Yang Mingzhi cannot enjoy the three-day holiday like those soldiers who have won the battle. He still has a lot of official duties to do, but these official duties are much more comfortable than the battlefield life of sleeping in the open and worrying about his life at any time.
How is the battle situation on the Kharkov front? Can the Soviet army continue to win? Have they received the telegrams sent to the front army headquarters and the guerrilla movement headquarters?
Yang Ming was unwilling to do all this. In fact, from the 23rd to the 25th, the Guerrilla Republic did not receive any telegrams from its superiors.
He did not take people like Yevlov seriously. As for Sarinchkin, he was a senior member of the Ministry of Internal Affairs and he had the authority to send private telegrams to his superior, Beria, through a private band.
, as for whether he sent anything, Yang Mingzhi didn't know, and what kind of feedback he received from the Ministry of Internal Affairs, Yang Mingzhi also didn't know. What's more, Salinchkin, who had a shiny head, even received the telegrams from the Ministry of Internal Affairs.
, and also kept silent according to confidentiality regulations!
Since no telegram was received from superiors, it was assumed that there was no telegram at all.
As for the battle situation on the front line, after all, the overall trend of history will not undergo a 180-degree change just because of one person's appearance. This is absolutely impossible!
Yang Mingzhi always believed that the Soviet army would be defeated in this battle, and it was just a question of whether the defeat would be disastrous or not. If history still develops as it did in that dimension, it would not be a bad thing for the Soviet Union and even the anti-fascist war in the world.
The German army will advance triumphantly through this Soviet defeat, and eventually they will launch a bloody battle in the Don River Basin, the Volga River Basin, especially Stalingrad, the most important transportation hub in southern Russia.
Stalingrad was too far away. Besides, until the Soviet army counterattacked across the entire front, the Guerrilla Republic could only rely on itself, receiving at best very little airdrop support from its superiors.
From food to ammunition, everything needs to be produced by all the soldiers and civilians of the Guerrilla Republic. In the past three days when the troops were resting, tens of thousands of villagers were still working hard to produce.
The 63rd Group Army directly mobilized more than 20,000 soldiers and civilians for this great battle. Fighting heroes and labor heroes were also born during the operation.
Detailed statistics on the results of the war, the statistics and sorting of the spoils of war, the interrogation and settlement of prisoners of war, the settlement of the soldiers and civilians of the guerrilla brigade, the disposal of a large number of horses, and various complex matters are all handled by professional departments.
At this moment, Yang Mingzhi also had to sigh: "The Guerrilla Republic really operates like a country, with all the departments that should exist. In this way, each department performs its own duties. What was originally an unprecedentedly complex task is not easy to do.
No more difficulty!”
Therefore, Yang Mingzhi's official duties basically consisted of staying at the headquarters every day to read various submitted documents that had been approved by Yevlov or Salinchkin in the past few days. The documents were almost all handwritten.
Because there is only one printing press, it is specialized in printing blackboard newspapers.
Not everyone can write well. Many of these Russian documents are filled with dazzling circles. Yang Mingzhi guessed that even Yevlov might not be able to understand what these documents record in a short time.
thing!
Yang Mingzhi read some, and among the documents he looked through, the dozen or so reports on potato harvest interested him the most.
Food is the most important thing for people. In any country or region, as long as there are people living, food is the most important thing.
There is a large amount of farmland just around Blacksmith Village, among which the newly cultivated fields this year are the largest. They are raw fields, and the soil fertility is not satisfactory. However, Yang Mingzhi believes that with the use of peat as raw material, the mass production of potash-rich fertilizer
After the "black ammonia" of nitrogen fertilizer is poured into the fields, the fertility of the land will change qualitatively, and agricultural output will also create miracles.
Depending on the sowing time, farmlands in different regions have ushered in the harvest season, and these documents record the potato harvest in these days.
The huge harvest of potatoes is gratifying. This must be because these farmlands received irrigation with chemical fertilizers during the critical growth period of potatoes, resulting in such a harvest.
Yang Mingzhi briefly summarized various data from more than a dozen documents, and after a little calculation, he got an astonishing result.
"It's great! The grain harvest must be enough to feed 50,000 people for three months!"
His exclamation also attracted the attention of the ordinary staff who stayed at the headquarters. Due to the huge gap in military ranks, these staff officers would not have anything to do with their commander. Only those who knew the commander's temper very well.
, for example, Sorkina and others who serve in the headquarters in their spare time can continue to chat while ordering tea and pouring water.
What made the commander so excited? She came over with a pot of boiled black tea and filled the ordinary black pottery water cup.
She scoffed and asked: "Comrade Commander, what makes you so excited?"
"It's a potato!" Yang Mingzhi smiled at the woman.
Yang Mingzhi actually liked Sorkina, and even more so the female soldiers in the communications squad of the headquarters. He was also very satisfied with his choice at that time, and he pulled the four female soldiers he met to the headquarters.
Finally, these girls lived up to expectations and became good communications soldiers.
Yang Mingzhi was not only satisfied with these girls, but also grateful. They did not despise Periya because of her young age, nor were they jealous because of her excessive intelligence.
Besides, in this battle, the signal corps also made great achievements. It is the credit of these people that the front line and the rear can communicate closely.
Sorkina still didn't know why she was particularly happy about potatoes. She continued: "Whatever makes you happy must be a good thing. Potatoes are the favorite of us Belarusians. I also heard that there has been another bumper harvest of potatoes recently. I
I hope food shortages will never happen again in the future.”
"Of course! Do you know? Three months! The newly harvested potatoes are enough for us to eat for three months. Now is the warmest period. We can still plant one season before winter. I can't predict it well now.
Future food reserves. But one thing is certain, after winter, our food reserves will far exceed previous expectations."
"This is really a good thing! Comrade Commander, this is all due to you!"
"Me?" Yang Mingzhi stared at the slim woman, who raised her head with a shy look on her face.
The atmosphere at this time was a bit subtle. Yang Mingzhi did not assign himself any secretary, and some of the preliminary work was randomly assigned to the staff officers. At this moment, this girl Sorkina was like the well-informed female secretary!
Yang Mingzhi shook his head: "Forget it! I only made some small contributions."
"No!" Sorkina rushed to speak: "You have made a huge contribution! Not just in life, but most importantly in war! Now everyone knows that we have won a great victory! Those spoils of war are not displayed properly.
Show it to the people? It’s so spectacular!”
Yang Mingzhi knew very well what spoils of war she was talking about. From the expression on the female soldier's face, he could also deduce the attitude of the residents of the entire Guerrilla Republic.
But war is war, and Yang Mingzhi does not want to avoid the bad facts just because he has won.
"Sorkina, maybe I made the most correct choice at that time. I brought you and the three female soldiers here. Otherwise, you will all be involved in the battle as combat infantry in this battle. In the end,
Wearing a rifle with a bayonet, fighting with the enemy's bayonet! You know, in this battle, the third regiment suffered very heavy casualties, and a very young female soldier was sacrificed like this."
Sorkina was guarding the communications room, and she could know about the telegrams from the front earlier than the deputy commander. Thinking of the tragic report of the third regiment, she still felt frightened.
She was very afraid of death, and she did not want to die because she was afraid of death. She tried her best to survive in the labor camp, and it was also difficult to survive in the early days of wandering after the war broke out.
She had always regarded the commander as a great benefactor. However, some of her former comrades had died, and a strange feeling of guilt floated in her heart.
Yang Mingzhi had no intention of chatting with her, so he snapped his fingers and said, "You can continue working! Go clean the floor. If you are really bored, continue to review your telegraph book."