It began with the Battle of Klimovic on May 7, 1943, and was later called the Battle of the No. 13 collective farm in history. Because this battle revolves around the No. 13 collective farm located in the city of Klimovic.

And this battle is regarded as the beginning of the joint headquarters battle and a decisive battle!

If the 11th Panzer Army of the German Wehrmacht defeated the 5th Tank Army of the Soviet Union in the Battle of 13th Collective Farm, the 11th Panzer Army could join forces with the 24th Panzer Army who headed south from Oryosha to the north and then join the Gomel battlefield on the southern front. At that time, the German army would be able to concentrate a total of 4 armored armies on the Gomel battlefield on the Gomel battlefield.

The number of armored divisions under these 4 German Armored Army will reach 6, and the number of armored grenade divisions will reach 7. In theory, the number of tanks/strike artillery will reach more than 5,000!

The Soviet tank 1st and 2nd Army on paper are only about 2,100 tanks/strike artillery, not even half of the opponent. The result of hitting one head is definitely to pieces.

If the 5th Army of General Lukin's tanks could drag the 11th Armored Army of the German Army and the 24th Armored Army of the German Army in the Battle of 13, and the troops of the Southwest Front could also drag the 14th Armored Army of the German Army into the Chernokov area (it was also difficult to complete this task, because the main force of the 14th Armored Army did not go deeper, but gathered near the city of Chernigov, only about 100 kilometers away from the Gomel battlefield), then the 1st and 2nd Army of the Soviet tanks would only be the 3rd Armored Army of Germany (with 2 armored divisions and 2 armored grenadier divisions).

If the Soviet Union's 1st Tank Army and the 2nd Tank Army can defeat or annihilate the 3rd German Armored Army on the Gomel battlefield, the situation on the Soviet-German battlefield will be reversed, and the cause of GCism may be realized!

So on the evening of May 9, when Comrade Lu Jin learned that a huge German "armored Army" was moving closer to him, he knew that he and the 5th Tank Army were now shouldering the success or failure of the GCism cause.

"Comrades, the survival of the Soviet motherland and the happiness of all mankind now depend on our glorious 5th Tank Army!"

At 7 pm, General Lujin said to the head of the Army Command and several heads of the 5th Mechanized Army in his front command: "We are facing enemies that are far stronger than us. They have a large number of tanks and artillery. The soldiers are armed to their teeth and are coming in full force, ready to destroy the Soviet motherland.

If we cannot hold them in Klimovic and cannot attract more enemies with the fighting of the 5th Tank Army, then the battle between the junction will fail! This will mean unimaginable catastrophic consequences!

If we fail in the battle between the junction, the next battle will begin in the capital of the great motherland, and Leningrad may also fall. Our motherland will face the test of life and death.

So our 5th Tank Army must fight to the end in Klimovic and sacrifice at all costs!"

The 5th Tank Army is going to fight in Klimovic... in fact, it is fighting near Klimovic's No. 13 collective farm, so it is very important to occupy the farm and living area of ​​this large collective farm and a large area of ​​forest nearby.

Because there are not only trees where tanks and tank destroyers can be ambushed, but also solid ground buildings, warehouses, schools, health centers and residential areas. It is a small town with thousands of residents. The collectivization of agriculture in the Soviet Union is not just about plundering and no construction!

In fact, collectivization brings about the scale and mechanized operation of agriculture, which is not much different from what large agricultural companies in the United States do. The reason for the failure is not "scale" and "mechanization", but rather the particularly serious bureaucracy brought about by "political and economic integration" (collective farms are not just operating entities, but also first-level governments).

However, the bureaucrats of the No. 13 collective farm in Klimovic, Belarus are quite motivated. At least they invested a lot of manpower and material resources in the face project (it is actually a model collective farm), and built a very grand and sturdy field building in the Soviet Union in the 1940s.

This three-story building with a basement and an area of ​​about three to four thousand square meters (also the location of the cooperative headquarters, agricultural machinery headquarters, savings station and militia command), on the evening of May 9, 1943, became the last stronghold of more than 100 Ukrainian German troops.

