Lunch time passed by in a hurry, and while eating, the surprising remarks the commander would make in the afternoon immediately became the topic of conversation for everyone.
Even Yevlov couldn't figure out what the commander was talking about, so he finally got a reply of "We'll talk about it later."
Yang Mingzhi did not keep everyone waiting.
After eating, everyone gathered in the large conference room noisily. Pairs of twinkling eyes stared at the man on the stage.
"Very good, everyone is here after dinner. As the military director of the Guerrilla Republic and an important planner for the future development of the Republic, I have made a development plan for the Guerrilla Republic in the next twelve months."
Yang Mingzhi picked up his notes and read them aloud in front of everyone.
"Comrades, we will definitely win the battle to defend Stalingrad. The battle situation in Rzhev and Vyazma is very good. We will definitely be able to prevent the enemy's counterattack and firmly hold the defense line.
After the Battle of Gomel, we suffered heavy losses, our troops are short of major generals, and winter will soon come again. So while we look forward to the frontline troops continuing to win the battle, we, as troops in the occupied areas, must seize the time to restore our strength.
Please note that I think it is not appropriate for us to launch a large-scale offensive campaign similar to the Gomel battle in the next twelve months.
I am by no means worried that our troops will suffer mass casualties again, because we have lost the ability to rely on our own efforts to achieve large-scale victories.
The only thing we have to do in the coming days is to train the troops and accumulate strength. We have to infiltrate everywhere, go to the villages to pick up rapes, and then recruit the young people among them, regardless of whether they are young men or women, including children of fourteen or fifteen years old.
If possible, we will move the villagers to the swamps, and we must fight desperately to snatch people away from the occupying forces.
We must actively expand our military, but we must not initiate large-scale offensives, and we must not stop frequent small-scale sabotage operations.
We must continue to carry out raids and sparrow warfare, and we must work hard to produce supplies and turn the guerrilla republic into an arsenal, granary, and clothing factory for each guerrilla group.
We must deliberately tolerate it and no longer engage in tough battles in cities and towns. We must make the enemy believe that after this battle, the Red Army in the swamps suffered heavy casualties and is no longer able to carry out large-scale military operations. By letting the enemy relax, we will no longer stimulate them.
, so that we will most likely not have to deal with large-scale encirclement and suppression.
When this winter passes, I believe we have accumulated a lot of strength, but in spring and summer, we will still not take the initiative to attack, but will further accumulate strength..."
After listening to what Yang Mingzhi said, it seemed to many people that the commander kept saying that he was not worried that the new large-scale offensive would cause heavy casualties. Isn't that what he was worried about?
Yevlov regarded himself as an old comrade who had eaten dirt in the trenches. Without any regard for face, he stood up directly with his hands raised and questioned: "My dear general! I support the accumulation of strength with both hands and feet, but we have accumulated a
The power of winter, why don't we take the initiative to attack in spring and summer? You...what exactly do you want to say?"
Yevlov spoke his mind for everyone, especially Salinchkin. When he heard Yang Mingzhi say "it is not appropriate to launch a large-scale offensive campaign", he wanted to stand up and ask why it couldn't be done.
Yang Mingzhi motioned for him to sit down, then straightened his chest and faced everyone with a serious face. He faced everyone with pure silence.
Silence will lead to speculation. The already noisy venue calmed down. No one spoke. Everyone was anxiously waiting for the commander's new explanation.
Finally Yang Mingzhi spoke.
"Comrades, I have expected that you will doubt or even object! It took our guerrilla republic half a year to regain its strength. Why not attack? If the ammunition we worked hard to produce is left unused, is it like setting off fireworks into the sky?
Yes! Why exactly?
Now I will tell you why! In the next twelve months, the arsenal will continue to produce weapons and continue to improve firearms. All we have to do is wait for our friendly forces. The friendly forces here are not the guerrillas from our neighbors, but the friendly forces here. Soviet Red Army Regular Army!
I can even guarantee that, after one year, our main force will hit here. Maybe twelve or fifteen months later, the army will liberate Kiev! So our task is not to initiate a large-scale campaign, but to wait for friendly forces The main force arrives.
Once the main force arrives, we will no longer be a guerrilla force, but will become a regular army!"
After he finished speaking, the entire meeting was silent.
What? Is this the commander's new reasoning? Just one year later, the Red Army counterattacked into the Pripet Swamp.
I saw everyone's eyes full of doubt, confusion, and incomprehension.
Yang Mingzhi knocked on the table: "What, you are all confused? Let me say it again, one year later, the main force of our army will achieve a great victory, and we will rendezvous with the main force victoriously! By then, there will be no guerrillas, and we will replace them with new ones. With the uniforms and new weapons, the 84th Guards Division will regain its shape, and the 6th Army will truly deserve its title!"
Yang Mingzhi spoke impassionedly, but this was his personal one-man show. In the eyes of others, these shocking remarks were too bizarre and really embarrassing!
