It's a new day, and Yang Mingzhi wakes up early. Today we have to fight, to save those unfortunate prisoners of war, and to annihilate all the escort troops. Many people will die in this battle. Of course, our own troops will probably suffer a lot of casualties due to the ambush.
Xiao, the dead were all German soldiers, or prisoners of war who were accidentally injured.
How many escort troops will the enemy dispatch? Gomel did not explain this. Yang Mingzhi guessed that according to Balzen's observation records yesterday, a battalion of prisoners of war would be escorted by a company, so the enemy would have to dispatch at least 4,000 troops to escort 4,000 people.
A battalion. He did not think that the German army would be so arrogant as to send only a small group of people to escort a brigade of Soviet prisoners.
The soldiers woke up one after another and immediately tidied up their housekeeping. They rolled up their blankets and immediately began to eat dry food.
Yang Mingzhi woke up the two girls and patted their cold faces.
"Hey! Hey! It's time to wake up, there's going to be a war soon!"
Star Tao and Natasha, because of the cold outside, reluctantly left their comfort zone. They were quiet for a while, looking a little confused.
"What's going on? Are you having trouble sleeping?" Yang Mingzhi threw two pieces of bread over and said, "You guys grab a handful of snow and wipe it on your face, so you can wake up quickly."
Star Tao couldn't help but yawned, and did as her husband asked, feeling somewhat refreshed.
In any case, they are children after all. No matter how tough they are, their physical fitness is not as good as that of adults. There are a hundred young soldiers in the ambush team, and the situation is worse than these two. After all, this is their first time sleeping outdoors in winter. Among them
Some of them were "veterans" who had fought in the war, and they didn't sleep well this night.
Yang Mingzhi went to the youth camp to inspect the camp. The children were a little lazy, and they seemed to be very weak when they were sorting out their own housework. "That's why I don't want to take you with me. I have already told you that the conditions for fighting are very difficult now. If you can't
Stay vigilant at all times, and you will be in danger all the time!" As for the complaint, Yang Mingzhi called Kharkov to his side. As he imagined, the young man was not in good spirits.
"Now I'm giving you an order. I hope to see troops who have been waiting to fight, not a group of mentally depressed people. Including you, everyone in the youth camp should stay awake immediately and enter the position after eating."
"I obey... I obey!" Kharkiv saluted with a military salute, but his body seemed to be shaking a little.
"Now go down and get ready. Eat and drink water quickly to replenish your strength. All of us must be ready for battle and we will all enter the ambush position in a moment."
Kharkiv left to greet his people, but Yang Mingzhi still felt that they were acting very troublesome now. "You'd better work hard, or if you doze off on the battlefield later, I'll kick your butts."
The troops led by Yang Mingzhi are responsible for the middle section of the ambush. The 100 people in the guard company are the backbone, and the rest are a group of female soldiers and young soldiers. From the perspective of inherent prejudice, it is really pointless to let a group of women and children fight together.
Men, the behavior of choosing generals is the behavior of a man. In reality, this is the case. The army is short of manpower, and there is no other way to let women whose combat effectiveness is inherently inferior to that of male soldiers go to the battlefield.
Therefore, we can only hope that each of these women will be heroines, and those children will be able to show a fighting will that is not inferior to that of adults after the war.
The young soldiers are dispersed, and basically each guard company soldier is accompanied by a deputy. In this way, the children's technical and tactical skills can be improved quickly by learning in battle.
Moreover, Yang Mingzhi was also very worried. If someone incited him again, these middle school children would rush down screaming and fight with the enemy. That was something no one wanted to see.
After the soldiers finished eating, they continued to work on the recommended position fortifications. Most of them were lying in ambush in the woods. They were lined up about seven in a row from the road. There were three people in each combat group, and the distance between them was at least 25 meters.
It is completely different from what is shown in movies and TV shows. In real war, soldiers are actually dispersed in order to avoid being overwhelmed by enemy firepower.
Yang Mingzhi's command structure has a lot of security personnel. In this battle, he still wants to ambush on the front line. He no longer has to shoot with gun sand. His right-hand man, his wife and Natasha, can be used as his weapons.
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The two girls were lying next to Yang Mingzhi. The headquarters was further away from the battlefield. Because of the use of sniper rifles, the two girls could still carry out long-distance strikes.
They have taken off the cotton holsters and installed muzzle brakes and bipods on the sVT4o, making it look like a regular sniper rifle in the future.
This is the first time that Yang Tao uses this weapon in actual combat. The operation is more stable after installing a bipod. "In this battle, I have to eliminate at least one enemy, otherwise my efforts will be in vain." Yang Tao turned to look at Natasha,
"How about this? I'm going to kill a few of them in this battle."
"There must be at least ten, otherwise I would be embarrassed to be a hero."
"It's not good to have such a loud tone." As he said that, the two girls started laughing.
