Two girls, each with a pen and a pot of ink, received a large notebook.
There is also this artistic German word on the black cover of the notebook, which probably means "notebook". Jelentina pointed out that it means "battle record book".
Haha, the booklet used by German officers for some battle reports became the notebook of the heroic Soviet sniper. It is estimated that Natasha will use this as her "battle record book" to accurately record the process of killing every enemy.
The two bowed deeply and accepted this precious prize from Yang Mingzhi.
Compared with other people's pocket watches and firearms, pen, ink and paper are the most important to them. This is something Yang Mingzhi knows also for the soldiers in the audience.
Now, it's Yang Mingzhi's turn to give a speech.
He straightened his collar, straightened his hair, and faced everyone straight.
"Comrades, our heroic snipers have received the prizes they won. Here, I have to say that the current situation of the troops is still very difficult. We can give the majority of combat heroes, and you all. In fact, this operation
, all of us are heroes, and the only thing we can give to everyone is improvements in food, so that we can have a few good meals.
Our heroes can get some canned meat, and the food rations will be better.
For our heroic female snipers, they were supposed to study hard as students, but were involved in the war. The division headquarters decided to reward them with stationery so that they can still learn cultural knowledge during the interval between battles."
Most officers and soldiers don't care much about what rewards the heroes receive. Anyway, except for the awards from the front army, everything else is played by themselves. Life here is still tight, and everything is carefully budgeted for food, drink, and supplies.
Many soldiers felt a little worried in their hearts, because in this operation, the entire army consumed a lot of ammunition. This was almost a battle, with outstanding results and huge consumption.
But with this huge consumption in front of us, what about the support from superiors? The officers and soldiers gradually learned that the swamp here where the Pripet River and the Dnieper River meet has become an "isolated island". Of course, the front army still exists, and they have retreated to Dun
East of Bass, part of it continued to block the German offensive in Crimea.
The distance is already too far. The last airdrop conducted by the superior organization was a military adventure. Now I am afraid that the opportunity for airdrop has been lost.
Yang Mingzhi continued to speak, answering the soldiers' guesses.
"Comrades, we have achieved great results in this battle. You should be thinking that we dispatched thousands of people and completed the orders of our superiors very flexibly. Comrade Timoshenko praised us, but that's all. This is
After a great victory, we did not receive air supplies from our superiors, and they will not be given supplies for a period of time. Comrades! This air supply line has been cut off. In a sense, our army and the Southwest Front Army
The contact was also cut off.”
As soon as the remarks came out, the crowd was in an uproar, and the officers and soldiers who stood at attention like driving piles in front of Yang Mingzhi suddenly burst into a buzz.
"It seems that everyone is still very worried about being isolated, which really hurts morale." Yang Mingzhi had already thought of this, and the facts proved to be what he expected, so he also prepared a response.
He shouted a few words loudly into the microphone. The noise drowned out the talking soldiers, and silence slowly fell again.
The soldiers at this moment must be full of doubts and worries. As long as they can maintain contact with their superiors and maintain the transportation of supplies, the soldiers can continue to complete new tasks with high morale. But now there are huge changes.
Yang Mingzhi glanced around and saw some soldiers and their doubtful looks.
"Comrades! I see it. Your emotions are reflected on your faces. You must be talking a thousand words now. Basically, they are asking whether we have lost contact with our superiors and are surrounded by swamps full of enemies.
Isolated? Let me say, we are indeed isolated, but we are not alone."
He could have emphasized once again that the current situation of the troops was neither isolated nor isolated, which was really ambiguous.
"Just now, our heroic snipers praised me. Maybe there are many soldiers among you who are very satisfied with me as the deputy commander and chief of staff of the 284th Guards Division. The reason is simple, because I can lead
We won the battle, and we were able to settle down and stop fighting stupid wars. And it was me who taught you forest guerrilla warfare, which made our battle loss ratio completely reversed from before. Now, look at this group of people.
The Nazis can also be defeated!"
Many people in the audience were happy again. This Belekov who came from a foreign land was really a genius commander. Ask yourself, there are indeed not many surviving veterans of the original 284th Division in the army, and some even came from the Far East.
The earliest group of people, they are the essence and soul of the army, and now they are basically junior officers.
The role of veterans is very important to recruits. If they recognize Yang Mingzhi, then the entire army will also recognize him.
Therefore, these words were like a reassurance. Since the army was almost annihilated, it was Berekov who repeatedly suggested that the army withdraw to the south and retreat all the way to the Pripet Swamp to settle down in relative safety.
of your current life.
