Natasha's younger brother Kostya, he and many of his peers wear red scarves and rush-made boat-shaped hats. Although there are no real Lenin Young Pioneers uniforms, various tailoring workshops have made a number of imitations using existing materials, at least for children
Their vitality was clearly demonstrated.
"Children, when the Red Army soldiers come over, you have to cheer! Do you hear that?" the tutor of the temporary primary school asked again.
"Yes!" More than a hundred people said in unison.
The autumn wind is bleak, and only wild chrysanthemums are still blooming in the whole world. No matter how beautiful the girl is, she will not use the ominous chrysanthemums to make a garland. Children generally hold some crudely made small red flags in preparation for waving flags and shouting.
For Kostya, today he is sending away tens of thousands of uncles and aunts from the Red Army, and in a few days, he will also leave here by plane. He has never flown before, and when he was only nine years old, he had never left Gome.
favorable area.
Moscow? It’s so desirable.
Kostya and Natasha are siblings, but they are destined to face different fates.
As a kind and righteous person, Yang Mingzhi's commitment to the siblings is sincere. Natasha has become a mature person, followed by Kostya, who is still a mere nine-year-old child. His huge advantage is that he has a lot of
time for studying.
Yang Mingzhi admitted that this child was his student. He estimated that after meeting Stalin, as a scientific worker, he would be invited to a certain research institution or arsenal to engage in his old profession. In this way,
Come on, Kostya is his close disciple, and more like his adopted son.
I'm afraid it will only take a few years of work. By the time Kostya turns eighteen, he will already be a unique weapon design expert.
Yang Mingzhi has made up his mind!
The name "Konstantin Ivanovich Sperowski", which is Kostya's official name, was written on the big list drawn up by Yang Mingzhi.
I no longer have to go to the woods to pick mushrooms or try fishing. What is waiting for me in the future is learning. I must become a scientist.
A great future was set in her little heart. Kostya knew that in the future, she would live with her teacher and study hard. Only in this way could she become a hero who was personally received by the leader like her sister.
However, a sense of regret lingers.
This trip may be a farewell to my hometown forever!
Farewell! Hometown!
He had a dull face, and as people cheered from the distance on the road, he knew that the Red Army soldiers were coming here.
Several teachers blessed again: "Children, they are coming, prepare your flags!"
The officers and soldiers of the Kovpak Corps, which had the largest number of troops and the best equipment, were the first to be inspected by Yang Mingzhi and others, followed by the Red October Brigade, and finally the Gypsy Brigade.
Yang Mingzhi noticed that each soldier's linen backpack was extremely bulging, and there were blankets tied around the outside of the backpack.
Every guerrilla carries a shovel on his waist. It is mass-produced by an arsenal. After all, an engineering shovel is a must-have.
In addition, there were also captured German lunch boxes and military daggers.
The most special thing is a metal bucket full of wrinkles. It was originally a gas mask bucket for German soldiers. Since there was no gas warfare in the war, German soldiers basically used it as a special storage box, such as stuffing some compressed biscuits and
The bullet was broken into pieces. When it fell into the hands of the guerrillas, it was directly turned into a container of salt.
Each of the three guerrilla troops carried a large amount of salt. Yang Mingzhi even saw that the horses accompanying the army simply carried unprocessed rock salt ore. Some of the ore was exposed outside the sacks due to its huge size.
Yang Mingzhi couldn't help but clicked his tongue: "Comrade Kovpak, how can I say hello to you... You are simply using the horses as elephants. They are carrying too much. I am really worried that the horses will die of exhaustion midway."
"Haha, it doesn't matter! If the horses die from exhaustion, my troops will have horse meat to eat. You see, the horses carry a lot of salt on their backs. That is the seasoning for cooking horse meat."
"You...well, you should be glad that Comrade Salinchkin did not hear your remarks. I think your troops should treat these horses better."
These troops were arranged in four columns. After a period of training, they did very well in walking forward.
The consistent march at least shows that the army has better organizational discipline and the momentum it displays is awe-inspiring. In the eyes of civilians, this is a guarantee of combat effectiveness.
Some military horses carried salt ore on their backs, while others carried recoilless rifles or ammunition boxes piled into a hill.
The troops and horses were like this, and the soldiers were even more armed. It didn't look like they were returning to their guerrilla zones, but more like they were launching a new round of armed attacks.
The combined combat strength of the three large guerrilla groups was equivalent to two infantry divisions. On the morning of August 28, they all left the Guerrilla Republic. Only the commanders of each guerrilla group remained here.
Yang Mingzhi watched the end of the team leave his sight. He waved his hands and said, "Commanders, let's all go inside."
Returning to the headquarters office, Kovpak, Boumazhkov and Kalmanov, who had temporarily lost their troops, suddenly became polished veterans. Soon everyone was going to Moscow to meet an unknown fate.
"Hey, comrades, don't let your heads down."
"You don't need to comfort us, I have a good mentality." Kovpak said, "My unit still has some wounded people who continue to receive treatment. After they recover, they will be sent back to my unit."
