The people who retreated first had one day's time difference, which was enough for the army to march a long way.
In fact, Mozyr is already located in the Pripet Swamp. Belarus is known as the country of ten thousand lakes, especially in the south, where there are many waterways crisscrossing the lakes, and the roads running through them ensure smooth traffic.
Because the destination of the troops is the core part of the swamp, "Pripyat City" will be established in this area in the future. In the original plane, the Chernobyl incident occurred here, Pripyat
Ji also became a ruined city.
The first troops to evacuate carried a large amount of baggage, numbering tens of thousands of them. Such a large group of people appeared on the outskirts of the swamp, which immediately attracted the attention of the Soviet army in the swamp.
It is already July 17th. The German army has completed the Battle of Minsk. The purpose of the entire campaign has been achieved. Almost all of Belarus has been occupied. That is, some areas in the east. Due to geographical factors, the German offensive troops have no effort and no plan.
To occupy.
Therefore, in the Pripyat Swamp, the Soviet Union still rules here. There are very few defenders here. After the war began, a large number of villagers from the collective farms in the west evacuated here, hoping to retreat inland along the transportation lines.
Now, the German army has successively occupied Vitebsk, Orsha, Mogilev and Gomel. On the land of Belarus, the German offensive front is basically like this. The German army is still attacking in the direction of Moscow. Until Guderian's
The large army encountered stubborn resistance from the Soviet army in Smolensk.
In Ukraine, the Soviet Union's Southwest Front is considered the most elite unit of the Soviet army. They successfully delayed the German offensive against Kiev, giving the remnants of Kuznetsov, who had just broken through the encirclement, a chance to escape the sea of misery.
"As long as the troops enter the swamp area, we can go south along the Dnieper River. As long as we reach Kiev, we will succeed!" Kuznetsov encouraged his men. It has been nearly four weeks since the beginning of the war. The troops can survive.
Those who come down are all very lucky.
The army was retreating, and Yang Mingzhi was in a good mood. The Romanians and the Germans paid a heavy price but were defeated. The 284th Guards Division suffered heavy losses. Fortunately, the flags and division headquarters still existed, and even the political commissar.
Yelentina, this woman is not simple, and it seems that anyone who can be a Cheka is not simple either.
To be honest, this hairy woman does have a feminine charm, she is mature enough, and she is as wild as her male compatriots when it comes to fighting. This guy is definitely not a fuel-saving lamp, and maybe he is also a terrifying character in a bed war.
Yang Mingzhi watched the woman fall into a brief moment of lust, until his wife Yang Tao's yawn brought him back to reality.
"Hey! You're awake." Yang Mingzhi looked tenderly at his wife who was sleeping soundly on the carriage.
"Well, husband, didn't you sleep all night?"
"No. When the troops took a temporary break, I took the opportunity to sleep for a while."
After all, Yang Tao was still young, so she wrapped herself in a blanket and slept soundly on a pile of ammunition boxes, even though the carriage was still moving forward. Yang Mingzhi boasted that he was much stronger than women. On the way to retreat, the large army hardly rested. The soldiers were all
You know, you are only truly safe when you enter the swamp.
By daybreak, their destination was finally reached.
At the intersection of the Pripet and Dnieper rivers, the water network here is an excellent wetland. The vegetation here is very dense, and the entire landscape is a combination of lakes and forests, with small pools dotted here and there.
Yang Mingzhi followed the large army. He estimated that he had traveled at least another thirty kilometers. For a soldier, this was nothing.
The army finally stopped. This was not because it had reached its destination, but because the team was blocked. Kuznetsov immediately joined the blocked crowd. They were the troops who had evacuated a day earlier.
Seeing the arrival of the legion commander, the leading officers quickly went to report the situation. For convenience, an emergency military meeting was immediately convened, and Yang Mingzhi, as a senior officer, was ordered to go.
At the beginning of the meeting, Kuznetsov reported on the war. "A Romanian army has been completely wiped out by our army, and now we have minimal worries." He said briefly, and suddenly in the crowd, he saw someone from
Unseen characters.
"You guys in civilian clothes, who are you? I don't remember any officers like you."
The leader of the people present introduced himself. Alexander Alexander Bobovsky, a guerrilla captain. He patted his chest and said his identity: "Before the war started, I was an old Bolshevik.
