The youth camp achieved a bumper harvest, and the soldiers and civilians who fought on various "fishing fronts" also achieved fruitful results.
The swamps cover a vast area, especially the Pripet River, which is famous for its intertwined network of waterways. Soldiers travel slowly in the waterways in small boats or captured kayaks. They throw explosives into the water and then fish White belly fish.
The soldiers started from the settlements on the right bank and launched operations in both north and south directions.
They have not moved too far south. The town of Chernobyl, fifty kilometers away from the local area, is still a stronghold of the German army. Capturing this town is easy for the Soviet army. However, in the current extraordinary period, everything may anger the German army. The crazy retaliatory military operations were completely suspended.
It has to be said that the method of frying fish has yielded huge results.
Some six-bearded catfish in the swamp grew bigger and bigger through crazy devouring. The human war seems to have nothing to do with them. The carnivorous fish follow their own instincts, and their first priority every day is to eat.
Let’s talk about the six-bearded catfish in Europe. When it grows to a certain level, it dares to take the initiative to capture large animals! Like wild boars and deer drinking water, it dares to suddenly attack like a crocodile. It is not only ferocious, but also has an extremely long lifespan. Giant catfish They are often over a hundred years old. Maybe there is a giant old fish born in 181 in this swamp.
As a big fish that witnessed two Great Patriotic Wars, what does it have to do with fish? Fish only care about eating, they will eat everything!
But they are fish after all.
No matter how ferocious an animal is, it can't stand up to the terrifying tools invented by the terrifying upright ape. When a large number of powerful explosives exploded in the water, big fish three to four meters long had their skulls shattered, and they hid in the small rivers one after another. It appeared somewhere and became a strange white object floating on the water.
The villagers who stayed in Blacksmith Village received salt from the warehouse and immediately started pickling the fresh fish that was delivered.
If you are making dried salted fish, the best fish species at present is catfish. It has no scales and tender meat. The most beautiful thing is that its bones are very good. Basically, you only need to remove the spine and ribs, and the remaining meat can be cooked directly. The fish is dry.
The entrances of several canteens have become fish killing scenes, the ground is covered with fish blood, and the air is filled with a strong fish smell.
Many officials, including Salinchkin, stood at the work site in person and witnessed the shocking scenes.
Yang Mingzhi, who was also staying at the scene, suddenly pointed to the west: "Comrade Salinchkin, look, another carriage is coming from the direction of Catfish Village. It seems that Catfish Village no longer has enough manpower to process these fish." "
"It's fish again. I can already smell the fishy smell standing here. It's incredible. I never thought that the swamp could be a large fishing ground."
"Maybe this is the truth. In the past, our fishing operations were all small-scale, and because we raised fish in many ponds, after an activity last year, we have not carried out large-scale wild fish fishing. Besides, we have not carried out large-scale wild fish fishing. This is the first time that tens of thousands of people have been mobilized at one go."
Yang Mingzhi couldn't help but be excited. As long as he could continue to repeat the good start on the first day and eat a whole winter of fish, he was afraid that any soldier could roll up his sleeves and reveal his swollen muscle lines.
"Comrade Salinchkin, there are more and more fish, and the salt we have in stock will soon be used up. Although the fertilizer plant can spare manpower to immediately start the precipitation of sodium chloride, it can really be used on a large scale. Production requires a refinery!"
"Construction of the factory has already begun, we cannot rush on this issue."
"Can't be anxious? Of course I am." Yang Mingzhi thought that Salinchkin was not in a hurry, but in fact no one was in a hurry. "There are too many fish, and if they rot and deteriorate, we will suffer serious losses!"
"Okay, I will order them to work overnight and try to build the refinery overnight."
Yang Mingzhi and Salinchin stayed at the entrance of the cafeteria until the evening. Five carriages were lined up in a queue, and the carriage drivers had happy smiles on their faces. But the smiles became a little distorted, as if they had encountered something great.
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Soon, everything became clear.
Five giant catfish were pulled back. Each one was so big that a carriage could only pull one. Even so, its tails were still hanging outside the carriage.
Yang Mingzhi was mentally prepared to catch the giant fish, but Salinchkin was really shocked and broke into a cold sweat.
"It's incredible, how could there be such a fish?" The carriage flashed past, and with just a glance, Salinchkin stared into the huge eyes of the dead fish. Fear dominated his body, causing his few hairs to feel like an electric shock.
Like an explosion.
"You seem to be scared?"
"Aren't you...aren't you surprised?"
Yang Mingzhi is indeed not surprised at all. In his opinion, these big fish are good ingredients for frying fish steaks. Sprinkle with some salt and a few chili peppers. What a wonderful meal!
When Yang Mingzhi fantasized about one hundred and eight ways to eat fish, a big fish had already been tied to its tail and hung on a tall oak tree branch next to the canteen. Indeed, it was an oak tree known for its hardness and strength.