Finally, someone broke the awkwardness.
The shocked Sarinchkin stood up suddenly, stretched out his head and asked sternly: "Comrade Berekov, are you serious? Although you have always been very optimistic about the war, we are not yet strong enough. Are you really Do you think so? In just one year, our main force counterattacked into Belarus?"
"Why, don't you believe it and think I'm just making some optimistic remarks again. Or are they very unrealistic remarks?"
"Yes! You..." Salinchkin tightened his mouth and changed to a gentle tone: "Well, there is a reason for you to make this inference. So please tell me, what is the reason? One year Will our army become so powerful after that?"
Yang Mingzhi nodded and replied in the affirmative: "Yes. I'm sure that the Soviet Red Army will be different one year from now! We will eventually win, and the next twelve months will be a turning point. Let me analyze it carefully. ."
Here, a strategist is like a rising star, and Yang Mingzhi begins his performance again.
He was hunched over his desk, and the manuscript didn't matter anymore. Because the Communist Party would eventually be eliminated, and this process would never change the course of history because of his personal appearance. The enemy would eventually be eliminated, and when the Soviet army was completely It all depends on the will of the Soviet army to cripple the last mobile force of the German army and when the Hitchin Group will collapse.
So how the Soviet army defeats the German army's mobile strength depends on the war in the next twelve to fourteen months!
Because the final argument was that the Soviet army would reach the banks of the Dnieper River by the end of 1944, why did Yang Mingzhi directly talk about the Stalingrad front line where the fierce fighting was taking place at the end of 1944?
"Comrades, you all know that a huge battle is currently going on around Stalingrad. Just like the German 100th Army's crazy bombardment of Lechica, the German troops attacking Stalingrad are also firing wildly! They are trying to completely
Occupy the Stalingrad railway hub and move south to seize the oil field area.
It is impossible for the enemy to win. The Soviet people will never allow it, and the world's anti-Fascist forces will never allow it.
Therefore, it is impossible for us to lose the Battle of Stalingrad. Maybe this battle can last until winter, and General Winter will be our help. In this way, because of our army's large-scale counterattack, as well as the help of the cold winter, and
The enemy's logistics supply line has collapsed, and we will win this battle. All this is like a repeat of the Moscow Defense War!
A large number of elite German troops will definitely be lost in Stalingrad and the Don River Basin. Although we will definitely pay a very heavy price, we can afford it, but the German army cannot.
If we win this defense war, will it give the enemy a chance to breathe? No! We will pursue the victory.
Therefore, we will launch a large-scale strategic counteroffensive in the south in 194, and the new battle will not become the defeat of the second Kharkov Offensive Battle. This is our summer offensive that will inevitably occur in 194, and we will continue to make a lot of efforts.
The price is high, but after this battle, I have reason to believe that the last elite mobile force of the German army will be lost.
Comrades! Comrades! After winning the battle of the 194 Summer Offensive, the German army can only passively defend.
We have gained the strategic initiative, and then our 6th Army's legal superior, the Southwest Front, will continue to advance westward.
The friendly forces will liberate Kiev, and then we, who are adjacent to Kiev, will be able to border the main force of the friendly forces.
According to my speculation, if the war situation in the south develops like this, then the main force of the German army currently defending Smolensk will eventually have to carry out strategic contraction due to the collapse of the Ukrainian region..."
"Ula!" Yevlov stood up excitedly, raised his right fist high and let out an astonishing roar.
He clearly knew that his old comrade-in-arms had not finished speaking, but these previous inferences were really exciting. Listening to his words, it seemed that the war must develop like this.
The entire conference room was covered by the roar of Ula, people were infected by the warm atmosphere, and the meeting was simply interrupted!
"Well, actually this is the correct historical process. Since Zhukov and Konev are better at attacking in their own plane, maybe Belarus will be liberated earlier!" Yang Mingzhi muttered in his heart and deliberately indulged the excited crowd.
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They were lively for a while, and the atmosphere gradually calmed down.
Seeing this, Yang Mingzhi raised his hands to signal silence.
"What an exciting analysis! I think you all think so. Okay... okay... please continue to listen to my reasoning.
Well, where were we? Yes! Marshal Zhukov and his heroic Red Army succeeded in liberating Smolensk, which was surely going to happen a few months later! They won, the Germans failed.
However, the enemy we face in the northern battlefield has more than one million troops. The enemy's defeat does not mean that all one million people have been annihilated!
Most of the German troops will retreat and have to strategically shrink to Belarus. Then millions of defeated troops will enter Belarus and join forces with the local security forces. Our guerrilla republic will face severe strategic pressure!
We defeated the German front-line units such as the 64th Division and the 100th Army. The price of our victory was the sacrifice of nearly 30,000 people. The battle we just ended faced the enemy's ten missing divisions. However, by that time next year,
We have more enemies. Belarus has changed from the rear to the front line. That damn railway line is defended by not just a few divisions, but maybe twenty or thirty.
