Not all captured weapons were returned to Blacksmith Village!
As soon as the meeting was announced to be over, everyone in the meeting ran away to immediately carry out the order.
Yang Mingzhi felt a little stuck in his heart. He was facing huge pressure this time, and even his hand trembling when he picked up the water glass.
"What? Are you still a little nervous?" asked Salinchkin, who had not yet left.
"Haha, aren't you nervous?" Yang Mingzhi raised his head and smiled bitterly, "To be honest, 30,000 people are coming to kill! How I hope to annihilate these 30,000 enemies at a very small cost!"
"What? Annihilation?! Isn't it a repulse?" Salinchkin was in a daze. He suddenly woke up and couldn't help but stepped forward and patted the crazy general on the shoulder. "Berekov, you are simply crazy! Are you crazy?
Who gave you the order to kill all the tens of thousands of enemies who invaded? We just need to repel them."
"No! No! In my war philosophy, if you want to fight a war, you must not fight in a small way. You must fight a war of annihilation as much as possible to eliminate the enemy's effective strength. This is not only the view of Clausewitz's theory of war, but also in our Oriental
In people's understanding, war should be a war of annihilation, because if we repel the enemy, the enemy will counterattack. Only by killing them can we truly have peace. Haha, ruhe! Isn't that what the Germans think too."
"Well, what you said is a bit slogan-y. I already understand your attitude. What should you do next?"
Yang Mingzhi paused and said, "First, we have to take down Loyev!"
"Huh? Don't you continue to hope that this city will be used as a bait to beat up the enemy's reinforcements?"
"The tactics of encirclement and reinforcements have really come to an end here. We must change our tactics next, and send all the outstanding troops to the front line. This time, I am really commanding a group army to fight, with a strength of 40,000, that's about it.
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Yang Mingzhi explained that before the meeting began, he had given Balzen an order to occupy Loyev before noon on June 30!
Now, Yang Mingzhi is almost planning the deployment of the troops with his staff, while explaining his new strategy to Salinchkin.
The so-called new strategy means that the combat mode is not the traditional positional warfare where soldiers come to block the enemy. The German army must come prepared and carry some heavy weapons. Therefore, fighting positional warfare is tantamount to hitting a stone with an egg. The troops must take action and use the advantages of forests and lakes.
Cover and fight mobile warfare.
Therefore, what Yang Mingzhi showed to Salinchkin were troops ambushing in the forest, while in the plain area, only a few positions had been established.
There is even an even bolder plan that has been initially sketched.
Suddenly, the correspondent ran to the main office of the headquarters with a piece of telegram.
"Report to the commander, urgent call from the front line!"
Yang Mingzhi quickly received the message. He was afraid that something would go wrong on the front line, but he didn't expect that the message from Balzen was really intriguing.
Everything starts at noon.
Yang Mingzhi sent urgent telegrams to all the troops on the front line before noon. The urgent telegram sent to Balzen had only one mission, to quickly occupy Loev. As for the means by which to occupy it, Balzen had great autonomy.
This man does have a lot of autonomy!
Balzen concealed a situation from his superiors, that is, he detained a group of prisoners of war without authorization and did not transport them to the rear. What was the reason? After all, the prisoners of war captured by the task force were basically puppet policemen, and the composition of the members was based on
Mainly Belarusians.
After being captured, some prisoners of war knelt down and denounced the atrocities of the German army to the Soviet soldiers, and expressed their desire to atone for their sins in some way.
Regardless of whether his subordinates were satisfied or not, the first thing Balzen had to consider from the standpoint of a commander was his troop strength and logistics. He selected 400 prisoners of war, and after being screened by the grassroots political commissar, he accepted them as logistics soldiers.
, and promised to give up the merits.
Balzen's troops have been expanded to a certain extent, but he does not trust these prisoners of war who suddenly change their stance on the battlefield. These guys are just useless. After their companies and platoons are dispersed and replenished, at least they don't have to worry about defecting again.
The prisoners of war were captured on June 26, and by the morning of the 29th, it had been three full days since they were captured. In the past three days, no prisoners of war had escaped, but there were many cases of grassroots soldiers venting their anger on the prisoners of war.
After receiving the emergency order from the headquarters, on the afternoon of the 29th, the Soviet army began a new round of artillery bombardment. This artillery bombardment was much stronger than before, because it was the artillery preparation before the Soviet army charged!
However, after the artillery fire stopped, some shaking figures emerged from the incomplete buildings in the distance. The soldiers shot at them on the spot. What was very strange was that the targets did not show any fear! One target fell, but several other targets fell.
Unmoved, he actually walked southward step by step!
"I really don't understand what these Germans are thinking! Did they get blown up by the artillery?" Balzen grinned. He carefully wiped the telescope and continued to observe, and then he was shocked. "Crazy! It's just crazy."
Oh! Those people are not German soldiers, they are actually women and children?! Order soldiers! Correspondents! The command troops are very angry, but those people are not soldiers!"
Natasha had already observed this situation. She lost her anti-tank gun and replaced her weapon with the SVT40 that had been with her for nearly a year. The target's clothes were obviously not military uniforms. As a highly patient soldier, Natasha
Sha kept observing instead of opening fire rashly. She gradually realized that the person coming was actually a woman.
"Oops, there are women in this city? And children? Igor, this is crazy."
Patting her shoulder, Igor said frankly: "Don't be crazy, anything can happen in the war. My dear, watch carefully and be careful of German soldiers dressed in women's clothing."
"German soldiers dressed as women? Men and women walk in completely different ways."
"Stop talking nonsense and keep watching. I'm watching for you too."
"Okay, I'll watch carefully."
Natasha was very familiar with the shape of a woman. As the observation deepened, she realized that there were not just a few targets, but dozens of them. They were a group of women and children, all of whom were not tall. They could be clearly seen through the telescope.
With a gray and slovenly appearance and a dull demeanor numbed by the war, they were like dozens of walking corpses, advancing aimlessly in the no-man's land in the middle of the battle between the two armies.
Seeing him gradually walking in, Balzen immediately ordered someone to be sent to respond.
The artillerymen covered the soldiers who had protruded from the bunker and opened fire on the city. The soldiers with bent backs quickly pulled the numb and slovenly-dressed woman to the position.
Balzen's task force gathered more than fifty women and children in one breath. Women are adults after all, and they are relatively calm. The children seemed to be too young and did not understand war and death. In short, the children were gathered
Finally, everyone was clutching their stomachs and complaining of unbearable hunger.
The majority of soldiers not only had instinctive pity for women and children, but their existence also made the soldiers filled with emotion. In the city that had been besieged for nearly ten days, there was actually a group of civilians. When the soldiers brought boiled potatoes and clean drinking water
Afterwards, both women and children wolfed down the food crazily, as if they had been hungry for a long time.
Balzen also immediately started interrogating, and several women who had eaten enough and regained some strength told what happened - they were forced by hunger and fled out of the city after the bombardment, not that there was anything wrong with the defenders in the city.