The red light of the radio station suddenly lit up, and the anxiously waiting telegraph operator, Balzen and others looked as if they had found some treasure. 23US.
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"How is the situation now?" Balzen asked anxiously.
"I'm waiting."
The telegraph operator held the headset with his left hand and held a pen in his right hand, preparing to record the telegraph code.
After briefly transmitting a few telegraph codes, the telegraph operator immediately took off the headset and handed it to Balzen.
"What's going on? You don't record it anymore?"
"No! Sir! The division headquarters is communicating with us in plain language!"
At this juncture, direct voice communication was much smoother than Morse code, and the telegraph machine had become an ultra-long-distance wireless walkie-talkie.
Balzen put on the microphone and heard a hissing sound in his ears. After a pause, he finally heard a very familiar voice.
At this moment, Yang Mingzhi also put on the headset and grabbed the walkie-talkie. After confirming that the person answering was Balzen himself, various questions followed.
"Tell me now! What are your casualties? How many men are left to fight? How is the ammunition reserve? What is the strength of your enemy? Are they attacking in a large scale?"
Once the Chase issue was stabilized, Balzen naturally had something to say. Originally, these were all things he had to report.
As an honest man, Balzen did not hide the current situation of the army.
"Our army's casualties are huge, and the enemy's casualties are equally huge. Our army's weapons and ammunition are extremely consumed. There are only the last two RPGs left, and the 7.6mm rifle bullets are about to be used up. We have to use the German weapons and ammunition to fight. However,
We will hold our position and defend Novgomel! Long live the great motherland!"
The situation was still too ambiguous. Yang Mingzhi increased his voice and shouted: "Idiot! I didn't order you all to die in battle! What I want is the exact number! You are engaged in large-scale combat with the enemy, now tell me how many more
Can people fight?!"
When Balzen heard this, the deputy division commander became angry. He swallowed, paused, and replied: "Our army has less than 800 combat troops, including some lightly wounded people who can still shoot.
A number of seriously injured people have already died. We lack medicine, and more than a hundred seriously injured people may eventually die."
"Asshole! Damn it! You have 1,300 men and 500 have died under your command! You and your troops are the most elite, what on earth are you doing? Could it be that the people of the German 707th Division have become
A first-rate unit?! What could be more ridiculous than this?!"
Like a bolt from the blue, Yang Mingzhi sat slumped in his chair. Today is indeed a big day. A huge amount of airdrop supplies fell from the sky. The faces of the people in Novgomel were filled with the joy of the harvest. The common people all knew that the army received a lot of flour.
Now, ordinary people can also eat bread. Even if they can't eat this, potatoes will be enough in the future.
But the war started in the distance, and the 84th Division had become accustomed to victory. In the end, in just half a day, more than a thousand of its most elite troops actually lost 500 of their lives. Yang Mingzhi even began to suspect that they had encountered the SS.
Seeing that Yang Mingzhi looked like he was frightened by some monster, the nervous Yevlov held his shoulders and asked cautiously: "Did something happen to Balzen? What on earth happened?"
Yang Mingzhi looked ahead blankly and said slowly: "They are casualties! Terrible casualties! My division commander! Balzen's death squads, Lavrenti and Yevgeny's infantry battalions, and the juvenile battalion, which we added later.
One hundred logistics soldiers. In just one morning, five hundred people died."
"Are you kidding me?" Yevlov questioned without thinking.
"No, there is no need for Balzen to joke with us." Yang Mingzhi had a sullen face, obviously the situation was not optimistic.
This kind of casualties is unimaginable. Even if the Soviet army died 500 people in the first battle during the entire war, it is simply nothing to mention. It is completely different for the 84th Division. The most elite troops lost so many people. If ordinary troops participated in the war, how many casualties would there be?
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Yelentina is very doubtful about this figure, and she will not express any opinions for the time being. I am afraid that Balzen is still hiding something, and we will have to investigate it carefully when he comes back.