Can carry the huge weight of big fish.
The cafeteria has handled many giant catfish, and they have slaughtered many cattle and sheep. The chefs treat the big fish with little regard, as they are just a special kind of "large livestock".
Salinchkin was like watching a peep show. His forehead was covered with sweat in shock. He also wanted to see how the giant catfish was handled in the cafeteria.
It was a four-meter-long fish, and the chef cut it into a large number of steaming pieces of meat in just ten minutes.
"Oh that's amazing! Byrekov! You... what do you think we should do with the meat? I see, all the comrades are eating fish tonight."
"Of course, if you support it, I will issue the order immediately."
"Of course I support it! The big fish looks scary, and it really turns into pieces of meat, which makes me salivate. Now we senior staff have to set an example and usually eat potatoes as our main food. Now is the time to eat meat happily.
, I don’t want to let it go. Besides, I don’t hate eating fish."
Yang Mingzhi nodded.
On August 18, eight large fish over four meters long were caught in the Pripet River. As for the catfish about two meters long, there were at least thirty. Even ordinary small fish are generally half a meter long.
The main river channel and the water nets on both sides indeed harbored a large number of catfish, and because the soldiers swept a large area, the catch was astonishing.
Some large catfish are also caught from the Dnieper River, but they are generally not as big as the Pripet River. Perhaps the current of the Dnieper River is more rapid, and catfish do not like to live in large numbers here. On the contrary, the number of bass transported back is astonishing.
The first day's operation was fruitful. After the exhausted people slept through the night, they waited until dawn the next day to start fishing immediately.
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"Nina, wake up! It's already dawn. Let's go back quickly."
"Ah? It's already lit."
Shura pulled Nina out of her small tent. The two girls looked at the gradually yellowing scene in the east and realized that they had to take action.
The village chief, Kavitsky, took over all the fishing work on the Dnieper River. He directed more than 10,000 people to act together here. From the Misi ferry to the Loev ruins in the north, there were full-time and guest fishermen. However,
Only in the southern area, only the few hundred people from Kharkov are currently operating.
Kavitsky planned to fish in different areas. When he had almost caught fish in the north, the large force would move to the south.
Therefore, the Youth Camp acted more like a scout operation, but the people in the north never expected that in the early morning, the Youth Camp killed a water monster!
The girl soldiers sang songs and walked toward the camp along the same road as yesterday. Accompanying them were more than 500 peasant women. The peasant women were now fishermen. They had received orders from Kavitsky to reinforce the fishing of the youth camp.
After two and a half hours of trekking, they overcame the mud and finally saw a large number of proposed tents not far away, as well as the green smoke rising from the continuously burning campfires.
"We finally arrived. I wonder how many fish they caught in the morning!" Nina was full of expectations, but as she continued to move forward, she felt more and more strange.
"What's the matter, they're not frying fish?"
"Maybe he's fishing." Shula replied nonchalantly.
No matter they were girls or older peasant women, no one was mentally prepared at all. They arrived at the youth camp, only to see Kharkiv and his soldiers gathered by the river. What they held in their hands was not wood.
They used rifles instead of sticks, and everyone stood ready as if they were trying to stop the enemy.
"Hey! We've arrived! Kharkiv, where's your fish?!" Nina shouted loudly, waving her hands desperately at the same time.
Her innocent gesture attracted Ruslan's sideways glance, but Ruslan still paid attention to the monster in the waterway.
Reinforcements finally arrived, and Kharkiv felt that after observing for several hours, the monster was motionless, and it must be really dead.
Now, there were more people watching the monster. Most of the female soldiers and the peasant women instinctively took avoidance reactions when they saw this incredible scene.
Standing in front of the happy man, Nina pointed to something in the water and asked loudly: "Ruslan, what on earth did you do? What is that thing in the water?"
"It must be a giant catfish, it's so fierce."
"Ah? Catfish? How can there be such a big catfish?"
Kharkiv came over and said seriously: "Anyway, this thing is probably dead. It looks like the monster can be used as food. How about it? Do you have any hemp rope?"
"Yes. The village chief Kavitsky gave us some rope, which he planned to cut on the spot and tie up the fish tails."
"Very good, take out the rope quickly."
They brought five pieces of hemp rope, each of which was quite thick. Considering that the monster had to be pulled to the ground, men had to set an example at this moment, even if they were boys.
"Brothers, follow me if you are brave enough. Tie up the monster and drag it up!"
In front of girls, boys aged fifteen or sixteen almost have a genetic need to show their bravery.
Everything was as expected by Kharkiv. The monster was a giant catfish, and he could feel it just from its sticky skin! All five ropes were trapped in the huge fish tail. At the other end of the rope, everyone on the shore participated in the dragging.
