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Title
The Demolition
Description
Elements of the German 4th Panzer Division are advancing along the main road from Dmitrovsk towards Oryol. The 6th Guards Rifle Div has prepared defensive positions around Peprez to slow the Germans down. Artillery and numerous truck mounted Katyusha rockets …
Publisher
Date
1941-10-02
Scenario#
AtB12
Scenario Description
Elements of the German 4th Panzer Division are advancing along the main road from Dmitrovsk towards Oryol. The 6th Guards Rifle Div has prepared defensive positions around Peprez to slow the Germans down. Artillery and numerous truck mounted Katyusha rockets are being rushed forward to support the defenses.
Location
Oryol, Russia
Battle Narrative
The Battle of Bryansk (2–21 October 1941) was a twenty-day battle during World War II conducted in the Bryansk Oblast as a part of the overall Moscow campaign. Returning from the Kiev operation, Heinz Guderian attacked in an unexpected direction capturing Bryansk and Oryol with few casualties thereby encircling two Soviet formations, the 13th Army and 3rd Army. A third Soviet formation, the 50th Army was encircled by infantry of the German 2nd Army north of Bryansk. However the encircled Red Army units continued fighting, delaying the drive on Moscow for two weeks. This delay, as well as the casualties taken by the Wehrmacht liquidating the pockets contributed to the German collapse at the gates of Moscow. See also: Vyazma and Bryansk pockets. As a result of this battle, the Germans occupied Bryansk until they were expelled by the Red Army on 17 September 1943 as a part of the Smolensk campaign.
Narrative Source
Combatants
German
Russian

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