But the veterans were even more confused, why did the deputy division commander admit isolation and then deny it? On this point, Yevlov and Yelentina also felt that what this man said was ambiguous.
Yang Mingzhi immediately explained the meaning of these words.
"Comrades, we are indeed isolated. This is the awareness we have prepared when entering the swamp. Because this huge swamp has no military value, what are the German troops doing here? When the snow melts, it will become a large number of
A wetland composed of mud ponds and small lakes. They invaded here unless they wanted to imitate us in frying fish and drinking fish soup! However, this place is simply a natural chasm! This is why we are isolated. Their powerful tank troops and air force must bypass this place, and eventually
We have become an island here, and this is isolation.
But we, as the entire Soviet Union and the Red Army, we are not isolated at all. You must know one thing. On the seventh day of this month, Japan air raided the U.S. military port, killing more than 3,000 people. The next day,
The United States declared war on Japan, Germany, and Italy. We have become a military alliance with the United States! Furthermore, I, Berekov, am originally Chinese and am now serving in the Soviet Union and fighting alongside you. Fortunately, China has officially
Japan declared war on Germany. China and the Soviet Union were already allies. What's even more gratifying is that most countries in the world have already declared war on Germany on the same stand as the Soviet Union.
The Soviet Union is no longer alone against the entire Germany and their slave states, we are no longer isolated, and we will eventually win this war!"
This eloquent paragraph is very encouraging. For the majority of officers and soldiers, what they long for most is of course victory.
The intensity of the war has exceeded that of the First World War twenty years ago, and civilians have become the biggest victims. This group of invaders simply organized the massacre of Soviet citizens and even citizens of other countries. It has been half a year since the war started. The Soviet Union has suffered heavy losses. Conservative estimates have already
Tens of millions of people died in the war.
The officers and soldiers here have all received good primary education. Thanks to the education system established by the Soviet Union, they have a basic understanding of the international situation. Even the United States and the United Kingdom are capitalist countries and criminal countries that enslave the proletariat. Now, they
At least there was no war with the Soviet Union, because everyone had a common enemy - the Nazis, and everyone must unite.
Yang Mingzhi knew very well the role of the United States in the victory of World War II, but the majority of Soviet people did not know that much.
It was a behemoth with 150,000 fighter bombers, 300,000 tanks of various types, 155 aircraft carriers built in four years, a total of 7,333 warships, and 40 billion bullets.
The arsenal of democratic countries.
Forty-three million people registered for war service, and 12.5 million people joined the army. The American state machine was fully launched, and it would directly change the world structure. After all, this country had three times the total industrial output of Germany in 1938.
Industrial countries are now beginning to experience a full-scale explosion since the Great Depression.
The United States will vigorously assist the Soviet Union, entering Arkhangelsk through the North Sea, passing through the Bering Strait and the Siberian Railway, and transporting rubber, oil, fine steel and aluminum, large amounts of ammunition, medicine, and even huge amounts of food to the Soviet Union.
Yang Mingzhi's confidence lies in this. The Soviet Union will definitely hold Germany back in World War II and bring them to a point where they are evenly matched. Huge U.S. aid will finally arrive. By that time, the soldiers will be able to eat luncheon meat, and the officers will even be able to drink it.
Coca Cola.
But his self-confidence is now regarded more as a mysterious self-confidence by soldiers.
Everyone has never seen Deputy Division Commander Berekov, this commander from China, ever have a worried look. He is always so confident, so he has been winning for several months.
Yang Mingzhi continued: "Comrades! The global anti-fascist alliance has been actually completed. In the foreseeable future, Germany will continue to be rampant for a while, and the Soviet Union will continue to bleed. There will always be a time for wounds to heal, that is
It’s time for us to fight back. Comrades, most of you are Belarusians and Ukrainians! Maybe in one year, maybe in two years, the big counterattack will begin. We will eventually plant the red flag in the German Reichstag, and we will kill Hitler.
and his henchmen, occupy the whole of Germany, destroy everything the Nazis have, and complete our revenge.
So before the day of the decisive battle comes, this is the last darkness before dawn, very dark and cold. We still need to continue fighting, continue to expand our results, and expand our strength. Perhaps when the big counterattack begins, we will be more than just one
As an infantry division, we can even expand our troops to the size of a front army. At that time, we will be invincible."
With this series of inciting words, the soldiers were in high spirits! Everyone called Yang Mingzhi by his name. The call of "Berekov" lasted for a long time.
At this moment, humility is meaningless. The feeling of being loved by everyone is infinitely good. Yang Mingzhi smiled and was immersed in the cheers until he came to his senses and declared that the commendation meeting was successfully concluded. (To be continued.) 8