Like a tug of war, hundreds of people pulled the giant catfish to the grass, and the fish also revealed its true face in Lushan.
No one has ever seen such a giant catfish, it is so big!
The brave Kharkov was stunned now. Look at its half-open mouth, which was full of sharp teeth. The injured boy simply fainted when he saw the big fish that had given him terrible wounds.
past.
"What...what should we do? We have to drag it back to the ferry." Nina was shocked on the spot. He knew that with everyone's strength, dragging it back would be an impossible task.
Kharkiv shook his head: "The fish is too big. Besides, I still don't know whether it is unconscious or dead. Catfish can live for a while just out of the water. Once this big fish suddenly goes crazy, we are all in danger."
"Then, cut it directly?"
"This is the only way. You lead all the female soldiers to avoid it, and I will take action now. As long as we transport the fish and meat back, everything will be fine. By the way, we must report the matter to the ferry immediately, and I must organize a messenger immediately."
"Let me go." Ruslan volunteered, "This matter is no longer as simple as catching a big fish. I feel that this fish is ten meters long. It is a monster. There is definitely no record of catching such a big fish in Belarus."
We must inform Comrade Commander of this matter as soon as possible."
"You are right, go and act!"
No matter how big it grows, it's just a fish. Wasn't it dragged ashore under the bombardment of a bunch of grenades?
Kharkiv has a captured German bayonet on hand, which has a cutting function and is currently the most reliable meat cleaver.
"Just cut the big fish into small pieces and transport it back like ants moving." Kharkiv's idea was that simple. He organized six courageous soldiers to participate in the operation. But there were many peasant women.
I didn't trust the boys at all. In the end, it was the peasant woman who did the job of dissecting the fish.
The fish meat begins to be cut, but no one cares about the internal organs of the fish.
Belarusians don't like to eat fish offal. Even in extraordinary times, the peasant women's attitude towards fish offal with strong smell is to pull it out and throw it away, so as not to delay cutting the fish.
However, driven by curiosity, a peasant woman found the fish's stomach and wanted to cut it open to see what the big fish had eaten to grow so big.
The bayonet pierced in and immediately hit a hard object. She continued to cut, and a snow-white bone was revealed.
"Ah! Monster! It's a monster!"
The peasant woman threw the knife and then rolled away. The other onlookers looked closer and screamed one after another.
"Hey, don't be afraid! The fish is dead!"
Kharkiv simply raised his submachine gun and fired more than a dozen times into the sky to calm the frightened crowd.
He asked the poor peasant woman: "You, what did you see?"
"It's a skeleton! A human skeleton!"
That is a word that will shock everyone. Now no one is dissecting the fish anymore, only Kharkov walked over without fear.
But he was also frightened when he saw the skeletons, because they were indeed human skeletons and it was still unknown who the deceased was.
Regardless of who the deceased was, Kharkiv suddenly fell into philosophical thinking: This monster swallowed a person. If we only ate the fish, wouldn't it be... no no! What we eat is always fish! We can't stop eating because of choking.
He calmed down and began to carefully examine the fish stomach.
What is there? In addition to the bones, there are also the remains of old clothes and belts. After careful inspection, there is actually the stainless steel silver-plated eagle emblem of the German army! Continuing to check the old clothes, I saw that there are some unexpected holes in them, which are definitely not stomach acid.
Caused.
Now, Kharkov could conclude that the big fish either actively attacked the German soldiers or swallowed the bodies of the German soldiers.
If he thought about it this way, he could even make a bold inference.
During the large-scale counter-encirclement and suppression campaign at the end of last year, the troops annihilated a German armored unit for the first time. The enemies were panicking and many people hoped to swim to the other side of the Dnieper River to survive. Some people did successfully land ashore, and more enemies were trapped.
Shot while swimming.
A large number of corpses were washed downstream by the river. If a large swimming fish swallowed the corpses at that time, the corpses would indeed turn into skeletons in more than half a year.
Perhaps it is for this reason that the big fish actually regards humans as food and begins to actively attack living people. It has indeed become a monster.
In order to appease the shocked crowd, Kharkov gathered everyone together and said: "Don't be afraid, don't stop cutting the fish. In previous battles, some dead German soldiers fell into the river, and the big fish swallowed the bodies.
It became the skeleton it is now."
"Can we still eat fish? It's a man-eating monster!" a peasant woman in the crowd shouted in panic.
"It's edible! I knew someone would ask this. We must eat in order to survive. Who do we care about what our prey ate before it was alive? Besides, this big fish swallowed the enemy's corpse. Do we have to pity the enemy?"
? Bah! Do you have any worries now?"
Apparently they no longer had any scruples. The frightened peasant woman came back with a knife and continued to cut fish. (To be continued)