After regaining some energy, Yang Mingzhi continued to ask Balzen about the current situation. As a result, the guy insisted on holding on to his position.
"You want to hold on to the position you built in the forest? Because the enemy surrounded your retreat when you attacked, so hand-to-hand combat around the forest position resulted in huge casualties. Do you still want to hold on here?"
Faced with Yang Mingzhi's questioning, Balzen's attitude really seemed like he was trying to get away with it.
Balzen said: "We have been laying in ambush since early in the morning to prepare for the enemy's possible attack. After the enemy's position was attacked by our air force, we pursued the victory. The battle has inevitably expanded. How to maintain the upper hand in a large-scale war is related to our
Comfort. Deputy Division Commander, it will take a lot of time for you to regroup the scattered troops to deal with the battle. Once the German army invades in large numbers, they will catch us by surprise. If so, we will suffer huge losses.
Therefore, we must stick here and delay the enemy as much as possible."
From these words, Yang Mingzhi extracted some key words. He asked: "So you have been vigilant since the early morning, and now it is nearly twelve o'clock, and you have been fighting?"
Balzen affirmed: "Deputy division commander, we have been fighting for ten hours. I did not expect that our army could attack the German military camp so smoothly. One of their infantry regiments was crippled by us, and all the flammable buildings were destroyed."
We are all on fire. That’s why the enemy’s counterattack will be particularly strong.”
"So, your soldiers are very tired. Balzen, do you know why your men have suffered such huge losses?" Yang Mingzhi criticized sternly with eyes wide open: "Because you think that your men are all battle-hardened.
So they can endure all kinds of hardships and hardships, and can participate in no matter how difficult the battle, even if it is a fierce battle for ten consecutive hours, during which you can only eat some dry food to satisfy your hunger. Do you think they are all supermen?"
"But, deputy division commander, the enemy is right in front of us and we must fight! We are indeed very tired, but as long as we relax now, the enemy will counterattack!" Here, Balzen shouted into the intercom: "Deputy division commander, the enemy is at the moment.
The enemy is coming, they have four battalions, we have to keep fighting!"
From the telegram they just sent, Balzen did not understand the new situation he was encountering.
Yang Mingzhi couldn't believe his ears, "Barzen, say it again, how many enemies are you facing now? When will they arrive?"
"There are four battalions with more than 2,000 people. They will arrive at the position in half an hour at the earliest and an hour at the latest. If they hold their position, the blocking battle will begin soon!"
Although the 84th Division is brave and good at fighting, Yang Mingzhi does not claim to be a military strategist, but this unit must only be in his own hands to achieve a particularly disparate casualty ratio. Once the commander becomes a pure idiot, he can defeat the most elite troops in half a day.
It is not impossible to consume five hundred people.
Yang Mingzhi could feel that Balzen had actually wiped out a considerable number of German troops, and even made a huge hole in the particularly unpleasant "Great Wall" easily torn open. Balzen had credit for this. Of course, the military
Victory sometimes requires facing huge casualties. Even if the 84th Division has just added paratroopers, it cannot squander its troops.
It was too late to hold a military meeting now. Yang Mingzhi stood up, held the walkie-talkie and shouted at the top of his lungs: "Balzen, pay attention! As the chief of staff, I order you to retreat now with all the equipment and all the wounded people you can take away."
Take them all away and abandon the position as quickly as possible, run as fast as you can!"
"But sir!" Balzen actually didn't want to do something that looked like cowardice. He wanted to refute but was ordered to retreat by Yang Mingzhi.
Yang Mingzhi's words were very firm: "You are the elite of our army. Don't think that fighting to the death will be tragic. If you lose the 84th Division, your combat effectiveness will plummet! Besica and Natasha are also in your team.
, the two of them must be safe and sound. If the female sniper with the highest record in the Soviet Workers' and Peasants' Red Army sacrifices her life because of your recklessness, you will be an eternal sinner! Don't think about anything else now, retreat immediately." (To be continued. If
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