"Of course. After they recover, we will train them. When we return the people, you will get a group of excellent commanders." After saying that, Yang Mingzhi looked at the other two commanders. "Soon.
I am about to leave, and Deputy Commander Yevlov will fully take over my work. You should tell him the arrangements for the recovery of the wounded and sick."
Yevlov really hopes that all the sick and wounded will be directly integrated into the 6th Army after recovering from their injuries, because the armed force of 15,000 people was suddenly lost, and the strength of the guerrilla republic plummeted. Anyone who can be armed should not
Lost again.
He reluctantly said: "I support the commander's decision. The recovered wounded will be returned to you. Next..." Yevlov looked at Yang Mingzhi again: "Comrade Commander, the death order given to us by the leader must be completed before September."
Get the airport repaired, there are only three days left until September."
"Um...are you driving me away?"
"No! I'm not, I didn't! I mean, it would be too bad if we couldn't fulfill the leader's orders on time."
"Then, let's go take a look after lunch."
While Yang Mingzhi and other senior officers were having lunch, tens of thousands of guerrillas on their way to evacuate gathered at the Misi Ferry on the bank of the Dnieper River and lined up to cross the river.
Today, more than 700 people from Miroshniko's 17th Partisan Brigade have gone to the other side of the river. They are building military camps in the woods near the ruins of the former Slavdich town. The Guerrilla Republic's power expansion plan has been launched.
In the foreseeable future, Miroshniko, whose army has been almost wiped out, will fight back to the Latiz Forest in the north of Chernigov, and actively seek out villages or instigate city residents to try to restore the size of his team.
He was no longer fighting alone! The recruited recruits were first sent to the swamps for training, and the war refugees they took in were also sent to the swamps for resettlement. The former 17th Guerrilla Brigade was fighting the war while also dedicating troops to take care of the refugees. As a result, in early May
After the offensive failed, the troops were unable to take care of thousands of refugees, which ultimately led to the massacre of the refugees.
Tragedy will never happen again. The newly reorganized 17th Guerrilla Brigade will have a backbone of 700 people after reorganization. What will gradually expand will be pure combat strength. In the future, there will no longer be haphazard operations, and it will no longer directly obey the guerrilla movement headquarters.
transfer order.
According to the order adjustment, Miroshniko's troops first obeyed the orders of the Partisan Republic.
Today, when a large number of guerrillas launched an operation to cross the river, the entire 17th Guerrilla Brigade arrived on the other side of the river to support them. They even participated in helping when the pontoon bridge was being laid.
The Dnieper River is no longer turbulent, and it may freeze in two months!
The river water pushed the pontoon bridge made of red pine into a crescent shape. Its bridge deck is narrow and can only accommodate two people side by side to cross the bridge safely.
All the people crossing the bridge were running on the bridge, firstly not to cause trouble for those behind them, and secondly so they could have lunch on the other side of the river early.
By four o'clock in the afternoon, all 15,000 people had crossed the river. They sent telegrams to the headquarters of the Guerrilla Republic to report this good thing, and then continued running towards their activity areas without stopping.
With their departure, four large guerrilla zones will appear in the east of the swamp in the future!
Miroshniko's 17th Partisan Brigade, which operates in the arc forest area northwest of Chernihiv in Ukraine, even penetrates eastward as far as Shostka.
The Red October Brigade operates in the vast forest area in the westernmost part of Bryansk Oblast in Soviet Russia. The nearest distance to the activity area from the 17th Guerrilla Brigade is probably only 70 kilometers.
The Gypsy Brigade operates in a forest area of more than 10,000 square kilometers in the northwest of the Soviet Bryansk Region, which is 50 kilometers away from the edge of the Red October Brigade's activity area.
The scope of activities of the Kovpak Corps is even larger. The entire forest in the southern Bryansk region, and even extending to Sumy and Shostka in Ukraine, are the activity areas of the ministry. At the same time, the ministry will, in the foreseeable future,
Integrated with the 17th Guerrilla Brigade.
In China during the same period, various anti-Japanese base areas were like sparks, expanding their scope little by little. Many base areas were connected to each other, and eventually turned into huge liberated areas!
The Soviet Union did not have a clear term for "anti-German base area". The equivalent concept was the term "guerrilla zone". The guerrilla republic was the largest guerrilla zone, and now it is simply a legal union republic.
In the occupied areas, the guerrilla republic fully assumed the role of the mainstay during the battle of Gomel. Now that the battle is over, in terms of macro strategy, starting from her, the guerrilla areas of the guerrillas cooperate with each other, creating a long-term
A front of 390 kilometers!
The guerrilla zone of the Gypsy Brigade is just behind the German Fourth Army, and the army faces Zhukov's main force of the Red Army. From Smolensk to Bryansk, and then to Orel, the western parts of these cities are connected together.
In the forest, the Soviet guerrillas were also connected together.
Each large guerrilla group will never fight alone again. The victory in the Battle of Gomel made ordinary soldiers no longer afraid of fighting large-scale battles with the enemy. Their return brought a large amount of supplies, and their self-confidence increased even more.