"Don't whisper to each other and be quiet." Yang Mingzhi ordered. He continued to look eastward with his telescope. The road was still very quiet at the moment.
Ten minutes later, the radio operator suddenly came to report. "Reporting to the commander, a group of convoys was discovered by the Lavrenji camp, and 30 Red Cross trucks were driving towards us."
This is not the goal of the troops. The enemy escorting prisoners of war should be a huge crowd on foot. Yang Mingzhi ordered: "Report to Lavrenti and Pavlov, let these enemies go, our goal is to rescue the prisoners of war. Everyone continues to ambush
.”
After receiving the order, Lavrenti immediately ordered everyone to turn off the safety and watch the enemy leave his defense area. Soon Yang Mingzhi also saw these people, and he held down the muzzle of the gun that the girls instinctively raised. "You all stay calm.
, this is not our thing.”
Throughout the morning, there were three waves of convoys transporting wounded soldiers, with a total of more than one hundred vehicles. These easily accessible enemies were watched away, and the soldiers were still nervously lying in wait.
The long wait became boring, and the vigilance of the soldiers relaxed little by little. In fact, the German troops escorted the prisoners of war and walked very slowly. They had already set out in the morning, behind three German convoys, and this was
A huge crowd.
At one o'clock in the afternoon, Yang Mingzhi himself was a little bored and couldn't help humming a song.
Star Tao and Natasha felt even more bored, so they simply lay down and started chatting. Star Tao couldn't help shouting: "Brother, can we still fight today? It gets dark early, and the sun will set in a few hours."
"Of course, unless the information is just to amuse us. You can relax now. If the situation changes later, be ready to fight immediately.
"
Say Cao Cao, Cao Cao is here. Yang Tao, who was lying down, suddenly saw the dusty radio operator running towards him carrying a box-like radio station. "Oh! Brother! I left you to talk, the radio operator is already here!" The two girls said
He immediately stood up and put the butt of the gun on his shoulder again.
Without saying a word, the radio operator handed the headset and walkie-talkie to Yang Mingzhi.
At the other end of the signal, Lavrenti shouted loudly: "The enemy has appeared, and a large number of prisoners of war are being escorted. They are our targets! The enemy is escorting at least one battalion, and they also have ten half-track armored vehicles, and the team has
A three-wheeled military motorcycle riding a machine gun.”
"What?! There are armored vehicles!" Yang Mingzhi was shocked. He once again confirmed the confirmation from Lavrenti.
The situation has changed somewhat. The enemy is not simply escorting infantry. It seems that the German army is also worried that the prisoners of war will suddenly go crazy. After all, there are four thousand people.
He patted the radio operator on the shoulder: "Notify Lavrenti immediately, ask him to stay calm and prepare to attack the enemy's butt. Order Pavlov, when the enemy appears in front of him, start fighting immediately! In this battle, Rockets cannot be stingy.
, at least cover the enemy’s escort troops with firepower.”
The enemy has appeared, and the prisoners of war are marching in two lines, the line is two kilometers long.
Pavlov's and Yevgeny's defense areas were connected with Yang Mingzhi's, and the troops guarded a defense line of about four kilometers. Yang Mingzhi had a wishful thinking. When the enemy appeared in front of Pavlov, he would be the first to open fire.
The troops immediately started fighting, and finally Yevgeny led his troops to block the enemy's back and achieve encirclement.
The soldiers received the order and prepared for battle. Yang Mingzhi raised his telescope toward the east, and gradually the roar of machinery entered his ears. Soon, a large number of people appeared in front of him.
"Hey, my team still has five motorcycles! Five machine guns are really troublesome." He immediately ordered the messenger to give new orders to all the troops. That is, all combat groups carrying rocket launchers should prepare their rockets. All anti-tank weapons should be ready.
, first use armor-piercing bombs to attack all enemy vehicles.
He also gave the two girls a task. "You two shoot the officer wearing the big-brimmed hat first. Remember not to accidentally injure the prisoners of war."
The orders had been conveyed, and soon the prisoners of war appeared in front of everyone.
They were as dejected as defeated roosters, and their military vigor was gone. Yang Mingzhi estimated that they might still be resisting in their hearts, but the current situation of lack of clothes and clothing left them with little energy at all. Furthermore, in theory, the political commissars were all
They were shot and killed, and the troops were actually depleted. These people may have been different citizens or farmers a few months ago. When the war suddenly broke out, these people went to the battlefield as mobilized soldiers. They may have come from Vyazma, one of the 700,000
part of the captives.
These people should not be standing troops, but mobilization troops that were expanded after the red button was pressed. There is no saying that their combat effectiveness is inferior, otherwise they would not have surrendered a total of 700,000 people. If they were like the Japanese devils, fighting to the end,
The German army will inevitably pay a heavy price in Vyazma. The war situation will also undergo major changes. (To be continued.) 8