that the Red Army had gone north.

Anyway, the information provided by everyone is different. According to their statement, unless the Red Army scatters on the spot, it will be completely unexplained. Kopke did not believe that this enemy would automatically collapse. He believed that this enemy was not an ordinary guerrilla team. It was not the kind of scattered soldiers who fired a shot and played small-scale fights, but the regular army with clear goals. These Russians obviously attacked the traffic line, and Kodon was probably the purpose of this.

Moreover, he believed that the enemy might have certain strength and would not automatically collapse before they encountered the German army. What's more, they fought happily before, and they probably had high morale, so how could they automatically collapse?

Lieutenant Colonel Kopke believed that this was a trick played by the enemy, just to confuse him. It was the same as before. He judged the map and believed that: "The enemy will never collapse automatically. Their mission is to attack our army's logistics lines. Now Shederce and Cotton have been destroyed by them. Next, they can only attack Minsk or Kavushen, among which Kavushen is the most likely!"

Why did he make such a judgment? The reason is very simple. There is Major Strauss' troops in Minsk, and it is too close to Warsaw, so the guerrillas may not dare to get close. Kavushen is very far from Minsk and is a distance from Cotton, and there are not many defenders. They are definitely the big fat meat in the eyes of the guerrillas.

So Lieutenant Colonel Kopke made a quick decision and issued an order: "March quickly and go to Kawushen immediately!"

So is Beloborodov really in Kavushen? It is definitely impossible. Beloborodov has no interest in Kavushen, and it is too dangerous to continue to move towards Warsaw. Once he bumps into the main German army from Warsaw, it will be quite troublesome. Therefore, Beloborodov did not continue westward at all, but ran to the north and went directly to Wengrov.

At three o'clock that afternoon, Beloborodov's armored cluster arrived in Vengrov in a hurry, and the small town was already captured by feint troops at 9 o'clock in the morning. All Beloborodov needed to cross the river easily and then blow up the bridge on the Levitz River.

"The engineering troops must move quickly. The time we have won is not enough. Once the enemy reacts, their heavy army cluster will soon return to the north. Once they are caught up, we will be in danger!"

Beloborodov did not stay too much at Wengrov. He only took an hour off and asked the armored troops to refuel, and immediately continued to head north. Petrovsky was waiting for him anxiously in the north!

Yes, at this time, Petrovsky used the gap in the German defense to force the Bug River to cross the Bouge River in one fell swoop, and established a solid bridgehead five kilometers east of Vishkuf, while his vanguard was attacking Chichonka.

"Tell Mazov that he only has half an hour and must win the Chichonka in half an hour. There is no condition to tell!" Petrovsky replied firmly.

The front-line troops encountered some trouble when attacking Chichonka. The left-behind German troops were very tenacious. These Nazi bandits did not make a big headache for the Red Army. For Petrovsky, if they wanted to escape successfully, Chichonka had to occupy it, and it had to be occupied quickly. Because they had to cross the Narev River later. If too much time wasted, the German troops who came from Ostrov, Ukhinya and Vishkuf could easily surround them, and then they would be dead.

"Is there any news from Beloborodov?" Petrovsky asked nervously.

Now he needs the help of the armored troops. Only when the armored troops return to their hands can Petrovsky have the confidence to cross the Narev River. Now he is worried that Beloborodov will be surrounded by the enemy's encirclement and suppression troops.

"Comrade Beloborodov just sent a telegram, and his armored troops had dumped the pursuers, had arrived in Wengrov, and was heading north quickly!"

The news made Petrovsky feel a little relaxed. He looked at his watch and muttered, "Time is stuck very accurately, and it should be very smooth next?"

Unfortunately, the good luck in Beloborodov seemed to have been used up. Not long after leaving Wengrov, he was discovered by the German reconnaissance plane, which means that he had been exposed, and the Germans would soon turn around and catch up!

The worst was not here yet. The worst was that the German attack aircraft and bombers that took off from Warsaw quickly flew towards Beloborodov. Although the number of aircraft was not large, the air strike still caused him some losses. The most important thing was that it slowed down his marching!

"It's so fucking!" Beloborodov swears and asked anxiously: "How far is it!"

“Twenty kilometers.”

Beloborodov said angrily: "I'm asking how far the enemy's pursuers are!"

"Having arrived in Wengrove, they are said to be building bridges and crossing the river."

Beloborodov regretted it a little. He should have put some blocking troops in Wengrov before, which can at least cause trouble for the enemy to cross the river. Now, on the flat Polish plain, it may be quite difficult to block the enemy... (To be continued...)

ps: Bow to thank the First Guards Tank Brigade, Light and Water, Instant Flash Dragon Dance, Drunk Wufeng and Comrade Juventus!
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