How the war situation develops in the distance, Yang Mingzhi, who is in the swamp, has no ability to intervene.
The Battle of Stalingrad, which will be remembered forever, has begun, and Mamayev Heights may have burst into flames, like a violent active volcano. With that small city as the center, more than a million soldiers are destined to be killed or injured.
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But in the swamp, with the battle of Gomel basically over, the long-lost peace finally came.
The meeting to be held on August 15th is to summarize the campaign and make a long-term plan for the future of the Guerrilla Republic.
The jeep carried Yang Mingzhi and the sleepy Liguschkov towards the blacksmith village.
The work at the excavation site has been clearly arranged, and there is no need for the commander's personal supervision. Similarly, workers from the arsenal continue to operate the equipment, and they hold tools to respond to possible emergencies at any time.
It was a salt mine discovered by Antonov's exploration team. After the mine here was built, the person in charge of the salt mine was naturally Antonov!
The Jeep drove directly to the door of the arsenal director's office.
The car stopped, and Yang Mingzhi patted Liguschkov's old, stubble-covered face, who had fallen asleep despite the bumps.
"Hey! Comrade Factory Director, we are home. You should come down and go to your dormitory to have a good rest."
"Hmm...huh? Already here? Okay, okay..."
But he was sleepy and drank half a bottle of vodka. It was a miracle that he could still stay awake!
The hurried workers helped their factory director back to the office. Yang Mingzhi watched him leave with his hands in his hands and couldn't help but yawn.
Yes, where can I sleep comfortably in my own dormitory? The so-called "camp bed" where I spent the night was really waist-breaking.
Physical discomfort is not an excuse to work passively. Yang Mingzhi turned around and left, going straight to his home - the headquarters office.
He hurried into the house, looking like a workaholic.
A neat general's hat and coat were hung on the wall. Yang Mingzhi returned to his desk and spread out his notebook.
"Comrade, you are back a little late." Fuming put down his pen and immediately asked a pointed question, "What is the current situation of the salt mine? I heard that the arsenal has built new equipment, and several trucks are running south early in the morning.
A group of people were accompanying them in a carriage! What happened? The salt was dug out?"
"Rome was not built in a day! Don't be anxious or worried!" Yang Mingzhi looked around and said, "Why, you are the only one in the office? Where is the deputy commander?"
"Comrade Yevlov is concerned about military construction. Nowadays, a large number of recruits, especially a large group of female soldiers, are receiving the most basic military training. How can he, a grown man and not a political commissar, sit in this small room in the headquarters with all his attention?
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"Haha, from your tone, it sounds like our deputy commander pays special attention to female soldiers."
"Women? Normal men will always be interested in beautiful women. It is understandable that he cares about recruit training. If you plan to find him now, you have to do it yourself."
"No need." Yang Mingzhi crossed his legs and poured himself another glass of water. "We have a meeting tomorrow. Important people from the entire Guerrilla Republic are coming, as well as the commanders of our three friendly armies. I am very ashamed. I
Too much emphasis was placed on salt mine excavation and this matter was ignored.”
"It doesn't matter, it's still too late to summarize the materials."
"That's why I came back in a hurry. Unfortunately, because of the meeting, I couldn't be a witness to the salt mine at the excavation site." Yang Mingzhi shrugged and continued to ask: "By the way, Comrade Fuming. You are responsible for sorting it out.
I have obtained the information on our war over the past two months, please show it to me."
"Okay." Fuming snapped his fingers, and soon, a staff officer came with a thick file bag.
The staff officer said cautiously: "Comrade Commander, these are the campaign materials, they are very detailed!"
"I only read it because of the details! I'm sorry, the content recorded in my notebook is too brief."
When a large-scale battle has basically ceased, the staff and official secretaries of both sides of the war will conduct detailed battle statistics. Only after the battle is over, the various statistics collected will be final.
For the Partisan Republic, the large-scale battle ended with the withdrawal of the northward troops from Rechica, and the subsequent fighting continued, with the protagonist being the Kovpak Corps.
A battle along the Pripet River was summarized as an extension of the Battle of Gomel. Now Kovpak and his comrades are back, and even rested for several days! The Soviet army has always been worried that the German army will
In a retaliatory action in early August, the German army will hysterically deploy new troops from the country and continue its frenzied attack on the swamps.
Two weeks have passed, and the Soviet army has been stationed at its northernmost stronghold in the village of Dubrovica. The sentries here have found no signs of the German army moving south. The German army did appear, but their behavior was lackluster, that is, they continued to build defense lines.
It was a completely constant strategy to cope with ever-changing situations, hoping to use an infantry defense line to prevent the Soviet army from moving north.
