The paratrooper brigade and reconnaissance battalion completed the occupation, or liberation, of Slavdich. The main force of the second regiment of the 284th Division also arrived at the forest on the edge of the city carrying a large amount of baggage and heavy weapons.
Yang Mingzhi received reports from these troops. Obviously, the results of the rocket bombing were very satisfactory. He confidently reported the victory to the soldiers.
The joy of victory filled everyone's face, and Yang Mingzhi shouted happily: "Comrades! Slavdich has been liberated. Tonight, we all go to the city to spend the night!"
It is already four o'clock in the afternoon. It is a sunny day today. The sun is still very high. It will set on the horizon at eight o'clock in the evening, and the sunset can even last until eight thirty! After all, the dimension of Belarus is too high, and the daytime time every day goes by
Growing rapidly until the summer solstice!
Yang Mingzhi had enough time to walk the last five kilometers to Slavdich. He estimated that the city would be uninhabitable if he bombed it!
He was a little regretful. Most of those buildings were private houses. As private houses, there were a large number of daily necessities, which was very important to the lives of the people in the Guerrilla Republic, especially the soldiers. Unfortunately, a large number of daily necessities and even noble clothing were probably not worth it.
Exploded to ashes by his own rocket launcher!
Therefore, he ordered in a telegram in reply to the paratrooper brigade commander: "Your brigade and friendly forces immediately search the city and salvage all usable items while the sun is setting."
Tepunov naturally obeyed, and he also reported that he had captured many prisoners of war and even civilians.
Yang Mingzhi continued to order: "You must strictly monitor all prisoners of war and civilians, and prohibit lynching! Soldiers who retaliate against prisoners of war without authorization shall be temporarily disarmed and placed under centralized custody."
The battle is over, and it is indeed a troublesome thing to deal with post-war affairs like this after the city is broken.
In that dimension, half of the six million Soviet soldiers who were counterattacking across Eastern Europe were residents from the Ural Mountains and even Siberia. These people lived a difficult life before joining the army, especially Central Asians and Siberian natives. These soldiers
He can be considered brave and good at fighting, but his military discipline is very poor.
It is even said that because the elite troops of the Soviet army were completely exhausted in the first two years of the war, the overall quality of the new troops was very poor. After these troops captured enemy cities, once they were separated from the management of officers and political commissars, military discipline collapsed, and the Red Army
He also turned into a bandit.
The Soviet army's rectification of military discipline was as simple and crude as direct shooting. Even so, military discipline was still bad.
This was what Yang Mingzhi was most worried about. When he mobilized before the war, he defined Slavdzic as a city that rebelled against the Soviet Union, and all city residents were traitors and enemies!
This view was highly recognized by the majority of officers and soldiers, and Deputy Commander Yevlov did not deny it. Fomin, the general person in charge of the Political Department of the Group Army, also directly acquiesced.
The killing of prisoners that he was most worried about had probably already happened. How many captured enemies were left? I'm afraid there weren't many left!
There is no problem in sanctioning traitors, but bringing them to justice is the right way to go!
However, the life or death of the traitor does not matter. Yang Mingzhi is more concerned about what the troops will do next after they liberate Slavdich. Should they wait here? Or take the initiative to find the 17th Guerrilla Brigade?
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Yang Mingzhi led Lavlendi's troops and took more than an hour to reach their destination.
He saw the campsite in the forest, the makeshift field hospital, and even Natasha.
This girl participated in the war as a sniper. She had no chance to fire in this battle, because the enemies had already been captured by the soldiers who were screaming and charging. The girl therefore gave the firearm to Igor for safekeeping, and relied on her short-term painstaking efforts to
He practiced surgical skills and began to play the role of a field doctor.
"Very good! You continue to bandage the wounded!"
Yang Mingzhi encouraged her with a few words, then walked out of the forest and stood under the ruins of Slavdich City.
The air is still filled with the smell of gunpowder smoke, some wildfires have not been extinguished, there are ruined buildings, charred land, and enemy corpses that have been carried to a pile by soldiers.
