Chapter 1090 Extreme Joy Begets Sadness

   Don’t see that the town is full of powerful SS troops, but they are also frightened in the face of the Soviet army’s desperate style of play. Seeing the Soviet commanders and fighters rushing up like a tide, some soldiers finally became timid and turned around and fled in fright. His behavior affected other soldiers, and after a while, more and more soldiers joined the fleeing queue.

The adjutant saw that the Soviet army broke through the defense line and approached the headquarters step by step. He hurried into Paul Hauser's bedroom and said anxiously: "Your Excellency, the situation is not good. The Russians are only 100 meters away from the headquarters." It's less than fifty yards away, and it's too late if we don't go."

   "What, the Russians are only fifty yards away from here?" Paul Hausser was reluctant to leave just now because he felt that his troops were fully capable of blocking the Russian attack. But less than half an hour later, the situation became so critical that he quickly got out of bed, put on his boots, and ordered his adjutant: "Get the bucket cart ready immediately, we must leave this dangerous place as soon as possible."

As soon as Paul Hausser and his adjutant left the bedroom, a roaring tank shell hit the small building. After the explosion, a collapsed floor slammed heavily on the room where Paul Hausser had slept. On the bed, the solid iron bed was smashed flat. If Paul Hausser hadn't left, he would be smashed to pieces at this moment.

The German officers and soldiers at the headquarters, seeing that Paul Hausser had escaped in the barrel cart, and why would they stay here waiting to die, also fled out of the room one after another, followed Paul Hausser's barrel cart, and headed towards the Flee to the south of the town.

  The established resistance was gone, and the resistance organized by the remaining stragglers lasted less than an hour before being completely blocked. After annihilating the German army in Varki Town, the tank commander immediately announced the good news to Rybalko: "Comrade Commander, I tell you good news, we have successfully occupied Varki Town."

   "Have you caught Paul Hausser?" Rybalco asked tentatively.

"No." The tank commander, who was standing in the German headquarters at the moment, replied with some embarrassment: "Comrade commander, when we rushed into the German headquarters, all the people here had already run away, and we couldn't catch them." Paul Hauser."

   Knowing that he failed to capture Paul Hausser, Rybarco felt quite regretful. But he remembered that Zhukov had repeatedly told himself that after capturing Paul Hausser's headquarters, he even organized his own troops to break through, so he ordered the tank commander: "It's fine if you don't catch it. Gather your troops immediately and prepare to break out to the north." .”

   "Breakout?" Hearing Rebalco's order, the tank commander asked in amazement: "Comrade Commander, since we have occupied the town of Varki, we can definitely build fortifications here to resist the German attack."

"Comrade Colonel," seeing that the tank commander under him still wanted to defend the town of Varki, Rybalco quickly explained to him: "The purpose of my ordering you to attack the town of Valky is to disrupt the command of the German army." The system creates conditions for us to stand out from the encirclement of the German army. If we continue to stay here and wait for the German army to surround us from all sides, the only thing waiting for us is the fate of the entire army being wiped out. Alright, don’t dawdle, and quickly transfer the troops.”

  After the conversation with the army commander, Rybalko immediately sent a telegram to Zhukov, reporting to him the successful capture of Valki Town and his preparations to break out.

Seeing Rybalko's call, Zhukov nodded in relief, and said to Sokov: "Misha, Rybalko's troops have successfully captured the town of Varki. Although they failed to capture Paul Hausser alive, they have already Successfully disrupted the command system of the German army, which will be very beneficial to their subsequent breakout operations."

"Although the command system of the German army has been disrupted, at the speed of the German army, it may only take two or three hours to return to normal." Sokov frowned and said: "Comrade general, the time they can use is very short. So you have to pick up speed, or your efforts will be wasted."

   "I think Rybalko should understand this truth." Zhukov put the telegram on the table casually, and said confidently: "I don't think we need to interfere with the commander's determination anymore."

Realizing the seriousness of the problem, Rebarco immediately organized his troops to break through to the north after confirming that the town of Valkyrie had been captured, and notified the 15th Tank Army again, ordering them to speed up and join the main force, and jointly escape from the German encirclement. jump out.

  However, what he didn't expect was that the troops of the 15th Tank Army did not follow the order to move closer to the north at this moment, but continued to pursue the fleeing German army. The person who made this decision was the commander of the tank army. He originally wanted to follow Rebalco's order to gather troops and move closer to the north, but one of the tank brigade commanders under him said: "Comrade Commander, Paul Hausser is fleeing south now. If we pursue the victory, we will be killed." Let the enemy become more confused, maybe we can completely reverse the current unfavorable situation of our army."

  The tank commander thought about it, and it seemed to be the case. No matter how brave and good at fighting troops are, once they lose their organizational system, their combat effectiveness will become vulnerable. The enemies who fled from Valkyr Town were only focused on escaping, and were unable to organize a decent resistance at all. If they led their own troops to pursue them, they would definitely achieve greater results.

   It was precisely because of this consideration that the tank commander gave the troops an order to continue the pursuit as soon as his head became hot. The town just captured was handed over to the infantry for defense.

   Dozens of tanks from the tank army chased down the direction in which the German army fled. Not long after, sporadic German soldiers appeared in the field of vision. Because the road was covered with waist-deep snow, these fleeing German officers and soldiers could only run forward along the road. Seeing the Soviet tanks chasing up from behind, they could only flee while shooting futilely at the tanks with the weapons in their hands.

  The bullets jingled the armor plate of the tank, but it didn't slow down the tank at all. On the contrary, the tank soldiers in the tank can use machine guns to easily kill these German soldiers on the road like shooting targets.

   After another two to three kilometers of pursuit, there were more German troops on the road, which made the Soviet tank soldiers very happy. They strafed with machine guns and bombarded them again, making the German soldiers howl like ghosts.

However, when they were playing happily, a tank rushing to the front was blown into a ball of fire after a loud "boom", and after a while, two tankers covered in fire struggled escaped from the tank. They plunged into the snow on the side of the road, rolling back and forth, trying to extinguish the flames on their bodies.

   Before the rest of the tanks figured out what happened, several more tanks were shot and stopped fire one after another, and then stopped on the road and began to burn.

  (end of this chapter)