Fomin summarized the battles before August and put together a variety of data. The final battle report is indeed thought-provoking.
This lengthy document records the daily marches and battles of various Soviet units.
These words were straightforward but not cold. Yang Mingzhi was frightened when he saw them. He was like the roar of thousands of undead, and he instantly recalled the terrifying heroism of the battlefield.
The past two months seemed like a whole year. It was a game of life and death. It was obvious that the Soviet army had won. The Soviet Union won miserably, and the German army also suffered a tragic defeat. Loev, Rechica, and Mozyr were all in these cities.
It was turned into ruins in the flames of war.
Especially the statistics on casualties!
The statistics that the Soviet Army has always used are simply classified into two categories: permanent losses and non-permanent losses. At Yang Mingzhi's insistence, a dual-track statistical system was adopted, adding statistics on injuries, deaths in action, deaths in hospitals, and missing persons.
No matter what the statistics are, the data are heartbreaking! Some of the fallen soldiers had the last luck. The surviving soldiers took off the identity cards sewn on the clothes of the dead bodies, and compared them with the soldier rosters kept in the archives, and immediately determined
In which battle did the soldier die?
However, in Lechica, which was wildly bombarded, the garrison soldiers suffered extremely heavy casualties, and a considerable number of soldiers were bombed to pieces. Such soldiers were classified as permanent losses, and because no bodies could be found, they were classified as missing.
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No one will stick to this word. The so-called disappearance here basically means being turned into cannon fodder in the true sense. That is a more tragic way to die than "killed in action".
The data made it difficult for Yang Mingzhi to calm down! Compared with the Soviet army's large number of captures and astonishing results, our side had a permanent loss of 28,000 people. It can be said that we killed one thousand enemies and suffered eight hundred losses. The battle was a victory.
While he deserves to be celebrated, as the commander-in-chief, he must also understand that this battle almost cost the Guerrilla Republic all its wealth!
In addition to various data during the Gomel Battle, the results of the Kovpak attack are also worth looking at.
Yang Mingzhi is very aware of how many refugees Kofpak has saved.
This summary report goes beyond that. It records the detailed process of Kovpak's attack on Mozyr, and the process of marching westward along the river to sweep through several towns.
Suddenly, he was inspired: "They discovered the enemy's massacre site and marked the location of the mass graves!"
"Yes! This is evidence of the enemy's crime. Which German unit did it?"
"It's the 74th Division. Although they were defeated by our men, we didn't expect that they couldn't defeat us, so they vented their anger on the civilians."
Although he is not a Belarusian, he has lived and fought here for a long time, and has developed many emotions with them. Moreover, in line with human conscience, Yang Ming was disheartened when he saw the enemy's killing reports.
He clenched his fists and said in a low voice: "The same is true in China and Japan, which are 10,000 kilometers away. They cannot defeat the guerrillas, so they kill civilians. They are all fascists, and they can no longer be called human beings.
The 74th Division is the German Wehrmacht, and now it is doing the same thing as the SS. It is a pity that we did not completely annihilate it on the battlefield."
"There will be opportunities in the future! We must seize the time to collect evidence now. When we win the war, it is time for us to settle the accounts for them! We are civilized people, who is the executioner, who is the accomplice, and who is forced
Yes, we must be aware of everything, and we must not let a villain go, nor wrongly accuse innocent people.”
Yang Mingzhi shrugged: "What you said makes sense. I'm a little worried that many of our soldiers will instinctively take revenge."
"This will be my mission. It is wrong to indulge in extremes. People who could be friends will fight over trivial things. Little do we know that we are all proletarians and our enemies are the big capitalists who exploit the people.
.We have achieved some results in the education of prisoners of war. I hope that through the efforts of our political commissars, a group of new German prisoners of war can become our comrades."
"Then, please work hard. In a few years, we will definitely see a red Germany."
Yang Mingzhi closed the report. Now that the precise locations of the massacre have been determined, monuments should be built at these locations in the future.
It can be said that the discovery of these mass graves was an accident. Usually the enemy will try their best to cover up the evidence after committing these crimes. The executioner has lost his humanity and still feels guilty. Therefore, even if the war is won, a considerable number of German crimes are covered up in the soil.
So much so that in the 1st century, relics of the German atrocities decades ago could still be found on the soil of Belarus.
People always remember Auschwitz, Dachau, and Lublin, the giant concentration camps in these places, and the millions of Jews who died, but they are unaware of the mass graves in the Soviet Union. Most people know about the massacre in Harding Village, Slutz
Now, because of the Kovpak action report, the Petrikov massacre and the Turov massacre will eventually be added to the Soviet crime book.