They won't risk their lives by digging mud in the swamps in the summer, but they will defend, maybe one German division every three kilometers.
So, should we take the initiative to launch an offensive campaign in the spring and summer? If there is no main reinforcement, relying on our strength, even if the commander is me, I have no confidence at all.
Listen, facing the enemy's hundreds of thousands of troops, miracles won't happen with just our people!"
At the end of the sentence, Yang Mingzhi deliberately made a dull face, glanced at Salinchin, who had a serious face, and knocked on the table.
"Comrades, I'm sorry, I just saw everyone's excitement, and now I have to offend you.
The Battle of Gomel was our victory, but we paid a crazy price, losing nearly 80% of our veterans, and the army suffered huge permanent losses. So much so that now, although the army has expanded, half of them are female soldiers.
I don’t mean to discriminate against female soldiers, but we must also note that women are naturally less powerful than men, and they still have a few days of physical discomfort every month. Female soldiers are not suitable as grassroots combat forces in crazy battles, and as men
, I really can't bear to see young girls sacrificed on the battlefield.
But besides female soldiers, who else can we rely on?
Our army will achieve great victory in the next twelve months, and for us, we will really bleed a lot after the battle of Gomel.
I hope that everyone will not be too optimistic. We must be patient and continue to counterattack with all our strength. When we see a large number of Red Army soldiers and a large number of T4 tanks standing on the left bank of the Dnieper River, I hope that our guerrilla republic will be able to build a pontoon bridge to invite the main force over.
Then let the tank troops advance quickly through the solid roads we built in the swamp.
Liberate Minsk in one fell swoop... in one fell swoop!"
To be honest, the content of Yang Mingzhi's speech was a bit trivial.
He said a lot of exciting slogans and made strategic inferences that seemed very reliable.
Salinchkin is not the kind of person who can be incited by a few optimistic words. He is the real expert in "shouting slogans"! Salinchkin knocked Erlang's leg, and when Yang Mingzhi spit on the podium, stars flew everywhere
At that time, his pen was always on his notebook, recording Yang Mingzhi's reasons for not carrying out the spring and summer offensive.
"Haha, this man is really interesting. Will we liberate Kiev in a year?" At first glance, Salinchkin felt that the general was too optimistic. As he continued to listen, the situation gradually changed. Salinchkin listened rationally
The more I listened, the more I realized what the general said made sense.
Today's war is an out-and-out total war. A tactical victory never means a strategic victory. Large-scale battles still require division by division. Both the Soviet Union and Germany have been using strategic offensive and defensive tactics to impress a million people.
Whoever can beat the consumption will be the winner. Tactical victory, if it cannot be transformed from quantity to quality, is always the icing on the cake.
Salinchkin didn't want Yang Mingzhi to be too optimistic, even though he himself heard the excitement. Fortunately, like a running train being pulled away by the driver, General Yang Mingzhi's painting style suddenly changed!
There was silence in the venue, and Salinchkin slowly stood up and clapped his hands several times.
"Comrade General, I have understood through your explanation. I would never have imagined that your refusal to take the initiative to attack next year is actually because of the series of battle victories of our main force!"
"Yes!" Yang Mingzhi always felt that Salinchin still had some objections, and he stated categorically: "We just arm all the young women, and we are only a mob of 40,000 to 50,000 people. How can we independently face the enemy's hundreds of thousands of elite troops? We
We still have to wait. Before the arrival of the main force, we continue to destroy the enemy's communication lines and conduct small-scale ambushes.
But please pay attention, and please pay attention to all the comrades with wide eyes!
Let me emphasize again that what I object to is that through winter strategic reserves, we will launch a new offensive campaign next spring and summer.
I have never objected to an offensive campaign, but I am firmly opposed to launching the campaign at the wrong time! When the main force arrives, that is the time to launch the campaign."
After hearing this guarantee, many officers who longed for revenge and victory, despised death and advocated sacrifice for the country, breathed a sigh of relief.
At this time, Salinchkin slowly asked the most critical question: "So, when do you think the most suitable time is?"
"This..." Yang Mingzhi originally wanted to say that it was around October 194, because in another dimension, the Soviet army in the south liberated Kiev and surrounding areas under the command of General Vatutin. The distance from the core area of the Guerrilla Republic itself
Kiev is only a little over 100 kilometers away, so it’s self-evident what the liberation of Kiev means.
It’s just that the war situation of the Soviet army in this plane must be better than the original history. Vyazma was liberated a year early. What about Kiev? Who knows! Maybe in 1944 Bergstaufen could successfully blow up the culprit Mustache
Woolen cloth!
Yang Mingzhi slowed down, looked into Salinchkin's eyes, and said with a smile: "All of this is due to the heroic fighting of the great Su Liang Red Army soldiers. When will the battle be launched? It will most likely be in the autumn and winter of next year.