One hundred and twentieth The death of Kilponos (2)
Yang Mingzhi said yes, and everything went according to her arrangement. He changed his clothes, but what remained unchanged was that his injured arm was wrapped in linen and hung hanging on his chest.
He was not hungry, so he took a piece of bread and walked alone to the division office. As soon as he opened the door, he felt a sense of dissonance.
This meeting was actually held by four people, who were also the actual core leaders of the 284th Division. Yang Mingzhi was one of them. In many cases, his opinions were the last to convince. Now he saw those three people gathered around.
He was sitting at the table, with a map spread out on the table.
The atmosphere was quite serious, even a little too serious. "Why, something happened."
"Yes, something really happened." Yevlov said immediately.
"What happened?"
"It's the commander of the Southwest Front, Kilponos."
"How is he? Is he injured? Or is he dead?" Yang Mingzhi asked knowingly.
"Yes, dead." Yevlov frowned, "Berekov, our friend is gone. He encountered Guderian's troops and died in the encounter."
Yang Mingzhi's expression did not change. He pretended to be calm and found a chair to sit down, sighing. "When did this happen? Maybe he died a long time ago. You didn't tell us who were fighting on the front line."
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"That's not true. The information was received this afternoon," Yevlov said.
Yang Mingzhi knew that Kilponos would definitely die. Today is September 17, and Kilponos died. Yang Mingzhi did not know when he died, but until he died, Timoshenko would not take over.
.The history of this plane has not undergone any major changes. He saw that the map on the desk had new markings. "Now, are the Soviet troops in Ukraine surrounded? I saw you drew on the map again."
A few strokes."
"Yes. So this meeting may take a longer time. We really need to think about what to do in the future." Yevlov said.
Now, even Fomin and Yelentina completely believe that the Soviet army suffered a complete defeat on the battlefield in Ukraine. Kiev has fallen, German tanks rushed into the streets, and most citizens did not have time to evacuate. On the contrary, because it was necessary to
To defend the city, the Soviet authorities suddenly armed hundreds of thousands of citizens to form a militia, and even many women were organized.
These temporary militias only have patriotic enthusiasm, their military literacy is very poor, and their weapons and equipment are equally poor. Arms warehouses were forced to open, and many antique rifles had to be picked up and used on the battlefield.
Kirponos ordered the soldiers and civilians to defend. Unlike Pavlov in Belarus, who did not do practical things, he still achieved some results and disrupted the German army's combat plan, objectively buying time for the Moscow authorities. Unfortunately, Ukraine's
The Soviet Union was still going to lose the war.
"Alas, the enemy has occupied the south, and the Chernobyl train station has also been occupied by the German army. We are actually an isolated island, and we are surrounded by German troops on all sides. Even Bryansk will soon be occupied." Yev.
Love said regretfully, "So what should we do? Now you are the only one with wisdom in the entire army, and you are still our staff officer!"
The heavy burden is on Yang Mingzhi, and Yevlov's words seem to mean giving up. Also, he does not know the future history, and he is not the kind of person who can turn the tide.
The three of them all looked at Yang Mingzhi, as if he had already thought of his future development path.
"You look at me and want to listen to my opinion, then I will say something."
"Okay, tell me, we are all ears." Yevlov said.
Yang Mingzhi paused to organize his words and said: "The problem we are facing now is very serious. We are surrounded, so the only thing we can communicate with the outside world is our radio equipment. In addition, we are
In the foreseeable future, we cannot rely on anyone. We cannot rely on the Soviet troops on the periphery, or on the high-level leaders to support us. We are actually in enemy-occupied territory, and we cannot surrender. We must continue to fight.
So we can only rely on ourselves and continue to be self-reliant. We reclaim farmland to grow potatoes and vegetables. We continue to adopt a rationing system and at the same time mobilize soldiers to farm to ensure that we have enough food.
Secondly, we must continue to carry out military operations. The arsenal continues to produce weapons. We must give full play to the strengths of light infantry and use the forests and swamps of Belarus as cover to raid the enemy. Either large-scale raids and ambushes are used, or small groups are used to carry out sparrow warfare.
After winning the battle, we will seize everything the enemy has that can be used.
Finally, we must guard against enemy retaliation. We must store supplies and open new settlements. We must set up warehouses and winter camps in the forest. In this way, if the enemy attacks in retaliation, we will be able to fight with them.
deal with."
Yang Mingzhi's words can be summed up in three points: be self-reliant, continue guerrilla warfare, and be prepared for counter-encirclement and suppression campaigns.
These routines are the same as those of the Chinese Red Army. In many senses, the terrain here in Belarus is very similar to that of the Chinese Soviet Republic, which is very beneficial to the defensive side.
The opinions of the three people seemed enlightening, and Yevlov suddenly understood. "This seems to be the safest way. You Berekov is indeed a real expert in guerrilla warfare."
Yang Mingzhi waved his hand: "It's nothing, we are very poor. We don't have heavy weapons and have to use light weapons. The enemy has his own methods of war, and we have ours. If he hits us, we will run away so that they can't find us, and we will treat them
We relaxed and attacked suddenly. You see, in several battles, we used night attacks and achieved an exaggerated battle loss ratio. This is the essence of guerrilla warfare. Thousands of us soldiers were lucky enough to survive.
We don't have time to engage in positional warfare with the enemy."
"Well said." The other three couldn't help but applaud.
Yevlov said: "From now on, we will stick to the old rules and not make any major adjustments. Soldiers will continue to train and produce food, collective farms will continue to make tools and weapons, and the entire army and civilians will be integrated. Our base area has already
There are more than 10,000 people, distributed in villages composed of three large collective farms. I think we have such strength that many guerrillas will have to join us in the future."
Yang Mingzhi nodded: "That's definitely the case, so we have to strengthen food production."
"There is no problem. We don't have a food shortage problem now because the potatoes we planted at the beginning are actually ready to be harvested."
"You can harvest it now!?" Yang Mingzhi was overjoyed.
"Yes, so you don't need to be too excited." Yevlov said happily, "The commander of the front army died in the battle, and there will be a new person soon. No matter who that person is, we have to rely on our own efforts. The 284th Division is stationed here, and here is still
The territory of the Soviet Union. Now we should talk about the specific matters of the troops."
Yang Mingzhi nodded, this is the fundamental issue of the meeting.