No one knew how long the hypoxic state within the scope of the deflagration would last. Lavrenti ordered everyone to rest for two hours. He thought that after such a long time, everything around the bait village was safe.
Lavrenti estimated that there may be some enemies who have not entered the village, but they may not escape. The oxygen content in a large area around the village is low, and the survivors can survive for a while, unless they run away. Carefully
Think about it, if they see their comrades being severely beaten, they may not necessarily run for their lives regardless of their comrades' lives.
It is very likely that no one from the German army will survive!
After the troops began to repair, Lavrenti dictated and ordered the correspondent to send the victory report to the headquarters.
The telegram was quickly translated by the communications room of the command headquarters, and the telegram document was delivered to Yang Mingzhi an hour and a half later.
"Very good! The Waffen-SS is finished!" Yang Mingzhi excitedly put down the document and handed it to Yevlov beside him.
Almost all the staff officers suspended their work and came to the deputy commander to try to read the contents of the telegram. Naturally, their behavior was scolded by Yevlov.
Yang Mingzhi stood up with a smile and waved his hands to greet everyone to take their places.
"Okay! Comrades, let me now talk about the situation on the front line. Just now, the 284th Division fired 27 shark rockets. Observers described the explosion as like a volcanic eruption. All the enemies were plunged into a sea of flames, and there was no chance for them to survive!"
Everyone was excited, including Duo You, the clerk.
Yevlov was naturally very excited, but he still had some doubts: "Berekov, they only fired 27 shark rockets and wiped out an enemy regiment? The enemy was not marching, how could they gather densely?
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"Yes!" Fumin also came over; "Lavrenti claimed that they retreated quickly and did not clean the battlefield immediately. How can we be sure that the enemy's entire army was annihilated?"
Looking at these two people, Yang Mingzhi still looked relaxed: "I have told you a long time ago that shark rockets are a fuel-air weapon. The literal meaning is very straightforward! The oxygen in the air will be violently consumed,
The wind is very weak today. In this condition, the oxygen content within a large radius of our bait village is simply not enough for people to survive. Can you imagine how long a person can hold his breath?"
"About two minutes, three minutes at most," Yevlov said.
"Yes, this is still in a still state. A strong man can hold his breath for three minutes, but what if he runs? A qualified soldier can run a thousand meters in three and a half minutes, but holding his breath and running for two or three minutes
One hundred meters is the limit. So what I want to say is that no matter what the enemy is, as long as they are in that area, they will definitely die, even the groundhogs underground will be suffocated to death."
Before being proven by facts, Yang Mingzhi also knew that what he said was basically a boast. Everyone was excited to hear it, but whether the result of the battle was really the annihilation of the German army would depend on Laflendi's follow-up efforts to clean up the battlefield.
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In his reply to Lavrenti, Yang Mingzhi particularly emphasized this point, which was to inspect the battlefield to estimate the casualties of the German army and determine whether the German army was really wiped out.
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For two hours, most of the soldiers sat leaning against the big trees. What they had just experienced was too shocking. Few people fell asleep. Most people continued to talk about the power of the shark rocket launcher.
Time passed quickly, Lavrenti received the latest order, and he was eager to give it a try.
At 4:30 p.m., he gave the order to return.
"Everyone is prepared. We do not rule out the possibility of the enemy's stragglers surviving. Everyone has their guns loaded! I tell you clearly that the enemy in front of us is the armed SS. They are the most evil enemy. We will not accept their surrender.
, shoot him immediately as soon as he is discovered!"
Of course, Lavrenti did not send all the soldiers back. The shark rockets and a large number of carriages that had not yet been launched were settled in the current rear camp. An infantry battalion and the surviving reconnaissance battalion soldiers stayed here to defend, and the remaining three
A battalion was led forward by himself.
Are all the German troops really dead? The only way to see it is to go to the battlefield in person.
The location of the bait village is getting closer and closer, just walk through the woods to get there.
Lavrenti ordered his soldiers to disperse and advance carefully in an offensive formation. Soon, several fallen red pine trees suddenly stood in front of Lavrenti. This was just the beginning. The more the troops advanced,
More fallen trees became roadblocks.
The soldiers struggled to get past the obstruction of the big trees. They finally passed through the damn forest and saw a shocking scene.
Lavrenti had to stop. He raised his telescope and took a look. He saw many black things still burning in the distance.
"Ah! They are actually tanks, and they are actually burning." Laf Lienji's chin trembled a little. He gritted his teeth and raised his right fist: "Brothers, the front is basically safe, follow me and attack! Ula!"
As if the German army was waiting in front of them, the Soviet army launched a Umrah charge. Seventeen hundred people held their rifles with spears in their arms and charged forward with howling.
Each soldier had to assault more than a thousand meters, which was not tiring for them, but as the assault progressed, they quickly saw the black and burned unknown object, and then they all determined that the so-called unknown object was nothing but a human being!
It's a dead German soldier!
There are also some soldiers. Their position is in the southeast of the bait village. Some German soldiers who seemed to be intact were found in this area. The enemy was not reduced to charcoal in the explosion. Their military uniforms were quite intact, and the three-color armbands on their shirts were intact.
It was also glorious. When he turned his lying body over, the Soviet soldiers watching were shocked!
Rigor mortis has occurred. I saw this German soldier staring with lifeless eyes, holding his neck with both hands, and twisting his mouth. He simply died of suffocation. At this moment, the Soviet soldiers who were watching all understood that the commander had nothing to do with shark rockets.
The evaluation of the bullet is not an exaggeration at all, it really has the ability to cause suffocation. The soldiers couldn't help but take a deep breath of air to calm down.
Lavrenti originally thought that something had slipped through the net, but the soldiers who ran to the woods to the north to report the news came back and found dead enemies there. The enemies either died from shock waves or explosions. Their uniforms were intact, or they died inexplicably.
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How to explain this? Lavrenti is not a forensic doctor. He can only attribute this to death from suffocation, which can also explain the more than 200 inexplicable deaths of enemies discovered by the Soviet army.
On this battlefield, Lavrenti stepped on the pure black ground. He knew that the grass in this area used to be quite lush, but now it has been completely carbonized. There are a large number of carbonized tree trunks and carbonized human bodies on the ground.
It was burnt black and almost indistinguishable.
Those burning tanks were also smoked with a layer of carbon black, and the black cross paint was looming. There were also several tanks that were obviously exploded and became completely broken parts! The bait village no longer exists, where is the center of the village?
It was difficult for Lavrenti to distinguish the area, and he could not even find clear German corpses, as if the vast majority of the German army had been turned into smoke and dust in the continuous explosions.
Bah! Even in a crematorium, it won't take a moment to burn a person to ashes.
Lavrenti was a little worried, and when he saw the burnt battlefield, he was even more agitated.
"Signal Corps! Where is the Signal Corps?!"
"Here!" A soldier carrying a telegraph machine hurried over.
Lavrenti quickly ordered: "Send me a report here and report to the headquarters that the German Waffen SS is suspected of being wiped out. We found a large number of charred limbs, more than 30 charred armored vehicles, and more than 200 charred armored vehicles.
There are corpses of soldiers who suffocated to death. I suspect that some enemies may have successfully escaped, so our department will launch a search in the area near the bait village."