After announcing the basic tactics, Yang Mingzhi also concluded: "I really don't want this battle to evolve into a large-scale battle. In theory, the German army will try its best to avoid a large-scale battle with our army. How will this battle end?"
How it will end, I don’t know. In the end, I just hope that in this battle we can achieve maximum results with minimal human losses."
Yang Mingzhi’s long-cherished wish is also everyone’s long-cherished wish.
The fine tradition of the 63rd Group Army is to make careful arrangements before the war so as to maximize the results while avoiding fearless casualties.
The leaders of various regiments gathered here, and soon, more detailed combat plans began to be formulated.
Now, Yang Mingzhi also had to consider the impact of long-term rain on the troops. The majority of soldiers had to stop physical and technical and tactical training for a whole week. During this period, the food was still in accordance with the original standards. Each soldier gained some weight, which
It cannot be said to be an absolutely good thing.
Yang Mingzhi knew that the greatest advantage of his troops was mobility. The weight gain of the soldiers was almost equivalent to the weakening of their load-bearing capacity. However, on the other hand, their increased fat could also support them in fighting in more difficult conditions.
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He particularly emphasized mobility, because the key to encircling a point for reinforcements is that the troops can quickly arrive at the right location at the right time to ambush the enemy's reinforcements.
For this battle, the entire paratrooper brigade will cross the Dnieper River. They not only surround the bridgehead and cut off the enemy's retreat in the city, they also assume the main task of blocking the reinforcements of the German 722nd Division.
The meeting began with a celebration of the seizure of a large amount of ammunition. In the excitement of victory, the meeting continued until the sun rose.
It was already three-thirty in the morning, the sun was still rising as usual, and everyone present had dark circles under their eyes, and yawns were heard one after another.
Each regiment leader recorded the commander's orders in his notebooks, and the clerks at the command headquarters recorded everyone's conversations throughout the meeting.
After a night of research, the final battle plan has been finalized.
"On the day of the summer solstice, this war will be one year old! The combat operation was planned to start on the summer solstice. Today is June 18th. We still have a full 96 hours to prepare. I think the time is enough. Brigade commanders
After the commander returned to the station, he immediately conveyed my order. The entire army entered the first level of combat readiness and immediately began to act according to the combat plan."
Finally, an exhausted Yang Mingzhi ended the meeting and everyone gradually dispersed.
Even though they were very tired, all the officers rushed back to their stations as soon as possible, gathered their battalion commanders together, conveyed the spirit of the military meeting, and started an internal meeting here.
But before and even during the war, senior officers did not want to have a good sleep, and even the front-line soldiers had to endure sleepiness to continue fighting. Therefore, the German army first used some stimulants to make the soldiers excited,
It can make soldiers feel sleepy for two or three days, but the cost is serious damage to human body functions. The German army does not care about its sequelae, they only hope that the soldiers can continue to fight crazily.
Soviet soldiers were prohibited from taking captured German stimulants, and offenders were directly shot. Therefore, there were no drug addicts in the Soviet army, and therefore there was no lunacy.
The majority of Soviet soldiers were not required to attack at night. Even in large-scale operations, regular Soviet troops rarely launched night attacks at night. Unless the scouts went to catch tongues.
But in the 63rd Group Army, night operations are a glorious tradition. The troops often carry out night attacks, so that everyone from the regiment commander to the soldiers have long been accustomed to staying excited at night.
After the meeting, Yang Mingzhi took the time to sleep. He was not disturbed by the gunfire of soldiers training and slept until morning.
On the other hand, as the battle plan was issued, the large military camp in Blacksmith Village immediately became lively.
The garrison here has begun to implement first-level combat readiness, even the children in the youth camp.
The establishment of the youth battalion is extraordinary. It is a special unit that belongs only to the headquarters. How should the battalion commander Kharkiv understand the orders of the headquarters? Of course he wanted to give more than a hundred people to himself a chance to fight.
The messengers conveyed the command's orders with added elegance, saying that this was an operation that was likely to turn into a large-scale battle, just like the Battle of Homnage last year.
That battle in Kharkov was very familiar, and the youth battalion also participated in the action at that time! Although they did not directly participate in the battle, they went to the front line to appreciate the magnificence and shock of battle-level operations.
The youth camp was in extreme excitement, and most of the young soldiers were eager to make meritorious deeds on the battlefield. Because Natasha was implementing the command's training philosophy, all the young soldiers in the youth camp would be trained to be precision shooters.
According to current statistics, the performance of precision shooters in the army is almost higher than that of ordinary soldiers, and their survival rate is astonishingly high. Most precision shooters have the potential to be snipers. They often secretly observe and wait for opportunities to launch cold shots, hoping to
To kill them, strong firepower is often required.
However, the enemy has not yet demonstrated how powerful its firepower is. On the contrary, the enemy's lives will be crazily harvested by the Soviet bombardment.
Natasha also did not shy away from the reason for her extremely high performance - that is, using the battlefield to conduct long-distance sniping.
Being a sharpshooter not only requires talent, but training with a large number of bullets in the later period is even more important. Natasha has discovered that there are as many as twenty shooting masters in the youth camp, including that Lebraski.
Natasha felt really itchy when she heard the order that the youth camp should also enter the first level of combat readiness and serve as a strategic reserve.
Especially these soldiers, they bluntly expressed their long-cherished desire to go to the battlefield.
But an order is an order, and Kharkiv could only comfort him: "I know everyone's hopes, why wouldn't I? But we must carry out the orders of the headquarters."
However, most soldiers do not want to be willing to be a reserve force. What everyone said is very straightforward. The so-called main force of 7,000 people participates in the battle. The enemy is simply not strong enough to destroy the main force. This is equivalent to saying that the so-called reserve force has no chance to fight at all.
How could Kharkiv not know this? He felt itchy, and after ordering the training to resume, he simply took Natasha aside.
"Hey! What do you want from me? About training?"
Kharkiv raised his head and said in a low voice: "I think you should go to the headquarters and ask the commander for instructions! Now you can see that everyone wants to participate in the war! We have not participated in the war for a long time."
"Yes, I know. But go to the headquarters, I..."
"You'll be fine. No one will stop you when you go to the headquarters, so you have to take the initiative to ask for a fight. Besides, I think you will definitely participate in this battle! You have to think about other soldiers.
, everyone is so envious."
"This..." Natasha was very embarrassed. She didn't want to abuse the commander's love for her in the army.
"Natasha, just go once! Even if we can't all participate in the battle, we should let the elites in the army participate! After all, you are our instructor. Don't you want to show the commander your achievements?"
Kharkiv's words successfully moved Natasha. Her current job is as an instructor, and it's time for her to report her duties to the commander.
"Okay!" The girl nodded, "I guess the commander will approve our elite to participate in the war."