This is a rare opportunity for Peronisky to explain to his superiors their combat deeds over the past years. In fact, the previous report has been written into a report and placed on Salinchkin’s desk. Yang Mingzhi also did know about the guerrilla captain’s previous experience.
deeds.
Only when this person explained everything in person did some details emerge.
Peronisky put his rough index finger on the map, starting from the city of Mozyr, going west and south, "drawing a dragon" along the railway line.
"Comrade Commander! We fought along the railway, and all along it were our activity areas and battlefields. During those days, we not only tried to destroy the railway, we also discovered other things during the battle."
"Something else? I want to hear about your experience in bombing railways. What else do you know?"
"It's a prisoner of war camp! And a concentration camp! Sir!" When Peronisky said this, his tone was filled with grief and anger. He couldn't control his emotions, and his eyes welled up.
The result was beyond Yang Mingzhi's expectation. It is a fact that the German army established concentration camps and prisoner-of-war camps in Belarus. It's just that many residents of Novgomel, even those who have recently escaped, have no idea what is outside the swamp.
Little is known about the concentration camps.
They probably know the concept that anyone caught by the German army in a concentration camp is destined to die! Especially the Jews who escaped in, they know this very well, because the so-called concentration camp is a "slaughterhouse", and the people in the concentration camp are
Jews will be executed first.
These cold words cannot make more people understand the horror there. In fact, it is precisely because they can only rely on imagination, and people can only rely on their own cognition to understand what kind of terrifying place it is.
Peronisky, whose face was full of tears today, knew exactly what a concentration camp was, and he only knew it because he had seen it!
He wiped away his tears, pointed to a point on the map, and said angrily: "About this location, there is a village called Tryovatka. It used to be a village but was transformed into a concentration camp! This is a killing factory!
It was last winter. Our guerrillas were short of food and ammunition supplies, so they planned to attack this German stronghold. Through observation, we found that there were trucks bringing people in, and we guessed that this might be a prisoner of war camp. If we took the captured Red Army soldiers
When the soldiers rescued them, the strength of the guerrillas grew.
Because the German defense force at this stronghold was weak, we took advantage of one night to launch an attack and once penetrated.
Finally, we found those people who were brought in! They were all dead! They were all dead! Men, women, their corpses were piled into hills like pigs in a slaughterhouse. There were several large furnaces, and I could tell at a glance
, that’s the crematorium!
We executed all the captured Germans, took away everything available, and burned this killing factory to the ground as much as possible. As a result, we also encountered brutal revenge from the Germans. By this point, we had lost many soldiers, and the area of activity had to be forced to
Move south."
His remarks were indeed shocking. Looking at his eyes as wide as eggs, Yang Mingzhi believed that they were all true.
Isn’t it true? The Nazis’ methods of industrialized massacre are notorious! Peronisky saw what might have been the final scenes of gas chamber victims, but there were many more cruel ones than this!
Yang Mingzhi preserved his sanity and continued to listen to this man's accusations.
"If I had a camera at that time, I would have been photographed by cruel scenes! If those photos could be sent to Moscow to show the world the atrocities of the Nazis, I would be satisfied even if I sacrificed myself. Maybe the commander can't believe it too much! But the fact is that Germany
People are literally killing our peaceful residents like pigs.
I think! Aren’t they Germans human beings? Are they so confident that they will win this war? They don’t want to think about it. If the war fails, the Germans will kill so many people from other countries and treat them as their own troops.
When we hit the German mainland, we won’t retaliate against the Germans in kind?”
Yang Mingzhi nodded: "Your question is very reasonable! Just from the soldiers' attitude towards prisoners of war, I know what will happen to them in the future! But we can't kill like the Germans, like a meat factory! It's very possible
It was the officers who found it difficult to restrain their subordinates, and even the officers and soldiers fell into revenge and used various means to kill all the Germans they saw!"
"It will definitely happen! It will definitely happen!" Peronisky opened his eyes and held his head, groaning: "During our long-term battle, we never left alive the captured prisoners. It was very cruel. Those German prisoners were all tortured and killed.
. I didn’t want to restrict the behavior of my subordinates at all at that time. After all, these prisoners were tortured to death and deserved to die! After seeing the tragedy of the killing factory established by the Germans, no Soviet citizen would still have mercy on German prisoners of war."
Yang Mingzhi didn't say much on this issue. He patted the comrade's shoulder deeply and sighed deeply.
"Okay! Now you'd better talk about the condition of the railway system under German occupation. In this operation, we have to travel a long distance to destroy the railway!"
Peronisky began to make an introduction. As a local railway worker before the war, he naturally knew the railway transportation well. Even after the German occupation, there were no changes to the railway system at all.
After giving a brief introduction to the railway system, he pressed his finger hard on a node.
"Commander! This is right here. This is a prisoner of war transfer station and naturally a prisoner of war camp. This was originally called Leopovka Village. Later, it was transformed into a small train station by the Germans. It is located in Mozyr
Not far to the west.
Through our observation, it is a prisoner of war camp with strong defense! If we can capture this place, we will be able to liberate many prisoners of war and even obtain some important documents. This will allow us to know the locations of all prisoner of war camps and concentration camps in Belarus.
to facilitate our future actions.
The population of Belarus is not large, but the railway transportation is relatively developed. Our soldiers captured by the Germans from the front line often have to be transported to prisoner of war camps in the rear through the railway system. One of the rear areas of the Germans is our Belarus! So if we have the ability
You should do it to rescue the prisoners of war! Instead of letting them starve to death!"
What this person said is very reasonable. The 63rd Army is just an infantry division, and 30% of its troops are female soldiers! Even though it has a large number of advanced weapons, the quality of its troops is inherently insufficient, and its combat effectiveness will not be known before a real big battle.
It’s an unknown!
"Okay! I have to think carefully about rescuing prisoners of war, but the first thing we have to do is to destroy the enemy's railway." Yang Mingzhi asked: "Now tell me your experience, is there any way we can survive for a long time?"
To limit the enemy’s railway traffic?”
"Of course it's to blow up the railway! Blow up the bridge! The best way, I think, is to detonate the explosive box when the moving train is just under the explosives. In this way, the whole train will collapse on the railway. I want to clean up this pile of debris.
It takes too much time!”
"This method is good!" Yang Mingzhi's eyes lit up, because this method coincided with his own ideas!