 At the beginning of August, the 112th division was manning defensive positions on the Army group's southern flank, as part of 2nd Armies XII Corps.As Guderian's 2nd Panzer group started its wheel from Smolensk to the south on 8 August, 2nd Army, on its right flank,
was slow to join in because of poor weather, ammunition shortages, and the hesitancy of General Weichs, its Army commander.On 12 August the 2nd Army finally launched its attack south-east of Bobrusk.