Tupikov made a long list of air drops for the 284th Guards Division in the swamp.? ? ?
Food:
One hundred and fifty tons of whole wheat flour, twenty tons of buckwheat rice, twenty tons of canned food, ten tons of dried vegetables, two tons of sugar, two tons of salt, two tons of black tea, five hundred liters of vinegar, chili, mustard, ketchup, cinnamon
and some seasonings such as pepper. Following Russian custom, there are also 20 tons of barreled vodka here.
In terms of military supplies:
It can be equipped with summer military uniforms for 10,000 people, including matching cloaks, armed belts, and boat-shaped military caps. 10,000 pairs of military blankets, 20,000 pairs of military boots, 300 military tents, 10,000 sets of military sacks, 20,000 pieces of soap, 3
Ten thousand boxes of cigarettes and matching matches, 5,000 gasoline lighters, 100 telegraph machines and matching batteries, 300 military telescopes (including trench periscopes), and a total of 3,000 pairs of logging axes and two-man saws.
Weapons and ammunition:
7. 5 million 62x54R ordinary rifle bullets (totaling 120 tons plus packaging), one million heavy-point bullets for machine guns (total 3o tons plus packaging), 500,000 pistol bullets, 10,000 anti-tank grenades, anti-tank grenade
Ten thousand bullets, five hundred rocket-propelled grenades (fifty projectiles), five thousand 8omm mortar shells, and two thousand 12omm mortar shells.
A total of forty 80 mm and 120 mm caliber mortars, one thousand Mosin-Nagant rifles, one hundred Deggarev light machine guns, fifty Maxim heavy machine guns, and five DSHK heavy machine guns (
The supporting ammunition is 10,000).
One hundred tons of TnT explosive and five tons of gasoline.
Medicine:
One ton of compressed nitrocellulose, two tons of gauze, some anti-inflammatory drugs and antibiotics, some anesthetics, and some medical alcohol.
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Timoshenko confidently reviewed this list. It was obviously a big move to deliver so much supplies in this airdrop!
Timoshenko quickly asked Tupikov: "To transport so much supplies, we obviously need to use a large number of transport aircraft and gliders. Have you changed this list?"
"That's right. How could we originally transport so much supplies? When someone proposed using gliders, the original limit of delivering only about 150 tons was directly extended to nearly 800 tons!"
At present, the troops in the swamp are lacking everything. It is rare for them to be able to fight until now. A total of 30,000 people, including civilians, need to survive. They are hiding in the already barren swamp under the difficult battlefield and relying on self-reliance to live a difficult life.
One hundred and fifty tons of supplies is too little. This list totals 700 tons of supplies, which should be able to cope with it for a while.
A large amount of food, daily necessities and ammunition must be sent there. Even so, these munitions are still far from enough to maintain the operation of an infantry division.
Timoshenko couldn't help but shook his head when he thought of this: "In an infantry division with a full strength of 15,000 people, no one has to eat at least one kilogram of food every day. An army consumes 450 tons of food in a month. Ours
Yevlov and Berekov have 10,000 people, and this food supply will be enough to feed them for up to three weeks."
"But they are still relying on their own efforts. The telegram from Yevlov said that they are actively reclaiming land to plant potatoes. By mid-April, the potatoes they sown in February will be ready for harvest. Even though the fruits may not be very big, they can still be harvested.
It took a long time to deal with it. Coupled with the captures they captured on the battlefield, maybe if we didn’t have this assistance, the famine would not be possible.”
"Of course famine is impossible!" Timoshenko couldn't help but increase his tone, and he was a little angry. "Now that army has just made great achievements, except for the loss of personnel, the material loss is the most serious. They are a group of highly conscious people.
The army, if there is a lack of food, they can only reduce food rations. Maybe no one will starve to death, but most people will be severely malnourished. If the soldiers look hungry and decadent, how can they talk about combat effectiveness? So, I really hope that this time we
It’s all food!”
"But just transporting food is not enough." Tupikov said, "They also need weapons and ammunition, medicine, and suitable clothes."
"I know all this, so I'm really in trouble." At this moment, Timoshenko felt very sorry for those people. They were troops with the title of Guards, and their achievements were only from the perspective of annihilating enemies. I'm afraid
No one in the entire Soviet army could compare with it. And not only that, not to mention the troops that suffered less casualties than the Germans in the battle, let alone the exaggerated results of killing 7,000 enemies and losing 2,000 themselves.
Timoshenko took the list and continued to read down. Suddenly, some strange terms came into view.
"It's interesting, do they want disinfectant in the shipping manifest? Why do they need ethylene oxide? Do we have that now?"
Tupikov nodded and said, "Of course there is disinfectant such as ethylene oxide, and it is packaged in fifty-liter storage tanks. Their demand is actually huge. Why Yevlov wants it is not clearly stated. I'm afraid.
It is still used as a disinfectant. They hope that we can provide as much as we can. Our military’s current supply limit is not much, just one hundred tons, and these finished products also come from the chemical plant in Lugansk.”
Of course Timoshenko knew the dangers of this antiseptic agent, and could not help but worry about the safety of the airdrop operation. In addition to this flammable gas, a large amount of ammunition and explosives were enough to turn the aircraft into a "flying coffin."
Continuing to look at the list, in addition to ethylene oxide, there are also ammonium nitrate, various vegetable seeds, and a bunch of miscellaneous small daily necessities on the list.
Timoshenko couldn't help but feel happy: "They fell to the ground because they were farming. We sent a bunch of fertilizers there, and they believed that the land would be highly productive. If the swamps can have a bumper harvest of food, there won't be just a few there."
residents. I guess the idea of fertilizer was definitely not Yevlov’s but Berekov’s.”
Tupikov answered honestly: "Most of the things on this list that we think are weird are Belekov's requests. This man is very mysterious, and he always has wonderful ideas in his mind. Maybe he is
They are trying their best to manufacture something. Comrade, please pay attention, although they do not have TnT, they have prepared old-fashioned picric acid by themselves, and quickly entered the war, and the results have been very good. So we must support them, even if what they need is some weird things
things, we have to satisfy them.”
Timoshenko was persuaded by Tupikov. As the commander-in-chief of the front army, he personally ordered the 284th Guards Division to have sufficient autonomy and not to slack off. It must find ways to cause damage in enemy-occupied areas, including large-scale battles. They
The order has been fully implemented and their requirements should be met.
The list for this airdrop was very long. Transport aircraft and bombers were all readily available, but it would take several days to pull the glider with a heavy load.
There are as many as fifty fighter jets escorting the airdrop. These escort fighter jets will carry two auxiliary fuel tanks, and it is no problem to fly back and forth from Severodonesk to Pripyat.
Timoshenko fully authorized this airdrop plan and had no objections to the supplies on the list. If there was any, it was because he hoped that the airdrop would start sooner. After all, the soldiers in the swamp needed this batch of supplies so much! 8