Now that the war has begun, I responded to the leader's call and summoned the militia to establish a guerrilla force. I have a hundred people under my command, and you were the first ones we discovered."
During the march, Yang Mingzhi was still unaware of various orders from the Moscow authorities.
At the beginning of the war, Stalin dismissed the idea of launching a guerrilla war. It was not until the rapid defeat of the Northwest Front Army and the rapid revolt of the people in the occupied areas that he realized that he must immediately organize a guerrilla war and send soldiers who had been separated from the large army to
Patriotic citizens and collective farm villagers organized themselves to fight the invaders at all costs.
According to Bobosky's introduction, their militia troops all come from Catfish Village, which in Russian transliteration is Kamaskaya. This is a collective farm and a fishing village. The villagers grow potatoes on the ridges and fish in the rivers.
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Kuznetsov was very grateful for the help of these people, and now it was his turn to introduce himself. In this way, the militiamen of Catfish Village never expected that tens of thousands of people had actually escaped from Minsk, more than 200 kilometers away.
The Sixth Army and the 284th Guards Division have maintained a relatively intact structure. The other units have been completely broken up and disabled. The remaining soldiers from all walks of life huddle together for warmth, as well as the patriotic citizens, militiamen and villagers who escaped the massacre.
The vast army was returning to the Soviet Union through the swamps, and now they encountered a very serious problem.
In addition to reporting on the situation, this meeting also discussed how to pass through the swamp area.
"I saw that you have a lot of trucks. These equipment are too heavy and cannot be carried by the paths between the swamps. So I suggest that your people try to use manpower or animal power to transport materials." Boboski initially suggested this, and the actual vanguard force
This is also done.
However, the army has a lot of supplies, and transporting all kinds of things is time-consuming and laborious.
"There is no road leading to the swampland, only small roads. There is only a road from Mozyr to Kiev. We have to turn back now," said an officer.
"No, we must not turn back. The enemy is behind us."
In this case, Kuznetsov looked at Yang Mingzhi: "Berekov, is there anything you can do? I hope we can get through the cover quickly."
Yang Mingzhi looked at him. You are the commander of the army yourself. What can I, a small officer, do about this kind of thing? To be honest, there is really no way at all. Yang Mingzhi had no choice but to say: "I really have no way, why not listen to it?"
What do the locals say?”
Bobosky noticed that this officer did not have a Slavic face. He was probably a Mongolian. After asking for a while, Yang Mingzhi did not hide it, "I am a dignified Chinese."
Where is China? Bobosky doesn’t know. Anyway, the Khitan is very far east. Why does Kuznetsov pay special attention to this guy? Until Yang Mingzhi’s current identity was exposed, he was a “Soviet hero” who fought in the war
China miraculously killed the commander of the German armored division. Bobosky was immediately in awe.
Kuznetsov felt that the Chinese people’s truth was very reasonable. We all came from afar and were more familiar with the terrain here than the locals. Comrade Bobosky, we are the only troops to escape from the encirclement. I must return
The rear wants to communicate with the supreme leader. As long as we successfully pass through the swamp and reach Kiev, you will also have a chance to become a hero of the Soviet Union."
Honor is of course very important, but the actual conditions on the battlefield must be taken into account. Bobosky still said that the routes for the trucks to travel simply did not exist.
Yang Mingzhi listened to them and couldn't help but said meaningfully: "Our trucks can't move, just like the enemy's trucks, and the tanks can't move even more. This place will be very safe and very suitable as a base for future guerrilla warfare."
Kuznetsov looked at him. After all, it was just that the army did not want to abandon the trucks. He made a difficult decision: "Abandon all the trucks, and the soldiers carried the supplies on their shoulders and dragged them. Ammunition and the like
It was transported by horse-drawn carriage, and the wounded soldiers were carried manually."
The troops quickly began to take action. After abandoning the truck, the soldiers did not forget to open the fuel tank. The precious gasoline had other uses.
The soldiers from Catfish Village acted as guides, and the soldiers lined up to follow them. As long as you passed the swamp net in front of you, there were some small plains the closer you got to the Dnieper River, and you would be completely safe once you got there.