War is not a big picture for front-line infantry, all they have to do is obey the command of their superiors and try to complete the task, so it is important to have a prestigious general leader. The German GD Regiment in World War II was originally a Berlin garrison company, after the start of the war, it participated in the battle, was assigned to hitler's general Guderian, and continued to improve in actual combat, the Battle of France has been upgraded to a regiment, and then participated in the Soviet-German War, in the Great Siege of Minsk, the regiment and the breakthrough Soviet army to the end, successfully preserved the encirclement.
German machine gunner
After entering the Soviet land, the GD Regiment has been the main force regiment, responsible for opening the way for the whole army, in front of him is a large number of Soviet remnants left behind by the interspersed armored units, some even at the division level in a certain town, after continuous fighting, the GD Regiment captured thousands of Soviet troops, but the real battle is still to come. On the way to Minsk, the GD regiment was already scarred by this time, the number of veterans lost more than the entire French campaign, the superiors replenished enough recruits, obeyed Guderian's orders, and the GD regiment advanced along the R2 road to Minsk.
Originally, the GD regiment was going to aspire to Storpes in Minsk, but it was urgently transferred to the northeast. As soldiers of the GD Regiment, everyone knew that at this time General Guderian was completing a huge encirclement to encircle tens of thousands of Soviet troops, and this encirclement was just to the north of them, and such an urgent order was obviously a problem with the encirclement. The 15th Infantry Regiment, which had been stationed there, was underwenting a Soviet onslaught, and they hoped to open a gap here to break through, and the 15th Infantry Regiment had reached the final stage.
The Germans on the offensive?
The first to enter the battle was the 17th Reconnaissance Company of the GD Regiment, which then arrived in the theater of operations with the 1st and 2nd Battalions. The next morning the ground fogged, the Soviet offensive began to strengthen, obviously they wanted to break through with the fog, fortunately the GD regiment arrived in time, the defensive line was stabilized, this battle was fierce, far more than the GD regiment had encountered before the battle, only with the combat experience of the 6th Company can be seen.
When the company entered the battlefield, it was ordered to support the 17th Company of the advance, because the 17th Company was already in trouble, and if it did not rescue it, it might be completely destroyed, and before leaving, the 6th Company was reinforced by a 37-mm anti-aircraft gun of the anti-aircraft artillery unit, and on the way it encountered 1 platoon of the 18th Company and temporarily commanded it, so that the strength of the 6th Company could be greatly strengthened.
German soldiers
But the 6th Company soon discovered that their opponents in front of them in the village of Kamnka were not simple, a small village that had been built into a fortress by the Soviets in recent days, with not only extensive communication trenches, but also cement fortifications, and the attacking Germans were completely in an open wheat field. The 6th Company borrowed infantry artillery from the 15th Company to bombard the houses, and soon the soldiers of the 6th Company and the remnants of the 17th Company on the other side formed a semi-encirclement of the village, lurking until nearly 6 p.m., when the Germans launched an attack in the hope of repulsing the entrenched Soviet army.
After the shelling of the small village in the German attack, light and heavy machine guns fired again, and even 45 mm anti-tank guns, it is gratifying that the Soviet army on the opposite side, although the will to fight is tenacious, but the technical combat ability is poor, the soldiers on both sides fell into bitter battles, and even engaged in hand-to-hand combat, and the aide-de-camp of the 6th Company Commander was forced to pick up a rifle and insert a bayonet just in case.
German artillery
The battle was finally won by the Germans, who successfully repelled the Soviets in the village and secured the defensive line, but the price paid was not low, and in the memoirs of the commander of the 6th Company, he lost many commanders and old comrades, the new soldiers lost more eggs, and 11 wounded lay there, which meant a small loss of combat effectiveness for a company of only more than a hundred people. After the siege, the GD Regiment withdrew from the area, and on their way, on one side were the Soviet troops pouring into the prisoner-of-war camp like a tide, on the other side were rows of crosses, and buried underneath were the Germans who had died in battle.