Pavlyuchenko and her assistant Tymoshenko retreated here on the afternoon of May 9.

Major Helmut Zinz, the battalion commander of the 17th Cavalry Reconnaissance Battalion of the SS, said to her at the time: "Ludmira, you don't have to stay here because you are a woman... You can leave as a civilian. Just walk a few kilometers south and you can find our large army."

There are almost no women in the front-line troops of the German Wehrmacht, which does not conform to Junker's tradition. Only the Ukrainian troops have a small number of female soldiers (still be female assistants of the National Wehrmacht). Therefore, there is still a possibility that Pavlyuchenko would wear makeup to an ordinary Soviet peasant woman to escape.

But the Ukrainian female warrior from Kiev rejected Major Zinz's proposal.

"No, Major Comrade (also known as Comrades in the Nazi Party), I am a soldier!" said Pavlyuchenko, "I want to fight for honor and Ukrainian freedom."

She was born and raised in Ukraine on the right bank, and was never a Soviet person. She naturally regarded the Red Army that "liberated" the right bank Ukraine as an invader and wanted to fight them to the end.

However, at this time, she and most of the Ukrainian soldiers who fought for the German Empire had already noticed that Germany's attempts toward Ukraine's black soil were actually the same as the Soviet Union. The only difference was that the Germans would share the land of Ukraine on the right bank to Ukraine's peasants was taken out and distributed only by the "right bank", not including Western Ukraine and left bank Ukraine.

The land ownership relationship in Western Ukraine (formerly part of Austria Ukraine) will not change. The fertile land of Ukraine on the left bank (referring to the east bank of the Dnieper River) will be used to resettle German immigrants (not to check n generations, as long as they are white people, believe in God and speak German), and at the same time become the territory of the German Empire. In other words, the Ukrainian nation, which suffered heavy losses in this war, can only obtain half of Ukraine, and the German emperor must also be regarded as their monarch...

Of course, for Ukrainian intellectuals like Pavlyuchenko, the rule of the Germans would also give them an additional benefit. They could freely live in any big city of the European community, while enjoying the welfare of European and imperial citizens.

Of course it is not worth sacrificing life for the welfare of these Germans, but the Ukrainian soldiers who were regarded as "traitors" by the Soviet Union now have no choice but to fight to the end with the Soviet Red Army and become cheap cannon fodder for the Germans. They originally belonged to the same nation, but now they have become unimaginable enemies on the battlefield. This is a huge tragedy.

In the tragedy, Pavlyuchenko and her assistant Tymoshenko entered the basement of the building on the evening of May 9. This was actually a semi-basement. The top of the basement was higher than the ground, and there were 10 small windows in the upper part of the ground.

The basement has been renovated, and the cement floor was excavated with explosives and shovels, forming several craters. All windows have been transformed into fire points, 3 machine gun groups, 3 anti-tank groups (each equipped with a "doll" 88mm recoil-free cannon) and 3 sniper groups have been in place. Pavlyuchenko and Tymoshenko are the fourth sniper group arranged in this basement.

The commanding of these 10 combat teams is a sergeant named Poroshenko. The number of officers in the German Army has always been relatively small. Usually, only the company commander and the 1st platoon leader are officers, and the rest of the platoon leader are non-commissioned officers. The officer configuration of the 14th Ukrainian Cavalry Division of the SS is the same, so there are not many officers in the 14th Cavalry Reconnaissance Battalion of the SS. In the previous battles, several officers were killed, so it is now a sergeant's turn to command the platoon-level battle group that is crouched in the basement.

The Honorary Sergeant Pavlyuchenko is one of the two sergeants in this battle group, so it is Poroshenko's substitute. Once Poroshenko is killed, she will be the commander of the battle group. And the current Honorary Sergeant Pavlyuchenko does not know that this basement and this sturdy field building will become her famous place.

While the remnants of the SS 17th Cavalry Reconnaissance Battalion retreated to the No. 13 collective farm building, the 5th Tank Destroy Brigade and the 108th Mechanized Infantry Brigade, which were under the 5th Mechanized Army of the Soviet Red Army, also deployed defenses in the No. 13 collective farm.
Chapter completed!