Before dinner, Yang Mingzhi started to summarize the data. The summary report provided by Fu Ming contained a large amount of intriguing data worthy of in-depth study.
The entire Gomel campaign was divided into five stages.
The first stage: the garrison took the initiative to attack and liberate Loev, defeating German reinforcements for the first time.
The second stage: focusing on the areas around Loev and Homnich as the main battlefield, the German army's RUHE operation (labeled in the report as the third counter-encirclement and suppression campaign) intended to destroy the guerrilla republic was crushed.
The third stage: After completing the victory in the counter-encirclement and suppression campaign, the Soviet army took advantage of the victory to pursue and liberate Lechica. At the same time, the Red October Brigade and the Gypsy Brigade from the northeast participated in the battle. No one was fighting independently anymore, and the war entered the "Battle of Gomel" period.
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The fourth stage: repelling the German troops that penetrated into the hinterland of the swamp, the Lechica defenders fought with the German 100th Army, and after covering the retreat of the Red October and Gypsy brigade, they voluntarily abandoned Lechica.
The fifth stage: The Kovpak Corps, which came from the east, took the initiative to attack Mozyr to attract the attention of the main German army. The Corps moved west along the Pripet River and launched a strategic attack in the southwest of Gomel, saving more than 5,000 civilians.
Returned safely later.
For a long time, Yang Mingzhi had to lament his decision. Gomel Oblast was finally reduced to a mess, and the entire southeastern Belarus fell into war. The arrogance of the German army here was severely dealt a blow. At the same time, the Soviet army and civilians also paid a heavy price.
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Of course, for the Soviet Union, these losses are acceptable. Even putting aside emotions and looking at it purely rationally, the results of this battle can be called a strategic counterattack!
The whole process of the battle was still fresh in Yang Mingzhi's memory. Now that Fuming had compiled the detailed statistics, he no longer had to think about trivial memories. He copied the key data in the report book into his own notebook, which could be used as a reference during conference speeches.
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Because he was busy with salt mining, he was delayed a lot of time. When he sat down and picked up the pen, Yang Mingzhi also felt a slight pain in his shoulder.
The report has been read, and the large number of dead soldiers has become a cold statistic in the report book. They paid the price with their lives, so what is a little soreness in their bones and muscles? To make the living people bleed less, I, the commander of the army, have to say
Proper future planning for the guerrilla republic is crucial.
Yang Mingzhi calmed down. In the next few hours, he must summarize the information he had previously summarized and also refer to Fu Ming's information. The workload was relatively busy, so he asked the guards to go to the canteen to get him a few slices of bread and
Roasted potatoes were brought with food. Under the watchful eyes of everyone, the staff noticed that their general did not stop eating the potatoes with his right hand.
"Haha, you are a man with endless energy!"
Fuming admired many of Yang Mingzhi's actions. He stood up and walked in front of him. Looking sideways, he saw a notebook wrapped in black leather, with square words densely packed on the pages.
Those are Chinese characters, a type of writing with a huge amount of information, and Fu Ming knows nothing about the content.
It's really inappropriate to disturb hard-working people at this time. Fuming covered his growling stomach and finally smiled at the commander who continued to work. He walked to the wall and put on his woolen coat, because the weather had changed rapidly.
It's getting cooler, the temperature in the evening is not high and the wind is blowing frequently. The importance of this coat recently recruited from the refugees is immediately highlighted.
Fuming was moved by Yang Mingzhi's work attitude. He hurried to the door and almost bumped into an uninvited guest who also came in a hurry.
"Ah! Comrade Salinchkin?! Are you here at this time?"
"What? Not welcome? I heard that the commander has returned from the salt mine?"
"Yes." Fuming turned half sideways, letting Salinchkin in, and continued on his way.
There was a commotion at the door, and Yang Mingzhi continued to look at Fuming's report, copying the contents in Chinese characters. Everything was in preparation for the meeting, and he had to open his eyes to see clearly the fancy words written in Russian handwriting on the report.
The text is then converted into horizontal and vertical square Chinese characters. This is a very mentally and visually demanding task. At this point, Yang Mingzhi is really lucky that the staff officers who summarized the report are from the General Administration. If they use Mao Scratch
The wall-like Russian shorthand style, I really made him throw away the report, and added a traditional Russian curse. Suddenly, it suddenly darkened in front of Zheng Guoran, as if a wall blocked the soft sunset shining through the window.
Light.
"Dear Comrade Commander! You are finally back."
"It's you! Comrade Salinchkin." Yang Mingzhi suddenly stood up... (To be continued)