4. Ordu (Sovyetler Birliği): Revizyonlar arasındaki fark

===Barbarossa===

 

 

On the eve of the attack, 4. Ordu suffered, as did many Soviet formations, from German communication sabotage. Units lost telephone connections, electrical power, and the [[Brest-Litovsk Kalesi]] lost its water supply. From about 5 am on 22 Haziran fierce fighting began around the Brest fortress, but the seven battalions around the fortress, from 28. Piyade Kolordusu, were undermanned, disorganized, and slow off the mark to man the defences. Despite these deficiencies the final German reduction of the fortress took some time in the face of determined Soviet resistance. By 1600 hours on 22 Haziran, 4. Army karargâhı was back at Zapruda, whereupon Front HQ ordered that 14. Mekanize Kolordu be launched in an attack to clear Brest and reach the frontier line. However the Army staff felt the plan had no chance of success, and so it proved; when the attack was launched the next day, only insignificant progress was made.<ref>Erickson, 2003, p.130-1, 133</ref> Three days later Batı Cephesi ordered a general withdrawal to try and keep the frontier armies out of threatened German encirclement; 4. Ordu was directed to fall back on a line from Bytin to [[Pinsk]]. Further instructions came through from Pavlov after a chance meeting later the same day; to cover the concentration of reserve armies on the Dinyeper, 4. Ordu was to hold the Shchara, the [[Slutsk]] 'müstahkem bölgesi' and the Sluch river line. However the Slutsk müstahkem bölgesi, as the district commander reminded Horobkov, had long ago been instructed to dispatch all its weapons to the Brest-Litovsk Kalesi (which was continuing to hold). The planned defence was thus practically non-existent, and [[Slutsk]] fell on 27 June.<ref>Erickson, 2003, p.150-2, 155</ref> The Army took part in the defenses of the area around [[Slavgorod|Propoisk]].