Fifteen thousand people crossed the Dnieper River, and the action even had a hint of a "thousand-mile leap into the Dabie Mountains." Because each large-scale guerrilla group can cooperate with each other, if it is regarded as a whole, it is the existence behind the German Army Group Center. A Soviet army with an existing combat strength of up to 50,000 people is a Soviet army group!
These guerrillas are indeed a group army, the 6th Army.
"Position" will not change just because one person leaves.
Yang Mingzhi and others decided on this strategy. All the large guerrilla groups on the nearly 400 kilometers of guerrilla front were at the horns of each other. Any clearing operation by the German army could only adopt the tactics of defeating each other. Unfortunately, the time was no longer the first half of 194. When one side is in trouble, support from all sides is hard, and a guerrilla force is attacked. Friendly troops will provide massive reinforcements.
On the contrary, the German army has to consider whether it is possible to be surrounded by counterattacks and be annihilated.
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Yang Mingzhi, Salinchkin, and all the senior officers and cadres of the Guerrilla Republic took jeeps and headed towards the airport construction site in Homnich.
"Haha, the road has become tidier. Last time I came here, it was so bumpy that my bones almost broke. I even regret it, I should have ridden a horse!"
"Obviously, they also compacted the road." Yang Mingzhi responded to Salinchkin's words, and he immediately felt very comfortable.
The dirt road leading to Homnage was winding and winding. It was full of potholes and was filled with muddy ponds after the rain. The road had obviously been rolled over and rammed. Sitting in the passenger seat, Yang Mingzhi felt as comfortable as he had not seen in a long time.
"If they had even had time to repair the roads, the runway would have been repaired long ago."
Yang Mingzhi was full of expectations. When several jeeps arrived at their destination, everyone saw dense crowds of people working in the huge open space.
I saw many middle-aged men with slovenly beards, seven or eight of them with their backs exposed, pulling ropes to operate stone tampers, compacting the soft soil into a compact state. The most efficient one was the metal roller roller, which was operated by horses and kept rolling.
Yang Mingzhi got out of the car. Since the car had already driven to the construction site, there must have been rammed earth below the wheels.
He squatted on the ground and randomly tried to pull the ground. Not to mention, it was quite difficult to pull it.
"Hey, Comrade Commander, what are you doing?" Salinchkin asked.
"I'm just checking to see if the ground is solid."
"So what do you think? Or how are the workers doing?"
"How is it?" Yang Mingzhi stood up and rubbed his hands, "They did a pretty good job. The land was pressed very densely."
Saying this, Salinchkin was still worried until he noticed that all the rut marks on the jeeps that came to the scene did not exist.
"It's incredible! Comrade Commander, I think the land is very dense. The ruts don't even exist."
"Yeah, the jeep is less than a ton, we still have to see the test results of the assault gun."
Yang Mingzhi didn't want to waste time when he came here. It was a good sign that the jeep had no ruts. Being able to dig out a little soil on the ground didn't mean the problem, because if it was a dagger, it could also cut stones from the granite. The key is whether the airport can Withstand the pressure of the contact area between the transport aircraft and the ground.
He met Korkin, the commander of the Homnich military station, stopped his normal reporting work, and immediately ordered Chekov to activate the assault gun.
An assault cannon with black cross paint on it hit the accelerator, and it ran wildly on the land that had been rolled over many times. It turned in a large circle, and Yang Mingzhi and others followed its traces to explore.
"It's not good. It seems that their work needs to be strengthened." Because he saw the mud lifted up by the tracks, Salinchkin couldn't help but worry about the prospect of the plane taking off and landing.
Yang Mingzhi said: "Don't be too pessimistic. I think the results of their work are pretty good."
"Maybe you are too optimistic."
"Sigh. In China more than two thousand years ago, an emperor decided to build a road leading to the border. The emperor mobilized tens of thousands of workers to use rammed earth to crush the soil until it was almost turned into rock.
That road can still be used now. Our methods now are better than those back then, but we are seriously short of time. If we give the workers more time, they can compact the land so densely that it will be difficult for even rain to erode.
.”
"Maybe you are right." Salinchkin sighed slightly, "What we lack most now is time. Comrade Commander, I feel now that the traces caused by the twenty-ton assault gun are not serious, maybe the fully loaded ten-ton assault gun
The transport aircraft situation is much better."
"That's true. I remember that the maximum weight of the La5 fighter is three tons, and its takeoff and landing probably won't leave any traces. Maybe the traces caused by the transport plane are minimal. It's a pity that we were too anxious. We should have brought those pilots with us on this trip.
Let them do the assessment."
"It's not too late now, we can make them come."
"No need." Yang Mingzhi waved his hand, "It doesn't matter whether they come or not. We only have the last three days, no matter what the result is, the airport must be put into use! As far as the current results are concerned, I think it is okay, so I decided, workers
We continued to compact the land. We sent a telegram to Moscow on August 30, and we reported to the leaders that the Homnich field airfield of the Partisan Republic was ready for use." (To be continued)