Joshua couldn't believe his eyes. A large number of soldiers in ragged clothes had actually withdrawn from the front line.
She and other female soldiers knew that the unit was under bombardment, and before everyone could recover, their comrades retreated one after another.
She grabbed a frightened soldier and asked loudly: "Who told you to retreat! Did the German army drive you back?"
"No! It's an artillery shelling! It's a German artillery shelling! It's so terrifying, so many people, they were blown to pieces!" With that said, the soldier broke free and continued to run back.
Thousands of Soviet soldiers were retreating. Under this situation, the female soldiers with a strength of nearly 5,000 could not help but feel shaken.
At this critical moment, Joshua knew that she had to shoulder a heavy responsibility. She understood very simply that if her comrades were allowed to retreat, the morale and morale of the army would collapse. Therefore, the mission of occupying the territory before dark would not be achieved.
In fact, from a macro perspective, it no longer means much whether the Soviet army occupied the dirt road. The Soviet army, which was on the front line, had a very limited understanding of the battle situation. Female military officers like Joshua firmly believed that the commander issued an order to occupy the dirt road.
As for the entire battle, if the dirt road cannot be fought down, the consequences will be unbearable for her.
She shouted: "Female Corps! All are here, pick up weapons! Line up horizontally!"
The soldiers of the First Regiment of the Women's Corps obeyed the commander's orders. Although they didn't know what the commander was going to do, they obeyed the orders mechanically and lined up in a long queue. The queue was very long, with four battalions having a queue of one thousand.
rice!
Joshua's face was as steely as her eyes were as bright as fire. Facing a large number of retreating frontline officers and soldiers, she pulled out the pistol from her waist.
"All of them! Raise your guns!"
Soon, the muzzles of all the female soldiers were pointed straight ahead, and their gleaming spears were pointed straight ahead, just like the Jumalu Village in ancient wars, forcing thousands of retreating soldiers to stop. Almost.
, many people bumped into these spear stabs!
A platoon leader opened his arms, and in front of him was a bunch of female soldiers stabbing him. He shouted to the people behind him: "Brothers, stop, don't run anymore!"
At this notice, Joshua took the lead and shouted a word - смирно.
More than two thousand female soldiers lined up in a human wall, shouted the word "stand at attention" loudly, and relied on rifle thrusts and butts to directly stop a large number of retreating people.
The female soldiers of the Sashanova regiment on the right side of the Joshua regiment also followed suit.
In many wars, once morale collapses and there is no one left to turn the tide, the army often fails. In this battle, the Soviet army encountered severe artillery bombardment and suffered heavy casualties. No matter how brave they were, fear still drove the soldiers to instinctively avoid the artillery fire and spontaneously
The retreat (rout) is natural.
Five thousand female soldiers finally turned the tide, and all the Soviet troops on the left bank stopped retreating.
For a moment, Miroshniko felt that the army had collapsed. Why did everyone run south? Some old memories came to mind. In the past, he was beaten badly by the 634th Division on patrol. The 634th Division was about to suffer heavy losses, but he never thought
Their artillery turned the tables.
Miroshniko was fortunate that he was not killed or injured, but the newly born 17th Guerrilla Brigade suffered heavy losses again. Medvedev and Tchaikov's men also suffered heavy losses, and those soldiers fled one after another. Even if they knew
It was a mistake to retreat. There were too few combat soldiers on hand, and Miroshniko knew that it would be difficult for him to continue the attack.
What should we do? He convinced himself, as the saying goes, withdraw first and then think about the long term.
Unfortunately, the retreat south simply turned into a rout.
"Hell, Ponomarenko will punish me and Berekov very much if this continues. He will have to kill me." Miroshniko was not only worried about his own future, but also worried about this battle. He worked hard and quickly
Call: "Brothers, have you forgotten what the German 634th Division did to us? Stop running away or fight back."
He kept saying this, his legs followed the flow, and he ran faster or slower than the others.
Seeing this, his mentality almost collapsed. However, as he ran, he saw the crowd in front of him suddenly stopped.
"Haha! It seems that I am worrying too much?"
Miroshniko naively thought that the vast number of soldiers understood the overall situation well, and their rout-like retreat was just to quickly escape from the bombardment area. This was indeed the rear area. The lack of German artillery bombardment meant that no new Soviet positions had been found.
Location.
However, as he continued to walk through the crowd, the three people who were blocking the way at the end suddenly saw a row of gleaming spears and the female soldiers standing in two lines.
He finally realized that it was not the soldiers' ideological consciousness that restrained his feet, but the female soldiers' rifles and bayonets that prevented the retreat.
Miroshniko is very aware of the strength of female soldiers. There are 5,000 of them. Most of the male soldiers despise female soldiers and think that they can serve as soldiers simply because of the extreme lack of manpower in the guerrilla republic. Although some female soldiers are in the army
In the past battles, such troops have shown strong combat effectiveness. Such troops are only a handful. A large number of female soldiers are newly expanded troops. How is their combat effectiveness? At least most soldiers think that they are just here to make up for the loss.
Soldiers all admit that some female soldiers have received battlefield medical training, and they are also very thoughtful in managing logistics supplies.
However, the retreating soldiers were forcefully pushed back by the spears of the female soldiers, which really surprised them.
Miroshniko's mind was a little confused. He looked left and right and saw that the female soldiers were clearly lined up in a long and narrow human wall, like a Great Wall.
He also noticed that several young female soldiers in front of him were trembling a little, perhaps because they felt that they were doing something very risky. Indeed, if these male soldiers continued to choose to retreat, would they make a sudden thrust and kill them?
How about stabbing the deserter to death? That is really a difficult choice.
Finally, the troops came to a stop. Miroshniko was very lucky. He saw that there were still a large number of male soldiers being intercepted by female soldiers. Although he did not know how serious the casualties caused by the shelling, the attacking troops still retained enough strength.
Isn’t it true that more troops are needed to launch a counterattack?
Miroshniko roared, shocking the chaotic crowd around him.
"Comrades! Calm down, I am the commander-in-chief of the Left Bank, obey my orders! I order you, anyone who dares to take a step back will be shot directly."
The scene was immediately brought under control, the noise disappeared, and hundreds of Soviet soldiers looked at Miroshniko holding a submachine gun.
Miroshniko asked a female soldier in front of him: "Comrade, which regiment are you from? Where is your regiment headquarters?"
"We are the first regiment of the female corps, and the regiment headquarters is on your right."
"Ah, I see. I really appreciate you getting the situation under control."
Soon, Miroshnik met Joshua. The two had little communication before this battle, and he didn’t know much about the situation and combat effectiveness of the female corps. Miroshnik knew that he could
He served as the commander of the Soviet army on the left bank of the Dnieper River entirely because his unit was personally appointed by Ponomarenko, the commander-in-chief of the guerrilla movement headquarters. Furthermore, he did have the ability to command ten thousand people in combat.
He knew little about the female corps, especially this Joshua. He learned that the commander himself was deeply impressed by this woman and the troops under her command. It was said that they were a heroic troop.
Miroshniko proudly puffed out his chest and praised Joshua: "Thank you very much for controlling the situation, otherwise the consequences..."
Unexpectedly, Qiao Shuya directly interrupted: "Comrade Brigadier, if you want to praise me, you can talk about it later! We must win the dirt road, and we must organize a new attack."