He noticed that next to the pile of corpses, several armed soldiers were guarding a dozen men in thin clothing. Judging from their black clothes, they were undoubtedly prisoners of war.
Haha, these people who are digging holes are probably very worried that they are digging their own graves!
In fact, these enemies are dead. They are traitors and will be shot after being judged.
At least these people are still alive now. Yang Mingzhi breathed a long sigh of relief and said to himself: "It seems that you are following my orders after all!"
On the other hand, the paratrooper brigade and the reconnaissance battalion established a joint command post in the city. After receiving the commander's order, they ordered their troops to strictly follow the order.
It's hard to say whether the officers and soldiers below are qualified to perform their duties.
Although the city was reduced to rubble, only some of the reinforced concrete buildings survived the explosion, while others were more or less damaged.
Because Slavdzic has never suffered such an attack in the past year, the houses of the residents in the city are not only intact, but also have complete daily necessities. Yang Mingzhi stood in the rubble and looked left and right, and he saw clearly through the collapsed walls.
There were wooden beds, wardrobes, and even dusty clothes scattered in the house. He even saw some soldiers carrying guns standing on the second floor of the wall tower, rummaging through boxes and cabinets, and carrying some boxes downstairs.
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Under the leadership of the responding soldiers, Yang Mingzhi and his guards walked on the street named after Stalin and soon arrived at the army headquarters.
This is a relatively complete two-story house, with a broken plaque hanging on the door. Yang Mingzhi can tell that this should be a department store. However, there are no products in this store for a long time, and the city has long been occupied by Ukrainian puppets.
The army was transformed into a large military camp.
Half of the second floor of the house had collapsed. There were already soldiers standing guard at the door of the dilapidated building. Seeing the commander arriving in person, they saluted and shouted into the room.
"Comrade Commander! You are finally here!" Parachute Brigade Zhang Tepunov came up to greet him.
"Yes! I'm finally here! Tepunov, how are you?"
"I'm fine! The battle was won, and we were a great success. And!" Tepunov smiled excitedly.
"And what? Could it be that you also caught a big fish?"
"Ah! Yes! It's a big fish! Come into the house and have a look!"
After all, this is a department store, and there is a relatively large space in the house. Obviously, the place has been cleaned a lot, and a lot of debris has been cleared out. It was still early, and Yang Mingzhi looked left and right in the room, and he was surprised to see that there were still things in the corner.
Sitting alone.
I saw that this man's hands and feet were tied up, and a piece of cloth was stuffed in his mouth. Judging from his clothes, this man was definitely a puppet soldier. But how could such a puppet soldier stay in the headquarters? Could it be that he was a puppet soldier?
officer?
"Tepunov, who is this man?"
"It's an enemy officer!" Tepunov explained, and ordered the guarding soldiers to pull out the cloth from the man's mouth.
Yang Mingzhi hunched over and stared at the enemy.
Moise was also very surprised. Could this Soviet officer be a Mongolian? What surprised him most was the Soviet troops themselves. They all wore very standard earth-green uniforms and even used Katyusha rocket launchers (he
I think so), these people are simply regular troops.
Moise boldly asked: "Who are you? Are you the 17th Guerrilla Brigade?"
Yang Mingzhi was stunned. He quickly turned his head and smelled Tepunov: "Have you just interrogated this person?"
"After interrogation, it was found that he and his people were Ukrainian nationalists and they formed a police battalion to defend the city."
"Huh? But the intelligence sent by the reconnaissance battalion shows that they fought with the German army! Also, where is Balzen?"
"He went to rectify his people!" Tepunov really didn't want to talk about the little thing about the reconnaissance camp, so his topic was about the German army: "The prisoner's name is Moise, and he claimed that the reinforcements of the German army were only three.
Ten people sat on several armored vehicles and motorcycles, but the German troops and their vehicles were all blown to pieces by our rocket launchers."
"What a pity the motorcycle is!" Yang Mingzhi stamped his feet and faced the puppet army officer named Moise again. "So, your name is Moise, and your people have a battalion! What a pity, you guys
Their combat effectiveness was much greater than that of the Germans, and we were easily defeated. You are a Soviet citizen, and I think you know how the law convicts traitors."